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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 08/10/2026

Occurred to me that I have to apologize to Ridley Scott. In the 2012 film Prometheus we're introduced to Rafe Millburn, aka "The Most Unbelievably Stupid Biologist Ever", and it makes WAAYYY more sense now that we know he probably got his bio degree from some LLM. Truly a man ahead of his time. 👨‍🔬🧪

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

And of course, a new 'Mantis Shrimp composite' of all the above wavelengths! 🔭 🦐

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Man I really dislike the Bsky image compression... anyway here's images in non-visible wavelengths of UV, NIR, and Ch4 from last night.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/10/2026

Welp I can delete all other Saturn data for this year because last night while streaming on Twitch we had a couple hour patch of dry and relatively calm air which allowed me to capture this stunning image near opposition! EdgeHD C9.25 QHY5III-678M Chroma 31mm filters #astrophotography #astronomy

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 03/10/2026

Saturn tonight in UV, RGB, Ch4, and this beautiful composite! @nerozzi.it

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Now academic paper mills and predatory publishers are big problem, and not linking to the paper is bad journalism. Did a search and I believe this is the paper referenced; onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/... It makes the same claim with zero sourcing but says they did a computer simulation. 🤔

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/09/2026

Yeah, that's actually a great idea. Ideally the data would be a bit better, but here's a decent attempt playing with GIMP and assigning 320-400nm to blue, 400-700nm to green, and 875-900nm to red. (re-uploading hoping bsky doesn't compress it too badly)

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 26/09/2026

Just missed the small window of good seeing tonight, but happy with the result anyway. Besides looking at the rings in IR, I also tested a new photometric UV filter. Must say Saturn looks very ghostly from 400nm to 320nm! Will be good for spooky season outreach! 🎃

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 13/09/2026

Watching a Mongolian throat signing metal band called The Hu at Fiddler’s Green outside of Denver. Solid performance.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 11/09/2026

Testing a Maksutov to do EAA publicly is a choice, but I think it worked well! Celestron 0.63 reducer + 533C coming in clutch! Here's some uncalibrated live stack images from tonight.

Dumbbell nebula (M27) with a starlink ruining it.

Fireworks galaxy. A little over 25.2 million light years away.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 10/09/2026

Will be volunteering here tonight with one of my telescopes. If connectivity is okay I may stream online as well.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 09/09/2026

First decent photo I've managed to grab of the ISS! Still overexposed at 2ms, but man that thing is so massive. 🔭

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/09/2026

Shout out to @moohoodles.bsky.social for raiding in with her community last night while I started my birthday by doing some imaging of Saturn live on Twitch.tv!

Saturn's icy rings brightly reflecting the methane band in NIR.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 04/09/2026

Last week I technically became a professional astronomer! I was hired to stream the Lunar eclipse on two giant LED screens for a performance by Itchy-O at the opening night of Tulagi Boulder Roots Music Festival. So many people came up during and after to say such wonderful things. #MoonJoy

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 26/08/2026

Look at this sweet piece of fossilized amber I bought from @sciantsmedia.com (Cue Jurassic Park Soundtrack)

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 16/08/2026

At the creatively named Boulder Bookstore in Boulder and look what I found! @toomanyspectra.bsky.social Cool bookstore with a cozy little space/astronomy section. I may have added another years worth of reading material to my backlog.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 05/08/2026

Welp @nerduino.space and I didn't catch any lunar impacts tonight while streaming on Twitch.tv, BUT we did have a great time hanging out with the community while looking at our marvelous Moon. Thanks to @cosmoquest.org for raiding in after the anti-climatic moment of truth. 😆 #MoonJoy 🔭

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 03/08/2026

Treated to a wonderful Colorado sunset at tonight’s game against Boston Legacy. @denversummitfc.bsky.social

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 27/07/2026

See below for examples. The main hustle seems to be selling 'cooling' credits to well intentioned people through Meta ads and in person booths. Perhaps I can offset the carbon I wasted looking at their website?

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 26/07/2026

Hey I remember this game when I first got a car! ⛽️😆

Game like a gas pump where you try to hold the handle until you reach the exact target amount.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 14/07/2026

Follow up: Today on FB I saw screenshots reporting to be of a show called “History’s Greatest Machines” on the History Channel with obvious AI slop Apollo era images. Everyone involved should be gd ashamed if this national disgrace.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 11/06/2026

Venus and Jupiter tonight with my 9.25 @celestronuniverse.bsky.social Seeing isn’t great but getting in the last bit of Jupiter impact monitoring I can for the season before pivoting to Saturn.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/06/2026

Venus after sunset in methane (~890nm), then first observations of Saturn this year before sunrise this morning in NIR and Ch4 for the rings. I can't wait until Saturn gets higher in the sky!

Venus on June 5th 2026 in ch4/methane band.

Saturn on June 6th 2026 in near infrared.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 21/05/2026

Moon tonight in near-infrared with the EdgeHD 9.25.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 24/04/2026

No need to fake it folks - the real thing is cool already! We can even sometimes see part of it with larger amateur scopes! science.nasa.gov/mission/cass... www.planetary.org/space-images...

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 23/04/2026

So went to check the allsky for Lyrids and ended ups seeing something that kicked off some sort of secondary stage in the early morning of April 21st. GPS III SV-10 maybe? @planet4589.bsky.social

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 04/04/2026

Reminds me, someone posted a link to a beautiful dashboard similar to yours in a Twitch stream chat yesterday. Except the 'author' apparently didn't understand orbital mechanics enough ask the LLM to double check their homework. We have enough bad info and clout chasing without AI slop!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/04/2026

You can probably delete the upgrade before it installs. Check for files in this path and delete at will C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download\ You can then go to Run "services.msc", find Windows Update, Stop it if running, then change Startup type: to "Disabled" and get bothered less.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/04/2026

That page looks like the Win10 version. The Win11 should look like the one in my post. I am wondering if it hasn't done the full install yet but has downloaded the upgrade and is waiting to install it?

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 28/03/2026

Hot Take: I know there are a lot of fans of Saturn, but I think the most important thing that JWST has proved, definitively, is Jupiter > Saturn.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 05/03/2026

Finally got the new Chroma filters loaded up only to fight with the filter wheel and USB/power issues. No Jovian impacts detected, but I did get to see the largest moon in our solar sytem - Ganymede - transit near the GRS! You can even make out Galileo Regio in the top right!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/03/2026

4) they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another,...

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/03/2026

3) every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph,...

Remastered Pale Blue Dot image from NASA in 2020.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/03/2026

2) every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar,"...

Original Pale Blue Dot image from Voyager taken in 1990

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 01/03/2026

"Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines...

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 24/02/2026

What the f*%* is this AI slop fest? This is NOT what a Saturn V’s F-1 rocket engine looks like. Why are we generating fake and completely inaccurate images of historical things that actually exist? So f’in stupid and lazy.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 13/02/2026

I've been testing my own ~$200 total budget allsky build for about 6 months now with our Twitch community. See photo of early prototype being tested back in the fall. Of course now Dylan making me feel under pressure. 😃 Keep it up @dylanodonnell.bsky.social

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 06/02/2026

Conditions didn't live up to the forecast tonight so I could really test out this planetary setup, but I figured we could all use a pallet cleanser in our doom feeds. So here is Io and Europa flanking Jupiter, and then Mare Nectaris where the JAXA SLIM mission landed!

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 19/01/2026

G4 AURORA ALERT AFTER SUNSET IN NORTH AMERICA! 1) Sunday there was a X1.9 CME that seems destine for at least a glancing blow to Earth. Normally it would be days out, but with the help of a coronal hole facing Earth over the weekend it seems to moving at blistering speeds of 1400kms.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 13/01/2026

Sunday night we got some decent seeing while Jupiter was near opposition, so broke out the Edge 9.25 and started up OBS so I could stream this with the community on Twitch. Really happy with the result.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 12/01/2026

At 39:44 into the broadcast the telemetry seems to show a sudden tumble with the 3rd stage. Again at 42:29 you can see on a monitor what appears to be a live video feed pointed at the payload which shows glimpses of the Earth as tumbles uncontrollably.

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Misadventures In Astro @misadventures.astronomer.social · 31/12/2025

Someone let Elon know I’ve got a hell of a deal on a new COPV for Starship! 95% sure this one wasn’t dropped yet. 🤭

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