#harps — Public Fediverse posts

November 17, 2025

I've been taking a day off. From writing my journal. I fixed a harmonica! Tried to find my pistol grip SM56 but I found my Conrad DM-9 instead. Sounds great. I put it in a black velvet bag. Cooked Hoppin' John. Read. Took a nap. I have a big weekend coming up. Delta Legends Friday night. Two gigs on Saturday.

#harps #harpmics #music

#AIP:
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Ein Blick in das pulsierende Herz eines Sterns
"
"Ein Forschungsteam des Leibniz-Instituts für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP) hat den magnetischen Herzschlag eines fernen Sterns entdeckt, der unserer Sonne bemerkenswert ähnlich ist – allerdings viel jünger und aktiver. .."

https://www.aip.de/de/news/heartbeat-of-a-star/

10.10.2025

#Astronomie #Astrophysik #ESO #FarBeyondTheSun #HARPS #IotaHorologii #Magnetfeld #Magnetzyklus #Schmetterlingsdiagramm #Stern #Sternentwicklung #ZDI

#Oxford Lots of #FolkSessions coming up this week.
#EuroSession at the Half Moon on Mon
#harps on Tue
Oxford Blue on Thursday
Lamb & FLag on Sunday (TBC)

#folk #session

Today we celebrate all things Irish, and today I present 10 facts about Ireland’s national symbol, the harp.

Happy St Patrick's Day to those who celebrate.

https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2025/03/17-march-harps.html

#Harps #Music #Ireland #MusicalInstruments

Monday 7pm #Harp Extravaganza at #Berklee in #Boston, free.
https://www.berklee.edu/events/berklee-harp-extravaganza-xxiii-berklee-harpists-in-concert
#harps #BostonMusic #BostonWeekend 20/x

Tracking Advanced Planetary Systems (TAPAS) with #HARPS-N - a wide-orbit planetary companion in the hot-Jupiter system HD 118203: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/pdf/2024/08/aa51084-24.pdf -> Super-Jupiter from the Great Bear: https://portal.umk.pl/en/article/super-jupiter-from-the-great-bear - it has a mass as much as 11 times that of Jupiter, orbits its star in 14 years and has a temperature of no more than minus 100 degrees Celsius.

participants of #Oxford's monthly #HarpSession will be plucking some #harps in #HolywellCemetery 1:30 to 3:30 today as part of #OpenDoors. There will also be a guided tour to the geology of the gravestones at 2:30. https://www.oxfordpreservation.org.uk/event/gravestone-geology-walk

Another shameless Radio Irrtum! announcement

(Whut? Again?!)

↓↓↓ German version far below the English one ↓↓↓

RADIO IRRTUM! is back ! \o/ Tonight, 2023-12-23 at 8:00PM (UTC+1) at Alex Berlin/FM 91 MHz/DAB+ Ch.7D, or via stream: https://www.alex-berlin.de/radio/15-live-auf-91.0

#Radio Irrtum! is a German language #radioShow exploring the sonic vastnesses of the #underground. Emitted transmissions will raise your attention for new unheard #music all over the genre spectrum from all over the world. Btw.: Forget about the bloody German language aspect - it's all about the music!

And this time I see it as my mission to bring what #bonkwave is (or not) over to Berlin. To infect its poor inhabitants with pure #bonk. Or with what is not bonk. You'll see. Or hear. Trust me. And also:

• #UK #bass #club #pop
• #experimental #leftfield #house
• #breakcore #Acid
• #Polish #DnJazz
• #Funky #SoulJazz
• #downtempo #lofi #Beatmaker matter
• abstract phemale #HipHop
• #glitchy #harps
• #Retrokraut
• #Bonkwave or #notBonkwave
• #garage #EggPunk
• #shoegazing #grindcore #doom
• #Songwriter stuff
• Bristol #AvantgardePop

When talking about Bonkwave even if it isn't (which as I said I consider my mission) I'll have to mention people like @[email protected] or even @[email protected] (who is actually featured as a good example of what is or what is not Bonkwave). And because Radio Irrtum! is always leaning into the #Fediverse other cultural Fediverse events like #AcidDecember organized by the one and only @[email protected] will be explained and being featured as well. Because the Fediverse is THE PLACE 2B for your serious dose of real™ underground goodness nowadays. Besides Radio Irrtum! that is.

As always I'll post the playlist afterwards here (provided I’m at home, else it will come up the day after). And (NEW) the manuscript. Your AI model is already greedily waiting to translate it!

C U all tonight! :)

↑↑↑ English version above, the German one is still below ↓↓↓

…is aber kürzer. Zeichenlimit knick knack. Jedes Zeychen erhöht den CO2 Ausstoß des RZ. Ich finde übrigens, Ausstoß ist ein sinnliches Wort. Aber im Ernst. Wenn das Zeichenlimit zuschlägt, bricht der Text einfach mittendrin ab. #KannsteNichtsMachen. #BugMischungProblem. Also los jetzt hier:

Radio Irrtum! ist wieder da!! Heute Abend, 20 Uhr über Alex Berlin auf UKW 91MHz/DAB+ Ch.7D (Stream URL oben).

In #RadioIrrtum! erkunden wir gemeinsam die Weiten des musikalischen Untergrunds aus der ganzen Welt. Da kann es sogar passieren, dass Bonkwave oder aber kein Bonkwave zum Thema wird. Denn das ist meine Mission diesmal. Bonkwave, oder aber kein Bonkwave über Berlin zu bringen. So wie einst Raid over Moscow. Nur diesmal über #Berlin. Besser, Ihr holt schon mal Eure Bonkmasken raus!
Det weiteren jibtet:

- UK bass pop
- experimental leftfield… ach wisst Ihr, das schafft Ihr.
- das
- steht
- doch
- alles
- schon
- obe

In case you do not remember how the #night #sky was before all the #StarLink / #SpaceX #satellites, here is one of the #timelapse I did 5 years ago from the #ESO #LaSilla #observatory, in #Chile

The #video lasts 1 minute but it corresponds to 10 hours.

The big dish is a decommissioned radio #telescope. In the background there is the 3.6-m telescope with its #exoplanet-hunting instrument #HARPS

#Astronomy #Astrophotography #space

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJVKKSiIjlo

credits: A. Santerne / ESO

On April First we foolishly advertise plays we will (probably) never stage!

Will our Dalek Skarino take the plunge(r) and start a new musical career with his idols in "Don't Go Breaking My Harp"?!

Check back for more fake play posters!

#Dalek #DoctorWho #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #HarpTwins #harps

"Forschende des .. AIP, der .. ESO und des Kavli-Instituts und des Instituts für Physik des MIT haben entdeckt, dass Magnetfelder in Mehrfachsternsystemen mit mindestens einem schweren, heißen blauen Stern viel häufiger vorkommen als bisher von Fachleuten angenommen. Eine Pressemitteilung des AIP."

https://www.raumfahrer.net/aip-magnetische-schwergewichtige-sterne-brauchen-gesellschaft/

#AIP #Astronomie #Doppelsternsystem #ESO #ESPaDOnS #GRB #HARPS #Magnetfeld #Magnetosphäre #Mehrfachsystem #OTypStern #Spektropolarimetrie #Supernovae

28.3.2023

Our Dalek Skarino was excited to learn he can again see the most superior Harp Twins Camille and Kennerly at Cleveland ConCoction the weekend of March 17-19! They'll have a concert each day - hopefully not at the same time as any of our performances!

#HarpTwings #harps #CamilleAndKennerly #DoctorWho #Dalek #parody #ScienceFiction #SciFi #SF #ClevelandConCoction #CleCon #ScienceFictionConvention #SciFiCon

#Harfenadventskalender
#AdventCalendar

22th #December
Eva plays Ой, Лілея (Oh, Lily), an #Ukrainian #carol on a lever #harp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ3Kr9iA_ek

#Ukraine #XMas #Harfe #Advent #Weihnachten #Christmas #Adventskalender #harps #december #thursday #Donnerstag #harp #wintersonnenwende #wintersolstice #solstice

#Harfenadventskalender
#AdventCalendar

20th #December
Eva plays Ой, у саду, саду (Oh, in the garden, in the garden), an #Ukrainian #carol on a lever #harp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mshBS2uHuPU

#Ukraine #XMas #Harfe #Advent #Weihnachten #Christmas #Adventskalender #harps #december #tuesday #Montag #Dienstag #harp #wochenstart

#Harfenadventskalender
#AdventCalendar

19th #December
Eva plays А У ЦЬОГО ХАЗЯЇНА (And this owner here..), an #Ukrainian #carol on a lever #harp.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIE1lzWrNNw

#Ukraine #XMas #Harfe #Advent #Weihnachten #Christmas #Adventskalender #harps #december #monday #Montag #Dezember #harp #wochenstart

Morning earworms.
Dargaard - Isolated Vale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sOW18v2OmA
#DarkAmbient #AmbientMusic #NeoClassical #Ambient #Harps

Too much grimness on my wall today.

I am hopeful that I'll get to the sort of party where this happens at some point. #goals #harps

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ClWKme-AcPp/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

👀

Very preliminary plot of the #HARPS-N radial-velocity data of #HIP41378 f obtained last night with the #TNG at #LaPalma.

It shows the #Rossiter-#McLaughlin effect that is clearly detected and in phase with the photometric ingress.

(1/2)

#Astronomy #AstronomerLife

Just woke up from a crazy #night observing #HIP41378 with so many instruments. Quick updated status (from what I just red):
- photometry: so far it seems only @hubble86 got a good weather during the expected ingress 🤞
- spectroscopy: data from #CARMENES / #CalarAlto, #HARPS-N / #TNG & #ESPRESSO / #ESO are in my mailbox. ✅

No news yet from the US-based observatories (and India who haven't started observing yet).

We are still IN TRANSIT.

#AstronomerLife #Astronomy

Update on the campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12. We are one day before !!!

Main observatory statuts:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟢
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟢
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #MERCATOR / #LaPalma 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟢
- #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
- #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
- #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
- #SPIRou / #CFHT 🟢
- #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢

#AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet

First, #European observatories:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟠
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟠
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟠

The #weather #forecast (white means clouds, blue means rain) at the time of observations does not look very good. 🤞 for better than expected weather conditions.

Calar Alto 🇪🇸 might still be OK.

#astronomy #AstronomerLife

Some update of the upcoming campaign to observe the #transit of #HIP41378 f on Nov. 12 (thread here: https://astrodon.social/@AlexSanterne/109298827881210776).

Main observatory statuts:
- #Wendelstein obs. 🟠
- #SOPHIE / #HauteProvence 🟠
- #CARMENES / #CalarAlto 🟢
- #HARPS-N / #LaPalma 🟠
- #ESPRESSO / #ESO Paranal 🟢
- #EXPRES / #Lowell 🟢
- #NEID / #KittPeak 🟠
- #MINERVA / #FWLO 🟢
- #HIRES / #MaunaKea 🟢
- #MAROON-X / #MaunaKea 🔴
- #PARAS / #MountAbu 🟢
Details ⤵️

#astrophysics #AstronomerLife #Astronomy #exoplanet