SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “The NASA Analog Missions: The NEK Isolation Habitation Facility” and “Tour of the Constellation Cancer the Crab”
Net Control: Billye KF5PDS
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Gattica” (1996)
2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
Echolink: W5FC-R, node 37247.
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion topic of the evening.
The NASA Analog Missions: The NEK Isolation Habitation Facility
http://mars500.imbp.ru/en/index_e.html
https://www.nasa.gov/analogs/nek
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-is-sirius-about-its-analog-missions
Waz Up?
From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight
East, One Hour After Sunset
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/02/2019-feb-planets-mercury-and-mars.jpg
Southeast, 75 Minutes Before Sunrise
http://en.es-static.us/upl/2019/02/2019-february-morning-planets-venus-saturn-jupiter.jpg
Southeast, 75 Minutes Before Sunrise (Feb. 27th – March 2nd)
A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.
CANCER THE CRAB
Skymap – Constellation Cancer the Crab
Photo #1 The Beehive Cluster Praesepe (M44/NGC 2632)
Photo #2 Open Cluster (M67/NGC 2682)
Photo #3 Unbarred Spiral Galaxy (NGC 2775)
Recent Astronomical discoveries
Tiny Neptune Moon Spotted by Hubble May Have Broken from Larger Moon
Ingredients for Water Could Be Made On Surface of Moon, a Chemical Factory
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
Hayabusa 2 has touched an asteroid!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/%E3%81%AF%E3%82%84%E3%81%B6%E3%81%952.jpg
The privately-build Beresheet Israeli lander will take two months to reach moon, but on its way.
https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/yvencscumv0aqzsevgby.png
https://mars-jpl-nasa-gov.s3.amazonaws.com/src/insight/insight_weather_bg.jpg
https://bgr.com/2019/02/20/mars-weather-reports-nasa-insight/
https://mars.nasa.gov/insight/weather/
Mars has a public weather station, if you’re curious about what to wear when you leave the habitat tunnels.
Space-Related Birthdays
1964 February 21st: Siblings in Space
Identical twins Mark and Scott Kelly were born in Orange, NJ, on this day in 1964. They are the only siblings to have both travelled in space.
Mark_and_Scott_Kelly_at_the_Johnson_Space_Center%2C_Houston_Texas.jpg
This Week in Space History
1930 February 18: Clyde Tomaugh discovers Pluto
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Clyde_W._Tombaugh.jpeg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Pluto_in_True_Color_-_High-Res.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/Pluto_discovery_plates.png
1962 February 20: Godspeed, John Glenn
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Glenn62.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Launch_of_Friendship_7_-_GPN-2000-000686.jpg
1965 February 20: Ranger 8 hits the moon
https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/Dz3TIwnWsAAf_tn.mp4
1969 February 21: The first N-1 goes kaboom!
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/images/rockets/n1/3l/launch_1.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/KH-8_N1.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
Feb. 26
North Korean Satellite
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=39026&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Mar. 1
Mar. 5
Hubble Space Telescope
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=20580&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Feb. 26
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=0&lng=0&loc=Unspecified&alt=0&tz=UCT
Feb. 25
Feb. 27
Mar. 2
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