What Hat Are You Wearing Today 1?

[coble]

I went to Jamestown for the opening of my show last week. A friend snapped a couple of photos at the Institute and during a talk I gave that evening at Jamestown Community College.

And with all the hoopla this weekend about X class solar flares and possible auroral activity (which never did arrive at our latitude) I thought I would share this photo made from data collected yesterday afternoon. The spot is decaying and rotating out of view, but it sure was a honey of an active region earlier in the week. I was wearing my Tilly hat in the backyard. A bit more on it here.

STUNNING PHOTOS, oh man you are making me miss my telescope so bad, love it. Congrats on the show, get back in the art of photography again Alan you won't regret, EXCELLENT.

 

[DJH]

Brilliant hats from yesterday, guys.

I'm getting my day started with my new Penman Casablanca

 

[alanfgag]

Thanks very much Coble. I visited Tucson for work a few years back and marveled at the light restrictions for the benefit of nearby Kitt Peak Observatory. I could sit out by the pool at night and look up to see the milky way. Not hard to accomplish with sensible lighting design... just hard for folks to understand how much they are missing by washing the sky with wasted lumens.

Sharing one additional picture from Sunday which I completed last night... gives a sense of the scale of things. That long snaking filament against the sun's disk stretches about a 250,000 miles - more than the distance from earth to the moon.

 

[bowlerman]

Thanks for the nods, everyone.

David... GREAT new Penman-- even better on your noggin in the morning light than in still life!

 

[hatophile]

THat Penman is sweet, Dave.
Love that bowler, B-man!

Strat-o today.

 

[Aureliano]

Incredible! :eusa_clap

 

[Terry "The Hat"]

Today, on the 15th of March I'm wearing my Tilley R7 Raffia! It's not suppose to be 80 degrees in March and you aren't suppose to wear Raffia in winter but hey, it's freaking hot in a felt!

 

[bowlerman]

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I love this shot. wow.

 

[bowlerman]

Gorgeous 70 degree weather here this week--- took my daughter to the park yesterday afternoon and snapped a few cell phone pics. The second shows what I remember to be our Frank Lloyd Wright house, occupied by one of the greatest patrons of the arts I've met, and the first woman in the US, I'm told, to have her own radio show.

For the first time I'm googling all this info, as South Dakota has a way of "exaggerating" its accomplishments, and so far I can find no documentation whatsoever that Frank Lloyd Wright built a house in Sioux Falls or that the person who lives there was the first female to have a radio show in the US... Cool house and cool lady, anyway.

 

[alanfgag]

Thanks guys.

Jeff, I'm not seeing FLW in either of those homes, but shirtsleeves with your daughter at the Ides of March is brilliant nonetheless. Enjoy!

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Lee All American this morning. This version of the Lee model is in a color that matches the british tan Baraccuta jacket closely.

I rarely get to see my hat on my head. Mostly I imagine what it looks like. During my morning chores I am not near any mirror surface (other than the lake). For that reason, I am amused, perhaps like you folks, to look at the self shots. I find myself saying, "oh that is what the hat looks like."

IMO, one of the benefits of being short is that the vintage hats of the 50-60's appear taller on my short face/frame. I like the dimensions of this hat.

Best, Eric -

 

[Short Balding Guy]

David; Outstanding and famousely styling hat. Holy hannah you have some nice hats guy.

Terry; I am ambivolent about the warmer temps, not sure how to stay hatted. You got it figured out!

Perry; Classic hat. That is a fav of mine.

Best, Eric -

 

[delectans]

Alan: Another breathtaking solar image. Well done!


Jeff: Great photos, and I concur with Alan on the house. At least your were not told to "Beware The Ides Of March"! lol

 

[alanfgag]

Good work this morning, fellas. David, are you working hard to keep those eyes open at that hour? The prow of your Penman has a powerful, somewhat naval look. Perry, really like the bit of oblique angle today... keep 'em turning! Eric, your Lee is beautiful... nice going!

Et tu, Alan... standing out in a thunderstorm taking selfies in an old Stetson? People must wonder what asylum I escaped from...

 

[bowlerman]

lol
I have far more to be wary of than the Ides of March!

Yeah-- there's no way this architecture could possibly be FLW. I don't know where these rumors come from-- just call me gullible, I guess! Definitely some very pretty old homes around here, though.

 

[rlk]

Mossant De Luxe

 

[Short Balding Guy]

Finished using the pick-up and moving the dock into place. Early spring warm weather, no ice makes this 30 days early. I have to get into the water tommorow to secure to cement footings. Brrr, time to get the wetsuit out. What hat with a wetsuit? :eusa_doh:

This afternoon for work, a Marathon in a minty green.

Best, Eric -

 

[Chepstow]

David, your Penman is a great Hat, I think you enjoy it!

Perry, wonderful strat-o-day! That is your Hat!

Terry, fantastic, also the Hat!

Eric, stunning Lee. I like it really!

Alan, your older Stetson looks great! You wear it with proud!

Robert, very nice the Mossant, I like the nice brown and the shape!

 

[Chepstow]

Alan, Incredible, your photos are so clear! Fantastic!

Jeff, nice reflections on your Hat photo. I like it!

 

[EggHead]

Alan, those are incredible pictures of scopes and heavenly bodies.
I have but one scope - Megrez 88 and also enjoy looking through binoculars at the moon and clusters of stars too.
Been to JPL a long time ago with a highschool trip.
Cheers!