Star Diary, the weekly stargazing podcast from BBC Sky at Night Magazine, has a new, all-female presenting team.
Astronomy experts Mary McIntyre and Katrin Raynor will join Ezzy Pearson on the Star Diary podcast, guiding listeners through what’s coming up in the night sky every week.
Each episode of the podcast, Star Diary covers all the best stargazing highlights, including:
- The motions of the planets and their moons across the night sky
- Comets and asteroids making their way past Earth
- Seasonal constellations and the best times to see them
- The best things on or near the Moon
- Deep-sky objects to train your telescope on
- Prime astrophotography opportunities
Whether you like to chase the planets or prefer to delve into the deep-sky, the Star Diary podcast has you covered.
Mary and Katrin replace the show’s previous presenter, reviews editor Paul Money, who retired in January 2024.
New episodes are released every Sunday morning at 8AM UK time and cover the following week from Monday morning to Sunday evening.
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Mary and Katrin will take turns joining Ezzy on the podcast for four episodes, with Mary’s first episode on 26 February, and Katrin’s on 25 March.
Transcriptions are available for every episode of the Star Diary podcast. You can find them here.
Meet the Star Diary podcast team
Mary McIntyre is an amateur astronomer and astronomy communicator based in Oxfordshire, UK who was awarded the 2021 Sir Patrick Moore Prize by the BAA for her outreach activities. She is a regular contributor to Sky at Night Magazine, the Yearbook of Astronomy and co-author of the Collins Stargazing Bible which is due for publication in September 2024. She can also be round on Comet Watch radio show and occasionally on the Space Oddities YouTube show.
Katrin Raynor is an amateur astronomer who enjoys naked eye stargazing or using her 6-inch Dobsonian. She is a keen astro-philatelist and enjoys collecting astronomy themed stamps from all over the world. She contributes to the Yearbook of Astronomy and writes for Sky at Night Magazine and Gibbons Stamp Monthly and had her own short astronomy show on BBC Radio Wales. Asteroid 446500 Katrinraynor is named after her.
Ezzy Pearson is the features editor of Sky at Night Magazine. She received her PhD from Cardiff University in observational cosmology before becoming a space journalist. She regularly appears as an expert on all thing space on TV and radio. Her passion for planetary exploration led her to write her first book, Robots in Space: the secret lives of our planetary explorers. She has been co-presenter on the Star Diary podcast since 2021.