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Simeon Schmauß
@stim3on.bsky.social
dabbling with photogrammetry, astrophotography, GIS and more...

https://sschmaus.github.io/links/
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Perseverance captured a new selfie to celebrate 1500 Sols on Mars.
The rover is currently investigating the outer rim of Jezero crater near an outcrop named Sally's Cove. #planetsci

Full panorama: www.360cities.net/image/persev...

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Steve Albers/Simeon Schmauß
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'Moonfall'

946 images by Don Pettit are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this film with music by Chris Zabriskie.

You can watch the 4k UHD real time video here...

youtu.be/_llSxc_08Lo
January 4, 2026 at 3:55 PM
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Uranus with its rings on January 23, 1986, as Voyager 2 approached, looking down on the planet's south pole.
January 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
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⚡ Très belle visualisation de la génération d'électricité solaire au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 sur toute année ! Je me suis amusé à faire les mêmes cartes pour la France, sur 2025, à partir des données de l'ENTSO-E (transparency.entsoe.eu) pour le nucléaire, le solaire, l'éolien et l'hydro
January 2, 2026 at 9:19 PM
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The microcosmos is fun.

Ciliate I filmed today working on its juggling act.

Filmed on a Nikon E600 DIC microscope, 20x objective, using a Canon R5C. 🧪🦠

youtube.com/shorts/-uCZG...
The microcosmos is fun. Ciliate working on its juggling act.
YouTube video by Ariel Waldman
youtube.com
January 2, 2026 at 5:00 AM
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'Noctilucent'

452 images by Matthew Dominick are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this 3x & 2x real time video footage of noctilucent clouds illuminated by pre-dawn sunrise.

Credit: Matthew Dominick / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

youtu.be/iO-SAhBWvS4
January 2, 2026 at 1:49 PM
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Time for yet another megathread of my favourite satellite pics.

This time I have 123 images processed by me in 2025 *.

Various dates, random places.

Most of them were taken by Sentinel-2, some by S-3 and one or two by Landsat.

*There's one more pic that isn't mine, but it's so good 😊
January 1, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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'Gold Coast'

This is the real-time view from ISS in orbit above the Gold Coast of California and Mexico. 1,183 images by Matthew Dominick are repaired, remastered & retimed to create this 4K UHD video footage.

Credit: Matthew Dominick / ISS / NASA / ESRS / Seán Doran

youtu.be/ZEfmYROSgow
ISS - Gold Coast
YouTube video by Seán Doran
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January 1, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Last night I set up my telescope so we could all watch the planets while waiting for the new year to arrive.

After the fireworks had subsided, I attached my camera and captured my first astrophoto of the year featuring Jupiter and its moon Europa. #astrophotography

Happy New Year everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 8:35 PM
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The order of the frames was reversed, now it's correct

#JWST

Resolving the Dynamic ISM with IR Echoes around Cas A

#ECHOW1-NIRCAM
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Jencson, Jacob
NIRCAM 6x 444 360 335

yuval-harpaz.github.io/astro/jwst_l...

NASA/ESA/CSA/STScI/j. Roger
January 1, 2026 at 6:58 PM
This paper by Vasilyak and Shubralova makes an interesting observation that ELVES #TLE seem to be more likely to occur near tectonic plate boundaries.

However, with just 37 events, I'm skeptical of the statistical significance of their results which isn't addressed in the paper at all. 🧪🧵
We call the very upper-atmospheric lightnings elves and sprites (which is itself great), and these events don't appear everywhere. The analysis in this study argues that elves are mostly occur along the tectonic plates' boundaries, which is slightly crazy. 🧪⚒️

Link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
December 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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Kudos to our project scientist who helps advocate for these every ~year when I think the view might work and we've got a little bit of energy and time spare in a plan. Doing the science on the day to day is important. Taking a moment now and again to do something just for art is important as well.
From NASA –
Swiftly flow the days: As we approach the end of one year and the beginning of another on Earth, the Curiosity rover paused to send a postcard from Mars. The image combines one panorama taken after sunrise and another taken before sunset. images.nasa.gov/details/PIA2...
December 31, 2025 at 3:40 AM
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I picked a favorite of my renders from each month:

Jan: Gemini Rescue concept (historical)
Feb: Orion (stylized)
March: MPD cargo spacecraft (NASA concept)
April: Tongren joint circumlunar station (personal concept)
December 30, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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AstroBin's Image of the Day: "Jupiter, Ganymede & Io | 20-Dec-25" by Tom Williams
www.astrobin.com/scs3o5/
#astrophotography
December 30, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is revolutionising our understanding of the universe. It's also doing it for the Solar System with spectacular data, such as that of Uranus here.

If you like this image, you can vote for it here: bsky.app/profile/spac...

🧪⚛️ #sciComm #planetSci
December 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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I find this image quite fascinating and beautiful. It's showing lightning discharging towards space. Astronaut Nichole Ayers took this image from the International Space Station on July 3, 2025.

If you like it too, you can vote for it here:
bsky.app/profile/spac...

🧪⚛️ #sciComm #planetSci
December 29, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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🔭 3I/ATLAS Flyby

Image Credit & Copyright: Dan Bartlett

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25122...
December 26, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Just a reminder that Christian Tate's 3D models of Jezero Crater landscapes recreated with images captured by Mastcam-Z on Perseverance Rover exists on sketchfab
December 25, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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This year's gingerbread is the Vera Rubin Observatory! @vrubinobs.bsky.social
December 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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My old collection of >100 high resolution images taken by Pleiades satellites between 2013 and 2021.

My processing skills weren't very good and Bsky can't show full res, but here they are.

I'm planning to add more from time to time.

1. Beijing-Daxing Airport terminal in China ( 2021-10-26 ).
December 22, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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#NASA's #Mars #Curiosity rover

2025-12-18 17:22:49 UTC Sol 4752: Right Navigation Camera

mars.nasa.gov/raw_images/1...

NASA/JPL-Caltech/j. Roger
December 24, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Also a nice parallel observation. #JWST NIRISS (candian built instrument 🇨🇦) observation of LEDA 1115693 (large #galaxy at the bottom) and LEDA 1115955 (large galaxy in the middle).
Filters: F090W, F277W, F444W, program 5890
December 25, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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#Galaxy cluster Abell 370 with #JWST NIRCam 🔭
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ab...
December 25, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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For the final day, 24, of #ArtAdventCalendar, I present this illustration which I call Exploration of Amalthea. The latter is a very small moon of Jupiter in a very close orbit. Jupiter would fill half the sky seen from here!

#SciArt #spaceart #Blender3d
December 24, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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This is hands down my favourite #SolarFlare in recent years, an event from September 2024. The flare persisted for several hours, giving us a jaw-dropping view of ‘coronal rain’ (seen in the yellow structure) and ‘supra-arcade downflows’ (seen in the cyan structure). A beauty!
December 23, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I gripe a little bit about the ambiguity of the word "day" — astronomically speaking, of course — and also present you with a *gorgeous* Hubble shot of a face-spiral galaxy that turns out to be part of the puzzle that tells us how the universe expands.

badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/happy-sols...

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Happy solstice, and a gorgeous galaxy with which to measure the Universe
The longest night is now behind us, and a Hubble image of a galaxy used as a ruler
badastronomy.beehiiv.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM