ALERT NEWSLETTER – October 2018

Hi everyone and welcome to the October ALERT Newsletter.

Fall has arrived and with it we can look forward to the changing of the fall leaves, the occasional nip in the air, and the Hobgoblins that will visit us at the end of the month.

October is a fun time of the year, being not too hot and not too cold – the “Goldilocks” of seasons.

It is a time to enjoy fall football, the baseball playoffs and the last outdoor adventures of the year.

Here is hoping that you enjoy the days that this season brings, and the pretty weather October brings. Letting you rest before the storms of Fall.

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National Weather Service 25th Anniversary Open House

In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the opening of the Birmingham NWS Forecast Office at the Shelby County Airport, the NWS will be hosting an open house Sunday October 27 from 10 AM to 3 PM.

The public is invited to see the operations area, meet the staff and look at a variety of displays from local first responders and core government and private partners.

Things to Do

There are activities for the whole family to enjoy at the Open House. Come prepared to learn about weather safety and preparedness in fun and exciting ways. The little ones are encouraged to come dressed in their Halloween costumes ready for some trick-or-treating!

Fun for the Whole Family:
Tour local National Weather Service (NWS) office
Meet the local NWS meteorologists
Learn how the weather radar works by viewing a working model NEXRAD
Watch a weather balloon release at 12pm
Tour various emergency vehicles from local fire departments, EMS, and law enforcement
Visit with local TV meteorologists and tour their storm chase vehicles (Birmingham & Montgomery stations)
Walk through exhibits from various local agencies & organizations
Learn about weather safety & preparedness
Grab some lunch from several local food trucks!

Special Activities for the Kids:
Trick-or-treating
Face painting
Pictures with Owlie Skywarn the NWS mascot
Kids’ booth with coloring sheets & cool weather experiments
Win chance to launch a weather balloon with Owlie! (Launch is scheduled for 12PM)

Event Information
What: 25th Anniversary Open House
Where: National Weather Service
465 Weathervane Rd Calera, AL
(Located at the Shelby County Airport)
When: Saturday, October 27th
Public Tours 10 AM – 3 PM
Admission is FREE!!

*No Smoking
**In the event of severe weather, the open house may need to be cancelled.
***No pets allowed. Service dogs permitted.
****No drugs, weapons, or alcohol of any kind allowed.

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Birmingham NWS Fall 2018 Spotter Courses

The Birmingham NWS office will present several online Basic Spotter Courses and a single Advanced Spotter Course this fall. These online classes allow individuals to complete the course(s) in the comfort of their own home or office with the use of https://www.join.me/ meeting site.

By attending any course, which runs about 2 hours, individuals or a group of individuals will become SKYWARN Spotters.

Unless you are in need of or just want to attend a refresher Course, you do not need to attend more than one Basic SKYWARN Course, as the material covered is the same; however it is required you to attend at least one Basic SKYWARN Course before taking the Advanced SKYWARN Course.

These courses are two-way, meaning you will be able to interact with the meteorologist leading the training. You will be muted while training is in-progress, and unmuted when applicable (e.g., for questions); or, you can use the built-in chat feature.

The current schedule is as follows:

Basic Class Tuesday, October 2 at 1:00 PM Online Use Session Code 935-938-747
Basic Class Wednesday, October 10 at 6:30 PM Online Use Session Code 492-321-695
Basic Class Thursday, October 18 at 1:00 PM Online Use Session Code 131-611-700
Basic Class Thursday, October 25 at 6:30 PM Online Use Session Code 725-905-971
Basic Class Tuesday, November 6 at 6:30 PM Online Use Session Code 471-316-027
Advanced Class Tuesday, November 14 at 6:30 PM Online Use Session Code 398-176-443

Enter the session code at https://www.join.me/

There will be two live Basic Classes this fall:

Basic Class Thursday, October 18 at 6:00 PM The Venue (old Kmart building)
201 George Wallace Drive
Gadsden, AL
Basic Class Thursday, November 8 at 6:00 PM Alabama Fire College
2501 Phoenix Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL

These classes will help you provide the NWS the vital “ground truth” information they need to verify radar indications, target their attention and help you relay reports in a clear manner to the NWS, either directly via the ……. number or via chat or amateur radio. This knowledge helps Skywarn Net Control stations filter reports, by giving them knowledge of what reporting stations are trying to describe. This way they can tell if the report is a valid report, an invalid report by an overly excited operator or a valid, but, poorly described report, which without this knowledge would be mistakenly dismissed.

For further information on these classes visit: http://www.weather.gov/bmx/skywarnschedule

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News Alert! – Fall Simulated Emergency Test
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Our Fall Simulated Emergency Test for 2018 will be held October 27, 2018, from 8am to noon. Some counties may elect to perform your SET on a different weekend and that’s ok too. Here are the details for our announced SET for 2018.

Calling all amateur operators across Alabama. This year’s fall Simulated Emergency Test (SET) will begin on Saturday, October 27th. Most county exercise nets start Saturday at 8:00 AM and wrap up by noon but the exercise will remain active until Sunday evening after the statewide Alabama simplex net (146.580) at 8 PM.

This year’s simulated emergency will be a familiar one – severe winter weather. The simulation will provide details of a statewide cold snap that follows a warm front producing our typical ice storm followed by a snow event that is predicted to last a few days. The storm will cause partial closings of most state interstates and loss of power across much of the state due to downed power lines. With limited access and loss of power, there will be increased pressure on the limited resources of first responders and the health care system from critical care hospitals to nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Shelters will be established across the state and amateur operators will simulate deployment to those facilities in their county as identified as a Served Agency by their County ARES leadership. All properly licensed operators are strongly encouraged to participate and to continue the states excellent record of participation. As you know in 2018 we again lead the country in participation scoring. While we are more interested in testing our capabilities and strengthening our relationships with our local agencies, it’s nice to be recognized as the leader in emergency communications.

We will have news and injects from the National Weather Services, state EMA and local served agencies throughout the exercise. Please check your equipment, be prepared and participate on October 27th.

Thanks everyone for your hard work for Alabama Amateur Radio.
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ARRL Alabama Section
Section Manager: JVann Martin Sr, W4JVM
w4jvm@arrl.org

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The Night “They” Came

In the 1930’s the world of communications was much different than it is today. Television was still largely experimental. News and sports were obtained by newspapers, “newsreels” such as Fox Movietone News, which were short video news features presented in theatres preceding the matinee and via AM radio.

Dramatic “Live Breaking News” broadcasts as we know them today were in their infancy, having been born accidentally during the live broadcast of the arrival of the Zeppelin Hindenburg, which suddenly exploded in mid-air as reporter Herbert Morrison was describing its approach on May 6, 1937.

Hindenburg disaster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJpBOQSHwPU

AM radio of that time was comparable to Television of today. Featuring sports, music, news and a large variety of entertainment programs such as “soap operas”, so called because they were advertised by soap companies, westerns, which were jokingly called “horse operas”, mysteries and horror stories.

Those old shows, which are now called by collectors “OTR” or “Old Time Radio” still has an advantage over the visually based presentations we see today. These shows tapped into the deep recesses and realms of the mind. There is nothing as deep or dark as the hidden chambers, catacombs and caverns of human imagination. If one, as the old gospel song says were to “turn the lights down low and listen to the Master’s radio”, one can become absorbed into the stories in a way you cannot do today using visual media such as TV. For in your “mind’s eye” it can become “as real as real gets.”

You could taste the dust, as you walked the streets of Dodge City with Matt Dillon, laugh at the ridiculous antics you were “seeing” of the Marx Brothers, or feel genuine fear as you walked the misty waterfront and heard that maniacal “Song of the Slasher” as he walked away singing into the distance, with a dripping knife in one hand and another crumpled corpse laying in a dark alleyway, as you listened to “Inner Sanctum”.

It could make your skin crawl and might cause you to turn around as you could swear you saw a shadow on the wall or heard some mysterious and ominous bump somewhere, over there, in the shadows.

On one particular Sunday evening, a little after 7, if one had happened to tune to WAPI which carried CBS programming, one would have heard the last bit of weather report and then a music program start with Ramón Raquello and His Orchestra live from the Park Plaza in New York City.

Dance music cheerfully played away when suddenly the program was interrupted by a news flash about strange gas explosions having been observed on the planet Mars moving towards the Earth “at enormous velocities”, followed by a live interview by reporter Carl Phillips with Professor Richard Pierson of Princeton Observatory, who dismissed speculation about life on Mars, even though science books of that day did hint at possibilities if not probabilities that some form of life could or did exist on that distant reddish orb.

The musical program returns, but is soon interrupted again by news of a strange meteorite landing in Grover’s Mill, New Jersey. Phillips and Pierson are sent to the site and arriving find a large crowd of onlookers having gathered. The chaos and confusion is vividly described by Phillips who then spies the strange cylindrical object, which seems to be made of some sort of unknown metal. Then a portion of the cylinder suddenly starts to unscrew and open and a horrific, monstrous tentacled creature emerges, with “saliva dripping from its lipless mouth.”

As the police approach the creature waving a truce flag, some sort device appears which begins emitting a ray of light, which then becomes a jet of flame aimed at the advancing men. Suddenly the reporter shouts “Good Lord, they’re turning into flame!” and you hear the screams of agony, as the report suddenly goes dead.

An announcer explains that the remote broadcast was interrupted due to “some difficulty with our field transmission.”

As the broadcast continues there are live reports and dispatches of the futile military attempts to stop these invaders, who are being reinforced by other cylinders as they continue to fall.

Eventually, a news reporter, broadcasting from atop the “Broadcast Building” in New York City, describes the Martian invasion of the city – “five great machines” wading the Hudson “like men wading through a brook”, with poisonous black smoke drifting over the city, and people diving into the East River “like rats”, and others in Times Square “falling like flies”. He reads a final bulletin stating that Martian cylinders have fallen all over the country, then describes the smoke approaching down the street until in a coughing fit he falls silent, leaving only the sounds of the city under attack in the background.

The last words heard are a ham operator calling “2X2L calling CQ, New York. Isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there anyone on the air? Isn’t there… anyone?”

Then there followed the announcement “You are listening to a CBS presentation of Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre of the Air, in an original dramatization of The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells. The performance will continue after a brief intermission.”

My, Mom, who was in her early 20’s saw my grandparents listening intently to the radio and asked “what is happening?” “Just a radio drama” they said. For they had heard the introduction which clearly stated “The Columbia Broadcast System and its affiliated stations present Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre on the Air in the ‘The War Of The Worlds’ by H.G. Wells.”

Many however, tuned in just late enough to not hear the introduction and therefore thought this broadcast and the news bulletins were real.

Some modern historians and revisionists who like to “correct history” say “Historical research suggests the panic was far less widespread than newspapers had indicated at the time.”

Which is easy to say once the generation that witnessed the event is largely gone or unable to ask the simple question “where you there?” or perhaps in some cases more indelicately “what have you been smoking?”

I remember on more than one occasion my Mom watching TV presentations about historical events she had witnessed and lived through shaking her head and saying “I don’t know where they got that mess”, and then telling how it actually was during that time.

Indeed, I have seen historical events occur and then read accounts of these events ten or twenty years down the road that no more reflect what actually happened than the Man the Moon. For these reason I tend to doubt the doubters, and question the correctness of “corrected versions.”

That said, the New York Daily News reported “thousands of listeners rushed from their homes in New York and New Jersey, many with towels across their faces to protect themselves from the ‘gas’ which the invader was supposed to be spewing forth.

Simultaneously, thousands more in states that stretched west to California and south to the Gulf of Mexico rushed to their telephones to inquire of newspapers, the police, switchboard operators, and electric companies what they should do to protect themselves.

Eleven hundred calls flooded the switchboard at The News – more than when the dirigible Hindenburg exploded.

Churches in both New York and New Jersey were filled suddenly with persons seeking protection, and who found them, providentially, as they thought, open.

At St. Michaels Hospital, in Newark, fifteen persons were treated for shock.

In New York, police and fire departments and the newspapers were swamped with telephone calls from people, apparently frightened half out of their wits.

The telephone company also was deluged. The thing finally assumed such serious proportions that the Columbia Broadcasting System put bulletins on the air explaining that the ‘meteor’ broadcast was part of a play and that nothing untoward had happened.”

At the CBS studios it was said that “a few policemen trickled in, then a few more. Soon, the room was full of policemen and a massive struggle was going on between the police, page boys, and CBS executives, who were trying to prevent the cops from busting in and stopping the show.”

When news of the real-life panic leaked into the CBS studio, Welles went on the air as himself to remind listeners that it was just fiction.

In the days following, the uproar quickly died down.

The Federal Communications Commission investigated the program but found no law was broken. Networks did agree to be more cautious in their programming in the future. Welles feared that the controversy generated by “War of the Worlds” would ruin his career, but, instead it helped him land a contract with a Hollywood studio, and in 1941 he directed, wrote, produced, and starred in Citizen Kane—a movie that many have called the greatest American film ever made.

War Of The Worlds broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs0K4ApWl4g
War Of The Worlds transcript: http://www.sacred-texts.com/ufo/mars/wow.htm

On November 12, 1944, the “War of the Worlds” broadcast was recreated in Chile. Broadcast from Santiago, the Chilean program created a public reaction similar to the American panic six years earlier. One governor in Chile was even reported to have mobilized troops to act against the alien invasion. It caused one death due to heart attack.

On February 12, 1949 in Ecuador, Radio Quito presented their version of the broadcast, which reportedly set off panic in the city. Police and fire brigades rushed out of town to engage the supposed alien invasion force. After it was revealed that the broadcast was fiction, the panic transformed into a riot. Hundreds attacked and burned the building and occupants where Radio Quito and El Comercio, a local newspaper that had participated in the hoax by publishing false reports of unidentified objects in the skies above Ecuador in the days preceding the broadcast were housed. The riot resulted in at least seven deaths.

Could a similar situation occur today? Absolutely!

The closest modern equivalent to a War of the Worlds type broadcast I have found is a YouTube presentation “Breaking News – US networks report ‘serious incident’ between Russia and NATO forces.”

In this video, BBC America is shown presenting a mundane program about people looking for antiques, when about 3 minutes into the program it is interrupted by “breaking news” and is switched to a feed from BBC News Headquarters and absolutely realistic looking reports begin flooding in of Russian and NATO naval forces exchanging direct fire after a Russian aircraft was shot down, “high ordinance explosions” being reported, and with things rapidly escalating as war spreads across Europe “a large explosion being reported at Beale AFB in California” with footage that looks absolutely real.

If one had this on their computer monitor and someone came in not knowing what was going on, they might easily think that they were seeing the beginnings of “the end” with the world rapidly unravelling at the seams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YY30A3Nj41M

This year marks the eightieth anniversary of the October 30, 1938 broadcast that unintentionally left Orson Welles mark in history and made him legend at a ripe old age of 23.

There was no ill intent, or as Orson Welles explained at the end of the program: “This is Orson Welles, ladies and gentlemen, out of character to assure you that The War of The Worlds has no further significance than as the holiday offering it was intended to be. The Mercury Theatre’s own radio version of dressing up in a sheet and jumping out of a bush and saying Boo! Starting now, we couldn’t soap all your windows and steal all your garden gates by tomorrow night. . . so we did the best next thing. We annihilated the world before your very ears, and utterly destroyed the C. B. S. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn’t mean it, and that both institutions are still open for business. So goodbye everybody, and remember the terrible lesson you learned tonight. That grinning, glowing, globular invader of your living room is an inhabitant of the pumpkin patch, and if your doorbell rings and nobody’s there, that was no Martian – it’s Hallowe’en.”

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Mark’s Almanac

The tenth Month, October is so named because it is the eighth month on the Roman calendar. To the Slavs of Eastern Europe it is called “yellow month,” from the fading of the leaves, while to the Anglo-Saxons it was known as Winterfylleth, because at this full moon (fylleth) winter was supposed to begin.

By whichever name you call it, October is a mild and dry month, the driest of the year, in fact. And, it is a sunny month with the amount of possible sunshine reaching the ground in the 60% or greater range.

Weather shifts from autumn pattern to revisiting the summer pattern and back again. The Azores-Bermuda High shifts eastward into the Atlantic, but, leaves weakened high pressure centers over the Virginias, which still try to block out approaching fronts.

October is usually a quite month for tornadoes, with a 40% decrease in activity. Nationwide an average of 28 tornadoes occur in October and those tornadoes are usually weak.

Our Hurricane threat continues, with hurricane activity increasing during the first half of the month, concentrating in the Caribbean, both from formation in the Caribbean and from the long track Cape Verde hurricanes, which enter the Caribbean. And, we still have the little “gifts” that the Gulf of Mexico occasionally will provide.

Florida, due to its low latitude, becomes especially vulnerable to hurricanes. As Colorado State University researchers note, since 1851, Florida has endured 30 October hurricane landfalls, nearly triple the next highest state — Louisiana, which has had eight. Also, about 60 percent of all U.S. hurricanes that made landfall after September 26 have done so in Florida. One factor being the cold fronts of Fall penetrating the Gulf and then deflecting storms towards the West coast of Florida.

Luckily after the second half of the month the activity will begin a steady decrease.

28% of the year’s hurricanes occur in October.

From 1851 – 2017 there have been 339 Tropical Storms and 206 hurricanes, 56 of which made landfall in the United States.

Some notable October hurricanes are:

The Great Hurricane of 1780, also known as Huracán San Calixto, the Great Hurricane of the Antilles, and the 1780 Disaster, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane, which killed between 20,000 to 22, 000 people in the Lesser Antilles as it passed through from October 10 – 16, 1780. It is possible that it had winds in excess of 200 MPH when it reached Barbados.

Hurricane Hazel struck the Carolinas in 1954. Weather satellite did not yet exist and the Hurricane Hunters were unable to observe the core of the storm until it neared land on October 15. Hazel made landfall just west of the North Carolina/South Carolina border slightly northeast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with a Category 4 intensity of 130 mph.

Hurricane Wilma still holds the record as the most intense tropical cyclone ever recorded in the Atlantic Basin. In 24 hours Wilma went from a Category 1 storm on October 18 to a Category 5 storm with 185 MPH Maximum Sustained Winds. She weakened to Category 4 and struck the Yucatan, then restrengthened and struck Cape Romano Florida as a Category 3 storm on October 24, 2005.

Hurricane Mitch became a Category 1 hurricane on October 24, 1998 and within 48 hours grew to Category 5 intensity, and though he weakened to Category 1 before making landfall, he became the second deadliest hurricane on record killing over 11,000, with nearly that number missing in Central America due to intense rainfall and mudslides. He would eventually reach the United States making landfall near Naples Florida on November 5.

Beware of October hurricanes, for as Wilma and Mitch have demonstrated, they can experience explosive growth.

October Tropical Cyclone Breeding Grounds

This is the month for Alabama’s version of “Indian Summer’s” arrival.

Technically speaking Indian Summer doesn’t occur until “Squaw Winter” or the first frost arrives, but exact date when Indian Summer arrives varies with latitude.

We live in Alabama, and while the earliest frosts have been known to occur by October 17, they usually wait until November. So, we, in our milder climate call the first warm up after the first cool down “Indian Summer”.

The Yellow Giant Sulphur Butterflies are very noticeable as they continue to drift South-Southeast on their migration towards Florida. They prefer red things & if you have red flowers they will zero in on them.

The Monarchs also will be seen gliding by in their migration towards Central America.

Fall colors will become prominent & by late October & early November the leaves will be reaching their peak fall colors.

Days rapidly grow shorter as the Sun’s angle above the noonday horizon steadily decreases from 53.1 degrees at the beginning of the month to 42.2 degrees at the month’s end. Daylight decreases from 11 hours 50 minutes on October 1 to 10 hours 51 minutes on October 31.

Sunrise and sunset times for Birmingham are:

October 1 Sunrise 6:42 AM Sunset 6:32 PM
October 15 Sunrise 6:52 AM Sunset 6:14 PM
October 31 Sunrise 7:05 AM Sunset 5:56 PM

Looking towards the sky, Mercury is hidden by the Sun.

Venus shines at magnitude –4.7 very low in the west-southwest in evening twilight and sets before twilight is over. Don’t confuse it with Jupiter, which will probably catch your attention first. Venus is to Jupiter’s lower right, and brighter.
In a telescope Venus is a striking crescent, about 30% sunlit. For better telescopic seeing, catch it higher in a blue sky long before sunset. Though difficult to spot, Venus at times is bright enough to be seen in the daytime.
Venus will reach “Inferior Conjunction” on October 26.
An inferior conjunction occurs when the two planets lie in a line on the same side of the Sun. In an inferior conjunction, the superior planet, which in this case is Earth, is in “opposition”, or directly opposite of the Sun if it were seen from the inferior planet, in this case Venus.
If one could push aside the perpetual clouds of Venus, one would see a brilliant blue “star” in the Venusian midnight sky, which would be Earth.
Mars, in southern Capricornus, fades from magnitude –1.7 to –1.5. It shines highest in the south about an hour after dark and sets around 2 a.m.
A week ago as I drove home from work, having worked the night shift, I drove directly toward the setting gibbous Moon with Mars shining right beside her, which it being 1 AM, generated an oddly eerie feeling.
The dust in the Martian atmosphere continues to settle, allowing surface markings to show with slightly better contrast.
Jupiter, magnitude –1.9, in Libra shines ever lower in the southwest in twilight.
Saturn, magnitude +0.4, above the spout-tip of the Sagittarius Teapot glows yellow in the south at dusk, well to the right of brighter Mars. It’s Summer in Saturn’s Northern Hemisphere and his rings are near their maximum 27 degree tilt towards Earth. He sets by midnight.
Uranus shining at magnitude 5, near the Aries-Pisces border reaches Opposition October 23. It will be brighter than any other time of the year. This is the best time to view Uranus. However, due to its distance, it will only appear as a tiny blue-green dot in all but the most powerful telescopes. He will be well up in the East by late evening.

Neptune shining at magnitude 7.8, in Aquarius is well up in the southeast by late evening.

The Moon will be at Perigee or its closest approach to Earth on October 5, when she will be 227,668 miles from Earth.

The Draconid Meteor Shower will peak on October 8. This minor shower is produced by dust grains left behind by Comet 21P Giacobini-Zinner, which was discovered in 1900. This shower, which runs from October 6 – 10, is unusual in that it is best observed in the early evening, instead of the early morning hours as with most other showers.

This will be an excellent year to observe the Draconids because there will be no moonlight to spoil the show. Best viewing will be in the early evening from a dark location far away from city lights. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Draco, but can appear anywhere in the sky.

New Moon will occur October 8. The Moon will be located on the same side of the Earth as the Sun and will not be visible in the night sky. This phase occurs at 9:47 CDT or 3:47 UTC which in Greenwich England is the 9th. This is the best time of the month to observe faint objects such as galaxies and star clusters because there is no moonlight to interfere.

The Moon will be at Apogee or its farthest distance from Earth on October 17, when she will be 251175 miles from Earth.

The Orionid Meteor Shower peaks on October 21 & 22. The Orionids is an average shower producing up to 20 meteors per hour at its peak This shower, which runs from October 2 to November 7, is produced by the broad debris trail of Halley’s Comet. The crescent moon will set early in the evening leaving dark skies for what should be a good show. Best viewing will be from a dark location after midnight. Meteors will radiate from the constellation Orion, but can appear anywhere in the sky.

This is the time of year when the rich star clouds of the Milky Way in Cygnus crosses the zenith, looking like a ghostly band overhead in the hour after nightfall is complete. The Milky Way now rises straight up from the southwest horizon, passed overhead, and runs straight down to the northeast. Later at midnight, Orion the Hunter and the stars of winter rise over the eastern horizon, reminding us to enjoy the mild weather while it is here, for this season, as all seasons, is but a fleeting moment in the never ending waltz of time.

October’s Full Moon will occur October 24. The Moon will be directly opposite the Earth from the Sun and will be fully illuminated as seen from Earth. This phase occurs at 16:46 UTC or 11:46 AM CDT. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Full Hunters Moon because at this time of year the leaves are falling and the game is fat and ready to hunt. This moon has also been known as the Travel Moon and the Blood Moon.

3791 planets beyond our solar system have now been confirmed as of September 27, per NASA’s Exoplanet Archive http://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/.

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This month’s meeting will be on October 9 at 7PM at the National Weather Service Forecast office at the Shelby County Airport.

If for some reason you cannot attend the meeting in person, you can still participate via telephone. The teleconference number is 1-877-951-0997 & and the participant code is 741083.
Hope to see you there!
Mark / WD4NYL
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