Ptolemy ✨🔭

Photographer and amateur astronomer!

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The Andromeda Galaxy 🌌

This is perhaps my best photo from this year, I’m so proud of my astrophotography journey so far and can’t wait to see where it takes me.

Here’s to a great 2026!

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Can’t believe this was over a week ago… truly the most mesmerising experience of my life!

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@ZiaYusufUK @Nigel_Farage “I am a lethal electoral threat”

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@LandSpace_Tech @Mookafish Congratulations this is amazing!!

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A couple of my coolest photos from last week - I was treated to an eclipsed sunset after totality in Mallorca!

Awesome to see the atmospheric distortion creating a colour gradient on the solar disc and a “melting” effect on the bottom limb.

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So cool to see this effect in person, I took this video on an @insta360 and edited it to 10x speed.

The “wipe” from partial to total eclipse darkness is unreal in person! I got 1 min 36 seconds of totality from my location!!

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The Eclipse of the Sun in Venice, July 6, 1842, by Ippolito Caffi (1842)

[Eric Berger @SciGuySpace]

Gemini out here doing important work to get Reddit users to confirm scientific facts.

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Most amazing experience ever… so glad I went!!

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Bin Day cometh.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

UK and Europe gets ready for once-in-a-generation solar eclipse https://t.co/8skZmMT6AX

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Best of luck to everybody eclipse watching today!!

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@SciGuySpace Obviously this is not verified but looks to be potentially wind-sheer/structural related.

[OedoSoldier @OedoSoldier]

@raz_liu

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@OedoSoldier @raz_liu Wow that’s amazing footage

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

It’s election week! At this important moment I would like to address your entire planet with a message to the people of Earth. And I think I found the perfect place to do it.

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@ApolloFalc9 @booster_10 @Raptor_54321 Terran R is about to undergo stage 2 qualification hot fire & stage 1 is getting engines as we speak. I want Neutron to work, but it’s well behind where it should be. It’ll be close between Stoke and Relativity, but both are well ahead of Neutron.

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@stratospunky Eris failure alongside Astra power slide will never not be funny to me 😭

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@DavidCKingston @ZackPolanski Science doesn’t care if you call SLR acceleration “nonsense.” It’s literally observed. Renewables cut the emissions driving it, their price impact is still muted because electricity stays coupled to fossil fuels. Adaptation alone won’t stop the driver.

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@DavidCKingston @ZackPolanski Science shows SLR is accelerating past 1 ft per century. Even that height amplifies flooding and salt intrusion for millions. Calling mitigation a “waste” ignores how, for example, renewables cut emissions driving that rise while securing energy independence from oil shocks.

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@deltaIV9250 Noctilucent clouds are so cool and mind-boggling to see just because of the scale. I took this photo about a month ago.

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@DavidCKingston @ZackPolanski Science shows real risks of major sea-level rise, worse extremes and tipping points. That’s the urgency, it’s not a scam or hyperbole. Dismissing it with no real mitigation or adaptation still ducks treating it as a priority.

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@DavidCKingston @ZackPolanski They don’t flatly deny it, yet Reform still downplays the urgency and the Tories promise change then water it down. Calling mitigation nonsense while offering no real adaptation plans either still fails to treat it as a priority.