Posts Tagged ‘imaging’
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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Thursday, November 17th, 2011
Join Captains Marty and Diane as they share tall tales
of the High Space Seas, on Space Pirate Radio!
- Astronauts ride Soyuz to the International Space Station
- What do you think was the first object to be called a planet?
- Jupiter tonight!
- Dante’s Solar System
- October’s AAPOD winner
- Constellations and asterisms in the Autumn
- What’s the other evening planet?
- Sunspots lately
- Powering probes; Curiosity is getting ready for Mars
“Space Pirate Radio” and Astronomy.FM are sponsored by Global-Rent-A-Scope – GRAS THE Global Remote Telescope Network for Astromony. Imaging or Science.
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Tags: AAPOD, AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, astronomy, astronomy news, Astronomy.FM, constellations, contest, Curiosity, Diane Hall, evening star, Global-Rent-A-Scope, GRAS, imaging, International Space Station, ISS, Mars, Marty Kunz, night sky, planet, sky events, Soyuz, Space Pirate Radio, space probes, space science, spaceflight, Sun, sunspots
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Join Captains Marty and Diane as they share tall tales of the High Space Seas, on Space Pirate Radio!
Did asteroid 2005 YU55 miss the Earth on it’s own or was it deflected?
- The full Moon and Jupiter, two (pirate) ships that pass in the night, tonight.
- Happy birthday Carl Sagan! Who will be the next best popularizer of astronomy for the general public?
- Can the Earth be saved from one of it’s own satellites, or do the Space Pirates need to be called in again? (And so soon!)
“Space Pirate Radio” and Astronomy.FM are sponsored by Global-Rent-A-Scope – GRAS
THE Global Remote Telescope Network
for Astromony. Imaging or Science.
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Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, Asteroid 2005 YU55, astronomy news, astronomy radio, Astronomy.FM, Diane Hall, Global-Rent-A-Scope, GRAS, imaging, Jupiter, Mars, Marty Kunz, Moon, Phobos, Phobos-Grunt, Roscosmos, sky events, Space Pirate Radio, space probes, space science, spaceflight
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
On Space Pirate Radio tonight Marty and Diane discuss:

- The latest meteor showers
- Is there a Nemesis star lurking as the edge of the solar system?
- The Moon, planets and a giant sunspot
- Spotting asteroid 2005 Yu55
- The Chinese space station Tiangong (“Heavenly Palace”)
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Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, astronomy, Astronomy.FM, Diane Hall, Global-Rent-A-Scope, GRAS, imaging, internet radio, live astronomy, look up, Marty Kunz, meteor shower, podcast, science, sky events, Space Pirate Radio, space station, spaceflight, Tiangong
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Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
It’s a York Halloween special! In tonight’s YorkUniverse – Paul is back in Canada after circling the globe! He is joined by Ted as they welcome a former York collegue – Sarah Sadavoy (now an astronomer at the University of Victoria) – as they discuss stellar evolution, Pluto’s moons, and remember Pleiades.
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Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, astronomy, astronomy news, Astronomy.FM, contest, Hubble, imaging, internet radio, live astronomy, look up, NASA, night sky, Pluto, podcast, Sarah Sadavoy, science, sky events, space probes, spaceflight, University of Victoria, York University
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Monday, October 17th, 2011
Tags: AFM*Radio, amateur astronomy, astronomy, astronomy news, Astronomy.FM, contest, imaging, live astronomy, meteor shower, science, sky events, York University, York∞Universe!
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Thursday, August 25th, 2011
This week on Space Pirate Radio, Diane and Marty talk about:
~ A Russian rocket that had a very bad day (and what that may mean for NASA)
~ What robot would you take with you in space?
~ Mars and the Moon dance in the morning sky; Saturn in the evening.
~ Hurricanes suck, so best of luck for those facing Hurricane Irene!
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Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
‘Live at York U!’ broadcasts live from the York Astronomical Observatory at York University in Toronto, featuring Paul Delaney and the students of York.
This week we covered this day in history (first jet airliner, first American space flight), commercial space flight, Eta Aquarids, planetary conjunction, eclipses, citizen science, science rendezvous, and International Astronomy Week.
For more info on our show head to yorkobservatory.com
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