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Splashdown
Plateau Astro
10 episodes
9 months ago
A weekly 15-minute podcast about what will be visible in the sky for the week, plus interviews with Montréal artists, astronomers, and scientists about space.
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Astronomy
Science
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A weekly 15-minute podcast about what will be visible in the sky for the week, plus interviews with Montréal artists, astronomers, and scientists about space.
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Astronomy
Science
Episodes (10/10)
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Dec 28: Webb Telescope, Post-Launch Thoughts
An interview with Nathalie Ouellette just hours after the Webb Telescope successfully launched into space on December 25, 2021.
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3 years ago
26 minutes

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Dec 26: Webb Telescope, Pre-Launch Thoughts
An interview with Nathalie Ouellette, JWST Outreach Scientist at the University of Montréal collaborating with the Canadian Space Agency. This was recorded on December 24, 2021, to get Nathalie's feelings about Webb the night before this historic, once-in-a-generation launch.
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3 years ago
26 minutes

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Oct 28: Astronomy + Urban Landscapes
Talking with AJ Korkidakis about how he got his shot of the Moon rising over the abandoned Canada Malting Silos in St Henri in September 2021.
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4 years ago
15 minutes

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Aug 25, 2021: La Fontaine Lobsters
There's a mystery in the water's of Parc La Fontaine: head to the waters there at night in the summertime, and you'll see lobster-like creatures along the shore. Master's student at McGill, Noemie Sheppard, tells us why.
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4 years ago
15 minutes

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Apr 26, 2021: Les Microcosmes
In 2017, Daphnée Côté-Hallé began 'Les Microcosmes', space-inspired art collages with vintage flair. We talk about her inspirations and how the New Space era we're in might be influencing the art market.
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4 years ago
11 minutes

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Mar 29, 2021: Next Gen RASC
In June 2020, during the peak of the Black Lives Matter protests, it felt like our institutions had to have internal reflections on what they wanted to be and represent. Emilie Laflèche, along with others, has helped create a committee inside of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada to address the changing demographics of amateur astronomy in Canada.
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4 years ago
14 minutes

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Mar 22, 2021: Finding Exoplanets in Montréal
Lisa Dang is a PhD student at McGill University and uses a really unique method of finding planets outside of our solar system. It sounds like science fiction, but the process uses Einstein's General Theory of Relativity to get it done.
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4 years ago
15 minutes

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Mar 8, 2021: Urban Astro-Photography
When you think of astrophotography, you typically imagine heading outside of the city to take photos in dark skies. And Samer Hobeika does this! But with his company, Zenderfull, he does a lot more. We talk about taking space photos in an urban environment and the experiences he wants to show people beyond nice photos on social media.
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4 years ago
14 minutes

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Feb 22, 2021: Re-Entry
The day NASA's Perseverance rover landed on Mars on February 18th, 2021, Montréal animator Ita Sonnenschein uploaded a wonderful animation of its entry through the Martian atmosphere. We talk about her work, vaporwave, and how the exciting space era we currently live in will affect her art in the future.
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4 years ago
15 minutes

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Feb 15, 2021: Mars Time
NASA's Perseverance rover is landing Thursday, February 18th. Erin Gibbons is a scientist living here in Montréal who will be studying data from the rover and looking for signs of life. In order for Erin to do this, she must adapt to "Mars Time".
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4 years ago
18 minutes

Splashdown
A weekly 15-minute podcast about what will be visible in the sky for the week, plus interviews with Montréal artists, astronomers, and scientists about space.