The 365 Days of Astronomy

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 December.

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

- Venus shining brilliantly in the evening sky

- Mercury at greatest elongation on 11th December

- Jupiter returns to our late night skies

Next up is the meteor showers and December brings us the greatest of them all:

The Geminids peaking on the night of 13/14th December.

Then we each take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

Jeni – IC 1396 - The Elephant Trunk Nebula in Cepheus

Paul – M78 – a reflection nebula in Orion

Ralph – NGC 246 the Skull Nebula in Cetus

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

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Hosted by Ricardo García Soto ( http://www.astroblog.cl/ / @cuasar / astroetal.com ). Ricardo is a science writer & TV director. Episode 8.

Special guest: Doctoral student Kirstin Danielle Doney ( https://www.instagram.com/kirstdanielle/ / @KirstinDanielle ), of Leiden University.

Astrochemistry, spectra, molecules in space and life outside our planet.

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Pamela's guest for this segment of the Hangout-a-Thon is Amy Shira Teitel ( @astVintageSpace ), author of "Breaking the Chains of Gravity" & blogger on early rocketry and early manned space exploration.

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Streamed live November 23, 2016.

So we begin a miniseries on Mars. How many episodes will we do? Who knows! Who cares. But today we start with a discussion of the two Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos.

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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:

- Our view of Mars has changed over the centuries. There may have been shallow lakes on Mars in the last few tens of millions of years.

- Jess Johnson of the Catalina Sky Survey, while observing on Mount Bigelow, discovered the hazardous NEO 2016 EE156.

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Every single day, the Earth is bombarded by more than 100 tons of dust and sand grain-sized particles. That’s the same as the weight of 14 elephants.

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Streamed live Nov 18, 2016.
Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: Dr. Jason Wright ( @Astro_Wright ), Professor in Penn State University's Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics. Jason studies nearby stars, their ages and activity levels, and their planetary systems (exoplanets.) Jason also does a lot of outreach and research about Tabby's Star (the "alien magastructure" star.)

Regular Guests:

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

Kimberly Cartier ( http://KimberlyCartier.org & @AstroKimCartier )

This week's stories:

- More new info on Pluto!

- More on the bright spots on Ceres.

- The GOES-R launch!

- Mercury has a huge valley. Really.

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Avivah Yamani hosts.

For a short answer: The gas giants have more moons than the terrestrial planets because of their great masses which result in stronger gravitational fields. And giant planets also occupy greater space and hold larger volumes of mass in their surrounding atmospheres.

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Recorded at the Astronomical League's 2016 Annual Convention. Your Producer, Richard Drumm, apologizes for the sketchy audio quality. Someday he'll buy a wireless mic and won't have to record "room tone" off the PA system any more. Dr. George Doschek is a Research Physicist in the Solar & Heliospheric Physics Branch in the Space Science Division of the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL).

The origin of the solar chromosphere, corona, and the production of solar flares and coronal mass ejections that occur within these regions are exciting unsolved problems of solar physics. There are many theories and a plethora of space observations that observe the high energy solar atmosphere in ultraviolet, extreme-ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma ray wavelengths. These observations have given us stunning views of the Sun that are not attainable from the Earth’s surface. Dr. Doschek discusses some of the most spectacular results from recent spacecraft such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory, STEREO, Hinode, RHESSI, and SOHO and what their data are telling us about the fundamental physics that drives the solar atmosphere and its effects on the Earth.

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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins host. Damien Phillips and John Wildridge, producers, are special guests this time round!

(Editor's note) I might add that it's always a good idea to join your local astronomy club and look through their scopes to see what they're like before you drop thousands down on a shiny behemoth. It'll help also when it comes to choosing eyepieces. Enough of me, now back to the Awesome Astro show notes:

In this podcast extra we pool our collective brainpower to bring you a 20 minute discussion of telescope types, apertures, portability and capabilities to help you buy the right telescope for you.

If you’re thinking of buying your first telescope – or thinking of getting one as a gift for someone this Christmas – then this will give you all the considerations for that purchase.

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