The eclipsed Moon came up behind the neighbours' roof
A total lunar eclipse that was already under way when the Moon rose, a roofline in exactly the wrong place, and about seventeen minutes of a copper smudge.
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Perseids 2025, and the Moon that ruined them
The peak night fell three days after full Moon, so a bright waning gibbous rose before the radiant got high. Seven meteors, a lot of moonlight, and two planets at dawn.
Morris goes in the fridge for the summer
At 28 °C in the kitchen my starter peaks in three hours and collapses by lunchtime, so he has been moved to the fridge and onto a weekly schedule.
A dew shield made from a cereal box
Summer nights are short and wet. Twenty minutes, a cereal box and some black tape stopped my objective lens fogging over halfway through every session.
The nights that never quite get dark
Around the solstice the sky over the back step stays a faint blue-grey all night, so I watched a few seconds of somebody else's Milky Way instead.
A Mischbrot, after watching someone else's kitchen
A German-style mixed rye and wheat loaf at 40% rye, worked out after watching a home-baking video filmed in a kitchen as small and untidy as mine.
A first-quarter Moon at 70×, with a drawing I am not proud of
Ninety minutes on the terminator of a half Moon: three big craters in a chain, the lunar Apennines catching sunrise, and why I now sketch instead of just looking.
A year of the Sun, in three minutes
I do not own a solar filter and do not intend to point a telescope at the Sun without one, so around the equinox I watched NASA do it for me.