Gaia Vari

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on September 15th at 9pm Pacific time!

“Astronomers need your help to not only uncover the secrets of the Milky Way and beyond but classify the data of variable objects obtained by the Gaia space mission too. Join us and become a space explorer, browse the data used by professional astronomers, and co-create one of the most accurate catalogues of variable objects to date. And who knows what awaits you on this adventure? You might contribute to improving our understanding of the life of stars, refine the way we see the structure of our Galaxy, or even study stellar remnants. Data from the ESA Gaia space mission is waiting for you to discover it. Join the Gaia Vari challenge and begin a great scientific adventure!” ~Zooniverse

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

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Pam’s book is here…
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book by Pam Hoffman…
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Find some books about the Gaia Space Mission here…
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Crunchy Topics: Brown Dwarf Discussion

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on September 1st at 9pm Pacific time!

Brown Dwarfs are sometimes known as ‘failed stars.’ They are not massive enough for sustained fusion and are between 13 and 90 times the mass of Jupiter. Let’s discuss these objects that are too big to be planets but too small to be stars!

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

#espacer #EverydaySpacer

To support Everyday Spacer through Patreon, visit…
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Pam’s book is here…
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book by Pam Hoffman…
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Brown Dwarfs are cool! See more here…
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Redshift Wrangler Part 2

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on August 25th at 9pm Pacific time!


This episode, we’ll delve into ‘Task 2: Check Spectral Fits’ from this Zooniverse project. Task 1 was a good setup and now you can sink your teeth into a really juicy project!

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

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Pam’s book is here…
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Learn more about tonight’s topic…
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Backyard Worlds: Cool Neighbors

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on August 18th at 9pm Pacific time!


Help scientists discover new nearby cool neighbors, known as brown dwarfs.

“Through this project, we hope to identify brown dwarfs in the Sun’s local cosmic neighborhood”

“Through the use of telescope data and the human brain’s ability to distinguish patterns with relative ease, we can identify real brown dwarfs hidden among other stars, galaxies, and detector noise.” ~Zooniverse

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

#espacer #EverydaySpacer

To support Everyday Spacer through Patreon, visit…
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Pam’s book is here…
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book by Pam Hoffman…
https://amzn.to/3lNq19k

Brown Dwarfs are cool! See more here…
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Redshift Wrangler

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on August 11th at 9pm Pacific time!

Watch as we demonstrate another Citizen Science project on Zooniverse!

Redshift Wrangler, another Zooniverse Citizen Science project!

Help these scientists use the light from distant galaxies to look back in time to the early universe!

“We need your help to decipher the fingerprints of light from distant galaxies and uncover how they form, grow, and interact with each other throughout the history of our Universe!” ~Zooniverse

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

#espacer #EverydaySpacer

To support Everyday Spacer through Patreon, visit…
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Pam’s book is here…
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book by Pam Hoffman…
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Learn more about tonight’s topic…
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Crunchy Topics: Particle Physics – Some Basics And Some Recent News

The next episode of our Friday Night Show airs on July 28th at 9pm Pacific time!

Crunchy Topics:  Particle Physics - Some Basics And Some Recent News

Crunchy Topics: Particle Physics – Some Basics And Some Recent News



Tonight, we’ll look at the fascinating world of Particle Physics. We’ll talk about some of the basics, then delve into some of what is happening now in this world of the sub atomic components underlying all of existence.

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

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To support Everyday Spacer through Patreon, visit…
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Pam’s book is here…
Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book by Pam Hoffman…
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Particle physics on amazon, check it out!…
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Your Amazing Itty Bitty Explore Space Now! Book

So grateful to the fabulous Ms. Tracy Allen for recreating the ‘book ad’ I did for our Friday Night Show. It’s much better now, IMHO. Would love your feedback too.
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SkyMaps – December 2020

There’s a great tool I recommend to anyone interested in observing the night sky and it’s free to download every month. They have created these for various places on Earth as well!

If you haven’t already heard of it, it’s the two page free download over at SkyMaps.com

SkyMap for December 2020

SkyMap for December 2020

Here’s the process of getting the SkyMap for your location…

Visit the site > scroll down a bit, if necessary > click on the download button > pick your location: Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere or Equator > download the SkyMap for yourself

Every month, they offer a new ‘SkyMap’ for each part of Earth and you can download and print one for yourself that month to use when you observe the night sky. These are great for several reasons. I’ll talk a little bit more about that later on. Right now, Here are the things you can look for…

December 2020

8th
Last Quarter Moon
10th
Moon near Spica
12th
Moon at perigee (closest to Earth)
14th
New Moon
Geminid Meteor Shower
Total Solar Eclipse (South Pacific, Chile, Argentina and South Atlantic)
17th
Moon, Jupiter & Saturn are in conjunction
21st
December Solstice
Jupiter & Saturn Great Conjunction
21st
First Quarter Moon
24th
Mars & the Moon in conjunction
Moon is at apogee (farthest from Earth)
27th
Moon near Pleiades
Moon near Aldebaran

Notable objects…
Easily Seen with the Naked Eye
The Pleiades Star Cluster

Easily Seen with Binoculars
The Andromeda Galaxy

Telescopic Objects
The Messier objects… M1, M33, M81,M82, M27

Ways I have used the SkyMaps…
I like to print them out, double sided, and give them to people who come to my Star Party or who take my class. They make a great ‘handout’ for pennies!

I print them out for my own observing sessions too. I put a date on them and make notes or draw things in the margins.

On the back, or page 2, I put a check mark next to every one of the objects I see in the night sky during that sitting in all the categories: Naked Eye, Binoculars and Telescopic Objects. This makes a great record of your observing session and it’s easy to do.

If you go out more than once in a month, you can print out and date a new version each time, then put them together in a binder to track your progress.

I have written the names of people I met and drawn things in the margins like the phase of the Moon and the positions of the moons of Jupiter for that session.

How might you use such a tool for our own observing sessions? I love learning new ways to use tools already on hand, thanks in advanced!

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Space is Open for Business by Robert Jacobson

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Book Launch Tomorrow! You are invited to the Zoom webinar for this launch… When: Sep 15, 2020 08:00 AM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Topic: Launch Party of Space Is Open for Business by Robert C. Jacobson Register in advance … Continue reading

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