MILKY WAY VIDEO

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Tune in to the center of our Milky Way Galaxy



Quite the video from ESO!

Sky Guy at Sea

PARKER SOLAR PROBE LAUNCHED

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GREAT night at Shenandoah National Park Night Sky Festival as the clouds cleared and we saw about a dozen Perseids including some bright ones and the glorious Milky Way!

Tonight is the Perseids peak so get out and see them!

NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe today so its off to the Sun and history.




I hope to see some Aurora on my next voyage which are caused by Earth's interaction with the Sun.

Sky Guy in VA

SKY GUY VIEWING ALERT!!!! THE PERSEIDS ARE HERE

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The annual Perseid Meteor Shower is underway now and is expected to peak the night of August 12-13. With the Moon being at New phase for this year's shower from a dark sky site you could see about one Perseid a minute.

The Perseid meteors appear to stream away from the shower's "radiant" point near the border of Perseus and Cassiopeia.
Sky & Telescope

Bright 2016 Perseid
Greg Redfern

Sky Guy in VA

WATCH THIS COMET SAIL BY

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NASA's news planet finder TESS photographed a comet......it's well worth a look!



Sky Guy in VA

A BIT OF PLUTO CONTROVERSY

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Here is an interesting article on a but of Pluto controversy.......

Sorry to be so short but book is due ti publisher on Thursday....

Sky Guy Greg

NASA'S FIRST NINE FOR COMMERCIAL CREW SPACEFLIGHTS

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Finishing up my book has taken A LOT of time.

But I had to share with you NASA's announcement today of the 1st 9 U.S. astronauts to fly on SpaceX and Boeing crewed spacecraft in 2019.

NASA introduced to the world on Aug. 3, 2018, the first U.S. astronauts who will fly on American-made, commercial spacecraft to and from the International Space Station – an endeavor that will return astronaut launches to U.S. soil for the first time since the space shuttle’s retirement in 2011. The agency assigned nine astronauts to crew the first test flight and mission of both Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon. The astronauts are, from left to right: Sunita Williams, Josh Cassada, Eric Boe, Nicole Mann, Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Robert Behnken, Michael Hopkins and Victor Glover.

Back to work......

Sky Guy in VA

NIKON'S SCALE OF THE UNIVERSE

Hey Space Placers!

I am getting down to the wire on submitting my book to the publisher next week so I am and will be a bit uneven on blogging.

While working on the book I came across this very nifty scale of the Universe done by Nikon. 

I think you will enjoy looking at it.

Sky Guy Greg