We'll be out sharing views of the moon and Venus tonight at Myrtle
and Lime Streets in Monrovia tonight. We'll be there by 6:30 for
sure, now that it gets dark earlier!
Read (and listen) to my info about the MAVEN Launch to Mars a week
from Monday, and an comet ISON update. I'll be attending the
launch, bringing agood luck banner to the MAVEN team signed by the
InSight Mission team (I am the outreach person for Insight,
launching to Mars in 2016)
And don't forget our rescheduled Mojave National Preserve star Party
November 30. We'll have a gorgeous sky filled with the remnants of
summer constellations and the Milky Way, which make way for the
constellations of fall. Then in the hour before morning twilight,
we'll (hopefully) be up to look at a few comets. It's unlikely
Comet ISON will be visible (it passes nearest the sun on November
28th, and that means even if it survives, it will be very near the
sun, too close for safe viewing. If there is a comet tail to be
seen on the horizon, we'll let everyone know before they go to bed
saturday night.
Being November, It will be cold probably, but as John Dobson says
"Many are cold, but few are frozen"
I'll end with Mojo's three lovely comet images from our trip to
Amboy Crater last weekend. All three were imaged (and seen visually
through my telescope too) between 3:00am and 4:00am Sunday morning)
Comet R1 Lovejoy
http://whiteoaks.com/astrophotos/2013-11-02/C2013-R1-Lovejoy-2013-11-02.jpg
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Jane Houston Jones
Monrovia, CA
Jane Houston Jones
@jhjones @CassiniSaturn @NASAInsight
What's Up For Nov? Maven Launch Nov 18, Comet ISON races towards the sun
http://youtu.be/MwP1UVCH6ck
My 2013 - Year At A Glance Astro Blog
http://jane.whiteoaks.com/2013/01/07/whats-up-in-2013-at-a-glance/
