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Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 213: Dr Ian Musgrave's MaySkyGuideMay Moon Phases:
May 4 ~1st Quarter
May 11 ~ Moon at Apogee
May 13 ~ Full Moon
May 20 ~ Last Quarter Great for star gazing
May 26 ~ Moon at Perigee
May 27 ~ New Moon Great for star gazing
What’s Up in May?
Planets:
Evening Skies
Jupiter is difficult to see this month
Mars is visible, and nice to see just an hour after sunset
Uranus will return in a couple of months
Most of the planetary action is in the morning sky, Mercury Saturn and Venus are the standouts, but Mercury is lost in the twilight by mid month, returning to evening skies in June.
May 2 ~ Aste...2025-04-3030 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstronomy Astrophiz 212-CiaraGuy-Space GovernanceIn Astrophiz 212, 'Space Governance’ we are speaking with Space Lawyer, Ciara Guy, who has worked in the Justice system and Magistrates Courts.
After completing her first law degree, she is now an assistant astronomer at Battlesteads Observatory and is majoring in Space Law for her Master's Law degree at Northumbria University.
Her specialties are Dark Skies and Mega-constellations of proliferating low earth-orbit satellites.2025-04-1449 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 208-Unusual galaxies in the Early UniverseMeet Dr Alex Cameron from Oxford University who is making fantastic discoveries about the earliest and most distant galaxies in our universe using the James Webb Space Telescope …2025-02-1445 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz204: Dr Elaina Hyde- The York Universe PodcastIn this our two hundred and fourth episode of Astrophiz, we’re going to listen in to another fabulous Astro podcast that you should subscribe to.
Regular listeners will remember back to Episode 57 in 2018 where we interviewed a wonderful data scientist and astrophysicist, Dr Elaina Hyde.
Elaina speaks four languages, has four undergraduate degrees in astronomy, physics, optical engineering and planetary sciences; two masters degrees in engineering and astronomy and astrophysics; and a Ph.D. in astronomy and physics.
Now back then, Doctor Hyde was an post-doc research fellow at Western Sydney University and data science consultant …. and right now she...2024-11-131h 03
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsNovemberSkyGuide2024Astronomy- The Astrophiz podcast with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave
Moon Phases for November:
1 November - New Moon - ideal for stargazing
9 November - 1st Quarter Moon
14 November - Moon at perigee (closest)
16 November - Full Moon
23 November - Last Quarter Moon, also ideal for stargazing
26 November - Moon at apogee (furthest)
Most of the planetary action is in the evening skies and late evening skies.
Evening Skies:
Venus is very high in early evening skies in the west
Mercury is at its best in the evening twilight this month, near thin crescent moon on 3 November.
Saturn is still quite good in t...2024-10-3124 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsDr Genevieve Schroeder - Radio Eyes on Gamma-ray Burst SkiesAstronomy ~ Astrophiz 202: Dr Genevieve Schroeder ~ Radio Eyes on Gamma-ray Burst Skies
Meet Dr Genevieve Schroeder a fabulous astrophysicist who does exciting research into GRBs … Gamma Ray Bursts.
A Gamma Ray Burst is the undisputed brightest-ever radiation coming from the most extreme events in the universe … Specifically, Genevieve hunts down and understands how Gamma-ray Bursts are generated by the most cataclysmic events in our universe2024-10-1450 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstronomy Astrophiz201: October SkyGuideAstrophiz 201: Dr Ian Musgrave’s October SkyGuide
Highlights:
Comet C/2023 A3 has been observed and photographed embedded in the eastern morning twilight over the past week, but is now (1 October) below the horizon and skimming behind the sun.
The Comet emerges and becomes visible in the western evening twilight around 11 October, so we can look forward to catching it, and it could be quite bright before rapidly fading, but no one really knows how it will emerge after it’s closest approach to the sun. Could be spectacular or a fizzer …
So Ian’s best advice is to go out just aft...2024-09-2928 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAugust SkyGuideAstrophiz 197: Dt Ian Musgrave’s August SkyGuide
Moon Phases for August
New Moon - 4 August - best for seeing the faint fuzzies and clusters
Apogee Moon furthest from Earth - 9 August
1st Quarter Moon - 13 August
Full Moon - 20 August
Perigee Moon closest to Earth - 21 August
Last Quarter Moon - 26 August
Evening Sky
Comet C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan is binocular-visible in Leo.
Mercury is a fine sighting early in the evenings in August near the Western horizon.
Mercury, Regulus and Venus are visible till an hour after sunset
On the 6th, Mercury, Regulus and Venus form a triangle with the th...2024-07-3025 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz196: Explosive Transients - Dr Lauren RhodesToday we have a brilliant interview for you as we speak with a fabulous Early Career Researcher, Dr Lauren Rhodes from the University of Oxford.
Lauren has just published a paper on the BOAT … the Brightest Object of All Time … a “Once in 10,000 year event”
The blast, called GRB 221009A, was over 100 billion times brighter than the sun.
Lauren works in powerful collaborations which use a variety of radio interferometers, such as MeerKAT and e-MERLIN to study the radio emissions from explosive celestial events including jets from X-ray binaries and gamma ray bursts.
She is using multi wavelength observations of these so...2024-07-1549 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 195 - July SkyGuideAstrophiz 195: Dr Ian Musgrave’s July SkyGuide
Dr Ian Musgrave brings us your July SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month.
And July is again also a wonderful month for celestial observers, especially the early risers amongst us :)
As usual Ian gives us 'Ian's Tangent' … and this month it’s all about the ‘Comet Ferret’, Charles Messier, and his famous catalog of 13 comets and 110 iconic ‘Messier Objects’ now known to be galaxies, nebulae and globular clusters. See if you can spot the ‘False Comet’ in the tail of Scorpius.
Then Ian gives us hi...2024-06-3029 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz193: June SkyGuide and Astrophotography ChallengeAstrophiz 193: Dr Ian Musgrave’s June SkyGuide
Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his June SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month.
And June is also a wonderful month for celestial observers, especially the early risers amongst us :)
As usual Ian gives us his ‘Tangent’ … and this month it’s all about how animals respond to celestial appearances and then he gives us his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras.
This month our challenge is to capture Saturn as it is occulted b2024-05-3133 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz191-MaySkyGuide - Astrophotography ChallengeAstrophiz 191: May SkyGuide
Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his May SkyGuide … telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month.
And May is a wonderful month for celestial observers, especially the early risers amongst us :)
As usual Ian gives us his ‘Tangent’ … and this month it’s all about the depiction of Comets throughout history and then he gives us his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras.
This month our challenge is to capture Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks as it passes through the majestic O...2024-04-2926 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsA184- Hyerin Cho - Black HolesAstrophiz 184: Hyerin Cho
Meet Hyerin Cho, an inspiring young astrophysicist from Korea who is doing her PhD at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Hyerin uses her formidable computational skills to simulate still-mysterious black holes using supercomputers, as well as revealing the mysteries and enigmatic fast radio bursts AKA FRBs.
For her main research, she produces simulations of plasma accreting onto black holes and is on an already successful quest to discover what really makes these wonderful phenomena tick and how galaxies and their central black holes interact with each other, regardless of their relative size.
An amazing...2023-12-0136 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 179: Dr Daniel Palumbo - The Event Horizon TelescopeToday we are speaking with Dr Daniel Palumbo, from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Daniel is an astrophysicist and data scientist with the Event Horizon Telescope who worked on those amazing black hole images using data from the planet-sized telescope, the EHT, the Event Horizon Telescope.
He is involved in ongoing work on the Next Generation EHT consortium
In this episode he shares his science journey, how the EHT works and how he worked with the imaging teams to produce those two historic and stunning black hole images from our Milky Way Galactic Center, Sagittarius A* and the more...2023-09-1556 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 177: A/Prof Michelle CluverIn this extended and enthralling interview, Associate Professor Michelle Cluver from Swinburne University's Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing reveals the captivating world of mid-infrared research.
With boundless enthusiasm, she unravels the mysteries of this innovative field, igniting our imagination and highlighting her powerful results and the immense potential of being able to peer deep through previously unseeable interstellar dust clouds.
Her contagious passion for discovery is palpable as she reveals the astonishing understandings obtained through powerful instruments like Spitzer, WISE, MeerKAT, SKA pathfinders and the JWST, and as Co-PI, the promise of the 4MOST survey in cataloging the spectral properties...2023-08-141h 32
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 176: August SkyGuideHighlights:
Blue Moon
Opposition Of Saturn
We lose Venus from Evening skies
Mercury is at its best this month
Moon Phases
August 2nd Perigee Full Moon
August 8th Last Quarter Moon (ideal for observing galaxies and globular clusters in the early evening)
August 16th New Moon is ideal for stargazing anytime
August 24th First Quarter Moon
August 31st Perigee Full (Blue) Moon ie the 2nd Full Moon for the month and the best perigee full moon of the year.
Mercury is best seen at the start of the month rising higher and higher in the evening sky and passing above...2023-07-3120 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 175-AstroDataWizardry[ Full transcript at Astrophiz.com ]
In this fabulous episode of Astrophiz, Greg Sleap, the Software and Systems Team Leader at CIRA, the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy, a node of ICRAR (The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) discusses the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) and its role in capturing radio data from the cosmos.
The MWA is a low-frequency radio telescope array located in remote Western Australia. It is used for various scientific studies, including the search for the signals of the Epoch of Reionization, detecting black hole radio jets, studying supernova remnants, and monitoring space junk.
The MWA has...2023-07-141h 17
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz174-July SkyGuideAstrophiz 174: Dr Ian Musgrave’s July SkyGuide
Moon Phases:
The Full Moon is Monday, July 3.
Last Quarter is July 10.
New Moon is July 18.
First Quarter is July 26.
The Moon is at perigee, when it is closest to the Earth, on the 5th.
Summary:
Most planetary action is in the evening skies, apart from Jupiter looking magnificent in the mornings, and Venus and Mars are nice in the evenings this month, with Mercury returning to evening skies later in the month. Till then, Mercury is lost in the morning twilight.
Evening Skies:
Venus is prominent from the evening twilight to early ev...2023-06-2928 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz172-June SkyGuideAstrophiz 172: Dr Ian Musgrave’s June SkyGuide
What's up in the Southern Sky in the month of June?
The dates for the Moon Phases for June, Evening Sky Highlights and all the beautiful Morning Sky Highlights.
Planetary action: Mars, then Venus, meets the Beehive cluster, The moon occults Delta Scorpii, then forms attractive patterns with Jupiter, Mars and Venus.
More details, times plus charts on Ian’s ’Southern Skywatch'
+ Ian’s Tangent - Comets & Dyson Spheres
Bonus: Using binoculars effectively
Next Episode: Dr Jesse Van De Sande with new Galactic discoveries2023-06-0123 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 170: Dr Ian Musgrave May SkyGuideMoon Phases for May
Full Moon - 6 May (with penumbral eclipse in the early morning)
Moon at Perigee - 11 May
Last Quarter - 12 May
New Moon - 20 May
First Quarter - 28 May (also apogee moon)
Evening Sky Highlights
VENUS - moving from Taurus into gemini and getting brighter and climbing higher in the West. From the 9th to 10th Venus is closed to the open cluster M35. On the 23rd Venus is just 3degrees from the crescent moon, and on the 30th Venus will be right next to the Mag 3 double star Kappa Geminorum.
Venus is in it’s ‘half-moon’ phase...2023-05-0127 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz169: Dr Laura Driessen ~ Radio StarsI am really excited to be speaking again with Dr Laura Driessen, who is now recognised as one of Australia’s Superstars of STEM!
You first met Laura 5 years ago back in 2018 when she was doing her PhD at the University of Manchester and Jodrell Bank.
Laura’s back story is all there in Astrophiz Episode 54. You heard about her obsession with space starting at age 4 and her natural yet meandering academic Astro journey up to the point where she was using commensal searches on the MeerKAT array in South Africa for pinpointing and localization of FRBs, Fast Radio Bursts.
Toda...2023-04-1251 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz163: HolidaySkyHuntingMany cultures around the world and throughout history have staged festivals events and celebrations around this time. Here in Australia our summer holidays occur now and with Christmas and New Years Eve approaching it’s a great time to spend time with family and friends.
As I’ve been reminded by our resident observation guru Dr Ian Musgrave, this is a great time of year to see some great planetary action and some special stars and introduce younger family members to the splendour of the night sky.
There’s a lot to see over the next week, even with naked eyes...2022-12-2308 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 162: Dr Manisha Caleb ~ Unravelling FRB MysteriesMeet an amazing researcher and astrophysicist Dr Manisha Caleb …
Manisha has used the world’s most powerful instruments to unlock the secrets of some of the most powerful and puzzling objects in our known universe.
For her PhD she took a very deep dive and most productive research program into the phenomena of Fast Radio Bursts using the MOST and Parkes radio telescopes, and along the way, helped refurbish and reconfigure the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope situated not far from Canberra in Australia.
Since then, her post-doc took her to Manchester and the famous Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank and furt...2022-12-1428 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz161- Dr Ian MusgraveDecember SkyGuideAstrophiz 161: Dr Ian Musgrave’s December SkyGuide
Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what planets to look out for in our morning and evening skies. This special month also brings you all 5 bright planets viewable in the dusk twilight and later in the evening, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are bright beacons for the naked eye and easily examined in detail with binoculars and telescopes.
Mars is right in opposition now, being closest in it...2022-11-3027 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 160 - CSIRO ASKAP RECAPAstrophiz 160: CSIRO-ASKAP Recap: The journey so far with Australia’s newest radio telescope
Australia's ASKAP (Australian SKA Pathfinder) radio telescope array has had an amazing decade since first light, breaking records, receiving awards and finding new objects, all whilst still in its pilot phase.
In this fabulous episode you will hear from the scientists using ASKAP every day to conduct groundbreaking research to further their studies, and from those working to shape ASKAP into a truly remarkable national facility and international resource.
You will discover how this Earth-based telescope assists astronomers in ways we didn't know was possible a decade ag...2022-11-1445 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz159-NovemberSkyGuideAstrophiz 159: Dr Ian Musgrave’s November SkyGuide ~ Total Lunar Eclipse & Dung Beetle Navigation.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what planets to look out for in our morning and evening skies. This special month also brings you a total lunar eclipse, an excellent view of Uranus right next to the eclipsed moon, and a hint of a meteor shower.
In Ian’s tangent we hear about the fascinating celestial navigation skills of Dung Beet...2022-10-3130 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz158-Ana Maria DelgadoAstrophiz 158: Ana Maria Delgado – Machine Learning & Galaxy Halos
Today you will be hearing a wonderful story from Ana Maria Delgado and her entry into Science and the Arts and some of her highlights as an inspiring ‘career changer’, accomplished astrophysicist, cosmologist, coder and PhD researcher …
Ana Maria is a CUNY (City University of New York) Alumnus and now a Harvard Astronomy graduate and PhD student who is using her novel machine learning techniques on supercomputers to clarify our understandings of dark matter halos around massive galaxies
Ana Maria’s career began as a photography teacher and then as a Special Education...2022-10-1343 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz157-October SkyGuideAstrophiz 157: Dr Ian Musgrave’s October SkyGuide & Smashing Spacecraft
Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us all the viewing highlights and what to look out for in our morning and evening skies and the dates to best observe Jupiter’s closest approach since 1963 and Jupiter’s beautiful Galilean moons.
In Ian’s tangent we hear about Smashing Spacecraft, including those that have accidentally or deliberately smashed into planets, those that have smashed into asteroids like the recent DART mission, and thos...2022-09-3029 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz156-Amirnezam AmiriAstrophiz 156 - Amirnezam Amiri - Metallicity and Galaxy Evolution
Amirnezam Amiri is a PhD student at the department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Florence and a PhD researcher at Italy’s famous National Institute for Astrophysics and Astronomy (INAF) in Arcetri, Florence, Italy, and the focus of his research is on metallicity measurement in both star-forming and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) galaxies.
Amirnezam was awarded the Summer Internship Prize in Tenerife, at the Canary Islands Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Also, Amirnezam is doing fabulous science outreach. He has translated more than 8 books into the Persian lan...2022-09-1440 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz155-September SkyGuideAstrophiz 155: Dr Ian Musgrave’s September SkyGuide.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us all the viewing highlights for our morning and evening skies and the dates to observe Jupiter’s beautiful Galilean moons and their shadows passing over Jupiter’s surface and for binocular observers, when to catch Jupiter’s moons strung out like a stunning string of pearls all on one side of our magnificent gas giant.
In Ian’s tangent we hear about variable stars including the recent...2022-08-3025 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz154-Dr Emily MoravecAstrophiz 154: Dr Emily Moravec - Active Galaxies in Galaxy Clusters
Emily is a postdoctoral fellow at Green Bank Observatory.
She is an AGN researcher who works on active galactic nuclei, radio galaxies, galaxy clusters, and radio interferometry.
She is active in a number of radio AGN and cluster collaborations and does wonderful outreach work supporting early career astronomers. For her PhD at the University of Florida, Emily researched Radio Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Clusters up to 10 billion light years away at redshift 1, then her first post-doc was in the Czech Republic where she worked at the Astronomical Institute of the...2022-08-1354 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz153-August SkyGuideAstrophiz 153: Dr Ian Musgrave’s August SkyGuide.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat of viewing tips for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
In Ian’s Tangent, we are given solid tips on how we can observe orbital motion in Alpha Centauri with quite modest equipment, and Ian references comparisons with the apparent motions of Barnard’s star and 61 Cygni.
Enjoy!2022-08-0324 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz152 The Cosmic Web Dr Sofia GallegoAstrophiz 152 Dr Sofia Gallego ~ The Cosmic Web.
Dr Sofia Gallego paints the clearest picture of the Cosmic Web you will ever hear.
Originally from La Serena in Chile, growing up near some of the world’s most awesome telescopes, Sofia is now a postdoc researcher at Caltech in Pasadena and has her PhD in Astrophysics. She has a strong interest in cosmology and extragalactic astronomy from both the theoretical and observational perspectives.
Sofia has also studied musical theory, violin, singing, and acting, but today’s focus is on the detection, extent and nature of the Cosmic Web and she also intr...2022-07-1538 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz151-July SkyGuideAstrophiz 151: Dr Ian Musgrave’s July SkyGuide.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Listen:
Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects along with the exact time to view the fully illuminated full moon. Morning skies continue to be a treat worth getting up early for, and Saturn begins is now visible in evening skies. Reddish Mars is easily viewed as it is brightening as it approaches opposition later in the ye...2022-07-0131 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz150-Gravitational WavesAstrophiz 150: Floor Broekgaarden~Gravitational Waves
Floor is an amazing astrophysicist doing her PhD at Harvard in Massachusetts in Gravitational Wave research. She is a prolific and effective ambassador for early career astronomers.
Floor is a well-established mentor and supervisor for astrophysics students and has been published in highly respected journals.
You will hear about her most recent papers where she investigates the first two black hole–neutron star mergers detected in gravitational waves as well as her paper on binary black hole mergers.
Floor does beautiful GW research and powerful outreach and has done a wonderful interview here for your en...2022-06-1536 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz149-JuneSkyGuide-DrIanMusgraveAstrophiz 149: Dr Ian Musgrave’s June SkyGuide.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects. Morning skies continue to be a treat worth getting up early for, and Saturn begins to be visible low in the East in evening skies by mid-June, but is still best for telescopic viewing high in the morning skies for a while
In Ian’s Tangent, he continues his theme to d...2022-06-0126 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz148-Massive StarsAstrophiz 148 - Massive Stars - Dr Poojan Agrawal
Dr Poojan Agrawal is a Postdoc Research Associate at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh USA.
The focus of her research is on the lives of massive stars and their role in determining the evolution of stellar systems/stellar populations and star clusters, and given the rarity and short lives of massive stars, she obviously like a challenge!
In her PhD thesis, “Massive stars and gravitational waves: Bridging the gap with a new method for rapid stellar evolution” she has identified some serious limitations in current modelling systems and has developed a new mode...2022-05-1536 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz147-MaySkyGuideAstrophiz 147: Dr Ian Musgrave’s May SkyGuide.
Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects. A special treat that is worth getting up early for is the Venus-Jupiter conjunction on May 1st, and hear about further opportunities during May to observe planetary lineups in the morning skies as well as seeing a meteor shower provide by debris from Halley’s Comet.
In Ian’s Tangent, he contin...2022-04-3036 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz145-AprilSkyGuideAstrophiz 145: Dr Ian Musgrave’s April SkyGuide
Enjoy your regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr @IanfMusgrave, amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
Ian gives us the dates of the moon phases and the best times to observe planets, clusters and deep sky objects
In Ian’s Tangent, he continues his theme to discuss the problems with our descriptions of celestial objects, in this case the way the size of these objects are compared with the size of familiar animals. eg recently an asteroid’s size was expressed as ‘the size of a giraffe’.
Not helpfu...2022-04-0125 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz142-KrystalDeNapoli-Indigenous AstronomyAstrophiz 142 - Krystal De Napoli ~ Star Formation & Indigenous Astronomy
Krystal is a fabulous indigenous astronomer who is carving out a brilliant career for herself while she improves the educational prospects for indigenous Australians. She is currently based in Melbourne but grew up in the closest town to me here in North-East Victoria. After being awarded her first science degree, she is extending her B.Sc with Astrophysics Honours Research at Monash University.
She was recently awarded the Out for Australia ‘Young Professional of the Year’ prize for her outstanding outreach and contributions to indigenous communities
In this episode we hear abou...2022-02-1455 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz141-FebruarySkyGuideAstrophiz 141: February SkyGuide ~ Dr Ian Musgrave
Here is our regular monthly treat for all naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers from Dr Ian Musgrave, avid amateur astronomer, molecular pharmacologist and toxicologist.
First up, Ian takes us through the dates of the moon phases for the month, noting the best times for observations of constellations and clusters without the glare of the moon. We can also look forward to some very nice views of the crescent moon ‘dancing’ past planets and viewing some very nice bright planets line up in the mornings before dawn.
In Ian’s Tangent, he explains various ‘star nam...2022-01-3127 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz132:JakeClark-ExoplanetHuntingPt1Astrophiz 132: Jake Clark ~ Exoplanet Hunter.
Jake has dedicated his career to answering the question ”Are we Alone?”. Hear how he uses the NASA_TESS Space Telescope, the GALAH Survey, ESA’s Gaia data and the MINERVA-Australis telescope array to confirm TESS's candidate exoplanets. He explains eloquently the difference between the Transit Method and the Radial Velocity Methods of detecting exoplanets.2021-08-1355 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz129-JulySkyGuideAstrophiz 129: Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave’s July SkyGuide.
For astrophotographers or naked eye observers with or without telescopes and/or binoculars, Ian gives us a comprehensive guide on what to look up for the month of July, and Venus beaming brightly in the NW twilight is just one of the wonders that awaits our gaze this month.
In Ian’s July Tangent he gives the inside story on Seal Telescopes (yes, you read that correctly)
A bonus for those in the Southern Hemisphere, winter has arrived, the night skies are crisper with much less dust in the air and cooler air mean...2021-07-0132 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz127- June SkyGuideAstrophiz 127: June SkyGuide with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave.
For astrophotographers or naked eye observers with or without telescopes and/or binoculars, Ian gives us a comprehensive guide on what to look up for this month.
In Ian’s tangent this month he takes us on a tour of shadows that are constantly eclipsing satellites, our moon , and the moons of Jupiter and Saturn
A bonus for those in the Southern Hemisphere, winter has arrived, the night skies are crisper with much less dust in the air and cooler air means much less thermal distortion, so it’s a brilliant idea to rug u...2021-06-0124 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 125-May SkyGuideAstrophiz 125: May SkyGuide with dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave.
For astrophotographers or naked eye observers with or without telescopes and/or binoculars, Ian gives us a comprehensive guide on what to look up for.
We have planets to see in the morning and evening skies, planets lining up with the moon, a fabulous total lunar eclipse and the ever reliable eta Aquariid Meteor Shower.
In ‘Ian’s tangent’ this month he gives us the skinny on powered and unpowered flights of robotic craft, including the Ingenuity helicopter, on Mars. We hear about the proposed Dragonfly Quadcopter mission that has been approved for Titan...2021-04-3038 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 121: Dr Ian Musgrave's March SkyguideAstrophiz 121: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s March 2021r SkyGuide
A monthly treat for naked eye observers, telescopers and astrophotographers.
Dr @ianfmusgrave gives us his fabulous guide to what to observe in the morning & evening skies for the Month of March including when and where you can catch some wonderful planetary action, and Vesta makes a welcome appearance
In 'Ian's Tangent’ this month he give us a great insight into how many cultures have incorporated the Pleiades into their storylines and how the Seven Sisters are now the Six Sisters
We include shoutouts to the usual suspect at @SpaceAustraliaDotCom aka @RamiMandow2021-02-2621 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 120 - Dr Cecilia Payne-GaposchkinFor this Episode we are featuring the life and remarkable achievements of Dr Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, who lived for 80 years from the start of the 20th century, and gave the world a legacy of astronomical breakthroughs that forever changed the way that we understand stars and what they are made of.
We remember her as producing "the most brilliant PhD thesis ever written in Astronomy and the most eminent woman astronomer of all time.” During a time when science was largely a men’s club, she had figured out the chemical makeup of the stars, and her work is also credited with...2021-02-1636 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 119: Dr Fiona Panther ~ Gravitational Wave AstronomyDr Fiona Panther is a gravitational wave astronomer and OzGrav postdoctoral researcher at the University of Western Australia. As this new era is now upon us with gravitational wave astronomy, we are very privileged to get the full inside story from a most passionate researcher working on the front edge of GW astronomy.
With amazing clarity and unbridled enthusiasm, Fiona tells us all about the early predictions of gravitational waves as derived from Einstein’s famous relativity equations, the LIGO and Virgo interferometry instruments that have been successfully designed and constructed to detect gravitational waves, the extraordinary explosive events that tr...2021-02-0152 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz118 - Holiday SkyguideAstrophiz 118: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s Holiday SkyGuide
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A monthly treat for naked eye observers, telescopers and astrophotographers.
Dr @ianfmusgrave gives us his fabulous guide to what to observe in the morning & evening skies for the next two months over the holiday break, including when and where you can catch some wonderful planetary action with Jupiter and Saturn, and some great observing strategies and challenges to have a go at.
In 'Ian's Tangent’ this month he give us a great insight into how we experience our connections with space robots.
We include shoutouts to the usual suspects at @SpaceAusDotCom aka @Ram...2020-12-1533 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 110 - AugustSeptember SkyguideAstrophiz 110: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s August/September SkyGuide
A monthly treat for naked eye observers, telescopers and astrophotographers.
This month, Dr @ianfmusgrave gives us his fabulous guide to the morning & evening skies for the next month in the Southern and Northern Hemispheres, including a guide on how to observe Ceres in opposition.
In 'Ian's Tangent’ this month he gives us the lowdown on the discovery of Ceres and its remarkable bright spots.
We include shoutouts to the usual suspects at @SpaceAustraliaDotCom aka @RamiMandow plus @TheSkyentisits Podcasters @El_Lobo_Rayado and @KirstenBanks2020-08-1621 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 105 - Baby Black HolesAstrophiz 105: Kat Ross – Baby Black Holes #IncludeHer
Today I am very pleased to be speaking with PhD candidate Kat Ross, who researches Compact Active Galactic Nuclei and galaxy evolution, and is an activist for Women In STEM and who works as a science communicator when not staring at distant baby black holes or fleeing from space poop.
Kat is based at Curtin University and ICRAR, The International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research in Perth, Western Australia.2020-06-1540 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 104: May-June sky guideAstrophiz 104: May/June SkyGuide:
Dr Ian 'Astroblog' gives us his fabulous guide to the morning & evening skies for the next month, and in 'Ian's Tangent' he gives us an insight on the astronomical 'Eye of Sauron'2020-05-1414 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 103 - First LightAstrophiz 103 - Clint Jeffrey - 'First Light' @ASV Amateur Radio Telescope
Our fabulous feature interview for May 2020 is with Clint Jeffrey, an amazing ham radio veteran and radio technician who has been collecting, connecting, testing and calibrating the RF and digital technologies for the newly constructed 8.5 metre radio telescope for the Astronomical Society of Victoria.
They have just achieved ‘First Light’ and are making their science data available to researchers world-wide.2020-05-1446 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz101 - Prof Melanie Johnston-HollittAstrophiz 101: Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt - Directing the Murchison Widefield array
Our feature interview this month is with Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, Director of the Murchison Widefield Array & Research Professor based in Western Australia. Melanie manages large-scale, multinational research infrastructure, is regularly involved with international science diplomacy, and she regularly gives advice and consultancy for Governments. Her research specialises in Radio Astrophysics, Telescope Design, and Scientific Visualization.
You will love hearing about her work using the sky as a big data archive, the cosmic web, chasing the EOR, colliding galaxy clusters and science as a human endeavour!
So cool & exciting
In a...2020-04-1658 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 95 - Steve Olney - From Ham radio to Radio AstronomyAstrophiz 95: Steve Olney: From Ham Radio to Radio Astronomy - "The 2019 Vela Glitch"
Feature Interview: This amazing interview features Steve Olney who has established the Hawkesbury Radio Astronomy Observatory in his backyard. Steve has constructed a Yagi antenna array, coupled it with a receiver and observed a pulsar 900 LY away and generated data that has enabled him to be the only person on the planet to observe Vela’s 2019 glitch in radio waves as it happened.
In the sky for observers and astrophotographers:
Our regular feature ‘What’s Up Doc’ is with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave. He previews the excellent planet viewi...2019-11-2057 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 94: Amanda Wherrett - ANU Siding Spring ObservatoryAstrophiz 94: Amanda Wherrett: ANU Siding Spring Observatory
This wonderful episode features Amanda Wherrett from the Australian National University and who conducts wonderful tours of the Siding Spring Observatory in remote New South Wales in Australia.
Amanda shares with us the absolute best observing tip you will hear in your whole life, and she tells us all about this stunning mountain and it’s remarkable array of observatories, research telescopes and instruments and the astronomers who work there.
Listen: https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz-94-amanda-wherrett-anu-siding-spring-observatory
In the sky for observers and astrophotographers:
Our regular feature ‘What’s Up Doc’ is with Dr Ian ‘...2019-11-0755 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 93-Dr Jim Palfreyman-The Vela GlitchAstrophiz 93: Dr Jim Palfreyman: The Vela Glitch
This episode features astrophysicist Dr Jim Palfreyman, who is a data analyst and casual researcher at the University of Tasmania. Today he tells us about his celebrated Nature paper revealing the way he analyses Vela’s glitches and how that came to tell us about the inner structures of neutron stars/pulsars.
In the sky for observers and astrophotographers:
Our regular feature ‘What’s Up Doc’ is with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave. He previews the excellent planet viewing opportunities over the next two weeks under moonless skies, how to find Vesta at its brightest, t...2019-10-2456 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 92-Dr Ivo SeitenzahlAstrophiz 92: Dr Ivo Seitenzahl ~ Optical Tomography in Type Ia Supernova remnants.
Today’s featured guest is originally from Germany and is now a Future Fellow in the School of Science at the University of New South Wales in Canberra. Ivo introduces us to his new technique using optical telescope integral field spectrograph data to analyse the different elements present in the remnants and the effects of shocks and reverse shocks.
Our regular feature “What’s Up Doc” for Astrophotographers and Observers is presented by Dr Ian Musgrave, where he tells us what to look for in the night and morning skies fo...2019-10-1044 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 91 - Dr Chenoa Tremblay - Molecules in SpaceAstrophiz 91: Dr Chenoa Tremblay – “Molecules in Space & Dark Magnetism”
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Our fabulous featured guest today is Dr Chenoa Tremblay, who is a Postdoctoral fellow in Dark Magnetism with the CSIRO and a member of the Commissioning team for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) facility in remote Western Australia.
Chenoa introduces us to Polarisation and Dark Magnetism and Astrochemistry and tell us how she uses the ASKAP array to detect and identify complex molecules in space. We also take a look at some of her earlier research where she provided proof that high-mass stars can form in isolation.
Her most r...2019-09-2648 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 90: Sophia Nasr - Self-Interacting Dark MatterAstrophiz 90: Sophia Nasr – Self Interacting Dark Matter and Galaxy Clusters
This episode’s featured guest is Sophia Nasr, who is a fabulous graduate physics student at University of California, Irvine who is working on her PhD in cosmology and astroparticle theory with a focus on researching Self-Interacting Dark Matter. She brilliantly explains all forms of dark matter research and her passion for cosmology, equity, diversity and outreach.
In the sky:
Observation notes for September include Saturn, Jupiter, the Moon and Uranus.
For those who enjoy watching Live Rocket launches on the internet put September 25 at 1357GMT into your calendar to watc...2019-09-1236 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 89- Dr Andy Tomkins-MeteoritesAstrophiz 89- Dr Andy Tomkins-Meteorites by Astrophiz2019-08-2939 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 88- Cate MacQueen- The Dark PhotonAstrophiz 88: Cate MacQueen – The Dark Photon + ‘What’s Up Doc’ with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave
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Today we are speaking with experimental particle physicist Cate MacQueen, who conducts analyses searching for dark matter at particle accelerators.
Cate is currently based at The University of Melbourne and is part of the Dark Sector Physics team who are using the Belle II detector, which is attached to the SuperKEKB accelerator in Tsukuba, Japan.
In ‘What’s Up Doc’ Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells observers and astrophotographers what to look for in the skies for the next two weeks and in ‘Ian’s tangent’ he tells us about...2019-08-1557 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 86 - Exobiology Pt2Astrophiz 86: Professor Jonti Horner – Exobiology Part 2
‘Fingerprinting Exoplanets, NASA, TESS & MINERVA-AUSTRALIS’
+ ‘What’s Up Brendan’ because Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave is away at a conference in Hawaii.
In Part 2 of an extended three part interview, our featured guest is Professor Jonti Horner, the Professor of Astrophysics at the University of Southern Queensland in Australia. With thousands of citations, he is an esteemed Astronomer and Astrobiologist who researches Exoplanets, Exoplanet Habitability and the evolution of our Solar system. Jonti is leading the construction of the MINERVA-Australis exoplanet search and follow-up facility at the USQ Mt. Kent Observatory.
In todays episode we hear about not contam...2019-07-1857 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 84: Dr Anais MöllerAstrophiz 84: “The Dark Energy Science Collaboration and the LSST”
In this episode we are speaking with Venezuelan-born astrophysicist and observational cosmologist Dr Anais Möller.
Anais is currently based in France and is part of the team who are the science drivers of the Dark Energy Science Collaboration attached to the LSST (the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope) which is under construction at Cerro Pachón on the Andes Mountains of Northern Chile.
For observers and astrophotographers, in ‘What’s Up Doc’, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what to look out for in the morning and evening skies.
In the News:
.1. Press...2019-06-2040 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz82 - Dr Ashley Ruiter - Supernova ScientistAstrophiz 82: Dr Ashley Ruiter - Supernova scientist
Today we are speaking with Dr Ashley Ruiter, ARC Future Fellow and senior lecturer in the School of Science at UNSW Canberra, Australia. She specializes in Type Ia supernovae and other transient phenomena from stars, in particular their origin, evolution history, and birth rates. Basically she researches anything that erupts, explodes, or merges, and also make predictions about which of these sources may be seen with gravitational waves using LISA. Dr Ruiter is currently looking for graduates to work under her supervision. Prospective PhDs can find out about this opportunity at TinyUrl-Dot-Com/ashleyastro
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Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 81 - Dr Ivy WongAstrophiz 81: Dr Ivy Wong - 'Star Formation, Galaxy Evolution & Radio Galaxy Zoo"
Our feature interview is with Dr Ivy Wong, who researches supermassive black holes, star formation and the evolution of galaxies. Her research is sensational and you will love the questions she asks about galaxy evolution and how she goes about answering those brilliant questions. As one of the initial co-leaders of the Radio Galaxy Zoo project she also gives us the heads-up on this fantastic opportunity for Citizen Scientists all around the globe. Follow Ivy on Twitter: @owning_ivy
Then for observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave , in ‘...2019-05-0946 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 78: Ultra high UV Astronomy - Ryan RiddenAstrophiz 78: High Altitude UV Astronomy ~ Ryan Ridden
Today we are speaking with Ryan Ridden, a PhD student at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Australian National University in Canberra. His research investigates cataclysmic events by launching UV telescopes attached to helium balloons high above the atmosphere!
For observers and astrophotographers, in ‘What’s Up Doc’, Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what to look for in the morning, evening & night skies, and in ‘Ian’s Tangent’ he tells us about a cool Citizen Science experiment by Terry Lovejoy to use parallax to measure the distance from earth observers to the...2019-03-2156 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 73: Best of 2018Astrophiz 73: ‘Best of 2018’ Astrophysics
Please enjoy this ‘Best of 2018 Astrophiz’ episode where we have our 3 most popular astrophysics interviews for 2018.
I have removed my ’News’ ramblings and Dr Ian Musgrave's ‘What’s up Doc’ segments from these three episodes so you can listen to these three astrophysicists without any distractions in a single episode. (51min)
Today’s first feature interview is with Dr Jane Kaczmarek, ( @jfKaczmarek ) who gives us the state of play on the new receivers on the 64m Parkes dish and what it’s like to work climbing way up above the dish to do her work in the focus cabin.
Back...2018-12-2551 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz71 - Aliens are coolAstrophiz 71: John Sarkissian ~ ‘Aliens are cool!’
AKA SETI, PAFs & Cryogenics
PLUS: 'What's up Doc', direct from Dr @ianfmusgrave ’s Astroblog
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This is the fourth of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories.
Today’s feature interview is with John Sarkissian at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory (Yes, he works with Dr Jane Kaczmarek who we featured in Episode 68)
John tells us how ‘The Dish’ is contracted to work on the Breakthrough Listen project to...2018-11-3044 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens - The ATCAAstrophiz 70: Dr Jamie Stevens ~ The ATCA
PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave
Listen here: Astrophiz – Astrophiz70
This is the third of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we are publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories.
Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jamie Stevens, CSIRO’s Senior Systems Scientist for the Australian Telescope Compact Array, a unique mobile array of 6 x 22 metre dishes. Jamie tells us all about this beautiful facility, it’s technology and how it creates rich data sets for...2018-11-1646 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 68: Dr jane KaczmarekThis is the first of our series of 6 ‘Astrotour’ episodes of Astrophiz, where we’ll be publishing recordings of interviews I did on a two and a half thousand kilometre tour of five of Australia’s finest Eastern state radio and optical observatories.
Astrophiz 68: Dr Jane Kaczmarek -Ultra wide band receiver commissioning scientist
PLUS: 'What's up Doc' with Dr @ianfmusgrave
Today’s feature interview is with Dr Jane Kaczmarek, @jfKaczmarek, who gives us the state of play on the new receivers on the 64m Parkes dish and what it’s like to work climbing way up above the dish to do her work...2018-10-1941 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz66: Prof Steven Tingay - Building the world's biggest radio telescopeAstrophiz 66: Professor Steven Tingay “Building the world’s biggest radio telescope”, ICRAR, the MWO and the SKA.
https://soundcloud.com/astrophiz/astrophiz66-prof-steven-tingay
This episode features an extended interview with John Curtin Distinguished Professor Steven Tingay, who is the Deputy Executive Director of ICRAR and leads the Curtin University node of ICRAR. ICRAR is the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research. Whilst with ICRAR, he was also the Director of the $50M Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) project, the fully operational precursor radio telescope for the Square Kilometre Array which is already producing some astonishing SKA science.
In our regular segment for as...2018-09-141h 06
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 65: Dr Andrew Cameron - Extreme relativistic binariesAstrophiz 65: Dr Andrew Cameron
This episode features an extended interview with a pulsar radio astronomer, Dr Andrew Cameron, who was awarded his Doctorate from the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Bonn. Andrew has just returned from China where he is working with the world’s largest instrument, the FAST radio telescope. It’s a massive 500m Spherical Telescope, and currently holds the record for the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world. He also uses the Parkes radio telescope for his pulsar research, and explains an exciting new pulsar search technique.
In our regular segm...2018-08-3159 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 63-When Galaxies CollideAstrophiz 63: Prof Lisa Harvey-Smith ~ When Galaxies Collide
This episode features one of the icons of modern astronomy, Professor Lisa Harvey-Smith, Astronomy researcher, author and presenter of ABC television's Stargazing Live. She uses the world's largest radio telescopes to study the life cycle of stars and develops new world-leading precursor telescopes building the Square Kilometre Array. We find out how she left school at 11 and now has a Doctorate in radio astronomy and Masters in Physics with Honours in Astronomy & Astrophysics. She has scores of refereed journal papers to her name and her First book: "When Galaxies Collide" was launched yesterday...2018-08-0337 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz62: Prof Peter ColesAstrophiz 62: Prof Peter Coles 'Why the Universe is Extremely Overrated'~ on Soundcloud & iTunes
Our feature story for this episode ‘Why the universe is extremely overrated’ from the blog at telescoper.wordpress.com by Dr Peter Coles, who is a Professor of Theoretical Astrophysics at Cardiff University in Wales and Professor of Theoretical Physics at Maynooth University in Ireland. His research is in the area of cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe.
His fabulous blog is named 'In the Dark', where he writes under the name Telescoper, covering a range of topics including astronomy, science funding, opera, jazz, rugby and...2018-07-2044 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 61: Dr Natasha Hurley-WalkerAstrophiz 61: Dr. Natasha Hurley-Walker ~ Seeing the Universe in Radio Colour ~ on Soundcloud & iTunes
Dr Natasha Hurley-Walker is a GaLactic and Extragalactic MWA Survey Scientist who earned her PhD in Radio Astronomy at the University of Cambridge and is currently a Curtin Early Career Research Fellow who helped to commission the low-frequency SKA precursor radio telescope, the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA), located in outback Western Australia.
Today in our feature interview we hear about some of her amazing research projects, including her all-sky survey of 300,000 galaxies and her Gleamoscope App. Last year she was named the WA Tall Poppy Scientist of...2018-07-051h 05
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz60-Dr Jane KaczmarekAstrophiz 60: Dr Jane Kaczmarek ~ 'The Dish’ Intensified ~ on Soundcloud & iTunes
A full-length feature episode on the installation of revolutionary receivers on the famous CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory ‘The Dish’, featuring Dr Jane Kaczmarek who led the commissioning of the Ultra Wideband with Low receiver, the UWL.
Dr Jane is a CSIRO research scientist and post-doctoral fellow who has her BSc in Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Wisconsin and her Doctorate in Physics from The University of Sydney.
Then Dr Ian “Astroblog’ Musgrave presents his regular segment ‘What’s Up Doc? where he tells us what's up in the evening, night...2018-06-2150 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz59-Astrophotography101Astrophiz 59 Dr Ian Musgrave ~ Astrophotography 101
A full-length feature episode on astrophotography and astroimaging with Dr Ian Musgrave of Astroblogger fame.
Ian is a University toxicology lecturer, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer, and he explains how to plan for a shoot, using telescopes, point&shoot cameras, and smartphone astrophotography, some worthwhile targets, some imaging software to try, and the sky visualisation softwares he uses.
Then he presents his regular segment ‘What’s Up Doc? where he tells us what's up in the evening, night and morning skies for the next two weeks, and how, when and where to look to find the aste...2018-06-0942 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 58 -Dr Jessie Christiansen & NASA_TESSAstrophiz 58 Dr Jessie Christiansen ~ Flying with @NASA_TESS to a billion planets
Today our feature interview is with Dr Jessie Christiansen who started out in rural Queensland in Australia and is now a NASA Staff Scientist and working on exoplanet discovery with the just-launched TESS Mission. Follow @aussiastronomer on Twitter
And that’s followed by university toxicology lecturer, amateur astronomer and astrophotographer Dr Ian Musgrave of Astroblogger fame, who will tell us ‘What’s Up Doc? Whats up in the evening, night and morning skies for the next two weeks, and in ‘Ian’s Tangent’ we hear about how lasers are used in...2018-05-2446 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 57: Dr Elaina Hyde, Data Science & AstrophysicsAstrophiz 57: Dr Elaina Hyde ~ Data Science & Astrophysics
Our feature interview is with Dr Elaina Hyde. Dr. Hyde speaks four languages, has four undergraduate degrees in astronomy, physics, optical engineering and planetary sciences; two masters degrees in engineering and astronomy and astrophysics; and a Ph.D. in astronomy and physics. She is an artist, a cool coder, and shares her code on Github. She uses data creatively to understand how our universe works.
Follow on @AstroHyde on Twitter
For observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian Musgrave gives us ‘What’s Up Doc’ and he tells us what to look for in our mornin...2018-05-1058 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 54 - Laura Driessen - Pinpointing FRBsIn this episode our feature interview is with Laura Driessen who is an astrophysicist and PhD candidate based at Manchester University who is working with the MeerTRAP team using radio and optical data from the SKA precursor MeerKAT array to pinpoint the sources of mysterious Fast Radio Bursts.
For observers and astrophotographers Dr Ian Musgrave gives us ‘What’s Up Doc’ and he tells us what to look for in our morning and evening skies, what planets, galaxies and nebula to look for, what occultations are happening, strategies for imaging both faint and bright objects, and how various imaging and stacki...2018-03-2954 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 49: Festive Greetings & Happy New Year! + Stairway to HeavenHave a fabulous Festive Season and Happy New Year Everyone!
Some of the Astrophiz team is off on a jaunt through Europe/UK over December/January, so we will not be posting as usual. We are doing some interviews on our trip so we'll have some more fabulous Astrophiz episodes for you early in 2018.
Today we leave you a beautiful festive tune, arranged by my daughter Lara for Piano, Cello & violin. Lara's friends Emma (violin) and Tom (cello) work together beautifully for this classic Led Zeppelin composition "Stairway to Heaven"2017-12-1103 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 48: Dr Jacinta Delhaize 'Star-forming frenzy'Astrophiz 48: Dr Jacinta Delhaize 'Star-forming frenzy'
In this fabulous extended 60min episode we feature Dr Jacinta Delhaize who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Science in Croatia.
Jacinta has devolved a ‘stacking technique’ to combine data to overcome the problem of detecting weak hydrogen signals from distant galaxies. She has been using data from the Parkes Dish and the Hershel instrument to helps us understand the role of hydrogen in the evolution of galaxies.
After recently moving from ICRAR in Western Australia to Croatia, her research is now looking at how black holes at the centres of g...2017-11-3059 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 47: Dr Phil Edwards"The SKA"Astrophiz 47: Dr Phil Edwards - The SKA
Today we are speaking with Dr Phil Edwards, Australia’s SKA leader from the CSIRO. He is now Head of ATNF (Australia Telescope National Facility) Science at the CSIRO and SKA Project Scientist. Phil is originally from South Australia and did his BSc, BScHons and PhD at the University of Adelaide, and he gives some great insights on the often meandering career paths of scientists.
As well as giving us an inside look at the Square Kilometre Array (the SKA), he explains about a recent discovery of high energy neutrinos from beyond our ga...2017-11-1658 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 46: Dr Tamara Davis “The Dark Universe"Astrophiz 46: Dr Tamara Davis “The Dark Universe"
Today we are speaking with Professor Tamara Davis from the University of Queensland. Tamara is a renowned and extensively cited cosmologist who has won numerous prizes for her research. Dr Davis talks us through our understanding of dark energy and it’s role in the accelerating expansion of our universe and what it means for the ultimate fate of our cosmos.
For observers and astrophotographers, Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave tells us what when and where to look for objects in the morning and evening skies, and in ‘Ian’s Tangent’ he introduces us to some spooky Ha...2017-11-0253 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 43: Cassini's LegacyAstrophiz 43 – Cassini’s Legacy.
As one of 30 very lucky Astrogeeks, Andrew P Street was a guest of the Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex on Friday 15 September 2017 to witness first hand the #GrandFinale of the astonishing 20 year Cassini Mission to Saturn.
In this episode:
With permission, we read Andrew P Street’s great article published in the Guardian the next day.
Then Dr Ian Musgrave and I discuss my awed impressions of this amazing night at Tidbinbilla CDSCC as a guest of CSIRO/NASA, and my new understanding of the importance and capabilities of the 3 NASA/JPL Deep Space Network earth statio...2017-09-2144 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 39: Dr Ian Musgrave ‘Amateur Astronomy & Astrophotography’In this episode Dr Ian 'Astroblog' Musgrave gives us an insightful approach to amateur astronomy, introduces us to basic equipment and cameras and iTelecope.net remote telescopes, tells us what to look for in the evening and morning skies and in his Tangent, give us more detail on occultations and how some asteroids can become comets.
Ian is someone very familiar to Astrophiz listeners. For the last 12 months he has presented his ‘What’s Up Doc’ segment where he tells us what to look for in the night sky, astrophotography tips and in ‘Ian’s Tangent’ he gives us a deeper under...2017-07-2738 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 38: Richard Stephenson 'Talking with Spacecraft'Astrophiz 38: Richard Stephenson 'Talking with Spacecraft' by Astrophiz2017-07-1344 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 37: Rob Arrowsmith~'The 8metre Dish', Dr Ian Musgrave's 'What's Up Doc'Astrophiz 37: Robert Arrowsmith 'The 8metre Dish'
For our special anniversary episode, we are re-interviewing our very first guest, Robert Arrowsmith from Melbourne, Australia, who is now leading the construction of an 8 metre radio telescope for the Astronomical Society of Victoria. Rob is one of the leaders in the Radio-Astronomy arm of the ASV and in Episode #1 he described the work being done at the ASV Leon Mow Radio Observatory, which is located in a RF quiet zone site about 90 minutes north of Melbourne in SE Australia
In this episode we're also celebrating our first 12 months of Astrophiz, so we have...2017-06-2933 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz33 - Dr Elodie Thilliez - Debris Disks & Big Data - Dr Ian Musgrave “What’s Up Doc?’Our feature interview is with Dr Elodie Thilliez. Elodie is a Data Scientist at the Deakin University Software and Technology Innovation Laboratory in Melbourne Australia, and completed her PhD at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University. Elodie tells us about her research into debris disks and the role of big data in modern astronomy. Follow Elodie on Twitter as @ET_Astro
Dr Ian Musgrave in his regular feature “What’s Up Doc” tells us when and where to find our planets, how to catch the Eta Aquariid meteor shower this weekend, exoplanets and rings around asteroids. Check out Ia...2017-05-0437 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 31: Dr Elisabetta Barberio "Dark Matter" ~ Dr Ian Musgrave "What's up Doc"Astrophiz 31 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.
Our feature interview is with Dr Elisabetta Barberio who explains a new Dark matter Experiment deep in a goldmine in South Eastern Australia.
Elisabetta is a member of the Experimental Particle Physics Group at the University of Melbourne. Previously, she was a staff researcher at CERN, the European laboratory of Particle Physics. She was involved with data analysis in the OPAL experiment at the Large Electron Positron Collider at CERN, and has worked on the Higgs Boson and ATLAS, which is a particle physics experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at...2017-04-0632 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 28 - Fiona Panther 'Supernovae & Positrons'. Dr Ian Musgrave 'What's up Doc!'Astrophiz 28 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.
Our feature interview is with Fiona Panther who is a PhD student and the Joan Duffield Scholar at the Australian National University's Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Canberra, Australia. Fiona is using computational astrophysics and working on using peculiar supernova to try and understand how positions are created in excess in our Galaxy. Fiona also explains Fermi Bubbles
Dr Ian Musgrave in our regular feature, ‘What’s up Doc?’ tells us what to look for in the night sky this week using naked eye, binoculars or telescopes, and all the action...2017-02-2355 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 27 - Dr Amanda Bauer - Galactic Evolution & Surveys. Dr Ian Musgrave 'What's Up Doc?'Astrophiz 27 out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.
Our first feature interview after our fabulous summer break is with Dr Amanda Bauer, who has just been appointed as the new Head of Education and Public Outreach at the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope which is high up in the mountains in Chile in South America.
Amanda has worked at the Max Planck Institute and on the famous Sloan Digital Sky Survey and she now specialises in Galactic Evolution and Astronomical Outreach.
Dr Ian Musgrave in our regular feature, ‘What’s up Doc?’ tells us what to look for in the night sky this w...2017-02-0840 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 24: Solstice Special & Cuberider Launch with Solange Cunin, "What's Up" with Dr MusgraveAstrophiz 24 is out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.
Solstice Special and Cuberider Liftoff.
Feature interview: We interview Solange Cunin, CEO of Cuberider, an Edutech company which has just launched 100 experiments up to the ISS via JAXA, stoking the dreams, imagination, hard work and Python coding of hundreds of Australian students and teachers from 54 schools. Congratulations! More info at cuberiderDOTcom
Dr Nadeshzda Cherbakov Skypes in from Tver in Russia to tell us more about stellar evolution and explains the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
Dr Ian Musgrave in ‘What’s up Doc?’ tell us what to look for in the night sky this week using...2016-12-2250 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 23: Meet Asteroid Hunters Daniel Bamberger & Guy Wells. + Ian Musgrave's ’What’s up Doc’Yay! Astrophiz 23 is out now on Soundcloud or subscribe in iTunes.
Meet Asteroid Hunters Daniel Bamberger and Guy Wells. Astrophotographer Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave in ’What’s up Doc’ tells us what to look for in the night sky this week.
Feature Interview: Daniel Bamberger & Guy Wells, who have set up the rapidly expanding and recognised Northolt Branch Observatory, explain how they image and verify orbits of asteroids and other NEOs. (Near earth Objects)
Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov has been incommunicado, so we will have to wait for next week to look at the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram
“What”s Up in the Sky this Week”...2016-12-1548 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 22: Parkes Dish Chases Gravity Waves, Aliens & FRBs - Nadezhda on Stellar EvolutionAstrophiz 22 is out now on Soundcloud or subscribe in iTunes
Part II: The Parkes ‘Dish’ interrogates pulsars to expose gravity waves. We interview Operations Scientist John Sarkissian at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Observatory. He explains how the ‘Spider Dipoles’ that make up the Murchison Widefield Array in remote Western Australia contribute to SKA, how Parkes chase down gravity waves and has detected most of the world’s FRBs (fast radio bursts of unknown origin), after being distracted by ‘perytons’ and microwave ovens. And yes, ‘The Dish’ is searching for Extraterrestrial Intelligence in the international SETI ‘Breakthrough Listen’ project. We’re not saying they’re searc...2016-12-0848 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 19 'Tribute to Jack' - Stairway to HeavenIt is with profound sadness that we announce that Jack, the eldest son of Dr Ian Musgrave, has died as a result of an accident. We will not be presenting our regular podcast this week, and we do not expect Ian will be on the podcast for the foreseeable future.
This week’s program is a simple tribute to Jack, in the form of my daughter Lara’s arrangement of the Led Zeppelin classic ‘Stairway to Heaven’ on piano. She is accompanied by her friend Emma Amery on violin, and her brother Tom on Cello.
We extend our deepest condolences to Ian a...2016-11-1604 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz 18: The Acceleration of the Expanding Universe with Dr Brad Tucker + "What's Up Doc?Astrophiz 18 out now on iTunes and Soundcloud.
‘The Acceleration of the Expanding Universe’ is beautifully explained by Dr Brad Tucker. Brad is an Astrophysicist/Cosmologist, and currently a Research Fellow and PhD supervisor at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mt. Stromlo Observatory at the Australian National University.
Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov Skypes in from Tver in Russia to tell us more about the Cosmic Microwave background Radiation.
Dr Ian Musgrave in ‘What’s up Doc?’ tell us what to look for in the night sky this week using naked eye, binoculars or telescopes. Oh yes, and he takes down ’Suuupermoons...2016-11-1045 minAstronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophiz Podcast 13-Dr Caroline Foster & the SAMI Survey, and Farewell to RosettaIn this week’s fabulous show Dr Caroline Foster tells us about the SAMI galaxy survey using spectrographs, voids in space and how science corrects mistakes and misconceptions
Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov tells us about the discovery of Rosetta’s Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 1969 by Klim Churyumov and Svetlana Gerasimenko
Dr Ian (Astroblog) Musgrave features in 'What's Up Doc?' where he tells us what to look for in the sky this week, and in 'Ian's Tangent' he tells us about tells more about Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and for astrophotographers, how to use a CCD webcam for astrophotography
In the news: We s...2016-10-0548 min
Astronomy Astrophiz PodcastsAstrophizPodcast1 - Robert Arrowsmith - Amateur Dishes - Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov - Maxwell's LawsAstrophiz Podcast 1 is here for your listening pleasure.
Astrophiz 101, interview with Robert Arrowsmith, History & Theory from Dr Nadezhda Cherbakov: James Clerk Maxwell. News about The Australian Compact Array and Murchison Widefield Array and what's in the night sky via Dr Ian Musgrave's Astroblog site, and reference to Adelaide Radio Astronomy Group.
Thanks to Michael Roberts for the opening theme backing track2016-06-2937 min