Gordon Hundley

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Old school hacker, amateur astronomer and photographer. Woke AF. Ally. "Work as if you live in the early days of a better world." - Alasdair Gray.

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Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Jul 7

An image grabbed from an imgflip that consists of five screenshots from on of John Oliver's recent part's on ABC's General Hospital. The top two frames show John (as Zee (not Zed)) as he cruelly mocks his co-star with an absurd caricatured accent, the next two shows his co-star (whose name I do not know, as I don't follow General Hospital) slapping him, and the final frame on the bottom is a close shot of John looking ...taken aback. Over it I have lazily used imgflip to type "SOMEHOW TOOK" at the top and "15 TAKES" at the bottom over John's askance stare. Which I thought was funny.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Jul 6

Happy birthday Rodney Matthews. I'm an Eloy fan, so this is one my favorites. #rodneymatthews #eloy www.rodneymatthewsstudios.com/collections/...

Rodney Matthews' "Fall of the Golden Age" which depicts a dark grey creature on the left with mulitple arms and an insectiod chitinous appearance holding a cleaver in one right arm while pointing across a chasm center with his left. It looks angry and accusatory. The sky is dark and gloomy and the black shadow of a distant city is in the background. The center chasm reflects an areas of transition, becoming brighter. On the darker left side, and ominous black flying creature with a snake like tail is present. In the middle is a peak with barren trees on the dark (left) side and full canopys on the light (right) side. To the right on an overhanging grassy cliff sits a man with long flowing blond hair and beard and light flowing robes. Both his cloak and headgear are winged and he holds a staff in his left hand. His right hand is exended and held down, palm open. He appears peaceful and calm. In the background is the lighter shadow of a city with spires and several moons appear in the sky above it. The contrast and opposition of the two sides are very pronounced. This piece was popularized by its use as the cover of the Eloy album 'Planets' on its UK release by Heavy Metal Records.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Jun 6

Jupiter (upper center) and Venus (mid right) low on the horizon among clouds.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· May 17

One of the most in depth volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica:

Macropædia

Knowledge in Depth

19

Excretion
Geometry

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· May 12

Fair to say that I can't remember. 😂 #carwars

An early copy of Car Wars from Steve Jackson Games. This is a circa 1983 reprint of the first edition in the 'Pocket Box' format. It's stained with age, and being held up in front of a laptop that is open to the original post in this thread.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· May 5

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 30

Bloody repeats on the telly again.

A clipping from the web page annoucing the first ever repeat of a Morecambe and Wise episode. It shows the upcoming broadcast on May 14th at 20:00 and the earlier one on BBC Two from 16th September 1968.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 28

Post an image from a game you played as a teenager #TravellerRPG

A copy of the Games Workshop UK first print of the Traveller roleplaying game being held up in front of an embarrassingly large collection of Traveller books and games that take up two bookcases. The once teenage owner of the box has taped up the sides with electrical tape and printed his name (Gordon Hundley) in DYMO tape and attached it to the top left corner.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 28

Me too. It has somehow survived:

A pile of games on top of a bookcase. From top to bottom, an untitled box that is Avalon Hill's Kingmaker; Games Workshop's reprint of Cosmic Encounter; TSR's Star Frontiers; SPI's Universe; Citadel Miniatures' Warhammer; SPI's Middle Earth.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 28

This guy?

A car park not commemorating where a psychotic madman finally killed himself.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 27

Supernova SN 2026kid seen here (bright dot above main disc to right of center) in the galaxy NGC 5907 (2 minutes, 840mm f/7). This is a crop of an uncalibrated frame. I'll post more later after the astrographs have done their work. 🔭 #astrophotography

NGC 5907 or the Knife Edge galaxy, an uncalibrated screen transfer of a single two minute broadband color image. To the right of the center and above the main glow of the disc is a bright spot that is the supernova SN 2026kid, discovered April 22nd by Yasuo Sano, former director of Kitasubaru Astronomical Observatory in Nayoro.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 27

Two minutes, luminance, uncalibrated screen transfer.

NGC 5907 - an uncalibrated 2 minute frame in luminance at 432mm f/4.8

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 27

Presently:

A long exposure cell phone photo showing a cloudy sky above a balcony with two visible telescopes (the third is behind me).

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 18

XTC - Live Boots, 2026 release of a cleaned up 1981 bootleg. #RSD #XTC #thisispop

The cover of XTC’s Live Boots released on vinyl as part of Record Store Day 2026. It has an art pop image of a pair of Doc Marten -like boots, the foreground one in red, the background one in green. There is a blue Type G (BS 1363) plug as is common in the UK apparently plugged into the near side of the red boot, with a blue power cord coming from it and exiting image left. The background is a series of tight black and yellow lines (akin to a warning) sign aligned to the primary diagonal.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 16

Nvidia GB300s, I presume?

My notifications:

"! Not Enough Resources" is the illuminating error message that the BlueSky resource management game gives.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 16

Berlin: Night and Day. #photography #berlin #architecture

The Night and Day sculptures on top of the remaining fascade of the main entrance to the demolished Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof. The originals were cast in zinc by Ludwig Brunow and now reside in the German Museum of Technology nearby. Night is a woman in flowing robes and cape, looking away and toward the ground. Day is a man in more open robes looking up. They are offset to the lower left to accentuate their respective gazes, Night on the left looking down into shadow, and Day looking to the bright summer sky which dominates the upper half of the photo. To the right a foreground tree arches over the sculputes on their ornate brickwork seats.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 15

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 15

Sunset in Tampa after another orbit.

The sun setting over a bay of water, with light bulbs on a wire in the foreground across the orange sky.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 10

This is not their best album but it's good and produced at least one song that persisted in their live sets - but it's a spectacularly bad (and ill-advised from a marketing perspective) cover that pre-supposes AI slop by about 50 years.

The cover of the album "Operation" by Birth Control, which features a spider-like creature with at least 11 legs that is eating babies.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 7

The Sun, eclipsed in totality for 54 minutes by Artemis' position shows subtle details in it's corona while the reflected light off the Earth (albedo 0.39ish, thanks Vangelis) dimly illuminates features on the moon. (image: NASA, details:ALT text) #moon #artemis #astrophotgraphy

NASA ID: art002e009298

art002e009298 (April 6, 2026) – A close-up view from the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II crew’s lunar flyby on April 6, 2026, captures a total solar eclipse, with only part of the Moon visible in the frame as it fully obscures the Sun. Although the full lunar disk extends beyond the image, the Sun’s faint corona remains visible as a soft halo of light around the Moon’s edge. From this deep-space vantage point, the Moon appeared large enough to sustain nearly 54 minutes of totality, far longer than total solar eclipses typically seen from Earth. This cropped perspective emphasizes the scale of the alignment and reveals subtle structure in the corona during the rare, extended eclipse observed by the crew. The bright silver glint on the left edge of the image is the planet Venus. The round, dark gray feature visible along the Moon’s horizon between the 9 and 10 o’clock positions is Mare Crisium, a feature visible from Earth. We see faint lunar features because light reflected off of Earth provides a source of illumination.

Date Created:2026-04-06

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 7

The South Pole–Aitken basin as seen from Artemis yesterday. It's a huge and ancient impact basin - around 2500km across, and estimated to be 4.2 billion years old. (Image: NASA, details ALT text) #moon #artemis #astrophotography

NASA ID: art002e009283

art002e009283 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the South Pole-Aitken basin is seen with the shadowed terminator – the boundary between lunar day and night – at the top of the image. The South Pole-Aitken basin is the largest and oldest basin on the Moon, providing a glimpse into an ancient geologic history built up over billions of years.

Date Created:2026-04-06

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 7

Earth setting over the limb of the moon. (image NASA, details ALT text) #moon #nasa #artemis #astrophotography

NASA ID: art002e009286

art002e009286 (April 6, 2026) – As the Artemis II crew came close to passing behind the Moon and experiencing a planned loss of signal, they captured this image of a crescent Earth setting on the Moon’s limb. The edge of the visible surface of the Moon is called the “lunar limb.” Seen from afar, it almost looks like a circular arc – except when backlit, as in other images captured by the Artemis II crew. In this photo, the dark portion of Earth is experiencing nighttime, while Australia and Oceania are in the daylight. In the foreground, the Ohm crater is visible, with terraced edges and a flat floor interrupted by central peaks. Peaks such as these form in complex craters when the lunar surface is liquified on impact, and the liquefied surface splashes upward during the crater’s formation.

Date Created:2026-04-06

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Apr 3

A couple of photos that I took from Cocoa Beach during the Artemis II launch. Nikon Z8, 560mm f/8. 🔭

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 25

A photoshop of a panther lying in a laundry basket. The comment by John Sadowsky says "We had a Florida panther fall asleep in a laundry basket in our sun room. What is a bit odd about this is we live in Maryland."

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 23

Linda from Arizona.

Tucker Carlson 'interviews' Vladimir Putin.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 20

Oooh. #NASA #X-59 #QueSST

FlightRadar24 capture of a test flight of the NASA X-59 QueSST vehicle.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 20

A 'Dune' poster that is styled to look like one for Dune II. There are two figures standing in front of a huge orange sun that is setting into a dusty background. The text says "The Melange" in large letters and "Are you sure it's not cinnamon?" in a subtitle.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 17

Vince McMahon, former President of the WWE.

Photo from Wikipedia, by Airman 1st Class Nicholas Pilch, 2006.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 17

Just back from seeing Suzy Izzard perform the entirety of Hamlet solo. It was superb. Don't miss it if you get a chance. #shakespeare #hamlet #suzyizzard

Suzy (Eddie) Izzard receives a standing ovation following their solo performance of Shakespeare's play 'Hamlet' in Tampa, Florida on March 16th.

Gordon Hundley@drgoon· Mar 15

Gary Numan live last week. Interesting accident. #garynuman