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  1. Apollo Relic Reveals its Secrets
    2. 20 Jun 2008 at 2:00am
    pimg src="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/images/apollorelic/frontpage.jpg" align="right" style="padding: 5px;" / In 1967, Surveyor 3 landed on the Moon. Two years later, Apollo astronauts visited the little unmanned spacecraft and brought pieces of it home to Earth. Now, a portion of Surveyor's robotic arm, the scoop it used to sample moondust, is teaching researchers some long-lost secrets. /p pPlease vote for this podcast at a href="http://www.podcastalley.com/one_vote2.php?pod_id=825"PodcastAlley/a! /p pa href="http://science.nasa.gov/audio/podcast/y2008_apollorelic_story.mp3"Get this podcast story. /a/p


  2. Can Migrating Whales and Wave Energy Coexist?
    3. 5 Feb 2008 at 12:12pm
    This winter, researchers from Oregon State University are using surveyors' tools to chart gray whale migration off the Northwest Coast. The goal: to learn if the migration paths run right through the planned locations of wave energy parks. Tom Banse has more.


  3. A view from the mountain
    4. 8 Mar 2008 at 6:35am
    A view from the mountain by Don Haworth With Michael Williams and Judi Dench Produced by Gordon House for BBC World Service - 60 minutes An old quarryman and his wife live on a mountain carrying out the instructions of the Emperor. A surveyor decides to try and release them from their burden. Broadcast 7 June 1987 57:45 Min (copied from a usenet group)


  4. Tour of the Sky: November 2006
    5. 6 Nov 2006 at 4:45am
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    font size="3" /fontcenterfont size="3"a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/MoonPhases_Nov.jpg"img border="0" src="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/MoonPhases_Nov.jpg" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;"//abr/br//fontprefont size="3"HOW the old mountains drip with sunset, br/ And the brake of dun! br/How the hemlocks are tipped in tinsel br/ By the wizard sun! br/ br/How the old steeples hand the scarlet, br/ Till the ball is full,br/Have I the lip of the flamingo br/ That I dare to tell? br/ br/Then, how the fire ebbs like billows, br/ Touching all the grass br/With a departing, sapphire feature, br/ As if a duchess pass! br/ br/How a small dusk crawls on the village br/ Till the houses blot; br/And the odd flambeaux no men carry br/ Glimmer on the spot! br/ br/Now it is night in nest and kennel, br/ And where was the wood, br/Just a dome of abyss is nodding br/ Into solitude! br/ br/These are the visions baffled Guido; br/ Titian never told; br/Domenichino dropped the pencil, br/ Powerless to unfold./font/pre pfont size="3"i- Emily Dickenson (1830-86), Complete Poems 1924, Part Two Nature: CX/i /font/p /center h3font size="3"Download this month's sky map!/font/h3 pfont size="3"Kym Thalassoudis does a wonderful job creating accurate and easy to use star maps every month! Visit his site at www.skymaps.com for skymaps and links to other useful astronomical sites. Also a great portal for astronomical gifts! /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Northern hemisphere sky map/abr/a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Southern hemisphere sky map/a /font/p pfont size="3"Those in the Southern Hemisphere should also visita href="http://www.sbstars.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=40Itemid=9 3" James Barclay's site/a for a great tour of the Southern Hemisphere October sky. /font/p p /p p /p h3font size="3"Transit of Mercury:/font/h3font size="3"Nov 8 19:12 UT - Nov 9 00:10 UT br/bTransit Information/bbr/a href="http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/20oct_transitofmercury.htm"NASA/a, nice animated gif of what we might expect.br/NASA a href="http://sunearthday.nasa.gov/2007/events/mercurytransit.php"Transit Webcast/abr/a href="http://astroday.net/MercTransit06.html"From Hawaii/abr/Thea href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/transit/" Exploritorium /abr/View the transit from the a href="http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/"SOHO/a pages br/Tacoma Astronomical Society will be out, weather permitting, check the a href="www.tas-online.org"website/a on the 7th for location updates. br/S.Hemisphere details visita href="http://www.sbstars.com/Transit%20of%20Mercury%20podcast.mp3" James Barclay's site/a the a href="http://www.sbstars.com/mambo/index.php"Maidenwell Observatory/a will be having a sunrise transit breakfast. br/bSafe Solar Viewing/bbr/a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/sunspots/doityourself.html"Space Weather/abr/a href="http://www.mreclipse.com/Totality/TotalityCh11.html"Mr. Eclipse /abr/a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/sunspots/history4.html"The Exploritorium/abr/b /b/fonth3font size="3"bKey Dates for November/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"Days and Times in UT (a href="http://time_zone.tripod.com/"help with time/a) /font/p pfont size="3"Observations are for 8pm for the mid-northern latitudes and for 10pm for the mid-southern latitudes. /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.sunrisesunset.com/"Great site/a for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards /font/p pfont size="3"bAstronomical/b table tbody tr tdbNovemberbr//b/td tdbr//td /tr tr tdbbr//b/td tdComet Swan (C/2006 M4) starts the month a href="http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets/2006_M4.gif"Hercules/a and end in Aquila /td /tr tr td5/td td-Moon near Uranus possible occultation for SE Australia and New Zealand a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA)/a to see if you can view the occultation in your area/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-Full Moon (12:58 UT)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-a href="http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-04/ssc2005-04a.shtml"Taur ids/a Meteor Shower Peak full moon will interfere /td /tr tr tdbr//td td- Asteroid 5535 Annefrank Closest a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=5535"Approach To Earth /a(1.215 AU)/td /tr tr td6/td td-Moon very close to the Pleiades, possible photo ops!/td /tr tr td7/td td-a href="http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/db_shm?des=2006+UQ216"Asteroid 2006 UQ216/a Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)/td /tr tr td8/td td-a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/transit06.html"Transit of Mercury (Mercury at inferior conjunction)/a. Refer to this a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/TM2006Nov08-Fig1.GIF"chart/a for your viewing opportunity. font color="red"WARNING: NEVER LOOK AT THE SUN--IT WILL INSTANTLY DAMAGE YOUR EYES/font. Observers require a safe Sun filter attached securely to the front of their telescope to see Mercury's tiny disk pass in front of the Sun. The event will be visible from most of Asia, Australia, Pacific, and North and South America. Observers in the Americas will view the event in the afternoon before sunset. Transit begins at 19:12 UT; mid-transit at 21:41 UT; ends at 0:08 UT (Nov 9). Next transit of Mercury on May 9, 2016. /td /tr tr td10/td td-Mars, Mercury, Venus and Jupiter all within 9 degrees of the Sun/td /tr tr td12/td td-Last Quarter Moon (17:45 UT)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-N.Taurids Meteor Peak, better viewing with a late rising moon!/td /tr tr td17/td td-a href="http://comets.amsmeteors.org/meteors/showers/leonids.html"Leonids/a Meteor Peak/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-Mercury stationary/td /tr tr td20/td td-New Moon (22:18 UT) /td /tr tr tdbr//td td-Uranus stationary /td /tr tr td21/td td-Jupiter in conjunction with the Sun/td /tr tr td23/td td-Venus in descending node/td /tr tr td24/td td-Mercury at greatest heliocentric lat. N/td /tr tr td25/td td-Mercury at greatest a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elongation"elongation/a W 20 degrees/td /tr tr td28/td td-First Quarter Moon 6:29 UT)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-Moon occults Uranus (S.Africa, India, SE Asia)Go to the a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"International/a Occultation Timing Association for more information/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p p /p h3font size="3"Historical/font/h3 table tbody tr tdb...Did you know?/b/td tdbr//td /tr tr tdbNovemberbr//b/td tdbr//td /tr tr td7/td td-10th Anniversary (1996), Mars Global Surveyor Launch/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-40th Anniversary (1966), Lunar Orbiter 2 Launch/td /tr tr td8/td td-Edmund Halley's 350th Birthday (1656)/td /tr tr td9/td td-Carl Sagan's 72nd Birthday (1934-1996)/td /tr tr td12/td td-25th Anniversary (1981), Space Shuttle Columbia Launch (STS-2)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td-a href="http://www.phys-astro.sonoma.edu/BruceMedalists/Nicholson/index.html"Seth Nicholson's/a 115th Birthday (1891)/td /tr tr td13/td td-a href="http://www.phy.hr/~dpaar/fizicari/xmaxwell.html"James Clerk Maxwell's/a 175th Birthday (1831) Maxwell is the only man to have a Venusian named object./td /tr tr td15/td td-William Herschel's 268th Birthday (1738)/td /tr tr td16/td td-Arecibo radio telescope dedicated (1974)/td /tr tr td20/td td-Edwin Hubble's 117th Birthday (1889)/td /tr tr td26/td td-First French satellite -Asterix 1/td /tr tr td27/td td-a href="http://www.astro.uu.se/history/Celsius_eng.html"Anders Celsius'/a 305th Birthday (1701)/td /tr tr td29/td td-45th Anniversary (1961), Mercury 5 Launch (Enos the Chimpanzee)/td /tr /tbody /table pfont size="3"bEarth's major motions for 2006br//b table tbody tr tdPerihelion/td tdbr//td tdJan 4 /td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdMar 20 18:26(UT)/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdJune 21 12:26(UT)/td /tr tr tdAphelion/td tdbr//td tdJuly 3 /td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdSept 23 04:03(UT)/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdDec 22 00:22(UT)/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bPlanet Positions for 2006/bbr/ table tbody tr tdbr//td tdbJan/b/td tdbFeb/b/td tdbMar/b/td tdbApr/b/td tdbMay/b /td tdbJun/b/td tdbJul/b/td tdbAug/b/td tdbSep/b/td tdbOct/b/td tdbNov/b/td tdbDec/b/td /tr tr tdbVenus/b/td tdSgr/td tdSgr/td tdCap/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdCnc/td tdLeo/td tdVir/td tdLib/td tdSgr/td /tr tr tdbMars/b/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdGem/td tdCnc/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdVir/td tdVir/td tdLib/td tdSco/td /tr tr tdbJupiter/b/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdLib/td tdSco/td /tr tr tdbSaturn/b/td tdCnc/td tdCnc/td tdCnc/td tdCnc /td tdCnc/td tdCnc/td tdCnc /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td /tr tr tdba href="http://www.rasnz.org.nz/SolarSys/UranNept.htm"Uranus/a/b/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td /tr tr tdba href="http://www.rasnz.org.nz/SolarSys/UranNept.htm"Neptune/a/b/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p p /p pfont size="3"bComets for November/b/font/p font size="3"a href="http://cometography.com/current_comets.html"Gary Kronk's/a comet and meteor pagesbr/a href="http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html"Skyhound/a Comet pages /fontpfont size="3"Help us out by leaving a donation in the ol' PayPal hat or write us a favorable review in iTunes of Podcast Pickle or iPodder! /font/p pfont size="3"bMusic/b a href="http://www.scottishguitarquartet.com/"Scottish Guitar Quartet/a -quot;Romance within youquot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=5cc420b7ce325ed6c3626544688b4ef2"Monika Herzig/a - quot;Dancing in Novemberquot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=b8b035f56229808d16c1b163bd804537"Alyssa Hendrix/a - quot;Good Summer Rainquot; /font/p pfont size="3"Woodland Hills Camera and Telescope is offering FREE web hosting on our servers for you or your organization's website. 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  5. Tour of the Sky: June 2007
    6. 25 Nov 2008 at 1:31pm
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    font size="3" /fontfont size="3"a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/jun_07_lunar_cal.png"img border="0" src="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/jun_07_lunar_cal.png" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;"//abr/br//font h3font size="3"Download this month's sky map!/font/h3 pfont size="3"Kym Thalassoudis does a wonderful job creating accurate and easy to use star maps every month! Visit his site at www.skymaps.com for skymaps and links to other useful astronomical sites. Also a great portal for astronomical gifts! /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Northern hemisphere sky map/abr/a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Southern hemisphere sky map/a /font/p pfont size="3"Those in the Southern Hemisphere should also visita href="http://www.sbstars.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=40Itemid=9 3" James Barclay's site/a for a great tour of the Southern Hemisphere June sky. /font/p pfont size="3"Another great site for Southern Hemisphere viewers is the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand's Southern Hemisphere Calendar can be found at the a href="http://www.rasnz.org.nz/SolarSys/Jun_07.htm"RASNZ site/abr/Ian Musgrave has a very handy Southern Hemisphere site called a href="http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm"Southern Sky Watch/a. /font/p pfont size="3"Download quot;a href="http://www.astrowhatsup.com/download-the-book/"What's up 2007: 365 days of Skywatching/aquot; by Tammy Plotner, published by Universe Today (Faser Cain) it is a fantastic and it is free!/font/p h3font size="3"Planets for June 2007/font/h3 ul font size="3"libMercury/b- Look for Mercury between Venus and the horizon after sunset until around the 18th (depending upon your latitude) when Mercury disappears in the glare of the sun. Mercury is best at the beginning of the month where he sits just to the NE of M35, an unorganized open cluster at the feet of Castor. Also in the immediate area is NGC 2158 which I think is a much nicer object. At greatest elongation on June 2nd Mercury has reached hip high between the twins before swinging back towards the sun via Pollux's knees. .4 mag (1st) to 3.7 mag (21st) /lilibVenus/b- High in the sky after dark Venus continues to highlight the western sky reaching greatest elongation 45 deg east on June 9th. Venus makes several great photo ops this month starting with a nice line up with Castor and Pollux (Gemini) the first couple of days of June before sliding over to graze the Beehive Cluster (M44) between the 12th and 13th. Get the telescopes and cameras ready for the 17th-19th as the young Moon slides past Venus and Saturn. Finally she pairs up with Saturn between the 28th and the first of July for a nice close encounter. -4.1 mag (1st) to - 4.2 mag (21st) /lilibMars/b- In Pisces until June 26th when it passes into Ares. Look for the red planet near the moon on the 10th where they both sit on the western arm of Pisces. Very low on the horizon for mid-upper Northern Latitudes better viewing the further south you go and outstanding in the Southern Hemisphere. 0.8 mag (1st) to 0.8 mag (21st) /lilibJupiter/b- King of the planets is finally in prime position rising as the sun sets and is visible all night. Opposition on June 5th puts Jupiter 400 million miles from Earth. Jupiter moves eastward across lower Ophiucus and by Aug 1st sits just north of Antares. Low in the sky for mid-high northern latitudes moves higher in the sky as you move south. Some nice days to catch his four Galilean moons close to the planet disk are: 4th, 5th, 12th, 29th, and 30th -2.6 mag (1st) to -2.6 mag (21st) /lilibSaturn/b-Absolutely beautiful in Leo almost at the Cancer border. Saturn's rings are tipped 15 deg from edgewise towards us so take advantage of these beautiful rings by catching Saturn earlier in the month before the Moon rises. Saturn make a nice appearance near Venus between the 17th and 30th and the Moon on the 18th 0.5 mag (1st) to 0.5 mag (21st) /lilibUranus/b-In Aquarius 5.9 mag (1st) to 5.8 mag (21st) /lilibNeptune/b-Will camp out in Capricorn all year long 7.9 mag (1st) to 7.9 mag (21st) /liliba href="http://media.skytonight.com/images/Vesta07_Finder_BW.gif"4 Vesta/a/b -Categorized as a minor planet (Vesta family Main Belt) we are adding her to the mix because she will be not far from Jupiter this month and at a magnitude of 5.4 - 6.0 will be a good naked eye object for June. Vesta is the second most massive object in the asteroid belt with a mean diameter of 540 km and was named after the Roman goddess of home and hearth. pOn the 4th of July she spends Independence day just north of the double star Beta Scorpius. /p /li/font/ul font size="3"b /b/fonth3font size="3"bKey Dates for June 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"Days and Times in UT (a href="http://time_zone.tripod.com/"help with time/a)br/Observations are for 8pm for the mid-southern latitudes and for 11pm for the mid-northern latitudes. /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.sunrisesunset.com/"Great site/a for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards /font/p pfont size="3"Occultation information can be found at the a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a website! bAstronomical Highlights/b table tbody tr tdbnbsp;Junenbsp; br//b/td tdbr//td /tr tr td1/td td- Full Moon 1:04 UT/td /tr tr td2/td td- Mercury at greatest elongation, 23 deg east of the Sun (evening sky)/td /tr tr td5/td td- Jupiter at opposition 23h UT /td /tr tr td8/td td- Last Quarter Moon 11:43 UT/td /tr tr td9/td td- Venus at greatest elongation 45 deg east of Sun (evening sky)/td /tr tr tdbr//td td- Jupiter double shadow transit 9:18 UT/td /tr tr td10/td td- Moon near Mars (5 deg S of Moon)22h UT in the morning sky/td /tr tr td12/td td- Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) 363,780 km from Earth/td /tr tr td12-13/td td- Venus skims the Beehive Cluster (M44)/td /tr tr td13/td td- For you sundial lovers the equation of time at 0 ... for more a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time"information/a./td /tr tr td15/td td- New Moon 3:13 UT/td /tr tr td17/td td- Pluto at opposition/td /tr tr td18/td td- Moon near Venus, possible daytime occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/afor occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td19/td td- Moon near Saturn (8h UT) AND Regulus (23h) possible occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/afor occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td21/td td- June Solstice 18:06 UT The sun reaches its highest point north of the celestial equator and is at 'stand still' before moving south again. This is the longest day in the Northern Hemisphere (middle or beginning of summer) or the shortest day in the Southern Hemisphere (middle or beginning of winter). For a great animation of the 'seasons' check out the a href="http://esminfo.prenhall.com/science/geoanimations/animations/01_EarthSun_E2.htm l"Prentice Hall/a site /td /tr tr td22/td td- First Quarter Moon 13:15 UT/td /tr tr td23/td td- Uranus at standstill begins its retrograde motion (westward)/td /tr tr td24/td td- Moon at apogee (furthest from Earth) 404,540 km/td /tr tr td28/td td- Moon near Antares 8h UT possible occultation check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation information for your area/td /tr tr td30/td td- Full Moon 13:49 UT /td /tr tr tdbr//td td- Close encounter of Venus and Saturn /td /tr /tbody /table b h3Monthly a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_messier.asp"Messier/a*/h3/b /font/p pfont size="3"This month we attack the heart of the Virgo cluster of galaxies. If you download show #39 we actually walk you through a nice long list of Virgo Galaxies including those listed below. /font/p pfont size="3"These 13 galaxies all within less than 100 square degrees of sky and the brightest of these galaxies, M87, is only 8.6 in total magnitude so this will be a telescope only month. Plan on searching for small faint fuzzies, dark, clear skies are a must./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4374.jpg"M84/a, a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4406.jpg"M86/a - A pair of elliptical galaxies in the famous Markarian's Chain in Virgo. Appear as small fuzzy balls with bright, almost stellar cores. Both easily fit into the same low power field of view. M86 is slightly brighter and more oval than round M84./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4486.jpg"M87/a - M87 - Elliptical galaxy famous for its black hole and jet. Another round fuzzy ball with a bright core. Slightly brighter than both M84 and M86./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4552.jpg"M89/a and elliptical galaxy paired with spiral galaxy a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4569.jpg"M90/a - Both of these galaxies fit into the same low power field of view. M89 is another round fuzzy ball similar to M84, while M90 appears as an oval patch of light larger than M89. M90 has a bright central region./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4548.jpg"M91/a - Spiral galaxy in Coma Berenices. A faint, slightly irregular oval hazy patch of light./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4501.jpg"M88/a - A small oval shaped fuzzy patch with a bright stellar core. Similar in size and shape to M90. Can fit into the same field of view as M91. Bump up the power and see if you can tease out the spiral arms./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4579.jpg"M58/a - Another spiral galaxy that appears as a slightly oval shaped fuzzy patch of light with a bright central region./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4621.jpg"M59/a, a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4649.jpg"M60/a - M59 and M60, both are elliptical galaxies and both can easily fit into the same field of view. M59 is a small, hazy oval patch, not all that easy to see. M60 is another fuzzy oval patch of light, larger and brighter than M59./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4254.jpg"M99/a - A bright round fuzzy patch of light which is a face on spiral galaxy./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4192.jpg"M98/a - This edge-on spiral galaxy appears as a bright pencil like streak of light./font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4321.jpg"M100/a - A round hazy glow of light, bright in the center but gradually fading towards the edge. Using more power and averted vision see if you can detect the spiral arms of this face on galaxy./font/p pfont size="3"For navigating the Virgo Cluster I highly recommend quot;Mastering the Virgo Clusterquot; by Alan M MacRobert; Sky amp; Telescope (Archives); May 1994; 42;/font/p font size="3"*Monthly Messier information gleaned from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Moncton Centre Quebec and from the Astronomy Connection website. /font h3font size="3"bAstronomical Highlights for 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"bEarth's major motions for a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html"2007/abr//b table tbody tr tdPerihelion/td tdbr//td tdJan 3 20h(UT)/td /tr tr tdFirst Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdFeb 2-6/td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdMar 21 00:07(UT)/td /tr tr tdSecond Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdMay 4-7/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdJune 21 18:06(UT)/td /tr tr tdAphelion/td tdbr//td tdJuly 4 00h (UT) /td /tr tr tdThird Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdAug 5-8/td /tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr//td tdSept 23 19:51(UT)/td /tr tr tdFourth Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr//td tdNov 5-8/td /tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr//td tdDec 22 06:08(UT)/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bPlanet Positions for 2007/bbr/ table tbody tr tdbr//td tdbJan/b/td tdbFeb/b/td tdbMar/b/td tdbApr/b/td tdbMay/b /td tdbJun/b/td tdbJul/b/td tdbAug/b/td tdbSep/b/td tdbOct/b/td tdbNov/b/td tdbDec/b/td /tr tr tdbVenus/b/td tdSgr/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdLeo/td tdSex/td tdCnc/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdVir/td /tr tr tdbMars/b/td tdOph/td tdSgr/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdGem/td tdGem/td /tr tr tdbJupiter/b/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td /tr tr tdbSaturn/b/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td /tr tr tdbUranus/b/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td /tr tr tdbNeptune/b/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td /tr /tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bEclipses for 2007/b /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 19/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/1112007/L2007Mar03.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-1.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0222007/"animation/a!): The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in Pisces and is visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska /font/p pfont size="3"bSeptember 11/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/eclipse/map207.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-2.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0422007/"animation/a): The last eclipse of 2007 is a partial solar eclipse at the Moon's descending node in southern Leo. Its visibility is confined to parts of South America, Antarctica and the South Atlantic /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 3-4/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Mar03-Fig1.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in the Arctic region, Africa, Europe, Asia except for extreme eastern region, most of Indonesia, western Australia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, extreme eastern South America, Greenland, the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the eastern North Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in Africa, Europe, western Asia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula, South America, eastern North America, Greenland, the Arctic region, the Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean, and the extreme eastern South Pacific Ocean. /font/p pfont size="3"bAugust 28/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Aug28-Fig3.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in North America, South America except extreme east, Antarctica except for Enderby Land, New Zealand, eastern Australia, extreme northeastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the western Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in New Zealand, Australia, most of Antarctica except Queen Maud Land, Indonesia, eastern Asia, western North America, the Pacific Ocean, and the southeastern Indian Ocean. /font/p font size="3"Eclipse information from: a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/solar.html"NASA Eclipse Homepage/a, a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/"Eclipses Online/a (HM Nautical Almanac Office, UK in coordination with the a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclbin/query_usno.cgi"U.S. Naval Observatory/a) /fontpfont size="3"ba href="http://meteorshowersonline.com/may_radiants.html"Meteor Showers for 2007/a/bbr/ /font/p pfont size="3"As luck would have it, all the imajor/i meteor showers reach their peaks in 2007 with the Moon out of the sky. Any of these showers can produce dozens of shooting stars each dark hour leading up to dawn. /font/p font size="3"Mark your calendar to look for...br/ /fontul font size="3"liLyrids on April 23rd /liliPerseids on August 13th /liliOrionids on October 21st /liliLeonids on November 18th /liliGeminids on the night of December 13-14 (Meteor enthusiasts are keenly awaiting the Geminids in 2007 because their progenitor, the defunct comet Phaethon, precedes them in a flyby of Earth on December 10th.) /li/font/ul pfont size="3"bComets for June/b/font/p font size="3"a href="http://cometography.com/current_comets.html"Gary Kronk's/a comet and meteor pagesbr/a href="http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html"Skyhound/a Comet pages /fontpfont size="3"b h3Historical and Current Events/h3/bb...Did you know?/bbr/ /font/p pfont size="3"Culled from Wikipedia byb Mark Tillotson/b (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June ) br/iThanks Mark!!!/i/font/p pfont size="3" pre 6/1 b- 1928 - Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut (Moon crater) 6/2 1896 - Guglielmo Marconi receives a patent for his newest invention: the radio. 1966 - Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first US spacecraft to soft land on another world. 2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. b- 1930 â Pete Conrad, NASA Astronaut. Flew on Gemini 5, 11, Apollo 12, and Skylab 2 missions. (d. 7/8/1999) 6/3 1965 - Launch of Gemini 4, the first multi-day space mission by a NASA crew. 1965 - For 21 minutes, Edward H. White floats free outside the space vehicle Gemini IV for the first time. b- 1659 - David Gregory, Scottish astronomer (d. 1708) 6/4 1769 - A transit of Venus is followed five hours later by a total solar eclipse, the shortest such interval in the historical past. b- 470 BC - Socrates, Greek philosopher (d. 399 BC) b- 460 BC - Hippocrates, Greek historian (d. 370 BC) b- 1754 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Austrian editor and astronomer (d. 1832) (Moon crater) 6/5 b- 1819 - John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1892) (Moon crater) 6/6 1971 - Soyuz program: Soyuz 11 launches. 2002 - Eastern Mediterranean Event. A near-Earth asteroid estimated at 10 meters diameter explodes over the Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Libya. The resulting explosion is estimated to have a force of 26 kilotons, slightly more powerful than the Nagasaki atomic bomb. b- 1436 - Regiomontanus, German mathematician (d. 1476) (Moon crater) b- 1580 - Godefroy Wendelin, Flemish astronomer (d. 1667) b- 1932 - David Scott, NASA astronaut. Flew on Gemini 8 and Apollo 9 and 15. 6/7 d- 1826 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist and astronomer (b. 1787) (Moon crater) 6/8 2004 - First Transit of Venus in this millennium. b- 1625 - Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian scientist and astronomer (d. 1712) (Moon crater) 6/10 2003 - The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. b- 1710 - James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768) (Moon crater) b- 1929 â James A. McDivitt, NASA Astronaut. Command Pilot, Gemini 4 (1965) and Commander, Apollo 9 (1969). 6/11 2004 - Cassini-Huygens makes its closest flyby of Phoebe. b- 1723 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) (Moon crater) 6/12 1967 - Venera program: Venera 4 is launched (it will become the first space probe to enter another planet's atmosphere and successfully return data). 2004 - A 1.3 kg chondrite type meteorite strikes a house in Ellerslie, New Zealand causing serious damage but no injuries. b- 1577 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (d. 1643) 6/13 1983 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first manmade object to leave the solar system. b- 1773 - Thomas Young, English scientist (d. 1829) (Moon crater) b- 1831 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (d. 1879) (Moon crater) d- 1993 - Deke Slayton, astronaut (b. 1924) 6/14 1822 - Charles Babbage proposes a difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society entitled "Note on the application of machinery to the computation of astronomical and mathematical tables." 1962 - The European Space Research Organization is established in Paris â later becoming the European Space Agency. 1967 - Mariner program: Mariner 5 is launched toward Venus. 6/15 763 BC - Assyrians record a solar eclipse that will be used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. b- 1765 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831) (Moon crater) 6/16 1911 - A 772 gram stony meteorite struck earth near Kilbourn, Columbia County, Wisconsin damaging a barn. 1963 - Soviet Space Program: Vostok 6 Mission, Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. b- 1888 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (d. 1980) 6/17 b- 1714 - CÃsar-FranÃois Cassini de Thury, French astronomer (d. 1784) 6/18 1178 - Five Canterbury monks see what was possibly the Giordano Bruno crater being formed. It is believed that the current oscillations of the moon's distance (on the order of meters) are a result of this collision. 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7, Astronaut Sally Ride becomes the first American woman in space. d- 1650 - Christoph Scheiner, German astronomer (b. 1573) (Moon crater) d- 1922 - Jacobus Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer (b. 1851) 6/19 b- 1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928) (Moon crater) b- 1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel laureate (Moon crater) b- 1933 - Viktor Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut 6/20 1990 - Asteroid Eureka discovered. 1941 - Ulf Merbold, German physicist and astronaut 6/21 2004 - SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately funded spaceplane to achieve spaceflight. 2006 - Pluto's newly discovered moons are officially christened Nix Hydra on this date. b- 1646 (O.S.) - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German philosopher and scientist (d. 1716) (Moon crater) b- 1823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) (Moon crater) b- 1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932) (Moon crater) b- 1958 - Gennady Padalka, cosmonaut d- 1951 - Charles Dillon Perrine, American astronomer (b. 1867) (Moon crater) 6/22 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe. b- 1930 - Yuri Artyukhin, cosmonaut (d. 1998) d- 1429 - Ghiyath al-Kashi, Persian astronomer and mathematician (b. 1380) 6/23 b- 1612 - Andrà Tacquet, Belgian mathematician (d. 1660) (Moon crater) b- Donn Eisele, NASA Astronaut. Flew on Apollo 7. (d. 12/2/1987) 6/24 1983 - Space Shuttle program: STS-7 Mission Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth. b- 1485 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558) b- 1915 - Fred Hoyle, British astronomer (d. 2001) d- 1946 - Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986) d- 1637 - Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer ( b. 1580) (Moon crater) 6/25 1997 - An unmanned Progress spacecraft collided with the Russian Space station, Mir. d- 1671 - Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Italian astronomer (b. 1598) (Moon crater) 6/26 1973 - On Plesetsk Cosmodrome 9 people are killed in an explosion of a Cosmos 3-M rocket. b- 1904 - Frank Scott Hogg, Canadian astronomer (d. 1951) (Moon crater) b- 1925 - Pavel Belyayev, cosmonaut (d. 1970) (Moon crater) 6/28 d- 1889 - Maria Mitchell, American astronomer (b. 1818) (Moon crater) 6/29 512 - A solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland. 1995 - Space Shuttle program: STS-71 Mission (Atlantis docks with the Russian space station Mir for the first time.) b- 1868 - George Ellery Hale, American astronomer (d. 1938) (Moon crater) b- 1962 - George Zamka, astronaut 6/30 1905 - Albert Einstein publishes the article "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", where he introduces special relativity. 1908 - The Tunguska impact event occurs in Siberia. 1971 - The crew of the Soviet Soyuz 11 spacecraft is killed when their air supply escapes through a faulty valve. d- 1971 - Crew of Soyuz 11 o Viktor Patsayev (b. 1933) o Georgi Dobrovolski (b. 1928) o Vladislav Volkov (b. 1935) /pre/font/p font size="3"Help us out by leaving a donation in the ol' PayPal hat or write us a favorable review in iTunes of Podcast Pickle or iPodder! /fontpfont size="3"bMusic/b a href="http://www.scottishguitarquartet.com/"Scottish Guitar Quartet/a -quot;Romance within youquot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/listeners/artistdetails.php?pageNum_MusicList=2t otalRows_MusicList=11BandHash=b5b279fae8c0e5cd470ff535a3a63440"Boom Boom Beckett/a - quot;Summertimequot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=df279a56eb67de582ba39534773a3470"Elisabeth Lohninger Quartet/a - quot;Pour-quoi, pour-quoi pasquot;/font/p


  6. Tour of the Sky: April 2007
    7. 2 Apr 2007 at 10:48am
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    font size="3" /fontcenterfont size="3"a href="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/apr_lunar_calendar.png"img border="0" style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer;" src="http://media.libsyn.com/media/astronomy/apr_lunar_calendar.png"//abr/br//font/ce nter h3font size="3"Download this month's sky map!/font/h3 pfont size="3"Kym Thalassoudis does a wonderful job creating accurate and easy to use star maps every month! Visit his site at www.skymaps.com for skymaps and links to other useful astronomical sites. Also a great portal for astronomical gifts! /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Northern hemisphere sky map/abr/a href="http://skymaps.com/downloads.html"Southern hemisphere sky map/a /font/p pfont size="3"Those in the Southern Hemisphere should also visita href="http://www.sbstars.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_contenttask=viewid=40Itemid=9 3" James Barclay's site/a for a great tour of the Southern Hemisphere December sky. /font/p p /p pfont size="3"Another great site for Southern Hemisphere viewers is the Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand's Southern Hemisphere Calendar can be found at the a href="http://www.rasnz.org.nz/SolarSys/Apr_07.htm"RASNZ site/abr/Ian Musgrave has a very handy Southern Hemisphere site called a href="http://home.mira.net/~reynella/skywatch/ssky.htm"Southern Sky Watch/a. /font/p p /p pfont size="3"Download quot;a href="http://www.astrowhatsup.com/download-the-book/"What's up 2007: 365 days of Skywatching/aquot; by Tammy Plotner, published by Universe Today (Faser Cain) it is a fantastic and it is free!/font/p h3font size="3"Planets for April 2007/font/h3 ulfont size="3"libMercury/b-Continues good morning viewing for Southern Hemisphere observers until mid-month when it sinks lower in the dawn sky. Poor viewing for Northern latitudes but those of you closer to the equator should still give it a try 0.0 mag (1st) to -0.8 mag (21st) /lilibVenus/b-Brilliant in the evening sky all month passing very close to the Pleiades and Hyades between the 10th and 18th. For mid to high northern latitudes Venus is almost 40 deg high at sunset. -3.9 mag (1st) to - 3.9 mag (21st) /lilibMars/b-Starts out the month not far from Neptune at the Capricorn/Aquarius border and ends the month(28th) extremely close to Uranus in Aquarius 1.1 mag (1st) to 1.0 mag (21st) /lilibJupiter/b-After the 6th Jupiter begins its retrograde loop within southern Ophiuchus -2.3 mag (1st) to -2.4 mag (21st) /lilibSaturn/b-Absolutely beautiful in Leo almost at the Cancer border. Saturn's rings are tipped 15 deg from edgewise towards us so take advantage of these beautiful rings. The axial tilt of Saturn produces Saturian season the same way our tilt does but from our perspective here on Earth it also accentuate the changing view of the rings tilting above or below the horizontal plane between us. So now, Saturn's rings are closing their tilting pattern. A good illustration of that tilt can be seen at the a href="http://heritage.stsci.edu/2001/15/index.html"Hubble Heritage /asite. Saturn returns to regular motion (prograde) on the 20th heading back towards Regulus 0.2 mag (1st) to 0.3 mag (21st) /lilibUranus/b-In Aquarius 5.9 mag (1st) to 5.9 mag (21st) /lilibNeptune/b-Will camp out in Capricorn all year long and is currently masked by the glare of the sun. 8.0 mag (1st) to 8.0 mag (21st) /li/font/ul pfont size="3"For more information, and illustrations, on retrograde motion visit these links:br/LaSalle University a href="http://www.lasalle.edu/~smithsc/Astronomy/retrograd.html"Astronomy class website/abr/University of Illinois a href="http://www.astro.uiuc.edu/projects/data/Retrograde/"Astronomy project/abr//font/p font size="3"b /b/fonth3font size="3"bKey Dates for April 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"Days and Times in UT (a href="http://time_zone.tripod.com/"help with time/a)br/Observations are for 8pm for the mid-northern latitudes and for 10pm for the mid-southern latitudes. /font/p pfont size="3"a href="http://www.sunrisesunset.com/"Great site/a for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards /font/p pfont size="3"bAstronomical Highlights/b table tbody tr tdbnbsp;Aprilnbsp; br//b/td tdbr type="_moz"//td/tr tr td2 /td td- Full Moon 17:15 UT Spica shines to its lower left with bright Arcturus is much farther to their left. This will be the smallest Full Moon (in angular size) of the year!/td/tr tr td3/td td- Moon at apogee (farthest from Earth) 9:00 UT distance 406,329 km angular size 29.4' /td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td- Moon near Spika at 17:00 UT /td/tr tr td4/td td- Happy Birthday Mom! /td/tr tr td5/td td- Double shadow transit on Jupiter 20:07 UT/td/tr tr td6/td td- Jupiter stationary/td/tr tr td7/td td- Moon near Antares 13:00 UT, Occultation visible from E. Australia, N.Z. and S.South America check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation at your location/td/tr tr td8/td td- Moon near Jupiter 8:00 UT/td/tr tr td10/td td- Last Quarter Moon, 18:04 UT/td/tr tr td10-12/td td- Great photo opportunity with Venus very close to the Pleiades (evening western sky)~ 2.6 deg apart/td/tr tr td13/td td- Double shadow transit on Jupiter 00:05 UT/td/tr tr td13-14/td td- Moon close to Mars in the morning sky. The waning crescent moon will move from the west to the east of Mars on these two mornings. Occultation visible from Yemen and Somali check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation at your location/td/tr tr td16/td td- Moon near Mercury at 6:00 UT (morning sky)/td/tr tr td17/td td- New Moon 11:36 UT and Moon at perigee (closest to Earth) at 357,135 km and an angular size of 33.5'/td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td- Large tides/td/tr tr td17-24/td td- a href="http://www.ndsw.org/"National Dark Sky Week/a! Start spreading the word and post fliers in your neighborhood and host a star party!/td/tr tr td19-20/td td- Look for the Moon, Venus, the Pleiades, Capella and Aldebaran to be all together with the Moon shifting from west to east in the arrangement. Good potential photo op!/td/tr tr td20/td td- Saturn stationary 1:00 UT/td/tr tr td21/td td- Astronomy Day 2007! Check out what is happening in your area or create your own event! This is also /td/tr tr td22/td td- Lyrid meteor shower peaks at 22:00 UT. a href="http://www.spaceweather.com/meteors/lyrids/lyrids.html"For more information...../a/td/tr tr td24/td td- First Quarter Moon 6:36 UT/td/tr tr td25/td td- Moon very near Saturn at 10:00 UT. Occultation visible in Alaska, Western and Northern Canada and a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/planets/0425saturn.htm"AAGG-land/a! check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation at your location/td/tr tr td26/td td- Moon very near Regulus at 9:00 UT Occultation visible in N.E. Siberia and N.W. North America (but not here at the AAGG home!) check a href="http://www.lunar-occultations.com/iota/iotandx.htm"IOTA/a for occultation at your location/td/tr tr td29/td td- Mars (1.0 mag) 0.68 deg from Uranus (5.9 mag) at 4:00 UT /td/tr tr td30/td td- Moon at apogee 11:00 UT 406,209 km and angular size 29.4'/td/tr/tbody /table b h3Monthly a href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/dss_messier.asp"Messier/a*/h3/bThis month highlights galaxies and gets us ready for the big spring galaxy push of the Virgo Cluster later in the month. Most of these can be detected in binoculars or small telescopes and I recommend doing so just for the practice of navigation, averted vision and patience! Then you can pull out the big dog and make these galaxies bark! /font/p p /p ulfont size="3"lia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/w/0/w4.jpg"M40/a - This is a pair of faint stars located in Ursa Major. They are a tough find in binoculars, and you will be challenged to split them with binoculars. In telescopes, they appear to be an identical pair of stars and easy to split even at low power. There is enough dark space around them that even in a smaller telescope they look like a pair of eyes staring back at you. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3556.jpg"M108/a - This galaxy will appear as a thin streak of light in telescopes, there is a definite brightening towards the middle. M108 is a very tough object for the largest binoculars. In a smaller scope the spindle shape helps identify M108. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3587.jpg"M97/a - This planetary nebula in Ursa Major, also called the Owl nebula, appears as a fairly large, round, hazy patch of light in a telescope. It is in the same field of view as M108 at low to medium powers. Use averted vision to see the faint glow of the Owl nebula through binoculars. The two dark eyes do not become apparent until you throw some aperture into the mix but if you are patience and well dark adapted (and in dark skies) you can just start to see the eyes in a 10quot; or so. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3992.jpg"M109/a - This spiral galaxy in Ursa Major appears as a small, oval patch of light. It can be found in the same field of view as Gamma UMa at low to medium power in a telescope. Use large binoculars under good conditions for a chance of seeing this one. Its bright center and bar pop out first in smaller scopes and you can detect a 'halo' around the core. Adding more mirror will bring out the spiral arms. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/4/n4258.jpg"M106/a - This galaxy in Canes Venatici appears as an oval patch of light, larger than M109, with a fairly bright core. A tough, but possible binocular target. In smaller scopes look for the brighter edge points around the halo that mark clustering in the middle spiral arms. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3351.jpg"M95/a - This galaxy in Leo appears as a faint round patch of light with a bright nucleus. Large binoculars and good conditions are a must. Larger scopes will bring out the spiral arms which make this look more like an oval with a dot in the middle than your typical spiral. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3368.jpg"M96/a - Look for M96 in the same low power telescope field as M95. Another round patch of light, slightly larger and brighter than M95, it too has a stellar core. Binocular advice for M96 is the same as M95. This is the galaxy I see first as a bright blob, even with a larger telescope the blobbiness stays about the same. /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3379.jpg"M105/a - This is a small elliptical galaxy in Leo, and can be found in the same low power field as M96. It looks like a small fuzzy star. M105 has a close companion galaxy, NGC 3384, which is only slightly smaller and fainter than M105. To prevent confusion, M105 is the closer of the pair to M96. Not possible in binoculars, except maybe with averted quot;imaginationquot;. This is the proto-typical UFO (unidentified fuzzy object) /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3623.jpg"M65/a - A small, but relatively bright galaxy in Leo. It is an elongated oval patch of light with a bright stellar core. A tough, but possible binocular target. This galaxy's spindle shape helps distinguish it from.... /lilia href="http://www.ngcic.org/dss/n/3/n3627.jpg"M66/a - A close companion galaxy to M65, it can be seen in the same low to medium power field as M65. M66 is another oval patch of light, brighter and slightly wider than M65. Another possible binocular target. While you are here be sure to look for a thin streak of light, which is the galaxy NGC 3628. It can be found north of M66 in the same low power telescope field as both M65 and M66. Now once you finish with M66 in your smaller scope go find someone with a big scope and take a look..or just follow the like provided. The is a beautiful galaxy 'up close' and appears to be twisting in on itself. /li/font/ul font size="3"*Monthly Messier information gleaned from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Moncton Centre Quebec and from the Astronomy Connection website. /fontpfont size="3"b h3Historical and Current Events/h3/b table tbody tr tdb...Did you know?/b/td tdbr type="_moz"//td/tr tr tdbAprilbr//b/td tdbr type="_moz"//td/tr tr td2/td td-First photograph of the sun taken (1845) /td/tr tr td5/td td-10th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Ganymede 7 Flyby /td/tr tr td11/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wallace_Campbell"William Wallace Campbell's/a 145th birthday (1862)-pioneer observer of stellar motions and radial velocities /td/tr tr td12/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin"Yuri Gagarin/a became the first man in space (1961) /td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td-Columbia became the first Space Shuttle launched /td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Maunder"Edward Mauder's/a 156th Birthday (1851) /td/tr tr td14/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Huygens"Christian Huygens'/a 348th Birthday (1629) /td/tr tr td16/td td- a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilbur_Wright"Wilbur Wright's/a 140th Birthday (1867) /td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td- a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_Davinci"Leonardo DaVinci's/a 555th Birthday (1452) /td/tr tr tdbr type="_moz"//td td-35th Anniversary (1972), Apollo 16 Launch (Manned Moon Landing)/td/tr tr td17/td td-40th Anniversary (1967), Surveyor 3 Launch (Moon Lander) /td/tr tr td19/td td-25th Anniversary (1982), Salyut 7 Space Station Launch /td/tr tr td22/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Jeffreys"Sir Harold Jeffreys'/a 117th Birthday /td/tr tr td23/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Planck"Max Planck's/a 149th Birthday /td/tr tr td24/td td-17th Anniversary (1970), China's first satellite (Shi Jian 1)/td/tr tr td28/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Oort"Jan Oort's/a 107th Birthday /td/tr tr td30/td td-a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Friedrich_Gauss"Johann Carl Frederich Gauss'/a 230th Birthday /td/tr/tbody /table /font/p h3font size="3"bAstronomical Highlights for 2007/b/font/h3 pfont size="3"bEarth's major motions for a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/EarthSeasons.html"2007/abr//b table tbody tr tdPerihelion/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdJan 3 20h(UT)/td/tr tr tdFirst Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdFeb 2-6/td/tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdMar 21 00:07(UT)/td/tr tr tdSecond Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdMay 4-7/td/tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdJune 21 18:06(UT)/td/tr tr tdAphelion/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdJuly 4 00h (UT) /td/tr tr tdThird Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdAug 5-8/td/tr tr tdEquinox/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdSept 23 19:51(UT)/td/tr tr tdFourth Cross Quarter Day/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdNov 5-8/td/tr tr tdSolstice/td tdbr type="_moz"//td tdDec 22 06:08(UT)/td/tr/tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bPlanet Positions for 2007/bbr/ table tbody tr tdbr type="_moz"//td tdbJan/b/td tdbFeb/b/td tdbMar/b/td tdbApr/b/td tdbMay/b /td tdbJun/b/td tdbJul/b/td tdbAug/b/td tdbSep/b/td tdbOct/b/td tdbNov/b/td tdbDec/b/td/tr tr tdbVenus/b/td tdSgr/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdLeo/td tdSex/td tdCnc/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdVir/td/tr tr tdbMars/b/td tdOph/td tdSgr/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdAqr/td tdPsc/td tdAri/td tdTau/td tdTau/td tdGem/td tdGem/td tdGem/td/tr tr tdbJupiter/b/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td tdOph/td/tr tr tdbSaturn/b/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo /td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td tdLeo/td/tr tr tdbUranus/b/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu /td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td tdAqu/td/tr tr tdbNeptune/b/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap /td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td tdCap/td/tr/tbody /table /font/p pfont size="3"bEclipses for 2007/b /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 19/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/1112007/L2007Mar03.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-1.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0222007/"animation/a!): The first solar eclipse of 2007 occurs at the Moon's ascending node in Pisces and is visible from eastern Asia and parts of northern Alaska /font/p pfont size="3"bSeptember 11/b - partial solar eclipse (a href="http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/eclipse/map207.pdf"see map/a, a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/LC/LC2007-2.html"times/a, and a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclipse/0422007/"animation/a): The last eclipse of 2007 is a partial solar eclipse at the Moon's descending node in southern Leo. Its visibility is confined to parts of South America, Antarctica and the South Atlantic /font/p pfont size="3"bMarch 3-4/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Mar03-Fig1.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in the Arctic region, Africa, Europe, Asia except for extreme eastern region, most of Indonesia, western Australia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica, extreme eastern South America, Greenland, the Indian Ocean, the South Atlantic Ocean, and the eastern North Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in Africa, Europe, western Asia, Queen Maud Land of Antarctica and Antarctic Peninsula, South America, eastern North America, Greenland, the Arctic region, the Atlantic Ocean, the western Indian Ocean, and the extreme eastern South Pacific Ocean. /font/p pfont size="3"bAugust 28/b - total lunar eclipse (a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/OH/image1/LE2007Aug28-Fig3.GIF"see map/a): The beginning of the umbral phase visible in North America, South America except extreme east, Antarctica except for Enderby Land, New Zealand, eastern Australia, extreme northeastern Asia, the Pacific Ocean, and the western Atlantic Ocean; the end visible in New Zealand, Australia, most of Antarctica except Queen Maud Land, Indonesia, eastern Asia, western North America, the Pacific Ocean, and the southeastern Indian Ocean. /font/p font size="3"Eclipse information from: a href="http://sunearth.gsfc.nasa.gov/eclipse/solar.html"NASA Eclipse Homepage/a, a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/"Eclipses Online/a (HM Nautical Almanac Office, UK in coordination with the a href="http://www.eclipse.org.uk/eclbin/query_usno.cgi"U.S. Naval Observatory/a) /fontpfont size="3"bMeteor Showers for 2007/bbr/ /font/p pfont size="3"As luck would have it, all the imajor/i meteor showers reach their peaks in 2007 with the Moon out of the sky. Any of these showers can produce dozens of shooting stars each dark hour leading up to dawn. /font/p font size="3"Mark your calendar to look for...br/ /fontulfont size="3"liLyrids on April 23rd /liliPerseids on August 13th /liliOrionids on October 21st /liliLeonids on November 18th /liliGeminids on the night of December 13-14 (Meteor enthusiasts are keenly awaiting the Geminids in 2007 because their progenitor, the defunct comet Phaethon, precedes them in a flyby of Earth on December 10th.) /li/font/ul pfont size="3"bComets for April/b/font/p font size="3"a href="http://cometography.com/current_comets.html"Gary Kronk's/a comet and meteor pagesbr/a href="http://www.skyhound.com/sh/skyhound.html"Skyhound/a Comet pages /fontpfont size="3"Help us out by leaving a donation in the ol' PayPal hat or write us a favorable review in iTunes of Podcast Pickle or iPodder! /font/p pfont size="3"bMusic/b a href="http://www.scottishguitarquartet.com/"Scottish Guitar Quartet/a -quot;Romance within youquot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=cdef1ecef0d12844ed816b922fcada5d"Amplifico/a - quot;You can be my musequot;br/a href="http://music.podshow.com/music/producers/producerLibrary/artistdetails.php?Band Hash=e977d9fe1752677fabc8e4741087178f"Rough Sax/a - quot;Monique by Moonlightquot;br//font/p
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