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Astronomy Cast Episode 239 from Monday, November 14, 2011.

Astrophotography Part 1. A Gear

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos to 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 and with me is Dr. Pamela Gaia Professor at Southern Illinois University at Ritzville.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well. We've hit that point and fall where you know winter is coming but it's still beautiful.

I hope you're having similar weather there in Vancouver area.

Absolutely, the Leninia year that we're having has made it just non-stop sun all the way through September, October, November.

It's been amazing. We make up for that horrible summer that we had.

So we got an announcement today which is that we're going to be going on a cruise to celebrate the end of the world.

Which is, as you know, we love to rant about the 2012 end of the world prophecies.

And so on December 21, 2012, we will be in the middle of the Caribbean visiting Mayan ruins, laughing at the fact that the world is nending.

And you can come with us.

So here's the details. It's called the end of the world cruise or the great 2012 not the end of the world cruise.

And it starts on December 16th to the 23rd, 2012 on the Norwegian cruise lines, Norwegian jewel.

And so there's David Brain is going to be the headline speaker.

We're going to be doing live episodes of astronomy cast.

We're going to be doing demonstrations of astronomy, bringing telescopes.

You can meet us, hang out with us. Get sick of us. Get sick with us.

But yeah, and so we will be doing that and you can join us.

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