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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4h

Good luck!

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 7h

#bskycometography no. 333

36P/1933 U1 (Whipple)

1933 Oct 15: Disc by F. L. Whipple (USA) at 13 mag. The comet had passed perihelion on Aug 1 at 2.50 au but was followed until 1935 Mar 28. The comet had a period of 7.50 years. Recovery 1940. Later ID'd with an object seen in 1925.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of 36P/Whipple on 2020 Nov 19 by Bruno Vauquelin, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=25251

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 14h

The pains of a comet observer... and I bet, Saturday will not realize, too.
🔭☄️

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Christian Stöcker @christianstoecker.de · 1d

I wonder what the Republicans in Congress that still pander to this pathetic, vain, deluded, narcissistic, embarrassing old man's every whim must feel when they look in the mirror. The world is laughing at you, USA. It's scared as well of course. But it's still laughing at you.

Donald Trump complains about his picture on the TIME cover on Truthsocial: éh Donald J. Trump & © —
@realDonald Trump
Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story -
about me, but the picture may be the Worst of
All Time. They “disappeared” my hair, and then
had something floating on top of my head that
looked like a floating crown, but an extremely iE
small one. Really weird! I never liked taking
pictures from underneath angles, but this is a
super bad picture, and deserves to be called
out. What are they doing, and why? y
2.06k ReTruths 8.82k Likes 10/13/25, 10:36 PM

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 1d

#bskycometography no. 332

C/1907 T1 (Mellish)

1907 Oct 14: Discovered by J. E. Mellish (USA) visually at 9 mag. The comet had passed perihelion already on Sep 14 at 0.98 au. It reached ~ 8 mag during perigee (0.41 au on Nov 11). The comet was last detected on 1908 Jan 22.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of C/1907 T1 (Mellish) of 1907 Nov 5, from Heidelberg Observatory, 45-min exposure, Heidelberg Plate Archive, https://dc.g-vo.org/hdap , This work made use of the HDAP which was produced at Landessternwarte Heidelberg-Königstuhl under grant No. 00.071.2005 of the Klaus-Tschira-Foundation.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 2d

#bskycometography no. 331

C/1585 T1

1585 Oct 13: First recorded in Chinese chronicles when maybe at 2.5 mag. Also seen from Korea, Japan, Mexico and Europe (Brahe and Rothmann). The comet passed perihelion on Oct 8 at 1.09 au and perigee on Oct 18 at 0.14 au. Last seen on Nov 27.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Engraving shoping Tycho Brahe framed by the family shields of his noble
ancestors, 1586, by Jacques de Gheyn II, Public Domain,
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29805134

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 2d

One word: Wet Leg!
#wetleg

Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 3d

This was the best the sky was able to show today. Now it is completely overcast again.
Spend the afternoon with some high-end escapism: started a new playthrough of Pillars of Eternity 2.

Some houses and reddish clouds above them.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 3d

#bskycometography no. 330

C/1869 T1 (Tempel)

1869 Oct 12: Discovered by E. W. L. Tempel (France) at 7.5 mag two days after its perihelion passage at 1.23 au. The comet became fainter and was last detected already on Nov 13.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of Ernst Wilhelm Leberecht Tempel, discoverer of comet C/1869 T1 at Marseille Observatory, http://www.klima-luft.de/steinicke/ngcic/persons/tempel.htm

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Riker Googling @rikergoogling.bsky.social · 4d

why do nazis keep showing up

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

I'm only seeing clouds, so I'm left with such images...
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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 4d

☄️C/2025 R2 (SWAN) with Blue Horsehead (IC 4592) visible lower right.
📸Alessandro Carrozzi
📍Chile
🗓️ Oct 8

Technical
Samyang 135mm f/3.5 lens, ZWO ASI 2600MM📸, Astrodon LRGB filters, total integration time of 32min.

Sources
www.flickr.com/photos/15165...

spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

In this wide-field image, the comet appears immersed in a rich tapestry of interstellar dust, among which stands out the beautiful reflection nebula IC 4592, also known as the Blue Horsehead Nebula, visible in the lower right portion of the frame.

Technical data:

Samyang 135mm f/3.5 lens, ZWO ASI 2600MM camera, Astrodon LRGB filters, total integration time of 32 minutes.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

#bskycometography no. 329

90P/1972 T1 (Gehrels)

1972 Oct 11: Discovered by T. Gehrels (USA) at 19 mag. The comet reached perihelion on 1973 Jan 24 at 2.94 au and brightened only slightly. It was last detected on Sep 23. The period is 14.5 years and it was recovered in 1987.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of comet 90P/Gehrels by Michael Jäger on 2017 Oct 1, https://fg-kometen.vdsastro.de/pix/test/bild.php?nr=17382

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 4d

Just woke up, saw this as the first skeet In my timeline and was about to rejoice, because, well... you know. 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

While I am absolutely not superstitious, the sole reason for this mess is that I printed the comparison stars already yesterday evening and left the eyepiece in the scope.
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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

Old man yelling at clouds.
☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

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p.s @p-s-v.bsky.social · 5d

☄️C/2025 A6 Lemmon
📸rolando ligustri
Oct 8, 2025,New Mexico

photos of ☄️ C/2025 A6 Lemmon, from September 8 to October 8. From New Mexico, NW 300/1140 (Astroptics) cdd ASI 2600MM

spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload...

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Sean Raymond (planetplanet.net) @planetplanet.bsky.social · 5d

New animation of the ultimate engineered solar system for a talk I'm giving tomorrow at a sci-fi convention in Lithuania.

It has 400 rocky planets in the habitable zone of a single Sun-like star

It's perfectly stable (I simulated it out to about a billion years)

planetplanet.net/2017/05/03/t...

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

#bskycometography no. 328

C/1863 T1 (Baeker)

1863 Oct 10: Discovered by watchmaker C. W. Baeker (Germany) at 7.5 mag from the roof of his house. The comet reached perihelion on Dec 29 at 1.31 au and became slightly brighter. It was last detected on 1864 Apr 14.
☄️🔭 #CometWatch

Image of Carl Wilhelm Baeker, discoverer of C/1863 T1, https://www.moz.de/lokales/brandenburg-havel/heimatgeschichte-uhrmacher-und-kometenentdecker-49360960.html

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

Old man yelling at clouds.
☄️🔭

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 5d

1 hour after my observation last evening, clouds rolled in and this morning it is damp and grey. Still, the forecast says clear skies this evening. This time of year weather is a lottery. Forecast models struggle with such a situation. Let's see what if I win the lottery this and tomorrow's evening.

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now also visible in the evening sky - but much lower than in the morning. Estimated it 6.0 mag, probably brighter. Tomorrow evening I will "climb" the local mountain trying to obtain my first view of C/2025 R2 (SWAN), which will be below 10°. It will rise higher day by day.
🔭☄️

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 6d

#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

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Maik Meyer ☄️ @comethunter.de · 7d

#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 · 7d

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 · 8d

#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 · 9d

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

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