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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's always great fun to talk at Brighton Astro, and Thursday night was no exception! Over 150 people turned up to listen to me talk about the Tidal Universe, and it's always great to see such a diverse audience!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

It's that time of the year again! Happy Equinox everyone for Tuesday night / Wednesday morning! The September Equinox occurs this year just after midnight at 00:06UT (01:06BST) on the 23rd September 2026. [1/2]

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

45 seconds of Ovingdean beach in east Brighton, taken last Saturday afternoon.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

A collection of meteors/shooting-stars at the end of my garden during last month's Perseid meteor shower in mid-August. I managed to catch quite a colourful collection! [1/2]

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I'm still working through my photos of the Northern Lights over Norway that I took back in March! We had some wonderful displays.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A few photos of the lunar eclipse from the early hours of this morning, as seen over Brighton, UK.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A few photos of the partial solar eclipse from Hove Lawns.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

There are major fires west of Madrid right now. These live images show a wild fire passing behind the European Space Agency's deep space tracking station in Cebreros, 60km west of Madrid. I took the final photo when I visited the site over 15 years ago. Live images at: www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

The fire is not far away from the ground station at Cebreros either, as shown in this latest image from www.esa.int/Enabling_Sup...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

The Milky Way over my back garden in Brighton, taken at 00:15BST on Saturday night / Sunday morning, 20th/21st June 2026. I show both the final processed image and one of the 33 unprocessed photographs (15s exposure at ISO-4000 on a Sony Alpha 7s) that were merged with Sequator and tweaked in Gimp.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Photos from Saturday night at the observatory in Herstmonceux, Sussex.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

AI's attempt at turning JWST into an Easter egg...!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 04/04/2026

Aurora above Hurtigruten's MS Kong Harald, just north-west of Trondheim, Norway, at around midnight on the 22nd March, 2026. This is a real-time video! The jumping is due to the video being taken at just 4 frames per second, in order for the camera to collect enough light.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

A time-lapse of the aurora from the deck of Hurtigruten's MS Kong Harald, somewhere between Molde and Ålesund on the Norwegian coast. Taken on the evening of the 23rd March, 2026. Each frame is <2s, and so the flickering is on wildly short timescales!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Waves along the Brighton undercliff yesterday, Saturday 10th January 2026.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Here are a couple of my genuine photos from the past few years. Five Geminid meteors in 40 minutes (from 5 photos overlayed onto each other), and my favourite Perseid meteor photo from a few summers ago!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The view from my garden earlier in the week...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

A few photos from the Lewes Bonfire night last Wednesday evening!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

A nice sunset over Brighton on Thursday evening...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

I did a bit of astrophotography on Saturday night. Not ideal conditions due to the humidity and Moon getting in the way, but it's always good to see some old favourites! Photos are of the Andromeda galaxy and the Lagoon & Triffid Nebulae, with a BA flight to Jaddah photobombing the view!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

A Perseid meteor over Brighton, caught at around 1am on Thursday night / Friday morning (14/15th August). The bright star at the lower right is Capella.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

I'm the opening speaker at this year's Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival, where I'll be talking about "Brilliant Binaries"! Full details at: www.the-observatory.org/events/astro...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

The Perseid meteor shower peaks tonight, the 12 of August! You maybe able to see a shooting star ever minute or 2! But the Moon rises to spoil the view over the UK at 9.35pm tonight, so look as soon as it goes dark. Photo: Perseid meteor over me & Brighton at 4am on the 14th August, back in 2022.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Views from my commute to work in Falmer, East Sussex, on Sunday.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

A time-lapse movie of our @eucliduk.bsky.social stand at the @goodwoodrrc.bsky.social Festival of Speed Future Lab last weekend! Visitors were zooming into data from ESA's Euclid Space Telescope, and using their body to make a gravitational lens to learn how astronomers search for dark matter.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

June & July is the best time of the year to see glow worms in the UK! These are my old photos of glowworms in Brighton. Numbers of these nocturnal beetles are falling in south-east England by 3.5% each year, due to light pollution making it increasingly difficult for males to find females.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Happy Solstice all! On 17th June 2025, we had the earliest sunrise of the year in Brighton, with sunrise at 04:45 BST. The longest day is on the 21st, lasting 16 hours and 32 minutes in Brighton. But the latest sunset is not until the 25th June, when the Sun sets at 21:18 BST over Brighton.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Wednesday's Sun over Brighton, in both white light and h-alpha.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

A few photos from my Monday evening cycle along Brighton's coastline...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Badgers visiting me a few evenings ago...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Seeing Sea Eagle eagles (!) in Norway, 31st March 2025. (these photos aren't too bad, considering that I was using the wrong, mid-range lens)

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

A few photos from my visit to the North Cape of northern Norway last month.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Aurora over Brighton (just!) at 22:15BST this evening.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

My favourite photo from visiting Utah last September - the Milky-way & zodiacal light. That beautiful faint glow from the horizon upwards is zodiacal light, caused by sunlight reflecting off dust in our solar system left behind by comets. It's been 25 years since I last saw zodiacal light!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

What's the use of a 10 minute power-cut on a cloudy night?! It did demonstrate that the majority of light pollution seen over Woodingdean originates from Brighton city, though. #woodingdean #brighton

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

A few shots from this evening's murmuration of starlings by Brighton's Palace Pier.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Today's lecture demos involved demonstrating electric fields using a plasma ball and holding various light sources nearby to watch them light up!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

After an incredibly busy 5 months, I've finally found time to look back at my photos from September, when I visited the Zion National Park in Utah, USA. I did spot a few Desert Bighorn sheep while I was there.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

It's exactly 6 years this week since I spent 10 days teaching in Accra, Ghana, where I was doing exactly the same job as I do at the University of Sussex - teaching physics & astronomy to both pupils and their teachers. We did an average of two events per day, so we definitely made the most of it!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Venus, the crescent Moon (illuminated by plenty of Earth shine!), and even Neptune! As seen from Brighton at 6pm this evening. #DoLookUp #NAW2025 #NAW #Moon #Venus #Neptune

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Random old photo of one of the badgers in my garden under the stars. I was reminded of it because I've been asked to display it on the screens in the student centre at work!

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Sunset views over the English channel last Thursday.

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Saturday evening's sunset over Brighton...

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Das Baskill @drdasb.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A green flash of the Sun that I spotted earlier in the week...

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