Skywatcher Leo T

skywatcher leo t here where its one sky, many cultures!

As we get a little jingle on and keep smiling at each other as we pass by, and

AS JOHN DENVER SANG...LOOKING FOR SPACE! WE'VE GOT THE

THE MOON, WANING AWAKY FROM FULL, GETTING TOGETHER WITH

JUPITER, CASTOR AND POLLUX FOR TWO NIGHTS ON ITS TOUR, AND THIS WEEK THE GEMINID

METEOR SHOWER COMES INTO FULL BLOOM THE 13TH AND 14TH, YOU CAN SEE THIS IN

ESCALANTE OR BOULDER OR...

Join us to learn about the beauty of the frosty December skies, and much more about scientists spotting a super nova just as it goes off, a new crew launches for the International Space Station that we are grateful for still being in lower space orbit for all of us, not for private interests. And we visit the Hadza people in Africa that still live the old way gathering tubers and making equal decisions with each other!

It is also possible to see planet Uranus right now and its blue-green color with binoculars from the right dark spot with a good horizon! Saturn is up high in the southeast in the dusk, Orion, the seven sisters, Taurus and Uranus hiding in there near the seven sisters! Also the Artemis crew continues to get ready for a shot beyond the moon early next year! Curiosity Rover checks out a new area on Mars, and Poet Tininja recites a short clever poem about constellations written by Billy Collins!

The northen lights rage across the country from coronal mass ejections from the Sun! Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell flew in NASA's Gemini 12 on Nov. 11, 1966 when we were had the real space age!

We go to Central Wyoming and pulll out some native american myths of Devils Gate near Independence Rock and Casper Wyoming!

We go in depth in the Autum skies and check out Taurus the Bull and tradional Hawaiian New Year celebrated when the 7 sisters come up! Also Look to the Southern horizon for The Crane and sky lore from Native America as the Crane is graceful, kind and shares! Plus Comet Lemon and Comet 31/Atlas roars through the solar system at 42 miles a second!

We go out to find Comet Lemon and found it out near the Big Bear or Big Dipper between the handle and Arcturus. Worth getting out and looking to the Northwest! Keep looking at the sky and find Andromeda galaxy! And the Milky Way and the Moon hugging Scorpio and Sagitarius! And Algol the demon Star for Halloween! And oh by the way, In 1975, the USSR landed Venera 9 on Venus and is the first probe to send back photos from another planet! It lasted a whole 53 minutes before being crushed by the Venus atmosphere!

This is a wild fall with blue skies a breeze and rain, then blue skies and snow in the mountains. Tour the night sky and view Zodiacal light in predawn, we learn about Brian May the wizard guitar player for Queen and that he is an astrophysicist and studies zodiacal light and we go skydiving with Dan!

We look at the sky in the fall day with all its wonder and then watch as the stars and planets come out as the moon joins later and we spot Draco the Dragon up by Vega winding its sparkly way across the high sky as the Draconids meteor shower graces us and we look at sky lore of Draco and check in on Comet 31 Atlas as it comes celestially close to Mars and the ESA and NASA get a little closer look at its coma as it heads out towards Jupiter where NASA's JUICE probe will have its...

This episode has so much going on, its kind of surreal, 2 comets show up near Mars and Spica, low on the horizon in the south as well as Dwarf Planet, Ceres, our closest big asteroid in the Asteroid belt makes an appearance in the same area. Also sky lore about Ceres!

Three planets in the morning to greet us and we try to hang on as we zoom through space!

explore the earth and its oceans and the space around you!

Its Milky Way Time! And 50 years ago the U.S. and USSR met for a docking in orbit Apollo, Soyuz led to the International Space Station! Airtimes II crew works into the vibe!

Going camping and seeing stars and stars and planets and moons and nebulae and sending Astronaut Jim Lovell off with a lot of "good energy" way out there! Have fun!

Also NASA'S Artemis II getting ready for pre-launch to the moon with crewed space capsule taking the next step!

We explore Venus and Jupiter meeting August 12th, the Perseids ramp up the stellar fireworks, The Artemis II crew does a dress rehearsal to jump to the moon Alice! Curiosity Rover finds coral rocks from billions of years of water and wind erosion on Mars! The Navajo make ceilings of stars as the stars hold the sky together!

We go in-depth looking at the night sky after a nice morning and afternoon taking in the mountain breeze and watch the stars and the Andromeda Galaxy come out! Venus and Jupiter in the morning and Saturn at night! Star navigation goes way back to the Polynesians and way forward to New Horizons leaving the Solar System. As it is One Sky, Many Cultures, we review and look at the Tiger through the eyes of Susan Seddon Boulet!

Meteor showers, NASA spaceships that can take off from another planet, a quiet supersonic jet, NASA scientists sign the Voyager Accord.

And we do a little sky watching nebulas and galaxies!

Beautiful star viewing in early summer and the Parker Solar Probe blasts 430,000 miles an hour around the sun only 3.8 million miles from the life giving star! We check in on Starlore from the Persian Culture!

We also look at a culture in and their skylore in Persia. What are their sky myths?

We take a look at the Aurora Borealis with photographer Rich Herrmann! Look up, look around and enjoy your sky and universe!

We check on current events effecting space exploration, the 18 and a half year cycle of the moon, giving us the Strawberry full moon of June and preview the star party at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex with deep space telescopes!

We talk about current events a little bit, the Strawberry moon and the star party on June 21st at the Stansbury Park Observatory Complex!

We'll check out some cool double stars, talk with Poet Tininja and talk about the star party at Stansbury Park on June 21st!

skywatcher leo t star party with Salt Lake Astronomical Society and Stansbury Park Observatory complex with some of the best telescopes in the Rocky Mountains!

As we enjoy springtime, the Earth rotates and turns on its axis as the stars and planets do their delicate ballet! We get to hang with Hikin' Mike in the Reef Country and watch life happen!

Vega with Draco stars ! Hazda people of Africa, Mercury 9, 50,000 years!

A whole lot more to listen to!

Photographer - Astronaut Don Petit photos from outer space, Anniversary of the Skylab space station launch in 1973!

Looking at Jupiter's moons from a lake high in the Utah backcountry as well as Mizar and Alcor in the handle of the Big Bear!

lots of space between my ears and the stars!

Lots to learn and enjoy!

Spring stars, Psyche probe update, Juno probe update, let's make a new constellation or two!

Seahorses, cats in space, and moons of Saturn and more!

Cats into space, Sea Horse sky lore: the spring sky and many moons!

Check out the jibble jabble of the Universe!

Dan Cooper reports from Casper Mountain on sun events at the same time as Coronal Mass Ejections happen, that send plasma towards Earth and create Auroras! Also the anniversary of the launch of Apollo 16 in 1972!

From Terra Ferma we look up and the sky is a treat every day and night with an amazing view of the sky from wherever you are! And Corvus the Crow tirggers our imagiantion in the twighlight skies with many stories from many cultures to find out about! And the Hubble Space Telescope folks celebdrate 35 years with some more amazing photos. Check them out on the Skywatcher FB page courtesy of NASA and everyone on the team! Go outside and look up, look around, and get lost in space!

Go in-depth as we look at Earthshine on the crescent moon, dolphins greet astronauts as they splash down in Florida, and Artemis II gets ready to launch hopefully next year!

Enjoy the interview from JPL in Pasadena with Skywatcher Leo T!

Also, courtesy of NASA, Crew 10 astronauts reaching the International Space Station with a thanks from Suni Williams and the fun interview with Astro Scientist at JPL! Enjoy, and thanks for listening please spread the word!

Look up, Look Around and Get lost on Earth and on Space!

Enjoy a great broadcast with a great overview of Maria Zuber, Serah Steward Johnson and Paige Arthur that all have or currently work at JPL going where no one has gone before!

Go into the fascinating story of Pluto's discovery and geograpy and come a little closer to home and see what its like to be on the Internatinal Space Station, surreal and suprising.

We check out the blue skies in Capitol Reef with hawks and the dusk and nightime sky with all of its jewels. We also broadcast a letter from NASA scientists to legislators and NASA administrators and the public. We talk about NASA's Artemis mission coming up to the moon with the first woman and person of color on board and we're all on board with this! We also go way out to Jupiter with the Lucy probe to check out the Trojan asteroids out here, and bring the little skywatcher space ship back to Earth and go under the...

Osirus Rex brought back signs of the ingredients of life from Asteroid Bennu!

We also check out the Garifuna Culture from the Ocean!

Lots of space going on and poet Tina Thomas or Tininja with a poem she wrote called Time!

The moon passes in front of Mars as Mars is at its closest for 26 months! Bepi Columbo from European Space Agency and Japan Space Agency drops very close to Mercury and the Parke Solar Probe from NASA/JPL gets close to the Sun again!

We check out what New Horizons found out on Pluto and where the intrepid space ship went after this out to the Kuiper Belt and what it discovered. Also talk about the International Space Station and have a passage from a book called Orbital.

We check on the Artemis NASA moon program with an update, and we look at the latest in Gravity Waves affecting vibrations from Black Holes communicating with each other, well sending gravity waves! Oh yeah jingle bells from space in 1965!

Listen and find out what special deep space objects we can see way out in space from right here on Earth, and we thank the Native Americans for showing us intriguing sky lore and more!