Date: August 1, 2011

Title: The Planets in August

Podcaster: Tecnocasters

Organization: Tecnocasters

Description: The Planets in August will put on a great show for us!

Bio: TecnoCasters is the best technology podcast in Spanish. Hosted by Juan D. Guevara, Pedro Riveroll, Lorena Galan and Raul Mitre, TecnoCasters offers a funny and friendly point of view about the gadgets and technology you’ll come across in your ordinary day.

Produced simultaneously in the US and Mexico, TecnoCasters is an international podcast, specially created for the Spanish speaking audience in the world and or for all of those who want to improve their Spanish speaking skills and love technology at the same time.

Transcript:

Hello everyone and welcome to this Episode of 365 days of Astronomy. My name is Juan Guevara Torres , Host of TecnoCasters – the best technology podcast En espanol.

Please check out www.365daysofastronomy.com for more information about this podcast and the many ways you can support our effort to bring you a cool astronomy podcast every day of 2011.

The Planets in August will put for us a great show! According to Astronomy News Room

This month after sunset look towards the west. Mercury starts the month low in the western sky however by month’s end it will be lost in the twilight glare.

As Mercury slowly sinks, a number of interesting planetary groupings occur. Venus will be visible all month in the western sky, above Mercury. The two inner most planets are also joined in the western sky by Mars and Saturn. The first two weeks of August are the best time to catch the four planets, with Mars and Saturn separated by 2 degrees or less from July 29th to 2nd August and Venus and Mars will be only 2 degrees apart from 17th to 21st.

While the four planets will make a wonderful sight in the western sky, the night of the 13th will be a spectacular sight with the 4-day old crescent Moon joining the planets after sunset. Mars, Venus, Saturn and the Moon will all be within 8 degrees of each other on this night and something not to be missed!

Turn and look toward the east. A brilliant star-like object, Jupiter, shines in the eastern sky. It starts the month rising about 9:30pm but by month’s end is rising at 7:18pm. On the 26th and 27th, the waning gibbous Moon will pass below and above Jupiter. If you have a pair of binoculars you can see the Galilean satellites – the four largest moons of Jupiter’s known 63, which appear as tiny points of light. A telescope will show you some of the cloud belts of Jupiter however the moons still appear as points of light.
This month also provides another opportunity to see the 7th planet in our Solar System – Uranus. Uranus rises with Jupiter and shines at magnitude 5.8. While this magnitude is on the limits of naked-eye visibility, you would need very dark skies and good seeing conditions. However, any small pair of binoculars will allow you to see Uranus. Simply point your binoculars at Jupiter and the closest bright object is Uranus, though be careful not to mistake one of the Galilean satellites for Uranus.
If you want to read more from Astronomy News Room visit www.astronomynewsroom.com

Well, that is all for us today. Be sure to check www.365dayofastronomy.org to keep up with this podcast. I would love to hear from you: you can send me your emails to juan@tecnocasters.com ( techno no H) or you can follow me on twitter @ guevarajd

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My name is Juan Guevara Torres, host of TecnoCasters, and … thanks for listening!

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