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Robert Asumendi
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I make the world's only binoculars designed for stargazing. You can 3D print and build your own @analogsky.bsky.social / https://analogsky.co/ Also graphic designer for the Terre Haute Gunblades.
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Robert Asumendi @robertasumendi.bsky.social · Nov 17
Ok Blue Sky, using this app instead of X might improve your mental health a bit, but if you need a moment with the universe, I design stargazing 🔭🔭 binocular kits you can build easily yourself and find a few quiet moments of peace, by yourself or with friends. ✌️ analogsky.co
3d printed parts kit for building your own stargazing binoculars. User feedback from the hundreds of people who have built their own results in your kit coming with the most up-to-date design! Side view of Analog Sky Ember, compact but powerful stargazing binoculars. Comfortable and hands-free, use telescope eyepieces to change the zoom all the way up to 100x with optional optics. See Saturn's rings and sunspots or zoom out for whole star clusters. Top view of girl and her mom building Analog Sky Magic stargazing binoculars together. This kit + course takes you step-by-step through building your own binoculars that let you explore the sky like never before. See craters on the Moon, Saturn's rings, star clusters, galaxies, and constellations. Bring back the stars! Front view of Analog Sky Heart, the first 80mm binoculars designed to be pointed at the night sky. Add telescope eyepieces to zoom from 11x - 133x. Breathtaking compositions of deep space objects in rich starfields at a price that was untouchable until now. Build your own and slip away into the cosmos.
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what it's like to look through giant binoculars www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2Q_...
The best telescope in 2025 is... giant binoculars?
YouTube video by Analog Sky
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September 5, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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Follow Venus the next few mornings, and you can see an unusual sight, as the planet transits (passes in front of) the open star cluster Messier 44 (Praesepe) in the heart of the constellation Cancer. Brilliant -4 magnitude Venus nicks the +4th magnitude cluster on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday morning.
Venus v M44
August 30, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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I designed the biggest binoculars in the world (that you can buy) and they're for looking at outer space 🔭 🌌. Early access is a big step for our nano-scale mom-and-pop business to bring this model to life! www.analogsky.co/bloom
World's Biggest Binocular Telescope Model. 8" / 200mm Binoculars — Analog Sky
Analog Sky Bloom 8" reverse Newtonian binocular telescope gives you the most immersive views of the cosmos. Smart electronics combine with thoughtful design to create a whole new stargazing experience...
www.analogsky.co
August 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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tshirt concept
August 2, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Big telescopes belong on Earth! A thrilling day for astronomy and humanity. Amazing what public funding can do. Where are the privately-funded pictures like this?
vrubinobs.bsky.social NSF–DOE Rubin Observatory @vrubinobs.bsky.social · Jun 23
The image offers a stunning variety of objects — from bright stars ranging from blue to red in color, to nearby blue spiral galaxies, to distant red galaxy groups — demonstrating the broad range of science made possible by Rubin data ✨🔭🧪
A sprawling, textured field of galaxies scattered across the deep black of space. It is filled with the delicate smudges and glowing cores of galaxies of many shapes, sizes and colors, as well as the bright multi-colored points of stars. To the lower left is a region filled with the hundreds of golden glittering gems of a distant galaxy cluster. In the foreground, below and right of center, two blue spiral galaxies look like eyes beneath the entangled mass of a triple galaxy merger in the upper right. A few bright blue points of foreground stars pierce the glittering tapestry. Throughout the image, thousands of galaxies gather in clusters or are spread throughout, like glittering gems strewn on a table. Some are sharp-edged and spiral, like coiled ribbons; others round and diffuse, like polished pebbles. Still others are just smudges of various colors. The background is peppered with pinpoint stars in reds, yellows, and blues, crisp against the velvet black.
June 23, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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Just thinking of the Harvard computer women a century ago, who looked at images of the universe like this by eye to make discoveries. They revolutionized astronomy, and Rubin definitely will too!

Also, wow how excited would Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Flemming be to see this! 🤩

🔭🧪🎢
June 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Big binoculars incoming! 200mm parabolic mirror objectives. This is the first time mirror binoculars have been available since JMI stopped production. 2" focusers, IPD from 49-85mm. The optics all fit in carry-on luggage size. members.analogsky.co for the journey from CAD to first prototype!
CAD drawing of 200mm astronomy binoculars. CAD drawing of 200mm astronomy binoculars. Metal frame parts of 200mm astronomy binoculars.
June 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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3 weeks to the first prototype of the world's largest commercially-available binocular telescope
top-down CAD diagram of 200mm binocular telescope, called "Dream", from Analog Sky
June 3, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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big binoculars progress
cad image of 200mm binocular telescope in design phase
May 21, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Mercury's elongation (distance from the Sun in the sky) is large enough for safe viewing before sunrise. Fun thing to see if you have to be awake in the morning
astrodave.bsky.social David Dickinson @astrodave.bsky.social · Apr 25
...and the show’s not over. Tomorrow sees one more chance to glimpse the slim crescent Moon just 36-24 hours prior to New as it slides by Mercury low in the dawn sky. You’ll need a clear, open horizon to the east, and binoculars (and an alarm clock!) will be a plus.
Moon
April 25, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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I love how YouTube gives you a panel of the comments you haven't replied to but seemingly no way to dismiss comments you don't *want* to reply to lol
April 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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The American Astronomical Society — the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country — has put out a statment about Trump's proposed fatal cuts to NASA science.

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AAS Gravely Concerned About Cuts to NASA Science Funding  | American Astronomical Society
The American Astronomical Society is gravely concerned about the deep cuts to NASA science funding reported to be in the draft President’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2026.
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April 11, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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New stuff 👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jdn...
Analog Sky was not at NEAF 2025 but....
YouTube video by Analog Sky
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April 11, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Just reposting this so it's easy to find later to show my 12-year-old daughter. Sometimes I'm embarrassed I was so excited about the internet as a teenager in the 90s thinking we could share the collective knowledge of humanity when this was pretty much the whole point the whole time.
psst-org.bsky.social Psst.org @psst-org.bsky.social · Apr 9
W-W says Meta let advertisers know when 13-17 y-os were feeling depressed saying, this is a good time to try to serve them an ad. "If a 13-year-old girl would delete a selfie that was considered a good time to try to sell her a beauty product. This was taken as a signal and shared with advertisers."
April 9, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Can't wait to find out what my next shipment of lenses from China is going to cost in a couple weeks. Can I spin a wheel maybe?
April 9, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Getting closer. The lenses might be $1000 each by the end of the month but hey.
April 9, 2025 at 3:27 AM
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Not sure why WKUK official reuploaded this a couple days ago, somebody better keep an eye on those guys www.youtube.com/watch?v=KivC...
It's Illegal to Say
YouTube video by WKUK: Whitest Kids U’ Know
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April 9, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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With tariffs making real Japanese anime unaffordable, your only option is American-made crap like this

Free on patreon 👇
381 - Dogcatcher Inutaro S2E01 - Dogcatcher Graduation Leads To Excitement!! Showdown In Times Square Tokyo Bass Pro Shop!! | episode 1
Get more from episode 1 on Patreon
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April 3, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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left hand side coming together
CAD view of Analog Sky Magic LVL 2 Binocular Telescope design process.
April 2, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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I'm always saying this
philplait.bsky.social Phil Plait @philplait.bsky.social · Apr 2
If you have clear skies, the crescent Moon is right next to the Pleiades tonight in the west. Should be lovely through binoculars.
April 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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spring coat
March 28, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Life Hack: The night sky offers endless entertainment—meteor showers, eclipses, and planetary alignments - all at no cost. Except for a jacket. Maybe some bug spray. Possibly a chair.
March 18, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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We're definitely in the Hyper Light Drifter soundtrack part of the year. I guess a neon post apocalypse is kind of a metaphor for spring.
Half a 50mm binocular telescope, Analog Sky's Magic LVL 2 prototype. 76 degree viewing angle, simultaneous objective focus, 56mm minimum IPD (lowest in the world for 2" eyepieces), built-in PiFinder plate solving finder, green laser pointer, 3V lighting, and hopefully APO Petzval optics. The prototype lays on its side on a chair in the sunshine.
March 18, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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In addition to damaging local habitat, this is polluting the atmosphere with aluminum oxide. But if a exploding SpaceX payload was ever a nuclear-powered probe, this would rain down deadly radioactivity over everyone below. No profit-motive space companies, no nuclear space probes.
rvbdrm.com Ravin Boodram @rvbdrm.com · Mar 6
SpaceX’s Starship explodes during test flight.
March 7, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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👇The Mars #EuropaClipper gravity assist is happening right now! Locate Mars to wave at Clipper as it flys by on its 5yr journey to Jupiter & the frozen ice moon of Europa.
At the moment Mars is an easy-to-spot triangle with the bright Gemini stars of Castor and Pollux! 🔭🧪🛰️
ℹ️ stellarium-web.org
A sky map showing the locations of Mars, Jupiter relative to the constellation of Orion in the South.
March 1, 2025 at 5:52 PM