Saturn's rings are raining into Saturn
A short NASA Goddard video about ring material falling into the planet, which changed how I think about the thin grey line I have been sketching all month.
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The four minutes I chose not to drive to
Three weeks after watching a 93% eclipse from outside the path of totality, I finally watched NASA's 2024 totality feed and understood what everyone had been telling me.
Someone else's Milky Way
Full Moon, street lamp and a thin haze have cancelled the week, so here is a four-and-a-half-minute Milky Way time-lapse from Japan that I did not film.
What's up in July, and what is up from here
NASA's three-minute July sky guide, with my notes on which parts work from a European back garden with a street lamp and which ones need a car.
A light rye for spring, and someone else's proving basket
A 40% rye tin loaf for a starter that is barely three weeks old, plus a time-lapse of a rye dough doing what mine does too slowly to watch.
Planning for 12 August: a total eclipse within driving distance
The total solar eclipse of 12 August crosses northern Spain at sunset. I have decided to drive there, with a plan, a fallback plan, and a growing list of things that could go wrong.
Morris
The starter I had kept going for years finally gave up in the cold kitchen. A short note on what happened, what I should have done, and some bread without any starter at all.
Barbari, and an oven I will never own
Twelve minutes inside an Iranian bakery, then my attempt at barbari in a domestic oven: same grooves, same glaze, a third of the length and a fraction of the heat.
November, according to NASA and my cloud cover
A short monthly sky guide from NASA, a big aurora night that I spent under cloud, and a purple ribbon called STEVE that turns out not to be an aurora at all.
The long nights are back
Dark by half past seven, a new four-minute habit of counting stars in the Little Dipper, and one minute of someone else's much better sky.
Twenty minutes from rye field to loaf
A German museum film follows winter rye from horse-drawn sowing to a wood-fired oven, and makes my bag of supermarket flour look like the end of a very long story.
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.
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 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.
Morris, and a rye starter filmed by someone else
My starter is older than some of my cutlery and I have never once watched it rise. Someone on Wikimedia Commons filmed theirs for ten hours.
Jupiter, Mars, and a red spot I could not quite see
Two planets high in the January sky, Mars just past opposition, and a NASA clip that shows what my 70 mm refractor could only hint at.