The Rochellan Commonwealth

Either that or there'll be a revolt against him and he'll be removed from office by force.

A portion of the Small Magellanic cloud....imaged from Melbourne, 10km from the CBD last night. It was damn windy!

A big loose ball of stars

Open cluster NGC 6791
#astrophotography #seestar #ngc6791

The Rochellan Commonwealth has joined. And so should you.

Zee does not exist #AIArt #midjourney

A Journey to the End of the World (of Minecraft)

In 2014 I wrote for @newyorker.com about @kurtjmac.bsky.social, a YouTuber who began walking in Minecraft and never stopped. His quest was to reach the Far Lands, a place at the limits of the algorithmic world, where the landscape breaks apart. On Saturday, after fourteen years, he arrived:

IC5070

The Pelican Nebula, in Cygnus, is approx. 1,800 ly away and reaches its annual culmination at astronomical midnight early August.

Detailed Information: astrocamp.eu/en/ic-5070-p...

▼ Vixen VC200L | Canon EOS M100(a) '22

#astrophotography #nightsky #space #astronomy #clearsky #photography #nature

The images in this gallery are the first amateur images of light echoes from the 19th-century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae. These light echoes have been detected by the Hubble Space Telescope and from large observatories such as the CTIO 4m telescope, but this is the first time that amateur images reveal these transient features. My other first amateur detection of light echoes from supernova SN1987a inspired me to try looking for the fainter echoes near Eta Carinae. What are Light Echoes? Light echoes occur when the initial flash from a bright source, like a supernova, is reflected back to us from a slightly different direction. Dust clouds in interstellar space reflect a portion of the outward-traveling light from the supernova, redirecting it towards Earth. These faint light echoes can be observed decades or centuries after the original flash. Swiss astronomer Fritz Zwicky, known for his contributions to supernovae, neutron stars, dark matter, and gravitational lenses, predicted the existence of light echoes as early as 1940. Together with Walter Baade, he coined the term 'supernova' in 1934 and proposed that faint echoes of historical supernovae could be visible long after the initial explosion. The Great Eruption was a significant brightening of the star Eta Carinae that occurred in phases during the mid-19th century. The light echoes are produced when the initial flash from the eruption is subsequently reflected off interstellar dust as light travels outward from ...

Animation (Luminance+HaOIII): First Amateur Detection of Light Echoes from 19th-Century Great Eruption of Eta Carinae - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/2pqiQxA

Top panel: Dr. Bashir and Garak are sitting at a table in the replimat. The camera is looking over Bashir's shoulder at Garak who is looking wistfully at some fixed point far away. Garak says, "I got fucked so good I can feel a breeze in my upper GI tract." Bottom panel: Close-up of Bashir's face. He smiles coyly as he says, "You old sweet-talker, you."

Relationship goals.
#StarTrek #Garashir #StarTrekMemes #StarTrekDS9

Oh wow! These are terrific!

If you want some amazing art, give @ncc-60205.bsky.social a look, they have done some amazing work for the Tranquility Press Projects!

SeeStar S30 ~ NGC 6960 ISO 200 | F~5.0 | 10 second photos stacked for 1 hour; approximately | Processed natively on the SeeStar app Bortel 6-7

SeeStar S30 ~ NGC 6960 ISO 200 | F~5.0 | 10 second photos stacked for 1 hour; approximately | Processed natively on the SeeStar app Bortel 6-7

SeeStar S50 ~ NGC 6992 ISO 200 | F~5.0 | 10 second photos stacked for 1.5 hours; approximately | Processed natively on the SeeStar app Bortel 6-7

Source: stellarium app as well as their site https://stellarium-web.org/

Got to really put the SeeStars to work last night. I'm impressed with how these turned out. Please enjoy! Info in the alternative, so try to check it out too 🔭🌌

stellarium-web.org

#Space #Stars #Astronomy #Astrophotography #Astrophotographer

USS Patton, Marshall Class at the Battle of Donatu V e.y. 2242.

The Battle of Donatu V

“The Patton was under the command of Lieutenant Commander Matthew Decker, a tough, aggressive officer. “I was a commander,” Admiral Jose Mendez (ret.), the commanding officer of the Eisenhower, said in an interview with this author…”

#StarTrek

How many planets were there again?

Here's @seanferrick.bsky.social with all of the Ups & Downs from Star Trek: Khan Episode 5 - Imagination's Limits

#StarTrek #StarTrekKhan #Sulu

shows.acast.com/d5eda24e-db8...

By demand … also for the ladies ❤️🖖✨

TNG; "I, Borg"; Guinan in her teal outfit with large disc shaped hat against a lovely blue/violet gradient background in Picard's quarters, with caption: you should at least look him in the eye once before you do it.

M20, The Trifid Nebula, is an HII region located about 4100 ly away in the constellation of Saggitarius.

An HII region is a cloud of gas and dust with large amounts of ionized hydrogen gas. Stars are often formed in regions like this.

Nighttime light show aboard Repulse.

One of my all-time favorite episodes of Trek. 💚

A remarkable video clip from astronaut Don Pettit (@astro_Pettit on X), showing his "best sighting of a Starlink satellite 'train' from orbit!" - x.com/astro_Pettit...

The first US space station was Skylab: a repurposed Saturn IV-B tank, an Apollo command module and a telescope already integrated on the ground, all launched in a special shroud.

If ANY Rochellan vessel, civilian or military is fired upon by this criminal, illegal, fascistic regime - make no mistake - we will defend ourselves in an appropriate manner.

And we won't write no "strongly worded letter", either.

A partial clipping from an old TV Guide reads as follows: Cooper awakens aboard a spaceship in the future, he must find a way to return to his reality. Man From Another Place: John de Lancie. 7 PM channel 13 STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION(CC)—Science Fiction; 60 min. The Enterprise encounters a planet with a biome so sophisticated and interconnected that the entire world behaves like an entity. When Riker is shot, Mr. Homn appears to him in a vision. Transporter chief: Frank Silva. [HBO] MOVIE(CC)—Horror; 2 hrs. “North & South: Book 1.” Kyle MacLachlan. Sher-

#StarTrekTNG "The Holo-Lodge"

The Enterprise encounters a planet with a biome so sophisticated and interconnected that the entire world behaves like an entity. When Riker is shot, Mr. Homn appears to him in a vision. Transporter chief: Frank Silva.

Got it.

A lot of the Romulan ships in this are pretty cool.

Cover for FASA Star Trek RPG module “Romulan Ship Recognition Manual.” Cover art by Dana Knutsen, 1988

Venus as seen by Japan's Akatsuki space probe on April 25, 2016. At the time this photo was taken, Akatsuki was located approximately 50,000 km above the Venusian cloud tops. This image was assembled using near-UV and near-IR photos to create a pseudo-true color view. My procedure for creating this image exaggerates the coloration and detail visible in the clouds, which show very little detail in the visible portion of the spectrum. Image Credit: JAXA / ISAS / DARTS / Justin Cowart

Venus - Akatsuki - From Aster Cowart (terrasabaea.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/DUVb6V

The government no longer functions, period.

Fanhome Line Of XL Model Re-Releases Includes 10 Enterprises, K’Tinga, DS9 + More Iconic Star Trek Ships Full list of 20 XL ships was released today at NYCC along with images of some models.

Fanhome Line Of XL Model Re-Releases Includes 10 Enterprises, K’Tinga, DS9 + More Iconic Star Trek Ships
#startrek #nycc #models
https://bit.ly/fanhomenycc25xllist

Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon taken from my backyard

Two nights of 3:45am alarms, blazing full moon lighting the sky like daytime and washing out the light of everything else, comet included. Then two days of post-processing battles, as comet processing is maddeningly tricky.

But I finally pulled it off: here is C/2025 A6 Lemmon. 🔭

#Astrophotography