Ep. 12: The Astrolabe with Pierre Paquette

In this episode of the Wanderings Podcast we will explore an ancient astronomical device called The Astrolabe. The astrolabe was used for centuries for navigation and as a way to tell the time, before watches, satellites and phones were invented. Astrolabes are objects of great beauty and craftsmanship, and they were the perfect combination of astronomical knowledge, artistic expression and practical application for everyday life. If you are familiar with my work, astrolabes were the inspiration for my first ever fine art photograph and you can hear more about that on episode 10 of the podcast and on my vlog on youtube. To talk about this object that connected the earth and the sky, my guest is Pierre Paquette, an amateur astronomer with over 30 years of experience. He is an Astronomy Ambassador with the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Editor of Astronomie-Québec magazine, and he works on a cool project with National Geographic ObservÉtoiles, the first-ever open-sky augmented-reality planetarium in the world, located close to Montreal. Paquette discovered his passion for ancient astronomical instruments in 2014, and since then has been making his own astrolabes. SHOW NOTES Pierre Paquette’s website: pierrepaquette.net National Geographic ObservÉtoiles: Aurora 360:

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Ep. 12: The Astrolabe with Pierre Paquette is an episode from Wanderings Podcast by Pedro Bonatto.

This episode is 01:03:21 long.

This episode was published on Nov 24, 2019.

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