Interview: Fred Watson, Australia's Astronomer at Large
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- čas přidán 1. 06. 2024
- This week my guest is Australian astronomer Fred Watson. He's a writer, researcher and the astronomer-in-charge for the Australian Astronomical Observatory.
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00:00:00 Start
00:05:30 Telescopes in Australia
00:11:16 Pioneering the science of spectroscopy
00:18:43 Square Kilometer Array
00:23:34 Why the SKA is different from the Event Horizon Telescope
00:28:32 What will the SKA be able to detect?
00:33:30 Investigating the Universe's Dark Ages
00:38:00 Status of the SKA
00:40:56 Starlink and radio telescopes
00:49:00 Fred's favorite science
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Glad to see Dr Watson pop up here. I have been listening to him for years. abc radio on a Thursday morning on my way to work for years before he took another job for a while a few years back.
Great chat,glad to hear more about the SKA.
Yeah, he's a superstar.
Brilliant! Much more Fred please! He plays a mean guitar, BTW
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@@frasercain Many thanks, Fraser - I will.
Fred Watson Lived on my grand Uncles farm for a time and they gave me a birthday present off a book signed by him “Why is Uranus Upside Down” so this video is cool.
I know that voice! Now I know the face.
edit: I wonder if the rooster or the magpies are going to make an appearance in the audio
edit edit: Just in case anybody is wondering, Fred does the SpaceNuts podcast and he had adopted a rooster that they named Gregory Peck and it was hanging out on the porch next to where he records and wouldn't shut up. More recently, some wild magpies paid a visit.
That's awesome. :-)
What a great talk gonna check out this podcast 👍
???: I'd love to see a video going over the many different ways of measuring the Hubble constant and how they do it. (And, of course, their values and error bars.) For example, for relatively close galaxies, is it essentially a direct measure (fit line to Doppler vs distance)? Even without accelerating expansion, it would change over time, so going farther back would need to account for that. I gather the CMB measurements have to then apply models for what has happened since then to get a number - what sort of models? The difference in z for different images of a supernova from a gravitational lens (e.g., SN Refsdal) was interesting to me.
I watched him at school on 18/11/2021 about his livestream
Frazer, this is a change of subject. I read that there is some debate as to whether or not Betelgeuse is closer than previously believed. Would it be possible to get one of the Voyager space craft to photograph the star from their point of view? The parallax difference ought to make a significant improvement in its measured distance. Just a thought.
"Astronomer at large" is a great title, can I haz that? :-)
He's got the title right now.
Interesting news about the Square Kilometer Array, but someone needs to update Wikipedia, as according to that it may still not be built in full. 0)
Maby Nick ( ParallaxNick ) could look into it... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Kilometre_Array
I hope it gets built.
@@frasercain I do too. But the reason I said about ParallaxNick is he is an active member (mod?) on Wikipedia
Short video of the taipan star bugs in motion: czcams.com/video/xrumMTsFkPY/video.html
So good to see Fred's face - I know his voice from his involvement in podcasts, and his feline and poultry companions.
Keelo. Killagram. Killahmeter.
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Sounds the same.
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great podcast
Definitely.
There are amateur radio astronomers, and SpaceX etc won't turn down for them .
Blame the Americans for Canadian's saying the "K" word incorrectly. We're a bad influence.
Hi
Hello!
That is dissapointing. He said hi Fred nice to see you again who are you? You what? speak to him all the time and did never care to ask his name before, and i always thought you where so polite
I always ask my guests that question. So they can introduce themselves to the audience.
@@frasercain i meant it as a (bad) joke ofcourse you know who you are interviewing. Greets from the Netherlands