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Five Failures in the Oval Office (video) America hurt itself badly today.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
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LDN 1436 and Supernova remnant G156.2+05.7 Meet the supernova remnant G156.2+05.7! A few 10000 years ago according to an article from 2016, a star that had too much mass for its own good went kaboom. It imploded on itself with such ferocious ...

195hrs exposure time on the supernova remnant G156.2+05.7 behind the dusty lumps of the Taurus-Auriga cloud complex. This is a collaboration project between Arne Danielsen of Vestby, Norway. We started shooting in October ´24 and finished in February. flic.kr/p/2qP3uX2

Nice to meet you here, Richard!

Thanks a lot, Darren!!

Nice capture of one of my favourite places on earth.

Nicely captured and processed, Keith. Great work on the colour palette. I completely agree on the jet black Boks, especially with that blue OIII background they're really striking.

Rogelio is back 👍👍

Looking forward to this one!

I haven’t had to regrease the mount, actually, but the motherboard went to the great cpu in the sky and had to be replaced last fall. Pinching seems non problematic for now, but the refractor is new so time will tell. One has to tighten every bolt in the rig though and loosen before summer or else.

Tromsø is very nice around Christmas though. That’s when the humpback whales and the orcas are there as well, feasting on herring. Great place for whale watching.

Haha! I know! Last week I had -15C every night which messed up my dark library which were -15C 🤓. Come January I’ll be fighting -25C again for sure. Everything behaves differently at -25C, mount, bolts, cable, me and the mice get fearless.

Thanks, Keith! Had some really nice nights last new moon before the snow, so I stuck with it and collected as much as I could in order to use as little noise reduction as possible.

Cool! I do the same while also checking the satellite animation on sat24.com. Last night was just lucky though. Love it when that happens. Did you process in PI?

Nicely captured and processed, Keith. Congrats! What camera and scope? Being from Norway I understand your frustration with cloudy nights, but it does make it equally more exciting when the forecast is wrong, seeing is good and you get a 9hrs run of pure gold that you didn’t expect. Keep posting! 🚀

Hilarious!!

Thanks a lot, Jeanette!! Much appreciated!

The spiral galaxy NGC4565 seen edge-on. 21hrs 35min exposure.

Heart of Heart Nebula, Melotte 15. Shot during autumn months 2024 from Ytre Enebakk, Norway.

The Heart nebula shot from my observatory in eastern Norway. 61hrs 35min exposure time.