Hari Seldon

@foundations.bsky.social

Love Mathematics, live for psychohistory. Rationalist by choiche, former poet.

A quick reminder: if you're going to the solar eclipse track, bring a pair of binoculars, a tripod, a bungee cord, and some cardboard. Eyepiece projection is always a great crowd pleaser, and it will help you and friends watch the partial phases safely! 🧪🔭

Detailed instructions for how to make an solar-observation eyepiece projection rig out of a tripod, a bungee cord, a pair of binoculars, and a cardboard box.  The rig will produce a safe-to-view, detailed, bright image of the Sun.

Wake up nerds, new JWST image just dropped! 🔭🧪 A mid-infrared view of the N79 nebula, a massive star-forming region in a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way called the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). 📸: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, O. Nayak, M. Meixner

Cobalt blue and grey gas and dust in a nebula. Near the top is a bright star with 8 thick diffraction spikes in a starburst pattern.

Can anybody help me in putting up a code/app/software that will automatically unfollow users who publish cat's post? Here on Bsky it's really a feline epidemic. Are you all so lonely? I'm pondering if I will have to leave.