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In recent years, a fireworks show has appeared in the
sky over Goleta on Independence Day.
On Thursday, June 30, the Amtrak Coast Starlight was pulling two vintage rail cars, the Southern Pacific Overland Trail and the Pennsylvania Colonial Crafts.
In recent years, a fireworks show has appeared in the
sky over Goleta on Independence Day.
The annual Independence Day fireworks show over Goleta.
The skies over Goleta are plied by all sorts of aircraft going to and from the Santa Barbara Airport. They often come close enough to my home for me to snap pictures of them from the back yard.
The annual Independence Day fireworks show over Goleta.
The DC-10 tanker, 10 Tanker Air Carrier was sighted heading westbound over Goleta a few minutes after noon on Monday, July 30, 2007 on its second flight after striking trees on a fire fighting mission near Tehachapi on June 26. About 50 minutes later it was sighted heading back to Victorville. It flew from the Southern California Air Logistics Center at Victorville to the DINTY intersection, off the coast of southern California, and back. It suffered damage to the leading and traailing edge flaps on the left wing when it hit the trees. It made its first flight after the incident on Sunday, July 29.
This composite image shows three Perseid meteors in the sky over Goleta on the morning of Monday, August 13. I set up my camera to take a 10-second long exposure every eleven seconds. That way the shutter was open more than 90% of the time. The lens was wide open at f3.5 and the ISO was set to 1600. The camera fired off 796 exposures between 1:27 and 3:55 AM. The meteor's tracks point back toward the shower's radiant in the constellation Perseus. These meteors were captured in exposures made at 1:31, 1:42, and 3:19 AM.
The International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavor streak across the sky north of Goleta at 9:31 to 9:35 PM on the evening of August 20. The two streaks end where the space ships enter the shadow of the Earth.
Time lapse movie of the International Space Station and the Space Shuttle Endeavor. The action has been speeded up by a factor of 25x.
The eclipsed Moon was visible over Goleta early on the morning of August 28, 2007.
I photographed the 2007 Aurigid meteor shower from my back yard.
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Space Museum.