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Shot with Vaonis Vespera II smart scope. 30 minutes of observation.

Taken with Vaonis Vespera II smart scope.

Taken with Pixel phone over 4:00 minutes in Astro mode. RAW further edited in Snapseed.

Scientists have unearthed the remnants of more than 1,700 viruses from deep inside a glacier in western China. Most of these viruses are new to science.

With this discovery, the number of ancient viruses recovered from glaciers has grown fiftyfold.The viruses, gathered from a 1,000-foot ice core taken from the sprawling Guliya Glacier on the Tibetan Plateau, date back 41,000 years and span three major shifts from cold to warm.

Vaonis Vespera II. 350 images or so over ~1.75 hours, stacked by the scope software. .

If you zoom in you can see some steaking and lines. Is that clouds or condensation?

Just caught some Olympic qualifying finals for breakdancing?! Kazakhstan versus Netherlands. They both crushed it and Netherlands won. I thought the Kazaki won the whole thing with his opening move in the final bout.

I haven't read these links yet but apparently this is the first games that will feature break dancing.

https://www.nbcsports.com/olympics/news/breaking-olympics-2024-paris-dancing

https://olympics.com/en/news/how-to-qualify-paris-2024-breaking-qualification-system-explained

I can't seem to find a video of the bout. Very cool to see breaking at the world level.

I've enjoying seeing how the games have evolved over my short life. I remember when Johnny Mosely pulled that perfect helicopter (360°) at mens moguls in Nagano in 1998 and it completely changed the sport of skiing. It launched entire categories of competitive skiing: freestyle, big air, and half pipe, eventually became Olympic events. I'm not really a big Olympics fan or anything, just wanted to share the news about breakdancing for Paris 2024. Can you believe it?

“I think it’s been about two or three times in the past six months we’ve allegedly been sunk, which we have not been,” Hill told The Associated Press during a recent visit to the carrier. “It is almost comical at this point. They’re attempting to maybe inspire themselves through misinformation, but it doesn’t work on us.”

500,000 stars in that ball.

Taken with Vespera 2 smart scope. 104 stacked images over 17 minutes. Processed by the scope and Singularity app.

Taken with Vespera 2/Singularity. 322 images captured over 54 minutes.