The 365 Days of Astronomy

Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006.

Today's 2 topics:

- This "Old Girl" is the 60" telescope of Mt. Lemmon Observatory. It was used to discover asteroid 2011 AG5. It's now equipped with a 100 million pixel camera.

- Dr. Grauer and his Catalina Sky Survey teammate Greg Leonard discovered the one mile diameter main belt asteroid 2016 NA39. "Nope" refers to its not being found to be a threat to Earth after all.

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In this interview recorded at the January meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Grapevine, Texas, NOAO director Dr. David Silva discusses the future of NOAO as astronomy moves into the era of big data.

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Streamed live on Mar 31, 2017.

Our apologies for the slight (-42dB) 60Hz hum in the audio. Fraser has a new ART D7 mic and has... issues, you might say…

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guests:Timothy Spuck, Kathryn Meredith, Dr. James Hammerman and Andreas Stefik of the Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy (IDATA) Project Team. The IDATA project aims to design and develop Afterglow Access, a new software tool that will expand accessibility beyond touch, making the universe more accessible to those with visual impairments.

Tim Spuck (email: [email protected]) (Associated Universities Inc. STEM Education Development Officer and IDATA PI) currently serves as PI on three NSF supported programs including, Innovators Developing Accessible Tools for Astronomy, the Chile-US Astronomy Education Outreach Summit, and the Astronomy in Chile Educator Ambassadors Program. Tim also remains active within the amateur astronomy community, has directed numerous outreach efforts, and led several small-scale observatory design and construction projects. He earned his Masters degree in Science Education from Clarion University or PA, and is completing his Ed.D. in Curriculum & Instruction at West Virginia University.

Kate Meredith (Yerkes Observatory – University of Chicago, Director of Education Outreach, and IDATA Project Educator) has engaged in curriculum development and project management for the Zooniverse, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the Lawrence Hall of Science, the Adler Planetarium Space and Science Museum, and Skynet Junior Scholars (University of Chicago Yerkes Observatory). Kate is passionate about programs that bring authentic research science to learners of all ages, languages, and abilities. As Education Lead on the IDATA project, Kate looks forward to being part of the team that takes accessibility to the next level by creating vision-neutral data acquisition and analysis tools as well as the instructional materials needed to teach new users how to use and apply those tools.

Dr. James K. L. Hammerman (TERC ( Technical Education Research Centers ), Co-Director of SEEC and Senior Researcher and Evaluator, IDATA Co-PI) currently leads external evaluations for several projects, including an immersive computer environment for conducting experiments to explore causality and ecology, a state-wide initiative to engage rural youth in computing through programming an online game, and an effort to improve pedagogy among university STEM faculty. Jim has designed, implemented, and researched mathematics and science education curricula and professional development programs, as well as technology tools that support inquiry-oriented learning. Jim is especially interested in adult developmental differences in professional development, data and statistics learning, online and software tools that support exploration, and supporting deeper learning and more reflective practice in professional communities.

Andreas Stefik (University of Nevada – Las Vegas, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and IDATA Co-PI) – For the last decade, Dr. Stefik has been creating technologies that make it easier for people, including those with disabilities, to write computer software. With grants from the National Science Foundation, he helped establish the first national educational infrastructure for blind or visually impaired students to learn computer science. He is the inventor of Quorum, the first evidence-oriented programming language. As part of his work, he is a PI on the NSF-funded AccessCS10K grant that is helping CS 10K projects prepare K-12 teachers to be more inclusive in their computing courses with students with disabilities. Most recently, Dr. Stefik was honored with the 2016 White House Champions of Change award in computer science education.

Regular Guests:

Morgan Rehnberg ( http://cosmicchatter.org/ & @MorganRehnberg )

This week's stories:

- SpaceX finally does it! A used rocket puts a new satellite in orbit and then lands again!

- NASA has fleshed out it's Mars Program plans.

- Blue Origin shows off its new capsule.

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Earth is surrounded by a huge cocoon that protects us from the dangerous cosmic radiation and particles that bombard our planet.

Without it, life as we know it would not exist, yet it's totally invisible! This cocoon is Earth's magnetic field. It's more of a magnetic shield than field, if you get my drift!

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Jenifer Millard host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge produce.

Summary of content: What to look out, and up, for in April.

Our highlights of this month’s skies with the planets on offer to observers and imagers:

A pair of comets to observe with amateur telescopes or binoculars.

The planets Mercury and Jupiter in the evening.

The Lyrid meteor shower, ZHR 18/hr. Peak Apr 22, active 16-25th. Newish Moon. C1861 G1 Thatcher is the parent body.

Next up, we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favorites for this time of year:

Ralph – Pinwheel Galaxy in Ursa Major

Paul – The Black Eye Galaxy in Coma Berenices

Jen – The Ring Nebula in Lyra

And we finish this sky guide with March’s moon phases.

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Part Two! What’s the relationship between the Higgs Boson and mass? What does that even mean, and how do we go about detecting it? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain. Thanks to WCBE Radio for hosting the recording session, Greg Mobius for producing, and Cathy Rinella for editing.

Hosted by Paul M. Sutter, astrophysicist at The Ohio State University, Chief Scientist at COSI Science Center, and the one and only Agent to the Stars

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Streamed live 4:30pm, March 31st, 2017.

Our apologies for the slight (-42dB) 60Hz hum in the audio. Fraser has a new ART D7 mic and has pre-amp issues, you might say…

For this historic 444th episode of Astronomy Cast we talk about fractals, those amazing mathematical visualizations of recursive algorithms and those tasty broccolis! (Pamela stiffles a laugh) So what are they? How do you get them? Why are they important?

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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006.

Today's 2 topics:

- Earth is so far unique in the cosmos. The human use of fossil fuels is changing the climate which will make our lives difficult in ways we are just learning to appreciate.

- Carson Fuls of the Catalina Sky Survey discovered 3 PHAs, Potentially Hazardous Asteroids, during one momentous 6 night observing run.

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Welcome to Observing With Webb, where the armchair astronomer figures out what they’re looking at, why it’s so cool, and what they should check out next.  Don’t forget to check out my Podbean page, YouTube Channel, and Twitter feed.

All five naked eye planets are visible at some point in April, temperatures get warmer, and the Lyrid Meteor Shower might put on a display, April 22.

Mercury – If you’re out for the first week of April around sunset, you can catch Mercury’s best apparition of the year. Look West and find the bright point less than 15˚ above the horizon.  Each day it gets lower, is not visible for the next two weeks, and then reappears very low in the sunrise sky before 6:05am if you’re good.

Jupiter – Great month for it, as it reaches opposition on the 7th, where you can see it from sunset to sunrise.  If you’re looking for Jupiter before going to bed, it rises in the East 45 minutes after sunset (7:30pm) at the beginning of the month and is already 30˚ up in the SE at sunset by the end of the month.  Just look for the very bright object in the SE after sunset.  If you’re staying up late, Jupiter will be in the South at midnight, and in the WSW around sunrise, always hanging out around Spica, the brightest star in Virgo. 

Saturn – Rises around 1am in the SE.  Look S in the mornings before sunrise.  It will only be about 25˚ above the horizon, much brighter than anything else around it, above Sagittarius.

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Dark matter doesn’t shine like stars or reflect light like planets, or even absorb light like cosmic dust. We can only detect dark matter through its gravitational effect on other objects, such as spiral galaxies.

Like the wind on a fall day, you can’t see it but you can sure see how it makes the leaves blow around.

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