Thursday Got 'Em

Yesterday afternoon, my friends up in the air were busy. Two very low (I'd estimate 30,000ft) planes went right over me with their spray. I caught the 2nd one with my camera. The following images are cropped from the original images to just show the plane:

Also, using the RGB colors of the camera, I can do some very low spectral resolution analysis:



The green line is the background sky. The red line is the "chemtrail". The dark blue line is the fuseloge of the plane. The purple line is the wing of the plane. What this shows is that the plane's underside is quite bright in the red and green, and pretty dark in the blue -- relatively speaking.

Wednesday Photons

If one looks at a photon as a particle moving through space, we all know that it travels at C, the velocity of light. However, when it passes through a prism, it slows down and this is what causes the rainbow effect we see.

Allright -- so what it the velocity of the photon after it leaves the prism? I can understand what slows it down, but what speeds it up again after it leaves the prism?

Tuesday Radar

Allright -- so explain this one. Here is the radar "image" (1km) from 2216 UTC:



And here is the visible light image (1km) taken at 2215 UTC -- contrast enhanced and cropped so the image is about the same area as the radar shown above:




Now -- if there's such a huge and strong radar "echo", why doesn't it correlate with the visible satellite image?

Could this be the "chaff" that is talked about so much? If you look at a radar animation for the past several hours, there are other little "clouds" moving around. I haven't correlated them with any sat image, but I'd guess that they're as un-correlated as the big blob.

So I guess I'll be watching this blob, too, as it makes its way across my beautiful desert.

Sons of bitches....

Tuesday Busy Sky

A very busy sky over southern calif and baja:



Are there really that many flights from LA to somewhere in Mexico every day?

This is a 1km resolution image that I've enhanced to boost the contrast a bit so the trails can be easily seen.

Parallel trails, fairly equally spaced. I count at least 12 of them. Not sure if they were formed at the same time or sequencially. I'm keeping an eye on this area today and will see what happens.

Sons of bitches....

Sunday Please Explain

Ok, folks, I want someone to explain this sequence of two images taken a few hours ago off the Pacific coast of California.

Picture 1, taken at 13:30 UTC:



... and Picture 2, taken at 14:00 UTC:



Both of these are with the IR camera. Now -- in Picture 1, there is clearly only one "contrail", while in Picture 2 there is clearly two "contrails". The 2nd "contrail" in Picture 2 is most likely the upper one. It is approximately 181.01 pixels in length. Each pixel is 4km in size, so therefore the length of this "contrail" is approx 724km.

No problem, UNTIL one also realizes that this "contrail" was formed in 30 minutes. Let's assume it took exactly 30 minutes to form this "contrail". This means that the aircraft that created this "contrail" was traveling at 1448 km/hour -- or about 869 mph. Yep -- supersonic.

Sons of bitches.....

There's a lot of additional activity just to the north of these "contrails", also, which is why when I was watching the Weather Channel this morning it caught my eye.

Here's a visible image taken at the same time. The two "contrails" shown above are actually even more clear -- and I've included the activity to the north:

first at 13:30 UTC:




and then at 14:00 UTC: