Sound of Astronomy Original series Issue 1




Sound of Astronomy show

Summary: The Junior Astronomical Society's groundbreaking audio magazine -- forerunner of podcasts -- issued on reel-to-reel tape in 1966. In this issue, Peter Lancaster Brown talks about the Barwell Meteorite which fell on Christmas Eve, 1965, there's an interview with James Muirden about observing conditions in Crete, and we discover how society members held a public partial eclipse observing session in St James's Park, related by Ian Ridpath.