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Wigmund
@wigmund.bsky.social
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40+ year old with a pair of cats living in Northwest Arkansas that likes a bunch of random shit.

I sometimes get out on the weekends to take nature photos. Feel free to correct any labels I have on my photos, not an expert and appreciate the help.
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November 1, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 25, 2025:
Webb's Rho Ophiuchi

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, Klaus Pontoppidan (STScI)
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
A massive of yellow interstellar gas appears to burst forth from pillars of red dust while various stars twinkle across the view of the interstellar nursery
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 24, 2025:
Saturn at Night

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute, Mindaugas Macijauskas
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Night-side image of the planet Saturn taken by the Cassini spacecraft. Sunlight is reflecting off of the planet's various rings
October 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 23, 2025:
SWAN, Swan, Eagle

Image Credit & Copyright: Adam Block
APOD Mirror Link: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image of a starfield, towards the center of hte image is a glowing green comet. Above and below is are two red nebulas. Dark clouds of interstellar gas and dust swirl about the field of view.
October 24, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 22, 2025:
Comet Lemmon over the High Tatras

Image Credit & Copyright: Tomáš Slovinský & Constantine Themelis
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
A night sky and landscape shot with town lights in a valley before snow-capped rocky peaks. Above everything is the star-filled night sky with a brilliant two-tailed comet in the center, its coma near the mountain peaks and its tails stretching up into the night sky. The same image as previous only with annotations labeling certain things such as several stars or light sources from huts, observatories and towns.
October 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 21, 2025:
IC 1805: The Heart Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Toni Fabiani
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
A massive red interstellar cloud swirls around a central blue glowing region. The overall shape of the blue region and the red outline resembles a human heart - giving the IC 1805 it's nickname of the Heart Nebula.
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Rocky passed away this morning sometime before 6 am.

He was the first pet I owned after moving out on my own. He was at least 19 1/2 years old. I have him for close to almost 15 years and 8 months of that time, taking him in on January 25, 2010.
A long-haired silver gray tabby, relaxed and kneading the air, is laying on a plaid recliner. Photo taken January 25, 2010. A silver gray tabby is curled up in a cat bed. Age has reduced his size and hair quality. Photo taken August 22, 2025.
October 21, 2025 at 11:59 AM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 20, 2025:
Finding Comet Lemmon

Image Credit & Copyright: Petr Horalek / Institute of Physics in Opava
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
photo of the night sky from the shore of a lake with a forest in the background. The sun has just set, leaving a pink glow on the horizon. Just above the glow, Comet Lemmon is visible in the center of the image with its tail stretching to the upper left into the Big Dipper constellation.
October 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 19, 2025:
Comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko Creates Its Tails

Image Credit & License: ESA, Rosetta, NAVCAM
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image of a snowman-shaped comet nuclei
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 18, 2025:
3D Bennu

Image Credit: NASA, GSFC, U. Arizona
Stereo Image Copyright: Patrick Vantuyne
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
3D image of a gray somewhat diamond-shaped asteroid
October 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 17, 2025:
Ida and Dactyl: Asteroid and Moon

Image Credit: NASA, JPL, Galileo Mission
APOD Mirror Site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Image from the Galileo spacecraft taken in 1993 of a large gray potato-shaped asteroid, 243 Ida, that takes up most of the otherwise black image. To the right of the large asteroid is a significantly smaller gray dot - a moon named Dactyl, the first one discovered to orbit an asteroid.
October 17, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 16, 2025:
Young Suns of NGC 7129

Image Credit & Copyright: Timothy Martin
APOD mirror site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Deep space image of a dust-shrouded stellar nursery, brown and red nebulae swirl around the glowing center.
October 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 15, 2025:
Rocket Launch Plume over Tucson

Image Credit & Copyright: Wayne Showalter
APOD mirror site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
night sky image over the city lights of Tucson, Arizona. Silhouetted in the foreground are various trees and cacti against a blue and pink night sky. Across the image stretching from the right to the left is a brilliant white rocket plume that bursts out into a wispy mass in the center of the photo.
October 15, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 14, 2025:
An Unusual Globule in IC 1396

Image Credit & Copyright: Joachim Korb
APOD mirror site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
A mass of black and brown gas and dust surrounded by a red haze dominates the center of this deep space image. In the center of the dusty mass, an orange glow is apparent.
October 15, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 13, 2025:
Lemmon Tree

Image Credit & Copyright: Uroš Fink
APOD mirror site: star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Picture of the night sky studded with stars. A single tree on a grassy rise is in the foreground. Just above the tree is the brilliant Comet Lemmon with its ion tail pointing almost directly up and out of the top of the photo.
October 13, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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From Astronomy Picture of the Day; October 12, 2025:
All the Water on Europa

Illustration Credit & Copyright: Kevin Hand (JPL/Caltech),
Jack Cook (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), & Howard Perlman (USGS)
APOD mirror site: www.star.ucl.ac.uk/~apod/apod/a...
Digitally created image comparing the sizes of Europa (small sphere on the left) and Earth (larger sphere on the right). Additionally all of the water has been removed from these bodies and formed into their own spheres for volume comparison with the water sphere of Europa significantly larger than the Earth's water orb.
October 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A Round-Tipped Conehead hiding in the corner of the porch next to my front door on October 4 along with a green lacewing #wildlife #insects
A brown grasshopper-like insect resting in the corner of a beige-painted porch ceiling. Nearby a tiny, almost translucent, green insect is in a divot between a pair of boards.
October 11, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Some type of Oenothera (Evening Primrose) in bloom next to the bird watching hut at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildflowers
A tiny white blossom at the end of a nearly bare branch in front of an out-of-focus background The branches of a bush stretch into the image with three white blossoms at the ends of several nearly bare branches in front of a view of a marshy lake shore.
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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Osprey in flight at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #birds
An Osprey, a large white and brown bird of prey, in flight in front of a light blue sky An Osprey, a large white and brown bird of prey, in flight in front of a light blue sky. Sunlight has made the feathers and the tail almost see-through showing the striped patterns upon them. An Osprey, a large white and brown bird of prey, in flight in front of a light blue sky
October 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Osprey that was making a racket at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #birds
A white bird of prey with brown wings and mask is turned away from the camera, perched on a large gray branch. The same bird of prey has turned its head towards the camera. Its beak is open as it calls out. Birb screm
October 11, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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Great Blue Heron atop a sunken log at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #birds
A tall blue-gray heron perched upon the tip of a log poking out of the water
October 11, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Various pond turtles sunning themselves at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #reptiles
A pair of large pond turtles sunning atop a log A cluster of various types of pond turtles sunning themselves atop a log A trio of pond turtles sunning themselves atop a log floating next to the reed-covered bank of the lake.
October 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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A Double-crested Cormorant resting on a sunken branch at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #birds
A black cormorant sitting atop the top of a sunken log poking above the surface of a lake
October 11, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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A Swift Setwing dragonfly that was flying around the weeds at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #insects
A black dragonfly with faint markings resting upon a browned and broken reed stalk. The same black dragonfly with faint markings now resting on the end of a broken twig. Strands of spider silk stretch between leaves and stems nearby
October 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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A Great Egret stalking on a flooded and overgrown dike at Siloam Springs' City Lake Park on October 4 #wildlife #birds
A tall white heron is stalking through high water grasses, some turtles are visible on a log in the nearer foreground. A tall white heron on the right side of the image peers into reeds and weeds it is hunting in A tall white heron standing in high water grasses and brush
October 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM