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Nigel P Meredith

@nigelpmeredith.bsky.social
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Emeritus Fellow @bas.ac.uk. Interests include #astronomy, #aurora, #fieldrecordings, #sciart, #scicomms, #spaceweather. Broadcasting with @soundsofspacep.bsky.social 🌏📡🛰️☄️🪐🌌🎵🎹. 🎧 soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com

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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Currently on board #WCRDarkTrain Rx33 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving the wonderful session by Preston Capes. Fantastic stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵😎
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✱ WCR ✱ DARK TRAIN ✱ ℞ 33 ✱ PCT PT II ✱ 7 SEPTEMBER 2026 ✱ by Dark Train
FFS ℞ 33 Celebrating PCT 16-30. You’d be wise to bite down on a bit and focus your third eye. This week we again set sail and bid farewell to the left-field sister label of Woodford Halse, Prest...
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Just pulling out of UFO Central on #WCRDarkTrain by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Seeing Absolutely Everything, Then Never Seeing It Again" by @polypores.bsky.social. Fantastic stuff! 🕶️🚂🎼🎵😎
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✱ Wcr ✱ Dark Train ✱ ℞ 32 ✱ Fisty Hz Off Pt. Ii ✱ 31 August 2026 ✱
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Some weekend listening. Our recent session, which aired on @darktrain.bsky.social on 17th August, is now available on #bandcamp! Jump aboard and find out about the recordings and music behind our album "Infinitas Formas". 🇦🇶🧊⛴️🎼🎵🎹😎
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WCR Dark Train: Infinitas Formas Session, by Sounds of Space Project with Kat Turner
1 track album
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Just departing from UFO Central on #WCRDarkTrain R30 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Harrison Brady" by David Aimone and Akira Film Script. Fantastic stuff! 🚂🌃🎼🎵🎹😎
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✱ Wcr ✱ Dark Train ✱ ℞ 30 ✱ Dr Nigel Meredith & Kat Turner ✱ Infinitas Formas ✱ 17 August 2026 ✱
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our recent @darktrain.bsky.social session, featuring music inspired by and including recordings taken by @unisouthampton.bsky.social and @bas.ac.uk PhD student Kat Turner on her 2025 cruise on the RRS Sir David Attenborough, is now available on Mixcloud. Jump aboard and enjoy the trip! ⛴️🧊🇦🇶🎼🎵🎹😎
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✱ WCR ✱ DARK TRAIN ✱ ℞ 30 ✱ DR NIGEL MEREDITH & KAT TURNER ✱ INFINITAS FORMAS ✱ 17 AUGUST 2026 ✱ by Dark Train
This week on DT, I’m delighted to announce that we have Dr. Nigel Meredith and Kat Turner on board, sharing their insights and experiences behind the Sounds of Space Project’s album, Infinitas Formas....
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our tickets are booked! Looking forward to seeing you all in "The Flying Saucer" at UFO Central for pre-boarding drinks at 21:30. Should be a fun trip! ⛴️🧊🇦🇶🎼🎵🎹😎
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Pleased to announce that Kat Turner and I will be discussing the recordings and music behind the latest @soundsofspacep.bsky.social album "Infinitas Formas" on the next outing of #TheDarkTrain. Join us tomorrow evening on #WarminsterCommunityRadio at 22:00. 🚢🧊 🎼🎵🎹😎
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Kate Bosworth @darktrain.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Good evening! We have a very special charter departing from UFO Central (WCR) y Radio MINERVA on Monday at 2200 BST//1800 ART. @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social and Kat Turner will be guiding us through the sound and music of “Infinitas Formas” by @soundsofspacep.bsky.social 🚢
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Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans @astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
#Bloomscrolling: cosmos edition Meet the Lion Nebula, released by the Just Wonderful Space Telescope this week. The centre sparkle is a star, in the middle of a spectacular death, which started 10,000 yrs ago, when it began flinging material into space 🤩🔭🧪 📷: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, A. Pagan
A black background of space is spotted with tiny red-galaxies, with a huge puffy-pink sphere at its centre.  It's a perfectly circular nebula.  It reminds me of a jelly fish, but at its very centre it's more like a sparkling fairy godmother eye-of-Sauron blend... that is the star still in the process of its spectacular death.
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Dan Burns @the-physics-well.net · 15/08/2026
I didn't stay up all night watching meteors on 8/11-12, but my modified Sony Alpha 7 III did. It caught the final one when rosy-fingered dawn came bright and early. #astrophotography
a blue sky with many stars still visible contains a few wispy clouds. A fringe of color on the horizon marks the start of dawn. in the foreground are trees and houses, reflected on a lake. a colorful meteor streaks in the upper right, defying the coming light.
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Banjoherder @banjoherder.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
...and one more 'finally' from Wednesday's partial eclipse. All 28 images taken 5 minutes apart, aligned and turned into a .gif 🔭, #astronomy #astrophotography #sun #spaceweather
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
The moon with Venus tonight. #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com · 16/08/2026
Image of the Moon-Venus conjunction on 16 August 2026 taken from southern Australia around the time of sunset. 🔭#stargazing
Photograph of a pale blue evening sky showing the waxing crescent Moon and the planet Venus shining brightly to the right of the Moon. The Moon and Venus are at the centre of the photo which is framed by a number of banana tree leaves. Image credit: Kym Thalassoudis
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Dr Alfredo Carpineti @drcarpineti.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This week eclipse in all its glory, in the form of a spiral progression with the pictures taken from my telescope! 🔭🧪
A spiral progression of 10 images show in the sun progressively more covered by the moon and at the center totality showing the corona and the solar prominence
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
The sun in Calcium-K, looking quite interesting (in my opinion). #Astronomy #Astrophotography
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Mandy Daniels @mandydaniels.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
#Waxing #Gibbous #Moon Date: 2026 07 22 Time: 20:03:49 UTC Altitude: 12° 59' Distance: 399 716 km Phase: 63% Nikon Z8 Skywatcher 200P Exposure: f/5.9, 1/80s, ISO-100 Focal Length: 1200 mm #astronomy #astrophotography
Waxing gibbous Moon in a dark blue sky. Craters and a Rille can be seen along the terminator and marias across the sunlit surface.
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Just pulling out of UFO Central on #WCRDarkTrain Rx26 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Painkiller Part I" by @arranpoole.bsky.social. Fantastic Stuff! 🧊💧🌿🎼🎵🎹😎 ⬇️
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✱ Wcr ✱ Dark Train ✱ ℞ 26 ✱ Fisty Hz Off Pt. I ✱ 20 July 2026 ✱
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Pleased to share that our track, "A23a - The Largest Iceberg in the World", which it was at the time, gets a mention in this fascinating article in National Geographic. The track itself features music inspired by and including audio recordings from within an inlet in the side of the iceberg. 🇦🇶🧊🎼🎵🎹 ⬇️
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The extraordinary life and quiet death of the world's largest iceberg
Forty years after breaking away from Antarctica, the frozen colossus known as A23a died as it lived: drifting around the bottom of the globe, fascinating ardent observers, and offering scientists crit...
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving the Midsummer Mix by @keithseatman.bsky.social. Fantastic stuff! 🌃🚂☀️☀️🎼🎵😎
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✱ Wcr ✱ Dark Train ✱ ℞ 22 ✱ Keith Seatman Midsummer ✱ 22 June 2026 ✱
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Deep Sky Detail (Mark) @deepskydetail.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
I had some SHO data from last year that I went back and reprocessed. This is about 15 hours of data, taken with a ZWO 294MM and 80ED doublet. Processed in Siril, Gimp, Graxpert. Forgive me my purple stars. #astrophotography @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Here are some free boarding passes (@freealbumcodes.bsky.social). To redeem visit bandcamp.com/yum. f85u-brrv wn7v-x4x9 e5mr-jaat gr8a-y23b tlnb-7hlx 2ea5-5vpp 67fn-hu7a uldx-jpq7 vpqj-krg5 f6br-glnf m3xd-3m5m faee-h62g 5f6b-5gxu g53l-b3jp 27vj-h492 amb6-5pgh rga2-b2rv Enjoy!
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Some weekend listening🎧. Join us and listen to music inspired by and including recordings made by PhD researcher Kat Turner on an expedition to the Southern Ocean onboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough in 2025. 🚢🌊🌊🦭👻🌧️ ⬇️ #Antarctica #BIOPOLEII #artscience #outreach
soundsofspaceproject.bandcamp.com
Infinitas Formas, by Sounds of Space Project with Kat Turner
10 track album
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Catherine Ryan Hyde @catherineryanhyde.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
The crescent moon with Jupiter not long after sunset last night. #astronomy #astrophotography
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Georg Lamer @astrogeorg.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
My first sighting of noctilucent clouds from #Potsdam this year. Noctilucent clouds form at altitudes of about 80 km and consist of ice crystals. During the weeks around the summer solstice, they can be spotted from locations north of about 48 degrees latitude.
Noctilucent clouds seen low over a forested horizon.  Also, a TV tower with red lights and some stars are seen in this nighttime scene.
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Our Island Universe @ourislanduniverse.space · 17/06/2026
Four worlds and one Moon in a single twilight sky. Venus, Jupiter, a delicate waxing crescent Moon, and elusive Mercury gathered above Pasadena this evening. Even during a week spent talking about the cosmos at #AAS248, the 248th Meeting of the @aas.org, it’s worth pausing to look up. 🌙🪐🔭🧪
Four worlds and one Moon in a single twilight sky. Venus, Jupiter, a delicate waxing crescent Moon, and elusive Mercury gathered above Pasadena this evening. Even during a week spent talking about the universe at #AAS248, it’s worth pausing to look up. 🌙🪐
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Steve Brown - astronomy and astrophotography @sjbastro.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
17th June: The 11% lit crescent #Moon is very close to bright planet #Venus this evening. Look to the west-northwest around 23:00 BST (22:00 UT). The pair will be a stunning sight in binoculars or in a wide-angle telescope view. Jupiter and Mercury are also nearby. #Astronomy
Stellarium graphic showing the positions of the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter at 23:00 BST (22:00 UT) on 17 June 2026.
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Carol Spicuzza @spicuzza-art.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
#Venus , #Jupiter , and #Mercury all lined up in the west. #Nature 🔭 #Photography #Science 🐡 #NightSky #Sky #ECK #PhotographersOfBluesky #scape #ForestFriday #ArtYear #cosmic #astronomy #conjunction #planets
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Delighted to announce that the work of our art-science collaboration, @soundsofspacep.bsky.social, features in an article written by #MicoTatalovic in Science News today. (@bas.ac.uk @dianascarborough.bsky.social @darktrain.bsky.social) 📡🌍🛰️🪐🎵🎼🎵🎹 😎 #Antarctica #NaturalRadio #artscience #outreach ⬇️
sciencenews.org
Otherworldly music albums feature space weather data
A science-art team uses research data to make music featuring sounds of Antarctica and outer space
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Our new album, Infinitas Formas, is released today! The album includes music and track artwork inspired by and including recordings made by PhD student Kat Turner aboard the RRS Sir David Attenborough during the BIOPOLE II expedition to the Southern Ocean in early 2025. 🚢🌊🌊🦭👻🌧️ ⬇️
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Infinitas Formas, by Sounds of Space Project with Kat Turner
10 track album
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Oregon Randy @oregonrandy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Good morning Bluesky folks! Here's a #Stunday post for you! The silhouetted mountain is #MountAdams, 80 miles away. But the clouds glowing above it are almost out of this world! #NoctilucentClouds exist ~250,000 - 280,000 ft up! Notice there are still stars out. 🧵/ 📷 🧪 🔭
The sky has a strange glow over the silhouette of a tall mountain peak. The mountain is Mount Adams in Washington State, 80 miles from where I took this photo. But the glowing white blue clouds behind and above it are much, much further away. 
About 250,000 to 280,000 feet up! (76,000 to 85,000 m)
They reflect sunlight from over the horizon from them, long before lower clouds start to catch any sunlight. In this photo lower local clouds are backlit by these night glowing clouds, and since they are closer to the horizon, the thicker atmosphere tints the light toward reds like sunset or sunrise. 
These are not aurora.
These are called "Noctilucent Clouds", and they typically look whispy and with ripples, such as in my photo.
It's so dark out still, that several bright stars are still visible at upper left. The rest of the sky was still Star studded.
These are fairly rare to see as far South as Oregon, or the Pacific Northwest.
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The Bishop @ceas10.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Cave Nebula (Caldwell 9) located 2,390 ly away in Cepheus. She's a beauty spanning 35 ly and is part of the massive Cepheus Molecular Complex Caldwell 9 is one of many active star forming regions in the Milky Way #Nature 🔭 #Photography #Science #NightSky #Photo #Space #Universe #Astronomy #Cosmos
Cave Nebula Caldwell-9 or Sh2-155

Taken 06/13/2026 - Dwarf 3
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Currrently on board #WCRDarkTrain Rx20 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving the summer mix by @thehomecurrent.bsky.social. Great stuff! 🏖️🌴🏄‍♂️🍧😎 ⬇️ www.mixcloud.com/katebosworth...
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The Bishop @ceas10.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Venus, Jupiter & Mercury in the Gemini this evening Cleared up enough tonight to get a shot of the three planets in our western sky. Mercury just above the treeline #Nature 🔭 #Photography #Science #NightSky #Jupiter #Venus #Mercury #Mindfulness #WitchSky #Photo
Venus (brightest) Jupiter (below) Mercury (center above treeline)

Taken 06/10/2026 9:19 pm
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TentacleJoe @tentaclejoe.com · 11/06/2026
How about some iPhone astrophotography. Venus, Jupiter right below it and Mercury in the center right over the roof in Whittier, CA. #astronomy #jupiter #venus #mercury #LAAS #whittier
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Pleased to be featuring in this exciting symposium-on-the-radio tomorrow, bringing together artists and researchers engaging with the electromagnetic spectrum. Should be fun! 📡🎼🎵🎹😎 @darktrain.bsky.social @dianascarborough.bsky.social #radiowaves #science #music #art #outreach ⬇️
eventbrite.co.uk
Electromagnetic Fields: Artistic Research and Radio Waves
A symposium-on-the-radio that brings together artists and researchers engaging with the electromagnetic spectrum.
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Kate Bosworth @darktrain.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
MOTHER is super excited to be broadcasting the Train with @thehomecurrent.bsky.social at the footplate! Departing UFO Central (Warminster Community Radio) y Radio MINERVA at 2200 BST//1800 ART on Moonday evening. ☀️☀️☀️
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Kate Bosworth @darktrain.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Sunny Saturday greetings to you all! I’m super excited to announce that Martin Jensen (@thehomecurrent.bsky.social) is mixing up some magic on Moonday’s Train. Dust off your magic carpets and come fly with us!! “TO MOTHER AND BEYOND!!” 🪄🧞🧞‍♀️🧞‍♂️🦹🏼‍♂️🤹🍄❤️☀️
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Delighted to play out the latest episode of #WCRDarkTrain by @darktrain.bsky.social on Monday evening with "Infinitas Formas" from our new album, scheduled for release on 15 June. The wonderful show is now available for playback on #Mixcloud. Check it out! 🚢🚢🌊🌊🦭👻🌧️ ⬇️
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✱ Wcr ✱ Dark Train ✱ ℞ 19 ✱ Kate Bosworth ✱ 1 June 2026 ✱
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Currently pulling out of UFO Central on #WCRDarkTrain R19 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Just Ashes" by SHIN. Awesome stuff ! ⬇️ www.mixcloud.com/katebosworth... imgcdn.stablediffusionweb.com/2024/6/1/ead...
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Just booked our tickets. Looking forward to seeing you all at UFO Central this evening. Should be a great journey! 🌃🚂🎵🎼🎹😎
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Kate Bosworth @darktrain.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Good evening! The Dark Train is steaming up and ready to disembark from UFO Central (Warminster Community Radio) y Radio MINERVA at 2200 BST//1800 ART on Moonday evening. Have a good one! 🍄❤️🍄❤️
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Thanks for including "Ghostly Seal Calls in the Rain"! 🦭👻🦭👻🦭👻🌧️🌧️🌧️
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Sounds of Space Project @soundsofspacep.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Just booked our tickets for FFS Rx 17 and looking forward to the show! See you all at UFO Central tomorrow evening at 10:00 pm. 🌃🚂🎵🎼🎹😎
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Tim Anderson @timothya1956.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Comet C2025 R3 PANSTARRS Compiled from 180x20sec exposures in Cowra NSW using a Seestar S50 #astrophotography
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John @krantzj.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
As the world turns . . . #Stunday #EastCoastKin #astrophotography #nightskyphotography #startrails #nightsky #meteors
About 6 hours of stars trailing through threes.
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain Rx 15 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving the tracks! Excellent stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🎹😎 www.mixcloud.com/katebosworth...
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Kym @ The Evening Sky Map @skymaps.com · 01/05/2026
🌕 The Full Moon occurs at 17:24h UT (now) on 1 May 2026. This is the first of two Full Moons in May. The other will occur on May 31st and, being the second such event in the same month, is referred to as a "Blue Moon". 🔭 May 2026 sky events: skymaps.com/skycalendar/
A detailed telescopic photograph of the Full Moon against a black background. The image exhibits a range of gray tones that emphasize its craters, plains, and other surface features.

The image was taken with a Sky-Watcher Maksutov-Newtonian telescope described at: skymaps.com/ir2/

Image Credit: Kym Thalassoudis
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Nigel P Meredith @nigelpmeredith.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Currently onboard #WCRDarkTrain Rx 14 by @darktrain.bsky.social and loving "Brisk" by #JuliDeak. Wonderful stuff! 🌃🚂🎼🎵🪈😎 ⬇️ www.mixcloud.com/katebosworth...
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Peter Lewis @peterlewis55.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Fantastic Moon in a Blue Sky! 35.4% waxing crescent this evening. Zoom in to look at the craters on the terminator line #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.com @photohour.bsky.social
The terminator line separates the illuminated region and the portion in shadow.
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RASC Calgary Centre @calgaryrasc.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
An interesting #sunset, followed by the setting #Venus and crescent #Moon. #timelapse #astronomy
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