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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

1/2 hour video of prominences on yesterday's sun. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

More H-alpha photos from today. 🧪

H-alpha image of the solar limb with minor prominences.

H-alpha image of the solar limb near AR 4485

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

July 11 sun in different wavelengths: Calcium K, H-alpha, H-alpha inverted, and white light. Each view highlights a different set of solar features.🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Static images of today's sun. 🧪

Inverted Ha-alpha full-disk image of today's sun.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A busy sun this morning as the active regions are at the edge of the solar limb! 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Static solar H-alpha images from today. Not the best conditions for imaging, but time was limited before clouds came in.🧪

H-alpha solar image, not inverted, showing the most active regions on the bottom and prominences on the top and bottom.

Enlarged H-alpha image showing prominences and active regions.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

July 2 H-alpha solar video. Look at the middle lower left for an on-disk surge. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

1-hour July 3 solar video. Look at the middle upper right for a flare at about the 10s mark. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

July 4 fireworks on a scale no human can match! Poor seeing conditions and incoming clouds led to a video with artifacts and jitter. Still interesting to see the activity! I'll post better videos from earlier in the week in separate posts. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

The "Supreme" Court just discovered that there is at least one more Amendment other than the 2nd. www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A no-bid contract to Trump buddies at taxpayers' expense, defacing a national monument. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Mother's Day sun caught between clouds. 🧪

Full solar disk in Calcium K wavelength. Very active regions on the top and bottom of the image.

False-color H-alpha image of solar prominences.

Monochrome H-alpha image of solar prominences.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

The renamed Department Of War -- acronym "DOW". Coincidence? I think not.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Just to remind us how BIG the universe is...how many GALAXIES can you find in this image? This region is called Markarian's Chain after Benjamin Markarian who noticed in the 1960's that about 7 of the galaxies seem to move together. There are more than 7 in this photo! 🧪

Wide-field image of M86, M84 and many other galaxies that are located in Markarian's Chain. Taken with a Redcat 71 astrograph.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Bode's Galaxy M81, the Cigar Galaxy M82 and several neighbors. 🧪

Wide-field view of the M81 group of galaxies

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Prominences on today's sun. Check my account for full disk images that I forgot to flag with the "science" test-tube emoji. 🧪

Prominences on the sun taken in the H-alpha wavelength

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Today's sun and last night's moon

Telescope image of the moon on April 27, 2026

H-alpha image of a very active region (4425) on the sun

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

IC 405, the "Flaming Star Nebula" in Auriga. This is about 1500 light years away. The central star AE Aurigae that lights up the nebula is a variable star. It's also a runaway star. That means it's just passing through the nebula at a relatively high velocity (still a very long time!)🧪

Widefield image of the IC 405 nebula taken with a Redcat 71 astrograph.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Last night's moon (March 27, 2026) 🧪

$Color image of the waxing moon taken with a Redcat 71 WIFD refractor.$

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Friday's moon and Saturday's sun. 🧪

H-alpha solar image zoomed to show prominences.

H-alpha solar image zoomed and inverted to show solar surface features.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

So glad I didn’t listen to the Snake of the Union’s “address”

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Today's sun. Only one sunspot, but there's activity that we can see at the H-alpha wavelength, including some nice prominences. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

This region in Auriga is a busy part of the sky! The middle with the wavy thread extending below is IC417, the "Spider Nebula" about 10 million years old at 7100 light years from earth. The upper right is IC410, "The Tadpole Nebula", 10,000-12,000 light years away. Click to zoom and see details. 🧪

Widefield image of nebulae and star clusters dominated by red H-alpha light

Widefield image of nebulae and star clusters with narrowband normalization to show details from different wavelengths

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

SUNday! H-alpha images of Feb. 15, 2026 sun. Some nice prominences are visible.🧪

H-alpha full solar disk, color, inverted

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Two takes on the Jellyfish Nebula, a supernova remnant in Gemini about 5000 light years away. The supernova that created this may have happened around 30,000 years ago. Estimated at 70 light years in size. Compare that to our solar system, which is 0.5 to 1.5 light years in size. Click to enlarge.🧪

Narrowband image of IC 443, the Jellyfish Nebula. About 8 hours acquisition from my back yard with a Redcat 71 WIFD telescope, Optolong L-Enhance filter, and ASI2600MC camera, Pixinsight.

Color image of IC 443, the Jellyfish Nebula without narrowband normalization. About 8 hours acquisition from my back yard with a Redcat 71 WIFD telescope, Optolong L-Enhance filter, and ASI2600MC camera.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Quick image of the moon between data collection for nebulae 🧪

Telescope image of the waning moon on Feb. 4, 2026

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Between the moon on one side and clouds on the other, I couldn't get much data on deep space objects last night. If all you have is the moon, you take pictures of the moon. 🧪

Telescope image of the waxing moon Jan. 29, 2026

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

My letter to my NH senators #senatorjeanneshaheen and #senatormaggiehassan. Too long for the character limit and the image is truncated, so the letter is the alt text.

I strongly urge you to block Federal funding of ICE when the spending bill comes up for a vote this week. A partial government shutdown is a small price to pay for limiting the ability of these rogue "Federal agents" to destroy the lives of US Citizens.
The murder of two innocent citizens by ICE agents is an atrocity. The current implementation of ICE is a consequence of the Trump administration's creation of a group of poorly trained and poorly regulated vigilantes who are not accountable to anyone. It is unacceptable for so-called "law-enforcement" personnel to hide their identities and deprive people of their rights without following the rule of law. We must draw a distinction between legitimate law-enforcement and these people. I have worked with the laboratory sections of CBP and other Federal law-enforcement agencies, and in my experience these are careful and responsible public servants. The actions of rogue ICE agents is giving legitimate agencies a bad name. We must defund ICE until strong protections are put in place to protect the rights of our citizens.

Please have the courage to stand up for your country and your constituents!

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Crescent moon, January 24, 2026 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Last night's moon and today's sun. Coming next -- snow, and plenty of it! 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

I wonder if Epstein ever visited Venezuela?

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

White light image of today's sun showing sunspots and H-alpha images showing more details and prominences. Caught between clouds.

White light solar disk image taken with a SeeStar S50.

Inverted solar H-alpha image taken with a Lunt LS60MT DS telescope.

Solar H-alpha image taken with a Lunt LS60MT DS telescope.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Last night's "Supermoon" aka "Wolf Moon". The moon is at perigee, closer to earth, so it appears about 14% larger than when it is at apogee.🧪

Image of the full moon on Jan. 2, 2026 taken with a Redcat 71 telescope.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

My first lunar image of 2026. 🧪

The moon on Jan. 1, 2026. Two days before full.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

After a late night, there's nothing like a cup of coffee. Here are annotated GCxGC-MS chromatograms for the aroma compounds in two very different coffees from my local roasters.🧪

GCxGC-MS chromatogram of volatile aroma compounds from a Sumatra French Roast coffee. The aroma is dominated by roasted, caramel, and spicy phenolic notes. Pyridine smells terrible in large quantities, but it is present at low levels in roasted coffee and doesn't smell bad at those levels.

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

💥 🍃 🧪 Nature's Best Science Images of 2025

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Brief gap between clouds gave me my last solar images of 2025. Not great seeing conditions, but still interesting to see the solar activity! 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

A more detailed view of the Christmas Tree Cluster. The blur that looks like a comet is Hubble's Variable Nebula. The image of NGC 2264 includes the Cone Nebula (dark cone), the Christmas Tree Cluster, the Stellar Snowflake Cluster, and the Fox Fur Nebula (white part in the middle). 🧪

NGC 2264 (the dark Cone Nebula and the Christmas Tree Cluster) and neighboring deep space objects: the Stellar Snowflake Cluster, the Foxfur Nebula, Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261), and the Open Cluster NGC 2259.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas! Here's an image I took of NGC2264, the Christmas Tree Cluster from a year or so ago with the little Seestar S50 telescope. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Two closeups of the #solstice sun prominences at the H-alpha wavelength.🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Happy Winter #Solstice! Here's today's sun in white light, H-alpha (orange and inverted with pale blue background) and Calcium K wavelengths (blue).🧪

Solar disk, white light with neutral density filter

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Another great accomplishment by my friends at the Pacific and Yukon Laboratory for Environmental Testing in North Vancouver! They used the JEOL USA AccuTOF-DART to identify small molecules in ginseng species to combat poaching and the illegal trade in endangered species.🧪https://bit.ly/4pbH2Fl

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Two views of the "Ghost of Casseiopeia" nebula (I63). The first is from my Dwarf 3, a small, inexpensive smart telescope. The second is from my full refractor rig, a Redcat 71 WIFD with a cooled camera. Color differences are due to different filters. Size and angle differences are meaningless. 🧪

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Deep space image of the I63 nebula taken on a Dwarf 3 smart telescope. Processing in Pixinsight. Light-pollution filter.

Deep space image of the I63 nebula taken with a Redcat 71 telescope. Double the aperture of the Dwarf 3, but different resolution and field of view. Dual-band filter.

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rbcody.bsky.social @rbcody.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Rubio says that Calibri is now banned for official use by the State Dept. No doubt the replacement font will be Tannenberg. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/u...

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