Q-90.1's Backyard Astronomer
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- Website
- http://www.deltabroadcasting.org/
- Description
- Mike Murray from the Delta College Planetarium takes a look at what's up in the night sky. Things are happening all the time in the backyard universe, and many of them don't require a telescope to see and enjoy.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2022-10-10 18:29
- last episode published
- 2022-10-10 17:28
- publication frequency
- 7.1 days
- Contributors
- Dockercast
- Owner
- Q-90.1 FM WUCX
- Author
- Explicit
- false
- Number of Episodes
- 300
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Science & Medicine
Recommendations
Episodes
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| 2022-10-10 | At twilight, look high in the northeast for a group of bright stars that resembles a big “W” sitting on its end. This is the constellation of Cassiopeia the Queen. |
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| 2022-10-03 | Even though the nights are cooling down, throw on that coat and grab your binoculars for a look at the Moon! This is a good time to see the dark round plains called “maria,” and bright splashes of lighter material called “rays.” |
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| 2022-09-26 | Delta College Planetarium in Bay City will celebrate this year’s International Observe the Moon Night Saturday, October 1. |
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| 2022-09-21 | The planet Jupiter makes its return into the evening sky shining like a brilliant beacon low in the east after dark! |
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| 2022-09-12 | The Summer Triangle is a useful guidepost to many interesting deep sky objects, but it’s also a way to find other constellations nearby. For example, a popular little pattern among stargazers is Delphinus the Dolphin. |
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| 2022-09-08 | The Harvest Moon takes place on September 10 this year. It's the Full Moon closest to the Autumn Equinox and is popular with farmers because they can continue harvesting by the light of the moon after sunset. |
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| 2022-08-29 | If you look low in the southeast sky after dark, you’ll see a moderately bright star that doesn’t twinkle as much as the other stars. This is the famous ringed planet Saturn, and it recently made its closest approach to Earth. |
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| 2022-08-22 | Under a clear sky with no moon or light pollution, you should see it as a faint band of light that stretches overhead from roughly north to south. This band represents the plane of our Milky Way Galaxy, a huge spiral of some 200 billion stars. |
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| 2022-08-17 | As the moon advances past full and moves further into the eastern sky, we’ll have a chance to see it greet the planet Mars on the morning of August 19. |
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| 2022-08-09 | Since one side of the moon always faces the earth, it's often assumed that means the moon doesn't rotate. But that's not really the case. |
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