A SMARTMICAST Episode 468 Simulations for Fun and Science

Welcome to AstronomyCast, our 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 Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today and with me is Dr.

Pamela Gay, the director of technology and citizen science at the Astronomical Society

of the Pacific and the director of Cosmic Quest.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Doing great.

So before we get any deeper into this episode, just want to give a quick shout out to

what is going to become sort of an unfolding story and that is for friends at Ocean

Side Photo and Telescope who just sent the two of us, brand new, 70 millimeter refracting

refracting telescopes with cool CCD sensors to do astrophotography and we are going to

sort of learn, upgrade our game in visual and astrophotography and bring you guys along

with it and a huge, huge thank you to our friends at Ocean Side Photo and Telescope.

You podcast as you can see it but Pamela just made a little heart sign.

So big thanks to OPT who I think that like the biggest telescope company or telescope

retailer in the world I think.

So yeah, they're a great company and they've been sort of great to work with for years

and decades we've been talking to them.

And they're an utterly honest company which is why I've recommended them so many times.

They have more than once prevented me from buying something more expensive than I needed

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