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Light Pollution with special guest Rick Huziak on Episode 299 of the Actual Astronomy Podcast.

Rick is most widely recognized as the face of SSSP (The Saskatchewan Summer Star Party) operating as lead organizer and registration tent ring leader for the past 27 years. He compiled the list of Carbon Stars in the RASC Observer’s Handbook. He has submitted over 180,000 variable star observations to the AAVSO and is a meteorite collector who appeared on such shows as Meteorite Hunters and helped in the recovery of some tonnage of the Buzzard Coulee meteorite fall here in Saskatchewan. In 2004 - International Astronomical Union named main-belt asteroid 4143 Huziak after him. 

 

Rick has sat on the RASC National Light Pollution and Abatement Committee for several decades. Rick is well known for his work here which prompted the Saskatchewan Eco-Network to name Huziak a Saskatchewan Environmental Champion Oh and it’s thanks to Rick that we have the Grasslands National Park Dark Sky Preserve as he did much of the groundwork on the amateur astronomy side to have this the darkest dark sky park designated to protect it for years to come.

 

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