Astronomy Astrophiz Podcast

A monthly treat for naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers. Three nice bright planets again this month. Once again in evening skies, magnificent Venus, Saturn and Jupiter Over in the West, Venus is spectacular. For Norther hemisphere observers, the Andromeda galaxy is looking magnificent under dark skies, while in the Southern Hemisphere the Magellanic Clouds are simply...

Today we bring you the promised Part Two of our interview with Amazing Fullbright Scholar and accomplished exoplanet hunter Jake Clark. Since Jake.s August interview, he has moved to Cthe US to continue his PhD research with Dr Natalie Hinkel of Hypatia Catalogue fame. Here in Part 2 of Jake’s Interview, we hear how he looked at 47,000 stars from the GALAH, TESS and Gaia data releases and found th...

Your monthly treat for naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers. Four nice bright planets again this month. Once again in Eastern evening skies, magnificent Saturn and Jupitergrace our skies Over in the West, Venus is spectacular and Mercury is sinking into the twilight For early risers, Saturn and Jupiter are still looking fine over in the West. In Ian’s Tangent, Ian con...

You’ll love this interview with Dr Cherry Ng, who is an amazing researcher at the Dunlap Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto in Canada. For her PhD Cherry discovered an amazing 60 pulsars using the Parkes Dish in Australia, she allocates time on the Murchison Widefield Array, does fabulous outreach work and is now discovering FRBs with the CHIME radio telescope in...

A treat for naked-eye celestial observers, telescopers, and astrophotographers. Four nice bright planets this month. Once again in Eastern evening skies, magnificent Saturn and Jupiter loom large past opposition, and there’s always a planet dance to watch out for as the Moon meets up with some bright planets and has some nice encounters with bright stars. Over in the West, Venus is spectacular and...

Astrophiz 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 exoplan...

August Skyguide with Dr Ian ‘Astroblog’ Musgrave In Eastern evening skies, magnificent Saturn and Jupiter loom large in opposition. Over in the West, Venus has a nice encounter with a fine crescent moon on the 11th. Also in the west, brilliant but half-phased Venus dominates our evening skies for everyone, and if you have a low western horizon you’ll see Mercury catching up with Mars on the 19th a...

Astrophiz130: Isobel Romero-Shaw Enjoy a deep look into the history and nature of black holes and the work being done to improve gravitational wave detectors with Isobel Romero-Shaw, an amazing young scientist. Isobel is a member of both the LIGO collaboration and the OzGrav organisation, and is a PhD candidate in Astrophysics at Monash University in Melbourne Australia. You’ll also hear about Iso...

Astrophiz 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 Telescope...

Astrophiz128: Richard Stephenson ~ Talking with Spacecraft Pt2 This is an amazing interview where we hear first hand how distant spacecraft are controlled from Earth. Richard Stephenson is the Operations Supervisor at the CDSCC, The Canberra Deep Space Communications Complex at Tidbinbilla, jointly run by NASA and Australia’s CSIRO. Richard explains how he can lock onto and send commands to Voyage...

Astrophiz 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...

Today our fabulous feature interview is with Debatri Chattopadhyay, an amazing OzGrav researcher and Doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne Australia. She is about to complete her Astrophysics PhD by publication and is working on Gravitational-wave astrophysics. Debatri uses the OzSTAR supercomputer to model gra...

Astrophiz 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 tangen...

Out now, Astrophiz124 ~ Shanika Galaudage - Gravitational waves and population studies Listen: Shanika Galaudage is riding the crest of the wave of Gravitational Wave Astronomy with zest and a clear vision to make the complex science of GW astronomy accessible and understandable to her audience. Shanika is a remarkable early career Gravitational Wave astrophysicist who is doing fabulous population...

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 four weeks including moon phase dates and when and where you can catch some wonderful planetary action In 'Ian's Tangent’ this month he give us a great insight into the optimal viewing of Zodiacal Light this month and th...

Astrophiz122: Chayan Chatterjee - Gravitational Wave AI Detective Continuing our Gravitational Wave series, we have a great interview with OzGrav researcher and PhD candidate Chayan Chatterjee, who develops Machine Learning algorithms to analyse gravitational wave data to locate the origins of the ‘Chirps’ that signal cataclysmic events that warp the very fabric of Space-Time. Chayan is based at t...

Astrophiz 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 mon...

For 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...

Dr 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 ea...

Astrophiz 118: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s Holiday SkyGuide Listen: 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 gr...

Dr Shivani Bhandari is a fabulous CSIRO research postdoctoral fellow who searches for and tracks down the location of fast radio bursts and other transients using the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP). She tells us a wonderful story of growing up in New Dehli, how she came to love the sky and her education and her Bachelor’s degree, her short stint in industry, then learning how...

Astrophiz 116: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s November/December 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 four weeks including when and where you can catch some wonderful planetary action, a penumbral moon some annual meteor showers In 'Ian's Tangent’...

Astrophiz 115: Rami Mandow ~ Planet X Our featured guest for November is the fabulous Rami Mandow, the founder of SpaceAustralia.com, the creator of an amazing Citizen Science project that has teams from all over the world constructing amateur radio telescopes and Rami is doing his Masters in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Swinburne University. In this episode we are treated to all his innovative w...

Astrophiz 114: Dr Ian ‘Astroblogger’ Musgrave’s October/November 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 next month, including tips on observing the Orionid meteor shower. In 'Ian's Tangent’ this month he gives more on Mars and challenges us to try sk...

Astrophiz113 - Dr Adelle Goodwin - Neutron Stars in accreting Systems In this fabulous episode Adelle gives us amazing insights into her neutron star research with brilliant clarity as she takes us through her research techniques using accreting systems to see the unseeable, and to understand the inner workings and surface phenomena of neutron stars. For her PhD, Adelle has published a series of f...