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180409 KZSB SBAU radio hour 2nd Tuesday B, JW, CM, TW...lousy notes by TT:
-so download and play back cropped 50 min of show time audio file attached.

00:00.000 B-DelTopia beach problem
00:17.391 B-AU hour blurb
00:43.791 Earth/Sky moon halo
02:13.566 TomT not here, doing planet shows, new person Danny here,  Chuck M8RX talk, B-well done, but had to leave. CM-music to astro data talk also was great.

03:34.175 music: 2001 movie.  B-Kubrick ship going too fast to be accurate. TomW, JerryW, ChuckMcP, B-was your speech to be about anything? CM-speak about modern Am Astro and contribute to Science.  B-3 types of teles? CM-refract, reflect, cat. (has both lens and mirror).  JW-workshop does mirrors. TW-started it.  TimC cancelled this week.  He was working on f/5 8"  focal length 40".  JW-like camera light coming in.  B-like Hubble? CM-use reaction wheels, as rocket contaminate area. TomW-lost two Mike Dilley, f/2, 12.5 port hole and Mike Chibnick 14" port hole glass. B-some members only come out rarely.  This show counts as an outreach.  B-what to write in news?  JerryW-   Isabel Lipartito was Friday speaker (distortion) talked about superconductors at low temps, BruceM gave some extra description in emails.  maybe write about superconductors next time. B-computers faster? JW-is a heat issue. 70s Cray-1 was fast, compact, but hidden chiller room.  SBRC computer rooms were air conditioned, but operator in hot room. B- 25yr old lady, Lipartito, w/ her lab people, has her camera been done before?  JW-new one is a little different, but been done before, but superconductors are faster. saw pulsar at 33/second. CM-patent may be Jerry's!

15:32.924 music: "on a calm and cloudless night...1609 Galileo..." B-felt earthquake?  JW-maybe a cat fight, but wife ran out of shower.  TW-class schedule.  B-reading BruceM email re: TT Q .   JW-disagree any stumble.  CM-just a detector like any new camera.  Several large telescopes they attach to.  B-is Hubble same cold?  CM-not cold enuf.  JW-James Webb will be a little cooler, but will run out of coolant.  Cm-gets away from earth heat and noise.  Lipartito is down to milliKelvin.  TW-trying to direct image, not using wobble or transit techniques.  B-look at firefly Fl to Seattle?  JW-if enuf light, get spectra for exoplanets, like she showed for Venus vs. Earth.  B-Gliese 581 rocky planets? in habitable zone, 20LY away.  TW-Sun.  JW-we are looking for intelligent life.  CM-4K exoplanets so far w Kepler.  B-basics of electr:  inductance resist change in current?  B-ohms?  JW-that is resistance.  B-why delay when JohnP reports?  CM-microwave system.  B-anti-electron, positron? JW-neg stuff moves, current is tech opposite of electron flow, eng vs sci talk.  BM and JW email.  j is imaginary, complex number, discuss.  JW- Chuck has pw that uses last three digits of Pi.  music: black hole

26:21.873 music: "so the frieghtened crews stranded fall into a black hole"  B-great SBAU members: CM amazing outreach guy.  AdrianL going to CalTech.  Isabel young ladies, hope they attend more.  TomW-bread, fabulous rye based on SF bakery, no Knead.  starter, real sour dough, slow fermentation.  B-rye and other grains make whiskey?  TW-  B-work at Panera? TW-I make better bread.  TW-James Webb, going up in 2020.  concerned about sunshield unfolding.  B-always face away from Sun? TW-yes.  B-13th constellation? CM-variance from orig astrology over thousands of years.  TW-Ophiuchus.  B-Webb up from Canaveral, but local?  CM-Insight mission from Vandenberg.  JW-picked a spot to drill on Mars.  CM-hit a golf ball to NY City from here.  JW-Mars Curse.  B-Venera to Venus.  TW-April Sky/Tele, article on 1st galaxies, well written. B-Hubble deep field, CM-Ultra.  B-earliest galaxies?  CM-13.8B old universe, see 13+ back.  B-can we look complete sky? CM-they have done some different parts of sky.  Univ has expanded since begin.  JW-10^-32sec.  CM-everywhere is the center of the universe, just diff view for everyone.

36:18.963 music: Gato-Europa.  B-talk with brighter bulbs in town.  TW-teaching 4 labs this semester.  2 others in dept. Summerland and Kihlstrom.  JW-Goleta corridor, Voyager has signiture on it.  Built spectrometer, etc.  B-works perfect?  JW-rovers work better close up.  CM-blueberreis on Mars.  B-can we land on Olympus Mons on Mars?  JW-want to look for water.  CM-landed on poles.  B-lava tube on Moon.  JW-Mars also.  TW-earth also, near Lassen Volcanic park.  B-Sea of Tranquility, CM-frozen lava lake.  B-meteor strikes, fry on earth, but hit moon.  CM-people look for those on Moon.  B-CM does Occultation viewing.  star blinks out as asteroid goes by.  peanut shape. CM-if a number of people along path of shadow, can determine shape.  Some Trans-Neptunian objects, not all in the ecliptic.  B-are all occultations on zodiac?CM-a lot due to asteroid belt is there.  folks doing since early 70's.  564-1290

44:46.278 music: Gato-Europa.  B-club, summarize like CM talk at M8RX, no tele needed.  JW-trip.  CM-2nd Sat, 3rd Tues, 3rd Fri Westmont, April 21, Sat., Intl Astro Day.  Not at Earth Day.  JW-should put Tesla stickers on telescopes.  TW-students today at 2p, lesson plans ready, modify every year. Spring next yr, teaching cosmology, part of astrophysics.  origin of universe.  B-hit a time when we know too much.  TW-want to cover Hawking radiation, black hole evaporation.  B-SBAU stuff.  Thx. music: 2001.
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