Plotspace
A blog for plots (among other things) about space
Fresh Milky Way
Land of the rising galaxy After last year’s successful (by my amateur standards) Milky Way sighting, I knew I had to go back in 2021 to capture more Milky Way shots and improve my technique. We returned to the Sunrise Visitor’s center at Mt. Rainier national park on a brisk September…
Solar Descent
Sunset? This may seem like its a post and picture not related to space, but the sun is, in fact, in space. And when it sets, its really just the Earth rotating away from it as the Earth orbits around the sun. So clearly, this post is also about space, and…
Galaxy Photo Quest
Approach I’ve wanted to go stargazing for a while. Seeing a pure night sky, untouched by city lights or pollution, along with the Milky Way, has been on my to-do…
Seeking NEOWISE
Approach Of the many things to happen in 2020, the passing of Comet NEOWISE may have seemed small, or distant (to be fair, the comet was distant – about 100…
Mapping it out
Charting a course After moving cross country and starting a new job, I’ve finally settled down enough to make some more progress on my python simulations (thanks to having a…
Getting snake-y
One of the disadvantages of being out of college is your free MATLAB subscription goes away. As a result, I’m making the switch to Python. Besides consistently being off-by-one due…
Learning to land
As part of my Master’s degree, I took a Robotics independent study class in my last semester. After 4 years of undergrad and one semester of grad school, I finally…
Titan Entry, Descent, & Landing
Background My senior design course involved creating a baseline design for a mission to Titan, Saturn’s most well-known moon. We picked Titan because it has amazing potential for breakthrough discoveries from…
Roshan Radhakrishnan 