Longmont Astronomical Society

The Longmont Astronomical Society will meet 7 to 9 pm in the Community Room (Rm #1480-82) at the Front Range Community College, 2190 Miller Drive, Longmont, CO on May 15, 2008. The speaker will be Dr. Fran Bagenal Professor Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences and Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado. Her presentation will be about the NASA's New Frontiers JUNO Mission to the magnetosphere of Jupiter. She has also been a co-investigator on the Galileo, Cassini, and New Horizons missions. See more about her at the NASA New Horizons webpage.

A few of the many objects that may be viewed up in the sky, this week May 4 to May 10, 2008:

International Space Station

Some nice bright passes of the ISS are visible in the early morning before sunrise this week.
On Monday morning May 5, the ISS is visible in southwest at 4:32 am and disappears in the northeast at 4:36 am MDT (magnitude -2.4)
On Tuesday morning May 6, the ISS is visible in the west at 4:53 and disappears in the northeast at 4:58 (magnitude -1.1)
On Wednesday morning May 7 the ISS is visible in the ENE at 3:44 and disappears in the NE at 3:46 (magnitude -1.2)
On Thursday morning May 8 the ISS is visible in the northwest at 4:05 and disappears in the northeast at 4:08 am MDT (magntiude -1.1)

The Sun

No active regions are currently visible on the disk as of today Sunday.