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
After three days of transcribing, translating, collating, and writing I take a break from working on the manuscript. It takes shape and I am looking forward to my 3 weeks off from the rat race to fine tune it around the year's end.
For your enjoyment a nice image of a comet.
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For your enjoyment a nice image of a comet.
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![Single leaf copper engraving showing comet C/1680 V1 over Augsburg, Germany, by Jacob Koppmeir. The text reads
"Principal report on the fearful comet-star which was seen newly and again on December 16/26 of the year 1680, after it was hidden for three weeks in the rays of the Sun. It moves quite swiftly and seems to follow the Moon [?]. The tail was 70 degrees long as far as one could tell it with the bright Moon present. Furthermore the little report details on the origin of the comet."
Size 15 cm x 23 cm.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uogsmtxne5xsgd237hzq3uo5/bafkreifgnmohnku72lpo3lx4bbtbi6l6kjcnw7tqklg3cc4tczgx6nksx4@jpeg)
November 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
After three days of transcribing, translating, collating, and writing I take a break from working on the manuscript. It takes shape and I am looking forward to my 3 weeks off from the rat race to fine tune it around the year's end.
For your enjoyment a nice image of a comet.
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For your enjoyment a nice image of a comet.
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The self-made spinach lasagna is in the oven - time for a treat.
November 29, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The self-made spinach lasagna is in the oven - time for a treat.
The German chancellor.
November 29, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The German chancellor.
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29.11.2025 Salzburger Nachrichten
November 29, 2025 at 6:44 AM
29.11.2025 Salzburger Nachrichten
Vermin of the sky. Well done, mankind, well done.
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3/4. En esta imagen se muestra el mismo campo estelar del Cometa C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) sin limpiar.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
En solo 15 minutos de adquisición, contamos 1659 trazas de satélites (unos 400 individuales).
Sobran las palabras para describir la contaminación del espacio cercano.
November 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Vermin of the sky. Well done, mankind, well done.
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"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
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November 27, 2025 at 4:04 AM
"Imagine you stole all of the intellectual property in the world. And you're using it to help people write middling emails and make revenge porn about women, and also children. And you're powering this plagiarism and non-consensual porn machine by eating up what's left of humanity's carbon budget."
"You are quite right to say in one of the notebooks of your Correspondance astronomique that often there is as much merit in discovering observations of an old comet as in finding a new one."
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758-1862)
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(Lithograph by R. Suhrlandt. Wellcome Collection)
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758-1862)
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(Lithograph by R. Suhrlandt. Wellcome Collection)
November 28, 2025 at 5:07 PM
"You are quite right to say in one of the notebooks of your Correspondance astronomique that often there is as much merit in discovering observations of an old comet as in finding a new one."
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758-1862)
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(Lithograph by R. Suhrlandt. Wellcome Collection)
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758-1862)
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(Lithograph by R. Suhrlandt. Wellcome Collection)
We're doomed...
Your universe is a photocopy of a photocopy of a…
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November 28, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We're doomed...
I am a bit ashamed that I missed the 15th anniversary of Brian's passing.
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Tomorrow, 14 yrs ago, one of my astronomical heroes & mentors, Brian G. Marsden, died much too early. I was asked to write down my thoughts which show what a great person he was
www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/BGM_obit_MM....
Image showing me & Brian at a panel disc at the IWCA in Paris, France (2004).
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Image showing me & Brian at a panel disc at the IWCA in Paris, France (2004).
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November 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
I am a bit ashamed that I missed the 15th anniversary of Brian's passing.
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THIS!
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„Quiet, Piggy!“ Just think about that for a minute, and what it means to live in a time when a President can assault a woman in public like that without any consequences.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
It‘s quite a testimony to the age of regression we live in.
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
THIS!
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Spend the weekend on the new paper. I am so excited about it that I'm barely able to not spread its contents around until March 2026.
It will be a great example that comet orbits in catalogues mustn't be correct and that there are still discoveries possible in historical treatises.
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It will be a great example that comet orbits in catalogues mustn't be correct and that there are still discoveries possible in historical treatises.
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November 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Spend the weekend on the new paper. I am so excited about it that I'm barely able to not spread its contents around until March 2026.
It will be a great example that comet orbits in catalogues mustn't be correct and that there are still discoveries possible in historical treatises.
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It will be a great example that comet orbits in catalogues mustn't be correct and that there are still discoveries possible in historical treatises.
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Enjoy a time-cleansing carrot-radish thread.
In Tesco’s this afternoon: an elderly Polish man at the self-checkout, trying to buy a pint of milk and a white radish. There is no picture for the radish on the machine. The assistant doesn’t know what it is. She asks a colleague: “It’s a white radish.” There is no entry for it on the machine.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Enjoy a time-cleansing carrot-radish thread.
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My favorite piece of content today.
November 21, 2025 at 8:28 PM
My favorite piece of content today.
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The Witkoff/Dmitriev package is designed to serve three objectives:
• give a quick win to Trump and Putin who for different reasons are both in need of some good news;
• shift responsibility for failure and all other longer-term consequences squarely to Europe;
• maximize US and RUS economic gain. 🙏
• give a quick win to Trump and Putin who for different reasons are both in need of some good news;
• shift responsibility for failure and all other longer-term consequences squarely to Europe;
• maximize US and RUS economic gain. 🙏
November 22, 2025 at 7:45 AM
The Witkoff/Dmitriev package is designed to serve three objectives:
• give a quick win to Trump and Putin who for different reasons are both in need of some good news;
• shift responsibility for failure and all other longer-term consequences squarely to Europe;
• maximize US and RUS economic gain. 🙏
• give a quick win to Trump and Putin who for different reasons are both in need of some good news;
• shift responsibility for failure and all other longer-term consequences squarely to Europe;
• maximize US and RUS economic gain. 🙏
Made it five out of six. -6° C this morning.
C/2025 T1 ✅ 8.8 mag
C/2025 R2 ✅ 10.2 mag
240P ✅ 12.2 mag
24P ❌
C/2025 K1 ✅ 10.1 mag
3I ✅ 9.5 mag
240P/NEAT is my 189th visual comet.
C/2025 R2 is extremely diffuse and will be soon gone for me.
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C/2025 T1 ✅ 8.8 mag
C/2025 R2 ✅ 10.2 mag
240P ✅ 12.2 mag
24P ❌
C/2025 K1 ✅ 10.1 mag
3I ✅ 9.5 mag
240P/NEAT is my 189th visual comet.
C/2025 R2 is extremely diffuse and will be soon gone for me.
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Clear and frosty night ahead. Just printed out finder and comparison charts for six comets. Three this evening, three in the morning. Let's see how many I can catch.
Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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a man in a brown and black jacket is standing in a doorway holding a box of kleenex
ALT: a man in a brown and black jacket is standing in a doorway holding a box of kleenex
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November 22, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Made it five out of six. -6° C this morning.
C/2025 T1 ✅ 8.8 mag
C/2025 R2 ✅ 10.2 mag
240P ✅ 12.2 mag
24P ❌
C/2025 K1 ✅ 10.1 mag
3I ✅ 9.5 mag
240P/NEAT is my 189th visual comet.
C/2025 R2 is extremely diffuse and will be soon gone for me.
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C/2025 T1 ✅ 8.8 mag
C/2025 R2 ✅ 10.2 mag
240P ✅ 12.2 mag
24P ❌
C/2025 K1 ✅ 10.1 mag
3I ✅ 9.5 mag
240P/NEAT is my 189th visual comet.
C/2025 R2 is extremely diffuse and will be soon gone for me.
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Sacrificing a whole country by dealing with the devil just to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Did I understand this correctly?
November 21, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Sacrificing a whole country by dealing with the devil just to win a Nobel Peace Prize. Did I understand this correctly?
Clear and frosty night ahead. Just printed out finder and comparison charts for six comets. Three this evening, three in the morning. Let's see how many I can catch.
Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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a man in a brown and black jacket is standing in a doorway holding a box of kleenex
ALT: a man in a brown and black jacket is standing in a doorway holding a box of kleenex
media.tenor.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Clear and frosty night ahead. Just printed out finder and comparison charts for six comets. Three this evening, three in the morning. Let's see how many I can catch.
Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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Need to wrap myself really well, though.
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It’s almost as if America’s oligarchs think democracy poses a major threat to their power and hence needs to be acquired like one buys a business competitor, so as to neutralize them.
November 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It’s almost as if America’s oligarchs think democracy poses a major threat to their power and hence needs to be acquired like one buys a business competitor, so as to neutralize them.
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Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 AM
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
Uh oh... We've discovered another tract on the comet which is the topic of the current paper I'm working on. And it contains an additional position. And this position confirms my new orbit! Yes!
And, just to tease you, this orbit is very special....
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And, just to tease you, this orbit is very special....
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a man with red hair is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
ALT: a man with red hair is making a funny face while looking at the camera .
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November 19, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Uh oh... We've discovered another tract on the comet which is the topic of the current paper I'm working on. And it contains an additional position. And this position confirms my new orbit! Yes!
And, just to tease you, this orbit is very special....
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And, just to tease you, this orbit is very special....
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The at least three fragments of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) imaged by Michael Jäger on Nov 18, 2025, at 3:17 UT, 42x7 sec, f= 1200 mm.
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November 18, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The at least three fragments of comet C/2025 K1 (ATLAS) imaged by Michael Jäger on Nov 18, 2025, at 3:17 UT, 42x7 sec, f= 1200 mm.
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