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Steve Albers

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Neat Weather Links:

Neat Astronomy Links:

Astronomical Images and Photographs
- General Images/Photographs
- Planetary Maps (Global Image Mosaics)
- Lunar Eclipse Simulation (using September 2015 eclipse)
Astronomy Hot List items.
Longmont Astronomical Society | Boulder Astronomy and Space Society (BASS)
Comet ephemerides for ATLAS (2024G3), along with explanation/legend.
Past bright comets including: Tsuchinshan-ATLAS (2023A3), ZTF (2022E3), Leonard (2021A1), NEOWISE (2020F3), McNaught (2006P1), Hyakutake (1996B2), Hale-Bopp (1995O1), West (1975V1), Bennett (1969Y1), and Ikeya-Seki (1965S1-A), (sub-hourly at perihelion)
Mars Rovers Curiosity and Perseverance
- Curiosity Mars Rover Drive Animation
- Perseverance Mars Rover Drive Animation (each set of NavCam images mosaiced onto a common reference frame)
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  Large versions of individual mosaics
Planetary Conjunctions and Phenomena

Other links of interest:

Special weather / sky simulations are also being carried out in several areas:
- Sunrise / Sunset / Twilight & Night including live nighttime sky simulations
- Views from Space
- Solar Eclipses
- High Resolution 3-D Large Eddy Simulation Cloud Fly Through (40m horizontal grid, cloud model from Univ. of Connecticut)
- High Resolution Sky/Land Simulation (30m horizontal grid, 1/16° angular resolution, land imagery from USDA and Descartes) | VR Version | Smoke Aerosols Added
- High Resolution 3-D Cloud & Hydrometeor & Land Surface / Flight Animation (100m horizontal grid, 1/4° angular resolution, 8m land imagery from USDA)
- Aerosols
- Sky Color
- Shadows and Rays
- Purple Twilights
- Supercell Storm Model Forecast
- Launch into the stratosphere up to 40km from Boulder
Where I work: Spire, (previously with CIRA and NOAA).

Research:

E-mail: steven.albers@colostate.edu | URL: http://stevealbers.net