Starting a year long look at constellations, news, music and all things astronomical!

Welcome

Thanks to Peter (from Cullercoats England), Damon and Mike for dropping us a note!
To Rev. Chris Wallace a chaplain in the US army stationed in Iraq I hope "Astronomy a Go Go!" meets your astronomy needs.

As always you can email us at astronomyagogo@gmail.com or leave a note in our show notes at www.astronomy.libsyn.com. We would love to hear from you!

Constellations for the new year

Chris Dolan's site for the bare facts
For mythologies I use several this is a good starter one but there isn't a clear name to credit so if you find this is your site, thanks!
This Month

• Orion the hunter
• Canis Major
• Canis Minor
• Gemini (Castor and Pollux or in Mesopotamia the Twins are the brothers Lugal-irra and Meslamta-ea)
• Auriga and
• Taurus

Planets

Mars is still easy to pick out as the rusty red point west of the Pleiades and above the tale of Cetus the whale.
Venus is almost gone for us and sits right on the horizon at twilight.
Saturn sits in Cancer and outshines all the stars in that constellation. Start at Gemini the twins and move east to the yellow large point of light.
Jupiter is east of Virgo in the constellation Libra in the early morning hours.

News

Spirit is starting its 3rd year and Opportunity is not far behind.
We have reached perihelion - we are closest to the sun yesterday, can you feel that down in the Southern hemisphere because we can't up here!
First quarter moon this weekend
There was a great podcast from Universe today () about a method for creating something like a tractor beam for near earth asteroids.

Trivia

Answers to the quiz from Show #3

1. The first woman in space was Lieutenant Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova (Russia) Michael Williams got that one right
2. The only animal not sent to space was a jelly fish (cats were sent by the French) no one got this one, everyone seemed to want to banish the cats from space probably more of those Anubis lovers!
3. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune all have rings (Damon was only off by one!) Katie got this one.

This week's trivia

1. Since meteor showers take the name of the constellation they radiate from why is the meteor shower that radiates from the constellation Bootes called Quadranids?
2. Can you see the International Space Station without a telescope?
3. What is the brightest star in our sky?

Music

Intro music: Friction Baily's "Auld Lang Syne" Lovely voices!
Send off music: Charlie Crowe's "Joy" Rock on, great guitar work!