John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

Just #Wow. This #APOD long exposure #photography is revealing spiral #auroras over #Iceland. What else ?
Really #impressive #picture. I wish I took it.

#Astronomy

Spiral Aurora over Iceland
Image Credit & Copyright: Stefano Pellegrini

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230111.html

Stunning composite of 6 major meteor showers, 8 years in the making, by Petr Horálek.

#astrodon #astrophotography #astronomy #nightsky #space

So, just to avoid any confusion, when you run Windows 11, the product you are using is Windows 10. The Windows version is 2009 (which of course doesn't fall between versions 2008 and 2016, duh). So if you are using Windows Server 2022, the product is called 2022 but the version is 2009 because those two numbers seem like the same but they aren't.

The "Windows Current Version" for Windows 11 is 6.3. But don't use that number because Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 were also version 6.3. Windows 8 was 6.2.

Or if you want, just use build number 22621, also known as 22H2. The version 22H2 update is also called the "Windows 11 2022 update" because there never was a 22H1. But at least they changed their naming scheme and didn't call it Fall update because it was spring in half the world when it came out, heh.

Facts are facts.

If you’re at the right place at the right time, with the right equipment, this is possible.

Last night, with guidance from https://transit-finder.com/, I positioned myself along the narrow line where the International #SpaceStation would pass between me and the nearly full moon.

I used a Fujifilm X-T4 shooting 4K video through a Celestron 8” SCT to capture the pass. Then, back at the computer this morning, put together these views with PIPP, Registax, and GIMP.

Quite pleased. My best yet.

Australians may be known for a laconic, easygoing, laidback attitude; but then we also have Australian Standard AS/NZS 2007.1-2005, which prescribes how we should stack our dishwashers

$ curl duck

“‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why.”

LOL. I know why. Academia increasingly values publications/productivity…or at least that’s the stuff that gets you a job. Oh, and money. You don’t need to change the world…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

#Space #PacMan

This #APOD #picture is revealing the lucky alignement (as seen from the #Earth) of a background #galaxy with a foreground #star forming region (here a #globule) mimicking a famous character from old-times video games.

Maybe it's time to play Pac-Man again ?

#Astronomy #photography

CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230104.html

When we present #scientific discoveries to the public, we always highlight the scientific team leading the results. However, we often forget that, astronomical discoveries would not be possible without the tremendous work of brillant #technicians and #engineers building and maintaining complex instrumentations.

The #ESO #picture of this week focus on the 8.2m #VLT and its associated instrumentation.

#Astronomy #Space #Science

Credit:
Zdeněk Bardon/ESO

read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2301a/

Has anyone else ever discovered the #TimeMachine at #GenevaCornavin station? You step off a Swiss train in the 2020s, pass through an unassuming corridor, and then step onto a French train in the 1980s.
But seriously, the French Lyon to Geneva #TER service is awful. It's slow, infrequent, overcrowded and on ancient rolling stock. I imagine the air filtration is also non-existent given my partner and I both caught COVID in one 3 days ago. Another European #CrossBorderRail service left to rot...

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

And that anomaly is relative to the period 1981-2010, already affected by global warming! 🤯
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx/status/1608676351585980417

Looks like Gemini North will continue to be down until late March/early April 2023 https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106 The Gemini South mirror recoating is being pushed back until the North is back on-sky #astrodon https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106

When you're a civil engineer but you always wanted to be a network engineer.

@epixoip Absolutely. In my latest blog post I take apart their public statement and show how many issues have been known and ignored for a long time. And #LastPass continues to ignore and downplay them even now, when they’ve put people at risk. It isn’t only the breach, it’s also the long standing and continuing negligence.

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

A tale of two presidents.

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣