11 hours ago
Today's Russian #ISS #spacewalk is underway, and I just RX'd quite strong cosmonaut chatter on 130.167MHz #FM!😀 (frequency for ISS-to-spacesuit comms👍)
Also briefly checked the suits' freqs, and heard nothing! I guess the suits' radios are low-pwr, so that was to be expected👍 https://t.co/vm0xiusPlf
20 hours ago
MetOp-C from just now. Working the bugs out of "flip-mode" tracking. https://t.co/niC6jmIErj
2 days ago
MetOp-A and C from this morning. Not included is MetOp-B because i chose to have a QSO with Costa Rica on HF in the middle of the pass and that hosed up L-Band enough to loose lock. https://t.co/VJTwF9vmqs
Tag Archives: planets
Mars and Saturn in June
It’s getting hot and atmospheric conditions are not the best for astrophotography, however stacking 5000 images does help a bit with the variable focus.
April Planets with some nice Glass
Spent some time with the big gas planets and Mars. Mars is closest to Earth since 2007 and is still pretty hard to see. Jupiter turned out nice. Saturn was a bit out of focus, seeing was not too good. … Continue reading
