UPDATE: NASA restored the agency’s Hubble Space Telescope to science operations on April 29. The spacecraft is in good health and once again operating using all three of its gyros.

All of Hubble’s instruments are online, and the spacecraft has resumed taking science

Scopes on Screen: two smaller refractors from the Dr. Blake Mysteries episode 'The Visible World'. Neither was an accessory to the crime. [435 in a series; if I get to 500 that's it] #TelescopeTuesday

The Evening Sky Map (PDF) for May 2024 is now available. Free download at skymaps.com/tesm/

Featuring a Sky Calendar of events and easy-to-use Sky Maps for the northern & southern hemispheres, and equatorial regions.

Please RT & enjoy the stars! #astronomy #space

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THIRTY-FOUR YEARS!

Scopes on Screen: from Doctor Blake Mysteries, s4 ep 8 'The Visible World'. AFAICT the role of Ballarat Observatory is played by... Ballarat Observatory. Large instrument may be traumatized by its component being used as the murder weapon. #TelescopeTuesday

Having thoughts now for future scholars when they try to do an online search for 'Apollo lunar samples', and can get a wide variety of results.

Hard to argue that lack of a lander impacts planning for a landing mission!

Scopes on Screen: surely among the first, from the opening scene of Georges Melies' 1902 Voyage dans la Lune. Astronomers in fancy dress. The small vertical scopes turn into stools. #TelescopeTuesday

For fellow US eclipse imagers who have lists of friends and family wanting a few prints, Walgreen's Photo has a 50%-off code this week...

New Celestron NexStar 8 20-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain sighted at Texas hotel (meaning I did not have the largest telescope in the building). They planned imaging but brief holes between clouds played havoc with alignment process. #TelescopeTuesday

DONT THROW AWAY YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES‼️

stick your glasses in an evelope & mail to the address below so that kids in Latin America can use them Oct 2, to watch the South American Eclipse

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605

It was touch and go, but we caught most of totality from rockwall, east of Dallas.

An expression of hope at the hotel breakfast bar

PSA: whether you're a feline beatnik, eldritch abomination, or baseline human, remember to use appropriate filters outside totality.

On April 3, our Swift Observatory resumed science operations following a successful software update, which enables the spacecraft to function using only two gyros. The spacecraft otherwise remains in good health. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/49F27Al

Scopes on Screen: from the film Aniara, 3 telescopes in quarters of the ship's astronomer (did they set them up at lounge windows?). In this scene she muses on the futility of human life. Afterwards the plot gets really dark. #TelescopeTuesday

This xkcd *understates* how much better 100% totality is than 99%. Really, repeat after me: 100% eclipse totality is one million times more impressive than 99%.
Do not settle for less, get to the path of totality.

DASCH — the project to digitize Harvard’s astronomical photographic glass plate collection — is complete at long last. With this milestone comes a new website, StarGlass, and preview access to the next data release.
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