Keep Looking Up! - Astronomy, High Altitude Balloons, & Model Rocketry by Mary-Frances Bartels, NASA JPL Solar System Ambassador"

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Astronomy and Space Science

NASA's JPL Solar System Ambassador Program
- Mad about Mars?
- Crazy about Cassini (Saturn mission)?
- Interested in a close-up of a comet?
- Enthusiastic about Earth's oceans?
- Vivacious for Voyager?
Tribute - Remembering America's Astronauts Who Gave Their Lives Furthering the Exploration of Space

Sun Related Photos

Sun and Eclipsed Moon Photos
Venus Transit

Hale-Bopp
- Photos
- In the News (H-B Crashed in CO?)

"Planetary Wonderings" - Sunbury Home Educators Newsletter Columns by Mary-Frances Bartels
Astronomy for Educators - Mailing list to receive Planetary Wonderings columns as well as other space-related educational opportunities.
To the Moon and Beyond --- talk given at Millennicon 23 on March 21, 2009
General
- Food for Thought (Titanic, Kepler, Newton)
- Recommended Links
- Astronaut Bob Stewart's visits Denver, CO

Other Lofty Interests

High Altitude Balloons
Model Rocketry

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Food for Thought

Has science found G-d?
What did Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton say about order in the universe?
How astronomical events might have contributed to the Titanic tragedy?
Also check out Sun and Moon Data for that fateful night.

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Sites of Interest

Colorado-Specific Web Sites (Since writing this section the page author has moved to Ohio.)
Aurora Astronomical Association (information on the club's events, meetings, and other activities) Boulder Astronomy and Space Society - Club in Boulder, CO Colorado Springs Astronomical Society Denver Astronomical Society Fiske Planetarium (on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder) International Association for Astronomical Studies - Sign up for IAAS Monthly Astronomy Newsletter Longmont Astronomical Society Northern Colorado Astronomical Society Rocky Mountain Mars Society - Denver Chapter of the Mars Society

Colorado-Specific Web Sites
(Since writing this section the page author has moved to Ohio.)

Aurora Astronomical Association (information on the club's events, meetings, and other activities)
Boulder Astronomy and Space Society - Club in Boulder, CO
Colorado Springs Astronomical Society
Denver Astronomical Society
Fiske Planetarium (on the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder)
International Association for Astronomical Studies - Sign up for IAAS Monthly Astronomy Newsletter
Longmont Astronomical Society
Northern Colorado Astronomical Society
Rocky Mountain Mars Society - Denver Chapter of the Mars Society

Central Ohio-Specific Web Sites

Warren Rupp Observatory - includes information on the Richland Astronomical Society
The Columbus Astronomical Society
Astronomy for Youth
The Wayne County Astronomical Society

General Interest Web Sites
Space Science News (NASA) Spaceflight Now Astronomy Magazine The Sky This Week (USNO) Americal Association of Amateur Astronomers Universe Today	Astronomy Picture of the Day Space Weather News (NOAA) Space Science and Astronomy News (from Space.Com) Astronomy Now Magazine Sky and Telescope Magazine Christian Association of Stellar Explorers Evidence for God from Science Astro-Tips - Astronomy Freeware and Shareware

PLEASE e-mail me your favorite astronomy or other space-related web sites.

Remembering Astronaut Heroes Who Gave Their Lives Furthering the Exploration of Space

Eternal Father, King of birth,
Who didst create the heaven and earth,
And bid the planets and the sun
Their own appointed orbits run;
O hear us when we seek thy grace
For those who soar through outer space.

from the Navy Hymn

"If we die, we want people to accept it. We're in a risky business, and we hope if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life."
--Virgil I. Grissom, Commander, Apollo 1
(speaking a few weeks before his death in the Apollo 1 fire)

Apollo One - Gus Grissom, Edward White, & Roger Chaffee
January 27, 1967

Challenger (STS-51L) - Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik, Michael Smith, Francis Scobee, & Ronald McNair
January 28, 1986

Columbia (STS-107) - David Brown (KC5ZTC), Rick Husband, Laurel Clark (KC5ZSU), Kalpana Chawla (KD5ESI), Michael Anderson, William McCool, & Ilan Ramon (of Israel)
February 1, 2003

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Sun and Moon Data for Monday, April 15, 1912
at the site of the Titanic's sinking: (from Sun and Moon Data for One Day)
Monday 15 April 1912 Universal Time - 1h

SUN
Begin civil twilight 07:11
Sunrise 07:40 Sunset 21:00
End civil twilight 21:29
(Titanic hits iceberg 23:40 ship time day before)

MOON (no moon visible in sky during sinking)
Moonset 18:03 on preceding day
Moonrise 06:55 Moonset 19:09
Moonrise 07:15 on following day
Phase of the Moon on 15 April: waning crescent with 4% of the Moon's visible disk illuminated.
New Moon on 17 April 1912 at 10:40 (Universal Time - 1h).

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