SkyCaramba

By SkyCaramba

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Podcast about astronomy and the joys of watching the skies at night--and sometimes during the day

Episode Date
Two planets in a super close conjunction
Apr 28, 2024
April Lyrids versus the full moon
Apr 21, 2024
Eclipse follow-up
Apr 14, 2024
A planetary lineup straddling the sun at eclipse time
Apr 07, 2024
The moon meets the morning planets and more eclipse preparation tips
Mar 31, 2024
The comet halfway from Halley's next showing
Mar 24, 2024
Penumbral lunar eclipse
Mar 17, 2024
Total solar eclipse plans
Mar 10, 2024
The celestial police
Mar 03, 2024
A historic star catalog is recovered
Feb 25, 2024
Planets exiting the stage; a hidden conjunction
Feb 18, 2024
Moon over Elnath
Feb 11, 2024
Dual meteor shower challenge
Feb 04, 2024
The sun at its latest--clock time versus sun time
Jan 28, 2024
Why applause is appropriate for this week's morning show
Jan 21, 2024
Mercury and a very distant star
Jan 14, 2024
The moon gets in on the morning action
Jan 07, 2024
Events to watch for in 2024
Dec 31, 2023
A very old star
Dec 24, 2023
Remembering the Pioneer plaque designer
Dec 17, 2023
Halley's Comet Heads Back
Dec 10, 2023
Halves and quarters; two bright stars are about to vanish
Dec 03, 2023
Pioneer 10's prominent anniversary
Nov 26, 2023
How the first successful Mars mission ultimately failed
Nov 19, 2023
Why certain stars are so often left out
Nov 12, 2023
Look for the Leonids
Nov 05, 2023
Jupiter almost as good as it gets
Oct 29, 2023
Full speed ahead
Oct 22, 2023
How Neptune finally got noticed
Oct 15, 2023
Annular solar eclipse almost here
Oct 08, 2023
Draconid meteors and eclipse preparation
Oct 01, 2023
Sirius by day and a daytime meteor shower
Sep 24, 2023
Moonrise rough guide
Sep 17, 2023
The lizard up there
Sep 10, 2023
A proposed mission to the seventh planet; an upcoming solar eclipse
Sep 03, 2023
Saturn summary
Aug 27, 2023
Antares occulted
Aug 20, 2023
A galactic merger and dust rings around a southern star
Aug 13, 2023
Different north and south stars
Aug 06, 2023
Face on Mars
Jul 30, 2023
Summer meteor showers
Jul 23, 2023
Proving Pluto's moons
Jul 16, 2023
Regulus, the summer triangle, and star-crossed lovers
Jul 09, 2023
Super moons and super high tides
Jul 02, 2023
The scorpion's crown
Jun 25, 2023
Solstice and circumference
Jun 18, 2023
A bird, a bowl, and a misnamed water snake
Jun 11, 2023
A daytime meteor shower
Jun 04, 2023
Dichotomy defies definition
May 28, 2023
What a woman gets for all her toils under the stars
May 21, 2023
Hey, the sun emits radio waves!
May 14, 2023
The happenstance birth of radio astronomy
May 07, 2023
Eta Aquariids, Mercury disappears, and penumbral eclipse reminder
Apr 30, 2023
Virgo; Astronomy Day
Apr 23, 2023
An eclipse, a meteor shower, and more
Apr 16, 2023
Hybrid solar eclipse
Apr 09, 2023
Dark skies matter
Apr 02, 2023
Neptune in a new light; the raspberry taste at the center of the galaxy
Mar 26, 2023
Aries at the equinox; the first asteroid at opposition
Mar 19, 2023
First photographs of the moon and stars
Mar 12, 2023
Distance on the sky dome
Mar 05, 2023
Venus and Jupiter paired, Saturn and Mercury trade mornings
Feb 26, 2023
Venus keeps climbing, Cetus the sea monster, and the incredible inedible egg
Feb 19, 2023
Venus passes Neptune very close! And the unicorn
Feb 12, 2023
The radio sun
Feb 05, 2023
Catch sight of the comet
Jan 29, 2023
The little dog and the first Pluto pictures
Jan 22, 2023
Venus meets Saturn, the moon has a close perigee, and more
Jan 15, 2023
Mercury moves to the morning
Jan 08, 2023
Two planets at perihelion, Venus climbs toward Saturn, and moon over Mars again
Jan 01, 2023
The asteroid belt's not densely packed and why planets don't twinkle--usually
Dec 25, 2022
Mercury at greatest elongation and the longest days of the year
Dec 18, 2022
The so-called lunar standstill and the Geminid meteor shower
Dec 11, 2022
The moon hides Mars
Dec 04, 2022
Alrighty Auriga! And a DART on target.
Nov 27, 2022
Calculating planets' positions
Nov 20, 2022
Start looking for Leonids and try to spot the crane
Nov 13, 2022
Lunar eclipse, Leonids, and the sun, stars, and stripes.
Nov 06, 2022
Total lunar eclipse and how a nova shone new light on the nature of stars
Oct 30, 2022
Mercury Hidden and the Goat-Fish
Oct 23, 2022
This month's solar eclipse and next month's Uranus opposition
Oct 16, 2022
Orionids, Hyades, and the stellar royal family
Oct 09, 2022
Sirius by day and DART
Oct 02, 2022
Tides
Sep 25, 2022
A crab, donkeys, and bees
Sep 18, 2022
Jupiter's Great Red Spot
Sep 11, 2022
A once-in-a-lifetime opposition
Sep 04, 2022
Awful astrology questions
Aug 28, 2022
The Great Square
Aug 21, 2022
The swan and the eagle
Aug 14, 2022
A martyr's tears streak the sky
Aug 07, 2022
Eclipse timing
Jul 31, 2022
Mercury emerges into the evening; the lover's crown over your head
Jul 24, 2022
Galactic coordinates and the Delta Aquariid meteor shower
Jul 17, 2022
Robert Goddard's vindication
Jul 10, 2022
The moon moves through the evening, Saturn's shadow, eccentricity
Jul 03, 2022
Mercury leaving the morning meeting, lunar orbital points converge, and Earth at aphelion
Jun 26, 2022
The loneliest star and the arrow
Jun 19, 2022
The morning planet lineup stays good, and get ready for the solstice
Jun 12, 2022
Mercury moves more into the morning meeting; Antares and Scorpius
Jun 05, 2022
An orderly planetary lineup and a dolphin's service remembered
May 29, 2022
The lesser known celestial dogs, moon at the nodes
May 22, 2022
Polaris
May 15, 2022
Total Lunar Eclipse and Clawing Into Libra's Star Names
May 08, 2022
Planetary lineup continues, Mercury in the evening, Eta Aquariids, Berenices's Hair
May 01, 2022
A southern solar eclipse, Virgo, and Astronomy Day
Apr 24, 2022
April Lyrids and comet names
Apr 17, 2022
The full spectrum
Apr 10, 2022
More morning lineup, when the sun acts up
Apr 03, 2022
Jupiter gets hard to see, the seamstress and cowherder in the sky, Arcturus and the World's Fair
Mar 27, 2022
The ecliptic and the equator
Mar 20, 2022
Stars and legends of the Big Dipper
Mar 13, 2022
Morning meetup, four planets in one constellation, and a little about Aries
Mar 06, 2022
Morning planet meetup continues, quick measurements
Feb 27, 2022
Morning merriment; the crab
Feb 20, 2022
The Unicorn
Feb 13, 2022
More morning migration; the sextant; Perseus and Andromeda
Feb 06, 2022
Lepus the hare
Jan 30, 2022
Sirius things to think about
Jan 23, 2022
Gemini and Jimmy Carter's Unidentified Flying Planet
Jan 16, 2022
Orion, Colorfully Named Iris and a River Runs Through It
Jan 09, 2022
Quadrantids, Earth at perihelion, planets hiding planets
Jan 02, 2022
Amazingly afar Andromeda
Dec 26, 2021
Mercury meek in the evening, Comet Leonard approaches the sun, and Star of Bethlehem
Dec 19, 2021
Comet Leonard enters the evening and how asteroids are named
Dec 12, 2021
Geminid Meteor Mystery and Preserving Darkness
Dec 05, 2021
Three planets in the evening, Mars in the morning, Comet Leonard, Antarctic eclipse
Nov 28, 2021
Thanksgiving skies of 400 years ago and an Antarctic eclipse
Nov 21, 2021
Spilling the facts on Aquarius
Nov 14, 2021
A nearly total lunar eclipse
Nov 07, 2021
See Ceres
Oct 31, 2021
Getting closer to and farther from the sun at the same time
Oct 24, 2021
Emerging Mercury and Mars; Spy on Jupiter's spot; Venus by Ophiuchus; the Hyades
Oct 17, 2021
Venus is the scorpion's head, Lacerta, and more about Mira and Algol
Oct 10, 2021
A splendid clutter in Scorpius, opposite behavior by stars on opposite sides of the sky, the wonderful fading star
Oct 03, 2021
Daytime meteor shower, Venus goes through the diamond, and Capricornus
Sep 26, 2021
Equal day and night--or not
Sep 19, 2021
Algol, the demon star
Sep 12, 2021
Zodiacal light
Sep 05, 2021
September 2021 astronomical events
Aug 29, 2021
Northern solstice on Mars and interstellar space
Aug 22, 2021
A traditional blue moon, Mars and Mercury meet up, and identifying satellites
Aug 15, 2021
Zavijava, Perseids, Cygnus
Aug 08, 2021
August 2021's astronomical events and the martyr's tears
Aug 01, 2021
Precovery
Jul 25, 2021
Orders of Magnitude
Jul 18, 2021
Coriolis Effect
Jul 11, 2021
Sagittarius
Jul 04, 2021
July 2021 astronomical events
Jun 27, 2021
Antares and Sagitta
Jun 20, 2021
Berenice's Hair and Earth at Aphelion
Jun 13, 2021
Annular solar eclipse of June 10--and more
Jun 06, 2021
June 2021 astronomical events
May 30, 2021
The Second Most Important Star in the Sky and Sidereal Days
May 23, 2021
Total Lunar Eclipse, Ten Year Astronomy Survey, and Wasat?
May 16, 2021
Measuring Distances to the Stars, Gemini
May 09, 2021
May's morning zoo and Messier objects
May 02, 2021
May 2021 astronomical events
Apr 25, 2021
The April astronomical shower and seeing over the horizon
Apr 18, 2021
Blinded by the Sight
Apr 11, 2021
Dark Skies and Venutian Phases
Apr 04, 2021
April 2021 astronomical events
Mar 28, 2021
The Real Planet Vulcan
Mar 21, 2021
Leo Minor, The Egg and the Equinox, and No Green Stars
Mar 14, 2021
Meteors and Near-Earth Asteroids
Mar 07, 2021
March 2021 astronomical events
Feb 28, 2021
Project Corona
Feb 21, 2021
Radio Astronomy's Beginning
Feb 14, 2021
Clyde Tombaugh
Feb 07, 2021
February 2021 astronomical events
Jan 31, 2021
Mercurial Mercury and Sirius Stuff
Jan 24, 2021
Orion
Jan 17, 2021
Mars and Uranus come close
Jan 10, 2021
January 2021's astronomical events
Jan 03, 2021
Get to Know Your New Telescope
Dec 27, 2020
The Star of Bethlehem
Dec 20, 2020
Solstice and lunistice
Dec 13, 2020
The Andromeda Nebula
Dec 06, 2020
December 2020 astronomical events
Nov 29, 2020
Penumbral eclipse, Aldebaran, and the coming great conjunction
Nov 22, 2020
The Pleiades
Nov 15, 2020
Leonid meteor showers
Nov 08, 2020
November 2020 astronomical events
Nov 01, 2020
Venus and Mercury at perihelion and blue moons
Oct 25, 2020
Mercury at inferior conjunction; the moon passes Jupiter and Saturn
Oct 18, 2020
The Great Conjunction of 2020
Oct 11, 2020
Mars at opposition 2020
Oct 04, 2020
SkyCaramba - Halloween Full Moons
Sep 29, 2020