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SBAU.ORG => Outreach & Events => Topic started by: TomT on December 31, 2017, 10:04:25 AM
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171225 KZSB SBAU radio show BaRonH JerryW PatF ChuckMcP PatMcP TomT. Show repeated and recorded 3am Sunday Dec 31, 2017
01:29.940 music jingling bells and galileo; Ed Giron TT mentioned SkyGlow 1st Fri meet Jan 5, CM Bacara, Ed repeats 12 days of Gratitude made by Mayor and Friar; Ron gets fruit cake from Jerry Wilson & Pat Forgerty.
10:19.040 music jingling bells, Ron opens fruit cake container. PatF Friendship Center Chair, also Consulting: Path Forward. PatMcP merchandising manager, bookmarks, calendar. JW-AdrianL upcoming talk Summer Astro camp science, going to college next year. SBAU meeting Jan 5 Skyglow. B-upcoming space rockets James Webb. JW-infrared telescope, Hubble visible above atmosphere to prevent wiggle, now adaptive optics "rubber mirrors". CM-lasers sodium artificial stars. B-data has to be converted? JW-false color can be changed. infrared googles vs starlight amplifiers.
22:45.249 music. Xmas AU hour Bringing in Pats. TT-564-1290 to tell us about their new telescope. B-stories of old xmas's. We were poor, Lubbock Tx, wanted a big train set...got a tiny one. As teen asked for microscope, pond scum. Did you have telescopes before meeting husbands. PatMcP, no, but Dad pointed out big dipper, etc. married? CM-seems like forever! CM-had a orange C8 telescope. PMcP friend dated CM first. PM would tell folks about constellations. B-Orion 3 stars. PatF-1st date, leaving Biltmore 4 Seasons, JW started pointing out stars. After marriage, telescopes populating house. music: galileo used his telescope...
32:14.652 music Gato Europa CM- B-saw CC prof on TV. SB Star Cluster started 1955. CM-other clubs, meet at expos. Two Pats married to astronomers. B-dinner talk on astronomy or ? B-tunnel on moon, CM-lava tube. planetarium shows. Incoming rocks Oumuamua. phone call Peter Olmos? opinion on humans only creatures in universe looking up at stars? CM-Yes, but not coming here to make crop circles. JW-life is sparse and short lived CM-we work on killing ourselves. B-supernovas CM-stat 300B stars in our galaxy w/ planets. CM-technology may not be best for life as we work on poisoning ourselves. JW-we may have lucked out w/ another planet hitting earth for our spin. Carl Sagan said single cell life easier than multicellular. B-signal from alien civilization? JW-could be pretty old.
42:12.388 music star trek its been a long road... B-life is good, i have a fruitcake. Javier knows his stuff? CM-Yes. Richard Dupree called How come stars have 5 pts? B-telescopes show 4 JW-Newtonian telescopes have 4 vanes holding secondary mirror. refractors do not have. B-smiley face? Gravitational lensing. RD-man in the moon, but Japan says rabbit. B-what is coming up TT-Skyglow
47:21 end of show minus commercials