Mastodawn

ohhhh, this is good!

Using the 3.9m AAT, Sarah Caddy and Lee Spitler (from our school!) were able to track Orion on its return trajectory ...

... when the astronauts were still 200,000 km away from Earth! 🤯

That's at a distance of ~16 Earth diameters away, and Orion is a tiny tiny tiny spaceship at such great distances ....

But a big 3.9m telescope is also a handy toy to play with!

via AAL LinkedIn

#ArtemisII #Astrodon #Australia #Telescopes

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Anthony Horton 1d ago

@CosmicRami I saw this on AAL FB and was wondering how to re-post it here, now I don't have to!

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Anthony Horton 1d ago

@CosmicRami I wish AAL had an official fedipresence. Seems unlikely, but ESO do so why not AAL?

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CosmicRami 1d ago

@spacelizard ya! They ar on BlueSky tho!

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Anthony Horton 1d ago

@CosmicRami Bah. It's such a shame that most of the Twitter astronomy community jumped ship to another corporate social media service that's inevitably on the same trajectory, just less far along it. At least you're here!

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CosmicRami 1d ago

@spacelizard I'm everywhere! ha!

You have a BlueSky account to, right?

It's not too bad there, a bit more independent then Twitter. Hopefully it remains without its toxicity.

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Anthony Horton

@CosmicRami No, no BlueSky account, though I have enabled bridging to BlueSky for this Mastodon account.

To keep my social media manageable I'm only active here and, to a lesser extent, Facebook these days.