With only a 30 minute window between sunset and its disappearnce behind the trees, I managed to get this image of the comet.
One of the brightest and best shows of Northern Lights in Solar Cycle 25!
My mount and my guiding were conflicting with each other, so I got this crappy iamge of the Iris SNebula
Today, we're going to explore one of the most fundamental constants in the universe, and the basis for how our particular form of time travel works: the speed of light.
British astronomer Herbert Hall Turner combined the words "parallax" and "second" in 1913 and created the term 'parsec."
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