I've seen a few shooting stars in my time but never something like this one. What really caught my attention was the lack of a streak left behind (as seen with naked eye) and the apparent change of direction, although that could've just be an optical illusion considering the slight turn on the road. Anyhow! it sure was pretty!

My exploration scanning depends on orbital mechanics I already made and observation with probe/telescope.

I am making some prototypes but I have no idea how to balance it between being fun and being scientific enough to approach player to real astronomy.

I am also not sure what each instrument would show and how would data be interpreted in picture and numbers etc...

If anyone want to have talk and help, give some advices and brainstorm idea I would be deeply grateful and my DM or Discord are open.

I build software for a living. Astronomy is my hobby, and I'm pretty new to it.

I wrote a transit search and ran it on public TESS light curves of nearby K and M dwarfs.
Two signals came out of it: transits a few hundred parts per million deep, about 1.4 Earth radii each if they're on the target star. I tried to kill them in every way I could, yet they survived. Neither is validated.

And today I submitted one of them to JAAVSO to be peer-reviewed.

Is that the right road for an independent amateur, or is there a better way to get candidates like these in front of the people who do follow-up?

Thanks in advance!

I did a time lapse video recording the night sky can someone please help me identify what can be seen moving in this video? There is also a yellow object

I keep seeing this cluster of stars whenever I go to look at Orion’s Belt I was just wondering what it’s called :D

Was playing around with my phone’s night mode and used that one star app, which said that Andromeda was directly overhead. I did have a lot of artifacts and smudging, so I’m not entirely sure if that really is it. I live in a big town in NJ, so light pollution’s decently heavy here.

Saw this morning at 7:50am PST outside of Vancouver, facing eastward. It wasn’t really moving in the sky, just in one place. I googled it and it said there’s no comets today, I don’t know what else it could be? Sorry just a quick pic while I was driving to work and stopped at a light, I hope it’s clear enough.

this timelapse was shot in the middle of Nevada on October 8th of this year

I was out last night around 8:30 - 9:00 PM and decided to take a photo facing roughly northeast because I knew that the Andromeda galaxy would be in that general area. I do think I found it in the photo, but I'm curious if I got any other note-worthy things that can be seen in there, or maybe even tiny galaxies that I missed.

I admit this question is derived from a science fiction scenario, but I’m wondering what that actual astronomical terminogy would be here.

Assume you’re standing on a moon orbiting a gas giant. The moon is both tidally locked and in geostationary orbit, so if you look straight up, you’re always staring into a same storm raging on the planet below.

Each day on this moon is divided into four phases, and here’s where my question lie. As a layman, I refer to these phases as:

1. Morning: You get some oblique direct sunlight as the sun rises from your horizon before passing behind the gas giant.

2. False Day: The moon falls into total eclipse. Pretty dark, I assume.

3. Sunset: More oblique direct sunlight as the sun emerges from the gas giant before setting below your lunar horizon.

4. False Night: The sun is now below your horizon (but I assume you’re getting some twilight reflected off the gas giant filling your sky.

So, do these day-night-phases have actual technical terms?

Has anyone ever invented a "good" way to sort astronomical data? I am building a database and currently my best idea is to sort by increasing Right Ascension like a freak. I am trying to keep it pretty purpose/research-agnostic so it can be used easily by undergraduate students who may want to use the data later. I have a lot of targets in deep fields but some don't fit neatly into a conveniently-named area of the sky. My main itch about this is that whatever scheme I pick, I may unintentionally separate duplicates and close companions, or interleave two deep fields with similar RA values. Perhaps the solution in the end will be to add an easily-accessible interactive visualizer tool? Who knows. Let me know if you've seen a clever method in the past that you've found useful! Or let me know if I should just bite the bullet and do something that works.