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owengwynne.bsky.social

Lover of science especially astronomy. Lives in NW England. In training for retirement. As Einstein said "Only a fool believes everything they read on X - aye, and be sceptical of 'owt on Bluesky"

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Sidewalk #Astronomy for the Partial Solar Eclipse in NW England. Obscured by clouds, but you can see the dark side of the moon. More than 40 pairs of eclipse glasses given away.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Rather than imaging a 'target' last night, I asked my #seestar50 to look at a relatively nondescript 'NGC' things in Coma Berenices: NGC 4274 and NGC4278. In only 65 minutes I imaged the home of billions of solar systems

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Love this - I'm pretty sure that geologists will agree, yes? @seismatters.bsky.social xkcd.com/3068/

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Catching up with the latest Lovell Lecture at Jodrell Bank (Chaos at Cosmic Dawn) with Phil Bull - and we come out to this... #astronomy at top level photogenics

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Science with the SeeStar, the advantage of having a fixed format rig. The observed size of the Sun's disc near Perihelion (375 pixels) and near Aphelion (363 pixels), demonstrating that the Earth's orbit is not circular. #astronomy

submitted 91 days ago • 2 comments