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April 10th, 2009

April 10th: Build it and They Will Come: Tale of an Observatory

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Date: April 10, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090410-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Build it and They Will Come: Tale of an Observatory Podcaster: Ted Judah Organization: The Sonoma County Astronomical Society Website http://www.sonomaskies.org/ Ted Judah email: judahted@comcast.net Description: Last fall I was given permission to convert an old barn on a dairy ranch into an observatory. The retired dairyman that owns [...]

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April 9th, 2009

April 9th: SkyLab and the Apollo Telescope Mount

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Date: April 9, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090409-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: SkyLab and the Apollo Telescope Mount Podcaster: Josh Fuchs and Travis Rasor Organization: Rhodes College Department of Physics http://www.rhodes.edu/academics/7560.asp NASA IYA Student Ambassador Program http://www.spacegrant.org/niya/ Description: SkyLab was the first space station and hosted three crews of astronauts in the early 1970′s. In this podcast, we will focus on [...]

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April 8th, 2009

April 8th: Drifting Through the Zodiac

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Date: April 8, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090408-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Drifting Through the Zodiac Podcaster: Christopher Crockett Organization: Lowell Observatory http://www.lowell.edu/users/crockett/ Description: Flip through your local paper and you’re bound to find a daily horoscope whose Zodiac signs share their names with twelve constellations. But have you ever wondered what’s so special about these constellations? And how did astrologers [...]

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April 7th, 2009

April 7th: Can Visual Observers Still Contribute to Science?

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Date: April 7, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090407-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Can Visual Observers Still Contribute to Science? Podcaster: Travis Searle, Rebecca Turner, Mike Simonsen Organization: AAVSO Description: There are those who claim the age of visual observers contributing to science is dead and gone. Certainly CCDs capable of more precision and all sky surveys at visual and other wavelengths [...]

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April 6th, 2009

April 6th: Chandra: Contemplating Infinity

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Date: April 6, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090406-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Chandra: Contemplating Infinity Podcaster: Colin Stuart Description: The year is 1930. We’re in India, a country still under the iron grip of the British Raj. At the bustling docks of Madras a young nineteen-year-old Indian physicist is setting sail for English shores and Cambridge University. Voyaging westward Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, [...]

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April 5th, 2009

April 5th: Astronomy in Canada Past, Present and Future

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Date: April 5, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090405-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Astronomy in Canada Past, Present and Future Podcaster: Alexander W. Hobson Organization: The National Research Council of Canada: http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/ The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/index_eng.asp Canadian Space Agency: http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/default.asp Royal Astronomical Society of Canada: http://www.rasc.ca/ Description: Astronomy in Canada, Past, Present and Future, and dives [...]

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April 4th, 2009

April 4th: Census of the Solar System

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Date: April 4, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090404-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Census of the Solar System Podcaster: Darren Bennett Organization: South East Queensland Astronomical Society Description: When I grew up, there were nine planets, a couple of dozen moons, a hundred comets, and six thousand asteroids. But that was thirty years ago, and things have changed. This podcast combines a [...]

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April 3rd, 2009

April 3rd: Chicks in Space

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Date: April 3, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090403-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Chicks in Space Podcaster: Steve Nerlich of Cheap Astronomy Organization: Cheap Astronomy www.cheapastro.com Description: The number of people who’ve become astronauts is approaching 500. And the number of women? One, even two, hundred? Nope – less than fifty. Cheap Astronomy explores the glass ceiling that is low Earth orbit. [...]

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April 2nd, 2009

April 2nd: Searching for Distant Hydrogen from the Australian Outback

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Date: April 2, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090402-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: Searching for Distant Hydrogen from the Australian Outback Podcaster: Nicole Gugliucci Organization: PAPER (somewhat technical website): http://astro.berkeley.edu/~dbacker/eor One Astronomer’s Noise (Nicole’s blog): http://gugnico.blogspot.com Description: Astronomers are looking back to the earliest epoch of star and galaxy formation in our universe by mapping distant hydrogen gas. As the first stars [...]

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April 1st, 2009

April 1st: New Horizons, NASA’s First Mission to Pluto

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Date: April 1, 2009 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20090401-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Title: New Horizons, NASA’s First Mission to Pluto Podcaster: Andy Poniros Organization: Andy Poniros Productions. Future podcasts will be listed on The Solar System Ambassador Event web site at www2.jpl.nasa.gov/ambassador/events.html Description: NASA’s New Horizons Mission is speeding towards Pluto. How will it get there and what will it find? Bio: [...]

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