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AstronomyCast Episode 330 R3C Clark

Welcome to AstronomyCast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos.

We'll help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kayne on the publisher of University and with me is Dr. Pam LeGae,

a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pam, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing today, Fraser?

I'm doing great. For just one reminder, we had the most epic virtual star party last night.

We had, for the first time, we had Mercury in the daytime, we had Venus in the daytime.

You can see this really thin crescent as it just completed conjunction.

We had IO pass behind Jupiter.

So if you are to wear every Sunday night, we connect a bunch of telescopes into a live Google Plus Hangout,

and we just broadcast whatever is happening in the night sky.

And last night was Planetary Night. We had the Moon, the Sun, a bunch of planets.

It was just terrific. So definitely join us if you want us to see what we do with the telescopes and stuff.

So that's it. I'm so excited.

And if you want to take more formal classes, one of the things I was working on yesterday,

when I was not doing the virtual star parties, is Dr. Matthew Francis,

the director of our Cosmo Academy program, was getting some of his new classes posted.

So if you go to CosmoAcademy.org or CosmoQuest.org slash classes,

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