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Glitchy sunset
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A particularly spectacular #JellyfishEffect - #Falcon9 launch from #CapeCanaveral: a realtime video of its formation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9n19M0opzSE, a timelapse at https://www.facebook.com/reel/1687387959309966, a webcast at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU_V0DIkXJw with stills at https://bsky.app/profile/nasaspaceflight.com/post/3mga7rwfzjs2u and more pictures in
https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2029173176123449567
https://www.facebook.com/MattDevittWeather/posts/pfbid032FFwnAhw4QUPDso2uotpMv5xnZYbGoDmZcx7UGzQ82Uin9T8vAnmMsR6NZaxZPYsl
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623482615358856/
https://www.facebook.com/LaunchPhoto/posts/pfbid02avAUHt1edWKdPAFASkUGq7HWtyD6L7AxnETXuxxfnUm17WsTnMm4ctoYQFGp2hWNl
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623523352021449/
https://www.facebook.com/rkashka/posts/pfbid02XfzeHSxsD84hT8e7dKQ3a2sroV3dgpeefELmCHVBUMMnFzet8YwGAqefFqmRp8dGl
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623573082016476/
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid0yJ1yaNYNy92SamPfMnsGmY96F4oYR8zDrzWUf9vR2FPisxhAcZ9tGrbWsJJ9ccCtl&id=100082997509705
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623475792026205/
https://www.facebook.com/internationalspacestation83/posts/pfbid0iUCxC19qkZfnSt1VkZoh6agXygZqBS4HAtQ64KDP547WiEM7tB1fELCcXJSVVdbYl
https://www.facebook.com/groups/spacexgroup/posts/10165280564121318/
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid021uiBj7WSK4R7ghscKjV8pKU5dGroAnjthmpvD7d2FXxSUgrNvzLwWFRc2M4cGTUfl&id=61584464880089
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623417872031997/
https://www.facebook.com/Launchheaven/posts/pfbid0NrnQHDb6nMT4ELxUeCxMcYyfyUfbraiyvEkcJSkmd5oC9aXbGvncvWiKLfSH4218l
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623436118696839/
https://bsky.app/profile/wordsmithfl.bsky.social/post/3mga7d6bczc2b
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623436242030160/
https://bsky.app/profile/herrea.bsky.social/post/3mga53echrs2a
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623440722029712/
https://x.com/johnkrausphotos/status/2029180436929200188
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623402792033505/
https://x.com/nyoomtm/status/2029149765947035696
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623442242029560/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/SpaceLaunchSchedule/posts/1623411748699276/
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10226811626871617
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10164745548921477
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10163648738894793
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=911907484916077

Here’s a 40 second timelapse from 10p until 8a showing the snow accumulating on rooftops in Arlington. One frame every 30 seconds.

RE: #ArtemisII Mission Update briefing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5PLvqX2q8w - in Q&A we learned that contact has been made to only two of the four CubeSats deployed so far, the German one https://mastodon.social/@DLR@social.bund.de/116329959429900989 not among them. Anyway, here is a cool timelapse of the deployment as seen in the sky: https://bsky.app/profile/s2a-systems.bsky.social/post/3mimb3zb5gs2i

Here are recordings of seven webcasts of last night's total #LunarEclipse that actually worked (with the time stamp of totality beginning):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQLcLAfilkQ from 2:31
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TywJ47LZ-Ic from 1:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IdASZ4AGXeY from 8:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQuzWYn2WJw from 2:35
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeOlqcK5Edg from 2:27
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2-_LYVuIEE from 0:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGxr_kinPmk from 5:53
Many suffered from clouds - as did even Mauna Kea where a sensitive wide angle camera was eventually able to capture the sky around the dark Moon, however:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJV9EHB05qc (5th hour)
Here are various early timelapse attempts:
https://bsky.app/profile/astrodave.bsky.social/post/3mg5xbiwuvc22
https://www.facebook.com/reel/1999310513984541
https://scicomm.xyz/@david@theblower.au/116165095846134092
https://www.facebook.com/reel/905832598970486
https://bsky.app/profile/nasaspaceflight.com/post/3mg5venqfds2h
This one from an all-sky camera in Alaska features a lot of aurora, better to see during totality:
https://x.com/landon_wx/status/2028820535757472112
And finally one with the Moon setting before totality:
https://bsky.app/profile/naztronomy.com/post/3mg5tzlesxk2p

The just published timelapse #aurora as it was seen from Germany: note the green splotches appearing briefly all over the place, the nature of which - most likely RAGDA - is discussed in https://skyweek.wordpress.com/2026/01/25/allgemeines-live-blog-ab-dem-25-januar-2025/#Jan25 ("Das war das Polarlicht vom 19. Januar ...") with links to several relevant papers.

30 years ago these days comet #Hyakutake amazed in the northern skies - even close to Polaris one day - with a close approach to Earth and a super-long bright plasma tail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6uCHBqfZlk is a 15-min. excerpt from a documentary (I actually have the VHS cassette ...) about creating fantastic timelapse sequences of the latter from images shot on film. See also https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1629899344915003 and https://www.facebook.com/richard.berry.777/posts/pfbid0xQ9uVTK9fKeeuFeCedm1U82dYPPWbnJiuz8bVEt5UiE2QFEgn7GWfjNueZpjxCmXl and https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=26701568342780915 and https://www.facebook.com/don.davis1/posts/pfbid02YeuQ39p4igwG5GCk34iCSxwEevdpUKkCMBeF5QA7TBdfya3YuQ8sSsGnNUuxNFgGl for other still images.