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  I wheeled out the full observatory the other day, which means I also got some data using the non-Pro seestar. I guess that’s the S30 Amateur now? Maybe I should rename it. As yet I don’t have two wedges, so this one was snapping 30 second subs in AltAz mode. Still nice! #astrophotography #Astrodon #space #astronomy #seestar

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  And whilst the seestars were spotting nebulae, the RedCat was staring at galaxies for a few hours. This is a part of the Fornax cluster. Its most famous member is the barred spiral of NGC1365, just left of center. Not too far away in the sky, but all the way over at bottom right here, sits Fornax A, a giant elliptical galaxy with visible shells of stars around it. The shells of stars mean that it has interacted with and probably eaten other galaxies. The name means it is the most radio-bright...

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  Busy on my walk by the river this morning. Didn’t see any snakes, but given kooka is there for breakfast they must be about.

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  200 OK X-Chores: done X-Pants: off

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  Just wandered into the back yard, pulled some leaves off the assorted self-seeded lettuces, and there we go. No supermarket cellophane packet needed.

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  #silentsunday

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  Too much thin cloud with too much Moon on targets that were too faint. No overnight imaging successes. The framing on the SMC is better than the previous effort, though. Mind you, I am vaguely impressed that I got any data on NGC 6820 at all. It only rises to about 26 degrees and would be barely above the trees. #astrophotography #space #seestar

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  Tasty fresh chemtrail from Garuda Indonesia 716

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  Time to give the pencil pines a haircut, this is not acceptable behaviour on my NGC7331 / SN2026aaiv imaging run. #astrophotography #space #fail #astronomy

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  Several goes at it and much messing about later, I have what seems to be a stable 15Mbit link to the roof.

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  Shoving a garlic, rosemary and sea salt fougasse into my face.

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  Not that I’ve got any chance of seeing it here, what with cloud, but Venus and the cressy Moon will be close together and very pretty tonight. If it’s clear where you are, look west from about half an hour after sunset. Aaaah. See?

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  And now that the Sun is a bit higher in the sky and clears the slightly-too-tall trees in the back yard, the in-laws have also stopped using electricity from the grid. The battery charges to full by about 1pm and it’s all export after that. And that’s with them not having changed their power usage behaviour at all. Just need to get their stove top replaced with an induction one (which apparently requires some re-wiring) and then gas can be disconnected.

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  Sure. Why not.

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  When the leaders of AI companies all say the technology is dangeroous and needs to slow down, there is literally nothing stopping them spending their VC money on EMPs and solving their pearl clutching problems.

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  So we’re going from patches of overnight frost on Friday to a top of 27 on Sunday.

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  The weather has turned, so no more imaging from Melbourne for the next few days. I still have more spoils from the weekend, though. I finally finished a mosaic of the Lobster Claw and Cats Paw nebulae. These sit in the Milky Way near Scorpius and as with all red nebulae, they're hydrogen playing at being a neon sign. As the Milky Way core sets around midnight, we're getting a view *out* of the Milky Way when we look straight up in the early hours. With less crap in the way, we...

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  I can highly recommend against inhaling chimmichuri.

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  It looks like all the howtos for disabling AI shit on iOS27 are written by people who had manually turned them onto begin with. I’ve never had that crap and I don’t see half the settings I should apparently have.

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  Harvested the last zucchini. 3.7 kilograms, straight to the pool room.

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  Why is the #drupal gitlab showing me some AI chat garbage?

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  Bumped into the whole mob today. #bird #birb #wildoz

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  Pride chicken at leet o’ clock.

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  Channeling Ivanova today. “Fifteen things, all of them annoying.”

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  @Lana@beige.party We most vote for something, this is something, therefore we must vote for this.

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  ☄️ And here is the properly processed version, with cloudy subs excluded from the stack. #astrophotography #space #Astrodon #c2025r3

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  Well that’s a bit of a doozy isn’t it. Meet #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS) A few minutes of 30 second exposures stacked together on the seestar. #Astrodon #astrophotography #c2025r3 #space

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  Is there an Atlassian office in Melbourne? Jira just without warning opened a chat bot window at me and I want to go punch a human in the face about that.

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  ✨ Are you in Australia and do you like being able to see the sky at night? The Australasian Dark Sky Alliance have submitted a petition to request parliament introduce legislation to control light pollution. Not to ban lights, but ensure lighting is effective and directed, not far too bright, and not on when and where not needed. If you’re an Australian resident or citizen, your signature would help. A lot. The petition is at https://www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/petition/EN7346 and you can f...