Actual Astronomy - Ep. 179: Some Refreshing Views With Mark Radice

Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. A bit of background on our guest: Mark Radice lives near Salisbury Wiltshire, a few miles from the ancient site of Stonehenge. He has been active in Astronomy since watching Comet Hykutake cross the sky while working in Canada in 1996. This sparked off an interest that led him across the moon, through the solar system and out into deep space.   Most of his observing is done with a C11 on an EQ6 (a 280mm f10 Schmidt-Cassegrain) and a pair of 100mm APM binoculars from my roll off roof observatory.  A 60mm Lunt H-alpha solarscope is also used in the daytime.   The Refreshing Views Observatory is in a village a few miles from Salisbury, Wiltshire in the south of England. It is adjacent to a large yew tree that dominates the sky to the south east. It holds a C11 SCT, a 60mm Lunt solar scope and a pair of tripod-mounted 100mm APM binoculars. When I am not using the observatory, I can be found under the dark skies of Salisbury Plain with the Salisbury Plain Observing Group; on Tenerife at the Mons Observatory and I am a member of both Basingstoke and Andover AS . https://www.youtube.com/c/RefreshingViews http://www.refreshingviews.com/   We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs.  Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too!  Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations.  Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at [email protected].