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iangriffin

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I work at a Museum but chase auroras for fun. Springer spaniel fan.

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Any day that ends with the Beach Boys “God only knows” playing on the stereo is a good day. Night everyone!

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What to say. just another boring picture of the Wanaka tree :-) I love analogue photography

iangriffin, to NewZealand
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So yes, I know the satellite trails can be processed out of the comet image I shared earlier. Here's a fully processed version showing Comet Pons Brooks on the evening of 4th May. The comet was very low in the sky from New Zealand at the time the images from which this composite has been assembled. #comet #ponsbrooks #NewZealand

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An excellent article by Scott Willis https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/resilient/science-public’s-interest

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That moment you realise you aren’t British any more. I literally don’t recognise any of the “celebrities” in Bake Off!

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Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress".

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@root42 nah.. if CO2 aided internet connectivity in remote areas for rich americans they would say..."more co2"

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@mrblissett Yes but at least wind turbines have some local approval process.

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@M0CUV @Dtl median combing the images (after aligning them so the comet is in the same place gets rid of most of the streaks. But comets at their brightest tend to be close(ish) to the sun and are impacted by these trails a lot!

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Shows how out of touch I am. One of my internet pals told me today they managed to snag one of these at their local chemist. literally a rat test for Flu, Covid and RSV... all in one. The world is amazing that we can do this!

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A nice partial lunar halo right now in Portobello

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Present location? the famous Koru cage in Christchurch

iangriffin, to worldwithoutus
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Things you probably don't know about me. #1 I love antarctic science and stories. So much that I have pretty much every book written about the heroic age. I also have this. It's a picture drawn by Dr. Edward Wilson, who accompanied Scott on both his polar expeditions. This is a picture drawn by Wilson as a gift to his sister on her birthday in around 1880. I love it! #antarctica #captainscott

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Here’s the team in the banquet hall 2/n

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So today the Tūhura Otago Museum team took our entire suite of outreach exhibitions and activities to Parliament 1/n

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Hello Welly! just had quite a “hot” flight up from Dunedin!

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This came across my timeline tonight.. 4 years ago we were coming out of lockdown and saying thank you

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I've started uploading some of the timelapses and real time videos I shot during last week's big auroral display to my youtube channel. Check them out at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ti6nNjyD8U8

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So yes. I’m getting up at ungodly o clock tomorrow to watch Arsenal play honourably. Man City have been financially doping for years and (surprise surprise) haven’t had points deducted because they have huge resources. Would be sooo funny if Citeh lose though.

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Here’s my astronomy column in today’s Otago Daiky Times. https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/magazine/amazing-auroral-display-stirs-soul

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I'm slowly going through aurora images from last Saturday night. Here's an image I thought I would never see. An auroral arc low in the NORTHERN sky in front of the SAR Arc!

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@MikeBartley yes that’s the SAR arc

iangriffin, to NewZealand
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Here's a panoramic image I took from my back garden of last night's auroral display #DunedinNZ #Aurora #NewZealand

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Last night the aurora was lovely, so, rather than heading somewhere remote, I sat in my back garden and enjoyed the view. Here's a 90 minute exposure taken twixt 22:22 and 23:52.

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things I will NEVER use. 1. Starlink. 2. Uber. #shitcompanies

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@mlanger I have no need for companies that exploit workers and destroy the night sky. I rather suspect the world could very easily do without both and be a better place for it :-)

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