Official Space Thread

Best of the images I managed to get. Had thin clouds in front of them for a little while, otherwise completely obscured :expressionless:

Zoomed in to maximum on the image, and no sign of rings or moons sadly:

Did manage a decent shot (literally just this one!) of Luna in her half moon state:

Next challenge is the moon and clouds in the same shot.

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It never always used to be this way too, the moon is slowly drifting away. It just so happens to line up perfectly for us because life spontaneously emerged all those millions of years ago.
That blows my mind even more.

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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201230.html

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The comments on that are so… American, it shows the polarised environment these people live in.

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Curiosity celebrates 3,000th Martian day on the red planet’s surface with spectacular panorama of 122 stitched images:

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Come on Elon! Get us there!

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He’s working on it

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ElonTime = (TargetYear - CurrentYear) + 50%

So, 2028? Still, would be impressive

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That is some awesome fidelity imagery.

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any time before 2030 would be impressive

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I read that as 20:30 as in 8:30pm tonight - which would indeed be impressive!

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Watching how Starship progresses is epic. It’s what keeps me going. Come on SN9!

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The Abyss entices. What secrets does it hide? Or is it just a great big hole full of nothing?

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Starship SN9 test flight should happen tonight. after all the FAA drama.
No official SpaceX stream link yet, but the guys from NSF are stalking the progress in the meantime

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Sorry, is the SN9 SpaceX? who’re NSF?

FAA?

Man, I’m out of touch…