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The Helix Nebula NGC 7293 makes an appearance on the tracking camera as I try and update USA 227's positional data.

Here's another gem from recent times, my image of the Soul Nebula in Cassiopeia. Shot with a OSC camera and the L-Extreme filter, it's possible to process the data in the Hubble Palette style.

Telescope: Technosky AG70
Camera: ASi294 MC Pro
Stack: 100x300s

Stacked in AstroPixelProcessor and edited in PixInsight

#astrophotography #universe #photography #space #astronomy

“O God, the source of eternal light: Shed forth thine unending day upon us who watch for thee, that our lips may praise thee, our lives may bless thee, and our worship on the morrow may give thee glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.”

Fedi is the most strange thing in the world.

On normal social media, you write a message and people just ignore it forever.

Here, you write a message, it stays ignored for 1 or 2 years, and then all of a sudden, for no reason, with no explanation, someone finds it somehow, boosts it, and it gets 200 likes and 120 boosts.

What the fuck.

I'm sure someone will boost this message in 2021 or 2022.
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It’s awesome to see so many great people in #Astrodon lately. Even more, many of these people are amateurs like me, so I really appreciate their posts. Keep them coming! ✌️

The difference between Twitter and Mastodon right now is stark.

Twitter: Tons of stochastic retweets and "people follow this person" algorithm nonsense. This only started happening in the last 2 weeks.

Mastodon: Only content from the people I follow!

I almost thought Mastodon was broken for a little while until I realized... the people I followed just hadn't posted in a few hours!

Twitter nervously tries to fill that silence with the algorithm to keep you engaged, while Mastodon is like:

#ESPN3 is currently airing the #MicrosoftExcelWorldChampionship (not even joking)

Posted this as a locked post, maybe I will get an answer faster if it is open.

A #fediverse #tech #question on #boosts: I keep seeing boosts of posts I have already seen (it looks like lots of my followers like the same things I do 😛 ). Is there some setting that stops this, so I don't see something three times, but just once? I can't find anything like this.

Thanks!

Wow! Once in a lifetime shot!

This amazing image of a meteor was captured by Jonathan Eggleston in West Virgina, USA, during the recent lunar eclipse.

#Photography #Astrophotography #BloodMoon #Meteor #Meteorshower

ActivityPub doesn’t seem like too heavy a protocol in terms of coding up some basic bots or servers. Mulling over the possibilities!

M1, the Crab Nebula shot in dualband ... almost too snall for my telescope 😊. Total exposure time was around four hours with single exposures of five minutes ... #astrophotography #astronomy #universe #cosmos

You will find I'm occasionally geeky about my Hauptwerk organ. #organist #churchmusic

Happy Harding Whalebomb Day from #Oregon!

It is the birthday of infamous figure skater Tonya Harding and the anniversary of this unwise application of TNT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPuaSY0cMK8

#Jekyll is kicking my ass right now. I’m trying to put some html code as a code block into my article but Jekyll is rendering the #LiquidCode in the code block and not leaving it as just code. 🤦🏻‍♂️

Any Jekyll/Liquid folks out here?

Sometimes I also dip my toe into #solarphotography .

This kind of #astrophotography requires a lot of safety gear and you should never do it unless you know what you’re doing and have the correct equipment. Nobody wants to set their eyeballs or #telescope on fire right? 😁
Here’s a couple of solar shots from a while back, one showing a #sunspot and the other a prominence! They were shot using a specialised #hydrogenalpha filter and a mono camera