Stuart Atkinson
@mars_stu
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Martian amateur astronomer, writer, astropoet, Outreacher & Author of 'Felicette: The Space Cat' (on Kindle) & 'A Cat's Guide To The Night Sky' (Hachette)
Kendal, UK
Joined May 2008
A long overdue biography of Felicette, the space cat... a collection of Mars-inspired poetry... a ghost story set beneath the northern lights and a novel telling the tale of the first cat to go to Mars... all available now on Kindle. RTs appreciated :-) https://t.co/1aQA5Pr4Qa
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Looking back at Comet Lemmon...
skyatnightmagazine.com
A look back at Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon, which grace our skies throughout autumn 2025, and won't return for over a thousand years.
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After worrying that I was never going to see Comet Lemmon more than a couple of times, I didn't do too badly in the end. That run of good nights in Kielder at the end of October certainly helped...
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Can't stop exploring this incredible view sent back from Mars by Curiosity. If anyone could add a scale to these features I'd really appreciate it. Images: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/Additional processing S Atkinson
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Thanks to everyone who Liked this, I genuinely appreciate it. In pre-Musk days images like this would have had 1000s of Likes, but he has driven away the people who always loved this stuff. This is a science wasteland now. So depressing.
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MARTIAN Yosemite! MARTIAN!!!! Stupid malfunctioning "a" key on this laptop!
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Whatever you're doing, STOP!! Take a moment to look at this stunning new vista sent back from Mars by the rover Curiosity. Here's your future Martin Yosemite... Images: Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/Additional processing S Atkinson
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No sign of my poorly laptop coming home yet & as my old one has less memory than a drunk goldfish I can't process all the lovely FITS files of Comet Lemmon sitting in my Seestar! But I've had a go at manually aligning some of the images I took on Oct 25th...looks promising!
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One of the best space artists working today. Absolutely beautiful, thought-provoking art. If you're not Following already, start now. Each painting is a joy.
An experiment painting a 'western theme' but from the near future where the frontier is the surface of Mars instead of the American west, and a scouting caravan would be travelling in rovers instead of covered wagons. 'The Beacon' 48x24 inches, oil on aluminum panel. This
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Will you tin foil hat nutters PLEASE make up your minds about 3i ATLAS??? It's **exhausting** keeping up with all your brain-liquifyingly stoopid posts!
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Today's the 68th anniversary of the flight of Laika. The Russians kept the shameful truth behind her death secret for many years. Here's a poem I wrote about her 10 years ago, to mark, NOT celebrate, the anniversary. LAIKA’S GHOST | Astropoetry
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Laika’s ghost is my companion on lonely stargazing nights. In winter, shivering beneath Betelgeuse’s blood red eye I reach down and quietly scratch her head, Smiling as she nuzzles my h…
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There was a time, back there in September, when the rain refused to stop and the clouds refused to part, that I thought I wouldn't get even one half decent image of Comet Lemmon before it headed back into the Deep Black. Glad I was wrong... :-) Image: S Atkinson
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I thought I'd had my last look at Comet Lemmon but I managed to sneak in another one though a brief gap in the clouds after sunset tonight, from the car park around the back of my flat in the centre of light-polluted Kendal. Seestar S50 images, Sunday Nov 2nd 2025, 18.00-28.30.
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Loved #ElectricLife by @RachelDelahaye so was thrilled to receive #Surge - continuing Alara's story, thanks @TroikaBooks. Thrilling & tense, a dystopian page-turner, perfect for 12+ readers and on point for today's society!
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FINALLY processed my tracked DSLR pics of Comet Lemmon taken at Kielder Star Camp a couple of weeks ago!
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The clouds graciously parted to allow me to take one last Seestar image of Comet Lemmon before we head home tomorrow. The comet is past its best now and will fade quickly. You weren't a Great Comet, but I thought you were brilliant. I'm going to miss you, my Kielder Comet. :-)
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If you follow this account, FFS don't. It's a clickbait cesspit of conspiracy theory garbage, fake videos and outright lies. Every "space" story on here is twisted until it's utter nonsense. 1m Followers for a blocked toilet of trash.
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Best images of Comet Lemmon taken from the Autumn 2025 Kielder Star Camp using my Seestar S50. Looking forward to processing the raw subs properly when we get home!
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Managed to grab a few more images of Comet Lemmon this evening (Sunday Oct 26th) from Kielder Campsite, Northumberland, through very brief gaps in the clouds. This is a phone-processed stack of half a dozen jpg images taken with my Seestar S50.
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