“Mind if I use that portable keyhole?” Stella in Rear Window
IM-1 Rocket Body 17 Feb 2024
Couldn’t get to them Friday; looks like probe is too faint for me now to image from Perth. Distance here is about 314,000 km from Earth. Positions in MPEC format:
COD 323
CON Brad Young
OBS B. Young
MEA B. Young
TEL 0.35-m R-COP reflector + CCD
ACK MPCReport file updated 2024.02.17 11:21:21
AC2 allenb_young@yahoo.com
NET Gaia DR1
58964 C2024 02 17.54549 07 43 50.03 +23 00 33.5 14.2 G 323
58964 C2024 02 17.54631 07 43 49.47 +23 00 38.7 14.1 G 323
58964 C2024 02 17.54712 07 43 48.87 +23 00 43.3 14.2 G 323
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44432 SPEKTR-RG 12 OCT 2023
1,275,000 KM FROM PERTH OBSERVATORY
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spektr-RG ALSO LINKS TO NEXT OBJECT
37755 SPEKTR-R 12 OCT 2023
66,000 KM FROM PERTH
OSIRIS-REx FLYBY
Spacecraft flies by Earth, returns sample container from Bennu
September 23, 2023
Images = 6 @300s, RCOP telescope Perth Observatory, operated remotely. Processing heavily improved by Rod Gallagher
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
