Not to self promote my own community too much, but !astrophotography@lemmy.world if you wanna see amateur photos of space

The starliner astronauts are still up there (and will be until they return on the crew 9 capsule in February). This is the crew that went up before them returning to earth

He’s just a skeegy little guy

Got the flu and had to cancel my birthday movie party. Most of my friends went to go see the movie anyway. It was the Bee Movie

Some nice colors in the sky If you’re north enough. Sadly I doubt this will be as strong as the aurora back in May, but maybe one day well get them down in Atlanta again

Iirc the original goal was ‘at least 10’ but maybe up to 100 flights for a booster. No way to really know without flying them a lot

Oh no! Where will I go to see OF spam bots now???

Only 7 years ago!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qU7FuAswPW0

On the last test flight a few weeks ago both the booster and ship did powered soft landings in the ocean (even with the ship’s flap melting a bit)

They at least have an ISS live stream going most of the time, but it’s pretty boring at night or when they lose coverage

May Christ be with you

I ended up getting their PM. I’m not touching their stock with a 20ft pole.

Funnily enough I used the little guy to replace the smaller red camera on the scope after it started failing on me

pretty much every post on my profile was taken with it

Astrophotography. Hell, just photography in general.

At least for us amateurs satellite trails get completely rejected out during image stacking. They’ll definitely be more of a problem for professional observatories, especially large survey scopes like Vera Rubin

They actually just got rid of the stars, now you just tip people

https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/16ryhv9/celebrating_great_content_is_as_good_as_gold/