Posts Tagged ‘Astronomy.FM’
Sunday, April 15th, 2012

In this months episode, we talked to Professor Ian Morison from Jodrell Bank about his career. We also talked about the Isle of Wight Star Party, and the upcoming Star Parties for the rest of the year. Book corner will be back next month, but in App Corner, we talked about weather apps.
The shownotes for this episode can be downloaded here: Episode 24 Shownotes
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2012
[our apologies - this is a duplicate post to fix a corrupted podcast file]
The World Debut of “Western Worlds!”
It’s the WORLD PREMIERE of Astronomy.FM’s newest show – “Western Worlds!” In this episode co-host Raymond Francis interviews Dr. Gordon Osinski (CPSX Acting Director) about his research on impact craters. The interview is followed by a round-table discussion with co-hosts Raymond Francis, Alyssa Gilbert, and John Moores.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012

In this months episode, we celebrated our 2nd Birthday! We also talked about Astrofest, and Google Sky. Our special guest for Book Corner was Ninian Boyle.
The shownotes for this episode can be downloaded here: Episode 22 Shownotes
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Wednesday, February 15th, 2012
“Western Worlds!” on the CBC!
CPSX’s & AFM’s newest radio show, Western Worlds, is in the news!Alyssa Gilbert, CPSX Outreach Coordinator and producer of Western Worlds, was interviewed by CBC Radio One about the show; you may hear that here!
And John Moores, post-doctoral fellow for CPSX and the showrunner and main host of Western Worlds, was interviewed by Western News about the program.
Join us for Western Worlds, Astronomy.FM’s newest program, each week after York∞Universe! (0210 GMT Tuesdays, a.k.a. 10:10pm Eastern – repeating every 4 hours for the rest of the day)
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Tags: AFM*Radio, Alyssa Gilbert, astronomy radio, Astronomy.FM, CBC, internet radio, podcast, University of Western Ontario
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Thursday, December 1st, 2011
Diane has taken the night off, so Marty (with fellow mutineers Nick and Paul) review the Sun and planets tonight. Can amateurs observe exoplanets M42 the great nebula in Orion? And laptop computer use in the field.
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Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, astronomy news, astronomy radio, Astronomy.FM, Global-Rent-A-Scope, GRAS, imaging, live astronomy, Marty Kunz, Nick Evetts, night sky, Paul Harper, podcast, The Event^Horizon!
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Saturday, November 26th, 2011
Tonight on The Event^Horizon Nick and Marty start out with a little bit of StarTrek trivia. Spoof a few causes for Phobos-Grunt not going to Mars. Leading to Curiosity”s Launch. Ending with a discussion on the best way to explore Mars
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Friday, November 25th, 2011
Captian’s Marty and Diane talk about ideas and hypothesis about astronomy that have proved wrong. How can you prove the age of the universe and where is it’s center? Are we at the center of anything? Do planets contain mysterious powers. Missing any planets anyone? The less you see the more there must be.
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Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Iin an Under British Skies “Extra”, Richie interviews Paul Vanezis, one of the producers of the BBC program “Star Gazing Live” – the BBC needs our help
The shownotes for this episode can be downloaded here: http://nebul.ae/afm/Episode19/UnderBritishSkies-Episode19Shownotes.pdf
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