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Fraser Cain

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Space journalist and skywatcher. I'm the publisher of Universe Today (universetoday.com) and co-host of Astronomy Cast (astronomycast.com). YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · 16d

Yeah, I ditched grammarly.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · 19d

As long as it had really good reporting, it would absolutely be viable. We do space news and pay the bills purely from our patrons.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · 22d

Fantastic reporting. Can you imagine what would happen if someone actually supplied the funding to enable all this pent up enthusiasm for space exploration and interstellar travel?

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · 28d

Not touching that with a 10-ft pole. I already ranted about how hard it's going to be to battle the disinformation.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · 28d

Just a quick meeting with my editor to see why I've been neglecting to refill my bird-feeder.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Aug 28

It's recoverable, it'll just take commitment from future leaders to embrace science. But it's pretty bad right now.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Aug 27

I just came back to work after being away from my desk for almost a week. I'm catching up to all my newsfeeds in my RSS reader and it's overwhelming, of course. Except for NASA feeds. They are... sparse. So little research news coming out of NASA.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jul 1

Yeah! Moar planetz. Moar!

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jul 1

No idea.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 27

Feed a bear a waffle, you feed him for a day. Teach a bear to make waffles and you've fed him for a lifetime and hopefully he'll share with you.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 27

Then he'd just come back looking for more food, becoming completely habituated and dangerous. As they say, a fed bear is a dead bear. But I am planting berries and fruit trees, so he can assemble his own waffles.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 26

We're pre-huckleberries, but the salmon berries are in full effect right now.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 26

I wonder if I should answer the doorbell? Pretty skinny bear, hopefully he'll fatten up now that berry season is here.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 16

It's always great when the guest has a good audio setup. Our recording software can tweak the audio a little bit too now, so really bad guest audio is becoming a thing of the past.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Jun 5

You were awesome, video is coming next week...

Dr./Prof. Cara Battersby @battersbot.bsky.social · May 29

Whew guys, I had a big, fancy, grown-up interview with THE @fcain.universetoday.com today! 🤯😮🤩 You'll be able to check out the interview (mostly me gushing about our fabulous Galactic Center maybe?) on his youtube channel (www.youtube.com/@frasercain) soon.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 29

I'm up to three nights with the same targets and the images are getting better and better. No need for the AI denoise at this point.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

And then other papers talking about how DMS can form in interstellar clouds. arxiv.org/abs/2504.16236

Gas-phase formation routes of dimethyl sulfide in the interstellar medium

Context: Dimethyl sulfide (DMS; CH$_3$SCH$_3$) is an organosulfur compound that has been suggested as a potential biosignature in exoplanetary atmospheres. In addition to its tentative detections towa...

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

Oh wow, okay, I'll try doing a multi-night session on the Iris.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

I wondering how to do that with the Seestar. maybe have it shoot in raw and then stack in Pixinsight? I don't think it can keep working on an image across several nights.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

Yeah, I'm so used to only getting a couple of minutes to image. These cooked for about an hour each. I wonder what happens if I give it 6 hours on one target. Or multiple nights.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

Another clear night of using the Seestar S50. I set this up in Plan mode, picked 4 targets and went to bed. The pictures were waiting for me on the telescope when I got up. Neat.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

Yup, you only need the Podcast+, the red one.

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 24

Did you calculate the size of Earth?

Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 23

I've been on support with them for 3 hours now.

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Fraser Cain @fcain.universetoday.com · Apr 23

The enshittification of podcasting is in full effect. I recently changed my podcast hosting provider and it "broke" the feed on both Apple and Spotify. The new feed works fine, and new episodes download on all podcatching apps. But not those two, because... walled gardens.

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