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Astronomycast, episode 248 from Monday, January 16, 2012, a Karina constellation.

Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cause. Most really 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 University Day, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University, Everett's Film.

How are you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Good. So again, we are running this as this episode of Astronomycast as a live Google plus hangout.

So if you want to watch us, you can watch us live as we record the episode and make all our mistakes.

And you can circle both me or Pamela on Google plus, and then you'll get a notification in your stream when we start the recording.

But the plan right now is for us to record them every Monday at all the time zones again.

Okay, so at noon Pacific, two central three Eastern and 8 p.m. in London.

Yeah.

So that's every Monday, that's where I'm going to try and record, but we'll tell you if we have to record a different time because of Pamela's travel schedule.

And usually we'll just shift to Wednesday, same time, same bat channel, just on Wednesday.

Right, right. And then it might just be that she's in China and we're recording it 4 a.m. her time.

But she's a professional and a trooper, so don't worry about it.

Yeah, except the social media is just don't stream there so nicely.

That's true.

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