Ben Farmer
bjfar.bsky.social
Ben Farmer
@bjfar.bsky.social
Ex-physicist with strange hobbies like growing trees, playing video games, and thinking about floating habitats in the clouds of Venus.
If you happen to need high-resolution images of the entire planet #Earth, and are happy with the Japan side of the planet, I recently came across this very excellent interface to #Himawara8 weather satellite data, maintained by the "Digital Typhoon" website: agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typh...
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 AM
From the preface of Carl Sagan's book "The Cosmic Connection", 1973. Such optimism for what we would have accomplished by now!
#astronomy #carlsagan
December 14, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Even higher resolution here: photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA1995...
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 AM
You gotta get yourself one of these:
November 27, 2024 at 12:54 AM
Almost exactly 51 years ago, in November 1973, the Pioneer 10 spacecraft was passing by Jupiter, the first spacecraft to do so. It took the attached photographs during its flyby. It was the first human-made object to reach the outer solar system, and it is still on its way into interstellar space.
November 22, 2024 at 12:00 AM
An experiment in dynamic histogram generation with #Bokeh, #Python, #Jupyter. You'd think this would be in the library, but it is not, unless I am dumb and missed it. Fortunately the custom JS was not so complicated. Code here: snippet.host/cfxnwc
November 21, 2024 at 10:47 PM
Still learning this app, so here's a thing I built in #NoMansSky one time, that seemed to be appreciated by the people of Reddit.
November 20, 2024 at 3:17 AM