Eliud Bonilla
@eliudbonilla.bsky.social
Member of the Parker Solar Probe Mission Operations team. Interests include astronomy, history/archaeology, and STEM.
It's a long shot, but would be great to have an amateur observation campaign. arxiv.org/abs/2607.14625 #planetaryscience
Observational planning for the 2026 August 5 Falcon 9 Upper Stage lunar impact
On 2026 August 5, at approximately 06:35 UT, a spent Falcon 9 upper stage will impact the lunar surface near Einstein Crater. This event will occur on sunlit terrain near the eastern limb as seen from...
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The Modern Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Techniques Workshop is scheduled for August 11–13, 2026, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas. www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/mod...
Modern SEM Techniques Workshop
The Modern Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Techniques Workshop is scheduled for August 11–13, 2026, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) in Houston, Texas.
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Proud to be part of the mission operations team and see Parker Solar Probe honored at the museum! I definitely need to visit, Go Parker! airandspace.si.edu/newsroom/pre...
National Air and Space Museum Welcomes James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe to Collection
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection⸺the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a full-...
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Proud to be part of the mission operations team and see Parker Solar Probe honored at the museum! I definitely need to visit, Go Parker! airandspace.si.edu/newsroom/pre...
National Air and Space Museum Welcomes James Webb Space Telescope’s Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe to Collection
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum welcomes two new acquisitions to the collection⸺the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) Pathfinder and Parker Solar Probe model. The Pathfinder is a full-...
airandspace.si.edu
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point, where it will start its groundbreaking mission of studying the edge of our solar system and advancing our knowledge of space weather. https://jhuapl.link/35e
NASA’s IMAP Reaches Orbit to Start Study of Heliosphere and Space Weather
NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe (IMAP) has reached its destination of the first Sun-Earth Lagrange point (L1), where it will start its prime mission of studying the heliosphere and ...
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What do you do when your dog wakes you up at 4:30AM on a frigid (18F / -7.8C) winter Monday morning? Get the telescope out (eVscope2) and start imaging from your backyard of course! Here is a sampling: 3I/ATLAS (5 mins), the Hamburger Galaxy aka NGC 3628 (10 mins), and M98 (10 mins). #Astronomy
Parker Solar Probe is heading towards these sunspots, got a direct hit from the CME they unleashed some days ago. #heliophysics #astronomy
Looks like Parker Solar Probe is right in the path of the latest CME! Go Parker! iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/downloads/20... iswa.gsfc.nasa.gov/downloads/20... #heliophysics #astronomy
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Last night I was finally able to image comet C/2025 K1. It took 3 mins exposure to get decent signal-to-noise (Bortle 8 skies, quarter moon, freezing temps) from my driveway. Nothing spectacular but still makes me smile. #astronomy #planetarysci
On Oct 20th I imaged comet C/2025 R2, nice fuzzy streak with only 2 mins of integration. I heard yesterday that there was a fragmentation event and wanted to try to check it for myself. It was definitely much fainter, integrated for 5 mins total. The COBS light curve helps a lot. #Planetsci
Very quick capture (2 mins total) of the Dumbbell Nebula, in windy/cold & Bortle 8 skies, with my eVscope2. @unistellar.bsky.social #Astronomy
Been supporting the IMAP mission, since pre-launch, launch (Sept 24th), and now the commissioning stage. Lots of work with the spacecraft plus 12 science instruments. We should complete placing it in it's permanent L1 orbit, in full ops mode, by the end of January 2026. #heliophysics #astronomy
I was looking forward to taking images of comet C/2026 A6 (Lemmon) last night, but the clouds moved in and made it impossible. #Astronomy #Planetsci
BTW I plan on observing 3I/ATLAS with my personal eVscope2 smart telescope in November. It should be within the imaging range for several weeks. If successful I'll share images here, it should be fun! @unistellar.bsky.social @allplanets.bsky.social @joseptrigo.bsky.social @calgaryrasc.bsky.social
Eliud Bonilla@eliudbonilla.bsky.social · 12mo agoSometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
Sometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
NASA group launches defense probe to protect Earth from Manhattan-size comet
A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting an alloy not seen in nature and exhibiting other strange behaviors.
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Sometimes you just have to chuckle and admire the "artistry" of misrepresentation and misleading practiced in some news organizations! Who says the press is dead? 😏 @Planetsci @astronomy nypost.com/2025/10/23/s...
NASA group launches defense probe to protect Earth from Manhattan-size comet
A NASA-backed planetary defense group has reportedly begun efforts to pinpoint comet 3I/ATLAS after it was observed emitting an alloy not seen in nature and exhibiting other strange behaviors.
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Awesome start to the IMAP mission! For the next week we'll be 24/7 all-hands on deckin the Mission Operations Center (MOC) guiding it through several trajectory correction maneuvers (TCMs). Go IMAP! #astronomy #heliophysics
Johns Hopkins APL@jhuapl.bsky.social · last yr.NASA’s IMAP mission lifted off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 7:30 a.m. EDT. Led by Princeton and operated by APL, IMAP will explore the heliosphere and provide critical data for space weather forecasting, which will help protect spacecraft, satellites and human explorers. https://jhuapl.link/d11
3 min total exposure of the Ring Nebula (M57), from my typical light polluted urban skies, with my eVscope2 telescope. Testing the vivid vision tech algorithm which corrects the stars' colors based on Gaia databases as well as some sharpening and background subtraction. #Astronomy
It's been a long time since I've used my telescope, but the Sun rewarded me today with a lot of sunspots. Let's hope for clear skies tonight! #heliophysics #astronomy
My colleagues at the New Horizons mission keep doing amazing space operations! science.nasa.gov/blogs/new-ho... #Planetsci #Astronomy
NASA’s New Horizons Enters Mission’s Longest Hibernation Period - NASA Science
Running with updated onboard fault protection software that improves its ability to operate farther from the Sun than originally designed, NASA's New Horizons
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Less than 46 days until launch (Sept 23rd)! We're going through launch & commissioning rehearsals to get our operational team as sharp as possible for the Launch and Early Orbit phase (LEOPs) activities. Very cool and exciting! www.jhuapl.edu/destinations... #heliophysics #astronomy
Sometimes you need to have fun and decompress a little.
Nice article on #ParkerSolarProbe with comments from of our Project Scientist Nour Rawafi. Go Parker! wapo.st/44zaQEU #heliophysics #Astronomy
See images of solar eruptions on the sun in unprecedented detail
Scientists have released the closest images ever to the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million miles above the solar surface.
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