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"NIH’s new director, Jayanta “Jay” Bhattacharya, dismissed the report as “rumors” in an interview with Science on Thursday morning, hours before he announced the new policy." www.science.org/content/arti...

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The AGI is learning

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I have done quite a bit of astrophotography by now. I have also done a PhD. I can confidently say that astrophotography can be a deeper rabbit hole than doing a PhD. Never ending breadth and depth of things to do and understand. Quite something.

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This Atlantic essay I think is at the heart of western issues today: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Life achievement: solved the Rubik's cube.

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You would never imagine the best take on tariffs would come from a photograophy channels but here we are youtu.be/jCS-LS4LUXk

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I think the Skype retirement is close to the level of Google Reader retirement. So angry.

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HDR moon attempt, blending two sets of exposures (160GB total data).

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In some years the (church) full moon occurs after April 3rd. Then the easter definitions sync up and the Easter Sunday is, for both churches, the following Sunday after that full moon.

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Then for the equinox date both churches set it at March 21, irrespectively of the actual astronomical date. The catholic church uses the modern, Gregorian calendar, while the Orthodox uses the older Julian calendar, for which March 21 falls on April 3rd in our calendar.

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The churches use a "church" moon - designed by Meton in the 5th century BC. His moon approximates the real moon but is mathematically easier to estimate. It's Meton's full moons that dictate Easter.

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The catholic and orthodox easter coincide this year. They both define Easter as the first Sunday after the first full moon after the spring equinox. However they do not use the (complicated to predict in the past) the astronomical equinox or even the real moon.

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Hello Jupi! Captured last night from my London balcony, using a mere 90mm diameter telescope and a Canon 80D. From left to right, the moons are Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto.

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Had to write my own stabilisation code for this to look good, but I ended up with a decent timelapse of the partial solar eclipse over London last weekend. The moon just missed the sun!

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We got lucky enough weather wise to observe a (partial) solar eclipse from London. Astronomy software simulation, and the photo I am capturing (hoping to make a timelapse).

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My favorite moment of the Apollo program:

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Sad to see the -inevitable at this stage- bankruptcy of 23 and me. Took their test more than 10 years ago, it was a new kind of understanding at the time.

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Severance was good. Not season 1 good, but I admire how weird it is.

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Hello, Jupiter! I was surprised I was able to capture it from London with my meagre gear.

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Had fun capturing the moon the other day. This time through a 1250mm telescope lens on the Canon R6.

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Played around pointing my telescope to the sun behind a tree (through a filter, of course).

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It's kinda crazy that there is a (normally niche) astrophotography YouTube channel with 500k subscribers. Great job by Trevor.

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Practicing packaging the astro gear for the summer

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Re-edit of the andromeda galaxy from last August in Greece, now with +6 months in processing experience. Canon R6, EF 400mm f5.6, 60s exposures at ISO3200 for 2h.

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Orion Nebula from light-polluted London, attempt no3. This was an "HDR" version, mixing 10s exposures with 120s exposures. Canon R6, EF 400mm 5.6L, 60x10s & 60x120s subs at ISO400, GTI tracker, Light pollution filter.

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2nd attempt at Orion from the London light polluted sky, in natural color. Not bad! Next, I will aim at an HDR version. Canon R6, EF 400mm 5.6L, 200x20s subs at ISO200, GTI tracker.

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I am a sucker for the Oscars. Have been watching them for almost 30 years now.

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One more image captured last night, some faint galaxies called the Leo triplet. They are about 15x farther away than Andromeda. Again, impressive I can capture these from London's light pollution.

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Finally finished the major movies for the Academy Awards this year, and Emilia Perez ifs by far the most original/interesting one, right?

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My very first attempt at imaging the Orion Nebula. TO be honest, I did not expect to see anything from my balcony in light-polluted London. And yet, something interesting came out. Canon R6, EF 400mm 5.6L, 173x30s subs at ISO1600, GTI tracker.

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A diplomatic meeting for the ages youtu.be/Ch0q31cfEIQ

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I have been playing around with some Matlab code to calculate the optimal (sub-) exposure times for astrophography. Interestingly, when light pollution is high (I am in Bortle 7), the ISO can be lowered a lot.

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First time using a full automated software setup to capture astrophotos (NINA). The learning curve is huge, but the rewards are amazing. Giving a shot at the Orion Nebula from my light polluted London balcony.

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Also, I always love seeing a Foucault pendulum, where the whole planet rotates around its oscillation plane.

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The video game console exhibition at the Science Museum was quite interesting. There is something ethereal adjusting the difficulty level in Pong using physical switches. I also found my first computer, a Commodore 64!

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I cancelled my Netflix and I was trying to search in Gmail for my very first sign up email. Turns out it was before I joined Gmail.

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The time has come, Netflix.

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I have a suspicion Screen Time might be bugged.

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I sometimes love Windows so much. True to Microsoft's nature.

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TIL Windows has a Clock app (lol) that also receives updates ?

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Thought to check back on Covid hospitalizations. Lower than the peak years, but still significant and killing more people than flu. https://buff.ly/3CDrojG

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The Moon through my 25 year old Meade ETX90, captured last summer.

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