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This week we remember our friend  John Schroer IV  KA8GRH Happy Birthday for Last Monday John We all Miss you       This week on The Event^Horizon, I mistake Marty for  Spaceman 1st Class Digby ( yes I’m a Dan Dare fan), We discuss Our Moon  and the Preumbral lunar eclipse, the Danjon scale remind Marty It’s NOT  a Super moon but  is the perigee-syzygy of the Earth-Moon-Sun system (https://www.britannica.com/topic/supermoon) and   how to observe it The Planets and the Autumn Constellations , bid farewell to Mars, Jupiter and Saturn , but they will be back next year 

In tonight’s show we wish StarTrek A Happy 50th Birthday , discuss SUSY  and whats next , Recent Launches, Talk Maths and more Physics .. And we get a  visit  from one of AFM’s Deep Sky Diva’s, Tavi Greiner.   https://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic1617/ https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/Galileo/Launching_Galileo/Fantastic_four_November_s_Galileos_reach_Europe_s_Spaceport http://zeenews.india.com/space/indian-advanced-weather-satellite-insat-3dr-successfully-placed-in-orbit-watch_1927109.html http://cuore.lngs.infn.it/en/news http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/a-tale-of-two-black-holes http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/april-2015/ten-things-you-might-not-know-about-antimatter A Seeker of Dark Matter’s Hidden Light What No New Particles Means for Physics Moonshine Master Toys With String Theory http://youngastros.org/wordpress/tag/einstein-rosen-bridge/ http://u2.lege.net/cetinbal/HTMLdosya1/RelativityFile.htm

In this weeks show , We discuss The loss of the Space X Falcon Rocket at Cape Canaveral , The Apollo Project, How to get started with Binos , and then a Telescope , We also discuss Spacefest, Stellafane , NEAF  The European Astrofest ,Ask Folks to step up and become Skyguides so we can do more Live shows! We start a regular look at the Constellations, starting with  Scorpius Temp Show link  https://s3.amazonaws.com/afm-originals/AFM_EventHorizon/20160903_EH_60_51.mp3 http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/cuore-almost-ready-for-first-cool-down https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BgJEXQkjNQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bhW2h08zhY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLiAwSKkm6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLiAwSKkm6k https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKwYz5LTSC4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0EOENUw0c https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia21033-1041.jpg?itok=BQVy-g3x https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o39UlJlMce8 http://astronomerswithoutborders.org/

In this show I have a rant …over Space Shuttle Engines being  useless  compared to the Saturn 1B & V Engines,  Col Dan Dare gets a mention  in chat….. As does the  Real Buzz…… http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/multimedia/countdown-to-deep-space-continues-with-latest-rs-25-test.html http://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-just-made-all-the-scientific-research-it-funds-available-for-free https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YTaG91KD http://www.popsci.com/china-launches-quantum-satellite-in-search-for-unhackable-communications Britain’s pre-Stonehenge megaliths were aligned by astronomers This Week’s Sky at a Glance, August 19 – 27 http://scitechdaily.com/hubble-discovers-two-dwarf-galaxies-moving-into-the-milky-way/ Buzz Aldrin Verified account ‏@TheRealBuzz For #WorldPhotographyDay I don’t take many photos so I’ll post the pictures I’m most proud of taking #Apollo11  https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz https://www.wwu.edu/depts/skywise/legends.html

  https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/zooniverse/radio-meteor-zoo http://www.slooh.com/viewsnap.php?img=5351795&s=9258o/classify http://www.meteorscan.com/meteor-live.html http://www.ukmeteorwatch.co.uk/ http://www.livemeteors.com/ http://www.merriott-astro.co.uk/spam3D.htm http://merriott-astro.no-ip.org:88/broadwave.m3u?src=1&rate=0 http://star.herts.ac.uk/allsky/index.php?c=3 http://spaceweather.com/images2016/12aug16/persieds-8-12-3_gif_001.gif?PHPSESSID=o76sdmaheeu3umqbiu8pm5kh37 http://spaceweathergallery.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=128196&PHPSESSID=u7lthajom76164b49bsedapqp3 https://twitter.com/UKMeteorNetwork http://www.ukmeteorwatch.co.uk/meteors https://www.facebook.com/groups/northoltbranchastro/

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts  & Neil Norman, Mary Spicer is on Holiday this month.     In this programme  , Richard Miles and Tony Angel join us  and I call 67P/ C-G  64P  by mistake . Tony discusses the Rosetta meeting in Austria he attended &  then we discuss the latest outburst of 29 /P Schwassmann-Wachmann. BAA Comet Section page BAA Comet Section Visual Observations Page Project Alcock D. C. Jewitt (1991), “Cometary Photometry”, invited review for Comets In The Post – Halley Era, eds. R. Newburn, M. Neugebauer and J. Rahe. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands. pp. 19 – 65. pdf version D. C. Jewitt (1990), “The Persistent Coma of Comet P/Schwassmann Wachmann 1”, Astrophysical Journal, 351, 277-286. pdf version The German Comet Group Seiichi Yoshida’s page Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia Comet chasing in August International Comet Quarterly CometBase Sloan Filters S

Hi Folks  Your Hosts tonight are Nick Evetts & John Foote All the Links  from tonight’s The Event^Horizon Thank you StarStorm ! https://s3.amazonaws.com/afm-originals/AFM_EventHorizon/20160730_E%5EH_59%3B20.mp3 http://www.spaceadhyaan.com/ http://www.sciencealert.com/this-3d-map-shows-off-1-2-million-galaxies-and-how-the-universe-expanded http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/moon-mars/a21884/us-russia-moon-plan/ http://news.fsu.edu/Top-Stories/Apollo-astronauts-experiencing-higher-rates-of-cardiovascular-related-deaths http://www.nature.com/news/chinese-satellite-is-one-giant-step-for-the-quantum-internet-1.20329 In The Near Future Robots Will Assemble Large Telescopes in Space Alien Life Possible on Saturn’s Moon Titan Neutrinos Hint of Matter-Antimatter Rift http://www.sciencealert.com/this-3d-map-shows-off-1-2-million-galaxies-and-how-the-universe-expanded http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1627/

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts Mary Spicer  & Neil Norman, In this programme , Richard Miles joins us and discuses   29 /P SchwassmannWachmann. Comet 29P/Schwassmann–Wachmann, also known as Schwassmann–Wachmann 1, was discovered on November 15, 1927, by Arnold Schwassmann and Arno Arthur Wachmann at the Hamburg Observatory in Bergedorf, Germany. Wikipedia Orbital period: 15 years Discovered: November 15, 1927 Last perihelion: July 10, 2004 Epoch: March 6, 2006

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts Mary Spicer  & Neil Norman, In this programme , Neil has issues with skype, and Terry stands in for him My recording  software crashes losing the first part of the show in which  we discuss the current Comets and then in the second part of the show we are joined by two old friends Rodney Austin & Terry Lovejoy and also  by Guy Wells & Daniel  Bamberger (hehehe sorry (not)if this all sounds very Clarkson Top Gearish ) Neil gets his skype fixed and helps me recreate the first part of the show…………. Cue Top Gear Music………? BAA Comet Section Page The German Comet Group Seiichi Yoshida’s page Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia Comet chasing in June International Comet Quarterly CometBase

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts, Mary Spicer & Neil Norman, Two British Comet Observers & One Imager! In our 12th show we discuss the current Comets and then are joined by Alan Hale and Jim Scotti to discuss  comets P/2016 BA14,252P/LINEAR 12 and 321P/SOHO. BAA Comet Section Page: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ The German Comet Group: http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm Seiichi Yoshida’s page: http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia: http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ Planetary Science Insitute Cometary Coma Image Enhancement Facility: http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen BAA/TA comet image archive: http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/ https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/321P/SOHO http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?ID=c00321_0 http://earthsky.org/space/twin-comets-approach-closely-in-march http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/artwork.dir/close_encounter.html http://pirlwww.lpl.arizona.edu/~jscotti/artwork.dir/hbr.html

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts, Mary Spicer & Neil Norman, Two British Comet Observers & One Imager! In our Eleventh show we discuss the current Comets and then are joined by Kirill Grishin & Taras Prystavski who are interviewed by Neil & Mary about CometBase Cometbase Website: http://www.cometbase.net (http://www.cometbase.net) (also use http://cometbase.net.показать.сайт/en/site/index (http://cometbase.net.показать.сайт/en/site/index)) Cometbase twitter account: https://twitter.com/cometbase (https://twitter.com/cometbase) @CometBase Cometbase  facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/564399700347004/ (https://www.facebook.com/groups/564399700347004/) BAA Comet Section Page: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ (http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/) BAA/TA comet image archive: http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/ (http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/) The German Comet Group: http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm (http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm) Seiichi Yoshida's page: http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html (http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html) Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia: http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ (http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/) Comet chasing: http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/ (http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/) International Comet Quarterly:  http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html (http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html) Planetary Science Insitute Cometary Coma Image Enhancement Facility: http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen (http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen)    

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts Neil Norman, and a  big welcome to Mary Spicer who has joined our team. We are three British Comet Observers & Imagers. Nick is now living in the US and Mary & Neil live in the UK! In our Tenth show we as usual do our "Shipping Forecast" for Comets and then talk to Justin Tilbrook & Terry Lovejoy about Bill Bradfield 1997O1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1997O1-300x218.jpg) 1999A1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/1997-O1-and-199A1-300x200.jpg) Bill Bradfield and his Scope (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Bill-Bradfield-and-his-Scope-300x148.jpg) Justin Tilbrooks Scope (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Justin-Tilbrooks-scope-300x151.jpg) BAA Comet Section Page: http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ The German Comet Group: http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm (http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm) Seiichi Yoshida’s page: http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html (http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html) Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia: http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ (http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/) Planetary Science Insitute Cometary Coma Image Enhancement Facility: http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen (http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen) BAA/TA comet image archive: http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/ (http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/) Bill Bradfield, Comet Hunter Extraordinaire (1927-2014): http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/bill-bradfield-comet-hunter-extraordinaire-1927-2014 (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/bill-bradfield-comet-hunter-extraordinaire-1927-2014) http://www.shopatsky.com/sky-and-telescope-april-1977-digital-issue?utm_source=MY&utm_medium=ar&utm_campaign=MYstar061714 (http://www.shopatsky.com/sky-and-telescope-april-1977-digital-issue?utm_source=MY&utm_medium=ar&utm_campaign=MYstar061714)          (digital issue from 1977 purchase required) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Bradfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_A._Bradfield) Bill Bradfield on comet C/2004F4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clAA8NrGcbE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clAA8NrGcbE) Bill Bradfield   Comet Hunter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA_OF6-0wxk&feature=youtu.be (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA_OF6-0wxk&feature=youtu.be)  

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts & Neil Norman, Two British Comet Observers & Imagers. In our Ninth show we discuss Comet C/2013 Catalina with special guest Mary Spicer Mary's Image of Comet C/2013 Catalina using a DSLR  http://tinyurl.com/Mary-Spicers-Image (http://tinyurl.com/Mary-Spicers-Image) How to find   Comet C/2013 Catalina http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Web_Dec15_Catalina.pdf (http://www.skyandtelescope.com/wp-content/uploads/Web_Dec15_Catalina.pdf) BAA Comet Section Page http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ (http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/) The German Comet Group http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm (http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm) Seiichi Yoshida's page http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html (http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html) Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ (http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/) Planetary Science Insitute Cometary Coma Image Enhancement Facility http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen (http://www.psi.edu/research/cometimen) BAA/TA comet image archive http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/ (http://www.britastro.org/cometobs/)

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts & Neil Norman, Two British Comet Observers & Imagers. In our 7th show we discuss the current Comets and then are joined by Rodney Austin from New Zealand 8-inch f4 with 2x Barlow as used for 1989X1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/8-inch-f4-with-2x-Barlow-as-used-for-1989X1-300x211.jpg) 16 inch f5 comethunter An ongoing project. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/16-inch-f5-comethunter-An-ongoing-project-292x300.jpg) Comet 1982M1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1982M1-300x211.jpg) 1984N1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1984N1-211x300.jpg) Comet 1989X1 (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1989X1-175x300.jpg) Aged 14 in 1959 with an on loan 3 inch refractor. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Aged-14-in-1959-with-an-on-loan-3-inch-refractor-211x300.jpg) Comet Austin 1989X1 Confirmation pic Perth Observatory-Pete Birch Dec 6-7-1989. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Comet-Austin-1989X1-Confirmation-pic-Perth-Observatory-Peter-Birch-Dec-6-7-1989-massaged-300x211.jpg) Don Machholz Rodney Austin and Doug Berger at Ribbonwood-Halleywatch site NZ 1986. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Don-Machholz-Rodney-Austin-and-Doug-Berger-at-Ribbonwood-Halleywatch-site-NZ-1986-300x211.jpg) Original version 6 inch f8 refractor as used for discovery of 1982M1. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Original-version-6-inch-f8-refractor-as-used-for-discovery-of-1982M1-211x300.jpg) Rebuilt 6 inch f8 refractor as used for 1984N1. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Rebuilt-6-inch-f8-refractor-as-used-for-1984N1-211x300.jpg) Rodney with 24inch Optical Craftsmen Reflector at-Mt John University Observatory circa September 1971. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Rodney-with-24inch-Optical-Craftsmen-Reflector-at-Mt-John-University-Observatory-circa-September-1971-300x211.jpg) Wendee & David Levy,Albert Jones and Rodney Austin RASNZ Conference New Plymouth New-Zealand 2006. (http://astronomy.fm/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Wendee-and-David-Levy-Albert-Jones-and-Rodney-Austin-RASNZ-Conference-New-Plymouth-New-Zealand-2006-300x211.jpg) Both Neil and myself wish to thank Rodney for giving us permission to share the above images on the Astronomy.fm site BAA Comet Section Page http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ (http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/) The German Comet Group http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm (http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm) Seiichi Yoshida's page http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html (http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html) Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ (http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/) Comet chasing http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/ (http://cometchasing.skyhound.com/) International Comet Quarterly http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html (http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html) CometBase http://cometbase.net/ (http://cometbase.net/) Mt John Observatory http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/astronomy-overview/page-4 (http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/astronomy-overview/page-4) http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/research/mt_john/ (http://www.phys.canterbury.ac.nz/research/mt_john/) Cnaterbury Sky Atlas http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/document/8006/canterbury-sky-atlas (http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/document/8006/canterbury-sky-atlas)

Welcome to CometWatch! Your Hosts are Nick Evetts and Neil Norman,(Recorded 2015/07/11) BAA Comet Section Page http://www.ast.cam.ac.uk/~jds/ The German Comet Group http://kometen.fg-vds.de/fgk_hpe.htm Seiichi Yoshida's page http://www.aerith.net/comet/weekly/current.html Liga Iberoamericana de Astronomia http://cometobservations.freeservers.com/ International Comet Quarterly http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/CometMags.html CometBase http://cometbase.net/ Project Alcock  http://www.britastro.org/projectalcock/Contents The Cometary Science Newsletter http://www.cometarysciencenews.org/ The Cometary Science Newsletteris dedicated to sharing and furthering cometary science. CSN invites contributions from the astronomical and planetary science communities, including abstracts of papers accepted for publication in refereed journals, thesis abstracts, timely notes on particular comets, conference announcements, job announcements, or other relevant and brief scientific communications. Relevant topics include observational, theoretical, and laboratory work concerning comets, but also may include studies of associated phenomena, such as Centaurs, asteroid-comet transition objects, debris disks, and protoplanetary disks.