Under British Skies is back this month. After a long break over the summer, the UBS team will be gracing the airwaves again on Sunday 18th September for Episode 17.
This month, we talk about the Herstmonceux Astronomy Festival, Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition, and the Supernova in the Pinwheel galaxy.
Join us live at 20:00 GMT (9pm BST) for the usual fun and frolics.
Under British Skies’ episode 16, which aired on July 17 and featured an interview with the Meteorite Men’s Geoffrey Notkin, is now available on podcast. Check it out, here!
Following is a list of some of the websites and pages, in no particular order, mentioned during the show:
MeteorLab: What are Meteorites?
Geoffrey Notkin’s new book: Meteorite Hunting - How to find treasure from Space
Natural History Museum: A collection of images by Paul Harper
American Meteor Society: Fireball Reports
Geology.com: Impactites – Ghostly Footprints of Ancient Meteorites
Geology.com: Zoomable Satellite Imagery of Meteor Craters and Asteroid Impact Sites
Geology.com: Did Meteorite Bombardments Make Early Earth More Habitable?
The Telegraph: Woman ‘hit by meteorite’
Join us, Sunday July 17, for a fun interview with Geoff Notkin of the Science Channel’s Meteorite Men! Currently filming their third season, the Meteorite Men is an award-winning series featuring the meteorite-hunting adventures of the dynamic duo, Steve Arnold and Geoff Notkin. In our interview, Notkin discusses such topics as his favorite strewn field, how he and Arnold came to be the Meteorite Men, and a meteorite hunter’s greatest “fears”.
The show begins at 20:00 UTC – that’s 4pm EDT / 1pm PT – and will include a live meteorites discussion and chatroom Q&A with UBS team members: Paul Harper, Sam Hawkins, Iain Melville, and Nick Evetts. ”See” ya there!
This month, the team NEAF, NAM and the SPA. We interviewed Prof John Zarnecki from the Open University. We also spoke to Nick Howes, the Equipment Consultant from Astronomy Now Magazine about his recent travels to NEAF and NAM
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This month, the team discussed the Cox Effect. We interviewed Simon Singh, author, journalist and TV producer about science education and his Uncaged Monkeys tour. We also spoke to Nick Howes, the Equipment Consultant from Astronomy Now Magazine, and Rob Hodgkinson.
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Join the Under British Skies team tonight at 8pm GMT (9pm BST/4pm EDT). Tonight we have a special program, all about Yuri Gagarin, who 50 years ago today, became the first person to go into space, on Vostok 1.
This month, the team discussed Astrofest.
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The next exciting edition of Under British Skies, will be broadcast live, on Sunday 20 February 2011, from 8pm GMT to 9.30pm GMT ( 3pm EST to 5.30pm EST). Some of the team, recently visited, Astrofest, held at Kensington Town Hall, London, on the 4/5 February.
The Team interviewed various people who attending the evening the event, either as stall holders or lecturers. We also give our personal accounts of the event and photographs of the event will be posted on the website today.
The link to the photos can be found here, https://picasaweb.google.com/paulrharper151/Astrofest2011#. (more…)
