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# ![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::310804819.png) @astro_Pettit Don Pettit

Don Pettit posts on X about sunlight, saudi arabia, mount everest, nepal the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/interactions)
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- X Month XXXXXXXXX +258%
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- X Year XXXXXXXXXXX +1,721%

### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/posts_active)
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- X Year XXX +151%

### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/followers)
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### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/influencer_rank)
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### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/influence)
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**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 

**Social topic influence**
[sunlight](/topic/sunlight), [saudi arabia](/topic/saudi-arabia), [mount everest](/topic/mount-everest), [nepal](/topic/nepal), [beijing](/topic/beijing), [china](/topic/china), [forbidden city](/topic/forbidden-city), [southeast asia](/topic/southeast-asia), [$7731t](/topic/$7731t), [shell](/topic/shell)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::310804819/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

"Whenever you see the ISS from Earth WE aboard the ISS cannot see you When ISS is exposed in sunlight our window reflectivity blinds us We can only see you when you cannot see us Same effect as how you cannot see through your kitchen window at night when the lights are on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1972798145143898592) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-09-29T22:58Z 108.7K followers, 121.8K engagements


"Salton Sea California photographed in near-infrared from the ISS. Site of the Coachella music festival and reminiscent of a semiconductor chip in this wavelength"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1948744123818680530) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-07-25T13:56Z 108.8K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Star trail exposure from the ISS marked by the thick white path of the Moon Starlink satellites flashing far right golden city lights streaking across Earth and arcing stars"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1952878778041946551) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-08-05T23:45Z 108.8K followers, 505.1K engagements


"Dragon orbiting across Europe into Asia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1956752084629426528) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-08-16T16:17Z 108.8K followers, 64M engagements


"Starlink satellites greeting us with clustered flashes New and frequent visual phenomena in my orbital star trails like fireflies caught by long exposure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1971346724204789768) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-09-25T22:50Z 108.8K followers, 89.7K engagements


"Riyadh capital of Saudi Arabia seen at night from the ISS. A bright light in the dark of the surrounding desert"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1972326897964154895) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-09-28T15:45Z 108.8K followers, 80K engagements


"Auroras meeting the Milky Way galaxy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1973161038746153244) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-09-30T23:00Z 108.8K followers, 181K engagements


"The Belt of Venus seen from the ISS. An atmospheric phenomena where the setting sun projects light past Earth's horizon curve layered over its shadow. Twilight observers on Earth see a pink band over the approaching dark opposite the sun. From orbit we see it all at once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1973890972116562324) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-02T23:20Z 108.8K followers, 189.6K engagements


"My best sighting of a Starlink satellite "train" from orbit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1975689151467938057) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-07T22:26Z 108.8K followers, 1.9M engagements


"A star trail made from this video visualizing how each satellite in the train cuts a white path into the exposure"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1976419472140534030) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-09T22:48Z 108.8K followers, 62.6K engagements


"Orbiting the Himalayas mountain range. Mount Everest is in this photo with much of Nepal visible as well"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1977020383590334968) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-11T14:36Z 108.8K followers, 355.3K engagements


"Beijing China seen from orbit. Streetlight patterns remind me of a circuit board with the Forbidden City at its heart"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1977390257206124738) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-12T15:05Z 108.8K followers, 101.3K engagements


"When seen at night from space Southeast Asia looks like the most colorful and vibrant place on Earth. This timelapse is a rainbow of fishing boats multi-spectrum city lights thunderstorms offshore platforms and fires"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1978597417298665638) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-15T23:02Z 108.8K followers, 73.6K engagements


"Orbital photo studio. I am photographing food coloring mixing with water as flat thin films and as spherical shells. Nikon Z9 camera 105mm macro lens. Photo by Matthew Dominick Z9 with 14mm lens"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1979267105032933562) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-17T19:23Z 108.8K followers, 19K engagements


"Here is a spherical shell about X inches in diameter with red and blue food coloring"  
[X Link](https://x.com/astro_Pettit/status/1979267511376920672) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) 2025-10-17T19:25Z 108.8K followers, 8822 engagements