The Astronomy Cast Episode 476, the overview effect.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, or weekly facts based journey through the cosmos, we help you

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

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of university today with me as always.

Dr. Pamela Gay, the director of technology and citizen science, at the astronomical

society of the Pacific and the director of Cosmic Research.

Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing, Fraser?

I'm doing very well, just man, like two weeks from now, I will be in Iceland chasing

auroras with Paul Sutter, and it's going to be awesome.

I am very envious, I will be shortly after you get back, I'm going to be going to Amsterdam

for the European testing conference, then I'm coming home for a couple of weeks, and

then I will be going to Japan for the communicating astronomy to the public conference, but that's

nowhere as nearest.

Iceland, which is on my bucket list.

Yeah, totally on my bucket list.

I'm going to hit two of my bucket list this year, I hope.

So the bucket list that I'm going to go for is Iceland, and then this summer I'm going

to Australia, and I will finally get a chance to see the southern hemisphere constellations

and the largest small mental and a cloud and the omega cluster, and like it's just, it's

so great down there, and I can't wait to be able to see that.

Where are you going to dark skies?

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