iangriffin

iangriffin, 3 days ago to random

Supercharging in Twizel! en route to my happy place…

iangriffin, 4 days ago to random

An observation. Based on a sample size of my whānau, Bridgerton is like TV crack for the entire female species. #mysteriesoftheuniverse

iangriffin, 4 days ago to Astronomy

Here’s my Skywatch column in today’s Otago Daily Times. A bit of a lament I’m afraid #astronomy #NewZealand

iangriffin, 5 days ago to random

So Connie Springer was at kennels today for social time. Her school report said she played with some other springers. Jesus wept, she’s filthy…. #springer #springerspaniels

iangriffin, 5 days ago to homebrewing

Exciting delivery when I got home today #wine #NewZealand

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iangriffin, 6 days ago to random

71 years ago today! And the camera is in the exhibition I am curating at Tūhura!

iangriffin, 7 days ago to random

OK. Ian secret admission. In 2004 I left my then dream job (at Hubble Telescope) because Bush was in power. I returned to UK to educate my kids in a sane country. We all left UK by 2022 to live in NZ. What on Earth have the USA and UK become?

iangriffin, 7 days ago to random

So. Moments when you know you are getting old. In a meeting today, someone asked a question about something if it happened, never happening again, and I replied "just like the James Bond film, never say never again". Everyone in the room other than me didn't get the reference. #old #seanconnery

iangriffin, 9 days ago to random

Any day that ends with the Beach Boys “God only knows” playing on the stereo is a good day. Night everyone! #beauty

iangriffin, 9 days ago to random

What to say. just another boring picture of the Wanaka tree :-) I love analogue photography

iangriffin, 9 days ago to NewZealand

So yes, I know the satellite trails can be processed out of the comet image I shared earlier. Here's a fully processed version showing Comet Pons Brooks on the evening of 4th May. The comet was very low in the sky from New Zealand at the time the images from which this composite has been assembled. #comet #ponsbrooks #NewZealand

iangriffin, 9 days ago to random

An excellent article by Scott Willis https://www.odt.co.nz/lifestyle/resilient/science-public’s-interest

iangriffin, 10 days ago to random

That moment you realise you aren’t British any more. I literally don’t recognise any of the “celebrities” in Bake Off! #imakiwinow

iangriffin, 10 days ago to random

Just for fun. I added together all of the images I took of Comet Pons Brooks a few weeks ago. The session was just after astronomical twilight and every single frame I took (68) had at least one satellite trail. To really piss me off, a whole train of freshly launched Starlink satellites joined the "party". This, friends, is the price we pay for "progress". #notostarlink #savethesky

iangriffin, 11 days ago to random

Shows how out of touch I am. One of my internet pals told me today they managed to snag one of these at their local chemist. literally a rat test for Flu, Covid and RSV... all in one. The world is amazing that we can do this!

iangriffin, 11 days ago to Halo

A nice partial lunar halo right now in Portobello #halo

iangriffin, 13 days ago to random

Present location? the famous Koru cage in Christchurch #korucage

iangriffin, 13 days ago to worldwithoutus

Things you probably don't know about me. #1 I love antarctic science and stories. So much that I have pretty much every book written about the heroic age. I also have this. It's a picture drawn by Dr. Edward Wilson, who accompanied Scott on both his polar expeditions. This is a picture drawn by Wilson as a gift to his sister on her birthday in around 1880. I love it! #antarctica #captainscott

iangriffin, 14 days ago to random

Here’s the team in the banquet hall 2/n

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iangriffin, 14 days ago to random

So today the Tūhura Otago Museum team took our entire suite of outreach exhibitions and activities to Parliament 1/n