Dark Days of Winter: 365 Days of Astronomy
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Ahh! I found the original post – it had slid back to 2009! Here it is …
By now my first podcast for 365 Days of Astronomy should be live, and here is the post to support it – containing links and images I mention in the podcast. So go listen already!
Also, please excuse the terrible run-on sentences and immense number of “now”‘s in the transcript. I tried to write exactly what I said, and the way I speak is significantly messier than the way I write. And I always thought I wrote the way I spoke. Hmm.
Pictures!
Analemma (actually a tutulemma) from NASA
Links!
Vocabulary Words!
Blerch. I used a lot of jargon in that podcast, but if you weren’t taking notes and remembered that there was a word somewhere in there that you wanted more info about, here are some of the main ideas.
Equation of Time
Analemma
Perihelion
Astronomical Noon
Tropic of Cancer
Tropic of Capricorn
Mean Solar Time
Apparent Solar Time
Meridian
Eccentricity
Today is also the first day of winter quarter, wish my students and me luck on our three-month journey.
~ A l i c e !
Thanks for the fine podcast. Well done! I listened to it twice. That’s a first for me throughout the whole 365DOA series.
There’s always more to learn, even for an old retired guy like me.