Podcaster: Shane and Chris
Title: Objects to Observe in September 2020
Organization: Actual Astronomy
Link : https://actualastronomy.podbean.com/
Description: The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Objects to Observe in the September Sky places a focus on sky events to help newcomers identify the planets and detailed observations of the changing surface of Mars and the Cloud tops of Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. Chris and Shane also talk a little about their upcoming trip to the Grasslands National Park Dark Sky Preserve.
Bio: Shane and Chris are amateur astronomers who enjoy teaching astronomy classes and performing outreach where they help the eyes of the public to telescope eyepieces.
Today’s sponsor: Big thanks to our Patreon supporters this month: David Bowes, Dustin A Ruoff, Brett Duane, Kim Hay, Nik Whitehead, Timo Sievänen, Michael Freedman, Paul Fischer, Rani Bush, Karl Bewley, Joko Danar, Steven Emert, Frank Tippin, Steven Jansen, Barbara Geier, Don Swartwout, James K. Wood, Katrina Ince, Michael Lewinger, Phyllis Simon Foster, Nicolo DePierro, Tim Smith.
Please consider sponsoring a day or two. Just click on the “Donate” button on the lower left side of this webpage, or contact us at signup@365daysofastronomy.org.
Please visit our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy
or you can consider to sponsor a day of our podcast : https://cosmoquest.org/x/365daysofastronomy/product/sponsor-an-episode-of-365-days-of-astronomy/
Transcript:
1
00:00:01.439 –> 00:00:07.109
Chris Beckett: Live from the internet cloud. It’s astronomy actual astronomy.
2
00:00:07.950 –> 00:00:12.660
Shane Ludtke: Astronomy actually some actually it’s astronomy, isn’t it. Yeah, something like that.
3
00:00:13.049 –> 00:00:21.780
Chris Beckett: And this is episode 44 objects to observe in the September sky or what is Chris making Shane observed this month.
4
00:00:22.440 –> 00:00:24.240
Shane Ludtke: Yes, yes, yes.
5
00:00:25.950 –> 00:00:28.590
Shane Ludtke: Do you have any key objects, you’re excited for
6
00:00:30.300 –> 00:00:30.870
Chris Beckett: Mars.
7
00:00:31.290 –> 00:00:33.030
Shane Ludtke: Yeah. Yeah, me too. Yeah.
8
00:00:33.390 –> 00:00:41.640
Chris Beckett: And I’m pretty excited. We have lots of followers. We have 50 followers now and we passed over 4000 downloads last night.
9
00:00:42.960 –> 00:00:56.220
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, that’s crazy. This thing is getting, you know, more attention than I ever thought it would. To be honest, I thought you and I would just end up talking about astronomy recording it putting it on the internet and, you know, maybe just a couple family friends with
10
00:00:57.000 –> 00:00:57.870
Chris Beckett: It but yeah we
11
00:00:57.900 –> 00:00:59.520
Chris Beckett: Do have family and friends listening.
12
00:00:59.880 –> 00:01:02.670
Chris Beckett: Yeah and you know we i think that’s that’s really fun.
13
00:01:03.450 –> 00:01:06.810
Chris Beckett: You know, I did hear from from one of my five or six nieces.
14
00:01:07.920 –> 00:01:18.060
Chris Beckett: And she’s listening to it. So, so that’s really fun and and yeah friend of mine, she’s become a follower, but she said, I haven’t listened to it yet. So that’s cool too.
15
00:01:19.830 –> 00:01:33.420
Chris Beckett: And yeah, so this month for September. Yeah. Mars is really getting towards its, its opposition, it’s going to be an opposition on October the 12th, but I’ve got a few other things.
16
00:01:34.710 –> 00:01:40.440
Chris Beckett: So, usually as we as we get into fall, you know, being being from the coast.
17
00:01:41.970 –> 00:01:48.840
Chris Beckett: We’re looking for the large tides and the largest tides are going to start just afternoon on September 17
18
00:01:50.340 –> 00:02:08.370
Chris Beckett: So, you know, I’ll be curious to hear my parents always give me the tide report when I when I give them a call and then mercury is going to be at its best evening apparition, but for the Southern Hemisphere. It’s, it’s pretty tough to get it’s, you know, usually very horizon hugging.
19
00:02:09.840 –> 00:02:18.690
Chris Beckett: But I don’t know. I didn’t look at the planetarium software may be easier and V remains very high and well placed in the in the morning. Twilight.
20
00:02:20.580 –> 00:02:31.740
Chris Beckett: It’s, you know, going to be about four degrees from the moon on the 14th of September. So that’s going to be pretty cool. So that’s going to be in the morning sky, you know, probably around like
21
00:02:32.220 –> 00:02:41.550
Chris Beckett: You know, four or 5AM. You can see the moon passing by Venus and towards the end of the month, Venus is going to be right Regulus which isn’t Leo.
22
00:02:42.840 –> 00:02:45.600
Chris Beckett: It’s going to be a pretty close conjunction there and early October.
23
00:02:47.040 –> 00:02:50.700
Chris Beckett: And then Mars. This is like pretty much one of the best opposition’s
24
00:02:51.930 –> 00:02:59.340
Chris Beckett: That we’re going to see for a long time and it’s it’s well under way and you know it’s just super bright just looks like a big bright orange.
25
00:03:00.540 –> 00:03:14.280
Chris Beckett: Ball in the sky and then through even the 60 millimeter. You can see the continents and the polar caps and think the atomic seemed like a dust cloud. And it’s, it’s pretty wild. And on the evening of the fifth and sixth
26
00:03:15.750 –> 00:03:28.320
Chris Beckett: In South America and the moon is going to pass in front of Mars. So that would be pretty cool. And let’s see what else Jupiter and Mars and Saturn. They’re all going to be stationary at some point.
27
00:03:29.220 –> 00:03:38.850
Chris Beckett: This month, and of course the moon is going to pair up with Jupiter and Saturn and Uranus is now rising before midnight, and it’s going to be at opposition.
28
00:03:40.110 –> 00:03:43.140
Chris Beckett: Basically viewable all night long. On October 31
29
00:03:44.430 –> 00:03:53.010
Chris Beckett: Which is next month, but you know that’s that’s what it’s heading towards and Neptune actually reaches opposition this month on the 11th. SO WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING FORWARD TO Shane.
30
00:03:53.670 –> 00:03:55.980
Shane Ludtke: Well, definitely, definitely looking for Mars.
31
00:03:57.660 –> 00:03:58.530
Shane Ludtke: It’s
32
00:03:59.640 –> 00:04:08.400
Shane Ludtke: You know, right now for me anyway where when it’s at its best spot in the sky. I’m in bed right now so I’m looking forward to
33
00:04:09.270 –> 00:04:18.210
Shane Ludtke: Being able to see it a little bit earlier in the evening and then that will be my primary focus for the next couple of months will be just to observe it as much as I can.
34
00:04:18.480 –> 00:04:18.720
Chris Beckett: Yeah.
35
00:04:18.990 –> 00:04:27.360
Shane Ludtke: Because, like you mentioned, this will be the best best year to observe it for quite a while and you know I think we’ve mentioned it a number of times before, but
36
00:04:27.840 –> 00:04:43.170
Shane Ludtke: Every two years Mars gets closer to earth. This happens to be that every second year where it’s, you know, doing it’s close approach and this approach happens to be closer than a number of the upcoming ones. So yeah, it’s definitely the time to observe
37
00:04:44.400 –> 00:04:53.070
Shane Ludtke: There’s no dust storms happening yet so we’ll keep our fingers crossed that that stays the same, because sometimes they do kick up on Mars, which means we can’t see much surface detail.
38
00:04:53.460 –> 00:05:01.830
Shane Ludtke: And wow, you know, I’ve been seeing some photographs that some folks have been taking like Damien peach. He’s a well known or well known Astro photographer.
39
00:05:03.090 –> 00:05:11.310
Shane Ludtke: If you haven’t seen him yet. Just check him out on Twitter because he is sending out planetary photos pretty regularly and he does a great job with them.
40
00:05:12.600 –> 00:05:19.890
Shane Ludtke: Another guy. We’ve talked about is Christopher go, although I’m not sure he looks at, or I don’t know if he acquires mini Mars for
41
00:05:19.920 –> 00:05:21.510
Chris Beckett: He’s not doing Mars right now. I was
42
00:05:21.540 –> 00:05:24.270
Chris Beckett: I was looking at his site now. I mean, he could have started but
43
00:05:25.170 –> 00:05:33.810
Chris Beckett: As of two or three weeks ago. He wasn’t shooting Mars at this time. I mean, it’s tough to, like, even though I’m not doing Astro imaging. I’m just sketching like
44
00:05:34.170 –> 00:05:42.540
Chris Beckett: I find two planets. That’s about all I can juggle. So I’m doing Mars and Venus right now because good
45
00:05:43.170 –> 00:05:48.780
Chris Beckett: Mars and Venus opposition’s are actually quite rare. And we’re we’re going through to the best that you can get
46
00:05:49.560 –> 00:06:00.900
Chris Beckett: Right now, whereas Saturn and Jupiter are low in the so if they’re actually not having really good opposition’s this year they’ll, they’ll start to get better next year in the year after for sure.
47
00:06:02.040 –> 00:06:11.520
Chris Beckett: So the idea of staying up late observing Jupiter and Saturn and then trying to turn around and do Venus and Mars in the morning skies is a little bit too much.
48
00:06:12.150 –> 00:06:21.000
Chris Beckett: For me, if I was if I wasn’t working. I would like that would be no problem. But, you know, like I said, and even teaching classes on top and and doing a course and
49
00:06:21.360 –> 00:06:27.480
Chris Beckett: Doing some other stuff. Like there’s only there’s only so much time in the day, even when you’re staying up half the night, you know. Yeah.
50
00:06:27.510 –> 00:06:30.390
Shane Ludtke: Totally, totally um you know another thing I’m
51
00:06:31.560 –> 00:06:34.860
Shane Ludtke: I’m excited for but I don’t know if it will happen is
52
00:06:36.240 –> 00:06:42.660
Shane Ludtke: For new moon in September. I’m really hoping to get down to our favorite place to observe, which is grasslands National Park.
53
00:06:43.050 –> 00:06:43.350
Chris Beckett: Yeah.
54
00:06:43.620 –> 00:06:51.060
Shane Ludtke: There should be far less traffic there so you know the covert risks, hopefully will be reduced as a result.
55
00:06:51.480 –> 00:06:51.720
Chris Beckett: Yeah.
56
00:06:51.750 –> 00:07:02.280
Shane Ludtke: But what I’d like to do in the fall like September timeframe is it’s definitely you know it’s cooling off, but it’s still so much warmer than it’s going to be in December timeframe.
57
00:07:03.030 –> 00:07:10.260
Shane Ludtke: And it’s really nice to get to a dark site and stay up late because you start to see some of the winter constellations come
58
00:07:10.260 –> 00:07:26.820
Shane Ludtke: Down. You know, like I Ryan tourists like you really get to observe some of these constellations and objects within them without having to, you know, under while where we live, you know, negative 22 degrees Celsius temperatures would be probably a warm night in
59
00:07:28.230 –> 00:07:29.460
Chris Beckett: Early January.
60
00:07:29.640 –> 00:07:31.050
Shane Ludtke: Whatever or yeah yeah
61
00:07:31.500 –> 00:07:36.330
Shane Ludtke: Or July. Yeah, yeah. Gee, thanks. Honestly, I’m a little confused.
62
00:07:37.800 –> 00:07:47.490
Shane Ludtke: But yeah, the to be able to do it in September when it’s, you know, not too bad outside is a real treat. So I’m hoping to get some of that done as well.
63
00:07:47.580 –> 00:07:49.170
Chris Beckett: Yeah, I took a day off work to
64
00:07:50.640 –> 00:08:00.720
Chris Beckett: To sort of pad an extra day in there so that maybe we can get down and do it would be would be awesome September 2 we have full moon though so much to see there
65
00:08:01.230 –> 00:08:03.780
Shane Ludtke: Well, let’s talk about that though, right, that’ll be the Harvest Moon.
66
00:08:04.620 –> 00:08:07.260
Shane Ludtke: Is it. I think it is, isn’t it, I
67
00:08:07.770 –> 00:08:08.430
Chris Beckett: Don’t know.
68
00:08:08.670 –> 00:08:25.080
Shane Ludtke: Well, I believe it is. And because I think that it typically rises at about like 9pm or something like that or or 8pm somewhere around there. And one of the common things that I hear what you know what if I’m at work or
69
00:08:26.250 –> 00:08:26.880
Shane Ludtke: Family
70
00:08:27.270 –> 00:08:34.800
Chris Beckett: It’s October 1 that’s that because the one I’m just looking this up online, the one closest to the optimal equinox.
71
00:08:34.920 –> 00:08:35.460
Shane Ludtke: Okay.
72
00:08:35.550 –> 00:08:37.050
Chris Beckett: Okay, which is the 23rd, so
73
00:08:37.140 –> 00:08:40.410
Shane Ludtke: Okay, well the next two full moons, so
74
00:08:40.530 –> 00:08:43.440
Shane Ludtke: Definitely September, and then the Harvest Moon. The October moon.
75
00:08:45.090 –> 00:08:52.680
Shane Ludtke: They rise, kind of at a, at a time where people can witness the rise, you know, because most people are up at that point and I
76
00:08:53.190 –> 00:09:00.240
Shane Ludtke: You know, I often hear that it’s such a big move and it’s much larger in the fall, than any other time of the year and
77
00:09:01.230 –> 00:09:14.820
Shane Ludtke: I think it’s really just because there’s more because it’s so close to the horizon. You can contrast it or compare it to, you know, various objects. You know, like a green elevator or a building or something like that.
78
00:09:15.900 –> 00:09:31.140
Shane Ludtke: Whereas when it’s you know right overhead, you really have no perception of how big you know the disk of the moon is so it’s always interesting to me that that some people, you know, believe the moon is so much larger at this time of the year.
79
00:09:32.220 –> 00:09:42.720
Chris Beckett: Or that Mars will be as large as the full moon and you can actually make a great comparison. On September 6 when Mars is going to be
80
00:09:43.500 –> 00:10:05.640
Chris Beckett: Point oh three degrees so of the moon. And it’s actually an occultation for like holding its south america very day and North Africa and southern Europe, perhaps, so we won’t get in here, but it’s gonna get awful close like really, really close to, to the moon. So that’s going to be nice.
81
00:10:06.840 –> 00:10:13.710
Chris Beckett: I haven’t seen this in a while, but it used to be. Every or every year. So there would be the email that would go around.
82
00:10:13.800 –> 00:10:17.520
Chris Beckett: And say Mars will be as large as the full moon.
83
00:10:18.090 –> 00:10:22.410
Chris Beckett: Yep, and where that can, you know, you’ve seen that as well.
84
00:10:22.920 –> 00:10:25.830
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, that started I think with the 2003 opposition.
85
00:10:26.220 –> 00:10:34.320
Chris Beckett: Yeah, because we have that very end. What happened was somebody, somebody misquoted an astronomer and they had said that
86
00:10:35.820 –> 00:10:44.730
Chris Beckett: You know, it’s still difficult to see that much on Mars, because even through a telescope Mars will only appear
87
00:10:46.140 –> 00:10:49.680
Chris Beckett: As the full moon does to the unaided I
88
00:10:50.700 –> 00:11:00.900
Chris Beckett: And so that it got twisted around to say somebody either by accident or what. And then of course the internet trolls going to get ahold of this just loved it.
89
00:11:01.140 –> 00:11:20.490
Chris Beckett: And just continually put it out to every year, though it seems to calm down and in recent years. But yes, through the telescope, it will appear as large perhaps as the or you can see the details on on the surface of Mars about as well as you can see the features on on the moon.
90
00:11:21.930 –> 00:11:22.890
Shane Ludtke: That’s a great comparison.
91
00:11:23.460 –> 00:11:33.450
Chris Beckett: Yeah, so it, it’s tough. I don’t know how how good a comparison. That is because I mean like recently, I’m looking at the polar caps shrinking on
92
00:11:34.800 –> 00:11:42.000
Chris Beckett: On Mars, and I mean there’s no polar cap on the moon. That’d be cool or not that we can really see any way there might be some
93
00:11:43.620 –> 00:11:45.900
Chris Beckett: You know aces in a crater somewhere.
94
00:11:46.950 –> 00:11:53.070
Chris Beckett: But you can see quite a bit. You can also see the rotation of Mars. So these are things you just can’t see them.
95
00:11:54.120 –> 00:11:55.170
Chris Beckett: Matter what you have to look through
96
00:11:57.900 –> 00:11:59.400
Shane Ludtke: Yeah definitely some different features there.
97
00:11:59.700 –> 00:11:59.910
Yeah.
98
00:12:02.310 –> 00:12:10.140
Shane Ludtke: But what what is kind of interesting about that comparison is Mars similar to our moon has some dark regions on its surface.
99
00:12:10.410 –> 00:12:17.940
Shane Ludtke: Mm hmm. That you know that that’s what we’re really looking for as astronomers is that you know those darker zones versus the lighter zones.
100
00:12:18.990 –> 00:12:29.940
Shane Ludtke: And then the polar caps, of course, are fairly distinct and unique when it comes to looking at Mars, but like service major really reminds me of some of the mores of the moon.
101
00:12:30.960 –> 00:12:32.430
Shane Ludtke: You know those dark regions.
102
00:12:33.270 –> 00:12:41.250
Chris Beckett: Yeah, it does. I yeah yeah yeah it does for sure. The north polar cap, though, is is tough right now because it’s
103
00:12:41.910 –> 00:12:56.910
Chris Beckett: Around northern winter so it’s tilted away the south polar cap those its way out in the desert, just depending on which night you’re looking at. And I noticed that yesterday morning it was it was close to the limb, but
104
00:12:57.960 –> 00:13:06.270
Chris Beckett: Earlier in the week it was it was way harder. Maybe we can go, it was way out in the in the desert, just because it sort of, I think it sort of sits a little bit off the pole anyway.
105
00:13:08.460 –> 00:13:17.670
Chris Beckett: Remarkable. It’s just amazing to to be watching that. So over the past couple months, as I’ve been watching you can actually detect that the south polar cap is is shrinking quite a bit.
106
00:13:19.290 –> 00:13:23.280
Shane Ludtke: Well that’s pretty cool. See ya see a season changing on another planet.
107
00:13:24.300 –> 00:13:28.830
Chris Beckett: Yeah, yeah, it’s pretty neat. I think especially during these times when things seem
108
00:13:30.270 –> 00:13:30.750
Chris Beckett: So,
109
00:13:31.860 –> 00:13:34.050
Chris Beckett: So challenging in our, in our own lives.
110
00:13:35.310 –> 00:13:47.760
Chris Beckett: So let’s see. Uranus is going to be three degrees north of the moon. On September 7 so that’ll be a good chance to see it, though. The moon is is just a boat. Well, just past fall, but it’s
111
00:13:48.270 –> 00:13:59.700
Chris Beckett: Only five days past full. So it’s going to be like a three quarters moon, but could be a good opportunity to try to hunt down Uranus Uranus is fairly bright and uses from 5.7 or something like that. So,
112
00:14:00.360 –> 00:14:06.930
Chris Beckett: Um, could be an opportunity to see it there. Have you seen Uranus through through your own telescopes. Yeah.
113
00:14:07.620 –> 00:14:17.940
Shane Ludtke: Well I many, many years ago when I had an eight inch Sony and I observed it a few times and was able to pull out some of that color of Uranus.
114
00:14:19.080 –> 00:14:29.670
Shane Ludtke: It’s hard to really distinguish like there’s a little bit of a disk there, but it’s really hard to see, you know, like if you could mistake it for Star quite easy.
115
00:14:31.530 –> 00:14:36.720
Shane Ludtke: I’ve never tried it, though with any of my current refractor is that I have. So I’d like to try both Uranus and Neptune.
116
00:14:37.110 –> 00:14:39.270
Shane Ludtke: Gamma factors to see what it looks like.
117
00:14:39.720 –> 00:14:46.680
Chris Beckett: Yeah, and it will be it’ll be up, you know, pretty high around the minute, hour or so. So you should have a good chance that
118
00:14:48.030 –> 00:14:50.370
Chris Beckett: Mars is stationary on the ninth so
119
00:14:52.110 –> 00:14:57.660
Chris Beckett: Few of the planets are stationary and Jupiter stationary and 13th and Saturn is stationary
120
00:14:59.700 –> 00:15:17.010
Chris Beckett: The 29th of September. And what happens is that the planets are an orbit around the sun. And we are also in orbit around the sun. And as we kind of catch up to these planets, because their planets that are outside of our orbit or outside of Earth’s orbit, making them superior planets.
121
00:15:18.060 –> 00:15:23.580
Chris Beckett: As we go past them the the sort of a pure at a standstill, against the background stars.
122
00:15:25.800 –> 00:15:26.580
Chris Beckett: Yeah, I’m not going to get
123
00:15:27.570 –> 00:15:29.340
Chris Beckett: Too much more of that but if
124
00:15:29.670 –> 00:15:37.980
Chris Beckett: If people are really paying close attention, they might see that, of course, when really people’s saw this it especially with Mars is it’s it’s quite apparent.
125
00:15:39.000 –> 00:15:54.960
Chris Beckett: Credit sort of the problem of the planets which which took quite a long time till T. Cobra, I mean his observations and then eventually Kepler and get his hands on them and and it was able to kind of sorted out around the turn of the sort of 1600 timeframe.
126
00:15:56.040 –> 00:15:56.850
Shane Ludtke: Very interesting.
127
00:15:58.080 –> 00:16:05.460
Chris Beckett: Let’s see, September 14 the Moon and Venus are going to pair up Venus is going to be four degrees. So the moon.
128
00:16:06.180 –> 00:16:15.540
Chris Beckett: The moon is just a thin sliver of a crescent that night. That’ll be I think that’d be worth getting up for. I think you should get up that morning. I’m going to, I’m going to make change it up and I’m, sir.
129
00:16:16.110 –> 00:16:17.190
Shane Ludtke: Good, good luck with that.
130
00:16:18.360 –> 00:16:26.430
Shane Ludtke: But I do like a slim like a very slim crescent moon. I think they’re very steadily pleasing. They’re quite beautiful and
131
00:16:27.450 –> 00:16:34.860
Shane Ludtke: The neat thing is like you again. You just need your eyes for that, although telescope and binoculars are pretty cool too. For for the thin crescent
132
00:16:35.730 –> 00:16:40.080
Chris Beckett: Yeah, there’s also a double shadow transit.
133
00:16:41.400 –> 00:16:47.130
Chris Beckett: On Jupiter, which I think would be around midnight or time should have put that more closely, but
134
00:16:48.210 –> 00:16:51.570
Chris Beckett: Starting on the 15th. So we have this Zodiacal Light.
135
00:16:52.620 –> 00:17:01.800
Chris Beckett: Going to be visible. I don’t know how they get it down to like a certain day so I looked up last year’s and it was like the 17th or something like that. And I was like,
136
00:17:02.490 –> 00:17:09.720
Chris Beckett: What’s the difference in the last year and this year. I don’t know. I guess it’s because they line it up with the new moon, more or less, so
137
00:17:10.050 –> 00:17:11.820
Shane Ludtke: I don’t ever talked about the dynamical late
138
00:17:12.480 –> 00:17:15.810
Chris Beckett: No, I don’t think we have. So do you want to, you want to explain it.
139
00:17:16.560 –> 00:17:18.000
Shane Ludtke: Well, um,
140
00:17:19.410 –> 00:17:21.240
Shane Ludtke: I need to look it up. So I get the details.
141
00:17:21.240 –> 00:17:22.560
Shane Ludtke: Basically for
142
00:17:22.710 –> 00:17:26.040
Chris Beckett: Interstellar interplanetary dust.
143
00:17:26.130 –> 00:17:27.180
Chris Beckett: Really is what it is.
144
00:17:29.400 –> 00:17:36.570
Chris Beckett: And so the solar system is essentially we think about it one way anyway, like a record.
145
00:17:37.710 –> 00:17:47.670
Chris Beckett: You have all the planets going around and then in between and sort of floating around in that disk is also a lot of dust from like comets and
146
00:17:48.840 –> 00:18:01.590
Chris Beckett: asteroids that have impacted together and you know maybe some leftover pieces of dust from the early solar system and then that forms this disk. And so we have
147
00:18:02.160 –> 00:18:12.600
Chris Beckett: The Zodiac and the basically the ecliptic, which is where the planets reside, and that’s that disk and it, it is sort of an imaginary line.
148
00:18:13.200 –> 00:18:25.380
Chris Beckett: That cuts across the night sky. Of course, when you go out, you can’t really see that line. But what you would be able to see on on these names, starting in mid September is
149
00:18:25.770 –> 00:18:34.110
Chris Beckett: Kind of triangle ish of light or kind of one way I like to think of it, it’s almost like looking at Saturn’s ring. But this is a ring around our whole
150
00:18:34.740 –> 00:18:46.980
Chris Beckett: Solar System, little bit hard to get your head around, but the angle of that is such that kind of points up from the. Let’s see. It’s going to be in the East before morning Twilight.
151
00:18:48.150 –> 00:18:55.980
Chris Beckett: Until around October 1 so if you’re up in the morning and you can see this pill. You need to be somewhere recently dark doesn’t need to be the darkest place the world.
152
00:18:56.280 –> 00:19:15.270
Chris Beckett: But you can see kind of this this sort of oddly shaped pillar of light and the great part now and they don’t say this in, or I don’t see my notes, but because Venus is Venus is going to be in that pillar, because of course Venus is in the Zodiac and the ecliptic plane some no.
153
00:19:15.420 –> 00:19:17.010
Shane Ludtke: No, that’s kind of a neat alignment.
154
00:19:17.370 –> 00:19:25.500
Chris Beckett: Yeah, that’s one way to actually sort it out other Venus, but that point is going to be so bright that might sort of overpower the city.
155
00:19:26.550 –> 00:19:27.030
Shane Ludtke: Yeah.
156
00:19:27.600 –> 00:19:29.790
Chris Beckett: We might stand a chance to see it. Yeah.
157
00:19:29.820 –> 00:19:46.110
Shane Ludtke: And we’ve seen it before. So we live in a city of, I don’t know. It’s 200 to 250,000 people and you know we’ve seen it only driving maybe 10 kilometers or 20 kilometers outside of our city not super dark still within light pollution ring.
158
00:19:46.440 –> 00:19:47.910
Chris Beckett: Yeah, like a 15 minute drive. Yeah.
159
00:19:47.970 –> 00:19:50.160
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, yeah. But we were able to see it a few times.
160
00:19:50.220 –> 00:19:53.970
Chris Beckett: Oh yeah, yeah, no problem at all. Yeah, I think about the farm. We sometimes go to an
161
00:19:54.180 –> 00:19:55.290
Shane Ludtke: Instrument. Yeah.
162
00:19:56.040 –> 00:19:58.500
Chris Beckett: New Moon is on the 17th so
163
00:19:59.760 –> 00:20:04.980
Chris Beckett: I think I took the 18th. I THINK I TOOK THE 18th AND 19th, so
164
00:20:06.300 –> 00:20:08.640
Chris Beckett: Be prepared for some observing reports.
165
00:20:10.200 –> 00:20:10.500
Shane Ludtke: And
166
00:20:11.700 –> 00:20:15.780
Shane Ludtke: I can’t wait. I hope we get good weather because I really am craving some dark skies.
167
00:20:16.140 –> 00:20:30.630
Chris Beckett: Yeah yeah should be good. And then coming along towards the 22nd September 22 we’re going to have mercury three degrees north of spyker morning sky so
168
00:20:31.740 –> 00:20:38.790
Chris Beckett: Yeah, we’ll, we’ll see if how easily visible. That is, I’m not sure how how visible. That would be, but
169
00:20:39.960 –> 00:20:40.620
Chris Beckett: But it’s happening.
170
00:20:41.790 –> 00:20:45.000
Chris Beckett: And then on the 24th. We have the first quarter moon.
171
00:20:46.650 –> 00:21:01.530
Chris Beckett: Coming up, so that will sort of close the the observing window for September and unfortunately probably close off the the relatively warm weather observing window as well. Unfortunately, so yeah.
172
00:21:01.560 –> 00:21:04.980
Shane Ludtke: I’ve heard it can. I’ve heard it can get cold in October. I heard that.
173
00:21:06.990 –> 00:21:09.090
Chris Beckett: I think, I think you’re referring to.
174
00:21:09.960 –> 00:21:19.500
Chris Beckett: Referring to the time where we went down to grasslands drove the three plus hours to get there. And if October, it’s like it was warm that day.
175
00:21:19.560 –> 00:21:20.970
Chris Beckett: So, looks like you can talk
176
00:21:21.090 –> 00:21:21.750
Shane Ludtke: Plus, it was
177
00:21:21.780 –> 00:21:31.560
Chris Beckett: 2020 degrees Celsius. Unfortunately that night and to minus 20 degrees Celsius and we we drove home by the time it hit minus five or whatever it was.
178
00:21:33.060 –> 00:21:42.150
Chris Beckett: Yeah, I didn’t. Yeah, I’ve never seen it quite go that cold from being like 2020 billion in Nova Scotia. It’s 20 degrees.
179
00:21:42.510 –> 00:21:53.850
Chris Beckett: Above, you’re not going to minus 20 and I doubt that ever happen. They’re just physically impossible. Not so much good here. We’re supposed to get cool that night I was prepared for minus two.
180
00:21:54.870 –> 00:22:09.150
Chris Beckett: But by the time sunset. I think it was minus four or something and I was starting to get cold already and you know the idea of staying there for 12 hours and when, when I checked later it had gone down. I think it went down to
181
00:22:10.260 –> 00:22:16.110
Chris Beckett: Thing with down somewhere like minus 12 but then it was windy. It was quite windy and it was minus 20 WITH THE WINDCHILL
182
00:22:16.320 –> 00:22:17.160
Chris Beckett: So, yeah.
183
00:22:17.220 –> 00:22:18.420
Shane Ludtke: Would have been miserable.
184
00:22:19.110 –> 00:22:32.610
Chris Beckett: Yeah, that would be, you know, the one thing to point out is like when we’re going out. We’re camping like that if like we have excellent dear like gear that is spanked for doing that. However,
185
00:22:33.960 –> 00:22:42.990
Chris Beckett: If we’re out doing astronomy, we’re going to, we’re going to get too cold, and the gear is just not going to quite suffice. I don’t think it’s, we’re just going to get too cold.
186
00:22:44.130 –> 00:22:53.430
Chris Beckett: Enough not really be able to warm up in the tents. If you were just going out. So I’m certainly on camping and cold weather before, but you’re kind of moving. And the trick is you kind of
187
00:22:53.760 –> 00:23:03.870
Chris Beckett: Eat and then get ready for bed. Then you go to bed and you’re reasonably warm, even if it’s really cold you get in the tent and you kind of warm up a bit and go to sleep.
188
00:23:04.410 –> 00:23:16.440
Chris Beckett: Whatever, it’s fine. But when we’re going out and we’re staying up until two or three o’clock in the morning and and I did that once, for it was like minus five or minus six. And then that was just too cold.
189
00:23:17.490 –> 00:23:25.290
Chris Beckett: For me anyway because I just could never WARM, WARM UP. I was frozen and then not moving around. Yeah, it was, it was bad. So
190
00:23:26.040 –> 00:23:42.660
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, it becomes a little bit challenging when you observe in a cold location. And usually what ends the observing is you just get too cold. You know, you’re, you’re uncomfortable, you’re done. Well, when the only option is to get into a tent with a cold sleeping.
191
00:23:43.680 –> 00:23:45.930
Shane Ludtke: It’s just not a wonderful proposition.
192
00:23:46.290 –> 00:23:58.830
Chris Beckett: No, no, not good that night. Yeah, because we debated whether we drive home or just go to bed and try to, you know, stay warm. I mean, you know, that’s done, those aren’t good options.
193
00:24:00.420 –> 00:24:14.790
Chris Beckett: So anyway, hopefully, you know, September September can be good. Typically, it’s not that cold and we’ve been down as late as the end of September. It’s never getting cold, cold in September and we’re good into, you know, I’m good to minus five or so.
194
00:24:16.290 –> 00:24:21.750
Chris Beckett: But, you know, if it’s minus five by sunset in trouble. So, yeah.
195
00:24:21.930 –> 00:24:27.810
Chris Beckett: Yeah, but you know what we know now we know that we can drive back from there in an evening, if we have to
196
00:24:28.680 –> 00:24:30.060
Shane Ludtke: Yeah yeah we proved that
197
00:24:31.290 –> 00:24:43.680
Chris Beckett: Alright, so the 24th. We have the first quarter moon. And then on the 25th that moon is going to line up with Jupiter and Saturn Jupiter is just going to be 1.6 degrees north of the moon.
198
00:24:44.730 –> 00:24:52.260
Chris Beckett: And then Saturn on the same night just short while later is going to be just about two degrees north of the moon. Now, it might be
199
00:24:52.500 –> 00:24:59.430
Chris Beckett: A little a little greater that’s sort of the minimum distance, depending on where people are might be a little bit more than that. But regardless
200
00:24:59.880 –> 00:25:06.270
Chris Beckett: You find the moon, you put binoculars on, you’re going to see Jupiter, Saturn, and the moon. They’re all going to be within a binocular field on that night.
201
00:25:07.140 –> 00:25:17.220
Shane Ludtke: That’s pretty cool. And, you know, we’ve been talking a lot about Mars and we’re excited for it, but probably September will be the last month to have, you know, good views of Jupiter and Saturn.
202
00:25:17.640 –> 00:25:33.780
Shane Ludtke: After, after September, they’re probably getting a little too low on the horizon. To really get anything to really have any kind of good quality view. So yeah, log of, you know, I’m, I’m definitely going to log a few more views of Jupiter and Saturn before they kind of disappear for the year.
203
00:25:34.200 –> 00:25:36.360
Chris Beckett: Yeah, yeah, that that’s a good plan.
204
00:25:37.770 –> 00:25:47.820
Chris Beckett: And that’s, that’s sort of those are sort of the highlights of the sort of what’s up and then anytime skies for is, you know, the planets and the moon and a few other things go but
205
00:25:48.420 –> 00:25:56.040
Chris Beckett: What do you if we do go down into dark skies and the middle of the month, but what are you going to be looking forward to seeing chain.
206
00:25:57.300 –> 00:26:03.120
Shane Ludtke: Well, I think I’ll do a combination of two things in. They both have the same theme.
207
00:26:04.980 –> 00:26:08.400
Shane Ludtke: I’ll take my TV Genesis SDF refractor
208
00:26:08.820 –> 00:26:17.970
Shane Ludtke: Okay. And I want to continue observing the objects that Stephen James a mirror listed in what is it deep sky gems, I think.
209
00:26:20.130 –> 00:26:25.140
Shane Ludtke: He I think he, he, there’s, I think there’s around 100 objects in that book all
210
00:26:25.200 –> 00:26:40.290
Shane Ludtke: Of them, he observed from his I think all of them were observed from his Hawaiian location using the exact same telescope. Well, actually I think it’s the model just before the non SDF version but doesn’t really matter. It’s for all intents and purposes, it’s the same telescope
211
00:26:41.460 –> 00:26:48.210
Shane Ludtke: So I’d like to observe some of those objects that he’s listed and then just compare observation notes to see
212
00:26:49.260 –> 00:26:55.200
Shane Ludtke: See how close I got to what he’s able to see because he’s probably one of the best visual observers around
213
00:26:55.590 –> 00:27:02.520
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, seems he’s not only does he have really good skies, but he’s just a really good observer. So I’d like to see what I can come up with.
214
00:27:02.910 –> 00:27:04.890
Shane Ludtke: Any way out, you know, start the evening with
215
00:27:05.490 –> 00:27:14.220
Shane Ludtke: Probably some fall objects and then like I said earlier, what intrigues me about September is you can kind of do winter observing if you stay up late.
216
00:27:14.550 –> 00:27:14.820
Chris Beckett: Yeah.
217
00:27:14.850 –> 00:27:24.000
Shane Ludtke: You’ll see the winter constellations, but it’ll be much more comfortable. So again, look at some winter objects that are in o’meara’s book.
218
00:27:24.690 –> 00:27:26.700
Chris Beckett: Hmm. Sounds good plan. Yeah.
219
00:27:26.730 –> 00:27:28.080
Shane Ludtke: How about you. Well, what would you be
220
00:27:29.280 –> 00:27:29.790
Shane Ludtke: Checking out
221
00:27:30.150 –> 00:27:35.130
Chris Beckett: Yes sir, sort of a story of two seasons. I think I might
222
00:27:36.240 –> 00:27:37.410
Chris Beckett: You know, skip the fall
223
00:27:38.850 –> 00:27:43.050
Chris Beckett: But the summer skies still nascent I think it’s probably dark around eight
224
00:27:43.830 –> 00:27:53.370
Chris Beckett: Or getting a pretty pretty dark around eight, so probably what I would do is plan to do the summer sky from, you know, probably about eight until
225
00:27:54.060 –> 00:28:09.330
Chris Beckett: 1030 or 11 and and you know look at Milky Way objects like I really like look at the area in around Sagittarius, like the lagoon Nebula and the region as is really beautiful, which is a star from your region and Sagittarius.
226
00:28:10.680 –> 00:28:11.070
Chris Beckett: And then the
227
00:28:12.750 –> 00:28:19.290
Chris Beckett: Region which is next door, and then there’s some nice dark clouds, like the Sagittarius dark cloud and and the screwed him star cloud.
228
00:28:20.640 –> 00:28:27.720
Chris Beckett: And I’ll have my hopefully have my tracking mode and and have have it all, all the bugs worked out by then and maybe a power pack and that sort of thing.
229
00:28:29.310 –> 00:28:38.370
Chris Beckett: And you know it’d be really nice just to be able to put it on, you know, some of those objects and then just have a track, maybe, maybe do some some sketching.
230
00:28:40.320 –> 00:28:47.490
Chris Beckett: And then, oh, I want to really take a look at the North American nebula an individual my class sent me this beautiful
231
00:28:48.030 –> 00:28:55.200
Chris Beckett: Photograph he’s just learning to do Astra imaging and he sent me a bunch of Astro photos and they were all really good
232
00:28:56.010 –> 00:29:06.180
Chris Beckett: But this one, I thought, was was rather remarkable like a very, very good image, especially considering that I think he’s only been doing it for for a couple years or so.
233
00:29:07.230 –> 00:29:12.870
Chris Beckett: I thought I wouldn’t mind doing an observation of it and then doing a sketch and kind of seeing what I could pull out
234
00:29:13.920 –> 00:29:25.110
Chris Beckett: With a sketch and then kind of maybe writing a journal article about about the North American and Berlin putting his photo of my sketch together. I thought that would be kind of kind of a neat thing. I kind of like to do that.
235
00:29:26.190 –> 00:29:28.650
Chris Beckett: You know, kind of give the perspective of
236
00:29:29.670 –> 00:29:38.220
Chris Beckett: OF WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH imaging and then what you can do with visual and kind of some of the nuances there and maybe maybe go back and forth with him a bit and
237
00:29:38.640 –> 00:29:51.540
Chris Beckett: Get sort of his input on that I thought might be an interesting way to to include a he’s not a new observer, but but sort of different perspective, probably is the way to put it. So yeah, that’s, that’s one of my things and then probably
238
00:29:52.710 –> 00:29:56.970
Chris Beckett: I’ll probably go to bed at around 11 and
239
00:29:57.330 –> 00:29:57.870
Yes.
240
00:30:00.150 –> 00:30:09.390
Chris Beckett: And then I’ll probably sleep for four hours and then maybe three hours and then get up or whatever my sleep cycle is I forget, I asked Google and
241
00:30:09.780 –> 00:30:18.660
Chris Beckett: It will tell me three and a half or three hours and 40 minutes or something and then after sleep cycle. I’ll get up and observe the winter sky.
242
00:30:20.220 –> 00:30:22.590
Chris Beckett: Take a look at the Orion Nebula.
243
00:30:22.800 –> 00:30:23.370
Yes.
244
00:30:24.390 –> 00:30:27.720
Chris Beckett: You know, I’ve never, I haven’t sketched your Ryan through
245
00:30:29.370 –> 00:30:38.730
Chris Beckett: Larger so I’ve done it through my 60 millimeter so far, but I’d like to do one through through the hundred and you know like the sort of have a tracking and do and then I would mind.
246
00:30:40.050 –> 00:30:51.180
Chris Beckett: You know, taking a good look at like Bernards flu or they get Sharpless to dash 64 which is the angel fish nebula up around lambda rinus which is the head of a Ryan.
247
00:30:53.130 –> 00:30:55.230
Chris Beckett: Know maybe like the Pleiades like to
248
00:30:55.320 –> 00:30:56.700
Chris Beckett: Maybe do a sketch of that.
249
00:30:57.720 –> 00:31:10.500
Chris Beckett: You know, just some some things like that and then just kind of take a bit of a cruise around. Yeah. Maybe we’ll take a look at the California nebula Perseus just been a while since sort of an open ended or the dark sky and yeah
250
00:31:11.280 –> 00:31:22.140
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, nice, nice one. My plan might get derailed and I might end up just looking at a lot of pretty objects that I’ve seen before, just because it’s been so long since I’ve been under a nice dark sky.
251
00:31:23.850 –> 00:31:31.290
Shane Ludtke: It’ll be kind of neat to like if we both are running hundred millimeter telescopes with two different focal lengths. It might be kind of neat to compare some of the views as well.
252
00:31:32.460 –> 00:31:37.380
Chris Beckett: Yeah, that’s right. Yeah, you’re going to have yours, which is 120 millimeters
253
00:31:37.950 –> 00:31:42.690
Shane Ludtke: Hundred and One millimeter aperture 540 millimeter focal length.
254
00:31:42.780 –> 00:31:55.200
Chris Beckett: Yeah so mines mines just slightly smaller and slightly longer at 100 millimeters and and 740 millimeter focal lengths enough 7.4. Yeah, no, for sure. Yeah. That that’d be good.
255
00:31:56.580 –> 00:32:00.510
Chris Beckett: Yeah, I’d be curious just just to see what some things look like through that.
256
00:32:01.470 –> 00:32:11.520
Chris Beckett: Particular like envelope. This is an autumn object be nice to take a look at something like the helix, which is a helix nebulae, which is a planetary nebula, which is a star that
257
00:32:12.270 –> 00:32:20.010
Chris Beckett: was similar to our son that that lived life and then expired give off its gas in the space in this giant sort of almost looks like an eye, looking back
258
00:32:21.180 –> 00:32:31.710
Chris Beckett: And it’s like a very large circular nebula. So that would be a nice one to kind of go back and forth and and do some comparison with
259
00:32:32.640 –> 00:32:34.530
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, for sure. For sure. Yeah.
260
00:32:34.770 –> 00:32:43.440
Chris Beckett: We definitely look forward to that. So yeah, that’d be that’d be nice for sure to dream, hopefully. Hopefully the weather doesn’t turn him head.
261
00:32:43.890 –> 00:32:57.660
Chris Beckett: So many nice days like it kind of feels like you know we’re living on borrowed time, in a way, because I think I put I put a sweater on this morning to go for for a walk. I walk virtually every morning.
262
00:32:58.770 –> 00:33:02.490
Chris Beckett: And today was the first day I had to wear a sweater this summer.
263
00:33:03.000 –> 00:33:08.160
Chris Beckett: And often we do get cooler mornings. We’ve had some cooler mornings, like when I’ve been observing
264
00:33:09.420 –> 00:33:18.690
Chris Beckett: But they haven’t really been chili or cold or anything like that. And today was sort of our first day where it was. It was cool enough that you really had to wear
265
00:33:19.290 –> 00:33:29.940
Chris Beckett: A sweater or like like jack to to go out and I and I see that tomorrow morning. It’s supposed to be like just four degrees Celsius. So that’s like, to me, that to others.
266
00:33:30.570 –> 00:33:31.800
Shane Ludtke: That’s getting chilly and
267
00:33:32.520 –> 00:33:37.110
Shane Ludtke: You know, last year we had the monsoon rains in the fall. I just
268
00:33:37.110 –> 00:33:39.150
Shane Ludtke: Yeah. And so hopefully
269
00:33:39.300 –> 00:33:40.710
Shane Ludtke: That doesn’t happen again. But
270
00:33:40.890 –> 00:33:41.700
Shane Ludtke: You just never know.
271
00:33:42.150 –> 00:33:52.350
Chris Beckett: Well yeah and i mean i every year, I think, you know, the first two years we lived here. It was beautiful. Right up until December and then the snows came and then
272
00:33:53.400 –> 00:34:05.760
Chris Beckett: You know, we had, like, you know, three and a half months of snow and winter weather like you would expect living out here and then sign came out and melted all away is gone by the third or fourth week of March. No, no big deal.
273
00:34:06.390 –> 00:34:18.930
Chris Beckett: And I thought, I don’t know what people are complaining about so much and then there was one year where it didn’t, it didn’t snow on the first of September here, but it did snow in places around here.
274
00:34:20.700 –> 00:34:30.540
Chris Beckett: And certainly a can, like, we can get snow here as it really is the first week of September, not warmed up after that. But that was a little bit of an eye opener.
275
00:34:31.320 –> 00:34:45.870
Chris Beckett: When we had that whether that was particularly unkind and then we’ve certainly had years since now where you know it snows on honor, but the first of October, and you never see your lawn again until, until sometime well into April.
276
00:34:47.280 –> 00:34:48.270
Chris Beckett: So there’s that.
277
00:34:49.290 –> 00:34:49.530
Chris Beckett: Yeah.
278
00:34:49.590 –> 00:34:50.130
Shane Ludtke: For sure.
279
00:34:50.790 –> 00:34:51.360
Chris Beckett: So, yeah.
280
00:34:52.740 –> 00:34:56.370
Shane Ludtke: I have a little bit of a comet update for September as well.
281
00:34:56.640 –> 00:34:57.210
Chris Beckett: Oh,
282
00:34:57.240 –> 00:34:59.100
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, well it’s not exciting. Don’t, don’t.
283
00:34:59.490 –> 00:35:02.430
Shane Ludtke: Don’t get out of your chair, you don’t have like another new wise.
284
00:35:02.460 –> 00:35:10.050
Shane Ludtke: I don’t know. No. So Neil wise is still visible but you know dimming more and more every day.
285
00:35:11.790 –> 00:35:21.720
Shane Ludtke: And a new comet. Well, it’s not new. It’s a periodic. I think it comes by every five years or five and a half years. It’s 88 P Howell
286
00:35:22.410 –> 00:35:29.490
Shane Ludtke: And it will probably take over as the brightest comment in the sky. So Neil wise has been the brightest since it
287
00:35:29.910 –> 00:35:38.880
Shane Ludtke: You know, really perked up in July, but how it will take over. However, it probably will still be around like nine or 10 magnitude
288
00:35:39.990 –> 00:35:49.020
Shane Ludtke: So definitely requiring a telescope and probably not much to see other than a small fuzzy, you know, kind of object, I guess.
289
00:35:50.130 –> 00:35:55.170
Shane Ludtke: There’s a couple other that are in that similar magnitude range. There’s two p anarchy.
290
00:35:56.250 –> 00:35:56.730
Shane Ludtke: There’s
291
00:35:56.820 –> 00:36:00.600
Shane Ludtke: Ink ink. Is that okay there’s see
292
00:36:02.430 –> 00:36:05.190
Shane Ludtke: Pan stars and then see
293
00:36:06.390 –> 00:36:11.820
Shane Ludtke: Use six lemon. They’ll all be around ninth or 10th magnitude at the store.
294
00:36:11.850 –> 00:36:12.990
Chris Beckett: GP could be
295
00:36:13.020 –> 00:36:15.360
Chris Beckett: Encke another anchor Encke
296
00:36:15.720 –> 00:36:16.950
Shane Ludtke: Yeah, okay.
297
00:36:17.430 –> 00:36:28.620
Shane Ludtke: And in fact, those are actually those three that I just listed are actually probably not that bright anymore. That was at the beginning of August. They weren’t that great and then feeding through the month but
298
00:36:29.940 –> 00:36:34.680
Shane Ludtke: Anyway, how will be the brightest comment up there if anybody’s interested in looking at a comet.
299
00:36:35.430 –> 00:36:36.420
Chris Beckett: Wow, cool.
300
00:36:37.770 –> 00:36:39.780
Chris Beckett: Sounds good. All right, well,
301
00:36:41.310 –> 00:36:44.700
Chris Beckett: Anything else to add, or or to look forward to you.
302
00:36:45.930 –> 00:36:53.790
Shane Ludtke: Know, that’s all, that’s all that I have on my list as we get closer to the new moon. And if the weather’s looking good. I’ll get a little more serious about planning.
303
00:36:54.060 –> 00:37:08.220
Shane Ludtke: My observing sessions for grasslands, but until then it’ll just be a lot of backyard observing continuing to look at Jupiter and Saturn and you know more and more Mars as it rises earlier and earlier every night.
304
00:37:08.820 –> 00:37:11.760
Chris Beckett: Yeah, I wonder if we should do like a Mars episode at some
305
00:37:11.880 –> 00:37:13.170
Shane Ludtke: Point. Yeah, like that.
306
00:37:13.800 –> 00:37:18.690
Chris Beckett: And maybe we should think about doing that, maybe, towards the end of September would be good.
307
00:37:19.140 –> 00:37:19.890
Shane Ludtke: Yeah. All right, good.
308
00:37:19.950 –> 00:37:20.370
Shane Ludtke: Good idea.
309
00:37:20.790 –> 00:37:22.980
Chris Beckett: Alright, well thanks so much. Really appreciate it.
310
00:37:23.130 –> 00:37:26.250
Shane Ludtke: Yeah. Thank you, Chris, and thank you everybody for supporting the podcast.
311
00:37:26.430 –> 00:37:32.550
Chris Beckett: And how can people get in touch less or stay in touch with us, you’ve got like Twitter and some email addresses, I think.
312
00:37:32.730 –> 00:37:35.700
Shane Ludtke: Yeah so Twitter where we are actual astronomy.
313
00:37:36.960 –> 00:37:47.400
Shane Ludtke: We are on YouTube, so you can leave comments there and we’ll definitely reply and then also email us. We are actual Astronomy at GMAIL. COM
314
00:37:48.390 –> 00:37:49.290
Chris Beckett: Great, thanks. Shane.
315
00:37:49.560 –> 00:37:50.220
Shane Ludtke: Thank you, Chris.
316
00:37:50.820 –> 00:37:51.120
Bye.
End of podcast:
365 Days of Astronomy
=====================
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by Planetary Science Institute. Audio post-production by Richard Drumm. Bandwidth donated by libsyn.com and wizzard media. You may reproduce and distribute this audio for non-commercial purposes.
This show is made possible thanks to the generous donations of people like you! Please consider supporting to our show on Patreon.com/365DaysofAstronomy and get access to bonus content.
After 10 years, the 365 Days of Astronomy podcast is entering its second decade of sharing important milestone in space exploration and astronomy discoveries. Join us and share your story. Until tomorrow! Goodbye!