Brad Snowder 🔭
@bradsnowder.bsky.social
Astrophysicist, Astronomy Instructor, and Planetarium Manager. Carpe Noctem.
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Brad Snowder 🔭
@bradsnowder.bsky.social
· Nov 20
I just went out to check on the stars. They're fine. 🔭
Everyone's vehicle is one year older today.
January 1, 2026 at 4:32 PM
Everyone's vehicle is one year older today.
Remember to open a window at midnight to let the new year in. Then go flush the toilet to let the old one out.
January 1, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Remember to open a window at midnight to let the new year in. Then go flush the toilet to let the old one out.
This hospital is great. Tony's Coffee, fettuccine, I should almost die more often.
December 29, 2025 at 11:57 PM
This hospital is great. Tony's Coffee, fettuccine, I should almost die more often.
Every year I watch It's a Wonderful Life and I joke and poke fun all the way through and then at the end I bawl like a baby.
December 24, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Every year I watch It's a Wonderful Life and I joke and poke fun all the way through and then at the end I bawl like a baby.
Happy Solstice (photo by me).
December 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Happy Solstice (photo by me).
"Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back."
Alison Jolly 1988 CE
Alison Jolly 1988 CE
December 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"Anyone who has lived through an English winter can see the point of building Stonehenge to make the Sun come back."
Alison Jolly 1988 CE
Alison Jolly 1988 CE
I'm up early to go perform an emergency planetarium show. It's rare but they happen. 🔭
December 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'm up early to go perform an emergency planetarium show. It's rare but they happen. 🔭
Grades are in. I'm off to the shops to find the true meaning of Christmas.
December 15, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Grades are in. I'm off to the shops to find the true meaning of Christmas.
Welcome to the Great Northwet. There is a river in the sky that has 15x the water of the Mississippi.
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Welcome to the Great Northwet. There is a river in the sky that has 15x the water of the Mississippi.
If I could talk through time to my high school buddies of 50 yrs ago. 1. I went to the store to buy a bottle of water, that's right WATER. 2. It was $1.50 for a small bottle (3x what you guys pay for a gallon of gas). 3. I didn't buy it, but only because they didn't have my brand.
December 11, 2025 at 1:07 AM
If I could talk through time to my high school buddies of 50 yrs ago. 1. I went to the store to buy a bottle of water, that's right WATER. 2. It was $1.50 for a small bottle (3x what you guys pay for a gallon of gas). 3. I didn't buy it, but only because they didn't have my brand.
I got this encyclopedia of planets in a box of Cracker Jacks back in the 70s.
December 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
I got this encyclopedia of planets in a box of Cracker Jacks back in the 70s.
Straddled comfortably on the vacuum cleaner, I rode around the Salyut space station. ~ Yuri Artyukhin, USSR
December 8, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Straddled comfortably on the vacuum cleaner, I rode around the Salyut space station. ~ Yuri Artyukhin, USSR
With apologies to @philplait.bsky.social here's my (snarky) primer on buying telescopes.
skywiseunlimited.com/2015/02/15/t...
skywiseunlimited.com/2015/02/15/t...
Telescopes 101
Have you ever discovered a telescope eyepiece in the pocket of your pajamas? Have you ever measured your roof for a dome? Do you know how to pronounce Cassiopeia? If so, you may have wondered, R…
skywiseunlimited.com
December 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
With apologies to @philplait.bsky.social here's my (snarky) primer on buying telescopes.
skywiseunlimited.com/2015/02/15/t...
skywiseunlimited.com/2015/02/15/t...
It's that time of year. "I want to get them a telescope for Christmas but they might not stay interested so I don't want to spend too much but I want to get a good one.”
December 7, 2025 at 4:57 PM
It's that time of year. "I want to get them a telescope for Christmas but they might not stay interested so I don't want to spend too much but I want to get a good one.”
I knew a black hole
that swallowed the sky.
I don't know why
it swallowed the sky.
Perhaps we'll die.
that swallowed the sky.
I don't know why
it swallowed the sky.
Perhaps we'll die.
December 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I knew a black hole
that swallowed the sky.
I don't know why
it swallowed the sky.
Perhaps we'll die.
that swallowed the sky.
I don't know why
it swallowed the sky.
Perhaps we'll die.
I try to get my students to fathom how big space is but honestly I don't think they can because I don't think I can. It might be unfathomable. 🔭
November 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I try to get my students to fathom how big space is but honestly I don't think they can because I don't think I can. It might be unfathomable. 🔭
I usually don't shop on Black Friday because it becomes a feeding frenzy and I wind up buying things I don't need, but I did go out and get a new mailbox. They were on sale so I got a second one.
November 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I usually don't shop on Black Friday because it becomes a feeding frenzy and I wind up buying things I don't need, but I did go out and get a new mailbox. They were on sale so I got a second one.
Me and my recliner go way back
November 27, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Me and my recliner go way back
I have strong feelings about turkey. Here are my Thanksgiving recommendations.
skywiseunlimited.com/2012/11/20/b...
skywiseunlimited.com/2012/11/20/b...
November 27, 2025 at 4:00 PM
I have strong feelings about turkey. Here are my Thanksgiving recommendations.
skywiseunlimited.com/2012/11/20/b...
skywiseunlimited.com/2012/11/20/b...
I once called my grandmother in Oklahoma and she answered with four words in a strange language "Ken ah hep yall."
November 23, 2025 at 3:52 PM
I once called my grandmother in Oklahoma and she answered with four words in a strange language "Ken ah hep yall."
When I'm travelling I like to sample locally brewed ales. Also when I'm not travelling.
November 21, 2025 at 1:15 AM
When I'm travelling I like to sample locally brewed ales. Also when I'm not travelling.
The bright star in Taurus is called Aldebaran which means The Debaran. Okay actually it means The Follower because it is stalking the Pleiades sisters. The Pleiades are quite young but Aldebaran is old and bloated and orange and shouldn't be allowed to have a phone or be president. 🔭
November 19, 2025 at 1:20 AM
The bright star in Taurus is called Aldebaran which means The Debaran. Okay actually it means The Follower because it is stalking the Pleiades sisters. The Pleiades are quite young but Aldebaran is old and bloated and orange and shouldn't be allowed to have a phone or be president. 🔭
I learn a lot from fourth graders. The moon is a buffoon but Jupiter is stupider. 🔭
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I learn a lot from fourth graders. The moon is a buffoon but Jupiter is stupider. 🔭