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The comet's tail is bent! (Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon)

Also, we are under attack from thousands of Starlink satellites. They pollute the night sky.

These are two versions of the same stack of images. (165 exposures, each only 2.5 seconds long)

The camera was on a fixed tripod, 135mm telephoto lens.

The first image stack uses an algorithm that rejects most satellite trails, but it makes most of the stars look funny with tiny red circles around them. (But I did a decent job flattening the night sky brightness so that I could boost contrast aggressively. The tail stretches across the frame.)

The second image stack is just a simple average of all pixel values at a given location in the sky. This makes the stars look 'natural', but now we see many satellite trails. Keep in mind this is an average of 165 images. …

The comet stands out brightly against the night sky before dawn. Many faint stars have a small red circle around them. That is an artifact of image processing. But satellite trails are largely removed. The comet's faint tail extends to the upper left, and has more than one bend/kink in it. The tops of a few trees make blurred silhouettes along the bottom of the frame.
A finder chart for the comet in the evening sky as twilight becomes full night. This shows the comets motion across the sky from 18 to 21 October.
The stack of images, using a simple average of pixel values. Now we see many satellite trails, but the bent tail stands out a little stronger from the sky background.
An individual frame that shows how bright the satellite trails are.

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say State’s Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state

https://www.civilbeat.org/2025/10/teens-who-sued-hawaii-say-states-climate-plan-for-aviation-doesnt-fly/

"The rapid deorbiting of has raised alarms, particularly as Elon Musk’s SpaceX constellation continues to grow. With up to four satellites falling to Earth daily in 2025, experts, including astronomer @planet4589, are warning about both the immediate and long-term impacts. While most of these satellites burn up safely in the , concerns about and atmospheric are mounting."

https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/starlink-satellites-falling-more-than-ever/

Pesticides in our lochs

I don’t care who points this out, but surely the time has come to call an end to fish farming in our lochs when dangerous levels of pesticides are necessary to maintain an illusion of health in the population?

I note that this is a Norwegian company. They are not allowed to pollute Norwegian waters to the same extent as our Scottish ones.

http://archive.today/2025.10.07-054227/https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/dale-vince-letting-salmon-company-use-pesticides-again-is-madness-tsggwclfh

Linked article Dale Vince: Letting salmon company use pesticides again is madness Green tycoon and activist expressed concerns over Sepa’s decree about Scottish Sea Farms’ activities in Loch Creran A picture of a landed salmon Allowing a salmon company to resume the use of pesticides in a Highland loch “is madness”, a multimillionaire businessman has claimed. Scottish Sea Farms’ licence to discharge chemicals into Loch Creran, north of Oban, was suspended in April after more than 270 environmental breaches over six months. The Scottish Environmental Protection Agency (Sepa) found that the Norwegian-owned company exceeded daily discharge levels by up to ten times for two chemicals used to treat caged salmon for a fungal infection. The watchdog described the breaches as “prolonged and wilful” and suggested they posed a “significant risk” to marine wildlife. The loch is a protected conservation site and contains the world’s largest serpulid reef, a rare network of seabed structures created by worms that houses more than 70 species.

アンフィルタードでニシン・コカ (@ncoca)は、汚染を招くパーム油発電所が地域社会に与える被害と、これまでに二つのプロジェクト建設を阻止した市民運動の実態に迫る。パーム油の収穫は東南アジアにおける森林破壊と土地利用変化 — 特に泥炭地でのプランテーション開発 — を意味し、大量の温室効果ガスを排出している。

日本とその近隣諸国に及ぼす短期的・長期的な影響について、詳細を記事にした

https://www.unfiltered.coop/palm-oil-power-jp/

8 Bone-Chilling Climate Horror Novels & Stories

These works of climate horror are chilling reflections and reminders of what's at stake in our real world, thanks to climate change

https://bookriot.com/bone-chilling-climate-horror-novels-stories/

The results reveal that three out of four people in Scotland worry about climate change and more than two out of three want ambitious action.

The biggest fear for Scots is the harm climate change may do to nature and wildlife.

Its impact on the world's poorest is the second highest concern (24%), followed by household bills rising as a result of climate change (22%)

https://tfn.scot/news/survey-shows-that-scots-back-action-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis?utm_source=goodmoves&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=footer

Joseph Romm is a senior research fellow at the Center for Science, Sustainability, and Media at the University of Pennsylvania. And he’s a Swiftie who co-hosts a podcast in which he and his daughter analyze the storytelling techniques Taylor Swift uses in her songs.

He suggests using stories to communicate about climate change because they’re memorable and they engage people on an emotional level

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/what-taylor-swift-can-teach-us-about-talking-about-climate-change/