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AFM’s Space Pirate Radio 2011.11.17: “What’s Up with the Pirates?”

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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Under British Skies Solar Special

Sunday, May 16th, 2010

In this evening program we are covering most aspects of our Sun. One rare major event occurred on June 8, 2004, which was the transit of Venus. I was privileged to observe this with members of Croydon Astronomical Society at RAF Kenley, 14 miles South of the City of London. More on this tonight, but here are many pictures we took of the transit.

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