November 10th, 2010
Date: November 10, 2010 Title: Howling at the Moon, Part 2 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101110-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Richard Wright Link: Evening Show – http://www.eveningshow.org Software Bisque – http://www.bisque.com Description: Richard provides tips for observing the Moon. Part one of this series aired on Sept. 23, 2010. Bio: Richard S. Wright Jr. is a Sr. Software Engineer for Software Bisque, [...]
November 9th, 2010
Date: November 9, 2010 Title: Encore Edition: What is the World’s Largest Telescope? [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101109-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Rob Sparks Link: http://halfastro.wordpress.com Description: People are hooked on superlatives such as the “World’s Largest Telescope” or the “World’s Most Powerful Telescope”. It is a common question asked at star parties. When asked by the public, they are usually referring [...]
November 8th, 2010
Date: November 8, 2010 Title: Powering Deep Space Missions [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101108-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Steve Nerlich Organization: Cheap Astronomy – www.cheapastro.com Description: Maintaining electric power to spacecraft is vital if you want them to do anything, like take scientific measurements or take photos – and then transmit all that data back to Earth. Unless you’ve got a very [...]
November 7th, 2010
Date: November 7, 2010 Title: New, Popular, and Technical Astronomy Books from Slacker Astronomy [podcast]http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/365DaysOfAstronomy/~5/37NaNCmxaxk/20101107-365Doa.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Michael from Slacker Astronomy Description: Michael from Slacker Astronomy talks about astronomy books, including 3 recent books, a couple of books for the general public and a few books for the more technical reader. Bio: Slacker Astronomy is a [...]
November 6th, 2010
Date: November 6, 2010 Title: The Mauna Kea Observatories [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101106-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Thomas Hofstätter Organization: http://hidden-space.at.tf (The Hidden Space Project) Description: In this podcast, Leon Dombroski and I are going to describe the Mauna Kea Observatories. The world’s most giant and powerful observatories are located in this area which is characterized by extreme conditions such as [...]
November 5th, 2010
Date: November 5, 2010 Title: Alpha-Omega Presentation at Dragon*Con 2010 [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101105-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Richard Drumm Link: http://theastronomybum.blogspot.com/ Description: At Dragon*Con 2010, Richard Drumm visited the “Space Track” of talks and recorded this talk by Richard Jakiel, a research scientist in the Georgia Radiation Protection Program. The title of his talk is “Alpha & Omega – How [...]
November 4th, 2010
Date: November 4, 2010 Title: A Tour of GOODS [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101104-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Chandra X-Ray Observatory team Description: A Tour of GOODS (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey) Today’s telescopes study the sky across the electromagnetic spectrum. Each part of the spectrum tells us different things about the Universe, giving us more pieces of the cosmic jigsaw puzzle. [...]
November 3rd, 2010
Date: November 3, 2010 Title: The Art of Bringing Astronomy to the Public [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101103-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Thomas Hofstätter Description: Astronomy is the oldest science in mankind. Nonetheless, only few schools offer the possibility to go to astronomy lessons. Hence, it’s necessary for private organizations and amateur astronomers to overtake this job. Public star parties are one [...]
November 2nd, 2010
Date: November 2, 2010 Title: The “Goldilocks” Planet and Finding Planets [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101102-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Rob Knop Organization: Quest University Canada Links: My home page : http://www.questu.ca/academics/faculty/rob_knop.php/MICA_Events Description: If you’ve been paying attention to the buzz in the astronomy world, or even to news reports about astronomy, in the last month, you’re aware of the “Goldilocks” planet, [...]
November 1st, 2010
Date: November 1, 2010 Title: The Changing Universe [podcast]http://traffic.libsyn.com/astro365/20101101-365DoA.mp3[/podcast] Podcaster: Jesse Rogerson Links: Jesse’s website Description: We sometimes forget how much is happening in our universe, but there’s a lot. Starting from our solar system, I highlight a few examples of just how much is happening in our skies, and in the universe. Bio: I [...]
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009, 2010, 2011 -- and now 2012. 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.
