Judy Schmidt

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Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jul 13

been doing some local mapping lately and noticed on google maps this artificial lake thingy is marked as a road. all I'm saying is a human who lives here would never do this. probably even a human who doesn't live here would not make this mistake

top down aerial view of a suburban neighborhood with squared cul de sacs and an artificial blue water feature behind the backsides of the houses. the roads are marked by white lines, and somehow one of them connects to the water feature, mistaking it for a street in several places.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jul 9

so there's the secondary mirror, the primary mirror, and then ???? where the cameras go

Hubble lego model with panels taken off. two inset images show close-ups of the interior.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 21

I kinda want to get up

A tabby and white cat looks surly about being on a human’s lap at a computer desk. Don’t you even dare think about standing.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 19

one of these animals stinks

a living room scene. a person is on a sofa. a dog is on the left part of the sofa, while a person covered in a blanket is to the right, next to the dog. a cat is laying on the person’s legs. everyone is cozy. the dog stinks.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 19

hmph my myriapods aren’t very fluorescent… i did find the asshole who’s been eating my strawberries tho. fled the scene before i could get a good pic

a centipede under uv light. some ground dwelling plant life is fluorescing red. the centipede has some whiteish highlights along its sides and legs.

terrible photo of a katydid on a destroyed strawberry flower under uv light. it actually fluoresces green pretty well

a very fluorescent green caterpillar on a wildflower. the wildflower is fluorescing red with blue tips

a striped slug slightly fluorescing. some leaves at the upper right are fluorescing red

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 18

I wonder how badly compression will make this gif? Let's find out!

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 13

I managed a bit better video this time. They are just so small. 🥹

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 13

Happy, happy update! They have hatched.

two tiny baby hummingbirds nestled tightly together in their tiny nest. They have a little fluff on their backs that looks slightly damp. the beginning spikes of feathers ate growing out of their bodies. their eyes are shut. the nest looks very soft and cozy. mama hummingbird is away foraging.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 12

😐

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 11

ah, I made this (as a rough idea, not finished) just trying to get the idea of what you want. like this? attribution to NASA science.nasa.gov/neptune/ anyway, feel free to disregard, just thought it was an interesting problem to have

Diagram of Neptune showing outer moons on the left and inner moons in blow-up diagram on the right. The outer moons are very disorganized encircling the planet in many different ways and Neptune is just a small dot when showing them, because they are far out. The inner moons are a lot more organized and Neptune is big enough to see as a disk in the center of them.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 9

"enhance"

An already grumpy tabby cat has been photoshopped with the "liquefy" tool to make him look cartoonishly grumpy with a very frowny mouth and extra narrowed eyes

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 7

Two telescopes, two epochs, the same nebula. You might have to stare for a little bit to fully appreciate all the movement going. Apologies to any faint stars who got deleted. I tried to remove the NICMOS PSFs from the Hubble view (which is lower resolution/blurrier)

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 3

This is from a book someone gave my kid. It’s a Nat Geo book. I need to mark it up for correction. Tarantulas are impressive, but not quite that big… CW there is a partial spider butt in the photo.

A page from a kid’s book with a single paragraph above a photo of a fuzzy tarantula. “Tarantulas are big spiders that hiss. They have eight legs that can each grow around a foot long. Their legs have hairs that feel vibrations, letting them know prey is near.”

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Jun 1

enjoy

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 28

Update: She’s been doing a lot of sitting. It’s surprisingly hard to concentrate on taking a picture while a hummingbird is yelling at you.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 25

which one of you lives here?

A modern style house with a little free banned library, a giant fake 15 foot tall skeleton holding the sign to reelect local politician Mani Grewal, and a rainbow pride flag in the window.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 21

Was able to zooooooom with phone camera for low resolution high quality cuteness

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 20

Very happy to report that some new tenants looking to start a family have moved into my back porch. I want badly to move the ladder to peep inside, but they only started building the nest a couple days ago. Must be patient…

A hummingbird nest! A tiny woven mound of dried grass held together with strands of spiderwebs sitting atop one of the lights on a party light string. it’s shaded by a porch cover. there are various trees out of focus in the background.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 20

Kevin posting this is like sending out the bat signal to me. Oh, there's an imaging challenge? Something to figure out? Fine, I'm interested... I guess Mars is cool. From the Psyche mission. solarsystem.nasa.gov/psyche-raw-i...

A multispectral color image of some part of Mars. As with most of Mars, there are a whole lot of craters. Notably, a bunch of the craters in the lower left look like they have comet tails stretching out long across the surface. A lot of the craters have bright rims on the left side of them and dark floors. Some features resembling rivers are etched across the lower smoother dark part that only has small craters. This doesn't mean they were ever rivers. The writer of this text doesn't know enough about terrestrial imaging to give information about what the various colors mean. The darker areas tend to be blues and purples while the lighter areas tend to be yellows.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 18

Made a view of FU Orionis with Spitzer and WISE data. No particular reason other than an interest in FU Orionis after reading the name in the Star Formation Newsletter. As always, more to read at the Flickr page: flic.kr/p/2sdQhtR

A star-infused nebula. The cloud of the nebula is mostly pale with very faint coloration, but there is a little swoosh at the top that is like a blue glint, and another blue bit near the right side that is part of a jet. The shape of a nebula is like a lumpy mountain turned on its side. Dozens of sparkling yellow and orange stars dot the image. Many fainter white and blue stars sprinkle the image. The star of note is the brightest one just left and below the center. It glows yellow.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 18

Context: it looks like a humongous quilt because it was processed to try and make the rest of the galaxy clear through all this dirt the planets kick up while they go around and around. Wide horizontal line is the ecliptic, where the zodiacal light lives. Diagonal on the left is plane of our galaxy.

A black and white image of a whole bunch of images put together to form a mosaic of a very wide view of the night sky. The edges of every square are very easy to see, which is not preferable with image mosaicking. There's a very bright diagonal line across the lower left corner of the image, and a fainter horizontal set of lines across the center. The Rho Ophiuchi cloud complex sits left of center in a vaguely D shape. It says allWISE W3 in the upper left. A compass showing "north" up and "east" left is in the lower right. A scale bar indicating a width of 10 degrees in the lower left. The entire field of view is noted to be 56.4 degrees wide by 34.4 degrees high in the lower center.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 7

ceci n'est pas une ... satellite? flic.kr/p/pCAFzG 😆

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 6

I just wanted to draw Frog but I messed up his pants, which really need to come halfway up his belly. I almost gave up after realizing I couldn’t fix it. I want to try again but my hands hurt.

A simple cartoon style anthropomorphized frog standing as if trying to reach for something. He wears a brown jacket and some gray pinstripe pants. No shoes. Long feet. Green skin. Bulbous white eyes with black horizontal pupils. Medium blue background.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 4

I mean, come on (A rather quick test combination of four similar exposures: ART002-E-11554, ART002-E-11559, ART002-E-11564, ART002-E-11569)

An eerie view of the moon from the Artemis craft. It is mostly a black disk. There is a faint illumination on the left side of the sphere, presumably from Earthshine. Faint round indentations and crater rims are visible. The Zodiacal light glows in sunshine from behind. A pale greenish cast, which is not real, but looks creepy, slightly colors the image.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 4

he escalates

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· May 4

I was checking around the new yard plants with UV light, as perfectly sane, normal people do, when I passed by the geode and was like oh, I should check. And... it glows orange?!

A rock cracked in half with lots of crystals inside. A blue light is cast upon it, the visible part of a UV flashlight. One crystal formation in particular is glowing orange. The crystals are shaped differently from the other crystals in the geode, being flat and stacked like a mound of pancakes.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Apr 26

a worm’s eye view of a gray tabby cat in a cozy cat bed with her paw stretched out toward the camera in a very foreshortened way

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Apr 25

Came down with a sudden upper respiratory infection tonight; sat down with the kid to watch Sealook when this showed up... The iconic NGC 605 from Hubble, Chandra, and Spitzer. Looked it up on Youtube and this thing has 15 million views. Loud electronic music: www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdp2...

A beautiful, hollowed out cloud of a nebula illuminated from within by a cluster of blue stars in the center. There are soft patches of magenta and red overlaid atop a golden hued cloud. Background galaxies also dot the image, including a rather pleasing one in the lower left.

That same image of a nebula, but with three identical copies of a yellow 3d-generated cartoon seal dancing in front. It has a research tag on its rear flipper, being used like a human foot, which reads 002.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Apr 17

my kid’s drawing of the sun and the earth shaking hands.

a drawing of the sun on the left and the earth on the right with one arm each outstretched to shake hands. the style is that of an uncoordinated hand, in this case, a young child. the paper is creased many times from being folded into a small rectangle.

Judy Schmidt@geckzilla· Apr 13

it’s a beautiful day for a fascist to fall