I loved AR2195, let it go, and now it's come back to me

AR 2195, the largest sunspot I've ever seen and photographed, rotated out of my view after Oct 28. Today, I captured it's return. The sunspot has shrunk, but it is still remarkable that it's visible.

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Sunspot AR2192 sequence

I assembled my photos of sunspot AR2192 from October 20 to October 28, 2014 into this video:

I also added a reference to the size of Earth for comparison.

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Wildomar is slipping into lightness

As is common for all the cities in my region, people tend to forget the lighting policies in place and upgrade or retrofit their businesses with lighting that fails to conform to the municipal codes. For example, this diagram illustrates the effect of poor choice of lighting fixtures recently installed at a business on Mission Trails Road in Wildomar:

Please note that I'm not criticizing the products or services of the business, just the lighting.

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Season's Greetings

The first weather indicating a change of seasons has occurred, opening the start of the winter rainbow and sundog hunting season:

Superluminary Rainbow 

(superluminary refers to the duplicate violet bands)

Sundog on morning of 31 Oct. 2014

Prelude to the weather change on 30 Oct. 2014

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