You Need A Unihedron In Your Life - Here's Why

09/22/20 • 41 min

My guest today, Anthony Teckatch - developer and co-owner of the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter system.
The "Sky Quality Meter" measures the brightness of the night sky in magnitudes per square arcsecond. Designed by two friends, Dr Doug Welch and Anthony Tekatch, the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter handheld meter. enables scientists, researchers and night sky lovers to monitor sky brightness through the night, night-to-night, and year-to-year. Join Anthony as he shares the journey of the device, and some of the unanticipated ways it's been used.
Marnie Ogg is talking to some of the brightest minds in their field, about the topic of light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
For more information about the Unihedron range, visit their website at http://unihedron.com/
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Professor Tim Hunter - Co-Founder of the International Dark Sky Association

My guest today, professor Tim Hunter, owner of the Grasslands Observatory in Tucson Arizona and co-founder of the International Dark Sky Association
The Grasslands Observatory was started in 1985 when Tim Hunter purchased 20 acres of land at a remote location in Southeastern Arizona approximately an hour's drive from Tucson. The site has no horizon obstructions in any direction and sits on a large grassy plateau surrounded by distant mountains. It is at 5000 feet elevation, and there is only minor light pollution from distant Tucson, Sierra Vista, and Nogales, Arizona (and Sonora, Mexico).
Marnie Ogg is talking to some of the brightest minds in their field, about the topic of light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
For more from Tim, visit his website at http://grasslandsobservatory.com/
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Dark Skies over Sark with Ada Blair

My guest today, Ada Blair - a counsellor and psychotherapist at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of ‘An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark’, her research, conducted on Sark in 2014, addresses the 'missing sky' factor within ecopsychology and health and environmental psychology. Intuitive inquiry is employed to explore the following themes: human desire to see the night sky, commercialisation of this desire through astronomical tourism, the nature of nature, fear of the dark, and nature and wellbeing.
Research findings show skywatching facilitating family/community connections and improving wellbeing, the transmission of sky stories, childhood sky memories, a fearlessness of the dark and the phenomenon on moonless nights of an absent horizon, whereby sky and land appear as one.
For more, visit:
An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the Lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark
Sark in the Dark
Marnie Ogg is talking to some of the brightest minds in their field, about the topic of light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
For more information about the Unihedron range, visit their website at http://unihedron.com/
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.com/darkskyconversations
Email Marnie at [email protected]
Subscribe, rate, and review at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, or any good podcast app.
#astronomy #science #light #lightpollution #darkskies #darksky
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