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Jonathan M.

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The sky sure looks beautiful today :) 🚀 Orbital rocket enjoyer 🛰️ Can often be found chasing satellite passes overhead @EnergiaRocket on the other place.

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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 05/09/2026
Isar Spectrum deorbit burn was visible over Western Europe as a very dim, conical cloud moving north. Too dim to photograph :( It was above the Channel at approx. 23:47 CEST. I could not see the burn itself, just the exhaust gases starting to get illuminated by the sun, as expected by the figure.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 05/05/2026
Finally got around to finishing the 1:110 Lego Ariane 5 by chha 😊
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 16/03/2026
T+ 100 years
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 17/08/2025
NOAA-15 1800UTC pass One of the last days of NOAA APT transmissions, as NOAA-15 will be decommissioned this week 😢 That good ol' satellite has been transmitting for all my life, though, so I suppose it has earned its rest.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 10/07/2025
Ariane 6 has now been active for 1 year!
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 08/03/2025
My best satellite image yet! All the way from the Sahara to Iceland 😁 Meteor M2-4 LRPT ~14:00UTC
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 02/03/2025
Be sure to have a look at Venus in the near future when the clouds allow it! Nowadays, it is an obvious crescent, even with my simple telescope full of chromatic aberration.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 19/01/2025
I love planetary atmospheric refraction 🥹
Our Moon refracted by Earth's atmosphere, bending its contour.
Taken by Himawari-9 on March 8th 2023.Saturn's rings refracted by Saturn's atmosphere.
The moon Atlas can be seen at the bottom.
Taken by Cassini on June 7th 2005, processed by Gordan Ugarkovic.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 16/01/2025
It has been quite the day, has it not?
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 14/01/2025
Cassini took so many amazing pictures 🤩 Dione behind Saturn's rings, with Rhea in the foreground. Processed by @ugordan.bsky.social.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 25/12/2024
Resurs-P No.5 has now launched, marking the 2000th launch of the R-7 family 😮
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 17/12/2024
CRS-31 re-entry today around 11:32am central (18:32 UTC). This is presumably the last SpaceX Dragon to re-enter over land. Approximate luminosity indicated by line thickness.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 16/12/2024
Long March 5 is always so pretty 🥹 📸: D_宗师 (m.weibo.cn/detail/51122...)
Picture taken during the early ascent phase of Long March 5B, showing the engine bay and plume in detail. The 8 kerolox nozzles surround the central hydrolox engine. Details can be seen in the flame structure due to a sufficiently low exposure time.Similar picture as the other one, but taken earlier during liftoff, with the launch tower structure still visible in the background.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 07/12/2024
Himawari-9 took a nice image on Aug. 21st, with the Moon distorted by Earth's atmosphere. See e.g. cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-bl..., credit at bottom of the picture.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 05/12/2024
Beautiful ascent of Proba-3 😍 📸 ISRO
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 05/12/2024
PROBA-3 is in orbit! Now awaiting signal acquisition at Redu.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 03/12/2024
Big day tomorrow for ESA satellites! - 10:38 UTC: PROBA-3 will launch on 🇮🇳 PSLV! A very exciting mission to achieve millimetre-precision formation flying, to observe the Solar corona. - 21:20 UTC: Sentinel-1C launching on the return-to-flight of 🇪🇺 Vega-C, whose second stage nozzle was redesigned.
PROBA-3 in a cleanroom. The occulter and coronagraph spacecraft are stacked on top of each other.Sentinel-1C being stacked onto Vega-C's payload adapter.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 24/11/2024
This graphic sure has grown over the past few years
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 21/11/2024
There were some nice views during today's Progress MS-29 launch, with the trail left behind during ascent visible at the horizon.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 17/11/2024
Shuttle Sunday!
STS-49 on the launch pad, in stark contrast with 3 medieval sailing ships in the foreground.
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Jonathan M. @ororg.org · 16/11/2024
Time flies, just like SLS/Orion did 2 years ago 🥳
Boosters ignzichn! And liftoff of Artemis I! We rise together, to the Moon and beyond!

Photo: ULABeautiful engine shot during early ascent.

Photo: Aerojet RocketdyneOrion and ESM with Earth in the background at T+10h after launch.

Photo: NASA
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