Delaware: Census Taker of the Sky with Quigley Goode

The Preamble

Sharon McMahon

Education, History

4.9 • 15.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2021

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Sharon is joined by Quigley and Alex Goode, professional content creators and founders of Soulcial Media, to learn about a legend in astronomy, Annie Jump Cannon. Born on the eve of the women’s suffrage movement, Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer and pioneer of star classification who acquired a college education and made a career for herself in a society that discouraged both of which. Known as the “Census Taker of the Sky,” Annie is most well-known for developing a star cataloging and classification system that astronomers still use today, known as the Harvard spectral classification system. Born and raised in Delaware, today Annie is considered Delaware’s contribution to American innovation, she has been inducted into the Royal Astronomical Society, and the asteroid 1120 Cannonia is named in her honor. Annie Jump Cannon is an example of what can happen when your gifts and passions align.

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0:00.0	Hey friends delighted you can be here delighted you can be here
0:05.8	delighted you can be here to hear my conversation with Quigley and Alex Goody.
0:11.2	You might know them from the Instagram account officially quickly and I have an
0:15.8	incredible story for you today. It is about a woman from Delaware who has changed
0:21.8	the science of astronomy, changed it.
0:25.0	Probably don't know her name because of the way science was at the time that she lived.
0:30.0	But that is ending today.
0:32.0	After today, you're going to know her name.
0:34.2	So let's dive into this conversation
0:36.9	with Quigley and Alex Goody.
0:39.0	I'm Sharon McMahon.
0:40.7	And welcome to the Sharon Says So podcast.
0:45.0	Thank you guys so much for coming.
0:47.0	I'm here today with The Quickly and Alex Goody.
0:51.0	Tell everybody what you guys do. So we are essentially professional
0:55.6	content creators which means we make video photo all sorts of documentation of
1:02.2	our actual lives and shared on social media?
1:05.0	Yeah, I guess I would add to that.
1:07.0	I'm a professional Instagram husband, shall we say.
1:10.0	It's a special designation these days. It is, it is. I went to many years of schooling. You know, I'm very happy to be here and to be my very accomplished wife's sidekick. We run a kind of a lifestyle blog if you will that kind of documents our weird little family that is now grown by one. We had our first son back in September. In addition, we also own an educational platform called Social Media, S-O-U-L-C-A-L- Media, which is basically aimed at educating people
1:39.7	on how to use social media for business, whether you're a small business or a creator, an artist or an
1:45.0	individual. Social media is a very free entity through which businesses can grow.
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