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Wednesday, July 27, 2016

Astrophiz Podcast 4 is Out

Astrophiz Podcast 4 is 0ut. Interview: Professor Sarah Maddison - Dust and Protoplanetary Disks History & Theory of radio astronomy: Dr Nadeshzda Cherbakov from Tver tells us about Grote Reber. Dr Ian Musgrave tells us "What's up in the sky this week" - The News Roundup: Magdalena Ridge Optical Interferometry, WIMPS and Kepler Reborn.
https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-podcast-4-dr-sarah-maddison-protoplanetary-disks-dr-nadeshzda-cherbakov-grote-reber

Labels: Astrophiz, podcasts

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Friday, July 22, 2016

Astrophiz Podcast 3 is Out

The Astrophiz podcast is out, Interview: Dave Hunter - Magnetometers and interpreting heliophysical satellite data. History & Theory of radio astronomy: Dr Nadeshda Cherbakov tells us about Karl Jansky. ANNNDD someone you might recognize talking about what is up in the sky this week.
https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-podcast-3-heliophysics-karl-jansky

Labels: Astrophiz, podcasts

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Sunday, June 03, 2012

Podcast of My Radio Interview on the Transit of Venus

This Sunday (3 June) I was on Ashley Walsh's program on 891 ABC Adelaide talking about the upcoming Transit of Venus on Wednesday (and the Lunar Eclipse on Monday).

Well, the session was recorded and you can hear it at the 891 Sunday Morning Blog. My apologies to real astronomers fro some imprecision in my language.

For those listening (or who listened to the show and wanted to know). My guide to safe binocular projection systems is here.

The live streams/webcasts I mentioned are:

Siding Spring Observatory and iTelescopes ustream site for the transit.
Livestreaming at RiAus

There's lots more at the Transit site.

And don't forget the Astronomical Society of South Australia will hold a public viewing in Adelaide Festival Plaza (behind Parliament House) form 7:30 am weather permitting. There is a a public lecture on the transit which will take place at 8 pm in the Kerr Grant Lecture Theatre, Physics Building, the University of Adelaide.

Labels: eclipse, podcasts, public outreach, Radio, science communicators, transit, Venus

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Sunday, May 01, 2011

Videocast - The Dance of The Planets in May 2011

I've done my first Videocast of this months (May 2011) morning dance of the planets. The link is here, or you can watch the video below. The sound and images don't synchronize so well, as I had to do the sound recording on a different computer from the one the proto-video was on (don't ask). I may re-record it.

Labels: Conjunction, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, podcasts, unaided eye observation, Venus

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Thursday, March 10, 2011

The Death of Pluto and the Birth of the Drake Equation - Podcats from

The Astronomical Society of the Pacific has produced two podcasts that may be of interest to people coming here. I'll just repost their email to me.

The nonprofit Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP)
is pleased to announce two new resources for
educators, outreach professionals, journalists,
and astronomy enthusiasts:

1. Prof. Michael Brown (Caltech) explains "How I
Killed Pluto and Why It Had it Coming" in a free podcast
in the Silicon Valley Astronomy Lecture Series from
Jan. 19th, 2011:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/podcast/index.html

In this wonderfully personal and humorous talk, Dr. Brown
explains exactly what happened and didn't happen when
astronomers reached the controversial new definition of
a planet.

(On that same page, you can find a podcast from November,
in which Natalie Batalha sets the background about the Kepler
mission and explains the search for other Earths in our
cosmic neighborhood.)

2. The latest issue of "The Universe in the Classroom" Newsletter
on Teaching Astronomy celebrates the 50th anniversary of the
Drake Equation -- the formula proposed by Frank Drake that
helps scientists estimate the likelihood of intelligent, communicative
life in the universe:
http://www.astrosociety.org/education/publications/tnl/77/77.html

In addition to a nice historical summary of the equation and
how it is used, the issues includes resources and classroom
activities on this topic.

Labels: education, Pluto, podcasts, science communicators

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Thursday, May 03, 2007

May Jodcast is up

Stuart has annonounced the May Jodcast is up. Given my new appreciation of telescopes, it is apporpriate that this one features some veru big telescopes.

Labels: Astronomy, jodcast, podcasts

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