BrutulTM
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Better call up NASA and tell them you have an amazing idea. I'm sure they will be so grateful.
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The Astronomy Thread
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Better call up NASA and tell them you have an amazing idea. I'm sure they will be so grateful.
Aldarion
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No really I'm sure those fools at NASA never considered it!
As someone recently mentioned,
Julian The Apostate
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Keep in mind Avi Loeb has been part of the science wing of Israeli intelligence since he was 18 years old.
Sanrith Descartes
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SirFapsAlot
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man come on dude, that's a sperm fertilizing an egg lmao
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BrutulTM
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I'm sure that was hard to capture so I hate to say it, but that picture literally looks like a bad photoshop on the cover of some cheesy sci-fi novel.
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Ukerric
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"Perihelion... 0.9 AU-just inside Venus's orbit"
Considering Venus is orbiting at 0.72 AU, this shows how serous the article is.
(also, the numbering doesn't quite make sense - the Zwiki catalog is typically date-three letter)
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Lambourne
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Can't find anything else on this, also the perihelion is on the same date as the other object that's been in the news over the last few months. Looks like AI-generated clickbait BS.
3I/ATLAS - Wikipedia
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Sanrith Descartes
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Aldarion
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A cool writeup on a plan to send laser-powered probes to Alpha Centauri using realistic technology
More details on the tech
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Burns
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The comet found last month is currently brighter than predicted. Naked eye visibility maxes out at 6.5 magnitude (according to the internetz) and it's at 6.7 right now (lower the number, brighter the object). So there is a possibility of seeing it with a good pair of binoculars and certainly with an actual telescope.
theskylive.com
The most recent interstellar object visitor recently flew past Mars and will soon hit it's closest point to the sun (perihelion). NASA's Mars satellite (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) supposedly took some good pictures of it, but they wont upload them to the internet due to the government shut down. ESA already released the pictures it's Mars sat took and Hubble also already grabbed a picture. More pictures are planed, including the JWST:
theskylive.com
Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN): Complete Information & Live Data | TheSkyLive
C/2025 R2 (SWAN): Complete and live astronomy data, visibility information, sky charts, graphs, and tools for sky-watchers at all levels.
theskylive.com
The most recent interstellar object visitor recently flew past Mars and will soon hit it's closest point to the sun (perihelion). NASA's Mars satellite (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) supposedly took some good pictures of it, but they wont upload them to the internet due to the government shut down. ESA already released the pictures it's Mars sat took and Hubble also already grabbed a picture. More pictures are planed, including the JWST:
Comet 3I/ATLAS: Complete Information & Live Data | TheSkyLive
3I/ATLAS: Complete and live astronomy data, visibility information, sky charts, graphs, and tools for sky-watchers at all levels.
theskylive.com
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*should* be a decent night for the telescope (assuming by back allows me) I'm planning to set it up and see if I can find the comet. Doubt the lil Seestar can track it but I can at least get some shots with my cell phone.The comet found last month is currently brighter than predicted. Naked eye visibility maxes out at 6.5 magnitude (according to the internetz) and it's at 6.7 right now (lower the number, brighter the object). So there is a possibility of seeing it with a good pair of binoculars and certainly with an actual telescope.
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Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN): Complete Information & Live Data | TheSkyLive
C/2025 R2 (SWAN): Complete and live astronomy data, visibility information, sky charts, graphs, and tools for sky-watchers at all levels.
The most recent interstellar object visitor recently flew past Mars and will soon hit it's closest point to the sun (perihelion). NASA's Mars satellite (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) supposedly took some good pictures of it, but they wont upload them to the internet due to the government shut down. ESA already released the pictures it's Mars sat took and Hubble also already grabbed a picture. More pictures are planed, including the JWST:
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Comet 3I/ATLAS: Complete Information & Live Data | TheSkyLive
3I/ATLAS: Complete and live astronomy data, visibility information, sky charts, graphs, and tools for sky-watchers at all levels.
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M76 a.k.a. Cork Nebula, Barbell Nebula or Little Dumbell Nebula. This is the remnant of a dying star approx 3,400 light years away from earth.
Processed with Siril , Starnet ++, and GraXpert (all free software) using 588 ten second exposures taken with a ZWO SeeStar S50.
FYI to anyone using a SeeStar, there appears to be a problem with the Seestar app (android at least) where the background is all jacked up. I've included a pic of what it looked like on my phone with a very red background. Thankfully the individual images themselves were not like that so I could stack them normally.
Processed with Siril , Starnet ++, and GraXpert (all free software) using 588 ten second exposures taken with a ZWO SeeStar S50.
FYI to anyone using a SeeStar, there appears to be a problem with the Seestar app (android at least) where the background is all jacked up. I've included a pic of what it looked like on my phone with a very red background. Thankfully the individual images themselves were not like that so I could stack them normally.
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Gonna try my hardest! Next 3 days should be good weather for me to set up my Seestar AND I saw last night it's on the list of items to track so I don't have to eyeball it.
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Burns
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Checking on the observed magnitude has been kinda interesting, even though I don't have the ability to really peer though the light pollution. Comet C/2025 R2 (SWAN) has been consistently brighter than predicted, flirting with being visible to the naked eye (under 6.5 magnitude), depending on the light pollution. Think I saw it hit 5.9 observed yesterday or the day before, which supposedly means all you need are binoculars to get a decent look at it.
As of a few min ago:
The other comet, that's from outside our solar system, is sitting at ~12+ magnitude, so pretty dim to us. I would assume it may need a professional or high dollar private observatory.
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