Speaker 1: Welcome to the Doctor Sky experience heard exclusively here on
Speaker 1: Talk Radio seventy seven WABC, as we like to call it,
Speaker 1: and many agree, the crown jewel of radio, the iconic
Speaker 1: seventy seven Talk Radio WABC, beaming out of New York City,
Speaker 1: the nation, the world, and I'm sure the cosmos heard
Speaker 1: in some one hundred and seventy three countries and all
Speaker 1: fifty states. And I wonder what other signals are being
Speaker 1: picked up in the cosmos. We begin as we talk
Speaker 1: about July Skies twenty twenty four. Happy fourth of July
Speaker 1: to you and yours as we celebrate America's independence. We begin,
Speaker 1: of course, with an interesting fact. On the fifth of July,
Speaker 1: the Earth is at a position farthest from the Sun
Speaker 1: called aphelion in simple terms, at that point in time,
Speaker 1: the Earth and the Sun are separated by some ninety
Speaker 1: four million, five hundred thousand miles. And yet, just like me,
Speaker 1: you may be wondering, if we're farthest from the light
Speaker 1: source the Sun, why is it so hot. Well, the
Speaker 1: simplest answer is the inclination of the Earth as it
Speaker 1: tips more towards the Sun in the summer. Even though
Speaker 1: in the northern hemisphere, we obviously have the Sun at
Speaker 1: a far distance. More on that in future reports. We
Speaker 1: talk about Earth's nearest neighbor, the moon. If you're interested
Speaker 1: in viewing dark skies and hopefully have the ability to
Speaker 1: get away from city lights, and even city dwellers can participate.
Speaker 1: The moon goes to new We call it the dark
Speaker 1: of the Moon, and that's the start of another lunar
Speaker 1: lunation called number one, two, five six. The moon then
Speaker 1: moves on is a waxing crescent. You can look for
Speaker 1: it far into the northwestern part of the sky. It's
Speaker 1: a great time, in my opinion, to take a look
Speaker 1: at some of the more amazing shadows on craters and
Speaker 1: the differences between light and dark along that ever growing
Speaker 1: wine on the moon. Each night you see more and
Speaker 1: more of the moon visible. During the waxing phase, the
Speaker 1: sun rises over the moon. The moon then moves on
Speaker 1: to its first quarter on the thirteenth of July. After that,
Speaker 1: the moon moves through a position we call gibbous, where
Speaker 1: the moon looks egg shaped. Well. The moon continues on
Speaker 1: to its full phase in July as it reaches a
Speaker 1: position and is known officially as the full thunder or
Speaker 1: buck moon at six seventeen am Eastern daylight time on
Speaker 1: the twenty first. But simply stated, this is a great time,
Speaker 1: as many people are on vacations and holidays, to grab
Speaker 1: a pair of binoculars and explore with me, Doctor Sky
Speaker 1: on the Doctor Sky Experience here on talk Radio seventy
Speaker 1: seven WABC, as we open our minds to the things
Speaker 1: that we don't normally get to tacobout our sea because
Speaker 1: our lives are strictly run by the Sun. Then we
Speaker 1: find out the moon continues to wane after full it
Speaker 1: moves on to its closest point in the sky and
Speaker 1: Earth distance on the twenty fourth. We call that lunar peerage.
Speaker 1: And then finally, as the moon exits last quarter moon
Speaker 1: on the twenty eighth, some interesting things that you might
Speaker 1: want to take a look at. On the morning hours
Speaker 1: of the fifteenth, if you look into the northeast sky,
Speaker 1: the planet Mars and the planet Uranus will be separated,
Speaker 1: that is, by less than a degree. Mors is bright
Speaker 1: enough to be seen with the naked eye, but an
Speaker 1: object in a telescope that's within that field of view
Speaker 1: that may look greenish is the interesting planet. We call Uranus,
Speaker 1: and then the moon and the planet Saturn will be
Speaker 1: easily visible on the morning of the twenty fourth of July,
Speaker 1: once again into the northeast part of the sky, just
Speaker 1: before sunrise. And if you're interested in seeing something in
Speaker 1: the evening instead of the early morning, pay particular attention
Speaker 1: to the evening of July the seventeenth, when that continuing
Speaker 1: waxing gibbous moon moves very close to the brilliant star
Speaker 1: in the constellation Scorpio called Ontaris. And if you listen
Speaker 1: to our last update here on the Doctor Sky Experience,
Speaker 1: Ontaris is the principal star of the zodiac sign of Scorpius,
Speaker 1: some five hundred plus light years away. The star is
Speaker 1: incredibly large. If compared to the Sun and the Sun
Speaker 1: with the size of a small pa on a dinner plate,
Speaker 1: the size of the star Ontarios would be that about
Speaker 1: the size of a basketball. It's a red super giant.
Speaker 1: And don't forget the light you see left some five
Speaker 1: hundred plus years ago. You know, we get asked this
Speaker 1: question through your emails, and my email is simply just
Speaker 1: Dr Sky Show Doctor Skyshow at gmail dot com. Tell
Speaker 1: us Doctor Sky about some of the features and things
Speaker 1: that we can do as far as our own research
Speaker 1: in talking about these things you talk about with you
Speaker 1: on the Doctor Sky experience. To download your very own
Speaker 1: star chart, go to skymaps dot com. And one of
Speaker 1: our favorite websites, of course, is to go to the
Speaker 1: skylive dot com. Just the Skylive dot com. And to
Speaker 1: learn so much more about what's happening in the realm
Speaker 1: of space weather, make it faceweather dot com. You want
Speaker 1: to take a look at some interesting spacecraft satellites around
Speaker 1: the Earth and watch the ISS, the Chinese Tiangang Space
Speaker 1: Station and a host a plethora of other satellites, make
Speaker 1: it Heavens dash above dot com. And if you'd like
Speaker 1: to learn more about me, Doctor Sky, go to our
Speaker 1: classic website, a compilation of who Doctor Sky is for
Speaker 1: all these forty plus years that we've been doing this
Speaker 1: on radio and television. It's just drsky dot com. And
Speaker 1: to learn more about eclipses, go to Doctor Sky just
Speaker 1: drsky eclipse dot com. Many thanks to owner and operator
Speaker 1: John Ketzlatits for every Sunday morning a privilege I need
Speaker 1: to be with him and many other newsmakers around the
Speaker 1: world on the Cat's Roundtable every Sunday and then every
Speaker 1: other Wednesday morning at one am on Frank Morano's great show,
Speaker 1: The Other Side of Midnight, where we change the name
Speaker 1: with his permission to cosmic converse stations with me, Doctor Sky,
Speaker 1: what do we say, Clear skies, health and happiness, and
Speaker 1: simply always remember to keep your eyes to the skies.
Speaker 1: As we move into the summer of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: as we begin these interesting days called the dog days
Speaker 1: of summer with hopeful clear skies, you'll get to see
Speaker 1: some of the wonders of the universe that we talk about.
Speaker 1: Many thanks to all of you listening to this radio station,
Speaker 1: the iconic talk Radio seventy seven WABC, beaming out of
Speaker 1: New York City, the nation, the world, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: the cosmos probably heard in one hundred and seventy three
Speaker 1: countries in all fifty states. Clear Skies,