The 365 Days of Astronomy

Description: On August 21st, 2017, the United States will experience a total solar eclipse on a path crossing the country from Oregon to South Carolina. This eclipse presents a rare opportunity to study the Sun’s inner corona. The Citizen Continental-American Telescopic Eclipse Experiment (Citizen CATE) will station 60 telescopes across the country to capture a continuous, uninterrupted movie of the Sun’s corona during totality. Four Research Experience For Undergraduates (REU) students have spent the summer at the National Solar Observatory in Tucson analyzing date from telescope tests done in Indonesia during the March 9th, 2016 total solar eclipse in Indonesia and preparing for the 2017 total solar eclipse. This podcast explores the Citizen CATE Experiment and lets you learn how to get involved in this exciting citizen science project.

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Starkiller Base is the headquarters of the First Order in the 2015 movie "Star Wars: The Force Awakens". The First Order is the successor to the Galactic Empire of the first 6 movies. The base is not only twice the size of the Death Star, it's also much more powerful. We see this in the movie when it demolishes five planets at once!

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Summary of content: 

The Discussion: We’re cheering Jeni’s graduation with a first class masters in astrophysics and looking at the PhD options she has as she chases the dream of becoming Dr Millard! Paul & Ralph make preparations for September’s dark sky AstroCamp stargazing event and educate Jeni about computers from the 1980s.

The News: Rounding up the space and astronomy news this month we have:

A new dwarf planet is discovered in our solar system

The doomed Hitachi spacecraft reveals streams of intergalactic plasma

A new moon around Earth discovered

Detective work reveals what caused the moon’s Imbrium Basin

Tatooine gets outshone by a planet with three stars

The first observation of a snowline in a forming solar system

Woobusters: Continuing our quest to debunk the myths and conspiracy theories that persist in every dark corner of the news and the internet. This month’s topic, picked at random from Paul’s festering Hat of Woo: Chemtrails – those quite normal jet exhaust trails that some people think are spraying mind control agents

The Interview: For the interview this month we visit Dr Helen Sharman from Imperial College London, who because Britain’s first astronaut in 1991:

Tim Peake’s slight embarrassment at often being called Britain’s 1st astronaut

An unconventional route to space

Training to be an astronaut at Russia’s Star City

The Mir space station compared to the International Space Station

Excitement for the future of human spaceflight

Uncertainty over space and science funding in the Brexit era.

The full interview with Helen will be available as a podcast extra later in the month

Q&A: Listeners’ questions via email, Facebook & Twitter take us on a journey into the astronomy issues that have always plagued our understanding or stretched our credulity. This month we get a question that follows the theme of our introduction and looks directly at the point Helen Sharman raised in this month’s interview:

What does Brexit mean for the UKs involvement in things like ESA and ESO? Andrew Burns, United Kingdom

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Streamed live on Nov 19, 2015

Dr. David James
Calibration Engineer/CU IMPACT Lab Manager
Dust to Dust
As innocent as ‘cosmic dust’ may seem, it helps to answer some of the most interesting space physics questions we have today. At the research center of the University of Colorado is a building that we share during the summer with hundreds of kids learning about science. however, what we do here is anything but child’s play. In this lab is CU’s Institute for Modeling Plasma, Atmospheres, and Cosmic dusT (IMPACT) where there is a 3 million volt dust accelerator capable of launching tiny dust particles at speeds of over 100km/s. Our focus of study is plasma and high velocity dust in the solar system. From astronaut safety, to planetary footprints, to the origins of our solar system and even life itself, these small objects we call dust hold the key to important scientific questions. As a part of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP), IMPACT’s small team of 8 scientists and engineers (with help from approximately 20 CU students) have worked on missions throughout the solar system (the Moon, Saturn, Europa, Pluto, etc..) to use those keys and help open the answers. This talk will focus on the facilities we have in the lab and the missions that we have worked on to find those answers.

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This week our host, Dr. Paul Matt Sutter, chats with media personality (and performer) Johnny DiLoretto about getting people interested in science, the need for science outreach, and. . .tagging sharks.

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From January 1, 2007.

We take the Moon for granted, but its effect on the Earth is very important; possibly even critical for the formation of life. But where did it come from? Did the Earth and Moon form together? Or did the Earth capture a wayward Moon? Or was there a more catastrophic cause to this lunar mystery?

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Special Guest: NASA Solar System Ambassador Greg Redfern. We chat about the dismal funding situation for science in America of 2015.

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Mercury, Venus, Jupiter – These three form a nice line on the 1st, with bright Venus low in the west after sunset, bright Jupiter 25˚ to the left and up, with Mercury very dim, in between the two, but closer to Venus.  By the 10th, Jupiter has crept closer to Venus, and Mercury is still dim, but almost exactly in the middle. After this point, Mercury is very challenging to see without optical aid, but the three planets form a nice triangle that changes as Jupiter gets closer and closer to Venus, reaching the closest I’ve ever seen them (0.1˚) on the 27th.  You’ll actually be able to see them together in a telescope!

Mars & Saturn – Look south after sunset and bring a sky map of Scorpius.  Saturn and Mars start about 11˚ apart, with Saturn to the left. Throughout the month, Saturn moves past Saturn, as close as 4˚ on 23rd, and ends the month 5˚ to the right and above Mars. Both are visible until about 11:30pm.

12th – 13th – Perseid Meteor Shower – This might be a great year for the Perseids.  Why? The waxing Gibbous Moon is in the way only until 1am, just in time for the best meteor watching time (albeit until 5am), and astrophysicists are saying the normal count of 60-90 meteors per hour will probably be higher this year, with a chance of being double, due to perturbations from Jupiter.  It looks like that in dark skies there will be about 60 meteors per hour. Remember, you’re seeing the bits of dust left over from Comet Swift-Tuttle burning up as they crash into the atmosphere at 37 miles per second.

Some advice for watching:

    Find a dark location and lie down in a reclining chair or swimming pool floaty

    Look toward Perseus (In the NE, rises throughout the night until sunrise where it will be almost directly above.)  That is where the radiant is - where the meteors will appear to be coming from. You’ll see more after 1am, when the Moon sets, but the brightest ones can still be seen after sunset.

    The strategy to observe this one is to start watching in the evening and continue until daylight.  The shower is usually technically active from mid-July to late August, so you may see some Perseids in the days leading up to and after the peak as well. 

Check the weather to see if the skies will be clear

Adapt your eyes to the dark by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something. 

If you’re feeling extra nerdy, do a scientific meteor count (S&T and IMO)

Or find out if your local astronomy club or museum is holding a viewing party.

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The NASA spacecraft MESSENGER had a long and tricky journey to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. But astronomers working on the MESSENGER mission announced many new discoveries that show the journey was well worth the effort.

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Special Guest: Robert Logue.

TelescopeMan records Robert Logue of the Texas Astronomical Society as he describes the history of Astronomy at our monthly Beginner Astronomy Class. The audio portion of the archive stopped abruptly at 46m36s during the Copernicus portion of the program.

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