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Let me present you my first Milky Way of 2025 season! #MilkyWay #astrophotography

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This is really the best ever thread

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Word of the day, for the umpteenth time, is ‘apricate’, the sister of ‘apricity’. It means to bask in the warmth of the sun, especially on a chilly day.

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Whooooooaaaaa! Galactic-scale shenanigans. Fantastic image - look at the background galaxies! [and once again, a masterclass in writing alt-text for astro images. Thank you @kellylepo.bsky.social 🙌]

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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. 👽 #ThereIsaPlanetC

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Venus meets the Moon, 1.2.25 #nightsky

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In this week's #StarDiary podcast I talk about this photography technique that captures #scintillation of stars. It's interesting to compare the coloured trails from different stars, but just as interesting are the planet trails; no scintillation means a solid colour trail!

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🌿☕ Raindroplets on my garden flowers, make me think the clouds have left magical tears💐🌿

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Steps well travelled. A beautiful start to Sunday here in Glastonbury this morning. Taken at sunrise from Glastonbury Tor.

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Waxing crescent #moon, waning crescent #Venus last Monday.

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🌿☕ Spiders are older than dinosaurs & have survived multiple mass extinctions The first true spiders, appeared around 300 million years ago in the Carboniferous period & now there are over 50,000 species found all over the world Their webs are also stronger than steel.. That's pretty awesome🕷️ 🕸️ 🌿

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✨🔭 Diving into the deep sky to see the invisible takes us into the past—unveiling its beauty in its purest form. This journey offers a profound perspective on our place in space and time, helping us think more wisely and better understand our role in the universe. #stars

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Here's an interesting composite shot - #Venus setting behind the trees last night with the tree branches creating a nice diffraction effect. #Astronomy #Astrophotography #NAW2025

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night under the stars, or actually it was a very early morning under the stars Taken today on Glastonbury Tor.

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The entirety of January 2025 in the Sun’s atmosphere! January had the lowest sunspot numbers since April 2024, and very few sizeable flares. No doubt this solar cycle has much more activity to come, but have we now passed the peak of solar max? (Or will we get an another spike?)

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Word of the Day is ‘bayard’ (16th century): one who has the supreme self-confidence of ignorance.

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A Solar Halo! A fine example of refracted ice crystals in the upper atmosphere to create a 22 degree halo effect over the trees. #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social

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Why scientists are counting tiny marine creatures from Space. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Orion tonight. This was my capture in a Bortle 4 sky (with lots of cloud). Worth comparing with my home Bortle 8 sky, both using my phone camera hand held in night sky mode! #astronomy #astrophotography bsky.app/profile/pete...

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Good morning #bluesky friends. Have a great Tuesday.

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This morning’s sunshine has reminded me of the word ‘philocaly’: a love of beauty, even in the smallest things.

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What a spectacular view at Herstmonceux! The Royal Astronomical Society is here for the official launch of National Astronomy Week tonight 🔭 You can see the waxing crescent Moon with Venus above it and Saturn to the bottom right. 🌒🪐 Are you out and about? Tag us in your pictures! #NAW

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Hello February. A lovely sunrise here in the sunny Southeast at Wexford as that cloud moves East temperatures range from 1c in East to 11c in West. Some patchy drizzle today but dryer further East.

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"Sorry boss, can't come to work today. Yeah, ghost-induced vertigo. It's really bad this time, I don't feel well at all. Don't know which way is up or down. Gonna immerse myself in a whole heap of steaming poo, but should be good by tomorrow. I'll submit my reports then."

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Normal Chinese on Lunar New Year: eating Chinese food and will use chopsticks. Me on LNY: eating spaghetti with fork. So sorry to disappoint you, my ancestors! 😅

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🔭 Known as the Starfish Cluster, Messier 38 is located in the constellation Auriga, about 4,200 light-years from us. Shining at magnitude +7.4, it stands out as a distinctive cluster of stars, ✨ interspersed with some ... com.xipteras.org/Astroimaging... #stars

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When Mother Nature shows off. The Aurora Borealis and the Milky Way. This was taken half way up Cairngorm mountain in the Scottish Highlands. Such a wonderful thing to see. There were people in camper vans who slept through it all 😮 Hope you’re all having a great day, stay safe.

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Decided to try the 3x Barlow tonight, pushing the focal length up to 4800mm at f/24 and did better than I had expected. Actually this is the most detail I’ve gotten on Mars so far. Elysium Mons visible as a whitish spot upper right. 8” f/8 Newtonian, 3x Barlow, ZWO ASI224mc.

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My mind is regularly blown by this planet and its tiny inhabitants who have evolved in unique and breathtaking ways. More examples in the replies 🤯

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"It is the moon, I ken her horn, That's blinkin' in the lift sae hie; She shines sae bright to wyle us hame, But, by my sooth, she'll wait a wee!" 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿Happy Burns Night🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📷: @tomduffinphotos.bsky.social #RobertBurns #BurnsNight #astrophotography 🔭

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The moon very early this morning, taken on my phone in Glastonbury.

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Hunkering down, out of the wind, although #StormÉowyn isn't packing too much of a punch down here. Thinking of everyone further north and west though #ukbirding

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⭐️🔴⭐️ The Red Planet Mars shines brilliantly against the backdrop of the Gemini constellation, its fiery hue contrasting with the cool starlight of Castor and Pollux. #stars

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Brilliant Venus sits just over Saturn this evening. #astronomy #astrophotography #stormhour

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My sunset photograph from Wednesday in Glastonbury in today's Times online. 👏👏Shining like a beacon as the sun set directly inline with the archway of St Michael's tower on Glastonbury Tor. Have a fabulous Friday everyone and stay safe.

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Mars in Gemini #stars 🔴⭐️⭐️

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Orion´s Belt ⭐️⭐️⭐️ #stars

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Word of day is ‘unasinous’ (17th century): united in stupidity. A riff on ‘unanimous’: which comes from the Latin for ‘one mind’. ‘Unasinous’ means ‘one ass’.

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More Comet ATLAS :) Taken on the 21st Jan, 2025. 11x13sec subs, stacked. Canon 700D @ ISO1600, Canon Nifty 50 lens @ F2.8 #comet #astronomy #astrophotography

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