SKYNET!!!!  9PM CT – 10:30PM CT

Saturday’s Topic: “So You Want to be an Astronaut”  and “Tour of the Constellation Scutum”

Net Control: Tom KE5ICX

Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:

“The Indestructible Man” (1958)

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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.

Discussion topic of the evening.

So, What Does It Take to Be an Astronaut?

Starliner CST-100

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.52.10-AM.png

Eric Boe

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.26.37-AM.png

Christopher Ferguson

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/GettyImages-121289626.jpg

Nichole Aunapu Mann

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.35.18-AM.png

Dragon

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.53.56-AM.png

Crew Dragon Test-Flight Astronauts

Josh Cassada

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.45.56-AM.png

Sunita Williams

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.47.58-AM.png

Crew Dragon First-Mission Astronauts

Victor Glover

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.54.48-AM.png

Michael Hopkins

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Screen-Shot-2018-08-03-at-10.58.03-AM.png

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

A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.

Constellation Scutum

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Photo #1 Wild Duck Cluster (M11)

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Photo #2 Open Cluster (M26)

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Photo #3 Planetary Nebula (IC-1295)

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Photo #4 Red Super Giant Cluster 1 (RSGC1)

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R Scuti–a

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Recent Astronomical discoveries

Pairs of Small Colliding Galaxies May Seed Future Stars

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180809144521.htm

Ultrahot Planet Have Starlike Atmospheres

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180809144518.htm

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.

ISS

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=25544&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

August 16th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=25544&mjd=58346.8117904501&type=V

Hubble Space Telescope

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

August 17th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=20580&mjd=58347.7709357119&type=V

Envisat

https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT

August 14th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58344.8153155036&type=V

August 17th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58347.8075763453&type=V

August 19th

https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT&satid=27386&mjd=58349.825277736&type=V