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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 24/09/2025

Been a while since I posted #astrophotography: here's the Heart Nebula, one of my favorite parts of the night sky (I say that about a lot of the sky though) 60x180s exposures (3 hours) with a Ha/Hb/OIII narrowband filter, from Bortle-5 upstate New York. On AstroBin: app.astrobin.com/i/lll3xa?r=B

An emission nebula that is roughly heart-shaped against a backdrop of starts.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 06/04/2025

The Discourse is making me think of the Kangaroo Chronicles meme.

The original "After That It Gets Difficult" meme from the movie The Kangaroo Chronicles, with four frames. In order, a kangaroo says "I'm a communist and what are you". A man says "I'm an anarchist". The kangaroo says "Cool, we can be friends until the revolution", followed by "After that it gets difficult".

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 19/02/2025

Seems qualified for DOGE.

Crop of one of the screenshots saying "I have a lifetime of posts in me."

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 10/02/2025

I captured this moon halo two nights ago.

$A moon halo, a circular optical illusion around the moon with rainbow-like qualities caused by moonlight refracting on ice in the upper atmosphere.$

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 05/11/2024

No thoughts only sunshine.

A fluffy orange cat lying on a wood surface in the sun, eyes closed, asleep and content.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 04/11/2024

Dutchess County, across the Hudson River from Ulster County, was giving the choice of the standard "I Voted" sticker or the Ulster County Spider. There's no other sticker I'd want.

The "Ulster County Spider" I voted sticker, designed by Hudson Rowan in 2022, who described it: "It's got crazy bulging eyes, mangled looking hair, looking off into the distance ... some crazy, like, spider robot legs shooting outta the sides, it kind of gives a chaotic vibe."

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 04/11/2024

Today for your skyline I have captured the California Nebula. Discovered by E. E. Barnard (of Barnard's Loop and Barnard's Star fame) in 1884. It also reminds me of a swipe of paint. On AstroBin: www.astrobin.com/wx08b9/ #astrophotography #photography

A cloud of red against a field of stars, swiped down from the top left corner to the bottom right of the frame in an arc that appears roughly the shape of the state of California.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 19/10/2024

I love when there's someone people are talking about and I discover that I subscribe to a list that already blocks them. Really makes this such a nice place to be. (In this case bsky.app/profile/did:...)

Message from BlueSky showing "User blocked by 'Right wing propoganda and their followers'"

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 11/10/2024

Yup! I saw it for the first time tonight too!! I'm at 41º, north of New York. Snapped this above my house looking north. Ursa minor is just left of the middle of the frame.

The sky in hues of red and green from the aurora, bordered by trees.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 10/10/2024

More outer space for your skyline: the cloud of gas surrounding the Elephant's Trunk (right middle of the frame where you see the darker gas extending toward the center frame) and Herschel's Garnet Star. On AstroBin: www.astrobin.com/243xx1/ #astrophotography #photography

The cloud of gas surrounding the Elephant's Trunk nebula with Herschel's Garnet Star, a bright noticeably red star, in the upper left.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 06/10/2024

Something different for your skyline: the Crescent Nebula in Cygnus with its environs, a larger gas cloud in the Sadr region. I like capturing deep sky objects in their larger context. It makes space feel bigger & emptier to me. On AstroBin: www.astrobin.com/lh9j9m/ #astrophotography #photography

A bubble-like nebula, mid-right frame, with stars and gas hanging over it.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 23/09/2024

What is the whole hubbub about? Oh, amazing. No social media is perfect but realizing I don’t have to care is a happy moment.

Already blocked by “A Very British Bigotry”

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 17/09/2024

Huh. I am apparently the 1%.

The BlueSky 10M user thingie showing that I’m #65,164. I'm the 1%.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 08/08/2024

I mean, where's the lie?

From the "my gender is" generator, showing that my gender is "nerdy hhhhhh disaster"

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 24/05/2024

I agree to a certain extent but then there are examples like this

Google’s AI in response to “I’m feeling depressed” saying “one Reddit using suggests jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge.”

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 08/05/2024

This old man, mongrel through and through, is nearly 17 and is just the best.

An old grey cat, sitting in a chair, thriving.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 11/04/2024

Alright, here's some gentle processing of a mean stack of all my totality exposures (multiple frames at 1-stop intervals from 1/4000s to 1/8s)! #Astrophotography

The April 8 2024 total solar eclipse, the black circle of the moon with the Sun's corona flaring out against a black background, some red solar prominences visible on some edges.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 09/04/2024

My favorite single exposure of the eclipse, without any processing time, etc. That big prominence was so *visible* to the naked eye. This is right before the end of totality, in Vermont.

The April 8 2024 total solar eclipse, the black circle of the moon on against a black background with a faint white outline, some red solar prominences visible on some edges.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 09/04/2024

I think so. This is my favorite single frame, with little to no processing, because that one prominence was so visible to the naked eye. Will be stacking a bunch of the exposures I got together over the next few days.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 22/03/2024

You’ve been murdered, who do you want on the case?

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 14/11/2023

The past few nights have been so clear and beautiful, with a waning moon, so here's the final nine panel mosaic of the Heart and Soul nebulas. I'm really happy with how well this turned out. The most I've done before has been 3 panel mosaics on the same night. 🔭🛰️ #astrophotography

A pair of large diffuse nebulas. One is a ring of red clouds around a cluster at the center that is roughly shaped like a heart, the other an oblong in two parts.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 12/11/2023

This one I'm really proud of. This is a six panel mosaic of the Heart Nebula in broadband color (I'm working on panels of the Soul Nebula for my own version of the grand Heart-and-Soul mosaic). 🔭🛰️

A large diffuse nebula, mostly red with some blue, shaped roughly like a heart, against a dense star field.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 08/11/2023

Andromeda looks the same as it has every time I've photographed it, and yet, I keep doing so. Here it is again, in broadband color, taken a few days ago. This is actually a two frame mosaic, since I can't get the whole galaxy in the frame with my 115mm refractor and QHY268C camera. 🔭🛰️

The Andromeda galaxy, diagonal across the frame filling it.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 12/09/2023

Everyday I just try to live my authentic self.

“A computer can never be held accountable, therefore wail away on that shit”

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 25/08/2023

Taking summertime astrophotos when the sky is clear enough.

The Pelican Nebula, an emission nebula appearing as a red clouds against a dense starfield

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 21/08/2023

Here’s a recent astrophoto of mine I like: the Pelican nebula. This is 70min of exposure, broadband. I’m working on a larger mosaic of Cygnus with the Pelican and North America nebulas, which this will be part of. 🔭🛰️

A red, whispy emission nebula against a relative dense background of stars, another nebula just visible to the right of the frame.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 15/08/2023

Pelia, in Strange New Worlds episode 1:

Commander Pelia, from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, saying "Are you embarking on a criminal Enterprise?"

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 15/08/2023

repost a character with the energy u want to have

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 12/08/2023

How your email finds me

Spike at the end of Cowboy Bebop, having defeated Vicious but not long for the world

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 31/07/2023

It’s been a dismal summer here in the northeast US for astrophotography—Canadian wildfire smoke, a lot of rain and humidity. Last night wasn’t perfect—the moon was almost full. But I know how to deal with the moon. This is my first capture of the Elephant’s Trunk nebula. 🛰️ 🔭

An emission nebula characterized by a dark dense, patch of gas that appears like an elephant's trunk in on the right half of the image against a the red and blue-hued background gasses.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 22/07/2023

“Is it that one mails the excrement? Uses it to brace a fence to keep out the unruly masses—or perhaps to keep them in? Do they propose to burgle poor Emily’s lavatory? It hardly matters. It is with these jesters and their godless, anarchical zest that I am most at ease.“

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 21/07/2023

Oh no, did I miss Moon Day posting (not that kind, blueskis)? This is my favorite moonshot. This was just before totality during the lunar eclipse in 2019. I got totality too, but I like this partial eclipse best. 🔭

The moon right before the January 2019 total lunar eclipse, with the just the outer limb of the moon visible at the top of the photo.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 18/07/2023

I remember John Ascroft covering up Justice's breasts. Now Jim Jordan wants to do something about her thighs.

New York Times screenshot quoting Jim Jordan saying "There are all kinds of ridiculous thighs happening at the Justice Department"

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 18/07/2023

I think I've read about this.

Martin Heidegger's classic work of ontological "posting in the world", Being and Posting.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 17/07/2023

Apollo made this blep just for you. Please enjoy.

The head and shoulders of an orange cat laying down, face on, it’s tongue stuck out, asleep.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 12/07/2023

TFW you’re discworld posting and your phone corrects Vimes to Vibes.

Sam Vimes reading to Young Sam in “Wheres My Cow?”

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 11/07/2023

My first two cats. The weirdest of little guys.

Tattoo of the silhouette of two cats overlapping, on standing, the other laying with paw outstretched.

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Will Barton @gulielmus.com · 11/07/2023

Hi 🛰️space feed! I’m an amateur astronomer & astrophotographer. I’ve been looking for a place on the skyline to post some of my images. It’s been smoky and rainy in the northeast US so I haven’t gotten out much lately. Here’s the Rosette Nebula from this winter. www.astrobin.com/vsk3w6

The Rosette Nebula, in visible light. A vaguely rosette shaped nebula it’s a bright cluster of stars in its center.

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