cafuego 🔭🤦🏼‍♂️

The weather has turned, so no more imaging from Melbourne for the next few days. I still have more spoils from the weekend, though.

I finally finished a mosaic of the Lobster Claw and Cats Paw nebulae. These sit in the Milky Way near Scorpius and as with all red nebulae, they're hydrogen playing at being a neon sign.

As the Milky Way core sets around midnight, we're getting a view *out* of the Milky Way when we look straight up in the early hours. With less crap in the way, we can see distant galaxies and globular clusters.

NGC 253 (The Silver Dollar galaxy) is one of the largest and brightest - wider on the sky than the full Moon - and it sits near globular cluster NGC 288.

Finally, as summer approaches, the Magellanic Clouds are starting to rise in our southern skies. I used the light pollution filter on the Small cloud, so we get a good view of all the enormous hydrogen nebulae embedded in it.

#astrophotography #seestar #astronomy #space #spaaaaaaaaaace #astrodon

I can highly recommend against inhaling chimmichuri.

When the leaders of AI companies all say the technology is dangeroous and needs to slow down, there is literally nothing stopping them spending their VC money on EMPs and solving their pearl clutching problems.

And now that the Sun is a bit higher in the sky and clears the slightly-too-tall trees in the back yard, the in-laws have also stopped using electricity from the grid.

The battery charges to full by about 1pm and it’s all export after that. And that’s with them not having changed their power usage behaviour at all.

Just need to get their stove top replaced with an induction one (which apparently requires some re-wiring) and then gas can be disconnected.

Not that I’ve got any chance of seeing it here, what with cloud, but Venus and the cressy Moon will be close together and very pretty tonight.

If it’s clear where you are, look west from about half an hour after sunset. Aaaah. See?

Sure. Why not.

☄️ And here is the properly processed version, with cloudy subs excluded from the stack.

#astrophotography #space #Astrodon #c2025r3

Well that’s a bit of a doozy isn’t it. Meet #comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS)

A few minutes of 30 second exposures stacked together on the seestar.

#Astrodon #astrophotography #c2025r3 #space

It looks like all the howtos for disabling AI shit on iOS27 are written by people who had manually turned them onto begin with. I’ve never had that crap and I don’t see half the settings I should apparently have.

So we’re going from patches of overnight frost on Friday to a top of 27 on Sunday.

Shoving a garlic, rosemary and sea salt fougasse into my face.

Several goes at it and much messing about later, I have what seems to be a stable 15Mbit link to the roof.

Channeling Ivanova today.

“Fifteen things, all of them annoying.”