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Maik Meyer ☄️

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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

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 25m

#bskycometography no. 327

C/1985 T1 (Thiele)

1985 Oct 9: Disc by U. Thiele (Spain) at 13 mag accidentally on mispointed plates taken for 1P/Halley. Predisc image of Oct 8. It reached 7 mag during perigee (Nov 4 at 0.54 au). Perihelion on Dec 19 at 1.32 au. Last seen on 1987 Apr 3.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet C/1985 T1 (Thiele) by Michael Jäger on 1985 Nov 6, left of the Andromeda galaxy, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=5559

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 23h

#bskycometography no. 326

C/1994 T1 (Machholz)

1994 Oct 8: Disc by D. E. Machholz (USA) visually at 11 mag after perihelion (Oct 2 at 1.80 au). The visual estimates during early December varied btwn 8.5 and 12 mag due to a faint outer coma. The comet was last seen on 1995 Mar 28.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet C/1994 T1 (Machholz) by Marcus Richert on 1994 Dec 5, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=15274

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Sean Casten @seancasten.bsky.social · 1d

This is remarkable. The world added more solar and wind capacity in 2024 than we added demand. 100% of demand growth PLUS 9% to retire dirtier sources. Cheap energy keeps winning. ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 1d

#bskycometography no. 325

139P/1939 TN (Väisälä-Oterma)

1939 Oct 7: Disc by Y. Väisälä (Finland) as an asteroidal object at 16 mag. Last observation on Nov 11, still asteroidal. Cometary orbit by L. Oterma in 1981. Recovery in 1998 by the LINEAR survey as a comet. P=9.59 years.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

The staff of the Tuorla Observatory in early 1943. In the back row, supervisor Y. Väisälä, next to assistant H. Alikoski, in the front row, "calculation advisors" V. Laiho and I. Rinne, with observer L. Oterma between them. (Photo: Tuorla Observatory), https://www.mv.helsinki.fi/home/eisaksso/tiedenaiset/oterma.html

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 2d

“Okay, everyone just stand back! … Anyone see what happened here?”

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 2d

#bskycometography no. 324

C/1991 T2 (Shoemaker-Levy)

1991 Oct 6: Discovered by C. S. & E. M. Shoemaker and D. H. Levy (USA) at 16.5 mag. The comet reached 7 mag in 1992 July, when it passed perigee on Jul 13 at 0.89 au and perihelion on Jul 24 at 0.84 au. It was last seen on Aug 21.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet C/1991 T2 (Shoemaker-Levy) by Gerald Rhemann on 1992 Jul 8, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=7299

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

Yes, I think this is indeed the shortest interval. Those were the days...

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

#bskycometography no. 323

C/1975 T1 (Mori-Sato-Fujikawa) & C/1975 T2 (Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori)

1975 Oct 5: Two comets discovered within 1 hour by numerous Japanese comet hunters! Mori found his two comets within 70 minutes! The comets reached 8 mag and 4 mag, respectively.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet C/1975 T2 (Suzuki-Saigusa-Mori) by Maurice Clark on 1975 Nov 4, http://www.phys.ttu.edu/~ozprof/ssm1.htm

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

Earth, 2025

Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 4d

Allan Grant, Fire Resistant House, 1949

The USA and the Democratic Party, or at least what it looks like to the rest of the world.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

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Simeon Schmauß @stim3on.bsky.social · 4d

Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet.

The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

The Scream
Edvard Munch
Original version, 1893

The painting is simple: in the center of the composition, there is an almost human, skull-headed figure, deformed by an anguished scream. The scene takes place on a bridge near a watery landscape, probably a fjord, lake, or shoreline. The sky is achieved with brushstrokes of color blending into each other, characterized by an unnatural palette: tones of orange, yellow, red, and blue-green. Two small, faceless, barely sketched figures appear in the background. Curved lines dominate the composition creating a confusing and nightmarish atmosphere.

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

#bskycometography no. 322

50P/1951 T1 (Arend)

1951 Oct 4: Discovered by S. J. V. Arend (Belgium) at 14 mag. Prediscovery images of Oct 1. The comet became as bright as 13 mag and passed perihelion on Nov 23 at 1.82 au. Period 7.76 years, recovery in 1959.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet 50P/Arend by Josef Müller on 2007 Oct 5, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=1781

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

Honestly, the most horrifying things in my timeline are videos of ICE mobsters violently attacking weak and vulnerable people, including babies. I can't stand to watch it, it makes me sick.

"First they came"

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · Dec 21

#mood ☄️
Ænema, #Tool, 1996

Some say a comet will fall from the sky
Followed by meteor showers and tidal waves
Followed by fault lines that cannot sit still
Followed by millions of dumbfounded dipshits
And some say the end is near
Some say we'll see Armageddon soon
I certainly hope we will
I sure could use a vacation from this
Stupid shit, silly shit, stupid shit

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THE FAR SIDE DAILY @bot.cowtools.org · 5d

“I tell you, a crib is just plain worthless—what we need around here is a good cardboard box.”

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

I know, I know. 😉 Yes, it helps that it is quite condensed.

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

With currently 6.5 mag it is hardly a naked eye object - or you have desert skies and very good eyesight. It should be about 2 weeks until it's brighter than 5 mag and may be visible as a fuzzy star to the unaided eye. Also, elongation is beginning to decrease, too, so extinction becomes a factor.

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

#bskycometography no. 321

C/1997 T1 (Utsunomiya)

1997 Oct 3: Discovered by S. Utsunomiya (Japan) visually at 10 mag circumpolar in the nothern sky. The comet passed perihelion on Dec 10 at 1.36 au and did not become much brighter. The comet was last seen on 1998 Jun 18.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet C/19997 T1 (Utsunomiya) by Uwe Wohlrab and Marcus Richert on 1997 Oct 30, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=15326

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

I have no more details except that it was shot with a 135-mm Tele lens at f/2.8 and an ASI 294m. So, the optics is quite fast.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

Mosaic image by Michael Jäger and Gerald Ehemann, showing more than 12° tail for comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon).
Visually the comet is around 6.5 mag, and for me the visual tail length is still below 1°.
Max magnitude most likely around 3 mag towards Oct/Nov .
🔭☄️
Image source in ALT text.

https://forum.vdsastro.de/viewtopic.php?t=7600&sid=8b9216c541efd2a1587b5ecce7b78022#p43863

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

I went mushroom picking for a bit this morning. The cool and damp weather of the last few days wasn't helpful. Lots of mushrooms, but most were already old and moldy. My haul of boletes will only be enough for me for dinner.
🍄 #fungifriends

Grey Coral mushroom between wood and brown leaves

Four nice looking dung roundheads with long and thin stems

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 7d

#bskycometography no. 320

C/1097 T1

1097 Oct 2: Earliest mention from Chinese annals at maybe 1.5 mag, but also recorded in chronicles from Japan, Korea, all over Europe, Iraq and Armenia. The comet was past perihelion (Sep 22 at 0.30 au) and was last seen on Oct 25.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Comet atlas drawn on a silk scroll from Mawangdui, China, in the second century BC. (Hunan Provincial Museum.) via http://www.ianridpath.com/halley/halley1.html

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Brian O'Halloran @playingwithdust.bsky.social · 7d

RIP Jane Goodall

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 7d

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 7d

“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it.”

Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8d

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.