SKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT
Saturday’s Topic: “What is Solar Minimum?” & “Is There Life on Europa?”
Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL
Afterglow Movie 10:30PM: “Vampires in Space” (1966)
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Saturday’s DARC SkyNet is at 9PM CT.
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
Discussion Topic of the Evening.
Solar Minimum
Solar Sunspot Number
https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2090123212001002-gr1.jpg
Coronal Holes
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/images/help/coronaal_gat/EN_coronaal_gat.jpg
Layers of Earth’s Upper Atmosphere
http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/tim//2010/07/15/thermosphere.jpg
Cosmic Ray Shower
https://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/cosmic-ray-shower_nasa.jpg
SOHO Image in UV
https://academickids.com/encyclopedia/images/thumb/0/04/600px-SOHO_EIT_ultraviolet_corona_image.gif
400 Years of Sunspot Observations
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Sunspot_Numbers.png
Sunspot “Butterfly” Pattern
https://eoimages.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/8000/8405/sunspot_10891.jpg
Temperature and Solar Activity – 120 Years
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/thermo/imgheat/temsol2.gif
Space Exploration and Space History
Space Exploration News
Space-Related Birthdays
This Week in Space History
Waz Up?
Chaz KF5JHA
If Chaz is out, go to http://www.earthsky.org/tonight and read the info there.
“Is there Life on Europa?” (Part 1)
Part 2 next week: “If so, what might it be like?”
Photo #3: Europa Photo Montage
https://scontent-dfw5-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/72744289_3695976687095154_7377664752555655168_n.jpg?_nc_cat=101&_nc_oc=AQn4aVaJHV1rnpmY1rhc7TXyVPq9sMinU0praZQtu0Bfnpl2F16oqbcQf7sJsyOSS78&_nc_ht=scontent-dfw5-1.xx&oh=93b1dadc9d32619e5ec378dfd3dca398&oe=5E345D06
Space Launches For This Week
Date: October 17, 2019
Vehicle: SpaceX Falcon 9 | Starlink 1
Mission: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is expected to launch the second batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network, a mission designated Starlink 1.
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch Window: TBD
Space Coast Launches
Watch At: http://www.spacex.com
Recent Astronomical Discoveries
Astronomers Discover Twenty New Saturnian Moons
http://www.sci-news.com/astronomy/twenty-saturnian-moons-07672.html?fbclid=IwAR0oaTd6P_JaEkDnZy5DsX-mf3LXqZY2eB2iUAJvgLG0u3eNko7zsHRRz8U
Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.
OTV 5 (USA 277)
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=42932&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST