Things were rockin' and rollin' at APO last night! We felt a 5.5 magnitude earthquake centered south of Carlsbad - check the telescope telemetry data that shows the movement! Photo courtesy of @ajlemma 🤩 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…

Behold! Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, Venus (at left), and our fabulous 3.5m telescope 🤩 Photo courtesy of Observing Specialist Mark Croom.

Beautiful aurora from APO tonight!!!

We caught the Starliner coming in for a landing at White Sands using our all-sky camera! It's the streak in the southwest corner (lower right) of each frame. Thanks for sharing these ⁦@ajlemma⁩ !

having trouble uploading the time-lapse gif but this is a still from our imaging sequence

We were thrilled to be one of them!

Did you hear about the fireball over the Philippines yesterday due to a 1m size asteroid impacting Earth?! The object 2024 RW1 was discovered by @catalina_sky and subsequently imaged by @bryce_bolin and C. Ingebretsen, with help from @ajlemma and V. Sutherland, using APO! ☄️🤩

Workplace photos of the aurora from APO courtesy of @ARedheadOfVenus and @ajlemma!! Great pics!!! 🤩

A rare sighting of all of our amazing 3.5m observing specialists in one place! Thanks to everyone for being there for the exciting training session on APOLLO operations. Pew pew!!! 💚

We had a great eyepiece viewing session for the ARC Board and SDSS AC meeting attendees! Thanks to @ARedheadOfVenus and @ajlemma for the wonderful sky tour!