AlphaPhoenix

Science, making, photography, coding, whatever - plan A always goes up in flames!

[AlphaPhoenix @Alpha__Phoenix]

New (computational) video up! Using some Matlab I wrote to Gerrymander or un-gerrymander the state of North Carolina - lots of fun math...
https://t.co/ji46uR7pSb

[AlphaPhoenix @Alpha__Phoenix]

@BreakingTaps @lukeweston Fun stuff! I love the color - gotta see if there’s a way to speed up the exposure

[AlphaPhoenix @Alpha__Phoenix]

Favorite fact from my most recent project: the ion "cyanide" ([CN]-) was named after the color "cyan" because it was first identified in a light blue pigment called Prussian Blue...
https://t.co/CFBylaXf32

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Turns out if you show up to a rocket launch carrying a huge tripod, people think you'll know exactly where to look and what's going to happen. There I was hoping for the best, waiting for T-0 on my out-of-sync analog watch😂
Got some great footage though! https://t.co/mcR5hMgMt7

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@BreakingTaps Oh man that's not like a parody title? amazing

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Forgot the link to the actual video!
https://t.co/aHlTJ2xkcB

[AlphaPhoenix @Alpha__Phoenix]

Finally got the hexagonal ice crystals growing! This is a single-crystal of water ice, stuck to a Peltier cooler, in a vacuum chamber, in my freezer, with a camera pointed down at it through the chamber window... (timelapse of 3-4 days)

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Hey @DJSnM and @Erdayastronaut - A couple weeks ago I was looking for a good explanation of how asteroid imaging works and couldn't find one, so after some scattered reading, took my crack at it. Arecibo needs all the press it can get right now... https://t.co/jZnetN1K7t

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There were so many people packing into Lompoc this morning I couldn't even park on the same road I did last time - It makes me so unreasonably happy to see so many people excited about space! Made my face hurt from grinning while I struggled to find a parking spot...

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I'm a huge rocket fan, and this morning visited Lompoc CA (alongside a whole lot of other rocket fans!) to get some footage of today's Falcon 9 Launch with the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich ocean-monitoring satellite. https://t.co/BmOqY1PcDO
#SeeingTheSeas @SpaceX @NASA @ESA_EO

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Found out recently that ice freezing actually makes a sound. ...and it's JUST like in the movies! Does anybody know where the shattering-glass-means-freezing Foley effect started? cause it's spot on. https://t.co/yyAp0WsgS2

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Soap bubble rafts are awesome! If all the bubbles are the same size, they make a beautiful hexagonal crystal. Scientists in the 50s actually studied bubble raft dynamics to learn how metals bend before microscopes got good enough to see atoms…https://t.co/iotiupXTtF

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@neiltyson Thought you might like this image - I think planetary defense missions (like bringing WISE back online as NEOWISE to scan for asteroids) are SUPER important to humans as a species. Someday one of those rocks is going to land...

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You've got to look real close cause it's SUPER faint, but I was able to catch "Comet NEOWISE" alongside the orbiting telescope that discovered it, WISE! Goes along with a recent video of mine about satellite flares and the twilight effect: https://t.co/yfIe4jZD2x

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@DJSnM - I saw your recent video about WISE and thought you might like this image! (I think ~90% of my space news is from your channel)

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@DJSnM Hey Scott, big fan of the channel! I just made a mock-up of the Iridium (1st gen) and Starlink satellites (complete with a little visorsat mod) to demonstrate the flaring effects - I hope you'll enjoy! https://t.co/cWytW2mxYU

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Astronomers vs. SpaceX, the orbit of the ISS, and why certain rocket launches create massive nighttime lightshows while others just leave a trail of smoke!
https://t.co/cWytW2mxYU

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@donttrythis Hey Adam! Don’t know if you have this problem, but when I’m soldering, the smoke ALWAYS seems to make a beeline for my face… I did a bit of myth-confirming this week and ran an experiment to figure out why! Hope you get a kick out of it! https://t.co/5IDD4A9O04

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@Bornach1 @SkaveRat @eevblog Haha I looked at this this morning and could not for the life of me figure out those timestamps... I knew it didn't make sense that I all of a sudden got a few hundred views from an hours-old post in a small subreddit. I wonder how eevblog found it?

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I've always been super annoyed at how soldering iron smoke seems to do it's best to actively attack your eyes at all moments… It's just like campfire smoke that follows you around a firepit…

Good news: I figured it out!!!

https://t.co/5IDD4A9O04