Tracking a Falcon Heavy Launch from 140 Miles Away!Astronomy Live2023-05-05 | Tracked with RocketTraker using a trajectory prediction from FlightClub.io! A compiled version of RocketTraker is available to all channel members. Escape Velocity by Scott Buckley | soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Starship Tracked From Florida During IFT-5!Astronomy Live2024-10-13 | Vacuum Raptor Shutdown, tracked from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge in Florida, using RocketTraker with trajectory data from FlightClub.io! RocketTraker source code: github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/RocketTraker All channel members get access to a compiled executable version of RocketTraker and SatTraker.
Filmed with an Orion ST-80 piggybacking on a Celestron NexStar GPS and a Canon 90D.Hurricane Milton Live in Sarasota!Astronomy Live2024-10-10 | From a location in evacuation zone D. Only zones A, B and C are under mandatory evacuation. I will be in an interior room of the building, so this stream will not have commentary or narration.Hurricane Milton Live in Sarasota!Astronomy Live2024-10-10 | From a location in evacuation zone D. Only zones A, B and C are under mandatory evacuation. I will be in an interior room of the building, so this stream will not have commentary or narration.Saturn and its MoonsAstronomy Live2024-10-01 | 3 hour HDR processed time lapse of Saturn and some of its moons. 11" Celestron NexStar GPS and 2.5x Luminos barlow Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K Frames aligned, field rotation corrected and stacked using a custom Python script.Saturn Live!Astronomy Live2024-09-23 | 11" Celestron NexStar GPS Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K 2.5x Celestron Luminos Barlow Music: StellardroneAsteroid 2024 RW1 Hits Earth!Astronomy Live2024-09-05 | Impact video: https://x.com/klvdpn/status/1831377121870278689Starship Engine Shutdown Seen From Florida During IFT-4!Astronomy Live2024-06-28 | 'Omega' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Huge shout out to flightclub.io for providing the trajectory prediction used to guide the telescope and allow it to capture this amazing shot as Starship successfully completed its second stage burn during the launch! And special thanks to @RedsRhetoric for giving me the audible play by play as I operated the telescope!Telescope Footage of ISS with Boeing Starliner Still Docked!Astronomy Live2024-06-22 | Starliner's original mission schedule would have had it undocking before I had any good opportunities to view it, but due to the delays I was able to get this amazing footage on 6-19-24. If you look closely, you can see the difference in the color of the bright white SpaceX Dragon and the darker gray Boeing Starliner. Filmed using an 11" Celestron NexStar telescope and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K camera with a 2.5x Luminos Barlow. Tracking performed automatically using SatTraker and then stabilized in post with custom Python software. All channel members get free access to compiled executables of my astronomy software, including SatTraker! github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker Music: 'Golden Hour' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.auIFT-4 Starship Engine Shutdown Tracked From Florida!Astronomy Live2024-06-06 | Huge shout out to flightclub.io for providing the trajectory prediction used to guide the telescope and allow it to capture this amazing shot as Starship successfully completed its second stage burn during the launch! And special thanks to @RedsRhetoric for giving me the audible play by play as I operated the telescope!Watching the Blaze Star About to Go Nova!Astronomy Live2024-05-18 | Stacked Image: drive.google.com/file/d/1KeIGRognKx49TkwXPDiA8lCFzqZ78366/view?usp=sharing Meade 8" Meade LX200 Classic SBIG ST-2000XCM and AO-7 Music: StellardroneAurora Borealis Over Florida!Astronomy Live2024-05-11 | Music: 'Decoherence' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au Photos and time lapse captured with a Google Pixel 6 Pro on 5-10-24 The trails are airplanes flying through the field of viewTotal Eclipse Time Lapse with Earthshine!Astronomy Live2024-05-07 | 30 frame rolling average stack using custom Python software to align and stack the frames, setting the brightness and contrast at totality to focus on the part of the histogram containing earthshine. Telescope: Orion ST-80 Camera: Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K2024 Total Solar Eclipse HDR 4K Footage!Astronomy Live2024-04-13 | Partial phases recorded with an Orion ST-80 using Thousand Oaks Solar Film and a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K camera Totality HDR footage made using simultaneous footage from the Blackmagic camera and RedsRhetoric's Nikon P1000 Red's channel: youtube.com/@RedsRhetoric?si=h6d66j0ny7GZstka Earthshine photo taken using Red's Celestron CPC Deluxe 800 with Edge HD Optics and Canon 90D. Single raw photo presented followed by a 2 frame stack. Music: 'Omega' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.auPredicting the Total Solar Eclipse of April 8, 2024!Astronomy Live2024-03-09 | Eclipse calculations spreadsheet: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1VLTI-gxesAs0SxiIKvNFIGwD-7GA6Dmk?usp=sharing Any redistribution of the spreadsheet must attribute the source to Astronomy Live and must include the license at the above link.
Music: Vanguard by Scott Buckley | soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Saturn at its Closest!Astronomy Live2023-08-27 | Opposition of Saturn 8-26-23 Celestron 11" NexStar GPS Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K Music: StellardroneStop Abusing the DMCA Takedown SystemAstronomy Live2023-06-19 | Recently a number of creators have been abusing the DMCA takedown system or threatening to abuse it in order to silence channels that engage in commentary and criticism that they don't approve of. Commentary and criticism is a fundamental example of fair use, and the thumbnail for this livestream is one such example. One of the avatars featured in this thumbnail is the subject of DMCA takedowns at the center of this discussion.M101 Supernova Livestream Night 2!Astronomy Live2023-06-10 | 8" Meade LX200 Classic SBIG ST-2000XCM and AO-7 Music by StellardroneM101 Supernova Livestream!Astronomy Live2023-05-30 | 8" Meade LX200 Classic SBIG ST-2000XCM and AO-7 Music by StellardroneISS and Crew-6Astronomy Live2023-05-16 | Captured on 5-13-23 using an 11" Celestron NexStar GPS and tracked with SatTraker. Filmed at f/25 using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K and 2.5x Luminos Barlow. Stabilized in post with custom software. Music: Grand Orrery by StellardroneRocketTraker Source Code and TutorialAstronomy Live2023-05-12 | Rocket trajectory predictions: flightclub.io RocketTraker source code: github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/RocketTraker Join now as a channel member for access to compiled executables of the latest versions of RocketTraker and SatTraker!Asteroid 2023 DZ2 Approaching Earth!Astronomy Live2023-03-25 | Asteroid 2023 DZ2 tracked using NEOTraker: github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/NEOTraker/blob/master/NEOTraker.py Filmed using an Orion ST-80 piggybacked on a polar aligned LX200 Classic Recorded using an SBIG ST-2000XCM camera Music: Discovery by Scott Buckley | soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by free-stock-music.com Creative Commons / Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0Tracking an Asteroid Approaching Earth!Astronomy Live2023-03-25 | Tracking asteroid 2023 DZ2 as it approaches earth for a flyby at 0.45 times the distance to the moon! Tracked with NEOTraker! NEOTraker Source Code: github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/NEOTraker/blob/master/NEOTraker.pyReviewing The BeaverLab TW1 Telescope!Astronomy Live2023-03-24 | @beaverlabtech TW1 Telescope: beaverlabtech.com/products/beaverlab-finder-tw1-tw2-telescope?ref=vpiaTEfJHWOGbv amazon.com/dp/B0BRZ4CHWF?ref=myi_title_dp #BeaverLab Telescope #BeaverLab #Telescope #Astronomy #Space #Science #Physics #Star @BeaverLab TelescopesLive ISS Tracking! 2-14-23Astronomy Live2023-02-14 | Tracking ISS with an 11" Celestron NexStar telescope and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K camera. Tracking performed using my SatTraker software: github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/SatTraker/blob/master/SatTrakerBetaV5.py Compiled executables of SatTraker and UFOTraker are available to all channel members!Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF Time Lapse!Astronomy Live2023-02-04 | Tracked using my open source NEOTraker software! github.com/AstronomyLiveYt/NEOTraker/blob/master/NEOTraker.py Orion ST-80 riding piggyback on an LX200 Classic SBIG ST-2000XCM with 2 minute exposures Music: Grand Orrery by StellardroneTracking Comet C/2022 E3 ZTF!Astronomy Live2023-02-03 | LX200 ClassicStabilized Footage of Falcon Heavy from Launch To Landing! USSF-67Astronomy Live2023-01-24 | Post-processing stabilization by @TechniquesSpatiales (twitter.com/TechSpatialesyoutube.com/@FrenchSpaceGuy )
On Sunday 1/15/23 at 5:56 pm local time, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a mission for the Space Force, USSF-67. I was able to track one of the boosters from launch at LC-39A to landing at LZ-1. This was filmed with an 11" Celestron NexStar GPS using a Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K camera at an effective equivalent focal length of 5.6 meters.
This used a new, experimental version of my RocketTraker software, adaptively looking through the trajectory prediction published by FlightClub.io and seeking the closest point in the trajectory file based on the rocket's observed position and time. This allowed for greater tolerance of deviations from the expected timing of the booster landing and allowed me to follow it all the way down. This new version of RocketTraker will be published soon on my community page exclusively for channel members!
This used a new, experimental version of my RocketTraker software, adaptively looking through the trajectory prediction published by FlightClub.io and seeking the closest point in the trajectory file based on the rocket's observed position and time. This allowed for greater tolerance of deviations from the expected timing of the booster landing and allowed me to follow it all the way down. This new version of RocketTraker will be published soon on my community page exclusively for channel members!
Thanks to Reds Rhetoric for the static camera footage, be sure to check out his channel and footage of this launch: youtube.com/@RedsRhetoric
Music: Artemis by Scott Buckley | soundcloud.com/scottbuckley Music promoted by free-stock-music.com Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0High Magnification Footage of ISS with SpaceX Crew-5, CRS-26 and Soyuz MS-22!Astronomy Live2023-01-11 | Tracked on 1-9-22, hours before the departure of the SpaceX CRS-26 Dragon. You can also clearly see the two new iROSA panels on the station that were brought up in the trunk of CRS-26 and installed by Crew-5.
Tracked with an 11" Celestron NexStar GPS and Blackmagic Pocket Cinema 4K using SatTraker. SatTraker is available as compiled executable download to all channel members!