September 2017 - OTEvents - Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers

Sidewalk Astronomy tonight!
by Jane Houston Jones 30 Sep '17

30 Sep '17

A few of us Sidewalk Astronomers will be at Monrovia's Library park tonight, and others will be working at Griffith Observatory or showing the stars at the last of this year's Monrovia Canyon camp out tonight. Stop by for great views of Saturn and the moon! -- Jane Houston Jones @jhjones @otastro What's Up October? All The Things: Planets, Stars. Meteors, Asteroids,#ObserveTheMoon https://youtu.be/Pct7jr7KrBo

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Next Sidewalk Astronomy Sept 30, plus some visible launches and ISS pass tonight
by Jane Houston Jones 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Hi everyone. We;ll be out at Monrovia's Library Pary Saturday Sept 30 from about 7:30 - 9:30 p.m., weather permitting. Hope to see you! I'll have some Cassini End of Mission pins and stickers to handout to people who ask for them. Tonight at 8:06 p.m. there is an ISS pass visible from our southern California location. Look SSW - it will start to be visible 11° above horizon, rising to 48°and then disappearing SSE after 3 minutes. Later tonight at 10:30 p.m. Pacific time an Atlas V will launch from Vandenburg AFB, which is about 170 miles nearly due West from Monrovia. If you step out and look west you may see it. If you do, let me know as there will be a NASA launch (Insight Mission to Mars in May 2018) which will also be an afternoon launch (I think) from Vandenberg, and may be visible from here too! We've seen Vandenburg launches from our driveway in Monrovia! Also a reminder November 11-12 will be our semi-annual Mojave National Preserve star party, and begins our tenth year of providing this fabulous public dark sky event! It's free, but RSVP so the Mojave National Preserve Conservancy knows how many people car camping/attending. Potluck item welcome. We'll bring the telescopes! https://www.facebook.com/events/1923366914543228/ See you soon under the stars! -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up September? Milky WayRoad Trip https://go.nasa.gov/2gz0UFL

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Cancel Sidewalk Astro 2nite. Clouds and rain forecast.
by Jane Houston Jones 03 Sep '17

03 Sep '17

We'll try again Sept 30! Jane -- From Jane, sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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Sidewalk Astronomy tonight
by Jane Houston Jones 02 Sep '17

02 Sep '17

It's cooling a little in Monrovia, and we are planning another sidewalk astronomy night at Library Park, Myrtle and Lime Streets, Monrovia from 7:30 until 9 or 9:30 p.m. tonight. Sept 2nd. We'll be showing Saturn and the moon again tonight. Many of you know I work on the Cassini Mission to Saturn, and you may also know the mission will end with Cassini entering and burning up in the atmosphere of Saturn's atmosphere Sept 15th. Tonight will be the last sidewalk astronomy night with Cassini in orbit around beautiful Saturn. We should also see Titan tonight, Saturn's largest moon, and the second largest moon in the solar system, behind Jupiter's Ganymede, which is just a tiny bit bigger. Read more, and see all the cool new content we've been adding to the Cassini website all year. Gorgeous posters and more! Welcome to the many folks who have joined our email list since last week's little article (and cover photo) in the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce magazine Monrovia Insider. If you didn't get it, or "filed" it already, it will appear here on the Monrovia Chamber of Commerce website soon. http://www.monroviacc.com/pages/Home I had a lot of fun reminiscing about how Mojo and I "discovered" our sidewalk astronomy home in 2003. As always, on the first of every month my What's Up Video is posted on NASA and JPL's websites, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Tumblr platforms! Here's the JPL web version https://go.nasa.gov/2gz0UFL This month, I will take you on a late summer road trip, along the Milky Way! Nearly all the photos were taken at our twice-a-year free dark sky star party and potluck dinner at the Mojave National Preserve's Black Canyon Group Campsite. You can find out more on our website Otastro.org. Our next Sidewalk Astronomy nights are Sept 30 and Mot 28, not Sept and Oct 15th as I erroneously published in the Monrovia Insider. I'll put together an album of our fabulous eclipse trip to Idaho soon. Let me know if you'd like to hear more about our Sidewalk Astronomers clipse adventure. Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up September? Milky WayRoad Trip https://go.nasa.gov/2gz0UFL

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