Rochester Astronomy Club | John Attewell | Activity https://rochesterskies.org/member/johnattewell/activity/ Activity feed for John Attewell. Mon, 13 Apr 2026 02:21:35 -0500 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 131bc79a55aa6736bea95b12122178ef John Attewell replied to the topic Observing tonight? in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/observing-tonight/page/177/#post-15377 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 22:05:40 -0500 I’m off to Root River again tonight.  I still have Bob Fealey’s key for the streetlight so it will be nice and dark, especially since the moon won’t rise until 3:51 am!  Anyone is welcome to join me.  – John Attewell

]]> b418700b4626af9c333b3b2d785e4808 John Attewell replied to the topic Observing tonight? in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/observing-tonight/page/177/#post-15376 Sat, 19 Apr 2025 20:33:17 -0500 I’m going to Root River tonight.  I’m hoping to snare some of the dim Messiers in Leo.  I have a key to turn the streetlight off.  The sky should be clear by sundown and the moon isn’t going to rise until 2:48 am.  Anyone is welcome to join me.  -John Attewell

]]> ccb094a3113786d0850b743b14ea4aec John Attewell started the topic Starlink Train Tonight in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/starlink-train-tonight/ Wed, 13 Dec 2023 20:16:48 -0600 Gang:  There is a StarLink train tonight starting at 5:25 pm.  There will be about two dozen satellites at magnitude 2.7.  They will start in the west at 10 degrees altitude, pass overhead at 69 degrees altitude, and end in the east-southeast about 17 degrees.  The last satellite will disappear about 5:46 pm.  Clear skies!

]]> dbb1b8c38e0f837b3940db0c313d6a35 John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/7/#post-13797 Sun, 07 Aug 2022 17:45:41 -0500 Very nice pic of the comet but it looks like that poor thing didn’t have a chance because you don’t see it exit on the other side of the sun.  If you watch closely you can see it accellerate as it approaches the sun.

]]> 7063fb99345bf08f572cd2cb05d45c3c John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/7/#post-13786 Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:47:17 -0500 Big CMEs too!

]]> ced28c5c46f3434568e756c2a3c12173 John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/7/#post-13701 Tue, 10 May 2022 15:50:34 -0500 Wow!  That’s a big one.

]]> 55264b204dcc01ce47611d0b325316a4 John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/6/#post-13677 Sat, 19 Mar 2022 16:24:03 -0500 On March 8th Kathy and I and some friends were very close to a Falcon 9 rocket launch that carried a group 4-10 Starlink satellites into orbit. We were so close in fact, that the deafening rumble set off car alarms around us. The first stage is then reused. Sometimes it lands on a barge way out in the ocean. Then it is towed back to Port Canaveral…[Read more]

]]> 9216d2edd51bb0f93179c88720a6655b John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/6/#post-13665 Fri, 04 Feb 2022 00:51:08 -0600 Yes, the SpaceX website that Bob references is fantastic.  It has real time coverage and really interesting commentary on the history, engineering, and current launch details – before, during, and after the launch.  Despite the plethora of information and nice photos, the NASA websites are not very well curated and are very tardy in posting c…[Read more]

]]> 599c2362092ca32117f8312566f0b185 John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/6/#post-13657 Tue, 01 Feb 2022 20:07:07 -0600 Fifth time is a charm. Kathy, my friend Mike, and I have been driving 3 hours back and forth from Cape Kennedy to see a Space X Falcon 9 rocket launch, but the flight encountered a host of problems. The first day the launch was scrubbed because of torrential rain. The next day the launch was scrubbed due to upper atmosphere turbulence. The 3rd day…[Read more]

]]> 030919ee38284244ed64abf71a7f6cfe John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/6/#post-13652 Tue, 25 Jan 2022 21:33:45 -0600 Kathy used a Sony a-350 DSLR 70-300 zoom telephoto.  I estimate the distance from our location to the launch pad was about 13 miles.  Get this, she shot those photos with no tripod; just hand-held.

Stay tuned because we are going to Cape Kennedy this Thursday to watch another Space-X launch carrying an Italian satellite.  This time we hope to be…[Read more]

]]> 157a857f62dd4d4511442d933d3ca5fb John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/6/#post-13646 Mon, 24 Jan 2022 04:28:07 -0600 I’m officially a rocket nerd.  On Tuesday evening, from the tennis court outside our condo in Kissimmee, my wife, Kathy, and I watched a Space-X depart from Cape Kennedy carrying dozens of StarLink satellites.  On Friday, we drove 60 miles to a Walmart parking lot in Titusville to watch the launch of a Space Force Atlas V carrying two sur…[Read more]

]]> 0a8c32c7b17fe5f5f59f87b0772d9b6e John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/5/#post-13643 Sat, 22 Jan 2022 02:56:49 -0600 Drove to Kissimmee Florida. Our condo is 73 miles from Cape Kennedy, but I was still able to capture this image with my cell phone camera of the night launch of SpaceX carrying the StarLink G4-6 satellite group from our tennis court! The moon is the white object at the top center. The SpaceX rocket is the orange flash on the left just above the…[Read more]

]]> 2a6204e43c4798d4c9c036ae943aa3d6 John Attewell replied to the topic Armchair Observations in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/armchair-observations/page/5/#post-13441 Wed, 11 Aug 2021 18:38:37 -0500 I went to Root River Park after the astronomy club meeting to view the recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi.  Check it out!  It will probably still be visible the next few nights.  I found it quite easily but it took me some time to verify that I was looking at the correct object from the bunch of printouts and star maps that I took with me.  After much mix…[Read more]

]]> 861da76403cca20eeb959a82babc0312 John Attewell replied to the topic Observing tonight? in the forum General Discussion https://rochesterskies.org/forum/topic/observing-tonight/page/161/#post-13430 Sat, 17 Jul 2021 01:31:33 -0500 Thanks for the heads-up!

]]> 21bf447c0ccdc3dfaa15d5526eda269a John Attewell changed their profile picture https://rochesterskies.org/activity/p/67/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:11:35 -0500 0 ef3f89c4d03e117994d2221a7e909b86 John Attewell's profile was updated https://rochesterskies.org/activity/p/66/ Wed, 14 Apr 2021 02:05:50 -0500 0