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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 02/10/2026

technology should have stopped right there

Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 28/09/2026

Feel like chatting with me? Aside from Discord (astropotamus.com/discord) you can also catch me on #Signal at signal.me#eu/cNxxRPS8U... or username Astropotamus.01

Scan this QR code with your phone to chat with me on Signal. Or find me at username Astropotamus.01

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 27/09/2026

This guy. With the cigar. Priceless. apnews.com/article/nore...

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 22/09/2026

Sink cat Mac holds out for a high five even when pounding Zs. He's got your back.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 12/09/2026

Things I was frightened of as a child: The furnace. 70s wallpaper. Water hammer when the sump pump would do its thing while I was alone, before I understood fluid dynamics. Horses, until I was tall enough to look them in the eye. Losing the rest of my family to another plane crash.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 08/09/2026

Date yourself with a picture of your first computer:

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 04/09/2026

The problem is that my language changed as I crossed boundaries growing up and moved around, including across states, "areas," countries, and continents. The words I use now are not the same as when I was 10, but regardless, mydialect.us/got it mostly wrong for me. Def not Oregon. Not even close.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 02/09/2026

I dont have that specific shot, but I do have this comparison. By the way, I'm hoping you're still interested in drinkomg some women and talking about space with me sometime on my Star River Podcast. Catherine Heymans is joining me in a few weeks! ☀️🔭🦛

A funny comparison of summer activity tan lines. From left to right it's wake boarding, mountain biking, scuba diving, rollerblading, astrophotography, and tennis. All are well-tanned white people except for the astrophotographer, who is just all pasty white.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 26/08/2026

My superpower is that I always get matching colored Tums from the tub. What's yours?

Two light blue calcium carbonate tablets in someone's hand.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 24/08/2026

The @thestarriver.com is now on IMDB! astropotamus.com/imdb Join me as a guest and get a free IMDB credit to brag about to all your friends! thestarriver.com/guest

A screenshot showing The Star River Podcast IMDB page.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 23/08/2026

The ☀️ in combined white light and hydrogen-alpha. 🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 21/08/2026

Actual bed, bathroom, shower, full kitchen, microwave, stove, full-sized fridge, wood-burning stove, Heat/AC mini-split, plus RV electrical hookup, wifi, and covered porch. Somewhere in this circle. Sounds like I might have one recurring guest! 😀 Trying to work out a business plan for a loan.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 21/08/2026

What's up with your BlueSky handle?

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/08/2026

So....I'd be interested in learning more about your print company. I want to do stuff for astropotamus.com/store that's better than using printful.com. I also have some corporate stuff that we might do if you can do that. DM me.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/08/2026

That's awesome! And there's hoodies, too! astropotamus.com/store and you can own one, too! Maybe I should do a contest to see who rocks The Star River Swag the best?! 👕🦛🔭

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 19/08/2026

I should have clarified. There's an 800 square foot modern "hogan-style" house on the property as well as a 300 square foot bunk house. So total, sleeps 6-8 depending on how cozy you want to be. Here's the view to the east, standing just to the side of the hogan, as the Sun sets behind me.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 18/08/2026

An *amazing* 90% coverage #eclipse photo by Carole Adrian Pope in the UK. You can follow her work at www.astrobin.com/ihlthw/ The airplane as her "totality moment" is the 🤌 on top! #astrophotography☀️🔭🦛

A seemingly normal series of images showing the typical progression of a total solar eclipse arranged in a circle, but instead of totality in the middle, it's a 75% partially eclipsed Sun with the silhouette of an airplane just "riding the edge" of the dark moon as it eclipses the Sun!

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 17/08/2026

I had no time to prepare and just grabbed whatever camera was nearby. That ended up being a 1.6x crop-sensor Canon 80D with a 400mm/lens and 2x converter on it. 35mm focal length equivalent of almost 1300mm, handheld in the parking lot. #aviation #photography #helicopter

Two UH60 Blackhawk helicopters flying over the parking lot

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 14/08/2026

@deliriumforge.bsky.social I have "Expert" but that doesn't show up on the list of upgrades.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 14/08/2026

A member of the Star River Discord server (astropotamus.com/discord), Jean d'Hooghvorst, shared this image of the 2026 Solar #Eclipse using a #Seestar! I think this is an amazing image, and wanted to show you all here! Full video is at tinyurl.com/y84va2jw Awesome #astrophotography! ☀️🔭🦛

Jean d'Hooghvorst:

This is the result of a couple of timelapses during partiality and a video during totality. The videos and images have been taken with a seestar s50. The end result has been stitched with DaVinci Resolve (first time using it). You will see at the end of the first partiality some parts of the sun flicker. This is because the seestar was struggling with the tracking and I had to register all the frames in post-processing to keep the sun centered. Some of these frames have a small part of the sun out of frame on the final edit. At the end of the second partiality I removed the solar filter because the sun was extremely low and atmospheric extinction was killing my images with the filter. The sunset with the eclipsed sun was something I will never forget. Hope you like it!

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 13/08/2026

👍 Also, I'm fuzzy sometimes on what the icons mean in the top left once I've chosen them. Can you add a "hover" option or something to show what they are? And lastly, the arrow showing the end-of-level chest sometimes gets lost in the melee. Maybe something like this instead?

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 13/08/2026

I'm handholding an 800mm lens with a white-light solar filter for the wrong lens in front of i t. We got about 8% coverage during our maximum, which is when I took this. Here's what I got. Now with sunspots! #Eclipse ☀️🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 10/08/2026

@deliriumforge.bsky.social I got a question for you. What's this thing? It grabbed me and I couldn't move and so I eventually died, despite having ring of cold, ring of fire, regen, and a bunch of other awesome buffs.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 09/08/2026

@astroroyalscot.bsky.social Here's the first pic from the last time I was in Edinburgh, fresh off the plane. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A man is suspended on a long ladder placed mostly horizontally over a clock made of flowers and plants that's easily twice his size in diameter. The word "Bicentennial" can be seen made of green flowers along the top of the clock, and the text "-2009" similarly done at the bottom. Out of frame, it actually says 1809-2009. The man is trimming the flowers of the clock, which is set into the side of a shallow angled hillside. Roman numerals also made of flowers complete the clock face.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 05/08/2026

Astropotamus Rex has started to take pics of the Moon for the first time ever. I should have practiced before tonight. Time to dial this in.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 03/08/2026

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stage is expected to slam into the Moon at ~2:35am Eastern on Wednesday, August 5. It should hit near the lunar limb, potentially producing a brief flash and a plume of dust and debris. I'll be trying to capture it with the Astropotamus Rex 14" ACF and an ASI432 camera. 🌗🚀🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 03/08/2026

Canon 70-200mm/f4 lens with a Pinefeat EF/M42 autofocus adapter, ZWO ASI662, and a Manfrotto mini-tripod. Not in frame: Raspberry Pi 4 running Astroarch. My new portable rig. May use a star tracker for actual tracking. With my fancy Baader solar filter taped to the lens hood. 🌌🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 02/08/2026

Crop duster dusting the crops across the street from our house. He has to pull up pretty deeply to avoid dusting (or hitting) our house. #CountryLife

A yellow airplane flies over a stone house. The airplane is outfitted with crop dusting equipment

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 01/08/2026

A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket upper stage is projected to unintentionally crash into the moon on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at approximately 5,400 mph (8,700 km/h). You won't see the rocket stage, but a big scope might let you see the dust plume! 🌓🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 27/07/2026

Maybe I start selling this on astropotamus.etsy.com

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 25/07/2026

When life gives you lemons, make life take the lemons back and give you caviar. Here's my star trails with my "not sure why it's no longer aligned" telescope from last night. 64 x 300s subs with zero tracking and not quite aimed at the NCP. ⭐🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 23/07/2026

The Iris Nebula. About six hours total of imaging time using Luminance, Red, Green and Blue filters to capture individual wavelengths of light, and then combined using Seti Astro Suite Pro. 🌌🔭🦛

The Iris Nebula (also known as NGC 7023 or Caldwell 4) is a bright reflection nebula located about 1,300 light years from Earth in the constellation of Cepheus. The nebula is illuminated by a magnitude +7.4 star designated HD 200775. It is six light-years across. The nebula was discovered in 1794 by Sir William Herschel, a astronomer, where it was then added to the New General Catalogue (NGC).

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 23/07/2026

I put a picture of my #Spacecat Mac through Seti Astro Suite Pro Perfect Palette Picker. This is Mac in SHO.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/07/2026

I think it was a satellite on one frame. Meanwhile, I think the mount problems were because I never properly reset all my electronics after stealing the AstropotaPOD electricity for something else over the weekend. No biggie. Thankfully, the gear is permanently set up in the POD.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/07/2026

Bugger. My Elephant Trunk Nebula Mosaic only took one panel of the four last night, and I ended up with a stacking artifact that really looks a lot like an aero-plane. It's an okay image but I'm going to start over later this week when the rain clears out. 🌌🔭🦛

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/07/2026

Today in history: On July 20, 1969, astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men to walk on the #moon after reaching its surface in their #Apollo 11 lunar module. 🌛🔭🦛

Astronaut Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin Jr. stands next to a U.S. flag planted on the moon during the Apollo 11 mission on July 20, 1969. Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the first men to walk on the lunar surface. (Neil A. Armstrong/NASA via AP, File)

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 20/07/2026

I'll be honest, you just showed up on my feed with this post so I haven't seen your other posts, but I can say that all the science communication posting I do gets single-digit percentages of the interaction that I get when I post a picture of Mac the #Spacecat #Cat.

An orange and white cat caught in the act of sneaking into the AstropotaPOD. I think he's leaving. Or maybe he's looking for back door. I don't know. A telescope is shown aimed at the sky and above it is a fake wasp nest to keep away the wasps.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 19/07/2026

Cats were still stuck in Corfu and hadn't made it to Ithaca yet. Or wait, I may be thinking of upstate New York.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 17/07/2026

Today's Canadian #wildfire map superimposed with population density information.

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Astropotamus 🔭🦛 @astropotamus.com · 16/07/2026

Timeline cleanse. Here's Martha "Polygrandisdactyl" Stewart.

A woman sits on a couch in front of a pillow that has pom poms on it that, at first glance, looks like she has enormous feet with many big toes.

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