Mastodawn

Congratulations to P. Nosal and J. Kubánek for their positive observations of the stellar occultation by Centaur (8405) Asbolus last night.
Two negative observations were made by A. Marciniak and J. Mánek.
Unfortunately the weather in western Europe was bad so many stations were clouded out.

It is the first observed stellar occultation by this interesting object!

Details here:
https://cloud.occultwatcher.net/event/1736-8405-91965-650573-U043695

#astronomy #occultation #citizenscience #space #asteroid #centaur

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cathill 10h ago

Poachers and other criminals love iNaturalist!
#inaturalist #naturalhistory #biology #citizenscience #opendata #poachers #poaching #crime #endangeredspecies #plantpoaching #animalpoaching #wildlifepoaching #wildlifetrafficking #ecology

Landschaftsfotos 11h ago

Burg Bourscheid, Schiefergebirge
Ort: Luxemburg, Burscheid
Autor: Wolfgang Breitkopf
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/1430

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

izeltlabuak.hu 13h ago

A nap ízeltlábúja a nagylepkék araszolólepkék családjába tartozó fehéres zöldaraszoló - Jodis lactearia https://www.izeltlabuak.hu/faj/feheres-zoldaraszolo/talalatok #fehéresZöldaraszoló #JodisLactearia #araszolólepkék #Geometridae #nagylepkék #Macrolepidoptera #CitizenScience

Jodis lactearia - fehéres zöldaraszoló

A Jodis lactearia - fehéres zöldaraszoló fajhoz tartozó észlelések listája

Silken Wind 22h ago

📅 Oct 4, 07:25 JST
Confirmed survival of a swallowtail butterfly with deformed wings for 11 consecutive days after eclosion.
Normally, such butterflies live only 3–6 days, so this case represents an exceptionally rare survival record.

#Butterfly #Entomology #CitizenScience #RareObservation #Swallowtail

Marcus Brandel 1d ago

🐪 #LostBones 🐪 says: Hmmm… A recent visit to the Jackson County Historical Society revealed a camel calcaneus in the collection.

Among specimens from a 2015 study of a section of the Des Moines River, which examined bison, horse, deer, and other skeletal remains it was part of over 800 bones cataloged. But was this camel actually in Minnesota? More to come.

https://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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#FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Camel #Palaeontology #CitizenScience

Landschaftsfotos 1d ago

kleine Brücke über Fluss im Schlosspark Hermsdorf
Ort: Deutschland, Sachsen, Ottendorf-Okrilla, Hermsdorf
Autor: Hans-Lothar Kölling
Lizenz: CC BY-SA 4.0
https://landschaftsfotoportal.senckenberg.de/item/2331

#CitizenScience #landscape #photography

Arne Kimmig 1d ago

#ArchaiaOlympia #Archaeology #Greece #DigitalArchaeology #CitizenScience

Pünktlich zum 150-Jahre-Jubiläum der Ausgrabung in Olympia wurden jetzt auch die von uns transkribierten Tagebücher zu den Grabungs-Kampagnen III und IV publiziert. Die Tagebücher I und II liegen bereits vor, Tagebuch V wurde von mir dieser Tage zum Redigieren gegeben.
Tagebuch VI wird noch ein paar Monate dauern.

Hier die TB III und IV:
https://doi.org/10.34780/fefyhe32
https://doi.org/10.34780/j974a560

Archäologisches Tagebuch der Olympia-Grabung: Grabungskampagne III, 1877–1878 | iDAI.publications/books

b-unicyling 1d ago

Two potential archaeological sites I discovered in Co. Kerry today while mapping buildings. Though the aerial imagery (Esri World) is not the best, the cropmarks or even ditches are quite visible. Reported to the National Monuments Service, like so many before. I won't give coordinates here, because I don't want to trigger any illegal digging.
#citizenscience #archaeology #cropmarks

Silken Wind 1d ago

Observation: A swallowtail butterfly with wing deformity (failed eclosion) has survived 10 days post-emergence (23 Sept → 3 Oct).
Unable to fly, but continues feeding on diluted honey.
Survival period notably exceeds the typical ~7 days reported for Papilio adults.
#Entomology #Lepidoptera #CitizenScience #Butterfly