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@manton Prepare mentally for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history at the end of final episode - the drama simply blew me away.

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@sundogplanets At the annual meeting of the @GermanAstroSoc this week the dire situation esp. for radio astronomy was stressed in no uncertain terms. There will be some coordinated political action but details are pending

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@ec_euclid In how far is NASA's official All Clear message https://x.com/NASASpox/status/2081114506843881941 from yesterday evening (CEDT) merely a \"rumour\"?

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Reducing the impact of #satellite brightness for astronomy - laboratory characterization and simulations: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/550/1/stag1136/8722194 (\"a passive, material-based mitigation strategy based on an ultra-black, aerospace-qualified coating\") -> Scourge of satellites could be mitigated with help of ultra-black coating: https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/research-highlights/scourge-satellites-could-be-mitigated-help-ultra-black-coating

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The video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJNwAKSL17s about the increasing satellite #Megaconstellation threat to astronomy (and more) is linked in the sidebar of the ESO release but deserves a separate shout-out. Also learned that the actual paper has just been formally published in https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/forth/aa60006-26.pdf - and see https://gizmodo.com/eso-study-finds-that-no-more-than-100000-satellites-should-orbit-earth-2000780091 for an article.

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Large or bright #SatelliteConstellations - effects on observations, including on the background sky brightness: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09427 -> \"Beyond the limit\" - one million satellites and mirrors in space pose grave threat to the night sky: https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2607/ -> thread https://bsky.app/profile/eso.org/post/3mplijgvngi2k

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@sundogplanets A German light pollution activist observed one of the smaller BlueBirds at +2 mag.: https://www.facebook.com/andreas.hanel.56/posts/pfbid0ddA9TEEywyjVCYZZvJ98Qmddg5cYpYQo9WEaQF2Gfg7VG5BYdrkB5CG1f6pzveU7l - that's near the bright end of the statistics in https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L15/8251664 ... Soon we'll find out what the NSF deal https://www.nsf.gov/mps/updates/nsf-ast-spacemobile-establish-satellite-coordination and AST's promises in https://ast-science.com/connecting-the-world-while-protecting-the-skies/ are worth ...

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@sundogplanets There have been several seemingly informed hit pieces against the company (more of a tiny start-up I think) on YouTube recently but actually looking into what Reflect Orbital is planning in detail - which involves listening to hours of *their* videos as there is little hard stuff in writing - it turns out that the critics all made math errors by many orders of magnitude ... If you write about them do your homework first and don't rely on other critics - and if you think you've found obvious showstoppers discuss it with them. (Disclaimer: the concept is crazy but it doesn't contradict physics ... and something like Starlink also sounded crazy but in that case someone simply had the $$ and did it and here we are.)

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@vicgrinberg @pikarl @SylviaFysica The current odds are 1:77 in https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/sentry/details.html#?des=2024%20YR4 and 1:76 in https://neo.ssa.esa.int/search-for-asteroids?tab=possimp&des=2024YR4 - last night they were 1:85 to 1:83. Typical behavior when the target ellipse in the plane orthogonal to the asteroid's orbit shrinks with more astrometrs, with the Earth near its center.

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@ChrisWalter @VRubinObs Thank you very much! From the press release I understood that actutal photons from the sky have made it through the now complete optical system and into the ComCam ... yet https://rubin.canto.com/v/RubinPressKits/album/RNVI9?viewIndex=2&display=curatedView doesn't contain a single sky image taken with it. Meaning ...?

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@ChrisWalter @VRubinObs How much of the focal plane does the test camera cover, compared to the LSSTCam? And why do this intermediate step in the first place with the big camera already at the observatory?

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@mastodonmigration Four new images, data and images downloaded today, press conference tomorrow.

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@lauren @mastodonmigration Or they collect all what they have and present it in a big show at the end ... Schrödinger's moon lander, and the box remains closed.

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@mustapipa Such a taxonomy might be popular on \"planet Gonggong\" but is absurdly unastronomical and unphysical from a solar *system* perspective ... and just think about the 'geological complexity' of Jupiter for a moment. ;-) What we have since 2006 is fine, thank you.

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@mustapipa It's the beam splitter's fault: https://twitter.com/akira_doe/status/1721886699863834770. And will be dealt with eventually: https://scicomm.xyz/@knud@mastodon.social/111370130015640177

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@mustapipa I'm puzzled by two technical details, evident especially in the Perseus Cluster image: what exactly is causing these widespread. very distinct and bright blue ghosts (that one ESA caption calls 'normal' but doesn't elaborate) - and what explains the strikingly different color patterns in the diffraction spikes of blue, whitish and redder stars? Finally, do we already have rough reality-vs.-specs numbers for Euclid's angular resolution and the sensitivity of the two instruments?

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@dantheclamman The rate of close encounters between satellites in LEO is skyrocketing - no pun intended ... well, maybe it is - already.

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@w7voa Can. We. Just. Stop. Reporting. Every absurdity this ... person utters??? I had hoped that at least Mastodon would be free from this insanity but some \"journalists\" just don't get it. :-(

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@derpostillon Dieser Nicht-Witz wird auch durch endlose Wiederholung nicht witziger. (Falls es immer noch nicht alles kapiert haben: Meteoriten fallen mit ballistischer Geschwindigkeit zu Boden, da durch die Luft schon lange abgebremst, und schlagen keine \"Krater\". Allenfalls Löcher in Dachziegel. Die meisten liegen einfach so im Gras rum.)

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@burritojustice When they knew what is not so clear: They narrated a nominal - as we soon found out: fantasy - descent in the webcast and really seemed to believe in the (wrong) telemetry they saw displayed. The confusion at the nominal landing time seemed genuine. Still waiting for a detailled and honest post-mortem from the company: that would help everyone to do better next time.

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@sundogplanets With well over 4000 Starlink satellites (plus more than enough others) in orbit right now, who actually needs simulations? Just put observers at different places at different times under different levels of light pollution (!!!) and have them count all the artsats they see over an hour. And/or do the same with a calibrated sensitive camera and a wide-angle or fisheye lens. Such data I'd really like to see (and then guide the debate about remedies).

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@mattblaze @jlundell @plragde Having spent countless hours in the darkroom - oh, those fumes ... :-)
- making b&w prints I second that ...

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@mattblaze He's on Twitter ... kind of: https://twitter.com/AnselAdamsTrust - even the thumbnails there are breathtaking.

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@mattblaze Sadly I have to agree with her: most b&w photography one sees on social media *is* dull and often outright bad. Serious b&w imaging requires a careful choice of color filters already while shooting and thinking hard about lighting, contrast gradients and so on, not simply taking a color image and later setting the saturation to zero. Ask Ansel Adams for advice here ...

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@futurebird @artscistudios Only have the numbers for mammals handy, in a new paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2204892120?cookieSet=1 - the authors aren't interested in any other animal class, let alone phylum, it seems.

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@arstechnica Hello? There is no \"rocket poised just behind it\", the Ariane is still in the assembly building, not even rolled out to the launch pad yet - so the sloth has all reason to look \"calmly\" in this old footage shown during the launch webcast.

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Spectral analysis of ultra-cool white dwarfs polluted by planetary debris: https://arxiv.org/abs/2206.05258 -> https://interestingengineering.com/science/10-billion-year-old-debris-earth-like-properties

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