Ted Rudyk interview on “AT HOME” with Cheryll Gillespie and Sam Shakura
December 16, 2011 at 8:04 pm
AT HOME is a one hour radio talk show airing weekly on the Corus Network across Canada and online for a global audience. On ‘At Home’ this mother-daughter team chat about everything from design to art, fashion to health, economics to travel and beyond. The show is all about fabulous living. Past guests include Hugh Hefner, Cindy Crawford, Janice Dickinson, Bob Mackie, Erin Brockovich, Jane Seymour, Kelly Wearstler, Wolfgang Puck, Kathy Ireland, Elvira, Mike Holmes, Dr. Roizen and Ed McMahon…to name a few.
On Wednesday December 7, 2011 Ted Rudyk, a longtime amateur astronomer and the resident observing specialist at EfstonScience talked to Cheryll about Venus.
Ted spent decades gazing up into the skies as a self-professed “sidewalk astronomer,” and is now following his passion as a full-time astronomy student at York University. He can share his tips and advice for observing a lunar eclipse, the Geminids meteor shower and the return of Venus to our evening sky.
Some theories attribute an alignment of Venus and Jupiter in our sky some 2,000 years ago as the fabled Christmas star. Our sun-side neighbour will be low in the western sky shortly after sunset, appearing as a very bright “star,” and will be hanging in the sky all through Christmas. Ted can offer the best times and ways to view Venus as an amateur astronomer.
Your telescope will also be handy early in the morning of December 10 for the next lunar eclipse. While the other side of the Earth will get the better show, Ontario will get a prenumbral show just before the moon sets in the morning.
If you don’t have a telescope or binoculars, get yourself a blanket, a lawn chair, some hot chocolate and a star map or planisphere to enjoy the Geminids meteor shower, which will peak on the evening of December 14 and into the early morning hours of December 15.
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