SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Mission Control: Every Console Explained (Part 2)” and “Tour of the Constellation Piscis Austrinus”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“The Mole People” (1957)
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.
Apollo Flight Controller 101: Every Console Explained
INCO
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/4/
Assistant Flight
Flight
Flight Director Console
FAO
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/4/
NETWORK
ROW 4
PAO
Flight Operations Director
NASA HQ
Department of Defense
Inside the Consoles
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
Southwest, One Hour after Sunset
Southeast, After Midnight
South, October Before Dawn
Tonight’s Constellation Piscis Austrinus–The Southern Fish.
Skymap Piscis Austrinus
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/22712299_2129636893729149_3110251149208943292_o.jpg?oh=4e4a8c75d6e16d878d94e99a65a27bce&oe=5A647D41
Photo #1 Fomalhaut & Fomalhaut B
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22552527_2129636890395816_4652824445464381002_n.jpg?oh=5ba3f07c590ac23d56089e29d83b55de&oe=5A84C9CA
Photo #2 Hickson Compact Group 90
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22688563_2129636883729150_4579332895501834457_n.jpg?oh=00877185bdca9d846eacb393e6f9e7a0&oe=5A661D9B
Photo #3 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 7314)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/22549826_2129636990395806_8224772184110752586_n.jpg?oh=7bbe640de4ccc83141eecb6cf60a344e&oe=5A74DE57
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Noxious Ice Cloud on Saturn’s Moon Titan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019101034.htm
NASA’s MAVEN Mission Finds Mars Has a Twisted Magnetic Tail
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171019181855.htm
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
Tiangong 2
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765
Oct. 30th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?&satid=41765&mjd=58057.0222111636&type=V
North Korean Satellite
http://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=39026
Oct. 23rd
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?&satid=39026&mjd=58050.0260447473&type=V
Oct. 27th
http://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?&satid=39026&mjd=58054.0260975683&type=V
