Category: Space


Israeli moon landing

Israeli moon landing

coming.

Israel has joined 7 others in orbit around the moon and will soon join three dominate countries by landing on the earths orbiting cousin. The landing will be attempted on Thursday April 11th with their Beresheet space craft. The attempt will be between the hour of 7-8 AM Universal time. ( 12- 1pm PDT on the west coast.)

In position now

A crucial six-minute engine burn was performed on April 4, in order to reduce Beresheet’s velocity relative to the moon by about 620 miles per hour (1,000 kph) – just enough for lunar gravity to capture the spacecraft and prevent it from simply sailing past the moon. Beresheet’s orbit now has a high point of 6,213 miles (10,000 km) and a low point of 310 miles (500 km) above the moon’s surface. It will continue to settle into a circular orbit of about 124 miles (200 km), before it begins its descent.

Earth Sky.

On this Day: April 11th 1909

Tel Aviv is founded.

Space a frontier…

The northern part of the Artic ( Devon Island ) is going to be used by Goggle and Nasa to help understand conditions on Mars. This from Earth Sky news.


A crewed mission to Mars might be a long way off, but researchers are busy preparing, nonetheless. One of the best ways to prepare is by training scientists and testing new technologies in some of the most Mars-like locations on Earth, simulating the experience as much as possible.

Earth Sky news

On this Day: April 2nd 1513

Ponce de Leon arrives in Florida.

Full Super Moon March 20th

Last full moon in March, 20th 6:42,PM, PDT

The Moon will be completely full in this time zone tomorrow at 6:42, PM, PDT.

What has the full moon got to do with Easter?
As a rule, Easter is on the Sunday after the first full moon of spring.

Source full moon info

On this Day: March 19th 1813

David Livingston is born in Scotland.

TGIF- eclipse

Sunday saw a total lunar eclipse of the moon high in the sky because of the season. It resulted in a great dark sky. The total eclipse lasted 61 minutes as the moon sat like a washed pearl in a black abyss .

On this Day: May 26th 2021

The next total lunar eclipse…

How many super moons in 2019?

Moon rising File photo KDG

A moon coming to within 90 percent of its closest approach or 364,740 Kilometers of earth is super moon according to a 1979 definition.The next one is next week On January 21st. The year 2019 will see 3 more, August 1st and 3oth, and September 28th!

January’s moon a blood moon.

Next weeks moon is to be a blood moon where the shadow of the earth gets on the moon when all lined up with the sun and makes an eclipse.

Farmers Almanac take:

Totality will last a bit longer than average: 1 hour and 2 minutes. The eclipse will actually begin when the Moon enters the faint outer portion (called the penumbra) of the Earth’s shadow about an hour before it begins moving into the umbra. The penumbra, however, is all but invisible to the eye until the Moon becomes deeply immersed in it. Sharp-eyed viewers may get their first glimpse of the penumbra as a faint “smudge” on the left part of the Moon’s disk about a half hour after it first enters the penumbral shadow.

Source Farmers Almanac, Joe Rao

On this Day: January 16th 1964

Hello Dolly opens on Broadway to begin a run to nearly 3000 performances.

Wolf moon and eclipse coming January 20-21st!

Moon over Merritt .
File Photo KDG

Visible in North America

The month of January is shaping up good for sky watchers. One event is a full moon on the 20th – 21st with a lunar eclipse.

Totality, or total coverage of the moon, will begin at 11:41 p.m. ET on January 20 (4:41 UT on January 21) and will last for 62 minutes. The entire 3.5-hour event—including partial eclipses before and after totality—will be visible from the Americas, Greenland, Iceland, western Europe, and western Africa. Sky-watchers in eastern Europe and eastern Africa will witness only the partial eclipse, while people in most of Asia will not see any part of the sky show.

Source :National Geographic

Kamloops start,6:36 PM January 20th,19.6 degrees. Totality begins 8:41 PM, pacific time, altitude 38 degrees.

West of the Behive Cluster

The eclipse will take place in the Cancer Constellation, a little west of the Beehive Cluster,Five hours 12 minutes from start to finish if you include the penumbral events preceding the event.

Done Kamloops time 11: 48 PM, 58.3 degrees altitude.

On this Day: January 2nd 2004

The Stardust probe flies past Comet Wild 2

TGIF- Solstice

October 1st 1958 NASA open for business...
File Photo KDG

Shortest Day 2018

The winter solstice is on us again, December 21st at 2:23 PM pacific time the earth will begin its swing to equal daylight and night in March and then its 23 degree tip toward the sun giving us the longest daylight hours on the June summer solstice. The trip to spring is 88.99 days.

On this Day: December 21st 1937

Snow White an animated film is shown

The second extra stellar vehicle…

October 1st 1958 NASA open for business...
File Photo KDG

Voyager 2

Voyager 2  left the solar system on December 5th 2018, it becomes the second interstellar craft to leave on an observation and contact mission. Voyager 1 preceded it on August 25th 2012 after doing its primary mission of data collection from Jupiter and Saturn. It also collected data on the  Saturn’s moon Titan. The December 5th entry in to the Interstellar medium was reported by NASA on December 10th. the two twin probes  were launched 16 days apart.

Voyager 2 now is slightly more than 11 billion miles (18 billion km) from Earth. Mission operators still can communicate with Voyager 2 as it enters this new phase of its journey, but information – moving at the speed of light – takes about 16.5 hours to travel from the spacecraft to Earth. By comparison, light traveling from the sun takes about eight minutes to reach Earth. Together, the two Voyagers provide a detailed glimpse of how our heliosphere interacts with the constant interstellar wind flowing from beyond.

Source NASA

Golden records

Each Voyager space craft carries a golden record that could last billions of years and carrying photos, recordings and messages for possible contact.

On this Day: December 11,1962

Bill Wilson  a principal founder of  Alcoholics anonymous enters treatment for the last time.

Moon Base Alpha…

As reflected in NASA’s Exploration Campaign, the next step in human spaceflight is the establishment of U.S. preeminence in cislunar space through the operations and the deployment of a U.S.-led Gateway. Together with the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion, the Gateway is central to advancing and sustaining human space exploration goals and is the unifying single stepping off point in our architecture for human cislunar operations, lunar surface access and missions to Mars. The Gateway is necessary to achieving the ambitious exploration campaign goals set forth by Space Policy Directive 1. Through partnerships both domestic and international, NASA will bring innovation and new approaches to the advancement of these U.S. human spaceflight goals Source NASA

Nasa official site May 2018

On this Day: November 21st, 2004

The Paris club writes off up to a 100 billon dollars of Iraq’s debt.

The people at Nasa have recently reinforced their commitment to space,  the moon, and other planets by a new public relations display. The above statement is from May and you tube video from last week.

The people of earth are enriched by knowledge aquired every day by the fellowship of the discovery of the unknown and we should be grateful for its free and unfettered access. It truly is a shared goal. Good luck to the people of planet earth and may all new knowledge find place in attending the problems of this world. 

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File Photo KDG

On this Day: October 1st 1958

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration opens for business.

Thanks for digital photography…

Full harvest moon tonight…

 

MOON

Moon rising , Merritt BC       File  photo KDG

The higher the latitude the  greater the effect of the harvest moon. The northern hemisphere were we are has the benefit of diminishing daylight at this time making the effect more pronounced.

On this Day: September 25th 1977

Four thousand + people run the first Chicago Marathon.

TGIF- Last day of summer Saturday 6:45 PM

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Summer and its produce are ending.  File photo KDG

The fall equinox is on tomorrow and at some point around 6:45 PM the balance of sun light and dark will be equal. Daylight will be diminishing to the winter solstice coming at 5:23 December 21st.

On this Day: September 21st 1981

The US government confirms Sandra Day O’Connor to the SC.