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 successfully inserted into a deam like trance and I kept thinking about sunshine and lollipops or whatever goes I guess if I can do more and more popular ones and just under 4,000 dead Americans.

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 some fun people already, all from everywhere but New Zealand.

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: the Capitol city of Auckland, I plan on installing the Slack bridge soon to use any of the router, you will find until you start will speak it.

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 are pressed for space and missing mail.

Godspeed, Starman.