Chris Upton

turkeyplucker.bsky.social

30 June 2025 20:21

For convenience (albeit with some fiddling for non-30-day Gregorian months, particularly in February) this account treats SR Jan 1 as matching Gregorian Jan 1, etc., and ignores the solar offset. Since Tolkien "translates" to Gregorian month names throughout, doing otherwise would be more confusing.

Bath Astronomers

bathastronomers.org.uk

24 April 2025 14:49

I have fallen head over heals for a Python astronomy library. Just loving Brandon Rhodes' Skyfield library. I just used it to calculate next month's Jovian moon shadow transits across the gas giant and then had a coding dessert calculating timings for clair obscur effects. rhodesmill.org/skyfield/

Una McCormack

unamccormack.bsky.social

25 March 2025 01:25

Big day tomorrow

Steffen Hope

hopesteffen.bsky.social

20 March 2025 13:39

With the world divided into two hemispheres, this is one of the best examples I have seen to prove that medieval people knew the earth was round.

Ruth Deyermond

ruthdeyermond.bsky.social

17 March 2025 13:06

The correct way to frame it. Of course, decades of experience shows that Russian peace negotiations are not serious; that peace in cases of Russian aggression is not lasting, and that the Kremlin is very happy to slaughter innocent civilians - its own as well as other states'.