Marc Leatham

For those of you just visiting, here are four of my favorite astrophotos I've taken over the years! If you want to learn the #astronomy or #astrophotography techniques behind them, tweet @ me!

@DJSnM in your most recent deep space updates you introduced @SpaceX Stargaze system as cameras that watch satellite transits in front of stars for orbit refinement. I don't believe that's what stargaze is doing. The press releases confusingly use the word "transit". Not likely.

@SpaceX Just saw your Valentine Gram from two harbors Catalina! 🥰🥰🥰

Falcon 9, will you be my Valentine?

This is a dual mosaic of The Pelican Nebula! The light from young energetic stars is slowly transforming cold gas to hot and causing an ionization front gradually to advance outward. Dense filaments of cold gas are seen to still remain. #astrophotography #astronomy

Here are two minutes of the SpaceX launch stream where the ice build-up began.

This may be one of my cleanest deep-space photos yet! Pinch to zoom, inspect each detail, and imagine the electric and sparkling waves of the Lagoon Nebula washing all over you. #astronomy @starfront_observatories #astrophotograhy

Last night's image of NGC 6914 - 6000 light years away. I see a wolf; what do you see? #Astrophotography

The firework of the Milky Way core. This is the Trifid Nebula, a collection of Reflection, Emission, and Dark Nebula beating away amongst some of the most star-dense portions of the sky! This also represents the first light taken with my permanent telescope setup!

I love seeing corpses of ancient space relics drifting through my telescope's field of view! This thing must be OUT THERE, tumbling away forever. #spaceJunk

@Pomerantz Amazing problems for amazing times! :D

Jeez, I’m just trying to watch my wife and her colleagues prepare to dock a new space capsule to a giant space station while also simultaneously watching a test flight of a new rocket system on my handheld device, how hard can it be? 🤣

@ianlauerastro @Cathrinmachin I'm so excited to join you out there!

First image from our telescope's new home in Texas!!! It's moved from light polluted Alabama to some of the darkest skies in the USA It's setup to be controlled remotely from anywhere in the world Expect a lot more deep space images from us :) @Cathrinmachin

Does anyone know how paramagnetic cryogenic oxygen is? Could it be (easily) manipulated by magnetic fields in microgravity for on orbit refueling?

Watch Starship’s second integrated flight test → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Raptor engine demonstration of a descent burn to the lunar surface

Made on Earth by humans

This is me soaring with Sedona in the background. This weekend was the first time I got to fly through #AZ clouds, and I insist on doing it again soon. #paragliding

Check out this timelapse during another shot from that night. Satellites galore! 🥰

It's shocking what you can do with just a smart phone these days. @madebygoogle @googlepixel_us #nightsight #astrophotography #milkyway

@SoulReaper2222 @NAU I've been missing in action for a while now! It's definitely me not posting as much. I'll try to do better and not let you down! :P

@quarkmarc @NAU Marc! I finally found you! Although I've enabled your tweets they don't show up on my timeline. Algorithms here are a mess. I've missed your photos.

I was browsing through some freshly uploaded data from the #JWST (as anyone can do) and came across this spacescape. It's a 7-minute NIRCAM exposure of the Cat's Paw Nebula, looking for signs of water in asteroids. Zoom in! I count 12 asteroids. PC: Trilling Research Group @NAU

@Kristennetten Any advice on how to get more engagement? I used to have a fair bit of interaction. not any more.

People lurking on 𝕏 & not posting

@elonmusk Polls just reinforce the perception that X is yet another echo chamber.

Perhaps we should run a poll on this?