SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT

Saturday’s Topic: “The Skylab-Saylut Mission” and “Tour of the Constellation Cetus the Whale”

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Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Rocketship X-M” (1950)

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Discussion topic of the evening.

The Skylab-Salyut Space Laboratory (from Wired Magazine)

Skylab I Mission Patch
https://media.wired.com/photos/593314272a990b06268ad317/master/w_666,c_limit/Skylab1-Patch.png

Skylab in Orbit
https://media.wired.com/photos/5933142895879f6d0c00a909/master/w_578,c_limit/GPN-2000-001055.jpg

Skylab-Salyut International Laboratory
https://media.wired.com/photos/5933142958b0d64bb35d43fd/master/w_1000,c_limit/skylabsalyut1a.gif

Skylab-Salyut
https://media.wired.com/photos/5933142958b0d64bb35d43ff/master/w_921,c_limit/Skylabsalyut4.jpg

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project Patch
https://media.wired.com/photos/5933142aa4b3d04a471893ac/master/w_578,c_limit/Astp-S75-20361.jpg

Shuttle-Salyut
https://media.wired.com/photos/5933142b58b0d64bb35d4401/master/w_500,c_limit/shuttle-salyut.jpg

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

East, November Mid-Evening
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2013/11/radiant-north-taurids.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.

Tonight’s Constellation: Cetus the Whale

Constellation Cetus the Whale
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23376574_2159880624038109_5286546506181929165_n.jpg?oh=0b130199dc4ff13c5b5658dda6e1157a&oe=5A98EFA8

Photo #1 Barred Spiral Galaxy (M77/NGC 1068)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23435124_2159880757371429_4673329312470026633_n.jpg?oh=224df6be1fd04653b0d9aa4853850c67&oe=5AAB0DAA

Photo #2 Edge-on Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1055)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23517429_2159880760704762_87054153069101425_n.jpg?oh=257295e7f66e9d6d7444940f97281295&oe=5A9DCCEE

Photo #3 Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1073)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23376308_2159880767371428_529529033559069036_n.jpg?oh=5a390545c68766d85ef522e5f41ca9ec&oe=5A9F072C

Photo #4 Intermediate Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1087)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/19260293_2159880670704771_411840989986378024_n.jpg?oh=166548ec06600d864ae14c2083a92e7b&oe=5AA5BF84

Photo #5 Intermediate Spiral Galaxy (NGC 247)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23435246_2159880674038104_8633863385323837409_n.jpg?oh=45227511b01d46d75df3fccd82464a35&oe=5A9CC8AE

Photo #6 Irregular Dwarf Galaxy (IC 1613)
https://scontent-dft4-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/23471934_2159880610704777_1812734884318054448_n.jpg?oh=28354c566b73d44d16e109373bf48217&oe=5AA3BBC3

Recent Astronomical discoveries

Red Giant Star Gives a Surprising glimpse of the Sun’s Future
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171107092830.htm

Astronomers Discover a Star That Would Not Die
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171108131839.htm