Dark Sky Conversations – Details, episodes & analysis

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 Australian Age of Dinosaurs and encourages listeners to visit and share their thoughts. Tune in to this episode to learn more about this unique outback space and its enthusiastic dark sky enthusiasts. For more details on Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum: https://www.australianageofdinosaurs.com This interview is presented as part of International Dark Sky Week 2023. For more details and resources for International Dark Sky Week, please visit https://www.darksky.org Email Marnie: - marnie@darkskytraveller.com.au Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies. For more details, visit the Dark Sky website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast Subscribe, rate and review at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and all good podcast apps. Stream on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/dark-sky-conversations/ For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com

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 expanded the area and made it a top tourist destination. Marnie and Chris discuss the importance of conservation efforts and how we can all be inspired to create more Dark Sky spaces. This interview is presented as part of International Dark Sky Week 2023. For more details and resources for International Dark Sky Week, please visit https://www.darksky.org Email Marnie: - marnie@darkskytraveller.com.au Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies. For more details, visit the Dark Sky website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast Subscribe, rate and review at Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify and all good podcast apps. Stream on demand from https://www.bitesz.com/show/dark-sky-conversations/ For more podcasts visit our HQ at https://bitesz.com
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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 Presidential Service Award from Barack Obama and is currently working on a television series where he will be hosting as “The Astrotourist.” (Amazon)

To check out and purchase Marlin’s book, ‘Astrotourism: Star Gazers, Eclipse Chasers and the Dark Sky Movement’ https://amzn.to/3H24tKY (affiliate link…we may receive a small payment if you purchase via this link).

Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.

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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 practice uses this research to understand key issues that need to be addressed as well as highlighting design opportunities for future development.

Since 2015 Jackson has been an active member and coordinator of the Victorian chapter of the International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD). In 2019 he began the podcast series Light, Cities and Architecture, as a platform to provide lighting education to the community whilst raising awareness of the lighting design profession. In 2020 he launched the Cri Awards, a publicly funded initiative which seeks to highlight, design, and implement positive community change to awfully lit environments within our cities. He firmly believes that whilst we push the design boundaries at the top of the lighting industry, we must also be consciously aware and making improvements to the bottom line within our cities.

jackson@abillionsuns.com.au

YouTube channel
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHT4dzN4yOIhaTa2916MH9Q

Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.

For more details, visit the Dark Sky website: https://www.darkskytraveller.com.au/podcast
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Dark Sky Conversations
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 they used these phenomena and what role the sky played in their cultures". Clive Ruggles argues it is misleading to consider archaeoastronomy to be the study of ancient astronomy, as modern astronomy is a scientific discipline, while archaeoastronomy considers symbolically rich cultural interpretations of phenomena in the sky by other cultures. It is often twinned with ethnoastronomy, the anthropological study of skywatching in contemporary societies. Archaeoastronomy is also closely associated with historical astronomy, the use of historical records of heavenly events to answer astronomical problems and the history of astronomy, which uses written records to evaluate past astronomical practice. (Wikipedia)
Marnie Ogg talks with some of the brightest minds about light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.

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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/
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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!
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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!
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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!
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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 the night sky, commercialisation of this desire through astronomical tourism, the nature of nature, fear of the dark, and nature and wellbeing.

Research findings show skywatching facilitating family/community connections and improving wellbeing, the transmission of sky stories, childhood sky memories, a fearlessness of the dark and the phenomenon on moonless nights of an absent horizon, whereby sky and land appear as one.

For more, visit:
An Exploration of the Role that the Night Sky Plays in the Lives of the Dark Sky Island Community of Sark
Sark in the Dark


Marnie Ogg is talking to some of the brightest minds in their field, about the topic of light pollution and ways to protect our night skies.


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