Venus as seen during the evening of November 2nd, 2021 at its greatest angular separation from the sun, showing the planet's half-lit phase.
My tiny Celestron C90 telescope and Sony Alpha 6000 camera capturing the transit of Mercury across the face of the sun, November 11, 2019.
Lunar eclipse of November 19, 2021 showing the shadow of the Earth falling across the face of the moon, just as Aristotle saw around 350 B.C.E., and used as evidence for the spherical form of the Earth.
Transit of Venus across the face of the sun, June 5, 2012. One of my favorite captures and rarest of astronomical events. My solar filter was the shifting clouds!
One of my hobbies is calling out pranksters on social media who spread silliness in place of science and copy charlatanry from the 19th century for the lulz and monetization. It's fun, and I get to learn and teach about cool stuff along the way.
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Hello, everyone. I happened upon my Twitter account about two and a half years after first created it. Things went bad right after. Hi!