April 11th, 2010

April 11th: Celestial Coordinates

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Date: April 11, 2010 Title: Celestial Coordinates [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100411-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Mark DeVito Description: This podcast discusses two of the celestial coordinate systems, specifically Altitude/Azimuth and Equatorial. With any hope, it will assist new amateurs in understanding the two systems and provide a good refresher to season amateurs who may have given these systems up for computer [...]

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April 10th, 2010

April 10th: Introduction to Practical Astronomy

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Date: April 10, 2010 Title: Introduction to Practical Astronomy [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100410-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Justin Clayden Organization: The Skeptheist- http://www.skeptheist.com Description: If you’re just getting into Astronomy, you may be slightly bewildered by the choice of instrumentation- you know, telescopes and stuff. This episode of 365 Days of Astronomy is designed to give you a framework; a nice [...]

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April 9th, 2010

April 9th: NASA’s Basement Tapes

Date: April 9, 2010 Title: NASA’s Basement Tapes [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100409-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Bob Hirshon, AAAS Organization: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) – www.aaas.org Description: NASA scientists are painstakingly retrieving data from historic space missions in the 1960s, and the results are yielding valuable new insights into the origins of our solar system and the [...]

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April 8th, 2010

April 8th: Making the VASIMR Engine

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Date: April 8, 2010 Title: Making the VASIMR Engine [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100408-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Sawyer Rosenstein and Montserrat Cordero Organization: Young Astronomers – http://ya.astroleague.org/ Description: Sawyer Rosenstein (@thenasaman) and Montserrat Cordero (@montsecor) interview Jorge Oguilve-Araya who works for AdAstra and has been aiding in the design and creation of their space-only plasma engine called VASIMR. Listen and learn [...]

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April 7th, 2010

April 7th: Launch a Wooden Satellite?

Date: April 7, 2010 Title: Launch a Wooden Satellite? [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100407-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Alex “Sandy” Antunes Organization: Interorbital Systems The Daytime Astronomer Project Calliope Description: Could you successfully launch a high precision functioning space satellite that was made out of wood? After speculating, Sandy calls up Randa Milliron, the CEO of InterOrbital.com,(http://interorbital.com/ ) and finds she’s not [...]

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April 6th, 2010

April 6th: Cosmology and Creation – Many Stories, Many Skies At Perth’s Gravity Discovery Centre

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Date: April 6, 2010 Title: Cosmology and Creation – Many Stories, Many Skies At Perth’s Gravity Discovery Centre [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100406-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Kylie Sturgess Links: Skeptic Zone: http://www.skepticzone.tv/, Token Skeptic, Australian International Gravity Research Centre Description: Can art, astronomy, education and religion co-exist? This ideal has become reality, at the Cosmology Gallery at the Gravity Discovery Centre, [...]

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April 5th, 2010

April 5th: Sightings: Seth Shostak and SETI

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Date: April 5, 2010 Title: Sightings: Seth Shostak and SETI [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100405-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Ted Judah Organization: SETI: Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence – www.seti.org Description: Ted Judah speaks with Seth Shostak about SETI Bio: none Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days of Astronomy” is sponsored by — no one. We still need sponsors for many days [...]

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April 4th, 2010

April 4th: Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Jovian Radio Astronomy

Date: April 4, 2010 Title: Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Jovian Radio Astronomy [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100404-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Edgardo Molina Organization: Pleiades Research and Astronomical Studies A.C. in Mexico City, Mexico – www.pleiades.org.mx (web site soon to be presented also in English) Description: There is a new way of enjoying the Gas Giant planets. Jovian Radio [...]

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April 3rd, 2010

April 3rd: Interview with Robert Naeye of Sky & Telescope, Part 2

Date: April 3, 2010 Title: Interview with Robert Naeye of Sky & Telescope, Part 2 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100403-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Mike Simonsen Organization: Slacker Astronomy: http://www.slackerastronomy.org/ Description: Mike Simonsen from Slacker Astronomy interviews Robert Naeye, Editor-in-Chief of Sky & Telescope magazine about the the current issues facing print publishing, and specifically astronomy publishing today. This is part 2,– [...]

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April 2nd, 2010

April 2nd: Richard Emmons

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Date: April 2, 2010 Title: Richard Emmons [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20100402-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Brian Gray Organization: Wilderness Center Astronomy Club: www.twcac.org Description: Richard Emmons was Mr. Astronomy of the Canton, Ohio area. Bio: Brian gray is a member of the Wilderness Center Astronomy Club and also presents shows at the Hoover-Price Planetarium Today’s sponsor: This episode of “365 Days [...]

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