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  • April 2024: Finally the month of the eclipse! A wonderful experience for North America, the Lyrid Meteor Shower, and lots of planetary action makes April of 2024 one of THE best months in a LONG time.

    I’m Rob Webb, your Last Minute Astronomer, bringing astronomy to normies and nerds, with little time to spare. As usual, we’ll start by talking about where the naked eye planets are this month, move on to the lunar phases, and finish up with a calendar of events, so you can plan ahead better than me.

    Last Quarter Moon – 1st (Visible midnight into the morning)

    Morning Crescents (look East in the AM)

    New Moon – 8th (darkest skies)

    Evening Crescents (look West after Sunset)

    First Quarter Moon – 15th (Visible until midnight)

    Evening Gibbous (Mostly lit, after Sunset)

    Full Moon – 23rd (Visible all night)

    Waning Gibbous (Mostly lit, rises later at night)

    5th - 6th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Mars, Saturn – Get out between 5:30am and 6:30am and get a very clear look at the ESE horizon. During that hour, you should be able to see the Moon as a VERY thin crescent, with Saturn bright and 14 ̊ to the left of the Moon, with Mars up and to the right of Saturn a little bit. Then, on the 6th, the Moon will move to be below both Saturn and Mars, making a thin triangle.

    8th – TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE – We’re going to skip over that, not because it’s not important. I’ve been preparing for it for 6 years now. But we’ve had PLENTY of coverage of it so far and there are better places to give you more information that you’re looking for. In fact, I’ll link some videos I’ve created or participated in for better info.

    10th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Mars, Saturn – Get out again between 5:30am and 6:30am and get a very clear look at the ESE. Mars and Saturn will be as close as they’re gonna get, about ½˚ apart, with Mars on top. It’ll be tough to see, all that more rewarding when you do.

    10th – CLOSE ENCOUNTER – Moon, Jupiter – Get out after sunset, look W, and the Moon will be only 4˚ to the right of Jupiter.

    22nd – LYRID METEOR SHOWER – At only 10-20 meteors per hour, it is a minor shower, and we have essentially a Full Moon to get massively in the way of observing. The shower is greatest on the 22nd, but you might see some on the 21st and 23rd as well. Just remember each meteor is a piece of debris left over from a comet, and we’re crashing into it at over 100,000 miles per hour, which crushes the atmosphere it hits, heating it up and causing the bright flash. There is no real best time to see these this year, but you never know when you’ll see something awesome.

    Some advice for watching:

    - Find a dark location and lie down in a reclining chair or something that insulates you from the ground.

    - Check the weather to see if the skies will be clear

    - Adapt your eyes to the dark by staying away from light sources or using a red light if you need to look at a star chart or not trip over something.

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  • This episode was recorded on March 14, 2024.

    Earlier in March, Congress voted into place the FY2024 budgets for multiple agencies, including NASA. The agency is being asked for an overall 2% cut. Combined with inflation rates over 3%, we are looking at a fairly significant cut to the U.S. budget for space science. Dr. Pamela Gay breaks down what these cuts will affect, including people and missions, as we move forward with this already stressful fiscal year.

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  • Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]

    The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer's Calendar for April 2024. In this episode we’ll talk about the possible Nova of T-Corona Borealis, Mars, Saturn and Moon forming a Triangle in the Eastern Sky, the April 8th Solar Eclipse. Chris and Shane also discuss the Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks but since recording both have viewed it in binoculars.

    April 1 - Zodiacal light visible in West for next 2 weeks.

    April 2 - Last quarter Moon

    April 6 - Mars, Saturn and Moon form a Triangle in East at dawn

    April 7- International Dark Sky Week

    April 8 - Total Solar Eclipse

    April 10 - Jupiter and Uranus 4-degrees below the Moon this evening

    April 11 - Morning Mars, Saturn Pleiades - 0.5 degrees for somewhere...I think they are farther here.

    April 15 - First Quarter Moon - Lunar X visible Near Crater Werner for all of North America

    April 16 - Lunar Straight Wall visible

    April 19 & 20 - Jupiter and Uranus 0.5 degrees apart.

    April 22 - Lyrid Meteor Shower is spoiled by the Full Moon on the 23rd

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  • Communications specialist Beth Johnson chats with Dr. Phil Plait about his latest book and just what wonders await us in our solar system and out amongst the stars.

    Phil Plait, aka the Bad Astronomer, has been communicating and correcting space science since the turn of the century (sorry, Phil!). His first book, "Bad Astronomy", tackled numerous misconceptions and myths about astronomy and space missions.

    His second book, "Death from the Skies!", took a look at a variety of ways the world will end. Now, in his latest book, "Under Alien Skies", Phil becomes a tour guide to the cosmos, taking us all on a trip through the universe to marvel at the wonders of other worlds, distant star systems, and mind-blowing phenomena.

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  • What is “emergence” in physics and why is it a big deal? What would it mean for gravity to be emergent? How would we have to rewrite the laws of physics? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEW-13DJlIY

    Streamed live on Mar 25, 2024.

    Several of the planets and moons in the Solar System are in orbital resonance, orbiting in a geometric lockstep. And not just the Solar System, astronomers have found the same resonances in other star systems.

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    THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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  • Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org

    Today's 2 topics:

    - The Moon is the Earth's long time dancing partner. This unequal pair revolve about a teeter totter type balance point which in turn orbits the Sun every 365 and a quarter days. A small asteroid has become a third partner in the Earth-Moon dance.

    - Collisions between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets have produced the place where we live and breathe.Today scientists are replacing myths with solid evidence that violent impacts between planets, planetesimals, asteroids, and comets are very common in our galaxy. They play a vital role in the formation of solar systems which contain habitable planets.

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  • Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host.

    Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce.

    This podcast extra is our (Ralph’s!) full length interview with Dr. Helen Sharman, Britain's First astronaut and the first woman to visit the Russian Mir Space Station in 1991.

    In this interview we discuss:

    ● Tim Peake ● Access to space during a time of no UK funding ● The skills needed to be an astronaut ● Training for spaceflight at Star City in Russia ● The collapse of the Soviet Union just before launch ● Speaking with Mikhail Gorbachev from the Mir Space Station ● Comparing Mir to a camping trip! ● Acclimatizing to spaceflight in the Soyuz capsule ● Science conducted by Helen on Mir ● The UK's reticence to fund human spaceflight ● NASA's plans for missions beyond Low Earth ● Promoting space www.awesomeastronomy.com

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  • From March 13, 2024.

    As you know, our team loves volcanoes, and since we’ve been focused on Iceland for months, we brought in Dr. Melissa Scruggs (aka VolcanoDoc on Twitch) for a chat about Grindavik and all things volcanic in Iceland.

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  • Podcater: Loretta Cannon for the AAS-HAD.

    Brief description: H’ad astra historia is the official podcast for the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society. We’re here to share stories from and about the people who study the stars, planets, and the cosmos. We’ll be hearing from individuals who not only study the history of astronomy, but also those who lived it, who were “in the room” during pivotal events within the last 50 years or so.

    Today’s guest: Dr. Sethanne Howard talks about Women in Science History.

    Podcast music: "Frost Waltz" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under creative commons: by attribution 4.0 license:

    http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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  • Recorded 15 February, 2024.

    With a first flight on April 19, 2021, NASA's Ingenuity helicopter broke ground on new capabilities for remote planetary missions. For nearly three years, the little drone far exceeded the originally planned technology demonstration of up to five flights, taking off and landing 72 times! Sadly, damage to the rotor blades has now left Ginny grounded, but the spacecraft has paved the way for future aerial explorers at Mars and, potentially, other space destinations.

    Join senior astronomer and Director of Unistellar Citizen Science Dr. Franck Marchis in this exciting SETI Live with Ingenuity Team Lead Teddy Tzanetos, as they look back at the stunning accomplishments of this small but mighty craft and discuss what’s next for the future of drones and planetary science.

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  • From August 7, 2023.

    Our galaxy likely holds hundreds of billions of planets around other stars but when and how did we begin finding them? What was the first exoplanet detected? It turns out that the first discovery wasn’t one, but two planets in the same system.

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ADUzATkS9g

    Streamed live on Mar 18, 2024.

    Last week was one of the most exciting meetings we’ve seen from the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, with hundreds of announcements and discoveries from various missions. One theme kept coming up, the Solar System is more volcanically active than we thought. Today, we’ll explore volcanism on other worlds.

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    Ed

    David

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    THANK YOU! - Fraser and Dr. Pamela

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  • Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( @Nmcanopus ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. travelersinthenight.org

    Today's 2 topics:

    - Students and teachers are doing real science by measuring the shadows cast by distant objects in our solar system.

    - A tough rocky asteroid makes close approaches to the Sun.

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  • Hosted by Dr. Jacinta Delhaize & Dr. Daniel Cunnama.

    Today we are re-running Episode 11 from all the way back in Season 1!

    Jacinta takes us on a tour of her homeland, into the Australian bush, and chats about pathfinders, precursors and the exciting collaborations between South Africa and Australia!

    First, we hear from Dr. Ivy Wong, a researcher at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR) in Perth, about large surveys of neutral hydrogen gas in galaxies and the results shared at the 12th PHISCC (Pathfinders HI Science Coordination Committee) Conference. Neutral Hydrogen atoms produce radio emission at a wavelength of 21cm or a frequency of 1420 MHz. This emission is commonly referred to as HI and it is the raw fuel of star formation.

    We are then joined by newly capped Dr. Brenda Namumba from the University of Cape Town. She tells us about her exciting work using the pathfinder to MeerKAT, the KAT-7 telescope.

    Finally, Jacinta sits down with Professor Peter Quinn, the Director of ICRAR. They chat about the the incredible growth of radio astronomy in both South Africa and Australia over the recent years, and the enormous collaboration opportunities the SKA is creating between the two countries!

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  • From March 7, 2024.

    It is possible to buy stickers, sweatshirts, mugs, and other stuff and things emblazoned with the simple phrase, “We are star stuff”. This phrase was popularized by Carl Sagan, and it serves as a gentle reminder that all the complex atoms - by which I mean most everything heavier than helium - found their start either in the nuclear core of a star or in the nuclear explosions of a dying star or stars. But, as with so many things, the truth is much more complicated than the meme.

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  • Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. [email protected]

    Bio: Tim Doucette

    Tim believes that through education and awareness of the Universe, the world can become a better place. Through his passion for Astronomy and his photography, Tim shows us the beauty of the heavens. He was born blind with congenital cataracts. Later these cataracts were surgically removed along with the lenses of his eyes, Tim's unique eye condition leaves him legally blind but able to perceive colors in the Universe through a telescope that very few others can see.

    Shortly after joining the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Tim discovered his unique eye condition. He set up an observatory in Moncton, New Brunswick where he found a love for sharing the night sky with others.

    He and his family currently reside in his hometown of Quinan, NS and own and operate a successful astro tourism business. Working with the municipality and the Starlight Foundation (backed by UNESCO and the IAU), the area has received the first “Starlight Tourist Destination and Reserve” designation in North America.

    https://www.deepskyeye.com/

    * Welcome to the show Tim!

    * How did you get into astronomy? AND Can you share with us how you see the Universe differently?

    * What was your first instrument / telescope(s)? Tasco

    * Are the skies dark where you are in Quinan, Nova Scotia?

    * Tell us a little about your astro tourism business? (I saw the photos online and it looks like business is booming)

    * How did you get into running your business?

    * I was viewing the site, cabin, camp sites.

    * What telescopes & instruments?

    * How do you like the SW 16-inch dob?

    * What eyepieces work best for you?

    The Counting Stars citizen science project:

    https://www.novascotiastarlight.com/countingstars

    Luxury Lodge mentioned: https://www.troutpoint.com/

    Local Tourism: https://www.yarmouthandacadianshores.com/en/

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  • Recorded 8 February 2024.

    Join us for an exciting SETI Live where we’ll explore the wonders beyond Earth. We’re excited to have Dr. Valéry Lainey, a renowned researcher from the Paris Observatory in France, as our guest. Dr. Franck Marchis, our Senior Astronomer, will be guiding the conversation, sharing insights from the universe. It’s set to be an engaging event, and we hope you’ll be part of it!

    In a groundbreaking study published in Nature Journal, Valery Lainey and his team have unveiled a remarkable discovery about Saturn’s moon Mimas. Once thought to be a cold, solid body of ice and rock, Mimas now appears to harbor a vast global ocean beneath its icy crust. This revelation comes after a meticulous analysis of Mimas’s orbit, as observed by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, which showed unexpected wobbles that suggest the presence of an under-ice ocean.

    For years, the scientific community was skeptical about the possibility of an ocean within Mimas, mainly because the expected surface deformations were absent. However, Lainey’s research, based on recent simulations and precise orbital measurements, suggests that an ocean could exist without leaving visible marks on the moon’s surface. This finding not only reshapes our understanding of Mimas but also opens new avenues in the search for habitable environments beyond Earth.

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  • How can a “big rip” tear the Universe apart? What does that mean for existence itself? Is it going to happen, and what are we doing to find out? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman!

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  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfeKfMQUrYw

    Streamed live on Mar 11, 2024.

    You’ve probably heard that the best kind of science is peer-reviewed research published in a prestigious journal. But peer review has problems of its own. We’ll talk about that today.

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