Jeff

Good start! Very late-winter feel.

Posting in honor of Galileo’s 462nd birthday! As Newton is supposed to have said: we see farther because we stand upon the shoulders of giants.

#astrophoto #history #science #telescope

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So good. @kajakallas.bsky.social is all of us.

Still, the sun’s fun to observe! Pic from yesterday here in Vermont.

A beautiful late-winter day here in #Vermont with very little cloud activity. A few sunspots to see this morning. The solar array is exporting to the #grid Enjoy your day!!

#seestar #astrophoto

This is definitely not the original, but it looks like a good copy. https://www.reddit.com/r/TalesFromYourServer/s/4oWsYdjex4 Kicking a Nazi out as soon as they walk in *(transcribed from a series of tweets) - @iamragesparkle* I was at a shitty crustpunk bar once getting an after-work beer. One of those shitholes where the bartenders clearly hate you. So the bartender and I were ignoring one another when someone sits next to me and he immediately says, "no. get out." And the dude next to me says, "hey i'm not doing anything, i'm a paying customer." and the bartender reaches under the counter for a bat or something and says, "out. now." and the dude leaves, kind of yelling. And he was dressed in a punk uniform, I noticed Anyway, I asked what that was about and the bartender was like, "you didn't see his vest but it was all nazi shit. Iron crosses and stuff. You get to recognize them." And i was like, ohok and he continues. "you have to nip it in the bud immediately. These guys come in and it's always a nice, polite one. And you serve them because you don't want to cause a scene. And then they become a regular and after awhile they bring a friend. And that dude is cool too. And then THEY bring friends and the friends bring friends and they stop being cool and then you realize, oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now. And it's too late because they're entrenched and if you try to kick them out, they cause a PROBLEM. So you have to shut them down. And i was like, 'oh damn.' and he said "yeah, you have to ignore their reasonable arguments because their end goal is to be terrible, awful people." And then he went back to ignoring me. But I haven't forgotten that at all.

Seems like a good time to recirculate the story of the crust punk bartender who immediately kicked out Nazis. I've seen it around a bunch of times, but it seems especially relevant now. I'd appreciate if anyone knows the original source.

This is a real timelapse video of the Moon transiting in front of the Earth.

It was captured by the Artemis 1 Orion spacecraft in November 2022 while flying at it's furthest point from the Earth.
The video covers about 3.75 hours of real time. 🔭🧪

@balint.house.gov telling the truth - the Epstein Class is “a bunch of sick fucks.”

Yes!!!

WATCH — @balint.house.gov on the unredacted Epstein files: “There’s a bunch of sick fucks… so many people knew…. Trump never kicked Epstein out of Mar-A-Lago. That’s a lie.”

(From @dropsitenews.com )

It wouldn’t be unwise to stock up now…..

Nice sunspot activity today. Last week’s large cluster is still visible off to the far right-hand side of the image.

#astrophoto #seestar #solar #sunspot

That sunspot cluster from earlier in the week continues to make its way across the solar disk (today Thursday 11AM eastern US time). AA4366. The biggest spot is about five Earth diameters wide.

#aa4366 #sunspot #astrophoto

Behold the difference. (May need to tap the image to see the next story). UK has the same issues as us but at least they are doing less to protect powerful men who rape kids.

Hope remains!

Becca please replace Schumer and Jeffries. We need a true progressive agenda to defeat the fascists. They could have shut it down and had real leverage. They’re not up for this moment in history. Please, please, new leadership. Call for it publicly. We have lost decades of progress in one year.

Two pics from the past two days

The big sunspot cluster is making its way across the solar disk. It should remain in view for a few more days.

#astrophoto

Great cluster of sunspots this morning. This is the AR4366 eruption, including the most intense class (X) of solar flares.

Another bright and crystal-clear day in Vermont.

#seestar #astrophoto #vermont

A good thing happened today: Haitians in Springfield, Ohio and elsewhere are (for now) safe from the planned ethnic cleansing operation. This happened because people came together — organizers, reporters, and those who care — and made it happen. Let’s take the win and continue the work.

Last night’s moonlit meadow. 3-second exposure.

A photo showing tall grasses in the foreground, shifting from gold to green, with a line of mountains rising in the distance. Taken in the wetlands in California.

“The wild is not the opposite of cultivated; it is the opposite of the controlled.” — Wendell Berry

See you there today with @joanhalifax.bsky.social and @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social and Christiana Figueres. Remember that being compassionate does not mean apathy, nor does peaceful mean indifferent.

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First night of equatorial mount with the scope. This allows for longer imaging sessions.
Yes, that’s a nighttime photo; the moon is lighting up the snow-covered meadow.
3-second exposure

#astrophoto #seestar #vermont #moonlight

Last night did not disappoint. So glad for the era of digital telescopes, because it’s warm in the kitchen while the scope does all the hard work and it’s-4°F outside.

3-minute video stack

#astrophoto #seestar #vermont

Another nearly spotless day on the sun. And here down below in #vermont it’s about 5°F and a little windy.

#astrophoto #seestar #solar

Good morning, Bluesky! From the frigid, downright arctic Vermont dawn. Don’t know what the temp is, and no need to go look; suffice to say that polarfleece pants are insufficient in this wind to keep out there more than a few minutes.

#sunrise #vermont

Good night, Bluesky! Keep looking up.

#seestar #Astrophoto #vermont #lunar

Cold night for sure. Glad the #seestar can be outside without me! Great lunar evening. #astrophoto #vermont

Pretty much no active sunspots on our side right now. Cold here in #vermont , will take more than this to get all that fresh snow to melt!

#astrophoto #solar #seestar