Sunday, December 25, 2022

Astro Advent 2022

Advent can be a wonderful way to count down to Christmas. Unistellar Ambassador John Pickering had the idea to post a new astronomical image, taken this year, each day as we count down to Christmas. While I've been playing along and posting images on both Twitter and on Mastodon, I thought I would put them all here as well. 

So here they are:








No caption on the image for this one. The faint line underneath the star at center is NASA's Artemis I spacecraft, photographed December 8, 2022.





My Astro Advent for December 15th was an asteroid occultation that I observed this month as asteroid 1264 Letaba passed in front of a star.










The star Vega