Dark Sky Conversations
Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds in the field about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.
Episodes
April 21, 2023 • 40 mins
In this episode of Dark Skies Conversations, Marnie Ogg is joined by Naomi Miles and Grant Salmond from the Australian Age of Dinosaurs in northern western Queensland near Winton. They discuss their passion for dark skies and how they have expanded their successful museum based on paleontology and archaeology with dinosaurs to create an iconic destination for stargazing. The episode highlights the efforts and activities at the Aust...
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April 19, 2023 • 34 mins
In this episode, Marnie Ogg interviews Chris Tugwell, a South Australian man based in Adelaide who is a film writer, land care worker, and a Dark Sky entrepreneur. Chris shares his passion for making things happen, and how he transformed a small patch of private land on the Murray River into Australia's first Dark Sky Reserve. Through his connections with local government, tourism providers, and the general community, Chris expande...
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April 18, 2023 • 34 mins
In this episode of Dark Sky Conversations, host Marnie Ogg interviews John Whittle, who works for the National Parks and Wildlife Service in New South Wales. John manages the Warrumbungle National Park, which is the first Dark Sky park in the southern hemisphere. With a background in forestry, John oversees a team of rangers and field officers who are responsible for managing the park's environmental aspects, improving biodiversity...
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April 16, 2023 • 41 mins
S03E03 Johan Eklof - Author ‘The Dark Sky Manifesto’ If you’d like to buy a copy of Johan’s book as discussed in this episode, you can find it on Amazon at: Hardcover: https://amzn.to/3MMvzw7 Kindle: https://amzn.to/41p1lnm Paperback: https://amzn.to/3ojWMw0 Audiobook: https://amzn.to/41uFv1r Part 3 in our series celebrating International Dark Sky Week. In this episode of Dark Sky Conversations, host Marnie Ogg is joined by special...
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April 15, 2023 • 37 mins
In this episode as part of International Dark Sky Week, I get to chat with Professor Chris Lidman, the director of Siding Spring Observatory, where we discuss the importance of dark sky conservations. The Siding Spring Observatory was the first place in Australia to introduce Dark Sky guidelines, and there is currently an update being done to them. The conversation covers the National Optical Telescope for Australia, which is locat...
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April 14, 2023 • 37 mins
S03E01 Jessica Heim – Cultural Astronomer Marnie Ogg welcomes her guest, Jessica Heim, to Dark Sky Conversations to discuss the impacts of light at night caused by satellite mega constellations, including those launched by Elon Musk and other organizations. Heim, who is a resident of Missouri and a student at the University of Southern Queensland, shares her research on the potential risks of increased space junk and clutter caused...
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August 26, 2022 • 64 mins
Dark Sky Conversations
S03E11 Louise Beer – Artist & Curator
Something special with this episode…an invitation to listen to and experience the work of Louise Beer, Artist and Curator. Louise has kindly shared her original performance piece titled ‘In Memory of Darkness’. So stick around at the end of the interview, make sure your listening on headphones and immerse yourself.
Louise welcomes your feedback on the experience so please ...
S03E11 Louise Beer – Artist & Curator
Something special with this episode…an invitation to listen to and experience the work of Louise Beer, Artist and Curator. Louise has kindly shared her original performance piece titled ‘In Memory of Darkness’. So stick around at the end of the interview, make sure your listening on headphones and immerse yourself.
Louise welcomes your feedback on the experience so please ...
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August 9, 2022 • 39 mins
Dark Sky Conversations
S03E10 Ashton Dickerson
Continuing on our ecology strain of the impacts of light at night on the environment. Today. My very special guest is Ashton Dickerson, who again is with University of Melbourne. Maybe there's a little bit of work happening down there with artificial light at night. And she has made the headlines. In fact, she made Catalyst, the ABC science show in Australia, where they talked about...
S03E10 Ashton Dickerson
Continuing on our ecology strain of the impacts of light at night on the environment. Today. My very special guest is Ashton Dickerson, who again is with University of Melbourne. Maybe there's a little bit of work happening down there with artificial light at night. And she has made the headlines. In fact, she made Catalyst, the ABC science show in Australia, where they talked about...
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June 9, 2022 • 46 mins
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S03E09 Shearwaters
You know, when you get to talk to people who are really passionate about what they're doing?
Well, that's what comes across in this interview that I did with Dr. Duncan Sutherland and Jessica McKelson at the Phillip Island Nature Park, where we talk about shearwaters and this huge migration that happens in about April, May every year. And the campaign that they ran, which was dark skies, ...
S03E09 Shearwaters
You know, when you get to talk to people who are really passionate about what they're doing?
Well, that's what comes across in this interview that I did with Dr. Duncan Sutherland and Jessica McKelson at the Phillip Island Nature Park, where we talk about shearwaters and this huge migration that happens in about April, May every year. And the campaign that they ran, which was dark skies, ...
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May 6, 2022 • 44 mins
Show Notes
Dark Sky Conversations
S03E08 Emily Fobert – Is Light Pollution Killing Clown Fish?
Hi and welcome to this episode, an ecology event around the impacts of light at night featuring Dr. Emily Fobert who is a research fellow in the Fishery Science and Biosciences Department of the University of Melbourne.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Emily, who did a fantastic talk live for me a couple of years ago and was one of our fav...
Dark Sky Conversations
S03E08 Emily Fobert – Is Light Pollution Killing Clown Fish?
Hi and welcome to this episode, an ecology event around the impacts of light at night featuring Dr. Emily Fobert who is a research fellow in the Fishery Science and Biosciences Department of the University of Melbourne.
I've had the pleasure of meeting Emily, who did a fantastic talk live for me a couple of years ago and was one of our fav...
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February 18, 2022 • 43 mins
S03E07 Marlin – Author and Astrotourist
Michael Marlin (aka Marlin) is a Dark Sky ambassador for the International Astronomical Union and International Dark-Sky Association. He is a public speaker on the solutions to light pollution and astrotourism for tourism boards, city councils, utility companies, educational institutions and science-centers, and his TEDx talk, Embracing Darkness, can be found online. He was awarded the Presi...
Michael Marlin (aka Marlin) is a Dark Sky ambassador for the International Astronomical Union and International Dark-Sky Association. He is a public speaker on the solutions to light pollution and astrotourism for tourism boards, city councils, utility companies, educational institutions and science-centers, and his TEDx talk, Embracing Darkness, can be found online. He was awarded the Presi...
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February 11, 2022 • 46 mins
Dark Sky Conversations
S03E06 Jackson Stigwood – Lighting Designer
Jackson Stigwood
BDes, MArch, Tech IES, Assoc. IALD
Jackson is the founding director of A Billion Suns. He moved into lighting architecture and design in 2008, working on a range of projects in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He takes a keen interest in conducting lighting research at both macro and micro scales in the built and urban environment. The pra...
S03E06 Jackson Stigwood – Lighting Designer
Jackson Stigwood
BDes, MArch, Tech IES, Assoc. IALD
Jackson is the founding director of A Billion Suns. He moved into lighting architecture and design in 2008, working on a range of projects in Australia, Asia, the Middle East and Europe. He takes a keen interest in conducting lighting research at both macro and micro scales in the built and urban environment. The pra...
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February 9, 2022 • 88 mins
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S03E05 Professor Clive Ruggles
Join Professor Clive Ruggles as a special guest from this recent Dark Sky Aus webinar as he discusses latest research in a subject that’s close to his heart and in which he’s a world authority, Archaeoastronomy.
Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how...
S03E05 Professor Clive Ruggles
Join Professor Clive Ruggles as a special guest from this recent Dark Sky Aus webinar as he discusses latest research in a subject that’s close to his heart and in which he’s a world authority, Archaeoastronomy.
Archaeoastronomy (also spelled archeoastronomy) is the interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary study of how people in the past "have understood the phenomena in the sky, how...
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November 23, 2021 • 56 mins
Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E04
Dr. John Barentine
I think John’s twitter bio says it all:
Astronomer. Historian. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it.
You’ll find John on Twitter @JohnBarentine or his website https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and https:/...
S02E04
Dr. John Barentine
I think John’s twitter bio says it all:
Astronomer. Historian. Arizona native. Proud LGBT American. Retiring to asteroid 14505. Questioning everything; occasionally getting in trouble for it.
You’ll find John on Twitter @JohnBarentine or his website https://www.darkskyconsulting.com/
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and https:/...
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March 17, 2021 • 10 mins
Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E03
Satellite Hunting | March 2021
How to use this podcast:
1.Plug your headphones in
2.Make sure it is a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3.Look up
4.Hit play and let Marnie show you how to find satellites in the night sky..
5.Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.com/darkskyconversations
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S02E03
Satellite Hunting | March 2021
How to use this podcast:
1.Plug your headphones in
2.Make sure it is a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3.Look up
4.Hit play and let Marnie show you how to find satellites in the night sky..
5.Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.com/darkskyconversations
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February 15, 2021 • 7 mins
Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E02
Your Night Sky Guide | February 2021
How to use this podcast:
1. Plug your headphones in
2. Make sure it is a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3. Look up
4. Hit play and let Marnie guide you through what you are seeing.
5. Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.c...
S02E02
Your Night Sky Guide | February 2021
How to use this podcast:
1. Plug your headphones in
2. Make sure it is a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3. Look up
4. Hit play and let Marnie guide you through what you are seeing.
5. Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.c...
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January 26, 2021 • 9 mins
Dark Sky Conversations with Marnie Ogg
S02E01
Your Night Sky Guide | January 2021
How to use this podcast:
1. Plug your headphones in
2. Make sure it’s a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3. Look up
4. Hit play and let Marnie guide you through what you’re seeing.
5. Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.com...
S02E01
Your Night Sky Guide | January 2021
How to use this podcast:
1. Plug your headphones in
2. Make sure it’s a clear night…if so…head outside to a quiet spot with a clear view of the night sky.
3. Look up
4. Hit play and let Marnie guide you through what you’re seeing.
5. Enjoy!
Dark Sky Conversations Website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast and www.bitesz.com...
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October 7, 2020 • 48 mins
My guest today, Ada Blair - a counsellor and psychotherapist at the University of Edinburgh.
Author of ‘An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark’, her research, conducted on Sark in 2014, addresses the 'missing sky' factor within ecopsychology and health and environmental psychology. Intuitive inquiry is employed to explore the following themes: human desire to see th...
Author of ‘An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark’, her research, conducted on Sark in 2014, addresses the 'missing sky' factor within ecopsychology and health and environmental psychology. Intuitive inquiry is employed to explore the following themes: human desire to see th...
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September 22, 2020 • 41 mins
My guest today, Anthony Teckatch - developer and co-owner of the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter system.
The "Sky Quality Meter" measures the brightness of the night sky in magnitudes per square arcsecond. Designed by two friends, Dr Doug Welch and Anthony Tekatch, the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter handheld meter. enables scientists, researchers and night sky lovers to monitor sky brightness through the night, night-to-night, and year-to-...
The "Sky Quality Meter" measures the brightness of the night sky in magnitudes per square arcsecond. Designed by two friends, Dr Doug Welch and Anthony Tekatch, the Unihedron Sky Quality Meter handheld meter. enables scientists, researchers and night sky lovers to monitor sky brightness through the night, night-to-night, and year-to-...
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June 10, 2020 • 39 mins
My guest today, professor Tim Hunter, owner of the Grasslands Observatory in Tucson Arizona and co-founder of the International Dark Sky Association
The Grasslands Observatory was started in 1985 when Tim Hunter purchased 20 acres of land at a remote location in Southeastern Arizona approximately an hour's drive from Tucson. The site has no horizon obstructions in any direction and sits on a large grassy plateau surrounded by distan...
The Grasslands Observatory was started in 1985 when Tim Hunter purchased 20 acres of land at a remote location in Southeastern Arizona approximately an hour's drive from Tucson. The site has no horizon obstructions in any direction and sits on a large grassy plateau surrounded by distan...
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