Yesterday was a good day.

Even the dolphins thought so.

Stayed up way past my bedtime to capture the lunar eclipse. Clouds cleared up just enough to capture some great shots!

Whaaaaaaattt? Need to try

Amazing! Congratulations!

My hot take: municipalities will not pay for fixing burst pipes/water damage. So it makes sense to drip.

But also if no one drips, many, many burst pipes can cause low water pressure AND house damage.

So since either way is a boil notice, I'll stick with no burst pipes and drip.

Big shoutout to @smellyhoustonian.bsky.social for giving me a call and walking me through this. It depends on your water system. For Houston, the best solution is to shut off the water to your house if you can. Otherwise, you do you because you’ll be the one on the hook if pipes 💥.

My hot take: municipalities will not pay for fixing burst pipes/water damage. So it makes sense to drip.

But also if no one drips, many, many burst pipes can cause low water pressure AND house damage.

So since either way is a boil notice, I'll stick with no burst pipes and drip.

And can confirm, 3 inches of snow

Here's a time lapse of the overnight snow! #housnow

No pictures, but it has started sleeting in North East Houston in Summerwood. #housnow

@mattlanza.bsky.social

Some reports of drizzle, sleet, and light rain now north of Houston. Temps still well above freezing but they will drop over the next few hours. Plan to be where you need to be by 7-8 PM.

Update: The clouds cleared, but due to total unpreparedness, I could not get my telescoped aligned in time. But I did manually guide get this single shot (basic edits in light room) after Mars reappeared.

✅Curse again 🤬

Lunar occultation of Mars! How did I not plan for this?

✅Turn on telescope
✅Curse 🤬
✅Start charging telescope
✅Pull out camera
✅Check times. Yes! I can still get kids in bed and come out in time
✅Start moving gear outside
☑️look for the moon

The moon:

The thing that confuses me on conspiracy theories....to what end? Who gains from said theory? And why?

I mean I'm not saying it's the biggest problem in the world, but it is a problem 😆😆

Seems like it should be common courtesy to either mute or put headphones on when doom scrolling on your phone in public places.

Ahh...back from a week long vacation at Disneyland World. Kids had a great time!

No roadtrip is complete without a mission patch. Had to make sure to include everyone's name.

Space Station Astronauts Deliver a Thanksgiving Message for 2024 YouTube video by NASA

Happy Thanksgiving from the crew of the ISS: youtu.be/DO2tTUmoXmk?...

MS Excel: it's January 2nd.

Moon to Mars Architecture - NASA NASA's Moon to Mars Architecture defines the elements needed for long-term, human-led scientific discovery in deep space.

A reintoduction with influx to this space and career changes this year, I am the NASA Deputy Assoc. Administrator for Strategy & Architecture in Exploration. It's a lot of words to say I lead the team planning for long term human space exploration www.nasa.gov/architecture 1/n

I found another EV charging station at Johnson Space Center. This one isn't limited to government vehicles and comes with solar!

#driveonsunshine

New Glenn is vertical.

NASA plans to expand the lunar cargo contracts of SpaceX and Blue Origin, to add "at least" two Artemis delivery missions next decade.

Starship would deliver a JAXA pressurized rover, while Blue would delivery a lunar surface habitat.
www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Space Station Raises Orbit Avoiding Orbital Debris The Progress 89 thrusters were fired at 2:09 p.m. CST today for 5 minutes, 31 seconds, to raise the orbit of the International Space Station to provide an extra margin of distance from a piece of orbi...

Before Starship 6 launch, ISS performed a reboost to avoid a conjunction today.

blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation...

Have to give a shoutout to the network analyzer for Bluesky. Makes it much easier to find people I've overlooked in my periodic binges of following. bsky-follow-finder.theo.io HT @kellyhereid.bsky.social for sharing this one.

The Death Star Architect Speaks Out YouTube video by Dorkly

youtu.be/agcRwGDKulw?...

Let's do it!

Putting Rogue One aside, in the Death Star design team's defense, there were no requirements for Space Wizards.

🙋🏾‍♂️

And it's my job to look for them.