The media are painting Gorton & Denton as a referendum on Starmer.
But it’s not.
It’s a referendum on Farage.
26.02.2026 06:52
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The media are painting Gorton & Denton as a referendum on Starmer.
But it’s not.
It’s a referendum on Farage.
Apricity is just best feeling in the world.... Spring is almost here 😀
This is true but it was chucking down at 05:00 and, of course, astronomy isn't just an after dark activity 😊
If you'd like to send this letter to your MP then here's the link for the Word document sent to me by the Royal Astronomical Society. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Here's the link to the Word document sent from the Royal Astronomical Society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I oppose the proposed cuts to funding to astronomy and space science in the UK. Do you?🔭 🧪
At this point I'm wondering why I even built an Observatory? 😭🔭🧪
Remember avian influenza is everywhere. Fingers crossed it hasn't contracted it. Strict hygiene required just in case. We have chickens so we're super cautious at the moment 😞
Wishing you a blessed Imbolc! We're halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox, and the days are finally getting longer. May the return of the light bring warmth to your hearth and new beginnings to your year. Light a candle, plant some seeds and throw open those windows!
You let #Trump wannabe Farage into power and we'll have the same sh*t over here. Mark my words.
There's something about these amateur astro timelapses that I find brilliantly fascinating. If it wasn't so damn cold, I'd give it a go myself. I guess I'm just not a hardcore amateur.
I don't understand how stollen can be around long enough to go stale 😱
Parents & anyone else up early on Christmas morning: there’s a bright pass of the International Space Station over the UK, just after 6.15.
Well, I say it’s the ISS. Could be Santa heading home…
Exact timings for where you are at www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary....
Jupiter with cloud belts. The Great Red Spot is nearing the edge of the disk to the right
Jupiter on Saturday morning in good seeing using the C11 with x2 Barlow.
I'd just recollimated the scope and cleaned the corrector plate, which I think helps, but the dew was awful!
This is probably my best Jupiter image to date.
More data still to go through
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I'm beginning to think you live at the top of a mountain where there are never clouds! It's been grey, damp, drizzly and even when clear, there's too much moisture in the air in southern Lincolnshire 😒
Wow! A beautiful fireball captured on our zenith-facing AuroraCam in south Lincolnshire overnight. Green hue and a persistent ionisation train lasting well over a minute 🔭🧪
A list of planets next to a labelled image of a dwarf planet (Pluto).
How have I only just discovered google maps for space? If you, like me, did not know about this little piece of internet treasure, you must check it out! You can fly over moons and planets - and it's all real data <little happy skips> 🤗 🔭🧪
👉: www.google.co.uk/maps/space/
👇: Dwarf planet Pluto!
It's strange, although I finally arrived at Pluto, the link doesn't work for me in Chrome browser. Instead, I end up on the Earth, not that that isn't a beautiful place to be, but when promised the Solar System, it's a little underwhelming.😊 (This page helped: support.google.com/maps/answer/...)
I did that for my wife's old HP laptop. Windows was slower than a snail. Installed Linux Mint and it worked like a dream. She hated it and bought a new laptop 😩
Don't forget to @skircle.bsky.social
The Sun at 13:00 UTC. Just 13° above the horizon from my location in the UK. Sunspots 4294 and 4296 give the impression of one behemoth sunspot, rivalling Carrington's of 1859. If we're lucky, or unfortunate, it will unleash a large X-ray solar flare this coming week, causing spectacular aurora 🔭🧪
I think a Carrington-type event would be a sobering, wake-up call. We're too reliant on modern tech...
I might just have to go and grab a shot myself today. I'm, not so secretly, hoping for "great" and "historic" things from this complex 🤫
I would say lilac sky rather than blue.....😏
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
The double cluster in Perseus.
Have you seen the double cluster in Perseus? These two clusters of hot, young stars appear close together from our perspective but are actually hundreds of lightyears apart, the nearest being about 7100 lightyears away. This photo is a stack of 272, 20-second exposures taken this evening 🔭🧪
That's pretty good. I did Neptune at the weekend, a challenge for my setup but worth it. Would love to see your result - if you have the time though.😏
Make it permanent I say 😁
That fuzzy, blue ball is actually the planet Neptune. It's appearing very close in the sky to Saturn, only 4.5° (about 3-middle widths held at arms length), but is much fainter at magnitude +7.5 or so. The fact the I can photograph the disk of an object that is 4.35 x 10⁹ km away is awesome to me 🔭🧪
