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Author: Michael Riffle

9 June 2024 Michael Riffle

Waiting for the Blaze Star

Sometime over the next 3-4 months a new star is expected to appear, a recurrent

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13 May 2024 Michael Riffle

Aurora Borealis In Georgia

On May 1st a sunspot began rotating into view on the Sun’s eastern limb. Nobody

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10 May 2024 Michael Riffle

The British Are Going!

This morning a Royal Air Force KC Voyager passed overhead after departing Lawson Army Airfield

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5 May 2024 Michael Riffle

How Did I Miss This?

Yesterday I was reviewing footage I recorded on 24 April 2023 of a KC-46 tanker

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29 April 2024 Michael Riffle

Doomsday Part Deux

On the heels of the USAF E-4B fly-over a couple weeks ago, another “doomsday plane”

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17 April 2024 Michael Riffle

It’s Doomsday!

Yesterday evening a USAF E-4B “Nightwatch”, aka the doomsday plane, flew over the southern part

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14 April 2024 Michael Riffle

The Partial Solar Eclipse of 2024

A highly anticipated total solar eclipse occured on 8 April 2024 over a 115-mile wide

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16 October 2023 Michael Riffle

Partial Solar Eclipse At NWS Birmingham

This past Saturday was the first of two solar eclipses that will cross the United

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11 October 2023 Michael Riffle

Competition Balloons Over Harris County

Last Saturday sixteen gas balloons lifted off from the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta in New

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1 October 2023 Michael Riffle

Starlink G6-19 Satellite Train

On 29 September at 22:00 EDT, SpaceX launched the G6-19 Starlink mission which placed twenty-two

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  • Partial Solar Eclipse At NWS Birmingham
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