Amateur Astronomy Blog | Jeremy Perez
A couple nights ago, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a group of Iridium satellites and put on an awesome twilight show across the southwest US. Twilight rocket launches are incredible. If you get a chance to see one, just stop what…
Last weekend, 23 September 2017, was the last night of the 2017 Flagstaff Star Party. This is the fourth year the star party was hosted in the middle of town at Buffalo Park. This image was shot while I was assisting at…
Digital Illustrations of the International Space Station – October 9/10, 2012 – 0245 UT Observation Notes: With the SpaceX Dragon supply vehicle a few hours away from docking with the ISS, I thought I’d have a look tonight. No luck spotting the…
Digital Illustrations of the International Space Station – August 28/29, 2012 – 0225 UT Observation Notes: I’ve had fun grabbing photographs of the International Space Station through the telescope, but until recently, I hadn’t managed any visual observations. This week I got…
Juno Target Missile Launch
Amazing Spiral Lights Over Norway – December 9, 2009
For every few successful observations, there have to be some failures right? I got up at 3:30 AM to set things up and then watch for any evidence of the LCROSS impact in Cabeus Crater at the lunar south pole (scheduled for…
Just 2 days after a great pass on Saturday night, the ISS made another flyover at an even higher altitude (86 degrees). Interestingly, this made it easier to track, since the dob required very little rotating as I followed it up and…
The ISS made a brilliant pass over Flagstaff last night, culminating at 81 degrees. The kids came outside with their friends to watch while I contorted around the Dobsonian shooting photos with the Canon 300D. As before, pivoting around Dobson’s Hole and…
ISS and STS-124 (Space Shuttle Discovery) Flyover – June 9, 2008