Night Sky Tourist

This is the best time of year to see Jupiter and Saturn in the night sky, and Jupiter is really putting on a show this year. In this episode, I’m joined by Ted Blank, a NASA Solar System Ambassador, to talk about how to view these gorgeous gas giants.

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Night Sky Tourist Episode #1 with Ted Blank (Meet Ted Blank): https://nightskytourist.com/1-2/

Night Sky Tourist Episode #25 with Ted Blank (Buying a Telescope): https://nightskytourist.com/25/

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Have you ever been to Utah’s Antelope Island State Park in the middle of the Great Salt Lake? It’s only a short distance from the state’s capital, but it will surprise you with its beautiful dark skies. The island is a designated International Dark Sky Park and offers great stargazing programs, as well as unique landscapes and activities you can enjoy during the day.

In this episode, I chat with Wendy Wilson, the assistant park manager who put in the work to get Antelope Island its dark sky designation.

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Antelope Island State Park: https://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/antelope-island/

Antelope Island Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AntelopeIslandSP

Antelope Island Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/antelopeislandstatepark/

Antelope Island Twitter: https://twitter.com/AntelopeSP

Ogden Astronomical Society: http://ogdenastronomy.org

Night Sky Tourist Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NightSkyTourist

Night Sky Tourist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nightskytourist/

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Have you had a chance to make any great stargazing memories? In this episode, I share tips for protecting your night vision, gadgets to enhance your stargazing experiences, and ideas to add more fun for the whole family.

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Things to See in the Night Sky in 2022 Guide: https://nightskytourist.com

Night Sky Tourist #25- Buying a Telescope with Ted Blank: https://nightskytourist.com/25/

“7 Tips for Stargazing with Grandparents”: https://nightskytourist.com/stargazing-with-grandparents/

“Moon Milk Magic?”: https://nightskytourist.com/moon-magic/

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Ranger Austin Tumas joins me from Hovenweep National Monument to talk about the Ancestral Pueblo people who once lived there and the remarkable archaeoastronomy they left behind.

Austin started working for the National Park Service 7 years ago as a college student. Since then, she’s worked in 8 different parks across the country. Astronomy was part of the activities at 6 of those parks. Although her degree is in anthropology, she learned a great deal about astronomy during her first season at Hovenweep, proving that anyone can learn the night sky.

Austin has worked at Hovenweep as a seasonal interpretation ranger, as a Student Conservation intern, with the Volunterr-in-Parks program, and now as a permanent ranger as a Lead Interpreter.

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Hovenweep National Monument: https://www.nps.gov/hove/index.htm

Hovenweep on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/HovenweepNPS

Night Sky Tourist #5- Cultural Astronomy with Luke Edens: https://nightskytourist.com/5-2/

Night Sky Tourist #9- Mayan Arcahaeoastronomy with Dr. Anthony Aveni: https://nightskytourist.com/9-2/

Night Sky Tourist #16- Stonehenge at Summer Solstice with Josh Dury: https://nightskytourist.com/16-2/

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Australia is a stargazing paradise and offers different night sky views than we experience in the Northern Hemisphere. In this episode, I chat with Dimitri Douchin, founder of Blue Mountains Stargazing. He shares about the unique experiences his company offers and gives us some great tips for other things to do in the area.

Dimitri is an astrophysicist and serves on the faculty of Western Sydney University where he specializes in Cultural Astronomy.

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LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

Blue Mountains Stargazing: https://www.bluemountainsstargazing.com.au

Blue Mountains Stargazing on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluemountainsstargazing/

Blue Mountains Stargazing on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bluemountainsstargazing/

Kirsten Banks TED Talk “65,000 Years–The Great History of Australian Aboriginal Astronomy”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYr7ZCn04eA

Night Sky Tourist #26 “Emotional Grounding and the Night Sky with Toni Kouts” (Sydney): https://nightskytourist.com/26/

Night Sky Tourirst #34 “Aboriginal Skies with Paul Curnow” (Adlaide): https://nightskytourist.com/34/

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Ric Alling chats with me about the fascinating world of how humans used the sky to develop calendars, why we invented clocks, and the benefits of getting back to seasonal living.

Ric is the manager of the Community Outreach Program at Arizona State University’s School of Earth & Space Exploration. He also puts together the programming at the Marston Exploration Theater and the Gallery of Scientific Exploration at ASU. He has a professional interest in the history of astronomy and how people through history react to scientific trends and investigations.

Rick is a board member of the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest, which is an organization that engages with Native Americans and their cultural views of science using the backdrop of observable astronomical phenomena.

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LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

Arizona State University’s School of Earth & Space Exploration: https://sese.asu.edu

The 4 Season Solution: A Groundbreaking Plan to Fight Burnout and Tap into Optimum Health by Dallas Hartwig: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-4-Season-Solution/Dallas-Hartwig/9781982115166

The Oxcart Man by Donald Hall: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/320517/ox-cart-man-by-donald-hall-illustrated-by-barbara-cooney/

Marking Time: The Epic Quest to Invent the Perfect Calendar by Duncan Steel: https://www.amazon.com/Marking-Time-Invent-Perfect-Calendar/dp/0471298271/ref=nodl_?dplnkId=745ba713-a518-42c6-9c00-c2806e61a14d

NASA Perseverance Rover: https://www.nasa.gov/perseverance

James Webb Telescope: https://jwst.nasa.gov

"6 Night Vision Tips for Epic Stargazing": https://nightskytourist.com/6-night-vision-tricks/

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Paul Bogard chats with me about his book The End of Night: Searching for Natural Darkness in an Age of Artificial Light. He is also the author of The Ground Beneath Us: From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are. His most recent works are the coffee table book To Know a Starry Night and the children’s book What if Night? Paul is an associate professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, Minnesota USA, where he teaches environmental literature and writing.

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LINKS IN THIS EPISODE

Paul Bogard: http://www.paul-bogard.com/

Wild Nights Out with Chris Salisbury: https://nightskytourist.com/35/

Astronomy vs. Astrology: Are They the Same?: https://nightskytourist.com/astronomy-vs-astrology/

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Harun Memedinovic is one of the founders of Skyglow Project. In this episode, we chat about our shared love for dark sky advocacy and how Harun uses his photography skills to bring attention to the issue of light pollution, or skyglow.

Harun is an award-winning photographer and videographer whose work has been featured in National Geographic, BBC Earth, Vogue Italia, Astronomy Magazine, Wired, Forbes, and so much more. He’s also an author of three books and has been the subject of a TEDx Talk.More recently, he was the cinematographer and co-producer for “Ice on Fire”, an HBO feature documentary produced by Leonardo DiCaprio.

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Skyglow Project: https://skyglowproject.com

Bloodhoney (Harun’s personal project site): http://www.bloodhoney.com

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Geoff Notkin, star of the tv show Meteorite Men, stops in to chat about the auction for his personal meteorite collection that ends on June 22, 2022. Learn about his 30 years in the world of meteorites, how he assembled his collection over the years, and details about this one-of-a-kind auction.

You can catch my previous episodes with Geoff Notkin:

Episode 19 Chasing Meteorites with Geoff Notkin part 1: https://nightskytourist.com/19-2/

Episode 20 Treasures from Space with Geoff Notkin part 2: https://nightskytourist.com/20-2/

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Heritage Auctions: https://www.ha.com/information/geoff-notkin-collection.s?type=surl-notkin

Geoffrey Notkin on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/spacerocks

Geoffrey Notkin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/geoffnotkin/

Geoffrey Notkin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/geoffnotkin

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I chat with Jared Low, a Supervisory Park Ranger for the Interpretation Division at Olympic National Park. Jared manages the Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center and the Olympic National Park Visitor Center in Port Angeles, WA. He coordinates the interpretive programming for visitors in the east district of the park, including the popular night skies program at Hurricane Ridge.

Jared has worked with the National Park Service since 2012, including time at Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park and Mt. Rainier National Park. He loves to explore the waters, trails, and campgrounds of the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two young daughters during his free time.

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Olympic National Park: https://www.nps.gov/olym/index.htm

Visit Port Angeles: https://www.visitportangeles.com

Blood Moon article: https://nightskytourist.com/super-blood-moon-2021/

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