I thought it was just cost since they also have bought other MS stuff like office and outlook for agencywide use, but not 100% certain

Got my sticker!

Rest well, good telescope. Your daughter mission launches 2027 🔭

Seems kind of maybe-not-the-greenest but they do seem to offer several plans for less than Pepco's standard offer service and they claim not to be introductory rates.

btw, Cleansky Energy = "Titan Gas d/b/a Cleansky Energy"

Has anyone had a good experience with any of the current Pepco alternative electricity suppliers?
This pie chart is from the semiannual disclosure statement of Cleansky Energy's* "100% Renewable" plans. I guess they throw in enough carbon offsets to buy down the emissions?

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Betelgeuse occulted by asteroid (319) Leona, from Alicante, Spain.

Wonderful image by Damian Peach of Comet C/2020 V2 (ZTF). The comet's in our Solar System; the stars are probably no more than 40K light years away; the Grus Triplet galaxies is 60 MILLION light years further! damianpeach.com/deepsky/c202... 20"CDK w/ FLI camera LRGB 30/3/3/3min

First in a series of 2.3 billion talks

@asrivkin.bsky.social I finally saw the "Yesterday" Beatles movie recently, would be interested to hear your take on it