Heads up " Sky at Night " Sunday

[Timebandit]

 

 

 The" Sky at Night" , Sunday evening on BBC Four at 10.40

 

NASA's New Horizon probe notches up another historic first, as the first Kuiper belt fly by . And an encounter with a chunk of rock and ice around four billion miles from Earth

 

Enjoy☺

 

 

 

 

 

 

[bish]

Thanks - I need reminders these days!

[Gina]

Me too!

[Astro Imp]

Thanks but for once I actually remembered this month, don't usually and have to rely on a post here.

[Gina]

OTOH I hall want reminding again much nearer the event...  Um... What was the quaetsion?

[sloz1664]

15 hours ago, Gina said:

OTOH I hall want reminding again much nearer the event...  Um... What was the quaetsion?

Don't get me started.....Whenever I open the Obsy these days and connect the all the necessary gear, I check and double check in case I've forgotten something. If ever anyone was watching me they would think I'd got a case of OCD ? 

Steve

[JeremyS]

10 minutes ago, sloz1664 said:

Don't get me started.....Whenever I open the Obsy these days and connect the all the necessary gear, I check and double check in case I've forgotten something. If ever anyone was watching me they would think I'd got a case of OCD ? 

It's closing up the obsy that gets to me. Did I turn the mount drive off or will I find the wires wrapped around the mount and the sockets pulled out?......

[sloz1664]

1 minute ago, JeremyS said:

It's closing up the obsy that gets to me. Did I turn the mount drive off or will I find the wires wrapped around the mount and the sockets pulled out?......

I'd forgotten about that ?........Brings it home even more now

Steve

[Rob]

Nice one.. Thanks

[The Admiral]

I wonder if/how the state shutdown will affect the programme? I haven't seen any new images on the JHUAPL galleries site since the 1st of Jan.

Ian

[PeterW]

NASA will be affected, but JHUAPL is a university and should be fine. No recent pictures as Pluto is behind the sun, so no data can be downloaded. They’ll restart the download in an few days and hopefully more updates too.

PEter

[The Admiral]

45 minutes ago, PeterW said:

No recent pictures as Pluto is behind the sun

Oh, I thought that would only be for 5 days. The last image posted was from 1 Jan. But it also states on the galleries page: " The team will continue posting LORRI images within 24 hours of their receipt on the ground during the first two weeks of January 2019, provided NASA has approved their release." (my emphasis).

Still, let's hope that they start to come through soon.

Ian

[Gina]

ON NOW!

[DaveS]

Watching.

[DaveS]

OK, who's up for imaging Eris? .