Beverly Bambury

@beverlybambury

Book publicist since 2012 (horror, SFF, and more) Astronomy/astrophotography. Member RASC Mississauga. 🇺🇲+🇨🇦 She/Her

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Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jul 10

#blep

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jun 16

I'm peeking at some World Cup games here and there, and I just caught a look at Norway's uniforms. The runic typeface is🔥

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· May 5

Help, #PlantSky! Is this thrips damage? I see very tiny insects but they're too small for me to be sure of the details. I've attached the best photo I could get of one or two of them. Thank you so much for any assistance 🙏 #PestId #PlantPests

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· May 2

Started on Abell 21 (Medusa Nebula) last night. It's just 30 min exposure! (80mm doublet refractor, asi585mc-air, HEQ5 mount, SVBony 7nm NB filter, taken in Bortle 4 about 50min from home before moonrise.) Image quality is compressed do lmk if you want to see a better version. #astrophotography

Red/Pink roundish Nebula with more density on the right than the left. It's in a field of stars.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 30

I can see them but it's harder to photograph them at this focal length. I have a different one here at a much longer focal length where you can see three of the four Galilean moons.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 30

I tried stretching it a bit. Hopefully this helps.

It's a planet! It's Jupiter! It's got the big red spot!

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 29

I got the Great Red Spot this time! Taken with my little 80mm at 770mm focal length with the ASI585MC Air. Processed in Astrosurface and Set Astro Suite Pro. #Jupiter #PlanetaryPhotohraphy #astrophotography

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 29

I'm so sad the #JamieDing run on Jeopardy is over. What a class act that guy is! (I have a silly parasocial fondness for him, like he seriously seems like a wonderful human being. Plus he likes astronomy!) He will be back though, with 31 wins under his belt.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 21

Behold: the mushrooms I grew (black pearl/black oyster). They're from a Grow Mushrooms Canada kit. #mushrooms #fungi

A clump of mushrooms being held in a hand

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Apr 19

For the love of all that's holy: please, someone make a dark chocolate caramel that does NOT have salt on it. Why must all dark chocolate and caramel things have salt on them? 😭 (If you know of something available in Canada let me know!)

A bag of Ghirardelli sea salt caramel dark chocolate squares

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Feb 6

This is the Rosette Nebula. It's about seven hours of combined exposure time. I'm very happy with it :) #astrophotography

It's a round, dark pink nebula with a thinner spot in the middle, vaguely resembling a flower, hence the name "Rosette"

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 25

The Venn diagram of Second Amendment fetishists and people saying he shouldn't have been carrying a firearm is a circle

A Venn diagram showing a circle and the two pieces are as described in the post text

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 13

Toronto Area/GTA telescope pals: I am selling a bunch of stuff. Take a peek if you're looking for anything: www.facebook.com/marketplace/... (Sorry it is on Facebook. That seems to be the place these days.)

a screenshot with all the listings. A wedge, a tripod, a broken mount, a working mount, and a sight finder

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 12

One of them doesn't like the camera and the other one poses as cutely as possible #dogsOfBluesky

Two tiny dogs snuggling butt-to-butt. One on the left looks a bit scared and is looking away, the one on the right is making eye contact and enjoying that there's attention coming her way

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 9

Now that i have Pixinsight, I redid my M 57 (Ring Nebula) which was the first thing I ever photographed with my astrocam. It's looking good! I'll have to try to do this one with my 8" SCT too when that's ready to go. #astrophotography

Ring Nebula which has layers of colour like a fluffy everlasting gobstopper

Zoomed out further Ring Nebula which has layers of colour like a fluffy everlasting gobstopper

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 3

Everything is terrible. Have some space pictures to help for a moment.

Ghost of Cassiopeia Nebula and the star Gamma Cassiopeiae - Sh 2-185

Orion Nebula (M 42) and Running Man Nebula (NGC 1977)

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Jan 3

Everything is terrible. Have some space pictures to help for a moment.

Helix Nebula/Eye of God Nebula - NGC 7293

Flame Nebula on the left (NGC 2024), Horsehead Nebula on the right (Barnard 33)

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Dec 16

Kids, this is why you don't use AI to do your work that would take you five minutes to do anyway.

It is a bag that says "Just a girl who loves hockey" but there are two golf balls on it. No hockey pucks in sight. There is a hockey STICK though.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Dec 15

My astronomy club is holding a year-end fundraiser if you feel like kicking in a few bucks. I know everything is terrible right now, so obviously zero pressure. I just thought I'd share in case. secure.rasc.ca/donate?lsid=...

Flame Nebula (an orangey red flame shaped nebula with a dark core) and the horsehead nebula (a pinky red nebula with a horse head shaped dark dust shape in the front.) There are bright stars and other small nebulae.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Dec 9

Enjoy cats being snuggly

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Dec 9

I'm trialling top-flight #astrophotography tools and it shows! This is about the best thing I've ever done. Also a factor: 2.5 hours in a darker sky area. This is the Triangulum Galaxy, also known as Messier 33. (If you want to see the full resolution image, go here: app.astrobin.com/i/oek0ej)

It is a galaxy, spiral and kind of fuzzy. It's against a field of stars, some of which are larger than others, and some of which are white, some of which are blue and some of which are orange.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Dec 4

I only have 20 min on this, but it is already nice. Flame Nebula (NGC 2024) on the left & Horsehead Nebula (Barnard 33) on the right. Big star @ top is Alnitak, the left star in Orion's belt. For the interested: ASI585MC-AIR, #SVBony 80mm ED doublet refractor, HEQ5 mount, SV220 7nm #astrophotography

a bright leaf-shaped, flame-shaped nebula with a dark core. Then a red nebula with a shadowy bit of space gas that is shaped like a horse's head. There is a very bright star at the top and one near the centre. The one near the centre is also a nebula.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Nov 10

My smartphone #astrophotography presentation recording is up. The entire meeting is recorded, but mine starts at this link: youtu.be/7RJhz5C67hU?... The presentations before mine are from 4th yr students, and after is a young member of my #RASC chapter who had an adventurous summer of science!

It's the cover slide from the presentation. It says "get started with smartphone astrophotography".

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Nov 3

Today I turn 50. I'm holding up ok I guess. This is the first birthday I've had any weird feelings, mortality-wise, but it's still pretty cool. You can't get rid of me that easily 😂

It me. Dressed in black with bright red hair.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Nov 1

I haven't done smartphone astro in a bit because I got an astrocam recently. However, I'm doing a smartphone #astrophotography talk on Friday. Toronto area folks, join us! It's free/open to the public (w/ paid parking). Here's the info: mississauga.rasc.ca/event/potpou... Attached are my own images.

M82 (Cigar Galaxy) and M81 (Bode's Galaxy)

March 2025 lunar eclipse nearing totality

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Oct 30

Here's another. The double star cluster in Perseus, known as Caldwell 14 or NGCs 869 and 884. #astrophotography #astronomy #starCluster

Two bright clusters of blue stars and a few red ones scattered through.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Oct 30

I will never understand Reddit. Who downvotes a request for bookkeeping recommendations? And yes, I looked at older posts to see if it had already been asked and answered. Fuckin' Reddit, man 🤣

A screenshot showing an upvote ratio of 71.4%, which indicates at least one person downvoted the post.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Oct 29

Behold: Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon. This is one of my favourite things I've worked on so far. #astrophotography #cometLemmon #comet

It's a comet with a long, bluish white tail and a tealish glow in front. There is a misty looking cloud trailing the comet, too.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Oct 20

I'm in Mexico for work. Here's a picture of a lil rainbow in the clouds over the Gulf of Mexico.

Big, puffy, and slightly dark clouds. On the left there's a small rainbow in the clouds.

Beverly Bambury@beverlybambury· Oct 18

Just realized I forgot to share this, NGC 2793, the Helix Nebula (a.k.a. Eye of God, for obvious reasons!) this is about 90 minutes of exposure time, and it looks great, though I want to do more to bring out the faint part at the lower right. Enjoy this beauty!