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Western Slope Skies

A bi-weekly short feature on astronomy, produced by members of the Black Canyon Astronomical Society.Link for podcast apps:https://www.kvnf.org/podcast/western-slope-skies/rss.xml

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All Episodes

3:01

Western Slope Skies - Planetary Alignment

Western Slope Skies ·

2025/02/19

Planetary alignment is a phenomenon where other planets in our solar system align from Earth’s perspective. It is a rare event with some alignments occurring once in 100 years.

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3:41

Western Slope Skies - Dark Sky Presence on Western...

Western Slope Skies ·

2025/01/17

For those of us living away from our larger cities and towns, the West Slopearea from Grand Junction south to Cortez is one of the darkest places onEarth where people live. We know that by experience but that darkness hasbeen measured by satellites.

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3:15

Western Slope Skies - “Drake Equation”

Western Slope Skies ·

2025/01/03

My whole life I’ve been asked the daunting question that seemed to put my whole belief system on trial. Aliens, were they real or not? If I had said yes, I was crazy, a conspiracy theorist who didn’t know the difference between fictional video game characters and real life. But if I had said no, I’d be shutting down the entire possibility of there being something more to life than just what my little planet has to offer.

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3:46

Western Slope Skies - Astronomy Highlights for 2025

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/12/20

2025’s almost here, and in astronomy, a lot will be happening.

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3:54

Western Slope Skies - The Big Wow!

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/12/06

Today dark skies are dwindling world-wide thanks to a dramatic increase in light pollution effects. Much like wildlife that once roamed this country extensively but were later pushed to protected areas like national parks for survival, our darkest skies now mostly remain above public lands.

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2:13

Western Slope Skies - The Milky Way

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/11/22

Our galaxy is made up of billions of stars, gas, and dust, and it’s truly something astonishing to see and be a part of.

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3:45

Western Slopes Skies: Astrology and Astronomy Are Not...

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/11/08

Astrology and astronomy – the words sound so similar. So why do you get such a stink-eye from your friend the astronomer when you call her an astrologer?

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4:06

Western Slope Skies - Mankind's Mementos on the Moon

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/10/25

Sixty-nine years ago, Humanity first contacted the Moon’s surface with Luna 2, the former Soviet Union’s uncrewed lunar probe. One may wonder what has been left behind over the decades. The answer is well over 200 tons of diverse artifacts. Behind the materials are many stories-- mundane, poignant, controversial, and amusing.

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3:36

Western Slope Skies - Chasing Northern Lights in...

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/10/11

Viewing Northern Lights in Colorado is certainly possible, even common at times, such as during high levels of solar activity also known as "Solar Maximum.”

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3:52

Western Slope Skies - The Stories of the Stars

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/09/27

Stories, such as the one I’ve just shared and many others around the globe, were used to interpret the stars and celestial objects that people have seen sparkling in the night sky.

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3:22

Piazzi’s Flying Star” & Stellar Parallax

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/09/13

Throughout history, a belief in the “fixed” and changeless stars was held by many cultures. But at the beginning of the 19th Century, Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi repeatedly measured the position of a star called 61 Cygni. Piazzi’s work overturned such long-held beliefs and led to research that ultimately allowed astronomers to accurately measure the scale of the Milky Way Galaxy and to learn of our location within it.

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3:22

What is solar maximum and what does it mean for us?

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/08/30

The Sun has been ‘in the news’ these days. You may have read about various phenomena associated with the Sun, including sunspots, flares, and auroras or Northern Lights. So why all the interest in the Sun now?

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3:22

Western Slope Skies - AstroFest 2024

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/08/14

AstroFest 2024 will feature dark night skies along the entire Gunnison River corridor from Curecanti National Recreation Area (certified Dark Sky in 2021) all the way to Gunnison Gorge National Conservation Area – celebrating their recent certification as a Dark Sky Place.

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3:03

Western Slope Skies - Meteor Showers

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/08/02

Every year, right in the middle of August, my cousins and I drag all our sleeping bags andpillows up to their roof and wait for the sky event that goes highly unnoticed every year: the Perseid meteor shower.

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2:58

Western Slope Skies: Sundogs and Moonbows

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/07/19

Halos arise from sunlight refraction through microscopic ice crystals, usually aloft in cirrus clouds.

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3:45

Western Slope Skies - Discovering Planets Outside Our...

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/07/05

A star begins its life as a cloud of gas and dust. These are called molecular clouds, and they can range between 1,000 to 10 million times the mass of the sun.

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3:20

Western Slope Skies - Planetary Alignment versus...

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/06/21

A planetary alignment means that 3 or more planets line up in a row, as seen from the Earth, in the same area of the sky, that is, a “parade of planets”. The planets lie ROUGHLY on a line called the ecliptic, the path that the Sun appears to follow against the background of stars as we on Earth orbit the Sun. The parade can be tens of degrees in length.

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3:23

Western Slope Skies - How Stars Become White Dwarfs

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/06/07

When a star dies what is left behind is called a stellar remnant. The type of stellar remnant is dependent upon the star’s mass.

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3:08

Western Slope Skies - Rings of Saturn

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/05/24

Saturn's rings are one of the most astonishing things to see with your own eyes.

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3:13

Western Slope Skies: LAKE CITY’S 2024 STARFEST

Western Slope Skies ·

2024/05/10

This year’s Lake City Star Fest will be held June 7-9. We invite the public to celebrate the incredible starry night skies in our area along with some of Lake City’s rich and colorful cultural heritage.

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