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
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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
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-AFLIGHT.jpg

Flight
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-FLIGHT.jpg

Flight Director Console
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-eecom-from-flight1.jpg

FAO
https://arstechnica.com/science/2012/10/apollo-flight-controller-101-every-console-explained/4/

NETWORK
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-NETWORK.jpg

ROW 4

PAO
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-PAO.jpg

Flight Operations Director
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-DFO.jpg

NASA HQ
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-HQ.jpg

Department of Defense
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-layout-DOD.jpg

Inside the Consoles
https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/liebergot-guts-02.jpg

What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?

Southwest, One Hour after Sunset
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/10/2017-oct-21-22-23-moon-antares-saturn.jpg
Southeast, After Midnight
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/10/orionid-radiant.jpg
South, October Before Dawn
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/10/2013-october-orion-sirius-night-sky-chart.jpg
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