All Episodes
Looking Up — 150 episodes
Looking Up - 10 Dec 25 - Gerhard Swart, SKA
Looking Up - 03 Dec 25 - Kathryn Rosie, Mechanical Engineer at SAAO
Looking Up - 26 Nov 25 - John Woodland describes Follow That Star
Looking Up - 19 Nov 25 - Dr Danièl Groenwald, Astronomy Operations Manager
Looking Up - 12 Nov 25 - The Southern African Large Telescope
Looking Up - 05 Nov 25 - Prof Todd Tripp
Looking Up - 29 Oct 25 - Prof Peter Dunsby, astrotourism project.
Looking Up - 22 Oct 25 - Humans do strange things
Looking Up - 15 Oct 25 - 3 Comets
Looking Up - 08 Oct 25 - Low frequency gravitational waves
Looking Up - 01 Oct 25 - Prof Jessica Dempsey, Director General Square Kilometer Array
Looking Up - 24 Sept 25 - Fast Radio Bursts
Looking Up - 17 Sept 25 - The Mars Perseverance rover
Looking Up - 10 Sept 25 - Dr Sushant Dutta performs post-mortems of radio galaxies
Looking Up - 03 Sept 25 - Molecular Hydrogen, Plus a lunar eclipse on 7th September.
Looking Up - 27 Aug 25 - Anti-matter
Looking Up - 20 Aug 25 - Karen Lee-Waddell, the director of the Australian SKA
Looking Up - 13 Aug 25 - Dr Anna Bosman, computer scientist
Looking Up - 06 Aug 25 - JUICE spacecraft
Looking Up - 30 July 25 - Where is all the matter in the universe?
Looking Up - 23 July 25 - What about Uranus?
Looking Up - 16 July 25 - Machine learning in astronomy.
Looking Up - 09 July 25 - FMR's John Woodland
Looking Up - 02 July 25 - Dr Karen Lee-Waddell, Director of the AusSRC.
Looking Up - 25 June 25 - The amazing Vera C Rubin telescope has switched on!
Looking Up - 18 June 25 - The Place of the Stars
Looking Up - 11 June 25 - Professor Oleg Smirnov and Kechil talk more about PARROT pulsar
Looking Up - 04 June 25 - Distinguished Prof. Oleg Smirnov talks to Kechil
Looking Up - 28 May 25 - The Blue Danube in space!
Looking Up - 21 May 25 - What is an AGN? And What is an inactive black hole?
Looking Up - 14 May 25 - What's up now that winter's here?
Looking Up - 07 May 25 - Nic Erasmus Part 2
Looking Up - 30 Apr 25 - IAA Planetary Defence conference in Stellenbosch
Looking Up - 23 Apr 25 - What to do if asteroids get too close ?
Looking Up - 16 Apr 25 - Would you like to hear the sound of star clusters?
Looking Up - 09 Apr 25 - Kechil talks to Sam Wilson, author of The First Murder on Mars
Looking Up - 02 Apr 25 - Sam Wilson, author of The First Murder on Mars
Looking Up - 26 Mar 25 - Saturn's rings have disappeared!
Looking Up - 19 Mar 25 - What are the differences between the northern and southern hemispheres?
Looking Up - 12 Mar 25 - The Moon belongs to everyone, the best things in life are free
Looking Up - 05 Mar 25 - Planetary alignments and Blue Ghost
Looking Up - 26 Feb 25 - Dr Rosalind Skelton, Director of the South African Astronomical Observatory
Looking Up - 19 Feb 25 - How does an astronomer become an ambassador ?
Looking Up - 12 Feb 25 - Samples returned from the asteroid Bennu
Looking Up - 05 Feb 25 - Who would've thought that the Graeco-Roman Goddess of Hinges would be revived
Looking Up - 29 Jan 25 - How do you look at black holes?
Looking Up - 22 Jan 25 - Roundup of currently visible planets
Looking Up - 15 Jan 25 - New Year on Mars: what might it look like?
Looking Up - 08 Jan 25 - Kechil talks to Shamin Doman
Looking Up - 01 Jan 25 - What is time?
Looking Up - 25 Dec 24 - What was the Star of Bethlehem?
Looking Up - 18 Dec 24 - Visit the Observatory for a tour!
Looking Up - 11 Dec 24 - Kechil caught up with Prof Phil Charles
Looking Up - 03 Dec 24 - Australian indigenous astronomy
Looking Up - 27 Nov 24 - Kechil reports on the latest plans by the European Space Agency
Looking Up - 20 Nov 24 - Kechil talks to Ramesh Bhat in Australia
Looking Up - 13 Nov 24 - The 2025 Sky Guide Southern Africa is out now
Looking Up - 06 Nov 24 - Distinguished radio astronomer Ron Ekers talks to Kechil in Perth
Looking Up - 30 Oct 24 - Spookiness in space!
Looking Up - 23 Oct 24 - Kechil is back in South Africa after visiting astronomers in Perth, Australia
Looking Up - 16 Oct 24 - Kechil interviews Dr Rajan Chhetri in Perth, Australia
Looking Up - 09 Oct 24 - Kechil caught up with Jordan Collier in Perth, Australia
Looking Up - 02 Oct 24 - Dr Knicole Colon of the James Webb Space Telescope - Part 2
Looking Up - 25 Sept 24 - Dr Knicole Colon of the James Webb Space Telescope - Part 1
Looking Up - 18 Sept 24 - Kechil gives a round-up of upcoming eclipses
Looking Up - 11 Sept 24 - A candy floss planet!
Looking Up - 04 Sept - Ranpal Gill works on the engineering side of a new massive survey telescope
Looking Up - 28 Aug 24 - Liquid water has been found on Mars
Looking Up - 21 Aug 24 - Professor Phil Charles
Looking Up - 14 Aug 24 - What is dark matter and what is dark energy?
Looking Up - 07 Aug 24 - The International Astronomical Union's General Assembly
Looking Up - 10 July 24 - More about asteroids
Looking Up - Last Sunday was International Asteroid Day
Looking Up - 26 June 24 - Why do stars spin? What sets them off?
Looking Up - 19 June 24 - Even NASA slips up in its communications
Looking Up - 12 June 24 - What do things in the universe taste like?
Looking Up - 05 June 24 - Voyager1 continues to deliver
Looking Up - 29 May 24 - How can the Sun affect our weather, aside from its obvious heat ?
Looking Up - 22 May 24 - Kechil talks to the Director of the Solar Section of the Astronomical Society of SA
Looking Up - 15 May 24 - 55 Cancri e is an odd one
Looking Up - 08 May 24 - New Boeing Starliner capsule
Looking Up - 01 May 24 - K2-18 b
Looking Up - 24 April 24 - 49 new galaxies detected by Dr Marcin Glowacki
Looking Up - 17 April 24 - Fast Radio Bursts
Looking Up - 10 April 24 - PhD student Venu Prayag shares his interest in technosignatures
Looking Up - 03 April 24 - There will be a solar eclipse on 8 April
Looking Up - 27 Mar 24 - So many satellites
Looking Up - 13 Mar 24 - Leeuwenboschfontein Observatory
Looking Up - 28 Feb 24 - Landing on the Moon is tricky
Looking Up - 21 Feb 24 - Professor Matthew Bailes from Swinburne University of Technology
Looking Up - 14 Feb 24 - Raoul Coetzee, creator of the Carina image
Looking Up - 07 Feb 24 - Carina nebula
Looking Up - 31 Jan 24 - JAXA's Moon mission
Looking Up - 24 Jan 24 - Evolution of galaxies in clusters
Looking Up - 17 Jan 24 - Missions to the Moon launching this year
Looking Up - 10 Jan 24 - Cocktail Party Problems in Space
Looking Up - 03 Jan 24 - Fun Facts about the Mantis Moon
Looking Up - 27 Dec 23 - The turn of the Springbok Moon
Looking Up - 20 Dec 23 - Professor John Compton describes what we know about the Geology of Planets
Looking Up - 13 Dec 23 - The History of Astronomy in Cape Town
Looking Up - 06 Dec 23 - Matter does escape from black holes
Looking Up - 29 Nov 23 - Professor John Compton talks to Kechil about his latest book
Looking Up - 22 Nov 23 - The worthy and wonderful Sky Guide Southern Africa 2024
Looking Up - 01 Nov 23 - Particle accelerators,Space Endeavours
Looking Up - 25 Oct 23 - Historical records of the Sun's cycles
Looking Up - 18 Oct 23 - Kechil interviews director Dane Dodds
Looking Up - 11 Oct 23 - Migratory bird vagrancy
Looking Up - 4 Oct 23 - Sounds in space!
Looking Up - 20 Sept 23 - Have we detected a sign of life on an exoplanet?
Looking Up - 13 Sept 23 - What is a Silent Barker?
Looking Up - 6 Sept 23 - Kechil talks to astronomer Itumeleng Monageng
Looking Up - 30 Aug 23 - Kechil talks to astronomer Itumeleng Monageng
Looking Up - 23 Aug 23 - Kechil talks to astronomer Itumeleng Monageng
Looking Up - 16 Aug 23 - Kechil talks to astronomer Itumeleng Monageng
Looking Up - 9 Aug 23 - Kechil talks to astronomer Itumeleng Monageng
Looking Up - 02 Aug 23 - You too can be a scientist
Looking Up - 26 July 23 - Will South Africa send astronauts to the International Space Station
Looking Up - 05 July 23 - cfah.org.za is the website about Heritage Moons
Looking Up - 28 June 23 - Why is space engineering boring
Looking Up - 14 June 23 - China has plans to send people to the Moon
Looking Up - 31 May 23 - Saturns rings are disappearing!
Looking Up - 24 May 23 - The British are about to knit a satellite
Looking Up - 17 May 23 The Voyager missions are hurtling into interstellar space
Looking Up - 10 May 23 Space-X's Starlink programme
Looking Up - 03 May 23 You too can be a scientist
Looking Up - 26 Apr 23 Sara de la Fuente is the Science Operations Manager
Looking Up - 19 Apr 23 Two important rockets to talk about
Looking Up - 12 Apr 23 The Earth, and every other object we know in space
Looking up - 05 Apr 23 More NEOs, or Near Earth Objects
Looking Up - 29 Mar 23 Kechil talks to Dr Chris Pearson
Looking Up - 22 Mar 23 Dr Chris Pearson tells Kechil about the scary Event Horizon
Looking Up - 15 Mar 23 Black holes! What are they?
Looking Up - 08 March 23 Kechil talks to Louisa Quartermaine from Perth
Looking Up - 01 March 23 There is a pretty conjunction of Venus and Jupiter
Looking Up - 22 Feb 23 A reminder that the observatory has open nights on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month
Looking Up - 15 Feb 23 There is a pretty chain of planets to be seen after sunset at this time
Looking Up - 08 Feb 23 Last Sunday the US shot down a Chinese balloon
Looking Up - 01 Feb 23 Kechil unpacks the Skittles image from the James Webb Space Telescope
Looking Up - 25 Jan 23 Pamela Kassen, an astronomer from Edinburgh, is here in Cape Town
Looking Up - 18 Jan 23 A satellite launch recently failed from the UK on 9th January
LOOKING UP - 11 JAN 23 There is a comet arriving in our neighbourhood
Looking Up - 28 Dec 22 How is it that the Earth is not the center of the solar system?
Looking Up - 14 Dec 22 The Orion capsule splashed down last Sunday
Looking Up - 07 Dec 22 Sumari Barocci-Faul, a Masters student at the University of Cape Town
Looking Up - 30 Nov 22 Great balls of fire!
Looking Up - 23 Nov 22 Chris Forder has spent a lifetime building telescopes
Looking Up - 16 Nov 22 South Africa is to host a ground station for NASA
Looking Up - 09 Nov 22
Looking Up - 02 Nov 22 Kechil mentions a couple of new space engineering endeavours
Looking Up - 26 Oct 22 An ancient text has been found and accurately dated