Show #11: The MOST Planetary Roundup

By Aaron on May 31, 2005 at 2:57 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments


Show #11
Title: Extra Solar Planets Blamed on Canada
Castdate: 050531
Written By: Pamela Gay
Disembodied Voices: Travis Searle & Pamela Gay
Engineered: Travis Searle
Subjects: Hot Jupiters, Extrasolar Planets, Tau Boo, HD 209458a, Canada, MOST, Spitzer

Links

Now say Tau Boo B ten times fast :-)

Show #10: Miras vs. The Magic 8 Ball

By Aaron on May 25, 2005 at 10:28 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

Show #9
Title: Battle Royale: Miras vs. The Magic 8 Ball
Castdate: 050525
Written By: Aaron Price
Disembodied Voices: Pamela Gay & Travis Searle
Engineered: Travis Searle
Subjects: Red giants, Mira, X-Rays, acccretion discs, stellar fusion, white dwarfs, Magic 8 Balls.

Was this a good show?
(SHAKE)
Magic 8 Ball says: Not likely.

Everyone’s a critic.

Chit Chat Show #2

By Slacker on May 16, 2005 at 2:56 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

SA Extra: Chit Chat Show #2
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela, Aaron and an appearance by Phil Plait and Travis’ roomate Bill.
Engineered: Travis

We actually had a lot of fun with this one. And we hope it shows. Slowly but surely we’re learning how this new fangled teknowledgy works. Plug in the cables, press the buttons and watch the pretty lights go blink, blink, blink…

What happened:

The Space Show with Harry Carry
Phil Plait (the Bad Astronomer) talks about image faking and astrology
Answering some e-mail
How To Destroy The Earth(tm)
Where to find MC Hawking

Show #9: The Martian Drinking Game

By Aaron on May 16, 2005 at 12:23 am | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | No Comments

Show #9
Date:050516
Title: The Martian Drinking Game
Written By: Aaron
Disembodied Voices: Travis & Pamela
Engineered: Travis
Subjects: Mars, space craft

If they can see Mars this well,
imagine what they can see on Earth. And these are the civilians!

Interview: Jonathan McDowell’s Space Chat

By Slacker on May 6, 2005 at 2:55 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | 276 Comments

Jupiter is on the left, the rocket is the moving speck on the right. Images are roughly 10 seconds apart. Pictures by Aaron.

Title: Slacker Extra Interview With Jonathan McDowell
Disembodied Voices: Jonathan McDowell and Aaron Price
Engineered: Aaron Price
Subjects: Space exploration, rockets, orbits,satellites, spy agencies, chandra, dark matter, amateurs

Our new mics and iRivers are here and we’re testing how to use them best. Jonathan sounds great, Aaron is just a bit quiet. But he has nothing to say anyway!

A Note From Aaron: I have been a stutterer all my life. It is one reason you never hear me host the main shows with Travis and Pamela. As a child it was bad but 8 years of speech therapy did wonders. Now many people don’t know I stutter the first time they meet me. However, today I had one of the worst episodes of stuttering in a long time. The way to combat these situations is for me to take a minute and relax and then focus on a technique called “prolonging” where you stretch out the first vowell sound in a word. As a kid I HATED it when adults kept reminding me to “slow down and PROLONG”! But now it is a life saver. However, when you are “live” how do you ask an interviewee to “please give me a minute to get ahold of myself”. :)

Anyway, I just throw that out there so you know why I STUTTER LIKE A MAD BANSHEE today. Well, I guess banshee’s don’t stutter. But they should! A stuttering Siouxie Sue would rock my world. (If you don’t like old school punk, you won’t get that.)

Back to your regularly scheduled slack…

Here is a list of topics in order as they appear:

 Aaron explaining what he saw
 The Titan IV launch summary
 Explanation of different orbits, launch tactics
 Scared canadian oil platforms
 Explanation of Titan IV launch and boosters in detail
 Spy agencies
 Importance of spy satellites through history
 What the Titan IV launched
 No secrets
 Importance of amateurs in satellite tracking
 More orbit talk
 Jonathan's Space Report
 Building an open international community of trackers
 Day job: Chandra X-Ray Observatory
 Virtual Observatories
 PhD's, population 3 stars that don't exist and Olber's Paradox

Show #8: Stellar Elders Lack Metal

By Aaron on May 2, 2005 at 8:11 pm | In Slacker Astronomy Archival Podcasts | 37 Comments

Title: Stellar Elders Lack Metal
Castdate: 050502
Written By: Pamela
Disembodied Voices: Travis, Pamela
Topics: old stars, Big Bang, nucleosynthesis, planet formation
Engineered: Travis

The images come from the Subaru website. The top graphic shows the location of HE 1327-2326 and the lower image shows a color image of the star above a stellar specta of HE 1327-2327 and the Sun. The humps and dips in the spectra represent the presence of different atoms. The more lines, the more different types of atoms are present in the star.

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