Saturday’s Topic: “What Got You Hooked on Astronomy?” and “Tour of the Constellation Capricornus”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“The Day Mars Invaded Earth”
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.
“How I Got Hooked into Astronomy and Space?” You tell us!
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
East, One Hour Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/09/2017-sept-9-venus-regulus-mercury.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Skymap Constellation Capricornus
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21433150_2075432719149567_1351661282735581717_n.jpg?oh=7fa5081f423928e99a235adad914247e&oe=5A184391
Photo #1 Globular Cluster (M30/NGC 7099)
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21432753_2075432169149622_5307114994241321714_n.jpg?oh=38f4ea007be37d0b0e733d1d027ff75b&oe=5A561534
Photo #2 Condor Galaxy (NGC 6907)
https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21558020_2075432159149623_2694415589626198465_n.jpg?oh=429d106a1dc6f96b25f5934ac27c70dd&oe=5A602017
Recent Astronomical discoveries
“Extreme Telescopes Find the Second-fastest-spinning Pulsar
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905123211.htm
Crab Nebula in the Limelight: Unified Model for the Entire Radiation Spectrum
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170905124803.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Reconstructed view of Jupiter’s northern lights: https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/archive/PIA21938.gif
Juno’s Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph image data: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/pia-21937-16.jpg
Deep Space Network Now: https://eyes.nasa.gov/dsn/dsn.html
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
Sept. 16
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