September 3rd Sunrise

I have always been interested in the sky and weather. Growing up in Minnesota during the 60’s and 70’s I was able to witness awesome blizzards and snowfall and during the warmer months, observe tornados from my backyard. A real treat was a couple of comets that we could see with our own eyeballs.

Moving forward into my adult life and still keeping my eye on the sky, I acquired a couple of drones. We were living in Southern Kansas at the time and the sunrises were spectacular when seeing it from 500 feet up. Plus with 2 drones, I could see it in stereo. The glory of the Lord was evident in each one prairie sunrises that I had witnessed.

These days, I have pared my drones down to just one, but added a little device that is called a Raspberry Pi. It is a micro computer about the size of a man’s wallet. You can do many things with these Pi’s and my favorite thing is to add a camera to them and tell them to take time lapses of sunrises. And they do, I just have to remember to get the pictures before they get overwritten by the next morning’s batch.

Previous to this, I had been placing all these images on FaceBook, but since I own this domain and pay for it, I figured I would start putting them here. So, here we go…

This morning’s very windy sunrise.

And here is an hour and fifteen minute time lapse taken from about 5:30am to just before sunrise.

That little blinky dot in the middle right and rising is Venus.