Astronomy, Education, Space participation

Night sky highlights for March 2023

** What’s Up: March 2023 Skywatching Tips from NASA – NASA JPL

What are some skywatching highlights in March 2023?

Following their close approach in the sky on March 1, Venus and Jupiter go their separate ways. Venus climbs higher each evening, while Jupiter exists the morning sky at month’s end. And those with binoculars of a small telescope can seek out dwarf planet Ceres, which is at its brightest this month.

0:00 Intro
0:13 Moon & planet highlights
0:59 Dwarf planet Ceres at opposition
3:20 March Moon phases

Additional information about topics covered in this episode of What’s Up, along with still images from the video, and the video transcript, are available at https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/skywatch….

** Tonight’s Sky: March 2023 – Space Telescope Science Institute – Tonight’s Sky

In March, the stars of spring lie eastward: Look for the constellations Gemini and Cancer to spot interesting celestial features like star clusters M35 and the Beehive Cluster, and NGC 3923, an oblong elliptical galaxy with an interesting ripple pattern. Keep watching for space-based views of the galaxies.

** What to see in the night sky: March 2023 – BBC Sky at Night Magazine

Astronomers Pete Lawrence and Paul Abel reveal their pick of March’s night-sky highlights, including the 1st March Venus and Jupiter conjunction, dwarf planet Ceres at opposition, conjunctions with the Moon, and stars Castor and Pollux.

** Sky & Telescope’s Sky Tour Podcast – March 2023 – Sky & Telescope Youtube

Our monthly Sky Tour #astronomy #podcast provides an informative and entertaining 10-minute guided tour of the nighttime sky. Listen to the March episode and mark the #equinox, watch a spectacular pairing of #Jupiter and #Venus, spent some time with #Orion, and learn what #Sirius has to do with hot #summers.

Listen and subscribe to this podcast at https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/ and don’t forget to subscribe to S&T’s YouTube channel to get alerts about new videos, including this monthly podcast.

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** What’s in the Night Sky March 2023 – Ramadan Moon | Venus-Jupiter Conjunction – Alyn Wallace

00:00 Intro
00:47 Venus-Jupiter Conjunction
01:56 Orion and friends
02:53 Milky Way core
04:21 Ramadan Moon
05:08 Full Moon
05:19 Equinox
05:52 Zodiacal Light
07:32 WITNS Winners

** Night Sky Notebook March 2023 – Peter Detterline

** See also:

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The Space Show this week – Feb.27.2023

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Namrata Goswami on national security space, China and more.

2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Eric Berger will give John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston an update on Starship and other matters of importance, urgency, and interest.

3. Friday, Mar.3, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): Laura Montgomery returns with news and updates for commercial space plans and more for 2023.

4. Sunday, Mar.5, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Ajay Kothari to explain why space is so important and valuable to us all plus more

Some recent shows:

** Sunday, Feb.26.2023 – Joe Carroll came “this time to talk seriously about orbital debris issues“.

** Hotel Mars – Webnesday, Feb.22.2023 – Anatoly Zak of  RussianSpaceWeb.com gives John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston an update on

the Russian space station plans for 2027. In addition, we talked about U.S. commercial stations, the use of LEO and competition in LEO, Russia’s focus on a polar orbit and why for its station, the commercial station science park model, government subsidies and what that might do to support or hinder commercial station growth and commerce.

** Tuesday, Feb.21.2023 – Clayton Mowry described the

Evolution of commercial launch and satellite industry, transformational changes, volume to orbit, mass, fairing size makes a difference, commercial space stations, BLEO commercial applications in cislunar, space hotel economics and more.

** Sunday, Feb.19.2023 – Daniel Suarez

joined us to discuss in detail his book Critical Mass [Amazon commission link]. plus he often referred to his earlier book Delta-v [Amazon commission link]. We discussed the ideas, methodology and science fiction used in Critical Mass plus Daniel talked about why going into space was so important.

** Friday, Feb.17.2023 – Dr. Peter Hague

discussed several of his blog posts plus extending humanity to space and those protesting it. We talked SpaceX, Artemis, the Moon and much more.

** Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb.15.2023 –  Dr. Bruno Morgado talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the discovery of a dwarf planet with rings.

** Sunday, Feb.12.2023 – An Open Lines program covered multiple topics including “SpaceX, Starship, timeline for Musk to Mars, the spy balloons appearing over the U.S. and Canada plus a few other prime topics“.

** See also:
* The Space Show Archives
* The Space Show Newsletter
* The Space Show Shop

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Videos: “Space to Ground” & other space habitat reports – Feb.24.2023

Here is the latest episode in NASA’s Space to Ground weekly report on activities related to the International Space Station:

** NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Mission to the Space Station (Official Trailer) –  NASA

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 1:45 a.m. EST Monday, Feb. 27, 2023, for the launch of the agency’s Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station.

The four Crew-6 crewmates – Commander Stephen Bowen, Pilot Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Mission Specialist UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Mission Specialist Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev – will dock the Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, to the forward port on the space station’s Harmony module about 23 hours after liftoff.

Crew-6’s science mission includes cutting edge research aimed at keeping astronauts and spacecraft safe during deep space exploration, and studies that could lead to improved medical treatments for humans back on Earth. Experiments will include studies of how particular materials burn in microgravity, tissue chip research on heart, brain, and cartilage functions, and an investigation that will collect microbial samples from the outside of the space station. These are just some of the more than 200 science experiments and technology demonstrations that will take place during their mission.

You can watch the launch live on NASA TV, NASA.gov, the NASA app, and on social media (@NASA).

Learn more about the Crew-6 mission here: https://blogs.nasa.gov/crew-6/

** A Future in Orbit –  NASA

NASA’s investment in low-Earth orbit has launched a commercial economy in space. See how the private sector will expand the economic sphere with commercial cargo to space, commercial spaceflights, and commercial destinations in orbit, and how it will enable NASA to be one of many customers and advance human space exploration.

NASA Low-Earth Orbit Economy: https://www.nasa.gov/leo-economy/low-…

** Expedition 68 Astronaut Nicole Mann Talks with ESPN’s “Laughter Permitted” Podcast – Feb. 23, 2023 – VideoFromSpace

NASA Astronaut Nicole Mann talks with ESPN’s “Laughter Permitted” podcast live from the International Space Station’s Destiny Laboratory on Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023.

Join NASA as we go forward to the Moon and on to Mars — discover the latest on Earth, the Solar System and beyond with a weekly update in your inbox.

**  NLRA 2023-6: In-space Production Applications: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing – ISS National Lab – YouTube

This webinar – held on February 23, 2023 – provided information of interest to offerors for NLRA 2023-6: In-space Production Applications: Advanced Materials and Manufacturing. The webinar offered details regarding the scope of the NLRA as well as the timeline, processes, and procedures for submitting proposals.

** Haircuts in space are team effort aboard Chinese space station – VideoFromSpace

See Chinese astronauts give hair cuts to one another aboard the Tiangong space station. A barber’s tools in space are a combination of trimmers and a vacuum cleaner. Watch more How-tos in space: https://videos.space.com/p/EoYEzhMC

** ISS Live video stream – IBM/ISS HD Earth Viewing Experiment

Currently, live views from the ISS are streaming from an external camera mounted on the ISS module called Node 2. Node 2 is located on the forward part of the ISS. The camera is looking forward at an angle so that the International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA2) is visible. If the Node 2 camera is not available due to operational considerations for a longer period of time, a continuous loop of recorded HDEV imagery will be displayed. The loop will have “Previously Recorded” on the image to distinguish it from the live stream from the Node 2 camera. After HDEV stopped sending any data on July 18, 2019, it was declared, on August 22, 2019, to have reached its end of life. Thank You to all who shared in experiencing and using the HDEV views of Earth from the ISS to make HDEV so much more than a Technology Demonstration Payload!

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Space music roundup – Feb.22.2023

Here are some space music related items:

** Julia Westlin and David MeShow do a nice acapella cover of TALK’s Run Away To Mars (Listen to the TALK version in the previous Space Music posting):

**Space Song (Lyrics) – Beach House – Vibe Music – YouTube

** An anthology of lyrics to Filk songs has been created by Chris Weber and is available as an e-Book, in paperback, and in hardback at  Sentient Chili and Stranger Filk: Lyrics to 107 Songs of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Fandom eBook : Weber, Chris: Kindle Store/Amazon [commission link].

** Hole in Space — the mother of all video chats – CIS 471: A story about early satellite-enabled global music and art events:

New technology enables new art forms and artists Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz (K&S) began working with geostationary satellite links in 1977. Their first work was an experiment in remote dance and music. Video of dancers at The Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and an educational television center in California was transmitted to a central control studio where a composite was formed and sent back to monitors the dancers could see. 

See also:

* SETI Live: The Earthling Project – Songs for Outer Space – SETI Institute on YouTube

Join SETI Institute’s Artist-in-Residence, Felipe Pérez Santiago, as he discusses the ambitious Earthling Project. Launched in 2020, the project collects songs from people around the world to create musical compositions representing humanity. These compositions will be sent into space with the help of the Arch Mission Foundation, a nonprofit preserving human knowledge for future generations. Tune in to hear from Santiago and SETI AIR Director Bettina Forget, and listen to the world sing in harmony on the Earthling Project – Songs for Outer Space.

** Download the Earthling Project app and use it to

[r]ecord your voice singing about your culture and traditions, your geographic context, your personal history, everything that makes you human.

** The Earthling Project – Trailer – The Earthling Project on Youtube

It’s time to make history! One voice that will unite all cultures: Earthling Project.. This historic legacy awaits, let’s be the musical representation of humanity at this point in history.

** Space Oddity (David Bowie Cover) – Puddles Pity Party

** Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age – Tomita

Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” Movement 2: Venus, The Bringer of Peace, electronically performed by Isao Tomita, ©1976, RCA Records, New York, NY. Produced by Plasma Music, Inc.

** Patrolling Space Borders (Full CD) – Tangerine Dream

Also known as Tangerine Dream – Laserium North American Tour March 29th – April 1977 / Montreal – Place Des Arts – 09/04/1977 Original Canadian CHOM-FM Recording. Unofficial Release

** Science Of Sleeping, Spacecraft – Moons of Jupiter [Album] (2022) – WherePostRockDwells – YouTube

Purchase: https://spacecraft.bandcamp.com/album…
Stream: https://open.spotify.com/album/59KUVS…

Genre: Ambient, Cinematic
Artists: Science of Sleeping & Spacecraft
Album: Moons of Jupiter (December 9, 2022)
Label: Valley View Records (https://www.valleyviewrecords.com.au/)

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** Talking To The Moon (Lyrics) – Bruno Mars – Vibe Music – YouTube

** Interstellar (Royal Albert Hall Organ) – Hans Zimmer – Ashton Gleckman

Composed by Hans Zimmer
MIDI Programmed and Arranged by Ashton Gleckman

All organ sounds from the new Royal Albert Hall Organ library, recorded at the historic hall in London by James Everingham. Available now: https://www.royalalberthallorgan.com/

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The Space Show this week – Feb.20.2023

The guests and topics of discussion on The Space Show this week:

1. Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2023; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back Clayton Mowry, now with Voyager Space Systems.

2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Anatoly Zak of  RussianSpaceWeb.com gives John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston an update on Russian space news.

3. Friday, Feb.24, 2023; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST):  Dr. Heinrich Pas discusses his new book, The One: How An Ancient Idea Holds The Future Of Physics [Amazon commission link].

4. Sunday, Feb.26, 2023; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome back Joe Carroll to talk about orbital debris and more.

Some recent shows:

** Sunday, Feb.19.2023 – Daniel Suarez

joined us to discuss in detail his book Critical Mass [Amazon commission link]. plus he often referred to his earlier book Delta-v [Amazon commission link]. We discussed the ideas, methodology and science fiction used in Critical Mass plus Daniel talked about why going into space was so important.

** Friday, Feb.17.2023 – Dr. Peter Hague

discussed several of his blog posts plus extending humanity to space and those protesting it. We talked SpaceX, Artemis, the Moon and much more.

** Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb.15.2023 –  Dr. Bruno Morgado talked with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the discovery of a dwarf planet with rings.

** Sunday, Feb.12.2023 – An Open Lines program covered multiple topics including “SpaceX, Starship, timeline for Musk to Mars, the spy balloons appearing over the U.S. and Canada plus a few other prime topics“.

** Friday, Feb.10.2023 – Marshall Martin talked “about his climate ideas, the value of space in the climate discussion, unclear power and SSP“.

** Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Feb.8.2023 – Dr. Alan Hale spoke with John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingston about the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) now in our skies.

** Tuesday, Feb.7.2023 – Dr. Charles Lurio discussed “SpaceX, SSP, space settlement, commercial space investment and more“.

** Sunday, Feb.5.2023 – Mark Whittington talked “about multiple current space topics of interest including fusion, space nuclear propulsion and likely protests plus much more“.

** See also:
* The Space Show Archives
* The Space Show Newsletter
* The Space Show Shop

The Space Show is a project of the One Giant Leap Foundation.

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