Having been an inaugural resident of the NWC for 5+ years with a window overlooking the fountain, I can confirm this statement.
Composite from 4 nights showing the relative positions of Jupiter, Venus, and Mercury. In the composite, Jupiter was held fixed while the others were allowed to shift.
All images were taken from the same location at Lake Mary near Flagstaff, Arizona.
#astrophotography #landscape 📷
Made it!! 🌋
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Kevin Manross
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David Blanchard
This is only tangentially related but one of my takeaways here is that pools — including, it seems, reflecting pools — are actually shockingly complicated things and you really need to know what you're doing when you make one.
Fun night up on Mauna Kea. Picture 1 is Mauna Loa with the Southern Cross. Picture 2 is the moon, Venus, Jupiter, and Mercury.
Jack Jenkins
As luck would have it, Sean from New York, who used to work for a pool company, was nearby to talk about this blue stuff.
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Jen Bendery
A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention.
He left in tears.
www.texastribune.org/2026/06/15/t...
Does it ever hit home that the ascendancy of AI is taken to be assured, but the shifting of human society to fit into earth system limits is seen as everything from a head-scratcher to a longshot to an impossibility?