Maik Meyer ☄️

@comethunter.de

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Comet hunting in plate vaults & libraries, Meyer comet group, orbit linking & calculating, cometary history, MP (52005), author, currently working on revision of Cometography 1, comet observing, www.comethunter.de ORCID: 0009-0004-8545-9458

Trailed stars, some satellite trails and a slightly diffuse spot in the center, accompanied by a smaller spot towards 10 o'clock.
An old German handwriting
A juggler, juggling colourful planets. Queen - Innuendo
A dust and dirt covered bug on grey cloth
trailed stars and a slightly diffuse dot at the center- Some text and numbers in several boxes
A fuzzy comet with no tail, set against a black sky with tiny stars. A almost horizontal whitish streak passes through the comet.
A white slimy blob on dead wood
Frontispiece of a German Prognosticon for the year 1564, with a large woodcut showing celestial and earthly events
A guitarist showing the finger
A book, looking used by the looks of its jacket. It reads: The Astronomical Scrapbook Skywatchers, Pioneers, and Seekers in Astronomy by Joseph Ashbrook
Image of Jean Louis Pons, the most successful visual comet discoverer.
A digital thermometer showing 41.7° C
Article of 1908, describing a "cloud of great height, probably of cosmical origin, observed at Flagstaff, Arizona, Nov 3, 1896". The drawing looks like the profile of a human face.
A digital thermometer indicating 40.3° C in the shadow...
A multitude of diversely coloured stars and red nebulae
Two small but strong porcini
“If people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.” — Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
A really large bolete... Photo of 2020
Man with the Moneybag and Flatterers by Pieter Brueghel the Younger ca. 1592
A windmill (built 1877) set against a blue sky and white clouds, surrounded by trees
220P/McNaught on 2026 June 2.11 UT from Farm Tivoli, Namibia with 12” f 3.6 Reflector and CMOS Camera Exp.Time: LRGB 20/4,5/4,5/4,5 min. FOV: 60´x115´ https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/35408
A graph showing the time at the abscissa and the height at the ordinate. Six time slots are marked with a green frame indicating a successful imaging run.
Synesius of Cyrene (ca. 370 - 439) wrote a treatise entitled In Praise of Baldness. Its theme was that hairiness is evil, and beause comets are hairy, they are fatal omens. (Thorndike I: 453) from: Jane L. Jervis, Cometary Theory in Fifteenth-Century Europe.
Indy punching a Nazi
loads of stars and a marking showing a faint trail
a lot of stars and a comet with a faint tail
a lot of stars with a little trailed object at the center
a lot of stars and a marked, almost star-like comet
a small diffuse comet and stars
stars and a marked star-like comet
A diffuse small comet and some stars
some stars and a tailless comet
A comet made of wire in the woods
A bearded man in a suit. He was misunderstood and his ideas abused by so many.
A lot of worn hiking shoes on an old wooden sign
A guy on a camel with pyramids in the background
A medieval city skyline under white-blue skies
Hand drawn colorful image of a comet's tail risong behind green hills among depicted constelltions. From Wilhelm Schickard's "Cometen-Beschreibung" manuscript of 1619 Württembergische Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Cod.math.qt.43 http://digital.wlb-stuttgart.de/purl/bsz307044173
A graph with white and green bars. Abscissa gives the year, the ordinate gives the numer of observations of comets.
View of a river through trees.
Screenshot from Le Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon) (1902) A black rocket hit one eye of the man in the moon
Large white mushrooms growing on a cut side of a tree. The mushrooms are seen from below with trees in the background
A Klingon with a red costume and hat
A photo of a tablet screen showing a live image with lots of stars and some text
A tiny comet with a short tail towards the right surrounded by several stars.
A fuzzy comet in front of streaked stars
Comet 29P
A meteor am, showing a clear night from Thursday to Friday