The 365 Days of Astronomy

From October 1, 2007.

Jupiter's mass is about 2.5 times the mass of all the rest of the planets and rocks and chunks of stuff that aren't part of the Sun in the entire solar system combined. 

Fraser & Pamela chat at length about our solar system's big brother.

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Summary of content:  What to look out, and up, for in July.

Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planet on offer to observers and imagers:

- Mars

- Saturn

A Venus conjunction

And a few tips on how to take images of the solar system’s largest bodies with a webcam, planetary imaging camera or DSLR.

Next up is the meteor showers and, due to the long daylight hours and dearth of cometary debris in this part of Earth’s orbit this time of year, we only have one shower of note in July:

- Delta Aquariids peaking 28th/29th July

Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

Jeni – NGC6826: The Blinking Star Nebula

Ralph – Epsilon Lyrae: The Double Double

Paul – M22, a globular Cluster in Sagittarius.

And we finish this sky guide with July’s moon phases and planetary conjunctions.

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Chances to see all 5 visible planets with warm nights are making July fantastic this year.

PLANETS...well, the ones visible with your naked eye

Planets you can see around Sunset – Jupiter (W), Mars & Saturn (S→SW), Venus (NW), Mercury (W – end of the month)

Planets you can see throughout the night – Mars & Saturn (S→SW)

Planets you can see in the Morning – None

Mercury – Difficult to see this month, but after July 22nd or so, look west after sunset and it will be only a fist-width above the horizon, and only a few degrees up and to the left of much brighter Venus.

Venus – comes around the back of the Sun this month, so look W after the first week of July, and you might catch bright Venus just before it sets, half an hour after the Sun does.

Mars & Saturn– Look south after sunset and bring a sky map of Scorpius and Libra.  Mars has moved into Libra, while Saturn remains in Scorpius.  Mars will be the bright-ish reddish light above and to the right of Scorpius, inside Libra. Saturn will be less bright than Mars, and and above Antares, the brightest star in Scorpius.  They will move westward and by 1am, Mars will have set in the southwest, with Saturn a little over an hour behind.

Jupiter – Look west after sunset and Jupiter will be the very bright light left of Leo the Lion. It will be setting in the W around 11pm.  Get your observing of Jupiter in now. By August, it will be setting during dusk, and in September it will be behind the Sun.

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Streamed live Jun 24, 2016.

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Dr. James Green, Director of NASA's Planetary Science Division. We talk about the Juno mission to Jupiter and Pluto, Mars and lots of awesome planetary goodness!
Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com & @MorganRehnberg )

Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )

Their stories this week:
- Blue Origin's 4th launch

- Evidence for Mars' volcanic history & tridymite!

- Solstice full Moon

- Water under pluto

- Brexit impacts UK science

- New all-sky meteor network

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Questions: What is cosmic inflation? Why is the universe's inflation rate faster than the speed of light? Doesn’t that violate Einstein's special relativity?

Lets start with inflation first. 

What is inflation and why did it happen?

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Streamed live on Apr 9, 2015

Special Guest:  Dr. Ed Rivera-Valentin

On November 1, 1963, the Arecibo Observatory officially opened. Since then, we have expanded the frontiers of radar and radio astronomy with major discoveries such as ice at Mercury’s poles, the first detection of exoplanets, and confirmation of the existence of gravitational radiation, which earned the Nobel Prize in physics in 1993. Unlike in most astronomy, with radar the observer can control the signal used to illuminate the target. This ability has helped us reveal information from the depths of the martian crust to the surface of cloudy Venus. Because radar can very accurately resolve an object’s position in time and space, the Arecibo Observatory has played a pivotal role in observing near-Earth asteroids and assessing their potential impact hazard for Earth. From the mountaintops of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, the observatory stands as one of the first lines of defense for our planet. Here, I discuss the role the Arecibo Observatory has played throughout the years, focusing on planetary radar and its use in unraveling the mysteries of our Solar System. The Arecibo Observatory is a facility of the National Science Foundation operated by SRI International, USRA, and UMET. The planetary radar is funded through the NASA Near-Earth Object Observations program.

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This week I chat with Ian Roederer of the University of Michigan radio about stellar origins, flows of elements, and. . .small problems.

Special thanks to The Ohio State University for hosting this recording session.

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Streamed live Jun 24, 2016.

One of the finest summertime constellations is Sagittarius. It's stars form a nice asterism of a teapot with a sugar spoon to one side and steam rising from the teapot's spout. How cool is that?

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https://archive.org/details/telescopeman_Tom_Smith_July2012

Joe Lalumina hosts.

TelescopeMan records Tom C. Smith of the Dark Ridge Observatory at the July 2012 speaker at the monthly meeting of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas. www.texasastro.org

Tom discusses Robotic Observatory Operations and Procedures.

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In recent years, astronomers have discovered regions around black holes that are giving off a crazy amount of X-rays – a lot more than what should be possible. They call these things Ultra Luminous X-ray sources, or ULXes for short.

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