I'm so happy to have taken photos of this historic mission, even if it's a few pixels – that's humans out there in high Earth orbit!
Pushing the limits of my ability as a hobby astronomer, I managed to capture pictures of the Orion capsule very early this morning from my backyard near Melbourne, Australia.
This is in my 8 inch Newtonian scope on a HEQ5 Pro, with a Sony a7IV, sets of either 4 or 6 second exposures at ISO 3200.
Using the ephemeris data published around 12hrs after launch, run through a script in Stellarium thanks to Shawn Gano's guide on YouTube. It was down to the wire as the weather started to turn bad.
Artemis was around magnitude +12, roughly between the brightness of Pluto and Neptune. It moved slower than I expected.
The best part was that it was cast against the beautiful backdrop of the centre of our galaxy in Sagittarius. So many stars!
by gcw29
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Omg that’s so amazing. Thanks for sharing!! I’m literally in awe over what they’re doing. Hope they’ll return safelyÂ
Amazing! Thank you for sharing it.
This is amazing, passion is gonna take us places where we never thought we could go! 💕