Podcaster: Shane and Chris
Title: The Observer’s Calendar for August 2024
Organization: Actual Astronomy
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Description: The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer’s Calendar for August 2024. With Mars, Jupiter and Saturn rising there is much to look at in the morning sky. We discuss how to observe the Perseid meteor shower,Lunar X and Straight Wall, Minor Planets Iris and Psyche plus bright comets.
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.
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Transcript:
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The Observer’s Calendar for August 24 on Episode.
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440.
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Of the actual streaming. Podcast I’m Chris and joining me Shane, we are amateurists, I love looking at the night sky. And this Podcast, is for everybody.
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Who enjoys going out under the stars. No night sky to look at. This week. Shane.
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No, not really. We’ve.
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Hmm.
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A layer of smoke up there which is becoming our new norm. As we were just talking before you pressed record. But.
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Yeah, it’s too bad, because the temperatures are nice, and it’s been clear.
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Yeah.
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It’s it’s really disappointing to see this.
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Smoke moving back in like this, although.
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It’s not crazy heavy like it, like it has been in the past. But.
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Certainly it is very, very smoky to our north, as.
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As we were talking about. I certainly don’t like seeing it. It’s been humid, though.
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So I don’t know.
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I don’t know how much good observing would be, but.
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Hopefully,
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Things will blow out here towards the the end of the week. But yeah, right now, we’re trying to.
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Plan around it, because we don’t have air conditioning at our house and but at our cabin we have.
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An air circulator.
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Which is kind of a funny thing in an old cabin, but.
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Kind of able to stay out here when it gets like this a little bit easier.
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So we shall see. We shall see.
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Any observing plans for August.
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Yeah, I have some days booked off around the new moon.
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So.
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All weather dependent, as usual, but if I can get a way to Grasslands that would be the plan, or maybe my uncle’s farm. So.
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With those like with the 2 blocks, east, block, and west block of grasslands, and then my uncle’s farm. I almost span the the entire south of the province in terms of options so.
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Nice.
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Yeah.
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Hopefully, one of those has a favorable forecast. How about you? What are your plans?
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Trying to get some work done in the observatory is is we spoke about over text yesterday recording a little bit earlier. That’s why, I signed a little bit more out of it, and Shane sounds a little bit more awake.
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I usually just be getting up about 9 o’clock on a Sunday morning, and
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Yeah, trying to to get this peer stuff finished up, and some other things, because we had so much wet there and cold weather there for a while.
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That that wasn’t possible. But with the smoke and the heat.
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My builder thinks that he’s just gonna whip up here. Once in a while.
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Like a couple hours of work each day over the next couple of weeks, and.
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Yeah. Hopefully, get things squared away. There.
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Hmm.
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Should be good.
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Awesome. Yeah, that’s great.
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Yeah. So then, yeah, maybe I don’t know. Maybe the observatory will be finished in.
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August or August of next year. Who knows? I mean, they’re never really done, people always say. But I would like to get the peer finished up. I’d like to get the.
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Shelves in. I’d like to get flooring on. I’d like to get the power run.
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And then the flashing around the roof, and then I would call it.
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You know done, you know. I think at that point.
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I could just just use it, and.
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Not really worried, but I mean it wasn’t even too bad. The way the way it works now is not too bad. I just need it. At least the very least is to get the
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Pure shortup. The other thing that’s gonna happen is he’s gonna stop by.
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Hopefully. Later on this morning. Give them a ring.
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And.
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And pop the saddle plates.
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He said he’d help me pop the saddle plates off the mount.
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Because since it’s more or less out of commission.
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And I’m gonna go away for a few days, and we have all this smoke. Anyway. I thought that I would get the the new saddle plates.
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On order, but you have to take them apart.
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In order to figure out which ones you need, and then, of course, they they need to be off. So.
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Plus it’s it’s makes them out a little bit lighter.
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When you pop those off, and since we have to sort of dismantle it anyway, might as well take them off and then take them out, and then.
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Then I can play around with those and get the new ones on order. Who knows? They might take them.
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You know, 3 or 4 weeks to come in at least, anyway. So.
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But I I’m estimating the amount will be.
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Off until.
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The September long weekend, anyhow, so.
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Probably, yeah.
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Give me a good amount of time to get those parts in.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Okay, well, that’s good. Yeah. Take advantage of the whole opportunity.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, good stuff. We get some neat stuff coming up here in August, which.
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Hopefully. By then the the smoke is clear for on the 4, th Mercury is stationary. You can really so much see that. But Venus.
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Starts coming into the evening sky a little bit more since the the sun sets earlier and earlier. Venus will be about 1.7 degrees away from the moon. This evening.
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On the 5, th and on the 6th of August.
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We have the.
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Minor planet, 7 iris at opposition, which is at magnitude 8.1, and Iris was discovered in August.
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August 13, th 1847.
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By Jr. Hind, of London, of hens variable of fame for those that have looked at that.
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And it was hens, asteroid discovery, and only the 7.th Thus 7 iris.
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To be discovered, named after the Greek goddess of Rainbows.
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And
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It is a large, mean belt asteroid, and possibly a remnant of planet.
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Or a remnant plantable orbiting the sun between Mars and Jupiter, and it is the 4th brightest object and the asteroid belt. So it’s 1 of those.
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S. Type, stony meteorites, or.
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Meteorite type comments.
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Hmm.
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Asteroids I don’t know, getting all mixed up.
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I’m watching you, Edit. You’re distracting.
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Sorry. Sorry.
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No worries. Then on the 6.th So the next thing. So we have these 2, or I guess that’s the same night.
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We have these 2 asteroids.
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The other is 16 Psyche.
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Poof.
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PSYC HE.
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Which is at opposition and magnitude 9.3, and Psyche was discovered by de Gasp on 17th of March 18th 52, named after the Greek.
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Got us, and the prefix 16 was that it was the 16th one.
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Discovered. It’s an M type. And so it’s 1 of the more massive asteroids. So people can hunt those down just pop into your
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Planetarium software and should be able to find them.
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Might be able to go. Take a look at these. I’m trying to get things set up actually, but.
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A new addition.
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Of sky safari this week for working on the calendar.
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Go. Okay.
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So can I actually look those up.
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Here we go see if we can find it.
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It’s not finding it in my little findy thing.
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Maybe my software needs to be rebooted.
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Hmm.
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Just gonna see. Oh, yeah. Here we go. 7 Iris.
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And I’m going to take it into August.
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We’ll see where it is.
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Alright, yeah, it’s in copper corners. Actually, it’s pretty close to like
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The Saturn Nebula, NG. 7,009.
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Not too bad.
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Okay.
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And here’s and Psyche is in Aquarius. Actually, they’re super close together.
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That’s kind of cool.
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Well, that’s handy. If you’re.
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Trying for one. You might as well try for both.
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Yeah. How far away are they?
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That’s kind of cool.
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Not quite in the same field of view. But if if you lots of people using you can hear my, I haven’t figured out how to turn the sound effects off, yet.
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But yeah, if you were using like a wide field.
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Like, whatever the equivalent of an old 50 lenses, you could easily get those in the same field of view.
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They’re about 8.
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Well, good opportunity.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, I see this.
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On the 6th also. So that’s happening on the 6.th We’ve got
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2 asteroids, and then Mercury is going to be about 7 degrees.
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Below the moon this evening.
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Okay.
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So that’ll be a nice one.
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In the general neighbourhood.
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Yeah, that’ll be pretty nice as well.
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Sitting over on the western sky. I’m just gonna take a quick peek at that, just while I go to all.
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Set up here.
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Oh, cause you’re already on the 6.th
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Yeah.
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Let’s go.
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Where’s Mercury?
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So I’d like to get some good observations in.
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I was. I was setting up the.
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The stuff for next year.
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And I was sending you guys a few.
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Little tidbits here and there, so.
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Yeah.
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Should be good.
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There’s Venus and the moon.
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And.
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And Venus and the moon together. But yeah, Mercury is pretty low on the horizon.
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I’m just looking on the 5.th Actually, Venus and the moon are super tight together.
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They’re only a couple.
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Degrees apart.
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About 2 degrees apart. You can get them in the binocular field pretty handily. Pick a nice view to the.
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Nice view to the due west.
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So that’s a nice one. There.
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Take a look at that.
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And then on the 7th we have.
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These do!
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Double moon shadow transits on Jupiter, and they’re really kicking out pretty good here. Now.
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So got this one. Set an Eastern time.
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For 2 54 am course, that’s gonna be just about one am here in Saskatchewan.
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But anyway, 2, 54 am. Eastern time. We have those 2.
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Shadow transits going across Jupiter.
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So people can check those out if they have a telescope.
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And then the moon is an apogee. On the 8.th
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And then on the 11, th Myers, with Jupiter.
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All week, and that will be in the morning sky. Of course.
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They get pretty nice and tight together there for the whole week.
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Also.
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Yeah, yeah, it wasn’t. Did. Was it you or Mike that sent that sky screenshot like.
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That was me.
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That was you. Yeah, really, close.
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That’ll be kind of neat to see.
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Yeah, let me just grab that. I can stick that in the in the show notes.
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Yeah, I thought that one was pretty cool. I just happened to run over that just when I was playing around with the.
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With the software.
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So.
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Oh, that was on the 14! th I think that screenshot.
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Yeah, I think they get the closest on the 14.th So I think my notes say the 11.th It’s the week of the 11.th They’re they’re pretty close all week.
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But on that name.
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You can put them both into telescope.
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Yeah, that’ll be a fun observation if anybody’s up early.
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Yeah, I think that’s probably about the most interesting one of the week, because.
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You have them in a dark sky, and you have them for a period of time.
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I think if that was a evening skyhena.
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It would be a much bigger event. Course I I will get up and try to take a peek at that one.
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Cause you’d be able to see, of course, and then Jupiter, and then the moons of Jupiter.
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And they’re in and amongst the Hyatt.
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We’re sort of.
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Rate in between the horns of tourists.
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I just thought it looked like the image looked really cool. I mean to your eye. If you have an clear sky.
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That’s just gonna look super neat.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, just how it’s positioned within. Taurus is really cool.
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Yeah, like, I was thinking about this. So I’ve been working on the calendar. And you know, in the calendar.
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You know, today, we’re using the data from the calendar as the months go by. That’s that’s how we do this.
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But when we were standing out at Grasslands, and we were looking at.
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Speaker.
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Be revealed.
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From the moon cause of the moon had just occulted.
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And the moon was sitting right next to Speaker, and then we had the Milky Way, and then we had, like a distant lightning storm.
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And then we had
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You know some other things that you know, like.
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You. You could see the double cluster and Andromeda rising sort of in the in the north, east, and.
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Just all that stuff. And anyway, you’re just standing there like watching this.
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And it’s just so phenomenal to be able to be at under a dark sky, seeing.
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These kind of events, but you know, when you, when you sit and just kind of go over it like this, it kind of prepares you.
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For maybe how it would look, and then it’s neat to.
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Go through all these, and then to go out, you know, as as conditions permit, and to be actually able to to check them out and see them start to get a better idea over the years of how this stuff is. Gonna look and what’s gonna look really cool. And what’s gonna kinda be like me.
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You know, it’s kind of funny.
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I, and also like I noticed how.
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With the
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Like with amateur astronomers and people that are going out and doing it quite a bit. Some of this stuff.
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We definitely appreciate in a different way.
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Then then people who aren’t going out as much like members of the public or whatever, because.
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When when we’re looking at the Moon speaker.
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And you could see how sort of fluorescent blue or.
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Or sort of jade blue, maybe is, is a better way of putting it.
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Speak a look next to the moon.
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Which usually you would maybe think you were just looking at secondary color in your telescope, or the atmosphere, or something. If if you saw that.
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But just the stark contrast between star and the moon.
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Is really mind blowing for a sandwich because it really pulls that color forward. I noticed that with anything that gets close to the moon.
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And maybe that’s something that.
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You know. I we don’t say as much in the show, but when we’re talking about how the moon is pairing with different things, whether it’s a planet or a star. That’s 1 of the reasons why is that you? You can definitely see things that. You otherwise can’t.
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Yeah, no, that’s that’s a great point. And.
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Having that contrast or comparison is, is always like a big bonus, or or sort of allows you sometimes to do some, observing that otherwise wouldn’t.
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You know, probably be possible, or maybe successful, is a better way to put it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it’s super cool.
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Yeah.
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Super cool to see this stuff on the 11th we have the lunar X.
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Visible near the crater. Werner.
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And so that’s visible in.
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The Li. It’s sort of 6 Pm.
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Eastern daylight time. So that’s still gonna be way light here. But I think over on the
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You know, sort of far eastern coast or in the Uk. You’d be able to see that.
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Cool.
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And the street wall will be visible on the 12.th We’ve talked about that quite a bit in the past, but that’s.
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The lunar X is just a.
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Chance alignment of the light cast 2 craters makes it look like there’s an X on the moon, and then the street wall is like an escarpment or fault, like feature.
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That is just like a perfectly straight line on the moon, which is pretty cool to see.
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Yeah. It’s very neat.
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And also we have the Percy meters. Once that moon sets.
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You’ll have a nice Percy meter show early in the morning. You want to get up early.
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4 Am. Is around the best time to go out.
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Into the pre dawn hours between the 12th and the 16th of August.
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In order to see the perceived meteor showers with a.
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Zenith. Hourly rate of a hundred, meaning that you could see up to 100 meters per hour on that night.
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Yeah, one of the more famous meteor showers largely due to.
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Volume and time of the year when it’s.
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You know, most active, so.
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I always enjoyed looking at them. But.
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You know, it’s more so just I’m out doing other astronomy, and I happen to catch some.
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Yeah.
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When I was a kid I used to go to look for them, and I mean, you know, I would see like a satellite. And the guy was looking at meteors, or whatever. I didn’t really know what I was, what I was looking at too much. Every once in a while, you know.
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You’d you’d see a meteor
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But yeah, probably didn’t see too many over the years, you know. Cause when you’re a kid, or at least when I was a kid. I just didn’t have the attention span. I go out and look for like 30 seconds, and if I didn’t see anything I was done so.
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But yeah, you can see lots of meters if you go out on those things I’ve certainly seen up to 100 an hour definitely during outburst.
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Yeah, it can get really active. It’s.
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Like all meteor showers, are kind of hard to predict. So you never really know what you’re going to get until that night. But
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You know, if you’re out, it’s definitely worth.
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You don’t have.
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Just spending some time looking without any optics, just using your eyes.
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See what you can see.
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A good way to look is to set up a lawn chair, particularly lawn chair. If you can get mine, take some binoculars out with you to kind of.
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Scan around the sky or the Milky Way, and then.
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You you want to face.
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Kind of sort of towards the northeast, a bit.
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Doesn’t really matter that much, but if you face generally in that direction, that’s.
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Gonna give you a slightly better odds seeing them. But if you have a few people you can all kinda.
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Facing slightly different directions.
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And it’s it’s unpredictable. I mean.
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You can go ahead and sit there for an hour and see nothing, or you can see 2 or 3, or you can see 20 or 30.
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It’s it’s highly variable.
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Yes.
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On the 14th we have these 2.
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Moonshadows visible on Jupiter again, and that’s gonna be well placed for us.
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Because it’ll be around 2 30 in the morning.
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For for us here in Saskatchewan about 4, 30 Eastern daylight time for those
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In in the larger population centers be able to see those 2 shadows going across.
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Jupiter, and what they are is.
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There’s a couple moons, and they’re passing between the sun and the cloud tops of Jupiter. And when they do that they cast their shadows onto those clouds just like our moon will cast its shadow onto the surface of our planet. When we have a solar eclipse. Basically the same thing.
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Hmm! Right on.
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I say, basically because I think that.
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We have the unique phenomena in the solar system of having a moon and a sun.
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That are essentially equal size, so that when our moon covers the sun it just barely does so so that you can see the corona and everything else.
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Whereas I think with the with the other moons.
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They’re either too big or too small to either cause a full eclipse, or or it’s a it’s a way full eclipse, so it covers, you know.
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A much larger area of the solar disk than just the tis itself.
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On the 18th Mercury is that inferior conjunction. So it’s gonna dive back down. Won’t be able to see that.
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And then on the 18, th also the moon occults Neptune at 3 21.
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Eastern daylight, time.
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A lot of lot of am things this month,
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You’ll have to set your alarm.
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Yeah, we’ll see about that.
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Yeah.
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I’ll probably I might get up and try to take a take a peek for.
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For that one. On the 21st the moon is at par.
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And then on the 21.st
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I have the 20.
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5.th
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Oh, yeah.
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21. But it’s first.st
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That’s my bad.
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The we also have 2 shadows visible. It’s in the.
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8 0, 8.
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On the Edt, and because of that.
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That’s mostly gonna be a daytime event. However, I guess. Here that would be 6. So.
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And it’s kind of getting into the daylight. But if you’re on the very West coast, it’s gonna be 5.
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So that would just maybe barely be.
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Be visible.
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Also staying on the 21.st
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We have the moon just half a degree below the
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The moon. On that evening.
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And then on the 25.th That’s the anniversary of the 1st binary pulsar being discovered 50 years ago.
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Hmm.
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By Joe Taylor.
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Who knew.
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Russells.
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On the 27th we have Jupiter’s Uris, Saturn, Moon, and Neptune all in a line. That evening.
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I always like those alignments. Just fun to.
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Fun to see it, and it really helps visualize the ecliptic.
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I like it.
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Yeah, I’m just gonna go and take a peek at that.
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Cause. I’m wondering cause we have the
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Several of the stars there in Taurus.
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At that time.
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And I’m just wondering if it lines up with any of those or.
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If if it does, how.
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How it does that.
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Yeah.
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Let’s see.
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Let’s see what this looks like. Oh, yeah, it’s kind of.
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It’s kind of an interesting one.
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Gonna pop it ahead, probably to see the line up.
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Probably the best night for us is on the morning of the 26, th before 30 in the morning, at Urinus the moon.
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Jupiter, Ms, and then you have the Hyatties right between them. So that’s gonna look pretty cool. And then way over on the right you have. Saturn and Neptune.
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So it should be pretty cool, you know. This one should probably say.
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I guess like.
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Well, I guess it’s.
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Neptune. But yeah.
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Saturday and Neptune. There’s sort of further away than.
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Yeah, that may be.
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I was thinking when I made that up. But yeah, anyway, I mean, they’re on the sky at the same time.
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On the 30.th Fred Whipple
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Discover the dirty snowball theory of comet. He died about 20 years ago, and then, on the 31.st
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We have the Oregon shower, which only has 10 meteors.
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Per hour.
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It’s visible, best visible in the.
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Very late. Pre-don sky.
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But I think the Rigids is one of those meteor showers that.
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Has become more.
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Pronounced in recent years. So some of these ones I’m kind of throwing in, anyway.
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Sounds good.
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Then we have pile of comets.
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13 p ubers.
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Is an amplitude 6.9 currently but 7th magnitude.
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And slowly fading. I think it was a little brighter, might get brighter again.
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And then 12 pounds. Brooks is fading at 92.
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And then a 3 Sushan atlas is at 9th magnitude.
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And getting finger every day.
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And that’s the end.
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I think that’s the one that’s gonna.
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That’s the one everybody’s watching. Yeah.
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Yeah, sorry. It’s getting lower. Yeah, it’s going lower on the horizon.
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Yeah, the next couple of weeks here, like, kind of going into August. I guess we’ll.
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Probably tell us whether or not this will be the naked eye comment that some forecasts are saying it will be so. We’ll have to keep a watch on that one.
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Yep.
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Sounds good. Anything else to add to the show. Shane.
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No, that is it, sir.
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