Total Lunar Eclipse: April, 2014 Total lunar eclipse near totality in the early morning of April 15, 2014: the first of two total lunar eclipses for the area in 2014. (High clouds created very hazy viewing conditions.) San Francisco Bay Area, California 15-APR-2014
A plane leaving SFO (40 miles away) flies through the transit-of-Venus across the sun. The large dot is Venus, which is passing between the sun & earth in this rare event. (The smaller dots are sun spots.) San Francisco Bay Area, California 05-JUN-2012
Surf Scoter Wake A male surf scoter paddles across the sunset-tinted lake. Shoreline Park Mountain View, California 18-JAN-2012