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Astronomer, author, astrophotographer. Former science journalist now working in the UK space sector to promote research, exploration & innovation. willgater.com

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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
A few shots from Friday morning’s partial lunar eclipse from south Devon. Really nice views of the blueish-pink umbral shadow border (due to atmospheric ozone absorption) through binoculars. #astrophotography
A photograph of the partially eclipsed full moon. On the right the limb of the moon is fully overexposed in bright white light while on the left the disc of the moon is visible bathed in orange-red light and many of the large lunar features on the surface can be seen. A photograph of the partially eclipsed full moon showing the disc of the moon bathed in orange red light with the right hand limb of the moon appearing as a bright overexposed crescent. A few stars can be seen in the black background surrounding the moon in the frame. A photograph of the partially eclipsed full Moon. The Moon appears as a bright white and deep orangey-red disc against a twilight sky background flecked with stars. Below in the foreground are dimly lit storm clouds lit by the early dawn light and the silhouette of a hedgerow and treeline.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The core of the Milky Way rising over the waters of Church Bay, Bermuda, last week. #astrophotography
A photograph of the Milky Way lying diagonally across the frame. The Galaxy appears as a misty band of whitish yellow light criss-crossed by numerous filamentary dust clouds. In the foreground there are dimly lit rocky outcrops sitting on the foreshore in blue-green tropical waters. The sky is still slightly blue in the fading astronomical twilight.
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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
During the recent Total Solar Eclipse the South Korean Danuri spacecraft obtained a nice view of Earth from Lunar orbit with the Moons shadow just visible on Earth. Here is their image, with attribution added, my colorized version and the nearly simultaneous EPIC-DSCOVR image used for the color.
This is a reduced version of the photo released today by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute. Earth is seen from Lunar orbit during the recent Total Solar eclipse. The Moon is barely showing shadows behind the sunlit surfaces, and the shadow of the Moon itself is just at the horizon, or perhaps 'Limb' better suits an orbital view. One very wide shadow shows a fuzzy edge on a distant rise. I added the attribution. This is my version of the Danuri Lunar orbiter photo, with color added.  I combined their Earth photo with a color EPIC-DSCOVR image made at about the same time, rotated a little in 3D to better match the Danuri viewing angle for compositing. The sharpness of the B&W original is preserved with the DSCOVR full Earth photo mostly used for the color values. I also prefer this orientation with the foreground Moon at the bottom.This is the EPIC (Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera) image from the DSCOVR satellite made at close to the same time as the Danuri image, shown in reduced form but otherwise as released.
 The exposure is naturally for the sunlit Earth and clouds. The Moon shadow's wide peripheral zone of gradual darkening, the 'penumbra' is where the illumination decreases as more of the Sun is eclipsed. At this time the outermost shadow area was near the Great Lakes, from this perspective a circular zone of that radius thus surrounds the progressively underexposed zone around the Moon shadow. If the exposure were adjusted to define the actual umbra, or zone of totality,  the resulting small black dot in the image , about 30 percent the size of the underexposed portion seen here, would be surrounded by the greatly overexposed fully sunlit rest of the world.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
The progression of yesterday’s partial solar eclipse from Dartmoor, Devon. Captured with a small refractor telescope & DSLR combo equipped with a certified solar filter. All frames manually aligned, composited and colourised in Photoshop. #astrophotography
A montage of 21 images of the yellowy orange solar disc aligned in 3 rows of 7 showing the Moon gradually obscuring more of the disc and then slipping away. Maximum eclipse, with a very thin crescent sun, sits at the centre of the grid.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Amazing views of the solar eclipse this evening under near pristine skies over Dartmoor. With 95% of Sun obscured we noticed a real temp drop & the classic, eerie, dimmed light ordinarily seen just before totality. V cool to see this effect thanks to the deep nature of the partial eclipse in Devon.
A photograph taken through a specially filtered hydrogen-alpha telescope showing a thin, red, glowing crescent sun against a black backdrop. Hundreds of crescent suns appear projected onto a piece of paper underneath a gorse bush on Dartmoor, which itself appears in shadow form in the photo. A picture of a Dartmoor landscape with an eerie, not-quite-twilight, light associated with the 95% partially eclipse sun. Gorse bushes stretch off into the middle distance and above a pastel gradient sky changes from yellowish at the horizon to light blue above.
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Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research @mpsgoettingen.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Current observations from ESA’s #SolarOrbiter help #PredictiveScienceInc predict what the #corona will look like during the upcoming #SolarEclipse2026. Input is data from the instrument SO/PHI designed and built at #mpsgoettingen. www.mps.mpg.de/solar-orbite... @science.esa.int #SolarEclipse
Simulations showing what the Sun's corona is likely to look like as viewed from Spain at the time of the solar eclipse.magnetogram of the Sun provided by SO/PHI
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Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 08/08/2026
The UK will experience a partial solar eclipse on Wednesday 12 August. The extent of the Sun's coverage and the timing of maximum obscuration will differ across the country. Never look directly at the sun; use a pinhole projector or certified eclipse glasses to view it.
Map on UK showing how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon, at maximum, during the solar eclipse on Wednesday 12th of August. this ranges from 88% in the east to 98% in the southwest.
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ESA Operations @operations.esa.int · 28/07/2026
A high-velocity meteor that exploded high above the South Atlantic off the coast of Argentina in April was detected by lightning imagers aboard European and US weather satellites. Their observations are helping to pin down its likely origin: www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
MTG-I satellite in geostationary orbit overlooking Europe, Africa and the AtlanticGraph showing meteor trajectory from weather satellite observations
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 21/07/2026
Cold and vacuum snap for the ExoMars ramps at –70°C. Engineers confirmed the ramps can open fully in Mars-like conditions. This deployment will be one of the mission's most nerve-racking moments for @esa's Rosalind Franklin rover after touchdown on Mars in 2030.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
A busy start to day two of #FIA2026. Join the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social on our stand in the Space Zone throughout the week to find out about our programmes, missions & funding opportunities and meet teams from across government working on space.
A photo of the U.K. Space Agency stand at the Farnborough International Airshow. Crowds are gathered in front of large format images of space objects on tall back illuminated walls. A photo of the U.K. Space Agency stand at the Farnborough International Airshow. Crowds are gathered in front of large format images of space objects on tall back illuminated walls. A photograph of a model of the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover on display on the U.K. Space Agency stand at FIA2026A photograph of a 3D printed lunar descent engine on display in a Perspex cabinet. A large grey engine bell sits below a complex network of other pieces. In the background is a backlit image of the Pillars of Creation taken by the JWST.
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Euclid Consortium @ec-euclid.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
If you are in the London/UK area right now, #Euclid has an interactive exhibition at the @royalsociety.org's #SummerScience exhibition. Open until Sunday 5 July. See you there! #ESAEuclid #astronomy #space #research
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Daniel Pomarède @pomarede.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Roman Space Telescope - Rotate to Vertical Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at Kennedy rotate the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to vertical using precision handling hardware. Credit: NASA/Sydney Rohde (Rocz) images.nasa.gov/details/KSC-... #Roman 🧪🔭
Technicians and engineers inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida rotate the agency’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope to vertical Thursday, June 25, 2026, using precision handling hardware. Named for NASA’s first chief astronomer and “mother of the Hubble Space Telescope,” the Roman Space Telescope will offer a field of view at least 100 times larger than Hubble’s, resulting in deep, sweeping explorations of the cosmos
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NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @rubinobservatory.org · 30/06/2026
The moment we've all been waiting for is finally here… On June 29, 2026, NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory officially began the Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST)! 🔭🧪☄️🌌 🔗: rubinobservatory.org/news/action-...
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
My best shot (plus cropped version) from the overnight thunderstorms in South Devon. This storm was far away over the South Hams at the time, so this was taken with a 135mm lens. #lightning #SouthDevon
A photograph of a lightning bolt on the right hand side of the frame reaching from a cloud base (lit up by the lightning) down to a silhouette horizon with trees. Many smaller bolts can be seen branching away from the cloud deck around the main one. A cropped photograph showing more detail in a lightning bolt and smaller surrounding lightning bolts branching out from a cloud deck illuminated by the glow of the lightning.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Heads-up Mars researchers! The @ukspaceagency.bsky.social is looking to support postdoctoral research on critical science & tech preparation for the three UK instrument contributions (Enfys, PanCam and RLS) on the Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Find out more at: www.gov.uk/government/p...
An artist’s CGI impression of the Rosalind Franklin rover exploring a Martian landscape with hills and rock outcrops in the background. Credit: ESA/Mlabspace
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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Mars as seen from the Psyche spacecraft on its way to the metallic asteroid of the same name.
 This is a color image of Mars made with near infra red, green and blue filters as the Psyche spacecraft headed away from the 'red planet' after its flyby to use its gravity to adjust the course of the probe.  The white reduced Southern polar ice cap is prominent, with lighter dusty lowlands and darker more rocky equatorial highlands making the broad global contrasts visible through telescopes.
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Ian J. O'Neill @astroengine.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
I knew the images would be good, but nothing prepared me for the end result. Just... wow. I think we can say that the Psyche-Mars flyby was a huge success 😍 www.nasa.gov/missions/psy... #MissionToPsyche
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Space Telescope Science Institute @stsci.edu · 24/04/2026
Well, isn’t this a sight for sore eyes! 😍 Our beloved Hubble appears in this amazing image from one of Vantor's WorldView Legion satellites. It was 36 years ago today that Hubble was launched in the bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Vantor.
A detailed image of the Hubble Space Telescope floating in space, showing its solar panels and cylindrical body in space.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 10/04/2026
💻 #WatchLive: the final stages of the #Artemis II mission from 23:30 BST/00:30 CEST on youtube.com/watch?v=nfhD... Expected times in CEST: 🚀01:33 Separation of European Service Module 🌠01:53 Crew Module reentry begins 🪂02:03 Parachute deployment 💦02:07 Splashdown @exploration.esa.int
Earth getting bigger, seen from cameras on the European Service Module on 10 April,  as the Artemis II mission approaches its conclusion. Orion seen on left with a solar array wing across top of the image.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
This might be one of my favorites from Artemis II. A cinematic alignment of the Moon and Earth, each cradled within the warmth of sunbeams. Taken from behind the Moon on April 6th. flic.kr/p/2s6BABn
Crescent (partially illuminated) Moon and Earth facing the Sun. The Sun is just out of frame to the right leaving flares of light reaching out toward the left.

NASA/Artemis II/Kevin M. Gill
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 07/04/2026
✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l
On a black background of space, a blue and white Earth just before 'setting' behind the Moon, in foreground, seen from Artemis II, 6 April 2026Totality seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, revealing a view few humans have ever witnessed, a dark disc surrounded by a pale solar corona.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Loving seeing the Artemis II lunar far side photos – and Mare Orientale def the star of the show. For comparison to the crew’s ‘bird’s eye’ view, here’s a pastel sketch I did at the eyepiece in 2022 showing how tricky it is to see the Orientale basin on the limb from 🌍 (with good libration!).
A photo of a sketchbook page with a pastel pencil sketch of the edge of the Mare Orientale basin on the lunar limb. Pastel pencils appear on the image. A scanned pastel pencil sketch of the edge of the Mare Orientale basin made at a telescope eyepiece from Earth.
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Kevin M. Gill @kevinmgill.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Another crescent Earth from the Artemis II crew, taken yesterday (April 4th). flic.kr/p/2s5Ztj2
Crescent Earth.

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Don Davis @ddavisspaceart.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Space art in its roots has been an effort to anticipate sights that future space travelers may one day see. In the late 1940s Chesley Bonestell painted a moonlit Earth that appeared in 'The Conquest of Space'. This modest work shows a view broadly similar to that revealed in the new Artemis photo.
 Astronomical space art ideally shows something of what is known about the subject as well as what it is about the subject one finds visually appealing. This is a scan of an illustration in the classic book 'The Conquest of Space' by Willy Ley and Chesley Bonestell.  Earth is covering the Sun, with Bonestell's very narrow version of the Zodiacal Light extending from behind Earth on both sides. The moonlit Earth shows Africa and the reflection of the Moon on the oceans.  A suggestion of cloud detail shows a latitudinal detail bias that was common in his Earth portrayals.
 
 In the orientation of the visual elements this painting, done a lifetime ago, carried forward a vision that has just been seen by human eyes and photographed with state of the art equipment. 

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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
So cool to see the first libration zone images of the Moon from the Artemis II crew. Have been looking forward to these! 🌔 That’s the Mare Orientale on the left limb of the Moon with the Lacus Veris & Lacus Autumni showing up well. Grimaldi much further onto the disc than we’re used to on Earth!
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ESA Exploration @exploration.esa.int · 04/04/2026
#Artemis II update: our European Service Module's main engine performed the translunar injection so precisely that flight controllers in Houston decided to cancel the first of three outbound trajectory correction burns on the way to the Moon 🥳
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Amateur astronomers! Do you have a small telescope (4”+ aperture) & ability to record video at 25fps? There’s an opportunity on Monday/Tuesday to support the Artemis II citizen science looking for impact flashes from meteoroids hitting the Moon. See here for more: science.nasa.gov/citizen-scie...
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Impact Flash! - NASA Science
You and your telescope can join a global network of amateur astronomers documenting meteors hitting the moon.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 03/04/2026
😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int
Spectacular high-resolution image of our home planet viewed through the Orion Crew Module window by the Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon on Flight Day 2, 3 April 2026 (pic: NASA) A full disc image of Earth, as seen from the Orion Crew Module. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. At lower left, a large brown landmass is Africa, with Spain and Portugal with twinkling lights where the planet curves. At top right, auroras glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space (pic: NASA/R.Wiseman)
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Huge congrats to NASA on the launch of Artemis II. 🚀🌔 Great to see the UK playing its part too, with Goonhilly providing tracking support from the Lizard, the Airbus teams in Stevenage who developed parts of the ESM and Slough-based John Crane providing specialized components for the prop systems.👏
A photograph of the Space Launch System rocket launching against a sea and sky backdrop rising on a cloud of steam and smoke. Two large lightning towers appear in the foreground. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
From the heart of Cornwall, @goonhilly.org is gearing up to support NASA's Artemis II mission, providing critical lunar communications tracking as astronauts venture back to the Moon. 📡🌒 It's a great example of the UK's contribution to global space exploration. 🚀 Read more 👇
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Orion, Sirius and the faint band of the winter Milky Way over Bonehill Rocks, Dartmoor last night.
A picture of a granular starry sky over a large outcrop of granite rock. Large boulders of weather-worn granite appear as dim silhouettes in the bottom left corner of the frame while the constellation of Orion sits above the horizon on the right. Travelling diagonally across the centre of the frame, from bottom left to top right, is the faint band of diffuse light from the winter Milky Way.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
40 years ago last night ESA’s first interplanetary mission, Giotto, zipped past Comet Halley. It paved the way for missions like Rosetta, and is a great example of the UK’s tremendous space science heritage, having been built at Filton in Bristol, with UK PIs on some of the science instruments too.
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/03/2026
🔍 What we know so far Fragments are reported to have reached the ground in Koblenz‑Güls (Germany). There are no injuries reported. Due to its timing and direction, the object was likely not detectable by current large-scale sky surveys. 🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety...
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ESA analysing fireball over Europe on 8 March 2026
At approximately 18:55 CET (17:55 UTC) on Sunday 8 March 2026, a very bright fireball moving from the southwest to the northeast was observed by many people in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, an...
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European Space Agency @esa.int · 09/03/2026
🚨 UPDATE: fireball over Europe – 8 March 2026 At 18:55 CET on Sunday, 8 March, a very bright fireball streaked across the skies of Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands, glowing for around six seconds before fragmenting. 🧪🔭 🎥 Allsky7
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
Ready for day two of Space-Comm Expo Europe! Come and visit the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social stand to speak to our programme teams and see our lightboxes highlighting some of the great space missions that the UK is at the heart of.
A photo of a 3m high light box at a conference showing a JWST NIRCam/MIRI image of the Pillars of Creation with pink, brown and white masses of swirling nebulosity against an orange and purple starry backdrop. A photo of the U.K. Space Agency stand at Space-Comm Expo Europe showing crowds on the stand and a 3m high light box featuring a high-res Solar Orbiter image of the Sun. A photo of a light box showing a Euclid mission image of a star forming region. Blue white, brown and yellow tendrils of gas swirl across a starry black background peppered by numerous distant galaxies.
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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Learn more about the UK's involvement in the mission 👉 gov.uk/government/c...
Artist's impression of the Euclid spacecraft. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab (spacecraft); NASA, ESA, CXC, C. Ma, H. Ebeling and E. Barrett (University of Hawaii/IfA), et al. and STScI (background)
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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hubble and ESA's Euclid have teamed up to reveal the Cat's Eye Nebula in extraordinary new detail.🌌 The Euclid mission is imaging vast swathes of the sky to help explore dark matter and energy, with an instrument onboard funded by £37 million from the UK Space Agency. 👉 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...
Euclid and Hubble images of the Cat's Eye Nebula. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, ESA Euclid/Euclid Consortium/NASA/Q1-2025, J.-C. Cuillandre & E. Bertin (CEA Paris-Saclay), Z. Tsvetanov
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UK Space Agency @ukspaceagency.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency. Rebecca is passionate about maximising the UK’s space potential, having worked in space for ten years. Read more 👉 linkedin.com/feed/update/...
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We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency. Rebecca is passionate about maximising the UK’s space potential, having worked in space… | ...
We are pleased to announce that Rebecca Evernden has been appointed as Director of the new UK Space Agency. Rebecca is passionate about maximising the UK’s space potential, having worked in space for...
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
🔭 Great #citizenscience opportunity here for amateur astronomers. More info at: leighfletcher.substack.com/p/supporting...
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cosmos4u.bsky.social @cosmos4u.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
It seems likely that a bright fireball on the morning of the 12th dropped meteorites in Bavaria, says meteor.asu.cas.cz/cz/post/boli... based on data from special cameras: the body came in slowly and at a shallow angle, so the potential strewnfield is huge and thus a systematic search not viable.
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Royal Astronomical Society @royalastrosoc.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
🚨 Exciting news! 🚨 Here is the first known picture of the 19th Century astronomer Richard Carrington – who had the largest geomagnetic storm in history named after him. It was found by our assistant archivist Kate Bond thanks to some brilliant detective work.🕵️‍♀️ 👉️ ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...
Richard Carrington.
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Dr. Ryan French @ryanjfrench.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A significant #SolarFlare is currently underway on the Sun! The flare was so bright, it has caused saturation and diffraction patterns in images captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory. Early data also seems to suggest the flare was eruptive.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Great NZ fireball footage here with a superb example of a persistent train. NZ friends: if you saw it or caught it on camera do send in a report as the info can help localise any potential meteorite fall. ☄️
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Tim Jenkins @tgjenkins.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
🚜 🛰️ @ukspaceagency.bsky.social is supporting two innovative projects that will use satellite data and digital tools to help farmers make more informed decisions, boost productivity and care for the environment. space.blog.gov.uk/2026/01/20/u... @ukspace.bsky.social @nfudc.bsky.social
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Unlocking Space for Agriculture
The UK Space Agency is funding two four‑month pilot projects, using satellite data and digital tools to help farmers make more informed decisions, boost productivity and care for the environment.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Here’s a time series of the evolution of what I suspect are proton aurora at the edge of Monday night’s display. These were incredibly dynamic features and you can kind of see how blurred they are in these 10s exposures.
A montage of 6 photos showing bright green patches of aurora appearing and changing close to a bright band of red and green auroral curtain which occupies most of the bottom right of the frame.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Lots of shots to go through from tonight’s incredible auroral show over Dartmoor. Here are four of my favourites so far. While the camera does see far more than the naked eye, the colours in tonight’s display were the best I’ve seen in 30 years of mid-latitude aurora watching. #NorthernLights #Devon
A photograph of rippling auroral curtains in hues of red, green and white over a silhouetted horizon which occupies a small portion of the lower frame. A photograph of a bright and vibrant auroral curtain with red rays seen behind a scattering of backlit clouds. Silhouetted moorland hills sit at the bottom of the frame. A photograph of a diffuse red and green auroral curtain with subtle ray structure over a misty moorland valley. A photograph of a vibrant swathe of green and red aurora over a silhouetted moorland hillside. Clouds drifting across the middle of the frame appear silhouetted against the auroral light.
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
MAJOR naked-eye aurora visible through cloud gaps from Dartmoor in Devon right now. Vibrant red and green colours easily visible to the eye with direct vision. Here’s back of DSLR view from a few moments ago.
A photo of the back of a DSLR preview screen showing a photo of Aurora and clouds
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Diffuse photographic aurora showing up from South Devon (50°N). It’s currently hugging the horizon between Alkaid and Deneb. #NorthernLights
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Will Gater @willgater.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
🌌 It’s the peak of the Geminid meteor shower this weekend and with the Moon below the horizon for most of Friday & Saturday night it should be a great show this year. To find out more see my latest piece for the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social blog over at: space.blog.gov.uk/2025/12/08/g...
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Glimpse a Geminid meteor this weekend
The peak of the Geminid meteor shower occurs this weekend and with the Moon out of the way you’ve got a great opportunity to spot shooting stars.
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