Ariane6 20251104
Our allsky1 camera system captured 15 images of the rocket dumping fuel last night. Because the exposures were on the order of 20 seconds, the spiral shape did not show…
Asteroid Bennu – mapping
This image shows sample site Nightingale, OSIRIS-REx’s primary sample collection site on asteroid Bennu. The image is overlaid with a graphic of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft to illustrate the scale of…
library indexing
We started work on indexing the library. We are trying out various processes on other collections to find the best method before we look to the science library (the largest).…
Apollo 11 – two rockets up
Apollo 11- a documentary with a lot of new archived 70mm footage and what I think were some large format film images that were processed into higher resolution gorgeous final…
Aurora in Yarker
The sun has been quite active in the last few days, ejecting solar matter into space, and on August 5, 2011 some of this matter hit the earth’s atmosphere, and…
ISS Passes upcoming
The space shuttle discovery is currently docked with the International Space Station and has been passing overhead our area for the last few days. Coming up soon will be a…
-8 Iridium Flare
Saturday saw a raw Magnitude -8 Iridium flare over our observatory. This was in the southeast about 49 deg altitude. Mars was just above it and the group of stars…
Concam sees something?
The Allsky Concam saw something last night, most likely a low flying aircraft. It appears on two frames, one at 23:19:05 local and the other at 23:22:25 local. The first…
Shuttle launch in HD
Just watching some of the new Hd channels that we are getting from the Starchoice satellite service and noticed that the HDNet channel (275) will be broadcasting the launch of…