Hi all,
(NB, all times are summer time when in force, for convenience)
1. IAA lecture via Zoom, 18 November, 19.30, "Thirty Years of Hubble; Opening the treasure chest.", by Dr Jorick Vink, AOP
Synopsis
Over the last 30 years the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has spoilt us with the most beautiful, colourful images one can image. In addition to this inspirational role these observations have provided key insights into a vast number of astronomical research fields varying from the formation of planetary systems to Cosmology. In this talk I attempt to give an overview of some of the most ground-braking Astrophysical insights that HST has given the world of Astrophysics, revealing the stories behind those pretty pictures.
Biography
Jorick Vink started his career at Utrecht University in the Netherlands while also spending an 8 month period at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre.
After his PhD, he moved to Imperial College London, before eventually settling at Armagh Observatory in 2007, where he was also Acting Director at the Planetarium during the merger of the two organisations in 2015/16. He obtained a Visiting Professorship from the University of Leeds in 2017, and is currently President of the IAU Commission of massive stars, and Principle Investigator (PI) of a Large Programme with ESO-VLT complementing the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) ULLYSES Project of massive stars.
Join Zoom Meeting
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The meeting will also be simulcast on our YouTube Channel
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2. Mercury well placed in the morning sky.
We get a good morning apparition in November, with the innermost planet at Greatest Elongation of 19º on 10 November. Look low in the ESE morning twilight. It will lie about 15 degrees below left of much brighter Venus.
The following table gives details for about 30 minutes before sunrise for each morning.
| Date | Mag | Ph % | Elongº | Diam |
| Nov 15 | -0.7 | 73.4 | 18.3 | 6.1" |
| Nov 18 | -0.7 | 80.9 | 17.1 | 5.7" |
| Nov 21 | -0.7 | 86.1 | 15.7 | 5.5" |
| Nov 24 | -0.7 | 90.0 | 14.2 | 5.3" |
| Nov 27 | -0.7 | 92.9 | 12.6 | 5.1" |
As Mercury's apparent diameter is always very small, even with a big telescope all you will make out is the phase. Start looking about 45 minutes before local sunrise.
Never look for Mercury with optical aid while the Sun is above the horizon, in case you accidentally get the Sun into the field of view, risking very serious eye damage
3. Comet Atlas in Orion.
Comet Atlas (C/2020 M3) On the evening of Nov. 15, just after its closest approach to Earth, the comet will pass less than half a degree East of the bright star Bellatrix, the top right star in the main pattern of Orion (opposite side to Betelgeuse). Photos may show Bellatrix within the coma of the comet. It's currently around 8th magnitude.
4. ISS The ISS will commence a new series of evening passes on 22 November. Full details for your location, and lots of other astronomy information, on the excellent free site www.heavens-above.com
5. Paul Evans has produced another excellent 'Lockdown Video guide to the sky for November: https://youtu.be/kyvqsUoiZ1Q
6. John Flannery's excellent astro calendar for 2021 is now available on line.
The download link is https://bit.ly/3mmSUU
Also his November Skynotes in the Irish Times is available online at ….
7. Sad death of two long-standing IAA members; David Honneyman, & Peter Paice.
It's with great personal regret that I learned of the recent death of David Honneyman, who reached the grand old age of 102! He was a member for as long as I can remember, and a real gentleman. Obviously he hadn't been to any of our meetings for some years now.
And similarly with Peter Paice, whom I'm glad to say I 'recruited' into the IAA. He was mainly a solar observer, and for many years contributed the section on solar activity in STARDUST. He was 88, also a very respectable age
They will both be sadly missed, and condolences to their respective families from myself and on behalf of their friends in the IAA.
8. Carl Sagan Great Lives Podcast.
Thanks to Paul Campbell for this alert https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00scvqk is the Carl Sagan Great Lives episode podcast link.
9. BCO - ESERO Ireland Remote Workshops For Science Week start 9 November:
Weekdays from Monday 9th November to Friday 20th November
Our planet is teeming with life, but we haven't found life elsewhere in our universe…Yet.
ESERO Ireland are bringing you a remote session on Discovering Life in the Solar System, with the Education Team at CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory.
With workshop adaptations suited to both primary and second level students, we're positive we can get your students pondering the exciting science behind the search for life elsewhere! Book here.
10. REGULAR FORTNIGHTLY SPACE and ASTRONOMY WEBINAR, November 24
Presented by me and the amazing Nick Howes, they are approximately 40 minutes long, every second Tuesday, at 7.30 p.m., covering whatever is topical in space and astronomy. The next one will be on Tuesday 10 November: youtube.com/spacestorelive
It's a Zoom webinar, and will be Live streamed to YouTube SpaceStore Live! Channel and Live streamed to Facebook Live. I'll post any last minute news via Twitter.
11. Crew-1 Crew Dragon mission to the ISS, 14 November, carrying Nasa astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi aboard a Falcon 9 rocket (5.47am EDT) from Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
NASA invites you along for the virtual ride. SpaceX's first operational astronaut launch for NASA is just nine days away, and the agency is inviting the public to go along for the historic ride.
The Crew-1 mission is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on the evening of Nov. 14. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will send a Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts — NASA's Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Shannon Walker and Japan's Soichi Noguchi — to the International Space Station for a six-month stay.
Crew-1 will be the first contracted mission SpaceX flies under a $2.6 billion deal it signed with NASA's Commercial Crew Program in 2014. The agency is obviously excited about this milestone, and it's taking pains to share that excitement with all of us.
Crew-1 will be the first contracted mission SpaceX flies under a $2.6 billion deal it signed with NASA's Commercial Crew Program in 2014. The agency is obviously excited about this milestone, and it's taking pains to share that excitement with all of us.
SpaceX's Crew-1 astronaut mission: Live updatesPLAY SOUND
"Members of the public can attend the launch virtually, receiving mission updates and opportunities normally reserved for on-site guests," NASA officials wrote in a statement on Tuesday (Nov. 3).
"NASA's virtual launch experience for Crew-1 includes curated launch resources, a digital boarding pass, notifications about NASA social interactions and the opportunity for a virtual launch passport stamp following a successful launch," the agency added. You can download a Crew-1 "launch passport" here, sign up for emailed mission updates here and register for social media updates here. NASA has also compiled a teaching toolkit for Crew-1 that educators and parents can use to help get students excited about science, technology, engineering and math. You can find that resource here.
12. National Astronomy Week, 14 – 22 November.
National Astronomy Week (NAW) will be held in the UK from Saturday 14 November to Sunday 22 November, to celebrate the close approach of Mars. Amateur and professional astronomers will be holding observing events during the week. Seen through a telescope magnifying about 100 times, Mars will appear as a pale orange disc, with its markings clearly visible, at a distance of 80 million km.
Although Mars is at its closest to Earth a month earlier, by November it is well up in the sky during the early evening, allowing younger schoolchildren an opportunity to get a good view of the planet. It will not be as close again until 2033. As well as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon will be on show during National Astronomy Week. Details of observing events will be posted on the NAW website.
13. RAS free online Lecture, Saturday 14 November, 18.00. Mars the Planet.
14. RAS Lecture free online lecture Sun 15 Nov, 18.00 Mars rocks
15. November 17, 13.00, RAS free public Zoom lecture, by Prof Andrew Norton "Exploring the variable star zoo: Citizen science and SuperWASP"
Stars are the building blocks of the baryonic Universe and determining stellar parameters is a cornerstone of astrophysics. Variable stars are key to this, as their time domain signal may be used to probe the dynamics or structure of a stellar system.
SuperWASP — the world's leading ground-based survey for transiting exoplanets — uses wide-field robotic telescopes to continuously image the night sky. Brightness measurements are obtained from around 100,000 stars per image, every few minutes, every night, and built up into lightcurves for each star. Over 10 years, SuperWASP has generated >30 million lightcurves of bright stars across the entire sky (avoiding the Galactic plane where stars are too close together to be resolved by the SuperWASP telescopes). Each lightcurve contains about 20,000 data points.
As well as allowing searches for transiting exoplanets, the SuperWASP lightcurves can reveal many variable stars. These include stars displaying pulsations or outbursts, as well as eclipsing binary stars or stars displaying rotational modulation. A period-search has identified over 1.5 million possible periods in around 750,000 objects.
In this talk Professor Andrew Norton will describe some of the highlight results from this work and describe a citizen science project on the Zooniverse website where volunteers can identify and classify the folded lightcurves of all objects with measured periods as either eclipsing binary stars, pulsating stars, rotationally modulated stars, or simply junk. Results of these citizen scientist classifications will feed into future research.
16. BCO - ESERO Space Careers Roadshow, 19 November:
Thursday November 19th at 10 am (Time subject to amendment)
Featuring Special Guest – NASA Astronaut Gregory Johnson.
Following Science Week 2020, ESERO Ireland and CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory, will bring you an online Space Career Roadshow in conjunction with Science Foundation Ireland, and space industry partners. This Space Careers event will provide students with an excellent opportunity to engage with space industry professionals, and third level institutions, so that they can get a taste of the exciting opportunities that a STEM career in the space sector has to offer.
Further details available here.
17. Online astronomy evening, Nov 21, 17.00 to late. Hosted by the amazing Pete Williamson https://www.facebook.com/100003516365265/posts/3264046660389181/
18. Space Lights Outdoor Trail Experience, Armagh Observatory & Planetarium, 26 Nov – 6 Dec
This is a sound and light walking trail, which can be combined with a dome show ticket. Time slots available from 5 p.m. each day. Booking essential. See their website for details.
19. Mars still brilliant,
Mars won't get any closer until Sept. 2035, when the planet will be 35.4 million miles (56.9 million km) away. It's still strikingly bright, with the ruddy hue obvious to the naked eye even in light polluted sky. The S Polar cap has shrunk markedly, as it's summer in that hemisphere, but it's still visible in most amateur telescopes in reasonable seeing.
20. CATCH A STAR WRITING COMPETITION
2020 Catch a Star Writing Contest in Europe
Students from European countries who live anywhere in the world are invited to submit to the 2020 Catch a Star astronomical writing contest. Groups of up to three students with a non-student group leader can submit essays by 23 December 2020 to be considered.
Learn more here: https://www.eaae-astronomy.org/catch-a-star/welcome-to-catch-a-star-2020/
21. STFC Summer School at AOP postponed to January 2021 This year AOP was going to organize the STFC summer school for starting PhD student in astronomy. This event will now take place online and has been postponed to early January 2021 to attract also student's contributions on their proposed research topics, through short talks and poster. We have put together an exciting program of lectures, complementary skills workshops and meet the speaker breakout sessions and we would be glad to also invite students from everywhere in Ireland. Please feel free to forward the appended message to your postgraduate program coordinator as well as to your own students.
STFC 2020 INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY SCHOOL – 2nd Announcement. We should be grateful if you would circulate the details for the STFC Introductory Astronomy school to STFC funded students that could benefit from the school. The dates of the remote school are 11- 15 January 2021 and registration needs to be completed by 12 December 2020. PhD students are encouraged to present a short talk or poster outlining their proposed research topic – prizes will be awarded.
On behalf of the school organizing committee, Marc Sarzi & Simon Jeffrey. http://astro-online.iopconfs.org/home
22. JUPITER and SATURN closing, heading for the conjunction of a lifetime on Dec 21.
The two largest planets in the solar system are currently quite close together, low in the south around midnight. In mid November they are just under 4º apart, and they will slowly but inexorably get ever closer until 21 December, when they will be just over 6 arcminutes apart – 1/5 of the diameter of the Moon!
You'll need a good clear SW horizon to see them clearly, so you could scout out some good observing sites for that in the meantime. They'll look great to the naked eye, better in binocs, but to really appreciate the spectacle, complete with up to 8 of their Moons, you'll need a telescope, so look for a site where you can set one up. Depending on CV-19 it may be possible to set up a safe observing session somewhere. More on that later.
23. Davagh Dark Sky Park and Observatory closed until further notice!
See https://www.midulstercouncil.org/visitor/things-to-do/star-gazing/davagh-dark-sky-observatory , and https://www.facebook.com/omdarksky/ I'll post any updates here. Or phone 03000 132 132 for changing Covid-19 advice.
24. IAA Membership subs due. Annual subscriptions are now overdue. It's easy to pay online – see www.irishastro.org
25. INTERESTING WEBLINKS (Disclaimer - Use of material herein from various sources does not imply approval or otherwise of the opinions, political or otherwise, of those sources). NB: If the title in the weblink does not indicate the subject matter, I give a brief simple intro before the link. I may also comment about the link afterwards.
ASTROPHYSICS
FRBs detected from Magnetar in our own galaxy: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/mysterious-radio-signal-is-coming-from-inside-our-galaxy-scientists-announce/ar-BB1aGSNq?ocid=msedgdhp and
How Dark Matter is distributed in galaxies https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201028124533.htm
We're part of an enormous gigantic structure in the universe https://www.facebook.com/1347964688/posts/10224019663503234/?sfnsn=scwspmo
Weird gravitational molecules could orbit around black Holes https://www.livescience.com/black-holes-gravitational-molecules-evidence.html?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9160&utm_content=LVS_newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=Tknm%2B0g8fic2qWEEQlbGsubHNFmMdVIYQva3XUVpkkafPe78xoyrZRYzlwGPdZk20n%2Beep_rDG4mtgD2EhChREDPMDx_N4dFfqB9cf9TTu
Black Hole mergers of very different masses https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201106123318.htm
New clues on the mystery of FRBs https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201106092927.htm
14 years proof of relativity https://www.wired.com/story/these-physicists-watched-a-clock-tick-for-14-years-straight/?utm_source=onsite-share&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired
Black hole formation from Neutron star mergers? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110133213.htm
The universe is getting hotter and hotter – at least the matter in it is doing so,. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110133132.htm As the universe expands, the average temperature, including empty space, is presumable getting colder?
7-billion year old stardust is the oldest material found on Earth http://www.geologyin.com/2020/01/7-billion-year-old-stardust-is-oldest.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0spcrebcfqs4snHb0hzAspc5RN1i424RT8NDL5iIfdyFcPwbynHJV8Mvc
Extra bright kilonova may be a magnetar from a neutron star merger https://www.space.com/extra-bright-kilonova-from-neutron-star-collision?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=Ji6fzdOr6F6nYRD9QnjHHvIWm5Eo3aXFRvtdOJ%2B0%2BWUVIUKQ1UaFdIWpHji_9ViNLqqzedEN9Sw1%2BnD9QA4a1h0BruBJjiMZz_GHKFJJJt
COSMOLOGY
Has the hidden 'ordinary' matter of the universe been discovered? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201106113858.htm
A new way to see Dark Matter https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201106093016.htm
Dark Matter from the depths of the Universe? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201111123938.htm
The heat history of the universe https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201113103725.htm
EARTH & MOON
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/researchers-from-northern-ireland-think-they-have-found-the-moon-s-long-lost-sibling-behind-mars/ar-BB1aExj1?ocid=msedgdhp Good work by Tolis & team at AOP!
Major 2-volume atlas of all impact sites on Earth, with geology, topography & explanation; https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201103104725.htm
New mineral discovered in lunar meteorite https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201103115658.htm
Earth's geomagnetic reversal is long overdue, but this study throw light on the subject https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201021112322.htm
7-billion year old stardust is the oldest material found on Earth http://www.geologyin.com/2020/01/7-billion-year-old-stardust-is-oldest.html?m=1&fbclid=IwAR0spcrebcfqs4snHb0hzAspc5RN1i424RT8NDL5iIfdyFcPwbynHJV8Mvc
EXOPLANETS
Possible habitable planet round very nearby star https://www.natureindex.com/institution-outputs/spain/spanish-national-research-council-csic/5139073734d6b65e6a002254?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nindx-Nov20RH&utm_content=CSC&fbclid=IwAR2kaeLNdASAxk1FI3n2xHQO8Wa8tmvX_CoHQfH-YkDv2PN7nJKvoQqvdd4#highlight
First Brown Dwarf discovered by radio – may also be possible for exoplanets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201109132433.htm
Water may occur naturally on all rocky planets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201109110228.htm
Half of sunlike stars could host habitable rocky planets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201106082746.htm
Radioactive elements may be crucial to habitability of rocky planets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110151156.htm
ESA formally adopts ARIEL mission to study exoplanets https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-gb/DisplayMessage?ws_popup=true&ws_suite=true
First Photo of sunlike star with multiple exoplanets https://www.sciencenews.org/article/first-picture-sun-like-star-multiple-exoplanets-astronomy-planets?fbclid=IwAR15EgNP-Ynqi5bZ-Lj6-7crODfdIjRhDTPeqjmxBP0b6bdcwe3X5-sEdyg
EXOLIFE
Rats On Mars! https://www.space.com/21396-mars-rat-curiosity-rover-photo.html Well, of course not. But it just shows you that some people will believe anything, from rodents on Mars, to a Flat Earth, to alien abductions, to Nibiru, to a Young Earth, to CV-19 being a hoax, to Apollo Moon Landing deniers, to chemtrails, to 5G causes Covid, to … pick your own favourite.
FILM
New film about meteorite impacts https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/technology/werner-herzog-s-new-film-fireball-explores-the-power-and-mystery-of-meteorites/ar-BB1b0O9S?ocid=msedgdhp
IMAGES
Laniakea – the MW is part of our Local Galaxy Cluster, which is part of the Virgo cluster, which is part of … and so on up to this enormous superstructure! https://www.facebook.com/spacenews88/photos/a.103875964662048/173968717652772/?__cft__[0]=AZWJSAAOQtRnCCk_N2ELmxm54Fc93P_M89rs_Ls2S4It0YdTETxhZRHcS0svjD_mrv5gUcDMPKaSimN-JyWTc1tBS1RgVrAZc-sGFZBWIXWngIdXsow7ySHfwBODRwI_U5PXsctJl4C5PHzUq8uPn8fbC4MyP-oJcLmftTKcndEqfq3Y0ZpTkOZt5cCu990AKLgY8TTYyrRS_pcIcxfR3L9g&__tn__=EH-y-R
Moon in front of Earth as seen from NASA's Deep Space Climate Orbiter https://www.facebook.com/1101242298/posts/10223594250699956/?sfnsn=scwspmo
Beautiful photo of the whole MW visible at one time https://www.facebook.com/100001053929144/posts/3661737603871334/?sfnsn=scwspmo
Protecting the Astronomical Sky
Artificial lighting has serious affects on nature https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102120053.htm
Artificial 'stars' are an increasing problem https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201105183751.htm
SOLAR SYSTEM
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/researchers-from-northern-ireland-think-they-have-found-the-moon-s-long-lost-sibling-behind-mars/ar-BB1aExj1?ocid=msedgdhp Good work by Tolis & team at AOP!
Water may occur naturally on all rocky planets https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201109110228.htm
Radiation bombardment from Jupiter makes Europa glow in the dark https://newatlas.com/space/radiation-europa-glow-dark/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=70ed9beed0-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_10_09_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-70ed9beed0-92786061
Is Bennu's rotation speeding up? https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/41/eabc3350
Weighing space dust with radar https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110190938.htm
What causes the water plume eruptions on Europa? https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110151201.htm
The secret to Europa's eerie glow https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/europa-nasa-discovers-the-secret-to-jupiter-s-colour-changing-glowing-moon/ar-BB1aZIL5?ocid=msedgdhp
How Mars lost its water https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201112144027.htm
SPACE
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/nasa-artemis-first-woman-moon-2024-b538863.html
https://www.space.com/how-to-destroy-a-space-station-safely?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=8UYc7lr4hhIDeIk2wk9ekz0wZnjGq0vRmOIkgnZunAqzGU%2BmdUTqAHjpPvOcrETsZsHuhPyOfxYWQ9ufc154rjICFowGJD06dHM31j088X Put it up, into solar orbit, not down! Or even into lunar orbit – it would do for storage for Lunar Gateway, or they could use bits of it for a lunar base.
Virgin Galactic to switch to new launch site… https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/other/virgin-galactic-aims-to-fly-its-first-human-mission-from-spaceport-america-in-november-and-nasa-s-sending-some-science-experiments-along-for-the-ride/ar-BB1aLwbt?ocid=msedgdhp
This bacterium survived on the outside of the ISS for a year https://www.livescience.com/bacterium-survives-year-on-space-station.html?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9160&utm_content=LVS_newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=B6i2yzwKhzLst0%2BLcbdZfqYP3ZsK6F2QEnjjK9i4U%2BHHPQLwGIlqzpE59SFkODcKp_cU7F7MpFEVqtv5cPzYCBe2Tx8Du%2BQJX2B4hBQBBr
Jim Bridenstine to step down as head of NASA https://www.space.com/nasa-chief-bridenstine-step-aside-president-biden?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=ql0qSKxs3t6emNSA56rVstj90rCkzCEkHFiSli5AD5S6poP9REMHU9Rz6vFOSzWjIzWIUHIf5ON_QuJN3_Fnt8VN_CGrCNNz5LdLhvYqqM
Mining rocks in orbit could aid space exploration https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201110112534.htm
Space-X gets final NASA certification to fly humans to space! https://www.facebook.com/352751268256569/posts/1971126596419020/?sfnsn=scwspmo and
Biden names his NASA transition team https://www.space.com/president-elect-biden-nasa-transition-team?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=ql0r%2Bs91IZgCf2CzldIP%2BG8KiRrmcl91yxA73Pu2BJ8mIGkWIPpj0ewtiYsaNDCYdFT_1lyw3UaUp3fVnBm5L3jECZxImeeMw3jYTK8qq0.
Perseverance Rover to land on Mars in under 100 days https://www.space.com/mars-rover-perseverance-100-days-landing?utm_source=Selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9155&utm_content=SDC_Newsletter+&utm_term=3473357&m_i=zsAms9Ls9cKPxn8FteyKfl%2B7aaLmxIm_xmiIpcOtB4npjJy_aFK0f5DQNC3JNOzcYL3VIBYQbaZ6B6G5cK%2BkJ0uC8O6hxxGpz3Mlq%2BNzzn
Using spent rockets for space stations https://www.facebook.com/groups/100328570137468/permalink/1360478257455820/?sfnsn=scwspmo
ESA formally adopts ARIEL mission https://mail.aol.com/webmail-std/en-gb/DisplayMessage?ws_popup=true&ws_suite=true
Moon landing by 2024 unlikely https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/nasa-unlikely-to-achieve-moon-landing-by-2024-says-audit/ar-BB1aZ6gZ?ocid=msedgdhp – unless China gets there first?
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8947555/Giant-solar-power-station-SPACE-generate-energy-Britain.html And some people worry about 5G! – I wouldn't want to get in the way of those beams!
Telescopes, Instruments, Techniques:
The SDSS-V starts the next phase of this groundbreaking major survey https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102110017.htm
Remotely sensing olivine will help reveal SS object origins https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201102142245.htm
More damage to the giant Arecibo radio telescope https://www.facebook.com/groups/1442958012638876/permalink/2868050643462932/?sfnsn=scwspmo and
GW simulations will help design of next generation of detectors https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201109143453.htm
Brilliant way to combine radar and telescopic images of meteors! https://newatlas.com/space/radar-meteor-space-dust-telescope-data/?utm_source=New+Atlas+Subscribers&utm_campaign=a41920b69a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2020_11_13_09_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_65b67362bd-a41920b69a-92786061
26. JOINING the IRISH ASTRONOMICAL ASSOCIATION. This link downloads a Word document to join the IAA. http://documents.irishastro.org.uk/iaamembership.doc
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Clear skies,
Terry Moseley
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