We go out to find Comet Lemon and found it out near the Big Bear or Big Dipper between the handle and Arcturus. Worth getting out and looking to the Northwest! Keep looking at the sky and find Andromeda galaxy! And the Milky Way and the Moon hugging Scorpio and Sagitarius! And Algol the demon Star for Halloween! And oh by the way, In 1975, the USSR landed Venera 9 on Venus and is the first probe to send back photos from another planet! It lasted a whole 53 minutes before being crushed by the Venus atmosphere!
This is a wild fall with blue skies a breeze and rain, then blue skies and snow in the mountains. Tour the night sky and view Zodiacal light in predawn, we learn about Brian May the wizard guitar player for Queen and that he is an astrophysicist and studies zodiacal light and we go skydiving with Dan!
We look at the sky in the fall day with all its wonder and then watch as the stars and planets come out as the moon joins later and we spot Draco the Dragon up by Vega winding its sparkly way across the high sky as the Draconids meteor shower graces us and we look at sky lore of Draco and check in on Comet 31 Atlas as it comes celestially close to Mars and the ESA and NASA get a little closer look at its coma as it heads out towards Jupiter where NASA's JUICE probe will have its turn to take a peak.
This episode has so much going on, its kind of surreal, 2 comets show up near Mars and Spica, low on the horizon in the south as well as Dwarf Planet, Ceres, our closest big asteroid in the Asteroid belt makes an appearance in the same area. Also sky lore about Ceres!
Three planets in the morning to greet us and we try to hang on as we zoom through space!
explore the earth and its oceans and the space around you!
Its Milky Way Time! And 50 years ago the U.S. and USSR met for a docking in orbit Apollo, Soyuz led to the International Space Station! Airtimes II crew works into the vibe!
Going camping and seeing stars and stars and planets and moons and nebulae and sending Astronaut Jim Lovell off with a lot of "good energy" way out there! Have fun!
Also NASA'S Artemis II getting ready for pre-launch to the moon with crewed space capsule taking the next step!
We explore Venus and Jupiter meeting August 12th, the Perseids ramp up the stellar fireworks, The Artemis II crew does a dress rehearsal to jump to the moon Alice! Curiosity Rover finds coral rocks from billions of years of water and wind erosion on Mars! The Navajo make ceilings of stars as the stars hold the sky together!
We go in-depth looking at the night sky after a nice morning and afternoon taking in the mountain breeze and watch the stars and the Andromeda Galaxy come out! Venus and Jupiter in the morning and Saturn at night! Star navigation goes way back to the Polynesians and way forward to New Horizons leaving the Solar System. As it is One Sky, Many Cultures, we review and look at the Tiger through the eyes of Susan Seddon Boulet!
Meteor showers, NASA spaceships that can take off from another planet, a quiet supersonic jet, NASA scientists sign the Voyager Accord.
And we do a little sky watching nebulas and galaxies!
Beautiful star viewing in early summer and the Parker Solar Probe blasts 430,000 miles an hour around the sun only 3.8 million miles from the life giving star! We check in on Starlore from the Persian Culture!
We also look at a culture in and their skylore in Persia. What are their sky myths?
We take a look at the Aurora Borealis with photographer Rich Herrmann! Look up, look around and enjoy your sky and universe!
We check on current events effecting space exploration, the 18 and a half year cycle of the moon, giving us the Strawberry full moon of June and preview the star party at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex with deep space telescopes!
We talk about current events a little bit, the Strawberry moon and the star party on June 21st at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex!
We'll check out some cool double stars, talk with Poet Tininja and talk about the star party at Stansbury Park on June 21st!
skywatcher leo t star party with Salt Lake Astronomical Society and Stansbury Park Observatory complex with some of the best telescopes in the Rocky Mountains!
As we enjoy springtime, the Earth rotates and turns on its axis as the stars and planets do their delicate ballet! We get to hang with Hikin' Mike in the Reef Country and watch life happen!
