Alexey Mints

@minzastro@astrodon.social
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54 Following
339 Posts
Postdoc@aip.de
Developer@gaia.dpac
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Alexey MintsJun 8
Benjamin WinkelJun 8

Almost three years it eluded me, but now the weather was playing along such that I could finally capture an image of the Rosette Nebula with my backyard telescope. The nebula is one of my favorite objects in the night sky.

2 hours of RGB, 5 hours with a dual narrowband filter (H-alpha, O-iii)

Originally posted on astrodon (Mar 5, 2025)

Alexey MintsJun 6
Why is that, no matter how you arrange your #books, there always comes a moment when this one book does not fit anymore?.. Why can't the bookshelf just stretch a tiny bit...
Alexey MintsJun 5
Caesar WirthJun 4
uBlock Origin on Bluesky vs Mastodon
Alexey MintsJun 2
Dr. Victoria GrinbergJun 2
Oh Poland... 😢
Alexey MintsJun 1
Seriously, Google? Traffic jam information that is 8h old? Is it really helpful?
Alexey MintsJun 1
Dr. Judith HubbardMay 28

Two weeks ago, a video appeared showing slip in the Myanmar earthquake - the first time this has ever been recorded on video.

What can we learn from it? We deep-dive the science.

https://earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/remarkable-video-captures-fault-slip

Remarkable video captures fault slip in the Myanmar earthquake

We deep dive the possibilities presented by a witnessed rupture

Earthquake Insights
Alexey MintsMay 31
Aaron BarthMay 31
Yesterday NSF and NASA released their budget proposals for 2026. The proposed cuts will be utterly catastrophic. If the final budget is anything like this, it will mean the end of American leadership in astronomy and astrophysics. Countless careers will be destroyed, student and postdoc fellowship programs will be terminated, and many powerful and productive observatories will be shut down. Contact your senators and urge them to reject these cuts and support a robust budget for all of America's science agencies.
Alexey MintsMay 26
Jyoti MishraMay 25
Alexey MintsMay 20
Lauri SiltalaMay 20

I am going to give Mastodon another shot and try to get active here :) Goal: post one cool (at least to me) thing per day.

Lets begin: last week I was at the Asteroid Radar Modeling Workshop in Spain (https://sites.google.com/view/armw25/) where I learned a lot about planetary radar data and started working on asteroid shape modeling based on said data.

Attached the fruit of my labors - my WIP shape model for the near-Earth asteroid Agni. Not yet perfect - I will continue refining it!

10/10 workshop!

ARMW '25

Welcome to the Asteroid Radar Modeling Workshop 2025! The Asteroid Radar Modeling Workshop '25 (ARMW25) is a workshop that will provide the opportunity to learn the use of the tool SHAPE (Magri et al. 2007 and other references; see "Resources" page) to develop asteroid shape models from radar and

Alexey MintsMay 20
James GleickMay 20

May 2023: “I will have that war settled in one day, 24 hours. First, I’ll meet with Putin, I’ll meet with Zelensky. They both have weaknesses and they both have strengths. And within 24 hours that war will be settled. It will be over. It will be absolutely over.”

September 2024: “That is a war that’s dying to be settled. I will get it settled before I even become president. And what I’ll do is I’ll speak to one, I’ll speak to the other, I’ll get them together.”

https://wapo.st/43EYJoY

Trump backs off ceasefire after call with Putin, letting fighting rage on

After Trump’s third phone call with Putin since his inauguration, it appears there will be no letup in fighting and less U.S. pressure on Moscow.

The Washington Post