Amateur Astronomer & high school STEM teacher. NASA/JPL Solar System Ambassador π 2012-2013 TOTY, 2023 ISS Natβl Lab/SSA Excellence in Education recipient.
Joined October 2015
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With #Starlink trails and approaching clouds I only got 48 minutes of usable data on M101 in WV. @JoanneFOX5 can you do something about the βοΈ in Milton when I get home so I can get more pictures? #astrophotography π
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In WV for a presentation. Setup my rig at mom and dadβs, and was visited by Jupiter and Venus!
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Self-promotion day!
Check out my website to keep up with what Iβm doing and find some cool swag!
Stellarvisions.space
#astronomy #astrophotography
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
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MORGANTOWN MADNESSβΌοΈ
After a balk tied it, a HR gives West Virginia the lead over UK in a 5-run 9th!
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
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Magnificent!
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It was an amazing event!
Thank you @FOX5Atlanta and Chris Rosenthal for featuring @MrJonesSpace astronomy class. Students met Fred Haise for a Q&A session on the #Apollo13 mission-what an honor to meet a legend! @IAFultonSchools @ia_kent @FultonCoSchools
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
Apr 7
This is why we do the math.
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Arriving at the exact location , at the precise momentβ¦. One tiny error and it doesnβt happen.
Simply amazing.
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Apr 7
This is one of the greatest astronaut crews of all time. Hard to compare to historical greats like Gemini 8, Apollo 13, Soyuz T-13, or STS-31. But certainly Wiseman, Glover, Koch, and Hansen are setting a freaking high bar for the Artemis era.
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"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Our @NASAArtemis II astronauts woke up on the sixth day of their mission to a special message recorded in 2025 by astronaut Jim Lovell, the pilot of Apollo 8.
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
Apr 6
The photographs being captured RIGHT NOW by the Artemis II astronauts will go down in history. I cannot wait to see what they capture! Absolute chills!!
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History in the making
In this new image from our @NASAArtemis II crew, you can see Orientale basin on the right edge of the lunar disk. This mission marks the first time the entire basin has been seen with human eyes.
ALT A view of the Moon taken by a crew member of NASA's Artemis II mission. A portion of the Orientale basin is visible at the right edge. Credit: NASA
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As communities gather this weekend, @AstroVicGlover reflects on the shared spaceship we all call home: Earth.
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Yup. Stop treading out old, tired arguments.
A lot of conspiracy accounts love pretending the Van Allen belts are some unbeatable force field. They never mention the part that matters: the belts arenβt uniform. They have weak regions, gaps, and lowβdensity zones. NASA literally plots the flight path to skim the thinnest section so the spacecraft spends only minutes in the mildest radiation. Thatβs it. No magic. No coverβup. Just physics and trajectory design. The dose astronauts get is lower than a CT scan. The only thing βdeadlyβ here is how confidently bad info spreads online.
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Blessed with the opportunity to watch the @NASAArtemis launch with the fine folks of @LMSpace! Best quote of the day happened right after booster sep: βWe get to keep our jobs!β π€£π€£π€£
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
Apr 4
A magnificent week in spaceflight ends with a dud.
arstechnica.com/space/2026/0β¦
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Pictured: Orion β 30,000 miles above Earth on the Artemis II mission β separating from the rocket's upper stage.
Anduril now has over 400 telescopes around the globe. Advanced space sensing software provides real-time focal plane processing to identify & track objects. Think Sentry Tower software, but for space.
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The Space Teacher π¨βπβ¨π retweeted
This photo of Earth is EXTRA spectacular for a good reason... let me explain. Most images you see of Earth from space are the daylight side of the Earth, and it's obviously very bright (see my last image), this means stars are too dim to be seen with that bright exposure setting (low ISO, high shutter and / or stopped down aperture).
BUT this image taken by the Orion crew looks so incredible because you can see the sun is BEHIND the earth, meaning it's night time on the side of the earth facing the crew in this image.
So how do you expose a night time earth from space? Same way you do on Earth! A mixture of opening up the aperture (F4 in this case), cranking the ISO (51,200 here), and using a relatively long exposure (1/4 of a second). We can see the settings used by looking at the exif data from the camera. What this means is our camera is also sensitive enough to see stars in the background of Earth, leading to an extraordinary image!!! GREAT WORK!!! These are the kind of images I've been so excited to see!
We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.
ALT A full disk image of Earth, as seen from the Orion capsule. The planet is a pale blue, swirling with white clouds and glowing slightly lighter blue in place from reflected light. From about 8 to 9 o'clock, a large brown landmass is Africa, with the Iberian peninsula twinkling with lights just where the planet curves. At the 1 o'clock spot, aurora glow in a thin green glow, just barely separated from the planet's surface. Earth is set against the black of space. Credit: NASA/Reid Weisman
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This is a great way to stay updated!
Which way to the Moon?
This interactive tool lets you follow Artemisβs journey β and even scroll forward and backward in time!
Follow along with Eyes on the Solar System:
eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-sysβ¦
ALT An artistβs concept shows the Artemisβ astronauts path of travel from Earth to the Moon.
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