SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Russian Space Program Part 4” and “Tour of the Constellation Delphinus”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie at 10:30: Beyond the Time Barrier
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Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Links to tonight’s Sky Net:
Discussion topic of the evening.
The Russian Space Program (Part 4)
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
http://en.es-static.us/…/venus-jupiter-8-27-2016-Abid-Khan-…
Stellarium
http://venus-jupiter-8-27-2016-stellarium-Tom-Wildoner-e1472295264918.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Skymap Constellation Delphinus
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/14095856_15111298522…
Photo #1 Globular Cluster (NGC 6934)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/14067646_15111298622…
Photo #2 Blue Flash Nebula (NGC 6905)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/14183890_15111298455…
Photo #3 Globular Cluster (NGC 7006)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/…/14141672_15111299489…
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Can One Cosmic Enigma Help Solve Another?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160824160255.htm
NASA’s WISE, Fermi Missions Reveal a Surprising Blazar Connection
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2016/…/160824140053.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Juno’s close flyby of Jupiter today
Mercury mystery solved
Space history, including launch of Gemini V (and the start of mission patches); downgrading of Pluto; Katherine Johnson’s birthday
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
ISS
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
Sept. 4th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
OTV 4
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
August 28
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
August 30
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Tiangong 1
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
Sept 2
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Sept 3
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Korean Satellite
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
Sept 1
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Envisat (Earth Observation Satellite – ESA – Launched 2002)
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
August 28
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
August 30
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
August 31
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Sept 2
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…