Dave

I know! Back when I still had cable I'd watch them a lot. To take it away seems....wrong. And also....why?!?

An image of a large nebula structure that dominates the majority of the frame. There are two nebula in the structure: the Running Man, which is the smaller of the two and sits above and to the left of the larger Orion Nebula. The Orion Nebula dominates the majority of the frame. It's shape consists of a milky-white shell surrounding a deep red center. There are teal blue stars dotting throughout the image.

Here's an HOO look at the Orion Nebula (M42). I've been wanting to shoot this for years but never had a horizon line that would cooperate with me.

#astrophotography #photography

The Weather Channel???

Sorry, it's a screenshot! I'm not ready to share the video yet. 🤪

Me playing acoustic guitar

I started learning the acoustic guitar solo for "To Be With You" by Mr. Big a week or so ago. My fingers are actually cooperating and I may even be able to play it at speed in a few weeks.

I played with a metronome tonight and it went pretty well, but I am still a good 20 beats per minute slower.

Spider

Whee!

Thanks! It is an amazing little instrument, isn't it?

Morning rocket launch jellyfish over a lake with houses in the background.

I had to go into the office this morning but I managed to catch a picture of the jellyfish from this mornings launch.

That's awesome!

Same here.

Operation Distract From Epstein Files and Faltering Economy and Likely Loss of Congressional Majorities

....is my best guess.

Thank you.

I didn't name it.

NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula in Orion.

NGC 2174, also known as the Monkey Head Nebula in Orion.

This image used the DBE (Dynamic Background Extraction) function on the Seestar app while stacking, and it helped with the moonlight present that night. But it processed a bit towards red.

About 2 hours of data captured with a Seestar S50.

A lunar eclipse.

Very nice! Here's one of my previous ones where I had clear skies and got some good images of it. And my forecast hasn't really improved since earlier - still looking like rain for the blood Moon. Oh well....there will be more!

Thank you. Yes, Baader solar film is safe. I just didn't want people to think that ANY silvered mylar would work, because a lot of it is NOT safe to use for solar viewing.

A graphic of a forecasted rain system.

Hoping for a sucker hole in the rain and clouds might be a fools errand for me this time....

This is NOT safe. No one should do this.

ONLY use film with an optical density of 5.0 that reduces sunlight by 99.999% for safe visual observation. Baadet, Lunt, Thousand Oaks filters & other well known solar manufacturers should be the ONLY ones to use on a telescope to avoid damaging your eyes.

A full disk of the Sun showing a few sunspots.

A closeup view of four sunspots.

Sol has a few interesting sunspots rotating into view. Got a solar filter telescope? Check 'em out.

Dude, that's awesome!

Looking good!

Not only did I see the colony, I took a tour! The Moon people still exist, but they're only visible in REM sleep. I spoke with ones who have survived and exist mostly in the 5th, 6th & 7th dimensions, and then they showed me ALL their ancient ruins on the Moon! I didn't even need a spacesuit!! 😁🤣😜

The Moon in a waxing gibbous phase.

A full view of tonight's Moon. Same equipment.

The Moon highlighting Mare Humorum.

The Mare Humorum region of the Moon, tonight. The 68 miles (110 km) crater Gassendi is the large feature with the central mountain peak otersecing the mare.

Telescope: Explore Scientific FCD100 ED Triplet Refractor

Camera: Google Pixel 7 thru Explore Scientific 24mm 82 degree eyepiece.

Nice!

My wife and I will be in Iceland in August of this year. Been wanting to visit your country for many years.

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#stargazing #space

I have an SCT. Not the same one, but having it is great for imaging planets.

Excellent!

Well, that was 30+ years ago, so I can't say I remember.