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We take a tour of Jupiter's moons from my back porch and check in on the progress of NASA's Psyche deep space probe heading out towards Mars and beyond and keep track of the ongoing progress of the Artemis II moon shot!!

Very magical the universe and we with it!

We're checking in on NASA's preparation for the launch to the moon in just a few days people!!! Exciting news as the thoroughness and toughness of NASA shines through the Universe and a Dress Rehearsal Feb, 2nd which will fuel the rocket with 700,000 pounds of propellant and scientists will make sure our beautiful spaceship is ready to launch! Also, a fresh, view of the Helix Nebula from the James Webb Space Telescope reveals some stunning images and a bit more. Check out the Skywatcher Leo T FB page for photos, attributions and more! Thank you for listening!

Yes, right now, Jupiter is at its closest for the year and is showing its size in the East, hanging with Castor and Pollux! Many other wonders in the sky to check out! Artemis II Moon Rocket gets ready to launch soon, with people onboard and we go out 14 billion miles from home to join the Voyager spacecraft and listen to their gold plated record of Earth sounds, sent to anyone out here in the Cosmic void!!

Myself and Don Matteson from Cody, Wyoming go a bit in depth on the Skidi Pawnee tribe from the Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota plains. These people are sort of a k unknown quantity but lots of research has been done on these exciting people.

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Audio from a great African story of the drummer in the Moon, Artist Tina Thomas with an original poem, Blue Moon, the first recorded music from space from 1965 and the reading of Genesis from Apollo 8 from the first manned space ship to reach our neighbor in space on Christmas eve 1968!

skywatcher leo t here where its one sky, many cultures! As we get a little jingle on and keep smiling at each other as we pass by, and AS JOHN DENVER SANG...LOOKING FOR SPACE! WE'VE GOT THE THE MOON, WANING AWAKY FROM FULL, GETTING TOGETHER WITH JUPITER, CASTOR AND POLLUX FOR TWO NIGHTS ON ITS TOUR, AND THIS WEEK THE GEMINID METEOR SHOWER COMES INTO FULL BLOOM THE 13TH AND 14TH, YOU CAN SEE THIS IN ESCALANTE OR BOULDER OR OTHER RURUAL DARK PLACES.

Join us to learn about the beauty of the frosty December skies, and much more about scientists spotting a super nova just as it goes off, a new crew launches for the International Space Station that we are grateful for still being in lower space orbit for all of us, not for private interests. And we visit the Hadza people in Africa that still live the old way gathering tubers and making equal decisions with each other!

It is also possible to see planet Uranus right now and its blue-green color with binoculars from the right dark spot with a good horizon! Saturn is up high in the southeast in the dusk, Orion, the seven sisters, Taurus and Uranus hiding in there near the seven sisters! Also the Artemis crew continues to get ready for a shot beyond the moon early next year! Curiosity Rover checks out a new area on Mars, and Poet Tininja recites a short clever poem about constellations written by Billy Collins!

The northen lights rage across the country from coronal mass ejections from the Sun! Buzz Aldrin and Jim Lovell flew in NASA's Gemini 12 on Nov. 11, 1966 when we were had the real space age! We go to Central Wyoming and pulll out some native american myths of Devils Gate near Independence Rock and Casper Wyoming!

We go in depth in the Autum skies and check out Taurus the Bull and tradional Hawaiian New Year celebrated when the 7 sisters come up! Also Look to the Southern horizon for The Crane and sky lore from Native America as the Crane is graceful, kind and shares! Plus Comet Lemon and Comet 31/Atlas roars through the solar system at 42 miles a second!

We go out to find Comet Lemon and found it out near the Big Bear or Big Dipper between the handle and Arcturus. Worth getting out and looking to the Northwest! Keep looking at the sky and find Andromeda galaxy! And the Milky Way and the Moon hugging Scorpio and Sagitarius! And Algol the demon Star for Halloween! And oh by the way, In 1975, the USSR landed Venera 9 on Venus and is the first probe to send back photos from another planet! It lasted a whole 53 minutes before being crushed by the Venus atmosphere!

This is a wild fall with blue skies a breeze and rain, then blue skies and snow in the mountains. Tour the night sky and view Zodiacal light in predawn, we learn about Brian May the wizard guitar player for Queen and that he is an astrophysicist and studies zodiacal light and we go skydiving with Dan!

We look at the sky in the fall day with all its wonder and then watch as the stars and planets come out as the moon joins later and we spot Draco the Dragon up by Vega winding its sparkly way across the high sky as the Draconids meteor shower graces us and we look at sky lore of Draco and check in on Comet 31 Atlas as it comes celestially close to Mars and the ESA and NASA get a little closer look at its coma as it heads out towards Jupiter where NASA's JUICE probe will have its turn to take a peak.