http://www.spacepolicyonline.com/news/house-hearing-nasa-needs-stability-except-for-adding-back-lunar-surface-missions

http://www.astronomy.com/news/observe-the-solar-system/2017/02/how-big-is-the-biggest-moon

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-kicks-off-study-to-add-crew-to-first-flight-of-orion-sls-as-progress-continues-to-send

Eagle Spacecraft

Zero X

USS Discovery

Jupiter 2

http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/ask-astro/2016/01/spongy-hyperion

http://acp.dc3.com/planner.html

http://www.bisque.com/sc/pages/TheSkyX-Editions.aspx

http://www.diffractionlimited.com/help/maximdl/Basic_Operation.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iridium_satellite_constellation

Juno Will Stay in Current Orbit Around Jupiter

https://in-the-sky.org/jupiter.php

http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/02/seven-planets-one-solar-system

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v542/n7642/full/nature21360.html

‘Imiloa Astronomy Center Birthday Party

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia21459/a-new-crater-on-a-dusty-slope

http://radio.wosu.org/post/memory-john-glenn-astronomy-park-takes-shape

http://www.blastr.com/2017-2-21/redefining-planets-answer-search-question

Zealandia  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39000936

 

http://www.blastr.com/2017-2-21/redefining-planets-answer-search-question

Notes from an Amateur Telescope Maker’s Journal, Part 1

 

 

 

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38985425

http://www.space.com/35713-winston-churchill-discusses-search-for-alien-life.html

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/this-weeks-sky-at-a-glance-february-17-25/

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38937141

 https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2017-february-26

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/multimedia/black-hole-SagittariusA.html

http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2015/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-antimatter

http://www.cloudynights.com/topic/563755-the-case-of-ngc-891-whats-happened/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/8396454@N03/32886864876/in/dateposted-public/

http://blog.smu.

January saw the Cometwatch team. Recovering from  a Dickens of a Christmas, Illness and Work Commitments.. So yes we are back with our first show of the New Year with Richard Hill who worked at The Catalina Sky Survey ! Hopefully Mary will be back with us next month

 

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/css/

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/

http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rhill/comets.html

 

BAA Comet Section page

BAA Comet Section Visual Observations Page

BAA YouTube Channel

Project Alcock

The Astronomer

The Astronomer  Youtube Channel

The German Comet Group

Seiichi Yoshida’s page

Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia

Comet chasing

International Comet Quarterly

Cometbase

 

https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/SEgoogle/SEgoogle2001/SE2020Dec14Tgoogle.html

http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007PASJ…59..381F

http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2017/02/15/ford-field-lights/97959962/

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/spacex-launch-complex-39a-kennedy-space-center

http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-wants-this-robot-lander-to-look-for-alien-life-on-europa

http://www.egyptianmyths.net/scarab.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dung_beetle

https://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-569

Coordinates for 1SWASP J162117.36+441254.2: R.A. 16 21 17.36 Dec. +44 12 54.1 (2000.0)

https://thespacereporter.com/2017/02/sierra-nevada-proposes-crewed-spacecraft-hubble-repairs/

http://astronomy.com/news/2017/02/potential-hubble-repair-mission

http://www.latimes.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/wonder/moon-much-older-than-previously-thought/vi-AAmOKIg?ocid=iehp

https://www.facebook.com/Astronomy-Outreach-of-Kosovo-1403858876575289/

https://www.facebook.com/Astronomy-Outreach-of-Kosovo-1403858876575289/?pnref=lhc

 

Sorry No Links this week

http://www.spaceweather.com/

https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/%E2%80%8Bdata/realtime-images.html

http://www.eclipse2017.org/2017/path_through_the_US.htm

http://www.eclipse2017.org/xavier_redirect.htm

https://www.aavso.org/aavso-alert-notice-566

http://www.businessinsider.com/ancient-continents-crystals-plate-tectonics-2017-1

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/cassini-spacecraft-images-saturn-rings-1.3961786

http://www.popsci.com/cassini-photos-saturn-rings

http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/

http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-flight-history/spaceflight-heritage-legacy-sts-107/

http://gizmodo.com/how-astronauts-brains-are-changed-by-spaceflight-1791870482

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/how-stressful-will-a-trip-to-mars-be-on-the-human-body-we-now-have-a-peek-into-what-the-...

Sidd Bikkannavar

6 February at 00:23 ·

Sorry for the absence. On my way home to the US last weekend, I was detained by Homeland Security and held with others who were stranded under the Muslim ban. CBP officers seized my phone and wouldn’t release me until I gave my access PIN for them to copy the data. I initially refused, since it’s a JPL-issued phone (Jet Propulsion Lab property) and I must protect access. Just to be clear – I’m a US-born citizen and NASA engineer, traveling with a valid US passport. Once they took both my phone and the access PIN, they returned me to the holding area with the cots and other sleeping detainees until they finished copying my data.

I’m back home, and JPL has been running forensics on the phone to determine what CBP/Homeland Security might have taken, or whether they installed anything on the device. I’ve also been working with JPL legal counsel. I removed my Facebook page until I was sure this account wasn’t also compromised by the intrusion into my phone and connected apps. I hope no one was worried. JPL issued me a new phone and new phone number, which I’ll give out soon.

Pranvera Hyseni of Astronomy Outreach of Kosovo was invited to be the keynote speaker at the Texas Star Party as well as attend several astronomy and other scientific events here in the US, but her visa was denied. She posted the following video thanking her colleagues and fans for their support. https://www.facebook.com/pranvera.hyseni.9/videos/1347456821941455/

https://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/sunspots/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/02/08/a-full-moon-lunar-eclipse-and-comet-all-in-one-night-heres-how-to-watch-it-friday/?utm_term=.afaefe1ea5b1

Green Comet Makes Close Earth Flyby

http://www.theverge.com/2017/2/7/14538872/tornado-nasa-michoud-new-orleans-louisiana

https://www.cnet.

No StarStorm this week , but here are the links ,

God Speed Gene, we will miss you ……..

And Happy Birthday  Buzz !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qcO1MAsiXo

http://astronomy.fm/2017/01/16/rip-capt-eugenegene-cernan-usn-ret-march-14-1934-to-january-16-2017/

https://www.nasa.gov/astronautprofiles/cernan

http://www.sciencealert.com/curiosity-just-found-the-first-evidence-of-ancient-mud-cracks-on-mars

http://www.braeunig.us/space/specs/skylab.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-IVB

http://scitechdaily.com/ucla-study-shows-the-moon-is-older-than-previously-thought/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldest_dated_rocks

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-noaa-data-show-2016-warmest-year-on-record-globally

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/sky-at-a-glance/

http://scitechdaily.com/nasas-mars-curiosity-rover-examines-possible-mud-cracks/