Happy 50th birthday to the best album ever π #Genesis
13.02.2026 01:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@asteroidproject.bsky.social
Nerd. Books, music, photography, astrophotography, politics, pro-democracy. π¦πΊ
Happy 50th birthday to the best album ever π #Genesis
13.02.2026 01:44 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Am I right? #pambondi #congress #trump #epsteinfiles
12.02.2026 01:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0919. Metallica: Melbourne, Australia November 8, 2025. What a memento β double live CD from the show we went to. Sounds fantastic!! And my shouts/vocals are on the album too, somewhere. #CDsAtoZ πΏ
11.02.2026 10:06 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Star Warsing the narrowest lane in Melbourne, Corrs Lane, between Lonsdale and Little Bourke Streets.
09.02.2026 01:36 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Many different choices out there. I do it βold schoolβ with my Canon DSLR attached to my telescope with an adaptor. I have an 11β Celestron. Others use deep sky cameras, which donβt have traditional lenses/mirrors. Smaller and lighter. But I prefer telescope and camera.
06.02.2026 23:45 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0International Space Station passing over Melbourne, February 6th 2026. 30 second exposures. There are currently seven people on board the ISS, six men and one woman. 420 kilometres or so above the Earth, travelling at 27,000 kilometres per hour and orbiting once every 90 minutes.
06.02.2026 13:50 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Carina Nebula (NGC 3372), February 6th 2026. What a beauty of the southern sky. Experimenting with exposures, image stacking and processing because I am a massive nerd. Carina Nebula is 8,500 light years away. #astrophotography
06.02.2026 13:32 β π 18 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0Beautiful! Here she is from Melbourne π¦πΊ
05.02.2026 20:13 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0A waning gibbous Moon, 85% illuminated. 12.30am, February 6th 2026. Three men and one woman will travel around the Moon within the next month, tech and weather permitting, on @nasaartemis #astrophotography
05.02.2026 14:30 β π 12 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0Melbourne π¦πΊ
02.02.2026 20:53 β π 18 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0Full Moon, February 2nd 2026. It's a bit past full, with some shadow appearing on the left limb. Currently 373,922 kilometres away. The next Full Moon on Tuesday March 3rd will be accompanied by a total lunar eclipse, beginning at 10.00pm AEDT. #astrophotography
02.02.2026 13:41 β π 23 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0Milky Way near the Carina Nebula. Hundreds of stars and massive swathes of gas and dust, light years across. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography
02.02.2026 07:56 β π 15 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Betelgeuse or Ξ± Orionis, a red supergiant star in Orion, 500 light years away. With its radius being 700 times that of the Sun, it would engulf the orbits of Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars if it was at the centre of our solar system. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography
31.01.2026 13:24 β π 30 π 4 π¬ 1 π 0Jewel Box Cluster in the Southern Cross, very pretty and 6,500 light years away. Filled with supergiant stars. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography
31.01.2026 13:23 β π 13 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NGC 3532, a beautiful open cluster in Carina, 1,300 light years away. Stars inside loop around in elegant lines. Little sprinkles, but all of them many light years from each other in three dimensions. January 26th 2026 #astrophotography
31.01.2026 13:23 β π 10 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Agreed!!!! As Phil would often say: βWhat the fuck is this?β
27.01.2026 23:02 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0First quarter Moon, January 26th 2026 #astrophotography
26.01.2026 13:03 β π 19 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Orion Nebula, January 23rd 2026 #astrophotography
25.01.2026 00:05 β π 54 π 11 π¬ 0 π 0The massive spiral galaxy NGC 2613 in Pyxis. Almost edge-on to our line of sight. 78,000,000 light years away, and measuring almost 200,000 light years across. I know, right. #astrophotography
24.01.2026 08:48 β π 20 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0NGC 2359, aka Thor's Helmet Nebula in Canis Major. Very far away (12,000 light years) and very large (30 light years across). We see it behind a veil of stars. January 23rd 2026 #astrophotography
24.01.2026 08:48 β π 11 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0The glorious Carina Nebula. Composite of two images, each made of fifteen eight second exposures. The blue object at the top includes the Keyhole and Homunculus Nebulae. January 23rd 2026 #astrophotography
23.01.2026 14:27 β π 28 π 7 π¬ 0 π 0NGC 1566, the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy in Dorado. A beautiful face-on spiral galaxy, 69,000,000 light years away. The bright star at bottom left is Ξ³ Doradus. January 21st 2026 #astrophotography
21.01.2026 17:45 β π 24 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1Sh 2-279 reflection nebula region in Orion, 1,500 light years away. January 20th 2026 #astrophotography
21.01.2026 17:44 β π 6 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Crab Nebula (M1), 6,500 light years away in Taurus, and measuring 11 light years across. January 20th 2026 #astrophotography
21.01.2026 17:44 β π 12 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Mount Evelyn, Victoria
20.01.2026 14:57 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Aurora Australis, January 20th 2026 #aurora #astrophotography
20.01.2026 14:56 β π 60 π 8 π¬ 0 π 0Found this over on Threads @ckfrain.bsky.social and now, finally, the movie makes sense
20.01.2026 08:35 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Have not funged my token.
19.01.2026 02:00 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Diagram of the upcoming NASA Artemis II mission. First crewed mission to the Moon since 1972; first 4-person lunar crew; first woman to the Moon; furthest crewed mission from the Earth. #thisisimportant
19.01.2026 01:58 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0