Huub Eggen

Having an orbital inclination of 10 degrees, only the tropics could be under fire.

And now one can wait for the Americans to leak these insights to the Russians.

A small comet with round coma, condensed nucleus and a hint of tail towards the left is seen moving among the stars. Equipment used: GSO N203/800 with TS GPU coma corrector. 58x30s from B3 skies of eastern Crete. Edited with DSS and SIRIL, image is cropped.

My first decent image of C/2026 A1 (MAPS). Located rather low for northern latitudes, it may become briefly very bright in early April as it plunges next to the Sun. Currently around mag 11, with condensed nucleus, round coma and hint of tail. #cometwatch #astrophotography

ICE locked up a deaf kid without his hearing aids—and wouldn't let him have them back Rep. Eric Swalwell is working to help the family seek humanitarian parole.

“Think about that for a moment: a six-year-old child with a disability suddenly in a different country, separated from the country he has come to know, now surrounded by silence. The horror stories from this White House continue from ICE.”

The image shows the earth at night with numerous cities and roads. Over the curved horizon of Earth in the distance green and red auroras are visible. At top a starry sky fills the image. A small part of a solar panel is visible at top right. At centre left the star cluster Pleiades can be seen. One of the small stars below it, at the edge of the image, is planet Uranus. Its location is marked in the second image.

In this image, a copy of the previous one, planet Uranus is marked by an arrow.

Aurora as imaged by astronaut Chris Williams from over Kazakhstan looking northwest over Russia in the early hours of 23 February local time. Fun fact: planet Uranus is visible in this picture (see 2nd image). Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

The image shows a somewhat oblique view of a large iceberg, surrounded by numerous small chuncks of ice and one larger fragment. Thin veil clouds are all over the image. The large iceberg and the larger fragment have blue tops. This is meltwater.

Iceberg A23a imaged by astronaut Chris Williams from space station ISS on 27 December 2025. It was drifting in the southern Atlantic Ocean northwest of South Georgia island. In early January 2026 the iceberg started to break up. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

The image shows an elongated island with a dark central part (a forest) surrounded by a blue sea. Some small clouds over parts of the coast of the island.

Isla Mocha, off the coast of Tirúa, southern Chile. Image taken by astronaut Chris Willams from space station ISS on 15 January 2026. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

The image shows a straight down view on a volcanic lanscape with a number of cinder cones and patches of lava. In the centre of the image a number of white dots can be seen. These are the domes of large telescopes built on this site high above sea level, having less disturbing atmosphere to look through towards the sky.

The top of Mauna Kea mountain on Hawaii, site of a number of large telescopes. Image taken by astronaut Chris Williams on 29 January 2026 from space station ISS. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

The image shows a light blue heart-shaped lake in a barren mountainous desert. Part of a salt lake is visible at lower left. The laguna is situated in a more or less flat area between mountains at upper right and left.

Laguna Celeste, also known as Laguna Azul, Catamarca province, Argentina, in this image taken by astronaut Chris Williams from space station ISS on 12 February 2026. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

Geintje van iemand?

The image in portrait format shows an elongated city at night. North is at top and so the image shows the real orientation of this city, which Calgary in Canada.

Calgary, Canada at night in this image taken by astronaut Jessica Meir from space station ISS on 1 March 2026. Original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... @daveatcogs.bsky.social

De afschuwelijke Europese deportatiewet is erdoor. Met dank aan de fractie waar o.a. CDA en BBB in zitten.

The image shows a straight down view of a huge city at night. Dark parts indicate a river plain and parks. A large airport is visible at bottom left of centre.

New Delhi, India at night in this image taken by astronaut Jessica Meir from space station ISS on 28 February 2026. Go to the original eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... to see how incredible in detail this image is. @daveatcogs.bsky.social

‘Dit uitbestedingsproject voor omzetbelasting moet koste wat kost stoppen’ - Computable.nl Digitale autonomie en de Belastingdienst: op 10 en 19 maart bespreekt de Tweede Kamer de outsourcing van de software voor omzetbelasting. Marcel van Kooten startte de inmiddels landelijk gevoerde disc...

De overheid is nog steeds van plan de btw-berekeningen over te laten aan een Amerikaans extern softwarebedrijf. Hier nog meer achtergrond over wat er gaande is en waarom dit een heel stom idee is: www.computable.nl/2026/03/09/d...

Na de 'bezorgde burger' krijgen we nu de 'bezorgde boer' die meer voor- dan nadelen ziet in fascisme.

De laatste run van de Large Hadron Collider (LHC) op CERN is begonnen. Aan het eind van deze periode gaat de LHC voor vier jaar uit bedrijf voor een grote ombouw.

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Ik had het geluid uit, maar Marco had dat ook al opgemerkt. Verwarrend als mensen aan hun beelden gaan rommelen.

Thanks for your reply.

Het oordeel van expert @marcolangbroek.bsky.social is dat het een meteoor is.

OK. Ja, dat filmpje op x ziet er veel natuurlijker uit.

@planet4589.bsky.social Marco Langbroek suggests it's more likely a meteorite fall. The time was too early in the evening for all-sky cameras to be running.

Dank voor de info. Interessant.

Vertragen heb ik wel vaker op filmpjes gezien (kwestie van perspectief), maar hier zit inderdaad iets raars in. Abrupte beweging van de camera/telefoon?

@planet4589.bsky.social Probable reentry (?) as filmed from Speicher, Germany (north of Trier) at 17:50 UT today. Observed from Belgium and the Netherlands too.

Ziet er uit als ruimtepuin.

The image shows a twilight sky with a chimey at right, the top of a tree at bottom and a thin reddish aircraft contrail below centre. Venus is visible as a bright dot at upper right. Saturn as a faint reddish dot behind the contrail lower left of centre.

Planets #Venus and #Saturn (below left of centre) at just five degrees over the horizon in twilight tonight at 19:07 CET (UT+1). @leonoor.bsky.social @waddensky.nl

Waarom dan die column? Dat hoeft toch niet?

Update #IranProtests (324): Apocalyptische beelden😢💔

Dit is mijn geliefde stad Teheran bij zonsopgang vandaag. Maar de zon is verborgen achter een hemel vol rook. Na een nacht v hevige aanvallen op olie-installaties hangen dikke zwarte wolken nu boven de stad, waardoor de ochtend aanvoelt als nacht

Update #IranProtests (325): Huiveringwekkende beelden. Het regent olie in Teheran 😢

Verslag van de CNN journalist Frederik Pleitgen vanmorgen uit Teheran: “Het regent olie in Teheran vanmorgen na grootschalige luchtaanvallen op olie-installaties in het zuiden en westen van de Iraanse hoofdstad.”