The Moon again! I hoped to get some pics yesterday, as it was beautifully clear all day, but by the time I got the Goose to bed there was a high fog enough that there was nothing to see but a vague half circle glowing through the soup. But tonight is a nice early waxing gibbous, always a favorite phase. The telescope/iPhone process is settling down now. For most things I don't like the 3x camera, it makes daylight objects kinda mushy and flat, but it really brings a level of detail out in these lunar shots that the 1x just can't touch. I didn't bother to use the 1x shots tonight, these are all 3x. The one difficulty is that the full disk of the Moon barely fits in the eyepiece field at lowest power, so we're pushing the edge of magnification versus composition. Possibly I'll use a lower power fixed eyepiece for the Moon and reserve the variable eyepiece for planetary observations. But then I won't be able to get a real closeup on crunchy terminator craters like I did here. Although I forgot -- it's best to set the three-second timer on the camera app for these closeups, as that allows the vibrations from me poking the "take picture" button on the screen to die down before anything happens. In other words -- less blur! 🤪 #iphoneastrophotography #lunarphotography #themoon #shallowskyastronomy #newtonianreflector #telescope #114mm #waxinggibbous https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqb1GTeMMKF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Been a while... Oh, wait, it hasn't. https://www.instagram.com/p/CqT39mdMbDI/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Well, finally. Finally the stars aligned (😏) and it wasn’t raining, snowing, cloudy, foggy, or overcast, and I wasn’t grumpy, tired, weary or asleep. Back out with the telescope! Sadly, in the interim, Jupiter has gone almost to conjunction — I was really pissed that I couldn’t see the Jupiter-Venus-Moon lineup last month — so no Galilean moons for six months. But the Moon always comes through. Thick waxing crescent this evening. Some 1x camera photos, sharp but kinda small, plus some experimental 3x shots, full-frame but kinda muddy. #newtonianreflector #telescope #114mm #iphoneastrophotography #lunarphotography #themoon #shallowskyastronomy #waxingcrescent #marenectaris https://www.instagram.com/p/CqRkb8ps8P6/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#Zenithgram https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQkrefLihm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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[Warning: disturbing image presented] From the very beginning, I have always been very conservative about Lego minifigs. Didn't matter the build or the setting: they needed to be complete, no random torsos or heads floating around in the pile; they needed hair or a hat or a helmet, this is a space station, not a cancer ward; and really, you didn't go dismembering them for funsies, that's quite frankly rude and a bit disturbing, if you think about it. Thus it was for years, nay, decades; and fortunately my brother must have concurred, as all our shared minifigs stayed whole and complete. And now I have to come home to things like this. The horror... the horror. And it's not just Sloan; all the kids in the after-school Lego Club I'm helping with think nothing of butchering whole crowds of poor Lego folks. At times Lego Club cleanup is like a acrylonitrile butadiene styrene abbatoir. And at this point I'm starting to feel the beginnings of some PTSD. 🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqNsdwLsh9B/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Second round of papermaking with the Basic Borscht batch... a two week interim got us a fermented pulp with a lighter color and an interesting bouquet. Perhaps not the recommended way to achieve this result, but it's a nice color! 🤣 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqLLnYAMVU2/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Another oversaturated #Zenithgram https://www.instagram.com/p/CqGuhWFLRlS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

There you go, folks. A vertical terminator. We've reached the ascending node. #equinox #ascendingnode #gonnagetwarmer #springhassprung https://www.instagram.com/p/CqBjik7uluE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=