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Gus Grissom & John Young.

(credit to the owner)

Stargazing Or Die Trying

This evening, I had a solid observing session. Given all the light pollution, and less than perfect skies, I’m still pretty darn proud of how these turned out. 

Mercury (photo 1-2): first photo was taken with iPhone XR using the NightCap app. Second was with the Canon M50. This little planet just happens to be my favorite. The length of a day on Mercury is about 59 Earth days, but a year is only 88 Earth days, making it the worst place for Monday to possibly exist. 

M44, the Beehive Cluster (partial): these bees aren’t bees. They don’t make honey, but they are known to host these sweet exoplanets known as Hot Jupiters; massive gas giants that closely orbit their home stars. 

M13, the Hercules Cluster: in the 1970’s, we beamed a ‘WYD?’ message towards this massive cluster, from the Arecibo Observatory, with our location and our deets. It’s unknown if M13 ever received our message; if so, it left us on ‘Read’. 

Arcturus: located in the constellation Böotes, its official abbreviation is Alpha Boo, which is kind of hilarious. The light emitted from this red giant is about 37 years old, and its the fourth brightest in the night sky.

Every photo with the exception of the first one was taken with Canon M50 camera, using a Celestron 6SE telescope. Edited in PS Express.

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The Kennedy’s photographed by Mark Shaw in Hyannis Port, 1959.

06/03/65

Gus and John at Mission Control for the launch of Gemini 4.

Damn, I would love to be outside that door!!

kiss-kiss

bye-bye

Roger and Ed in Chasing the Moon, Part 2

It was a team game, brilliant teamwork.

John Kennedy wasn’t just speaking Robert Kennedy’s words because he improvises at the end of the speech. Robert Kennedy got him to the plate, but it’s John Kennedy who hit the ball out of the park. | American Dynasties: The Kennedys (2018)

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this is so funny to me