{"id":1701,"date":"2015-09-28T19:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T19:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/?p=1701"},"modified":"2022-04-13T15:57:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T14:57:45","slug":"pythagorean-astronomy-astrocamp-and-galaxies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/2015\/09\/28\/pythagorean-astronomy-astrocamp-and-galaxies\/","title":{"rendered":"Pythagorean Astronomy: AstroCamp and Galaxies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"Image pull-right\"><div id=\"attachment_1703\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" ><a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/sNsRF2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1703\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/236\/2015\/09\/AstroCamp_PhysicistPat.jpg\" alt=\"AstroCamp (credit PhysicistPat)\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">AstroCamp (credit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/patrickfranks\/\">PhysicistPat<\/a>@Flickr)<\/p><\/div><\/figure>\n<p>The arrival\u00a0of Autumn means one thing to astronomers: darker skies. Every spring an autumn, astronomers gather along with their telescopes, campervans and tents for &#8220;star parties&#8221;. One such meet-up is <a href=\"http:\/\/astrocamp.awesomeastronomy.com\/\">AstroCamp<\/a>, held near Cwmdu in the Brecon Beacons. At just an hour or so north of Cardiff it&#8217;s not too far, and\u00a0I&#8217;ve been\u00a0going along to these meetings for the last few years.<\/p>\n<p>The weather can be unpredictable,\u00a0and while that can\u00a0put a stop to observing the skies, it does little to dampen the spirits. Astronomers are a pretty social bunch,\u00a0and enjoy sharing in the experience. I thought I&#8217;d ask a few of the AstroCamp-ers what attracted them to astronomy\u00a0and AstroCamp, and what got them started in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also been a busy summer for a few Cardiff astronomers, with\u00a0an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astro.cf.ac.uk\/newsandevents\/?page=news_detail&amp;news=0191\">analysis of data<\/a> from the Herschel Space Observatory and the Hubble Space Telescope revealing how galaxies evolve and change over\u00a0cosmic time. I spoke to two Cardiff members of the international collaboration, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mwlsmith.co.uk\/\">Dr\u00a0Matt Smith<\/a> and PhD student <a href=\"http:\/\/ukastronutblog.blogspot.co.uk\/\">Matt Allen<\/a> (aka <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/UKAstroNut\">UKAstroNut<\/a>), about\u00a0what\u00a0they&#8217;ve learned.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1701-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2015_full_PHYSX.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2015_full_PHYSX.mp3\">http:\/\/astrog80.astro.cf.ac.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/mp3\/Sep2015_full_PHYSX.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Originally broadcast on 24th September\u00a02015 as part of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhysphillips.co.uk\/pythagoras-trousers\/\">Pythagoras&#8217; Trousers<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiocardiff.org\/\">Radio Cardiff<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The arrival\u00a0of Autumn means one thing to astronomers: darker skies. Every spring an autumn, astronomers gather along with their telescopes, campervans and tents for &#8220;star parties&#8221;. One such meet-up is AstroCamp, held near Cwmdu in the Brecon Beacons. At just an hour or so north of Cardiff it&#8217;s not too far, and\u00a0I&#8217;ve been\u00a0going along to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":273,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,30,32,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy-2","category-media","category-pythagorean-astronomy","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hmOz-rr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"meta_box":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/273"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1701"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1701\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cardiff.ac.uk\/physicsoutreach\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}