We get our very own Ian Morison to tell us about the history of SETI and how it will develop in the future plus we talk to the Chairman of Macclesfield Astronomical Society about his interest in astronomy. Tim and Ian answer questions that you've sent in and Ian tells us what we can see in the night sky during July.
The wow signal recorded on channel 2 of the receiver on the Big Ear antenna operated by Ohio State University. The circled characters show the sequence in channel 2 of the characters 6EQUJ5 representing signal strengths of 6 - 14 - 26 - 30 - 19 - 5.
M42 - the Orion Nebula. (c) Andrew Greenwood
Bailey's Beads during solar eclipse 2006. (c) Andrew Greenwood
Noctilucent clouds. © Andrew Greenwood
Show Links
The news
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- GEO600
- IAU announcement of the names for Pluto's moons
- The Hubble Space Telescope
- Launch of the Space Shuttle
- Asteroid 2004XP14
Interview with Ian Morison
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- Jodrell Bank's involvement in SETI
- The Wow Signal on Wikipedia
- SETI@home
- The Planetary Society's podcast about optical SETI
- The Square Kilometre Array
Interview with Andrew Greenwood
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- Macclesfield Astronomical Society
Ask an astronomer
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- The Children's University of Manchester - Earth and Beyond interactives
The night sky for July 2006
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages
Show Credits
| News: | Megan Argo |
| Interview: | Nick interviewed Ian Morison |
| Interview: | Megan Argo interviewed Andrew Greenwood |
| Ask an Astronomer: | Tim O'Brien and Ian Morison answered questions |
| Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
| Presenter: | Dave Ault |
| Editors: | Dave Ault and Stuart Lowe |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
| Intro/Outro Cast: | Mark Bruzee was the disembodied voice |
| Cover art: | Pluto system Credit: Hubble/NASA/ESA |
* If you live in the southern hemisphere you may need to convert south to north and left to right for Ian's descriptions to make sense.