SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT

Saturday’s Topic: “Blackbody, Planck, and Einstein Theories – Oh My!” and “Tour of the Constellation Canes Venatici”
Presented By: Mike KG5P

Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL

Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
Visit to a Small Planet (1961)

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.

“Blackbody Radiation, Quantum Hypothesis, and the Photoelectric Effect! Oh my!”
Mike KG5P

Max Planck 1858-1947
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Blackbody, Wien, and Rayleigh’s Distribution Comparisons
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Planck’s Handwritten Notes
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Einstein’s Photoelectric Effect
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Waz Up?

From EarthSky.org:
http://www.earthsky.org/tonight

A featured constellation or object(s) or topic.

Constellation Canes Venatici
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Photo #1 Globular Cluster (M3)
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Photo #2 Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
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Photo #3 Sunflower Galaxy (M63)
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Photo #4 Spiral Galaxy (M94)
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Photo #5 Intermediate Spiral Galaxy (M106)
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Photo #6 Whale Galaxy (NGC 4631)
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Photo #7 Inclined Spiral Galaxy (NGC 5033)
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Photo #8 Hockey Stick Nebula (NGC 4656)
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Recent Astronomical discoveries

Are Brown Dwarfs Failed Stars or Super-Planets?
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/04/190409135813.htm?fbclid=IwAR3P2geijDHRjxTBPDXpTjrBuQR3apdOV0Pno-BsoPc020cF7YV8_80gDGg

Space Exploration and Space History

Space Exploration News

Launch of Falcon Heavy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D36EpmMWAAAaGSf.jpg:large

Beresheet crashed into the moon

https://boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/teswnxusyu89lx8g7rqk.png?w=782
https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/israel-space-mission.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1286

NASA releases results of its Twins study
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Mark_and_Scott_Kelly_at_the_Johnson_Space_Center%2C_Houston_Texas.jpg

Space-Related Birthdays

April 10th, 1919: John C Houbolt, inventor of LOR
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/John_Houbolt_1962-L-05849.jpg

This Week in Space History

April 7th, 2001: Mars Odyssey launched
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Mars_Odyssey_spacecraft_model.png

April 9th, 1959: Mercury 7 Selected
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/The_Mercury_7_%2815258556433%29.jpg

April 11th, 1970: Apollo 13 is launched
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Apollo_13_Prime_Crew.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Apollo_13_passing_Moon.jpg

April 12th, 1961: Poyekhali! Vostok 1 is launched
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D39aU2PWsAAez-c.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D39aXlgXoAExrXs.jpg:large
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D39aTDeXsAAK2n_.jpg:large
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b1/Vostok1.jpg
https://akm-img-a-in.tosshub.com/indiatoday/yuri_647_041216090204.jpg?6FZfHsAuB.4rZnyqC0nmdv2jXK5.uHhF

April 12th, 1981: First flight of a space shuttle!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/41/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_launching.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Sts-1_crew.jpg

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386

April 15
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?&satid=27386&mjd=58589.0634083012&type=V