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Decided to do some solar astrophotography this afternoon in place of wallowing in bed. I'm glad I did. There's a lot of interesting shit happening on the sun right now.
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Holy crap! I was just checking in on the solar activity today to get a feel whether it would be worth setting up my telescope and an X4.5 flare just happened about an hour ago!!!! 😲If there was a CME...
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I was hoping to get another timelapse today, but I kept having technical difficulties. I think maybe my external SSD is crapping out. Probably because it's hot as balls outside.
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RIP to my poor little succulent plant that I've managed (somehow) to keep alive for several years. I left it outside for a few weeks, and apparently some animal decided it would make for a tasty snack....
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Human: I stay in the sun too long and my skin turns a shade of red and owwie it hurts 😭Desert plant: GIVE ME THAT RADIATION BAYBEEEE 😎
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So this was the cool shit I was seeing on the sun yesterday, Sept 13152 minutes condensed into 15.9 seconds (573x)#solar#astrophotography#astronomy
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Bonus #astrophotography pic today: The Pacman Nebula (NGC 281) in narrowband.Captured this from my apartment (teased earlier this week) with a monochrome camera with 3 different filters (SII, Ha, OIII)...
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*klaxon blaring*⚠️ AURORA ALERT ⚠️For those that aren't aware, there was a significant X4.5 #solar flare earlier today. The NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center is predicting the CME from that event...
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Actually got around to taking my ADHD meds now that I have them again. I haven't really done anything yet today, but I feel great lol
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That aurora storm I was going on about never materialized. AFAICT, nobody has gotten any aurora (yet). Kp sat at 4 the entire night.How do I know that? Restarting my ADHD meds (powerful stimulant) in...
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This is why I hate when I can't get my meds. Yes, I feel like shit without them obviously, and that's no fun, but it takes a few weeks for my body to find its equilibrium again when I finally do get...
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My only consolation is that I did figure out something with my DSLR lens. I really wanted to get it onto my ASI2600MC, but the Canon lens to M42 adapter I have (the only one I could find) is too long...
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I don't know if I've ever commented on this publicly, but prior to my current job, I worked at Fermilab for a bit. This was back in the days when the government was actually still concerned about COVID...
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It devastated me. It still gets to me. In many ways, that job was the ideal role I had been striving for my entire life. And I just immediately fail at it because of basically ADHD executive...
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I was listening to Sean Carroll's most recent Mindscape podcast where he was talking to Cari Cesarotti about her research efforts into making a muon-muon particle collider and I got some of the old...
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Like, this might have been something *I* might very well have been involved with designing and building. This was *why* I wanted to work at someplace like that. Every so often I'm reminded of it and...
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It's a lot of what is holding me back from getting a different job. My job now was a lucky break that I rolled with and I've somehow made work (barely). It's not exactly what I want to do, but when I...
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mh-I'm such a pathetic failure. I'm gonna go crawl into a hole and die (figuratively)
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