Date: 26 Aug 2006 18:56:31
From: canopus56
Subject: Obs ops: Sun 8/27/2006
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I) Shuttle Launch 4:30pm EDT
Mission: STS-115 - 19th International Space Station Flight (12A) -
P3/P4 Truss Segment and Solar Arrays
Vehicle: Atlantis (OV-104)
Location: Launch Pad 39B
Launch Date: Aug. 27, 2006, 4:30 p.m. EDT
Crew: Jett, Ferguson, Tanner, Burbank, MacLean and Stefanyshyn-Piper
Inclination/Orbit Altitude: 51.6 degrees/122 nautical miles
Launch can be viewed via Nasa TV over the internet if your local
stations do not carry it.
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/news/status-20060824.html
II) Venus and Saturn in 1 ep view
Venus and Saturn remain within 1 deg of each other at sunrise for North
Am observers, providing an astrophoto op. At 8/27/2006 12:00 UTC they
will approx. 0deg35'21.0" apart.
III) Reliving Galileo Project astro photo op - Galileo drawing F1
http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Reproducing_Observations.htm
Mosher and Pope, to English amateurs, have been requesting assistance
from astrophotographers to replicate drawings in Galileo's Sidereus
Nuncius and to resolve historical issues regarding some of Galileo's
1609-1610 observations. One such request is an astrophoto that
replicates Galileo drawing F1. See webpage listed above for details.
They list 28 Aug 2006
04:08 UT as a favorable time to replicate drawing F1 - for which North
American observers are favorably situated to make after sunsent on Sun.
8/27/2006.
Again, see the cited web doc for details.
IV) Reliving Galileo Project astro photo op - Janseen region
http://www.pacifier.com/~tpope/Reproducing_Observations.htm
Mosher and Pope, to English amateurs, have been requesting assistance
from astrophotographers to replicate drawings in Galileo's Sidereus
Nuncius and to resolve historical issues regarding some of Galileo's
1609-1610 observations. One such issue is, per the Pope-Mosher site:
"Galileo gives a vivid verbal description of sunrise over a triangular
peak surrounded by three points of light and its gradual merging with
the lighted side of the terminator." The location of this observation
is in crater Janseen. See webpage listed above for details.
They list 28 Aug 2006 03:47 UT to 07:01 UT as a favorable time period
to replicate Galileo's observation with a photograph of crater Janseen,
perhaps showing the suspected area, with the following disclaimer:
"[W]e have good reason to suspect that this region of the Moon will not
look like Galileo's engraving at any of the dates and times listed. We
believe that the central region of Janssen will be fully illuminated at
the dates and times listed, and that to actually see sunrise over the
central 'peak' you have to look several hours earlier."
North American observers are favorably situation to make such a
photograph after sunset on Sunday, 8/27/2006 (8/28/2006 at 9:47pm MDT).
Again, see the cited web doc for details.
V) Supernovae 2006SNej in NGC191A
New currently visible Type I supernova,
2006SNej in Cetus (R.A. =3D 00h38m59s.77, Decl. =3D -09=B000'56".6), at the
Puckett Obs supernovae site:
http://www.rochesterastronomy.org/supernova.html#2006ej
Discovery image:
http://astro.berkeley.edu/~bait/2006/sn2006-n0191a.gif
This SN is also covered in a newly issued AAVSO Special Notice 17:
http://www.aavso.org/publications/specialnotice/17.shtml
VI) Ongoing Comet Barnard P/177 at mag 8.4
In Her-Dra. See Crinklaw's page for details.
http://www.skyhound.com/sh/comets.html
- Canopus56
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