28 February 2026
Monument Peak Microwave Tower Collapse Captured by HPWREN Cameras and Seismic Sensors
A rapid unscheduled disassembly of a microwave tower on Mount Laguna's Monument Peak on 18 February 2026 was documented by Sudoku Ham of the Open Research Institute.
7 March 2026
Blood Moon Over Sky Oaks
In the pre-dawn hours of March 3, 2026, the sky above San Diego County's Palomar Mountain region put on a rare celestial performance: the last total lunar eclipse visible from North America until New Year's Eve 2028. At San Diego State University's (SDSU) Sky Oaks Ranch Ecological Reserve - a dark-sky site nestled in the Cleveland National Forest far from city lights - a network of scientific cameras documented every phase of the eclipse from dusk to dawn. The resulting time-lapse record vividly illustrates what happens to a moonlit landscape when the Moon is swallowed by Earth's shadow - and what is revealed when that shadow falls.