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Mike Mazur
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Meteors, satellites, and other fun stuff :-)
I think that I may have gotten a bit carried away during a period of paper-writing avoidance. I made this toy embalming kit for my partner (who's an embalmer) and I've learned more than I ever thought that I would about aneurysm needles, grooved directors, and Frigid Rigid. So much fun! :-)
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 AM
I'm in Yellowknife this week, and sky was lovely last night. Wow. Just, wow.
September 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Just a few more images from Elginfield Observatory. Taken with my full-spectrum Canon 7D and a 720nm filter.
July 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
As a follow-up to my last post about Space.com getting the details wrong, here's the actual press release describing our work properly...

news.westernu.ca/2025/06/came...
Canadian project monitors satellites over the High Arctic for first time
Satellite-tracking cameras designed, built and operated by a Canadian team has produced the first full year of satellite tracking data over Canada.
news.westernu.ca
June 23, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Although they got the details wrong, this is us :-)

www.space.com/astronomy/ea...

The image that is shown is for a single camera stack over a 24h period. Thousands of satellites (mostly LEO) are observed passing through the field-of-view, highlighting just how busy our night sky is becoming.
Satellite streaks block out the Arctic sky | Space photo of the day for June 20, 2025
Researchers created a satellite tracking system to track satellite streaks across the Arctic for the first time ever.
www.space.com
June 20, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I decided to take a break from work today, step outside, and take a few infrared (720 nm and beyond...) pictures around the observatory. I always find observatory domes to be photogenic subjects that look good even in daylight.
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
While taking pictures of the lunar eclipse the other night, I thought, 'Wow, nice clouds!' while looking at the camera screen. A few shots later, I realized that they weren't clouds at all. Just an artifact of not using a filter on a full-spectrum camera. A rookie mistake, but still kind of pretty.
March 18, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Reposted by Mike Mazur
In a recent open-access article published in PASP the meteor-tracking spectrograph for the Canadian Automated Meteor Network (CAMO-S) is described. iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1....
December 31, 2024 at 4:43 PM