Nowadays I think we're all pretty used to seeing amazing images online from space telescopes & ground based observatories.
But behind each picture there are teams of talented professionals working to create these spectacular cosmic visions.
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In February's @SkyatNightMag I've interviewed some of the world's top space image processors & visualisation experts about their work blending art and science.
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Jan 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Think this shot (captured about 20 minutes ago) is what you might call 'celestially busy'. :-)
- the Moon✅
- Earthshine✅
- (partial) lunar corona✅
- a Red Planet✅
- an Ice Giant✅
- star-flecked sky✅
For fun here are the rough light-travel times:
- lunar corona (~1/250000th of a second)
- Moon (1.33s)
- Earthshine (as above, but it's already done trip once!)
- Mars (9 min)
- Uranus (164 min)
- stars (Mu Ceti [brightest in FOV] = 84yrs. Xi Arietis [2nd brightest] = 870 yrs).
Jul 10, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
21:33UT and I’ve just sighted Comet #NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) using 10x50 binoculars. Bright & fuzzy head with part of tail already visible – even in the bright twilight over Exmoor.
Comet and bright part of its tail easily visible to the naked eye now.
Jan 21, 2019 • 17 tweets • 12 min read
Wow >>> reddit.com/r/space/commen… I've just checked in PS & the flashes from the 2 different feeds are in *exactly* the same location. Given there was *also* a visual obs I'd bet good money this was indeed a meteoroid impact on the Moon during the #lunareclipse h/t @AwesomeAstroPod
So (assuming the time-stamp on the timeanddate.com feed was accurate) anyone who was videoing the eclipse at 04:41UT might want to check their footage for another data point! The flashes in the feeds occurred close to crater Byrgius (west of Mare Humorum). #lunareclipse
