January 7th, 2009
Date: January 7, 2009 Title: Understanding Variable Stars Podcasters: Travis Searle, Rebecca Turner, Mike Simonsen Organization: American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) Description: Variable stars are stars that change brightness. The brightness changes of these stars can range from a thousandth of a magnitude to as much as twenty magnitudes with periods ranging from [...]
January 5th, 2009
Date: January 5, 2009 Title: The Seasons and Solar System Geometry Podcasters: Doug Welch and Michael Koppleman from Slacker Astronomy Description: Doug and Michael from Slacker Astronomy discuss the cause of the seasons here on earth and other aspects of the night sky as explained by simple geometry. Organization: Slacker Astronomy Bio: Slacker Astronomy [...]
January 3rd, 2009
Date: January 3, 2009 Title: Five Years of Spirit on Mars Podcaster: Emily Lakdawalla, from the Planetary Society Description: The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has been operating on Mars for an amazing five years as of today. The robotic geologist has lived twenty times as long as its guarantee, driven up and down mountains, [...]
January 2nd, 2009
Date: January 2, 2009 Title: Tips for Using Your First Telescope Podcaster: Jeff Setzer, Vice President, Northern Cross Science Foundation Description: Did you receive a telescope over the holidays? Great! We’ll help you understand how to use it and point out some great things to look at. URL: http://www.astrosetz.com Bio: Jeff is the Technical [...]
November 19th, 2008
Michael from Slacker Astronomy gives us one small example of what a podcast for 365 Days of Astronomy might sound like. His topic is big numbers (like a yadabyte or a septillion), scientific notation and logarithms. Do you know how many suns you’d have to line up end to end to go all the way [...]
November 6th, 2008
Hey everyone. We are priming the feed and getting the pipeline ready for the podcast. To that end, and for your listening pleasure, we have the first podcast! Pamela Gay and Michael Koppelman discuss the podcast and encourage you to participate. We also debut our great theme song by George Hrab. We are going to [...]
October 7th, 2008
Good timing! instructables has a step-by-step process for making a podcast. You can use this as a starting point if you are getting into podcasting for the first time to contribute to The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. There are also many other podcasting guides on the ‘net.
So fire up GarageBand or Audacity and start playing around!
Fame and fortune await.
The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is a project that will publish one podcast per day, for all 365 days of 2009 and 2010. 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.
