The Space Show this week – Oct.3.2022

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

1. Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022; 7 pm PST (9 pm CST, 10 pm EST): We welcome back James Burk of The Mars Society to discuss their upcoming big event [25th Annual International Mars Society Convention] later this month in the Phoenix area.

2. Hotel Mars – Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2022; 1:00 pm PST (3:00 pm CST, 4:00 pm EST): Sunanda Sharma discusses Mars Rover Perseverance finding organics on Mars. Life?

3. Friday, Oct.7, 2022; 9:30-11 am PST (11:30 am-1 pm CST, 12:30-2 pm EST): We welcome back Dr. Joel Sercel, CEO of TransAstra.

4. Sunday, Oct.9, 2022; 12-1:30 pm PST (2-3:30 pm CST, 3-4:30 pm EST): We welcome Frank Slazer, CEO of the Coalition for Deep Space Exploration.

Some recent shows:

** Sunday, Oct.2.2022 – Holly Melear talked about her

STEAM educational outreach program, Steam-Space Education. Holly described the program, the student participants, the why of space and more. 

** Tuesday, Sept.27.2022Sarah Scoles, a science and space journalist, discussed her

science journalism, nuclear and also extraterrestrial work, articles, and books including her current work in progress, we talked about her target market for her articles, commercial space, Artemis, settlement, SSP and much more.

** Sunday, Sept.25.2022Leonard Davidwas back with us for a wide ranging discussion on multiple topics that are in the space news today“.

** Friday, Sept.23.2022Grant Blaisdellintroduced us to Copernic Space which is about decentralizing ownership of space assets and creating a Web3 technology base operation for buying and selling commercial space assets“.

More about the company in CopernicSpaceSeptDeck.pptx.pdf

** Hotel MarsWednesday, Sept.21.2022 Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com updated John Batchelor and Dr. David Livingstonon the Russian plans for a new space station, the Russian Orbital Station (ROS)“.

** Tuesday, Sept.20.2022Dereck Williams of Start Aerospace discussed “their new business model for space startups and entrepreneurs engaging or planning to engage in space related manufacturing“.

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

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Night sky highlights for October 2022

** What’s Up: October 2022 Skywatching Tips from NASA – NASA JPL

What are some skywatching highlights in October 2022?
Enjoy giant planets Jupiter and Saturn all night throughout the month. Then watch as Mars begins its retrograde motion, moving westward each night instead of eastward, for the next few months. Finally, check out the Orionid meteors overnight on Oct. 20.

0:00 Intro
0:11 Evenings with Jupiter & Saturn
0:37 Mars’ retrograde motion
2:07 Orionid meteor shower
3:04 October 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: October – Space Telescope Science InstituteTonight’s Sky

Crisp, clear October nights are full of celestial showpieces. Find Pegasus, the flying horse of Greek myth, to pinpoint dense globular star clusters and galaxies, and keep watching for space-based views of M15, NGC 7331, and the Andromeda Galaxy.

** What to see in the night sky: October 2022BBC Sky at Night Magazine

What’s in the night sky tonight? Get ready for Mars opposition, make the most of Uranus (and prepare for a lunar occultation at the end of the year), observe Neptune following its September opposition, see Jupiter’s Galilean moons, take in the Orionid meteor shower and admire the Summer Triangle asterism.

** Sky & Telescope’s Sky Tour Podcast – October 2022 – 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 October episode and give #Jupiter a really close look, learn what #Andromeda and #Pegasus have in common, circle around the pole #star #Polaris, and watch for #meteors shed by #Halley’s #Comet

See also

** What’s in the Night Sky October 2022 #WITNSAlyn Wallace

00:00 Intro
00:54 Squarespace
01:38 Northern Hemisphere Night Sky
03:22 Southern Hemisphere Night Sky
04:53 Close Approaches
05:13 Full Moon
05:23 Draconids
06:03 Southern Taurids
07:05 Orionids
07:46 Partial Eclipse
08:24 Lunar Occultation Uranus
08:59 #WITNS Winners

** Night Sky Notebook October 2022Peter Detterline

** See also:

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