@mLinkster

amateur astrophotographer🎓AS in space studies

 North Las Vegas, NV
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Joined July 2017
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Two of my older images that I haven't posted to Twitter yet. Elephant's Trunk Nebula & Cygnus Wall
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Many of you are talking about the “space jellyfish” following this morning’s launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. More than 6,300 scientific investigations and cargo are on their way to the @Space_Station, as part of SpaceX's 35th commercial resupply services mission for NASA. A jellyfish happens near sunrise or sunset when the exhaust plume from the rocket becomes brightly illuminated, creating a glowing shape resembling a jellyfish. Show us where you captured the jellyfish?
A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

ALT A nighttime sky shows a bright rocket plume forming a large glowing halo with a wispy, swirling cloud above it, resembling a jellyfish shape. A small bright point marks the rocket high in the sky, leaving a narrow illuminated trail.

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Replying to @spacejellyalert
Amazing views from Port Orange, FL
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New cat alert! A call from a wildlife sanctuary about a "weird cat" has led to the first new cat species discovered in over 100 years in Bolivia’s Yungas forest ecoregion. Learn more about this feline surprise: on.natgeo.com/JRuaGj
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Matt Link retweeted
Obsidian
@ObsidianJul 17
Howdy!
Bethesda Game Studios
@BethesdaStudiosJul 17
Replying to @BethesdaStudios
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Earthset 🌏🌑🛰️ (Apr 6) Camera setup by #ArtemisII @Astro_Christina Raw photos courtesy of the ESRS @NASAEarth @NASA_Johnson ID ART002-E-20957 to 21293 (only 80mm ƒ/8 frames - stabilized - linear interpolation) Edit by Riccardo Rossi (ISAA) Enjoy! @astro_reid @AstroVicGlover @Astro_Jeremy @NASAAdmin
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Replying to @CynicalLatina
This isn’t accurate. I explain this often. Space is *quite* colorful. EVERY digital raw photo is monochrome. Your phone has something called a bayer filter that allows it to turn one photo into 4 captured through different color filters. Telescopes like Hubble do the same thing through alternating filters, and most of the photos they share are true color. JWST shoots in infrared which is outside the visible spectrum, so it has to be shifted to visible light by its very nature, but the colors are still accurate to the wavelength separation captured, they’re not selected arbitrarily and show real detail. This process is usually overexplained which leads to confusion, when the reality is space photos are generally far more precise than any casual digital photo, including the color.
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earth day isn’t complete without this iconic image.
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NASA Artemis
@NASAArtemisApr 22
Earthshine. Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.
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NASA
@NASAApr 11
Welcome home Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy! 🫶 The Artemis II astronauts have splashed down at 8:07pm ET (0007 UTC April 11), bringing their historic 10-day mission around the Moon to an end.
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For some reason this loaded super compressed, so here is a higher resolution version you can load in 4k.
Andrew McCarthy
@AJamesMcCarthyApr 9
I'm pleased to reveal my highest resolution photo of the complete SLS in flight, captured entirely using sound-activated triggers from cameras placed near the pad. Thanks to the technique used the image is ~300 megapixels! A ridiculously hard shot to get, but worth the effort.
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Testflight@_Testflight_Apr 7
Looks so cool stabilised
Luke
@LukeLeisherApr 6
Artemis 2 Lunar approach timelapse.
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NASA Artemis
@NASAArtemisApr 7
The eclipse from Orion. On April 6, external cameras attached to the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings captured the Moon backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse.
The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon\u2019s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

ALT The Moon, backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse, is photographed by NASA\u2019s Orion spacecraft. Orion is visible in the foreground on the left. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk. The bright spot visible just below the Moon\u2019s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. Credit: NASA

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NASA
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Hello, Moon. It’s great to be back. Here’s a taste of what the Artemis II astronauts photographed during their flight around the Moon. Check out more photos from the mission: nasa.gov/artemis-ii-multimed…
A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA

ALT A crescent Earth setting behind the Moon\u2019s horizon. Credit: NASA

Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA

ALT Earth setting behind the Moon as seen by the Artemis II crew. Over half the left side of the image is filled by the gray lunar surface, pocked with craters. Credit: NASA

A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA

ALT A close view of the Moon. Jagged circles of craters dot the gray surface, fading to dark on the left side of the image. Credit: NASA

A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA

ALT A crescent Earth setting behind a hemisphere of the Moon. Credit: NASA

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Neel Kolhe@neel_kolheApr 7
A complete time lapse of the Artemis 2 solar eclipse, with that the fly by moon science observation sessions are complete! We are going to get excellent images and footage in a few hours. I think the high res photos will end up here soon: flickr.com/photos/nasa2explo…
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There it is! That’s us — that’s home! As the Artemis II crew swings around the Moon, they will soon experience an “Earth set” before our home planet reappears about 40 minutes later. This view was captured from one of Orion’s solar array cameras. I can’t wait to see the views captured by the crew with their onboard cameras once they are downlinked!
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NASA
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We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

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NASA
@NASAApr 3
Good morning, world! 🌎 We have spectacular new high-resolution images of our home planet, all of us looking back through the Orion capsule window at our Artemis II astronauts as they continue their journey to the Moon.
One-third of Earth peeking through the window of the Orion capsule. The planet is a dreamy pale blue, swirling with white clouds and reflected sunlight. Although Earth only fills a fraction of the image it is the brightest object in the image by far. The capsule window is surrounded by a thick frame held in place with bolts, reminiscent of a heavy duty airplane window. It is dark in the capsule, but the outlines of straps and various components of the capsule are visible. Brighter white components are visible in the upper right corner. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

ALT One-third of Earth peeking through the window of the Orion capsule. The planet is a dreamy pale blue, swirling with white clouds and reflected sunlight. Although Earth only fills a fraction of the image it is the brightest object in the image by far. The capsule window is surrounded by a thick frame held in place with bolts, reminiscent of a heavy duty airplane window. It is dark in the capsule, but the outlines of straps and various components of the capsule are visible. Brighter white components are visible in the upper right corner. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman

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🚨 This was the Artemis II crew's view this morning from 41,756 miles (67,200 km) up No human has seen a crescent Earth in full since 1972
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NASA
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For the first time in over 50 years, humans are Moonbound. At 6:35 p.m. EDT (2235 UTC) NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the Orion spacecraft lifted off from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, sending four astronauts on a planned test flight around the Moon and back. go.nasa.gov/4tlRfRS
NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the crewed Orion spacecraft lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker

ALT NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and the crewed Orion spacecraft lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Michael DeMocker

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NASA
@NASAApr 1
Liftoff. The Artemis II mission launched from @NASAKennedy at 6:35pm ET (2235 UTC), propelling four astronauts on a journey around the Moon. Artemis II will pave the way for future Moon landings, as well as the next giant leap — astronauts on Mars.
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