Well Michigan weather strikes again and we have been clouded out for the last couple of weeks, and have not been able to catch a view of all the planets out in the evening. Checkout the post from Bob Victor if you need a sky chart. I hope everyone had a nice holiday!
Due to the Holiday falling so close to our regular meeting time and since I have been away with family am going to cancel our January meeting. We can regroup in February and have out annual Show and Tell meeting on Wednesday Feb. 1. Bring in any new Astro related items to show off. If we have clear skies we can do some Lunar imaging outside the planetarium before the meeting.
On January 24 the Nasa Night Sky Network will be having the Best of Astronomy picture of the day 2022. Astronomy Picture of the Day: Postcards from the Universe 2022.
Join the Night Sky Network and Robert Nemiroff on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 at 9:00 PM Eastern for a tour of highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2022.
Astronomy Picture of the Day: Postcards from the Universe 2022
About This Talk
Along with Jerry Bonnell, Robert Nemiroff has written, coordinated, and edited NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) since 1995. The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.
About Dr. Robert Nemiroff
Dr. Robert Nemiroff is a professor of physics at Michigan Tech. He worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland before coming to Michigan Tech. He is perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. He led a group that developed and deployed the first online fisheye night sky monitor, called CONCAMs, deploying later models to most major astronomical observatories. He has published as first author and refereed for every major journal in astronomy and astrophysics. His current research interests include trying to limit attributes of our universe with distant gamma-ray bursts, and investigating the use of relativistic illumination fronts to orient astronomical nebulae.
In 1995, Dr. Nemiroff co-created the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) with main NASA website at http://apod.nasa.gov/. If you are a fan of APOD, please consider joining the Friends of APOD at http://friendsofapod.org/.
In 1999, he co-created the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) open repository. Housed at MTU and located online at http://ascl.net/, the ASCL now lists over 1000 codes and promotes greater research transparency. ASCL is indexed by ADS, making participating astrophysics codes easier to locate and cite.