So I'm working on a "Sun Project" for Earth Science. How this works is that all 4 Earth Science classes are taking pictures of either the sunrise or sunset (most, myself included, are doing the sunset). We need to take the picture in the
exact same spot every time, and we generally want to do this every 4 daze. However, because Michigan weather is not cooperating with us, we have not had many opportunities to work on the project. The only times that the weather has cooperated with us was 2/9 and 2/19. The sun came out this afternoon, but because of solid overcast to the west, the sun was obscured as it set.
Because I live downtown, homes are closer together, so it's impossible to do it out on my deck. However, being downtown gives me an advantage to have access to taller buildings. As such, I am able to walk to Sparrow Hospital, and use the Lansing skyline from the 6th (top) floor of the parking garage as the backdrop for my project.
Tell me what you think of some of these pictures
Friday, February 19th, 2010
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010
Now, notice how this leaning edge of clouds also can be closely noticed on my sat/rad:
I'm dealing with sort of a dilemma here. I believe, as the sun becomes more overhead, it will move to the right (north) in the pictures, right? I want to have Eckert Power Plant (which is where my power comes from, lol) on the far left as a delineating landmark, but I am concerned that the sun will go out of the picture in future times. Thoughts?
Anyways, that Power Plant also had two of its cooling towers damaged (one destroyed) back in June 2008 when the tornado on which a warning was issued in this video
came by there.
You can see the Michigan State Capitol toward the rite on the pictures there. Sorry about their size, lol.
