SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Solar Eclipse Part 11: Know Your Directions on Eclipse Day” and “Tour of the Constellation Corona Borealis”
Net Control: Kelley K5KTX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
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.
Total Solar Eclipse Part 11: Know Your Directions on Eclipse Day
HamSCI and the Solar Eclipse QSO Party: http://www.hamsci.org/basic-project/2017-total-solar-eclipse
Solar Eclipse 2017 Highway Traffic Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer…
Total Solar Eclipse Forever Stamp press release: https://about.usps.com/…/national-releases/2017/pr17_020.htm
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
Northeast, Evening
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2010/02/10may28_430.jpg
Northeast, May Evenings
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/05/lyra_vega.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Corona Borealis
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/…/18446950_19085155125…
R CrB-a
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/…/18425216_19085155058…
T CrB–a
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/…/18447483_19085154925…
T CrB–b
https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/…/18447397_19085155625…
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Surprise! When a Brown Dwarf is Actually a Planetary Mass Object
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2017/…/170509122026.htm
Primitive Atmosphere Discovered Around “Warm Neptune”
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releas…/2017/…/170511141951.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Update on Exploration Mission 1 (EM-1)
Artist rendering of EM-1 launch: https://www.nasa.gov/…/t…/image/22365637226_4e7b086d36_k.jpg
Artist rendering of Orion: https://www.nasa.gov/…/t…/image/23128844405_6151e276cd_k.jpg
Orion spacecraft recovery practice: https://www.nasa.gov/…/…/image/29759265711_c40946f688_o.jpg…
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
Tiangong-1
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
May 14th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Tiangong-2
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
May 19th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
May 20th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
Hubble Space Telescope
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx…
May 17th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
May 18th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx…
May 19th
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