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@astroinformant
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57subscribers
-1 since we began measuring on 6 August 2026
Risers and fallers across the register · movement among entries of Under 1,000.
| Telegram ID | -1001323621745 |
|---|---|
| Type | Channel |
| Username | @astroinformant |
| Created | Between 1 March 2018 and 31 July 2021 — estimated from Telegram’s id allocation, not measured. How this range is calculated. |
| First recorded | 10 August 2026 |
| Last confirmed live | 6 October 2026 |
| Measurements held | 3 |
| Confirmed unchanged | 4 times, most recently 6 October 2026 |
| On Telegram | t.me/astroinformant |
Science — a classification, not a measurement. An on-box language model (Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-FP8, prompt version 1) read this channel’s own recent posts on 29 September 2026 and assigned it the closest of 31 fixed categories, at 100% confidence. This is a model’s judgement about what the channel is likely to be about, not a fact this register measured the way a subscriber count or a view count is measured — it can be revised on a later pass, and it carries no weight anywhere else on this page. How this classification works, and why it has no browse page of its own yet.
| Measured (UTC) | Subscribers | Change |
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| 2 Sept 2026, 09:07 | 57 | -1 |
| 10 Aug 2026, 06:01 | 58 | no change |
| 6 Aug 2026, 11:49 | 58 | first reading |
20 posts held, back to 6 August 2026 — the reader has not yet reached the start of this channel’s public history, so older posts may sit further back, unread. Read across 1 page of Telegram’s post history, 20 posts per page.
Nothing published in the last 30 days. ERR and ER are rolling 30-day measures, so there is nothing to compute — we hold 20 posts for this entry, the most recent from 9 August 2026. An engagement rate over an empty window would be a number about nothing.
ATel 17952: Optical spectroscopic followup of AT2026nwl/EP260530a https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17952 We report an optical spectroscopic followup of AT2026nwl/EP260530a. Originally reported/characterized by Wu et al. (ATEL #17824), Wen et al. (ATel #17825), Globus et al. ...
ATel 17951: Detection of Superhumps during a Superoutburst in Gaia20ffw https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17951 We report the detection of superhumps during a superoutburst in the cataclysmic variable Gaia20ffw/AT2020znz/ASASSN-18jq, which was detected by our Outbursts Alerting System. ...
ATel 17950: Spectroscopic classification and BVRI photometry of TCP J05210763+2338194 as a FeII-type nova https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17950 The transient TCP J05210763+2338194 was discovered on 2026 Aug 06.4109 UT at unfiltered 11.2 mag (calibrated against V magnitudes of Tycho-2 stars in the field) by the NMW-TexasTech survey. ...
APOD: 2026 August 8 – A Messier Moment for Tempel 2 https://science.nasa.gov/image-article/apod/apod-2026-august-8-a-messier-moment-for-tempel-2/ APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 8 – A… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along wi…
2026 IGARSS Hyperwall Schedule https://science.nasa.gov/earth/2026-igarss-hyperwall-schedule/ IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 10 3:00 PM Technology Enabling the Future of Earth ScienceMike Seablom3:15 PM Discovery Earth: New Missions & Technical Innovation Advancing Earth System InsightsKaren St. Germain TU…
NASA's IXPE Studies Magnetar https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/ixpemagnetarartistsconcept-web/ A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature.
ATel 17949: Fermi-LAT detection of renewed gamma-ray activity from the compact steep spectrum quasar 3C 138 https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17949 The Large Area Telescope (LAT), one of the two instruments on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, has observed renewed gamma-ray activity from a source positionally consistent with the compact steep spectrum quasar 3C 138, also known as 4FGL J0521.2+1637 (The Fe…
ATel 17948: Error estimation and statistical significance of the EP J194531.8-612009 period https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17948 We correct ATel #17930, which omitted the uncertainty on the derived period. Our period measurement is P = 0.079028 +/- 0.000041 days (~1.897 hours), with the error estimated from the full width at half maximum (FWHM) of the corresponding periodogram peak. ...
ATel 17947: Photometric follow up observations of the possible Galactic Nova in Taurus TCP J05210763+2338194 https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17947 We report photometric follow-up of the possible Galactic nova TCP J05210763+2338194, which was discovered by the NMW-TexasTech survey on 2026-08-06.4109 UT at an unfiltered magnitude of 11.2. ...
ATel 17946: XRISM/Xtend Transient Search (XTS) detected two X-ray flares from CD-46 4813 https://www.astronomerstelegram.org/?read=17946 XRISM/Xtend Transient Search (XTS) detected two X-ray flares from an X-ray source XRISM J0859-4709 on 2026-08-05 TT. The source position is determined to be (R.A., Dec.) = (134.852, -47.157), with a systematic error of & sim;40 arcsec. ...
NASA’s IXPE Studies Magnetar https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/nasas-ixpe-studies-magnetar/ Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist’s concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, bu…
NASA’s Lunar Development and Test Facility Prepares Artemis Hardware for Moon https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/johnson/nasas-lunar-development-and-test-facility-prepares-artemis-hardware-for-moon/ Before astronauts return to the Moon’s surface through NASA’s Artemis program, the hardware they depend on must first prove it can survive the unforgiving lunar environment. At NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Hou…
Showing the 12 most recent of 20 posts we hold for @astroinformant. View and reaction counts are the latest single reading for each post, not a live figure, and a recent post is still accumulating both. A view count marked ≈ was rounded by Telegram before we ever saw it — t.me prints views in full below 1,000 and to three significant figures above, so ≈1,200,000 means somewhere between 1,150,000 and 1,249,999. Unmarked counts are exact. Text is reproduced from the public post preview and truncated for length.
A live page changes as we take new readings, so a citation should name the measurement it is based on, not just the URL. The line below cites the subscriber count as measured 2 September 2026 — this entry's latest reading, not the date you are reading this.
“Astronomical Informant” (@astroinformant), 57 subscribers as measured 2 September 2026. Telegram Register, tgregister.com/channel/astroinformant.
Full measurement history, CC BY 4.0. Every reading this register holds for this entry, not just the latest one, as a dated, downloadable record: CSV · JSON. Free to use with attribution to tgregister.com. Each file carries its own generation timestamp, which is the figure to cite for exactly when the data was retrieved.