Hari Nair
@mcfiddish.bsky.social
Software engineer at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, supporting Europa Clipper, Dragonfly, and others!
Venus (upper right) and Mercury (lower left). This was a 6 second exposure with my phone camera.
March 9, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Venus (upper right) and Mercury (lower left). This was a 6 second exposure with my phone camera.
I took these two images from my backyard three weeks apart. The bright object in the lower right is Uranus. It takes 84 years to go around the Sun once, so it will take several months to cross the area shown here (about four times the width of the moon).
February 27, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I took these two images from my backyard three weeks apart. The bright object in the lower right is Uranus. It takes 84 years to go around the Sun once, so it will take several months to cross the area shown here (about four times the width of the moon).
Not sure what to do here.
February 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Not sure what to do here.
Here are the Horsehead Nebula and the California Nebula, named for their distinctive shapes. Still needs some work - the stars are way too bright but I'm still a novice!
January 5, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Here are the Horsehead Nebula and the California Nebula, named for their distinctive shapes. Still needs some work - the stars are way too bright but I'm still a novice!
I got a DWARF 3 telescope about a month ago. It's a nifty little device; it can track objects and save individual frames for later processing on your computer. It takes a surprising amount of effort to do astrophotography well, but the Andromeda Galaxy and Orion Nebula are hard to screw up!
December 28, 2024 at 5:58 PM
I got a DWARF 3 telescope about a month ago. It's a nifty little device; it can track objects and save individual frames for later processing on your computer. It takes a surprising amount of effort to do astrophotography well, but the Andromeda Galaxy and Orion Nebula are hard to screw up!
Vivek and Elon are going to find they are not as persuasive as they think they are.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
- Upton Sinclair
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
- Upton Sinclair
BARTIROMO: Are you expecting to close down entire agencies? President Trump has talked about the Department of Education, for example
RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.
RAMASWAMY: We expect mass reductions. We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright.
November 17, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Vivek and Elon are going to find they are not as persuasive as they think they are.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
- Upton Sinclair
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it"
- Upton Sinclair