February Meeting Date Change
Our February meeting date has been changed from Feb 6 to Feb 13 to accommodate our speaker’s schedule. The meeting will be held in room A102, Cochise College downtown campus on Friday February 13 at 7 p.m. The speaker is HAC member Michael Borland. Dr. Borland will discuss narrow-band solar imaging.
Why Do Astronomy Outreach?
Zane Landers presented a talk at the January 2023 HAC meeting about why we should endeavor to support and participate in astronomy outreach events. The talk has been recorded and is available on YouTube.
Evening Stargazing: Tonight’s Sky and What’s Up?
The NASA Museum Alliance has provided some star gazing videos that may be of interest to our members. These are short videos that cover what is in the night sky for the current month.
S&T Astronomy News
- Super-Bright Supernovae Are Magnetar Birth Cries
- The Solar Cycle Leaves Its Fingerprint on the Sun’s Interior
- Asteroid Didymos's Heliocentric Orbit Altered by Impact on its Moon
- Dwarf Galaxy Has "Too Many" Satellites
- Lunar Impact from Asteroid 2024 YR4 Ruled Out
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Rubin Observatory Sends 800,000 Alerts to Astronomers — Per Night
S&T Night Sky News
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, March 6 – 15
- Dawn Delight: Total Lunar Eclipse on March 3rd
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 27 – March 8
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 20 – March 1
- Watch the Young Moon Greet Mercury at Sunset
- Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann Bursts as "Ice Volcano" Erupts
- This Week's Sky at a Glance, February 13 – 22
Universe Today
- ESA's Mars orbiters watch solar superstorm hit the Red Planet
- This Isn't Just Another Rocky World Orbiting a Red Dwarf. This One's Special
- Only A Supercomputer Can Understand the Extremely Energetic Chaos of a Neutron Star Merger
- Why Are Interstellar Comets So Weird? Part 3: They SHOULD Be Weird
- The Early Universe was Hot, Dense, and Soupy
NASA Breaking News
- NASA to Cover Upcoming US Spacewalks 94, 95 Outside Space Station
- About Integrated Aviation Systems Program (IASP)
- Tiny NASA Spacecraft Delivers Exoplanet Mission’s First Images
- Webb Spots Details in Nearby Spiral Galaxy
- Help Galaxy Zoo: Tidal Tales Open Cosmic Storybook
- Efficient Large Displacement/Large Rotation Dynamic Simulations Using Nonlinear Dynamic Substructures
- Dust Outbreak Reaches Europe
Science Daily
- Chickpeas could become the first food grown on the Moon
- Astronomers think they just witnessed two planets colliding
- Strange chirping supernova confirms long-debated magnetar theory
- Scientists may have discovered a brand-new mineral on Mars
- Cosmic voids look empty but they may be tearing the universe apart
- NASA’s DART asteroid smash shows we could deflect a future threat
- Particles may not follow Einstein’s paths after all








