How much astronomy can be accomplished in a spectacular port city where 95% of the nights are obscured by iron-thick clouds, the ambient light polluted haze blocks our view of everything except the pirate phantoms congregating around the docks, and the closest major observatory is literally the Hubble Space Telescope that never veers closer to us than about 1400 miles?
Answer: One devil of a lot!
"WMPG: Radio Astronomy" is, in our own irrational
opinion, a 15 megaton astronomical deficiency compensator careening
through the interstellar, roaring inexorably toward the uncharted, exploring
the exotic, scrutinizing the enigmatic, and delving thigh deep into every level
of physical reality, from the quantum phantasmagoric to the uber-magnificient
galactic and through every gradation inbetween. (And, yes, you're right,
this fathead hasn't the faintest idea what he just said.)
On Friday afternoons at 1:00 p.m. WMPG's "Radio Astronomy" staggers
humanity with an entire half hour devoted to the sky and
Universe. Panelists Bernie Reim, Heidi J. Vierthaler, Nat
Lippert, and Edward Gleason engage in mind-expanding and soul-enriching
discussions and interviews. We've hosted asteroid experts,
astrophysicists. celestial mythologists, astro-photographers. and even, heaven
help us, planetarium directors! Once a month, we invite two
frenzied hooligans from the Southern Maine Astronomers to talk about the latest
developments in the rich and variegated world of astronomy, astrophysics and
space science. Each show begins with Berne Reim's "What's Up in the
sky!”
"Radio Astronomy" literally promises you the Universe! The saturnine will smile, the estranged will reconcile, anger will abate, stress will dissipate and all the bleak aspects of life will be cast into scintillating iridescence. Join us every Friday afternoon for a dynamic half hour that so crackles with energy and electricity one would think we had our own Plutonium powered radio isotope thermoelectric generator