UMBC Astrophysics: Astronomy-related Events

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Astronomical News & Events

This is an archive of posts aimed at UMBC undergraduates & the general public in the Baltimore region, hence the viewing-times are approximately only, and the "Other Astro News" items are only those that happened to catch my eye at the time of writing.

The regular celestial events were obtained from calsky.com, but the "Other News" events are from a vast variety of WWW & other sources (& certainly does not claim to be complete). See also Sky & Telescope's excellent "This Week's Sky at a Glance" site.

What's Up?:
Night of 2010 Jan 22 - Jan 23:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	17:30-19:30
end Astronomical Twilight		18:49
Saturn	Ecliptic	23:18-06:54
start Astronomical Twilight		05:48

Other News
Week starting 2010 Jan 22:


Jan08 (pm)
	The ISS will be visible 17:57 (alt 0^O; az 311^O) to 18:05 (alt 11^O; az 114^O). See Heavens-above.com for more details, and for any other ISS passes visible this week [remember to set your location to Baltimore etc!].

What's Up?:
Night of 2010 Jan 08 - Jan 09:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	17:12-20:12
end Astronomical Twilight		18:36
Mars	Ecliptic	19:12-07:12
Saturn	Ecliptic	23:12-06:54
start Astronomical Twilight		05:51

Other News
Week starting 2010 Jan 08:


Jan08 (pm)
	The ISS will be visible 17:40 (alt 0^O; az 239^O) to 17:47 (alt 11^O; az 44^O). See Heavens-above.com for more details, and for any other ISS passes visible this week [remember to set your location to Baltimore etc!].

What's Up?:
Night of 2010 Jan 01 - Jan 02:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	17:06-20:30
end Astronomical Twilight		18:31
Mars	Ecliptic	19:48-07:12
Saturn	Ecliptic	23:42-09:54
start Astronomical Twilight		05:52

Other News
Week starting 2010 Jan 01:

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Dec 25 - Dec 26:

What	Where	Best Seen
Mercury	Ecliptic	17:18-18.06
end Astronomical Twilight		18:26
Mars	Ecliptic	20:18-07.12
Saturn	Ecliptic	00:06-06.54
start Astronomical Twilight		05:49
Venus	Ecliptic	07:12-07.24

Other News
Week starting 2009 Dec 25:

Dec26am: The ISS will be visible 06:08 (alt 31^O; az 263^O) to 06:09 (alt 0^O; az 145^O). See Heavens-above.com for more details [remember to set your location to Baltimore].

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Sep 13 - Sep 14:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	19:30-04:06
Mars	Ecliptic	01:06-06:24
Venus	Ecliptic	04:24-06:48

Other News
2009 Sep 13 - Sep 14:

New, refurbished Hubble pictures were released a couple of days ago

The ISS will be visible 20:08 (alt:0^O; az:282^O) to 20:16 (2^O; 40^O). See Heaven-above.com for more details [remember to set your location to Baltimore]

Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-128) landed safely on Sep 11.

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Sep 07 - Sep 08:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	19:42-04:30
Mars	Ecliptic	01:12-06:18
Venus	Ecliptic	04:12-06:42

Other News
2009 Sep 03 - Sep 04:

MWO is Safe!

ISS+Shuttle will be visible 20:49 (alt:0^O; az:234^O) to 20:55 (31^O; 44^O). See Heaven-above.com for more details [remember to set your location to Baltimore]

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Sep 03 - Sep 04:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	19:42-04:48
Mercury	Ecliptic	20:00-20:12
Saturn	Ecliptic	20:00-20:06
Mars	Ecliptic	01:18-06:12
Venus	Ecliptic	04:00-06:36

Other News
2009 Sep 03 - Sep 04:

Latest News on threat to MTO available on Sky & Telescope blog

ISS+Shuttle will be visible 04:25 (alt:23^O; az:55^O) to 04:27 (90^O; 10^O). See Heaven-above.com for more details [remember to set your location to Baltimore]

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Aug 31 - Sep 01:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	19:48-05:00
Mercury	Ecliptic	20:06-20:18
Saturn	Ecliptic	20:06-05:18
Mars	Ecliptic	01:18-06:06
Venus	Ecliptic	04:00-06:36

Other News
2009 Aug 31 - Sep 01:

Ca fires threathen Mt Wilson Observatory

Update Aug 30 pm: dramatic movie within Sky & Telescope story

Update Aug 31 am: ground firefighters withdrawn from the mountain, but UCLA Towercam still working (see MWO blog for latest news)

Update Sep 01 pm: MTO servers & webcam have gone down

What's Up?:
Night of 2009 Aug 24 - Aug 25:

What	Where	Best Seen
Jupiter	Ecliptic	20:00-05:30
Mercury	Ecliptic	20:18-20:42
Saturn	Ecliptic	20:20-05:40
Mars	Ecliptic	01:30-06:00
Venus	Ecliptic	03:50-06:30

Other News
2009 Aug 24 - Aug 25:

Aug 25: Scheduled Launch of STS-128

Update Aug 26: postponed

Update Aug 29: successful launch Aug 29