Dr. Cat @DrJLCatlett@social.cleverlibre.org

Imaged 7 deep sky objects last night (DSOs) and 15 minutes on the #RosetteNebula #NGC2244 created a beauty #astrophotography

Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. At a distance of 160,000 ly, it is one of our next galactic neighbors. The LMC is approx. 32,200 ly across, with 1% the mass of our own galaxy. Despite this, is the fourth-largest galaxy in the Local Group, after Andromeda, Milky Way and Triangulum galaxies.

LMC is host to hundreds of astronomical features with their own designations, including Tarantula Nebula, the brightest point in this image, featured center-left.

This wide field image spans over 10 degrees squared, by comparison the moon is only half a degree in diameter! The RGB data was collected with the new T70 telescope at the itelescope facility in Chile and provided through their member's data feed. Processing in APP and PixInsight.

#astrophotography #nebula #tarantulanebula #milkyway #deepsky #astronomy #starrynight #universetoday #caldwell103 #30doradus #lmc #largemagellaniccloud #space #nasa #esa #c103 #itelescope

My image of the Cone Nebula and IC 2169 neighborhood #astrophotography #space

It’s so exciting! Orion completed it’s first lunar flyby and captures stark image of the Moon. https://gizmodo.com/orion-artemis-1-first-lunar-flyby-nasa-1849808053 #space

That feeling when you get a new skill.

I'm still training my brushwork and my speed to complete artwork. After many failed tests, this one is starting to bring together a lot of aspects that I like. A good reason to share it with you. I hope you'll like it.

#CritiqueWanted #krita
#MastoArt #fantasyart

Morning Tooters!

Wishing you a wonderful Thursday, and offering some images of the beautiful Isle of Mull, taken in October this year
#Mull #Scotland #photography

A HUGE day for me!
Today is when I begin to make my book proposal into a book 🥳

#TheWhispersofRock is an exploration of the secret stories of rock, how they connect us to each other and the world we live in. I will reframe how we engage with rocks around us and to see ourselves reflected in their stories. It will take 2 yrs to research & write. Exciting times ahead!

#book #nonfiction #womeninstem #womeninscience #geology #rocks #decolonisation #naturalhistory #earthscience #geography

"Burren Wall" Today's evening #painting is one that came out of a time I got off the bicycle and lay down on the road, just to enjoy the wall. (A part of #Ireland with not much traffic). #MastoDaoine #art #MastoArt #IrishArt

Did you know that lambs grow like cabbages from the ground...?

#NotReally
#Defaidodon
#SheepOfMastodon

Introductory post: I'm an entomologist/evolutionary biologist that's interested in the evolution of Hymenoptera 🐝 🐜 , in particular gall inducing/ parasitic wasps. Currently I'm a Marie Curie fellow at the University of Edinburgh, using phylogenomics 🧬 , community ecology 💻 , and morphological taxonomy 🔬 to figure out who's who, and who eats who in tritrophic systems consisting of 🌹 -> 🌹gall wasps->their natural enemies.

I love turkeys—wild ones for watching, not eating—but they feel too daunting to draw (leaves and feathers are so much easier than birds 😬), so here’s a Thanksgiving #NorthernCardinal for those of you in the U.S…and a regular old cardinal for those of you elsewhere 😄
#birdlovers #birding #wildlife #art #aroundmyyard #draweveryday #drawing #sketch

For #women in #science, our work often gets framed in a way that focuses on gender. It’s not a bad thing, but there’s so much more to who we are.

Many of us didn’t set out trying to be “females in science” so much as simply “scientists” doing research we love.

Our contributions are frequently less about shattering glass ceilings, and more about succeeding at institutions that weren’t built by us or for us.

All the seasons in one

I'm trying to share introduction posts of geoscientists when I see them, keep 'em coming! Make sure you use a ton of hashtags and get your intro done so people can see who you are and what you will toot about :)

This is a bunch of trees wrapped around another tree after they were tossed about in a pyroclastic flow -or more specifically, block-and-ash flow from a lava dome collapse- at Shiveluch.

#volcano #volcanology #geology #geoscience #fieldwork #science #hazards #Kamchatka #Shiveluch

Today was looking through my old sketches and found this guy. #MastoArt #sketch #procreate #crocodile #illustration #kidlitart

#WetNoseWednesday #Mittwoof #dogsofmastodon
Dude würde gern ins Wasser, glaub ich :)