Schmootles 🇦🇺

@schmootles.bsky.social

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Old science guy working as physicist well past retirement age. Love the process of design and construction. Socially progressive lefty. Woke AF. Married. Kids, grandkids, large dogs, and everything’s a bit chaotic.

Dog with a thick floof of hair that’s standing about 50 mm thick. Looks like a soft hat.
Ridiculously large electrostat panel speakers. I’m checking phasing. There a very big and hairy dog standing in front of one of the panels.
Annular plastic knitting machine with slug of red product spewing from its opening.
Bus driver resting his arms on the wheel and solving a Rubik cube.
Very small Vinfast EV seen in Ho Chi Minh City.
Photo of a wire mesh security gate. One panel of the gate has been cut away.
A praying mantis peering out of a car wheel Arch.
A crushed caulking gun found by the side of a busy road.
3D printed bottle tag that has a Trump face and the words They say it was the BEST death.
Celestron EdgeHD 8 telescope with cameras and stuff bolted on. Aimed at Centaurus A.
Large dog looking out under a garage door
Standard poodle, Archie, looking a bit keen on a walk.
Half a hair comb left on top of a fence. Looks insect-like
Telescope. A 100 mm Esprit ED. With lots of little bright red accessories.
NGC1365 imaged with C8 and ASI2600MC colour CMOS camera cooled to -10°C.
Aillio Bullet coffee roaster swirling away in my garage. Door is partly open bc roasting is a bit fumey.
Large speaker panel with a large dog lying next to it on his chaise.
Dog with ear draped over side of soft basket. Looking cute I have to say.
Celestron 8” telescope on a mount with cameras and stuff attached.
Orion Nebula. About 3 hours acquisition from a Bortle 6 suburb in Melbourne, Australia. 4” refractor.
Telescope rigged for astrophotography and pointed towards a very cloudy sky.
Photo of one of a pair of enormous panel speakers. Electrostatic speakers.
Chart showing declining support for Trump; down to 41% averaged across polls. Still surprisingly high
Photo of a dog with slightly too-long hair on his head.
Carina nebula imaged from Central Victoria, Australia, with a smart telescope.
A nebula image taking shape on an iPad with nothing else visible other than the battery status indicators on the S50 smart scope.
About 30 kg of astrophotography gear on a timber deck
Astrophotographer’s toolkit set up on a clear Sunday evening in Melbs.
Telescope on a tripod on a deck someplace in Melbourne Australia
Very large but nearly two-dimensional speaker panels in a lounge rom.
Slightly too large panel loudspeaker. Uses high voltages instead of magnets.
Photo of a nebula taken with a new smart telescope that does all the clever bit for you.
Image of the running chicken nebula taken with a small smart telescope called the seestar S50.
Interior view of a small glasshouse. Hydroponics tubs are lined up on the benches.