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We keep our star talk down to earth! Beginning stargazers, professional astronomers, armchair astronauts and the cosmologically curious are all invited to join us. Galaxies Astronomy Club was founded in 1994.
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New Horizons Is Awake At Pluto The Planets + Pluto!
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6/17/15
Hubble to the rescue! The last-ditch effort to discover a Kuiper belt target for New Horizons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla 17-06-2014 11:59 CDT Topics: trans-neptunian objects, New Horizons, astronomy and astrophysics spacecraft, Hubble Space Telescope, explaining science Will New Horizons have a mission after Pluto? Back when New Horizons launched in 2006, Alan Stern did not expect to be asking that question in the summer of 2014.
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6/24/15
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7/1/15
I haven't listened to this whole thing, but one of the things I did learn is that it will take 16 months to download all the data from the Pluto flyby.
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From: Cstar1
7/1/15
NASA @NASA Fly with @NASANewHorizons to its July 14 #PlutoFlyby! Images show Pluto & its largest moon: http://go.nasa.gov/1LUEZwY
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7/3/15
They say it will take another 16 months to download all of the data captured during the fly-by.
If only Sir Patrick Moore and Carl Sagan could have lived to see this.
I think "The Sky at Night" due to when in the month the BBC puts it may treat the British to some live coverage of the fly-by, much like Ted Koppel did with Nightline back in 1981 with the Voyager fly-by of Saturn.
Of course these days, I worry about the current American generations and how they are so pre-occupied with so many trivial things to get all worked up over that real science and discovery has lost its fascination.
Much like that afternoon on June 6, 2012 in the Sam's parking lot with a spotting scope on a tripod and full aperture safety filter and some #12 welders' filters, and how few even wanted to take a look at Venus crossing the face of the sun for the last time in this lifetime, because it was too much bother. That lack of interest speaks volumes on where our civilization appears to be headed.
I was telling people then as they just walked on by, "better take your vitamins and exercise because it's another 127 years till it happens again."
Maybe it's because we have so many people who are physically unfit that they couldn't survive a few more seconds out in the summer heat away from air conditioning and a steady supply of cold drinks to look through a telescope at a once in a lifetime event (well, twice, because some folks saw the 2008 transit).
Speaking of not as rare events, I need to get the 4.5 inch scope out in another couple of hours and try to get some good pictures of Venus and Jupiter in close conjunction, then move the camera to the wide angle lens and fixed tripod for the fireworks.