Organizations that I supported on this GivingTuesday:
Saturday night was our monthly open-to-public viewing night with Lyme Land Trust astronomy group. One of the visitors was Liam Corrigan who was on the Men’s rowing team that won Olympic gold medal in Paris. It was my first time to shake hands with an Olympic gold medalist.
I was thinking about upgrading my astrophotography camera and two reasons that made me place the order last night:
- Back Friday sale with 10% off
- 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.
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.
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.
