Skywatcher Leo T

Interview with Astronomer Justin Daniels about looking at the sky from different locations on Earth. Discussion about the International Space Station in its last years for no good reason. The view from up here and what its like to hear the planets radio sounds!

A beautiful episode ending with a story from grandma in Western Australia about the 7 sisters.

We delve into the magical physics of the solar system around us as we stand on our home planet, and marvel as JPL/NASA keeps Voyager 1 heading out, way out into deep, deep space since 1977! We study Iroquois nation star myths about 7 sisters!

April skies are a sheer delight of fun things to look at, plus a meteor shower and a comet sighting. We also celebrate Artemis II successful mission, talk a bit about the Juno mission to the moons of Jupiter and go under the sea to look at mythology of the Seahorse!

We follow the Artemis II moon shot, way out around the moon, and catch a solar eclipse from way out here and come home with the imaginative, creative, enlightened crew and mission control with loving hands! We check in on the 5th anniversary of the Perseverance Rover landing on Mars and enjoy an amazing night sky from our home planet!

NASA and the Artemis II crew fired their big engine on the Service Module and left Earth orbit to take the 3 day trajectory to and around the Moon!

NASA's beautiful Artemis II rocket blasted off to low Earth orbit yesterday at 6:24 pm EST and is orbiting the Earth until this evening when a thruster will lift them on the track to the moon!

Lots of beautiful orbs hanging here easy picking! Artemis II gets set to launch early April and Jessica Meirs makes her 4th space walk out of the airlocks of the International Space Station!

Check out the sky after dark and look to the west to see Jupiter and its moons, The Gemini Twins, Procyon, Capella magic!Artemis to launch April 1st if the weather and the planets align!Jessica Meirs makes her 4th space walk from the International Space Station!

Enjoy the night sky in the west at about 9:30 pm or so.. or so... or before or after! Jupiter and its moons under Castor and Pollux the Gemini twins. Artemis ready to launch April 1st if the weather is favorable! Women space walk out of the International Space Station air locks to star building a new solar array!

Lots of gems to look at as you go out at night. Just overhead about 9 pm, its Castor, Pollux , Jupiter and Capella above tilting Orion!

Watching a big hawk in a giant Spruce tree hanging with a singing robin and the full moon eclipse the next morning and the next without the eclipse is still amazing! Poems from Margaret Pettis and Tina Thomas!

Looking up in the sky we enjoy the gems at the end of February and get out the Binoculars and find Kemble's Cascade chain of stars in the dim constellation Camelopardalis the Girraffe! We also check in on the Parker Solar Probe out on its way to Venus right now to slingshot around and get more Delta V on its way back to the Sun's Corona!

The winter skies and I'm thankful to say that here in the Mountain West are thrilling and we'll tell you about that a bit and then hop a ride to Jupiter and its Moons with European Space Agency's JUICE probe. Artemis II is successful in its 2nd refueling and dress rehearsal and NASA and its astronauts hope for a launch window starting March 6th. And we go to southeastern Africa and visit the exciting star lore from Mozambique as they have very interesting impressions of the Southern Cross and the large and small Magellenic clouds!

Jupiter and Saturn above and below Orion with Neptune and Uranus in the mix and Venus and Mercury in the southwest! Curiosity and Perserverance Rovers continue to rove do geology and take amazing snap shots! We check in on the 3/4 moon and what you can see right about now amongst the seas and mounts! And a very exciting view from the Philippines of their constellations and star goddess Tala!

We take a tour of Jupiter's moons from my back porch and check in on the progress of NASA's Psyche deep space probe heading out towards Mars and beyond and keep track of the ongoing progress of the Artemis II moon shot!!

Very magical the universe and we with it!

We're checking in on NASA's preparation for the launch to the moon in just a few days people!!! Exciting news as the thoroughness and toughness of NASA shines through the Universe and a Dress Rehearsal Feb, 2nd which will fuel the rocket with 700,000 pounds of propellant and scientists will make sure our beautiful spaceship is ready to launch! Also, a fresh, view of the Helix Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals some stunning images and a bit more. Check out the Skywatcher Leo T FB page for photos, attributions and more! Thank you for listening!

Yes, right now, Jupiter is at its closest for the year and is showing its size in the East, hanging with Castor and Pollux! Many other wonders in the sky to check out! Artemis II Moon Rocket gets ready to launch soon, with people onboard and we go out 14 billion miles from home to join the Voyager spacecraft and listen to their gold plated record of Earth sounds, sent to anyone out here in the Cosmic void!!

Myself and Don Matteson from Cody, Wyoming go a bit in depth on the Skidi Pawnee tribe from the Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota plains. These people are sort of a k unknown quantity but lots of research has been done on these exciting people.

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Audio from a great African story of the drummer in the Moon, Artist Tina Thomas with an original poem, Blue Moon, the first recorded music from space from 1965 and the reading of Genesis from Apollo 8 from the first manned space ship to reach our neighbor in space on Christmas eve 1968!

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 THETHE MOON, WANING AWAKY FROM FULL, GETTING TOGETHER WITHJUPITER, 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 INESCALANTE OR BOULDER OR OTHER RURUAL DARK PLACES.

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 turn to take a peak.

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!