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PhD in neuroscience. Amateur astronomer. Opinions are my own.

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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
2 months
Here's the 11" telescope view after the refractor view of @SpaceX Starship Flight 11 from Florida.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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Wednesday at 8 pm Eastern I will address some truly ghoulish behavior exhibited by space deniers this past weekend in the wake of the death of an innocent man who was targeted and harassed by them for years. Even after his death the harassment continues. https://t.co/3A3N4f9qRN
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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They're now sold out!
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@roborockglobal
Roborock
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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A bunch of these were sold today, there's only a few left if anyone is still interested.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
2 days
You can see a couple examples of the circular 5" protective glass coverings in this excellent video about the shuttle launch cameras. https://t.co/SmRFkGQ8Dp
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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My fellow launch photography friends might be interested to know that the Antique Mall in Titusville currently has protective glass available for sale that was used during the shuttle program. Cool souvenir and you can tell which side was exposed to damage from a shuttle launch!
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@FannieMae
Fannie Mae
3 months
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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Here's one more version with different settings.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
5 days
M31 Andromeda galaxy, 1 hour manually guided exposure on CineStill T800 film with an 8" Meade LX200 and 0.65 focal reducer, Minolta SRT-100. Processed automatically using Riccardo Paterniti's VeraLux HyperMetric script in Siril, automatic background extraction in GraXpert.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
5 days
Riccardo Paterniti's VeraLux HyperMetric also works well on my film photos, like this 30 minute manually guided exposure on the Bubble Nebula, using rec.709 since none of the sensor profiles apply, of course. Background extraction and denoising were performed in GraXpert.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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Trying out the new VeraLux hypermetric stretch script by Riccardo Paterniti, quite happy with the result it gave me on good old Orion here.
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@Ellieinspace
Ellie in Space 🚀💫
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In case you missed it, here is how to properly and respectfully interview one of the few surviving Apollo moon landing astronauts. I've seen the recent video of Charlie Duke essentially being set up by a podcaster to sit through 4 hours of vicious attacks from a moon landing
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@NASASolarSystem
NASA Solar System
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BREAKING: Sugars essential for life have been found in pristine asteroid Bennu samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Combined with previous detections of amino acids and nucleobases, we see that life’s ingredients were widespread throughout the solar system:
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@Erdayastronaut
Everyday Astronaut
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Woah, apparently Cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been removed from Crew-12 for allegedly leaking classified documents. He’s being replaced by Andrey Fedyaev. Crew 12 will launch NET February.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
16 days
Here is a similar "object" I captured with my telescope pointed at 3I/ATLAS, processed here with various upscaling and denoising techniques. Seems very consistent with the OP image, doesn't it? I'll address the pitfalls of bad flat calibration in a stream on my channel.
@konstructivizm
Black Hole
17 days
A re-examination of the 3I/ATLAS image taken in early October revealed a structured core and traces of industrial-grade metal, casting doubt on the natural explanation. The further we delve into the history of 3I/ATLAS, the more the previous data begins to seem less like static
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
17 days
Meanwhile YouTube doubles down on slapping infractions on creators and removing informative videos like this one: https://t.co/9ctuPGDD2c
@atEricParker
Eric Parker
21 days
@TeamYouTube At least you can now watch this harmless video on X and rumble.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
17 days
AI generated videos using Avi Loeb's likeness are now going viral with sensationalistic claims about 3I/ATLAS. My parents fell for this one and sent it to me. https://t.co/2DMcCcXdgK @YouTube should be cracking down on AI fakes like this instead of punishing legitimate creators.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
18 days
Very reminiscent of the Proton failure in July 2013.
@panicfr0g
жаробой
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@KYKYPY3A_B контекст
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
20 days
I redid the flat calibration on my 3I/ATLAS time lapse using a combination of sky flats and dynamic background removal in GraXpert. The result is much cleaner: https://t.co/mtDvrUCFhI
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
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Lastly, here's a stack of color images I took of 3I/ATLAS on Friday morning. The red and green colorful patterns are residual hot pixels after the images were aligned and stacked on the comet.
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@GundamInfoNA
GUNDAM NA Official
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Just Announced! Gundam Premiere Night featuring both Iron-Blooded Orphans Urdr-Hunt + Wedge of Interposition, followed by the 4K remaster of Gundam Wing Endless Waltz Special Edition! Each film will feature brand-new intro create just for this release. Coming January 2026!
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
22 days
Rotational gradient processing reveals a sunward jet, a hint of the tail pointing away from the sun, and a possible jet roughly 90 degrees to the side.
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@astroferg
Astronomy Live
22 days
Here is a 40 minute time lapse of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS from yesterday morning's webcast, along with a stacked image!
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