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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Greg Abbott has been asking Texans to turn up their A/C for years now because of how terrible the power grid is in Texas. I guess that means Greg and Texas are woke socialists also?

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It asked me once the other day and hasn’t come back without me actually verifying anything. I’m assuming I’m just in the limbo period before it gets fully implemented And I’m sure conservative leaning social media sites won’t be held to the same standard 🤦‍♂️

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

The Donald J Trump And Jeffrey E Epstein Memorial Files

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

A broken clock is right twice a day but we don’t use them for time keeping After trump, the magats will just prop up some other wannabe dictator and Empty-G will fall right back in line to support them

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I was 100% with Rekha thinking I wasn’t gonna enjoy farkle but nope, that was great 🤣

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 31/07/2025

Dems. Wanna get your polling out of the gutter? Stop talking about redrawing house maps in blue states and do it. Go big. Don't match them seat for seat. Blow them out of the water. Then endorse Mamdani. You're welcome. Love, Allison

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Hopefully this means we get the Jacob Wysocki travel show with Kyle!

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Tonight’s episode was absolute chaos and I loved it 🤣

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Dogs can’t be nazis. But the rest of that is probably true

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Patsy “Resistance Kitty” Evans Ph.D. @drharmony.net · 27/04/2025

🚨 Resistance Week 14 in Review 👉 linktr.ee/revolution2025 Tools, Resources & Actions vs Fascism Resistance Wins 👉 tr.ee/3vsK5vH-Yl Executive Orders Summary 👉 tr.ee/vOh9qKElNt Today’s Resistance Survival Guide: 👉 tr.ee/w6axSnab59 Knives Out: 👉 tr.ee/WH5t4spryZ

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

One of my favorites! I spent a little bit of time on it last night with my new monochrome camera ❤️

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

*Not astronomy related* Just wanted to share a picture of my other hobby ❤️

Image contains a 5-string bass guitar next to an fx pedal on an orange and grey carpet

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

New mini PC from Astro-gadget to control the scope! 🔭 astro-gadget.net

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

I don’t often share non-space/astronomy related things but Patrick Russell always has great covers! youtu.be/lQSQcPz2FHU?...

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Alkaline - Sleep Token (Synthwave Cover)

YouTube video by Patrick Russell

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yeah, the scope is on a tracking mount that counteracts the Earth’s rotation. Then I used a program called ASTAP to align and stack the images

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Thank you! This was on a Celestron AVX

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Yeah, I was trying to spend about an hour with each filter but clouds started to roll in so I had to cut it down to about 20 minutes with each filter (60s exposures) and then stacked the good images from that

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Outside of the issues getting it mounted, how do you like it?

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Recently bought my first monochrome camera 🔭❤️ Here is about an hour total on M42, the Great Orion Nebula. Equipment used: SkyWatcher EvoStar 100ED Pro ZWO ASI294MM Pro Optolong LRBG filters

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Anybody looking for a good mini-PC to control their telescope should look at the Astro-Gadget AstroPC 🔭 I've got the original AstroPC Pro controlling my small scope and just purchased the updated AstroPC Pro II to finally replace my 5 year old Raspberry Pi on my large telescope. astro-gadget.net

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Astro-Gadget – Electronics in the Service of Astronomy

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Hourly Cosmos @hourlycosmos.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Astro Pro-Am: Professional and Amateur Astronomers Join Forces - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - flic.kr/p/nhBUCh

Collaboration with NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
This image is the result of a collaboration between NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory Center and amateur astrophotographer Rolf Wahl Olsen.
It is part of a series of professional-amateur collaboration images and was combined by Science Imager Joseph DePasquale from Chandra X-ray Observatory Center, using both X-ray, optical and infrared data.
The image is composed of the following data:

My deep 120 hour optical image Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field taken over 43 nights in 2013.
230 hours of Chandra X-ray data gathered over the past 15 years.
Infrared data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

The combined exposure time is in excess of an astonishing 350 hours, or two weeks; more than the Hubble Ultra Deep Field.

Below are links to the official press releases including the other spectacular images in the series (M101, M81 and M51) with optical data by German astrophotographer Detlef Hartmann:

Chandra Press Release
Spitzer Press Release
Individual images for download

For full details on the Centaurus A Extreme Deep Field project please visit my Centaurus A gallery

If you are an amateur astrophotographer, or even just an 'armchair astronomer', and would like to get involved with astronomical research then the International Astronomical Union has an excellent page with information on how to get involved in citizen science projects or Pro-Am collaborations.
(Centaurus A Pro-Am image credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO; Op...

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Messier 78, a reflection nebula surrounded by lanes of dust located in the constellation Orion 🔭 Equipment used: SkyWatcher EvoStar 72ED Pro ZWO ASI183MC Pro

A blue reflection nebula surrounded by dark lanes of dust near Orion

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Jake Postiglione @jakepost.tech · 18/02/2025

Ever wonder how gravitational wave detectors like LISA would hear the signal of binary black holes orbiting around a supermassive black hole? 🔭 Well check out my first 1st author paper investigating that very topic, live on the arXiv today! 🔥📄 arxiv.org/abs/2502.10591 Explainer in 🧵👇 1/10

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Evolution of LISA Observables for Binary Black Holes Lensed by an SMBH

Binary black holes (BBH) are expected to form and merge in active galactic nuclei (AGN), deep in the potential well of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), from populations that exist in a nuclear star c...

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SETI Institute @setiinstitute.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

On the tenth anniversary of this important day, and as we reflect on 30 years since the Beijing Declaration, let’s help pave a path to STEM careers that women and girls deserve – and our world needs. -- UN Secretary-General António Guterres #WomenInScience #GirlsInSTEM #IDWGS 🧪 🔭 👩‍🔬

Text: International Day of Women & Girls in Science. Cartoon drawings of women and girls with science symbols: beakers, an atom, a telescope. Background: Yellow, purples, and pink space. seti.org

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Here is my latest capture, NGC 2237, the Rosette nebula. This giant mix of dust and gases has created the over 2,500 stars that make up the cluster at its center Equipment used: SkyWatcher EvoStar 72ED Pro 🔭 ZWO ASI183MC Pro

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Looks great! Im hoping to finish up my image of the Rosette soon also 🤞

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Can you please label your images as AI so people unfamiliar with space images don’t get confused and think they’re real?

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Looks great! How easy was that live stacking software to setup? NINA 3.2 has a livestack plug-in I’ve been trying out that works pretty good. Just not sure if staying on the unstable release is gonna be worth it over a long period (🤞I haven’t had any issues with it so far)

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Looks great! I’m working on the Rosette currently also

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SpaceEngine @spaceenginesim.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

#SpaceEngine is officially on Bluesky! You can also still find us on all of our other social channels. In the meantime, share your favourite object or planet from SE! Below are a few star clusters from team member Megan. #space #universe #spaceexploration #spacesimulator #universesimulator

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Spent the last few nights working on the Sombrero Galaxy (Messier 104) 🔭 I definitely should have used the larger scope since I had to crop this in quite a bit, but I'm still pleasantly surprised with the results even at 355mm focal length Equipment: SkyWatcher EvoStar 72ED Pro ZWO ASI183MC Pro

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Not worth engaging with him. He’s drunk on diaper don’s koolaid

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Try shooting video instead of taking single pictures. You can then use a couple programs to stack the best frames from the video and pull out tons more detail 👍

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IAU Office of Astronomy for Education @astro4edu.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Registration is now open for the 7th Shaw-IAU Workshop on Astronomy for Education, which will take place 18-21 November 2025. As in previous years, it will be fully virtual 1/5 🔭 astro4edu.org/shaw-iau/

Screenshot of the Shaw-IAU Workshop website

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Wholesome Games @wholesomegames.com · 10/12/2024

NEW GAMEPLAY: Star Birds is an asteroid base-building and resource management game from kurzgesagt and the makers of Dorfromantik! Discover asteroids, create production networks, and guide your colony of spacefaring birds to new horizons! store.steampowered.com/app/2719750 #wholesomesnack

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Scifi Art @scifiart.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Cosmos (1980). That music 🥹

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

M57, the Ring Nebula, was one of the first objects I imaged when I first got a telescope and a cheap dslr. I usually revisit it every year because it's also still one of my favorites 🔭 Equipment used: SkyWatcher EvoStar 100ED Pro ZWO ASI183MC Pro

The Ring Nebula is a planetary nebula, the remnants of a dying star shedding its outer layers as it transitions into a white dwarf. This glowing "ring" is about 2,300 light-years away and still visible to us here on Earth.

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Anybody else gearing up for some nice planetary views? 🔭

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

M16, aka the Eagle Nebula. One of my favorite summer time targets! This incredible star-forming region is also home to the famous "Pillars of Creation". 🔭 Equipment used: SkyWatcher EvoStar 100ED Pro ZWO ASI183MC Pro

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Got some imaging time on the Horsehead Nebula with my big scope a few weeks back! Hoping for more clear nights soon 🤞 🔭

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County Line Astro @countylineastro.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I'm an amateur astronomer that likes to post photos I've taken from my backyard

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