Last December Dr. Chris Lintott, co-host of Sir Patrick Moore's"The
Sky at Night" TV show joined the sidewalk astronomers in Monrovia.
With Chris, were series producer Jane Fletcher, and the camera and
sound crews. I brought out my homemade 10-inch f/7.3 Dobsonian
telescope, Stardust, and a couple of other homemade scopes for the
evening. Our segment (with John Dobson), is on this month's show,
which you can see here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/spaceguide/skyatnight/proginfo.shtml
Click on July's episode - a Sting in the Tail - the show starts out
with information about the constellation Scorpius.
Here is our photo album of the evening:
http://photo.whiteoaks.com/2006-12-02-dobson/
In other TV news, on the US History channel is a show called "The
Universe"
http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=mini_home&mini_id=540364036.
Each show (there is one about Cassini) runs several times so check
your local listings. The DVD can be ordered from this website too.
I've watched a couple of them, both Jupiter and the moon feature some
Cassini colleagues, and they're great!
Jane
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Jane Houston Jones
Senior Outreach Specialist, Cassini Program
JPL - 4800 Oak Grove Drive, MS 230-205
Pasadena, CA 91109 818-393-6435
jane.h.jones(a)jpl.nasa.gov
Cassini SOC
http://soc.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm
What's Up?
http://education.jpl.nasa.gov/amateurastronomy/index.html