West Texas Scenic Pictures by Dick Locke
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West Texas Wildlife Pictures

Blue Mountain at Sunset

Cloudscapes

Not Happy: The scopes pointing at clouds.

What is all this?  On the far left is the finder scope, with a illuminator sticking up slightly to the left.  Below it you can see an illuminated reticule eyepiece.  To the right of that is the Tak FS102 telescope, with a Rigel quickfinder on the top/back.  To the right of that is a ST80 that I use to auto-guide the scope for photography.

Focus on the Clouds

The sun is still hitting the (very high) tops of this thundercloud as the sun sets in West Texas.  Note the bottom of the cloud, no doubt several miles below the top, is dark/red-blue.  This is a film image from a Nikon F3 camera. .Later that night there was more lightning.