The first flowers are happening in the hay field!

Alberta-based astrophotographer Alan Dyer posted this video of his night sky full of satellites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZpbJJLk1ug

Video alt-text: A time-lapse of the Milky Way, with many satellite streaks crawling across it, continuously. At the end of the video, he stacks exposures, and the stars gradually disappear under a set of satellites streaks over the course of a couple hours.

I already recommended this book here, but I really really really enjoyed "What We Are Seeking" by Cameron Reed (and I finished it while travelling last week, so I'm re-recommending it!) Fantastic alien ecosystem biology, lovely characters, super interesting far-future societies

In the next day or so I need to force myself to read Yet Another Stupid Fucking Orbital Data Center filing, because I have to write a comment to the FCC so that it's on file that astronomers hate it.

This one called "Stampede" from a company named Cowboy Space. I hate *everything* about this. I'm not even going to link to any news stories about them because they're all so horrible. A sun-synchronous terminator orbit is where satellite companies want Kessler Syndrome to start, apparently.

Great article on the state of orbit from DarkSky International: https://darksky.org/news/seven-years-of-megaconstellations-why-the-space-economy-must-look-before-it-launches/

Goat morning

I spent all day participating in (mostly listening to) an important astronomy meeting while also fixing a fence and taking kids to activities (because I am NOT listening in to an all-day meeting on a Sunday without also getting other important things done, especially after just returning from a week away for work).

I am tired. Still a few more chores to get done before bed. And a gigantic mountain of email waiting for me tomorrow because I blew it all off last week...

The dangers of browsing the local farm listings... I may have just purchased a 150-egg incubator. And also a 400-egg incubator. They were so cheap (...cheep?) I couldn't not buy them. I'm going to hatch EVERYTHING.

But first I have to help put row cover over some of the seedlings in the lower field because it's probably going to frost in the low spots tonight 😭

After a few days of being in a large city, I'd be very content to hide on my farm and see no one except goats for a bit, but today is the Regina Pride parade, so I will happily go and see more people for that. (The best people! Seriously, I love this parade) Happy Pride!