“Mind if I use that portable keyhole?” Stella in Rear Window
JUICE and its Rocket




More Very High Orbit Objects
Spektr-R was a Russian scientific satellite with a 10 m (33 ft) radio telescope
Seen here 9 Feb 2022 at 345,000 km from telescope at apogee

Chang’e 3 Booster 10 Feb 2022 at 350,506 km:

Fuel Dump from CSG2 rocket (Falcon 9 Second Stage)
Might be the coolest thing I’ve seen yet! Amazing cloud in spiral form, with r/b in center slowly rotating as it made the cloud by dumping excess fuel before de-orbiting.

James Webb Space Telescope and Booster
Images made Jan 5, 2022 using T5 at iTelescope.com (New Mexico)
If you have problems seeing images below, try spaceweather.com

JWST is the tiny dot in the middle of the GIF, 4 @ 60 sec images taken over 6 minutes. It appears to “jump” – this is another set of 4 images about 45 minutes later. Notice it has gotten dimmer as the angle between it, the sun, and New Mexico changed.


SOLAR ORBITER FLYBY SEEN VISUALLY (!) WITH BINOCULARS
Nov 27 2021, from my yard in downtown Tulsa
45167 20 010A 8336 E 20211127044745000 18 25 0157785+204220 19 S
45167 20 010A 8336 E 20211127044802000 17 25 0153115+202514 19 S
45167 20 010A 8336 E 20211127044851000 18 25 0149240+194149 19 S
45167 20 010A 8336 E 20211127045135000 17 25 0129734+181368 19 S
45167 20 010A 8336 E 20211127045303000 17 25 0122243+172710 19 S
Spaceweather.com had gifs of my imaging of the recently launched Lucy Spacecraft
And the Lucy rocket on its gallery page
SATELLITE REDUCTIONS ARE OBSERVED TIME AND POSITION IN A STANDARD, MATHEMATICAL FORMAT CALLED IOD FORMAT.

REDUCTIONS (IN IOD FORMAT) ARE POSTED FOR BOTH REMOTE IMAGING AND VISUAL OBSERVATIONS
