I like how at this point we'd need the spacecraft operators of three very different communities to manage to conspire (China, ESA, US). Yeah, nah

There's a small region in the back of the eye loaded with cone cells, which do colour and sharp vision but not in low light. Makes a blind spot. In contrast the rod cells out round the rest of the back of the eye are very sensitive to small brightness variations (and movement). Eyes are nifty

...can you source the right cheese curds? Hopeful

Cloud. So much cloud

The trick is that all ISOs shall turn up smartly before planetary conferences. Let us hold more conferences

Thanks, Meg. Will have to do everyone's work proud; what with the timings, there hasn't actually been an ISOs overview at ACM. Pandemic, huh

Camera facing the right direction but it’s so big

#Aurora Australis, South otago NZ

Of bluesky astro folks at those wavelengths, you probably want to ask @drcordiner.bsky.social , @javacitrus.bsky.social or @michael-w-busch.bsky.social may also have thoughts

And by next July there should be a lovely swag of papers all through peer review, of everyone's observations of 3I/ATLAS.

In 1983, when ACM was first held, the concept of interstellar objects was still a beautifully theoretical exercise. (There's a Beatrice Tinsley paper, because of course there is). Now we have three known, and extensive steps towards a population model that involves the whole Galaxy.

These kind of grid adjustments are developed from the Solar Tsunami work, and are both expected and help avoid any issues
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Good on you being in it for the long haul. Support that keeps going is both needed, and tough

Aurora borealis from Longmont, Colorado.

The frustrating thing is that the 'aliens!' disinformation makes it hard to have this normal scientific discussion about what is interestingly different. Actively suppresses the process of science - and makes things a lot less fun...