SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “History of Soviet Space” and “Tour of the Constellation Virgo”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea” (1963)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
Video Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/skynet2
& Facebook “DARC Skynet Astronomy Net”
Audio Stream: http://pokeys.doomdns.com:8000
Yahoo Groups: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/skynet
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/306498286059167/
Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
Soviet Space Continues – History of the Manned and Unmanned Russian Space Program
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
East, One Hour Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/2017-april-22-moon-and-venus.jpg
East, One Half Hour Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/2017-april-22-23-24-northern-hemisphere.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Virgo
Photo #1 Virgo Cluster
Photo #2 Elliptical Galaxy (M49/NGC 4472)
Photo #3 Intermediate Barred Spiral Galaxy (M58/NGC 4579)
Photo #4 Elliptical Galaxy (M60 & NGC 4647)
Photo #5 Intermediate Barred Spiral Galaxy (M61/NGC 4303)
Photo #6 Supergiant Elliptical Galaxy (M87/NGC 4486)
Photo #7 Sombrero Galaxy (M104/NGC 4594)
Photo #8 Eyes Galaxies (NGC 4435 & NGC 4438)
Photo #9 Siamese Twins Galaxies (NGC 4567 & NGC 4568)
Photo #10 Quasar 3C-273
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Can We See a Singularity, the Most Extreme Object in the Universe?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170420113758.htm
Milky Way: Dydrogen Halo Lifts the Veil of Our Galactic Home
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170418111504.htm
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
OTV 4
April 23
Tiangong 1
April 28th
May 1st
Envisat
April 23rd
April 26th
May 1st
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