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Astronomy & science outreach professional, blogger, runner, Disnerd, improv guru, actor, cat lover, astrophotographer, Opinions are mine he/him

Tucson, AZ
Joined October 2008
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Multiple takes on today's ISS solar transit: Canon R7 with Tamron 150-600mm lens (white images due to Bader solar filter) and Canon R6 on Nexstar 8 Edge HD (yellowish images due to the Thousand Oaks glass solar filter).
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(2/2) Video of the ISS lunar transit slowed down to 10% of actual speed.
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(1/2) Close up and composite of the International Space Station transiting the Moon taken from Molino Basin near Tucson, Arizona.
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Pass of Starlink satellites over Tucson tonight near Regulus.
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Today's transit of Tiangong with a Lunt 60 Hydrogen Alpha telescope and ASI1600M Pro camera (I added the orange color to roughly simulate what a hydrogen alpha image looks like to the eye). Pretty windy day induced a good amount of shake.
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Venus and the crescent Moon from Tucson tonight.
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Got a good solar transit of the Tiangong space station today. The image on the left is with my Canon R7 and Sigma 100-400mm lens at 400mm. The one on the right is my Canon 80D and Tamron 150-600mm lens at 600mm. The R7 shows its stuff even with a shorter focal length lens.
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This mornings @SpaceX #Falcon9 launch from Terra Ceia Bay in Florida. Barely get the reentry burn above the trees this far away.
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Here is a first pass at a composite of five second exposures from tonight's #SpaceX #FalconHeavyLaunch launch at #epcot . @WaltDisneyWorld
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I didn't have a blue checkmark before it was cool.
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@NOIRLabAstro
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The iconic image of the supermassive black hole at the center of Messier 87, has received its first official makeover, thanks to a new machine-learning technique known as PRIMO! https://t.co/Lg8yQl0kCk 🧵⬇️
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The iconic image of the supermassive #BlackHole at the center of Messier 87 has received its first official makeover, thanks to a new machine-learning technique known as PRIMO! Compare the original image with the makeover in this video!
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Full moon and so bright 🌝! This #image shows the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at @KittPeakNatObs, a Program of @NOIRLabastro, just after sunset. Perfect time to see the Belt of Venus. https://t.co/p8rCb4efra 📸: KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/P. Horálek (Institute of Physics in Opava)
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Welcome to the new NOIRLab Science channel! Starting today we will share all science content related to @NOIRLabAstro and @GeminiObs, @KittPeakNatObs, @cerrotololo, CSDC, @VRubinObs operations, and @usngo.
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A couple of shots of the Jupiter and Mercury conjunction tonight.
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Picture from Thunder and Lightning Over Arizona at ⁦@DMAFB⁩ today.
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Fun with Venus and the crescent Moon.
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For a few brief moments, the Moon found a hole in the clouds creating a double Moonbow over the glow of Kilauea.
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