Blue of the Night
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Steve Cooney interview
Steve Cooney talks to Carl Corcoran about how he moved from being a rock musician in Australia to one of the most respected trad accompanists and producers in Ireland
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What is the Stars? 1st October 2012
After recent falls we're all encouraged to put on our citizen scientist meteor hunting but where is the best place to go?
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What is the Stars? 24th September 2012
If you think that we have a lot of meteors this week spare a thought for the late heavy bombardment of 3.8 billion years ago
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What is the Stars? 17th September 2012
In an infinite and eternal universe, every line of sight from the Earth should end up at a star. So why is the sky dark?
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What is the Stars? 10th September 2012
The Fermi Paradox: Given the size and age of the universe there should be extra terrestrial life but how come we can find no sign of it.
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What is the Stars? September 3rd 2012
Voyager's mission
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What is the Stars? Monday August 27th 2012
The Moons of Mars...
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What is the Stars? 20th August 2012
Tracking November's Solar Eclipse
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What is the Stars? August 13th 2012
Chinese astronomy and "Inquiries of Heaven"
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What is the Stars? August 6th 2012
The Perseids the years best meteor shower this year. Shooting stars visible from Ireland this weekend (and at a reasonable hour)
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What is the Stars? 30th July 2012
Keep an eye on Mars this week – low in the south west after sunset.
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What is the Stars? 23rd July 2012
It's meteor watching time and if you are blessed with frizzy hair you can actually hear them as well as see them.
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What is the Stars? Monday 16th July 2012
How to work out when Ramadan falls,
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What is the Stars? 10th July 2012
This week we go an acronym to far with LUCIFER - LBT Near Infrared Spectroscopic Utility with Camera and Integral Field Unit for Extragalactic Research for observing stellar nurseries.
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What is the Stars? Monday 2nd July 2012
The 50th birthday of the Kennedy Space Centre launch pad for among other things Apollo 11 the first manned lunar landing.
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What is the Stars? Monday 25th June 2012
This week marks the third anniversary of the Ulysses mission which went like its namesakes into unexplored territory.
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Blue of the Night - John Martyn discussion
Carl Corcoran talks to Paddy Kehoe about John Martyn's and his epoch-busting album solid air
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What is the Stars? 18th June 2012
Hunting for Pluto by learning to avert your eyes!
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What is the Stars? Monday 11th June 2012
Bayer names, Flamsteed numbers and the Henry Draper catalogue - how to name falling star.
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What is the Stars? Monday 4th June 2012
The NuStar team are hunting for axions but how do you find something that's 500 million times lighter than an electron and might not even exist at all.
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What is the Stars? Monday 28th May 2012
Prepare yourself for the transit of Venus across the sun on the 5th or 6th of June, Skerries is the place to see it but if you miss it don't worry you can catch it again in 2117.
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What is the Stars? 21st May 2012
David Bowie's "Starman" (the song not the actual man) is among the items making the 41 year journey to the planets orbiting 55 Cancri. Wonder what they'll send back?
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What is the Stars? 14th May 2012
Next weeks eclipse will turn the sun into a ring of fire.
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What is the Stars? Monday 7th May 2012
Affordable space travel is becoming a reality. Travel by recoverable rocket for a mere $200k. Tickets anyone
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Louth Contemporary Music Society
Carl Corcoran talk to Eamonn Quinn, director of Louth Contemporary Music Society
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What is the Stars? Monday 30th April 2012
Frances McCarthy goes back to Galileo’s 1610 observations of Venus to ask the burning question, “Why is Venus so brilliant?”
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What is the Stars? Monday 23rd April 2012
For those of us not expecting to be about when it next comes about in 2061, the currently visible ETA Aquariids meteor shower may be the closest we’ll get to Halley’s Comet.
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What is the Stars? Monday 16th April 2012
It may no have no atmosphere but Mercury is the "anchor at one end of the solar system"
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What is the Stars? Monday 9th of April
In 1859 during the Carrington event telegraph operators were able to switch off their batteries and operate on "celestial power." How?
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What is the Stars? Monday 2nd April 2012
The "computus" or how to calculate when Easter falls and the real Easter Bunny up there in the Kuiper belt.
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What is the Stars? Monday 26th March 2012
The asteroid Vesta has a 460 km diameter crater the Rhea Silvia named for the mother of the founders of Rome is the source of over 200 asteroids.
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What is the Stars? 19th March 2012
Citizen Scientists! Dust down your exo-planet hunting skills. There's work to be done!
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What is the Stars? Monday 12th of March 2012
How a missed train in Bundoran led to the creation of International Standard Time and the 24 hour clock.
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What is the Stars? Monday 5th March 2012
Occultation or how planets reveal themselves by how they hide stars, The rings and moons of Uranus
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What is the Stars? Monday 27th February 2012
Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt, the first spacecraft to flyby Jupiter and so the first to obtain close-up images of Jupiter. WITS? says happy fortieth birthday Pioneer 10.
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What is the Stars? Monday 20th February 2012
Rare opportunity to see Jupiter, Venus and Mercury aligned with the moon.
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What is the Stars? Monday 13th February 2012
It's the 25th birthday of Supernova 1987A first spotted in (yes) 1987 by astronomers Ian Shelton and Oscar Duhalde but also by New Zealand amateur Albert Jones who failed to register it as he couldn't believe his eyes.
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What is the Stars? Monday February 6th 2012
Is there life even now high up in the clouds above Venus?
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What is the Stars? Monday January 23rd 2012
On Chinese New Year a look at the traditional chinese calendar based on the orbits of the moon and the sun.
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What is the Stars? Monday 16th January 2012
Can Comet Lovejoy survive flying too close to the sun?
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What is the Stars? Monday January 9th 2012
The Blue of the Night's astronomy series continues with Frances McCarthy, astronomer and Education Officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory. This week an invitation to the general public to become ice hunters in space!
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What is the Stars? Monday January 2nd
The Blue of the Night's astronomy series continues with Frances McCarthy, astronomer and Education Officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory. This week it's "betting man" Stephen Hawking's 70th birthday.
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What is the Stars? Monday December 26th
The Blue of the Night's astronomy series continues with Frances McCarthy, astronomer and Education Officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory. This week theories about how the moon was formed.
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What is the Stars? Monday December 19th
The Blue of the Night's astronomy series continues with Frances McCarthy, astronomer and Education Officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory. This week it's Johannes Kepler's 440th birthday.
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What is the Stars? Monday December 5th
The Blue of the Night's astronomy series with Frances McCarthy, astronomer and Education Officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory - the Nobel Laureates who have shown us that most of the Universe is unkown to science.
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What is the Stars? Monday November 28th
The Blue of the Night's resident astronomer Frances McCarthy from Blackrock Observatory in Cork describes the Drake equation for assessing the possibility of life elsewhere in the galaxy.
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What is the Stars? Monday 14th November
John F. Deane &The Blue of the Night's resident astronomer Frances McCarthy from Blackrock Observatory in Cork on the chemisty of life on earth and in space for Science Week this week.
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What is the Stars? Monday November 7th
The Blue of the Night's resident astronomer Frances McCarthy from Blackrock Observatory in Cork talks about the Lyman Alpha Blobs which may sound like science fiction but are in fact vast, little-understood forms in space.
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The Blue of the Night connects different musical landscapes and is presented by Carl Corcoran from Monday to Thursday, while Eamonn Lenihan presents Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights.Mondays and Fridays: "What is the Stars?"
Frances McCarthy, astronomer and education officer at Blackrock Castle Observatory guides our eyes skywards to explore the myths, stories and science of the constellations.
