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• Post #1454565

  The comet's tail is twisted and broken! #Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) in early morning twilight, 18 April ... as seen from the mountains of southern New Mexico at 9,400 feet. A comet's tail is a good indicator of the solar magnetic field environment. Changes in field strength and direction show up in the tail's shape. The comet is now so low that I really can't capture it, except in bright twilight. Therefore, my goal this morning was to image the tail just befo...

• Post #1414475

  Evening trio - The crescent moon, Venus, and the Pleiades...in three views as twilight progresses. First view captures the moon and Venus, but it was still too bright for the Pleiades. The band of orange-yellow twilight sky gives lots of contrast to the rest of the sky. Second view is a close look at Venus and the moon. Earthshine is obvious on the rest of the moon's disk. Third view captures the blue stars of the Pleiades as twilight gets darker. #NewMexico #Photography #Astrophotog...

• Post #1251675

  #Comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) in early twilight, 16 April ... as seen from the mountains of southern New Mexico at 9,400 feet. This was taken on a fixed tripod. No star tracker. It's a stack of 71 2.5 second exposures, 135mm lens, APS-C camera. In big binoculars the comet is a pretty sight, but not a "Great Comet" level of 'wow'. The tail is easily visible in binocs in a dark sky. The comet is moving lower in the sky day by day, about 1.5 to 2 degrees...

• Post #1143056

  Grass fires raging in Nebraska. This is a time-lapse sequence, in infrared, of the state of Nebraska. It's reverse polarity, so the hot fires are black, and high-altitude cold cirrus clouds are white. The sequence starts in late morning of 12 March and continues to sunset of 13 March. On the 12th the surface winds were very strong and drove the fires dozens of miles to the southeast. As sunset came, the wind direction changed and drove the fires to the south. Overnight the winds were...

• Post #946245

  @bosquebill@techhub.social Yes, the observatories are less than ten miles away from me. Cherish your memories of the Dunn 'big white tower' solar telescope: https://2ndlifemediaalamogordo.town.news/g/alamogordo-nm/n/369889/end-era-sunspot-solar-observatorys-dunn-telescope-faces-demolition

• Post #929686

  @MBridegam @researchbuzz Thank you!

• Post #711307

  A music video that could have been shot in the United States today, but was filmed in 2018 in Istanbul. Scenes of aggressive policing and implied violent demonstrations...fascism afoot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfhuVE-uda4 Turkish blues - a painful love song Bir Yaralı Kuştum Song by Gaye Su Akyol ‧ 2018 Keder, feza üstüne Yayılır elem içimden gökyüzüne Onu benden çok sevmiş Paramparça bir hikâye Ömür ömür üstüne Yaralar sirayet etmiş her yerime İzini kaybettim artık Yarım kaldı bu...

• Post #711306

  Venus and the one-day old crescent moon in the evening sky on 19 March, as seen from the mountains of southern New Mexico. Nowruz is today! Happy New Year! #Venus #Moon #Crescent #NewMexico #Photography #Astrophotography #Nowruz #NewYear #Islam #Calendar #LunarMonth #Pisces #LunarCalendar #Equinox #Spring

• Post #686135

  Brilliant Venus and subdued Saturn in the evening sky - as seen from the mountains of southern New Mexico on 8 March. #NewMexico #Venus #Saturn #Evening #Twilight #Photography #Astrophotography

• Post #686133

  Microtonal music? That weird stuff?! The Canadian band Angine de Poitrine gives it a groove. A hard driving groove. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi-9wS1so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angine_de_Poitrine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtonality #Music #Microtonal #Canada #Quebec #Groove #Rock #Funk

• Post #592501

  @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz The camera had no problem detecting Saturn. (Sony a6300 and 85mm lens) I tried, but never saw it with my unaided eye.

• Post #592459

  @ShadSterling@mastodon.social @Ali@river.geek.nz #Aotearoa #NewZealand

• Post #519521

  @ProPublica@newsie.social The Albuquerque-based punk band Los Mocos (yup, 'Snot') has something to say about Mayor Tim Keller. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Eer1TtgCYc #News #Albuquerque #NewMexico #Homeless #Housing #Police #Prison #Law #Punk #Music #Resist

• Post #519431

  @Jazone@theforkiverse.com From the news article: "In other races, Jeremy Paul Lenentine and Bob Tyler ran unopposed to win seats on Rio Rancho’s city council for Districts 2 and 3 respectively." Rio Rancho is a fairly large city, but some city council seats were uncontested? I can understand that in smaller cities like Alamogordo, but Rio Rancho? Greetings from southern New Mexico.

• Post #496555

  A very full moon rises on March 2nd as the sun sets. In about 9 hours the moon will be totally eclipsed. For New Mexico maximum eclipse will be around 4:30AM, but totality lasts for about one hour. Set your alarm and think 'clear skies'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2026_lunar_eclipse #Moon #FullMoon #Sunset #Eclipse #LunarEclipse #Photography #Astrophotography #NewMexico

• Post #494736

  @ipxfong@mastodon.sdf.org @Hawaii@mastodon.world I have a Sony NEX-5, and I use Darktable to open it's raw/.arw format images into GIMP. I certainly don't use all the possibilities of GIMP. If you save your images as .jpg, you lose some of the dynamic range that is helpful in tough lighting situations. (Later, I got two Sony a6300 bodies. The low noise performance is better for astrophotography, and one of them is modded with all the filters in front of the sensor removed...so the s...

• Post #489619

  @ErickaSimone@mastodon.social Make Pieing Great Again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieing

• Post #487129

  @goatrodeo@mstdn.social Convert UTC to local time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_2026_lunar_eclipse

• Post #487111

  @goatrodeo@mstdn.social Total lunar eclipse in about 20 hours! Set your alarm and think clear skies!

• Post #486956

  @rickf@indieweb.social Aviation Week article on the F-15 friendly fire losses (but not that much detail) https://archive.is/08TVZ Aviation Week AKA Aviation Leak because they are pretty accurate and reliable in their reporting...to the dismay of Dept of Defense...and the Dept of War.

• Post #486872

  @goatrodeo@mstdn.social Thanks! I do photograph the moon often...thin crescent in the evening sky, full moon rising as the sun sets, etc. I've done it enough that I look at my photos and sigh: another cliche moon shot?! You gotta find something new in them, lol!

• Post #486854

  "U.S. Suffers F-15 Losses As Iran Fighting Widens" (Aviation Week magazine) "The U.S. suffered multiple combat aircraft losses to friendly fire as the fight against Iran stretched into a third day." https://archive.is/08TVZ #Iran #Politics #USpol #Trump #Epstein #EpsteinFiles #War

• Post #479870

  @Fabirucho Set an alarm to get up early. This eclipse happens in the early morning, before sunrise, before morning twilight.

• Post #479351

  @Fabirucho I will try to get photos of the rising moon tomorrow, March 2nd. Just as the moon will rise tomorrow, the sun will be just 1 degree above the horizon. The sunlight will illuminate the foreground for a balanced photo. On March 3rd the moon will rise after the sun has set. The moon will be bright, and the foreground will be very dark...silhouettes in any photo. That will make photos very different compared to 24 hours earlier.

• Post #479072

  @Fabirucho Thank you! It was time well spent outside to capture these moments.

• Post #479026

  Moonrise - trees, cirrus clouds, sunset colors in twilight. #Moon #FullMoon #NewMexico #Photography #Astrophotography #Cirrus #Twilight #Sunset #AbstractPhotography #Abstract

• Post #461047

  Today's gibbous moon shortly before sunset. Cirrus clouds give the blue sky a mottled appearance. #NewMexico #Moon #Photography #Astrophotography #Cirrus #Clouds #Texture

• Post #456832

  @Crissy@tech.lgbt For years, I could not donate blood: "For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned blood donations from folks who had spent time in certain European countries during the 1980s and ‘90s, to prevent transmission of a deadly brain infection commonly known as “mad cow disease.” " "Last year (2022), the FDA lifted the final section of its “mad cow” ban after finding there had been no reported cases of the brain disease associated with time spent in th...

• Post #435909

  @ledevoir@mastodon.quebec @adelinej@piaille.fr Here are four of them in the frame of a telephoto lens: (you will need binoculars to see Neptune) https://universeodon.com/@KrajciTom/116140341891886453

• Post #378573

  @EINS_Institute@infosec.exchange @paninid@mastodon.world "Both of these results had the ultimate effect of undermining the American Way of Life by limiting the number of citizens capable of partaking in the governing of a nation." We have a long way to climb out of this hole. A woman who spent over a quarter century in Singapore told me that in their school system, aptitude/IQ tests were used on students at a very early stage in their schooling...to identify those who are gifted/&qu...