SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Apollo 50th: Dec. 1968” and “Tour of the Constellation Taurus the Bull”
Net Control: Tom KE5ICX
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
The Day the Earth Caught Fire (1961)
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
Apollo 50th: December 1968
Prime Crew – Apollo 8
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo8_crew.jpg
Apollo 9 Crew and Water Recovery Training
Apollo 10 CM and Saturn V Arrival at Cape Kennedy
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/apollo10_arrival.jpg
Apollo 8 Crew, Saturn V Launch Vehicle, and VAB
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/3-s68-49397c_1.jpg
Launch
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/4-s68-56050.jpg
View of Florida During TLI
Apollo 8 Entering Lunar Orbit
Robert T. McCall’s “Coming Home”
https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/8973492350_9aa32cfae2_b.jpg
Bill Ander’s Blue Marble
https://cdn.cnn.com/cnnnext/dam/assets/180430091607-apollo-8-earth-rise-moon-photo-super-169.jpg
Apollo 8 CM Hoisted Aboard USS Yorktown
https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/A19711856000h.JPG
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
Southwest, One Hour After Sunset
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/2018-dec-8-9-10-moon-and-saturn.jpg
Day and Night Map of Earth
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/december-8-2018-one-hour-after-new-moon-800×400.png
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Taurus
Photo #1 T-Tauri & Hind’s Variable Nebula (NGC 1555)
Photo #2 Crab Nebula (M1)
Photo #3 Pleiades (M45)
Photo #4 Hyades
Photo #5 Colliding Galaxies (NGC 1409 & 1410)
Photo #6 Crystal Ball Nebula (NGC 1514)
Recent Astronomical discoveries
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft arrives at asteroid Bennu
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181204090906.htm
Bringing balance to the universe: New theory could explain missing 95 percent of the cosmos
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181205093716.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
Chinese Change 5 Lander Rover Headed to Far Side of the Moon
https://www.engadget.com/2018/12/07/china-change-4-lander-rover-head-to-far-side-of-moon/
Sounds of Mars! (Sound Sample)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT50Q_Zbf3s
This Week in Space History
1974 December 2
Pioneer 11 Jupiter Fly-By
1999 December 3:
Contact Lost with Mars Polar Lander
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/96/Mars_Polar_Lander_-_artist_depiction.png
1999 December 3
Hayabusa 2 Launched
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa2#/media/File:%E3%81%AF%E3%82%84%E3%81%B6%E3%81%952.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/22/Surface_of_Ryugu_from_MINERVA-II1_Rover-1A.jpg
1965 December 4
Gemini 6 & 7
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8d/Gemini_6_7.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/Lovell_pre-launch_gemini_7.jpg
1996 Dec 4
Mars Pathfinder Lands on Mars
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_Pathfinder#/media/File:Mars_Pathfinder_Lander_preparations.jpg
1972 December 7
Apollo 17 Mission
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3f/Apollo_17_crew.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4d/NASA_Apollo_17_Lunar_Roving_Vehicle.jpg
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
Dec. 17
Tiangong 2
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Dec. 10
Dec. 16
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Dec. 12
Dec. 13
Dec. 14
Dec. 15
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