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SkyCaramba

Podcast about astronomy and the joys of watching the skies at night--and sometimes during the day

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00:05:26

Draconid meteors and eclipse preparation

SkyCaramba ·

2023/10/01

The celestial dragon may deliver some fireballs courtesy of Comet Halley next week. If you're in the Americas, you want to prepare for the solar eclipse on the 14th.

00:05:31

Sirius by day and a daytime meteor shower

SkyCaramba ·

2023/09/24

Mars continues riding into the sunset. The moon passes by Saturn. Venus approaches the lion. The Daytime Sextantid meteor shower peaks. See a star when the sun is up.

00:06:09

Moonrise rough guide

SkyCaramba ·

2023/09/17

Mars keeps getting harder to see. Saturn gives a lonely star a little company. Jupiter and Uranus hang out between Cetus and Aries. Venus sparkles in the morning. Mercury at its greatest viewing. Neptune up all night. A quick guide to figure out when you can see the moon.

00:05:24

The lizard up there

SkyCaramba ·

2023/09/10

Mars passes by Porrima. Saturn continues a nearly all-night show. Jupiter and Uranus rise early. Venus gleems in the morning with the moon. Maybe see Mercury. A somewhat recently named constellation is a lizard. A couple observers tried to name the stars for different kings.

00:05:28

A proposed mission to the seventh planet; an upcoming...

SkyCaramba ·

2023/09/03

Mercury goes through conjunction this week. Mars continues heading out of the evening sky. Saturn still looks good after opposition. Jupiter and Uranus await you in the morning. Venus is looking good too. Some scientists want to know more about Uranus and propose a mission. And people in most of the Americas will get a solar eclipse next month. Start getting ready now.

00:04:20

Saturn summary

SkyCaramba ·

2023/08/27

Try to find Venus in the morning. Mars is still an evening object. Saturn's up all night. Technology keeps giving us better ways to understand the ringed planet, how it formed, and what that may mean about how the solar system formed.

00:03:17

Antares occulted

SkyCaramba ·

2023/08/20

Venus moves into the morning. Jupiter and Uranus rise in late evening. Saturn's almost at opposition. Mercury and Mars barely grace the evening sky. And the moon passes in front of the reddish star Antares in an event reminiscent of the moon-Mars occultation in December.

00:04:57

A galactic merger and dust rings around a southern star

SkyCaramba ·

2023/08/13

Leo dives into the sunset. Mercury and Mars finish their pairing nearby. Saturn continues approaching opposition. Jupiter rises earlier. And Venus transitions to morning. The moon will soon occult Antares. Two galaxies--one of them the one we live in--will merge in a few billion years. What will we call the new amalgamation? Will people even be around to call it anything? A lonely star in the southern sky is orbited by rings of dust.

00:05:52

Different north and south stars

SkyCaramba ·

2023/08/06

Different planets axes point at different north and south celestial poles. Find out where the north and south stars are on bodies other than Earth. Venus heads toward inferior conjunction. Mercury and Mars tickle Leo's belly. Saturn rises earlier heading toward opposition. The Perseid meteor shower will peak soon.

00:04:36

Face on Mars

SkyCaramba ·

2023/07/30

Two meteor showers peak early this week. Evening planet watching's getting hard. Saturn's approaching opposition. And what's with that face on Mars?

00:05:41

Summer meteor showers

SkyCaramba ·

2023/07/23

Two meteor showers peak at the end of this month. And it's not too early to start looking for one shower that peaks next month. Three planets gang up on the lion. Saturn rises in late evening on its way to opposition next month. Jupiter and Uranus remain near the sea monster.

00:07:27

Proving Pluto's moons

SkyCaramba ·

2023/07/16

Mars, Venus, and Mercury are evening objects near Regulus this week. Saturn's close to Sigma Aquarii. Jupiter and Uranus rise in the morning. Pluto's up all night. It's hard to see. Its five moons are even harder to see. Mathematics helped prove--at least to some people--that the first known Plutonian moon exists. It certainly wasn't distinct in the first pictures.

00:09:16

Regulus, the summer triangle, and star-crossed lovers

SkyCaramba ·

2023/07/09

Lots of things to talk about this week: Mercury becomes an evening object. Mars is close to Regulus. Venus turns around. Spectroscopic binaries. The moon passes Saturn and Jupiter. Solstice on Mars. The summer triangle. Star-crossed lovers.

00:05:59

Super moons and super high tides

SkyCaramba ·

2023/07/02

The first of four so-called supermoons is this week. The reason for tides maybe isn't exactly as you've heard. Mercury is missing from the night sky. Mars and Venus are by Regulus in the heart of the lion. Earth is at its farthest from the sun.

00:06:00

The scorpion's crown

SkyCaramba ·

2023/06/25

Do scorpions have foreheads? The one on the celestial dome does, at least according to one of the star names. What looks like one star in the scorpion is actually six! Venus pursues Mars in the evening sky. Mercury's at perihelion and heading toward conjunction with the sun.

00:05:52

Solstice and circumference

SkyCaramba ·

2023/06/18

The June solstice is this week. A Greek mathematician observed shadows during the solstice, had people make measurements, ran some calculations, and came up with the first known estimate of how big around the earth is. Venus follows Mars in the space between Cancer and Leo in the evening sky. Saturn stays in Aquarius in the second half of the night. Jupiter's up at dawn.

00:06:13

A bird, a bowl, and a misnamed water snake

SkyCaramba ·

2023/06/11

The story of Apollo taking out his wrath on a servant bird, a bowl, and an innocent water snake is remembered in our modern constellations. But modern astronomers call the snake by the wrong name. It's Venus's turn to pass through the Beehive Cluster this week. The planet is following Mars in the evening sky. The moon passes Jupiter in the morning. And if you can see Mercury in the morning, get some binoculars and see a fainter planet and an asteroid nearby.

00:05:38

A daytime meteor shower

SkyCaramba ·

2023/06/04

A meteor shower you might catch part of at dawn peaks this week. For the most part, it's a daytime event. Even though you don't get to see most of the meteors--up to 60 per hour--you might be able to detect them by listening to the radio! A far south full moon, Mars marching out of the Beehive and Venus heading toward it, and Mercury in the morning are among the other things to know about this week.

00:07:35

Dichotomy defies definition

SkyCaramba ·

2023/05/28

Mercury and Venus are approaching their greatest elongations--Mercury in the morning and Venus in the evening. That's when they're farthest from the sun in the sky and can be seen most easily. The two planets are also predicted to be at dichotomy around June 4. But an unexplained phenomenon is likely to make one appear to be in its semi-circle phase around the middle of this week and the other around the middle of next week. Why do the appearances of Mercury and Venus defy geometry? Mars marches

00:05:38

What a woman gets for all her toils under the stars

SkyCaramba ·

2023/05/21

The moon passes by Venus and Mars. The moon goes through northern lunistice. Saturn rules the morning while Jupiter creeps in and Mercury tries. A Cambridge University student worked for two years helping build a radio signal detecting apparatus. She spent hours poring over the data it produced. And after she discovered the first known pulsar, two other people got a Nobel prize for it. Find out how well Jocelyn Bell took it in the conclusion to the series on unexpected discoveries in radio

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