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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 13/08/2026

Been a long time since I’ve posted, but I figured my eclipse photo is worth breaking the silence

Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 09/06/2026

Reported this ad seen on YouTube, and Google’s response is that it doesn’t violate policy. Appealed and same result. I’m so tired of everything being a scam.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21/01/2026

I can’t afford a real one (yet) but my RC Kei truck is awesome

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 03/01/2026

The two types of astronomy post

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 04/12/2025

My nephew just found out about Santa, and his reaction is incredible

Message screenshot, saying “His second question was “so what about when I saw him fly through the sky last year?” And then “so I shouted THANKS FOR THE PRESENTS at the international space station???😳😳😳”

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 25/11/2025

Introduce yourself with four spaceships.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 06/11/2025

Remember when Obama jokingly predicted this in 2011?

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 13/10/2025

Screenshot so you don’t have to visit the facism app:

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 12/09/2025

My name continues to cause chaos 😈

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 27/08/2025

Such a classy display of patriotism 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 25/07/2025

Google searches for “VPN” in the UK:

A graph showing interest against time, for the past seven days. There is a sharp spike in the past 24 hours.

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 05/06/2025

I can’t believe this meme from 2018 is relevant again

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 29/03/2025

The eclipse from my very dodgy solar photography setup 🔭

A photo of a solar eclipse, where approx. 30% of the sun is covered by the moon

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 24/03/2025

I genuinely thought the student was messing with me, then checked the allsky and realised it’s real!

A black and white image showing the entire night sky, with a streaked bright cloud where the rocket was moving across the sky

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 05/03/2025

Daytime shot of the moon earlier from @observatory.herts.ac.uk 🔭

A high resolution image of the southern half of the moon

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 20/02/2025

Fringes! I have detected the sun! 🔭

A plot of radio continuum signal strength against time, showing a sinusoidal pattern

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 19/02/2025

After years of playing with 🔭, its time for me to play with 📡-📡———📡

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 28/01/2025

Here’s a screen recording of it happening

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 28/01/2025

Playing around with DeekSeek. If you ask it about something that’s censored in China, it will answer but after 30 seconds it replaces the response…

Asked about the Uyghur genocide, the AI provides a comprehensive explanation

The response explaining the genocide is replaced with a message saying the topic is beyond the scope of the AI

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 12/12/2024

Imagine being so confidently incorrect that you can show a professional astronomer a picture of Venus and say that it isn’t Venus 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 08/12/2024

A new addition to the silly ornament collection 🎄

A Christmas tree ornament recreating the famous scene in Die Hard where Bruce Willis crawls through an air duct

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 07/12/2024

It’s not Christmas until 67P is on the tree 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 30/11/2024

This? My reasoning is that the debris around it is brighter (less weathered?) and that it’s a weird shape (impactor shape/mass/velocity different?)

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 28/11/2024

Frosty morning ❄️🔭

In the foreground, there is frost melting off a bird feeder shaped like a telescope dome. In the background, there is a real telescope dome and frost-covered grass

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 27/11/2024

Quick shot of Jupiter from Monday 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 26/11/2024

My first attempt at imaging the ISS. I’m quite happy with it, but I can definitely do better with the equipment I’m using! 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21/11/2024

Bonus mushroom trying its best to blend in with the radio dishes

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21/11/2024

Lovely Sun halo today at Bayfordbury 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 17/11/2024

This is a nice feature. Easy to bypass, but it should at least reduce the number of bots scraping your profile. It might prevent embeds too?

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 16/11/2024

They were really helpful, but it seems that I’ve hit a dead end. My intention was to share all the old photos with them. I’m not sure where I’m going with this, but I just think it’s really cool that one web search can lead to something so special. Anyway, here’s what it looks like now:

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 16/11/2024

Seeing as social media feels positive again, here’s a nice story: I’m not into motorcycles, but my grandfather’s Norton Big 4 is family legend. I never met him, nor have I even seen the bike, but between stories and small heirlooms I’ve always had a strong emotional connection to them both.

And old black and white film photograph showing a motorcycle and sidecar

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 15/11/2024

Nice! It would be a terrible shame if this became a thread of people showing off telescopes in red lighting 😁

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 14/11/2024

Feel like I should start posting more, now that this place is starting to come alive. So here’s one of the telescopes I get to see every day:

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 30/10/2024

Haven’t been here in a while; here are some of the cool things I’ve seen recently(ish)

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 25/11/2023

Spent a couple nights teaching lucky imaging, but all I have to show for it is an iPhone photo I took through an eyepiece

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21/11/2023

I decided to make a browser extension 🔭

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 10/11/2023

In an article from my local newspaper about someone who found an unexploded tank shell:

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 24/08/2023

When you accidentally open MATLAB

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Lord Dover @lorddover.com · 21/08/2023

My first first-author paper was accepted by MNRAS! It describes the radar shape modelling and YORP non-detection of 2000 PN9 🔭 Pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2308.09630

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