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The Vagabond Photographer Saturday At The Library
We are all given excellent opportunities. We invite you to the Julian Branch on Saturday, January 12 at 10 AM as we welcome John Gregor to speak and show, “The Vagabond Photographer, Recent Travels and Adventures.” This is an opportunity that came our way in December and we jumped at it. For amateur and skilled photographers, this presentation will allow us all to learn more about preparing for and then capturing a great picture. John Gregor has a Masters of Education through St. Scholastica College with an emphasis in photographic literacy. He earned his BA from the University of Minnesota with a degree through the University Without Walls program, his degree was entitled “Documentary Expression of American Culture Through Photography” a combined degree of Social Sciences and Fine Art Photography. During his career, Gregor has worked on some interesting projects and photographed for some great publications, they include: 2 years as the Official Track Photographer at Canterbury Downs Racetrack, a month long photographic project in Africa documenting the first attempted kayak decent of the Blue Nile from Lake Victoria to Lake Albert, an on-going photography /research project on horse-mounted military musical bands remaining worldwide with trips to England, Belgium, Austria, Denmark, and Sweden, funded by the University of St. Thomas; Photographic documentation of over 75 Scientific and Natural Areas in Minnesota funded by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources; and the Nature Conservancy resulting in numerous publications including Worlds Within A World, 1999 winner of the Minnesota Book Award. Gregor has four other book projects with title page credit including: Growing Home; Stories of 32 Ethnic Gardeners, UofM Press, 2000 (winner of the 2000 American Horticulture Book of the Year Award), Northland Wildflowers a guide to the Minnesota Region UofM Press, and Northern Treasure, The University of Minnesota Landscape Arboretum’s 100 year commemorative book. Gregor currently lives near Two Harbors, Minnesota. For more information about Gregor, please check his website, www.ColdSnap. com. You will be inspired to capture a beautiful picture, appreciate good photography and enjoy the camaraderie in the Julian Branch Library. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday, January 12 at 10 AM. The library is located at 1850 Highway 78, Julian. For more information, please call the branch at 760-765-0370.
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Volume 34 — Issue 23
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2019 Starts Out In Space We got some snow oncxew again to start the New Year - that was not news. The country and the world startated the year casting their eyes to the stars for the new year. First NASA celebrated by finding an object 4 billion miles from earth. Data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft, which explored Kuiper Belt object Ultima Thule on New Years day, is yielding scientific discoveries daily. Among the findings made by the mission science team in the past day are: Initial data analysis has found no evidence of rings or satellites larger than one mile in diameter orbiting Ultima Thule. Data analysis has also not yet found any evidence of an atmosphere. The color of Ultima Thule matches the color of similar worlds in the Kuiper Belt, as determined by telescopic measurements. The two lobes of Ultima Thule — the first Kuiper Belt contact binary visited — are nearly identical in color. This matches what we know about binary systems which haven’t come into contact with each other, but rather orbit around a shared point of gravity. “The first exploration of a small Kuiper Belt object and the most distant exploration of any world in history is now history, but almost all of the data analysis lies in the future,” said Alan Stern of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. Data transmission from New Horizons will pause for about a week while the spacecraft passes behind the sun as seen from here on Earth. Data transmission resumes Jan. 10, starting a 20-month download of the spacecraft’s remaining scientific treasures. “Those of us on the science team can’t wait to begin to start digging into that treasure trove,” said Stern. New Horizons completed the farthest flyby in history when it came within about 2,200 miles (3,500 kilometers) of Ultima Thule at 12:33 a.m. EST on Jan. 1, zooming past the object at more than 32,000 miles (51,000 kilometers) per hour. The Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, designed, built and operates the New Horizons spacecraft, and manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. The Southwest Research Institute, based in San Antonio, leads the science team, payload operations and encounter science planning. New Horizons is part of the New Frontiers Program managed by NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. Ypu can follow the New Horizons mission on Twitter and use the hashtags #UltimaThule, #UltimaFlyby and #askNewHorizons to join the conversation. Live updates and links to mission information are also available on http://pluto. jhuapl.edu and www.nasa.gov. On Thursday China Makes Historic Landing on far ‘Dark Side’ of the Moon. Just before 10:30 am Beijing local time on January 3, the robotic spacecraft Chang’e 4 made a soft landing in the South Pole-Aitken Basin area of the moon, otherwise known as the “far side” or “dark side” of Earth’s only natural satellite. It is the first spacecraft in history to attempt or achieve a landing on this unexplored area, which is never visible from Earth. After keeping the details of the
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Ultima Thule photo from NASA mission under wraps until the last minute, China announced the successful landing, and shared the first lunar images captured by the unmanned space probe via state media. As no direct communication link exists, the images had to be bounced off another satellite before being relayed back to Earth, BBC News reported. The moon has been the object of human fascination— and scientific observation—for centuries. Although from our perspective it does not appear to spin, in reality the moon rotates about every 27 days, which is about the same amount of time it takes to orbit the Earth once. During this whole process, we can see only about 59 percent of the moon’s surface, while the other 41 percent—known as the “dark side” of the moon—is concealed from our view. There have been numerous missions to the Moon in recent years, but the vast majority have been to orbit, fly by or impact. The last crewed landing was Apollo 17 in 1972.
Scientists initially mistook these volcanic plains for lunar seas, and called them maria (from the Latin word for sea). Since then, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has collected tens of thousands of images of the far side of the moon, which has allowed them to make better predictions about what that distant surface might look like.
Wed., November 28 W 1-0 Home vs Hamilton Monday, December 3 L 0-7 Home vs Maranatha Christian Wed., December 5 L 0-9 Home vs High Tech (NC) Friday, December 10 T 2-2 @ Tri-City Christian Wed., December 12 L 0-6 @ High Tech (NC) Monday, December 17 L 0-2 Home vs Gompers Prep Tues., December 18 L 0-1 @ Calvin Christian Thur., December 20 L 1-2 vs Hamilton Friday, December 21 L 0-2 Home vs Liberty Charter Friday, January 11 3:00 @ Borrego Springs
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Photograph of the far side of the moon taken by the Luna 3 space probe on October 28, 1959. Sovfoto/UIG/Getty Images But in 2016, China’s growing space program announced its plans to make a historic landing
Tues., November 13 F 0-1 @ Bayfront Charter Tues, November 20 L 16-75 @ Del Lago Academy Thurs., November 27 L 27-69 @ Hamilton Monday, December 3 L 45-47 @Calvary Christian Thurs, December 6 L 36-67 Home vs San Diego Jewish Academy Mon., December 10 L 74-29 @ Temecula Prep Wed., December 12 L 43-55 @ Calvary Christian Tuesday, December 18 5:30 @ San Diego Jewish Academy Friday, December 21 @ Borrego Springs
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An image taken by China’s Chang’e-4 probe after its landing on the far side of the moon on January 3, 2019, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon’s uncharted side never visible from Earth. China National Space Administration /Xinhua News Agency/Jin Liwang/ Getty Images Soon after the Soviet satellite on the far side of the moon. Since Sputnik became the first 2003, when the country launched spacecraft to orbit Earth in 1957, its first astronaut, the multibillionboth the Soviet and U.S. space dollar space program run by the programs began focusing on Chinese military has been right the next great objective: the on schedule with achieving the moon. The Soviet Union initially landmarks it set for itself. had more success, as its first In late 2013, the unmanned two Luna probes made the first spacecraft Chang’e 3 made a escape from Earth’s gravity soft landing on the lunar surface, and the first lunar impact in making China the third nation 1959. That same year, Luna 3 (after the United States and the achieved another first, taking former USSR) to reach the moon. a photographic survey of the The rover Yutu or “Jade Rabbit,” moon’s far side. Despite their which deployed from Chang’e 3 grainy quality, these early images after the landing, discovered a revealed that the previously new type of basaltic rock during unseen hemisphere had few of its exploration of a volcanic the smooth, dark spots that we crater in the Mare Imbrium (what observe on the moon’s surface. continued on page 10
Tuesday, November 27 L 42-17 @ Hamilton Tues., December 4 L 19-39 Home vs Horizon Prep Thursday, December 6 5:00 @ Guajome Park Academy Wed., December 12 L 17-66 Home vs Guajome Park Academy Thur., December 13 L 23-35 Home vs Hamilton Sat., December 15 F 0-2 Home vs Preuss UCSD Tues., December 18 L 17-31 @ Horizon Prep Friday, December 21 4:00 @ Borrego Springs Tuesday, January 15 4:00 Home vs Warner
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Monday, November 26 L 1-4 Home vs Ocean View Christian Tuesday, December 4 L 1-8 @ Ocean View Christian Tues., December 11 L 2-5 Home vs Calvin Christian Wed., December 12 L 0-7 @ Calvary Christian Wed., January 9 5:00 @ West Shores Wed., January 16 3:00 Home vs Calipatria Friday, January 18 3:00 Home vs Vincent Memorial Wed., January 23 3:00 @ Borrego Springs continued on page 4
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