Dr. Timothy Pickering
@tepickering
astronomer, telescope wrangler, grizzled pythonista, bluesky boomer
yeah, king salmon runs are way, way down from even a decade ago. we lived near ship creek in anchorage so we got to see some of the big ones people did manage to catch...
Post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, or Alice in Chains.
no trip to green bay is complete without a stop at jake’s for some tavern style, square-cut pizza
if you have a stupid early flight, there are far worse places to stay the night before and far worse airports to fly out of…
messages you get when your kid studies abroad in south africa and then goes to eswatini on holiday: pic 1 - how it started pic 2 - how it’s going 🐒🙈
small towns don’t have curbside recycling pickup, but this one does have a 24/7 dropoff location. it’s only 3 blocks away so it seemed rude to drive the van…
this void monster refuses to accept his new house and keeps returning to our flat so i guess we have a cat now… 🐈⬛
skipped out of town for the night and set up camp here. doesn’t suck.
i ran into SO MANY moose on the streets and bike paths of anchorage. fortunately, none i ran into were surly but all the locals have stories... outside of anchorage, the most moose i've ever seen in one place is turku, finland. the finns tried to tell me they were actually elk, but i knew better...
Yeah I’ve seen the groundbreaking movie where a leading man plays two different brothers
Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.
planetary nebula images will be posted until morale improves…
finally got my seestar set up in equatorial mode and taking 30 sec exposures. cut it loose on one of my faves, the headphones nebula. good thing i was at a bortle 2 site because i forgot to put in the narrowband filter 😆
No cheating. Reskeet with the most recent picture of your pet.
biked the moose loop group ride organized by bike anchorage. we did, in fact, see several moose…
rescued from office purgatory. still works great at 16 years old…