Tony Honchar

Minnesota Vikings Football, Weather, Electronics, Astronomy and Golf.

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[Delayed Report] On Aug 7, at 8:25 PM CDT, 1 NE North English [Iowa Co, IA] CO-OP Observer reports Hail of quarter size (U1.00 Inch). Small limbs down as well. #iawx https://t.co/HJ3b7FH0xv

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@PAOnTheMic Merry Christmas PA, from Sue and I.

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Northern Lights Tonight

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Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon from Oct 24, 2025. You will need binoculars to spot it in the Western sky after sunset. Taken with a ES80 ED scope and Sony A6400 camera. 20 - 30 Sec exposures stacked.

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The Sun today. Some nice solar prominence areas. Image in Hydrogen- Alpha light.

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Weather Spotter Training at HCC tonight.

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Composite Sequence of the Total Lunar Eclipse on 3/13-3/14/25.

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How amazing is this

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@CandiceKing @MyStateline Took one at Park Hills in Freeport.

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Have .60" of Rain as of 9:45pm. Light rain still falling.

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@CandiceKing Had very strong winds go through West side of Freeport. Small tree down in my back yard.

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@candiceking Here are the graphs for temperature and solar output from my weather station today. You can clearly pick out the eclipse maximum at 2:05pm.

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@CandiceKing Steady snow falling in Freeport.
9:40 pm

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✨ GIVEAWAY TIME 🤩

To celebrate the start of the #GiftingSeason I am giving away a pair of Percy & Ginny stud earrings ($110 value!):

🚀To enter:
1) follow @ScienceSocks
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3) like/retweet

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@CandiceKing Only .06" of rain since midnight at my house in Freeport today.

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Video seqence of the the Annular Solar Eclipse on 14 Oct 2023. The images are 2 minutes apart until near mid eclipse, then the are 20 seconds apart. Images taken at Rio Rancho, NM.

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I got a shot of Saturn last night (14 Sep 2023). Sky conditions were pretty good. I captured over 20,000 frames and stacked the best 20%.

On the right lower side of the rings there is a small brighter area. This is one of Saturn's Moons, Enceladus.

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@CandiceKing I have 1.02" of rain as of 4:45pm today.

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I was able to capture the Transit of the International Space Station this evening (8 June 2023). The transit took 1.47 seconds and moved from lower left to upper right of the frame. I merged 23 frames in Photoshop.

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M108, the Surfboard Galaxy.