The setting Moon and Venus in daylight. Taken at 7:35pm via iPhone to the eyepiece of my Questar 3.5 in Finder mode (6x). #astronomy

The 5% full Moon and Venus captured in daylight. 12:45pm Pacific today, May 18. @skyandtelescope.bsky.social #astronomy

The Moon, captured at 12:45pm and just 5% full, with a passing jet. Venus is below the frame. #astronomy #photography

Happy 96th birthday (yesterday) to Jasper Johns, America’s Michelangelo - and greatest living artist. @moma.bsky.social @metart.bsky.social

This beauty is M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy, situated right at the edge of the handle of the Big Dipper. Fifty-five minute exposure with a Seestar S30 Pro. #astronomy

Here’s a quick look at the Andromeda Galaxy - it’s only a 15 minute exposure because it rose just before sunrise. The light from this galaxy took 2 1/2 million years to get here. I’ll post a better picture in a few months when it’s positioned higher in a darker sky. #astronomy

Tonight’s full Moon rising, in case you missed it… #photography

This is exactly what the presidency of a madman in turmoil looks like. Expect anything. It’s all being staged for an audience of one. @maddow.bsky.social @cnn.com

@metropolitanopera.bsky.social I hope you know that Donald Trump told Saudi Arabia to pull back their proposed $200 million donation to you only because he’s an asshole. @mayor.nyc.gov @moma.bsky.social @metmuseum.org

Hey S&T: I think you have your dates mixed up. As far as I can tell, the lunar occultation of Regulus occurs Friday, April 25, not Saturday, April 26. @skyandtelescope.bsky.social

Here’s a look at the Moon and Venus setting into clouds, with the Pleiades visible in a bit of clear sky above. #astronomy

Once Trump is out of office, pardons granted to any White House staff must be rescinded, and those people, along with Trump and his family, must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. @cnn.com @msnowreports.bsky.social @thebulwark.com @barbmcquade.bsky.social @maddow.bsky.social

The haze or "aura" often seen around a lightning bolt is caused by the intense ionization of nitrogen and oxygen in the air as the bolt discharges, creating plasma that illuminates as it cools. This phenomenon is captured in high-speed photography, reflecting the electrical energy discharge.

I’ll be surprised if even a single Trump dollar passing through my hands doesn’t have this criminal motherfucker’s signature blacked out.

Here are a few eclipse pics. I am looking up (and would be interested in knowing) what star the moon occulted at 4:19 AM Pacific time. iPhone to my Questar 3.5 at 50x mag. #astronomy #photography #moon

Tonight’s 99.9% full Moon… #astronomy

Here’s the slo-mo grab of last night’s ISS transit taken just after 11pm local time. iPhone to the eyepiece of my Questar 3.5 at 50x magnification; actual transit time was just under one second. #astronomy #photography #moon

Here’s a prep shot for tonight’s ISS transit, taking place in about 3.5 hours and two miles away, if the clouds cooperate. If all goes well it should be a good one, with the station almost 60 arc minutes in size. Stay tuned! 😁 #astronomy #photography

With a little luck you can make a daytime Jupiter grab… just find the moon and hang a right…

This is what happens when you don’t plan properly: the ‘bug’ you see shooting across the bottom left-hand side of my screen is actually the Tiangong space station; I did not leave enough room below the Moon to capture it properly. Nonetheless, I was surprised to record it in daylight. #moon

Venus (blue arrow) and Mercury (red arrow) are back in the early evening sky. #astronomy

Going through some shots of the Moon and Jupiter last night with light cloud cover, I bumped into this… #photography #astronomy

The aurora seems to be heating up, here now (6:45pm Pacific time) forty miles northeast of Sacramento. @vincentledvina.bsky.social @astroroyalscot.bsky.social @davidbflower.bsky.social @astronomyedinburgh.bsky.social @imometeors.bsky.social @astrosociety.org #astronomy

Eat your heart out, Bruce. Here’s the real Boss… (But we love you, too!) 😉 @brucespringsteen.net

Yes, he is this adorable. @cats.bsky.social

I’m as much a fan of provocative headlines as the next guy, but if you think Trump cares what anybody thinks about what happened on January 6, 2021, you haven’t been paying attention. @theatlantic.com

I will not forget, and I will not let history be re-written. @newyorker.com @hillaryclinton.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com @maddow.bsky.social @cnn.com

@kcranews.bsky.social @skyandtelescope.bsky.social Here are some shots of last night’s aurora taken from just outside Yosemite NP. #astronomy #aurora

Have you ever seen a more adorable cat? 😸 Our little man will be 17 years old next year. #ragdoll #cats @cats.bsky.social

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Enjoying wonderful Bortle 2 skies (SQM 21.9) up here just outside of Yosemite NP for a few days. Caught two sporadics in as many snapshots this morning at 5:35am. Here’s looking at you, Orion… #astronomy #meteors

If you’d like to see Uranus, now’s a great time, as it’s just below the Pleiades in the early morning. Orion is rising in the southeast, with the Moon hidden. #astrophotography #astronomy #uranus

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Here’s a look at Venus and Jupiter this morning at 5:00am Pacific (Venus is the brighter of the two low in the pic…), and a totally lucky grab of Jupiter captured in daylight haze, taken at 1:00pm. Jupiter pic taken via iPhone to my Questar 3.5 at 87.5x mag. #Jupiter #Venus #astronomy

Tonight’s almost full Moon, rising up into the soup. #moon #photography

The winter constellations are coming back!! Here are Venus and Jupiter rising to greet the Pleiades, the Hyades, and my old friend Orion, emerging into light clouds this morning just before 5am Pacific time. #astronomy #photography

Here’s the nearly full Moon sneaking up on the teapot of Sagittarius. #astronomy #photography

Rupes Recta, or The Straight Wall… less than 300 meters high. iPhone to my Questar Seven at 150x magnification. #moon #astronomy

Here are two images of this morning’s rising moon, weighing in at a mere 1% full, and 22 hours from new. Finder view (6x) and full (87.5x) magnification through my Questar 3.5. #moon #photography

My wife snapped this young red-tailed hawk, who landed in a tree about two feet above my head, as we were on a walk this morning. #birds #photography

I underestimated my little 3.5, thinking that the other pictures I posted were from my Questar Seven. These images of the Straight Wall and the Alpine Valley come from the Seven, and were taken this evening under mediocre skies; interesting to compare images. #astronomy #photography #moon

The haze here has been terrible lately, so this image was a pleasant surprise. Taken last night with iPhone and my Questar 3.5 at about 70x magnification. #astronomy #photography #moon

From the Alpine Valley to the Straight Wall. Photo taken with iPhone and my Questar Seven. This image is from a few years ago; I’ll try to replicate (improve) the image this evening. #astronomy #photography

A nice post-first quarter moon, and waiting for the Straight Wall to emerge from the shadows. iPhone to my Questar 3.5 at 70x magnification. #astronomy #photography

Tonight’s very young, less than 25 hours old (and a mere 1% full) thin crescent Moon. iPhone to the Finder view of my Questar 3.5 at about 6x magnification. #astronomy #moon #photography

Morning cloud cover dashed this morning’s chances for a personal best (<0.7% full) thin crescent Moon sighting. Venus was blazing away in the haze looking like a forgotten Christmas tree bulb. We’re lucky to have a very low eastern horizon… more so when it’s clear. Next cycle… #astronomy

The Moon and Venus through some morning clouds. iPhone to my Questar 3.5 at 6x Finder view magnification, taken at 9:30am Pacific time. #astronomy #photography

This is my record for a thin crescent Moon capture; I’ll be making a most-likely-futile attempt at a 0.6% morning grab in two weeks. #astronomy #photography #astrophotography

If you’re not following @sarahkendzior.bsky.social now’s the time to start. The shit has hit the fan, my friends…