Astronomy Workshop
PSWIRL Week,
deBenneville Pines, Angeles Oaks, California
August
2211-276,
2010
Date
Time
Monday, 8/238
8:00-10:30 p.m.1 Viewing Through Telescope2 **
Parking Lot
Tuesday, 8/249
8:30-10:30 p.m.1 Advanced Telescope Viewing3 **
Parking Lot
Wednesday, 8/2510 3:30-5:15
p.m.1
Astronomy Questions Answered4
Craig's Cabin
Thursday, 8/267
1:30-5:15 p.m.1
Big Bear Solar Observatory
Trip5
Parking Lot
|
1Please wear warm
clothing and shine flashlights down. |
Angelus Oaks (34.1460°N, 116.9820°W) |
2Double stars, Milky Way
galaxy, Earth satellites, Mars, Venus and Saturn setting at sunset, Jupiter late
3Viewing unusual nebula,
globular and open star clusters and galaxies (Messier objects),
meteors.
4Black holes, planetary
probes, asteroid-Earth collisions, how telescope works,
how
solar system moves, origin of universe,
life on Mars, why few planets visible, etc.
Anything you always wanted to know about
astronomy but were afraid to ask!
Request astronomy information and sample
question handouts from Peter.
5Carpool to
Request a map from Peter. Also, see BBSO web
reference below.
6 Asteroid 2006 EK53 Near-Mars Flyby (0.045
AU)
7 Asteroid 2007 DS7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
8 Asteroid
10217 Richardcook Occults HIP 12468 (8.0 Magnitude
Star)
9 Full
Moon 17:25 UT
Asteroid
5356 (1991 FF1) Occults HIP 14607 (6.3 Magnitude Star) Asteroid
2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
10 Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak Comet 10P/Tempel 2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.651 AU)
11 Asteroid 2074 Shoemaker Closest Approach To Earth (1.039 AU) Asteroid 1373 Cincinnati Closest Approach To Earth (1.813 AU)
**Beware of Celestron C8
telescope electrical cord on ground and telescope tripod
legs.
Other
Astronomical Events (click on
hyperlinks for more information)
2009 International Year of Astronomy (400th years after Galileo's first telescope observations) Set by IAU
January 3 Earth at Perihelion 00 UT (Earth nearest to Sun)
February 15 Annular
Solar Eclipse Indian
Ocean 8:16 UT
March 20 Vernal Equinox (days
and nights equal time) 17:32 UT
June 21
Summer Solstice
(longest day in northern hemisphere) 11:28 UT
July 6 Earth at Aphelion 12 UT (1.017 AU from Sun - furthest from Sun)
June
26 Partial Lunar
Eclipse Pacific
Ocean 11:36 UT
July 8 Total Solar Eclipse South Pacific 11:38 UT
August 12 Perseid Meteor Shower Peak
August 16 First Quarter Moon 18:14 UT
August
20 Neptune
at Opposition (closest approach to Earth)
September 1 Last Quarter Moon 17:22 UT
September 22 Uranus at Opposition (closest approach to Earth)
September 23 Autumnal
Equinox (days and nights equal time) 03:09 UT
December 21 Total Lunar Eclipse North America 08:17 UT
December 21 Winter Solstice (longest night in northern hemisphere) 23:38 UT
Interesting
Links
http://www.bbso.njit.edu/
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ Space calendar of astronomical events
http://www.heavens-above.com/
Satellite visibility from
http://nasascience.nasa.gov/ NASA space science news
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx Latest issue of Astronomy Magazine
http://www.skypub.com/ Sky and Telescope Magazine
http://pswirl.org/ PSWIRL 2010 information
http://www.debenneville.org/index.html Camp De Benneville information
http://www.lafn.org/~bf684/index.htm#Astro Landecker’s Home Page astronomy
http://tycho.usno.navy.mil/vphase.html Earth Moon phases
Night Sky at deBenneville, August 23, 2010 at 8 p.m. PDT from http://www.heavens-above.com/
Locations of planets in our Solar System, from http://www.heavens-above.com/
| Planet | Distance (in AU) from | Speed (km/s) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sun | Earth | ||
| Mercury | 0.43 | 0.66 | 42.48 |
| Venus | 0.73 | 0.65 | 34.80 |
| Earth | 1.01 | 0.00 | 29.46 |
| Mars | 1.57 | 2.11 | 23.43 |
| Jupiter | 4.96 | 4.07 | 13.67 |
| Saturn | 9.54 | 10.38 | 9.64 |
| Uranus | 20.09 | 19.20 | 6.49 |
| Neptune | 30.01 | 29.00 | 5.44 |
| Pluto | 31.89 | 31.34 | 5.76 |
Above data applies on August 23, 2010