Maik Meyer ☄️

I can't believe it. I received the deliver note today. This probably means overcast skies for the coming weeks. 🔭☄️

Me, every morning.

Have fun, wherever you are now. #walterkoenig #chekov

arxiv.org/abs/2610.31910 ☄️🔭

One of the better Monday mornings. Let's keep the momentum.

This is pretty funny. A crackpot group claims they see relatively recent small comet impacts all over the place, and cite as evidence structures such as — seriously — golf bunkers, gravel pits, and retention basins. Embarrassing.

If you’re thinking of buying an Audi, don’t forget that an Audi executive appeared at a Trump rally this weekend to try to boost an American dictatorship. Make your car-buying decision accordingly.

I have been allowed to chill with her Highnesses. 🐈 #zora #pixie

Die #Energiewende 2000 in Deutschland gestartet - weltweit ein Erfolg: Erneuerbare verdrängen Kohle, Öl und Gas, Atom stagniert seit 20 Jahren

Musk’s wealth is a threat to democracy—not just in the U.S. but everywhere. He’s probably the greatest threat to the free world today.

“Don’t use real-world locations,” ChatGPT told the shooter, later adding: “You can still be twisted. Just be clever about it.” Our investigation uncovers how OpenAI's chatbot fed a school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning for a massacre

#Caturday

Two days later the coma becomes visible. The total V magnitude is still 14.2 mag (as it was the two days before) but now the diameter is 0.6'. 🔭☄️

"Ding someone ask for a flying Nazi car?"

Germany 2026

No, not Toby.

I just took this G channel image of A11InDq, a discovery by the ATLAS survey of Oct 12. Still starlike at 14 mag it is a new comet in the very early stages of an outburst. It should become diffuse and larger over the next weeks. It is around 3.5 AU from the sun and won't come much closer. 🔭☄️

Just got the S50 in. Totally soaked in dew. Around 5° C, but still 51% in the Powerbank & 100% for the scope. All exposures succeeded, only the last was shorter due to clouds. Attached are preview images of the two brightest, trailed due to the movement. They will be comet-stacked later. 🔭☄️

Quite something to do for my S50 tonight. ☄️🔭 #photometry

What a weird world we live in - Ukraine hits a data centre deep in Russia - Irish twitter users see racist posts about IPAS centres in Offaly fall off a cliff

Get rid of him, ffs!

I'd pay for an escapism mode for (social) media.

Take a look at this quote from 1942 about how the Nazis rose to power. It's by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig, and it describes exactly what's happening today — including the "dose by dose" methods of the Trump regime the apparent inability of Europe to react quickly enough to it." #FightFascism

Blown away. Wish I would've been there. Miss you, David. #bowie #foo youtube.com/watch?v=XNcH...

So tiny #happy #mushrooms #fungifriday

Finished my two presentations for the meeting of the German Comet Section on Nov 21, at the VdS observatory in Kirchheim. One about my last paper on C/1618 V1 and one about my comet photometry programme using an S50 and Tycho Tracker. Looking forward to meeting all my fellow comet aficionados. 🔭☄️

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Ordered on August 29, and received a delay note today. My supplier hopes to have them by Oct 26. I'd be astonished if this pans out. 🔭☄️

A bad day for Germany. This shouldn't have happened. History does, in fact, repeat.

Most of the mushrooms I found were already mouldy. I was hoping to use some 🍄‍🟫 for dinner, but alas! #fungifriends 🍄

Today is the 37th anniversary of the re-unification of Germany. A time of hope and many positive developments, the future seemed bright. Now it seems like a dream. What has happened? La Révolution est comme Saturne: elle dévore ses propres enfants.

Just chillin' a bit... #caturday 🐈

Trump wants to raise the Canadian flag in the Swiss alps? 🙄

The Times They Are a-Changin... ☄️🔭

#mood 🐈

Earlier this summer, I got to spend sometime with a Northern Gannet breeding colony or several thousand #seabirds #BirdoftheDay #birdphotography #birds #bird #nikon #birdlovers #birdlife #photography #art #animal #🪶 #ukbirding #ECK #noplanetbphotography #Scotland www.noplanetbphotography.art

The world is watching. And shaking their head.

This went very well. One comet could not be measured due to being too close to bright ✨. C/2024 T5 (ATLAS): 13.9 mag, 0.6' C/2026 A2 (BOK): 14.1, 0.6' C/2024 J3 (ATLAS): 14.2, 0.7' 220P/McNaught: 12.7, 1.6' 88P/Howell: 15.0, 0.7' C/2024 R4 (PANSTARRS): 15.3, 0.48' PCCP object C46K1R1: 13.0, 2.5' 🔭☄️

<Darkest Dungeon narrator's voice> And now, the true test: Eight comets, moon up all night, temperature predicted to go down to 4° C. Remember, overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer. ☄️🔭

S50 is on the roof. Seven comets are being targeted tonight for photometry. Also four small Kreutz sungrazer visible towards the west. 🤡 🔭☄️

Wenn er einen Arsch in der Hose hätte, würde er zurücktreten. #merz

🍄 #fungifriends

Austrian sci-fi disco band Ganymed: #musicsky #scifi #disco #ganymed