I just spent about 10 minutes sitting in the shade in my driveway picking a containers-worth of blueberries; just what I could reach within arm’s length. This blueberry bush is ~7ft tall and goes down the length of our house. We have. A lot. Of berries.

jonies show tomorrow looks like it’s gonna be HOT then it’s gonna be RAINY and tbh I much prefer the rain rather than the hot

Tiffany@tiffzny.bsky.social · 5mo ago

guys guys guys GUYS GUYS GUYS!!!! GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

warm in the rooftop tin can / observatory dome

11 hours later

Tiffany@tiffzny.bsky.social · 3d ago

moonrise looks absolutely menacing over Dartmouth right now, enjoy this terrible photo

moonrise looks absolutely menacing over Dartmouth right now, enjoy this terrible photo

As part of a group of amateur and professional astronomers specifically watching for either a flash from impact or a resulting plume, no one in the group (including me) has reported seeing anything yet, at least not anything obvious. Worth a shot here given the rare clear skies in NS, but now sleep

Jonathan McDowell@planet4589.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Falcon 9 stage has now impacted the lunar surface. Astronomers followed its approach until last night; haven't yet seen any reports of anyone detecting the impact flash itself.

I don’t see anything in my image previews at this point and I’ve crashed the imaging software just like this rocket debris has crashed into the moon…. 🥴 Task failed? But images acquired? So maybe a success regardless? In any case, I’ll submit my images to teams Doing Science. 🚀

Astronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans@astroroyalscot.bsky.social · 3d ago

"Alright, theoretically there has been an impact" 😂 #moon 📷: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9J9-...

Space junk up, space junk down. We’ve got a high-interest doubleheader tonight, both centered on the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, both involving SpaceX: a pre-dawn launch, and a lunar impact.

Moon’s up. Tonight (aka morning of Aug 5) at 3:35am Atlantic, a large piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 debris will impact the edge of the moon (from our perspective). The impact flash itself is unlikely to be seen, but there may be a visible (with telescopes) plume extending out from the disc of the moon.

it's blueberry szn, the time of the year where i beg all my neighbours to help themselves to the berry bush before the birds get them all

"wait, a microwave [oven] works because of light?" I asked, out loud; as a person with a masters degree in astrophysics, intensely involved in helping the public understand science... ok, whoops, my bad. can we blame this on the fact i'm barely sleeping & ~6 months pregnant? alright thanks guys

this comic's title text: "All discussions of daylight saving time policy are doomed by a mix of contradictory, inconsistent, and impossible preferences, which is why I think the only thing we can really hope to do is to make it worse."

Randall Munroe@xkcd.com · 3w ago

Time Change xkcd.com/3272/

For no particular reason: here's an explanation for why the sun looks red when there's a lot of particles in the atmosphere. demos.smu.ca/demos/astron...

I’m not living in the US anymore but if I were, my preference is permanent daylight time and not permanent standard time *ducks* Like you’re already on daylight time for 8 months of the year! It just makes sense to extend that rather than change 8 whole months to standard! *dodges tomatoes*

chat, I don’t think this is where all these #10 buses should be rn

To me, the most impressive part of the World Cup is how country-specific supporters have been able to be at every game in droves! Tickets were so hard to buy and somehow there’s huge sections and huuuge numbers of people wearing the specific jerseys of the teams playing? I’m in awe.

If you misplaced your broom, it’s on this Halifax Transit bus fyi

people in the country I’ve lived for more than a decade tend to not like when I tell them (correctly) that Fahrenheit is the better temperature scale for everyday human-related things

Seven Machina Rasmussen@toomanyspectra.bsky.social · last mo.

hot take: we should get rid of Celsius. Fahrenheit for normal human temperatures and everyday life. Kelvin for everything else.

guyyyyssssssss 😭

"Scientists don't want you to know-" Buddy there are so many things I, as a scientist, want you to know and the only thing stopping me from writing more papers and posts about it and then starting a podcast to tell you even MORE things is that I am limited by hours in the day

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

Bianca Nogrady@biancanogrady.bsky.social · 2mo ago

FFS I thought we'd moved past the ignorance of illustrating stories about deadly heatwaves with photos of people frolicking at the beach/in lakes/in fountains. Heatwaves are the deadliest agents of climate change. They kill nearly half a million people each year, and that's only going to increase.

There was one time, showing someone Saturn through the telescope, that I was asked "so is that between us and the moon or is it further away?" It's a logical question, with occultations like this 👇unequivocally proving that the planets are further away! 🔭🧪 📽️ Watch as Venus hides behind the moon 🤩

David Dickinson@astrodave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Venus this afternoon just before ingress behind the Moon - a tough capture with the DwarfLab DwarfMini - video: youtu.be/x_wLoLVqlTc?...

Visible from across much of Canada (and much more) today - in a few hours actually - the moon will cover up Venus in the sky for a short bit. However... viewing this in the sky requires LOTS OF PRECAUTION because it happens IN THE DAYTIME when the sun is up -- and the SUN IS DANGEROUS TO LOOK AT!!

David Dickinson@astrodave.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Get ready for ‘The Great North American Daytime Lunar Occultation’ this afternoon, as the Moon blots out Venus. The event is centered on ~20:40UT, & occurs for NE South America under dark skies, and the Caribbean, CONUS, northern Mexico and southern Canada in daytime skies before sunset.

Spotted: Venus, tiny Jupiter, and very thin crescent Moon. Mercury is likely in there somewhere but not bad from peering over the fence while my dogs were in the yard!

Plateau Astro@plateauastro.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If it’s clear tonight (Tue, Jun 16), look West around 9:30 PM and you’ll see: 🌒 thin crescent Moon 🌡️ faint Mercury 🍊 brighter Jupiter 💡 very bright Venus

I’m back from a week at the astronomy conference and I had the delight of being on an airplane put into a holding pattern for the first time because we didn’t pass visibility minimums at YHZ at 3am - but we eventually landed in fog so deep I could barely see the wing after landing!

Don't forget to watch for Jupiter and Venus together after sunset! On June 9 they'll be very close but even now it's good. Look west after sunset. If it's clear you can't miss them lowish to the horizon. Venus is very bright.

a student brought me a sundae from the Dairy Bar (flavour of the week is banana + chocolate) and truly she needs to just be given her degree right now because she had it filled into a TRAVEL MUG so it wouldn't melt on her way to the office and this travel-mug-sundae idea is GENIUS 😭🙏🍦

This is cool! Sign up to count bikes & pedestrians & more at a specific location and time to assist in collecting a snapshot of micromobility users across Canada. My physical health is 👎 right now so I can't commit to a shift, but I've seen others around Halifax share their counts! Check it out!

Vélo Canada Bikes@velocanadabikes.bsky.social · 2mo ago

#PedalPollSondoVelo starts NOW! 🚴🏽 Help drive data for better bike infrastructure & community health. Count riders June 2–7 to track trends, celebrate #WorldBicycleDay & #NationalHeatlhAndFitnessDay, and advocate for safe streets. Any day counts! Sign up: www.velocanadabikes.org/pedalpoll

I’ve been out of the Midwest for more than a decade now but it is still SO NICE to listen to a thunderstorm and not worry about if I have to take shelter. (It’s thundery over Halifax rn)

Moon through a small scope plus a view of the big Observatory dome from the rooftop. I popped in to the this weekend’s public tour of the BGO - and because I popped in, it all decided to quit working. So. I fixed it and let the (super!) PhD student lead the rest of the tour. Great clear night!

Tiffany@tiffzny.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Moon’s up! Admittedly, it has been a long time since I’ve looked for it. 🌓