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Terry Lovejoy

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IT Specialist, Amateur Astronomer 🌟✩🌟

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Jul 6, 2020, 11:23 AM UTC

Comet NEOWISE

Oscar Martín Mesonero took this beautiful self portrait with comet NEOWISE on July 5, 2020. Oscar was located in Spain. Many thanks to Oscar for allowing me to use his image Early risers in mid North…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Jun 4, 2020, 1:18 PM UTC

Comet SWAN and it's Complex Tail

Comet C/2020 F8 (SWAN) imaged by the Author on May 4, 2020. This was taken using a 36cm Telescope and QHY183c camera riding on a Skywatcher EQ8-RH mount Two weeks ago I wrote about the disintegrating…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy May 18, 2020, 9:30 AM UTC

Comet ATLAS - The Ups and Downs

Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) remotely imaged on March 26, 2020, from Mayhill, New Mexico. Image Credit: The author About a 3 months ago I wrote about a newly discovered comet, Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS), fou…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Mar 1, 2020, 1:48 PM UTC

Comet ATLAS (and the Town of Comet)

Comet C/2019 Y4 (ATLAS) on February 29, 2020. 4 x 2 minute exposures with RASA 28cm f2.2 telescope and ZWO ASI071MC Pro camera at Mayhill, New Mexico. Copyright Author Yesterday I captured this image…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Jun 29, 2019, 12:41 AM UTC

A night with the Nikon Z7

Photographers attending the Nikon/Camerahouse lined up on the dam wall to take photo's of the night sky On the evening of June 1, I was fortunate enough to attend an astrophotography course at Lake M…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Apr 22, 2019, 11:42 AM UTC

Flinders Peak

Flinder's Peak is in the center of this view from Mt Cootha in Brisbane's North Western suburbs One of Brisbane's lesser known attractions is Flinder's Peak on the outskirts of the cities southwester…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Mar 6, 2019, 2:48 AM UTC

Practical Astronomy

# Measuring the distance to the moon Taken with an Olympus OMD EM5 and SMC 200mm lens in August 2016. A photo like this can be used to estimate the moon's distance. This article explains how This is…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Feb 24, 2019, 7:29 AM UTC

Surfs Up!

This weekend there has been a powerful low pressure weather system driving up the surf here in South East Queensland. Even though the beaches were closed for swimmers, there were plenty of surfer's e…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Jan 31, 2019, 12:23 PM UTC

South East Queensland Road trip - Lake Maroon to Tamborine Mountain

Mt Lindsay is an ancient eroded extinct volcano that lords over the Queensland/NSW Border. One thing I love seeing at this time of year is the beautiful wintertime photos taken from the northern hemi…

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Terry Lovejoy
@terrylovejoy Jan 27, 2019, 11:48 AM UTC

More Round Earth Observations

Since been involved in a couple of recent flat earth debates I’ve been more conscious of making observations of the horizon when the chance arises. A good opportunity arose on Saturday when I did a s…

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