Podcaster: Frances McCarthy
Title : What Is The Stars – Sunspots
Organization: CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory for ‘The Blue of the Night’on RTÉ Lyric FM, copyright RTEì Lyric FM
Link : www.bco.ie and www.rte.ie
Description: On this week in 1947 the largest recorded sunspot was observed. Daily sunspot records have been kept by most major observatories since the mid-1800s and there are records going back thousands of years of these dark areas on the Sun’s face.
Produced by Eoin O’Kelly for The Blue of the Night on Raidió Teilifís Éireann’s RTÉ Lyric FM. From April 16, 2012.
What is the Stars was originally broadcast weekly between 2010 and 2012 on ‘The Blue of the Night,’ RTÉ Lyric’s evening radio programme. It was aimed at a “thinking-adult-late-evening audience.” Broadcasts were planned to be topical, yet with a spacey/astronomical theme. Scripts were written and delivered by Frances McCarthy of CIT Blackrock Castle Observatory, Cork, Ireland. Frances completed a BSc in Physics and Astronomy from the University of Toronto before exoplanets had been confirmed and still cherishes the two pieces of fan-email she received from listeners!
What is the Stars is a line from The Plough & the Stars, a play by the Irish writer Seán O’Casey.
Bio: Frances McCarthy, astronomer and education officer at Cork Institute of Technology’s Blackrock Castle Observatory guides our eyes heavenwards to explore the myths, stories and science of the constellations.
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