The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on July 5th at 9pm Pacific time!
Happy Independence Day USA.
There’s something about freedom. Freedom allows for innovation. It’s also about saying something that the government disagrees with. Freedom continues to be fought for. What is it about freedom?
Tonight, we’ll visit for a bit and talk about freedom. We forgot to tell you about worms on Mars last week and maybe we’ll discuss some other things.
You are welcome to join us and have a conversation!
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on June 28th at 9pm Pacific time!
One of the major hitches in colonizing Mars is the presence of very high concentrations of perchlorates in the Martian regolith (soil). Perchlorates are poisonous even in much smaller concentrations than are found on Mars. The previous methods of cleaning the soil involve using a lot of water (which is not easy to come by on Mars) that gives you clean soil but poisonous water. That is not an improvement of your situation. However there is a new method that may break down the perchlorates into usable chemicals.
During this episode we’ll talk about where the perchlorates came from and explore the various methods of removing the perchlorates or just living with them.
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on June 17th at 9pm Pacific time!
Join Jeff and Pam LIVE on Friday nights at 9pm Pacific time, USA.
The Friday night show is broadcast on FB and YouTube – just look for Everyday Spacer on either platform.
If you’d like to ask questions, share Space Station sightings or ask what planet you saw in the sky, we’ll help you out. We’ll have a main topic or a guest, then share the highlights of the week ahead and the rest will be ad lib. It might be VERY ad lib sometimes! LOL
The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on June 10th at 9pm Pacific time!
“Jacqueline Cochran (May 11, 1906 – August 9, 1980) was an American pilot and business executive. She pioneered women’s aviation as one of the most prominent racing pilots of her generation. She set numerous records and was the first woman to break the sound barrier on 18 May 1953. Cochran (along with Nancy Love) was the wartime head of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) (1943–1944), which employed about 1000 civilian American women in a non-combat role to ferry planes from factories to port cities. Cochran was later a sponsor of the Mercury 13 women astronaut program.” ~Wikipedia
Join Jeff and Pam LIVE on Friday nights at 9pm Pacific time, USA.
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on June 7th at 9pm Pacific time!
Back by popular demand!
Jeff will discuss several recent events in cyber security and what they mean to you.
What do certain terms used in the news mean and how do these events affect you?
Most major cyber gangs attack big companies but there are a number of smaller players out there too.
Even if you are not the target, you can still be a victim. There have been several attacks against water processing plants (one of which made the news) and power companies across the world.
How do they keep getting in?
Come see how they have done it and what could have stopped them.
Join Jeff and Pam LIVE on Friday nights at 9pm Pacific time, USA.
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If you’d like to ask questions, share Space Station sightings or ask what planet you saw in the sky, we’ll help you out. We’ll have a main topic or a guest, then share the highlights of the week ahead and the rest will be ad lib. It might be VERY ad lib sometimes! LOL
The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 31st at 9pm Pacific time!
Pam and Jeff traveled to Los Angeles on Saturday 5/25/24 to spend the day with other spacers attending ISDC’24. Sometimes we were in the same lecture and sometimes we were not. The day was interesting and there were quite a few people there, including many young people! It was a sight to see.
Events like ISDC (International Space Development Conference) are part of ‘Spacer Culture,’ where like-minded folks can get together to build connections, learn from each other and buy cool stuff. We’ll tell you more during this episode of our Friday Night Show!
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 24th at 9pm Pacific time!
“In this project, we need your help on classifying light curves of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), one of the most energetic explosions in the universe!
“Gamma-ray bursts can relate to supernovae, black holes, and neutron stars. But their true nature is hidden behind the diverse pulse shapes. We need your help to classify these pulses for more clues of what they really are!” ~Zooniverse
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 17th at 9pm Pacific time!
“Astronomical spectroscopy is the study of astronomy using the techniques of spectroscopy to measure the spectrum of electromagnetic radiation, including visible light, ultraviolet, X-ray, infrared and radio waves that radiate from stars and other celestial objects. A stellar spectrum can reveal many properties of stars, such as their chemical composition, temperature, density, mass, distance and luminosity. Spectroscopy can show the velocity of motion towards or away from the observer by measuring the Doppler shift. Spectroscopy is also used to study the physical properties of many other types of celestial objects such as planets, nebulae, galaxies, and active galactic nuclei.” ~Wikipedia
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 10th at 9pm Pacific time!
Lance has been an amateur astronomer most of his life, starting out with a 60mm refractor and a copy of “A Field Guide To The Stars And Planets.”
Whilst learning the constellations, he came across a curiosity in that star omicron ceti was not in the position shown in the charts from the Field Guide. Whereupon, he surmised that the chart was incorrect and wrote Professor Menzel, the author of the Guide, telling him as much.
Professor Menzel wrote back with humour, that the chart was indeed correct and that Lance had discovered, by observation, a variable star.
This star, also known as Mira, ‘…will begin to be visible to unaided eye in a few months…’ he told me. Sure enough it did.
Lance maintained a correspondence with Professor Menzel until the professor passed away in the mid-70’s. Lance would not revisit the observation of variable stars for another 20+ years.
“I’ve engaged most aspects of observing from lunar to planetary to deep sky and comets, yet, one common thread continued to occupy my interest: Bringing the Night Sky to Everybody. I took great pleasure introducing the heavens to everyone and anyone in earshot at meetings of the Hercules Public Stargazer. I would use a slew of what I call, “Fast Food Astronomy”* objects. You obviously can’t recreate a multicolour special on telly, but you could show them what the actual sky looks like and what you can expect with modest equipment. Inviting others to bring out their instruments and showing them how to use them. Yes, even the ‘hobby killer’ telescopes. With my lopsided work schedule, I cannot get out to do this as much as I would like, but my career is nearing the end and I hope to perform this more once I retire.” ~Lance Shaw
It was about 1996 when Lance was invited by the Astronomical Association of Northern California to give a brief lecture on Deep Sky with a Small Telescope for their Deep Sky Symposium.
It was then Lance realized that he had very little experience in the observation of variable stars.
Lance reached out to the AAVSO, American Association of Variable Star Observers, and subsequently became a member. He was matched with a prolific observer and mentor, Gene Hanson. Mr. Hanson formed the basis for Lance’s, to this day, interest in variable stars.
“I’ve now been involved, off and on, in the observation of variable stars for some 28 years and I have also joined the AAVSO Solar Section with daily sunspot counts. I have seen some absolutely AWESOME stars! I am particularly interested in Recurrent Novae (T Pyx, T CrB, RS Oph, U Sco); Dwarf Novae of U Gem, SS Cyg, SU UMa, and Z Cam classes, and binocular observations of bright Mira’s and Semi-Regular stars.
*”Fast Food Astronomy” = the WOW! objects; Saturn, Jupiter, the Double Cluster, M13, M27, M31, the Lagoon, the omega etc…
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The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on May 3rd at 9pm Pacific time!
PROFILE: Father Angelo Secchi
“Angelo Secchi S.J. …was an Italian Catholic priest, astronomer from the Italian region of Emilia. He was director of the observatory at the Pontifical Gregorian University (then called the Roman College) for 28 years. He was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, and was one of the first scientists to state authoritatively that the Sun is a star.”
~Wikipedia
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Planisphere - choose for your Latitude (the Equator is 0 degrees, the further North or South, the greater the number)
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Our friend Lucy West-Binnall contributed art to this publication!
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Saw this solar telescope in action recently...
They don't show you the 'built in sun finder' - one of the coolest things about a telescope I've ever seen. You line up the dot in the finder and look through the scope and the sun is right there!
