Christian Plaud

HREF/SREF/NAM retirement: I have seen some people provide some clarity on aspects of this, but since this is something at the SPC we have been working with for awhile, I wanted to address all aspects of this in one spot. 🧵

Here's a look at the 2025-2026 winter season severity through an index called the AWSSI, which is calculated daily for a few sites in Vermont based on climatology. Through much of the season, conditions generally were somewhat severe in Burlington, St Johnsbury, and Rutland.

@JamesSinko Y'all handling BTV operations today?

Hydro projects and monitoring fire weather concerns #mewx

Earthshine. Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch captured this video of Earth outside the windows of the Orion spacecraft during the second flight day of the mission. Orion was roughly 33,800 miles (54,500 km) away from Earth when @Astro_Christina took this video.

Only one chance in this lifetime… Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him. I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.

@samuelcamp_wx @tnvalleyweather Are you using the TMO connection for live feed? I see the Live U unit there as well

Earlier this afternoon, we were able to produce and broadcast a LIVE weathercast, completely remote, with top industry-quality from my truck for @tnvalleyweather! A-Cam: Sony FS5ii 4K with Sony GMii f/2.8 24-70 Lighting: 2 SmallRig 60W Soft Box lights Production: VMix 4K with LIVE U Solo Connection: T-Mobile 5G Modem bonded with Starlink #tnvalleyweather

Re-entry of Artemis II crew captured by the astronaut in International Space Station

The Moon and light from at least five objects in our solar system appear in this view from the @NASAArtemis II crew: Saturn, Mars, and Mercury, along with reflected sunlight from Earth and the glow of the Sun's corona and/or zodiacal light scattered by interplanetary dust. 1/2

Photo of the Day: Earthset, captured on #GoPro 🌎 @NASA's Orion spacecraft captures the Moon and the Earth in one frame during the Artemis II crew’s deep space journey on the sixth day of the mission. The right side of NASA’s Orion spacecraft is seen lit up by the Sun. A waxing crescent Moon is visible behind it. And then, a crescent Earth, tiny compared to the Moon, is about to set below the Moon’s horizon on the right. Credit: NASA #NASA #Artemis #Moon #Space

Sky full of stars. Following a successful lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts captured this breathtaking photo of our galaxy, the Milky Way, on April 7, 2026.

The eclipse from Orion. On April 6, external cameras attached to the Orion spacecraft's solar array wings captured the Moon backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse.

Astronaut Reid Wiseman shows the photo he took of the Moon using an iPhone 17 Pro. The camera that fits in your pocket...

@NASAArtemis crew keep talking about how bright the moon is out their window. I wonder if they need sunglasses on the next mission to better adjust from the cabin to the window @NASA

New record🥇 The Artemis II astronauts are now farther from Earth than humans have ever been! At 1:57 p.m. EDT, they broke the record set by Apollo 13 in 1970. Their journey around the far side of the Moon today will take them a maximum distance of 252,752 miles from Earth.

An incredibly touching moment on board Orion as the Artemis II crew calls down an unnamed crater that they have observed on the Moon, asking to name it 'Carroll', after Carroll Wiseman, Commander Reid Wiseman's wife who tragically passed away in 2020. ❤️

@holman1124 @SneedTech @Crowsnestbb @Terrell352 @jakepimental99 @doc_med1 @Techlife32 @Broke_Sim @CleverIv @yellmapper How did it sound?

I can now confirm this to be true. Just made a call over n77. I just had to change the VoNR setting in service mode of my S26U from support EPSFB to support VoNR. @SneedTech @Crowsnestbb @Terrell352 @jakepimental99 @doc_med1 @Techlife32 @Broke_Sim @CleverIv @yellmapper

A "Blue Marble" photo for a new generation. 😍

Check out the first pictures of the #Artemis II launch from our remote cameras. Keep checking back for more! 📷 flic.kr/s/aHBqjCGHmm

Difference in quality between NASA and SpaceX’s launch livestreams.