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Sidewalk Astronomy Oct 28, ISS pass tonight

by Jane Houston Jones

ISS pass twilight tonight: Tue Oct 17 6:35 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 87°, Appears: 10° above NW, Disappears: 10° above SE. Nearly overhead, but since it won't be dark yet, you might not see some of the first minute or so. For those not in the LA region, you can get your own alerts by signing up for the Spot The Station emails. https://spotthestation.nasa.gov/ A lot of people enjoyed the Vandenberg launch "alert" I sent out, but some missed it, because there was a launch delay. These launches are often delayed, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes until the next day, so it's best to check these websites http://www.spacearchive.info/index.htm containing Launch schedules and more. At the bottom of the page is the way to join the email list http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/launch-alert and launch alert newsletter http://www.spacearchive.info/newsletter.htm Spaceflight Now always has live coverage of launches, to check on delays https://spaceflightnow.com/ I'll continue to post launches likely to be visible, but you'll have to find out any delays there, space twitter accounts, or launch services accounts. Our next sidewalk Astronomy will be the 28th, 7 p.m. until 9 p.m. or maybe 9:30, whenever the crowds thin out. It is International Observe the Moon Night, with astronomy clubs around the world holding events. We'll be passing out NASA moon lithos, Saturn halloween stickers, Saturn planet stickers and Cassini pins. I'll have plenty of all for everyone who wants one. Here are some great Observe the moon materials for download https://www.lpi.usra.edu/observe_the_moon_night/event-materials/ I especially like the first one, scroll down for resources and you'll find Northern Hemisphere view of the moon on October 28th. Click on it and there are sights to look for through binos or telescopes. Maybe we'll have a few smaller telescopes to have people try and find a couple of the targets, or try them at home. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/observe_the_moon_night/event-materials/ November 11-12is our twice-a-year Mojave National Preserve dark sky party (some of us will be there Friday night Nov 10 also and you are welcome to make a 2 night event, potluck only on Saturday night, breakfast only on Sunday morning. Free but RSVP here. https://www.facebook.com/events/1923366914543228/ What's Up October is in all the usual places including this one: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/news/2017/09/28/whats-up-for-october-2017 Finally, We have some gorgeous posters for Cassini, Voyager and some spacey travel posters made by our talented graphics folks at JPL. Download and print! Cassini https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/7763/ Voyager https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/downloads/ Travel posters https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/visions-of-the-future/ Enjoy!! And see you next week! Jane -- Jane Houston Jones @jhjones @otastro What's Up October? All The Things: Planets, Stars. Meteors, Asteroids,#ObserveTheMoon https://youtu.be/Pct7jr7KrBo

6 years, 6 months

Sidewalk Astronomy tonight!

by Jane Houston Jones

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

6 years, 7 months

Next Sidewalk Astronomy Sept 30, plus some visible launches and ISS pass tonight

by Jane Houston Jones

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

6 years, 7 months

Cancel Sidewalk Astro 2nite. Clouds and rain forecast.

by Jane Houston Jones

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

6 years, 8 months

Sidewalk Astronomy tonight

by Jane Houston Jones

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

6 years, 8 months

Sidewalk next 2 Saturday,s next Mojave Star Party Nov 11-12

by Jane Houston Jones

Hi everybody! Mojo and I are making our way back from the total eclipse. We had about 20 folks from our Old Town Sidewalk Astronomer email list and astronomers family along for the trip, and I think we are all still speechless. Sidewalk astronomy Saturday 7:30 p.m. There is also a Wine Walk along Myrtle, we're not part of that ticketed event which is from 6 - 9 p.m. Mojave Star Party RSVP: Nov 11-12 Our next Mojave National Preserve Star party is right around the corner! Reserve here https://www.facebook.com/MojaveNationalPreserveConservancy/photos/gm.192336… or call 760-219-4916 or email dlamfrom(a)npca.org. Always free. Always awesome. Fabulous potluck, free camping, a firepit away from the telescopes. This will begin our 10th year of these twice-a-year dark sky public star parties. Join us!! -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up August? #Eclipse2017 https://youtu.be/Owm8sJU0ze0

6 years, 8 months

Nice ISS Pass tonight

by Jane Houston Jones

Heads up! Time: Sat Aug 12 8:47 PM, Visible: 3 min, Max Height: 79°, Appears: 30° above NW, Disappears: 28° above SE Many of us are already starting our Eclipse treks to the Path of totality. We'll post photos on the Old Town Sidewalk Astronomers Facebook site, set to public so anyone can see them. Once again, here is a nice animation of what the local partial eclipse will look like: https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/los-angeles And what the total eclcipse will look like from St. Anthony Idaho! https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/@7174357 Clear skies everyone!! Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up August? #Eclipse2017 https://youtu.be/Owm8sJU0ze0

6 years, 9 months

Astro events during the next month (lots)

by Jane Houston Jones

A new month has lots to offer for lovers of the day-time and night-time sky. Partial Eclipse on Aug 21 - partial from here in California. https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/in/usa/los-angeles Perseids from a mooney bright night on the 12th. Times for partial eclipse from LA: Eclipse Begins: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 9:05 am Maximum: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 10:21 am Ends: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 11:44 am I have handed out solar eclipse glasses to many of you who stopped by at Saturday's sidewalk astronomy event, and I will have some more at Library Park Saturday Aug 5th. I will be out of them after that event. Google safe solar eclipse glasses to order some if you want them. Our schedule is up on the website http://www.otastro.org/. Aug 26/Sep 2 Sidewalk Astronomy in Monrovia. (One or the other date or both depending on our total solar eclipse travels and work schedules). Mojave National Preserve Star Party schedule Nov 11 and May 12. This will mark our 10th year doing our favorite event -- sharing dark skies with our friends with help from the Mojave National Preserve, Mojave National Preserve National Preserve Conservancy, and the National Park Conservation Association. All three are worthy of your visits and hopefully advocacy. Our fall event -- just a few months ago-- was featured in this wonderful National Park video -- This is truly what is like at out Mojave events! https://www.npca.org/resources/3185-find-your-voice-mojave-national-preserv… Promotional information My Monthly What's Up video is all about the Eclipse https://youtu.be/Owm8sJU0ze0 Last Month's is about related Moon Phases and is a good lead in to August https://youtu.be/jz9J_ADW5R4 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nasa/ There will be three small 1 minute vids this month ( one about the Persied meteor shower, two eclipse related) Three for last month too. Scroll down if you like Instagram. Tumblr: Scroll for What's Up! https://nasa.tumblr.com/ That's all for now. Q's about eclipse, observing things around LA (or how to avoid the light pollution) shoot me an email. And welcome a dozen new members to the list! -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up August? #Eclipse2017 https://youtu.be/Owm8sJU0ze0

6 years, 9 months

Fwd: SpotTheStation

by Jane Houston Jones

Another one 8:19 pm tonight. Will try from Hollywood bowl in 10 mins. -------- Original Message -------- From: HQ-spotthestation(a)mail.nasa.gov Sent: July 25, 2017 8:57:22 AM PDT To: jane(a)whiteoaks.com Subject: SpotTheStation Time: Tue Jul 25 8:19 PM, Visible: 5 min, Max Height: 87°, Appears: 30° above SW, Disappears: 10° above NE -- From Jane, sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

6 years, 9 months

Good ISS pass tonight, Sidewalk Astro next Saturday, Eclipse news

by Jane Houston Jones

Hi everyone WE have an excellent ISS pass tonight: Sat Jul 22 9:18 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 66°, Appears: 11° above SW, Disappears: 11° above NE We'll have a few telescopes out in Monrovia Saturday night the 29th, and I'll be bringing some Safe Eclipse glasses to hand out. Only two per family, and if you need more you can probably buy them -- Google" Safe Eclipse Glasses", and you'll find them running $1 or $2 per pair. Free shipping on Amazon Prime. The NASA Eclipse page has a couple features I really like: This downloadable page has State Maps, an eclipse safety sheet, and the map of the US. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/downloadables And here is a training doc for our volunteers around the country, and it is a great primer. https://eclipse2017.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/2017EclipseAcrossAmericanP… My July podcast is all about the moon phases, how they relate to eclipses, a little about the eclipse, and end-of month meteor showers! https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/details.php?id=1478 For August'd video, rather than talk about the eclipse, I have "Do-It-Yourself" eclipse science observations for the whole family, including a journal or notebook to make recordings. I will make one this week to show at the sidewalk next week, and bring all the experiments. Most are geared for totality, but not all of them. Feel free to ask, and I'll send you the script ahead of time, so you can make your own journals. It's now less than one month to the total solar eclipse along a narrow band about 70 miles wide spanning the nation from Oregon to South Carolina. Some of your intrepid sidewalk astronomers will be traveling to the centerline in Oregon or Utah (several of us from our astronomers and our mailing list will be in St. Anthony UT along the path of totality) or visiting lucky family or friends elsewhere, and some will not. There will be another US Total Solar Eclipse in 2024, and there are eclipses between now and then for the intrepid eclipse chaser who like travel adventures. OUr group will have the journals, and the activities, and we'll share the results when we return! See you next week I hope! Jane -- Jane Houston Jones Solar System Public Engagement What's Up July? Pre-eclipse prep: let's talk moon phases! https://youtu.be/jz9J_ADW5R4

6 years, 9 months

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