@AstroMikeMerri

Emeritus professor of astronomy at the University of Nottingham. All my own views. Here for interest, so anyone who doesn’t interest me gets blocked.

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Joined June 2011
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Time to update my pinned post, just because this selfie makes me very happy. (Monku View Point on @hermisland, 26 July 2022 at 11PM. 2s exposure on @SonyAlpha 6600 with Samyang 12mm f2 lens, pushed to ISO 10000, just reprocessed with @Lightroom’s amazing AI noise reduction.)
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“I don’t have a clue what I am doing, but I’m doing it anyway.” (arxiv.org/abs/2610.28575)
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Maybe I should’ve listened to the weather forecast…
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Garden camera update: checking out the hardware up close.
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So happy to find a Matt Spears video waiting for me on YouTube! youtu.be/3pfnSu6HLB8

Riding 1300 Miles to Alaska on Jet Ski - Camping & Fishing

In todays video I ride my jet ski over 1000 miles from Washington a...

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Not often that a nuthatch is willing to eat not standing on his head.
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Nice to see an old friend back in the garden.
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Any Reform supporter chanting the mantra that it is only a few bad apples has really missed the point of that proverb.
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Who doesn’t love a pink white dwarf? (academic.oup.com/rasti/artic…)
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Michael Merrifield retweeted
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But wait… there’s more.
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@itvnewsOct 17
Inside Reform: Aspiring Reform MP calls for 'concentration camps' for migrants itv.com/news/2026-10-17/insi…

Inside Reform: Aspiring Reform MP calls for 'concentration camps' for migrants  | ITV News

An ITV investigation raises fresh questions about Nigel Farage's promise to remove extremists from Reform UK. | ITV National News

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My wife’s birthday present to me was for me to spend a day turning a piece of sea glass from the Scilly Isles into a pendant for her. Wait a minute…
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The shadow culture secretary wants to stop funding the arts, because her party underinvested in prisons for decades.
Rebecca Paul MP
@Rebecca_SPaulOct 16
We will cut the arts & culture budget by £1bn in order to fund 50,000 prison places. Keeping rapists and other dangerous offenders locked up is a priority for the @Conservatives. We will always put community safety first. @RichmoMusic If you need help understanding the numbers, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Always happy to talk you through. thetimes.com/article/77bcee1…
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A beautiful morning for a return visit to Gedling Country Park with a decent camera… so of course the birds all went into hiding.
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But a lovely view across to Mary Magdalene Church and the River Trent in Newark (13 miles away).
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You might want to fix the unfortunate ambiguity of this headline, @nat_fahy.
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How did all the birds know that I hadn’t bothered to bring my proper camera to Gedling Country Park this morning?
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Catching @reformparty_uk councillors making racist and sexist remarks, brought to you by FishInABarrel Productions. itv.com/news/2026-10-14/insi…

Inside Reform: Councillors' extreme and racist views on camera | ITV News

Footage captures Reform councillors calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. | ITV National News

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I think this might be quite interesting. 100 minutes is a long slot for this investigative journalism programme (usually 60-80 mins), and previous episodes have been produced by Hardcash productions, who, together with ITV, Reform UK seem upset about.
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Called it. itv.com/news/2026-10-14/insi…

Inside Reform: Councillors' extreme and racist views on camera | ITV News

Footage captures Reform councillors calling Muslims “parasites” and describing black children as “animals”. | ITV National News

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