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Astronomy News for Bluewater Stargazers Vol 15 No.3 May/Jun 2021 Star Gazer News Astronomy News for Bluewater Stargazers Vol 15 No.3 May/Jun 2021 May/Jun 2021 SGN Contents p 1: A BAS “Thank You” and Flight 4 for Ingenuity p 2: Messages from New BAS President and Vice-President p 3: Ingenuity’s Second Flight with image from aloft p 4: Zooming to the Moon p 5: Part 2: Moon Zoom “Clair Obscur” p 6: RIP Michael Collins (Oct 1930 - Apr 2021) p 7: Quetican FoV: Universe in 21 Stars and 3 Imposters Thank you BAS members for stepping up! p 8: Quetican FoV: Book Review (cont’d) April was a crucial time for the organizational aspect of BAS and p 9: Constellation: Virgo thanks to our members, we are back on track with a full-staffed p 10: Virgo Cluster Detailed Map executive. John Lyons is our happy new president and Devin Glew is our new vice-president who also has duties as our happy p 11: Ojibwe Sky Lore: Sweat Lodge & Exhausted Bather webmeister. Lorraine, Cheryl, Zoe and the other John continue to p 12: Sky Sights: May and June be happy in their former positions as secretary, treasurer, p 13: Eclipses for May and June member-at-large and public outreach coordinator, respectively. All happy! No disintegrations forthcoming! p 14: Image of the Month: Markarian’s Chain p 15: Miscellaneous Page: Stuff for Sale Ingenuity takes four flights on Mars NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter takes off and lands in this video captured on April 25, 2021, by Mastcam-Z, an imager aboard NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover. Link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=kNx9hcrUpww&list=PLTiv_XWHnOZpzQKY C6nLf6M9AuBbng_O8&t=71s In this second flight, the helicopter flew out of the camera field of vision while completing a flight plan that took it 50 meters downrange of the landing spot. Keep watching, the helicopter will return to stick the landing. Top speed in this flight was about 2 meters per second, or about 7 km/hour. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also manages this technology demonstration project for NASA Headquarters. [Check the BAS website Blog page here: http://www.bluewaterastronomy.com/ blog-2021.html for more details about the Canadian contribution by Farah Alibay. The second flight with an image shot by Ingenuity while it was hovering is described in more detail on page 3. S G N BAS Club News May/Jun 2021 pg 2 Disclaimer: SGN reports on the activities of the Bluewater Astronomical BAS Executive 2021&2022 Society (formerly Bruce County Astronomical Society) but any opinions President: John Lynes presented herein are not necessarily endorsed by BAS. For up-to-date details V-President: Devin Glew relating to BAS events see the BAS website at www.bluewaterastronomy.com. Secretary: Lorraine Rodgers SGN is produced and edited by John Hlynialuk and I am solely responsible for Treasurer: Cheryl Dawson its content. I maintain a web presence at www.johns-astronomy.com. Your Member-at-Large: Zoë Kessler original articles, images, opinions, comments, observing reports, etc., are Membership: Marian Ratcliffe welcome at SGN. I reserve the right to edit for brevity or clarity. Errors or Public Outreach: John Hlynialuk omissions are entirely mine. I will not publish your emails or other materials without your specific permission. No part of this publication shall be reproduced in any form whatsoever without the editor’s consent. However, the Sky Events and Constellation pages are free to copy for non-commercial use. Feel free to forward this issue in its entirety to friends. You are welcome to email comments and/or submissions to my regular email. A Message From the President: …and the Vice-President: As the weather in Woodstock has been unfavourable I have been a BAS member since 2017. Eventually I the last several weeks, I have had plenty of time to was looking for a way to make a more tangible catch up on my reading and to reorganize my contribution to the BAS, and in 2020 I took on the role astronomy travel cart. I have come to the conclusion of webmaster, creating our new website which I now that I am an Astronomy Hoarder. It appears that I can’t try to fill with content I hope members will find part with anything. It is no wonder that I have a hard interesting. Most recently, at the suggestion of a time lifting the cart into my van! member, I implemented a picture of the week feature on the home page; we have had some incredible Therefore, if [when -ed] we get together in the future at submissions from members. I am also being more the observatory and you find yourself in need of active with the blog portion of site. It is a work in something, I am willing to bet I have it. Please feel free progress, and member contributions are always to borrow any thing I have. welcome. Over the last couple of months we have been treated My first impression of the BAS way back in 2017 was to live moon documentaries by John Hlynialuk. Rowan how welcoming and helpful everyone was. Since then, my grandson and I have enjoyed these presentations the quality of the membership is what has kept me as John’s natural banter delivers an evening packed participating in the club. I have developed several with information and laughter. I have also been very fantastic friendships which I value immensely, both for impressed with the quality of the live moon views. their astronomical amount of knowledge (haha) as well Rowan and I are going to give it a try next time we are as them being kind, genuine, considerate people. allowed to visit each other. It is my hope that we will continue with these I believe an engaged membership is incredibly presentations picking a different phase of Moon each important to the long term success of the BAS; this month. With John’s help and with the help of other goes from the Executive down. With that in mind, club members (please volunteer) who are able to do thank you to everyone who participated in our most live presentations we should be able to follow the recent election which resulted in me being elected VP. I terminator as it steadily slides across the moon … a take this role very seriously and will do my best to sort of armchair travel documentary that will take a guide our club in a direction that will attract new year or more. members, retain current ones, and hopefully be the positive experience for others that it has been for me. Devin and John have been developing step-by-step procedures for making use of the Fox Observatory I value and welcome all of your input. You can contact grounds after the stay-at-home order has ended. me anytime. [See note below -ed] These procedures should be in your hands by the end Devin Glew of May. Zoey has embarked on a long term project. Her goal is to develop plans for the BAS’s future development and recruitment of youth and women. A note about emails and phone numbers: Don’t be surprised if she taps you on the shoulder for Due to privacy regulations, this and future issues of some assistance and advice. SGN will no longer publish any email addresses or phone numbers or other private information of BAS Finally if you have anything that might be of interest to executive, columnists, or regular members. BAS the group please feel free to contact me. members will receive an email shortly from the President explaining the process of communication John Lynes with exec as the need arises. S G N Ingenuity Flies Again,Takes Images! May/Jun 2021 pg 3 This is the first color image of the Martian surface taken by an The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter was built by JPL, which also aerial vehicle while it was aloft. The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter manages this technology demonstration project for NASA captured it with its color camera during its second successful Headquarters. It is supported by NASA’s Science Mission flight test on April 22, 2021. At the time this image, Ingenuity was Directorate, Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate, and Space 17 feet (5.2 meters) above the surface and pitching (moving the Technology Mission Directorate. NASA’s Ames Research Center camera’s field of view upward) so the helicopter could begin its 7- and Langley Research Center provided significant flight foot (2-meter) translation to the west – away from the rover. The performance analysis and technical assistance during Ingenuity’s image, as well as the inset showing a closeup of a portion of the development. AeroVironment Inc., Qualcomm, Snapdragon, and tracks the Perseverance Mars rover and Mars surface features, SolAero also provided design assistance and major vehicle demonstrates the utility of scouting Martian terrain from an aerial components. The Mars Helicopter Delivery System was designed perspective. NASA’s video is here: https://youtu.be/kNx9hcrUpww and manufactured by Lockheed Space Systems, Denver. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The winding parallel discolourations in the surface reveal the tread of the six-wheeled rover. Perseverance itself is located top center, just out frame. “Wright Brothers Field” is in the vicinity of the During flight No. 4, the Perseverance Rover captured audio of the helicopter’s shadow, bottom center, with the actual point of takeoff winds and helicopter blades spinning as Ingenuity powered up and of the helicopter just below the image. A portion of the landing flew it path. Have a listen here: pads on two of the helicopter’s four landing legs can be seen in on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5niGi4k9vQ the left and right sides of the image, and a small portion of the horizon can be seen at the upper right corner.
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