My personal take is that there are three reasons these stories keep surfacing:1. Because of lazy journalism.2. Because it gets clicks when you say a real space mission costs less than a Hollywood sci-fi movie.3. Because it serves a certain kind of chauvinistic political agenda to say "look how much better / more cost effective we are than those guys".Again, the achievements of the Indian space programme are amazing – these simplistic cost comparisons just don't do it proper justice.

Hey, photography folk – I need your help.I have an Adobe Photography Plan subscription for LR & PS. It's connected to my Dutch credit card & I want to switch it to my German one.The insane solution from Adobe support is:1. Download all my images synced to their cloud (>200GB);2. Delete my account & open a new one with a new email address;3. Change back to the old email address;4. Resync all my photos back to the cloud.Am in support chat hell with this madness.Utterly bananas. Ha

Thankfully, even the dullest of grey cycling skies can be fixed with a few sliders in LightRoom 🤪A hallucinogenic take on the metal structure of the Landungssteg in Ladenburg overlooking the Neckar river, as seen on today’s 46km ride.#CyclingLife ‍️#Photography

#OTD eight years ago, I awoke in Sydney long before sunrise, heavily jet-lagged after flying from Europe via Singapore Meaning this picture could be taken The next fortnight included stops in several packed Aussie stadiums & the prime minister’s office in the company of a rather famous man, a volcanic hike in New Zealand & consoling distraught Americans, & a drive across the Atacama desert in Chile between three epic observatory sites More memories to follow … ️#Photography

It’s all looking very Spielbergian outside tonight #Peterstal#Ziegelhausen#Heidelberg #Photography

Speaking of comets, it would be very remiss of me not to mark the tenth anniversary of the premiere "Ambition".It's a short sci-fi film we made with our friends at Platige Image in Poland, leading up to the deployment of Philae by ESA's Rosetta mission on 12 November 2014, to land on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.Perhaps one of the maddest things I've ever done in science communications, & something I remain deeply proud of.Links below with some of the back story.1/

@markmccaughrean it's hard not to spot from reading history that many civilisations succumbed to climate change in their regions from natural changes beyond their control - and now we are doing it almost deliberately on a scale that will affect the globe.I wonder if we'll ever learn.

Before I dig into the DSLR photos, some more pictures of my vantage point this evening for viewing Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS ️I was atop the 41m Teltschikturm, itself atop the 529m Schriesheimer Kopf, so 570m / 1850 feet in total Vaguely terrifying: wind howling through the structure, no-one else there, & dark forest below – imagine what it'd be like if it wasn't full Moon Nice views though #Comet2023a3 #Comet #Photography #Halloween #Heidelberg #Odenwald

Sign of the times. There are lots of timelapses of the lovely Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan-ATLAS on the net ️But watch a few & you’ll quickly notice many have huge numbers of passing satellites in them, often in similar orbits ️️️It doesn’t take a genius to realise that most of these belong to one guy who’s commandeering the public commons to further enrich himself.Screenshot credit: fernanfegal @ Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/reel/DAl5QWMSLBR/?igsh=bm9qc2l3cmphMTM1#comet #comet2023a3 #starlink #lightpollution