A strong because episode 448 prepping for the great US eclipse.

Welcome to Astronomycast, a weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help

you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.

My name is Frisercane, I'm the publisher of University Day with me is Dr. Pamela Gay,

the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

and the director of Coswell Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

Great.

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Any administrative you'd go or should we crack on on the show?

I think life is good.

All right.

Come on, just stay involved and keep looking up for the sun because it's going to disappear.

Here we go.

On Monday, August 21, 2017, there's going to be a total eclipse of the sun, visible to

many in the United States.

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