3253: Sunbeam

2026-06-01T18:50:42Z

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{{comic
| number = 3253
| date = June 1, 2026
| title = Sunbeam
| image = sunbeam_2x.png
| imagesize = 398x347px
| noexpand = true
| titletext = While weather control is typically thought of as a superpower, the unconscious ability of astronomers and astrophotographers to summon clouds is more properly classified as a curse.
}}

==Explanation==
{{incomplete|This page was created BY A TABLE SOON TO BE LIT BY THE SUN. Don't remove this notice too soon.}}

{{w|Astrophotography}} is the act of taking pictures of very distant (often celestial) objects, such as nebulae. This is done mostly at night, although [[Beret Guy|a certain someone]] probably could do it during the day. However, during special circumstances (most obviously solar eclipses) astrophotographers will be active during the day. However since all celestial objects move the same way across the sky astrophotographers will always aware of how the sun moves anyways and hence how a sunbeam coming through a window will progress across a room, and ability that [[Randall]] calls an "extremely minor superpower."

The title text talks about another minor "superpower" that astrophotographers have which makes clouds always seem to show up in front of the night sky. Because this ability is entirely unconscious, however, and interferes with their work by ruining their photos, the title text more accurately classifies it as a curse, which is why the rest of the comic describes astrophotographers having only one "actual" superpower.

==Transcript==
{{incomplete transcript|Don't remove this notice too soon.}}
:[Cueball, Megan, and White Hat are in a large dark room, presumably a restaurant, with two tables and a large window. The window is casting a large sunbeam between the two tables.]
:Cueball: Let's take the far table. The closer one will be in the sun soon.
:[Caption below the panel:]
:Astrophotography gives you exactly one extremely minor superpower.
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