Nice shots Patrick! Just a heads up: the second one seems to load upside down. I was wondering if after setting your speed record (wow! and congrats), you were hyped up enough to try loop de loops in your plane...while simultaneously taking photos no less! ~Kelly ------------------------------

Message: 3 Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 01:22:21 -0600 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com> To: utah astronomy listserve utah astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Patch Springs fire updated image Message-ID: <C740A57D-8DF5-41D0-8548-104655A69D3F@wirelessbeehive.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Skies in the Tooele Valley still smokey but improving.

Suspecting the fire was getting smaller I flew out west yesterday and saw that it is considerably smaller and less smokey than when I saw it Wednesday.

Here's how it looked from the south looking north on Wednesday: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/patchsprings20130814.jpg

And here it is yesterday from the north looking south: http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/temp/patchsprings20130816.jpg

The top of the smoke is still way up there. Before taking the picture I'd made a jump at the Tooele airport where we got out at 13,000 feet above the ground and we were still in it (on a side note, on that jump I set my personal vertical speed record of 183 mph <before losing it and flying all out of control> )

So, maybe if the rain holds off the skies will be ok for this evening's Stansbury Days star party at SPOC.

patrick

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