Scott Kardel aka Palomar Skies

Indeed she is.

A telescopic image of the Moon in the waxing gibbous phase showing bright impact craters and smooth, dark lunar plains.

Sunday's nearly full Moon has 98.1% of the nearside illuminated. 🔭

For Women's History Month - a thing I wrote.

lroc.im-ldi.com/images/1093

My goal was to highlight interesting lunar features imaged by LRO that were named for lesser-known scientists. Blagg Crater, named for Mary Adela Blagg, is located in Sinus Medii.

I requested that the crater be reimaged.

A jet coming out of a galaxy

Radio #galaxy (4C 00.58) with a black hole in the center spewing out an astrophysical jet of material. #JWST 🔭 NIRCam (F444W)

program: www.stsci.edu/jwst-program...

PI is Eileen Meyer @eileen-meyer-astro.bsky.social

#blackhole #jet #astronomy

A telescopic image of the Moon in the waxing gibbous phase. Many bright impact craters can be seen along with smooth, dark lunar plains.

Tonight’s Moon. 🔭

Such a great book!

If only.

Fly to the complex molecular gas in the centre of the #MilkyWay!🧑‍🚀

In this chaotic and extreme environment, stars don’t necessarily form in the same way as they do in the Milky Way’s outskirts. But new ALMA observations will probe how stars evolve there.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2603/

🔭🧪

Thanks!

A telescopic mage of a cluster of moderately bright stars against a background of fainter stars.

🔭 From last night, here's the open star cluster known as Messier 41. It is located around 2,300 light years away in the direction of the constellation of Canis Major.

YouTube video by John Williams - Topic Song for World Peace

Music for your weekend, Song for World Peace:
youtu.be/BHm-bz_8WtA?...

That would be wonderful.

A telescopic image of the Moon in the waxing gibbous phase showing many impact craters and smooth, dark lunar plains.

A telescopic view of Jupiter which has clouds that are stripes of brown, tan and white. A black spot at left is the shadow of its moon Jupiter.

🔭 Tonight's view of the Moon and of Jupiter, complete with Io's shadow at left.

An image of the Sun with many dark sunspots.

A big change from last year.

Yes, I will be up stupidly early to try to catch the total lunar eclipse Tuesday morning. Here's a preview from the NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio.

Congratulations! ✨

This! 🖖
#StarfleetAcademy's "The Life of the Stars"

A telescopic image of the Sun, which looks like a yellow circle. A couple of dark Sunspots are visible near the left side of the Sun.

Friday's Sun. 🔭

Nice!

Beautiful! Also,

Elon Musk Wants To Put 1 Million Satellites Into Space. The FCC is Asking For Opinions It’s unclear if it's even feasible, but it would be a danger to space exploration, astronomy, and even our health.

"The FCC is looking at two proposals that could massively affect the night sky. One is mirrors in space that would reflect sunlight on demand during the night. The other is an unprecedented request for a 1-million-satellite megaconstellation."

www.iflscience.com/elon-musk-wa...

Good choices.

The Orion Nebula (M42), the Flame Nebula, a globular star cluster (M79), a planetary nebula (NGC 2392), and a few galaxies.

A group of students gathered around a smart telescope observing the universe.

Four groups of students in a field clustered around smart telescopes.

Last night’s observing session for my students was successful in spite of the clouds.

Red and green aurora over an island, with a fishing boat's lights reflecting on the water

Arcs of green aurora over an island with a green light reflecting on the water. In the distance, lights from a town shine brightly, with snow capped mountains beyond.

Swirls of green aurora looking forward from the bow of the ship.

Processed some more #aurora pictures from last night (24 Feb). All are handheld, 3s exposures on an iPhone in RAW mode. Taken on board a Northern Lights cruise with Fred Olsen and the @gostargazing.bsky.social team. #astronomy #heliophysics

Pastel colors of orange and blue in n the sky at sunset.

Typically nice sunsets = bad conditions for observing.

Five Unistellar smart telescopes in a field.

Yes, we will be using five @unistellar.bsky.social telescopes this evening.

I hope it clears for you.

Thanks for the heads up!