YouTube video by Jacinto Yogui Kajto - La Velŝipo Magdalena

Mi tre sxatas la fruajn kantojn de Kajto:

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Feliĉan Datrevenon!

Usagi is a charter member of the Dead Worm Appreciation Society.

#dog #GreatPyrenees

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NGC 188 (also called Caldwell 1) is at the center of the frame. About 100 dim stars are sprinkled over the field, covering about 1/2 of the frame from side to side, and about 1/3 from top to bottom,

Amazingly good image taken during the full moon. NGC 188 (also C1) was about as far from the moon as was possible, and i did tweak the contrast a bit to highlight the cluster stars, but still: this was taken during Full Moon!

Zooming in on it helps a little…

A bit of the faint nebulosity is visible. Not bad for light-polluted location.

A white cat with black patches on her head, body, and tail lies curled up on a multicolored striped towel.

#proofOfCat

This is Meep, our 16 year old cat, grumpy from being woken from a nap. Her name is the only thing she could say when we rescued her from a dog, 16 years ago.

against a dark field of dark space, with a few stars scattered across it, the Sculptor galaxy (NGC 253, also known as Caldwell 64) stretches diagonally across the field from upper middle left to lower middle right. The galaxy is tilted nearly edge-on, but a lot of internal structure is visible, especially dark blots where gas and dust blot out the stars in the galaxy's arms.

NGC 6960 is a portion of the Veil nebula, an enormous planetary nebula remnant, The whole nebula is essentially a ring, but it has broken into segments as it expanded. Many portions of the ring have their own NGC numbers. This chunk is sometimes called the "Witch's Broom". In this image, i crowded it over to the right side of the image to try and catch the many small dim blobs and whorls to the left and below the main "broom". The broom itself is rather bendy, and splits at into a fork the bottom end. There are many colors, mainly red and green, spread both on the body of the broom and in the "froth" below and behind the broom.

First clear night in a week or so. In-between objects on the Dark Nebula and Caldwell observing programs, so i hit a couple of "Tonight's Best" with the #seestar S50 🔭. NGC 253 is a lovely galaxy- hard to belive i never observed it 'til a year ago. NGC 6960 is a segment of the Veil nebula.

In a field of yellow blooming goldenrod a birds nest is woven around several stalks. The nest is a lovely cup shaped construct.

This was about two feet (.7 m) above the ground, attached to several stalks of golden rod. Anybody have speculation about what kind of #bird made this #birdnest?

On a gnarled fence post a black and white jumping spider is tucked into a recess. Its extremely green fangs were gleaming in the sun. In fact, the intense green color was what made me notice the spider on the post.

A rather blurry picture of a spider whose GREEEEN fangs were gleaming in the sun.
#spider

M44, the Beehive cluster, spreads across the field of view as strings of widely separated but bright stars, with lots of fainter stars in the background. At top right, the planet Mars glows (overexposed), and a satellite photobombs from the upper center down to the left.

Doh! For some reason i read M44 as M41. Apologies.

Here's an actual image of M44, with Bonus Mars and Satellite.

20ish minutes with #Seestar S50 🔭

Open cluter M41 in Canis Major appears as a set of stars concentrated towards the center of the image, but stretching nearly side-to-side, and occupying about a 1/3 of the image field of view.

Like many "close" open clusters, it can benefit from a wider field of view. Here's the same cluster at a lower power, allowing some more of the clusters stars in the image.

M41 lives in Canis Major, & gives some idea of what M42 (the Orion nebula) will look like when it grows up.
#seestar S50 🔭

Barnard 92 is a cloud of gas and dust blocking the light of the stars in the Small Sagittarius Star Cloud. Because of the star cloud, the background of the image is very, very full of faint stars, with a few brigher ones scattered about. The dark nebula is somewhat oval, oriented up and down at the center of the image, with a flattened area at the bottom and less dark extentions reaching the right edge of the image.

Dark nebula Barnard 92, taken with a #seestar S50 🔭

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Info on Esperanto in North Carolina and the World - Esperanto in North Carolina Join us for our June 2024 In-Person Event Disk Golf in Chapel Hill, NC Sunday, 9 June: Time 12-3pm. 12:00 noon: Lunch. Weaver Street Market, 716 Market St, Chapel Hill 1- 3pm: Disk golf. Southern Comm...

Estas multaj rekontigxoj en Norda Karolina.

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A small green tree front is sitting on a handrail. It is in perfect position to accidentally run your hand over it.

Handrail #frog. These are slimy when you find them in the dark going up the stairs.
“#Blenophobia” fear of slimy textures.

at the edge of a field of grass with white farm buildings in the background, a dark horse is grazing head downward. Several white cattle egrets are hunting bugs stirred up by the horse's movements.

We have horse, er, cattle egrets in our pasture. The horses (who play nose hockey with the turtles who wander in there) don't seem to care about the egrets.

One of the drawbacks of magical 🔭 like the #Seestar is that one doesn't learn the night sky the way one does with optical finders. I recently did completed the Herschell 400 program, and only vaguely remember which constellation any given object is in. I still remember where 90% of Messier's are.

"Triangulum Galaxy" because it's located in the constellation Triangulum. Same as Andromeda Galaxy is located in Andromeda. 🔭 #nomenclature

Grant Us More Jazz on the Radio: How Felix Grant Brought Jazz to the D.C. Airwaves By 1979, Felix Grant and his jazz radio show were an institution in DC, so the decision to remove him from the airwaves was a shock.

"The Album Sound" with Felix Grant on WMAL AM

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iuj kulturoj aldonas kvinan. Mi auxdis pri ligno kaj metalo.

Taken with a #Seestar S50 🔭, 2 minutes stacked internally, with no processing.

An astroimage of M 11, the Wild Ducks. M11 is an open cluster, which means in contains a fairly low number of stars (under 1000), as compared to globular clusters, which can contain hundreds of thousands of stars. This frame contains many background stars because the cluster is in a rich arm of the Milky Way galaxy. The cluster ins at the center of the image, and is quite rich and moderately concentrated. There is an outer halo of stars, more or less round. inside the halo the stars grow more concentrated, and appear to have straight lines on three sides, amost a parallelagram. The innermost part of the cluster shows a pattern almost like a tiny cat, standing facing left, but looking out at you looking at it.

M 11, the Wild Ducks, taken while i waited for it to get dark enough to try a Huge Mosaic of the Pipe nebula (which failed).

Under some conditions, visually in a modest sized telescope, M 11 looks like a V of waterfowl (which is where the "Wild Ducks" came from).

On the other hand, it might actually reduce fentanyl deaths, since with cocaine so much cheaper...

Why hasn't he put a tariff on it? You'd think that would be a win-win.

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Refusing to stoop to the obvious joke about "ED".

E has a lot going for it (Ethiopian, e.g.). But, you specified "food from" not "originating in", & there are some mighty fine restaurants in G. We used to live near Washington DC: Visited lots of places to eat from all over the world near Dupont Circle. Plus, originating cuisines there: Tasty!

In the 70s our P.E. teachers attempted to sanitize the name by calling them "squat-thrusts". We didn't fall for that one.

Jen Nia Mondo - A New Radio Course in Esperanto : John C. Wells : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive An introductory Esperanto audio course.The courses Jen Nia Mondo 1 & 2 were published in the 1970s and remain fairly popular even now.Accompanying the...

La lernolibro kasedoj verŝajne haveblas tie ĉi:

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