WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.000 --> 00:00:08.839 This is the other side of Midnight with Frank Morano. 2 00:00:08.919 --> 00:00:10.400 They're running a strange program. 3 00:00:10.480 --> 00:00:13.160 You all, now here's Frank Morano. 4 00:00:30.559 --> 00:00:34.560 I am a great lover of science fiction films, and 5 00:00:34.640 --> 00:00:38.520 I have talked before about my fondness for the film 6 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:42.359 Forbidden Planet. I don't know if you've ever seen Forbidden Planet. 7 00:00:42.399 --> 00:00:45.640 It's from the fifties. Great picture still holds up today. 8 00:00:46.479 --> 00:00:49.920 It's great drama, it's great science fiction. The special effects 9 00:00:49.960 --> 00:00:54.039 for its time were quite good, and a great performance 10 00:00:54.119 --> 00:00:57.640 by Leslie Nielsen in a serious role, and great performance 11 00:00:57.640 --> 00:01:00.920 by Walter Pigeon as well. But I haven't seen the 12 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:03.880 film in years. But there's one part of the film 13 00:01:04.480 --> 00:01:07.640 where all the guys that are the crew of this 14 00:01:07.799 --> 00:01:11.719 spaceship go down to this planet to go to this 15 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:15.159 machine and get your IQ tested. And the guy that's 16 00:01:15.200 --> 00:01:18.480 a doctor or something he gets his IQ tested and 17 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:21.280 it's just through the roof, through the roof, and then 18 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:24.799 the captain of the starship gets his IQ tested and 19 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.079 it's okay. It's significantly less than the doctor. And the 20 00:01:29.120 --> 00:01:33.200 guy that's administering these IQ tests says something like, ah, 21 00:01:33.239 --> 00:01:34.079 well that's okay. 22 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:37.079 He's the captain. He just needs a nice, loud, booming voice. 23 00:01:37.120 --> 00:01:40.719 He doesn't need to be that smart. 24 00:01:39.480 --> 00:01:45.000 The thing that I felt that I've always made up 25 00:01:45.040 --> 00:01:49.280 for with any lack of knowledge or insight or humor 26 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:51.959 or on my part is I think I have a 27 00:01:52.079 --> 00:01:55.599 very melodious voice. I think I have a voice that 28 00:01:55.760 --> 00:01:58.760 can be soothing. I think I have a voice under 29 00:01:58.840 --> 00:02:02.840 normal circumst dances which you want to fall asleep. 30 00:02:02.480 --> 00:02:03.480 To or wake up to. 31 00:02:03.840 --> 00:02:08.360 Right however, I hear the way that I sound with 32 00:02:08.479 --> 00:02:12.759 a cold, I hear the nasality in my voice, and 33 00:02:12.919 --> 00:02:16.919 I'm driving myself crazy listening to myself. Now, if that's 34 00:02:16.960 --> 00:02:20.879 how I'm making myself feel, I can only imagine what 35 00:02:20.960 --> 00:02:23.719 I'm doing to you. What does that mean? It means 36 00:02:23.719 --> 00:02:28.039 I have a special treat for you. I have searched 37 00:02:28.319 --> 00:02:33.759 far and wide for the man with the best voice 38 00:02:34.199 --> 00:02:37.599 in all of radio, and he also happens to be 39 00:02:37.639 --> 00:02:41.879 pretty intelligent. And that is Steve Kates, aka Doctor Sky, 40 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.400 who is going to stay with us for the hour. 41 00:02:44.879 --> 00:02:48.039 He is a veteran radio and TV broadcaster and an 42 00:02:48.199 --> 00:02:52.759 edutainer with expertise in astronomy space whether anything that happens 43 00:02:52.759 --> 00:02:57.400 in the sky, and he's also a podcaster for WABC 44 00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:00.840 radio dot com and a brand new official contribution to 45 00:03:01.319 --> 00:03:04.639 WABC in New York. Steve, it is great to talk 46 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:07.280 with you, and it's even better to call you a colleague. 47 00:03:07.319 --> 00:03:10.240 Finally, well, Frank, good morning, and thank you so much 48 00:03:10.240 --> 00:03:12.599 for the kind comments, and to all the listeners out there, 49 00:03:12.639 --> 00:03:15.800 we say good morning. Just a privilege and honor, you know, 50 00:03:15.879 --> 00:03:18.360 obviously with the radio station that I grew up as 51 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:20.360 a person living in New York and New Jersey has 52 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:23.039 so many others, and just a little tribute if you 53 00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:24.960 don't mind. A good friend of mine, his name is 54 00:03:25.000 --> 00:03:28.879 Tony Recasino. He just sadly passed away. He's my age 55 00:03:28.879 --> 00:03:32.199 sixty six, and both of us lived in Hackensack, New Jersey. 56 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:34.479 And what did we do. Frank would run down to 57 00:03:34.520 --> 00:03:37.800 the WABC antenna when we could get down that way 58 00:03:37.840 --> 00:03:40.560 in Lodi, New Jersey, and we'd actually fish in the 59 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:43.680 little swamps down there. So, Tony, if you're listening to 60 00:03:43.759 --> 00:03:46.199 us in the afterlife, I just wanted to pass that 61 00:03:46.280 --> 00:03:48.199 on Frank, because it's an honor to be part of 62 00:03:48.199 --> 00:03:50.919 this radio station. Who would figure that one day I'd 63 00:03:51.000 --> 00:03:53.479 be staring there looking at the antenna and we're doing 64 00:03:53.520 --> 00:03:55.080 that that's wild. So it's a real. 65 00:03:54.919 --> 00:03:57.159 Honor that is wild. Indeed. 66 00:03:57.479 --> 00:03:59.439 All right, there's a lot that I want to go 67 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:02.520 over with you, namely the fact that I think, for 68 00:04:02.560 --> 00:04:06.280 the first time in anyone's memory, there is going to 69 00:04:06.319 --> 00:04:11.879 be a big eclipse, a total lunar eclipse on Tuesday, 70 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.120 which happens to be election day. Now there's got to 71 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:18.839 be some sort of cosmic meaning about some upset election 72 00:04:19.000 --> 00:04:20.079 wins in this year. 73 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:23.560 What can we look forward to with this eclipse on Tuesday. 74 00:04:24.079 --> 00:04:26.279 Well, it's interesting we'll start with the East coast, Ryan, 75 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:28.720 because it's total lunar eclipse. This follows one that we 76 00:04:28.839 --> 00:04:31.600 just had back in May that was pretty much favored 77 00:04:31.639 --> 00:04:33.439 for the western part of the United States, and this 78 00:04:33.480 --> 00:04:36.920 one technically also is so for everybody listening in the 79 00:04:36.920 --> 00:04:38.920 Eastern time zone. I don't forget. We make the big 80 00:04:38.959 --> 00:04:41.920 time change for good portion of the United States, and 81 00:04:41.959 --> 00:04:45.120 then times change too as you're looking at this eclipse. 82 00:04:45.160 --> 00:04:48.319 So it's just brief synopsis here. It's a very early 83 00:04:48.399 --> 00:04:50.959 morning eclipse. There's a lot of technicalities on this, but 84 00:04:51.000 --> 00:04:53.279 I would just suggest to everybody on the East coast 85 00:04:53.879 --> 00:04:55.759 that if you're looking to see this eclipse, it's going 86 00:04:55.839 --> 00:04:58.439 to happen very early in the morning, just before sunrise, 87 00:04:59.120 --> 00:05:01.759 so the eclipse will actually begin the partial phases in 88 00:05:01.839 --> 00:05:05.079 Eastern time, Eastern Standard time four h nine am. That's 89 00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:07.800 when you'd have to be placed in a clear location, 90 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:10.839 you know, not near buildings, the clearest view of the horizon. 91 00:05:11.639 --> 00:05:14.399 Totality is going to begin at five sixteen am Eastern 92 00:05:14.399 --> 00:05:16.959 Standard time. It just convert time zones across the country. 93 00:05:17.920 --> 00:05:20.759 The midi clipse of this particular event, which is the 94 00:05:20.839 --> 00:05:24.519 totality phase five point fifty nine am Eastern Standard time, 95 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:28.040 and this total eclips will end at six forty one 96 00:05:28.040 --> 00:05:31.839 in the morning Eastern Standard time. Again. But what's interesting, Frank, 97 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:35.040 there's eighty five minutes of totality, and what does that mean. 98 00:05:35.079 --> 00:05:37.560 It means that the moon, which will be just a 99 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:40.600 few days before apage, meaning it's almost at its farthest 100 00:05:40.600 --> 00:05:43.639 point away, so it's a smaller disc moon that you'll 101 00:05:43.639 --> 00:05:46.839 see with the eye, and it gets more time inside 102 00:05:46.839 --> 00:05:49.839 that central shadow, so it transits through the Earth's deep 103 00:05:49.879 --> 00:05:52.759 shadow called the Umber, and it lasts for some eighty 104 00:05:52.800 --> 00:05:55.560 five minutes. But if you look at the entire thing 105 00:05:55.639 --> 00:06:00.199 from geopolitics or whatever, there has never been a total 106 00:06:00.279 --> 00:06:03.480 lunary clips on election day in US history. That's an 107 00:06:03.480 --> 00:06:06.600 interesting fact. So isn't that kind of auspicious? Here we 108 00:06:06.680 --> 00:06:08.560 go for people that of course are going to go vote, 109 00:06:08.560 --> 00:06:10.800 and we encourage that in person if they haven't done 110 00:06:10.800 --> 00:06:13.639 their part mailing things, we're going to be having this 111 00:06:13.680 --> 00:06:17.160 eclipse just before sunrise it takes place, and then that 112 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.879 full day of the election. So the next time in history, 113 00:06:20.399 --> 00:06:23.480 according to those that do these deep predictions, when would 114 00:06:23.480 --> 00:06:26.439 be the next total lunary eclipse if the country exists 115 00:06:26.480 --> 00:06:29.319 or if we're out doing elections? I hope, So mark 116 00:06:29.399 --> 00:06:32.800 the date of November the eighth, twenty three ninety four. 117 00:06:33.279 --> 00:06:36.759 Three ninety four, so about three hundred and seventy two years. 118 00:06:37.079 --> 00:06:39.720 You're exactly right. And there's a magical number there that 119 00:06:39.800 --> 00:06:43.399 you just mentioned, because these these eclipses repeat in a 120 00:06:43.439 --> 00:06:46.600 cycle of about three hundred and seventy two years for 121 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:49.800 it to happen on the same date. But this eclipse 122 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:51.879 is part of something called a Sero cycle, and I 123 00:06:51.920 --> 00:06:53.639 don't want to get too deep into it because of 124 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.560 other questions that I'm sure people have. It's called the 125 00:06:56.600 --> 00:06:59.800 Sero cycle number one thirty six and the last time 126 00:06:59.800 --> 00:07:02.319 we had an eclipse of this series. So ceiroses have 127 00:07:02.399 --> 00:07:05.199 a series of eclipses, and there's so many of them. 128 00:07:05.519 --> 00:07:07.759 The last one occurred back on October the twenty eighth 129 00:07:07.800 --> 00:07:10.480 of two thousand and four, and the next one of 130 00:07:10.519 --> 00:07:13.800 that seos cycle, not to confuse everyone, would occur on 131 00:07:13.839 --> 00:07:17.120 November the eighteenth of twenty forty. So this is a 132 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:20.199 fascinating thing that's going to happen. And now, if you 133 00:07:20.240 --> 00:07:22.399 scratch your head and say, well, wait a minute, doctor sky, 134 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:25.399 what's going to be the next total lunary eclipse that 135 00:07:25.439 --> 00:07:28.839 we can see in relativistics short time, in the short term, 136 00:07:29.240 --> 00:07:32.879 mark the date of March fourteenth, twenty twenty five. So 137 00:07:33.000 --> 00:07:34.720 that's the next big one. So if you miss this 138 00:07:34.759 --> 00:07:37.120 one weather conditions, you know a lot of times the 139 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:39.959 weather doesn't cooperate, but if it does, it's going to 140 00:07:40.000 --> 00:07:42.160 be a big event out here in Arizona. Of course, 141 00:07:42.160 --> 00:07:44.839 we'll be doing things for local television and all the 142 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:46.720 other things, plus a group of people that want to 143 00:07:46.759 --> 00:07:50.279 watch it, so get that coffee going and dress warmly 144 00:07:50.560 --> 00:07:52.680 in accordance with the weather. So it's pretty exciting. 145 00:07:52.759 --> 00:07:55.759 Absolutely, We're going to take questions throughout the hour for 146 00:07:55.839 --> 00:07:58.920 Steve Kate's aka Doctor Sky eight hundred and eighty four 147 00:07:58.959 --> 00:08:02.439 eight nine two two. That's eight hundred and eight four 148 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:05.199 eight nine two two two. Steve, this is the first 149 00:08:05.199 --> 00:08:07.680 time I believe that. Yeah, no, I believe is the 150 00:08:07.680 --> 00:08:11.879 first time we've spoken that you are being heard in Alaska. 151 00:08:12.160 --> 00:08:17.759 We are are now on a great station KYR in Anchorage, Alaska. 152 00:08:17.959 --> 00:08:21.879 Anything you could tell folks about their Alaska sky viewing, 153 00:08:21.959 --> 00:08:25.279 because I have a hunch that there's some particularly interesting 154 00:08:25.319 --> 00:08:27.079 sites to see over there. 155 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:29.600 Well, I envy them. I mean, welcome to the family, 156 00:08:29.600 --> 00:08:31.519 as you would say, Frank, And of course we all 157 00:08:31.560 --> 00:08:35.120 mean that the more stations that this particular radio show 158 00:08:35.240 --> 00:08:37.639 is heard, obviously it's great to get this message out 159 00:08:37.960 --> 00:08:39.840 on the other side of midnight, but to go right 160 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:42.360 to it, those folks, I envy them in a way. 161 00:08:42.399 --> 00:08:45.320 Obviously the temperature we all know would be colder, but 162 00:08:45.440 --> 00:08:48.039 for the darkness that comes the shortening shortness of the 163 00:08:48.120 --> 00:08:50.360 days that are happening right now. This eclipse should be 164 00:08:50.399 --> 00:08:53.000 visible up to the you know, in the great state 165 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.879 of Alaska. But it's interesting up there. Frank. One of 166 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:57.559 the things that I think maybe we should do is 167 00:08:57.559 --> 00:08:59.919 team up with that radio station. And I'm serious about 168 00:09:00.600 --> 00:09:02.759 the best thing they have that we don't have is 169 00:09:02.840 --> 00:09:05.679 regular occurrences, as they're probably going, Yep, we get it 170 00:09:05.720 --> 00:09:09.039 pretty much all the time, the beautiful Aurora borealis. Can 171 00:09:09.080 --> 00:09:11.840 you imagine seeing that on a regular basis with all 172 00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.440 the sun activities, So Aurora activity is strong, the moon 173 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:18.159 continues to get brighter. Obviously it'll be a little lower 174 00:09:18.200 --> 00:09:21.600 in the sky because of the higher latitude. But wow, 175 00:09:21.919 --> 00:09:23.919 that's a great place. And I've not been there. Have 176 00:09:24.000 --> 00:09:24.480 you ever met? 177 00:09:24.840 --> 00:09:28.639 No, my parents were there on an Alaska cruise or 178 00:09:28.679 --> 00:09:30.879 two and they've had nothing but great things to say. 179 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:32.399 So it is. It is on my list. 180 00:09:32.440 --> 00:09:33.480 It is on my list. 181 00:09:33.720 --> 00:09:36.200 Would be great eight eight eight nine two too too. 182 00:09:36.279 --> 00:09:38.320 Let me say a little Bill in Huntington, Hello, Bill? 183 00:09:39.240 --> 00:09:40.320 Oh, how you going? 184 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:41.759 Runny? Bill? 185 00:09:42.600 --> 00:09:43.080 All right? 186 00:09:44.240 --> 00:09:44.440 Now? 187 00:09:44.600 --> 00:09:48.399 When I was a child, I looked at pictures of 188 00:09:49.120 --> 00:09:53.960 nebula and galaxies and Life magazine, and the arian nebula 189 00:09:54.080 --> 00:09:56.240 was red, white and blue, and. 190 00:09:56.120 --> 00:10:01.919 The Ring Nebula was yellow and red, and the Andromeda 191 00:10:02.039 --> 00:10:06.159 galaxy was golden in the core, and then the spiral 192 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:07.639 arms it was purple. 193 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:14.120 And then my parents bought me a telescope, and the 194 00:10:14.440 --> 00:10:18.879 Orion nebula was white, and the Ring nebula was this 195 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:26.639 faint smoke ring, and Andromeda was a fuzzy white oval. 196 00:10:27.720 --> 00:10:30.960 And I figured out that all of this was a 197 00:10:31.000 --> 00:10:37.080 figment of the color film they used. Yes, okay, and 198 00:10:37.159 --> 00:10:43.120 now we have these automated space telescopes. 199 00:10:43.000 --> 00:10:47.240 Are where we only have an hour here, right, I 200 00:10:47.320 --> 00:10:49.559 love it. 201 00:10:49.120 --> 00:10:56.120 Film, Okay, all right, the colors are totally false and 202 00:10:57.159 --> 00:11:04.120 they make the near infrared image brown and they superimpose them. 203 00:11:04.159 --> 00:11:11.039 All Okay, Now. 204 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:11.559 I'm sorry, i gotta take pity on the audience here. 205 00:11:11.840 --> 00:11:14.519 I'm gonna I'm gonna step in if you want to comment. 206 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:18.120 Steve on Ed, I think Bill's gone through something. And 207 00:11:18.159 --> 00:11:20.120 here's the simple response i'd give from what I. 208 00:11:20.039 --> 00:11:22.159 Think diminishes your credibility right there. 209 00:11:22.960 --> 00:11:25.279 It was very interesting what he was talking about. The 210 00:11:25.320 --> 00:11:27.519 images that are coming through from these telescopes. They have 211 00:11:27.559 --> 00:11:31.440 these grandiose color images. They're long term exposures with different 212 00:11:31.480 --> 00:11:34.440 type of cameras, even a regular camera out in space, 213 00:11:34.480 --> 00:11:36.519 if you would expose it like we know from simple 214 00:11:36.559 --> 00:11:39.399 film days, the more color and resolution you're going to get. 215 00:11:39.399 --> 00:11:41.440 And he's right, when you look in a simple telescope. 216 00:11:41.879 --> 00:11:43.480 I've had people come up to me and say, hey, 217 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:45.840 you know, that's nothing like I saw in Life magazine, 218 00:11:45.879 --> 00:11:48.480 like Bill was talking about. The reason is your eye 219 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:52.879 doesn't have the perceptibility because the eye is seeing something 220 00:11:52.919 --> 00:11:55.799 in a different way and it doesn't have a time exposure. 221 00:11:55.840 --> 00:11:57.879 It's looking at it in real life. So the images 222 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.720 you see in the telescope, as good as they are, 223 00:12:00.120 --> 00:12:02.720 are not going to have all these grandiose colors. It's 224 00:12:02.720 --> 00:12:04.960 going to be done by those big, long exposures from 225 00:12:05.000 --> 00:12:07.720 space telescopes or cameras. Even here on the Earth can 226 00:12:07.799 --> 00:12:09.440 get colored, all right. 227 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:12.399 Well, a lot of folks have been talking about Elon 228 00:12:12.519 --> 00:12:16.120 Musk this week because of his purchase of Twitter. Some 229 00:12:16.200 --> 00:12:19.320 folks may forget that before he was running Twitter, he 230 00:12:19.440 --> 00:12:22.559 was involved in a little company called SpaceX and they 231 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:27.159 had a big week themselves. SpaceX Falcon Heavy, the most 232 00:12:27.200 --> 00:12:31.960 powerful operational rocket in the world, finally launched out of 233 00:12:32.000 --> 00:12:33.399 Florida on Tuesday morning. 234 00:12:33.720 --> 00:12:36.200 Why is this such a big deal, Well, it's. 235 00:12:36.120 --> 00:12:38.440 Very interesting here, and not to knock NASA, but this 236 00:12:38.519 --> 00:12:40.799 came across, you know, talking to local people. We do 237 00:12:40.840 --> 00:12:43.360 a lot of outdoor programs with the Sky and a 238 00:12:43.360 --> 00:12:46.000 good percentage of younger adults and seniors come up to 239 00:12:46.039 --> 00:12:48.879 me and go, hey, how can Elon Musk just get 240 00:12:48.879 --> 00:12:51.200 these rockets off on schedule and has a pretty good 241 00:12:51.200 --> 00:12:53.759 success rate, And why can't NASA do it? Well? The 242 00:12:53.840 --> 00:12:56.559 answer to follow, but let's give him all the kudos 243 00:12:56.600 --> 00:12:59.879 that he deserves on their team. This, as you mentioned, correctly, 244 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:02.639 the most powerful rocket to date, some five and a 245 00:13:02.679 --> 00:13:05.799 half million pounds of thrust. It gets off the ground 246 00:13:05.879 --> 00:13:09.799 with three cores basically the one left and right and 247 00:13:09.840 --> 00:13:12.639 a central core which has another secondary rocket up there 248 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:15.639 too for the payload. So if you take these twenty 249 00:13:15.720 --> 00:13:18.240 seven Merlin engines right, this is what this is a 250 00:13:18.320 --> 00:13:21.559 powered bot. It's an incredible feet of technology to develop 251 00:13:21.600 --> 00:13:23.840 these Merlin engines. They each have about one hundred and 252 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:27.360 ninety thousand pounds of thrust on them. They're using a 253 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:30.159 combination of fuel I call it binary but that's not 254 00:13:30.240 --> 00:13:34.240 totally accurate, of liquid oxygen and a chilled RP one 255 00:13:34.360 --> 00:13:36.919 which in the simple world is called kerosene in a 256 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.799 different derivative. So they launched this rocket. And here's the 257 00:13:39.879 --> 00:13:44.080 great thing. NASA didn't get the contract for launching some 258 00:13:44.200 --> 00:13:47.600 of the military secret satellites which basically on board here 259 00:13:47.679 --> 00:13:51.039 there's probably two. And what makes this mission even more 260 00:13:51.039 --> 00:13:53.679 interesting that it gets off on time almost like what 261 00:13:54.320 --> 00:13:58.240 just like clockwork, Like you imagine, this particular rocket has 262 00:13:58.240 --> 00:14:01.279 so much power that it's set two of these, you know, 263 00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:05.240 in quote secret payloads from the Space Force up to 264 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:09.519 geosynchronous orbit. That's twenty two thousand miles up. So normally 265 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:11.559 what these other rockets would do is launch them to 266 00:14:11.639 --> 00:14:14.519 a lower altitude where the spacecraft actually has to use 267 00:14:14.559 --> 00:14:18.360 its engines to boost itself up to the stationary geosynchronous 268 00:14:18.720 --> 00:14:21.039 Now this rocket pushes it all the way up there 269 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:25.120 in one fell swoop, which is amazing, and you actually 270 00:14:25.200 --> 00:14:27.840 see the two side boosters do the impossible. Now, if 271 00:14:27.879 --> 00:14:31.399 I was watching television like you and everybody else forty 272 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:34.399 years ago, and if we imagine we just watched Alan 273 00:14:34.440 --> 00:14:37.320 Sheppard go up in the little Redstone rocket back in 274 00:14:37.360 --> 00:14:39.759 sixty one, can we imagine if we actually saw that 275 00:14:39.919 --> 00:14:43.159 rocket that he launched up in do a soft landing, 276 00:14:43.399 --> 00:14:45.720 that would have just like been no, that can't happen, 277 00:14:45.879 --> 00:14:46.679 and it did not. 278 00:14:46.879 --> 00:14:50.799 Amazing it is it is so this SpaceX Falcon rocket, 279 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:52.960 why was it delayed three years. 280 00:14:54.159 --> 00:14:56.039 Well, they had a lot of issues that they were 281 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.399 trying to get It goes more into the politics of this, 282 00:14:58.440 --> 00:14:59.960 and they had some cond tricks that they had to 283 00:15:00.080 --> 00:15:02.360 get signed. But the good news is, and let me 284 00:15:02.399 --> 00:15:04.320 go back to the comparison, and I just wanted to 285 00:15:04.320 --> 00:15:07.279 give us a short answer if there's time. It's amazing 286 00:15:07.320 --> 00:15:09.600 and again we all love what NASA's doing. Look at 287 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.440 the great history. But for some strange reason, and some 288 00:15:12.480 --> 00:15:15.240 people think it's not strange, they just have so many 289 00:15:15.320 --> 00:15:18.039 issues going on with this liquid hydrogen and the leaks 290 00:15:18.039 --> 00:15:20.879 and stuff like that. Their next agenda here, their likes 291 00:15:20.960 --> 00:15:23.399 launch agenda, is to do this and we wish them 292 00:15:23.440 --> 00:15:26.679 well on November the fourteenth. And as we speak right now, 293 00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:29.519 I don't have a confirmation of this. It's more than 294 00:15:29.600 --> 00:15:32.440 likely that this rocket, the Artemis Wan, is actually starting 295 00:15:32.440 --> 00:15:34.519 to roll out of the Vehicle assembly building to its 296 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:36.919 long trek to get to the launch pad. They got 297 00:15:36.960 --> 00:15:39.720 to get this off the ground. But somehow, and I 298 00:15:39.799 --> 00:15:41.960 really can't figure it out. Does he have a smarter 299 00:15:42.080 --> 00:15:45.039 team of people? I don't know, But look at the 300 00:15:45.039 --> 00:15:48.519 great things that was their fiftieth space launch of this year, 301 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.080 and it just seems like it never ends. In Frank, 302 00:15:51.360 --> 00:15:54.240 there's so many more of these so called military secret 303 00:15:54.279 --> 00:15:57.799 pipe payloads that they have contract for. And they're eventually 304 00:15:57.840 --> 00:16:00.960 going to launch the Europa Clipper, which is a spacecraft 305 00:16:01.000 --> 00:16:03.720 that's going to explore the Jovian Moon Europa to look 306 00:16:03.759 --> 00:16:07.559 for ocean underneath the surface a spacecraft, and the Psyche 307 00:16:07.720 --> 00:16:10.879 Metallic Asteroid mission is also slated to be launched on 308 00:16:10.919 --> 00:16:13.759 a Falcon Heavy. And we haven't seen nothing yet because 309 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:15.960 he's even got a more powerful rocket that there's going 310 00:16:16.039 --> 00:16:19.039 to work on. But Artemis, God bless them for what 311 00:16:19.080 --> 00:16:23.120 they're doing. That'll have eight points something million pounds of thrust. 312 00:16:23.159 --> 00:16:25.679 Then that will take the you know, the prize of 313 00:16:25.679 --> 00:16:27.440 being the most powerful rocket in the Earth. 314 00:16:27.960 --> 00:16:30.799 We're going to continue with Steve Kate's aka Doctor Sky 315 00:16:31.039 --> 00:16:33.120 in just a minute. If you have questions about anything 316 00:16:33.120 --> 00:16:36.759 related to space, astronomy and so forth, now's the time, 317 00:16:37.200 --> 00:16:39.120 four open lines if you want to jump on board. 318 00:16:39.360 --> 00:16:41.720 Eight hundred eight four eight ninety two twenty two. That's 319 00:16:41.759 --> 00:16:44.039 eight hundred eight four eight nine two two two. This 320 00:16:44.159 --> 00:16:47.399 is the other side of Midnight straight ahead, the. 321 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:55.559 Other side of Midnight with Frank Morano. It's the other 322 00:16:55.799 --> 00:16:58.679 side of Midnight with Frank Morano. 323 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:18.440 MARANOZ let's be stoning, there's a girl use hot stonin, 324 00:17:18.559 --> 00:17:22.279 there's an. 325 00:17:23.200 --> 00:17:24.640 Let's go st. 326 00:17:30.799 --> 00:17:36.160 The Capris singing about a moon out tonight. Well, if 327 00:17:36.200 --> 00:17:39.960 you are wondering what is in the night sky, including 328 00:17:40.000 --> 00:17:42.559 the moon, that's worth looking at, you are tuned to 329 00:17:42.680 --> 00:17:46.200 the right radio station. My guest for the hour is 330 00:17:46.240 --> 00:17:51.759 Steve Kate's aka Doctor Sky. He is a WABC contributor 331 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.359 and a podcaster at WABC radio dot com. He is 332 00:17:55.400 --> 00:17:59.400 a veteran radio and TV broadcaster, and he is what 333 00:17:59.480 --> 00:18:04.240 we call him edutainer who educates as he entertains, specifically 334 00:18:04.279 --> 00:18:07.079 as it relates to astronomy and space, but we're not 335 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:11.519 limited to those areas. Steve, you obviously mentioned the eclipse 336 00:18:11.559 --> 00:18:14.119 that's going to take place on Tuesday. Between now and then, 337 00:18:14.640 --> 00:18:16.839 is there anything else in the night sky that people 338 00:18:16.839 --> 00:18:18.039 should be on the lookout for. 339 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.720 Well, sure, Frank. As we move into November, this is 340 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.640 fireball season and this is an interesting time of the year. 341 00:18:24.160 --> 00:18:27.160 What do I mean by that? This particular time of 342 00:18:27.279 --> 00:18:30.200 year we go through debris from what we call comet Ankie, 343 00:18:30.279 --> 00:18:32.640 one of the second actually the second comet that was 344 00:18:32.680 --> 00:18:35.960 discovered with as an orbital period. First one, of course, 345 00:18:36.039 --> 00:18:39.440 is Comet Halle, the seventy sixth year comet that moves 346 00:18:39.440 --> 00:18:43.079 around the Sun. So from now until maybe sometime around 347 00:18:43.119 --> 00:18:45.079 maybe the middle of November, and I know the moon 348 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:48.119 is getting brighter for those that have patients, and that's 349 00:18:48.160 --> 00:18:50.200 what you need. Patients is a real virtue at this 350 00:18:50.599 --> 00:18:53.200 if you can stay outside just around dusk, look to 351 00:18:53.240 --> 00:18:56.480 the sky, maybe even toward the morning sky, look everywhere 352 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:57.960 in the sky. You know, it's kind of hard to 353 00:18:58.039 --> 00:19:00.559 keep your eyes, you know, in one position because you 354 00:19:00.599 --> 00:19:02.920 may see some of these bright objects. We just had 355 00:19:02.960 --> 00:19:05.839 one here over Tucson, Arizona, that was brighter than the 356 00:19:05.839 --> 00:19:08.759 full moon. They debris from this, they think that is 357 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:11.640 what the astronomers think, debris from this comet Anke that 358 00:19:11.759 --> 00:19:14.880 might have shattered many many millions of years ago. And 359 00:19:14.960 --> 00:19:17.359 believe me, folks, this is quite interesting. And frank you know, 360 00:19:17.559 --> 00:19:20.839 the darker locations are favored. But I've seen a number 361 00:19:20.839 --> 00:19:22.480 of these, so you never know what you're going to see. 362 00:19:22.559 --> 00:19:24.480 But for other regular things that are in the sky, 363 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:28.440 and they're pretty exciting. This is planetary season. Also as 364 00:19:28.480 --> 00:19:30.160 the sun sets, if you look high in the south. 365 00:19:30.160 --> 00:19:32.200 In a clear sky, you'll see Saturn visible to the 366 00:19:32.279 --> 00:19:35.279 naked eye. Just scan to the left as you move 367 00:19:35.319 --> 00:19:38.359 toward that position. In the east. The brightest object now 368 00:19:38.359 --> 00:19:41.400 that sits in the night sky in the evening is Jupiter, 369 00:19:42.000 --> 00:19:44.319 and it's beautiful. It's bright. You can see it better 370 00:19:44.359 --> 00:19:46.599 in a telescope. Even binoculars show you some of the 371 00:19:46.599 --> 00:19:49.680 moons if you hold it steady. But Frank, Mars is 372 00:19:49.720 --> 00:19:52.759 now taking over as really this amazing object. Look into 373 00:19:52.799 --> 00:19:56.799 the northeast right around ten PM, so that rang looking 374 00:19:56.839 --> 00:19:59.240 object that you see is now less than fifty seven 375 00:19:59.279 --> 00:20:02.440 million miles from the Earth. It's getting closer for a 376 00:20:02.480 --> 00:20:05.160 close encounter that's going to take place right around December 377 00:20:05.200 --> 00:20:07.720 the seventh, and there's going to be an interesting event 378 00:20:07.799 --> 00:20:10.799 for some parts of the listening audience that has the 379 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:14.319 planet Mars will be actually eclipsed by that full moon 380 00:20:14.400 --> 00:20:17.279 in December. That'll be an amazing thing to see. But 381 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.240 when I look in the telescope now, and I'm describing 382 00:20:20.279 --> 00:20:23.799 the telescope, it's probably eight inch diameter telescope, meaning the 383 00:20:23.799 --> 00:20:26.960 mirror's eight inch diameter. That's pretty standard. I can look 384 00:20:26.960 --> 00:20:29.519 at Mars right now and see it almost full. I 385 00:20:29.559 --> 00:20:32.319 can see surface features on there, and I can see 386 00:20:32.319 --> 00:20:34.920 in the northern polar cap there's this blue haze that's 387 00:20:34.960 --> 00:20:37.319 over it because it's winter in the northern hemisphere now 388 00:20:37.359 --> 00:20:40.480 on Mars, and you can see that blue contrast. What 389 00:20:40.599 --> 00:20:43.480 is it? It's ice particles suspended in the air. So 390 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:46.119 if you are there, be extremely cold, like one hundred 391 00:20:46.119 --> 00:20:49.319 and forty below zero, maybe some winds, but you can 392 00:20:49.359 --> 00:20:52.519 see this. But Mars is getting closer and it's an interesting, 393 00:20:53.039 --> 00:20:55.039 interesting planet to see. So those are some of the 394 00:20:55.079 --> 00:20:57.599 summary items of what we can see in November. And 395 00:20:57.599 --> 00:21:00.960 then another meteor shower called the leon on the morning 396 00:21:00.960 --> 00:21:02.680 of the nineteenth. That's amazing. 397 00:21:02.799 --> 00:21:04.519 Is that something you could see the naked eye or 398 00:21:04.559 --> 00:21:06.160 you should have binoculars or something for that. 399 00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:09.279 Well, for that it's interesting. Now I get in trouble 400 00:21:09.279 --> 00:21:11.240 when I talk about meteor showers because a lot of 401 00:21:11.240 --> 00:21:13.680