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October 29, 2025 60 mins

 ✨ Agena Astro | 🔭 High Point Scientific | 📦 Amazon | 🌌 First Light Optics

Welcome baaaack to The Astrocast! We celebrate a large milestone this week with our third, and FINAL (hopefully) microphone! Please welcome, all the way from broadcast Nirvana, the Shure SM7B! If the Astrocast was Goku, we'd have some GIANT hair by now!

If I sound particularly silky smooth this week - get used to it! I finally took the plunge and upgraded the trusty Rode PodMic to the legendary Shure SM7B. A giant thank you to all the supporters and longtime listeners of the show, when I started The Astrocast I remember looking at the SM7B and thinking, "I'll never have one of those!" - and now we do! Thank you!!!

THIS WEEK on the show - Roo's recent great luck with clear weather has clearly run out - with a veritable lake of rain hitting Charlotte over the last week, with no end in sight. At least the kids will get no rain for Halloween! Reactions to last weeks episode on Reflect Orbital, plus the man who "finished" astrophotography! We also go over the many uses of GPT for AP, which you may have not thought of! That and so much more, all on this week's Astrocast!


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