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Enjoy this great interview with Professor  Katie Auchettl, who is the Associate Professor of Astrophysics and Physics at Melbourne University. 

Katie is an observational astrophysicist whose research focuses on the extreme death of stars.

Katie has worked with a team of young astronomers on a sensational book for aspiring astrophysicists that’s just been freely published on the Archive (ArXiv) Server.

The book is called:
“Astronomy as a Field: A Guide for Aspiring Astrophysicists” 

… and it is sensational …. and I can't recommend it highly enough for any student … any person …. who has an interest in astronomy …. It’s a springboard to the stars and sure to be ground zero to many brilliant careers for aspiring astrophysicists …          
Get your free pdf copy at tinyurl-DOT-com/aspiringastro

Katie is also currently the PI of a large Australian Research Council grant project looking at  Tidal Disruption Events …  known affectionately as TDEs, where stars get ripped apart by supermassive black holes.
We even get to hear what spaghettification is.

Enjoy Katie’s fabulous stories!

Welcome to the April SkyGuide:
Dr Ian Musgrave is telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies in April.
He also gives us his ‘Tangent' about Fungi and Lichen on the ISS.
This month Ian continues his 'Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with simple cameras. Our target for April is Comet 12P/Pons-Brooks ... and he gives us some excellent tips to capture this celestial Dragon.
Are you up for it?

Professor Orsola De Marco is a Professor at Macquarie University and Deputy-Director of the  Astrophysics and Space Technologies Research Centre at Macquarie University in Sydney. She obtained her PhD at University College London as a Perren Scholar, after which she was a Swiss National Science Foundation research fellow at ETH Zurich, a FUSE Fellow at University College London and Asimov Fellow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She was an ARC Future Fellow. Her research focusses on stellar interactions and how they alter the structure and evolution of stars in multiple systems.

Dr Ian Musgrave brings us his March SkyGuide …  telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies this month.
He also gives us his ‘Tangent’ about perigee and apogee Moons.

Also Ian is continuing his ‘Astrophotography Challenge’ where he presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras.

This month it's imaging Vesta and learning how to use the free Deep Sky Stacker software

Today listeners, we’re zooming over 10 timezones to Denmark for some cutting edge science …, and you're invited to a very special conversation with Dr Hannah Diamond-Lowe who is a senior researcher in the Exoplanet Group at the National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark … where her groundbreaking research characterizes small exoplanet atmospheres using ground- and space-based observatories.
She is also the Principal Investigator of the Hot Rocks Survey, a large observing program using the James Webb Space Telescope to test terrestrial rocky exoplanets for their atmospheres as they orbit nearby M-dwarf stars, as well as the companion program Hot Rock Stars, which will measure the UV output of the M dwarf hosts with Hubble.

Dr Ian Musgrave kicks off 2024 with his February SkyGuide telling us when, where and what to look for in the evening and morning skies in February.
He gives us a Tangent about perigee and apogee Moons.

This year Ian is introducing his 'Astrophotography Challenge' wher ehe presents us with an achievable and challenging task to undertake with our cameras.