It's certainly the reason we're still here. A defence shield against all sorts.
03.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@peterlewis55.bsky.social
Londoner. Lots of varied interests including natural wildlife of all kinds, astronomy, global travel, opera, music, culture, sport and entertainment. Family Man. I share my photos. Politics free zone.
It's certainly the reason we're still here. A defence shield against all sorts.
03.03.2026 21:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Yes, the Moon is always fascinating. Always changing yet always the same!
03.03.2026 21:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Indeed. Lovely undulating clouds
03.03.2026 20:42 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sure is, thanks.
03.03.2026 20:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Captured by a Dwarf3 smart scope. 320 x 0.5 second exposures and stacked.
The orange colour of my last post has long since gone as the waning gibbous Moon (99.6%) gains height.
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03.03.2026 20:18 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Very nice. No blood red moon over here but orange comes close!
03.03.2026 20:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Tonight's rising ex-Wolf Moon! Still very full but actually a 99.7% waning gibbous! A glorious deep orange glow at the moment but the colour will soon fade
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If only you had a triple word score with that in scrabble!
03.03.2026 17:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Neither than I though I smile and embrace it these days rather than get all snotty about it and insist to all and sundry it's a 'perigee-syzygy'!
03.03.2026 16:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I bet you hate the term Supermoon, an astrologer creation adopted by the media to support efforts to raise awareness amongst the 'proletariat' 😉
03.03.2026 16:05 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0They are quite widely known and used and have been for generations so that organisations like NASA, the Royal Observatory and others seem happy to use them even if they don't meet your standards, apparently.
03.03.2026 15:54 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The full moon names seem to be a tradition for so long I don't see why they are 'getting' ridiculous.
03.03.2026 15:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The Mirror is like most online media outlets. They need clicks to survive so they all bait and provoke.
03.03.2026 11:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0They're a bit of fun. It shows the rotation of the Earth (stars are fixed) but also shows just how many flights overhead in a relative small portion of my sky.
03.03.2026 08:01 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So could I! bsky.app/profile/pete...
02.03.2026 23:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Moons of Jupiter, left to right: Ganymede, Io, Europa, Callisto.
Last one for the night. Jupiter and its 4 Galilean Moons in a line!
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Tonight's fly pasts! 150 minutes speeded up to 10 seconds.
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Two Star Trails. Four hours worth last week after the London flight curfew at 11pm and two hours worth this evening. Is it any surprise #astrophotography is tough here? #astronomy
02.03.2026 22:22 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1In the full moon stage, it reaches 100% after setting tomorrow.
Tonight's 'Wolf' 99.4% (almost) Full Moon. Taken by my Dwarf3 smart scope.
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Newcastle's next 5 games look tasty. Could be very exciting or terminal for the season. What do you think?
02.03.2026 19:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Best not let @astroroyalscot.bsky.social know, though I suspect Catherine already is aware 🤣
02.03.2026 19:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0It's the 'almost' Full 'Worm' Moon, rising in the east. It'll be 100% after it sets in the morning #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
02.03.2026 17:46 — 👍 29 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Thanks!
02.03.2026 14:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The largest sunspot (AR4378) is not very active at the moment
Today's Sun. Nothing too dramatic to see but a warm early spring day is always a pleasure!
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As the weekend finishes, it's a goodnight from London with a 97% waxing gibbous Moon! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
01.03.2026 23:12 — 👍 101 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0Who set fire to it? 🤣
01.03.2026 22:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Oh, here we use WhatsApp and have street groups that work like that.
28.02.2026 21:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I guess BAFTA etc have their discussions however they still use actor/actress. One thing is certain, they'd offend someone whichever title they use.
28.02.2026 20:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tonight's star trail over my house. One hour's worth before the clouds returned! Polaris, the Pole Star, is bang in the centre.
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