Events in the Night Sky
copyright 1999-2002 Stan Richard
Atmospheric/Weather phenomena/Sunsets
Besides shooting the moon, planets, stars and aurora, I also have a keen interest in capturing on film different types of atmospheric and weather phenomena such as rare cloud types, parhelia(sun dogs), sun pillars, sunsets, rays, arcs and halos, etc.  Below are a few of these images though I have more that I need to get scanned and put up here.  I have a few lightning shots included here but my wife and daughters are greatly troubled anymore when I attempt this kind of shot, so you probably won't see much more than what's here. I hope you like them.  Mouse over the thumbnail for the details, click on the thumbnail to get to that image's webpage. 
a beautiful sun pillar at sunset on Feb.27, 2001-featured on NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day on March 13, 2001 a rare circumzenithal arc seen on May 29, 2001
a photo of the sky at sunset in "fly-over country" cumulonimbus/cirrus clouds with heavy rain below
moon halo captured in the winter of 2000
a fiery 1999 November sunset!
a rare noctilucent cloud sighting in Canada on June 28, 2000 sun dogs and a sun pillar on the winter solstice of 2000
lightning storm near Des Moines, Iowa on Sept.7, 1999
a beautifully-colored sun pillar at sunset on Feb.12, 2002
Sun pillar- 15 minutes after the sun had set on March 25, 2002
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