Gordon Hundley
@drgoon.bsky.social
Old school hacker, amateur astronomer and photographer. Woke AF. Ally.
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." - Alasdair Gray.
"Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." - Alasdair Gray.
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
February 3, 2026 at 7:37 PM
No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?
CoPilot added CoPilot Training to my calendar. Do you think it will represent itself as The Bobs?
January 30, 2026 at 4:13 PM
CoPilot added CoPilot Training to my calendar. Do you think it will represent itself as The Bobs?
This is Sharpless 261, or Lower's Nebula in Orion. It was discovered by father and son amateur astrophotographers Harold and Charles Lower in 1939.
This is only around 6 hours of integration using SHO filters. 🔭
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
#astrophotography #nebula #orion
This is only around 6 hours of integration using SHO filters. 🔭
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
#astrophotography #nebula #orion
January 29, 2026 at 10:37 PM
This is Sharpless 261, or Lower's Nebula in Orion. It was discovered by father and son amateur astrophotographers Harold and Charles Lower in 1939.
This is only around 6 hours of integration using SHO filters. 🔭
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
#astrophotography #nebula #orion
This is only around 6 hours of integration using SHO filters. 🔭
@kat-astro-bot.bsky.social
#astrophotography #nebula #orion
Blue Oyster Cult meets Steve Hillage, I presume.
January 28, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Blue Oyster Cult meets Steve Hillage, I presume.
Betelgeuse, 2 seconds exposure. It was remarkably colorful from my location tonight, so I took a monochrome picture of it. 😂 Imagine this, but a deep orange bordering on red. 🔭
January 23, 2026 at 4:55 AM
Betelgeuse, 2 seconds exposure. It was remarkably colorful from my location tonight, so I took a monochrome picture of it. 😂 Imagine this, but a deep orange bordering on red. 🔭
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 AM
Labubu are the natural diet of BSD Daemons. Consumption of Labubu resolves the 2nd law of thermodynamics through entropy.
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January 20, 2026 at 4:21 AM
Labubu are the natural diet of BSD Daemons. Consumption of Labubu resolves the 2nd law of thermodynamics through entropy.
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Pizza orders spiking in Arlington?
January 15, 2026 at 12:12 AM
Pizza orders spiking in Arlington?
The converging flight lines are like a funnel of planes trying to squeeze between conflict zones.
January 15, 2026 at 12:00 AM
The converging flight lines are like a funnel of planes trying to squeeze between conflict zones.
It clips into one of these. This one is attached to a Think Tank Pro Speed Belt 2.0 which is really only used when I have multiple bodies or a lens changer.
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
It clips into one of these. This one is attached to a Think Tank Pro Speed Belt 2.0 which is really only used when I have multiple bodies or a lens changer.
This small plate will work on most arca-Swiss style heads and can clip into Peak Design’s belt clip. My Z8 usually has the hand grip on it rather than a sling or strap But the PD tabs make changing it easy.
January 13, 2026 at 5:45 PM
This small plate will work on most arca-Swiss style heads and can clip into Peak Design’s belt clip. My Z8 usually has the hand grip on it rather than a sling or strap But the PD tabs make changing it easy.
The little charger is obviously much smaller than the Nikon single charger and weighs about half a battery. It’s worked well for a couple of years so far. I can also charge batteries in camera but that’s not ideal.
January 13, 2026 at 5:13 PM
The little charger is obviously much smaller than the Nikon single charger and weighs about half a battery. It’s worked well for a couple of years so far. I can also charge batteries in camera but that’s not ideal.
Slightly better processed with some exposure compensation and deconvolution. Also removed a green cast.
January 5, 2026 at 5:05 AM
Slightly better processed with some exposure compensation and deconvolution. Also removed a green cast.
Definition improved as Jupiter rose despite being chased by a bright moon. 🔭
January 5, 2026 at 4:54 AM
Definition improved as Jupiter rose despite being chased by a bright moon. 🔭
Jupiter looking fine this evening. Data likely better than my processing skills. I'll keep practising. 🔭
January 5, 2026 at 2:13 AM
Jupiter looking fine this evening. Data likely better than my processing skills. I'll keep practising. 🔭
This has somehow survived from when I bought it with £1.25 of my pocket money in a little bookshop in Dunoon in 1979.
December 12, 2025 at 8:40 AM
This has somehow survived from when I bought it with £1.25 of my pocket money in a little bookshop in Dunoon in 1979.
I always liked this cover (and it's a great anthology).
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I always liked this cover (and it's a great anthology).
I was going to say "The Buckfast stops here" but then I remembered that's a British fortified wine with caffiene, known for being sold in hip flask sized bottles and abused by antisocial youths and tha tmost US readers would miss the reference.
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
I was going to say "The Buckfast stops here" but then I remembered that's a British fortified wine with caffiene, known for being sold in hip flask sized bottles and abused by antisocial youths and tha tmost US readers would miss the reference.
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
November 28, 2025 at 7:06 PM
If you see this, I IMPLORE you to post a picture from whatever device you’re using without explanation.
When I was a young boy, I lived in Jakarta for a few years. That was fifty years ago at the start of this graph. I can't imagine four times the population density there. It must be so different now.
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 AM
When I was a young boy, I lived in Jakarta for a few years. That was fifty years ago at the start of this graph. I can't imagine four times the population density there. It must be so different now.
The region was first cataloged by the Crimean Astrophysical University in Simeis, Ukraine as Simeis 147 after its photographic discovery by Grigory Shajn in 1952. This is a small crop of a screen stretch of single five minute image. I'm looking to stack some 120 such per channel. #astrophoto
November 12, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The region was first cataloged by the Crimean Astrophysical University in Simeis, Ukraine as Simeis 147 after its photographic discovery by Grigory Shajn in 1952. This is a small crop of a screen stretch of single five minute image. I'm looking to stack some 120 such per channel. #astrophoto
This is part of a larger work in progress, one of four quadrants of the Spaghetti Nebula (Sharpless 240) in the constellation Taurus. A supernova remanant, at its core is the pulsar PSR J0538+2817 rotating approximately 7 times a second. Roughly 14 hours at 432mm f/4.8. 🔭 #astrophotography
October 26, 2025 at 2:46 AM
This is part of a larger work in progress, one of four quadrants of the Spaghetti Nebula (Sharpless 240) in the constellation Taurus. A supernova remanant, at its core is the pulsar PSR J0538+2817 rotating approximately 7 times a second. Roughly 14 hours at 432mm f/4.8. 🔭 #astrophotography
Password mnemonic: a stackable fence.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Password mnemonic: a stackable fence.
