Hosts: Fraser Cain and Scott Lewis
Astronomers: David Dickinson, Gary Gonella, Roy Salisbury, Sharin Ahmed, Stuart Forman, Mike Simmons
and some gorgeous pics from Cory Schmitz in the Southern Hemisphere
Scott also shares pics from the viewers
Apps used by Scott: Phases of the Moon and Stellarium
Tonight’s Views:
Moon
M42 Orion Nebula
M101
Sunspots
Jupiter
Large and Small Magellanic Clouds with Venus and zodiacal light from Cory
M4, Antares and Ophiuchus from Cory
Tarantula Nebula from Cory
Lunar surface detail
Horsehead Nebula and Flame Nebula
M51
Rosette Nebula
M81
Mars
M104 Sombrero Galaxy
Surface of the Sun
Saturn (blurry)
Triffid Nebula and Lagoon Nebula
California Nebula (top and bottom)
M42 Orion Nebula
Scorpio
M108
We hold the Virtual Star Party every Sunday night as a live Google+ Hangout on Air. We begin the show when it gets dark on the West Coast. If you want to get a notification, make sure you circle the Virtual Star Party on Google+. You can watch on our YouTube channel or here on Universe Today.
Last November, NASA's Lucy mission conducted a flyby of the asteroid Dinkinish, one of the…
Steven Hawking famously calculated that black holes should evaporate, converting into particles and energy over…
NASA has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to work out a plan to adapt its…
The JWST is astronomers' best tool for probing exoplanet atmospheres. Its capable instruments can dissect…
First light for the Vera Rubin Observatory (VRO) is quickly approaching and the telescope is…
A beautiful nebula in the southern hemisphere with a binary star at it's center seems…