iangriffin

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Wellingtonians, I'm talking tomorrow night about my latest astronomy adventures. 6 pm at The Royal Society Te Apārangi in Thorndon. Admission is free! #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Over the course of an hour on Saturday evening, I took a series of images of Comet Pons-Brooks. Every single image had several satellite trails from Musk's cosmic vermin. Here's the movie Thanks Starlink! #notostarlink #darksky #astronomy #NewZealand

A movie showing trails from cosmic vermin (aka starlink) satellites trails crossing a beautiful comet

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Bloody Elon Musk is destroying the night sky. This is a single one minute exposure of Comet Pons Brooks tonight. #muskisscum #notostarlink #starlinksucks #savethenight #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Here is another picture of Comet Pons Brooks from last night. This was taken by merging/median combining 35 images taken using a 93mm refractor to remove the shitty Starlink satellites. The ion and dust tails from the comet are clearly visible as is its green coma! #astronomy #NewZealand #comet #cometponsbrooks

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

So.. i managed to median exclude the satellites and here's a picture of comet Pons Brooks taken tonight from New Zealand! #comet #ponsbrooks #Astronomy

iangriffin, 1 month ago to Astronomy

Yet another version of Comet Pons Brooks, taken on 4/5/24 from Dunedin New Zealand #ponsbrooks #cometponsbrooks #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

Tee hee. That moment you get your boss to carry a bright yellow Geiger counter onto a flight for a project to track radiation on aircraft and you realise you forgot to tell him both that you had set the radiation alarm too low and had left the sound alert on. Also the sound alert was set to "Danger Will Robinson". #oops

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

My 2 year anniversary of leaving Twitter. I left for astronomical reasons!

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

Yeay! Made the cover of Spaceweather.com #comet #ponsbrooks

iangriffin, 1 month ago to NewZealand

WOW! Comet C/12P Pons-Brooks was epic this evening. Visible to the naked eye from Strath Taieri. This is a single shot as the comet was setting behind some clouds! Its altitude was under 2 degrees! #comet #NewZealand

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

So back in 2022 I was on board during SOFIA's last southern hemisphere science flight. I took some pictures.... here's the flight deck atop the climb out of Christchurch with the sky coloured by aerosols from the Tongan volcano

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

Hey.. I know Mastodon is full of smart folks. Can anyone point me to a site/database that shows what the DCC rates were in Dunedin back in time?

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

Save Shortland Street or divert its huge media funding to heritage and Museums? I know what I'd do. #deathtobadacting #museums

iangriffin, 1 month ago to random

My new "toy" arrived today. It's an 18mm f/11 "fisheye" lens for my Pentax MX camera. Purchased for a project involving suntrails and startrails. #newtoy

iangriffin, 2 months ago to Astronomy

Here is another picture from tonight's road trip to photograph comet Pons-Brooks. Bit of a challenge actually. 1-hour drive, 2 telescopes to set up, and the bloody comet would just be 2 degrees high an hour after sunset. But there was nothing on TV so why not. #Comet #Astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

Be vewy qwiet I’m hunting comets. #comethunt

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iangriffin, 2 months ago to NewZealand

And here's the white light version of the panorama just after sunrise during the "golden hour". The hills embracing the harbour looked mighty fine this morning I can tell you! #NewZealand #sunrise #newzealand

iangriffin, 2 months ago to NewZealand

So it’s the 112th anniversary of Titanic sinking. As lights are turned off in Museums across Aotearoa let’s remember history is important. Let’s not sink our Museums..: #museums #newzealand

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

light pollution from Dunedin’s cycleway is truly disgusting.

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

Today I made quiche

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

So.. over lunch I visited the Minor Planet Center Website to check on "my" asteroids (the ones I discovered) and had a fun moment when I found instead of 25 I've actually been involved in the discovery of 33! Here they all are as at 2:30pm today! #myasteroidwhānau

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

I know this is a first world problem. But, now, in addition to getting rid of beetroot, Subway in Dunedin HAVE NO PICKLES!!! whats the actual point of a sandwich or wrap if you cant have beetroot or pickles? #bringbackbeetroot

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

Picks up paper. Unwraps it from the annoying plastic/cling film. Opens to front page. Spits out mouthful of tea… WTF.

iangriffin, 2 months ago to random

https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/513861/2028-total-solar-eclipse-in-new-zealand-likely-big-tourism-drawcard-astronomer-says #eclipse

iangriffin, 2 months ago to NewZealand

This morning’s Portobello sunrise was rather pretty. Here’s a #timelapse showing the colour changes. #NewZealand #sunrise

the sky changes colour over an island as the sun rises