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Gene J. Mikulka
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Founded the Talking Space Podcast in 2009. Immersed in spaceflight since the Apollo days, Space Advocate and lovebird Dad. All Opinions are mine alone and don't reflect the position of the podcast. www.talkingspaceonline.com
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #142,589!

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #142,589, Gene J. Mikulka ‪@genejm1017.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 21, 2023"
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Boeing actually owns two of them. One is for the X-37B. The other is the fabrication shop for Starliner .

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The Moon Dressed Like Saturn - © Francisco Sojuel - PicHD PicAbout Astronomy Picture Of the Day#astrophotos@shinyakato.dev 🔭 READ MORE 🔭

Why does Saturn appear so big? It doesn't -- what is pictured are foreground clouds on Earth crossing in front of the Moon. The Moon shows a slight crescent phase with most of its surface visible by reflected Earthlight, known as Da Vinci glow. The Sun directly illuminates the brightly lit lunar crescent from the bottom, which means that the Sun must be below the horizon and so the image was taken before sunrise.  This double take-inducing picture was captured on 2019 December 24, two days before the Moon slid in front of the Sun to create a solar eclipse. In the foreground, lights from small Guatemalan towns are visible behind the huge volcano Pacaya.    Your Sky Surprise: What picture did APOD feature on your birthday? (post 1995)
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Sep Astronomy 3-New Moon 5-Mercury g elongation 5-Moon v Venus 6-Moon occs Spica(E Africa) 8-Saturn opp 9-Mercury 30'N Regulus 10-Moon occ Antares(Australia) 17-Moon occ Saturn(N America) 18-Full Moon+partial eclipse(Atlantic) 22-Equinox 22-Moon occ M45(N America) 27-Comet A3 T-ATLAS perihelion

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Partial eclipse
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over 500k new users in the last two days 🤯

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Glad you didn't get run over ! Although it would have made for some memorable emergency room conversation. MD: " How did this happen?" You: " Um, would you believe a Space Shuttle ran me over?"

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Daily bunny no.2917 has some new neighbors

A trio of bunnies moves a ton of furniture into an apartment, which is currently strewn about the sidewalk. From the balcony opposite their apartment building, a different bunny watches them anxiously
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Commissioning camera: ✅ With ComCam reinstalled, we have 2 out 3 main telescope components in place! In just a few weeks, summit staff will install the 8.4-meter primary/tertiary mirror—and Rubin will finally have a complete telescope system for the first time! 🔭🧪 🔗: https://buff.ly/3Xoj2Uy

Reinstalling Rubin Observatory's commissioning camera #shorts
Reinstalling Rubin Observatory's commissioning camera #shorts

The commissioning camera is a 144 Mpx version of Rubin's3200 Mpx LSST Camera that is used for testing and troubleshooting purposes. It was reinstalled onto t...

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Emerald and Maxine wish all, peace #TheDailyLovebird

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Gene J. Mikulka
@genejm1017.bsky.social
Founded the Talking Space Podcast in 2009. Immersed in spaceflight since the Apollo days, Space Advocate and lovebird Dad. All Opinions are mine alone and don't reflect the position of the podcast. www.talkingspaceonline.com
247 followers232 following1.2k posts