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Elia Schmidt
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Mosaic of 3 photos of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) taken over 3 nights in November 2024 totalling over 15 hours of exposure.

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#astronomy
#astrophotography
#andromeda
#galaxy
#m31
#deepskyphotography
April 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Chess.com made an innocent (though bad) joke about accepting new names for the bishop piece and people went crazy. This perfect example shows that the "culture war" is more a Fata Morgana of social media rather than actual politics.
x.com/chesscom/sta...
Chess.com on X: "accepting new name ideas for this piece: https://t.co/Nw5qbJxdyB" / X
accepting new name ideas for this piece: https://t.co/Nw5qbJxdyB
x.com
March 20, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Interesting to see the effect of calibration frames on Deep Sky Images. Just above one hour of data on the Orion Nebula with dark, flat and bias frames (left) and stacked raw without calibration (right).

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#astrophotography
#deepskyphotography
#astronomy
#orionnebula
March 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Reposted by Elia Schmidt
Politiker sollten bei den Fakten bleiben:
„Deutschland muss nicht »wieder« sicher werden. Es ist eins der sichersten Länder der Welt.
Ordnet man die Länder der Erde nach der Wahrscheinlichkeit , einem Mord zum Opfer zu fallen, liegt Deutschland auf Platz 175.“

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Meinung: Migration: Friedrich Merz fällt auf den Psychotrick der AfD herein
Das Narrativ vom »gefährlichen Ausländer« gehört zum Markenkern der AfD. Sie hat es mit langem Atem strategisch in den Mainstream eingeschleust und die Union überlistet: mit gezielter Realitätsverzerr...
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February 2, 2025 at 10:56 PM
My latest image of Bode's and the Cigar Galaxies. Taken over two nights on December 24th and 25th of 2024 with an integrated exposure time of just under 8 hours (I have a pretty shitty camera...)

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#astrophotography
#deepskyphotography
#astronomy
January 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Sam Harris' tries to make sense of Trump's re-election here: substack.com/home/post/p-.... I want to understand if dems REALLY overfocused on identity politics (LatinX etc) or if there just was a massive overreaction to what in reality were niche ideas not shared by the vast majority of dems?
The Reckoning
Donald Trump has been re-elected President of the United States.
substack.com
January 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM