I am a new subscriber to your podcast and enjoy the topics and the presentation. It sounds like you all like technology and are having fun doing the podcast. I noted the use of the term "pocketbook" during the Sept 1 podcast and I am familiar with this term in the context it was used (I had two aunts who lived in Brooklyn NY. I wonder though about the potential confused state of some listeners from outside the USA or even in parts of the USA where "pocketbook" means a paperback book, NOt a purse or handbag. I realize this has nothing to do with gear or gadgets but this is a comment box and that is my comment. :-)

How about bringing a real astronomer on the show, instead of an amateur with no credentials to confirm or deny Tony's wholly false statements about Pluto, the Kuiper Belt, and especially that crock about Earth not being a planet by the "strict" definition that apparently he made up. Still sore about that. And subsequently the horrible rap that any scientist gets for oh, I don't know, doing science instead of placating the public, like we saw in the comments to that last post.

I wanted to clarify, for anyone who has listened to this podcast or is considering doing so, that I'm not seriously suggesting that under the new planetary definition either Earth or Neptune actually stand to be demoted (nor has anyone in their right mind suggested that this be done); it's just that the definition is vague enough that a strict, literal reading of it could be interpreted in that way. How it will be applied is totally different, but hopefully the IAU will adjust the definition itself at some point to make it more specific.