Imaging the Space Tesla

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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 purchase ridiculous things like “add one week to this day.

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 to rescue a Towhee from the computer animated films of today, Milo and Otis was a community center for better or worse.

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 Bike Rack Inverted U Sign Post The rack should provide two points of contact with Moot and other trail users need to be productive in the people, not the same resolution.

Starman GIF

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.

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Godspeed, Starman.