Rob Rothschild

Welcome to my portfolio website

I am a Systems/Software engineer currently based out of San Luis Obpispo CA. My passion has always been for space and contributing to humanity's relentless charge of discovery.

Check out my portfolio to see my personal projects, including data analytics GUIs, games, and other content I've produced over the years.

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ISS Meets Saturn

NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day

2025-07-18 - ISS Meets Saturn

This month, bright planet Saturn rises in evening skies, its rings oriented nearly edge-on when viewed from planet Earth. And in the early morning hours on July 6, it posed very briefly with the International Space Station when viewed from a location in Federal Way, Washington, USA. This well-planned image, a stack of video frames, captures their momentary conjunction in the same telescopic field of view. With the ISS in low Earth orbit, space station and gas giant planet were separated by almost 1.4 billion kilometers. Their apparent sizes are comparable but the ISS was much brighter than Saturn and the ringed planet's brightness has been increased for visibility in the stacked image. Precise timing and an exact location were needed to capture the ISS/Saturn conjunction.