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Astronomycast, episode 234 from Monday, October 10, 2011, lunar phases.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos to re-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 Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University.

Abortsville, hi Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

Good, so once again we are recording this episode of Astronomycast as a Google Hangout, and so all of the eight, our eight closest friends who are listening to this episode, you can all wave,

but keep your microphones silent.

So if you want to participate with us, probably the best thing to do is to go on to Google Plus, add me and or Pamela to your circle, and then you'll get the notifications on when we do them.

Right now they're completely random, and I apologize for that, but that's just sort of our schedule.

So it's sort of like if you happen to notice that we do the recording, and it feels as fast as I apologize for that, and so if anyone from Google is listening, let us get on to the Google Hangouts on Air.

That would be awesome, and then we can broadcast it to a larger audience.

So did you have any more anything else to update this week?

No, I have absolutely nothing. It's boring.

You're plugless, what?

Well, we need donations, we always need donations, but we have to restock our store.

So going there, you can buy lanyards, but you know, by the time people listen to this, we are going to be selling surlies.

So there may be surlems available if you go check out astrogear.org.

These are cool little ceramic necklaces that have our logo on them and other things.

Okay, well let's get rocking then.

So the moon is a stark reminder that we actually live in a universe filled with stars and planets and moons.

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