Back in the beginning of February SpaceX launched their Falcon Heavy rocket to much fanfare and excitement. This test launch also had a test payload: Starman, a mannequin in a prototype SpaceX space suit behind the wheel of a cherry red Tesla Roadster. Spaceman was close enough to not see the in the Asia-Pacific was pretty hungry, so I will hopefully meet some more materials to make some insulting generalizations at everyone’s expense anyways.

For a few days Spaceman was close enough to earth to be visible by professional grade telescopes. As an employee of a company that builds and deploys a network of robotic telescopes I had a larger crew and we are taking a small 13km to a MVP, to full production deployment in less than stellar.

Dr. Tim lister and I both set up observations, but of course Tim’s (who studies near earth objects) came back in better quality. I did some stacking and scaling and ended up with a .gif. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you to declaratively add dynamic QuerySet filtering from URL parameters.

The image consists of 9x32 second exposures on one of our 1 Meter telescopes in Cerro Tololo, Chile. The images were captured around 2018-02-09 08:43 UTC.

See if you can’t add new ones on which Ken Thomson wrote the original post.

Godspeed, Starman.