Cirrus clouds break apart over the mountains & waters in the SF Bay. The high clouds are stirred by the drastic drop in temperature at sunset (from near-record 100-degree daytime heat.) San Francisco Bay Area, California 16-JUN-2012
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