Actual Astronomy - The Observer’s Calendar for August 2025
Release Date: 07/31/2025
Actual Astronomy - Listener Emails
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Hosted by Chris Beckett & Shane Ludtke, two amateur astronomers in Saskatchewan. The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents Listener Emails. In this episode we talk & read several listener emails including Observing Saturn, Equipment reports, telescope making, public outreach, a supernova photo and more! Our emailers: - Leonid - Frank Dempsy of Pickering, Ontario - Bill - Richard N. - Mike Peoples We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your...
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Awesome Astronomy - How Realistic is a Space Elevator?
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Paul Hill, Ralph Wilkins and Dr. Jenifer “Dr. Dust” Millard host. Damien Phillips, John Wildridge and Dustin Ruoff produce. From Nov 18, 2022. An elevator into space - the science fiction future! No more explosive rockets - ride an elevator into orbit and open up the solar system for human exploration. But is that realistic or are there just as many risks with the space elevator? We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your...
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Ask A Spaceman Ep. 254: How Do Variable Stars, You Know, Vary?
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What powers Cepheid variable stars? What about Mira variables and pulsating stars? And are there variable stars that don’t actually vary at all? I discuss these questions and more in today’s Ask a Spaceman! Support the show: All episodes: Watch on YouTube: Read a book: Keep those questions about space, science, astronomy, astrophysics, physics, and cosmology coming to #AskASpaceman for COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF TIME AND SPACE! Big thanks to my top Patreon supporters this month: Justin G, Chris L, Alberto M, Duncan M, Corey D, Michael P, Naila, Sam R, John S, Joshua,...
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Astronomy Cast Ep. 221: Geomorphology
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From February 21, 2011. When we look around our planet, we see a huge variety in landforms: mountains, valleys, plateaus, and more. Continents rise and fall over the eons, providing geologists with a history of the planet’s evolution. The study of these changes is known as geomorphology, and the lessons we learn here on Earth apply to the other objects in the Solar System. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon...
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Travelers in the Night Eps. 809 & 810: How Close Can An Asteroid Approach & Humans Can
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Dr. Al Grauer hosts. Dr. Albert D. Grauer ( ) is an observational asteroid hunting astronomer. Dr. Grauer retired from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in 2006. From August 2024. Today's 2 topics: - The Earth Minimum Orbit Intersection Distance or Earth MOID for short is the closest an asteroid can come to our home planet on it's current orbit. - The James Webb Space Telescope or JWST for short is a superb scientific instrument which is revolutionizing our understanding of the structure of the universe and is providing a tool to help us to explore the possibility of life outside of...
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ASTROMAN - Dark Sky Initiative at Home
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Episode 8. “ASTROMAN: the Dark Sky Guardian” is a podcast channel that aims to explore popular science in multiple disciplines and research on interdisciplinary approaches, such as sustainability, dark-sky protection, astrophotography, space exploration, astronomy innovation, inclusive science communication, and STEAM Education by integrating science and arts. Exodus CL Sit, also known as the ASTROMAN, is a transmedia astronomy educator, popular science author, STEAM educator, and science communicator in Hong Kong. He is recently the National Astronomy Education Coordinator (Chair...
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EVSN - Cool Worlds, Exploding Stars, & an Asteroid That Missed Earth
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From August 20, 2020. Join us today as we look at how citizen science helped discover 100 cool worlds nearby. Then we examine evidence that exploding stars may have contributed to a mass extinction on Earth. Speaking of mass extinctions, an asteroid narrowly missed our planet last weekend. Because… 2020. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: 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!...
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Guide to Space - Chemicals for Life Found on Enceladus
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From Apr 15, 2017. Hosted by Fraser Cain. Did you hear that NASA just announced an important discovery in the quest to find life on other places in the Solar System? In this quick episode, Fraser details what NASA found on Saturn’s Enceladus and Jupiter’s Europa, and what it means for the search for life. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: 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!...
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Cheap Astronomy - Dear CA #122: Other Planets
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Strange new worlds. Dear Cheap Astronomy – How big can rocky planets and how small can gas giants get? Well there is some data, so we don’t have to talk in hypotheticals. There’s a rocky planet with about 40 times Earth mass and about 3 and a half times Earth’s diameter, which is about 85% of Neptune’s diameter. So, it’s a mighty big rocky planet that’s approaching gas giant scale. Dear Cheap Astronomy – Will we grow crops in Martian regolith? So, firstly you can’t really grow any plants from Earth on Mars since Earth plants need oxygen. While photosynthesis can make...
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Exoplanet Radio Ep. 42: How Long Will Life on Earth Last?
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From October 9, 2013. Nothing lasts forever, stars live and die over the course of hundreds of millions to billions, and in the case of red dwarf stars, trillions of years. Planets are born from the remnants of their parent stars and die over a shorter timescale. Life on those planets, if it exists, is presumed to be shorter still, governed entirely by the environments provided by the combination of the star and planetary characteristics. How long life lasts there ultimately depends on how long the star lives and how it dies. Using our solar system as an example, since we know life...
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The Actual Astronomy Podcast presents The Observer’s Calendar for August 2025. In this episode we talk about the Moon pairing with Antares, Saturn, Mars then Antares again! We also talk about finding 4 asteroids at oppositions, Ausonia, Pallas, Julia and Hebe. There is also a great line in the sky formed when Jupiter, Venus and the Moon line up with Castor and Pollux after mid-month.
Aug 1 - Carbon Star V Cyg at it’s best
Aug 2 - Lunar Straight Wall and Eyes of Clavius
Aug 3 - Antares 0.6 N. Of Moon - Ausonia at opposition m=9.3
Aug 6 - Wargetin Pancake visible on Moon
Aug 9 - Full Moon - Mare Orientale - NGC 6723 well placed
Aug 10 - Jupiter and Venus within 2-degrees this week - Pallas at opposition - m=9.4 - Julia at opposition m=8.8
Aug 11 - Neptune, Saturn and Moon congregate in late evening Sky
Aug 12 - 5 am Endymion sunset rays visible on Moon - Perseid meteor Shower
Aug 16 - Last quarter and many star parties over next 2 weeks
Aug 19 - Mercury at greatest elongation 19-degrees from Sun in morning sky
Aug 20 - Jupiter, Venus and Moon line up with Castor and Pollux in morning sky
Aug 21 - Moon & Mercury
Aug 22 - Old crescent moon in east before sunrise - Variable star Khi Cyg at Max mag. =3.3
Aug 25 - Asteroid Hebe at opposition m=7.6
Aug 26 - Mars 3-degrees N of Moon
Aug 31 - Antares 0.7 North of Moon
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