Society for Popular Astronomy

"Unless countries overcome their differences and regulate the use of satellites, we’re all headed for trouble."

from:
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/artic ... he-commons

From spaceweather.com for April 12 : On April 23rd, Comet ATLAS (C/2020 R4) will pass by Earth about 69 million km (43 million miles) away. Currently reported at +9mag, may get to +8. Should be visible in a small(ish) telescope . Claimed an easy target in scopes larger than 6 inches. Now heading tow...

That is a striking image indeed. Nice tight stars too! Very nice,

regards,

Light scattered from orbiting satellites already exceeds light pollution targets set 40 years ago:

https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/s ... ight-skies

See also SPA ENB 538

< Asteroid Apophis impact ruled out for at least a century > "Just in case it was on your list of things to worry about, new observations of the asteroid Apophis have ruled out any chance of an Earth impact for a least a century" from: https://astronomynow.com/2021/03/26/asteroid-apophis-i...

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap050401.html

there had to be one.....

Eva Braun wrote: ↑Wed Mar 31, 2021 6:40 am "Any country would be free to use the International Lunar Research Station." - will see..

Russia and China together ? With every module bugged I don't see the US being too keen......

The day dawned with blanket high cloud here. No chance of seeing anything until the Sun burnt those clouds back, then too bright of course.

I also picked up Saturn this morning in the pre-dawn sky at 05.35BST . Usin 10x50 binoculars the planet's yellowish hue was quite obvious. Tried for Jupiter about half an hour later but no good, sky was too bright by then I think.

Skygazers Almanac (S&T) shows Venus as an evening star for the rest of this year. Most of this time it will be hugging the twilight zone

Now that Russia has a submarine specifically designed to cut undersea (internet) cables used by every one including the military, maybe Starlink will become the only long-term option

Wow! image

https://www.businessinsider.in/science/ ... 563516.cms

and

https://astroanarchy.blogspot.com/

Welcome Dan.
That is a very pleasing image. Thanks for sharing it with us,

regards,

Thanks for the heads-up
Should be a lovely sight with 4mag Xi1-Cet close by, but plenty of cloud in the west here, hard to make out where the Moon might be

regards,

Controversial electric-car whiz Elon Musk has updated his job title from CEO to “Technoking of Tesla” – as in Techno King – according to documents filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission overnight. Emperors crown themselves, Kings are crowned, so it must re correctly be "Techno-I...