Artemis II from my backyard in Australia I'm so happy to…
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Artemis II from my backyard in Australia
I'm so happy to have taken photos of this historic mission, even if it's a few pixels - that's humans out there in high Earth orbit!
Pushing the limits of my ability as a hobby astronomer, I managed to capture pictures of the Orion capsule very early this morning from my backyard near Melbourne, Australia.
This is in my 8 inch Newtonian scope on a HEQ5 Pro, with a Sony a7IV, sets of either 4 or 6 second exposures at ISO 3200.
Using the ephemeris data published around 12hrs after launch, run through a script in Stellarium thanks to Shawn Gano's guide on YouTube. It was down to the wire as the weather started to turn bad.
Artemis was around magnitude +12, roughly between the brightness of Pluto and Neptune. It moved slower than I expected.
The best part was that it was cast against the beautiful backdrop of the centre of our galaxy in Sagittarius. So many stars!
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I'm so happy to have taken photos of this historic mission, even if it's a few pixels - that's humans out there in high Earth orbit!
Pushing the limits of my ability as a hobby astronomer, I managed to capture pictures of the Orion capsule very early this morning from my backyard near Melbourne, Australia.
This is in my 8 inch Newtonian scope on a HEQ5 Pro, with a Sony a7IV, sets of either 4 or 6 second exposures at ISO 3200.
Using the ephemeris data published around 12hrs after launch, run through a script in Stellarium thanks to Shawn Gano's guide on YouTube. It was down to the wire as the weather started to turn bad.
Artemis was around magnitude +12, roughly between the brightness of Pluto and Neptune. It moved slower than I expected.
The best part was that it was cast against the beautiful backdrop of the centre of our galaxy in Sagittarius. So many stars!
#space
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