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Podcast #38: Dr Pieter Kotzé at ScopeX 2018

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 28 Nov, 2018 by Allen Versfeld28 Nov, 2018

Welcome to episode 38 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This episode features the last part of our physics feature on the lifecycle of a star from dust cloud to super nova, and the 3rd of the ScopeX 2018 public lectures. Physics Over the past few episodes we’ve been trying to understand how a random cloud of dust and gas can turn into a supernova. In this segment, we finally get to witness our supernova, but that’s just brought up more … Continue reading →

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Podcast #37: Mission Update and Tim Cooper at ScopeX 2018

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 9 Nov, 2018 by Allen Versfeld9 Nov, 2018

Welcome to Episode 37 of the Urban Astronomer podcast! This week features a public lecture by Tim Cooper, and another of Clem Unger’s space mission updates. As always, if you enjoy the show and would like to see it grow, there are a few ways that you can help. You could leave a positive review and rating on your favourite podcast service (I’m partial to Podknife but anything goes!). You could send a subscribe link to a friend. You could … Continue reading →

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Podcast #33: Jean-Pierre Grootaerd

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 12 Sep, 2018 by Allen Versfeld12 Sep, 2018
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Welcome to the 33rd episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This is a special release, featuring an interview that I recorded for ScopeX, the biggest astronomy and telescope event in South Africa. Jean-Pierre Grootaerd, through SSVI (which translates in English to Stars Shine for Everyone), has donated a pair of 90mm refracting telescopes to ScopeX, for us to hand over to whoever is best able to use them to advance science education in South Africa. Since he isn’t able to come … Continue reading →

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Posted in The Urban Astronomer Podcast | Tagged Astronauts, Equipment, Interview, Outreach, podcast, ScopeX, SSVI, Telescope | Leave a reply

Podcast #32: Dr Nicole Gugliucci

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 18 Aug, 2018 by Allen Versfeld18 Aug, 2018
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Welcome to the 32nd episode of the Urban Astronomer Podcast. This episode features an interview with Dr Nicole Gugliucci, whom long time listeners of astronomy podcasts should recognise from her work with Cosmoquest, and her many appearances on various shows in the 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast. This is quite a long-running interview, so we didn’t have time to include the next segment of our supernova story. We’ll pick that up next week instead, with the thrilling tale of what … Continue reading →

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Podcast #28: Stella Kafka

Urban Astronomer avatarPosted on 23 Apr, 2018 by Allen Versfeld23 Apr, 2018

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Urban Astronomer Podcast.  This episode features an interview with Dr Stella Kafka, current director of the AAVSO (American Association of Variable Star Observers).  I met Dr Kafka at the 2018 Symposium of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, where she delivered several excellent talks on the AAVSO and citizen science. I was so impressed by what she had to say that I just had to invite her onto the show.  Amazingly, she beat me … Continue reading →

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