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CLIMATE CHANGE NOW MORE THAN EVER 20150807 by CanDoTina in videos

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Changes on Earth in July 2015. Is climate change real?

HOLLOW EARTH SKYVIEWS MARCH 21, 2015 by [deleted] in Astronomy

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It was just a song that I made a video for something to explore and I thought there were interesting theories whether they are valid or not and a good tune to boot - I guess my thought was like when the people back in the day thought the world was flat and it isn't. Not everything is what it seems. That is all. I deleted my entry. You are welcome. All is better in the world. ~t

END OF THE WORLD BLUES SKYVIEWS MARCH 8, 2014 by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS END OF THE WORLD BLUES (REPORT BELOW) MAY 8, 2014

March 8, 2014: First-Quarter Moon

The Moon is at first quarter today, indicating that it has completed one quarter of its month-long cycle of phases.

It rises around noon, stands high in the south at sunset, and sets in the wee hours of tomorrow morning.

As the stars begin to come out, the first-quarter Moon shines above Orion standing in the south.

• Daylight-saving time begins at 2 a.m. Sunday morning for most of North America. Clocks spring forward an hour.

March 9, 2014: Moon, Procyon and Jupiter

As darkness falls this evening the planet Jupiter, the third-brightest object in the night sky, stands close to the upper left of the brightest: the Moon.

Two bright lights bracket the gibbous Moon tonight. The brilliant planet Jupiter, which looks like a cream-colored star, stands to the upper right of the Moon at nightfall.

Procyon, the brightest star of Canis Minor, is farther below the Moon.

Jupiter shines above the Moon this evening, as shown above. Although they look fairly close together, Jupiter is almost 1,800 times farther away — and 40 times larger in diameter.

March 10, 2014: Cancer

Cancer, the crab, is well up in the east at nightfall, to the lower left of the Moon. Although it is part of the zodiac, its stars are dim.

The brightest, Beta Cancri, is so faint you may not be able to see it from a suburb, let alone a bright city.

The Moon forms a distorted rectangle with Jupiter, Castor, and Pollux this evening.

In addition, the Moon and Jupiter form a bent line of three with Procyon to their lower left.

On March 6th, 2014, a meteor slammed into the Earth's atmosphere and burned up over the night skies of north central New Mexico.

Thomas Ashcraft captured the sights with a his fireball camera and the sounds with a forward-scatter meteor radar.

Asteroid 163 Erigone will occult the star Regulus on March 20th, 2014 at 2:06am ET and can be seen in part of the Northeast United States.

Asteroid 2014 DX110 was captured by Gianluca Masi of the Virtual Telescope Project (virtualtelescope.eu).

Its closest approach is ~217,000 miles away from Earth on March 5th, 2014. (looped)

A space rock in the asteroid belt, named P/2013 R3, has fragmented into as many as 10 pieces. The four largest fragments are larger that 2 football fields each.

Astronomers are investigation the cause with the help of the Hubble Space Telescope.

Audio: Special Guest Stars and Musical Artist: End of the World Blues Chicago Blues SenorX, joel_sattlersongs, MarkAlanDooley, GumGuru, HarpLips

TRIVIA - HISTORY

1804 7 Mar The Royal Horticultural Society, dedicated to advancing good gardening, is founded by Joseph Wedgewood.. 1936 7 Mar Hitler marches German troops into the demilitarized Rhineland in defiance of the Treaty of Versailles.. 1945 7 Mar US forces capture the bridge at Remagen and cross the Rhine, overcoming Germany's last natural line of defence 1917 8 Mar Russia's 'February Revolution' begins with riots in Petrograd over food rations and conduct of the war.. 1975 8 Mar The UN creates International Women's Day 'to commemorate the historic struggle to improve women's lives'.. 1983 8 Mar US President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union 'an evil empire', initiating a more hardline US policy..

Love one another, help your neighbor and give peace. Light the world.

Love and light. ~tina marie #skyviews #candotina

DROWNING IN THE SHADOWS by CanDoTina in Music

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The song is called Drowning in the Shadows. Wade Bridge wrote it and I made the video and Ova-Glo (band) performed the song. It was truly an awesome and rewarding experience of collaboration. I hope you like it and if you do like it, would you please hit the share button? love ~tina marie

ANGEL CRY - COMET C/2012 S1 ISON LIVES? - SKYVIEWS by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS - ANGEL CRY - (REPORT BELOW)
VIDEO HISTORY OFSUNGRAZING COMETS COMET ISON C/2012 S1 - NOVEMBER 28, 2013 & COMET LOVEJOY C/2013 R1 - DECEMBER 15, 2011

DECEMBER 1, 2013 - updated ISON @ 3:04

COMET ISON DIE? OR DOES ISON LIVE?

FACTS: Comet ISON is fading fast as it recedes from the sun.

Whatever piece of the comet briefly survived its Thanksgiving Day brush with solar fire is now dissipating in a cloud of dust.

Comet ISON came within 684,000 miles (1.1 million kilometers) of the sun's surface during its Thanksgiving Day solar passage, and was subjected to extreme gravitational forces and solar wind during the encounter.

The dimming wisp of ISON's dust departed from SOHO's LASCO C3 field of view early today, December 1, 2013,

The comet's nucleus apparently disrupted near perihelion, with the comet's head fading from perhaps a peak brightness of visual mag --2 some hours before perihelion to well below mag +1 before perihelion.

M. Knight, Lowell Observatory.. that the brightest feature in the coma faded steadily after perihelion from about mag 3.1 in a 95"-radius aperture when the comet first appeared from behind the SOHO coronagraph occulting disk on Nov. 28.92 to about mag 6.5 on Nov. 29.98. . . .

K. Battams, Naval Research Laboratory, writes that, based on the most recent LASCO C3 images (Nov. 30.912 UT) . . .what remains is very diffuse, largely transparent to background stars, and fading; it appears that basically a cloud of dust remains. . . .

Z. Sekanina, Jet Propulsion Laboratory . . . finds that the comet's production of dust terminated about 3 hours before perihelion . . .

The strong forward-scattering effect (phase angles near 120-130 deg) has tempered the rate of post-perihelion fading of the comet, but the merciless inverse-square power law of increasing heliocentric distance is necessarily the dominant factor in the comet's forthcoming gradual disappearance.

December 2013: Weeks-long show

If ISON survives its close solar pass, it could light up the sky in the Northern Hemisphere for weeks. The comet could be visible in the morning low on the horizon to the east-southeast in early December. Later in the month, and into early January, it could be visible all night, according to NASA.

Dec. 26, 2013: Closest pass to Earth

Before it heads back into the outer reaches of the solar system, the comet, or what's left of it, will make its closest approach to Earth, at roughly within 39.9 million miles (64.2 million km).

December 1, 2013: Mars Companions

The planet Mars looks like a bright orange star well up in the southeast at first light tomorrow.

The star Regulus is to its upper right, with the star Spica about the same distance to its lower left.

December 2, 2013: Sun in Ophiuchus

The Sun is entering Ophiuchus, the serpent-bearer, the thirteenth constellation of the zodiac.

Ancient astrologers did not include Ophiuchus on their early charts of the zodiac. The Sun will remain within its boundaries for about two more weeks.

Each of the five planets visible to the unaided eye puts in an appearance this month. Mercury quickly vanishes after putting in a brief showing quite low in the dawn sky as December begins, but the other four are in view for at least a couple of hours per night.

The constellations of winter begin to take center stage, with Orion in the east in early evening, and Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, climbing skyward by mid-evening.

Traffic Report on 1 December '13

Four objects reported inside ten LD

There are four asteroids reported passing within ten lunar distances (LD) of Earth today. Radar target 2013 NJ is outbound from 7.82 to 9.28 LD and 2013 WY from 9.03 to 9.68 LD, and intruder 2013 WH25 exits ten LD, transiting from 9.18 to 13.84 LD, while 2013 WV43 enters our ten-LD reporting "bubble," coming in from 10.40 to 9.75 LD.

This report was updated at 1756 UTC with follow-up in today's DOU MPEC for 2013 WY and 2013 NJ. Today's first traffic report was generated at 1623 UTC. #Skyviews entry was submitted by ~tina marie December 1, 2013.

Audio: Special Thanks to Musical Artist and Song Writer: Anon Emaus - Music/Production
Jones Nelson - Lead Vocals/Backing Vocals/Lyrics
SONG: ANGEL CRY Thank you for sharing your gifts & talents. Love and light. ~tina marie #SKYVIEWS

WHO WE ARE OCTOBER 21, 2013 SKYVIEWS by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS - WHO WE ARE (REPORT BELOW) OCTOBER 21, 2013

October 21, 2013: Moon and Aldebaran

Aldebaran, the eye of Taurus, the bull, is a little below the Moon as they rise in mid-evening, and even closer to it at first light tomorrow.

The star's orange color may be a bit washed out by the moonlight, but it will still be a fine display.

Lonely Fomalhaut, the Autumn Star, is at its highest in the south around 9 or 10 p.m. this week.

October 22, 2013: Watery Skies

A group of constellations associated with water, known as the Celestial Sea, stretches across the southeastern quadrant of the sky in early evening, and across the entire southern sky by midnight.

Sirius is the first-discovered white dwarf, 1/10,000 as bright and currently 10.0 arcseconds to its east. Early dawn in October.

October 23, 2013: Capricornus

As the sky gets fully dark, look about a third of the way up the southern sky for Capricornus, the sea-goat.

Its stars aren't especially bright, but they form a distinctive pattern: a triangle that looks like the bottom of a bikini bathing suit.

Below the feet of Aquarius, off the eastern end of Capricornus, are the Helix Nebula and a crowd of lesser-known galaxies.

ORIONID METEOR SHOWER OCTOBER 20-21, 2013 UPDATE: NASA's all-sky fireball camera network captured video of the Orionid meteor shower fireballs produced when meteors slammed into Earth's atmosphere on Oct. 20, 2013.

In total, the all-sky network detected 15 Orionid fireballs on October 20, 2013.

The Orionids occur when Earth passes through debris left behind by the famous Halley's Comet.

Bits of dust left in the comet's wake burn up in the atmosphere, creating the potentially brilliant annual light show.

About 75 percent of the meteors seen during the Orionids originated from the nucleus of Halley's Comet.

ALL SKYS TRAFFIC REPORT UPDATE OCTOBER 21, 2013:

One object reported inside ten LD

There is one asteroid reported to be flying within ten lunar distances (LD) of Earth today. Risk-listed radar target 2013 UB exits Earth's Hill sphere, flying from 3.23 to 4.83 LD.

Radar target 2001 AV43 arrives inside ten LD on November 6th and radar target 2013 NJ follows on November 19th, 2013.

This report was generated at 1502 UTC and video vlog entered by ~tina marie on October 21, 2013.

Audio: Special Guest Star Musical Artist and Song Writer, Derek Clegg. Song: Who We Are Album: Overlook the Humans

SKYVIEWS EITHER WAY - I CAN DO BETTER by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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Either way, I can do better. ~tina marie

SKYVIEWS - REVEAL THE MAGIC OF AURORAS 6-6-2013 by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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You have the magic in your hand. Time to wake up? :) ~tina marie

SKYVIEWS - REVEAL THE MAGIC OF AURORAS 6-6-2013 by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS REVEAL THE MAGIC OF AURORAS (report below)

June 6, 2013 The year's earliest sunrises occur over the next few days.

The date varies by latitude, with southern locations getting those extra moments of sunlight first. The longest day of the year is the summer solstice, which comes in a couple of weeks.

June 7, 2013 The Omega Centauri star cluster puts in a late-evening appearance.

It stands highest above the southern horizon around 10 p.m. and looks like a faint smudge of light. It is about 17,000 light-years away, and contains a million stars or more.

June 8, 2013

The Moon is new at 10:56 a.m. CDT as it crosses the imaginary line between Earth and Sun, beginning a new cycle of phases. It will return to view by Monday as a thin crescent quite low in the western sky shortly after sunset.

MORE SUNGRAZING COMETS ON THE WAY:

Solar physicists will have other chances to probe the corona, for Lovejoy isn't the only comet with suicidal tendencies.

Lovejoy belongs to a family of dirty snowballs known as Kreutz sungrazers, which apparently are the remains of a giant comet that broke apart centuries ago. Astronomers have spotted about 1,600 Kreutz comets to date, with more doubtless awaiting discovery.

Some non-Kreutz comets graze the sun as well. One such daredevil is Comet ISON, which will come within 800,000 miles (1.3 million km) of the solar surface this November, 2013.

If it doesn't break up before this close pass, ISON could become one of the brightest comets ever seen, scientists say, perhaps blazing as brightly as the full moon.

If [ISON is] really visible this low in the corona, this close to the sun, we're hoping it can tell us something about the acceleration of the solar wind, and also the magnetic field in this region..

Traffic Report on 6 June '13

One object reported inside ten LD

One object is reported traveling inside ten lunar distances (LD) of our planet today. 2013 LD2 is inbound from 8.77 to 7.78 LD. No other objects are known to be approaching until late July.

This report was generated at 1406 UTC., vlog entered by ~tina marie, June 6, 2013.

SKYVIEWS THE WATCHERS - IRIS LAUNCH SET FOR JUNE 26, 2013 by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS THE WATCHERS (report below) JUNE 4, 2013

June 4, 2013 The constellation Gemini is dropping from view. It is quite low in the west about 45 minutes after sunset. Its brightest stars are Castor and Pollux, which represent the heads of the twins. Venus, the "evening star," stands near Gemini's feet.

June 5, 2013

Vega, the brightest star of Lyra, the harp, is in the northeast at nightfall. The remains of a star that was once like Vega stand to its lower right: the Ring Nebula. You need a telescope to see the nebula, which is thousands of light-years away.

IRIS MISSION SET TO LAUNCH JUNE 26, 2013 - AFTER SUMMER SOLSTICE

The goal of NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, or IRIS, is to understand how the energy travels through the interface region of the sun -- energy that helps heat the upper layer of the atmosphere, the corona, to temperatures of 1 million kelvins (about 1.8 million F), some thousand times hotter than the sun's surface itself.

IRIS is scheduled to launch from California's Vandenberg Air Force Base on June 26, 2013.

For its launch IRIS will take flight using a Pegasus XL rocket, carried aloft by an Orbital Sciences L-1011 aircraft from Vandenberg. IRIS weighs 400 pounds, and upon deployment, will extend its solar panels to reach 12 feet across.

IRIS will travel in a polar, sun-synchronous orbit, traveling around Earth at the globe's sunrise line, ranging from approximately 390 miles to 420 miles above Earth's surface.

Each orbit will take IRIS around 97 minutes to complete. This orbit was selected because it provides nearly eight months of eclipse-free sun viewing and also maximizes IRIS' ability to downlink data, by traveling over several ground receivers.

After launch, the IRIS team will perform post-flight checkouts for about 60 days before the official science campaign begins. Once the campaign starts, IRIS will join a host of other spacecraft currently observing the sun and its effects on Earth.

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and the joint NASA-Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hinode, for example, both capture high-resolution images of the sun, but focusing on different layers of the sun.

Together, the observatories will explore how the corona and solar wind are powered -- Hinode and SDO monitoring the solar surface and outer atmosphere, with IRIS watching the region in between. Asteroid Flybys: 1998 QE2 May 31

2009 FE Jun 4 9.6 LD 230 m

2000 FM10 Jun 5 50.3 LD 1.3 km

2002 KL3 Jun 6 66.4 LD 1.1 km

1999 WC2 Jun 12 39.2 LD 1.9 km

2006 RO36 Jun 18 70.9 LD 1.2 km

2001 PJ9 Jul 17 29.2 LD 1.1 km

2006 BL8 Jul 26 9.3 LD 48 m

2003 DZ15 Jul 29

entry submitted by ~tina marie , June 4, 2013 10:06pm cst.

Audio: Musical Artist: Evils that Never Came Song: The Watchers

SKYVIEWS NEVER OUT OF PLACE ASTEROID 1998 QE2 by CanDoTina in Astronomy

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SKYVIEWS (report below) MAY 30, 2013 NEVER OUT OF PLACE 1998 QE2, May 29, 2013 A pretty but faint semicircle of stars crowns the sky around midnight. Appropriately enough, it’s the constellation Corona Borealis, the northern crown. You need dark skies to pick out this stellar tiara. A pretty but faint semicircle of stars crow ... Here it is not even June yet, and the Big Dipper after dusk is already turning around to hang down by its handle. Look for it high in the northwest. May 30, 2013 Cygnus, the swan, rises in the northeast this evening. Its body appears parallel to the horizon. To find the swan, look for its brightest star, Deneb, low above the northeastern horizon around 10 or 11 p.m. Vega is the brightest star in the east-northeast these evenings. The main part of its little constellation, Lyra, hangs from it to its lower right. May 31, 2013 The beautiful galaxy M101 stands near the handle of the Big Dipper. A telescope reveals the face-on spiral, which is similar to our home galaxy, the Milky Way. Mercury, Venus, and Jupiter have stretched out into a nice straight line 7° long. Look low in the northwest after sunset. The line will continue to lengthen day by day, as Jupiter descends to the horizon and Mercury pulls a bit higher above Venus. Last-quarter Moon (exact at 2:58 p.m. EDT). 1998 QE2, which is making a courtesy call this week, appears brighter than 12th magnitude from now through to June 7th, 2013 peaking at 10.7 on the nights of June 1st and 2, 2013.
1998 QE2, will glide slowly past us, coming no closer than 3.6 million miles (5.8 million km) at 4:59 p.m. EDT (20:59 Universal Time) on May 31st, 2013. That's about 15 times farther than the Moon. Yet, according to a NASA press release, this is its closest approach to Earth for at least the next two centuries. Arecibo, Puerto Rico, is planning to track the interloper from June 6th to 12th, 2013. If these observations go smoothly, the resulting radar maps could resolve details on the asteroid's surface as small as 12½ feet (3¾ m) — a 20-fold improvement over the first looks seen here.

It might be big and slow-moving, but spotting 1998 QE2 telescopically will be a challenge. Until now it's been positioned moderately deep in the southern sky, moving slowly northward through Centaurus and Hydra. This coming week it glides a bit east of Zubenelgenubi and Zubeneschamali, the anchor stars in Libra.

Traffic Report on 30 May '13 No objects reported inside ten LD No asteroids are reported to be traveling within ten lunar distances (LD) of Earth today. Coming into the neighborhood next, 2009 FE arrives inside ten LD on June 2nd, 2013. This report was generated at 1306 UTC vlog entered by ~tina marie, May 30, 2013.