#24 - June 2014

This month we're outside recording under red light as we bag the
latest meteor shower to grace planet Earth - the Camelopardalids.


We start with reminisces about our April AstroCamp star party,
radio detection of meteors and the engineering & imaging
prowess of our captured Earthing slaves John & Damien.


In the news we discusses the new discovery of Earth 2.0(ish), the
sad shrinkage of Jupiter's Great Red Spot and Ralph gets a little
bit ranty about NASA research into the melting of ice sheets.


Paul shows us that size IS everything in his 5 Minute Concept as
he takes us on a tour of the sun and then whisks us away to some
nuclear monsters - our sun's bigger stellar brothers.


Instead of an interview this month, we have higlights of Dr Chris
Lintott's talk at AstroCamp where he covers Life, The Universe
& Everthing in a shade over 13 minutes - and still manages to
include a question from the audience (all hail Chris Lintott!)


Ralph answers a listener's question on fleas, the Earth, the sun
and UY Scuti (trust us… it'll all make sense).


And we finish with a return to the Camelopardalid meteor shower
and more discussion on how best to observe, understand and
measure meteors.