Sorry, but with the heavy clouds, significant "chance" of rain, cool
temperatures and wind we're reluctantly cancelling sidewalk Astronomy
tonight! We had to cancel a school star party last night, and had
significant clouds at our Tuesday school star party too.
It has actually just started to rain here in Monrovia at 3 p.m. Our next
Sidewalk Astronomy is May 23, and don't forget June 13, our next Dark
Sky Star Party/campout/potluck at Mojave National Preserve's Black
Canyon Group Campground (near the Hole in the Wall visitor center.
It's also raining at Griffith Observatory, but there are a lot of free
inside events today and tomorrow celebrating the 25th anniversary of the
Hubble Telescope launch - check them out here
http://www.griffithobs.org/. It's also clouded out up on Mt. Wilson
right now!
Instead, you might enjoy some of the Hubble Telescope 25th anniversary
images including this gorgeous just-released image commemorating the
anniversary.
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2015/12/image/a/
Or some JPL Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/JPLnews/videos
I wish if the rain was going to make us cancel astronomy events, it
would at least be a real downpour!
--
Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up? April 4th lunar eclipse
https://youtu.be/WaTqzp43UI4
Like John Dobson always said when you need to wake up early in the
morning: drink a glass of lemonade before you go to bed -- you need to
wake up to rotate your telescope mirror pitch lap or take it off the
mirror while making a telescope mirror. The same goes for waking up for
a predawn lunar eclipse!
Set your alarms (weather permitting for before 5 a.m. Saturday morning!
Our west coast gets a total lunar eclipse in the morning before dawn! My
video chart shows a 12 minute totality (via USNO & S&T) but depending
where you measure the deepest shadow (the umbra) some websites and most
of the media are saying less than 5 minutes (THE SHORTEST ECLIPSE OF THE
CENTURY). (caps on purpose) So I summed up the different calculation
methods here.
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-view.cfm?WUID=2026
<http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fsolarsystem.nasa.gov%2Fnews%2Fwh…>
Regardless, get your butt out of bed before 5am PT if you can. Totality
is a few minutes before 5 am until a few minutes after 5 am. Pacific.
Training for August 2017!
Video of the eclipse and Whats Up for April: lots!
https://youtu.be/WaTqzp43UI4
Hope we see it!
--
Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up? April 4th lunar eclipse
https://youtu.be/WaTqzp43UI4
8:20 pm tonight! Sorry for late alert!
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Yes, weather and schedules align tomorrow night! We'll have nice views
of the moon and Jupiter at Myrtle and Lime 7-9 p.m.
And you can ask me about traveling to the Faroes Islands for the total
Solar Eclipse on March 20th. I just got home last night. Hint: At my
location it was clouded out. I was with 500 school children and their
families at a school community event. There was food, dancing and
although we didn't see the total eclipse due to clouds, the sky darkened
as dark as night. It was dramatic! One of my friends on the Eclipse
trip, with 19 total solar eclipses under her belt, called it the most
emotional eclipse she had ever witnessed. And the darkest!
Around the Faroe Islands many people saw the eclipse, or saw it just
before or just after totality. (My hotel staff did see it, for example,
and their relatives in the next town may have missed it.) This was
repeated all over the islands, who last saw a total solar eclipse in
1954! My photos here
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10206467157387364.1073741887.1522…
It's a little late, but my monthly viedo (about the eclipse) is here
http://go.nasa.gov/1BoRmi7
I have scenic pictures of the Faroes. Let me know if you'd like to see them!
--
Jane Houston Jones
Sere. enior Outreach Specialist, Cassini & InSight Missions
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up For March? Solar Eclipse in North Atlantic!
http://go.nasa.gov/1BoRmi7
Weather permitting, we'll be out with telescopes in Monrovia next
Saturday the 28th. Starting at about 6 p.m. for 2 -2.5 hours....
The weather scared us out of taking the 3 hour drive to Amboy Crater
tonight. We'll post observing intents to go there on this list in case
any of you would like to join us. Amboy Crater is BLM land, there really
isn't a place to camp on the lava, but there is a huge parking lot and
pit toilets. So people with telescopes often just observe all night and
pack up in the morning. It's ok to leave before dawn by parking away
from the telescopes - on the way out of the parking lot facing out, and
careful use of car lights. We're a friendly bunch.
There are closer places to observe but none with 360 degree views clear
down to the horizon or located with the darkest skies. Amboy is the
closest place with a "black" pin on this map:
http://cleardarksky.com/csk/prov/California_map.html?Mn=meteorites . We
also go to Glacier Point in Yosemite once a year - if anyone wants to
combine star gazing with a Yosemite trip. More about that when we find
out our date this year. But anyone can head up to Glacier point any
non-full-moon weekend Jul through Labor Day and enjoy looks free looks
through dozens of telescopes set up by sponsoring astronomy clubs
And as a reminder our twice a year Mojave National Preserve Star parties
will be on Saturday June 13th 2015 and Saturday October 17th 2015. The
Black Canyon Group (near Hole in the Wall campground and the visitor
center) will be available Friday night as well. Bring a pot luck item
to share if you want to. After we know how many people are bringing
telescopes, we can let you know if there is room for more - the
telescope platform is rather small - with room for half a dozen scopes
for the public star party.
--
Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up For February? PlanetPairs <3
http://youtu.be/NR8HCsog5MM
Look west just as soon as it gets dark tonight (Friday) and tomorrow
night too and see a pretty pairing of Mars and Venus! They are closer
than they've been in half a dozen years. Tonight you'll see the slender
crescent moon just below the pair, and tomorrow night the moon will be a
little bigger crescent above the planets.
Here's a little blurb I wrote about along with this months What's Up
video. http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/whatsup-archive.cfm
Also, we have selected dates for both the spring and fall Mojave
National Preserve star parties!
The Spring MNP Star Party will be Saturday June 13th 2015 and the Fall
MNP Star Party will be Saturday October 17th 2015. If you haven't joined
us, sometimes lead time will help with you planning. This is a dark sky,
free group campsite in the middle of the Mojave National Preserve (for a
limited number of tents, and there is a RSVP but it is free) a communal
pot luck, some brief words from the Mojave National Preserve
Conservancy, the Rangers, and ahem, me. Then telescopes!
It won't get dark in June until about 9 p.m, but we couldn't make any
dates fit all of our schedules when the campsite was available until
June. That's why we went ahead and selected the fall date ahead of
time. More on that later. For now, get outside and look up, if it is
clear!
Also, three of us may be going to Amboy Crater for dark sky observing
tomorrow. Shoot me an email if you plan to join us - we would leave
around noon- 1 p.m. from Monrovia to set up before dark. There are some
dark sky observing rules about lights, so let me know if you want to
join us, and I'll fill you in.
Jane
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Monrovia, CA
Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up For February? PlanetPairs <3 http://youtu.be/NR8HCsog5MM
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It's a clear and slightly chilly night expected in Monrovia. The
crescent moon will be out early, and later Jupiter might clear the trees
to the east.
While tonight's sky is expected to be very transparent (dark), the other
atmospheric feature that affects astronomy is scintillation, a measure
of how turbulent the air is. Astronomers have a technical term for this:
"seeing." The seeing tonight is not expected to be very good, because of
different layers of air temperature and upper level winds.
That's what gives the slightly watery effect you notice when you view
the moon or planets through a telescope, and it gives stars more of a
twinkle when you look up at the night sky.
Notice the brightest star Sirius tonight due south, and see how it
flashes and changes color as its light passes through the turbulent air.
It's a little like looking up at the sky from the bottom of a deep
swimming pool.
But "seeing" is highly variable! If you look for a while, you will have
moments when you're looking through air that isn't turbulent, and you
can see fine detail: mountain peaks and lava tubes on the moon, cloud
belts and swirls on Jupiter.
Come take a look if you can.
Jane and I have a family engagement tonight so we won't be there, but
Todd and Dave and maybe some others are planning to set up from about
6:00 'til 8:00.
Best regards,
Mojo
--
Morris Jones
Monrovia, CA
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