I think we're just over an hour away from the beginning of the lunar flyby proper. I tried logging onto the Artemis Tracker site I have been taking clips of and putting as the second image in these collections but I got a Bad Gateway error, likely too many people trying to log on. I think that and maybe the other amateur one usually track the ISS and get nowhere near the traffic they're getting now so it could be due to too many logon requests for their server.
6:33:
6:37 Here's a live shot from a solar panel cam with Orion, The Moon and The Earth, all in a row. Awesome!
6:42 a minute and a half 'till loss of signal and we have Earthset (well as far as the simulation graphic is concerned):
6:44 Communications blackout. They're on the Dark Side of the Moon:
Fun fact: Pink Floyd released this album three months after the last Apollo mission so this old as fuck classic "hippy" rock song is younger than the last time humans visited the dark side of the moon. Totally rad, man. Let me get a hit. Pfffft. Oh yeah... like groovy!
7:59 Earth, Orion, Moon and the Sun
8:32 Getting ready for the solar eclipse from the Moon
8:35 Solar eclipse
9:23 So they're moving left and as they do, the corona of the sun behind the moon peeks out, eerily illuminating the curve of the lunar surface. Imagine watching this slowly appearing glow as the strains of Also Sprach Zarathustra plays ala 2001: A Space Odyssey.
9:33 End of eclipse
