Snoopy was a monitoring station that
provided valuable night
photography for the project.
It is no longer in operation.
Images and text are
copyrighted. Copying is prohibited
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![Snoopy Monitoring Station](SnoopyJan2006.jpg)
Doll Face and her pet, Owloween, stand
guard to keep birds from using Snoopy's solar panels as roosting places.
![Doll Face and Owloween scare-crows](DollFaceandOwloween10.jpg)
Winter 2007 brings a chill to Owloween and Doll Face
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Notice the clarity of this picture taken
shortly before midnight with help of a little moonlight.
![lightening](20050603003242-5159.JPG)
West Texas has spectacular lightning
storms.
![Lightening](20050603004104-5903.JPG)
More spectacular lightning.
![Lightening](20050603004248-5927.JPG)
Lightning.
![Lightening](20050603004309-0040.JPG)
Lightning.
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Lightning.
![Lightening](20050603005201-0524.JPG)
Lightning.
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Lightning.
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And more lightning.
![Big and bright meteor](Meteor2b.png)
This is the largest and
brightest meteor ever recorded by Roofus or Snoopy but high intensity light
settings on the camera have caused the image to bloom making the meteor
look bigger and brighter than it actually is. Blooming effects can
be seen in other Black and White images at this website whenever the
light source is sufficiently bright (in general, any source bright
enough to have a negative magnitude)That includes lightening as
well as the brightest stars and planets.
Snoopy Sprite Sample
Sprites are short term electrical events
associated with some thunderstorms. They start at the top of our
atmosphere (approximately 70-75 km high) and propagate rapidly (in
milliseconds) downward into cloud tops of the initiating storm.
Apparently they also proceed upward into the ionosphere at the same
time. Below is a brief sampling out of approximately 125 sprites
captured by Snoopy in September 2006. They are of interest to
those engaged in researching storm behavior so we routinely furnish them
to FMA Research in Fort Collins, Colorado.
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Snoopy ML
The following photograph taken by Snoopy June 14, 2007
(UT date) shows an ML in close to the monitoring station and moving
fairly fast. Stack depth was set to 64 images which is equivalent
to a time exposure of approximately 2.1 seconds. Direction of
travel is probably right to left but the opposite direction is also
possible. There are no roads in this location. Snoopy is
located on a hill and this ML is passing by at a lower altitude.
![](SnoopyLight.png)
These are just samples of fascinating
pictures captured by Roofus and Snoopy night after night. Coming to a
video soon.
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