#BackYardAstronomy
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #BackYardAstronomy from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mas.to (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-11-09 13:24 UTC2 uses by 2 unique accounts across the window. Real per-day counts, not estimates. Newest bar is today so far.
Related hashtags
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Live pulse
measured · mas.to (Mastodon tag timeline) · fetched 2026-11-09 13:24 UTCEverything below is measured over the latest 40 public posts (spanning ~3258 hours).
Posting hours (UTC) — busiest: 22:00
Languages: English (29)
Avg boosts / post: 3
Top of the latest posts
Here we go. My most ambitious processing to date. The #HelixNebula (aka #C63 , aka #NGC7293 ) is probably the closest planetary nebula to Earth. This image is created from subframes taken with my #Dwarf3 over 2 years and 18 sessions. I star
So this month's subject from our casual astronomy group was the great big globular cluster 47 Tucanae, Caldwell 106 or NGC 104. With the new mosaic stacking again available with the Dwarf smart telescope, I thought I'd add a bit of interest
My second image for World Space Week. This is #PGC143 or the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte galaxy, which is right at the edge of the local group, some 3MLy away. We see it edge-on. Only 11.5' X 4.2' and magnitude 11, it is tricky to shoot with a sm
#backyardastronomy across platforms
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