The 365 Days of Astronomy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AmX34OPWSM

Streamed live on Oct 2, 2015

Join Fraser Cain and a rotating crew of space journalists to talk about the biggest news in space and astronomy.
This week we will cover all of the awesome news of the week, including the Lunar Eclipse, Water on Mars, and of course our weekly Pluto Update!

Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )

Special Guest & future regular guest: Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )

Guests:

Dr. Pamela Gay ( @starstryder / http://www.starstryder.com/ )

Morgan Rehnberg ( @MorganRehnberg )

Dr. Brian Koberlein ( http://www.forbes.com/sites/briankoberlein/ )

Sondy Springmann ( @sondy )

- There's water on Mars! Again!

- NASA announces 5 new Discovery missions!

- Ceres is mapped! I'm - SO - Ceres!

- Gravity waves… Weaker than we thought?

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Paul Hill and Ralph Wilkins host.

The Discussion: Coming live from The AstroCamp at the Cwmdu Caravan & Camping Park in the Brecon Beacons in Wales's international dark sky reserve, we talk about the benefits of getting out to truly dark skies and observing with people who have a range of astronomy skills.

The News: We welcome astrophysicist Jeni Millard to discuss this month’s astronomy news. And after rebuking NASA last month for the paucity of New Horizons data releases, we’re more content this month and bring you the latest from the Pluto flyby. We take a look at the European Space Agency’s latest video from Philae as it descended to the surface of comet Churyumov Gerasimenko. And we bring you more news about the increasingly habitable conditions on Saturn’s moon Enceladus.   

The Interview (in 3 parts): This month we wrap the whole show around our interview with Skylab 3 and STS-3 astronaut, Jack Lousma. Jack tells us about taking that ominous call during Apollo 13 ‘Houston, we’ve had a problem’; how they solved each life-threatening issue in sequence to get the astronauts back alive; missing out on flying Apollo 20 to the moon; and taking one of the first space shuttles out for a test drive.

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 Ralph & Paul take a walk around AstroCamp to let listeners give their top tips for taking their first steps in practical amateur astronomy.

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Steve hosts while Barry & Julia answer questions… Questions about the unknown unknowns…

- Is time travel into the past out of the question?

- Do you think intelligent aliens will be humanoid like in the movies?

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Dr. Paul Matt Sutter hosts.

What’s the history of the universe? What is the big bang? What came before? I discuss these questions and more in today's Ask a Spaceman!

Follow all the show updates at http://www.askaspaceman.com/

Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman on Twitter@PaulMattSutter and Facebook/PaulMattSutter for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Music by Jason Grady and Nick Bain.

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Alice Enevoldsen hosts.

Link:  www.alicesastroinfo.com

Description: Presented as a counterpart to Awesome Astronomy’s Northern Hemisphere monthly forecast [ http://www.awesomeastronomy.com ], Alice talks about what’s visible from the Southern Hemisphere. Focused at about 33°S, this forecast should work for anywhere between 25°S and 50°S

Useful Links:

Heavens-Above Starcharts for anywhere, anytime, no installation required:

http://www.heavens-above.com/main.aspx?lat=-33.8675&lng=151.207&loc=Sydney&alt=19&tz=AEST

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Stellarium Free planetarium-style program for your computer or tablet:

http://www.stellarium.org/

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7Timer - Clear sky charts (will it be clear enough for stargazing?). Input your location, then click on “ASTRO” in the pop-up:

http://ftp.astron.ac.cn/

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Monthly Sky Guides from Sydney Observatory:

http://www.sydneyobservatory.com.au/category/astronomy/monthly-sky-guides/

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Paul Hill and Ralph Wilkins host.

This month the lads are recording the show at AstroCamp at the Cwmdu Caravan & Camping Park in the Brecon Beacons in lovely Wales!

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

This month we take a look at the constellation of Perseus the Hero for the beginners guide – we begin with the Alpha Persei Cluster around bright star Mirfak, swing by Algol, the Demon Star, and finish up with the Double Cluster – arguably the finest cluster (or clusters) in the Northern Hemisphere.

Next we round up the planets that are visible in October: Uranus & Neptune are still hanging on while Mars, Jupiter and Venus combine to make some stunning planetary conjunctions most of the month. We bring you the month’s moon phases and two meteor showers – the Draconids and the Orionids.  Then, for our deep sky challenge, we take a look at one of the finest globular clusters in the northern hemisphere, a galaxy that’s thought to be a mirror image of our own Milky Way, a grouping of five galaxies and the brightest galaxy of them all, Andromeda, as we tour the adjacent constellations of Andromeda & Pegasus.

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Please help us keep training the trainers! Learning Space is a weekly G+ Hangout on Air about topics in astronomy education, outreach and other ways to share science both in the school setting and outside it. We bring you interviews, hands-on demonstrations, lists of our favorite educational resources and more!

October is the month for getting out and checking out the fall and winter constellations as the nights get darker sooner.  Additionally, the mornings get interesting with Jupiter, Mars, and Venus dancing around each other, and on the 20th – 22nd the Orionid meteor shower pops up as well.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT-muxH9Crs

Streamed live on Sep 25, 2015

Join Fraser Cain and a rotating crew of space journalists to talk about the biggest news in space and astronomy.
Our guest this week is Maggie Scholtz, who works at JPL, and worked on the drill on Curiosity rover that detected key mineral first spied from orbit.

Fraser Cain (@fcain)

Maggie Scholtz (@martianmagster)

Dr. Paul Matt Sutter (@PaulMattSutter / askaspaceman.com)

Morgan Rehnberg (@MorganRehnberg / MorganRehnberg.com)

Dave Dickinson (@Astroguyz)

- "The Martian" movie will be out soon!

- Pluto images show snake skin terrain! Similar to Triton's cantaloupe terrain.

- Lunar eclipse Sunday! Bring popcorn!

- Colliding black holes? Do gravity waves decay their mutual orbits?

- Rosetta is still at work! 67P has a water sublimation cycle!

- Orbiting exoplanet! Beta Pictoris B moves!

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Podcasters: Carmen Austin, Lindsay Small, Daniel Tellez, Becca Levy, Chuck Dugan, and Zach Watson, Connie Walker (organizer/advisor)

Description: With half of the world’s population now living in cities, many urban dwellers have never experienced the wonderment of pristinely dark skies and maybe never will. This loss, caused by light pollution, is a concern on many fronts: safety, energy conservation, cost, health and effects on wildlife, as well as our ability to view the stars. Even though light pollution is a serious and growing global concern, it is one of the most straightforward environmental problems people can address on local levels. To learn how you can get involved in dark skies preservation and energy conservation, join us for this podcast as the Dark Night combats a new super-villain, Lighting Evil Doer and her sidekick Candesce. Will the Dark Night be able to use Globe at Night to overcome Lighting Evil Doer’s plan?

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Streamed live on Sep 15, 2015

Based out of Budapest, Hungary, Puli Space Technologies is famous for their unusual Moon rover design! Join us live on Google+ and YouTube to meet them, and hear about their recent adventure in the Austrian Alps---as part of the AMADEE-15 Mars mission simulation!

Guests:

- Dr. Tibor Pracher, of Team Puli. http://www.pulispace.com/

- Dr. Gernot Grömer, President of OWF, the Austrian Space Forum and Program Officer for the PolAres research program. http://www.oewf.org/
Overview:
Teams of scientists and engineers from around the world are working on missions to land on, travel across, and send video back from the Moon---in order to claim $30 million in prizes. With this Google Hangout on Air series, co-hosted by CosmoQuest, we introduce you to the men & women behind each of these planned missions and bring you all the latest developments, and inspiration, from the Google Lunar XPRIZE. Welcome to the new space race.

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