Scopes on Screen: surely among the first, from the opening scene of Georges Melies' 1902 Voyage dans la Lune. Astronomers in fancy dress. The small vertical scopes turn into stools. #TelescopeTuesday

For fellow US eclipse imagers who have lists of friends and family wanting a few prints, Walgreen's Photo has a 50%-off code this week...

New Celestron NexStar 8 20-cm Schmidt-Cassegrain sighted at Texas hotel (meaning I did not have the largest telescope in the building). They planned imaging but brief holes between clouds played havoc with alignment process. #TelescopeTuesday

DONT THROW AWAY YOUR ECLIPSE GLASSES‼️

stick your glasses in an evelope & mail to the address below so that kids in Latin America can use them Oct 2, to watch the South American Eclipse

Eclipse Glasses USA, LLC
PO Box 50571
Provo, UT 84605

It was touch and go, but we caught most of totality from rockwall, east of Dallas.

An expression of hope at the hotel breakfast bar

PSA: whether you're a feline beatnik, eldritch abomination, or baseline human, remember to use appropriate filters outside totality.

On April 3, our Swift Observatory resumed science operations following a successful software update, which enables the spacecraft to function using only two gyros. The spacecraft otherwise remains in good health. Learn more: go.nasa.gov/49F27Al

Scopes on Screen: from the film Aniara, 3 telescopes in quarters of the ship's astronomer (did they set them up at lounge windows?). In this scene she muses on the futility of human life. Afterwards the plot gets really dark. #TelescopeTuesday

This xkcd *understates* how much better 100% totality is than 99%. Really, repeat after me: 100% eclipse totality is one million times more impressive than 99%.
Do not settle for less, get to the path of totality.

DASCH — the project to digitize Harvard’s astronomical photographic glass plate collection — is complete at long last. With this milestone comes a new website, StarGlass, and preview access to the next data release.
aas.org/posts/news/202… #ExploreAstronomy

Hard agree. Check out the thread for report of a large new nebular feature near Orion.

Scopes on Screen: part of a new trend to show telescopes in TV commercials for prescription drugs. At least this medication treats a vision condition so it's connected. #TelescopeTuesday [430 in a series]

Re-issuing the northern hemisphere edition of The Evening Sky Map for April 2024. The update is for later times (darker skies). The previously released sky map which shows the path of #Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks is included as an extra map in the updated PDF.
skymaps.com/tesm/

Scopes on Screen: from brief glimpse during rewatch of Star Trek II: The Wrath Of Khan. Admiral Kirk's quarters in San Francisco has a telescope that even today would be of classic construction. I keep expecting to run out of these, but not this day. #TelescopeTuesday

Scopes on Screen: from Halo TV series (season 1 episode 4), handheld telescope used Soren-066 on Madrigal. Still not revealing which way to Halo. #TelescopeTuesday

Physics vs. Magic xkcd.com/2904

Ok, so I guess there IS a comet headed for us after all.

*There is not. But how cool is this?