Structural Fire Training at Macomb Township FD Training Center 2014
Firefighters from the Selfridge ANGB Fire Department use structural firefighting tactics to practice basic skills and rapid intervention team (RIT) training. This video was from 2014.
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Christmas Comet Dives into the Sun
A small comet gets caught up in gravity on its close approach to the sun. It appears it did not survive the encounter. These images were from NASA's SOHO satellite.
Following the comet's dive into the sun, it appears that several Coronal Mass Ejections occurred on the far side and left limb. Also filament destabilization occurred causing more CMEs after some minor solar flaring.
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Aurora in Michigan's Thumb September 2023
Aurora in Michigan's Thumb September 2023 as taken in my back yard. Not the best aurora show, but awesome to watch. We can only hope for some repeats of February and March 2023 soon.
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Star Plasma
24 hours of solar activity from the Solar Dynamic Observatory. Ionized iron in ultraviolet wavelengths of light dance and jump on the sun.
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K-102 Troop Kitchen Car July 2023
This is a video update on the restoration of the Troop Kitchen Car K-102 (former CSXT 940203). This car has been painted last year on the exterior. Since then new custom windows have been made. Restoration efforts have begun inside in 2023 at the Sanilac County Historic Village and Museum http://sanilaccountymuseum.org/ .
Feel free to contact them for information on donating to assist with this car's restoration. It will eventually house the military exhibit that the museum has once restoration inside is completed.
It has been a honor for me to assist with this car from its donation from the former Port Huron and Detroit Railroad Historical Society to Sanilac County Historic Village and Museum and now doing work on the restoration of it.
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April 23 / 24, 2023 Geomagnetic Storm and Aurora
As photographed from Jeddo, MI with some of the poorest sky conditions again for another huge geomagnetic storm event. I have never seen such purple in the sky before. Then the low clouds came in by the time I had my camera set up and you could not see the purple as well. There was a flickering that was totally awesome as well that I have never witnessed before with the aurora. Imagine if no clouds were present.
Music and images by D. Meinhard.
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24 Feb 2023 M Class Solar Flare and CME (short)
Video created with images from ESA's Helioviewer and the Solar Dynamics Observatory at https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
A beautiful long duration M class solar flare spits out plasma with an Earth directed CME to follow possibly in a few days (Feb 26-27) with Aurora being visible if sky conditions are clear in the northern latitudes. For more information visit: https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://www.jhelioviewer.org/
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24 Feb 2023 M Class Solar Flare and CME (long)
Video created with images from ESA's Helioviewer and the Solar Dynamics Observatory at https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/.
A beautiful long duration M class solar flare spits out plasma with an Earth directed CME to follow possibly in a few days (Feb 26-27) with Aurora being visible if sky conditions are clear in the northern latitudes. For more information visit: https://spaceweathernews.com/
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
https://www.jhelioviewer.org/
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24 February 2023 Flare and CME
A compilation of the CME from a filament snap and solar flare on the sun from 24 Feb, 2023.
Music from Bensound.com.
Images process from SDO http://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/ on Helioviewer https://www.helioviewer.org/?movieId=cLLd5 .
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Aries & the Mouse
Shadow brought in a mouse from the garage & it escaped. Aries knows it is in the corner & tries to get it.
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Surrounded by Black-capped Chickadees
This is what happens when you use the Cornell Labs Merlin bird app & play a bird sound while deer hunting. You get surrounded.
P-51 & F-22 Departure Fly By
The P-51 & F-22 demo team depart Selfridge ANGB, Mi & form up for two passes over the airfield.
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Run! It's a camera drone!
The deer hear the drone far off and do not like it.
I'm not trying to spook the deer, but they certainly do not like the sound of it 200ft up.
Behavior wise it is interesting their reaction. Riding the John Deere tractor I go right by them 80 to 120 feet & they ignore me. Fly the drone above them & they are gone.
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Stranger Things Shadow Monster?
The sun hosts the Shadow monster from Stranger Things. This cool filament of plasma dances around as it rotates around the limb. Could images from SDO have inspired this strange beast on Netflix? Who knows. This is still a cool view of the sun as it approaches solar maximum with sunspots.
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Evening Drone Test Flight & Deer
A couple of white tailed deer were seen from about 120ft high in my test flight. They definitely heard the drone and looked up at it as they ran off. Interesting behavior as I have brush hogged the land down there and they pay me little attention with my noisy John Deere sometimes.
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SOHO UFO or Comet or ???
The Solar & Heliospheric Observatory captures something flying away from the sun. UFO? Satellite? Small celestial planet? Comet?
Who knows but it is interesting. It is a faint fuzzy light which gets brighter and goes from right to left. The rest of the stars can be seen traveling from left to right as the satellite orbits around the sun. The many flashes and bright dots scattered are photons and cosmic rays hitting the imaging CCD on the SOHO satellite. This fuzzy dot is clearly moving past the sun, under it between SOHO and the sun. As it angles away, the shadow side of the object is brightened by the sun.
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Flaring on the Sun
I used Helioviewer to create this short movie from data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This is quite the striking display of our star's magnetic turbulence between sunspots from 9 March - 11 March, 2022. SDO carries some of the most advanced camera spectroheliographs that measure different wavelengths of UV light. This video is from the AIA171 data source.
https://www.jhelioviewer.org/index.html
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Displays like this are marvels and science still is amazed and baffled by the sun and how it works. The energy released from this flare will reach Earth this weekend causing the aurora and a geomagnetic storm. Those with clear skies in the northern / southern higher latitude may have a treat of seeing them.
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The Rail Grinder at Tunnel Yard
The Loram rail grinder grinds the new profiles on the yard mains. It worked all four tracks today. View is from the Port Huron and Detroit Railroad Historical Society offices.
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CN Intermodal out of the Tunnel
A westbound CN Intermodal train glides west up & out of the St. Clair River Tunnel in Port Huron, MI. Filmed from the former PH&D RR offices.
Young Bucks Testing Antlers in the Thumb
Two young bucks playfully jab their small racks in the evening hours of 1 October 2021. Give them a few years and they'll be some nice sized deer.
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Rain & Wind at the PH&D Railroad Historical Society
A CN train rumbles west out of the tunnel into former GTW Tunnel Yard as seen from the wet rain covered window in the former PH&D RR offices.
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