Uranus, its rings, and its moons this morning, captured under excellent conditions with the 24in scope.
By far my best capture of the epsilon ring to date.
1hr of data with IR720nm longpass filter.
10,000 years of asteroid orbits precessing around the Sun.
White: Main Belt asteroids
Magenta: Near-Earth asteroids
Watch how the orbital planes slowly rotate and pulsate.
Our team, our local program partners, and every operational partner who helps make this program possible each month are heartbroken at the loss of our founder, Dolly Parton. (cont.)
Every time you shuffle a deck of cards, you find a configuration that has almost certainly never existed before, and never will again. But have you mixed it up enough? Find out in the latest episode of The Quanta Podcast: https://t.co/yvCoX65I0Q
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
Playing a bit of an original song I’ve been composing for Cherry. Today is Cherry’s 9th birthday, and I am so grateful to have had her by my side all through these years. I love you Cherry ❤️
The homeowner saw on the security camera that a bear was playing on the outdoor swing every day, but couldn't get on.
So he had a bigger swing built, and this was the result.
Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE.
If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease!
Donate at https://t.co/cHLs9sKqix
A spacecraft that loops endlessly between Earth & Moon without extra fuel?
See this 1:1 Earth–Moon cycler from @RossDynamicsLab’s “Stable, Low-Energy Prograde Earth–Moon Cycler Orbits”
📄 https://t.co/RYwUmyWVkr
🖥️ Simulation: https://t.co/Pe7MpJsbW0
#astronomy