1. Space News Update - November 2, 2018 - In the News Departments
Story 1:
Missions Accomplished: Two NASA Missions Come to an End
Story 2:
Russians Trace Soyuz Launch Abort to Faulty Sensor
Story 3: Artificial Intelligence Bot Trained to Recognize Galaxies
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Missions Accomplished: Two NASA Missions Come to an End
In this computer graphic, NASA's Voyager 1 probe, moving toward upper left, nears the edge of the sun's influence, flying through a region of space dominated by a "magnetic highway" that helps mediate the flow of particles into and out of the solar system. The region includes particles from the sun's southern hemisphere that have been forced northward by the pressure of the interstellar wind. Voyager 1 is expected to cross the boundary into interstellar space sometime within the next few years if not sooner. (Credit: NASA)

3. Russians Trace Soyuz Launch Abort to Faulty Sensor

4. Artificial Intelligence Bot Trained to Recognize Galaxies

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope
Friday, November 2 • Look for Capella sparkling low in the northeast these evenings. About three fists at arm's length to Capella's right, look for the fingertip-sided Pleiades cluster. They're early markers of the cold months to come.
Above the space between them are the stars of Perseus, astride the Milky Way.
Saturday, November 3 • Mars shines in the south after dark. Look barely 1° east (left) of it for Delta Capricorni, only a twentieth as bright at magnitude 2.8. A similar distance lower right of Mars is Gamma Capricorni, magnitude 3.6.
• Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m. tonight in North America; clocks fall back an hour. Showerthought: The old saying that clocks "spring forward" and "fall back" in spring and fall used to be metaphorical; you had to change the clock. But now it's literally true; internet-controlled clocks jump back and forth themselves.
Sunday, November 4 • Tonight and tomorrow, Mars and Delta Capricorni are only 0.6° apart. The scene tonight is shown here.
• After dark this week, Capella is up in the northeast. Look for the Pleiades three fists to Capella's right. As evening grows later, you'll find orange Aldebaran climbing up below the Pleiades. By about 9:30 or 10 p.m. (depending on your location), Orion is clearing the horizon below Aldebaran.
• In Monday's dawn, spot the thin waning crescent Moon sitting cup-like low in the east-southeast. Way down under it is Venus. Using binoculars, can you see little Spica 4° above Venus?
Monday, November 5 • Draw a line from Altair, the brightest star very high in the southwest after dark, to the right through Vega, very high in the west and even brighter. Continue the line about half as far onward and you hit the Lozenge: the pointy-nosed head of Draco, the Dragon. Its brightest star is orange Eltanin, the tip of the Dragon's nose, which always points to Vega.
Tuesday, November 6 • Sometime between about 8 and 9:30 p.m., depending on where you are, zero-magnitude Capella rises exactly as high in the northeast as zero-magnitude Vega has sunk in the west-northwest. How accurately can you time this event? Astrolabe not required. . . but it might help.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Nov 2, 5:37 AM
< 1 min
15°
15° above NNE
11° above NNE
Sat Nov 3, 6:20 AM
2 min
11°
11° above NNW
10° above NNE
Sun Nov 4, 6:05 AM
1 min
10°
10° above N
Mon Nov 5, 5:13 AM
Tue Nov 6, 5:57 AM
3 min
13°
10° above NNW
10° above NE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone)
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
November 2, Friday 2 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. - Replay of SpaceCast Weekly (All Channels)
November 3, Saturday 8 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m. - Replay of SpaceCast Weekly  (All Channels) 9 a.m., 4 p.m., 9 p.m. – Replay of Previewing the InSight Spacecraft’s Nov. 26 Landing on Mars (All Channels) 10 a.m., 5 p.m., 10 p.m. – Replay of the RS-25 Engine Test (All Channels)
November 4, Sunday 9 a.m., 1 p.m., 8 p.m. – Replay of Previewing the InSight Spacecraft’s Nov. 26 Landing on Mars (All Channels) 10 a.m., 2 p.m., 9 p.m. – Replay of the RS-25 Engine Test (All Channels) 11 a.m., 5 p.m., 11 p.m. - Replay of SpaceCast Weekly (All Channels)
November 5, Monday 9 a.m. – NASA astronaut Serena Aunon-Chancellor Interviews with the Coloradoan, Fort Collins, Colorado (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar Oct 10 - [Oct 08Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
Nov 02 - Comet 300P/Catalina Perihelion (0.833 AU)
Nov 02 - Comet C/2018 B1 (Lemmon) At Opposition (4.438 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid Okinawa Closest Approach To Earth (1.378 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid Bradpitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.448 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid 4355 Memphis Closest Approach To Earth (1.717 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
Nov 02 - [Oct 29] Centaur Object Pelion At Opposition ( AU)
Nov 03 - GLONASS-M 760 Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat-M Launch
Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
Nov 03 - Comet 368P/NEAT At Opposition (1.157 AU)
Nov 03 - Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels Perihelion (1.392 AU)
Nov 03 - Comet 374P/Larson At Opposition (1.737 AU)
Nov 03 - Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes Closest Approach To Earth (1.903 AU)
Nov 03 - Amor Asteroid 2016 VH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 5748 Davebrin Closest Approach To Earth (1.281 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.374 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)
Nov th Anniversary (1973), Mariner 10 Launch (Venus & Mercury Flyby Mission)
Nov 03 - Alfred Perot's 155th Birthday (1863)
Nov 04 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
Nov 04 - Comet 25D/Neujmin At Opposition (1.959 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults 2UCAC  (11.9 Magnitude Star)
Nov 04 - [Oct 24] Aten Asteroid 2018 UY1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Nov 04 - Aten Asteroid 2002 VE68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
Nov 04 - [Oct 30] Amor Asteroid 2018 UR2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid Garching Closest Approach To Earth (1.666 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid 3933 Portugal Closest Approach To Earth (2.349 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid Potato Closest Approach To Earth (2.379 AU)
Nov 04 - [Oct 27] Plutino Lempo (2 Moons) At Opposition ( AU)
Nov 04 - Kuiper Belt Object (2014 UM33) At Opposition ( AU)
JPL Space Calendar

9. Space Calendar Oct 10 - [Oct 08Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
Nov 04 - Richard Binzel's 60th Birthday (1958)
Nov 05 - Parker Solar Probe, 1st Perihelion (0.17 AU)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults UCAC  (12.0 Magnitude Star)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC  (12.0 Magnitude Star)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 2554 Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (1.489 AU)
Nov 05 - Asteroid Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (1.908 AU)
Nov 05 - [Oct 30] Kuiper Belt Object (2004 TY364) At Opposition ( AU)
Nov th Anniversary (2013), Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Launch (India)
Nov  4th NoR HGT& LUCA Conference: Molecules to Microbes, Athens, Greece
Nov  30th Space Simulation Conference, Annapolis, Maryland
Nov 06 - METOP-C Soyuz-ST-B Fregat-MT Launch
Nov 06 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (23 Degrees)
Nov 06 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 TF3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
Nov 06 - Asteroid Dangoldin Closest Approach To Earth (0.754 AU)
Nov 06 - Atira Asteroid (2008 EA32) Closest Approach To Earth (1.293 AU)
Nov 06 - Asteroid Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.316 AU)
Nov 06 - Asteroid Ballard Closest Approach To Earth (1.509 AU)
Nov 06 - Asteroid 5107 Laurenbacall Closest Approach To Earth (1.963 AU)
Nov 06 - Asteroid Aretha Closest Approach To Earth (2.160 AU)
Nov 06 - Plutino (2004 UX10) At Opposition ( AU)
Nov 06 - [Oct 26] Kuiper Belt Object 2014 UZ224 At Opposition ( AU)
Nov 06 - James Gregory's 380th Birthday (1638)
JPL Space Calendar

10. Independent board chair calls JWST a “step too far”
Food for Thought
Independent board chair calls JWST a “step too far”

11. Hubble Reveals a Giant Cosmic 'Bat Shadow'
Space Image of the Week
Hubble Reveals a Giant Cosmic 'Bat Shadow'