Skywatcher Leo T: Recent Episodes
Leonard Thomas
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Psyche fires a laser from 10 million miles out on its way to check out an asteroid. Europa Clipper wants your name on board as NASA/JPL's craft goes out next year to Jupiter and its moon Europa!
Utah State Space Dynamics lab is at it again!
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Apollo program, and honoring Frank Borman the so called commander on Apollo 8, but no one was really in command. They all, meaning the amazing Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, almost spontaneous first trip for Earthlings ( they did happen to be men, sorry for those of you who are angry a woman was not on board.
This is the way history is. Present times, we'll have women going to the moon!! Women are humans just like men, no difference when you're an Astronaut.. Sally Ride, "Were all just doing our job, man or woman, we are astronauts and that's that." At any rate, we also join the Hopi and Zuni and the Chinese in witnessing a supernova in 1054!
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Enjoy your life while were here!
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We check out the sky and jet streams on Earth and Jupiter, as well as Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede and its amazing geology, as well as join the Voyagers 12 billion miles out in space, and look at sky lore from the Maori in New Zealand!
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skywatching and space exploration
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The Parker Solar Probe makes its way around the sun, closer than any other earth made object and goes way out to Venus, takes a tourist snap shot, gathers a gravity boost from the planet and hauls s back to 7.9 million kilometers above the radiant surface!**
Also the Psyche space ship gets ready to launch to 16 Psyche "heavy metal" asteroid out between the surface of Mars and Jupiter, and poet Tininja relates the magic of the universe all on this week's episode! Thanks for listenting!
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New Horizons space probe out beyond the solar system!
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Also the New Horizons space craft keeps going into interstellar space after exploring Pluto and its 5 moons...
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Osirus-Rex lands in the Utah Desert with a sample of far out asteriod, Bennu!
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Perseids peak, Mars visits Mercury, Pacific North west, Sun and the farthest star!
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Leo T visits the center of the galaxy, and Cygnus the Swan and Oumumu!
If you want to hear the broadcast with more music, listen to the radio broadcasts on UPR.org Thurs am at 9:55 am, repeating at 7:55 pm,
on krcl 90.9 fm and streaming of course, at 6:08 pm on Fridays with Lara Jones and again on Sundays in the Circle of Life at 6:40 am, 10:40 am on the Sunday Sagebrush Serenade, and 2:40 pm on the Bluegrass express!
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We'll visit an exoplanet 248 light years from home with metal clouds and Earth's astronomical clouds at dusk.
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What are we seeing at dusk in the sky?
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More exploration of deep space with the Cosmic Jelly fish in Aquarius, Gravitation Lensing, Juneteenth
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Delphinus the Dolphin leaps in and out of the Milky Way! Also a exoplanet orbiting a double sun way out! Also solar energy from space to the Earth,
and The Skywatcher Leo T Star Party at Stansbury Park Observatory Complex or SPOC on Friday, July 7th at dusk with the amazing astronomers from
Salt Lake Astronomical Society looking deep into space for the new nebula in the Pinwheel Galaxy!
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This episode goes in depth in the night sky near lots of good stuff near the big dipper and sky lore from the Cree Indians and the Greek. A brand new galaxy way out near the Big Dipper from Earth but actually way beyond this. The Juno Space probe checks out Io the most volcanic world in the solar system! Apollo astronauts celebrate the space program!
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This Observatory complex is near a bird estuary (lake, fed by a stream) where there were Pelicans, maybe a avocet and many other migrating birds on the beautiful water in late afternoon into the dusk with some interestingly shaped cloud formations and blue skies. This complex has 4 incredible deep space telescopes and the very helpful astronomers from the Salt Lake Astronomical Society man and maintain these with public star parties every other week through May and the summer. We'll be having a Skywatcher Leo T night out here soon!
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Beautiful Blue Star Formalhaut has dust rings and an asteroid belt! We also check out more sun eruptions sending more Auroras on our way and toying with short wave radio wave, Ice Water discovered on The Martian North Pole in a deep crater! And a Chinese myth of 10 suns in the sky! We also look around the beautiful May skies!
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We check out Delta Scorpi a cool little double star blinking in the claws of Scorpio on the southern horizon and visit The moons of Saturn and its 6th largest one known as Eceladus and we hear from amazing Poet Margaret Pettis!
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The Lyrids kick in with streaking meteors across the sky, and we go to Mars for an update of some great exploration by the rover and the helicopter and an upcoming trip teaming up the Japanese Space Agency with NASA to go to the Moons of Mars! Also the Crocodile in the sky!
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NASA selects new Artemis Crew and one member nails the honor and the history of human space flight.
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Explore with NASA and JPL's Parker Solar Probe which dips into the outer atmosphere of the Sun! Also the early Universe was full of giant stars, and a star legend of the Sun and Moon from the Inuit!
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venus and jupiter mars in the horn tips of Taurus.... and explore martian sunsets and the aurora....and more.
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Lots of fun in the sky as we check out the solar system and the galaxy, as well as cultural connections and learn that a small asteroid flashed into France!
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Skywatcher Leo T checks out the night sky and goes in depth on the sky lore of the Pleiades and a green and orange Asteroid strikes France as scientists discover 12 new moons of Jupiter!
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Look up into the twilight for the star trails and planets, and the little green comet way going by Mars soon! The last time it came was 50,000 years ago! This is when Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens were walking the Earth along with short faced bears and giant sloths...and Susan Seddon Boulet! Give it a listen! Thanks!
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Artemis splashdown on the anniversary of Apollo 17 landing on the moon!
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Mars occultation, Jupiter, Saturn, Capricorn and the magic in the sky and in our soul!
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Europa Clipper, Artemis update, Many Cultures One Sky with Margret Pettis and the Bison in the sky!
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Artemis 1 launches to the moon and beyond..
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Full Eclipse, Pink Aurora in Norway, Artemis launch coming up! Gemini program summary from the mid 60's! Keep looking up! Skywatcher Leo T
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Moons of Jupiter, Vega,Artemis, InSight lander and Mother Earth, Father sky!
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Leonid meteor shower, Oumuamua rocks! Curiosity Mars rover, UFO's and galaxies!
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We discuss astronaut James McDivitt's trips into space on Gemini 5 and Apollo 9..We check on Artemis, Cassini's 25th anniversary, Osirus Rex, the asteroid hunter and we go into the night sky with The Flock of Geese or Taurus the Bull!
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We'll check out the night sky, check on NASA's DART project to nudge an asteroid a bit out a possible path with Earth. Check on the Perseverance Rover as
as it snaps photos of the Jezero Crater where water existed on Mars! And we'll connect with the world via clouds, geology and space!
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Checking out some peaks on the moon that catch the light just right! And much more! Enjoy as you look up, look around and get lost in space!
Skywatcher Leo T on 3 radio networks as well!
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We go to the moon with NASA, the center of the galaxy in Sagittarius where stars are born, we look into Scorpio and see Saturn and Jupiter in the South and South East!
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NASA's Artemis 1 moon rocket update: on Aug. 29th 2022 at 6:50 a.m.
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skywatcher leo t looks at the Artemis mission launching soon to the moon, the Voyagers have been going for 45 years, see the Large Sagitarius Star Clouds and find out what the stars look like from Greenland!
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The Artemis 1 moon rocket gets ready to rock it to the moon! And we check out some old time sky lore from southern Europe and Africa!
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The sky in the morning and night sparkles! Artemis, NASA's Moon ship passes the test! Moon Rovers delight and lets go to the sky and the ocean with Cetus the Whale and the sea monsters of days of old!
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Explore the line up in the mornings of 5 planets! The Mars rover finds some crazy landscape! Go 14.5 billion miles out with Voyager 1 and jump into the Turquoise water of Cozumel! This is a short version of radio versions on 3 radio stations!
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Check out the new meteor shower! Take a shower! April showers bring May flowers! Also the sky this week! A red giant thinks about
going supernova! The Barasana tribe of the Amazon dances to the Milky Way!
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Spaceships, flying dinosaurs, stars, Arcturus, Asteroid, new meteor shower, Hubble sees way out, and Sky lore from the Andes!
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Lots of star stuff going on! The lunar eclipse, a brilliant, different kind of solar flare, Going out to Jupiter and checking out the view with Juno, Hear a Black hole do its thing! And to the Gilbert Islands...
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Skywatcher Leo T looks up to see a full Lunar Eclipse and enjoys Shawnee stories of the sky.along the North Platt River in Nebraska.
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skywatcher leo t lifts off and explores Venus, Saturn and Mars as well as Sun eruptions this week causing aurora action! And Apollo Moon Rocks!
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skywatcher Leo T checks out the Unicorn in the sky as well as Zubenelgenubi and the Hubble sees galaxies make a triangle and Ukraine Skies!
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Skywatcher Leo T takes a look at 4 planets at dawn and takes you out to Venus where the European Sun Probe views Comet Leonard, and NASA's Artemis 1 gets ready to lift off to the moon in April. Also we'll find out what its like to orbit the moon by
yourself!
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Skywatcher Leo T goes to the milky way and a visit to the Intuit in the arctic!
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Look up! Look Around and Get Lost in Space! Featuring "The Emu in the Sky" from Australia, as well as Comet Leonard streaking out of the solar system. James Webb Space Telescope rocketing out past the orbit of the moon and deploying mirrors as it goes! Antares and Mars hang in the early morning before dawn in the south east! Enjoy the episode!
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We check out the night sky and Cetus the Whale in the southern skies! And we talk about whales in the ocean, and in mythology along with a very tall visitor from outer space! Join us on SkyWatcher Leo T! Salut to us all!
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Skywatcher Leo T here.... look for the long, partial eclipse of the moon tonight around midnight. Should be at its fullest coverage by around 2 am, and take another hour or so to uncover. We also discuss DART which NASA is launching to try and nudge an asteroid a bit out of its orbit. They are hoping to use this as a possible deterrent to close call Earth Asteroids. We also talk about Gemini 12 mission in 1966, and a couple of short Many Cultures, One Sky segments, one by Susan Boulett and the other from Ann Limbergh. I'll post some groovy pictures when I get home. The program aired already on UPR this morning at 9:55 am with Tom Williams on Access Utah, and will repeat this evening at 7:55 pm. Thanks!
Also we will be on KRCL with Lara Jones and Al Dine on Friday evening in the first part of the 6 o'clock hour, and KZMU in Moab on Saturday night at 10 pm.
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Going out into the solar system and beyond...Mars Rover, Aurora, Sunspots, Sailing under the stars and nebulae.
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We take a look at the end of October skies and visit a Blackfoot sky myth.. and continue our journey out to Pluto and Beyond! Come along for the ride! Liftoff!
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We check out the night sky this week, and talk about world myths associated with the moon, and check on progress by the Perseverance Rover on Mars and go with New Horizons Space Probe to discover the wonders of Pluto's moon, Charon!
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Heading to Pluto and beyond into the Kuiper belt!
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Adventures in space exploration with Skywatcher Leo T
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Many Cultures One Sky as we Look Up, Look around and get lost in Space with Skywatcher Leo T
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We check the night sky at the beginning of Oct 2021, check on the Insight Rover on Mars, go to Pluto and Beyond to the Asteroid belt where astronomers are still searching for a new planet!
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A journey to a Super Nova, a cultural connection to our spirts and much more fun in space!
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Talking about the planet line ups and the new comet coming into view as well as Apollo 13 launched in April, 1970. Have fun looking up!
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Describes a planetary conjunction dawn of March 18, and tells a couple of good star tales!
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Lots of fun looking around!
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Ultima Thule still rules. What's new with Neptune? How's the sky looking when you look up? Enjoy a little star story from The Great Lakes as well. And Gemini is in the skies and your heart.
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A look at space ship New Horizons out beyond Pluto. A tour of the solar system, today in space history, and a fun, short star story from the Lumni of the North West coast! Skywatcher Leo T
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Interview with Ila Tua'one with the South Pacific star lore stories about navigating the ocean using the stars and the swells! And a little trip around the solar system and the galaxy with Skywatcher Leo T
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The very first episode of Leonard Thomas!
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