Dave Rollinson

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This caused a bit of a stir in Perth. Looking at dash cams it appeared to pass overhead. But it was somewhere on the south coast, maybe over the sea. #globalmetrornetwork

In which we discovered a Honda CBR500R is unexpectedly competent off-road.

Meteor

Today's task is to reduce the performance of my motircycle by fitting a windshield. I should have bought a Versys. Or a maxi scooter. Actually, I probably should have got a scooter.

Google is telling me my photos are blurry. This is my finest work.

The SETI Institute is accepting proposals for the Cosmic Consciousness Literary Residency for 2026/2027. Submit your materials by June 1, 2026, to ensure your application is considered. 🧪 🐡 #sciart #art

They pester you to install the 'app', then moan that your phone needs to be updated.

Satellite trails dominating an image. The faint lines in the background are mainly star trails.

Calling astrophotographers!!! Garith Yang from UCL is conducting a research study into how aircraft and satellites intersect with astrophotography practices and how they shape a photographer's perception of the night sky. Take part by filling in this short questionnaire: tinyurl.com/yncd593j

I'm making a documentary about concrete. It's going to be a blockbuster.

Impressive track-stacks from our #GMN/#UKMeteorNetwork #RaspberryPi #MeteorCameras in #Oxfordshire 13/14 Dec '25. The satellite/aircraft trails are not counted as meteors; they were just in the frame at the same time as a meteor occurred #Geminids #Geminids2025 #MeteorShower #GeminidMeteors

Satellites and a couple of meteors. It is getting out of hand.

Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...

Loving the labeled switches in my hotel.

We're going to blow our remaining carbon budget on AI, aren't we?

Cafe stop on a 750km day.

When cooking, do you get all the ingredients out at the start, or S needed, and then put them away?

PRESS RELEASE: www.seti.org/press-releas... The SETI Institute is proud to announce a new book by meteor astronomer Dr. Peter Jenniskens. Called "Atlas of Earth's Meteor Showers," this comprehensive guide describes over 500 meteor showers that appear in our night skies. 🧪 🛰️ 🔭

Every space mission carries the potential to transform our understanding of life in the cosmos—yet 41 are at risk of cancellation. The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could be silenced before it reveals distant exoplanets. DAVINCI could lose its chance to probe Venus’s unique atmosphere. 🧪 🔭

Lovely day, but cold as.

Metsoc 2025 party.

Few things better than back heeling the kickstand up, pushing start, and setting off.

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there are many odd perks and odder requirements of working at an astronomical observatory: today, a bunch of us got dressed up as a fake wedding party to take pictures to entice couples to book our venues next year -- a rare group of groomsmen* and bridesmaids with a 85+% Ph.D. fraction

50 minute #StarTrails behind #TheEyeCatcher in #Oxfordshire, UK 18th March 2025. #Canon1100D with 50mm fixed lens, ISO-800 f/3.2 for 25 seconds. Images stacked with 15 darks using #StarStaX. I removed the aircraft trails in processing.

#globalmeteornetwork

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Motorcycle camping.

Big news today in highly nerdy railway timetable data publishing matters. Today's GTFS timetable dataset update for Metro Trains Melbourne published by PTV, for the first time, identifies individual station platforms separately.

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Happy

Ride to the beach

Little Marbled Scorpion, Karnup Reserve, Baldivis, Perth

OUR FIRST EVER GENESIS!! WHAT A TIME TO BE ALIVE 🥳🥳🥳 #WorldBollardAssociation

Onto the Tyne Valley line now and I’m starting with the beautiful Haltwhistle ✅ I think this might be in my top 10 favourite stations! 😍

I'd like to be more Australian. My Australian friend Garry, originally from Tasmania, taught a group of us the best Aussie English while I was in Russia (before the wars in Ukraine), and I loved it. Somewhere, I have a "Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms" I'd love to find.

I’m ready for the fight. I’m not leaving your side. We won’t just get through it. We’re going to thrive. Bring on 2025. 🔥

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www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024... Only people who worked on it know the truth. I didn't fix anything important, but lots of little unimportant failures, create chaos.

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I did quite a bit of two up touring on it with my girlfriend (now wife)