Brutkey

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

Remember kids, always check for planets before taking a 5 minute exposure with a 4 meter telescope to look for Kuiper Belt Objects!

Background: My collaborator running the processing for our survey is now wading through that hilarious/super annoying mistake I made, but was able to be utilized by other members of my team to add to another ongoing survey and help find even more moons of Saturn https://news.ubc.ca/2025/03/saturn-128-new-moons/

Prof. Sam Lawler
@sundogplanets@mastodon.social

And here's the real downer... AST SpaceMobile plans to launch a few hundred satellites that are as bright as Saturn when sunlit. So. A lot more research images will look like this in the near future.

Thanks, direct-to-cell gigantic satellites.