Juan Carlos Muñoz / is on Nostr

• Astronomer and science communicator
• Media Officer at the European Southern Observatory - ESO (npub1e9u…mlzx)
• Won't shut up about space
• #astronomy #astrophysics #science #astrophotography #space
• he/him
• Toots in English and español
• 🇪🇸 → 🇺🇸 → 🇨🇱 → 🇩🇪

Website: https://www.eso.org/~jmunoz
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/astro_jcm/
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/astro_jcm/

Last Notes

2024-11-17 22:18:58

Having an "ñ" in my surname means constantly being gaslit by online forms that tell me my name can't contain special characters only to then tell me that my password must contain special characters, three emojis and a valid chess move.

2024-07-02 07:24:52

This solar #eclipse happened 5 years ago today, but my memories of it are as vivid as if it had been yesterday. I lived in #Chile back then, so I hopped to ESO's La Silla observatory, which was in the path of totality.
This was my second total solar eclipse, but the fact that we were at high elevation made it unique, as we could see the shadow of the #Moon coming towards us from the Pacific Ocean. My humble pic below doesn't make it justice!
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography #science
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2024-06-27 15:17:35

1/3 The last mirror segment of ESO's Extremely Large Telescope has been cast! The ELT's main mirror will be 39-m wide –– too large to be made from a single piece. Instead, the mirror will consist of 798 hexagonal segments working together.
133 extra segments will be needed during normal operations, as we'll have to recoat 2 segments/day. Together with 18 spares, this makes a total of 949 segments, and the last one has now been cast.
➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2410/
#astronomy #engineering
📷 SCHOTT
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2024-06-02 16:12:47

#SilentSunday #photography #wildlife #chile
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2024-05-24 18:39:17

#Google recently added a new revolutionary feature to *checks notes* "search the Web". But it's rather hidden. So Ernie Smith from Tedium developed
https://udm14.com/
a simple webpage that adds an extra url parameter to your search to return a de-enshittified list of results –– or at least as de-enshittified as Google results can be nowadays.
His blog post about this: https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/
and the code in GitHub: https://github.com/readtedium/udm14
#internet #ai

2024-05-10 17:21:16

Me getting mentally ready to be super jealous of the upcoming #aurora pics from those of you living at higher latitudes.
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophotography
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