SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Do You Have the Right Stuff?” and “Tour of the Constellation Pisces Austrinus”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “The Shape of Things to Come” (1979)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
How to Become an Astronaut (From Space.com)
Mercury 7 (Group 1)
http://i.ebayimg.com/images/i/300993568302-0-1/s-l1000.jpg
Teachers in Space!
http://cdn.parabolicarc.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/astroteachers1.jpg
Crew in Space
http://img.foodnetwork.com/FOOD/2011/04/29/HE_NASA-Astronauts-02_s4x3_lead.jpg
Training Neutral Buoyancy
Zero-G Training
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
Cassiopeia
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2009/06/Andromeda_galaxy_via_Cassiopeia.jpg
Great Square
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2009/06/Andromeda_Galaxy_via_Great_Square_Pegasus.jpg
Field View – Andromeda Galaxy
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2012/08/Andromeda_galaxy_Ted_Van_August_2012.jpeg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Piscis Austrinus
Photo #1 Fomalhaut and Fomalhaut “B”
Photo #2 Hickson Compact Group 90
Photo #3 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 7314)
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Superflares From young Red Dwarf Stars Imperil Planets
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181018141204.htm
All in the Family: Kin of Gravitational Wave Source Discovered
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181016132024.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
It’s Not a Tumor, I Mean It’s a Not a Volcanic Eruption
it’s not a tumor. I mean, it’s not a volcanic eruption
https://earthsky.org/space/mars-express-curious-elongated-cloud-arsia-mons-volcano
New Horizons PI Alan Stern confirms that they’re ready…but that the encounter with ultima thule will be full of surprises
https://www.space.com/42252-new-horizons-team-ultima-thule-flyby.html
Hubble has 3 working gyros again
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/oct/26/hubble-telescope-fixed-by-jiggling-it-around
This Week in Space History
1897 October 21 – .
Yerkes Observatory founded. – . Nation: USA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkes_Observatory
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/not-quite-closing-yerkes-observatory/
1968 October 22 – .
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_7
Landing of Apollo 7. Unlike the Apollo 11 astronauts, they really were carrying dangerous germs when they landed
2008 October 22 –
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrayaan-1
Chandraayan-1 – .
India’s first lunar probe.
October 24th 1960
Nedelin Disaster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe
(see also https://gizmodo.com/5239848/how-not-to-launch-a-rocket-the-nedelin-disaster and rockets and people, volume 2, chapter 32, page 616)
October 24th 1998
Launch of Deep Space 1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_1
October 24th 2007
Launch of Chang’e 1, China’s first lunar probe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%27e_1
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
North Korean Satellite
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=39026&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Oct. 29th
Nov. 2nd
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Oct. 28th
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Oct. 29th
Oct. 31st
Nov. 3rd