Boo!!!
Happy Halloween Everyone :-)
Spooky sunset image taken on board the cruise ship Pacific Aria on the 22nd October 2017.
Having fun with the Sun making it into a floating ghost :-))

Free to download, new posters from NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program feature horrifyingly inhospitable planets located outside our solar system. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/

Just in time for Halloween, NASA has released two new posters celebrating some truly terrifying exoplanets, or planets outside our solar system. Free to download, the entertaining posters recall vintage horror movie advertisements but have a decidedly astronomical focus.

​Dubbed Galaxy of Horrors, the fun but informative series resulted from a collaboration of scientists and artists and was produced by NASA's Exoplanet Exploration Program Office, located at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The same program is behind the popular Exoplanet Travel Bureau poster series, which imagines humans visiting some of the thousands of known worlds outside our solar system.

~ SAS (InOMN) 5th October 2019 ~
We had a beautiful clear sky all day and then those pesky clouds decided to come from nowhere and nearly spoilt our evening to look at the Moon!
 
A lot of members from SAS (Southern Astronomical Society) turned up to help on the night and a lot of excited people managed to get a peek of the Moon and Saturn through our large telescopes when some clear patches of night sky came through, but we had to be quick…
 
The Tamborine Lions Club did an outstanding job, as always, with the sausage sizzle and we were all given a yummy sausage sizzle treat too :-)
 
Please see below a slideshow of some images that I took on the evening that were included in the InOMN article reported by Bryan Pott and myself in our clubs newsletter and displayed by our editor Julie Lancaster for the October edition.

If you would like to read the whole ‘Event Horizon’ e-newsletter please go to:
https://sas.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Oct-EH-SAS.pdf
 
If you attended the SAS InOMN on the 5th October at Tamborine then please download you certificate (at the link below) and add your name to celebrate your participation in International Observe the Moon Night 2019 :-)
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/387/2019-international-observe-the-moon-night-certificate/

Main InOMN website at:
 https://moon.nasa.gov/observe-the-moon/annual-event/overview/

You must see this beautiful video of our amazing Moon in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing, what an incredible celestial object it is in the night sky…you only have to go outside look up and there it is! Enjoy :-)

Credit: NASA
Introduction by David A. Kring
 
“From the Earth to the Moon” is a brief, but vivid video and audio recording that
Provides an inspirational view of the lunar surface, which humans have not visited since 1972, despite being the best and most accessible place in the solar system to explore the fundamental principles of our origins;
Highlights vast portions of the lunar surface that have yet to be explored; and
Demonstrates how new images are revealing dramatic details of future landing sites suitable for both robotic and human missions. 
The scenes in the video are so dramatic that you may find yourself reaching out to pick up a rock and becoming restless to walk among the lunar peaks.  We encourage you to download the HD version of the video (see link below) to fully marvel at this tour of the lunar surface.
https://moon.nasa.gov/resources/330/from-the-earth-to-the-moon/

Additional details about the scenes in “From the Earth to the Moon”
 
The video provides views of (i) the lunar nearside, (ii) a flyover of the heavily cratered lunar highlands, (iii) Oceanus Procellarum, (iv) a zoomed-in perspective of Aristarchus crater, (v) a flight down Vallis Schröteri, (vi) an oblique perspective of Aristarchus crater, (vii) crater walls within Aristarchus, (viii) a pull away perspective of Aristarchus crater, (ix) a zoomed-in rotating view of Tycho crater, (x) flybys of five central peak features within Tycho crater, (xi) a pull away perspective of Tycho crater with distinct panels of images to illustrate a variety of spatial resolutions and albedo, (xii) a rotating view of Tycho crater from a position slightly above its rim, (xiii) a pull away perspective of Tycho crater, (xiv) rotating perspective of Orientale basin, (xv) rotating and pull away perspective from Orientale basin, (xvi) dawn rising over Tsiolkovsky crater, and (xvii) Earth rising over the lunar surface.
 
The Lunar and Planetary Institute’s (LPI’s) mission is to advance understanding of the solar system by providing exceptional science, service, and inspiration to the world.
 
LPI is operated by USRA under a cooperative agreement with the Science Mission Directorate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/exploration/moonVideo/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu
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