Grab your 3D glasses or a VR headset and enjoy Artemis II in 3D! Using parallax between my telescope and others, I was able to create a 3D video of the launch and flight of Artemis II. Using photos from the mission we can also see Earth and the moon in 3D! #ArtemisII #NASA #3D youtu.be/EggK6UjKiEQ

Artemis II in 3D!

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Artemis II to the Moon and Back. The white line shows the geocentric coordinates of @nasaartemis.bsky.social II based on my orbit determination from tracking the spacecraft during the free return trajectory from April 4-10. My upcoming video will let you see the flight play out in 3D.

Here is my analysis of my observations of #Artemis II, including my independent determination of the free return trajectory and parallax measurement of its distance. youtu.be/izv9H75tAqQ

Tracking Artemis II to the Moon and Back with my Telescope!

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Here is my tracking of the Artemis 2 Orion capsule Integrity earlier today using T32 in Australia on the iTelescope network. I've been tracking Orion throughout the mission using a combination of my own telescope along with iTelescopes around the world to independently determine the orbit.

Here's my footage of the launch of #Artemis2! youtu.be/bg5mEcENV2A

Stabilized Artemis 2 Launch in 4K!

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I applied Veralux Hypermetric stretch to a full disk image of Earth I received from GOES 19 today. Although it wasn't really intended for this use case, I like the result. #GOES #Earth #radio

First light on my home made radio telescope. Its first task was to receive images and data from the GOES 19 geostationary weather satellite. Still need to tweak the setup, but it works! Having never done this before, getting satellite image data on the first attempt was quite a thrill. #radio

My latest telescope is my largest, but it's a radio telescope rather than an optical telescope. I'm hoping to be able to download GOES images, conduct 21cm observations, and more.

17x300s on M17, the Omega Nebula. Processed with VeraLux hypermetric stretch in Siril. 8" Meade LX200 Classic with an SBIG ST-2000XCM CCD camera. #astrophotography

Here is the result of reprocessing 6 hours of light on M101 with the VeraLux scripts in Siril. The SN 2023ixf is visible here in one of the spiral arms in this image data from May and June 2023, captured using an 8" LX200 Classic and SBIG ST-2000XCM with an AO-7. #astrophotography

Trying out the new VeraLux scripts for processing my astrophotography in Siril! Really liking these results, like this 6.5 hour stack on the Whirlpool galaxy. #astrophotography #M51

M31 Andromeda galaxy, 1 hour exposure on CineStill T800 film with an 8" Meade LX200 and .65 focal reducer. Processed automatically using Riccardo Paterniti's VeraLux HyperMetric script in Siril, automatic background extraction in GraXpert. #astrophotography #filmisnotdead

Trying out Riccardo Paterniti's VeraLux HyperMetric Python script in Siril. Although it isn't necessarily designed for it, it even works on #film #astrophotography scans, like this 30 minute manually guided exposure of the Bubble Nebula! #filmisnotdead

#3I/ATLAS on Saturday morning. I stacked a total of 20 frames 2 minutes long binned 2x2 from my ST-2000XCM SBIG, which was attached to an AO-7 and 8" LX200 classic. A prominent sun facing jet can be seen along with a hint of the tail facing away from the sun and a jet 90 degrees to the side. #comet

I recorded a 4 hour time lapse of the moon to show how the shadows change along the lunar terminator. The lunar libration was enough to create a 3D stereo image to see the shape of the moon and the terrain. Be sure to check it out if you have 3D glasses or a VR headset! #VR youtu.be/vtygobDfPZ0

Viewing the Moon in 3D!

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C/2025 A6 Lemmon tonight

Flight 11 Starship from the ground and from the vehicle itself. Note that you can see the same "pleated" effect on the exhaust in both pictures. Ground picture is a single frame from the Blackmagic camera on an 11" Celestron NexStar GPS telescope. #spacex #starship

Here is my 4K telescopic tracking footage of #SpaceX Starship from Florida during flight 11 last night! youtu.be/Kspmn3YUqpI The vehicle and exhaust were illuminated by the sun while twilight was fading here in Florida, the perfect timing for a gorgeous "jellyfish" effect!

SpaceX Starship Flight 11 From Florida!

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#SpaceX Starship engine shutdown as seen with an 11" Celestron NexStar GPS in Florida tonight. Full 4K video coming soon.

Thank you to @flightclub.io for your trajectory data that enabled me to track Starship during a beautiful sunlit launch as twilight faded here in Florida! 4K footage coming soon!

Fantastic work here putting together the data from Perseverance of 3I/ATLAS.

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Last night, NASA's Perseverance rover looked up at the night sky once more, to capture interstellar #comet 3I/Atlas flying by the red planet. The distance was "only" 0.2 AU or 30 Mio km, far closer than the comet ever got to Earth. 🔭 #3IAtlas Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Simeon Schmauß

Just got my negatives back from my latest roll of manually guided film astrophotography. For some reason trying to post these pics on the bird app got my account locked and labeled for "inauthentic behavior." Hard to get more authentic #astrophotography than manually guided #film.

By combining old tech (film, manual guiding) with new techniques and tech (bracketing exposures for HDR, AI denoising, generalized hyperbolic stretching), I was able to produce this film HDR of Orion and the Running Man by combining 60 minute and 10 minute exposures. #astrophotography #filmisnotdead

Here are the scans of my latest film photos! This was my first roll testing an off-axis guider for guiding through the same scope as the camera. Andromeda was a 30 min exposure and Orion was a 1 hr exposure, all manually guided so I'm really happy with these results! #astrophotography #filmisnotdead

The comet I discovered in 2016 has been listed by viral sensationalist videos claiming an "unprecedented" swarm of comets is sweeping through the inner solar system and might even be dangerous. In this video I set the record straight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpFs... #astronomy #comets #swarm #414P

Is my comet part of a swarm?

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Here is a 25 frame stack of the comet I discovered using NASA's STEREO spacecraft. I discovered this comet on the opposite side of the sun in 2016 before it could be seen from Earth, and now I've captured it with my 11" SCT and Canon 90D, aligning these frames with my own Python code. #astronomy

On Sunday, I captured SpaceX's launch of NG-23 all the way to first stage landing in one continuous shot with what may be the cheapest, worst telescope ever to pull off a launch to landing shot, using predictive tracking with my RocketTraker software. youtu.be/urBONk04usQ #spacex #astronomy #space

NG-23 Launch to Landing With a $100 Refractor

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Sunday morning I was able to capture the comet I discovered with NASA's STEREO spacecraft back in 2016. It was faint and only 14.75° above the horizon, but my 11" Celestron NexStar GPS and Canon 90D were able to get it done. This is a quick and dirty stack by hand, I'll be redoing it. #astronomy

I don't generally post about politics, but space deniers are sometimes violent people who will use any excuse for violence. Political violence is unacceptable, death threats are unacceptable, and if anyone tries to kill me, I will defend myself if at all possible. #kirk

It was extraordinarily faint and just barely detectable through a ton of moonlight this morning, but in the middle of the circle is the comet I discovered in 2016, 414P! Other amateurs have recently spotted it as well as it approaches perihelion: www.aerith.net/comet/catalo... #Astronomy #414P