Ep. 575: Observing The Moon

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 575: Observing The Moon by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay As amateur astronomers, we curse the Moon every month. Seriously! Why doesn't someone get rid of that thing! This week, something occurred to us. What if we actually pointed our telescopes at the Moon? What would we see? The Lunar "X" that Fraser talked about will be visible this Friday, June 26th! So go out with binoculars or a telescope and enjoy!

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0:00.0	A Sronomycast, Episode 575, Observing the Moon.
0:12.2	Welcome to Astronomycast, our weekly facts based in journey through the cosmos, where
0:15.3	we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.
0:18.8	I'm Frisor Cain, publisher of Universe Today with me is always his doctor, Pamela Gay,
0:22.5	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic
0:27.3	Quest.
0:28.3	I'm doing well.
0:30.2	How are you doing this fine night before summer solstice?
0:34.3	I know, I know.
0:36.1	I've got to say we've been doing the virtual star parties and they've been having to go
0:40.6	later and later and later.
0:42.0	And so now we have to start at nine o'clock.
0:43.7	It's going to be nice that the night time comes earlier now.
0:48.6	And we'll talk a bit about this next week a bit about the things we'll be able to see
0:53.2	in the nice warm summer night time sky in the Northern Hemisphere.
0:58.7	But as you probably know, this is going to be our penultimate episode for season.
1:04.5	We were doing the math beforehand.
1:06.3	What do we say, season 14?
1:08.0	We think it's season 14.
1:09.3	We think we're on season 14 of Astronomycast.
1:12.8	So we start up again in September.
1:16.2	Typically we used to start with whatever interview Pamela would do at Dragoncon, but I don't
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