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Objects

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Objects

Video	Date	Duration (M:SS)	Camera
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon)	30 October 2025	00:01	D850 DSLR
Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) setting	15 January 2025	00:12	D850 DSLR
Occultation of Spica, reappearance	13 July 2024	0:31	D850 DSLR
Occultation of Spica, disappearance	13 July 2024	0:05	D850 DSLR
Occultation of Mars, reappearance	30 January 2023	0:61	iPhone 13 Pro Max
Occultation of Mars, disappearance	30 January 2023	0:59	iPhone 13 Pro Max
Occultation of Mars, reappearance	7 December 2022	0:31	D850 DSLR
Occultation of Mars, disappearance	7 December 2022	0:49	D850 DSLR
Daytime Moon Flyover 443X	9 February 2022	0:58	iPhone 13 Pro Max
Daytime Moon Flyover 163X	8 February 2022	0:40	iPhone 13 Pro Max
Daytime Moon Flyover 325X	8 February 2022	0:51	iPhone 13 Pro Max
SpaceX Starlink Satellite Train	3 December 2021	1:02	iPhone 13 Pro Max
Night Sky and Observatory	2 April 2021	0:10 (1 hour)	D850 DSLR
Zodiacal Light	6 March 2021	0:01 (1 hour)	D850 DSLR
Sunrise at Lunar Montes Alpes	19 February 2021	0:03 Loop (2 hours)	D850 DSLR
ISS-Moon crossing	12 November 2019	0:01	D850 DSLR
Aldebaran Occultation - Reappearance	18 October 2016	0:05	D7200 DSLR
Aldebaran Occultation - Disappearance	18 October 2016	0:19	D7200 DSLR
Moonset over Picacho Peak	15 October 2016	0:08	D7200 DSLR
Transit of Mercury	9 May 2016	0:39	D7200 DSLR
Jet Airplane Moon Transit	17 November 2015	0:19	iPhone 6s Plus
HST-Moon Transit	14 April 2015	0:01	D7200 DSLR
Livestreaming Moon on Twitter (replay)	28 March 2015	0:53	iPhone 5s afocal 77X
Craters Theophilus, Cyrillus, & Catharina	25 March 2015	0:09	iPhone 5s afocal 231X
Partial Solar Eclipse	23 October 2014	0:08 Loop	D7000 DSLR
Asteroids Ceres and Vesta	2 July 2014	0:01 Loop (30 minutes)	D7000 DSLR
Asteroids Ceres and Vesta	29 June 2014	0:02 Loop (1 hour)	D7000 DSLR
International Space Station	22 June 2014	0:15	D7000 DSLR
Oracle State Park sky	26 May 2014	0:11	D7000 DSLR
ISS-Moon Transit (full report)	17 December 2013	0:01	D7000 DSLR
Crater Plato & Mons Pico Sunrise time-lapse	12 October 2013	0:06 Loop	D7000 DSLR
Sunrise at Crater Walther time-lapse	11 October 2013	0:04 Loop	D7000 DSLR
Tiangong-1 Sun Transit (slo-mo video)	25 September 2013	0:08	iPhone 5s
Tiangong-1 Sun Transit (full report)	25 September 2013	0:00.5	iPhone 5s
HST-Moon Transit	25 June 2013	0:01	D7000 DSLR
Lunar Craters Clavius and Tycho	18 June 2013	0:10	D7000 DSLR
Moon "Flyover"	17 June 2013	0:56	D7000 DSLR
Moon, showing effects of poor seeing	16 June 2013	0:10	iPhone 4
Milky Way Rising	3 June 2013	0:10 (2 hours)	D7000 DSLR Fisheye
Northern Sky and Airglow	2 June 2013	0:05 (60 minutes)	D7000 DSLR Fisheye
Northern Sky	31 May 2013	0:04 (30 minutes)	D7000 DSLR
ISS-Moon Transit	31 May 2013	0:01	D7000 DSLR
HST-Moon Transit	28 April 2013	0:01	D7000 DSLR
ISS-Moon Transit (full report)	20 December 2012	0:01	D7000 DSLR
Asteroid 4 Vesta	17 December 2012	0:01 Loop (1 hour)	D7000 DSLR
Asteroid 1 Ceres	17 December 2012	0:01 Loop (1 hour)	D7000 DSLR
Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Close Approach	11 December 2012	0:02 Loop (10 minutes)	D7000 DSLR
Lunar Terminator Sunrise Video	27 October 2012	0:29 (20 minutes)	D7000 DSLR
Occultation of Venus (full report)	13 August 2012	1:15	D7000 DSLR
Transit of Venus (full report)	5 June 2012	0:21	D7000 DSLR
Partial Lunar Eclipse (full report)	4 June 2012	0:12	D7000 DSLR
ISS-Moon Transit (full report)	8 November 2011	0:02	D7000 DSLR
Saturn	15 June 2011	0:06	iPhone 4
ISS	14 June 2011	0:14	D7000 DSLR
Moon North Pole	12 May 2011	0:13 Loop	D7000 DSLR
Moon Crater Copernicus	11 May 2011	0:11 Loop	D7000 DSLR
ISS	8 May 2011	5:12	D7000 DSLR
Saturn	4 April 2011	0:11	iPhone 4
Saturn	17 March 2011	0:10	iPhone 4
Moon	17 January 2011	0:56	iPhone 4
Moon	14 January 2011	0:14	D7000 DSLR
Moon Tour	14 January 2011	3:10	D7000 DSLR
Moon Crater Piccolomini time-lapse	October 2010	0:08 Loop	D70 DSLR
Moon Delisle 5 time-lapse	18 October 2010	0:06 Loop	D70 DSLR
Jupiter	10 August 2010	0:02	iPhone 3GS

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POD Dome Cover OFF	1 September 2021	0:49	iPhone 11 Pro Max
Explore Alliance Presents: Mike Weasner	25 May 2021	69:00
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Smartphone Astrophotography talk video	19 April 2020	1:11:41
International Dark Sky Places talk	14 April 2020	41:23
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Arizona Dark Sky Star Party participation	22 March 2019	2:36
A Universe of Images (2018 Emmy Nominated PBS TV show)	30 April 2017	5:20
Closing Observatory time-lapse	11 March 2017	0:11	iPhone 6s Plus
Using the PZT	17 April 2016	3:52	iPhone 6s Plus
Opening Cassiopeia Observatory	16 March 2016	0:34	iPhone 6s Plus
Stars at Oracle State Park	13 June 2015	0:20	D7200 DSLR
Tucson News Now story: OSP IDSP	13 November 2014	1:57
County Board of Supervisors: Dark Sky	2 July 2014	4:50
Milky Way rising over Oracle State Park	24 June 2014	0:11	D7000 DSLR
Opening Cassiopeia Observatory	4 March 2011	4:48	iPhone 4
The Making of Cassiopeia Observatory	July-August 2009	2:56	D70 DSLR
Oracle Webcam time-lapse movies	2009-2021	Various	~1 minute each
Oracle Panoramas	2005-2015		D70 DSLR, iPhone 4
Setting up at Oracle Observatory	9 December 2005	0:11 Loop	D70 DSLR
Drive to Oracle Observatory	4 March 2006	0:24 Loop	Epson Exilim
Packing for drive to Oracle Observatory	7 August 2005	0:31 Loop	D70 DSLR