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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 10h

Saturn will be at its best and brightest for the next few weeks. Here’s how it looked last night, taken with my iPhone attached to my 8” telescope. 🪐🔭📱 #saturn #opposition #astronomy

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Before AI you needed a human brain to make this. #TheGoodOlDays

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

🎵 The thpiwit of Mathachuthetth ith the thpiwit of Amewica 🎵

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Grateful to live in a city where this ranks a hot-button issue in the race for mayor. #Ottawa 🇨🇦

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Astrogeo 🇨🇦🇺🇦🌻 @astrogeo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night I was fortunate to have clear skies. The first full moon after the Autumnal Equinox is called the Harvest Moon. Here are my moonrise images as seen from Titusville, Florida on September 26.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Last night’s moon rising at sunset. Taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌕📱#moon

Photo of the rising, nearly-full moon over trees against a dark blue evenjng sky.

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Chris Conaton @conatonc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A familiar story for anyone who follows @volts.wtf. “The Chronicle spoke to more than half a dozen grid experts…to try to understand why Texas’s notoriously unreliable grid had a remarkably reliable summer. The answer was unanimous: solar panels and batteries.”

houstonchronicle.com

Texas shattered energy demand records this summer. Here's why the grid held up.

Texas repeatedly broke electricity demand records this summer, but ERCOT avoided emergencies as booming solar and battery capacity helped keep the grid stable.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Thought this said “CARNEY ON THE RUN” which is my new favourite Paul McCartney album.

Photo of television news anchor with a graphic saying “Carney at the UN” behind him.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Barenaked Ladies! Nice acapella performance of O Canada at the Buffalo Bills game. 🇨🇦 🏈 🦬

Photo of Barenaked Ladies band singing the Canadian national anthem.

Huge Canadian flag on the field at the Buffalo Bills game.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

the left hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The seasonal equivalent of second breakfast.

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Early pre-dawn view of the city lights of Los Angeles, the rest of Southern California, and Northwest Mexico on September 8th, taken by Astronaut Jessica Meir aboard the International Space Station. flic.kr/p/2sB1uXM

An early morning view of the city lights of and around Southern California. Pre-dawn sunlight is filtering through the atmosphere. The Moon and Jupiter are at the top right. In the foreground, a solar panel of the ISS crosses the picture. Green aurora is faintly visible at the left.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Jessica Meir/Kevin M. Gill

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Tamper Proof Lid @readuction.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

New phrase to overuse just dropped

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

If I had to describe 1985 using a photo it would be this.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Eating meals cooked by “electric heat”was a novelty and people had to warm up to the idea. My city was actually the site of the first documented meal cooked entirely by electricity in 1892. www.historicalsocietyottawa.ca/publications...

Image from the City of Ottawa that states “Did you know? The world’s first dinner cooked entirely by electricity happened right here in Ottawa?”

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Kevin 🚀 @astro-kevin.com · 05/09/2026

If sound could travel through space it would take about 14 years for the sound of the Sun to reach the Earth, and it would be about as loud as a jackhammer

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

No but I’m often appealing to a Higher Power™️

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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Some shots of the Moon over the Earth's horizon from the International Space Station between August 30th and 31st. flic.kr/p/2syx4Rh flic.kr/p/2syz3FS flic.kr/p/2syHpCX flic.kr/p/2syDcv7

The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere.

NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill

$The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is warping due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$ $The Moon over the Earth's upper atmosphere. The Moon is strongly warped due to atmospheric refraction. NASA/ISS/JSC/ESRS/University of Texas at El Paso/Kevin M. Gill$

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The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) @themerl.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

autumn is fast approaching which means it's time for pannage: the ancient commoner's right of taking your pigs to the forest to feast on fallen acorns, chestnuts, and beechmast

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“I guess you could say they…” *puts on sunglasses* “… threw the book at him.” 🎵The Who: YEAAAAHHH! 🎵

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should."

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The telescope helps a lot, haha. Hard to get a good shot just with the phone when there’s such a difference between the light and dark portions during an eclipse!

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thanks, Scott, and it looks like you got a couple of good ones, too!

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Thank you! I used an iPhone 17 Pro Max and it did a great job - the hardest part is finding an adapter/holder to keep such a large phone in place at the eyepiece 😂

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Maximum lunar eclipse from Ottawa, Canada tonight as seen through my 8” telescope. 🌕 🔭 📱 #eclipse

Photo of the orangish moon during tonight’s lunar eclipse. 5-second exposure taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max on night mode attached to an 8” telescope.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Eclipse well underway over Ottawa, Canada. Unedited iPhone shots through my 8” telescope. 🌕 🔭📱 #eclipse

iPhone photo of lunar eclipse taken with an 8” telescope.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“All actors are named America, not just Ferrara.”

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

They don’t make (or name) things like they used to.

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Riding With Robots @ridingrobots.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

From NASA: It happened again! Here's Phobos passing in front of the Sun as seen by the Perseverance rover from the surface of Mars on Aug. 12. science.nasa.gov/photojournal...

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Corel Gallery Clipart @clipart.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

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A silly cartoon of a Royal Canadian Mounted Policeman waving a tiny Canadian flag. The red of the flag’s maple leaf matches the red of the mountie’s uniform. The officer looks friendly, but Samantha knows not to get too close. She puts her sunglasses on and pulls her hoodie up before walking past. Samantha—or as she is known in Montreal, Séraphine—is well aware of Canada’s extradition treaties with the United States.

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Failed Protostar @failedprotostar.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A rainbow appeared while I was taking a photo of the moon this evening! Taken from my yard with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 📱🌈🌖

iPhone photo of a rainbow againat a blue sky framed by fluffy clouds and a rising waxing gibbous moon at right.

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David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Slam. As expected. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter managed to image the aftermath of the August 5th impact of the SpaceX upper stage on the Moon. This before-and-after sequence shows the resulting 20-meter wide crater: science.nasa.gov/solar-system...

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Simon Oldridge @sioldridge.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Fed up with people shirking responsibility by arguing that the UK causes just 1% of emissions? Here are two fantastic analogies from a primary school teacher, Mark in Coventry, who called Sheila Fogerty on @lbc.co.uk - one involving dog poo 😆 Other arguments here: www.nebriefing.org/mp-dialogue

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