SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Tracking Apollo 8 by Telescope” and “Tour of the Constellation Leo Minor”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: WarGames (1983)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Discussion topic of the evening.
Tracking Apollo 8 by Telescope!
By Bill Keel
Translunar Injection (TLI) Burn
http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/a8_saomaui.jpg
Apollo 8 S-IVB Fuel Dump
http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/a8_hendrie.jpg
S-IVB Panel Deflections
http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/a8_lpl2.jpg
Reports of Apollo 8 sightings came from Pic du Midi Observatory (in the French Pyrenees); the Catalina Station of the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (University of Arizona); Corralitos Observatory, New Mexico, then operated by Northwestern University; McDonald Observatory of the University of Texas; Lick Observatory of the University of California; the U.S. Naval Observatory station at Flagstaff, Arizona; and JPL’s Table Mountain Observatory in California.
Apollo 8 Corralitos Observatory
http://pages.astronomy.ua.edu/keel/space/a8_corralitos.jpg
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
Spica, Looking South
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2017/04/Omega-Cen-finder-chart-sq.jpg
Northeast to Southeast, Nightfall
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/04/springtime-big-dipper-arcurus-spica.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Leo Minor
Photo #1 Hanny’s Voorwerp
Photo #2 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 3432)
Photo #3 Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 3344)
Photo #4 Barred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 3486)
Leo Minor
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Outback Radio Telescope Listens in on Interstellar Visitor
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180410100953.htm
Tiny Distortions in Universe’s Oldest Light Reveal Stands in Cosmic Web
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/04/180410132703.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Parker Solar Probe
Parker Solar Probe Artist rendering: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/ApprovedMedia/Images/Renderings/originals/SPP_ObservingSun2.jpg
Parker Solar Probe trajectory: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/images/16-00815_MissionDesign.png
Parker Solar Probe: Anti-Ram Facing View: http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/Spacecraft/images/Anti-Ram-Facing-View.png
Send your name to the Sun (my “Hot Ticket” is attached): http://parkersolarprobe.jhuapl.edu/The-Mission/Name-to-Sun/
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