Thanksgiving plans cancelled due to a Covid situation. ☹️

Preparation for tomorrow has begun.

Today’s wallpaper on the iPhone

I was thinking about upgrading my astrophotography camera and two reasons that made me place the order last night:

  1. Back Friday sale with 10% off
  2. Dumbass tariffs next year that will make everything coming from China more expensive

The Eastern Veil Nebula is a supernova remnant at 2400 light years away in the constellation Cygnus. The star explosion that created it was probably seen on Earth about 5000 years ago.

This image is a stack of 40 three-minute exposures taken with ASI533-MCPro attached to William Optics ZenithStar61

Congratulations to my colleagues on publication of this exciting manuscript describing a new drug candidate for treatment of cardio-metabolic diseases.

pubs.acs.org/doi/full/…

Happy to see some rain this morning. Rain is predicted for 8 out of next 10 days. Hopefully it will alleviate the drought conditions of the last moth or so. This should also significantly reduce the incidence of wildfires that are going on in this region.

Wish I was out there instead of being at work right now.

Last night, went to this excellent concert by Bowdoin symphony orchestra where my daughter is one of the Cellists. Beethoven’s 5th was fantastic. The modern music was also good but I could see the performers struggle with those pieces with its unusual rhythms and dynamics. Overall a great concert!

Added in about 3 miles of trail in today’s ride. It turned out to be much harder than I expected but it was still fun.

That stupid worm had just one job. It failed and now this….

The bark of Atlantic white cedar is so interesting with all these patterns and textures.

Almost said “didn’t know today was wear your pajamas to work day” to a coworker. Maybe, I just don’t get fashion.

Tonight’s Moon

Today’s Sun with a long line of Sunspots across the disc.

The double cluster from Perseus: A pair of open clusters 7000 light years away and consisting of hot blue-white young stars only about 14 million years old. These clusters are blueshifted as they are approaching us at ~40km/s.

This image is a stack of 100 five-second exposures.

Iris nebula (NGC 7023): The dark nebulous gobs are more interesting than the blue reflection nebula around the star cluster.

This image is a stack of 30 two-minute exposures. ZWO ASI533MC-Pro : William Optics ZenthiStar61.
It needs more frames to get better resolution.

Andromeda Galaxy (M31) - the closest neighboring galaxy at 2.5 million light years away.

This image is a stack of 60 two-minute exposures taken with ZWO ASI533MC-Pro camera attached to William Optics ZenithStar61 refractor.

I am definitely disappointed and not happy with the results of the election. But, now with that anxiety of not knowing the result is gone and I actually feel calm after a long time. Have accepted the shitty situation we are in and will figure out how to deal with it in the coming months and years.

fuck