For those in the capital region interested in history, this tour is going to be epic! #history #skystorians #LincolnAssassination #Lincoln #tours

David Nagler's comments on the passing of his father, Al Nagler, founder of Tele Vue: #astronomy #TeleVue 🔭✨

RIP Al Nagler, the man who revolutionized amateur astronomy with his optics at Tele Vue. You will be great missed. Pic from 2025 Northeast Astronomy Forum, where the Astronomy League recognized his contributions to astronomy. #astronomy #NEAF #TeleVue 🔭 ✨

Introducing LincolnAssassinationTours.com lincolnconspirators.com/2025/10/23/i...

For all the Lincoln fans and history buffs, Dave Taylor of LincolnConspirators.com has launched a tour company for the Booth escape route! Going to be incredible! #history #skystorians #Lincoln

A President murdered. His assassins on the run. A nation in mourning. Join us for a historic, true crime bus tour like no other as you become part of the manhunt for Abraham Lincoln’s assassin. We are now booking tours for Spring 2026. LincolnAssassinationTours.com

Call me petty, that's fine, but I just enjoyed blocking a *certain #Harvard #astronomer on Substack, so I don't have to see his nonsense. And no, I'm not going to say his name. ✌🏻👽🛸 #astronomy #junkscience #misinformation

Harper Goff painting (1946) of John Wilkes Booth onstage Ford's Theatre with Joseph B. Stewart rushing to pursue the assassin. My upcoming book on Stewart reveals why he was the "Forrest Gump" of 19th century America. #history #skystorians #biography #booksky

Good vaccine 💉 idea:

Carbon over silicon. #AI #art

Bad science communication can be disastrous. But a typo clearly isn't as bad as fraud. Clearly, a scale is needed to resolve this ambiguity. Thus, I here propose the Loeb Scale for scientific PR disasters. It is NOT to be confused with the recently proposed Loeb Scale for interstellar objects. 🔭

Check out Dave Taylor's @linconspirators.bsky.social great article "In the Peanut Gallery" from his Lincoln Conspirators site. Compelling theory on the identity of the boy who held Booth's horse. #skystorians #history #lincolnassassination 💙📚

In ordinary times, this would be leading news. Nonetheless, it's still an amazing development. Bravo to all involved, and let's get those samples home! #astronomy #mars #marsrover #lifeonmars #NASA

#Skystorians Today is the anniversary of the Christiana Resistance. In 1851, a group of Black men and women defied the federal Fugitive Slave Act & fought back against kidnappers intent on enslaving them. Read about this prelude to the Civil War: lincolnconspirators.com/2018/06/03/f... 🗃️

Interested in American #history? I am writing a #biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the "Forrest Gump" of the 19th century. He was the only person to get out of his seat and chase John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre. Check out excerpt: joebarryauthor.com/almost-in-re... #booksky #skystorians #writers

Support local bookstores! ( #Tampa edition) It's Read a Book Day! #booksky #reading #books #readabook 💙📚

Interested in the Lincoln Assassination? Read "Will Research for Peanuts," my new piece on the enigmatic person who held Booth's horse. Thrilled to have Dave Taylor @linconspirators.bsky.social publish this on his lincolnconspirators.com site! #history #skystorians #writers #authors #blogs 💙📚✍🏻🎩

Shameless plug if you'd like to learn more about my research regarding Edwin Booth 👀 www.eventbrite.com/e/brother-to...

This here ... carbon over silicon. #AI #ceo

1/2 August 31, 1989: Stunning OGV (Orange, Green, Violet filter) color image of Neptune and Triton, taken as Voyager 2 departed the Neptune system. ➡️ www.flickr.com/photos/13216... Image Credit: NASA/JPL/Voyager-ISS/Justin Cowart 🔭 🧪 #histsci #planetsci #science

My happy place: digging through #history records for my upcoming biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the only man to give a sustained chase of Booth at Ford's Theatre. (Taken Friday at National Archives II in College Park, Maryland.) #skystorians #booksky #biography #writers ✍🏻 💙📚

Outside National Archives II, College Park, Maryland. The thrill of the hunt in researching is my favorite part of the writing process. #history #booksky #skystorians 📚💙 #biography

Another spectacular takedown of Avi Loeb. This will mark the last time I talk about him. I suggest we all ignore him. He is craving attention and sales; let it only come from the unscientific corners. #aliens #ufo #uap #astronomy 👽🛸🔭🧪

Why do we need an interstellar object to make a claim on "alien tech?" As if an interstellar-traveling civilization can't develop technology that slows a spacecraft down to normal velocity and orbit, and surveil our solar system discretely? Anyone can wildly speculate. #astronomy #ufo #uap #aliens

Hello all, I'm sending out another update on my upcoming biography on Joseph B. Stewart, the only person to chase after Booth at Ford's Theatre. DM me if you want to be added to the list, or visit my page: www.joebarryauthor.com and sign up! 💙📚✍🏻 🎩 #booksky #Lincoln #skystorians #authors #writing

Hilarious and devastating take down of Avi Loeb's tiresome "It's alien technology!" nonsense. 🔭 👽🛸 #astronomy #aliens #science #ufo #uap #skeptic

Minute details inside the James Garfield Memorial in Cleveland. It's the small details and the hand-made artistry that make these historic buildings magical. #history #skystorians #cleveland

The Memorial to President James Garfield in Cleveland's Lake View Cemetery is a national treasure, befitting an underrated president. Definitely worth a visit! #history #presidents #skystorians #cleveland #ohio #destinyoftherepublic

OTD, August 7, 1882, Joseph B. Stewart died at age 60 of a liver disease. A prominent lawyer, lobbyist, and businessman, Stewart jumped out of his seat at Ford's Theatre and chased John Wilkes Booth. See more at www.joebarryauthor.com #history #skystorians #booksky #Lincoln #biographies #authors

OTD, on Election Day in Louisville, Kentucky, nativist Know Nothing mobs attacked German and Irish Catholics, preventing them from voting. Dozens were killed. Joseph B. Stewart rescued an Irishman from one mob, saving his life. More in my upcoming book: www.joebarryauthor.com #history #booksky

An old blog post of mine was recently linked to in an article from The Guardian. The increase in visitors motivated me to revise the piece with better text and images. Here’s the newly improved “[John Wilkes] Booth at Lincoln’s Second Inauguration.” lincolnconspirators.com/2012/05/31/b... 🗃

My Substack piece on Lincoln's secret mission in Harrisburg to avoid an alleged plot against him in Baltimore, and his return trip there four years later. #history #skystorians #Lincoln #booksky #authors 📚💙🎩

My latest author blog post on Lincoln's two trips to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and why #history is often closer than you imagine. #Lincoln #Harrisburg #skystorians #booksky 📚💙 🎩

Scenes of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: When you straight up DGAF! #Harrisburg

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Since colonization, nearly every forest in New England was cleared for agriculture. However, there were also some forests that were cut but never entirely cleared — this is how you tell if you are in a forest like that! #forest #trees #tree #history #ecology #nature #outdoor #outdoors #forester

#InternationalMoonDay featuring occultation of the Pleiades. 🔭🌒✨ #moon #stargazing

On this International Moon Day and 56th anniversary of landing, saw Moon occult the Pleiades. Also saw a satellite and airplane pass in front 20 seconds apart! Shout out to Tele Vue 110 degree 4.7 Ethos: full disk at 130x; had to tilt head to get entire view, + textbook airy disks. #astronomy 🔭🌒✨

The moon this morning through my 92mm Stowaway in Tampa. Also saw Titan's shadow in Saturn between the herringbone clouds. 🔭 🪐 🌓 #astronomy #astrophotography #Moon

This paper model of the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) was a lot of fun to build! 🔭 #astronomy #ELT #ESO

Sorry folks, I just can't get into AI-generated images. Too glossy, too phony, too campy. Even human-generated computer art is 1000% times more interesting. Yes, it's visceral, but when I see AI art, it makes me NOT want to read an article, because it screams laziness from the beginning. #AI #AIart

I am writing a biography on Joseph B. Stewart, a prominent lawyer and lobbyist in D.C. He truly was the Forrest Gump of 19th Century America. As just one example, he chased John Wilkes Booth out of Ford's Theatre! Visit my page for more: joebarryauthor.com #history #booksky #skystorians #author 📚💙

One of the highlights of last week's Rocky Mountain Star Stare was meeting the founder of Sky View Tents, Joe Bissonnette. These tents are AMAZING! Visual is simply stunning, but transparent enough for even binocular astronomy. www.skyviewtents.com #astronomy #camping #backpacking #tent #stars

Books ... Carbon over silicon. 📚✍🏻 #AI #writers

SUPER COOL! #astronomy #ELT #ESO 🔭

Following instructions while in flight. ✈️ 📚 #booksky #literature #fscottfitzgerald #books #fiction

Rocky Mountain Star Stare round up: beautiful location, dark skies, very friendly people--awesome time overall! #astronomy #rmss

Reading F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Tender is the Night," my fave gem: “I want to throw a really bad party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilet. You wait and see.” #booksky

Day 3 of Rocky Mountain Star Stare in beautiful Garner, CO: #astronomy #rmss 🔭

Day 2 of Rocky Mountain Star Stare in Gardner, CO complete. Seeing was much better than first night. Awesome views of M101, Dumbbell, Eagle--as well as tiny Arp galaxies. Summer Milky Way was gorgeous! #astronomy #rmss