FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
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Friends,
I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847 www.astro-physics.com
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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Joe Zeglinski
Marj,
Today, I was just thinking about that marvellous
accomplishment ... and he hasn’t even gotten to the Moon yet.
Then again, Elon missed the chance to put an AP-3200 and AP scope on board,
for his dummy astronaut to view Earth from near Jupiter ;-)
... next one ... Marj?
Question for Elon Musk: – Regarding the Roadster – how many “Parsecs to the
Coulomb in the battery”, does that roadster get ??? :-)
Will probably beat all mileage records by the time it
reaches the Asteroid belt.
Also, wouldn’t it be strange if some “SpaceX employee” stowed away on
the roadster, just to be the first to reach Mars?
That would probably be shushed up, because of the
competition and government/corporate funding opportunities to be “THE
first”.
Would make for an interesting “SciFi movie plot
thriller”, though.
Maybe THEY, out there, will return the old roadster some day ... with
their upgraded technology “Di-Lithium Crystal Battery” model :-)
Joe Z.
From: Marj
marj@... [ap-gto]
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:33 AM
To: 'ap-ug@...' ; ap-gto@...
Subject: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster
in Space Friends, I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847 www.astro-physics.com
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Forwarded message ---------- Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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Everyone here was cheering as the Falcon Heavy lifted off. The dual perfect landing of the boosters was beyond belief. It brought back the excitement of the early liftoffs.
Shots of Spaceman in the roadster with the Earth in the background are breathtaking and the interior dashboard message “don’t panic” was truly inspired.
What a thrill! What a showman!
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847 www.astro-physics.com
From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 11:24 AM To: ap-gto@... Subject: Re: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
Marj,
Today, I was just thinking about that marvellous accomplishment ... and he hasn’t even gotten to the Moon yet. Then again, Elon missed the chance to put an AP-3200 and AP scope on board, for his dummy astronaut to view Earth from near Jupiter ;-) ... next one ... Marj?
Question for Elon Musk: – Regarding the Roadster – how many “Parsecs to the Coulomb in the battery”, does that roadster get ??? :-)
Will probably beat all mileage records by the time it reaches the Asteroid belt. Also, wouldn’t it be strange if some “SpaceX employee” stowed away on the roadster, just to be the first to reach Mars?
That would probably be shushed up, because of the competition and government/corporate funding opportunities to be “THE first”.
Would make for an interesting “SciFi movie plot thriller”, though. Maybe THEY, out there, will return the old roadster some day ... with their upgraded technology “Di-Lithium Crystal Battery” model :-)
Joe Z.
From: Marj marj@... [ap-gto] Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:33 AM To: 'ap-ug@...' ; ap-gto@... Subject: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
Friends, I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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Bill Long
One of those events in life that made millions of people excited about space again. Something we have not had occur in a very, very long time.
From: ap-gto@... on behalf of Marj marj@... [ap-gto]
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:57 AM To: ap-gto@... Subject: RE: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space Everyone here was cheering as the Falcon Heavy lifted off. The dual perfect landing of the boosters was beyond belief. It brought back the excitement of the early liftoffs.
Shots of Spaceman in the roadster with the Earth in the background are breathtaking and the interior dashboard message “don’t panic” was truly inspired.
What a thrill! What a showman!
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847 www.astro-physics.com
From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
Marj,
Today, I was just thinking about that marvellous accomplishment ... and he hasn’t even gotten to the Moon yet. Then again, Elon missed the chance to put an AP-3200 and AP scope on board, for his dummy astronaut to view Earth from near Jupiter ;-) ... next one ... Marj?
Question for Elon Musk: – Regarding the Roadster – how many “Parsecs to the Coulomb in the battery”, does that roadster get ??? :-)
Will probably beat all mileage records by the time it reaches the Asteroid belt. Also, wouldn’t it be strange if some “SpaceX employee” stowed away on the roadster, just to be the first to reach Mars?
That would probably be shushed up, because of the competition and government/corporate funding opportunities to be “THE first”.
Would make for an interesting “SciFi movie plot thriller”, though. Maybe THEY, out there, will return the old roadster some day ... with their upgraded technology “Di-Lithium Crystal Battery” model :-)
Joe Z.
From: Marj marj@... [ap-gto] Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:33 AM To: 'ap-ug@...' ; ap-gto@... Subject: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
Friends, I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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Roland Christen
Yes, we were all cheering here at AP when the rocket blasted off. Even more cheers when the two rockets returned to earth and landed backwards just like we all expected rockets to do back in the 1950's when we watched sci-fi movies at the local movie theater.
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Rolando
-----Original Message----- From: Bill Long bill@... [ap-gto] To: ap-gto Sent: Fri, Feb 9, 2018 2:00 pm Subject: Re: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space One of those events in life that made millions of people excited about space again. Something we have not had occur in a very, very long time.
From: ap-gto@... gto@...> on behalf of Marj marj@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...>
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:57 AM To: ap-gto@... Subject: RE: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space Everyone here was cheering as the Falcon Heavy lifted off. The dual perfect landing of the boosters was beyond belief. It brought back the excitement of the early liftoffs.
Shots of Spaceman in the roadster with the Earth in the background are breathtaking and the interior dashboard message “don’t panic” was truly inspired.
What a thrill! What a showman!
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen
Astro-Physics, Inc
11250 Forest Hills Rd
Machesney Park, IL 61115
Phone: 815-282-1513
Fax: 815-282-9847
From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 11:24 AM To: ap-gto@... Subject: Re: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space Marj,
Today, I was just thinking about that marvellous accomplishment ... and he hasn’t even gotten to the Moon yet.
Then again, Elon missed the chance to put an AP-3200 and AP scope on board, for his dummy astronaut to view Earth from near Jupiter ;-)
... next one ... Marj?
Question for Elon Musk: – Regarding the Roadster – how many “Parsecs to the Coulomb in the battery”, does that roadster get ??? :-)
Will probably beat all mileage records by the time it reaches the Asteroid belt.
Also, wouldn’t it be strange if some “SpaceX employee” stowed away on the roadster, just to be the first to reach Mars?
That would probably be shushed up, because of the competition and government/corporate funding opportunities to be “THE first”.
Would make for an interesting “SciFi movie plot thriller”, though.
Maybe THEY, out there, will return the old roadster some day ... with their upgraded technology “Di-Lithium Crystal Battery” model :-)
Joe Z.
From: Marj
marj@... [ap-gto]
Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:33 AM
To: 'ap-ug@...' ;
ap-gto@...
Subject: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
Friends,
I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but
I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen
Astro-Physics, Inc
11250 Forest Hills Rd
Machesney Park, IL 61115
Phone: 815-282-1513
Fax: 815-282-9847
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From: "SpaceWeather.com" <swlist@...> Date: Feb 9, 2018 3:08 AM Subject: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space To: <sarmm54@...> Cc: Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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Agreed! I forgot to remind everyone that this is a great opportunity to use the Horizons program that is part of APCC (both versions) to locate the Tesla roadster.
As always, please read the instructions for using Horizons, particularly if you have not used it before. There is also a video at this link to help you get started. http://www.astro-physics.com/tech_support/apcc/apcc-videos.htm
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847 www.astro-physics.com
From: ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
Sent: Friday, February 09, 2018 1:59 PM To: ap-gto@... Subject: Re: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
One of those events in life that made millions of people excited about space again. Something we have not had occur in a very, very long time.
From:
ap-gto@... <ap-gto@...> on behalf of Marj
marj@... [ap-gto] <ap-gto@...>
Everyone here was cheering as the Falcon Heavy lifted off. The dual perfect landing of the boosters was beyond belief. It brought back the excitement of the early liftoffs.
Shots of Spaceman in the roadster with the Earth in the background are breathtaking and the interior dashboard message “don’t panic” was truly inspired.
What a thrill! What a showman!
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847
From:
ap-gto@... [mailto:ap-gto@...]
Marj,
Today, I was just thinking about that marvellous accomplishment ... and he hasn’t even gotten to the Moon yet. Then again, Elon missed the chance to put an AP-3200 and AP scope on board, for his dummy astronaut to view Earth from near Jupiter ;-) ... next one ... Marj?
Question for Elon Musk: – Regarding the Roadster – how many “Parsecs to the Coulomb in the battery”, does that roadster get ??? :-)
Will probably beat all mileage records by the time it reaches the Asteroid belt. Also, wouldn’t it be strange if some “SpaceX employee” stowed away on the roadster, just to be the first to reach Mars?
That would probably be shushed up, because of the competition and government/corporate funding opportunities to be “THE first”.
Would make for an interesting “SciFi movie plot thriller”, though. Maybe THEY, out there, will return the old roadster some day ... with their upgraded technology “Di-Lithium Crystal Battery” model :-)
Joe Z.
From: Marj marj@... [ap-gto] Sent: Friday, February 9, 2018 11:33 AM To: 'ap-ug@...' ; ap-gto@... Subject: [ap-gto] FW: Amateur Astronomers Photograph Tesla Roadster in Space
Friends, I would like to issue a challenge to anyone with clear skies tonight. Who can capture an image of the Tesla Roadster in space? See the info from Space Weather below. There was an image, but I had to delete it, so you will have to go to their site.
Good luck! Snow here today, so no chance for us.
Clear Skies,
Marj Christen Astro-Physics, Inc 11250 Forest Hills Rd Machesney Park, IL 61115 Phone: 815-282-1513 Fax: 815-282-9847
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Elon Musk's cherry red Roadster has been spotted 430,000 km from Earth heading toward the orbit of Mars.
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