FailedProtostar
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Backyard astronomer and astrophotographer from Ottawa, Canada. More or less agog.
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I’ve been taking photos of the Moon, planets and more with my iPhone + telescope since 2011. 🔭📱Looking forward to connecting here with those who love space!
#Astronomy
about 1 year ago
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Check out this linear band of clouds that stretched from SOUTH AMERICA TO AFRICA on Sunday!!! 🌍 ☁️
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Miles O’Brien
@milesobrien.com
is accompanying this expedition and has been posting some great updates on Instagram, too.
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2 days ago
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iPhone pics of the full moon rising at sunset yesterday. Taken from Ottawa, Canada with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌕📱
3 days ago
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Stefano Primavera was always my favourite soap opera villain.
#LikeSauceThroughTheHourglass
5 days ago
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😢
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6 days ago
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Nooooooooo 😔
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6 days ago
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
8 days ago
5:12:06 PM on Sunday, January 25, 2026, over Bolivia.
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Anthony Etherin
12 days ago
WORD FACT Contronyms are words with two contradictory meanings. For example, Left — departed or remaining Buckle — to fasten or to collapse Dust — to remove dust or to add dust Sanction — to approve or to impose a penalty Bound — heading to a place or being tied to a place
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
13 days ago
11:19:57 AM on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, over Botswana.
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Shannon Vallor
13 days ago
This thread gave me a boost of hope I really needed this week
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I’m watching a rocket roll out to the launchpad to prepare for a trip to the moon! 🚀
www.youtube.com/live/nrVnsO_...
19 days ago
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Super thin crescent moon this morning. Taken from Ottawa with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌘📱
20 days ago
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Kids today don’t know that CNN used to have a dedicated “Space” section on its website. 🚀
#RealOnesRemember
21 days ago
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Vincent Ledvina
24 days ago
Full moon auroras in Fairbanks, Alaska
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
26 days ago
9:13:14 AM on Wednesday, January 7, 2026, over the Indian Ocean.
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Tonight’s full moon rising just before sunset. Taken from Ottawa, Canada with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌕📱
about 1 month ago
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Wow! 👏
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about 1 month ago
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Tried my iPhone 17 Pro Max with my 8” telescope last night and it didn’t disappoint! 🌓🔭📱#astronomy
about 1 month ago
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Andrea Luck
about 2 months ago
1/n 2 NEW epic images of Phobos over Mars just released by
@esa.int
Mars Express This view is especially striking, with Phobos between the Tharsis volcanoes and Noctis Labyrinthus–Valles Marineris Full resolution 300MP(!) & info on:
flic.kr/p/2rMW4so
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY 🧪🔭
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The scientific equivalent of this
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about 2 months ago
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
about 2 months ago
2:47:50 AM on Sunday, December 14, 2025, over Australia.
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
about 2 months ago
11:01:14 AM on Wednesday, December 10, 2025, over the South Atlantic Ocean.
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i was time magazine’s person of the year in 2006
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about 2 months ago
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Everything I’ve learned about Olivia Nuzzi has been against my will.
about 2 months ago
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
about 2 months ago
2:47:50 AM on Sunday, December 7, 2025, over Australia.
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This morning’s moon. Handheld shot with iPhone 17 Pro 🌖📱
about 2 months ago
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
2 months ago
2:01:05 AM on Wednesday, December 3, 2025, over Australia.
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Last evening’s “supermoon” from Ottawa, Canada. Taken with an iPhone 17 Pro Max. 🌕📱
2 months ago
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First time hearing “Wonderful Christmastime” in the wild this season. December 2, 2025.
2 months ago
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
2 months ago
9:22:36 AM on Friday, November 14, 2025, over Zambia.
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DSCOVR 🔴 EPIC (Unofficial)
7 months ago
10:20:50 AM on Tuesday, July 15, 2025, over Sudan.
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First CityWide Change Bank used to do this 😢
youtu.be/CXDxNCzUspM?...
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2 months ago
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Wow! 👏
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2 months ago
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Very impressed with the photo quality from the iPhone 17 Pro Max in night mode. Here’s Orion through thin cloud last night. ✨📱
#shotoniphone
2 months ago
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David Dickinson
2 months ago
Wow. Michael Jaeger posted this amazing fragmentation sequence of Comet C/2025 K1 ATLAS on Nov 20. Currently a month and a half past perihelion on October 8th, K1 ATLAS is a +10th magnitude comet now on its path outbound through the constellation Ursa Major.
spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...
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Was looking forward all day to Chris Berman’s fastest minute on
#MNF
because I knew he’d mention the Grey Cup. He didn’t disappoint! 🇨🇦 🏈
3 months ago
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Scorigami! An NFL game has never ended with this score until today! Bills 44 Buccaneers 32 🏈
#scorigami
3 months ago
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Aurora as seen from Ottawa, Canada, just before 11pm tonight. 📱✨
#NorthernLights
3 months ago
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The skies cleared up enough over Ottawa for us to see some amazing colours!
#Aurora
3 months ago
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The skies have cleared and I can’t believe what I’m seeing outside right now. Pics incoming!
3 months ago
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I’m clouded out here but if you have clear skies, see if you can spot anything!
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3 months ago
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David Dickinson
3 months ago
Today is Remembrance Day (U.S. Veteran’s Day) 2025… here’s a few famous veterans you may not have heard of: -Actor Chuck Norris (USAF, 1958-1962 U.S. Security Air Police) -Painter and TV host Bob Ross (USAF, Master Sergeant 1961-1981) -Astronomer Edwin Hubble (U.S. Army Major, World War I)
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c0nc0rdance
3 months ago
Another species no longer on the global Endangered list: Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae). A few decades after a Star Trek movie where the central conflict was the total extinction of the humpback, their numbers are rising fast enough to put them at "Least Concern" on the IUCN Red List.
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Adding that to my bio…
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3 months ago
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This one’s from a few years ago but I hadn’t seen it. What a view.
#Mars
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3 months ago
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😔 🐦 ⚾️
3 months ago
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And there goes Bo! 🐦 ⚾️
#BlueJays
#WorldSeries
3 months ago
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#WorldSeries
#Ohtani
3 months ago
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This is the philosophy I try to live by when it comes to the environment, too. Every molecule of CO2 I prevent from emitting is one less molecule that can contribute to climate change. Everything counts.
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3 months ago
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Sars
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