Gwen Forrester

It’s charging.
Will be full in a few days.

There are only several galaxies visible unaided

No they are dwarf galaxies composed of fully formed stars and have been for a long time

The Magellanic Clouds are visible unaided in fairly dark skies on Earth, so easily photographed from orbit.

It makes more sense in the original Klingon

Sure, just rub it in that you get replies to your posts.
Unbelievable

So are we collectively calling them Betelgeese?

Or get suspended at most

They always just plead the fifth anyway

My favorite

Once the rockets go up, who cares where they come down?

Image of the Lagoon Nebula, seen as glowing clouds of pink and bluish grey, with dark swirls and blobs and many stars of various sizes.

Messier 8, the Lagoon Nebula.
I did this in short exposures to better show open cluster NGC 6530, at left, and small but bright Hourglass Nebula at right, with the star Herschel 36.
8” f/6 Newtonian, Canon t3i

Robot girl with a square hole in her back for the big winding key that has been lost long ago

A very bright 23% crescent moon with faint earthshine on the dark side, surrounded by several small stars of the Pleiades cluster.

It was lovely!

A very bright 23% crescent moon with faint earthshine on the dark side, surrounded by several small stars

I got a bit luckier here.
Also got to watch through the telescope

A very bright 23% crescent moon with faint earthshine on the dark side, surrounded by several small stars

Moon amongst the Pleiades… clockwise from upper left: Asterope, Taygeta, Celaeno, Electra, Merope, and Alcyone, with Pleione and Atlas further below. Maia is occulted here, in the middle.
Canon M200, Zeiss 2.8/180, 3x teleconverter.
Single 1 second exposure at iso1600

Which one is it?
Looks like a radio telescope from this angle, but I’m also not entirely sure what part we are looking at here

Ah ok that makes sense, thanks!
So like 7.2 million giraffes

Israel launches Dror-1 communications satellite with help of SpaceX | The Jerusalem Post The satellite covers a distance of 3 km per second, and the first part of the flight lasts 3 minutes and 42 seconds.

So, the Jerusalem Post article states its orbital altitude at 36,000 km, which I understand to be geostationary orbit?
But it also says it orbits the earth every 30 hours.
Am I missing something?
Also, they gave its size in meters, rather than llamas or hippos, which is out of character for them

Meme of a scene from the Star Trek TNG episode “Darmok” with Picard and Dathon. Text says “Petunias, when the whale fell”

Found in the wild today…

Aw, thank you!

Image of the planet Saturn

This was 09:32 on that date.
I was observing it visually before, at 300x very clearly and didn’t notice anything.
Honestly though, that image is pretty ratty and that could just be noise.

Messier 22, the Great Globular Cluster in Sagittarius, a roundish mass of stars, dense and bright in the middle, surrounded by countless other stars in the foreground.

M22, my favorite globular cluster
#astrophotography #space

Messier 22, the Great Globular Cluster in Sagittarius, a roundish mass of stars, dense and bright in the middle, surrounded by countless other stars in the foreground.

Me too!
This is my favorite, M22. It was the first deep space object I came across randomly when I first started browsing around with a telescope. I could only barely see it, as a faint, ghostly patch of light, but I immediately knew it was something special.
Finally got a good image of it recently

Crescent moon with some surface detail in dark blue sky, with a tiny point of light above, which is Mars

I got a quick shot though my telescope

A large pale skinned hand with long turquoise painted nails against a large piece of rose quartz

Oh the days long past when I still had enough testosterone to keep my nails long…

A badly leaning utility pole with trees in the background

This is the one at our place

Ok, yeah I know methane itself is a greenhouse gas and depletes the ozone layer, but burning it just produces CO2 and H2O if I’m not mistaken?

What about on the way up, though?

Women can also be Kristi Noem