This month we took our brand new recording kit to Astronomy Now's Astrofest 2007 to talk to some of the exhibitors and visitors. Back at base, Nick catches up with Ciska Markwick-Kemper to talk about dust in space. As always we ask Tim your questions, get the latest astronomy news from Megan, Stuart gives us a round up of other astronomy podcasts and Ian tells us what we can see in the night sky during March. We also get an alert about a total lunar eclipse taking place on 3rd March 2007 (check out the links in the show notes for more details).
Tim's picture of tides
Show Links
- Lunar eclipse map for 3rd March 2007
- The Bad Astronomer: Q and BA
- Astronomy Cast: Counting Aliens With the Drake Equation
- Astronomy Cast: The Fermi Paradox: Where Are All the Aliens?
- NASACast: Taking in the Atmospheres of Faraway Worlds
- StarDate: Journey to Wabar part 1
- StarDate: Journey to Wabar part 2
The news - March 2007
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- NASA's Ulysses spacecraft
- International Heliophysical Year
- ESA's Rosetta spacecraft
- Rosetta's view of Mars
- Rosetta sees a transit of Phobos
- New Horizons
- Astronomy.com New Horizons update
- Scientists Elucidate the Origin of the Darkest Galaxies in the Universe
- Nature paper about dark galaxies (subscription required)
- 3 March 2007 Lunar Eclipse
- Lunar eclipse map for 3rd March 2007
Reports from Astrofest 2007 - part 1
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- European Astrofest (February 9th and 10th 2007)
- Astronomy Now Magazine (Editor Keith Cooper)
- National School's Observatory
- Astronomy by Distance Learning with the University of Central Lancashire, Liverpool John Moores University and the University of Manchester
- Royal Observatory Greenwich - Time & Space
- Herstmonceaux Science Centre
Interview with Dr Ciska Markwick-Kemper (University of Manchester)
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- NASA Stardust Mission
- Stardust@Home
Ask an astronomer - Two Tides a Day
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- Tides as described by the Bad Astronomer
- BAE Systems claim to correct for Lunar tidal forces when constructing their jet fighters.
Reports from Astrofest 2007 - part 2
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- Cape Newise Technologies
- Campaign for Dark Skies
- Society for Popular Astronomy
- Merseyside Astronomy Day 2 (MAD)
- Space Port
The night sky for March 2007
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- Ian Morison's Night Sky pages for March 2007
- Lunar eclipse map for 3rd March 2007
Show Credits
| News: | Megan Argo |
| Notícias em Português - Março 2007: | Valerio Ribeiro |
| News in Chinese: | Dandan Xu |
| Nouvelles en Français - Mars 2007: | Neil Vaytet |
| Interview: | Stuart Lowe explored Astrofest 2007 - part 1 |
| Interview: | Nick Rattenbury talked to Dr Ciska Markwick-Kemper |
| Ask an Astronomer: | Nick Rattenbury and Tim O'Brien |
| Interview: | Stuart Lowe and Ian Morison at Astrofest 2007 - part 2 |
| Night sky this month: | Ian Morison |
| Presenters: | David Ault |
| Editors: | David Ault, Stuart Lowe, Nick Rattenbury and Megan Argo |
| Cover Art: | Lunar eclipse image courtesy of Loyd Overcash (www.skyshooter.net) |
| Website: | Stuart Lowe |
| Intro/Outro script: | Steve Anderson |
| Intro voice: | Steve Anderson |
| Outro voices: | Seth Adam Sher and Laura Post |
| Cover art: | Lunar eclipse Credit: Loyd Overcash |
Notícias em Português - Março 2007 [Duration 03:54]:
The News in Chinese - March 2007 [Duration 05:10]:
Nouvelles en Français - Mars 2007 [Duration 05:59]: