Space News Update - July 4 - 8, 2011 - In the News Story 1: First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at Kennedy Space Center Story 2: On Fourth of July, Earth Is Farthest from the Sun Story 3: Rare Four-Member Crew to Fly Final Shuttle Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
Space News Update - July 4 - 8, 2011 -. In the News Story 1: First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at Kennedy Space Center Story 2: On Fourth of July, Earth Is Farthest from the Sun Story 3: Rare Four-Member Crew to Fly Final Shuttle Departments The Night Sky - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Space News Update- July 4 - 8, 2011 -
In the News
Story 1: First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at Kennedy Space Center
Story 2:On Fourth of July, Earth Is Farthest from the Sun
Story 3: Rare Four-Member Crew to Fly Final Shuttle
Departments
The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
Space CalendarNASA-TV Highlights
Food for ThoughtSpace Image of the Week
First Orion Assembled at Denver, Another Orion Displayed at
Kennedy Space
On Fourth of July, Earth Is Farthest from the Sun
Rare Four-Member Crew to Fly Final Shuttle
The Night Sky· Monday, July 4 · Regulus is upper right of the Moon in twilight, as shown above. · Watching fireworks this evening? While you're waiting for them to start, point out some sky sights to family and friends. In addition to the Moon and Regulus (see previous item), Saturn and Spica shine higher in the southwest, far to the Moon's upper left; Saturn is the one on the right. Very high above them is brighter Arcturus. Bright Vega is very high in the east. And the fire-colored supergiant Antares is the brightest star lower in the south. · Earth is at aphelion, its farthest from the Sun for the year just one part in 30 farther than at perihelion in January. Tuesday, July 5 · Now's the time of year to work through the rich but low tail of Scorpius with your telescope. Explore a whole nest of star clusters near M6 there with Sue French's Deep-Sky Wonders article and chart in the July Sky & Telescope, page 66.
Wednesday, July 6 · Have you learned, really learned, the star pattern of little Lyra around bright Vega? Look very high in the east after dusk. The main part of Lyra dangles to Vega's lower right. Get out your sky atlas: Epsilon (å), Zeta (æ), and Delta (ä) Lyrae are fine binocular or telescopic double stars, Beta (â) Lyrae is an eclipsing variable, the Ring Nebula is located between Beta and Gamma (ã), and faint T Lyrae, a carbon star near Vega, is one of the reddest stars in the sky
· Thursday, July 7 · The first-quarter Moon forms a nice triangle with Spica and Saturn above it this evening, as shown above.
Friday, July 8 · Spica shines to the Moon's upper right during and after dusk, as shown above.
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
For Denver:
No Sightings
NASA-TV HighlightsJuly 4, Monday1 p.m. - Space Shuttle and ISS Program Overview Briefing - HQ (All Channels)2:45 p.m. - STS-135 Crew Arrival - HQ (All Channels)
10 p.m. NASA Television Special Presentation - The Shuttle - A Documentary - HQ (All Channels)