SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “NASA Analog Missions: Parabolic Flight” and “Tour of the Constellation Monoceros”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
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.
NASA Analog Missions: Parabolic Flight
Parabolic Maneuver
Early EVA Practice
Stephen Hawking
A300 Zero-G
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft#/media/File:A300_Zero_G.jpg
What can you see in the sky over the next couple of weeks?
U.S. Naval Observatory: What You Can See in the Sky This Week
http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNO/tours-events/sky-this-week/the-sky-this-week
Featured Constellation
Constellation Monoceros
https://www.facebook.com/tom.general/videos/2994494253910071/
Photo #1a – Monocerotis Expansion
Photo #1b V838 Monocerotis Expansion
Photo #2 M50
Photo #3 Rosette Nebula & NGC 2244
Photo #4 Rosette Nebula & NGC 2244
Photo #5 NGC2264 & Christmas Tree Cluster
Photo #6 Cone Nebula
Photo #7 Hubble’s Variable Nebula
Photo #8 Red Rectangle Nebula
Photo #9 Butterfly Nebula
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Where is Earth’s Submoon?
Stellar Winds, the Source Material for the Universe, are Clumpy
Space Exploration and Space History
Tony NT5TM
Space Exploration News
A new high-resolution picture of Ultima Thule has been returned by New Horizons.
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Galleries/Featured-Images/pics/CA06_deconvolved.png
Scientists studying moon rocks have announced that NASA’s Apollo program has produced a new scientific discovery: the finding of a small pebble from earth.
https://3c1703fe8d.site.internapcdn.net/newman/csz/news/800/2019/moonrockreco.jpg
Space-Related Birthdays
1930 January 20; Birth of Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Aldrin.jpg
This Week in Space History
1967 January 20: Apollo S-IVB stage for Saturn launch vehicle 503 exploded
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Saturn_IB_S-IVB-206.jpg
1968 January 22: Launch of Apollo 5
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Apollo_5_on_pad.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ad/LM1_embr_original.jpg
2003 January 22: Last transmission received from Pioneer 10
1986 January 24: Voyager 2 makes its closest approach during its Uranus Flyby.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Voyager_spacecraft_model.png
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/af/Uranus_Final_Image.jpg
1964 January 25: Launch of Echo 2 (1st joint US/USSR space mission?)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/40/Echo_II.jpg
1994 January 25: Launch of Clementine 1
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a2/Clementine_lunar.jpg
2004 January 25: Opportunity Rover Mars Landing, Beginning 15 Years on Mars
Opportunity discovered the first meteorite found on Mars, Heat Shield Rock.
1962 January 26: Launch of Ranger 3
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Ranger_3-4-5_Probe.jpg
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
Tiangong 2
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=41765&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Jan. 30
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Jan. 28
Feb. 3
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Jan. 31
Feb. 3
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