Date: November 22, 2009
Title: Go Up and Turn Right
Podcaster: Steve Nerlich
Organization: Cheap Astronomy: www.cheapastro.com
Description: Planning a mission to Mars is a piece of cake on paper. Actually doing it - well, not so much.
Bio: Cheap Astronomy offers an educational website where your financial situation is always looking up.
Today's sponsor: This episode of "365 Days of Astronomy" is sponsored by the American [...]
Date: November 21, 2009
Title: Under a New Sky
Podcaster: David Ault
Link: David Ault: www.davidault.co.uk
Description: These are the musings of an English astronomer able for the first time to see a proper night sky and observe the movement of the stars in India over the course of 6 months.
Bio: David is an actor, writer and science presenter from the UK who performed [...]
Date: November 20, 2009
Title: MUSTANG Gallops Towards Clusters Last Stand
Podcaster: Sue Ann Heatherly
Organization: NRAO: http://www.gb.nrao.edu/
Description: Join us as Dr. Simon Dicker from the University of Pennsylvania chats about a new tool for the Green Bank Telescope and what it can do. The receiver is called MUSTANG. Although you may not be able to remember what MUSTANG stands [...]
Date: November 19, 2009
Title: A Ceremony Celebrating Dark Skies
Podcaster: Scott Kardel
Organization: Palomar Observatory: http://palomar-observatory.org
Description: Borrego Springs, CA was just named the world's second International Dark-sky Community. Palomar Observatory's Scott Kardel, a member of the Borrego Springs Dark-sky Coalition, takes this podcast to the ceremony where the community was officially recognized and shows off how they did it.
Bio: Scott Kardel received [...]
Date: November 18, 2009
Title: Astrophilia in the City that Never Sleeps
Podcaster: Ian Cheney
Organization: Wicked Delicate: www.wickedelicate.com
Description: Filmmaker Ian Cheney fell in love with the night sky in rural Maine, but now he lives in New York City — and deals with the consequences. With over half the world's population living in cities, and only a dozen or so stars [...]
Date: November 17, 2009
Title: Astronomy Without an Astrophysics Degree
Podcaster: Pamela Gay and Fraser Cain
Organization: Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/
Universe Today: http://www.universetoday.com/
Star Stryder: http://www.starstryder.com/
Description: If you're too impatient to spend the 10+ years it takes to get an astrophysics degree, and want to do some real astronomy research right now, we can help. We're going to talk about how amateurs are making [...]
Date: November 16, 2009
Title: Carolyn Herschel's White Rose - NGC 7789
Podcaster: RapidEye Observatory
Organization: RapidEye Observatory - a private observatory in rural Lee County, NC http://www.rapideye.us/astro/RapidEye-ClearSky.html
Description: A brief overview of Open Clusters, discussing Carolyn Herschel and her unique finds while working with her brother, and observing one of Carolyn's prettiest finds, NGC 7789.
Bio: I've been captivated by astronomy ever since I [...]
Date: November 15, 2009
Title: The Royal Family of Astronomy
Podcaster: Ted Haulley
Organization: None
Description: November 15 is the birthday of William Herschel, who may have been the finest observational astronomer of all time. He was just one in a line of Herschels who left a mark on astronomy. This podcast will take a quick look at the lives of [...]
Date: November 14, 2009
Title: Rabbit on the Moon
Podcaster: Harith, Rahul, and Rohith
Organization: This podcast is dedicated to all astronomy enthusiasts.
Description: It does not take great deal effort for a person to spot a rabbit shape on the moon. When our ancestors looked at the moon they came up with tales as to how the rabbit got there. In this [...]
Date: November 13, 2009
Title: Thrilling Meteors Streak the Sky
Podcaster: Gregg Paris
Organization: San Diego Astronomy Association
Description: The Leonid and other meteor showers: What and when to see, where to look, where to go for better viewing, what to take with you. Their causes and sources. I saw 100,000 meteors one night!
Bio: Gregg Paris has been an amateur astronomer and [...]
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.
