Chris Turchin
@mollenberg.bsky.social
Astrophotography, skiing and climbing and anything else I see fit to post. American grown, German based.
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My mate Ben got his latest article published in the @nytimes.com
Unlocked version here for my followers
#astro #aurora #astronomy #tasmania #milkyway
My mate Ben got his latest article published in the @nytimes.com
Unlocked version here for my followers
#astro #aurora #astronomy #tasmania #milkyway
Chasing the Elusive Southern Lights in Tasmania
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November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/05/t...
My mate Ben got his latest article published in the @nytimes.com
Unlocked version here for my followers
#astro #aurora #astronomy #tasmania #milkyway
My mate Ben got his latest article published in the @nytimes.com
Unlocked version here for my followers
#astro #aurora #astronomy #tasmania #milkyway
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Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
September 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Sen. Ruben Gallego: "Ashli Babbitt was a traitor. She was a traitor to this country. She was part of a violent mob that tried to overthrow our democracy...She didn't die protecting our country. She died trying to turn it down...She wasn't a martyr. She was and is a traitor."
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Here we go where?
September 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Here we go where?
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Salt Hank’s is officially OPEN!
Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC
Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC
June 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Salt Hank’s is officially OPEN!
Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC
Jones at Bleecker St in the West Village, NYC
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Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.
He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
June 21, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Compton, CA: A masked, heavily-armed man wearing body armor jumped out of a SUV today to kidnap a local resident.
He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
He forgot to put the vehicle in park, causing it to roll down the street damaging other cars. He jumped in the vehicle (which had no platess) and drove off without identifying himself.
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My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
June 14, 2025 at 12:26 PM
My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents.
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:
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He threw his own birthday party, spent millions and millions of the American people’s money, and they still didn’t come.
June 15, 2025 at 5:24 AM
He threw his own birthday party, spent millions and millions of the American people’s money, and they still didn’t come.
Shameful. Heart breaking.
WATCH: “I WAS AN INTERPRETER IN AFGHANISTAN FOR 3 YEARS.”
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
ICE grabs a man whose name they don’t even know at his immigration hearing, shackles him, expedites his removal.
Q: Why would anyone ever help our military again? — Trump is endangering and weakening our military.
June 15, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Shameful. Heart breaking.
“The air raid alarm lasted almost nine hours. This is what Putin’s ‘sincere desire for peace’ looks like.”
May 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
“The air raid alarm lasted almost nine hours. This is what Putin’s ‘sincere desire for peace’ looks like.”
NGC 4395 is a nearby low surface brightness spiral galaxy located about 14 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Captured Thursday night before the weather changed.
May 3, 2025 at 12:09 PM
NGC 4395 is a nearby low surface brightness spiral galaxy located about 14 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Canes Venatici. Captured Thursday night before the weather changed.
May 2, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Messier 106 the accompanying galaxies and starfield, taken last night in Mollenberg. #astrophotography #astronomy
April 30, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Messier 106 the accompanying galaxies and starfield, taken last night in Mollenberg. #astrophotography #astronomy
Great globular cluster in Hercules. Maybe half a million stars all looking back at us 😊
#astrophotography #astronomy
#astrophotography #astronomy
April 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Great globular cluster in Hercules. Maybe half a million stars all looking back at us 😊
#astrophotography #astronomy
#astrophotography #astronomy
/me currently clean on OPSEC
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 PM
/me currently clean on OPSEC
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“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
March 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
“Wait guys, P. Hegseth is typing…”
Rough itelescope data so ended up doing pixel-level editing in gimp which I almost never do (because I'm too lazy). But result is a pretty nice flame and horse head nebula. Original image was huge, like 6000 pixels wide, scaled down for the socials, to better hide defects 🤣
March 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Rough itelescope data so ended up doing pixel-level editing in gimp which I almost never do (because I'm too lazy). But result is a pretty nice flame and horse head nebula. Original image was huge, like 6000 pixels wide, scaled down for the socials, to better hide defects 🤣
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Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
March 7, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Just got an email from the Fulbright Association. As of right now, funding has been cut off to 12,500 US citizens currently abroad and and more than 7,400 foreigner scholars and students in the United States
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The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) is an emission nebula and open cluster in the constellation of Monoceros.
18x200 (windy!) seconds on this last night. Compare it to last year's Rosette image (on IG) to see what a difference more/better data can make.
18x200 (windy!) seconds on this last night. Compare it to last year's Rosette image (on IG) to see what a difference more/better data can make.
March 2, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The Rosette Nebula (Caldwell 49) is an emission nebula and open cluster in the constellation of Monoceros.
18x200 (windy!) seconds on this last night. Compare it to last year's Rosette image (on IG) to see what a difference more/better data can make.
18x200 (windy!) seconds on this last night. Compare it to last year's Rosette image (on IG) to see what a difference more/better data can make.
LDN 1235, the Shark Nebula, is a dark/reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus.
I imaged and processed this data last autumn but never got around to posting it. Pretty faint, I'm sure I could do better with a few nights of data, but I'm impatient and the weather is dreadful lately.
I imaged and processed this data last autumn but never got around to posting it. Pretty faint, I'm sure I could do better with a few nights of data, but I'm impatient and the weather is dreadful lately.
March 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
LDN 1235, the Shark Nebula, is a dark/reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus.
I imaged and processed this data last autumn but never got around to posting it. Pretty faint, I'm sure I could do better with a few nights of data, but I'm impatient and the weather is dreadful lately.
I imaged and processed this data last autumn but never got around to posting it. Pretty faint, I'm sure I could do better with a few nights of data, but I'm impatient and the weather is dreadful lately.
Wide field data from Cygnus Loop, a large supernova remnant.
I'm image processing this morning instead of any number of self-destructive things that comes to mind after watching the news. But the day is young, maybe I'll get to that later.
I'm image processing this morning instead of any number of self-destructive things that comes to mind after watching the news. But the day is young, maybe I'll get to that later.
March 1, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Wide field data from Cygnus Loop, a large supernova remnant.
I'm image processing this morning instead of any number of self-destructive things that comes to mind after watching the news. But the day is young, maybe I'll get to that later.
I'm image processing this morning instead of any number of self-destructive things that comes to mind after watching the news. But the day is young, maybe I'll get to that later.
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