Photograph the Aurora with your Android

Wandering through Wupatki National Monument felt like stepping into a 900-year-old desert city. 🌵🏜️ Long before Phoenix or Flagstaff existed, people built multi-story pueblos here — over 100 rooms, open plazas, and even a ballcourt. Imagine that… a ballcourt in the middle of the high desert. 🤯 After the Sunset Crater Volcano erupted around 1085 CE, volcanic ash actually made the soil MORE fertile. That’s what brought hundreds of people here — farmers, traders, families — turning Wupatki into

How to photograph the northern lights with your iPhone

A major G4 to G5 geomagnetic storm is expected to hit Earth today. G5 is the highest the scale goes. This could bring the Northern Lights extremely far south (last night's G4 reached Texas), but there's a catch. We won't know if the storm is a

Chasing National Parks on TikTok

Trying to Move the Northern Ireland Border!

A powerful storm is pummeling millions of people with rain and high winds in California, helping to fuel the fast-growing Pack Fire near Mammoth Mountain Ski Resort in Northern California. The fire has damaged more than a dozen buildings so far. The rain could help control the fire, but in Southern California, flooding and mudslides are a big concern, as the storm could make this November the wettest in Los Angeles in 40 years.

This is treated as a mosque all year round but only twice a year it’s open for the Jews! Throwback to when we were in Israel