Josh Dinner Photography

10/18/2024

Hunter’s Supermoon,
The largest full moon this year,
And also some birds.

10/17/2024

Don’t miss the comet!
Tsuchinsan-ATLAS won’t be
Visible for long!

06/01/2024

Rocket launches are
Best with a burrito from
El Leoncito.

11/18/2023

SpaceX’s Starship
Launched on its second test flight.
It was impressive.

10/13/2023

Go Falcon Heavy!
Psyche is on its way to
The metal-rich world!



NASA’s Psyche probe launched this morning, Oct. 13, at 10:19 am EDT, on a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket from Launch Complex-39A, at the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida. The spacecraft is headed to a metal asteroid, also named Psyche, which researchers believe could be the discarded core on an ancient dead planet. The probe won’t arrive until 2029, and has a 2.2 billion mile journey ahead of it.

Go Psyche!

09/30/2023

We will have to wait
A full year until the next
Supermoon rises.

https://www.space.com/harvest-moon-2023-last-supermoon-wows-skywatchers-photos

08/02/2023

Without a doubt the best remote camera shot I’ve gotten to date. Zoom in to see the Russian characters designating the RD-181 rocket engines, the last pair to launch an Antares rocket.

Supply lines for the rocket’s Ukrainian-built first stage and Russian RD-181 engines were cut off at the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukrainian. Moving forward, Northrop Grumman has announced a deal with Firefly Aerospace to manufacture a new first stage and engines for the still-to-be-named Antares rocket, which is expected to launch no earlier than Sumer 2025.

07/20/2023

If NASA doesn't come up with a tighter budget for the mission, Mars Sample Return may not happen.

06/07/2022

Fingers crossed for an
August launch, but certainly
Not making plans yet.

Rollout is expected to begin Monday (June 6) at 12:01 a.m. EDT (0401 GMT).

05/30/2022

Two night ago I watched the station complete a very unique pass over Bloomington. Its path cut directly through Polaris, the North Star, which is sitting above the Monroe County courthouse, anchored as the center around which all the star trails are circling.

This type of intersect is rare, and only happens when the perceived elevation angle of the space station’s orbit matches with the angular elevation of Polaris.

The station was visible for nearly five minutes during this pass, with the first three captured and stacked into this photo with some added time for the star trails. Info below, but first a haiku:

Space station passes
Through Polaris, above the
Bloomington Courthouse.

📷
May 28, 10:45-10:55pm EDT
Nikon D5300, 10mm
30s f/8 ISO100, stacked

Prints available at www.joshdinner.com

05/28/2022

The agency aims to roll the Artemis 1 stack back out to the launch pad on June 6.