John Young @jsy1001@social.cleverlibre.org

Facts are facts.

If you’re at the right place at the right time, with the right equipment, this is possible.

Last night, with guidance from https://transit-finder.com/, I positioned myself along the narrow line where the International #SpaceStation would pass between me and the nearly full moon.

I used a Fujifilm X-T4 shooting 4K video through a Celestron 8” SCT to capture the pass. Then, back at the computer this morning, put together these views with PIPP, Registax, and GIMP.

Quite pleased. My best yet.

Australians may be known for a laconic, easygoing, laidback attitude; but then we also have Australian Standard AS/NZS 2007.1-2005, which prescribes how we should stack our dishwashers

$ curl duck

“‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why.”

LOL. I know why. Academia increasingly values publications/productivity…or at least that’s the stuff that gets you a job. Oh, and money. You don’t need to change the world…

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04577-5

#Space #PacMan

This #APOD #picture is revealing the lucky alignement (as seen from the #Earth) of a background #galaxy with a foreground #star forming region (here a #globule) mimicking a famous character from old-times video games.

Maybe it's time to play Pac-Man again ?

#Astronomy #photography

CG4: The Globule and the Galaxy
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Selby & Mark Hanson

Read more: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230104.html

When we present #scientific discoveries to the public, we always highlight the scientific team leading the results. However, we often forget that, astronomical discoveries would not be possible without the tremendous work of brillant #technicians and #engineers building and maintaining complex instrumentations.

The #ESO #picture of this week focus on the 8.2m #VLT and its associated instrumentation.

#Astronomy #Space #Science

Credit:
Zdeněk Bardon/ESO

read more: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2301a/

Has anyone else ever discovered the #TimeMachine at #GenevaCornavin station? You step off a Swiss train in the 2020s, pass through an unassuming corridor, and then step onto a French train in the 1980s.
But seriously, the French Lyon to Geneva #TER service is awful. It's slow, infrequent, overcrowded and on ancient rolling stock. I imagine the air filtration is also non-existent given my partner and I both caught COVID in one 3 days ago. Another European #CrossBorderRail service left to rot...

Please. I’m begging you. Not every tutorial needs to be a video.

And that anomaly is relative to the period 1981-2010, already affected by global warming! 🤯
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RT @ryans_wx
I have never seen a forecast like this. Ever.
https://twitter.com/ryans_wx/status/1608676351585980417

Looks like Gemini North will continue to be down until late March/early April 2023 https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106 The Gemini South mirror recoating is being pushed back until the North is back on-sky #astrodon https://noirlab.edu/science/news/announcements/sci22106

When you're a civil engineer but you always wanted to be a network engineer.

@epixoip Absolutely. In my latest blog post I take apart their public statement and show how many issues have been known and ignored for a long time. And #LastPass continues to ignore and downplay them even now, when they’ve put people at risk. It isn’t only the breach, it’s also the long standing and continuing negligence.

https://palant.info/2022/12/26/whats-in-a-pr-statement-lastpass-breach-explained/

A tale of two presidents.

I get the feeling this BBC journalist waited their whole life just for this moment.... 🤣

I really struggled with the icing for my gingerbread barn and it accidentally became a gingerbread slaughterhouse.

Studio Apartment Available:
- Pet-friendly
- Located next to bridge
- No strings attached

If I hear one more person wittering on about "efficiency savings" in the #NHS I'm going to scream. The NHS has been pared to the bone in the name of efficiency savings and it does not work because you can't predict exactly when or how people are going to need the service.

I don't want the NHS to be efficient. I want it to have the capacity to deal with whatever gets thrown at it. I WANT there to be empty beds, because that means there's nobody waiting for a bed. I WANT Doctors to spend a certain amount of their day twiddling their thumbs, because that means people aren't stuck waiting in pain and desperation.

Am i weird?