Richard Hammar teaches an introductory course in astronomy at a local university, and most of his lectures are available as podcasts. Just click on the player button by the lecture you would like to hear. Subscribe with your podcast receiver via the subscription link (on right) or via the direct download link.
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 1 - (36.78 MB)
Lecture 1: Introduction and a Grand Tour of the Heavens
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UFOs: Fact Or Fiction? (27.02 MB)
Richard Hammar was joined by physicist Dr. Greg Ojakangas and Cessna Citation pilot Erin Buskirk for a discussion of UFOs at a meeting of the Springfield (Missouri) Astronomy Club on June 22, 2010. Erin began the presentation by describing a UFO that he saw while flying at 45,000' over Kansas on the evening of April 28, 2010. A recording made by Denver Air Traffic Control, obtained as a result of an FOIA request, was played. Several possible explanations of this, and other, UFO sightings were explored.
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 2 - (34.79 MB)
Lecture 2: Light, Matter, and Energy
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 3 - (34.03 MB)
Lecture 3 - Light and Telescopes
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Latest Findings and Their Relationship to the Bible (19.35 MB)
Richard Hammar is presenting his latest findings in astronomy and their relationship to the Bible. Presented to the Couples Fellowship, Central Assembly of God, on January 10 and February 14, 2010.
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 4 - (33.24 MB)
Lecture 4 - Observing Stars and Planets: The Clockwork Universe
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The Star of Bethlehem - What Was It? (19.35 MB)
Richard Hammar speaking to the Springfield (Missouri) Astronomy Club in June 2007, on the subject of astrophotography
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 5 - (12.29 MB)
Tycho Brahe; Johannes Kepler; Kepler's 3 Laws of Planetary Motion; Isaac Newton; the inverse square law; conservation of angular momentum.
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Astrophotography - (19.35 MB)
Richard Hammar speaking to the Springfield (Missouri) Astronomy Club in June 2007, on the subject of astrophotography
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 6 - (13.31 MB)
The terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars) and their moons and physical characteristics; the origin and types of craters; the formation of the solar system; tides; the Van Allen Belt; aurora borealis; the greenhouse effect.
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Religion and Astronomy - (5.35 MB)
Richard Hammar is interviewed about his views on religion and science by a magazine editor
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Astronomy Class - Lecture 7 - (22.18 MB)
The Jovian Planets (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune) and their moons.
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2007-8 Part 1 - 02-06-2007 (15.82 MB)
Life cycle of small and medium stars, and planetary nebulae (continued); life cycle of large stars; neutron stars; pulsars
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2007-8 Part 2 - 02-06-2007 (14.21 MB)
Supernovae; the Milky Way galaxy; dark matter
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2007-9 Part 1 - 02-06-2007 (14.97 MB)
The Milky Way galaxy and dark matter (continued); Sagittarius A; population I and II stars
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2007-9 Part 2 - 02-06-2007 (11.86 MB)
A universe of galaxies;
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2007-10 Part 1 - 02-06-2007 (17.97 MB)
Edwin Hubble and the expanding universe; life in the universe
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2007-10 Part 2 - 02-06-2007 (10.31 MB)
Life in the universe (continued)
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See The Glory 