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Astronomycast Episode 266 from Monday, May 21, 2012, Archimedes.

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

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing?

I'm doing very well. We're fresh off of our most recent virtual star party, which was a lot of fun.

We had a lot of the great summer constellation objects starting to show up now.

And I think if people haven't had a chance, we connect up a whole bunch of telescopes every Sunday night,

as soon as it gets dark on the west coast.

So in the summertime, that's around nine in the winter.

West coast of North America.

The west coast of North America.

The west coast of Australia? No, the west coast of North America.

Because we've got some great telescopes on the west coast.

And so around nine Pacific, or so we start going in the summertime.

In the winter time, it's more like five Pacific.

And then we just run the telescopes for a couple of hours.

We take requests, whatever you want to see, and then Pamela or Phil stop by,

and we explain the science, and it's a really good time.

So if you want to, you know, we're trying to use this new media, this new technology in interesting ways.

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