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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Saturn imaged at 23:02 UT on 26 September 2026. 12" Meade LX-200, Player One Uranus-C camera. #Astrophotography

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The Ideal accessories if you own the black / gold / blue / white dress.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I am considering installing solar panels. Fortunately I have a 3D model of my house available to experiment with options.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

As a very young child I thought the male equivalent of a 'wife' was a 'dustbin'.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I've just been out along my roof ridge to clean off some untidy excess mortar. Now feeling pretty saddle sore.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With a mix of old and new equipment I've set up a basic music studio in my attic. I've had the bass guitar and hi-fi amp for close to 40 years. The speakers are relatively new (30 years).

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I used an FFT filter as part of this restoration to remove the texturing.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If you have Photoshop download a FFT plug-in. There are YouTube tutorials on removing patterning artefacts.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Diesel has already reached $9.20 per US gallon in the UK, with much of this high price due to the Gulf situation.

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Alex von Tunzelmann @alexvont.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

If you feel like donating to the RNLI, here’s a link. I just have. Their minimum donation is £2: I think it might be nice for them to receive a lot of donations this week, even if they’re mostly very modest. Just so they know a lot of people out here appreciate their work. rnli.org/support-us/g...

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Donate to the RNLI and help save lives at sea

Your donations really make a difference. We depend on your generosity to educate people to stay safe and prevent tragedies on and offshore. Donate here.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I sometimes play an online version of this with international friends. I don't like being a saboteur - it's not in my nature to destroy things.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I just ordered my first 6-string guitar, so I'll likely become an inept guitarist as well as being an inept bassist.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Seeing some interesting clouds this evening - wondering if they are asperitas clouds.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I thought it might be a good time to replace my bass strings, as the ones currently on there are now 45 years old.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I took a quick look at #Saturn last night. Conditions were very good but technical issues prevented me from any proper imaging captures.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Don't go near it with any quadrotriticale.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

If I'm ever in town I'll be sure to pop by.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Portrait of the Sun moments before the 12 August eclipse.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

An improved version of my 12 August solar eclipse footage. Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Lovely. My niece and nephew both did physics.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

A couple of solar eclipse shots. Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

I'm unsure how badly Bluesky mangles movies, but here's a quick time-lapse of today's solar eclipse, as seen from Northwich, UK.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I modified my binoculars for solar use, in preparation for the eclipse on 12 August.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Primarily manual editing in Photoshop. Photoshop FFT plug-in for regular pattern removal on textured scans, Topaz Photo Studio for noise removal and some detail recovery (Max Noise filter).

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Some photo restorations require multiple strategies. I don't like giving up.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Belize beauty contest from around 1978. This photo restoration involved an intricate nose job. Crop of a larger image.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Doing some photo restorations from old scans for a friend. Belize school prom, 1994.

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Gary @gazz1815.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Steroid injections. Hopefully my fingers will stop locking up.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thrilled to chance upon the Utah Teapot while out in Dublin.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

It's a screenshot from our #StarCitizen game. I implemented the shading and lighting side of the water graphics tech, hopefully making it look fairly realistic. Thanks for the vote of confidence! 🩵

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I can't render caustics without thinking of David Hockney. RIP.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

30th anniversary of the Manchester bomb. I would normally have been in shopping the city at that time, but was out of town near the airport. I first suspected something was happening on seeing several Hercules military aircraft coming in to land.

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Bride ran to find her groom after 1996 Manchester IRA bomb

BBC Radio Manchester's Joel Mitchell goes back into the archives to learn about the day the city changed forever.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

To mark the return of Rush to the world stage here's me (on bass) knocking out a rough cover in 1982.

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Freewill - Rush cover (excerpt)

Recorded around 1982.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I can see it from my window now. Fabulous work!

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

With my multimeter I finally diagnosed the boiler issue which had stumped three heating engineering companies. It was a rare microswitch fault in one of the zone valves. I'm no electrician but I know how to debug things: observe, hypothesize, test and repeat.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

She must be in her 50s now. I think I saw her in Costco the other week.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Rijksmuseum needs more time than VGM. Canal boat tour is nice. Indonesian rijstafel meal maybe?

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

RIP Dick Parry - Pink Floyd saxophonist. 😢🎷https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoLhKJuGhK0

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

A 400mm lens is a great way to check roof repairs.

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Alan Murta 🇪🇺 🇺🇦 @alanmurta.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I'm ticketed-up too - Lowry 3rd row - just out of spitting range. I bought 5 tickets in my excitement.

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