SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “Space Navigation by Pulsar!” and “Tour of the Constellation Eridanus”
Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Missile to the Moon” (1958)
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Tonight’s Topic
Space Navigation! Getting From Here to Way Out There Using Pulsars!
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
East, One Hour Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/2018-dec-14-venus-mercury-jupiter.jpg
East, December 21, One Hour Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/2018-dec-14-venus-mercury-jupiter-for-dec-21.jpg
45 degrees north latitude: Mercury rises approximately 100 minutes before sunrise
South, Dusk/Nightfall
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2018/12/2018-dec-13-14-15-moon-mars-fomalhaut.jpg
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
Constellation Eridanus
Photo #1 Witch Head Nebula (IC 2118)
Photo #2 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1187)
Photo #3 Intermediate Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1232)
Photo #4 Dwarf & Edge on Spiral Galaxies (NGC 1531 & NGC 1532)
Photo #5 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1309)
Photo #6 Ring Galaxy (NGC 1291)
Photo #7 Spiral Galaxy (NGC 1187)
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Did Supernovae Kill Off Large Ocean Animals at Dawn of Pleistocene?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181211112941.htm
Large Population of Potential Young Planets Found in Distant Planetary Systems
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212144631.htm
Space Exploration and Space History
Space exploration news:
Voyager 2 enters interstellar space!
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/images/largesize/PIA22924_hires.jpg
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Bennu has a wet history! Water really is one of the most common and stable chemicals in the universe.
https://www.asteroidmission.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Twelve-Image-PolyCam-Mosaic-12-2-18.png
Space-related birthdays:
1911 December 11
Birth of Tsien Hsue-shen
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/Tsien_Hsue-shen.jpg
1896 December 14
Birth of James H Doolitle
https://www.utdallas.edu/news/images/doolittle.jpg
This week in space history:
1998 December 11
Mars Climate Orbiter
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Mars_Climate_Orbiter_2.jpg
1962 December 13
Relay 1
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/Relay_1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/Project_Relay_antenna_-_GPN-2003-00019.jpg
1967 December 13
Pioneer 8
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Pioneer-6-9.jpg
1962 December 14
Mariner 2 Flyby of Venus
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Mariner_2.jpg
1965 December 15
Gemini 6A & 7
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/de/Gemini_7_in_orbit_-_GPN-2006-000035.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
Dec. 21
Tiangong 2
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
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. 19
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Dec. 16
Dec. 19
Dec. 22