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Your haikus are constantly increasing in irony and style, great work!
OT: While still almost immobilized by Influenza, i am now alert enough to process some older astrophotography-stacks using my more recent software and slightly advanced skills. Processing software at NASA level really makes a difference to the "height of the ceiling", regarding processing. Here's one of my first Dual-Narrowband captures (NGC 7822, August 2023), reprocessed in the HOO color scheme (klick to zoom).
Makes a great image, though the raw material was only a few hours of exposures and pretty foggy, too.
But this summer is uncomparably hot and moist, i didn't even come to make a session because of wind, clouds, rain or moonlight
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Speaking of this hot summer...
I can remember a well known german climate scientist recently giving out a relief announcement, about global sea temperature finally falling below the last year's high, marking a plateu and the start of a cooling process. When i watched GSST graphs a few days later, i could not believe what i saw. Environmental science seems to become more and more of a joke, lately.
When looking at the anomaly-map, the mediterranean sea, which is one of the two main influences on local climate/weather in my area, it is also contains some of the unusually hottest spots of the world's sea surface. Seems like i have to carry out most of my astrophotography in the colder months (which were significantly colder before, too) for decent data. Though, where the highest temperatures in Europe were expected recently (up to 46°C in Romania, Ukraine etc.), it's very dry there and the nearby sea surfaces are the hottest on the map.
I marked the day of the announcement for your convenience.
Yes, it's OT, but somehow it's related to Bitcoin price speculation too, because climate measures may cost us a lot of money in the future, and every energy-intensive technology will be questioned even more, probably using the same old bullshit-arguments we know from the past. While "scientists" blame consumers for their CO2 footprint, while the same science was starting a fight against air pollution, which in turn is heating up the atmosphere even more and faster than CO2 level are capable of. 2023 until now is the proof, but it's only rarely mentioned in a very few publications (by really good scientists, who are able to think complex and logical, while not being paid for driving a certain agenda).
/rant over
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