Space News Update - August 11, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Dawn Spacecraft at Ceres – New Pictures as Investigations Continue Story 2: Comet’s Firework Display Ahead of Perihelion Story 3: Kick Back, Look Up, We’re in for a GREAT Perseid Meteor Shower Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
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Space News Update - August 11, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Dawn Spacecraft at Ceres – New Pictures as Investigations Continue Story 2: Comet’s Firework.
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Space News Update- August 11, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: Dawn Spacecraft at Ceres – New Pictures as Investigations Continue
Story 2:
Comet’s Firework Display Ahead of Perihelion
Story 3: Kick Back, Look Up, We’re in for a GREAT Perseid Meteor Shower
Departments
The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
Space CalendarNASA-TV Highlights
Food for ThoughtSpace Image of the Week
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
Dawn Spacecraft at Ceres – New Pictures as Investigations Continue
• The red long-period variable star Chi Cygni is near maximum! As of August 7th it was reported at magnitude 4.5. See the article and comparison-star chart in the August Sky & Telescope, page 51.
Wednesday, August 12
• The Perseid meteor shower should be at its peak late tonight, ideally so for North America. And there's no moonlight. Bundle up warmly (it gets cold under a clear, open August sky late at night), and lie back in a reclining lawn chair. You may see about a meteor a minute on average. The later you watch the better. See Plan for the Perseids! More is in the August Sky & Telescope, page 48.
Thursday, August 13
• These moonless August nights are prime Milky Way time. After dark, the Milky Way is a great, mottled glowing band running from Sagittarius in the south up and left across Aquila and through the big Summer Triangle very high in the east, then on down through Cassiopeia to Perseus low in the north-northeast.
Friday, August 14
• This is the time of year when the Teapot asterism of Sagittarius stands highest in the south soon after dark. The Teapot is about the size of your fist at arm's length. It's tipping and pouring to the right, from its triangular spout.
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Tuesday, August 11
2 p.m. - Replay of the ISS Expedition 45/Visiting Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia (recorded August 10) (all channels)
2:30 p.m. - Video File of the Expedition 45/Visiting Crew’s Ceremonial Visit to the Gagarin Museum in Star City, Russia and their Visit to Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow (starts at 2:45 p.m.) (all channels)
Wednesday, August 12
10 p.m. - Live Coverage of 2015 Perseid Meteor Shower (all channels)
Thursday, August 13
9 a.m., - Educational Event with Scott Kelly and Kjell Lindgren (all channels)
11 a.m. - NASA RS-25 Test Social (NTV-1 (Public), NTV-2 (Education))
4:30 p.m. - Live Coverage of NASA’s RS-25 Engine Test (all channels)
Friday, August 14
6 a.m. - ISS Progress 58 Undocking Coverage (Undocking scheduled at 6:19 a.m. ET) (all channels)