Skywatcher Leo T

Psyche fires a laser from 10 million miles out on its way to check out an asteroid. Europa Clipper wants your name on board as NASA/JPL's craft goes out next year to Jupiter and its moon Europa! Utah State Space Dynamics lab is at it again!

Apollo program, and honoring Frank Borman the so called commander on Apollo 8, but no one was really in command. They all, meaning the amazing Jim Lovell and Bill Anders, almost spontaneous first trip for Earthlings ( they did happen to be men, sorry for those of you who are angry a woman was not on board. This is the way history is. Present times, we'll have women going to the moon!! Women ar...

Enjoy your life while were here!

We check out the sky and jet streams on Earth and Jupiter, as well as Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede and its amazing geology, as well as join the Voyagers 12 billion miles out in space, and look at sky lore from the Maori in New Zealand!

skywatching and space exploration

The Parker Solar Probe makes its way around the sun, closer than any other earth made object and goes way out to Venus, takes a tourist snap shot, gathers a gravity boost from the planet and hauls **s back to 7.9 million kilometers above the radiant surface! Also the Psyche space ship gets ready to launch to 16 Psyche "heavy metal" asteroid out between the surface of Mars and Jupiter, an...

New Horizons space probe out beyond the solar system!

Also the New Horizons space craft keeps going into interstellar space after exploring Pluto and its 5 moons...

Osirus-Rex lands in the Utah Desert with a sample of far out asteriod, Bennu!

Perseids peak, Mars visits Mercury, Pacific North west, Sun and the farthest star!

Leo T visits the center of the galaxy, and Cygnus the Swan and Oumumu! If you want to hear the broadcast with more music, listen to the radio broadcasts on UPR.org Thurs am at 9:55 am, repeating at 7:55 pm, on krcl 90.9 fm and streaming of course, at 6:08 pm on Fridays with Lara Jones and again on Sundays in the Circle of Life at 6:40 am, 10:40 am on the Sunday Sagebrush Serenade, and 2:40 pm on t...

We'll visit an exoplanet 248 light years from home with metal clouds and Earth's astronomical clouds at dusk.

What are we seeing at dusk in the sky?

More exploration of deep space with the Cosmic Jelly fish in Aquarius, Gravitation Lensing, Juneteenth

Delphinus the Dolphin leaps in and out of the Milky Way! Also a exoplanet orbiting a double sun way out! Also solar energy from space to the Earth, and The Skywatcher Leo T Star Party at Stansbury Park Observatory Complex or SPOC on Friday, July 7th at dusk with the amazing astronomers from Salt Lake Astronomical Society looking deep into space for the new nebula in the Pinwheel Galaxy!

This episode goes in depth in the night sky near lots of good stuff near the big dipper and sky lore from the Cree Indians and the Greek. A brand new galaxy way out near the Big Dipper from Earth but actually way beyond this. The Juno Space probe checks out Io the most volcanic world in the solar system! Apollo astronauts celebrate the space program!

This Observatory complex is near a bird estuary (lake, fed by a stream) where there were Pelicans, maybe a avocet and many other migrating birds on the beautiful water in late afternoon into the dusk with some interestingly shaped cloud formations and blue skies. This complex has 4 incredible deep space telescopes and the very helpful astronomers from the Salt Lake Astronomical Society man and mai...

Beautiful Blue Star Formalhaut has dust rings and an asteroid belt! We also check out more sun eruptions sending more Auroras on our way and toying with short wave radio wave, Ice Water discovered on The Martian North Pole in a deep crater! And a Chinese myth of 10 suns in the sky! We also look around the beautiful May skies!

We check out Delta Scorpi a cool little double star blinking in the claws of Scorpio on the southern horizon and visit The moons of Saturn and its 6th largest one known as Eceladus and we hear from amazing Poet Margaret Pettis!

The Lyrids kick in with streaking meteors across the sky, and we go to Mars for an update of some great exploration by the rover and the helicopter and an upcoming trip teaming up the Japanese Space Agency with NASA to go to the Moons of Mars! Also the Crocodile in the sky!

NASA selects new Artemis Crew and one member nails the honor and the history of human space flight.

Explore with NASA and JPL's Parker Solar Probe which dips into the outer atmosphere of the Sun! Also the early Universe was full of giant stars, and a star legend of the Sun and Moon from the Inuit!

venus and jupiter mars in the horn tips of Taurus.... and explore martian sunsets and the aurora....and more.

Lots of fun in  the sky as we check out the solar system and the galaxy, as well as cultural connections and learn that a small asteroid flashed into France!

Skywatcher Leo T checks out the night sky and goes in depth on the sky lore of the Pleiades and a green and orange Asteroid strikes France as scientists discover 12 new moons of Jupiter!