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From: TerryMoselaol.com Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 07:49:14 EST Subject: TV Progs, Lecture, Leonid Radiant Hi all, You may be interested in the following: TV PROGRAMMES 1. Monday, 8 Nov., 01.15am BBC1 TV: "The Sky at Night" on Death of stars and the formation of planetary nebulae. Repeated at 8.30pm on BBC Four TV 2. "Space Odyssey: Voyage to the Planets". "From the makers of Walking With Dinosaurs, this magical new drama-documentary series, narrated by David Suchet, takes viewers on the ultimate space flight and, by pressing the red button on the remote control, transports them to the heart of the European Space Agency's mission control room." Episode 1 will be on Thursday 11 November (repeat on Sunday 14 November) Episode 2 will be on Thursday 18 November (repeat on Sunday 21 November) There will be interactive tv features, a live broadcast from ESA mission control, & a supporting documentary on BBC Four about the real 'Robot Pioneers' - spacecraft which have already been to the planets such as Venera, Viking, Voyager & Galileo. BBCi will also have an interactive facility, accessed through the red button on your remote control. This enables you to access 'Mission Report' during the broadcasts, giving further information. DVD: The programme will be released on DVD, duration 120 mts, Cat No. BBCDVD1500, price ё15.99, on either 8 or 15 Nov (both dates are quoted in the Press Pack). The DVD will contain lots of other details, such as the Robot Pioneers documentary, Fact Files, Photo Gallery, and 'Behind The Scenes'. Books: An accompanying BBC book, "Voyage to the Planets", by Tim Haines & Christopher Riley, was published on 14 Oct @ ё19.99. Contact claire.scott
bbc.co.uk or Stephanie.fox
bbc.co.uk for more details. Penguin Books/DK have also released 3 childrens books to accompany the series: Mission Report (ISBN 1405308931) @ ё5.99 Sticker Book (ISBN 140530894X @ ё3.99 3D Space adventures (ISBN 1405308958) @ ё4.99, inc. 3D glasses. But before you get too carried away, a word of caution! I've read the main storyline, and while it's not quite like 'Armageddon', it does take a few artistic/scientific liberties! The 6-year mission includes 'personned' landings on Venus, Mars, a close fly-by of the Sun, landing on Io, an EVA trip down to the Rings of Saturn, landings on Pluto & a comet, and return to Earth. In that order. All in 6 years..... But I'm sure it will be spectacular & enjoyable nonetheless. In fact, how about a little informal competition to see who can spot any scientific boobs or inconsistencies? - Even if only to concentrate your critical faculties.... LECTURE, DCU: 3. On Mon. Nov. 8, Damian Peach, one of the world's leading amateur planetary astrophotographers will give a lecture entitled "PHOTOGRAPHING THE PLANETS" Damian Peach lives in the U.K. but once moved to the Canary Islands so he could get even better images. He uses 9 to 12-inch sized telescopes but produces images only beaten by space craft and space telescopes! His website is littered with stunning examples
It's at 8pm in the Henry Grattan Building, Dublin City University, and is being held in association with The British Council. Damian will speak about how you can getting stunning images of the planets with a simple digital camera and you own telescope. Special admission rates of 3 euro/ё2 for any member of any astronomy club in Ireland, plus 2 FREE tickets to every club's committee. Just state that you are a member of whatever club, at the door. LEONIDS BTW, the radiant (the point in the sky from which the meteors appear to radiate) for the 'new' Leonid shower is just inside the very top of the 'Sickle' of Leo, just S of the star Mu Leonis. It's actually very close to 22 Leonis, but as it is mag 5.3 you won't see it until later in the night when it has risen higher. In fact, you won't even see the Sickle of Leo at first, as it won't all rise until much later! So, how to find the radiant at first? - It will lie 27 degrees left of, and a bit below, Saturn, which itself will lie below Castor & Pollux in Gemini. 27 degrees is just slightly more than the length of 'The Plough. If you want to try photographing them, use as fast a film as you can, as most are expected to be faint. Use a standard or slightly wide-angle lens at full aperture, mount the camera on a tripod, point it about 50 degrees above the horizon, above the radiant, and give exposures of about 3 - 10 minutes, depending on your film speed, lens aperture, & sky brightness. Too long an exposure will fog the film, so you have to try to set off that risk against having to take loads of exposures! But if you have a very dark site you can probably take exposures of 10 minutes even with fast (say ISO 800) film & a fast lens (say F1.7 or F2). If you have a digital camera, you may just experiment beforehand to see how long you can expose before the sky background gets too bright. If you see a bright meteor (mag 1 or brighter) pass though the area of sky your camera is covering, note down the time to the nearest minute, stop the exposure, & then start another one. If you do record any PLEASE send them in, as they will be very useful in determining the exact radiant for this stream. Good Luck, & clear skies, Terry Moseley
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