Sharks get cancer. People claiming otherwise are trying to sell something to the desperate. And even if sharks didn’t get cancer, eating shark wouldn’t cure your cancer any more than eating LeBron James would make you better at basketball.

Two thumbs up!

For those who weren’t up at midnight

M20, the Trifid Nebula. 15 minutes on the Dwarf Mini in partly cloudy skies. So easy! A few edits in the Dwarf app.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) put out a little infographic for International Moon Day. It compares the diameter of Australia to the diameter of the Moon. This always throws me because in my mind, the Moon is actually bigger!

What a desecration of this holy sport, this show is an abomination. (Loving every minute of it)

Without looking it up, I’d have recognized Ted Lasso, the muppets and Madonna’s voice.

I got home and saw stars, so ran out with the new Dwarf Mini to my light polluted driveway to see what was overhead to run a quick exposure. This is a brief 15 minute view of the Hercules cluster M13. I’m going to like this.

First light with the Dwarf Mini. Given the thick wildfire smoke, no chance at stars. Well, except our own.

Among the obvious reasons this is horrible, it also doesn’t look good for me trying out my new Dwarf mini smart scope.

Ooh! This should be fun.

Happy Shark Awareness Day! If I had to distill my outreach goals into one post, it’d be for you to learn that: Sharks are awesome! Sharks aren’t a threat to you. Sharks are ecologically important! Sharks are threatened and need your help! We know how to help sharks! Follow for more.

Birds 🪶 and dolphins today. Lucky paddle boarder!

Getting ready to paint the ceiling, and doing overkill to protect the walls and floors. Getting a Dexter vibe.

Timehop reminded me that I caught the moon rising next to Half Dome in Yosemite 20 years ago.

okay bsky, especially theater sky if you are out there, how should I list multiple stagings of one performance on my CV? I do it in a really ungainly way right now and would love examples or tips on how to do it better/correctly

Never considered this, but of course!

The apotheosis of the genre.

@astrodave.bsky.social you’ve tried several smart scopes, haven’t you? What’s your favorite?

@philplait.bsky.social Heading your way!

I’m in the middle of quite the hailstorm! (You can hear my granddaughter saying “woah!”) Nellysford VA

Thunderstorms expected later today. Here’s a half hour timelapse of some building clouds.

Upwards, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1929, (rotated, detail), 📸 by Lars Baron

Fireflies, Venus and Regulus in a long exposure after a very hot day in Nellysford Virginia

At 5:40pm in the foothills of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Mountains, it’s 100°, feels like 105°!

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

Can BIH pull their goalie for the extra attacker and an empty net? 🏒🥅⚽️

Short handed goal?

The latest visitor to set off my Ring notifications was a Barred Owl 🪶

6:26 on 6/26/26

I added a 1.4x teleconverter to my setup, so this is my new maximum zoom field of view. #Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm, XF1.4X-TC-WR And a moon streak SOOC

I added a 1.4x teleconverter to my setup, so this is my new maximum zoom field of view. #Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm, XF1.4X-TC-WR And a moon streak SOOC

My BlueSky License. How’s yours? kojira.github.io/bluesky-lice...

Inside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

22° halo selfie!

That’s some interesting colors in the clouds.

@hildur.bsky.social I just adore some of your chapters!

A few Barred owls this evening 🪶 WilliamsburgVA

Venus emerging from behind the moon #Fujifilm X-T4, XF150-600mm

Moon and Venus approaching occultation. Williamsburg VA, #Fujifilm X-T4 XF150-600mm

Big moth (?) this morning

Still one of the best traditions in professional sports. What a demonstration of good sportsmanship.

Oh really? Odd, can't find a source for this coming from George Washington...

Today’s atmospheric optics display includes an upper tangent arc. You can see a faint 22° halo, but up top there’s a nearly horizontal feature tangent to the halo. I believe that depending on how high the sun is, this can curve away from the halo more or less.

When do they line up and shake hands?

A bright, double, supernumerary rainbow before sunset

Here’s a message my dean sent to the whole school. Please help me get more followers for @soest.hawaii.edu! 🙏

@hildur.bsky.social She’s not, but you are! 🤣🤣