Mon, 31 July 2006
Observations are for 10pm for the mid northern latitudes (around 35
deg N) and for 7pm for the mid southern latitudes (around 35
deg S).
Great site for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards Download this month's sky map! Northern hemisphere sky
map Also visit James Barclay's site for a great tour of the Southern Hemisphere June sky.
Key Dates for August Days and Times in UT (help with time)
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Planet Positions for 2006 Help us out by leaving a donation in the ol' PayPal hat or write us a favorable review in iTunes of Podcast Pickle or iPodder! Music Alexye Nov -"Nightly Murmur of Crickets" Category:Sky Tours
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Sun, 30 July 2006
Our monthly tour of the night time sky. Go to www.skymaps.com and download the sky map for your hemisphere to accompany this podcast.
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Thu, 20 July 2006
Astronomy a Go Go! is on the road with the Girl Scouts and the students of the Tacoma Astronomical Society for a star party weekend! Wishing all of you clear skies!
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Thu, 20 July 2006
Carpe Noctem - Seize the Night!
Planets
Viewing
The MoonMaps created with Lunar Phase Pro Lunar photo is courtesy of Frank Barrett at celestialwonders.com I recommend visiting his site and checking out his lunar phase photos. You can zoom in for more detail. This weekend waning cresant MusicClimbing Mountains - Barb CarbonWoodland Hills Camera and Telescope is offering FREE web hosting on our servers for you or your organization's website. In order to promote the hobbies of Astronomy, Astrophotography, Photography, Birding or generally any topic that is of interest to our customer base, Woodland Hills Camera and Telescope is offering Hosting Grants. 
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Thu, 13 July 2006
After several weeks of technical problems lets see if this podcast works!!
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Thu, 13 July 2006
Carpe Noctem - Seize the Night!
Murphy's Law (addendum)
Special thanks to Ron for sticking up for me in the posts, Tom of Tom's Astronomy Blog for keeping an eye on me, Jim (RapidEye)
for some great moral support and Tom and Woodland Hills for his support and patience. Thanks to all of you for waiting so patiently and for your understanding with all of the mess-ups this month.
Listener FeedbackRon sent an email sharing some information on a new, free, design for a trackball style dobsonian/equatorial hybrid that will be in the August Sky and Telescope magazine.He also passed along a little trick for using a go-to scope as a teaching aid. He attached a green laser pointer to a go-to scope and had it slew to different objects so that new dobsonian drivers could follow and see where he was pointed to find the objects them selves.  I find this also works well with binoculars! Strap the green laser to your binos and then when you find an object just turn on the laser so those looking in the sky with binos next to you can follow your beam. Much easier then holding the laser pointer with one hand and the binos with the other.
Our friend James from NZ writes:
All the best Blue Moons from Wikipedia "What is a Blue Moon?" from Sky and Telescope Listener QuestionMichael want to know where he could find images of the "face" on Mars. There are
some good comparison pictures of the Viking and MGS images on the Mars Global Surveyor
website. There are also some amazing Mars images on the PanCam site Planets
Morning Planets ConstellationsAntlia (ANT-lee-uh) - the air pump. The French astronomer Abbé Nicolas Louis de Lacaille created 13 constellations for the southern sky to fill some star poor regions, among them Antlia Sagitta - the arrow is the third smallest constellation. Other interpretations considered the arrow to have been shot by Centaurus at Aquila but with Sagittarius just to the west it could very well come from that famous archer too.Delphinus (del-FY-ness)- the Dolphin. According to the first one, Greek god Poseidon wanted to marry Amphitrite, a nereid. She, however, wanting to protect her virginity, fled to the Atlas mountains. Her suitor then sent out several searchers, among them a certain Delphinus. Delphinus accidentally stumbled upon her and was able to persuade Amphitrite to accept Poseidon's wooing. Out of gratitude the god placed the image of a dolphin among the stars. Notables: Gamma marks one corner of the asterism Job's Coffin. It is one of the best known double stars in the sky. The system consists of a 4th magnitude orange subgiant and a 5th magnitude yellow-white main sequence star.Alpha Delphinus It also has the name Sualocin, which was given to it as a practical joke by the astronomer Niccolò Cacciatore; the name is the Latinized version (Nicolaus) of his given name, spelled backwards Equuleus (eh-KWOO-lee-us)- the Colt or Foal is the smallest northern hemisphere constellation and the 2nd smallest constellation after Crux in the S.H. Equuleus is associated with the foal Celaris, who was the brother of the winged horse Pegasus. Celaris was given to Castor by Mercury. ViewingNaked eye - After finding the Coat hanger in the binoculars in the last show can you find them now with out optical aids? You will not see its distinctive shape but should still see the fuzziness of the cluster.Step outside just after sun set and find Jupiter. Now as the stars start to appear see if you can identify the brightest stars without the rest of their constellation. If you were navigating on the ocean without technology it would be important.
Binocular -
Also swing over to Delta Cygnus and look for a large ring of stars circling that 4th brightest star.
Head over to Ophiucus and star gobbling up globulars!
Telescope -
Review - With a dark weekend go back and take a look at Leo, Virgo and Coma Berenices before they
disappear! Also, go and visit the Dumbbell Nebula (M27) near our little Sagitta, to me it looks very much like an apple core. Sliding due south of the Dumbbell is a very nice globular cluster M71. It sits right between the two bright stars that make up the shaft of Sagitta.
The MoonMaps created with Lunar Phase ProLunar photo is courtesy of Frank Barrett at celestialwonders.com I recommend visiting his site and checking out his lunar phase photos. You can zoom in for more detail. I have numbered the craters in the order we will visit them. 
This weekend waning gibbous
Remember latitudes that are negative (-) are South and longitudes that are negative (-) are West! NewsPluto's two new moons get names. - (from AAAS, read on...)In mythology, Pluto ruled the underworld. Nyx was the goddess of night and the mother of Charon, the boatsman who takes souls across the River Styx and into Pluto's grasp. Pluto's large satellite, discovered in 1978, is called Charon. Because an asteroid with the name Nyx already exists, the IAU decided to use a slightly different spelling for the inner one of the two small Plutonian moons, to avoid confusion. Hydra was the mythological nine-headed serpent that guarded the underworld. A large but inconspicuous constellation in the spring sky also bears this name. The first letters, N and H, also refer to NASA's New Horizons spacecraft, which was launched in January and is now on its way to an encounter with the Pluto system in the summer of 2015 Hubble's ACS camera fails - (from AAAS, read on...) but not before giving us the best photo yet of Pluto, Charon, Nix-msp and Hydra. Chandra shows magnetic fields around black hole - (from Chandra site, read on...) ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft return images of the highly eroded 'far side' of the moon. (from ESA, read on...)Comets for July.This month we have comets for everyone except those above 55 degrees north."One touch of nature makes the whole world kin" Email us at astronomyagogo@gmail.com or leave a note in our show notes at
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Thu, 13 July 2006
I am trying! I really am! ;-) announcements System Error Discovered This
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Wed, 5 July 2006
All of the observations are for 10-11pm for the mid latitudes as you move south it gets darker sooner so if you go out before 10 rotate my observations to the east 15 degrees for each hour. For the S. Hemisphere observations observations will be ~8pm Great site for sunrise and sunset times and a downloadable toolbar application by Steve Edwards Download this month's sky map! Northern hemisphere sky
map
Key Dates for July Days and Times in UT (help with time)
Beginning of the monthPlanetsMercury is slipping away and by the middle of the month will be lost in the glare of the SunSaturn and Mars, which at the middle of June were snuggled up next to each other in the same field of view, are now getting further apart. Saturn is slipping below the horizon just after sunset and if you have keen eyes you can still catch Saturn and his rings before sunset. Mars is speeding along the ecliptic but he is still no match for how the earth's path around the sun is changing our perspective. At the beginning of the month, Mars sits low on the western horizon. For those of you in the S.Hemisphere your early evenings give you a little bit more time with both Saturn and Mars so make sure you get out side and spend some time with that pair setting in the west. For N or S nothing beats Jupiter this month. Jupiter seems to hover
between Libra and Virgo for the beginning of the month as Jupiter reverses its
retrograd path and returns to proper eastward motion. No matter if you are in
the North riding along the equator or in the S.Hemisphere just look for the
brightest object along the ecliptic after sunset. Even before dark an 8"
telescope can pick up the 4 Galilean moons around Jupiter and binoculars can
pick them up once it gets good and dark.
Constellations
End of the monthHave you noticed how the amount of sunlight has changed as we go into August? August 1st is the cross quarter day between our last solstice and our next equinox! PlanetsMercury is in the morning sky, low on the horizon. It will be a couple of weeks to get high enough to be seenSaturn has slipped below the horizon and is lost in the glare of the sun. Southern hemisphere has a slight advantage. Mars is low on the western horizon and in between the feet of Leo the Lion Jupiter is between Libra and Virgo for
Constellations
Planet Positions for 2006
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