The 4/20 moon.

Artemis II has achieved liftoff from Kennedy Space Center.

To infinity and beyond 🚀

📷 Reuters

April Fools!

Fossil ammonite with soft body preservation from the Jurassic of Madagascar

Seneca Lake, NY

Mist and fog on Seneca Lake.

Guster: Tiny Desk Concert Guster always finds new ways to weave sonic landscapes, tell meaningful stories and deeply engage with its fan base.

My periodic reminder
Go to NPR's website & watch the @guster.bsky.social Tiny Desk! it's awesome. And read my heartfelt writeup of said event.

Highlight of my year/career

www.npr.org/2025/08/20/g...

@brianrosenworcel.bsky.social remind the world of this. Signal boost, baby!

Guster: Tiny Desk Concert Guster always finds new ways to weave sonic landscapes, tell meaningful stories and deeply engage with its fan base.

It took thirty years but I'm on Tiny Desk today!

www.npr.org/2025/08/20/g...

Strawberry Moon this week, in my Newtonian (corrected for orientation)

The Moon on the Pi Day eclipse.
As seen in my Newtonian.

*Houston. By the way, Houston has a great ballpark. Many viewing stations on different levels make it a fun park to walk around. (They were in the NL when I saw them.)

Saw the Mets in Huston years ago, and Mookie was the first base coach. In a game pause I yelled “Hey Mookie! We love you!” He turned around, with a quizzical look on his face. I still love Mookie Wilson.

A round, rusty orange planet against the blackness of space. The surface is a mix of lighter and darker orange areas, with some darker markings that look like smudges or streaks. There's a lighter, whitish patch at the top and bottom, which are the polar ice caps.

Clearest image of Mars ever taken.
🔭 🧪

The company I keep…
He’s called “Sky” which is short for Skytag, in honor of his light blue ankle bracelet. This is his second year at the lake, that I know of.

Dreamy night image of our intersection, obscured by snow recently.

Images of this winter.
It’s beautiful, if sometimes challenging.

My hope is that, in the vastness of space, another civilization might find this letter, written by Jimmy Carter and carried by the Voyager into the Cosmos.

May they see in him the best of humanity, and believe us all capable of his wisdom and foresight.

Happy Solstice!

Under the northern lights 🛖

Hard to see the details of the ships and characters, but it resembles a nebula this way, with a little imagination. Happy Holidays, all!

The finished tree.

The sci-fi tree is nearly done.

Represented are: Star Trek (in many incarnations), Star Wars, Mork, Planet of the Apes, Galaxy Quest, Doctor Who, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Jules Verne, Guardians of the Galaxy, and more!

This poster visualizes over 800 of known exoplanets believed to be rocky or terrestrial, arranged by the amount of heat they receive, comparing their relative sizes and providing a window to how they might look like. see: Halcyon Maps www.halcyonmaps.com/terrestrial-... #astrobiology #exoplanet

The plaque that accompanies the unused Lunar Module, a true space vehicle that performed beautifully and that was made in Bethpage, NY.

The Apollo program was nixed by the conservative Nixon admin that had no understanding of science nor any intellectual curiosity. Thus, only one human scientist has ever been on the Moon, geologist Harrison “Jack” Schmitt, who flew on the last Apollo mission, Apollo 17.

Real Lunar Module that was made but not used, slated for an Apollo 19 mission that never happened. Cradle of Aviation Museum, Garden City, NY, on Long Island.

That was Oct 10th of this year, 2024

Norther Lights, as seen a block from my home. A street light out of the frame illuminates a field of feed grass where it hits the road.

Northern Lights in the Finger Lakes region of NY State.

I catalogued your book for our college library at Hobart and William Smith in Western NY. It’s great work in my opinion, and I’m very glad we added it to the collection. Cheers!

Archaeopteryx, beautiful artistic rendition in Winnipeg, MB