Tracking Artemis 1 from Launch to Half the Distance to the Moon! @Astronomy

Astronomy Live | Tracking Artemis 1 from Launch to Half the Distance to the Moon! @Astronomy_Live | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
8" Meade LX200 Classic and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K at f/6.3.
Post-TLI time lapse captured with a Google Pixel 6 Pro.
Deep space tracking of Orion on 11-17 was performed using the 8" LX200 with an SBIG ST-2000XCM at f/6.3. Frames were automatically aligned based on the orbit of Orion using a custom Python script before being stacked in Deep Sky Stacker (28x30s).
Tracked automatically with RocketTraker
RocketTraker is available as a free benefit to all channel members!
Music: To The Great Beyond by Stellardrone

Tracking the Artemis I Orion Capsule in Deep Space!

$Capturing Mars in Motion As Mars approaches opposition, I wanted to capture a time lapse that shows its rotation and its motion relative to the background stars. I used an 8 Meade LX200 and a modified Samsung SCB-2000 camera with a 2x barlow to capture a high magnification view of Mars rotating over 3 hours. I simultaneously filmed the red planet with an Orion ST-80 refractor piggybacking on the LX200 with an SBIG ST-2000XCM camera running 1 minute exposures to capture Mars moving relative to the background stars. Finally, I wrote a custom image stacking program in Python to stack the SCB-2000 videos of Mars in 1 minute segments in order to render a time lapse of the planets rotation in sync with its motion relative to the background stars.$

Telescope Footage of ISS with Boeing Starliner Still Docked!

ISS and SpaceX Crew-1 Resilience Flying By Jupiter!

Comet ATLAS Disintegration Live Stream! Part 1