Peter Lewis

If only you had a triple word score with that in scrabble!

Neither 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'!

I bet you hate the term Supermoon, an astrologer creation adopted by the media to support efforts to raise awareness amongst the 'proletariat' 😉

They 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.

The full moon names seem to be a tradition for so long I don't see why they are 'getting' ridiculous.

The Mirror is like most online media outlets. They need clicks to survive so they all bait and provoke.

They'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.

So could I! bsky.app/profile/pete...

Moons 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

In 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?

Best not let @astroroyalscot.bsky.social know, though I suspect Catherine already is aware 🤣

It'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

Thanks!

The 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

Who set fire to it? 🤣

Oh, here we use WhatsApp and have street groups that work like that.

I guess BAFTA etc have their discussions however they still use actor/actress. One thing is certain, they'd offend someone whichever title they use.

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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I don't use that app and have no idea who does.

Sure, those already interested won't need much encouragement but there may be many triggered by this story only to be underwhelmed by reality. After all, social media has this track record.

Even my daughter in law asked me about this today on behalf of my grandson. I got him to go out and find Jupiter. I don't like to see him disillusioned trying to find anything else!

I had this discussion with someone else also with a professional interest to build up this non story.

A waste of time. A nice media creation but seriously......Good luck if anyone captures all 6 on camera with no tricks!

I never think of waiter and waitress when I eat out now. Totally conditioned towards gender free terms so I call them a server which is odd as waiter isn't gender specific but feels historically male.

Like Innkeeper, quite universally accepted for a long time.

Bartender?

Indeed. I've plenty of experience trying to encourage people to 'look up' and share my hobby enthusiasm though appreciate you have professional reasons for doing so as well!