Date: February 9, 2010
Title: Things That Go Bump In the Night
Podcaster: Patrick McQuillan
Organization: Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) - www.iris.edu
Music Credit: "What is a Shooting Star?" by They Might Be Giants from the CD Here Comes Science.
Description: The Universe is mostly empty. That’s why it is called space and not stuff. However, collisions do occur. Let’s take a look [...]
Date: February 8, 2010
Title: The Supernova That Bounces
Podcaster: Rob Bowman
Description: Rob describes the before, during and after of a Type II supernova – also called by a much better name: A “Core Bounce Supernova”.
Bio: Rob Bowman is an electronics/software engineer by day and an armchair astronomer by night. He lives under the orange glow of city skies, so contents [...]
Date: February 7, 2010
Title: Retro Science: Determining the Eccentricity of the Moon's Orbit
Podcaster: Mike Simonsen and Kevin Krisciunas
Organization: Slacker Astronomy
Description: Mike Simonsen from Slacker Astronomy interviews Kevin Krisciunas about his recent paper that describes how to measure the eccentricity of the moon's orbit with a yardstick and some cardboard.
Bio: Slacker Astronomy is a light-hearted podcast that wanders the astronomical [...]
Date: February 6, 2010
Title: Expanding an Already Very Large Array
Podcaster: Nicole Gugliucci
Links: The Very Large Array - http://www.vla.nrao.edu
The NRAO Image Archive - http://images.nrao.edu
The EVLA - http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/evla
One Astronomer's Noise - http://noisyastronomer.com/365-days-of-astronomy/
Music from Dorian Spencer: http://www.dorianspencer.com/
Description: One of the most productive telescopes in astronomy, the Very Large Array, has shut down its operations for the first two months of this [...]
Date: February 5, 2010
Title: Getting Started in Astronomy: Then and Now
Podcaster: David Chapman and Andrea Misner
Organization: Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Halifax Centre: AstronomyNovaScotia.ca
Description: Andrea and Dave are two amateur astronomers and friends 30 years apart in age with a common bond formed by their interest in astronomy and physics. Dave became an amateur astronomer in the 1960s; [...]
Date: February 4, 2010
Title: Spectroscopy 101
Podcaster: Richard Drumm
Link: Richard's Blog - http://theastronomybum.blogspot.com/
Description: Richard Drumm talks about the basics of how spectroscopy works and why it is so interesting to professional astronomers.
Bio: Richard is the owner of 3D - Drumm Digital Design, an award-winning video production company. He was an observer with the UVa Parallax Program at McCormick Observatory in 1981 [...]
Date: February 3, 2010
Title: The GLOBE at Night Campaign: Our Light or Starlight?
Podcaster: Constance Walker
Organization: Globe at Night: www.globeatnight.org
globeatnight.wordpress.com
Dark Skies Awareness: www.darkskiesawareness.org/DarkSkiesRangers
Description: Two out of every three people in the United States cannot see the Milky Way galaxy arch across a pristinely dark night sky. Light pollution is obscuring people’s long-standing natural heritage to view stars. GLOBE at Night [...]
Date: February 2, 2010
Title: Amateur Astronomy's Affliction - Aperture Fever
Podcaster: RapidEye
Organization: RapidEye Observatory - a private observatory in rural Lee County, NC http://www.rapideye.us/astro/RapidEye-ClearSky.html
Description: An analysis and examples of the dark side of Amateur Astronomy.
Bio: I've been captivated by astronomy ever since I was a kid, living in NW Colorado where the Milky Way was bright enough to read by. I [...]
Date: February 1, 2010
Title: Migration by Celestial Navigation
Podcaster: Wild Ideas
Organization: Wild Ideas...the Podcast, produced by The Wilderness Center - http://www.wildernesscenter.org
Description: Wild Ideas...the Podcast is a nature podcast. We’d like to share some of the many connections between astronomy and animal species in the natural world. One of the things that comes up often is the breadth of species [...]
Date: January 31, 2010
Title: 2012: The Impact
Podcaster: Bill Hudson
Organization: http://2012hoax.org
Music by Kevin McLeod; http://www.incompetech.com
Description: Bill Hudson with 2012hoax.org uses some ‘impact statements’ from the website in order to explain his motivation for fighting the “2012 doomsday” rumors, and hopefully motivating other people to get out and begin actively debunking the myth.
Bio: Bill Hudson is an amateur astronomer in California, [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009. The podcast episodes are written, recorded and produced by people around
the world.
365 Days of Astronomy is a proud part of the International Year of Astronomy 2009.
