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17 May, 5 tweets, 2 min read
"Reddit image has recently come to the attention of netizens that appears to probably be one of the most detailed images of the Moon ever captured. Captured by 16-year-old Prathamesh Jaju from #Pune..."

A composite of 55,000 images - over 186 gigabytes!

news18.com/news/buzz/16-y…
“This is my most detailed and clearest shot and my best work of the third quarter Mineral Moon. I captured around 50,000+ images over 186 GigaBytes of Data which almost killed my laptop with the processing."

news18.com/news/buzz/16-y…
"Jaju said that he used Celestron 5 Cassegrain OTA (telescope), a ZWO ASI120MC-S super-speed USB camera while taking the photo. He added that he used a SkyWatcher 8” Collapsible Reflector Dobsonian with a Canon EOS 90D (with an APS-C CMOS sensor) for the colours."
"For the detailed post-processing, Jaju used softwares like PIPP, Autostakkert, IMPPG, Registax 6, Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom."

Here's a link to Jaju's Instagram post: instagram.com/p/COiTQQSJZy8/

@JvpJyotirvidya
This 16-year-old Star Trek-Star Wars fan from Pune has captured epic, viral image of Moon

Prathamesh Jaju has been dabbling in astronomy and astrophotography since age 13, and is part of one of India’s oldest amateur clubs, Jyotirvidya Parisanstha.
theprint.in/science/this-1…

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19 May
It's Time For America's Fixation On Herd Immunity To End, Scientists Say

(the world's fixation as well...)

npr.org/sections/healt… - @gbrumfiel
""This pandemic ends when enough people are protected from severe illness, and selfishly you want to be protected from severe illness," says Devi Sridhar, a professor of public health at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Vaccination "helps you and it helps your community""
"The idea of herd immunity began with cows, not people. In 1916, veterinarian Adolph Eichhorn and colleagues noticed that a herd of cattle could become collectively immune to a disease if enough animals survived the initial infection."

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19 May
Government of India provides advance information on Vaccine Doses Supply availability till 15th June 2021 to States and UTs pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
"According to the advance visibility provided by Govt of India to States/UTs, a total of 5 crore 86 lakh and 29 thousand doses will be provided free of cost by Govt of India to States from 1st May 2021 to 15th June 2021."

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18 May
Finished reading this excellent, short book by Ambassador @VGokhale59.

Highly recommended for anyone who is interested in learning a bit more about our northern neighbor - their leaders, their policies, their thinking, their actions during a crisis... and a lot more. Image
The book describes the tumultuous events that happened in the heart of Beijing in 1989.

Amb. Gokhale (then a junior diplomat) was posted there at the Indian Embassy in 1989. He describes his first hand account of what happened on the streets and what happened behind the scenes.
An insightful perspective not just about the Chinese leadership and people - but also of the western leaders and media.

His observations about the ignorance, the pre-judgements, the limitations... by the western media are worth understanding.

Still very much relevant today.
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7 May
#otd 263 years ago (May 8, 1758) - 'The Battle of Peshawar' took place, between the Marathas and the Durrani Empire.

The Marathas, led by Raghunathrao and Malharrao Holkar were victorious in the battle, and Peshawar was captured.

(route map via @LiveHIndia)
Ten days earlier, the Marathas had won 'The Battle of Attock' and planted their flag on the Fort of Attock, located besides the Indus river.

The Maratha empire was at its peak, stretching from 'Attock to Cuttack' - covering large part of India.
Historically the Attock Fort, guarding the passage across the Indus river, and Peshawar, were considered to be the northwest frontiers for many empires in India over the past many centuries.
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17 Feb
Some thoughts about large indoor gatherings... which maybe high risk spreading events for #COVID19

Thinking aloud here...needs more observation and data analysis (exact data as always is very hard to come by).

1/n
Offices, shops, malls, public transport, restaurants, large family gatherings, weddingsare all often indoors with high people density.

In offices, shops/malls, public transport (including airplanes) - there is a good chance that a large number of people are wearing masks.

2/n
Masks definitely offer some protection again large scale spread in a crowded indoor place. Hence these maybe lower risk than the second category (large family gatherings in homes, weddings, restaurants).

3/n
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14 Feb
'Washington Post public editor: The powerful have realized they don’t need the Post'

"THIS MONTH we learned that Tesla.... has done away with its media relations department—effectively formalizing an informal policy of ignoring reporters."

cjr.org/public_editor/… (via @balajis)
"We are living through a historic, technology-fueled shift in the balance of power between the media and its subjects. The subjects are winning."

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"The internet in general—and social media platforms in particular—have destroyed one of the media’s most important sources of power: being the only place that could offer access to an audience."

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