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[@astro_Pettit](/creator/twitter/astro_Pettit)
"It's not every day you see a lunar eclipse from space Taken on March XX 2025 this image shows the lunar eclipse on the sunlit edge of Earth's atmosphere one orbit before the total phase. I was waiting to photograph the totality phase on the next orbit but I could not see the moon It took me awhile to figure out that the moon during totality had insufficient lighting to see in a daylight background"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1945881617500868692) 2025-07-17 16:21:45 UTC 96.5K followers, 4897 engagements


"@IHateMyXHandle And this yo has home made hubs stacks essential for high speed spine in weightlessness"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1944740034575298984) 2025-07-14 12:45:30 UTC 96.5K followers, XXX engagements


"High resolution star trail from the SpaceX Crew X Dragon marked by a fleet of flashing Starlink satellites glowing atmosphere soon to rise sun and arcing stars. Captured over the Pacific Ocean with Nikon Z9 Sigma 14mm f1.4 lens effective XX minute exposure compiled from individual XX second frames f1.4 ISO 1600"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1945172142225809820) 2025-07-15 17:22:32 UTC 96.5K followers, 1.4M engagements


"SpaceX Dragon flies between the stars of deep space and a sea of clouds lit by the red upper atmospheric airglow. This is a XX second exposure taken with my orbital sidereal drive that tracks the stars thus allowing long exposures"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1944060624537104492) 2025-07-12 15:45:46 UTC 96.5K followers, 95.4K engagements


"When in space you get to name what you discover. I call this Yo-Yo trick "Returning to the Home Planet." In weightlessness to keep the Yo under control the string has to be kept taunt by maintaining a circular motion"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1944471517980500245) 2025-07-13 18:58:31 UTC 96.4K followers, 7125 engagements


"The Grand Canyon region photographed in near-infrared from the ISS reminiscent of the surface of Mars"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1942370605107667185) 2025-07-07 23:50:14 UTC 96.5K followers, 23.8K engagements


"Green aurora timelapse crawling like amoebas across the sky. Views like this never get old"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1943351715740213424) 2025-07-10 16:48:49 UTC 96.5K followers, 53.9K engagements


"Stars above red and green auroras seen in passing over Canada. The colors of Earth meet the darkness of deep space in striking contrast"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1936164452035887529) 2025-06-20 20:49:12 UTC 96.5K followers, 125.6K engagements


"Comet C/2024 G3 Atlas photographed XXX million miles away from the International Space Station framed by Crew X Dragon and Canada arm"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1940831409859711103) 2025-07-03 17:54:01 UTC 96.5K followers, 147.3K engagements


"Star trail from the ISS showing sequential lightning flashes on Earth below streaking stars in deep space. In the foreground the station's solar panels blur with movement to the right of the Russian laboratory module. Star trails straighten into thin lines in the direction of our orbital path and form arcs on the right due to the rotation of ISS as it orbits Earth"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1941981824521245113) 2025-07-06 22:05:21 UTC 96.5K followers, 26K engagements


"From orbit atolls of the Maldives look like thin irregular rings. Can you spot them in this image"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1942697868185461046) 2025-07-08 21:30:40 UTC 96.5K followers, 28K engagements


"Spacewalking The movie 2001 is one of my favorites I had to try this as a 2025 tribute"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1934008413740204419) 2025-06-14 22:01:52 UTC 96.5K followers, 2.1M engagements


"The Ganges river delta photographed in near-infrared from the ISS"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1945535297489338605) 2025-07-16 17:25:35 UTC 96.5K followers, 25.1K engagements


"Amsterdam Netherlands seen at night from the ISS. The city's famous canals and waterways cut distinct lines of darkness around modern lights"  
![@astro_Pettit Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:16/cr:twitter::310804819.png) [@astro_Pettit](/creator/x/astro_Pettit) on [X](/post/tweet/1943747236455752035) 2025-07-11 19:00:28 UTC 96.5K followers, 22K engagements