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02-09-2015, 04:59 AM
Updates in this Newsletter
Astronomy Calendar 2016 NOW AVAILABLE For Sale!
Amazing Planetary Cakes!
The Large Magellanic Cloud
Hurricane Jimena captured from the ISS
* Astronomy Calendar 2016 NOW AVAILABLE For Sale!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/2016-astronomy-back-300px.jpg
The IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 is now available for sale via the IceInSpace Shop (http://bit.ly/1JuEcTD)!
This is your calendar! With images submitted by IceInSpace members, and winning images chosen by the IceInSpace Community, the calendar showcases the brilliant talent we have on offer.
The calendar features 12 great images of our night sky, and provides a nightly guide to what’s visible in the sky. The calendar also includes a summary of the year indicating best time to view the planets, as well as maps showing planetary alignments in the pre-dawn and post-sunset sky. It also includes monthly star charts, moon phases, conjunctions, eclipses and other major events as well as school holidays for all Australian states.
SAVE: Order 2 or more calendars and receive 20% off!
The calendars make a fantastic gift – for yourself, your friends and family. Whether they’re hardcore amateur astronomers, have a casual interest in the night sky, or just like looking at pretty pictures, this calendar will be a great addition to any wall, kitchen cupboard or workplace cubicle.
Order online here: IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 (http://bit.ly/1JuEcTD).
* Amazing Planetary Cakes!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-planetary-cake.jpg
These cakes are very cool! Would be a great idea for a birthday cake for a young (or old) astronomer in the family :)
"Self-taught chef Rhiannon over at Cakecrumbs has been working on a fun series of planetary cakes that are designed to be scientifically accurate with different types of cake representing various layers within Earth and Jupiter. For her Jupiter Cake the center is the theoretical rock/ice core (mudcake), followed by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen (almond butter), and finally the liquid molecular hydrogen (colored vanilla). She layered her Earth Cake similarly and finished it off with some absurdly detailed continent design made with marshmallow fondant." - More images and links to a tutorial (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/planetary-cakes/).
* The Large Magellanic Cloud
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-lmc.jpg
The LMC galaxy up close.
It always gives me a big thrill when I tour it with a telescope, always in awe that I'm able to have such a great tour into another galaxy abound with clusters and nebulae easy enough to spot with my 10" scope through light pollution. -Suzy.
"The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible to southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan, now understood to be satellite galaxies of our much larger, spiral Milky Way galaxy. About 160,000 light-years distant in the constellation Dorado, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is seen here in a remarkably deep, colorful, image. Spanning about 15,000 light-years or so, it is the most massive of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies and is the home of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A. The prominent patch below center is 30 Doradus, also known as the magnificent Tarantula Nebula, is a giant star-forming region about 1,000 light-years across" - via APOD (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150827.html).
* Hurricane Jimena captured from the ISS
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-hurricane.jpg
Hurricane Jimena currently located about 1,2300 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii, captured by astronaut Kjell Lindgren from aboard the International Space Station and posted on twitter August 30th.
This is one of three Category 4 hurricanes which are lined up across the Pacific Ocean, along with hurricanes Kilo and Ignacio. According to NASA, "This is the first time there have been three active hurricanes in the Eastern or Central Pacific Ocean this season, and they're all major hurricanes."
Check out the infrared image (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/jimena-eastern-pacific) from NOAA's GOES-West satellite - an insane view of the eye which is about 20 nautical miles across.
Also take a look here at the incredible video footage of the wall of the eye (http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-hurricane-jimena-eastern-pacific)! Wow! It's at the end of news bulletin, so keep watching.
More info (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-sees-a-tropical-trio-of-category-4-pacific-ocean-hurricanes). Image credit: Kjell Lindgren @astro_kjell (https://twitter.com/astro_kjell) / NASA
-Suzy.
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!
Astronomy Calendar 2016 NOW AVAILABLE For Sale!
Amazing Planetary Cakes!
The Large Magellanic Cloud
Hurricane Jimena captured from the ISS
* Astronomy Calendar 2016 NOW AVAILABLE For Sale!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/2016-astronomy-back-300px.jpg
The IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 is now available for sale via the IceInSpace Shop (http://bit.ly/1JuEcTD)!
This is your calendar! With images submitted by IceInSpace members, and winning images chosen by the IceInSpace Community, the calendar showcases the brilliant talent we have on offer.
The calendar features 12 great images of our night sky, and provides a nightly guide to what’s visible in the sky. The calendar also includes a summary of the year indicating best time to view the planets, as well as maps showing planetary alignments in the pre-dawn and post-sunset sky. It also includes monthly star charts, moon phases, conjunctions, eclipses and other major events as well as school holidays for all Australian states.
SAVE: Order 2 or more calendars and receive 20% off!
The calendars make a fantastic gift – for yourself, your friends and family. Whether they’re hardcore amateur astronomers, have a casual interest in the night sky, or just like looking at pretty pictures, this calendar will be a great addition to any wall, kitchen cupboard or workplace cubicle.
Order online here: IceInSpace Astronomy Calendar 2016 (http://bit.ly/1JuEcTD).
* Amazing Planetary Cakes!
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-planetary-cake.jpg
These cakes are very cool! Would be a great idea for a birthday cake for a young (or old) astronomer in the family :)
"Self-taught chef Rhiannon over at Cakecrumbs has been working on a fun series of planetary cakes that are designed to be scientifically accurate with different types of cake representing various layers within Earth and Jupiter. For her Jupiter Cake the center is the theoretical rock/ice core (mudcake), followed by a layer of liquid metallic hydrogen (almond butter), and finally the liquid molecular hydrogen (colored vanilla). She layered her Earth Cake similarly and finished it off with some absurdly detailed continent design made with marshmallow fondant." - More images and links to a tutorial (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2013/08/planetary-cakes/).
* The Large Magellanic Cloud
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-lmc.jpg
The LMC galaxy up close.
It always gives me a big thrill when I tour it with a telescope, always in awe that I'm able to have such a great tour into another galaxy abound with clusters and nebulae easy enough to spot with my 10" scope through light pollution. -Suzy.
"The 16th century Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two fuzzy cloud-like objects easily visible to southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan, now understood to be satellite galaxies of our much larger, spiral Milky Way galaxy. About 160,000 light-years distant in the constellation Dorado, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is seen here in a remarkably deep, colorful, image. Spanning about 15,000 light-years or so, it is the most massive of the Milky Way's satellite galaxies and is the home of the closest supernova in modern times, SN 1987A. The prominent patch below center is 30 Doradus, also known as the magnificent Tarantula Nebula, is a giant star-forming region about 1,000 light-years across" - via APOD (http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap150827.html).
* Hurricane Jimena captured from the ISS
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/newsletter/images/20150901-hurricane.jpg
Hurricane Jimena currently located about 1,2300 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii, captured by astronaut Kjell Lindgren from aboard the International Space Station and posted on twitter August 30th.
This is one of three Category 4 hurricanes which are lined up across the Pacific Ocean, along with hurricanes Kilo and Ignacio. According to NASA, "This is the first time there have been three active hurricanes in the Eastern or Central Pacific Ocean this season, and they're all major hurricanes."
Check out the infrared image (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/jimena-eastern-pacific) from NOAA's GOES-West satellite - an insane view of the eye which is about 20 nautical miles across.
Also take a look here at the incredible video footage of the wall of the eye (http://www.weather.com/storms/hurricane/news/tropical-storm-hurricane-jimena-eastern-pacific)! Wow! It's at the end of news bulletin, so keep watching.
More info (http://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasa-sees-a-tropical-trio-of-category-4-pacific-ocean-hurricanes). Image credit: Kjell Lindgren @astro_kjell (https://twitter.com/astro_kjell) / NASA
-Suzy.
Thanks for reading! Keep looking up!