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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 26/09/2026

This went very well. One comet could not be measured due to being too close to bright ✨. C/2024 T5 (ATLAS): 13.9 mag, 0.6' C/2026 A2 (BOK): 14.1, 0.6' C/2024 J3 (ATLAS): 14.2, 0.7' 220P/McNaught: 12.7, 1.6' 88P/Howell: 15.0, 0.7' C/2024 R4 (PANSTARRS): 15.3, 0.48' PCCP object C46K1R1: 13.0, 2.5' 🔭☄️

Morning view from a roof towards the setting moon.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 25/09/2026

<Darkest Dungeon narrator's voice> And now, the true test: Eight comets, moon up all night, temperature predicted to go down to 4° C. Remember, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. ☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 22/09/2026

S50 is on the roof. Seven comets are being targeted tonight for photometry. Also four small Kreutz sungrazer visible towards the west. 🤡 🔭☄️

View towards an orange grey western evening sky with some short contrails mimicking small comets

A graphic depicting a nightly observing plan for seven comets

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 20/09/2026

Wenn er einen Arsch in der Hose hätte, würde er zurücktreten. #merz

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 16/09/2026

This morning it happened: ☄️🔭

A Wordle, solved with one try. The word is the German "KOMET", i.e. comet

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 11/09/2026

Some comet images from last night's ☄️ photometry run. Beat the clouds. All images are G band. 🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 06/09/2026

Denk' ich an Deutschland in der Nacht, dann bin ich um den Schlaf gebracht. #qotd

Heinrich Heine, by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim (1831)

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 06/09/2026

Here's the results: 161P/Hartley-IRAS: 13.7 mag, 1.7' 220P/McNaught: 11.7 mag, 3.1', 18' tail in PA 258° C/2021 G2 (ATLAS): 16.6 mag, 0.7' C/2024 J3 (ATLAS): 13.8 mag, 0.9' C/2026 A2 (BOK): 14.9 mag, 0.5', 0.7' tail in PA 108° 11P not detected. G band images of 220P and C/2026 A2 below. ☄️🔭

A comet with a tail set against short-trailed stars.

A small comet with a tiny tail set against trailed stars.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 06/09/2026

Good morning! All six observations succeeded. The S50 is soaked in dew but the lens is dry. Now I'm downloading the data and will process them with Tycho Tracker for ☄️ photometry. 🔭

View of a small smart telescope on a roof with PV tiles set against the morning sky at dawn.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 05/09/2026

It's still cloudy but I hope for the best. 🔭☄️

A seestar telescope on PV elements on a roof with a cloudy evening sky

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 05/09/2026

My embarrassing re-enactment:

An elderly man standing, with a foot in a small stone, on a raging looking over a large valley

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 30/08/2026

As it has been raining quite a lot recently I went into the woods early today to see whether the 🍄 situation has improved. Yes, there are signs of improvement but still more rain is needed to make foraging worthwhile. #fungifriends

Light brown coral mushrooms on a mossy wood block

Two small white mushrooms among brown leaves

A lot of mushrooms on a black and wet tree stump

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 29/08/2026

Yay! Pre-ordered the S50 Pro and I'm excited. Already applied for the cam and chip codes at cobs.si and they have been assigned immediately. Now the waiting starts. Also need not 3D print dew/straylight caps. ☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 23/08/2026

No 🍄 during today's hike, except for a few on dead wood. The drought is quite severe in Hesse, Germany. This looks like a lousy mushroom season. #fungifriends

A brown and white tinder fungus on a log.

A majestic oak tree on a meadow. Blue skies and a few clouds.

View over the village of Merenberg with the remains of the old castle.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 22/08/2026

One of the books that had a severe impact on me as a teen who was swallowing books. The image shows the cover of the DDR (G.D.R.) issue which I own. In hindsight it is strange the book was even published in this country. And guess what? It is even more important now than it was back then. #booksky

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 19/08/2026

0 is 1, black is white. What a headline in today's newspaper: "With AI against global warming" Such headlines are either made on purpose or out of stupidity.

Headline in a German newspaper: With AI against global warming"

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 15/08/2026

During a visit at the Reina Sofia art collection in Madrid today I came across a painting that blew me away. I was so surprised, impressed, confused &, more than anything else, moved by its impression, that I barely could hold back my tears. "Un mundo" by then (1929) 17yo Ángeles Santos Torroella.

The planet hasn’t the form of a globe as expected, but of a cube and it’s surrounded by female characters with long hair that are floating around it and lighting the stars with the light of the moon, they seem to be part of a procession.

In the corner, there is a small group of women with large head and hairless; two of them are playing musical instruments (a harp and a flute). This group seems to be formed by mothers and daughters, for the different sizes of them.

(Description from https://womennart.com/2018/04/25/a-world-by-angeles-santos/ )

https://gigapixel.museoreinasofia.es/en/un-mundo-angeles-santos/#2/14.2/-96.5

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 14/08/2026

We're about to begin! In Madrid planetarium. #IWCA7 ☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/08/2026

Back in the hotel - exhausted but happy. Next will be the International Workshop for Cometary Astronomy VII at Planetario Madrid on Friday. 🔭☄️ #eclipse

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/08/2026

Smartphone image which can't transfer the real impression. Did I see red protuberances around 9-10 o'clock? My very first time! And very satisfying 34 seconds. Nice mood with the crowd. #eclipse ☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/08/2026

Almost perfect spot with a free horizon view. The audience increases and hides in the shadows. First contact should happen soon. We have brought bread, Chorizo and Serrano and Queso and will enjoy it just by eye (okay, one photo). #eclipse 🔭☄️

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/08/2026

Back in the hotel room after an early short hike at the Casa de Campo at the outskirts of Madrid. Already very hot. Now relaxing before taking the Metro this evening to the northernmost station of line 10 to experience ~40 seconds of totality. And erase the 1999 desaster in Munich from memory. ☄️🔭

View over a city in the glaring sun framed by pine trees.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/08/2026

Today is the day! 🔭☄️

A red sun rising over the roof of a sea of Madrid houses

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 11/08/2026

The astronomer's backpack. ☄️🔭

A backpack with the name Herschel written on it

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 11/08/2026

¡Buenos días! Sun still unspoiled. 🔭☄️

The rising sun over the sea of buildings of Madrid.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 08/08/2026

With the waning moon moving further away from ☄️ 220P/McNaught, the large green coma and inner details become more apparent. 20 minutes this morning with the S50. 6.9 mag from the photometry, 6.5 mag visually. The coma was measured as 14.5' wide. 🔭

A greenish comet with an elongate whitish inner structured coma set against a starry background

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 07/08/2026

Let me share this stunning image of outbursting ☄️ 220P/McNaught by my fellow German observer Roland Fichtl. Quite a difference to my smartscope image! This is why I love comets: unpredictable, at times impressive and of historic importance. forum.vdsastro.de/viewtopic.ph... 🔭

An impressive comet in outburst: a large, circular coma, a thin, structured ion tail and delicate inner coma structures

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 07/08/2026

Live image of outbursting ccomet 220P/McNaught right now. A parallel visual observation gave 6.5 mag and a 7.5' coma, DC=S6. Rather bright moon nearby. ☄️🔭

A greenish comet and a few stars. The comet shows abright center with a bow shock and some structures.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 03/08/2026

☄️ 169P/NEAT last night close to the globular cluster M13. The first image is tracked to the stars and shows the comet as a very faint trail at the center (maybe invisible due to compression). However, the 15 mag comet is clearly visible when stacked at the comet's motion. 🔭 S50 image.

A lot of stars and a concentrated cluster of stars.

A lot of trailed stars with a dot at the center.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 02/08/2026

Tonight's comet photometry observing plan. Note the close approach of 169P to M13. ☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 30/07/2026

Film you’ve watched more than six times Hard Mode : No Star Trek, Star wars, LOTR, any Marvel, Disney or Ghibli

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 29/07/2026

Attitude of now at least 28% of Germans: "We don't give a shit about climate protection. We want prosperity!"

A few people, apparently demonstrating somewhere in Germany. One elderly dumbfuck holding a large sign with the text: We don't give a shit about climate protection. We want prosperity!

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 24/07/2026

Politicians caring more for fossil fuels instead for the effects of global warming deserve no respect.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 22/07/2026

Last night's photometry run for several comets showed the fragment for comet C/2023 R1 (PANSTARRS) for the first time. The comet is past perihelion and currently 3.6 au from the Sun. 🔭☄️

Trailed stars, some satellite trails and a slightly diffuse spot in the center, accompanied by a smaller spot towards 10 o'clock.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 18/07/2026

Transcribing a 16th century ☄️ handwriting is fun & frustrating. You can stare at a word for hours & fail in despair and then, suddenly, it clicks & you can read it. It's like these 3D images where you have to focus somewhere else. Ofc it does not help that there was no agreed spelling. 🔭 #histastro

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 12/07/2026

Nice masked hunter (an assassin bug). 🪲

A dust and dirt covered bug on grey cloth

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 10/07/2026

☄️ 169P/NEAT yesterday night with the S50. I measured 15.8 mag and a 0.4' coma. The comet will reach perihelion at 0.6 au on Sep 21. P = 4.2 years. It might reach 10 mag during perigee in mid-August and will then be in the sun's glare. 🔭

trailed stars and a slightly diffuse dot at the center- Some text and numbers in several boxes

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 09/07/2026

☄️ 10P/Tempel on July 6, 2026, 20:56 UT, 12x120sec. 12"/3.6 ASA Astrograph ASI 6200, 8m5, coma 28‘, dust trail >1° in PA 264° and 86° © 2026 Gerald Rhemann, Michael Jäger fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bil... The dust trail is really impressive!

A fuzzy comet with no tail, set against a black sky with tiny stars. A almost horizontal whitish streak passes through the comet.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 05/07/2026

Nice Saturday hike with some mushrooms showing off. Probably: False Puffball (Stäublings-Schleimpilz), Birch Woodwart (Vielgestaltige Kohlenbeere), Yellow Orange Fly Agaric (Gelber Fliegenpilz) 🍄 #fungifriends

Little black spherical thingies on dead wood

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 04/07/2026

Spent the day reading in 16th century Prognostica and Practica Teutsch for the #Cometography 1 revision. A much needed distraction from modern news. Looking forward to my next time travel. ☄️🔭 #histastro

Frontispiece of a German Prognosticon for the year 1564, with a large woodcut showing celestial and earthly events

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