September 2008

This month we bring you a final interview that we conducted at the National Astronomy Meeting in Belfast. Dill Faulkes, the man behind the Faulkes Telescope project, tells us why he set it up and what the future holds [20:12 - 34:25]. We also talk to Debbie Mitchell about how her training in astrophysics led her to a career working for the National Air Traffic Control Service [15:02 - 18:55]. As usual we get the latest news from Megan [01:03 - 08:08] and find out what you can see in the northern night sky from Ian [36:10 - 47:24].

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The news - September 2008

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• The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies
• ESA: Hubble sees magnetic monster in active galaxy
• ESA/Hubble: NGC 1275 multi-wavelength composite
• Nature Letter: Magnetic support of the optical emission line filaments in NGC 1275 (Fabian et al. 2008)
• Jupiter's Place in the Solar System
• Jupiter and Saturn full of liquid metal helium
• PNAS: Fluid helium at conditions of giant planetary interiors (Stixrude and Jeanloz 2008)
• Keck Observatory: Most black holes might come in only small and large
• NASA: Most Black Holes Might Come in Only Small and Large
• astro-ph: Very Broad [O III]4959,5007 Emission from the NGC 4472 Globular Cluster RZ2109 and Implications for the Mass of Its Black Hole X-ray Source (Zepf et al 2008)
• ESA: Mars Express webcam
• Astroblog: Animations made from the ESA Mars Express VMC webcam images.

Interview with Dr Debbie Mitchell (NATS)

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• NATS
• APoD: A Smoke Angel from Airplane Flares

Interview with Dr Dill Faulkes

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• Dill Faulkes Educational Trust
• Las Cumbras Observatory Global Telescope

The night sky for September 2008

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• Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for September 2008

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