Maik Meyer ☄️
@comethunter.de
Comet hunting in plate vaults & libraries, Meyer comet group, orbit linking & calculating, cometary history, MP (52005), author, currently working on revision of Cometography 1, visual comet observing, www.comethunter.de
ORCID: 0009-0004-8545-9458
ORCID: 0009-0004-8545-9458
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Reposted by Maik Meyer ☄️
"Draußen ist es schrecklich. Tag und Nacht werden die armen Menschen weggeschleppt (...) Die Familien werden auseinandergerissen, Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Es kommt vor, daß Kinder ihre Eltern nicht mehr finden, wenn sie von der Schule nach Hause kommen..."
Anne Frank, Tagebucheintrag 13.1.1943
Anne Frank, Tagebucheintrag 13.1.1943
January 10, 2026 at 10:55 PM
"Draußen ist es schrecklich. Tag und Nacht werden die armen Menschen weggeschleppt (...) Die Familien werden auseinandergerissen, Männer, Frauen und Kinder. Es kommt vor, daß Kinder ihre Eltern nicht mehr finden, wenn sie von der Schule nach Hause kommen..."
Anne Frank, Tagebucheintrag 13.1.1943
Anne Frank, Tagebucheintrag 13.1.1943
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In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke
January 8, 2026 at 3:38 PM
In the difficult years ahead, we should remember that the snows of Olympus lie silent beneath the stars, waiting for our grandchildren.
- Arthur C. Clarke
- Arthur C. Clarke
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Sometimes you stumble over to a packed breakout session at your big annual academic conference and learn that some billionaires have decided to build not one, but FOUR, complementary new telescope facilities, and build them fast
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Eric and Wendy Schmidt are funding a 3-meter space telescope with a coronagraph, and three ground-based observatories: the Deep Synoptic Array, the Argus Array, and LFAST. Funds have been committed and officials say they hope to be operational by 2029. #aas247 www.astronomy.com/science/eric...
Eric and Wendy Schmidt to fund space telescope, three ground-based observatories
The Schmidts' philanthropic research organization will build a 3-meter space telescope and fund three ground-based facilities.
www.astronomy.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Sometimes you stumble over to a packed breakout session at your big annual academic conference and learn that some billionaires have decided to build not one, but FOUR, complementary new telescope facilities, and build them fast
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Well OK then! Happy new year! From their pockets to our skies! 🔭
Received a scan of a manuscript for free from the special collections of Leipzig University after tracking down the signature from an 1830's library catalog. Next days will be spent with #paleography . The hand is not too bad, given that it comes from a farmer of the 17th century.
🔭☄️ #cometography1
🔭☄️ #cometography1
January 7, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Received a scan of a manuscript for free from the special collections of Leipzig University after tracking down the signature from an 1830's library catalog. Next days will be spent with #paleography . The hand is not too bad, given that it comes from a farmer of the 17th century.
🔭☄️ #cometography1
🔭☄️ #cometography1
☄️🔭
JWST observations of C/2025 K1 are happening now:
spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=0...
Go James Webb, go!
spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=0...
Go James Webb, go!
January 7, 2026 at 11:54 AM
☄️🔭
🔭☄️
Today on the #arXiv :
Qicheng Zhang ( @cometary.org ) et al. 2026, "Covertly Active Comet (139359) 2001 ME1" - arxiv.org/abs/2601.00060
Finding that the dust around the comet forward-scatters sunlight so much that it is 7 magnitudes brighter when observed from one direction than another.
Woah.
Qicheng Zhang ( @cometary.org ) et al. 2026, "Covertly Active Comet (139359) 2001 ME1" - arxiv.org/abs/2601.00060
Finding that the dust around the comet forward-scatters sunlight so much that it is 7 magnitudes brighter when observed from one direction than another.
Woah.
Covertly Active Comet (139359) 2001 ME1
On 2018 November 18, coronagraphs onboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) captured an unrecognized comet crossing its fields of view. We identified this comet to be the minor planet (139...
arxiv.org
January 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
🔭☄️
Am I the only one who gets upset about the order of the portraits?
A decision was made to make Hegel wonderfully, unnecessarily blonde and I support it.
January 5, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Am I the only one who gets upset about the order of the portraits?
First #CometObs of 2026 and probably my last of C/2025 T1 (ATLAS):
9.9 mag, 2.5', DC3, comet is fading slower than expected
Now at 1953 visual magnitude estimates since 1987, this year should see the 2000th. 🎉
☄️🔭
9.9 mag, 2.5', DC3, comet is fading slower than expected
Now at 1953 visual magnitude estimates since 1987, this year should see the 2000th. 🎉
☄️🔭
January 4, 2026 at 5:55 PM
First #CometObs of 2026 and probably my last of C/2025 T1 (ATLAS):
9.9 mag, 2.5', DC3, comet is fading slower than expected
Now at 1953 visual magnitude estimates since 1987, this year should see the 2000th. 🎉
☄️🔭
9.9 mag, 2.5', DC3, comet is fading slower than expected
Now at 1953 visual magnitude estimates since 1987, this year should see the 2000th. 🎉
☄️🔭
The king we need to return...
January 3, 2026 at 9:59 PM
The king we need to return...
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“An organism at war with itself is doomed.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
January 3, 2026 at 5:44 PM
“An organism at war with itself is doomed.”
― Carl Sagan
― Carl Sagan
How do I switch timelines?
January 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
How do I switch timelines?
This!
A defining moment for Europe. If it endorses/fails to condemn this flagrant breach of international law, it will have surrendered its core justification for opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 11:41 AM
This!
Disappointed and disillusioned by the EU reaction. Appeasement, once again...
January 3, 2026 at 11:34 AM
Disappointed and disillusioned by the EU reaction. Appeasement, once again...
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So Twiter has long been a Nazi haven and stroker of Elon's ego, but now it also generates child porn if you ask it! So I think the best time to leave Twitter was years ago, and the second best time is now. Here's what I wrote when I left in 2023:
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...
Goodbye, Twitter
Yeah, I’m done. Elon’s just awful.
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
January 2, 2026 at 7:20 PM
So Twiter has long been a Nazi haven and stroker of Elon's ego, but now it also generates child porn if you ask it! So I think the best time to leave Twitter was years ago, and the second best time is now. Here's what I wrote when I left in 2023:
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...
badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/goodbye-tw...
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New astronomy #Python script, to start the new year:
Moon calendar.
🔭 🧪 #EduSky
Powered by the Skyfield ephemeris module.
Juste change the year at the beginning of script.
My script is available for download:
www.astrolabe-science.fr/calendrier-l...
Moon calendar.
🔭 🧪 #EduSky
Powered by the Skyfield ephemeris module.
Juste change the year at the beginning of script.
My script is available for download:
www.astrolabe-science.fr/calendrier-l...
January 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
New astronomy #Python script, to start the new year:
Moon calendar.
🔭 🧪 #EduSky
Powered by the Skyfield ephemeris module.
Juste change the year at the beginning of script.
My script is available for download:
www.astrolabe-science.fr/calendrier-l...
Moon calendar.
🔭 🧪 #EduSky
Powered by the Skyfield ephemeris module.
Juste change the year at the beginning of script.
My script is available for download:
www.astrolabe-science.fr/calendrier-l...
"VESTIGIA MATHEMATICA sive TYROCINIUM Cosmographico-Geometrico-Geographico-Astronomico-Cometographicum" by Johann König, J. M. Speckhner, Freiburg, 1679.
Last page before the folio numbering starts.
Last page before the folio numbering starts.
January 2, 2026 at 3:06 PM
"VESTIGIA MATHEMATICA sive TYROCINIUM Cosmographico-Geometrico-Geographico-Astronomico-Cometographicum" by Johann König, J. M. Speckhner, Freiburg, 1679.
Last page before the folio numbering starts.
Last page before the folio numbering starts.
Not sure if this "Note for the bookbinder" was supposed to be printed in this #earlymodern book from 1679:
"Let the bookbinder take heed that he strike not this little book over-hard, for many faults of the press have been amended with the pen."
CC: @dbellingradt.bsky.social
"Let the bookbinder take heed that he strike not this little book over-hard, for many faults of the press have been amended with the pen."
CC: @dbellingradt.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 1:34 PM
Not sure if this "Note for the bookbinder" was supposed to be printed in this #earlymodern book from 1679:
"Let the bookbinder take heed that he strike not this little book over-hard, for many faults of the press have been amended with the pen."
CC: @dbellingradt.bsky.social
"Let the bookbinder take heed that he strike not this little book over-hard, for many faults of the press have been amended with the pen."
CC: @dbellingradt.bsky.social
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If the NYP is upset about $600 boots I can't wait to hear what they think about a $400M ballroom
January 1, 2026 at 6:05 PM
If the NYP is upset about $600 boots I can't wait to hear what they think about a $400M ballroom
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Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.