Misty Bentz
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Misty Bentz
@astronomisty.bsky.social
Astronomer and Professor at Georgia State University. She/Her. Big fan of black holes, cats, and cross-stitch. Seestar smart telescope enthusiast. Novice gardener with a penchant for native plants.
I just finished it after I saw your post and went looking! Indeed, a glorious poem. I was happy to find that the movie, while it added a lot to fill out the story, stayed pretty true to the poem.
December 7, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The Man from Snowy River is a poem?! I only know it in film form, how neat!
December 7, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Yay! Congratulations!
December 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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I think too often physics students unconsciously have the idea that some people have brains that are "natural" for physics and some don't and who knows maybe that's true to some extent but regardless of natural tendency at some point everyone has to practice practice practice
December 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
I had something kind of similar happen once. It’s awful, I’m so sorry!
Please be sure to write up all of this while it is fresh in your memory and notify your Chair and the Dean of Students right away.
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
That’s lovely
December 4, 2025 at 1:12 PM
A short break in the clouds allowed me to grab this glamour shot
🔭 #Seestar S50
December 4, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Did you adopt a new kitty?
December 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Kind of mesmerizing to watch the clouds drift by 🔭
December 4, 2025 at 2:52 AM
And if we’re watching Michael Buble in SNL skits, I can’t pass up an opportunity share this one!

m.youtube.com/watch?v=BDKg...
Hamm & Bublé - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
m.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Feel free to shoot me an email if you want a copy of one of the scripts I use (modified version of a publicly shared script from someone else)
December 3, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I think some people have tested out stacking the results from a few sessions, and you could stack all the subs afterwards on the Seestar itself, but Siril has an astrometric alignment feature that I really like and other features like feathering the edges of overlap regions on larger mosaics, etc
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
10s each, which is the default setting for the Seestar
December 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I stacked 1900 subs collected over 5 sessions spanning 1+ years for this image
December 3, 2025 at 1:10 AM
There are lots of tutorials, but starting here is a great way to figure out how to use Siril: siril.org/tutorials/se...
Processing ZWO Seestar images
This tutorial explores the pre-processing and processing of images obtained from ZWO Seestar. Pre-processing will be carried out using a dedicated script. Preprocessing 1. Do...
siril.org
December 3, 2025 at 1:04 AM
😕
a little girl is hugging a monster from monsters inc
Alt: a little girl is hugging a monster from monsters inc
media.tenor.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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December 2, 2025 at 4:16 PM