1. A.I. Radio
Show Covers Shuttle Bad News
STOP PRESS Sept 19: The latest from NASA is that
something was seen moving away from the Space Shuttle Atlantis as it was
preparing to land, having undocked from the International Space Station.
Tonight's edition of the AI Radio Show (AIRS) interviewed Astronomy Ireland
Space Correspondent Colm J. Cannon live on air right at the start with the
latest, and updated listeners at the end.
The NASA press conference referred to on AIRS is at 9pm our time and should
be online on NASA TV:
www.nasa.gov/ntv (check CNN, Sky News
etc and other news bulletins also)
With a Russian Soyuz on its way to ISS, and it being uncertain Atlantis has
enough fuel to get back to ISS, it seems there would be too many people on ISS
for supplies to last. Whatever happens we wish all the crews well in the coming
hours and day.
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P.S. The August 29th recording of AIRS was unavoidably delayed and
was only put online today so you can download that too if you are collecting all
the shows (they're only 3MB each).
2.
Observing
The thin crescent Moon next to Saturn this morning was an
incredible sight. If you saw or photographed it please let us know at observe@astronomy.ie as usual.
We alerted you to this in the Sky Diary pages of our
magazine - see the diagram on page 27 of the September issue ( www.astronomy.ie/sub to
subscribe)
On Thursday morning it is Venus' turn to be close to the Moon. Look at
6:30am low in the East. The Moon will be only 1% sunlit and 30.2 hours from
being a New Moon - a very rare sight. Again, email sighting reports and photos
please for our magazine report.
ASTRONOMY IRELAND - for Telescopes
and Information