astronomy / home & specialist when the Moon is a little less bright. Why Constellation of the Month: Auriga not try to make a record of meteor Auriga, 'The Charioteer' is well placed for activity one night. Armed with a blank viewing this month. To find the piece of paper and a small red light torch, constellation, start by facing south after simply draw the apparent position and dark. It is sitting amongst the dusty direction of each shooting star you see. cloud lane of the Milky Way east from Make a note too, on your drawing, of the the 'W' of Cassiopeia. The very bright time you observed each meteor. star Capella (magnitude 0.08), also Alternatively, if you have a DSLR known as Alpha Aurigae or 'She Goat', is camera, a wide angle lens and tripod, set the lead star of the constellation and the these up in a dark area of your garden. sixth brightest in the night sky. It is very Focus on Jupiter or a bright star. Then easy to find sitting towards the northern aim the camera at an angle of around 60 part of the formation as your eye travels degrees close to the constellation of from west to east from the constellation Orion. Set your camera to Manual. Set of Cassiopeia. While this month's your ISO to constellation is hard to 1600 or above imagine as the Greek depending on charioteer They are open star how dark your 'Erichthonius', it is a clusters and are located sky is.. Take a simple form whose towards the southern end series of 20 main stars are easy to of the constellation, second images. see. Capella, The more arranged in a haphazard Menkalinan, Al Anz, RT images you take Auriga create the main line across Auriga the more shape. Elnath to the chance you lower left, which is have of capturing a meteor in one of really part of the constellation of Taurus, them. It is easier to do this with an marks the position of the 'left foot 'of the intervalometer which can be setup in charioteer. We now know that the light of advance to take lots of images while you the star Capella is actually a system of sit back and enjoy the view. Look back four stars bound in orbit around one through your images later and see if you another. Just below Capella are three have been lucky enough to catch a others which are known as 'The Kids' (of falling star! the goat!). These stars mark the 'right
elbow' of the charioteer. With a telescope it is possible to observe three beautiful Messier objects; M36, M37 and M38. They are open star clusters and are located towards the southern end of the constellation, arranged in a haphazard line across Auriga. This month in Astronomy and Space History 64 years ago on October the 4th 1957: The Soviet Union launched the world’s first artificial satellite 'Sputnik 1', marking the start of the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. The satellite weighed 183 pounds and orbited the earth in 98 minutes. As a result of this Congress passed the Space Act in 1958, leading to the creation of N.A.S.A. - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration. 14 years ago on October the 23rd 2007: N.A.S.A. launched the space shuttle Discovery on the STS-120 to the International Space Station. This is the first time in N.A.S.A. history that two women, Commander Peggy Whitson and Commander Pamela Melroy, would be commanding two spacecraft at the same time. The International Space Station continues its orbit around the Earth where astronauts from many nations cooperate to advance our understanding of science and humans in space.
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