What focal length do you normally shoot at? My rig is at 610mm and I get satellite trails mostly around dusk/dawn, but they all get rejected out during stacking
What focal length do you normally shoot at? My rig is at 610mm and I get satellite trails mostly around dusk/dawn, but they all get rejected out during stacking
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
It’s definitely real, at least for the amateur astronomy subs I (used to) mod. I suspect a lot of the traffic to askastrophotography or telescopes is from people googling stuff and browsing though mobile web, but since /r/astrophotography is just photos, most are just on the app
Probably varies a bit from sub to sub, but old reddit users are a clear minority. The vast majority use the app
Mildew is trying to sleep in today
NASA is still doing a seat exchange and launching Johnny Kim on the next Soyuz in March, but it looks like it’ll be just Russians on at least the next 2 Soyuz’s after that
A lot of those tubes run on the inside of the engine. They’re 3D printed into the engine walls as it’s being made
Oh no! Where will I go to see OF spam bots now???
Thanks! We won’t know the results for a couple weeks. The movie was dogshit!
Bad movie night with some friends tonight, and then absolutely nothing the rest of the weekend (we’re watching Adam Sandler’s first movie, Going Overboard). Just gotta make it through this mornings exam
Bye, Bob :-(
The second stage engine cover seemed to get ‘over inflated’ at T+4:07. And you can definitely see it’s in a lower orbit on the final screen right after SECO
Looks like a $843 million contract to deorbit it sometime in 2030, and the deorbit vehicle is going to burn up as well. They could maybe just send up a starship without any tiles/flaps at that point? Hopefully some of these commercial LEO stations really get going before then to replace it…
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
Good ol magnesium shit-rate
They’re still going to launch the 6 operational starliner flights on Atlas V’s, and Amazon has bought several of them for their Kuiper satellite constellation.
Personally I doubt starliner is going to keep flying once the 6 ISS missions are over, regardless of launch vehicle.
I watched it in imax opening night and the energy in that room was incredible.
That shot of the forward thrusters is great!