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Well, this is exciting! 🤩 A 5-hour power cut last week got me thinking seriously about home energy resilience. Charge overnight on a cheap electricity tariff, use that stored energy during the day when rates peak, and expand to an incredible 12 kWh of storage! #EnergyStorage #HomeEnergy

Check out Home Harvest by Home Harvest on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/hom... 🧪

🌌 A beautifully clear night over Billingborough! Our AllSky time-lapse follows the Milky Way from dusk to dawn as Earth rotates beneath the stars. We upload 24-hour sky videos to YouTube daily, though processing softens the detail. 🔭🧪 BillingboroughObservatory.Space #MilkyWay #AllSky #Astronomy

Trying to study forces and motion but I have an immovable object in my way 😆 🔭🧪

Combine 2 Film Titles 2 make a New Film.

Occasional PSA, 2026 edition: @duetosymmetry.com and I made a graph paper package for LaTeX. Various styles (graph, quadrille, hex, iso, dot grid, etc) with pre-defined or custom colors. Print it or make templates for your tablet. 🧪 Github: github.com/mcnees/LaTeX... CTAN: ctan.org/pkg/gridpapers

At least the Sun is happy today 🙂 🔭🧪 #Sun #Sunspots #BillingboroughObservatory

Harvest the Moon tonight for the cheese is ripe #Wülferhampton

"A woman was viciously attacked and senior party figures found it funny. The message sent by Farage and Jenrick is clear: violence is an acceptable response to criticism," writes @mrjamesob.bsky.social Read more: trib.al/yNG6d5Y

Very excited to see Roman edging ever closer to launch. The "go/no go" decision will be this Friday, for a planned Sun 30th launch at 11:26 UTC, 07:26 EDT 🤞 Once in space this telescope will discover >100,000 planets orbiting distant stars and so so much more 🤩🧪🔭🛰️ science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...

Our meteor cameras have finished processing the data from last night! Our NE facing camera captured 425 Perseids and our N facing camera captured 224. The stacked images are below along with the meteor radiant analysis plots which clearly show the point in the sky from which they get their name 🔭🧪

Bin Day cometh.

Okay Clacton. Let’s go.

The Billingborough Observatory Perseid Livestream is here all night www.youtube.com/watch?v=o1qq... 🔭🧪

The Sun now. Less than 6 hours to go 🔭🧪

Happy solar eclipse day! ☀️🌒 This evening people across the UK will be treated to the country's fullest solar eclipse since 1999. Around 90-96% of the Sun will be obscured by the Moon at the peak, which will take place at around 19:00 BST, depending on where you are. Are you going to watch it? 😎

It's not just Perseids on display tonight. Look at this beautiful sporadic meteor captured last night from Billingborough Observatory 🔭🧪

People of Clacton! Show your support for me by putting a bin outside your house, one day this week, of a colour of Tendring Council's choice. This will be unequivocal proof of the success of my campaign.

I believe Clacton deserves an MP who will spend their time shining a light on everything the area has to offer. And why wait till I'm elected? I've been to visit one of the constituency's most stunning landmarks.

The Perseids are already doing their thing. The night of the 12th August looks set to be "Amaze, amaze, amaze" 🔭

Testing our Perseid meteor Youtube livestream in advance of the peak on 12th August www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgWQ... 🔭

"Here Are 19 - Yes, 19! - Ways Trump and Republicans Are Plotting to Rig and Steal the Midterm Elections" Attacking immigrants and Black voting power. Gutting election security. Voter purges. Threats of arrests and raids. And so much more. From Zeteo:

Terrible news. Aside from learning more about the universe, we're not going to get much economic growth by cutting science funding. (If only we had a Prime Minister who was interested in supporting the north, and Manchester in particular, who could stop this.) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Like many colleagues across our community, I’m dismayed by these cuts. The UK should be building on its scientific strengths, not retreating from them, especially as a new government and new science minister seek to define the country’s future ambitions.

The Royal Astronomical Society is shocked and dismayed to hear that the UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory is at risk of closure amid a slew of catastrophic budget cuts. Read our full statement here: ras.ac.uk/news-and-pre...

Just off #BBCR4 World at One, arguing the importance of discovery science (like Jodrell) for long-term economic growth. I said I was heartbroken at the news: evidence just look at how exceptionally excited me & @mamaphysikerin.bsky.social were when we got to stand inside Lovell back in 2017 🥰 🔭🧪

@drbecky.bsky.social What fresh hell is this? I watched this month's excellent "Night Sky News" with some relief regarding the reversal of astronomy funding cuts, but now this today 🤬 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

@andyburnham.bsky.social Can these devastating cuts to UK science be reversed? Reports that Jodrell Bank faces closure (www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...) mark a tragic day for British research. Dismantling our world-class scientific capacity to achieve short-term savings is a profound mistake. Please!🔭

No.... Don't say it is true 😭 www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr...

“Debunked! 9 False Claims Made by Rupert Lowe to Joe Rogan About Muslims, Migrants and More” The Restore Britain MP's description of the Dunblane massacre as 'one murder' has been widely and rightly condemned. But at Zeteo UK, we call out his many other offensive and ridiculous claims.

Um..... so I did a thing 🫣 📽️: youtube.com/shorts/krnxj... Indie 📕: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/how-... Amazon 🔗: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Design-U... 🔭👩‍🔬🎢

I have literal goosebumps watching this video from @esa.int www.esa.int/Science_Expl... Remember this is just a tiny part of our Milky Way galaxy, and it is just one galaxy amongst approximately 2 trillion galaxies. Beautiful and staggering. 🔭🧪

Wishing you all a very happy Litha and a fabulous Summer Solstice! ​Today marks the exact point our hemisphere reaches its maximum tilt towards the sun, giving us the longest day of the year. ​Have a beautiful day! 🔭🧪

A beautiful evening, a prelude to another heatwave. Stunning crescent Moon and Venus in the evening sky. 🔭🧪

We'll be joining some of the stars of physics today to campaign for the Government to halt catastrophic funding cuts to astronomy, particle physics and nuclear physics. ⤵️

I'm currently tinkering with a local AI Agent I've named (P.E.N.N.Y.). I have got to a stage where she (yes I know) is setting me a daily applied maths problem related to astrophysics at 6am, nudges me at midday and expects and answer by 10pm. It's a great revision technique. Oh! And she talks! 🔭🧪

Jim's started his 1st week as the new @royalastrosoc.bsky.social President with a💥, fighting #STFC funding cuts to astro, particle & nuclear physics 💪 "We urge you to commission a wider study of their impacts, not just on research, but on higher education and the economy as a whole"🔭🧪⚛️

Sometimes I forget how lucky I am to live in a village like this 💚

Happy Beltane 🌿🔥 Wishing you warmth, renewal, and joy as summer begins to stir. May your days be bright, your hearts full, and your paths rich with growth and possibility. ✨

Here's our view of last evening's fireball over Yorkshire, UK looking from one of our south Lincolnshire, AuroraCams. 🔭🧪

Excuse the mess but this is just crazy that I can watch this live. Thank you NASA and the Artemis 2 crew. #NASA 🔭🧪

Someone please reassure me that the toilet has been flushed on the Orion capsule and this is not a fuel leak happening right now at almost 240000 miles from home #Artemis2 🔭🧪

Space is BIG..!! 🔭🧪

This is an extraordinary saga that Sunder is pursuing indefatigably. The BBC has repeatedly tried to excuse itself from responsibility for allowing Nigel Farage to lie egregiously about immigration without challenge. It is illustrative of a much wider malaise & so very important. Thank you, Sunder.

Bloody hell. From secretly-funded lobby groups masquerading as ‘think tanks’ (who continue to dominate our discourse despite Liz Truss demonstrating the dangers) to a secretly-funded political party. Should have seen that coming.

There she is. All 4% of her. Welcome to astronomical spring Moon 😊 🔭🧪

Terrible seeing tonight with all the chemtrails, I mean contrails 😁, drifting across the sky, but I managed to capture Jupiter with (L to R) Europa, Ganymede and Io. Ganymede's shadow is visible on Jupiter with the Great Red Spot just visible to the right.🧪🔭