A Stargazer's Guide To The Cosmos
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08:00Greg Quicke helps us see a connection between the towns and cities we inhabit on Earth and vast clusters of stars in the night sky. And he shows us how to find these colossal stellar phenomena for ourselves.
06:00"Space Gandalf" - Greg Quicke shows us how to find the iconic Zodiac constellations in the night sky. He also reveals how we can use them as guideposts, to mark the path of our planet through space and our everyday lives.
08:00Greg Quicke shares how he discovered the huge influence the moon had on his life as a Pearl Diver. And he shows us how to experience it for ourselves, by connecting the visible phases of the moon to the tides on Earth.
08:00Greg Quicke reveals how seeing the planet Saturn through a telescope for the first time led him to a revelation about the size of our solar system. And he demonstrates a scale model, with the wild outback as a star chart.
06:00Astronomer Greg Quicke reveals how a quirk of our planets orientation in space plays a fundamental role in creating the seasonal cycle on Earth. As he reveals, this 23-degree tilt is one that affects all life on the planet.
07:00Outback astronomer Greg Quicke demonstrates a simple stargazing technique, by which we can accurately follow the orbital of our planet through the night sky, as it makes its vast 470 million km journey around the sun.
58:00Charismatic astronomer Greg Quicke (aka Space Gandalf) takes us on the ultimate guided tour of the southern sky, revealing unseen connections between the everyday world around us and the stars above.
Episodes 2018
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07:00Astronomer Greg Quicke shows us how to identify some of the night sky's most unusual sights: From spotting the International Space Station with the naked eye to meteor showers and how to tell weather balloons from UFO's.
06:00Greg Quicke shares how he came to realise that the solar system was just as predictable as his beloved Harley Davidson. Using basic stargazing skills, he shows how to locate a key navigation point: The South Celestial Pole.
08:00"Space Gandalf"- Greg Quicke shares the stargazing discovery that inspired him to become an astronomer: How to observe the rotation of the Earth in space, by watching a handful of easily observable stars in the night sky.