Major Clanger
@majorclanger
Cat minion, collector of Lego / old calculators / cake moulds. Baker, middle-aged weightlifter and convert to gardening. Has a growing assortment of Master's degrees including electronics, law and forensics.
This email either has an extra 'c' or is missing an 'i', and depending on which there are either going to be extra cops in Birmingham or WMPS are going all Minority Report.
The farmer over the road has installed bird scarers that look like Frank Sidebottom’s decapitated head on a pike.
Caldwell 20 / NGC 7000, alias the North America Nebula. Dwarf Mini, dual-band filter, 2 x 2 mosaic of 60 frames per tile at 45s exposure, 60 gain. Processed with Dwarf Stellar Lab and then some minor tweaking in Apple Photo. Taken from rural Worcestershire, UK.
NCG 7380 Wizard Nebula Dwarf Mini, 330 x 30s at 60 gain, duo-band filter. Processed with Stellar Studio (Dwarf's own astrophoto processing app), then starless and stars-only version exported for further processing (sharpening, curves and saturation) and recombining in Photoshop. #astrophotography
Wandering around the Malvern Spring RHS show and this Auricula seemed worryingly familiar...
Yes, just checked and rabbits aren’t in the Schedule to the Dangerous Wild Animals Act 1976.
I really am amazed at what this sub-£400 telescope about the size and shape of a housebrick is capable of.
IC 1805, the Heart Nebula. Imaged with DwarfLab Dwarf Mini telescope in mosaic mode and dual band filter, processed with Siril and Photoshop. 4 hours, approx 600 stacked frames, taken from rural Worcestershire with moderate (Bortle 4.9) light pollution. #astronomy #astrophotography #dwarflab
Congratulations to @unamccormack.bsky.social on her BSFA award - even though it is fiendishly difficult to photograph!
My thoughts on reading the 'factual background' section of the Court of Appeal's judgment in Mazur. dmscdn.vuelio.co.uk/publicitem/2...
The radar is more than just the antenna in the ‘frisbee’ on top; most of what would be cargo space is filled with the transmitter and other systems.
I suppose your hypothetical nuclear suicide bomber could disguise himself as Mr Creosote but that might just attract attention.
As a non-Jew with Jewish friends* I can understand why some of them are finding this site uncomfortable at the moment. (I also have Muslim friends, Sikh friends, Hindu friends, Christian friends of various denominations, Pagan friends and - as a humanist myself - non-religious friends.)
That picture inspired this paint job on a Star Destroyer kit I picked up cheap.
I'm surprised nobody seems to have suggested this pair (in fact Patrick Macnee seems to have thought that was *definitely* what was going on).
Also reminded of this book Facebook saw fit to advertise to me the other week. (Possibly after I posted a picture of that squash).
Funnily enough this reminds me of a squash Mrs Clanger managed to grow last year.
OK, hands up who played this very scenario in Harpoon back in the day. Or indeed more recently in Sea Power. Anyone have it end without lots of burning tankers?
No thanks; explosives residue, unburnt propellant and singed carpet don't really do it for me.