Bread at night, stars after
Things I keep rewatching while dough proves or clouds pass. None of these are mine: they come from NASA, ESO and people who share their work on Wikimedia Commons, and each one is credited under the player. I host copies here because the originals have a habit of moving.
The domes at La Silla in Chile open and the southern sky wheels overhead.
Written about in The long nights are back.
Four and a half minutes of a sky far darker than anything near my house.
Written about in Someone else's Milky Way.
A few seconds of desert sky from Joshua Tree National Park.
Written about in The nights that never quite get dark.
NASA's monthly sky guide: the Perseids and where to look for them.
Written about in Perseids 2025, and the Moon that ruined them.
NASA's monthly sky guide for November 2025.
Written about in November, according to NASA and my cloud cover.
NASA's monthly sky guide for July 2026.
Written about in What's up in July, and what is up from here.
Why the rings are slowly raining into the planet, and how fast.
Written about in Saturn's rings are raining into Saturn.
The whole of the April 2024 eclipse compressed into a minute and a half.
Written about in Planning for 12 August: a total eclipse within driving distance.
An unhurried stretch of NASA's telescope feed from Mexico, from thin crescent through totality and back.
Written about in The four minutes I chose not to drive to.
A year of the Sun in ultraviolet, two frames a day. The best thing to watch while dough is proving.
Written about in A year of the Sun, in three minutes.
The storm I can just about see from the back step, explained by people who can see it properly.
Written about in Jupiter, Mars, and a red spot I could not quite see.
A purple ribbon in the sky that turned out not to be an aurora at all.
Written about in November, according to NASA and my cloud cover.
Seventy-five grams of rye culture, one minute after feeding to ten hours later, sped up 1200 times.
Written about in Morris, and a rye starter filmed by someone else.
A short time-lapse of a rye loaf doing nearly all of its rising in the basket.
Written about in A light rye for spring, and someone else's proving basket.
Mixing, kneading, shaping and baking in an ordinary home kitchen. In German, but the hands explain everything.
Written about in A Mischbrot, after watching someone else's kitchen.
Friends arrive at a desert camp in the evening and bake flatbread straight in the fire.
Written about in Morris.
Twelve minutes behind the counter of a bakery that makes nothing but barbari, all day, in a huge oven.
Written about in Barbari, and an oven I will never own.
Sowing winter rye with horses, threshing, milling, and finally firing a wood oven. Twenty slow, wonderful minutes.
Written about in Twenty minutes from rye field to loaf.