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Astrna Me cast episode 730 the Neil Gerel Swift Observatory.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the Cosmos,

where we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Fraser Kane, publisher of Universe today and with me is Dr.

Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the

Director of Cosmquest. Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well, but I am very tired because our sky keeps doing weird stuff.

Yeah, stuff that needs to be watched. Yeah, so we've had Aurora there there is now a comet that like you can get amazing photos with a

10 second exposure on your phone with your phone yeah people are sharing all of their phone pictures of this

comment. Unfortunately I have a mountain that blocks my entire view to the west

so I'm going to have to get creative if I'm going to want to be able to actually

see this comment I'm going to want to be able to actually see this comment.

I'm going to have to go for a drive and find, get to the top of a different mountain that gives me a view out to the west.

So friend of our show, David Joseph Wesley, sent me a picture he took with his phone

looking out across the LA basin with maximal light pollution and it was gorgeous. So do not say I live someplace too light polluted.

You need to get out there and look at it as quickly as possible. Every night it's getting a little smaller a little further

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