Transcript for Part A:
6:00 p.m..Scott Roberts- Introduces David Levy
four hours R.A which is back to zero hours it encompasses uh 7 800 7840 deep
6:02 p.m..David Levy – Intro and Poetry
Sky objects why then does the final logic NGC 7840 have a ride Ascension greater than zero
6:15 p.m..The Night Sky Astronomical League – John Goss
hours it's it's ra is zero hours eight minutes a the positional measurements have
improved since the 1880s when the NGC was being assembled
B uh 7840 has traveled in space in 150
6:30 p.m..David Eicher - Deepsky Commentary
years so of course it has drifted Eastward in the sky see precession since the 1880s has moved
the ra coordinates Westward so we have those three questions if you
6:40 p.m..Nathan Hellner-Mestelman - “Seeing Beyond” A Film
know if you want to participate send your answers to secretary at australeg.org
one more slide here and then I'll be out of here our astronomically live
presentation will be on Friday December 16th at 7 pm eastern time we're going to be featuring the astronomical officers
um a lot of people a lot of times that they're they're not shown they're always behind the scenes doing stuff but we'd
7:10 p.m..Telescopes in Space
like to introduce the officers so you can get a chance to say hello and and see who they are uh we're gonna have
another speaker Bob King who you probably all know uh he'll be talking about this the the coming soccer the
solar cycle we're in and how all the neat stuff that's concerned will be doing I hope and continues to do
7:30 p.m..Break
and then we got the 2023. one final comment uh lower right hand corner says we've got the astronomic league 75th
Anniversary well actually that is going to have to be uh put aside now
7:40 p.m..Nicolas Arias - Hammertime with Nico
because today uh November 15th marks uh
76.0 years since since the league began so uh we've been around for a while and
we like helping out amateurs uh always remember the astronomical league is here for you
8:00 p.m..Maxi Falieres - Astrophotography to the Max
thank you okay it's great yeah thanks Scott for having
me on I appreciate you giving me a little time there to talk about this or that of course we all have a good
Thanksgiving too so yeah yes that's right that's right if you guys didn't have a chance to watch the
8:20 p.m..Marcelo Souza - Astronomy Outreach in Brazil
last uh astronomical League live programs uh you know they've had a
couple of really fantastic uh speakers and uh just overall programming has been
very very nice on the astronomical League live uh I am trying to remember
8:40 p.m..Daniel Barth - Asteroids in the Sun’s Glare
the gentleman's name that was on the last one um but Dr Shane Larson yeah Shane Larson
Larson what what an incredible excellent excellent speaker excellent speaker yeah
I'm very uh you know I I was learning quite a bit from him so I was uh pleased
to see him on he did the first astronomical League live uh program 22
9:00 p.m..Cesar Brollo - Cesar’s Universe
Episodes ago so you know so I'm really glad to see you guys keeping this up it's awesome
it's awesome okay so um we are going next to uh David icker
9:20 p.m..Adrian Bradley - The Blood Moon
Now Dave has uh already gone through his crystals and minerals and uh he claims
to have gone through his meteorite collection already and so now he is
about to start on his uh collection of favorite
deep Sky objects I believe so and I think there's a lot of them
thank you very much the minerals and meteorites for the moment uh for the time being I think it was about a year
and a half of talking about minerals there so a lot we did I mean I did you
know so I think it's very cool you know and and it reminds you that the universe doesn't stop at just looking at the sky
or thinking about what's up there or out there or whatever you know so it's it's
right before us it's everywhere it's planetary geology and as my old boss Richard Berry used to say Earth is a
planet too right that's right so okay but but I've exhausted that for the
moment and so I'm thinking I'll go into a new thing back to some pure astronomy in looking at some interesting objects
in the sky and so I'm starting a feature tonight called Dave's exotic Sky objects
and uh I have a list here of going through some resources and have come up
with a list of interesting objects to talk about and I thought I would talk about an object each
time and there are at the moment the working list is 442 objects so the bad
news Scott is that oh Scott's on the phone well the bad news is that I can only talk about
these for about eight and a half years um to come so I will start to share my
screen and I will see if you can see what I am seeing here and I will see if I can
start a slideshow here and can you see a piece
of art uh that portrays cygnus X1 yes okay good we're in business so what I
thought I would do today this is just kind of looking through a lot of resources and star atlases and things
like that that have some interesting things on them and and so I thought I would look at some interesting regions
and this is partly inspired by the fact that for many years and not so much
anymore because Astro imagers are more creative now and there are a couple of them like Adrian is online with us here
who's a very creative Astro imager but for many many years we got you know
the thousandth image of m42 you know through the mail or email to us and and
what there are so many interesting and unusual and exotic things out there that
few people are taking images of of many of these things so I thought I would look at some interesting objects that
are largely off the beaten path uh to some degree or or uh to to greater or
lesser degree so to start this business I I just started at the very near the
celestial North Pole um and I'm looking now at a molecular cloud region in cepheus and of course a
molecular cloud is an area that forms Stars um that that uh in in which molecules
can form like molecular hydrogen uh has low temperatures and high densities and
so the gravitational forces can outweigh the internal pressures
um of uh of the star of the of the little regions of density and and stars
can form of course does anyone know how many stars form if we're talking about
solar masses say in our galaxy per year there there's a lot yes John knows
not many is the shocking answer three or four Stellar solar masses worth of stars
a year and that's it which which astonishes a lot of people that it's
such a small number in a great big Galaxy that has several hundred billion stars but of course the universe has an
almost unimaginable amount of time which we don't have as humans quite so much so
the star formation goes uh of course happens over an enormously long period
so anyway this molecular cloud that's incest and it's kind of on the border with Cassiopeia north of the bubble
nebula has a nice region of star formation that contains several nebulae and one of them is NGC 7822 it's
sometimes called the cosmic question mark or the flaming skull and the
associated cedarblad 214 which is also in the sharpless catalog which has
practically all large nebulae in it foreign so this complex of nebulosity lies about
three thousand light years away and it was studied in the sort of middle years of the 20th century by a couple of
different people one of them was Sven cedarblad in Sweden uh and Stuart
sharpless with his exhaustive catalog of nebulae in in the United States it's
pretty typical of a ready emission nebula it's slowly collapsing and will slowly form a new generation of stars
there's an embedded sort of a loose not very rich star cluster in it as well
that we'll see in a minute here and this is somewhat infrequently explored this little area even by Astro imagers
so first of all we'll talk about the star clusters that are associated with the cosmic Cosmic question mark one of
them is Berkeley 59 which is a small cluster it's in the nebular complex it's
it's sort of scattered a little bit it doesn't look very rich and it's young it's less than 2 million years old it
physically resembles the trapezium cluster in Orion in terms of the kinds
of stars in it not in a trapezium shape it has a total mass of about a thousand
solar masses and and it was noted in this Berkeley catalog of open clusters
that was worked on in the middle 20th century uh in the Bay Area
NGC 7762 is on the western edge of the cloud and it's a little north of there
of the center of all this nebula City it's an intermediate age cluster it's just a little younger than 2 billion
years old um and it's a little it's slightly closer than the than the nebula complex
as well it's about 2500 light years away uh there's another very faint and very
small open cluster as well that's called King 11 and the the uh astronomer Ivan
King also in those middle years of the 1950s and 60s did a lot of work
cataloging more obscure open clusters he was at Harvard and then he moved out also to Berkeley and was involved in the
Berkeley catalog and it's a little bit older it's about 3.6 billion years old
and it's a very small cluster highly evolved there's also a planetary nebula
that has nothing to do with the Stars or the nebulosity a bell one the very first
planetary in not his Galaxy cluster catalog that's more famous than than
this but georgeabel at UCLA of course also produced a catalog of planetary
nebulae that are generally faint and very weird strange planetaries and and
it's in the region as well so this is uh forgive me I didn't update
this at the bottom this is not the canyon Diablo meteorite sorry about that
um it may look like it no it doesn't okay but this this is a section this is
called uh too much to do last week and rushing to get your talk done sorry about this
um but this is a little section actually of Ron stoyan's deep Sky Atlas which is
a fairly compact Atlas but magnificently detailed it's a really good Atlas with
many many uh unusual deep Sky objects in it and here we can see the region and
and sort of the center of this nebular complex is cedarblad 214 here you can
see there's a little uh icon for the associated open cluster and the top of
this thing which is a sort of a bright waft of emission nebulosity as well is
labeled here mgc 7822 which actually is an envelope of fainter stuff that goes
over this whole area really here and you can see the bright cluster uh there and also this little
tiny dim cluster uh k11 there and the planetary up at the upper left there uh
a bill one and there's some interesting double stars in the area as well and so on too
so here's a sort of a wide field uh image that was released of the area from
a NASA press release here and and that's kind of the middle of cedarblad 214 there the Big Blob of stuff on top the
cut you can see the cosmic question mark it gets the because there's this little circular area of nebulosity below as
well and here's a really nice atom block image of the central area and this
really shows it in fantastic detail and and the open cluster is sort of uh
centered but scattered in the upper part of this image and it's centered in that kind of open area that's above Center
there and of course this is uh mostly the nebulosity of cedarblad 214 that
we're seeing here and you can see This Magnificent dark nebulosity winding through it as well and it's a pretty
rich star field there in in the on the cepheus Cassiopeia border here so it's a
kind of an interesting and and neat area to explore that not a lot of people go
out and look at so my things now rather than talking at great great length about chemistry and minerals are going to be a
little shorter now Scott I just want to feature one of these areas per time here
um but I also wanted to share a couple of upcoming things here that that are coming up next year is the 50th
anniversary astronomy magazine so we're excited about that we're going to do some special things for the anniversary
year the first of which is in the January issue a very special theme on
everything you ever wanted to know about comets but we're afraid to ask and we're very honored to have the world famous Dr
David Levy has written a an introduction that opens the entire issue on
everything about comets David I don't know if you want to say anything about what your Recollections of what you've
said for that piece he's not hearing me he's not hearing me
or he's muted can you hear me Dave you're muted yes
um I'm looking forward to that issue and uh it's very very special
I've written a number of articles for astronomy excuse me my voice is going away as I
talk so warmly about astronomy magazine but what I wanted to say
is that I have enjoyed over many many years writing articles for astronomy
magazine but I think my favorite one was was besides a column that I wrote
for a while with you but my favorite one was when Richard was
editor and I wrote a article on the star Betelgeuse
and uh you know I really wasn't sure how to
start it so I started it with these four words stars of people too
I didn't hear anything from Richard for a while until I met him that year at Riverside and Richard came up to me and
he said stars are people too and I said yeah and he said several times stars are
people too he said I read the first sentence of your article didn't read anything else of it and I accepted it
based on those four words and I've never forgotten that David stars are people
too and I still believe that that's fantastic what a story David
yeah that is great so this won't have so many
stars in this issue but it will have a whole lot of comments great comets uh you know since kiyoseki the history and
lore of course of comets and and Supernatural beliefs and so on the
science of comets uh written by Walt Harris there one of your pals at the the
uh University of Arizona in Tucson there David uh and observing comets by Steve
umira and imaging them by Damien Peach and a whole lot of other things too so it's it's really a special issue that
we're very happy with we think and then I just wanted to quickly remind you that my friend Michael bakic and I have this
book that is just out a child's introduction to space exploration published by black dog and Leventhal and
it is for relatively young kids 8 to 12 to get them excited about the new
generation of SpaceX exploration which if we're lucky is just about to start
down in Florida hmm so that is all I have I will be a little
less wordy Scott if you can believe that with these
with these deep Sky objects I do have 442 of them though yeah well I
think it's awesome and um you know grew better to uh to go over all these deep Sky objects than than you
now something else I will call the audience's attention to if you haven't paid attention uh almost every day David
posts an astrophoto on his uh on his stories panel on his Facebook page so
you're going to see some great astrophotography um you know and I think having this kind
of commentary of these uh individual deep Sky objects and then to be able to
go back and look at some of David's favorite astral photographs I think uh it's a nice mix there so well as someone
who finally made the list
and get a subscription to astronomy magazine where they have a nice gallery and uh you know yeah you have to beg
David to add some of my stuff but that's coming oh absolutely we will definitely add it Adrian and your your wide field
shot of the lunar eclipse of last week is a killer shot if you I hope you'll
show that that is that is going to be on the list for tonight for those of you that hang out I am going to show that
image that's actually a backdrop on my computer and one of the reasons it is a bit of an honor to be on that list
because you've got Giants the likes of Damien Peach as you mentioned
um you know these astral imagers have been doing this for a long time and they
have their process down and they know what it is they're trying to present they present the cosmos in not only a
fantastic way but accurate as well and you could every you I see it all the
time brings a smile to my face to see um the new images that um are shared
with uh David eicher and um you know they're you're getting a slice of the
cosmos and I noticed in the images you pick you don't tend to pick overly
processed or super fanciful images they get right to the point the beauty is in
the object itself it's not in the processing how they do it or you know
that some of it it takes these guys 40 some odd hours a lot of data a lot of
integration in order to pull out some of the details so it's the these are some
fabulous images for a reason and uh so that's you know it's always nice to see
those images as they come out so yeah I will be sharing I'll be sharing some of these images with you as my process
improves um excellent well you're you're right up there and and and that that's sharing
stuff you know Scott thanks for mentioning that it's a little bit out of frustration because there's so many
great images being produced these days there's way more than you can put in the
magazine or on the magazines website every month and people send these to me
and want them shared and that that's why I'm just throwing them out there on social media so you know I'm really
proud to be sharing you know Adrian and Damien and and everyone else and Tony Allison the whole rest of that sure they
want to get this stuff out there and Inspire other people to go out and view or to also shoot themselves and and it's
a nice problem to have to have so many great Astro images these days it's not
like the old days Scott at when we were first doing this stuff right wash in so
much great science in astronomy as we talk about this golden age but also in a
golden age of Astro Imaging thanks to the Adrians and damians and such and and
it's really a pleasure Adrian to share these with people yeah it comes from our
own love of the night sky when a visual astronomer tells you your image makes people want to go out and explore the
night sky now you're on the right track and that's over the years since GSP 54
and David sharing telling um telling me to share some of these images with
global Star Party um the the journey began to basic
basically I'm exploring my own love of the night sky and begin to realize that
um even the moon behind me can be fascinating at certain times of certain
times of the year certain times of the decade when all of a sudden it goes blood red so
um so yeah it's it's not only it's an honor but then it's also Outreach it's showing people yes this stuff is real
and it's out there yeah well and when you're inspiring so many other people with your images now
Adrian I mean you're you're the you know it's that's that's a powerful thing you're doing you're turning people on to
the love of the universe that's a big deal that's right absolutely I've seen my friend Paige real quick and then
Scott turned to you my friend page almost expecting me to post something even if I think it's a failed image or
not quite as good I'm noticing more and more people sent you know asking about images or you
know that it's becoming an expectation that I post something so um
so yeah it's it's an honor and yeah I I do plan to show some of the images I I
would plan on showing not only older ones but the ones that I've done since
in all the Astra your best Astro photographer out there has gone through
a journey of learning and many have been at it a little longer than me but it's
all about getting a process down and knowing why you want to show the image it isn't necessarily I want the greatest
image in the world you know there are some that are out there doing it forget about that it's
your view of the cosmos comes through the way you process your images and um
the target you gave us tonight are some interesting targets I have to watch this again and write those down so I can try
and go after them uh visually if if I can get to a target of sight I have to
see if I can see any of that those clusters visually so absolutely yeah yeah yeah very cool okay thank you Adrian all
right so you're calling um we will go next to Nathan hello nestleman and uh he
he blew me away uh this week by uh submitting a
submitting a very nice film uh I apparently he's done the music for this
film he did all the editing he did he put the whole thing together I think it's very inspiring but I'll let Nathan
describe this this uh the his uh new uh
film short and I think that everybody should watch it because it is uh it is just that it's
very inspiring and uh it uh I I watched the I thought I would just watch like a
couple of minutes to make sure I got the file over and everything um but uh I ended up watching it twice
so thank you Nathan and um I'm gonna turn it over to you man
all right I'm glad to be back on the global storm parties uh it's great to see you all and
I think one of the main reasons that I created this film was the moment that I realized that the entire Apollo program
happened within a decade like from John F Kennedy's speech to the actual Apollo
11 Landing was less than seven years and this Artemis which uh Artemis one
happens to be launching um tonight if all goes well uh has been in development since what is it 2004
so it just got me thinking about how the Space Age suddenly became so political
and after the Cold War it just kind of fizzled out so I wanted to kind of
create a film to reflect on that just as we enter this glorious next
Space Age with Artemis and everything and I wanted to talk a little bit about uh in the film
um just sort of the optimism that everyone's going to have like now that we're actually taking that jump going
back to the Moon um and I think it's not going to stop this time like it might have fizzled out
with the uh Space Race in the 1960s and 70s but it's not going to stop this time
because this is a different kind of Space Age It's one that the entire world is doing
together at the same time and that's self-sustaining so uh without further
Ado uh Scott if you would um yeah I think we're good all right
Let's uh do this and um and the title of this film is
uh this film is called seeing beyond great and here we go
2022 now finally we're ready to head back to the Moon
our Ambitions are higher than ever but we're still just drifting out there
where are we going to end up are we going to roam the cosmos for billions of years what is going to happen once we finally
take that giant leap into the universe
[Music] if we could land humans on the moon in
the 1960s what are we capable of achieving today we are about to enter a
new Global Space Age and we are never going to turn back in the coming centuries Mars is truly just the
beginning what really is our full potential
we could eventually become a Galactic Civilization maybe even Intergalactic
but where do we even start [Music]
we are more connected on a planetary level than we've ever been before the world is suddenly accessible to people
it's so easy to forget that we're all just floating out there on this fragile Blue Planet but going beyond the Earth
it's more than just an adventure it's about inspiring the population and in
fact it's necessary for the long-term survival of our species
unfortunately Rockets once again are not just being aimed at Distant Worlds but
between raveling nations divided by borders that don't even physically exist on a fragile Planet it's dangerous that
the destructive power we've amassed out of conflict the power to end our entire civilization in one single nuclear
Tempest if we aren't careful we might end the space age before it's even begun
however big you think the universe is it is bigger than that so far we have
reached one single planet out of an estimated 10 septillion worlds in the universe how can we possibly stop with
just that what incredible sights await us out there
billions of planets each with their own mountains and skies and oceans sunrises
and sunsets of their own Stars their own moons perhaps even alien life forms
all of which we may never know
faced with the Staggering amount of the universe we may never visit it instills
a sense of absolute insignificance but we can't forget that we are part of it
too we are made of star stuff we have existed for such a fleeting
instant in the story of the universe and yet in that time we've managed to understand it to understand our place in
it and we've reached it ourselves we built a space station we've been to the Moon before and now finally we're going
back one day we will travel to other stars most certainly not during our lifetimes
but one day people will and whoever they are they're actually depending on us this Century to kick-start the next
Space Age and take that jump into the universe even if we're headed for other stars
where exactly are we gonna end up in the end there doesn't have to be any beat meaning to it
if for nothing more than to satisfy our curiosity our urge to explore why
wouldn't we want to strive for Intergalactic civilization even if there's no big purpose to it why
wouldn't we want to set foot on other worlds travel to other stars and become a meaningful part of the universe and
maybe one day we'll be out there we'll take that giant leap into the universe and we'll never turn back
no no
the fundamental rule in this universe is that everything ends Stars Burn Out
planets disintegrate everything eventually dies so let's hope that in the quadrillion or so years we
have to prosper in this universe we extend our reach as far as possible traveling to other stars other galaxies
let's hope that by the time the last human is born we have extended to the farthest corners of the cosmos and let's
hope that the end isn't here on Earth after some nuclear war but out there in
the most spectacular Universe imaginable
we have the privilege of being alive in the universe's golden age and once we
return to the Moon we will not stop there if we work together as a species build
on each other's ideas and never stop exploring the gateway to the universe is
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Scott I think you're muted you're right okay good now you got to
start all over including the wow everybody to hear that because it was uh you're Pro really just
an amazing um production there Nathan so uh I hope that you share that a lot with other
astronomy clubs and um other programs so uh because I will certainly be
recommending that people uh uh have you on their uh on their special
programs where you can you can come in Via zoom and do that because uh really I
can tell it was a lot of work and um really enjoy the music with it and uh
all the visualizations and stuff that you picked and edited are are great so
yeah thank you um I think film was also an excuse to take the synthesizer out for a spin
again so well yeah I uh I had a privilege of having a subwoofer with
connected to my uh computer sound so below notes that you use really resonate
as a part of the uh the music and the the music you put behind it
um had it rattling the whole house so great choice there and definitely
I I looked at that and it just instantly we were talking about pale blue dot I
think John I think John Goss is here and this Channel's that spirit and updates
it for 2022 and for for the Youth uh it it it looks like
it fits into that next level of you know
if if pale blue dot maybe too old for someone to watch watch your video
they'll get the same gist of what um what Carl Sagan was trying to say in
what we all what we're all basically saying there's more to life than just
what's in front of our face here on Earth and we do need to protect it because it's our only home right now
until we learn to travel elsewhere no I think we would have enjoyed it that's my
that's my take on it um yeah I thought it was an excellent video
thank you um I'll put the uh link down in the comments
excellent yeah and I'll share that for the for the audience so
um Nathan is there anything else that you'd like to kind of uh wrap up with here at this point or
um not really except that I'm hoping to make a sequel sometime sometime I don't know man
but other than that um yeah thanks for thanks for letting me share that awesome okay all right that's
great all right so uh we are going to
um uh see some uh more videos this is about
this is a short series of videos uh available by the way from NASA you can
also get you can download these videos from NASA and Esa
um you know I'm often looking at what they make available as far as a
you know something you can share on an educational level and uh so this is uh
this is three videos short video shorts about hobble and then one about the
James West Space Telescope so here we go foreign
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it is a part of our culture and we treasure it [Music]
when there was a possibility that this servicing Mission might not happen there
was a huge outcry not just from the scientists but from the members of the
public themselves people who are not scientists they are the ones who wrote letters and made phone calls and sent
faxes to try to get that changed Hubble has revolutionized our
understanding of the cosmos and they've given our children a much clearer and newer view than we had when we were
children but with this servicing Mission we're going to be expanding our vision even further giving all of our children
a bigger and more fascinating Universe to grow and learn and wonder about
foreign so if I had to think of three words that
I would use to characterize the legacy of Hubble for all of us in the future those words would be vision
hope and Triumph you know Hubble's not just a machine
it's more than the telescope and more than the cameras and the equipment it's a vast network of people who conceived
and built and operate and appreciate this incredible tool
it's the spacecraft Builders not only the scientists but the engineers the technicians bureaucrats politicians and
everybody who work together to make couple of reality and to keep it a reality they had to have vision
they had to have hope and ultimately there was the Triumph of seeing it come to fruition astronomers
from all around this globe use the telescope scientists from everywhere
have the hope of using this fabulous machine foreign it's a Triumph of Hubble that it can
probe all aspects of from the planets to the cosmos to galaxies to everything in
between Star formation Galaxy formation the tools on Hubble have given us the
vision needed to study this but these images are transformed in our imaginations and we have captured the
imagination of kids all around the world [Music]
Ordinary People love Hubble the Hubble story resonates with people because it's
the story of humanity it's a story of hope it's the story of Darkness Darkness
in which we eventually Triumph [Music] foreign
and of course the astronaut core not just the astronauts but the support
staff the shuttle Engineers thousands of individuals who contribute in Myriad
ways to making this program a success their vision of a successful mission
complete accomplishment have led to many triumphs in the past service emissions
the efforts of all of these people culminate in the Atlantis mission
the Hubble Space Telescope has already earned its place in history as a Triumph
of Science in our modern era yet there is more to see more to learn more to
ponder and more to wonder at this Mission will give Hubble the tools for
marvelous swan song one more opportunity to probe this vast universe and all that
lies within it as a scientist as a long time user of Hubble as a public Citizen
and as a parent I'm going to be watching this final mission with hope for the future
I'll be marbling at the vision and Triumph that Hubble represents and I
wish the shuttle crew a safe flight and a bon voyage [Music]
this interacting Galaxy duo called ARP 143 holds the distorted star-forming
spiral galaxy ngc2445 at the right along with its less
flashy companion ngc244 at the left
astronomers think both galaxies pass through each other igniting the unique
triangular-shaped Firestorm of starburn because NGC 2445 is rich in gas the fuel
of star formation it holds thousands of infant Stars yet it hasn't escaped the
gravitational clutches of its partner the pair is waging a cosmic tug of war
and NGC 2444 appears to be winning the galaxy has pulled gas from its companion
forming the Oddball triangle of newly minted Stars by studying head-on Galaxy collisions
like this we can better understand the origins and evolution of ringed star
formation and galaxies
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well um the first thing we needed to do is figure out where is the telescope
Point relative to the spacecraft so we waited for the Neo infrared camera to get
so you can take images and do some evaluation of that and once we were convinced that it could take images we
were really trying to determine if we pointed at a bright isolated star where
is the telescope pointing so we we picked a star that was very bright and didn't have any stars near it that would
contaminate the image we know that the primary mirror segments aren't aligned yet so we um so they actually act like
18 separate telescopes and we expect to see 18 separate images one for each
mirror that are a little bit blurry at this point because we haven't aligned or focused anything and so we pointed at a
bright star and we made a mosaic we actually took the near infrared camera and we took images in different parts of
the sky and then we looked for the 18 spots from the 18 different telescopes
if you will and we were very excited to find them they were actually very close to where we were pointing well within
our expected size of where where they might land and the 18 spots were actually fairly
close to each other as well so really everything was very close to what was predicted and much better than what we
considered to be the worst case um pointing so we were really excited about that we also took a selfie of the
primary mirror we took an image of the primary mirror and that helps us understand the alignment of the
telescope especially the primary mirror to the the camera itself and the instruments and initially that looked
good as well so so far the data we have suggests that um what we're seeing matches between our models and the
actual data we're just getting going but we have now gotten some data looking
through focus and we've been able to see that we don't see any surprises in the shapes of the mirrors that we're looking
at so so far so good but we do have a long way to go we've also now identified which of the
18 spots is which mirror and we've done that through a special process that
allows us to identify them and at this point we even know which ones are from
the wings and it turns out one of the Wings you can actually see those three spots are a little farther over and and
that's sort of what we expected so we've identified all 18 spots and the next
step is to make an array of them and then we're ready to start what we call Global alignment which is when each of
those 18 spots will start to be aligned and focused and that's sort of the the
last step before we take those 18 spots and put them on top of each other to start forming a single star from the
single star going through the 18 separate telescopes and uh and that that's the work that we'll be starting
soon what the selfie is is there's actually a special lens in the near infrared camera
that you can put in and it allows you to take a a picture of the primary mirror itself and in this particular case one
of the segments is pointing at a star so that is the segment that lights up but you can see the outline through the
shadows of all 18 segments and you also can see the outline of what's inside of
the instrument itself and we can see how well that primary mirror and the telescope is aligned to the instrument
and that gives us some initial confidence that the alignment looks good and that's a good starting point for
doing the alignment of the telescope the first evaluation images uh actually
came in in the middle of the night and that was just to determine whether the near infrared camera was working well
enough for us to start the alignment and the near cam team the near infrared camera team and the telescope team got
got together the next morning and looked at the data and um everybody was you
know happy that the the camera was working well enough so then we you know pointed the
telescope at this bright isolated star and we started taking the Mosaic where
we would look at these different places in the sky and when we pointed the near
cam at one particular Point pretty early on we saw nine of the segments in that one image and everybody basically broke
into cheer because we were so happy it meant that we had basically had figured out where the telescope was pointing
things were working right and even the spots themselves look like what we had modeled and what we had expected so
there was you know people were very happy about that uh and then we've also been evaluating
the data as we go we did this thing called a focus sweep where we looked at the images through focus and we've been
evaluating those in detail and at this point as well as we can evaluate them things are matching our models and so
there is a feeling uh right now that things are consistent with what we predicted they would be and and predict
and what the model said they should be and that's all you can ask for as you start a start a process like this
one of the great spin-offs from the James Webb Space Telescope was when we were developing the mirrors we actually
developed a technology we we funded a small company to develop a technology that could measure the mirrors at an
earlier State it's a device that was called a scanning Shack Hartman sensor which is a complicated way of being able
saying that you build something that can measure a mirror that has a lot of curvature early on while you're
initially grinding and polishing the mirror but that company actually got bought by a larger biomedical company in
order to use this sensor as part of a system that can do Lasik eye surgery it has the ability to measure astigmatism
in the eye and so it became part of a biomedical a larger biomedical company but the investment in the technology
that we did for James Webb led directly to that technology then being part of this future spin-off
um yeah I actually um am legally blind in my left eye it's one of the reasons I got involved in
Optics um I have like 2 500 Vision in one eye and as I was growing up I was always
very interested in understanding how I could do depth perception and how the eye worked and whether there was a way
that I could uh you know do something to help my eye and so it just it just got me interested in Optics it's one of the
reasons I studied Optics and there's definitely overlap between Ophthalmology and uh and how you deal with eyes and
and how you deal with telescopes and one of the real interesting ones is you have
a pupil in your eye well in a telescope the primary mirror is the pupil that's the pupil the system they're related by
Optics and so we use a lot of similar things and and I'm kind of I feel like I've kind of gone back to the original
reason I got interested in Optics and thinking about you know how it relates to the eye
okay well guys we're going to take a uh uh 10 or 12 minute break here and then
we'll be back um with uh more speakers and uh so now's
a good time to go get that sandwich or that cup of coffee and we'll be back with more
uh well I think I might head off now but that backdrop I really really should um I could use
that in my next film actually very very Cosmic very Cosmic huh yep
I forget exactly where I got it from but um
there are a number of these things that you can download uh from um you know video clip sites and
stuff like that so
Nathan thank you very much thank you thank you for having me yeah
look forward to having you next time awesome all right see you guys
see you Nathan good work thank you
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well everybody thank you for letting us have that little break uh I'm excited
just like you guys are about seeing the Artemis launch tonight uh you know let's
keep our fingers crossed for you know a uh an earlier uh launch window uh or
towards the earlier part of the launch window there other than later so
um but uh up next is uh Nicholas Arias
he is known as Nico the hammer uh because he's uh he's a gifted drummer
um and um yeah one of these days I'm going to have to have you play some live drums Nico it'll be awesome uh
but Nico happens to be an incredibly gifted astrophotographer and
um the thing I really admire about Nico is that uh he likes some of his friends
have been able to produce extremely fine images even science images with modest
equipment and uh you know there are a lot of people who spend big bucks
getting what these guys uh produce and it really boils down to their own skills
so Nico thanks for coming on to Global star party with us thank you Scott how are you how are you
guys great I am really happy to to be back in the CSP
was a few weeks that I I was complicated with the with those days that I I made
the arrangements to be here tonight so it's it's really nice to see you
and as you say it's good we hope that our team is finally launched tonight
I can't promise to be awake because it's gonna be at 3am here but that's what I'm
doing so you know yeah we'll try we'll set an alarm and hope to wake up right
right okay do you see it let me share my screen
okay can you see it
okay well uh I will start with this finally
one day the my adoption started walking I finally decided to
to make a a go-to system for forget tracking in my in my dogs onion you know
I always made a planetary machine or some astrometry photometry with my
my making a hand dragging but I finally found a system that is
really a simple because I I didn't want to to
modify the the original amount more than a few screws
so I found this system all printed in in a 3D printer
and uh we make with a friend that knows
a lot of electronics make a big go-to system that can communicate with two
motor drives and use this 3D
printed a part and it's working great
I need to to fix some some things but
it's it's working fine the go to system works fine and the track the tracking
for planetary Imaging is amazing uh I can now
I I was throwing away a lot of dark frames or moving frames and
is it was a really hard work to be 10 or
15 minutes moving this afternoon while recording and this was a really nice
solution you can see the the altitude right here
and the assemble drive here in the assimote I need to make a reduction to
to correct some backlash but it's working great here is a screenshot of how I work with
the pico2 server and Carter social to synchronize and
and drag and I have here uh a short video that
I've I capture with my cell phone on the laptop screen where you can see the
at 600 magnification that this is the the backlash move I want to
correct in the active mode but it's amazing to to do planetary
with a with the tracking system I am so happy I I had haven't uh
night with wood a really good thing but I was still practicing and I get this
image the last day last week of Jupiter with uh you can see here ganime
Shadow and a Europa it's just a little dot there
and it's it's really it was really a nice Improvement
uh as I always say you can do a lot of things even with your hand dragging
systems with adoption with any other telescope but in this case at this magnification have
the tracking system is amazing and you can you can do it with a really low cost
was almost uh a home you can do it in
your home if you you you can download the all the tutorials to make the
electronics and all you need to to buy a
a few things this is another test on the on daylight
with a sunspot and the same I I won with the tracking
system I can use all the frames of the of the videos I I capture and you can see some
some details on seeing details that making with a hand dragging was really
hard because I lost all the the peripheral information and
well was a really nice Improvement and
talking about the new lights can you recognize this this scope it's got I get
my my first explore certificate scope I was a
visiting Caesar and I get my my first slide apochromatic
because I am starting to to go to my kids school and show the
kids the moon and it's it's a really nice scope uh comfortable for the child
and even you can see here a live view picture
that I take of a 47 to Canada camera
and it's only two second exposure in a live view of 30 seconds uh it's really
really nice this little scope uh you can do even astrophotography so
great great work Scott a great photographer too yeah thank you
um well today I I was to to make my son
kindergarten they are four years old kids and I was talking about the the
planets and the kids asked me a lot of things and I I bring the this scope to
show the kids that never see a telescope how a telescope is because we are planning to to make some
daylight observation of the Moon and it's really nice to to work with kids
and to show and to the they were so excited so with was a a really nice
morning um well I will show you when when we make the the event with the moon I will
I will bring some pictures of the the kids and the school it was was a really
nice first experience teaching kids about astronomy and was really hard to
to think what to talk about because they are they are kids
but they are amazing they they ask about the planet and they know every planet's
name and was a beautiful experience that I am I am really happy
so well this this was my my news and my lattice works
I will continue to learn to to get the best result with the
dragon system in my adoption is a really new world uh but I I am seeing that it's a is a
big a big step yeah actually how long did it take for you to put the whole system together oh
what's what's really simple let me show again the the picture because it was uh
maybe 20 screws at most because
uh you can see here we have two screws for the model that I've had to do this
part has another four screws and the the bottom part is the same two
screws for the motor or the holder and a
here in the Guides of the all the circumference yes I maybe a eight or ten
screw but was maybe 15 minutes uh
and sampling it's it's really simple I was I take a long time to to pick what
kind of motorization I want to make because I don't want to to cut or modification or make a big modification
in the mount and when I found this 3D model I I
said is this what I needed because you can adapt
in in the in the 3D software for the the size of your equipment and how do you
your equipment moves and it was really really simple to to mount this uh maybe
15 minutes and now I I need to here to continue to
improving to get a really smooth tracking but works really really great
that's great yeah I see those those uh big gray gears on there with those also
3D printed or uh that you you see the the asymwood
part yes it was um there are seven parts
that Ensemble and you put one after the other okay
but yes it's really you can do it in your home if you have a 3D printer I
call my friend I say I will send you files and print this I was one day Printing and
it was really fast so it's all 3D printed correct it's all 3D printer
except the the motors and the electronics wow okay yeah Tim Myers
watching on YouTube he says did you have any pre-loading on the gears to remove
the back backlash he says it looked amazing uh no I didn't have uh you can program
in the pick go to server has a few parameters and I there is one that is to
compensate the the backlash that uh I was I I mean this system I I don't
know any other guy that mounted on my same scope so it was
um I I was trying different values in the backlash to make the the correct uh acceleration
of the motor and it fits almost perfect I need to to improve the
reduction systems to to make it a smooth but if it works great
wonderful okay well great uh thanks again Nico and
you've got yeah we're here I will be here okay all right thanks okay so
um uh next up we will uh we're gonna stay down in Argentina uh where Nico lives and go to
uh Maxie Volaris uh uh Maxi's been on
our program several times also an astrophotographer and also someone who's
done amazing work with very little with modest equipment and uh turned out some
amazing stuff so Maxie uh uh I'm going to turn it over to you thanks
good night everyone a well done Nico with that dobsonian
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well um thank you for inviting me again and
hey what I'm going to show you tonight is what I'll be doing last week and
because if you remember I was with my equipment outside but me here in my home
but the equipment outside I'm trying to do some uh mosaics to
uh to take a in m42 and in a galaxy places
and I I was searching how to process that because this was my my first step
in that kind of pictures let me share my screen
okay so what we have here
um I took pictures of m42 and do that
and I did a a 4 um blogs a and square for my sensor
so if you see this this is a corner
the next one is like this then another one
but the the software and
when I well I use the cwo as your plus and this a when you do the plan section
you can choose how much the the
between the frame is going to put together in above each other
so when I did this a stack this for a
frames it was taking a 10 frames of one minute
at gain 101 and then when I stuck that image
I have something like this
and you can see I use a an h a F4
um sorry a eight inches F4 and remember that one frame was
practically like that another one was this part the another
one was this part okay another one was this part and this took me over almost 40 minutes only
uh it was almost systematic system monetizer I think and
if you see this a field of view when you assume it you don't lose details uh
with the with a nevelocity and the Stars and well
this this only was a test and I was I was really really happy
doing this you can see some Halos here in the writing Stars that's why I use
um a ir and UB pass filter so this is the the
reflection that has this filter but anyway it looks really really
nice um so I I have to get practicing I think in
the Edition uh I had to see if I can do in the NGC
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this place and the objective of this it was a stack
a nearby the NGC 30 1365.
yeah this is a really good Galaxy but this was also a two minutes picture and
and in a pollution High pollution area here my sound but I had to see if I can do something
practicing and see what what's happened and
you know the the time to process this for for in one image is really really
hard because you have to give your time to uh to wait how the the program does
the process so prepare coffee take a mate something and then if you don't
like it you have to go back and try again so but anyway it's worth it it really
really worth it it's amazing Maxi because uh if you didn't show the the
four frames before it's it's a really smooth image
is amazing the how it matters in in the borders yeah that's something that that
does picks inside when you do uh the the the process I think it was a mosaic
merge or something like that and that you can do the uh well when you stuck
between the the frames you will see the the line of the of the limit of one
frame and each other but this process a makes some kind of
a shape to put out that and leave the the
information and anyway this is only a
a a practicing and I was trying to to do that uh I think I don't know if I can
see this one no this is going to be enormous no no it doesn't open it
well so uh I last week I also create a new
Instagram page from myself that I that is going to be dedicated
to astrophotography I have my own one to where I maybe I will upload some
pictures for my my my private life for example but this is one
I I don't want to mix too much because I like to share it in this case everything
about us a astrophotography so sorry I it was
in my Instagram page is going to
uh it's called a Astro astromax okay
this is my Instagram page and I did this a
reprocessing of the chameleoner taking at the beginning of this year in January
because I I didn't upload this picture in the
social media so I work again with this image
try to see what I can do and this is was
the the final image that I take but that I did
this is was a really really good one comment and I hope that I can do
I could did the the Mosaic because this was really long but anyway
and I have the decor the the tail the sodium cell and this galaxies they're
really far away and so I'm I'm really really glad to capture this and reprocess again this
so also what I want to show you is this is more like this is not mine
but and this is I think it was a wallpaper that I searched in 2005 because I was
this afternoon searching some old pictures from school and everything and
I found this one and this picture I remember that I put it a on my cell
phone Motorola this is a 360. it was the model it was really
really old with with this clap or flip and I didn't remember that I put it on
for a wallpaper and you know at that time I knew that I I was
wondered of this kind of pictures and now I'm realizing that I'm doing
this kind of pictures right now so never is too late
a if you wanted sometimes the life and your
the the things that you do is going to put you on the way to to get
to there so if you getting serving right now don't uh
don't don't mess with yourself and also uh if you are not starting and if you
want to start you know I had to start some time so it never is too late to
start in this in a amazing a hobby and
some kind of professional in some way but I I don't like to say they never
professional because you always learn something
a with the passing days so well this is my little presentation for
tonight I hope that you like it and well I hope to see you next week if I could
thank you very much Maxi beautiful images and uh always interesting uh
thanks for coming on thanks to you okay so
um up next is uh Caesar brawla we head up to uh to Brazil and uh Cesar has
recently been given a special award from the international dark sky Association
uh which is fantastic for all of his work that he's done to Champion dark
skies and be a defender of dark skies in Brazil um so I think he's an inspiration to to
all of us Caesar I'm going to have you come on thank you for being a part of
global star party again uh High Squad here's my cell
oh March did I say Caesar wrong yeah I am very
sorry you know that reminds me of
um when the universe they gave the award to the wrong
to the wrong person I did mean Marcelo and it is a fantastic
uh job that he's doing um uh to protect dark skies and well-deserved so thank you thank you
thank you very much for invitation nice to be be all of you
today I oh yeah near tomorrow man these nights I
think here in Brazil that you happen to launch off the attempts one
then I I remember when uh Apollo Astronauts was visiting
us here in Brazil let me share here my screen
yeah yeah our group
I guess here is a one a beautiful picture of your hands with the moon and
the launch I don't know the time in United States there happened the lounge because you have different time zones
but here in Brazil I think that they will begin to try 3 A.M here in Brazil
6 a.m UTC right A6 for uh you UT yes
universal time yeah eastern time is 101 104 A.M
and I think that changes your time is on your own response because it now is
three hours difference between us we have a different time is on
all right yeah it's big surprise and the
yeah how you can compare the Saturn V and the SOS right SOS this is the block
that has 98 meters and the 75 almost to
111 meters and but the seos block 2 will have the
same size of the Saturn V almost
111 meters that's a cowboy and the or something that is fantastic
is because the first launch of oops sorry sorry the first loss of
the South 25 was November 9 9 6 7 and the first launch now you
have delay isn't it then it will happen November 16 2022 and the diameter the
Apollo the Saturn 5 had the almost 10 meters and this has 80 80
meters and a half almost but the SOS is most powerful than the 75 even it is a
small smaller but it's not this that I won't let you I
want to show this image here is the launch of the
s a poly live emission Saturn 5. July 16th
uh 1969 and these are the crew and everybody
knows yeah you have the Neil Armstrong Michael Kors and the Buzzy audio
but here in Brazil the first time in Brazil they made a presentation was here
in our seats 40 years later when we celebrated 40 years after Laos of the
Apollo 11. he visited our city only 40 years we had to wait 40 years and was in
our city the first presentation that he made in Brazil and here is busy out on the moon
and here is the announcement uh this happened in this November 17th
uh 2009 here seats he visited us here
and here are the pictures when he arrived here in our city here is
Brazilian and his wife me and here is Marcus Point is the
Brazilian astronauts here was your mama's that they arrived in our city
here campus beta cars we have a problem but if you know the history why is this
to bring him to our seats but one day before here we will arrive in Brazil we
didn't have a flight to bring him from
I then I ask help to my friends that has uh had you know a radio program
in the morning the beginning of the morning he said to me come in my program and say what's happening we are going to
find a solution then I said in the in the radio program but yeah they will
arrive tomorrow but you need a flight to bring him to come because we don't have a flight to bring it to Korea wow then
15 minutes later after the end of the program I received a call
and I received a number of a phone number and he said this is the phone
number of the former Minister of Defense in Brazil
you call him now he will find a flight to bring a busy
out into campus and I made a call and in two hours we had a fly
wow that's from the Brazilian Army I fly from the Brazilian I'm the minister of
Brazilian that's it I was talking to him directly someone helped me we are
located at 207 kilometers from the capital of our states in an office of
state and they they Ministry
that's what responsible foreign
number and I talked to do for him and he said to me no problem you have a flight
and this is a Brazilian army airplane that brought into to our city
here when he arrived here I I hear the sound can you hear me
yeah we can hear yes can you hear me now yes yes we can it's
a little bit better Marcelo yeah it is better okay because I need you to change here one that moment I'm trying to move
here can you hear clear because he just sounds I I will show something that is
fantastic one of the moments that I needed to change one one thing here
ah okay I think that you will work uh I'm back here
well this is what happens when he arrived here at the airport we have a
lot of students there and I I hope you can listen what he says
well my mom said that we will open here the presentation I hope so that is uh
a news TV news oh sorry uh it's not working
when that moments I'll try to open here
why what's happening
I hear let me see if you can listen
when he arrived here
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of Science and Technology here in Brazil my style and this is a great experience
here hey guys
I have a lot of time he and he made two presentations in Brazil one for our
students in this place they're having many people that you have
a lot of students there and what he said here I don't know if it will be possible to listen I'll try to again
ah this is my TV program on the TV
yeah I had a TV program during 90 years here in Brazil our weekly TV program is
doing in 90 years here is busier than that but I will show here
a short video about what he says
thank you is that Sharky video let me see if you can list them
as we in the power of travel around the world I'm speaking in different countries
it's possible to listen yes we can hear it yes Marcel
on America subscribe to do things for all
mankind personally I was able to be available
primarily because of the education system that we had that I had growing up and
and by taking good advantage of things that came along
and volunteered and and look for new opportunities of learning new and
different things I chose early in in life to serve my
country through education at the military academy and from there to become a
challenge but exciting fighter pilot in in combat
in the Korean War as I look back I would not create any of
those experiences for anything they built a comrade
a battery among my fellow people when I went to a camp as a youngster I
heard her proud to get along with people allowed to be friendly and I think the
lessons that you learn now will be with you for the rest of your
life to seek to be all that you could be in whatever
's profession not all of us and have the opportunity to go to the
Moon or to go to Mars but but there are challenges for each and every person
throughout your life so think those challenges where the honesty
integrity and respect for those around you for your teachers and for your
parents these are the drives your life is a universe and will make your life
successful and happiness that is a very good life
excellent
excellent Marcelo thank you for for sharing that this is
the first time he made a presentation during the night he made this presentation and this is the big fear
there of our seats that's all over here yeah a major presentation here
was the first time he made a presentation in Brazil here's your opening ceremony
of the tonight here are our group with him
outside the field very nice and here me with him and the Brazilian
astronauts and it is here in December
uh seven why is the lock the last lunch Launch
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this night area is a head and the beginning
to the Moon well I hope soon we will be there again we have a
humans humans on the moon again when this is what we expect this is the last
mission to the name of all the 17.
and they have it fantastic maze is that I hope soon we can see these images
again and here's something that's happened
here that is our we have this song dial here in our University and on Fourth why
is this why is when was built 25 years ago is a vertical sound aisle and now
this stage of the sun Diaries this they are destroying the Sundial we are doing
a campaign to that they fixed the sound Isle they have again
sometimes there here is me there this is my University and this is how is the sundial this
isn't the best place in the University but they are destroying the sunlight unfortunately
that was builted five years ago and it was the first time
he's almost destroyed yeah I think that you if you're not fix the
problems soon realize
totally destroyed we think very sad for us but we are
doing what's possible foreign
and now we are preparing our new events next year it will happen if everything
works well here you don't have coverage and it's possible uh presidential events
we are preparing our 50th international meeting here that's a
happy in April 27 29. you are invited Scott to be with
yours our field here will be very welcome here in Brazil and we uh we hope
it will be a moment to celebrate New Times yeah
thank you very much yeah and Marcelo I posted your uh article and on the
darksky.org website about your efforts to protect our Dark Skies there so
um yeah and uh sorry for my uh mistake
we are a lot since I'm thinking you know a little ahead of myself but anyways
thank you so much and um and we'll see you hopefully next uh Global Star Party
it would be a pleasure it'll be here okay thank you thank you all right so
um uh up next is uh Dr Daniel Barth uh
uh Daniel is uh famous on uh our programming he does a weekly program
called how do you know uh where he shows uh you know through simple uh Hands-On
science uh you know inexpensive Hands-On science uh activities how you can figure
out how in fact uh like the uh moon is around for example you know so
um but uh you know a lot of us just take for granted uh the scientific so-called
facts out there and we just kind of throw them out there but you know how do you really know but uh Dr Barth is
always there to tell us so Daniel thanks for coming on to Global Star Party hey thanks Scott and uh
evening everybody uh fun evening here just uh I logged on a little bit late I
was doing a planetarium show for a local elementary school uh in Bentonville
about an hour away from my house and I do about 20 of these a year and
they're they're loads of fun and um it's really great to get children
into an inflatable Planetarium and we're showing them the constellations and things we're like hey who have had fun
tonight lots of cheers and I tell them remember not to tell your teacher that I'm
funnier than she is and don't tell your teachers that you had more fun in my planetarium than you do in her class and
the kids all laugh and they think that's great but uh lots of fun and hurried home so I could be here with you guys
and I I love the topic I don't I don't always uh present on global Star Party
something of a challenge for me because uh it's an evening program and my day
starts at 5 30 a.m and I get up for early morning classes and all that sort of stuff but I saw the topic this week
uh looking at new light and I said Scott it's just gotta do I gotta join I gotta do this this week because there's such
exciting things you think about when we take our telescopes out and we take our
binoculars and we look out into space what we're really doing is we're looking out away
from the Sun you think about the Earth rotating and as it carries us around
across the Terminator and we're now looking at the night sky the night sky is by definition away from the Sun
and I once had a university administrator asked me why I had to do
all my labs at night and I equipped there was only one star during the day and it got kind of boring after a while
we needed to see more stuff but if you want to see more stuff you look away from the Sun interestingly
the folks at Cerro tolola uh Observatory they're using a dark
energy camera they're hunting for dark energy and they're using this really uh
highly sensitive wide field camera and they're using this to look for Dark
Energy but they're also using it for other things and what they're trying to
do now is instead of looking at the sky away from the Sun they're trying to look at
the sky toward the Sun not during the daytime what they're doing is they're hunting
asteroids that orbit and cross the Earth's orbit or orbit inside the
Earth's orbit we know about inferior planets Mercury and Venus and Superior planets Mars Jupiter Saturn and the rest
of the boys in the band well let me submit that an inferior asteroid would
be something that orderer did Closer to the Sun than we are how do you find these things
and how many big ones are out there because we often hear we often hear
people say oh no no we we know all the dangerous ones and we we know 95 of
what's out there we're just we're just tucking in the corners and nailing down the edges
on the serial to level folks with the dark sky cam it's particularly suited for asteroid
hunting because not only is it highly sensitive but it's very wide field uh if
you're going to hunt for an asteroid you need something wide field because if you're trying to let High magnification narrow field of view you're going to
have a lot of searching to do so they turn the dark energy camera and they said oh
we have about a 10 minute window imagine friends if your window for
observing is 10 minutes a day once it's done once it dusk you get 10
minutes that's it because at night either at you have 10 minutes when you
can look close to the Sun and then the Earth rotates carries you across the Terminator and you can't see that part
of the sky anymore during the day pre-dawn you get 10 more
minutes and then you have to close the shutter because the sun's coming up and it's going to Blind your camera and fry
your instruments so they've got just 10 minutes a day morning and 10 minutes a day evening and that's the whole thing
and they've been looking and yes lo and behold they found asteroids
and you say oh little tiny asteroids that make little meteor showers no they
found one and a half kilometer killers now we all know about the famous
cheeksulub impact and I hope I'm saying that correctly friends the chick's a Lube impact uh 65 or 6 million years ago
that wiped out the dinosaurs I was pointing out to my students today I was saying we have to teach the
controversy but it's good to teach old controversy we have to teach science as a process that's not perfect
and we have to remind our students the way Galileo reminded the pope don't link
your beliefs with your science because beliefs should be forever and science is
always changing but we don't teach science that way we say oh oh we have this these great
discoveries from these great people Newton Galileo Copernicus and we teach them as if they're carved on Stone
tablets and they came down the mountain and that's not the way science works I was reminding my students I said if
you get to be old enough and you pay enough attention you'll find that there's a whole lot of stuff you used to know which isn't true anymore
the title of my lecture was this used to be true and the idea was oh we know where all
the really big asteroids are no we just spotted a one and a half kilometer killer now the dinosaur killer was about
seven to ten kilometers this thing this new one and a half
kilometer asteroid it crosses the Earth's orbit regularly you think about that a one and a half
kilometer monster that crosses the Earth's orbit regularly what would the impact be like one and a half million
megatons ugh yeah you think about this and you're
like oh well that will Scotch the weather depending on where it lands that will Scotch the uh the weather in an
entire hemisphere you're talking extinction level event for lots and lots of species you're
talking about oh if you Bullseye and we we did this on my program and we got the Purdue impact simulator and we said okay
one and a half kilometer wide asteroid and let's have it land in Arkansas and
uh it was about 50 miles away from my home but I was inside the outer crater and we realized the blast effects and
the ejecta pattern covers North America we're like wow this is really horrible
and every time somebody says oh we know them all I'm like you know you need to be prepared to look with new eyes in new
places with new life in order to see these new things
we make assumptions and we as teachers are guilty of this we make assumptions
and we teach science as if it's settled and you hear people say things like 97
of scientists agree yeah science isn't about polls friends
all right in the time in the lifetime of Galileo I if you asked who believes in
the sun centered solar system it would have been what a couple of dozen very reluctant hands raised the rest of the
world said no no the Earth is the center when we look with new lies in new places
with new light we find new things and anybody who says and there have been
a number of times when scientists famous scientists have said oh well physics is
done now all future students and physicists are going to do is fiddle with the last couple of decimal places
and they have been notoriously wrong notoriously wrong
and uh when we when we look at something like this and we go oh gee we're looking
in a new place where we don't usually look in toward the Sun and we find out oh gosh there's a one
and a half kilometer wide asteroid and there were other very large asteroids out there how long did it take them to
find this oh a few months they released this particular finding uh
I think it was the 31st of October this year and they said oh by the way we found uh several new asteroids and uh
this one is 2022 ap7 it's the great big monster and then they found a a 2021 lj4 and
2021 ph-27 those are supposedly sick because they're orbiting
completely inside the Earth's orbit unless they get a gravitational kick from Venus or Mercury and get accelerate
it out and a little more elliptical orbit that maybe crosses the serious orbit
um we need to think and teach those who come to us that
science is always changing that it's never settled and it's where we see these little discrepancies
oh wait are Syria agrees with everything yeah that there's a couple little nagging details here but we can just
tweak the theory science astronomy is a multi-millennia
adventure where the little niggling details the little tiny discrepancies
were cracks through which AHA we peered and we found out oh we don't need to
tweak our Theory we need a new Siri because it was the retrograde motion
that puzzled Aristotle and then Ptolemy came and said I can save this Theory look we'll just add circles
he added five and in a couple hundred years we had 90 circles and Copernicus
said oh no no scrap all those darn circles what we need is a new Theory let's put the sun in the center
Einstein is famous because he was the first man the only man in 350 years to make any correction whatsoever to Newton
and now we have uh we have scientists
who are looking at Newtonian gravitation and they're looking at the way oh galaxies don't rotate the way
planetary systems do these little discrepancies these little cracks through which emerge New Visions of
science when we see with new eyes and new light because we look at new places we need to teach science as something
that continues to change and this program is so important and
Scott gotta gotta really give your give a hand to you because this program is so
important my end to everybody else out there because it is this group of
speakers that makes and the audience that makes Global star party it's awesome so indeed by its own very
pleased to be a part of it keep looking up don't always look in the same old places uh you may just find something
new something amazing and uh hopefully we get to name it after you and uh it's
not something that's going to wipe us all off the map that's right like a kilometer and a half asteroid which
would be that would be uh yeah yeah for being famous to Infamous yeah
Infamous right yeah let's let's hope it's not a uh tuck your knees head between your knees and kiss your bottom
goodbye yeah right but uh I just have to applaud the Sarah to Lolo people for
food if we have this teeny tiny window let's look for things closer to the Sun
than us and it's something that as astronomers we never think of we like oh no we need to wait till astronomical
Twilight when the sky is good and dark when we can see fun things
exactly yeah anyway uh I'm off for the evening friends because my morning
starts very early tomorrow yeah it's been a joy to be here and uh Scott and everybody else thank you very much
thanks Daniel thank you okay so we um uh we are running a schedule and I've asked
Gary Palmer if he could step in for a few minutes and we haven't seen Gary in
uh quite a while and uh so it's it's good to uh have him tune in and uh to
get reacquainted with uh this amazing astrophotographer Gary it's all yours
man thanks Scott hi to everybody thanks for asking me to come on has been a while
um been busy that's all I can say um really really busy at the moment uh
all sorts of things going on so it was a little bit short notice to come
on tonight so I thought well what should we look at um Sun's getting quite busy at the moment
we've seen lots of different activity on that so I thought we'd have a delve into that area
um for the moment so I'm just going to move some screens around so I can start sharing mine I'm going to bring up
some stuff here give me two seconds just get it prepped
and there we go hopefully you can see that
okay yeah we'll see the four wavelength you shot the sun with yeah
so what I've been doing really over there is is working on a unit that I had
on one of these style parties the solar Road tearing and the idea behind this is switching
between the different wavelengths that are available to look at the sum
um what we're doing with this unit now we've got one in Spain and there's one here
um they are actually going to start um being reselled so
really over the next month um all of the testing work's been done everything seems to work well but the
idea behind this is if you have separate um telescopes separate filters and
you're changing these around you're switching around it's really really hard to get the different wavelengths align
and this was the idea behind the unit was to uh keep all of the wave presents
aligned perfectly we can go back to the uh time and time again and the difference is Now is really with
cameras just changing the camera now now these are all mosaics
so that's what makes this a little bit different and I thought we'd have a look at how we're doing those now because
we've automated some of this um not all of it um some of that we're still working on
and uh the system we've got running in Spain that's um really the thing we're playing around
with to try and get this all up and running together so first off is really how we are getting
these uh together so there's a piece of software free piece of software called
planetary system the stack up um if you've got lots of images excuse me a second if you've got lots of
images it's a really really easy way of automating part of the process and
that's the stacking of the scr files all you need to do is open this up so we
just go up to the file hopefully it'll work in a second right let me just go there because I've
probably already done this right try again open up where you've got the images so these are from from today just
for example so we would select some of these
however many you want open them up once they're open if you go to automatic here it will more or less
do all of this off the cuff so you don't have to worry about doing any settings and a way to go
um it's going to start working on all of these once you hit the start button now
I'm not going to run that now because it's going to go over what I'm sort of trying to do and use up a lot of the resources
but one of the biggest problems with a lot of the systems is you've actually got to sit there and manually do this
um when you've got a lot of data uh coming in and to give you some idea now
the systems here in an hour we can Eclipse 400 gigabyte data so that's a
lot to sit there and work with and I just found that I wasn't getting the images out in a day you know 10 years
ago our cameras were really small you used to take a bunch of images and I had them out by lunchtime now they're taking
forever to process just because of the size of the files but once this is run through it you end
up with these all in your folders um you can go off and sharpen these so
I'm just going to bring a folder on you would have these come into your folders you can go off and sharpen them in
registax um as a single image if you're doing mosaics quite often it works out better
sharpening them afterwards but this is one of the data sets if we
bring up Photoshop again you'll see these different images sodium
magnesium calcium and then we're going to start bringing
these images in to do the Mosaic now some people will say well why use Photoshop you can use Microsoft device
so yeah you can use Microsoft dice but Microsoft dice depending on what you're
putting in there will have a meltdown that is the easiest way of putting it it will start throwing images all over the
place so if I just open up a data set that I know doesn't work in here
they're just going to grab grab all of these drop them in
give it a couple of seconds to work it out and there you'll see I'm gonna add a meltdown it's missing half the mosaic so
now these are all symmetrical They're All Dead flat in the way that they're captured running across the Sun so when
I generally capture I would always go from left side to right side and work across and then come back and do this
manually there are some basic automated systems to do this but
I never trust them um that's along and the short bit mosaics are a lot of work
in general one at any large mode so you would have to capture all of this data
for the whole disk image in an hour anything over an hour and you're going to get rotation between the top of the
image and the bottom of the image so this is one of the reasons why we don't use Microsoft device for this process
back to photoshop if it goes to photoshop and you go to file come down to scripts and load files into
stack goes at the folder I'm just going to
select all of these okay and then we're going to attempt to
automatically align the source images if it does it it's all good if not you're going to sit there manually putting
these together some of the big mosaics they can take 50 60 hours once you start moving over 100
120 panels on the Sun so we'll click OK let it run away
now one thing that you do have to do before you put these images in here is crop any stack lines off if you don't
crop the stack lines off of the single frames you're going to end up with lines all over the images and when we go to
blend it um Photoshop doesn't like that Microsoft ice you can get away with that
you don't need to to crop the images but as I say it can't always align them so it it's Catch 22 on that really so just
give this a couple of seconds and it will run through what it's doing
so this is fairly new in Photoshop where it's doing a better job of it's been
there in the mosaics because a lot of people don't know about it yeah I've used it for years what has got a lot
better is the next sequence um as you've got more and more updates in Photoshop
there's been things added and they've made our final result a lot better is
the easiest way of putting this yeah um so yeah I've seen you Stitch stuff
together before you did a four panel Mosaic on the moon and I watched you stitched it fairly quickly and and
nailed it a little bit longer so if we just yeah go back to the full image
there we go so you'll see that there's slightly different intensities here and
that could be anything it could be high clouds coming through there's all sorts of issues generally in lunar you don't
see that so you can use exactly the same process of lunar Moses and I quite often
do just for a bit of fun once we've got these all here if there's one that's really really bright then
it's a good idea to adjust it but if they're all fairly similar I'm going to try this now
um we'll see how it goes but if not I would just go and select one of these panels
maybe that one there for instance and then just very slightly adjust the brightness on it
so we're just gonna darken it up a little touch can you see what I mean so
you just adjusting that so it sort of matches in a little bit more with the panel next to it
sensitive very sensitive because what it's going to do now is we can go to selectable
layers and then we can go to the edit menu and
we can go down and go Auto blend the layers we do it in panorama mode and we also
tick on this seamless tones and colors and content aware full transparent areas
one of the biggest problems of doing solar mosaics and this has always been a real bug there and it can happen with a
learner as well is this dark area out here it is a real pain to match there is no
easy process if this is slightly brighter on this side to the next panel
next to it there are all sorts of problems in getting this together afterwards and you really have to go in
here and mask all of the edge out and try and blend it and over the years it's
caused lots of problems this little area in Photoshop now it's been updated just makes it so easy so
we're just going to click OK on that
and there we go one full disc of the sun you'll see how it's matched in the
intensities on the edges so we've got no sort of bright areas there it's brought everything together
now what we can do is just flatten the image so if we right click on one of the
um one of the layers there which is flatten the image and then deselect
and there's our solar image now we've got to do is our color and we would do this for each one
um so in this particular case if we go to mode switch it into grayscale
and then go mode again and make sure it's a bit so add the color in properly it needs to be in 8-bit mode
who go to mode again then go to duotone and then we would set up our color
palette so this one is pretty much okay for uh hydrogen Alpha
depends on your color Choice remember it's always down to you once we've got that we would switch it into RGB mode
and then the Welsh oyster it's your choice on the colors it goes color balance and we would start adjusting the
colors so what we want and again as I said this is different
for every single person
let's just use that as an example if you want to get the red out of the background it would go to
um adjustments and contrast and then select the legacy mode that will drop down the background very
slightly and it Rose the intensity make it brighter on the surface and then what we
can do is just go down to adjustments and selective color and under the red
adjust the black down
and then your blacks
nice okay so that would be one of them then we would go to a magnesium one I've
done all of the work on it so we would just go to image mode grow scale eight bit and then in our duotone we would
change the colors now so now we were looking for a green so
we're just going to randomly pick something to start to turn it green that'll work quite well
and then we would go back in RGB mode
and your color balanced and adjust it accordingly
now it's quite hard with green a lot of people don't like agree in the sun it's not used to seeing the sun in green so
therefore um it's not so easy on the eye but you can play around with it quite a bit and
then same thing again with your sodium that's very similar to your um very similar to your hay Chase so go
into duotone yeah and maybe just go through a very slightly red color
well I'll wait a little bit more something like that and then we would adjust this and so on
and that would be it that would be how you do it other stuff that we're working
on at the moment is something like uh that that's a full disk image all shot
in one go so that's a new double stack we're working on at the moment that's
going to go on top of this system um and the idea of that is so that we can see any solar flares going off at
any one time and then try and automate the system to move into that solar flare
so there's actually three going on at once here yeah um what we can do is then get the system
to home in the main system or maybe the solar flare there
um then if another one goes off over here the problem is is when you're looking through the main equipment and
using higher resolution or larger telescopes you missed 99 of what's going
on on the Sun so there'd be as in this case yeah two or three flares going off
and while you're looking at one of them you're missing something that's even bigger on the other side of the Sun so
this is the idea is is to try and automate it but this system is actually working quite well because we've got the
prominences all in one go and there's no mosaican or anything on this little tiny flat bit there but that
could be anything like higher Cloud but you've also got the detail of all of the filaments and any of the active areas so
that's the sort of stuff we're really working on at the moment um guessing that up and running and sort
of working from there so let me stop sharing excellent
beautiful that's excellent work I guess if it's gonna be cloudy shoot at the sun
you get more data yeah but we've got you know issues with
um all sorts of stuff I mean I was looking through data here and we had a really bad season sort of last
winter season we went from December to March without really getting any images here
um just to due to cold weather and we've had a fairly good year and then we've hit the winter season again and now
we've got exactly the same thing we're starting to get a lot of cloud and a lot of Storms Come Through
um and you're just picking off you know four or five hours here and
there so one of the projects that I've been working on at the moment is on the
flying bat and the squid that's been running since August to give you some idea yeah so every time it's
clear Observatory is open and that's using some of these new toolband filters
and it's showing the limits that are there with the filters so what we're
saying now is is on some of the CMOS cameras you get into a set point where maybe 30 hours 40 hours and after
that it doesn't matter what you do you're not actually adding anything to the image and that's showing up quite
well now and even if you you sort of switch so you might have a mix of images there maybe five minutes and 10 minutes
you know on different nights um it doesn't make any difference you hit a really a brick wall is the easiest
way of putting it um but you're not seeing it with all of the filters so that's why it's taken since
August yeah because you're working on you know repeated data so some of them
is into like say 50 hours some of the others are into sort of 20 hours and it's seeing that the squid part of that
only really comes out after about 25 30 hours and it's seeing whether they pull
it out or whether they're winding these fills us up too tight that they're not actually picking enough
of that data up so there's a lot of different projects we're working on at the moment but a lot
of them are time consuming so um not a lot else is coming out
great great I guess thank you very much much Gary
um no problem up next excellent work um is Cesar Bros Caesar with us here
I thought I saw him earlier I did see him earlier I have a presentation ready
if you wanna oh yeah how about if you go ahead and go on Adrian all right well let me uh put this phone
down and I will see I'll start
slideshow I've got a few screens here so I'm gonna
share one it'll be screen two so when I saw my
um I saw the presentation I was asked to do
I saw that uh I had blood moon and so I said okay so I actually found
couple of um images from Eclipse past
and I decided to go ahead and just put it all together in a um presentation so
this is my presentation blood moon when the alignment of the Sun and the Earth casts a new light on the moon
and these are affiliations that I with I'm with University lowbra astronomers
the astronomical League um this is the Rask and I'm also a
member of Warren Astronomical Society also in Michigan so part of a few clubs
and Scott I need to add the um explore scientific uh
the Explorer Alliance tag on there somewhere I need I gotta add that for uh
presentations so let's see if this works here we go
GSP 74. um and I shared with the world these four
images of me trying to capture the eclipse the one in 2022 happened
similarly so the moon did the same sort of thing maybe from a different angles as I
recall the moon disappeared from upper left in the
northern hemisphere to lower right we only got to 97 so there was this little
part of the Moon that was um that was lit up that stayed
lit until the Moon until the moon emit or the moon moved
out of Shadow and then more of it began to show up so we never got to totality
yeah um that kind of rattening effect and uh actually yeah these shots where it shows
uh partial illumination I think are fascinating um because you see all these gradations
on the moon yeah and I have another I think I do
have another one of these coming up later um but I did a little bit of research just
a little bit call me the Common Man astronomer here and I said you know we
see the moon it has this reddish look um and it isn't necessarily during the
eclipse um we get it loaded to Horizon and it carries kind of this similar reddish
color now um I looked up this term uh rally
scattering I believe is how this I think it's pronounced Raleigh and not Rayleigh Rayleigh Rayleigh okay I being corrected
is probably is it Raleigh you know anyway
um we just had doctor come on and tell us yeah science is always changing so always be willing to learn even as
you're doing your presentation but this scattering is what is responsible essentially for the reddish
um View cast on the moon as it rises and as it sets so these are these are rising
moons this is a rising last quarter which you don't see as often unless
you're up at three in the morning again and I think both hemispheres if you want to be up to see the waning moons they
usually show up in the sky during the day but close to the Horizon they carry
a similar color um and say this is an interesting image
here because you see the moon's a little above where the belt of Venus is here as soon as it gets down here it assumes
that color um this image there the Moon is actually
low on the horizon it's turning to that reddish orange color and as you notice
in these images the Milky Way was visible that's going to come into play
later as I go through the presentation so
and if you've got smoke in your sky like we did I noted July of 2021 that cast
the reddish Hue on the moon as it got up in the sky um this is
maybe a couple of hours after Moonrise and we had we um had smoke in the sky
and now that I think of it I think this was more than a couple hours after moonrise
because look at where Tycho sits Tycho is generally your indicator for how high
the Moon is on a close-up if it's two one side it's rising to the other side
it's setting and near the middle like this it's actually high up in the sky so
so no and I was incorrect earlier this is the moon is up in the sky and it's
still red so different things can turn the moon red
um I looked this up closely and it turns
out the Raleigh scattering happens but while the Earth is in between the Moon
and the Sun so the light that's scattered from sunlight going around the Earth's
limb and then gets cast on the moon it is Rally scattering but it's also
happening during an eclipse so it's while it's a similar color
it's um it's still unique in that it happens um only
when the um happens only when the earth is in
between the Sun and the Moon to where the Moon looks like it's being
eaten away and then the whole thing appears with this lower dimmer red color
so it's still gives a different look than your Rising your Rising Moon still
has sunlight a lot of sunlight on it and an eclipse moon does not have sunlight
um it has well it has rally scattered light coming off of the limb of the earth so so it is not as bright as a
rising moon or a setting Moon near the horizon
so GSP pass I forget which one it was I
shared a few images that I had taken of the total lunar eclipse of 2019. zero
degrees and I remember the Moon being near m44 The Beehive cluster
and that was my first attempt at trying to capture what this guy looks like at an eclipse
you're going to recognize this constellation Orion you're gonna see him a lot
throughout the remainder of this presentation because Orion tends to be around
um this time of year when the moon is being eclipsed we had a lunar eclipse
that I didn't include in here because I only had one image of it and that was
the lunar eclipse that was near the uh Galactic core it was in the Summer Sky
and that's one of Clips I would have loved to have gotten uh there's the
Beehive right there m44 sitting next to this particular one in 2019.
so we had 2021 as I told you Ryan seems
to show up when you have if you're going to have eclipses in the winter Orion's
going to dominate the sky and be somewhere near the moon in this particular case you may remember this
Eclipse was near the Pleiades and so then on my birthday November 8th
it's happening again this is a not so sharp close-up of the uh eclipses it's
taking place and here we are
a little bit different camera equipment this time and went to a dark area
and there's same old Orion this looks fairly similar to last year's November
Eclipse except this is about as this is about as uh
dark as the moon got maybe a little darker um it still isn't fully eclipsed here
but it's already dark enough at this site to start seeing the Milky Way and
um start seeing more stars and you've got some Sky glow all of this is happening during
the near the very beginning of astronomical Twilight so the sky colors
there there is some brightness there and there is some Sky glow in this location
so that's why I mentioned if you can get to a dark side if you if you're used to
viewing your lunar eclipses um and you're used to viewing them from the
backyard and you take the close-up pictures um next lunar eclipse 2025
try finding a dark sky Park and looking at it because not only do you see
the eclipse happen but you watch all the stars of the sky come out and if you're
at a dark sight you watch the Milky Way appear and even if you can't take pictures of it just observe it it's it's
actually a very beautiful sight I looked at this moon in binoculars and was blown
away by how it looked um it was a beautiful sight because not
only do you see and you're going to see a couple pictures here not only do you see the moon and you see the stars that
are around it it's it's a unique viewing experience of the moon so here you go
stars and planets even um that little Dot's gonna be I'm gonna
point out what that little dot is in a minute but that's this is one of the
unique views that you try to get when you're Imaging lunar eclipses get the stars that are around it because
that's not something easy to do we have a lot of great astral imagers who will take a normal full moon and they'll put
a star Field behind it and it looks wonderful well a lunar eclipse gives you
the opportunity to shoot both in real time this is a single image I've stretched
the background to bring the stars out and I've dimmed a little bit to give the
moon the appearance that it has in binoculars and this is the appearance the moon has
to the eye you see some of these so there's Uranus
um you may may have recalled that Uranus was near the moon well I made sure to
check out the Stars match them to Sky Safari Pro and
verified that I had indeed caught your the disc of Uranus in this image
so you there sometimes nearby planets will show up even
um ice giants will show up if they're nearby so this was this was a very
recent find in the images that I take take multiple images take different kinds of images because
you never know what you'll get I had left this Eclipse thinking well I didn't take a shot of the Moon with Uranus come
to find out when I look through my images yes I did so
that this image hasn't been shared online it will probably get shared online pretty soon
here but uh you all the GSP are the first to see this one because I figured out that I actually
had it so that was nice now this image
um you have the California nebula this time I'm using a modified camera going back to
really quickly I'll go back to this image this one was taken with a
non-modified camera and I'm for 30 seconds I'm getting some
of this data here there's there are a couple there are things online that suggest you don't need a modified camera
to get this sort of data you just stretch it with your processing
um my thought on it is this is also 30 seconds
and um it's more prominent and notice the white
balance colors are very similar if you can get your white balance
correct with your modified camera you get more of this light this ha light
this spectrum you get it easier um
than you do um when you're using a stock camera I
believe an astro camera if you were to rig it with a wide angle lens you'd get this information you'd get this
information Astro cameras if I'm not mistaken um you know the chips in there the
cameras are designed for full spectrum so and as fate would have it this is a
meteor shooting straight through the California nebula and I've got these two as well
darker sights you'll see more meteors as the event is
happening there's your eclipsed moon so now
another really cool thing about this particular eclipse in 2022 is that we
watched the sky begin to brighten while the moon was yet still eclipsed and um
this one this was a non-tracked image as you can see the stars or streaks here and I believe this may actually be one
of these may still be Uranus right here but we have the moon and we have the way
that the sky looked as I was shooting over here one thing I would have liked
to have done was make this a composite and sharpen this because your eye wants
to make this in focus our eyes can switch between looking at
something in the foreground and then looking at something in the um in the distance and it does it seamlessly and
if I want to capture that I have to make that front the front part sharp this was
this was sort of a last second hey let me try this and I focused on shooting at the Moon
um it's easy to take a couple of shots so that's something I would do you know in
the uh in the future I also took some Scenic
shots and I there's a title if you can't capture beautiful pictures just sit and observe it
you know enjoy seeing it and you'll you'll have the memory of it
for those of us that can capture these pictures we try and capture them in a
way that mimics what you see maybe a little more than what you may notice
you'll see a you'll see a more a larger version of this image this is a
close-up this is the acable river and you can see the moon still has
its reddish color this is near this is the last image I took it's near the end
of the eclipse where part of it is still in the earth's Shadow later on the moon
would um take on the reddish color do the due to
Earth's atmosphere and more of the sunlight hitting it rather than
it being in the shadow hopefully some of you got that this was my final shot
before I called it quits it was this uh shot of the Moon setting
over the trees in the Ausable River nice I have a beautiful morning of course Sunrise is behind me you'd think I'd go
ahead and get sunrise and in retrospect I probably should have but I was focused
on the moon so that's the direction I shot in and this is the image that
um David eicher shared on his feed um it didn't it wasn't the one with the
meteor but the each of these was a it was two minutes for this guy two minutes
for the ground and a couple of seconds for the uh eclipsed Moon
blended into into a composite and I thought it turned out really well gave
you an idea of what the sky was like um and what the scenery is like
so for an epilogue here I actually wanted to shoot the eclipse
here but the forecast was for clouds kind of like what I was seeing a couple
days before I came hiking out so the eclipsed moon would have been here
I may have tried to redo this whole panorama but
I decided to go further north on the day of because the forecast for this
location was clouds so sometimes you have to have more than one location picked
if you're gonna go out and try and get images of the moon here are a couple of
images from the campsite that I chose with the Alcona Pond right here this was
a winner shot with Light Pillars and here's yeah this one
um like some sort of heavenly uh Roman columns or something you know yeah
everyone here now everyone it looks like everyone here in this distant town is
being called into the heavens but actually that's the light being uh
shaped in the Light Pillars sure from all the different lights man-made lights
in the town I see and that's the pond that I shot that um image from the that
boat dock that you saw is behind me and to the right I actually ventured onto the ice for that shot and
as in most of my winter shots and Ryan tends to make an appearance there there he is again
um the full image of that has like the full constellation and then as uh Summers turning into fall
I captured this image in between the clouds you had the uh vestiges of the
summer Milky Way setting in the uh foreign
but I've seen bodies of water called Lakes as big as this pond
um Portal 3 and bortal four Skies here when I go back I'll get my sqm L reader
which I just got and I will be more than happy to get a
good reading on a good Dark Night Sky and see what's really going on here I think the numbers are going to
shade more towards portal 3. it is a nice Darkness the middle northern part
of the uh lower Peninsula of Michigan and so that's it for my presentations my
big thank you very much man thank you and you're welcome but don't forget the
moon will be doing the eclipsing so you've got your annular Clips October
14th and the total solar eclipse April 8th 24. that's right so that's
right that's my presentation yeah it's awesome okay well thank you beautiful
shots once again and Adrian you never fail to inspire and enthrall people
about the you know the amazing beautiful night sky so
with this often with clouds yeah just keep on shooting I keep punching it
that's right and now the anchor of the program has arrived Cesar that's right
this is our how are you guys Hi how are you how are you Adriana Scott I'm
friends I'm doing good that was my birthday present to myself that's a good
person it's a beer day it's a beer day happy Birthday Adrian thank you excellent excellent uh excellent present
for everyone
are amazing um really I enjoyed the the image was
beautiful really um here tonight I am
taking some pictures of Orion and foreign
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was broken it's unable to open the door to the South uh to the South East uh
part of the rooftop um now we are going now we are in the in
the a part that is for the north and west and we choose Orion that is not uh
in South Africa object but it's a beautiful it's a queen of the summer
here and they bring up this winter of course in in Northern everywhere
and it's a nebula that we enjoyed a lot
in the katamarca third party we enjoyed watching the
this area of Orion Nebula like with like a picture
the name ruler like the Naked Eyes
um we enjoyed flame nebula and we we
receive uh you know the horses
to The Naked Eyes with some telescopes over uh
11 inch 10 inches and really really was amazing and well tonight
I we are taking picture of leave me first of all and I need to
share the screen here I am with I would think that okay
because it's it's a great thing
um
well here here we have okay maybe we move the picture one
minute foreign
yes yes that is how Ryan looks at Oaky text
yeah well here the guy then he says it's a
little terrible um but uh let me show you you can try
take a picture says I've always known you to image no matter how bad the
conditions are you're tracking you will never give up oh yes but we can
take another picture that need we can try 30 minutes
30 seconds sorry that's 30 minutes
uh well here you can see
uh no I I tried to show you the the trapezium
but don't give don't give me the possibility the software and while take
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let me let me add here you can try a picture of 30 seconds
there you go okay here here is is the the nebula from the city you know uh
it's it's great when here you can you can hear the noise of the airplane from the airport right you know you know
this is astronomy middle of the city it's it's the it's in a 37th floor
uh at maybe work on the meters 120 meters over the sea levels
um well we we and we are making pictures that I can show you next week of of uh
Orion Nebula to start the the summer the summer time here
to to make uh uh
um you know a picture of of a nebula that is is really the Queen of the Night
In Summer here and we I think that we can make a beautiful image because it's
a great Optics the focus and maybe the scene is is okay too here you can see
maybe something that we call it Vans or kind of bands bonding and of course that
later we can we can try to cross something maybe I would think and
process something with the pics inside and but it's it's a beautiful nebula that we
can we can try and next week to with a smaller telescope maybe with an
entry-level telescope we can make some some tricks uh with a a smaller camera
not a reflex camera uh well we can we can make a lot of different things and
when we we will be having the the another part of the rules uh
of a watch into the South uh we can we can
make a picture of tarantula nebula that was my idea originally but we can
open the door and uh for the another side of the rooftop and this size of
telescope is impossible to use in my balcony and really I need to go here to
come here to because I need a more space eight inches in a rigidaire telescope of
course that me I need some space and it's impossible from my balcony and let me check I can try another
picture the funny thing about this night is that we did all the all the go-to
setting all the setup and the the polar alignment with only the Stars of the
Orion constellation because like we only used uh ritual and
better together for the outer for the logo too which is funny and all the the
the little error we got for the Azimuth and
or a polar alignment okay yeah those only watch into the node yeah with only
a window of like painting rounds 20 degrees
like we we can only see about a an an ace of the of the sky here and I
think even less and yeah that's that's the guy right
there kind of something here and another picture
well we can we can we can try to to get Maybe
20 or 20 pictures of 30 seconds or maybe one minute we don't have problems we can
we can put uh normally the idea here is put the the the eso for this camera it's
okay in 800 peso that is is a
a good point it's the street point and it's something that is great for this
camera well I think that next uh next week uh I can show you next presentation
I can show you uh a great picture of of nebula Orion Nebula from the city maybe
we can try we can try something more this tonight
well this is my my presentation thank you so much Cesar
excellent yeah it's great to have you guys on and uh to be uh observing with
you from the live from the balconies of uh Buenos Aires so it's great I love it
yeah yeah yes it's something that that we we have uh we have really uh it's fun that
we have the possibility and of course that my entire idea of introduction to
the people uh to use their own telescope in the middle of the city is something
that every day every day that for example we solve many telescopes like
the National Theater 1440 um 14 millimeters and it's an
entry-level telescope um the the kids are making things very
beautiful in observations and it's a an
entry level I'm very initiative tell us but it's something that that it's great
for for kids and for people that are not kids and really they they use uh they
start to use uh telescope uh with open wide vision and this is very important
that is it's very important to to don't have
frustration about the first time that you use a telescope where the things sometimes you use maybe
300 300 [Music] um magnification for example in a small
telescope and the dealer don't tell him that don't use the Barlow with a smaller
um smaller IPS the first time and maybe they use the entire capacities of their
telescope and we have very small refractors or
um the idea is is for is use a short tubes with great Optics and where the
people the people understand that that they are watching and the
quantity of life is [Music] their eyes is enough to understand or
see the nebula or see a cluster you know
um when the peoples tell me that yes I found Ariana I found I should as you
told me maybe I I know Omega Centauri I remember the the gray
day that we take a picture of Omega Centauri with the national graphic 100
14 millimeters the bumper tube that this is my favorite tube in my home the
bumper tube is is it's a treasure in in the in our home and you remember Scott
that I showed you the the the two and yes and with them yes yes and it's a
something that is is great because no is made for a donation or for
for years here in home and we found with
this very simple telescopes that you can make a note
uh before to make a big sand uh
telescope very special you can preparate as customer uh using something that you
can start to learn and enjoy more your second telescope that can be a special
telescope like if for example you're in your bag a bit certain
Market or the special refractors
of the line of SEC 100 of course that
that are beautiful but if you start with a smaller and open wide vision Del Sol you
can enjoy a lot and you can learn a lot for the second tennis so you're special
by buying of special terrorism like this is RC telescope you have a lot of uh of
uh focal length last week we have many many uh problems with you know the
collimations and you have it's part of the the fun maybe you have a lot of
different different things when people say Okay I I was frustrating because I
can make the right for person okay some people that for example the people that
fly airplanes uh model airplanes models RC sometimes they crash their their own
RC my mother saying as part of learning how to do the the absolutely yeah and
sometimes they are happy because why you are happy because okay I crash it but I
have my entire week to re to refurbish and um repair yes and part of the hobby
which is the kind of messages by now yeah sometimes it's we enjoy the
suffering of learning yes yeah not getting anything to work not even the
alignment not even to go through anything and then then it works for like one one micro second it works for one
micro second and that's all the happiness that's all you get there yeah and that's enough to to have enough uh
just to sustain you for a while huh yeah yeah yes yeah absolutely
yeah okay well that's great well guys thank you so much I want to thank you
for tuning in um for the uh you know for our Global
Star Party the 106th Edition our 107th edition of the global star party will be
next Tuesday starting at six o'clock Central um and the theme uh is ancient photons
and so uh looking forward to having uh a great speaker lineup and um a great
lineup of uh of audience members here if there's anyone out in the audience that would like to give a presentation on
global Star Party simply get in touch with me um you can use the letter s at
explorescientific.com and I'd be happy to arrange all of that
for you um you know it's it's uh it's it's fun and thrilling to be in front of a global
audience like this and um you know it'll sharpen your presentation skills and uh
you know give you some experience for giving more presentations to other clubs
which is what it's all about so yeah Caesar I have a question for you
before we go how many presentations are you now giving uh or maybe a better
question on average how many uh lectures and presentations do you give a year
uh this year or in my entire career
you're on global star party every race yes yes that's about fear to 52
presentations a year um right but how about other clubs and
stuff in Brazil yes this year uh was fantastic because
was the first one from the pandemic time uh pandemics I'm sorry uh where uh I
started with the grand star party uh this year you know that we we put in the
calendar uh started starting with a Captain America third party uh we made a
lot of uh of uh presentation with the guys of San Miguel Observatory and maybe
we I I account now uh about 10 10
different different events
encounter meetings and third parties and special
means to to to for example well we we
preparing in our new store that we are making our
new store in in the downtown of the of
the city uh we are having a basement a big basement that we can use like a
warehouse in a middle part and another middle part it will be a small
Auditorium and a place for for uh to to recording videos for for social
for social work yes for social media interactional videos and of course uh
real real life place to to meet people
um we are really exciting with this particular interviews yes it will be uh
written absolutely we are having actually their their we have people
working uh in the basement because we are restoring the complete basement to
have of course a great place without humidity without you know uh all about
that you need to make a a great place
um over this is a it's an optic store with a huge huge part of Technology
um 3D printers I preparing
um the the machine for Polish mirrors
um it will be a very interesting place to show to the people
um a football tests is ready to use in the basement as
as a very interesting test for Quality you know
maybe we can do it a
Bove the future we are having a table for optics for control
well this is that really it's uh it's it's a year where I have I'm having 30
years working in my business and this is
very very inspiring for me that is all
alive with the years and selling telescope repairing and teaching to the
people and I am preparing the new store like uh like a special early birthday
of my specialty is my best friend and
this is it will be very very exciting
well when you're ready for Cesar uh we can also do uh some special seminars for
your uh for your customers you know for yes yes your general public I'm doing
one uh coming up here real soon for a dealer in Armenia you know so
um for space shop 42 and we've got lined up already
uh Christopher go and um
ocean uh Zakarian ocean is one of the Tuan uh night sky photographers it does
beautiful you know night sky images from the LV sacred sites and stuff like that around
the world really cool um so it starts off with uh you know
night sky photography planetary Imaging uh and then we'll be doing deep Sky
Imaging as well so kind of a four-part series and we can repeat that with
um with uh audience for you as well so let me know okay it will be it will be a pleasure
and of course that I am totally open to to make this and it's it's a it's
something that for me is very okay so thank you so much and uh
take care thank you thank you take care and take care to all the uh audience here uh
watching and uh you guys at least stay up and uh or set an alarm and watch the
um uh you know the Artemis launch here so I think that uh I think it will be
historic if it takes off uh and I so far I think everything still looks pretty
good so keep looking up everyone
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Transcript for Part B:
David's diaries. Yeah. How important everything that was.
6:15 p.m..The Night Sky Astronomical League – John Goss
Yeah. That is a great library. It sure is. I've never met. I
need to go. Amazing collection. Mhm.
6:40 p.m..Nathan Hellner-Mestelman - “Seeing Beyond” A Film
Who's who's old time clock is that? No, it's mine. That's my
cellphone clock. Oh, god. For whom the bell tolls?
Goals for thee.
7:10 p.m..Telescopes in Space
Okay.
7:30 p.m..Break
Go ahead and share. Well, Scotty, I'm glad you called me to remind me. I got the time wrong. About 100 of these. I'm
7:40 p.m..Nicolas Arias - Hammertime with Nico
still getting to miss it from time to time. Yeah, Daylight Savings Time can always throw,
that change can throw a lot of people off. So, I should've I should've been on an hour earlier than an hour later. So,
wow.
8:00 p.m..Maxi Falieres - Astrophotography to the Max
You showed on up exactly at the right time. Yeah. Well, I'm here. Yup. So, David, being
that you were Well, David, David, and John,
8:20 p.m..Marcelo Souza - Astronomy Outreach in Brazil
you three have been there. What would you say is the most amazing thing that Linda Hall Library that you've seen? Hmm. Uh I think it was Raticus, the
original Reticus book. Uh talking about Copernicus. He's
got some fabulous things. First time I was there was actually
8:40 p.m..Daniel Barth - Asteroids in the Sun’s Glare
was actually doing my thesis. My disser
for the Hebrew University. To do that. How about you, John? Um I I think it as I recall, they they
9:00 p.m..Cesar Brollo - Cesar’s Universe
had original copy of Starry Messenger. I I think so. This was in 2005 when when I saw it
or when I was there and I and that's that's pretty old stuff. Yeah. Yeah. That's pretty
powerful and I would agree. Both of those things and you know, it's always and I've seen
9:20 p.m..Adrian Bradley - The Blood Moon
all three of those same books in the safe
and Owen Gingrich's office. Uh. At Harvard. You know. Yeah. That's a pretty good collection too. Especially for a private collection. But but also anytime you hold you know a first edition of the Principia I think is pretty powerful. Still probably the most
important book ever published in the history of the world. Most people would conclude you know that that's pretty amazing too. Yeah.
Today, we take such, I mean, books for granted, right? I mean, but there was a once upon a time. Yeah. Well, they they ought to make it into a movie sometime. Yeah. Blockbuster. Boy, Newton was a his movie worthy. I mean, he was a crazy
dude. You know, even though he was brilliant. Um he was unusual. Yeah. Crazy. Unusual. Quite eccentric. One might say, at least.
Not like any of us, of course. Hi, Adrian. Hello. David. Dave, John, and Scott. As usual, I come on to enjoy the
proceedings even though I'll be the last to present. Yeah. But
I I learn a lot. When I when I come on early. Me too. I get to
see all of you. Me too. Good to have you. Well, let's and get
started guys. Here we go. Alright.
masses Hubble Space Telescope captured three separate moments in a far off Supernova
explosion in a single snapshot. These moments provide a unique
glimpse into the Supernova's early life. It is quite rare to detect a supernova explosion at
a very early stage. Because that stage is so short, it only lasts for hours to a few days
and it can be easily missed. The star exploded than 11 billion years ago when the
universe was less than one fifth of its current age of thirteen 8 billion years. In a
single exposure, Hubble captured the Supernova's rapid change of color which indicates
temperature change. The early hotter phase appears blue. As the Supernova cooled its light.
This detection was possible through a phenomenon called gravitational lensing. As first
predicted by Einstein's theory of general relevant. case, the immense gravity of the Galaxy
cluster, Abel 3 seventy, both bent and magnified the light from the more distance
supernova located behind the cluster, like a giant cosmic lens. This lensing effect split
and warped the supernova's light, bending it along separate pathways of varying lengths. The different travel
times between each path created a time delay that produced three distinct images of the
explosion, a different times. arrived at Earth simultaneously. This is the
first detailed look at a supernova at such an early time of the universe's evolution.
The research could help scientists learn more about the formation of stars and galaxies in the young universe.
Well, hello everyone. This is Scott Roberts from Explore Scientific and the Explore Alliance and this is the
hundred and sixth Global Star Party Casting a New Light. Uh it's the theme and we have a
fantastic lineup of speakers as we almost always do. In fact, we always do But I can tell you
that putting these things on is very satisfying for me. I was talking Adrian Bradley who's
sitting there backstage right now with with with us is he and
we're talking about well he brought up how much he learns
from Global Star Party and watching all these presentations and I would have to say you know, I would have
to include myself in that as well. It's like getting you know, a whole workshop. You
know, I mean, where else could you go and listen to this many lectures about so many
different topics on astronomy. You know, there's not probably not a school in the world that you could go to to to
experience something like that. on top of that, star parties, there's there are star parties
where you have, you know, multiple speakers. Uh, Starmus was the my most recent
experience in this. The Northeast Astronomy Forum, of course, carries on that great
other star parties, Texas Star Party, the Riverside Telescope Makers Conference, which is no
longer around. Um, you know, these are great things, but you know, you used to have to
travel far and definitely have to spend some coin to get
involved in these things. Um so, we're really happy to bring this to your living rooms or your iPhones or your Android
phones or whatever And to be your companion during the time
where you might be might have to be locked down or you know,
the time is not right where you are. Uh or a number of reasons why you can't get out and
experience you know, an amateur astronomy event like this but we try to bring it to you every
week. So we're really happy that you're turning tuning in and giving this you know the
106th event a a watch. we are going to get this program
rolling with David Levy, David, and all of us that that are on
right now. We are also talking about the Linda Hall Library and the treasure of incredible
books that are there and and what's what it's like to hold you know, original copies of
that or just a cast your eyes upon them. So, but David, it's
great to have you on again. Uh love it and turn it over to you. Well, Thank you. thank you
very, very much. It is wonderful to be here. Casting a
new light. This is the theme of today's star party and we're talking a little bit about both
Lights in the Night Sky and Lights here on the Earth like the Linda Hall Library. It is
my honor to report that the Linda Hall Library has a number of items that I have donated to
them including my first telescope which they have
including all of my observing logs and this developed over
many many years. I first was there in two thousand and three when I was working on my
doctoral dissertation and I got to see one of the very first books You know, they showed me
that day that they had all of John Herschel's original observing odds which I got to
see and while I was there, they asked me, I told them that that I had been reporting my
observing sessions since the year 1959. And they asked if I'd be interested in parting
with them. Which I was. And they now have all of my original observing logs.
beginning in 195-six. And they
now have my observing logs. Session number A took place in
1956 of a summer camp. I then started started them in 19 5-nine with an eclipse of the
sun And I now as of last night
I have recorded twenty-three thousand two hundred and eightyfive observing sessions.
And today twenty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-six. You
know I've reported as today. For my poetry quotation today
I'm going to go to Thomas Hardy and I think a lot of you are familiar with some of the great
novels that he wrote. Deaths of the Derbervilles. And my
personal favourite which is Too On a Tower. I remember attending an AAVSO meeting when
somebody there gave a lecture on two in a tower. And he was starting by summarizing the
story of two on a tower. And he was allowed 10 minutes for that
particular paper. And I remember his near the end of the book when his time ran out.
And the person running the session interrupted him and said I'm sorry but your time is
up. Well the person running his session almost got clobbered by the rest of the audience. They
said there is no way we're going to interrupt this guy as he's finishing the story of two
on a tower. And the fellow running the session said as you
say as you as you wish and sat down and waited for the person
to finish the story of Tuana Tower. So my quote today and I hope you're not going to
interrupt me is from Thomas Hardy. Not a novel but a poem that he wrote. He wrote this
poem in 1902 on 1903 in London.
He was he had seen a lunar eclipse in 2thousand and two in
that nineteen oh two. And he wrote about it in two in nineteen oh three. and the poem
is especially appropriate for right now because he compares
the beauty and majesty of a lunar eclipse to the troubles
that we were having then. In on the world in nineteen0 three. And how we certainly are having
now if we think briefly about the war in Ukraine and other problems on the earth. I think
it's beautiful to think of the Thomas Hardy poem. It is a it,
14 lines, and it goes like this. Thy shadow earth from pole to central sea. Now,
steals along the moon's meek shine. In Ewan monochrome and curving line of impetibable
serenity. How shall I link such symmetry with the torn troubled
form I know as thine. That profile placid as a brow divine. With continents of moil
and misery. And ten of them small mortality would throw, so small a shade, and heaven's
high human scheme, be hanged within the coast, Yonarch implies, is such the solid age
of earthly show, nation at war with nation, brings the team,
heroes and women, fairer than the skies. And on that note, that is my poem for this week.
And back to Scotty. Thank you very much, David. That's great. That's great. Okay, we are
going to go to the Astronomical League next Um we have John
Goss here with us. I I encourage everybody that is an
amateur astronomer or a lover of the skies to join the Astronomical League. Uh they
are the world's largest federation of astronomy clubs. I know I sound like a broken
record when I talk about this. But they are they are really an important organization not only
for us in the United States and and North America but around the world and you can join as a
member around from anywhere in the world as a member at large of the Astronomical League. You
just go to Astral League. org and sign up. They also have
some incredible observing programs and observing awards and they support youth and
astronomy as well as people who've made an entire lifetime contribution to astronomy and
we're Explore Scientifics happy to be underwriter of some of
those programs. Um but on with us tonight as I mentioned
earlier is John Goss. John has given lots of talks before as
well as you know, he he is an expert on the moon but he's an
expert on a lot of different aspects of astronomy and it's pretty cool to have the
executive officers of the Astronomical League be on virtually every Global Star
Party. So, thanks very much John for coming on. Well, thank you. Um I have a bunch of comments first. Toke number
one, Scott just referred to the Astronomical League as the world's largest federation of Astronomical Societies. Now,
I've always wanted to belong to the federation. Okay, all you
Star Trek people will be laughing. Check that off the list. Okay. Uh you you know,
you know how it is. So, you you you don't hear something for a long, long time and then all of a sudden, you hear a name or a
title or a movie pop up and then three days later, you hear it again and then you hear it
again. Lowing David Levy was talking about the Thomas Hardy and the mayor bridge. Well, the
other night, there we were watching TV and there it was. Wow. You know, how many times
do you hear of that? You know, you hear it three times in your whole life probably. Oh, okay. So, check that off. Um also,
David with was was talking about the state of the world and which of course we can
spend hours talking about this but I like just just to mention that if if I were become
feeling low about the state of the world, I always listen. I like her. I like to listen to
Siggins, Pale Blue Dot. Yes. That which we won't go into now but you know, it's it puts
everything into perspective and it kind of shows how silly a lot of stuff is, really, in the
long run. Um Scott, start out by talking about star parties. This is the Global Star Party
and here we are in in November. There just won't be many actual star parties for a while
because of of the weather but I'd like to remind people or tell people why they should go
to to a real star party. Um Just think of of of what you
do. Uh looking at David Eicher, I could say you you will meet magazine editors at star
parties. You will meet authors at star parties. You will meet research scientists, mission
specialists, mission scientists, university professors, you know, people who are authorities on
equipment, people who are authorities on observing on imaging, on sketching, on
outreach, you know, the whole gamut is at the the Star Party. So, if you want to get involved
a little bit deeper with amateur astronomy, go to one of these and as Scott was saying that, you know, that 20, 30
year, well, 30 years ago, there just weren't very many across the country But today, just look at the calendar from from
I guess end of March to the end of October, first part of November. Every weekend, there is a star party and and if you
have a a a new moon weekend, there's there's three or four that you can choose from. But
anyway, they are they're fun. You know, you can go to em and and meet people of like mind
and and learn and also help others. Anyway, let's let's get
off that. But, you know, thank, thank you all for listening to that, and thank you Scott for having me, me on this week. I'd
like to go on to what I am really here for, and that is to talk about our, our questions
that we get, we go three questions every week. Um, and people can send, Alex, ask me
that in just a moment. Go with my screen share in a moment. Okay.
Let's see. Here we go. Um what
what we do is offer three questions each week or each star party and people who
answer them correctly know ask them by sending their answers
into our secretary. which I'll get to in just a moment and those winners will be chosen at the end of the month for a for
a prize. But first we always like to start our about the sun. Now I I've just started
looking at the sun my myself with hydrogen alpha scope. Um it is pretty active right now
So, if you're interested in solar stuff, now is the time to start looking but we always
like to make sure people, people do it correctly, especially since there's going to be some noteworthy
eclipses, solar eclipses coming up next year and the year after. We want to make sure that people use the right solar
filters that that they are the solar filters are put on the
front part of the telescope over the aperture as opposed to the eyepiece. We like saying that just to make sure that nothing nothing goes wrong.
Make sure make sure that the scope is not left unattended so people who are not in the know
so they won't they won't come along and and hurt themselves. Because the you know even a
small scope captures like 200 times the amount of light that the eye does. So just an
incident of looking at the sun unprotected through a even a small scope. It's bad news. Bad
bad news. Anyway. Let's go on. I'm talking about the answers from last week. Uh that were
delivered by Chuck Allen, vice president of the Astronomical League. First question he gave was, Sagittarius A, this is
picture here. This is Sagittarius A star. About how far away is it? Well, the
correct answer, I don't want to read everything here but the correct answer is about 25, 600 light years. Now, if you all,
if you don't know already, I'm sure you all know already. Sagittarius A star is the supermassive black hole, the
center of the Milky Way.
Sorry. There we go. Number two. What astronaut went to the
vicinity of the moon twice without landing? Oh boy that that that's both good and bad
isn't it? You get two trips there but that actually stay on the surface. Now gym level. Apollo 8 and 13. hailed as the
largest combined aperture telescopes in the world on the Wikipedia list. This telescope
can be found where? Well, it's in Arizona just outside of Tucson on Mount Graham. Yeah,
28. 4 meter mirrors. That would be pretty cool to look through. So, we're going to go on to
this week's questions. Now, send your answers to Secretary at Astro League. org. Uh that's
Terry Mann. She'll be receiving these Emails. So, send them to her. Secret at Astro League.
org. First question
What attractive that dim asterism lies tonight immediately below the great
square and above bright Jupiter? A, the circlet, B, the water jar, or C, the teapot?
So, get out tonight and see if you can find this stuff because it's up there. Next one. Number
two. In what constellation does NGC one lie? Yeah, we are we
like looking at various NGC objects and we rarely look at the very first one but there
really is one. So, what constellation is NGC zero zero
one. Is it A, Pegasus? B, Pisces? Or C, Andromeda? It
it's a small dim galaxy. Um probably going to need at least a 10 inch telescope to see it.
Question number three. Again, we're going to be talking about the new general catalog. The
new general catalog begins its number existing with zero, zero, zero, one, okay. The
first object position east of right ascension, zero hours. The NGC then progresses
eastward eventually circling the sky before reaching twenty-four hours RA which is back to zero hours. It
encompasses seventy-eight hundred seventy-eight forty Deep Sky objects. Why then does the biologic NGC seventy-eight
forty have a right ascension greater than 0 hours. It's it's RA is zero hours 8 minutes.
the positi onal measurements have improved since the 1880s when the NGC was being
assembled. B, 7840 has traveled in space in 150 years. So, of
course, it has drifted eastward in the sky. C, procession since
the 1880s has moved the RA coordinates westward. So, we
have those three questions if you know, if you want to participate, send your answers
to Secretary at Astro League. org. one more slide here and
then I'll be out of out of here. Astronomical live
presentation will be on Friday, December 16th at 7 PM Eastern Time. We're going to be featuring the Astronomical
League officers. Um a lot of people, a lot of times that that that they're not shown.
They're always behind the scenes doing stuff but we'd like to introduce the officers so you can get a chance to say hello and and see who who they
are. Uh we're going to have another speaker, Bob King, who you probably all know. Uh he'll be talking about the the the
coming solar the solar cycle we're in and how all stuff that's my son will be doing I
hope and continues to do. And then we got the twenty twenty-three. One final comment. Uh lower right hand
corner says we got the Astronomical League 75th anniversary. Well actually that is going to have to be put
aside now because today November 15th marks 76. 0 years
since the since the league began. So we've been around for a while and we like helping out amateurs. Uh always remember
Astronomical League is here for you.
Thank you. Okay. It's great. Yeah, thank thanks Scott for
having me on. I appreciate you giving me a little time in there to to talk about this or that. Of course. You all have a
good Thanksgiving too. So. Yup. Yeah. That's right. That's right. If you guys didn't have
a chance to watch the last Astronomical League live
programs, you know, they've had a couple of really fantastic
speakers and just overall programming has been very very nice on the astronomically
live. Uh I am trying to remember the gentleman's name that was on the last one. Um.
Yeah. Doctor Shane Larson. Yeah. Shane Larson. Shane Larson. What what an incredible
story. Excellent. Excellent speaker. Excellent speaker. And very you know I I was learning
quite a bit from him. So I was pleased to see him on. He did the first astronomical league
live program. 22 episodes ago. So you know. So glad to see you
guys keeping this up. It's awesome. It's awesome. Okay. So, we are going next to David
Eicher. Now, Dave has already gone through his crystals and
minerals and he claims to have gone through his meteorite
collection already and so now, he is about to start his
collection of favorite deep sky objects, I believe. Um so, and
I think there's a lot of them. I think exhausted. Thank you
very the minerals and meteorites for the moment for the time being. I think it was about a year and a half of
talking about minerals there. So a lot. We we did. I mean I did. You know so I think it's
very cool. You know, and and it it reminds you that the universe isn't stop. It just
looking at the sky or thinking about what's up there or out there or whatever. You know, so
it's it's right before us. It's everywhere. It's planetary geology and as my old boss, Richard Berry used to say,
Earth is a planet too. Right. That's right. So. Okay. But but
I've exhausted that for the moment and so I'm thinking I'll go into a new thing back to some pure astronomy and looking
at some interesting objects in the sky and so I'm starting a feature tonight called Dave's
Exotic Sky Objects and I have a list here of going through some
resources and have come up with a list of interesting objects to talk about and I thought I
would talk about an object each time and are at the at the moment the working list is four
hundred and forty-two objects. So the bad news, Scott is that
oh, Scott's on the phone. Well, the bad news is that I can only talk about these for about
eight and a half years, to come. So, I will start to share
my screen, And I will see if you can see what I am seeing
here, and I will see if I can start, a slideshow here and can
you see a piece of art that portrays Cygnus X one? Yes.
Okay, good. We're in business. So, what I thought I would do today, this is just kind of
looking through a lot of resources and Star Atlases and things like that that have some
interesting things on them and and so, I thought I would look at some interesting regions and this is partly inspired by the
fact that for many year and not so much anymore because astro imagers are more creative now
and there are couple of them like Adrian is online with here who's a very creative astro
imager. But for many many years, we got, you know, the
thousandth image of Mforty-two, you know, through the mail or Email to us and and what there
there's so many interesting and unusual and exotic things out there that few people are
taking images of of many of these things. So, I thought I would look at some interesting objects that are largely off
the beaten path to some degree or or to to greater or lesser
degree. So, to start this business, I I just started at the very near the Celestial
North Pole and I'm looking now at a molecular cloud region in
Cephius and of course, a molecular cloud is an area that forms stars Um that that in in
which molecules can form like molecular hydrogen has low
temperatures and high densities and so the gravitational forces can outweigh the internal
pressures of of the star of the of the little regions of
density and and stars can form. Of course, does anyone know how
many stars form if we're talking about solar masses, say, in our galaxy per year?
The the there's a lot, yes, John knows.
Not many is the shocking answer. Three or four stellar solar masses worth of stars a
year and that's it. Which which astonishes a lot of people that it's such a small number in a
great big galaxy that has several 100 billion stars. But of course the universe has an
almost unimaginable amount of time which we don't have as humans quite so much. So the
star formation goes of course happens over an enormously long period. So anyway, this
molecular cloud that's in and it's kind of on the border with Cassiapea, north of the bubble
nebula, has a nice region of star formation that contains several nebula and one of them
is NGC seventy-eight twenty-two. It's sometimes called the cosmic question mark or the flaming skull and the
associated cedar blad two fourteen, which is also in the sharpless catalog, which has
practically all large nebula in it. So, this complex of
nebulosity lies about 3000 light years away and it was studied in this sort of middle years of the 20th century by a
couple of different people. One of them was Sven Cedar Blood in Sweden and Stuart Sharpless
with his exhaustive catalog of Nebula in in the United States. It's pretty typical of a ready
emission nebula. It's slowly collapsing and will slowly form a new generation of stars. There's an embedded sort of
loose. Uh not very rich star cluster in it as well that we'll see in a minute here. And
this is somewhat infrequently explored. This little area even by astro imagers. So, first of
all, we'll talk about the star clusters that are associated with the cosmic cosmic question
mark. One of them is Berkeley fifty-nine which is a small cluster. It it's in the nebular
complex. It's it's sort of scattered a little bit. It doesn't look very rich and it's young. It's less than 2 million
years old. It physically resembles the trapezium cluster in Orion in terms of the kinds
of stars in it. Not in a trapezium shape. It has a total mass of a thousand solar masses
and and it was noted in this Berkeley catalog of open clusters that was worked on in
the middle 20th century in the Bay Area. NGC seventy-seven 62
is on the western edge of the cloud and it's a little north of there of the center of all
this nebulocity. It's an intermediate age cluster. It's just a little younger than 2 billion years old. Um and it's
a little it's slightly closer than the than the nebular complex as well. It's about
2500 light years away. Uh there's another very faint and very small open cluster as well
that's called King eleven and the the astronomer Ivan King also in those middle years of
the 1950s and 60s did a lot of work. Cataloging more obscure
open clusters. He was at Harvard and then he moved out also to Berkeley and was involved in the Berkeley
catalog. Um and it's a little bit older. It's about 3. 6 billion years and it's a very
small cluster, highly evolved. There's also a planetary nebula that has nothing to do with the
stars or the nebulosity. Abel one, the very first planetary in not his galaxy cluster
catalog that's more famous than than this but George Abel at UCLA, of course, also produced
a catalog of planetary nebula that are generally faint and very weird, strange planetaries
and and it's in the Reg as well. So, this is, forgive me,
I didn't update this at the bottom. This is not the Canyon Diablo meteorite. Sorry about
that. Um it it may may look like it. No, it doesn't. Okay, but this this is a section.
This is called too much to do last week and rushing to get your talk done. Sorry about
this. Um but this is a little section actually of Ron
Stoyen's Deep Sky Atlas which is a fairly compact atlas but magnificently detailed. It's a
really good atlas with many many unusual deep sky objects
in it and here we can see the region and and so to the center of this nebular complex is
cedar blad 214 here. You can see there's a little icon for the associated open cluster and
the top of this thing which is a sort of a bright waft of emission nebulocity as well is
labeled here MGC 7822, which actually is an envelope of fainter stuff that goes over
this whole area really here and you can see the bright cluster there and also this little tiny
dim cluster. Uh K eleven there and the planetary up at the
upper left there a bell one and there's some interesting double stars in the area as well and so on too. So, here's a sort of
a wide field image that was released of the area from a NASA press release here and and
that's kind of the middle of Cedar Blad 214 there, the big blob of stuff on top. The you
can see the cosmic question mark. It gets the because there's this little circular
area of nebulosity below as well. And here's a really nice
atom block image of the central area and this really shows it in fantastic detail and and the
open cluster is sort of centered but scattered in the upper part of this image but
centered in that kind of open area that's above center there and of course this is mostly
the nebulosity of Cedar Blood 214 that we're seeing here and
you can see this magnificent dark nebulasity winding through it as well and it's a pretty rich star field there in in the
on the Cephius Cassiapea border here so it's a kind of an interesting and and neat area
to explore that not a lot of people go out and look at. So, my things now rather than
talking at at great, great length about chemistry and minerals are going to be a little shorter now. Scott, I
just want to feature one of areas per time here. Um but I also wanted to share a couple
of upcoming things here that that are coming up. Next year is the 50th anniversary of
Astronomy Magazine. Uh so we're excited about that. We're going to do some special things for the anniversary year. The
first of which is in the January issue. A very special theme on everything you ever
wanted to know about comets but were afraid to ask. And we're very honored to have the world
famous Doctor David Levy has written a an introduction that
opens the entire issue on everything about Comets. David, I don't know if you want to say
anything about what your recollections of what you've said for that piece.
He's not hearing me. He's not hearing me. Or he's muted.
Can you hear me, Dave? You're muted. Yes. Um I'm looking forward to that issue. And It's
very very special. I've written a number of articles for
astronomy. Excuse me. My voice is going away as I talk so warmly about astronomy
magazine. But what I wanted to say is that I have enjoyed over
many many years writing articles for astronomy magazine. But I think my
favourite one was besides a column that I wrote for a while
with you. But my favorite one was when Richard was editor.
And I wrote a article on the Star Beetlejuice. Mm. And you
know I really wasn't sure how to start it. So I started it with these stars of people too.
I didn't hear anything from Richard for a while until I met him that year at Riverside. And
Richard came up to me and he said stars are people too. And I said yeah. And he said
several times, stars are people too. He said, I read the first sentence of your article.
Didn't read anything else of it. And I accepted it based on those four words. And I've never forgotten that, David.
Stars are people too, and I still believe that. That's Fantastic. What a story, David.
Yeah. That is great. So, this won't have so many stars in this
issue but it will have a whole lot of comets. Great comics you know, sense Kiyosaki, the
history and lore, of course, of Comets and and Supernatural beliefs and so on. The science
of Comets written by Walt Harris there. One of your pals at the the University of
Arizona in Tucson there, David. Uh and observing comets by Steve O'Mera and imaging them
by Damien Peach and a whole lot of other things too. So, it's it's really a special issue that we're very happy with. We
think. And then I just wanted to quickly remind you that my friend Michael Bakich and I have this book that is just
out. A child's introduction to Space Exploration published by
Black Dog and Leventhal and it is for relatively young kids 8
to 12 to get them excited about the new generation of Space
Exploration which if we're lucky is just about to start down in Florida. Hm So, that is
all I have. I will be a little less wordy, Scott. If you can believe that with these. With
these deep sky object regions. You have four, I do have 442 of them though. Yeah, well, I
think it's awesome and you know, go better to to go over
all these deep sky objects than than you. Now, something else I will call the audience's
attention to. If you haven't paid attention, almost Everyday David posts an Astrophoto on
his on his stories panel on his Facebook page. So, you're
going to see some great astrophotography, you know, and I think having this kind of
commentary of of these individual deep sky objects and then to be able to go back and
look at some of David's favorite Astrophotographs. I think it's a nice mix there. So, Well, as someone who
finally made the list. Uh
later on tonight. Is that get a subscription to astronomy magazine where they have a nice
gallery and you know. Yeah. So get to beg David to add some of
my stuff. But that's coming. Oh absolutely. We will definitely add it Adrian. And you're
you're wide field shot of the lunar eclipse of last week as a killer shot. If you I hope
you'll show that. That is that is going to be on the list for tonight for those of you that hang out. Uh I am going to show
that image. That's actually a backdrop on my computer And one of the reasons it is a bit of
an honor to be on that list because you've got Giants, the likes of Damian Peach, as you
mentioned you know there these astro imagers have been doing this for a long time and they
have their process down and they know what it is they're trying to present. They present
the cosmos in not only a fantastic way but accurate as well And you every you I see it
all the time. Brings a smile to my face to see the new images
that are shared with David Eicher And
you know, they're, you're, you're getting a slice of the cosmos, and I noticed in the
images you picked, you don't tend to pick overly processed or super fanciful images, they
get right to the point. The beauty is in the object itself. It's not in the processing how
they do it, or you know, that some of it it takes these guys
forty some odd hours. A lot of data, a lot of integration in order to pull out some of the details. So, it's the these are
some fabulous images for a reason and so, that's, you
know, it's always nice to see those images as they come out. So, yeah, I will be sharing, I'll be sharing some of these
images with you as my process improves. Excellent. Well, you you're right up there and and
and that that's sharing stuff, you know, Scott, thanks for mentioning that. It's a little bit out of frustration because
there's so many great images being produced these days. There's way more than you can
put in the magazine or on the magazine's website every month and people send these to me and
want them shared and that that's why I'm just throwing them out there on social media.
So, you know, I'm I'm really proud to be sharing, you know, Adrian and Damien and and
everyone else and Tony Hallis and the whole rest of that. Sure. And we want to get this stuff out there and inspire
other people to go out and view or to also shoot themselves. And and it's a nice problem to
have to have so many great astro images these days. It's not like the old days, Scott,
when we were first doing this stuff. Like a wash in so much great science in astronomy as
we talk about this golden age. But also in a golden age of aster imaging. Thanks to the
Adrian's and Damien's and such. And and it's really a pleasure Adrian to to share these with
people. Yeah it comes from our own love of the night sky. When a visual astronomy tells you
your image makes people want to go out and explore the night sky. Now you're on the right track. And that's over the
years since GSP 54 and David sharing telling telling me to
share some of these images with Global Star Party. Um the the journey began to basic,
basically, I'm exploring my own Love of the night sky and begin to realize that even the moon
behind me can be fascinating. At certain times of in certain
times of the year, certain times of the decade when all of a sudden, it goes blood red. So, So yeah, it's it's not only
it's an honor but then it's also outreach. It's showing people, yes, this stuff is real
and it's out there. Yeah. Well, and when you're inspiring so many other people with your
images now, Adrian, I mean, you're, you're the, you know, it's, that's, that's a powerful thing you're doing. You're
turning people on to the love of the universe. That's a big deal. That's right. Absolutely.
I've seen my friend, Paige, real quick and then Scott Turner to you. My friend Paige, almost expecting me to post
something. Even if I it's a failed image or not quite as good. I'm noticing more and
more people you know, asking about images or you know, that
it it's becoming an expectation that I post something. So, so
yeah, it it's it's an honor and yeah, I I do plan the show some of the images. I I would plan
on showing not only older ones but the ones that I've done since in all the Astros. Your
best Astrophotography out there has gone through a of learning
And many have been at it a little longer than me. But it it's all about getting a process down and knowing why
you want to show the image. It isn't necessarily I want the greatest image in the world.
You know there are some that are out there doing it. Forget about that. It's your view of the cosmos comes through the
way you process your images. Mm. And the targets you gave us to are some interesting
targets. I have to watch this again and write those down so I can try and go after him. Uh visually if if I can get to a
dark enough site, I have to see if I can see any of that, those clusters visually. So. Absolutely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very cool. Okay. Thank you, Adrian. Alright. So, calling we
will go next to Nathan Helener Nestleman and he he blew me
away this week by submitting a
submitting a a very nice film. Uh apparently he's done the
music for this film. He did all the editing. He did it. He put the whole thing together. Uh I think it's very inspiring but
I'll let Nathan describe this this the his new film short and
I think that everybody should watch it because it is it is just that. It's very inspiring
and it I I watched the I thought I would just watch like
a couple of minutes to make sure I got the file over and everything. Um but I ended up
watching it twice. So, thank you Nathan and I'm going to turn it over to you, man.
Alright, I'm I'm glad to be back on the Global Star Party. It's it's great to see you all
and I think one of the main reasons that I created this film was the moment that I realized that the entire Apollo
program happened within a decade. Like from John F Kennedy's speech to the actual
Apollo 11 landing was less than seven years. And this Artemis which Artemis one happens to be
launching tonight if all goes well. Uh has been in development since what is it?
Two thousand4? So it just got me Thinking about how the space age suddenly became so
political And after the Cold War, it just kind of fizzled
out. So, I wanted to kind of create a film to reflect on that. Just as we enter this
glorious next space age with Artemis and everything. And I wanted to talk a little bit
about in the film. Um, just sort of the optimism that
everyone's going to have, like, now that we're actually taking that jump, going back to the moon. Um, And I think it's not
going to stop at this time. Like it might have fizzled out with the space race in the
1960s and 70s but it's not going to stop this time because this is a different kind of
space age. It's one that the entire world is doing. Together at the same time and that's
self-sustaining. So without further ado Scott if you would
yeah I think we're good. Alright. Let's do this and and
the title of this film is? Uh this film is called Seeing Beyond. Great and here we go.
20 22. Now, finally, we're ready to head back to the moon. Our ambitions are higher than
ever but we're still just drifting out there. Where are we going to end up? Are we going to roam the cosmos for
billions of years? What is going to happen once we finally take that giant leap into the
universe?
If we could land humans on the moon in the nineteen sixties,
what are we capable of achieving today? We are about to enter a new global space age and we are never going to turn
back. In the coming centuries, Mars is truly just the beginning. What really is our
full potential? We could eventually become a galactic
civilization. Maybe even intergalactic. But where do we even start?
We are more connected on a planetary level than we've ever been before. The world is suddenly accessible to people.
It's so easy to forget that we're all just floating out there on this fragile blue planet. But going beyond the
earth, it's more than just an adventure. It's about inspiring the population and in fact,
it's necessary for the long-term survival of our species.
Unfortunately, rockets once again are not just being aimed at distant worlds but between
raveling nations. Divided by borders that don't even physically exist on a fragile
planet, it's dangerous for destructive power. We've amassed out of conflict. The power to end our entire
civilization in one single nuclear tempest. If we aren't careful, we might end the space
age before it's even begun.
However big you think the universe is, it is bigger than that. So far, we have reached
one single plan out of an estimated ten septilion worlds in the universe. How can we possibly stop with just that?
What incredible sight s await us out there?
Billions of planets, Each with their own mountains and skies and oceans, sunrises, and
sunsets of their own stars, their own moons. Perhaps even alien life forms. All of which
we may never know.
Faced with the staggering amount of the universe, we may never visit. It instills a
sense of absolute insignificance. But we can't forget that we are part of it too. We are made of star stuff.
We have existed for such a fleeting instant in the story of the universe. And yet in
that time, we've managed to understand it, to understand our place in it, and we've
reached it ourselves. We built a space station. We've been to the moon before and now
finally, we're going back. One day, we will travel to other stars. Most certainly, not
during our lifetimes but one day, people will and whoever they are, they're actually depending on us. This century
to kick start the next space age and take that jump into the universe. even if we're headed
for other stars, where exactly are we going to end up? In the end, there doesn't have to be
any deep meaning to it. If for nothing more than to satisfy our curiosity, our urge to
explore, why wouldn't we want to strive for intergalactic civilization even if there's no
big purpose to it, why wouldn't we want to set foot on other worlds, travel to other stars,
and become a meaningful part of the universe, and maybe 1 day, we'll be out there. We'll take
that giant into the universe and will never turn back.
The fundamental rule in this universe is that everything ends. Stars burn out, planets
disintegrate. Everything eventually dies. So let's hope that in the quadrillion or so
years, we have to prosper in this universe. We extend our reach as far as possible.
Traveling to other stars, other galaxies. Let's hope that by the time the last human is born, we have extended to the
farthest corners of the cosmos and let's hope that the end isn't here on Earth after some
nuclear war but out there in the most Universe imaginable.
We have the privilege of being alive in the universe's golden age And once we return to the
moon, we will not stop there. If we work together as a species, build on each other's
ideas, and never stop exploring, the gateway to the universe is open.
Scott, I think you're muted. You're right. Okay, good. Now,
you gotta start all over including the wow. Everybody need to hear that. So, because
it was your really just an amazing production there, Nathan. So, I hope that you
share that a lot with other astronomy clubs and other
programs. So, it because I will certainly be recommending that people have you on their on
their special program where you can you can come in via Zoom
and do that because really I can tell there was a lot of work and really enjoy the music
with it and all the visualizations and stuff that you picked and edited are are
great. So. Thank you. Alright. Um I think the film was also an
excuse to take the synthesizer out for a spin again. So. Wow.
Yeah. I I had the privilege of having a subwoofer with a connected to my computer sound.
So, the low notes that you use really resonate as a part of
the the music and the the music you put behind it. Um had it
rattling the whole house. So, great choice there and definitely, I I looked at that
and it just instantly we were talking about pale blue dot. I think John, I think John Goss is here and this channels that
spirit and updates it for twenty twenty-two and for for
the youth. Uh it it it looks like it fits into that next
level of you know, if if pale blue dot maybe too old for
someone to watch, watch your video. They'll get the same gist of what what Carl Sagan
was trying to say in what we all, what we're all basically saying, there's more to life
than just what's in front of our face here on Earth and we do need to protect it because
it's our only home right now until we learn to travel elsewhere. Yeah, I think. Wow.
I would have enjoyed it. That's my, that's my take on it. Um,
yeah, I thought it was an excellent video. Thank you. Um, I'll put the link down in the
comments. Excellent. Yeah and I'll share that for the for the
audience. So, Nathan, is there anything else that you'd like to kind of wrap
up with here at this point or? Um not really except that I'm hoping to make a sequel
sometime sometime, I don't know when But other than that, yeah,
thanks for thanks for letting me share that. Awesome. Okay. Alright, that's great. Alright.
So, we are going to
see some more videos. This is about, this is a short series
of videos available by the way from NASA. You can also get,
you can download these videos from NASA and ESA, Um you know,
I'm often looking at what they make available as far as a you
know, something you can share on an educational level and so the this is this is three
videos, short video shorts about Hubble and then went about the James West Space
Telescopes. So, here we go.
We, the people, own hubble It is a part of our culture and
treasure in. When there was a possibility that this servicing
mission might not happen, there was a huge outcry. Not just from the scientists, but from
the members of the public themselves, people who are not scientists, they are the ones
who wrote letters and made phone calls and sent faxes to try to get that changed. Hubble
has revolutionized our understanding of the cosmos and they've given it our children a much clearer and newer view
than we had when we were children. But with this servicing mission, we're going to be expanding our
vision even further, giving of our children a bigger and more fascinating universe to grow
and learn and wonder about.
So, if I had to think of three words that I would use to characterize the legacy of
Hubble for all of us in the future. Those words would be vision hope, and triumph. You
know, Hubble is not just a machine. You're more than a telescope and more than the cameras and the equipment. It's
a vast network of people who conceived and built and operate
and appreciate this incredible tool. It's the spacecraft builders, not only the
scientists, but the engineers, the technicians, bureaucrats, politicians, and everybody who
work together to make Khabla reality and to keep it a reality. They had to have vision. They had to have hope
and then ultimately, there was the triumph of seeing it come to fruition. Astronomer from
all around this globe use. The telescope scientists from everywhere have the hope of
using this fabulous machine. It's a triumph of hubble that
it can probe all aspects of from the planets to the cosmos,
to galaxies, to everything in between. Star formation, galaxy
formation. The tools on Hubble have given us the vision needed to study this. But these images
are transformed in our imaginations. And they have captured the imagination of kids all around the world.
Ordinary people love Hubble. The Hubble story resonates with people because it's the story
of humanity. It's a story of hope. It's the story of darkness. Darkness in which we
eventually triumph.
and of course, the astronaut core, not just the astronauts but the support staff, the
shuttle engineers, thousands of individuals who contributed in myriad ways to making this
program a success. Their vision of a successful mission, hope
of complete accomplishment have led to many triumphs in the past servicing missions. The
efforts of all of these people culminate in the Atlantis mission. The Hollow Space
Telescope has already earned its place in history as a triumph of science in our modern era. Yet, there is more
to see, more to learn, more to ponder, and more to wonder at. This mission will give Hubble
the tools for a marvelous swan song. One more opportunity to probe the Spas Universe and all
that lies within it. As a scientist, as a long time user of Hubble, as a public citizen, and as a parent, I'm going to
be watching this mission with hope for the future. I'll be
marveling at the vision and triumph that Hubble represents and I wish the shuttle crew a
safe flight and a bon voyage.
This interacting galaxy duo called Arp one four three holds the distorted star forming
spiral galaxy NGC two four four5 at the right. Along with its less flashy companion, NGC
two four4 at the left. Astronomers think both galaxies pass through each other.
Igniting the unique triangular shaped firestorm of Starburn.
Because NGC two four four 5 is rich in gas. The fuel of star
formation. It holds Thousands of infant stars. Yet, it hasn't escaped the gravitational
clutches of its partner. The pair is waging a cosmic tug of war and NGC two four four
appears to be winning. The Galaxy has pulled gas from its companion forming the odd vault
triangle of newly minted stars. By a studying head-on galaxy collisions like this, we can
better understand the origins and evolution of ring star formation and galaxies.
Well, the first thing we needed to do is figure out where is the telescopes spacecraft. So,
we waited for the Nerf red camera to
and once we were convinced that it could take images really trying to determine if we
pointed at a bright isolated star, where is the telescopes pointing? So, we we picked a
star that was very bright and didn't have any stars near it that would contaminate the image. We know that the primary
mirror segments aren't aligned yet. So, we so they actually act like eighteen separate telescopes and we expect to see
eighteen separate images. One for each mirror that are a little bit blurry at this point
because we haven't aligned or focused anything and so we pointed it a bright star and we
made a mosaic. We actually took the near infrared camera and we took images in different parts of the sky and then we looked
for the eighteen spots from the 18 different telescopes if you will and we are very excited to
find them. They were actually very close to where we were pointing. Um well within our
expected size of where where they might land. And the 18 spots were actually fairly
close to each other as well. So really everything was very close to what was predicted and
much better than what we considered to be worst case pointing. So, we were really excited about that. We also
took a selfie of the primary mirror. We took an image of the primary mirror and that helps
us understand the alignment of the telescopes especially the primary mirror to the the
camera itself and the instruments and initially, that looked good as well. So, so far, the data we have suggest
that what we're seeing matches between our models and the actual data. We're just getting
going but we have now gotten some data looking through focus and we've been able to see that
we don't see any surprises in the shapes of the mirrors that we're looking at. So, so far so good but we do have a long way
to go. We've also now identified which of the eighteen spots is which mirror
and we've done that through a special process that allows us to identify them and at this
point, we even know which ones are from the wings and turns out one of the wings, you can
actually see those three spots are a little further over and that's sort of what we expected. Um so we've
identified all eighteen spots and the next step is to make an array of them. And then we're
ready to start what we call Global Alignment which is when each of those eighteen spots will start to be aligned and
focused. And that's sort of the the last step before we take those eighteen spots and put
them on top of each other to start forming a single star from the single star going
through the eighteen separate telescopes. And and that that's the work that will be starting
soon. What selfie is is there's actually a special lens in the near infrared camera that you
can put in and it allows you to take a a picture of the primary mirror itself and in this
particular case, one of the segments is pointing at a star. So, that is the segment that lights up but you can see the
outline through the shadows of all 18 segments and you also can see the outline of what's
inside of the instrument itself and we can see how well that primary mirror and the telescope is aligned to the
instrument and that gives us some initial confidence that the alignment looks good and it's a good starting point for
doing the alignment of the telescopes The first evaluation
images actually came in in the middle of the night and that was just to determine whether the near infrared camera was
working well enough for us to start the alignment and the near cam team, the near freight
camera team, and the telescope team got got together the next morning and looked at the data and everybody was you know,
happy that the the camera was working well enough. Uh so then, we, you know, pointed the
telescopes at this bright isolated star and we started taking the mosaic where we would look at these different
places in the sky and When we pointed the near cam at one particular point pretty early
on, we saw nine of the segments in that one image and everybody basically broke into cheer
because we were so happy. Um it meant that we had basically had figured out where the
telescopes was pointing. Things were work working right and even the spots themselves look like what we had modeled and what we had expected. So, there
there was, you know, people were very happy about that. Uh and then, we've also been evaluating the data as we go.
We did this thing called a focus sweep where we looked at the images through focus and we've been evaluating those in
detail and at this point as well as we can evaluate them, things are matching our models
and so, there is a feeling right now that things are consistent with what we
predicted they would be and and predict and what the model said they should be and that's all you can ask for as you start a
start a process like this. One of the great spin offs from the James Webb Space Telescopes was
when we were developing the mirrors, we actually developed the technology. We we we funded
a small company to develop a technology that could measure the mirrors at an earlier state. Uh it's a device that
was called a scanning Shack Hartman sensor which is a complicated way of being able saying that you build something
that can measure a mirror that has a lot of curvature early on while you're initially grinding
and polishing the mirror. But that company actually got bought by a larger biomedical
company in order to use this sensor as part of a system that can do LASIK eye surgery. It
has the ability to measure a stigmatism in the eye and so it became part of a biomedical, a larger biomedical company but
the investment in the technology that we did for James Webb led directly to that
technology then being part of this future spin off. Um yeah, I actually am legally blind in
my left eye. It's one of the reasons I got involved in optics. Um I have like 2500
vision in one eye and as I was growing up, I was always very interested in understanding how
I could do depth perception and how the eye worked and whether a way that I could you know do
something to help my eye and so it just it just got me interested in optics. It's one of the reasons I studied optics. Um and there's
definitely overlap between ophthalmology and and how you deal with eyes and and how you
deal with telescopes. Um and one of the real interesting ones is you have a pupil in your eye. Well in a telescope
the primary mirror is the pupil. That's the pupil, the system, the related bio optics and so we use a lot of similar
things and and kind of I feel like I've going back to the original reason I got interested in optics and
thinking about, you know, how it relates to the eye.
Okay. Well, guys, we're going to take a 10 or 12-minute break here and then we'll be
back with more speakers and so,
now is a good time to go get that sandwich or that cup of coffee and we'll be back with
more.
Uh well, I think I might head off now but that backdrop I really, really should, I could
use that in my next film actually. very very cosmic.
Very cosmic huh? Yep. I forget exactly where I got it from.
But there are a number of these things that you can download
from you know, video clip sites and stuff like that. So,
Nathan, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Yeah. Yeah. It's great to be back. Look forward to having
you next time. Awesome. Alright. See you guys. See you
Nathan. Good work. Thank you.
Well, all of you out there watching this stream have 25
seconds to post something and get famous.
Well, everybody. Thank you for letting us have that little break Um I'm excited just like
you guys are about seeing the Artemis launch tonight. Uh you
know, let's keep our fingers crossed for, you know, a an earlier launch window or
towards the earlier part of the launch window there rather than later. So, but up next is
Nicolas Arias. He is known as Nico the Hammer because he's
he's a gifted drummer and you know, one of these days, I'm
going to have to have you play some live drums, Nico. It'll be awesome. Uh but Nico happens to
be an incredibly gifted astrophotographer and the thing I really admire about Nico is
that he likes some of his friends have been able produce
extremely fine images, even science images with modest equipment and you know, there
are a lot of people who spend big bucks getting what these guys produce and really boils
down to their own skills. So, Nico, thanks for coming on to Global Star Party with us.
Thank you, Scott. How are you? How are you guys? Great. I'm really happy to to be back in
the CSP. Was a a few weeks that I I was complicated with the
with those days but I I made the arrangements to be here tonight. So it's it's really
nice to see you. And as you say it's good, we hope that our team is finally launched
tonight. Eh I can't promise to be awake because it's going to
be a 3 AM here but that's what I'm doing. So, you know. Yeah,
we'll we'll try. We'll send an alarm and hope to wake up. Right. Right. Okay. Do you see
it? Let me share my screen.
Can you see it?
Okay. Well I will start with this. Finally, one day, the, my
adoption started walking. I finally decide to to make a a
go-to system for for get tracking in my in my dog's
onion. You know, I I always made a planetary machine or
some astronomy and photometry with my my making a a hand
dragging. I finally found a a system that is really eh simple
because I I didn't want to to modify the the original mount.
More than a few eh screws. So I
I found this system all printed in in a 3D printer. And eh
with a a friend that knows a lot of eh electronics, make a big go- system that can
communicate with two motor drives and eh use this three D
printed eh parts and is working
I I need to to fix some some
things but it's it's working fine. They they go to system work fine and the the track the
tracking for planetary machine is amazing. Eh I can now I I
was throwing away a lot of eh dark frames or moving frames and it's it was a really hard
work to be 10 or 15 minutes moving the laps on and while
recording and this was a really nice solution, you can see the the altitude eh drive here and
the assimil drive here and the assimilate I need to make a a reduction to to some backlash
but it's working great. Here is a a screenshot of eh how I work
with the Pico two server eh and Cartes Lucier to synchronize
and and and drag. I have here a
a short video that I I captured with my cellphone on the laptop
screen where you can see the at eh 600 magnification that this
is the, the, the backlash move, I, I want to correct in the attimos, but it's amazing to,
to do planetary with the, with the tracking system, I am so happy. Eh, I have, haven't, eh,
night with wood, a really good thing, but eh, I was still
practicing and eh I get this image the last eh, last week,
of Jupiter, with eh, you can see here Ganime,
as I always say, you you can do a lot of things even with your
hand dragging systems with adaptonian, with any other telescopes but in this case, at
this magnification have the dragon system is amazing and
you can, you can do it with a really low-cost was almost a a
home you you do it in your home if you you you can download the
the all the tutorials to make the electronics, and all you need to, to buy a, a a few
things. this is another test on
the on the A live with a sound spot and the same
of the videos I I capture and you can see some some details
on seeing details that, making, with the handwriting was really
hard because I lost all the, the peripheral information, and
Well, with a a really nice improvement. And talking about
the new lights, can you recognize this? This is scope. Scott, I get my, my first
explore certificate scope. Eh, I was eh visiting Cesar and I
get my, my first flight eh apogramatic. Eh, because I I'm
starting eh to to go to my
kid's school and show the kids the moon and it's it's a really nice scope, eh, comfortable for
child. And even you can see here a live view picture that I
take eh of eh 4-seven to Canaje. With the the SEW SP
Boni camera. And it's only two second exposure in a live view
of 30 seconds. Eh is really really nice this little scope. Eh you can do even
astrophotography. Eh so great. great work Scott. A great
photographer too. Yeah, thank you. Um well, today I I was to
to make my son kindergarten. They are four years old, kids. And I was talking about the the
planets and the kids asked me a lot of things and I I bring the
this scope to show the kids that never see a telescope how a telescope is. Because we
planning to to make some daylight observation of the moon and eh it's really nice to
to work with kids and and to show and to the they were so excited. So with with a a
really nice eh morning and well I will show you when when we
make the the event eh with the moon I will I will bring some
pictures of the the kids and the school eh it was was a a really nice first experience
teaching kids about astro me was really hard to to think eh
what to talk about because they are, they are kids, eh, but eh,
they are amazing, they, they ask about the planet and they know every planet's name and
was a beautiful experience there. Mm. I am, I am really
happy. So, well, this, this was my, My my news and my latest
words and I will continue to learn to to get the best result
with the tracking system in my is a really new world. I I am
seeing that is a, is a big, a big step. Yeah, how long did it
take for you to put the whole system together? Oh, was was really simple. Let me show
again the, the picture, because was, maybe, 20 screws. Almost.
Because eh You can see here we have two screws for the model
altitude. Mhm. Each part has another four screws. And the
the bottom part is the same. Two screws for the motor or eh the holder. And eh here in the
guides of the all the circumference. Yes I maybe eh eight or 10 screw about was
maybe 15 minutes eh and it's it's really simple. I was I
take a long time to, to pick what kind of modernization I want to make, because I don't
want to, to cut, or modification the, or make a big modification in the mount, And
when I found this 3D model, I it's, I I said, is this, what,
what I need, because you can adapt eh in, in the, in the 3D
software, for the, the size of your equipment and how your
your equipment moves and it was really really simple to to mount this, maybe 15 minutes,
and now I, I need to, to continue to improving, to get
a, a really smooth eh dragon but works really, really great.
That's great. Yeah, I see those, those big grey gears on there. Would those also 3D
printed or? Uh the, you, you see there, there are simult parts? Yes. It was an there are
seven parts that ensemble and you put eh one after the other.
Okay. But yeah, it's, it's really, you can do it in your home, if you have a 3D printer.
I call my friend, I say, I will send you files and print this. I was one day printing and it
was really fast. So, the it's all 3D printed. Correct? All 3D
printer except the the the models and the electronics. Wow. Okay. Yeah. So Tim Tim
Myers watching on YouTube. He says did you have any preloading on the gears to
remove the backlash backlash? He says it looked amazing. Uh
no I didn't have a you can program in the big go to server
has a few parameters and there is one that is to compensate
the the backlash that eh I was I, I mean, this system, I, I
don't know any other guy that mounted on my samoscope, so it
was, I, I was trying different values in the backlash, to make
the, the correct eh, acceleration of the motor and it fits almost perfect. I need
to, to improve the reduction systems, to, to make it eh smooth but it works great.
Wonderful. Okay. Well, great. Uh thanks again Nico. and
You've got. Yeah. I will hear. I will be here. Okay. Alright. Thanks. Okay. So, next up, we
will we're going to stay down in Argentina. Uh where Nico lives and go to Maxi Falari's
Maxi's been on our program several times. Uh also in Astrophotography and also someone who's done amazing work
with very with modest equipment and turned out some amazing
stuff. So, Maxi I'm going to turn it over to you. Thanks. Thank you, Scott.
Good night, everyone. Uh well done, Nico with that dub, Sonia.
I I'm I'm proud of you. Welcome to the motors. Wow. Ehm eh
thank you for inviting me again and eh I what I'm going to show you tonight is what I'll be
doing last week eh because if you remember I was with my eh equipment outside but me here
in my home but they couldn't outside and trying to do some eh Mos to
eh to take eh in M 42 and in a galaxy places and ah I was
searching how to process that because this was my my first eh step in that kind of eh
pictures eh let me share my screen.
Okay. So, what we have here I
took pictures of M42 and do and I did the four ehm blogs eh and
square for my sensor. So if you see this, This is a corner The
next one is like this.
the another one but the the software and when I
well I I use the CWO as your plus and this eh when you do
the plan section eh you can choose how much the Between the
frame is going to put together. Eh in above all eh each other.
So when I did this eh stack this for eh eh frames eh was
taking eh ten frames of 1 minute. Eh at game one hundred
and one. And then when I start that image I have something
like this. and you can see I use ehm an H
eh F for ehm sorry eh H eh inches F four and remember that
one frame was practically like that the another one was this
part the another one was this part and then another one was this part and this took me over
almost 40 minutes only eh was almost systematically
systematized I think if you see
this eh field of view eh when you zoom it, you don't lose
details, eh with the with the enable usity and the stars and
well eh this this is only was a test and I was eh I was really
really happy eh doing this. You can see some halos here in the Brighton Stars. That's why I
use ehm higher and UV pass
filter, so this is the, the reflection that has this eh
filter, but anyway, it looks really, really nice. So I I
have to get practicing, I think, in the addition eh, I had to see if I can do in the
NGC eh thirteen ninety-nine, you can see there's a lot of
galaxies in this place, and the objective of this, it was eh
stuck eh nearby the NGC thirty thirteen 65. Yeah, this is a
really good galaxy but this was also 2 minutes picture and and
in a pollution, light pollution area, hear my sound, but I have
to see if I can do something, eh practicing, and see what was
happen. And you know, they, they, they tend to process this
in one image is really really hard because you have to give
your time to eh to wait how the the program does the process.
So prepare a coffee, take a mate, something and then if you
don't like it you have to go back and try again. Mm. So but anyway, it worth it. Eh it
really really worth it. It's it's amazing Maxi because eh if you didn't show the the four
frames before eh is a really smooth image eh is is amazing
the the how how it merge in in the borders. Yeah that that's something that eh that does eh
peaks inside when you do eh the the the process I think it was ehm mosaic merge or something
like that eh that you can do the eh eh what we eh when you
stuck eh between the the frames you will see the the line of
the of the limit of one frame and each other but this process
ehm makes some kind of eh shape
put out that and leave the the the information
Anyway, this is only a practicing eh and I was trying
to to do that Ah I think I don't know if I can see this
one, no, this is going to be enormous, no, I, it doesn't
happen. so eh I last week I
also create a new Instagram page eh from myself that I that
is going to be dedicated eh to Astrophotography I have my own
one to where I maybe I will upload some pictures but also my my private life for for
example but this is one I I I don't want to mix too much because I I like to share the
in this case eh everything about us eh after photography. So sorry, I, it was, in my
Instagram page, it's going to
it's called eh astronomy okay.
This is my Instagram page and I did this eh reprocessing of the
eh chicken at the beginning of this year in January eh because
I I didn't upload this picture eh in the social media. So I
work again with this image. Try to see what can do
this is was the the final image that I take but that I did.
This is was a really really good one comet. Eh I hope that
I can I could the the mosaic because this eh was really long
but anyway eh I have the the core, the the gel, the sodium
gel and this galaxies they are really far away. and so I'm I'm
really really glad to capture this and reprocess again this. So
also what I want to show you is, this is more like, this is
not mine, eh, but eh, this is, I think it was a wallpaper that
I searched in two thousand five, because I was this
afternoon searching some old pictures eh from school and everything, and I found this
one, and this picture I remember that I put it eh on my
cell phone eh three hundred and sixty. It was the model, it was
really, really old with, with this club eh, or flip, and I
remember that I put it on to for a wallpaper, and you know,
at that time, I knew that I, I, I was wondering of this kind of pictures, and now I'm realizing
that I'm doing this kind of pictures right now. So never
it's too late. if you wanted
sometimes the life and your eh the the thing that you do is
going to eh put you on the way to to get to there so if you
getting started right now don't eh eh don't don't mess with
yourself and also eh if you not starting and if you want to
start you know I have to start some time. So eh never is too
late to start eh in this eh amazing eh hobby eh and some
kind of professional in some way but I I don't like to say in every professional because
you always eh learn something eh with the passing days so
well this is my little presentation for tonight. I I hope that you like it and well,
I hope to see you next week. If I could. Thank you very much, Maxi. Beautiful images and
always interesting. Uh thanks for coming on. Thanks to you.
Okay. So, up next is Cesar Brollo. We had up to to Brazil
and Cesar has recently been
given a special award from the International Dark Sky Association which is fantastic
for all of his work that he's done to champion dark skies and be a defender of dark skies in
in Brazil. Um so, I think he's an inspiration to to all of us.
Cesar, I'm going to have you. Come on. Thank you for being a part of Global Star Party
again. high squats. Here's Marcel. Oh,
Mark. I'm sorry. It is. Marcelo did I say Cesar? Wrong. Yeah.
I'm very sorry. Part of You know what that reminds me of?
Um. It's when the Universe And they get they gave the award to
the wrong, to the wrong person. Did mean Marcelo and it is a
fantastic job that he's doing to protect dark skies and well
deserved. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for the invitation. Nice to be with
you all of you. Uh today I I we
are near tomorrow man. These nights I think here in Brazil. That's what happened to Laos
after the attempt. It's won. I I remember when Apollo
Astronaut was this that he was here in Brazil. Let me share here my school.
Yeah, yeah. Yes. Okay. Uh on a
moment. Uh yes. Here is a one a beautiful picture of with the
moon. And I don't know the time in United States there happened the launch. Because I have
different time zones. But here in Brazil I think that they will begin to try 3 AM here in
Brazil. Mhm. This night. 6 AM. 6 AM UTC right? A six four eh
you UT. Yes. Universal time. Yeah. Eastern time is one oh
one one oh 4 AM. I think that changes your time is on low
response. Because now it's three hours a difference between us. We have a different
time is on. Hey, I speak to Athens. And the
here is how you can compare the Saturn five and the SOS. Well,
SOS, this is the block one. That has 98 meters and the
Saturn five almost one hundred and eleven meters. And but the
SEOS block two will have the same size of the Saturn five.
Almost one hundred and11 meters. That's a and something
that is fantastic is because the first lounge of oops sorry,
sorry. The first lounge of the five was November, nine, 90,
six, 7. And the first launch, now you have delay, isn't it? Then we happen November 16th, 2
thousand 22. And the diameter the Apollo, the five had almost
10 meters. And this has eight eight meters and a half almost.
But the SOS is most powerful than the Saturn five. Even it
is a small smaller. But it's not this that I want to show. I
I want to show this image. Here is the launch of the
eh Apollo Mission seven five in eh July sixteen Eh 19 69. and
these are the crew and everybody knows we have the new
Armstrong Michael Corleys and the but eh here in Brazil the
first time in Brazilde eh made eh a presentation was here in
our seats. 40 years later when they celebrated 40 years of the launch of their revista
I had to wait 40 years. Otherwise The first presentation that he made in
Brazil. And here is on the moon. And here is the
announcement. eh
eh two thousand nine. here our seats. He visited us here. And
he Adpixes
eh visuais, mi and Marcos Pontes de Brazil Astronox.
Em All City Campos de Goytacaze you have a problem. We know the
history. What's this? Uh we got the resources to bring him to our seats. But one day before
here we we arrive in Brazil. We didn't have fly to bring him
from I then I ask help to my friends
that has a had a radio program in the morning in the beginning
of the Mohane he said to me come in my program and say what's happening we are going to find a solution then I said
in the in the radio program we arrive tomorrow but we need a
flight to bring him to campus we don't have a flight to bring it into wow then minutes later
after the end of the program, I received a call and I received a number of phone number. And
he said, this is the funny number of the farmer, minister of defense, or in Brazil. You
call him now. He will find your flight to bring Brazil and to
Cobras. And I made a call and in 2 hours, we had a flight.
Wow. That's it from the Brazilian army. I have five from the Brazilian as the
minister of the Brazilian arm. That's I was talking with him
directly. Someone helped me. We are located at 270 kilometers
from the capital of our states. In the north region of states. And the the Samuel knew the
ministry. That's why he's possible. For the audio Brazilian arms and the centre
his phone number and I talk with him and he said to me, no
problem, You have a fight. And this is a a Brazilian army
airplane that brought him to our city. Here when he arrived
here, I I here the sound, can you hear me? Yeah, we can hear. Yes. Can you hear me now? Yes.
Yes, we can. It's a little bit better, Marcelo. Yeah, it is better. Okay. I needed to
change here. One a moment. I time to move here. Can you hear clear because the sound I I I
will show something that is fantastic. When a moment that I needed to change on one thing
here. Uh okay. I think that will work. Uh I'm back here.
this is what happened when he arrived here at the airport. We have a lot of students there
and I I hope you can listen what he says. Well a mom said
that we open here in the presentation. I hope so. That is a
news, TV news, where is Oh, sorry. Uh it's not working.
What a moment. I'll try to open here.
Wait, what's happening? I hear Let me see if you can
listen. What's said? When he
arrived here. What's Ronaldo? Yes, we hear it.
para participar de um evento de comemoração dos quarenta anos da missão Apolo onze. O
astronauta foi recebido por estudantes de escolas públicas que fizeram uma apresentação
musical.
Perguntado sobre a visita ao Brasil Audrey disse que a recepção foi bem melhor do que
pousar na Lua. Lá não tinha ninguém me esperando. Brincou o astronauta. Para world come
where where where don the bool.
Astronauta brasileiro Marcos Pontes que também vai
em novembro. Eles de Brasília acham da
Brasil mais tarde você imagina se ele pudesse falar de fantástico com ele que é parte
da história. Então está aí. Eu acho que a gente tem que
ah meu está
e
TV program. on the TV. It is available. Yeah, I had a TV
program during nine years here in Brazil. A weekly TV program during 90 years. Here It's
Wednesday out in there but I will show here a short video about what he said. Uh on a
moment. Uh how are you changing man? Thank you. He's a shorty
video. Let me see if you can listen. As we enter, travel
around the world Um speaking in different countries after our
fight. It's possible to listen. Yes. We can hear. Yes, Marcel.
We did it. that we participate
And I think that in which to do
things mankind.
Person ally. Yes. I was able to read available on merrily
because of the education system that we had, that I had growing
up and and by taking good advantage of things that came
along and and volunteered
opportunities of of learning new and different things. I
chose early in life, to serve
my country through education and the military academy, and
from there to become a challenge but exciting fighter
pilot. It's, in combat, in Victorian War. as I know the
path, I any of those experiences for They built a
my fellow when I went to a camp as a youngster, my favorite how
to get along with and and I
think the lessons that that you with you for the rest of to
seek to be all that you could be in whatever your chosen
perfection Not all of us.
opportunity to go to the Or to go to Mars? there are challenges for each and every
verses throughout your life. So meet those challenges with
honesty, integrity, and respect. for your teachers, and
for your parents these are the brides to your life. world
await. Your life successful and happiness. good luck to all of
X 1.
Excellent. Marcelo, thank you for for sharing that. It's fantastic for us. First time he
made a presentation. During the night, he made this presentation. This is the big theater of our city. That you
know here, you know. The Triano Theatre. Yeah. The major presentation here. was the
first time he made a presentation in Brazil He has the opening ceremony of the at
night. Here our group with him. No. Mhm Outsider e Philco
Anda eu dizia
lá de Fatima. Mission Apollo
17. Then in December 19 Yeah.
They had done to us. And now this lounge that you have been
this night. It's a the beginning to return. They return to the moon. Yeah. I
hope soon will be there again with heavy eh humans, humans on
the moon again. And this is what we expect. This is the last mission. To the moon,
Apostle 17. Hm. And they have a fantastic maze is that eh I
hope soon we can see this images again. And here's
something that's happened here. That is our we have aisle here
in our university. And why is this why I spend was built 25
years ago. Is a vet comes on aisle. And now the stage of the
sound Irish is. They are destroying the Sundire. We are doing a campaign to that they
fix Sandal. They will have again Sandal there. Here is me
there. This is my university. And this is how is this Sunday?
This is the best place in university but they are just trying this online. Unfortunately. That was built
five years ago. And it was the first scenario. In our city here. In Brazil. I suppose.
This is unfortunately what happens. here.
He's almost destroyed. Hm. Well, I think that's it. If you
want fix the problems, soon, we realize.
Tanto ali destrói eles.
e Fevery Thing Wa ah presidential
events. We are preparing our 50th international meeting here. That's happening in April
27 29. You are invited Scott to be with us. How are you here?
We'll be very welcome here in Brazil. And we we hope it will
be a moment to celebrate new times. Yes. And And the new
Shabbos that you're up here. No you can solve this new challenge. Yes. Thank you very much for the invitation. Every
it's a great pleasure to be here. With you and all of you. Thank you very much. Yeah. And
Marcelo I posted your article in on the Dark Sky. org website
about your efforts to protect dark skies there. So yeah and
sorry for my mistake. We are
Latins. Thinking you know a little ahead of myself. But anyways, thank you so much and
and we'll see you hopefully next Global Star Party. It will be a pleasure. It'll be here.
Oh, okay. Thank you. Alright. So, up next is Doctor Daniel
Barth Uh Daniel is famous on
our programming. He does weekly program called How Do You Know where he shows you know,
through simple hands-on science. Uh you know, inexpensive, hands-on science
activities.
like the moon is round for example. You know, so but you
know, a lot of us just take for granted the scientific
so-called facts out there and we just kind of throw them out there but you know, how do you really know? But Doctor Barth
is always there to tell us. So, Daniel, thanks for coming on to Global Star Party. Hey, thanks
Scott and evening, every Buddy. Uh it's a fun evening here. Just I logged on a little bit
late. I was doing a planetarium show for a local elementary school. Uh in Bentonville about
an hour away from my house. And I do about 20 of these a year and there there are loads of
fun And it's really great to get children into an inflatable
planetarium. And we're showing them the constellations and things. And we're like yay. Who have had fun tonight? And of
tears and I tell them remember not to tell your teacher that I'm funnier than she is and
don't tell your teacher that you had more fun in my planetarium than you do in her class. And the kids all laugh
and they think that's great. But lots of fun and hurried home so I could be here with you guys. And I I love the
topic. I don't I don't always present on Global Star Party. Something of a challenge for me
because it's an evening program and my day starts at 5: 30 AM
And I get up for early morning classes and all that sort of stuff. But I saw the topic this
week. Uh looking at light and I said, Scott, it's just gotta do. I gotta join. I gotta do
this this week. Because there's such exciting things. You think about when we take our
telescopes out and we take our binoculars out. And we look out into space. What we're really
doing is we're looking out away from the sun. You think about the earth rotating and as it
carries us around across the Terminator. And we're now looking at the Night Sky. The Night Sky is by definition away
from the sun. And I once had a university administrator asked
me why I had to do all my labs at night and I equipped. There was only one star during the day and it got kind of boring
after a while. We needed to see more stuff. But if you want to see more stuff, you look away from the sun. Interestingly,
the folks at Cerro Tololo observatory They're using a
dark energy camera. They're hunting for dark energy and they're using this really
highly sensitive, wide-field camera and they're using this to look for dark energy but
they're also using it for other things and what they're trying to do now is instead of looking
at the sky away from the sun, they're trying to look at the sky toward the sun. Not during
the daytime, what they're doing is they're hunting asteroids that orbit and cross the
Earth's orbit or orbit inside the air sorbit. We know about inferior plants, Mercury, and
Venus and superior planets Jupiter, Saturn, and the rest of the boys in the band. Well,
let me submit that an inferior asteroid would be something that orderer did closer to the
sun than we are. How do you find these things? And how many
big ones are out there? Because we often hear, we often hear people say, oh no, no, we we
know all the dangerous ones and we we know 95% of what's out there. We're just, we're just
tucking in the corners and nailing down the edges. folks with the Dark Sky cam. It's
particularly suited for asteroid hunting because not only is it highly sensitive but it's very wide field. Uh if
you're going to hunt for an asteroid, you need something wide field because if you're trying to look high magnification, narrow field of
view, you're going to have a lot of searching to do. So, they turn the dark energy
camera and they said, ooh, ooh. We have about a ten-minute window. Imagine friends, if
your window for observing is 10 minutes a day. Once it done,
once at dusk, you get 10 minutes, that's it because at
night, either at you have 10 minutes when you can look close to the sun and then the earth
rotates, carries you across the Terminator. You can't see that part of the sky anymore. During
the day, pre dawn, you get 10 more minutes and then you have to close the shutter because
the sun's coming up and it's going to blind your camera and fry your instruments. So,
they've got just 10 minutes a day, morning, and 10 minutes a day, evening and that's the
whole thing and they've been looking and yes, low and behold, they found asteroids
And you say, oh, little tiny asteroids that make little meteor showers? No, they found
one and a half kilometer killers. Now, we all know about
the famous Cheek Saloub Impact and I hope I'm saying that correctly, friends. The Chicks a little bit impact. Uh
sixty-five or 6 million years ago that wiped out the dinosaurs. pointing out to my
students today. I was saying, we have to teach the controversy but it's good to teach old controversy. We have
to teach science as a process that's not perfect and we have to remind our students the way
Galileo reminded the pope. Don't link your beliefs with your science because beliefs
should be forever and science is always changing but we don't teach science that way. We say,
oh, oh. We have these these great discoveries from these great people, Newton, Galileo,
Copernicus, and we teach as if they're carved on stone tablets and they came down the mountain
and that's not the way science works. I was reminding my
students. I said, if you get to be old enough and you pay enough attention, you'll find that there's a whole lot of stuff you used to know which
isn't true anymore. The title of my lecture was this used to be true. Hm. And the idea was,
oh, we know where all the really big asteroids are. No? We just spotted a one and a half kilometer killer. Now, the
dinosaur killer was about seven to 10 kilometers. This thing,
this new one and a half kilometer asteroid. It crosses the Earth's orbit regularly.
You think about that. A one and a half kilometre monster that crosses the earth's orbit
regularly. What would the impact be like? One and a half million mega tons. yeah, you
think about this and you're like, oh, well, that will scotch the weather depending on where it lands. That will
scotch the the weather and an entire hemisphere. You're talking extinction level event
for lots and lots of species. You're talking about, oh, if you bulls eyed and we we did this on my program and we got
to Purdue Impact Simulator and we said, okay, one and a half kilometer wide asteroid and
let's have it land in Arkansas and it was about fifty miles away from my home but I was
inside the outer crater and we realized the blast effects and the ejector pattern covers
North America We're like, wow, this is really horrible and
every time somebody says, oh, we know them all. I'm like, you know, you need to be prepared to look with new eyes and new
places With new life in order to see these new things. We
make assumptions and we as teachers are guilty of this. We make assumptions and we teach
science as if it's settled. And you hear people say things like
97% of scientists agree. Uh science isn't about polls,
friends. Alright. In the time of in the lifetime of Galileo, I if you ask who believes in
the sun-centered solar system, it would have been what? A couple of dozen very reluctant
hands raised. The rest of the world said, no, no, no, the Earth is the center. When we
with new eyes and new places, with new light, we find new things and anybody who says and
there have been a number of times when scientists, famous scientists have said, oh well, physics is done now. All future
students and physicists are going to do is fiddle with the last couple of decimal places and they have been notoriously
wrong. Notoriously wrong. And
when we when we look at something like this and we go, oh gee, we're looking in a place where we don't usually
look in toward the sun. And we find out, oh gosh, there's a
one and a half kilometer wide asteroid. And there were other very large asteroids out there.
How long did it take them to find this? Oh, a few months. They released this particular
finding. Uh, I think it was the thirty-first of October this year. And they said, oh, by the
way, we found several new asteroids. And this one is 2022
AP seven is the great big monster. And they found a a
2021 LJ 4 and 2021 PH 27. Those are supposedly sick because
they're orbiting completely inside the earth's orbit. Unless they get a gravitational
kick from Venus or Mercury and get accelerated out and a
little more electrical orbit that maybe crosses the earth orbit. Um we need to think and
teach those who come to that science is always changing,
that it's never settled, and it's where we see these little discrepancies. Oh, wait, our
theory agrees with everything and that there's a couple little nagging details here, but we can just tweak the
theory. Science, astronomy is a multi millennia adventure,
where the little niggling details, the little tiny discrepancies were cracks
through which aha. We peered and we found out, oh, we don't
need to tweak our theory. We need a new theory. Because it
was the retrograde motion that puzzled Aristotle and then Tommy came and said, I can save
this theory. Look, we'll just add circles. He added five. And then a couple hundred years, we had 90 circles. And Copernicus
said, oh, no, no, scrap all those darn circles. What we need is a new theory. Let's put the sun in the center. is
famous because he was the first man, the only man in 350 years to make any correction
whatsoever to Newton. and now we have we have scientists who
are looking at newtonian gravitation and they're looking at the way, oh, calaxies don't rotate the way planetary
systems do. These little discrepancies, these little cracks through which emerge new
visions of science when we see with new eyes and new light because we look at new places.
We need to teach science as something that continues to change And program is so
important and Scott gotta gotta really give your, give a hand
to you because this program is so important. My hand to everybody else out there because it is this group of
speakers that make. It is. And the audience makes Global Star Party. It's awesome. So. It is indeed Yeah. Life and sound.
Very pleased to be a part of it. Keep looking up. I would always look at the same old
places. Uh you may just find something new, something amazing. And hopefully we get
and name it after you and it's not something that's going to wipe us all off the mat. That's
right. Like a kilometer and a half asteroid. Which would be that would be Yeah. Yeah. You
you voted for being famous to infamous. Yeah. Infamous. Right? So let's let's hope it's
not a tuck your knees head between your knees and kiss your bottom goodbye. Yeah right. But I just have to
applaud the Saratolo people for whom we have this teeny tiny window Let's look for things
closer to the sun than us. And it's something that as astronomy we never think of. We like oh no we need to wait till
astronomical twilight when the sky is good and dark when we can see fun things.
Williams. It's amazing. Out there in the glare. That's right. It's there in the glare.
Exactly. Yeah. Anyway, I'm off for the evening, friends because my morning starts very
early tomorrow. Yeah. But it's been a joy to be here and Scott and everybody else, thank you very much. Thanks, Daniel.
Thank you. Okay. So, we we are running a schedule and I've
asked Gary Palmer if he could step in for a few minutes. Uh we haven't seen Gary in quite a
while and so it's it's good to have him tune in and to get
reacquainted with this amazing astrophotographer. Gary, it's
all yours, man. Thanks, Scott. Hi to everybody. Thanks for asking me to come on. Has been
a while. Um been busy. That's all I can say. Um really, really busy at the moment. Uh
all sorts of things going on. So, it was a little bit short notice to come on tonight so I
thought well, what should we look at Sun's getting quite busy at the
moment. We've seen lots of different activity on that. So I thought we'd have a delve into that area. Um for the
moment. So I'm just going to move some screens around so I can start sharing mine. I'm going to bring up some stuff
here. Give me 2 seconds. Just get it prepped. And
There we go. Hopefully you can see that. Okay. Yep. We see the
four wavelengths you shot the sun with. Yeah. Um so what I've been doing really over the last
year is is working on a unit that I I had on one of these star parties the Solar Rotary.
And the idea behind this is switching between the different wavelengths that are available. Um to look at the sum. Um what
we're doing with this unit now. We've got one in Spain and there's one here. Um they are
actually going to start being retailed soon. Really over the
next month. Um all of the testing work's been done. Everything seems to work well. But the idea behind this is if
you have separate telescopes separate filters and you're
changing these around, you're switching around. It's really, really hard to get the different wavelengths aligned.
And this was the idea behind the unit was to keep all of the
wavelengths aligned perfectly. We can go back to them time and time again. And the difference
is now, is really with cameras, changing the camera. Now, now these are all mosaics. So
that's what makes this a little bit different, and I thought we'd have a look at how we're doing those now, because we've
automated some of this. Um not all of it. Um some of that
we're still working on and the system we've got running in. Spain that's really the thing
we're playing around with to try and get this all up and running together. So first off
is really how we are getting these together. So there's a
piece of software, three piece of software called planetary system to stack up. Um if you got lots of images. Excuse me a
second. Have you got lots of images? It's a really really easy way of automating part of
the process. And that's the stacking of the SER files. All you need to do is open this up.
So we just go up to the file. Hopefully it'll work in a second. Right. Let me just go
there. So I've probably already done this. Right. Try again. Open up where you've got the
images easier for us from from today just for example. So we
would select some of these. However, many you want. Open
them up. Once they're open. If you go to automatic here, it will more or less do all of
this off the cuff so you don't have to worry about doing any settings. And away it would go.
Um it's going to start working on all of these. Once you hit
the start button now, I'm not going to run that now because it's going to go over what I'm sort of trying to do and and use up a lot of the resources.
But one of the biggest problems with a lot of the systems is you've actually got to sit there and manually do this. Um
When you've got a lot of data coming in and to give you some idea now the systems here in an
hour we can eclipse four 00 gigabyte of data. So, that's a lot to sit there and work with
and I just found that I wasn't getting the images out in a day, you know, 10 years ago,
our cameras were really small. He used to take a bunch of images and over there of a
mount by lunch time. Now, they're taking forever to process just because of the size of the files. Mm. But once
this is run through it, you end up with these all in your folders. you can go off and
sharpen these. So I'm just going to bring a folder on. You would have these come into your folders. You can go off and
sharpen them in registats. Um as a single image. If you're doing mosaics quite often it
works out better. Sharpening them afterwards. But this is one of the data sets. If we
bring up Photoshop again. you'll see these different
images, sodium, magnesium, calcium. And then we're
going to start bringing these images in to do the mosaic. Now, some people will say, well, why use Photoshop? You
can use Microsoft Ice. So, yeah, you can use Microsoft Ice but Microsoft Dice depending on
what you're putting in there will have a meltdown. That is the easiest way of putting it.
It will start throwing images all over the place. So, if I just open up a data set that I
know doesn't work in here, they're just going to grab grab hold of these, drop them in.
Give it a couple of seconds to work it out and there you'll see. It had a meltdown. It's missing half the mosaic. So now
these are all symmetrical. They're all dead flat in the way that their captures running across the sun. So when I
generally capture I would always go from left side to right side and work across. And
then come back. I do this manually. There are some basic
automated systems to do this but I never trust them. Um that's on the short bit.
Mosaics are a lot of work. In general on a any large mosaic
you would have to capture all of this data for the whole disc image in an hour. Anything over
an hour and you're going to get rotation between the top of the image and the bottom of the image. So this is one of the
reasons why we don't use Microsoft Ice for this process. back to Photoshop. If we go to
Photoshop and you go to file, come down to scripts and load
files into stack. go to the folder. I'm just
going to select all of these. Go okay. And then we're
going to attempt automatically align a source images. If it does it and it's all good. If not you're going to sit there
manually putting these together. Hm. Um some of the big mosaics they can take fifty, 60 hours once you start
moving over a hundred, 120 panels on the sun. Wow. So we're click on okay? Let it run
away. Now one thing that you have to do before you put these images in here is crop any
stack lines of? If you don't crop the stack lines off of the single frames, you're going to
end up with lines all over the images and when we go to blend it, Photoshop doesn't like
that. Microsoft Ice, you can get away with that. You don't need to to crop the images but
as I say, it can't always align them. So, it it it's catch 22 on that really. So, it just
give this a couple of seconds and it it will run through what it's doing.
So, it's this fairly new in Photoshop where it's doing a better job of. It's been there
in the mosaics. Cos a lot of people don't know about it. Yeah. I've used it for years.
What has got a lot better is the next sequence. Um as you've got more and more updates in
Photoshop, there's been things added. Um and they've made our
final result a lot better is the easiest way of putting this. Yeah. Um so. I've seen
you stitch stuff together before. You did a four-panel mosaic on the moon and I
watched you stitched it fairly quickly and and nailed it. It just take a little bit longer.
So, if we just. Yeah. Go back to the full image. There we go. So, you'll see that there's
slightly different intensities here and that could be anything. It it could be high
clouds coming through. There's all sorts of issues. Hm. Generally in Lunar, you don't see that. So, you can use
exactly the same process on lunar mosaics. And I quite often do is just for a bit of fun. Once we've got these all
here, if there's one that's really, really bright, then it's a good idea to adjust it,
but if they're all fairly similar, I'm going to try this now, we'll see how it goes, but
if not, I would just go and select one of these panels. Maybe that one there for
instance, and then just very slightly adjust the brightness on it. So we're just going to
darken it up a little touch. Can you see what I mean? So you're just adjusting that. So
it sort of matches in a little bit more with the panel next to it. Sensitive. Very sensitive
because what it's going to do now is we can go to select all layers. And then we can go to
the edit menu and we can go down and go auto blends the layers. We do it in panorama
mode and we also tick on this seamless tones and colours. Um and content aware. Full
transparent areas. One of the biggest problems of doing solar mosaics. And this has always
been a a real bug there and it can happen with a lunar as well. Is this dark area out
here? It is real pain to match. There is no easy process. If
this is slightly brighter on this side to the next panel next to it, there are all sorts
of problems in getting this together afterwards and you really have to go in here and master all of the edge out and
try and blend it and over the years, it's caused lots of problems. This little area in
Photoshop now, it's been updated. Mm hmm. Just makes it so easy. So, we're just going to click okay on that.
and there we go. One full disc of the sun. You'll see how it's
matched in the intensities on the edges. So we've got no sort of bright areas there. It's
brought everything together. Now what we can do is is just flatten the image. So if we right click on one of the one
of the layers there which is flatten the image and then deselect
And there's our solar image. Now what we've got to do is use our colour. And we would do this for each one. Um so in
this particular case we go to mode. Switch it into grey
scale. And then go mode again and make sure it's 8 bit. So add the colour in properly. It needs to be an 8 bit mode. We
go to mode again. Then go to Duetone. And then we would set up our colour palette. So this
one is pretty much okay for hydrogen alpha. Depends on your
colour choice. Remember it's always down to you. And once we got that we would switch it into RGB mode. And then the
Wiltshire oyster. It's your choice on the colours. Go to colour balance. And we would start adjusting the colours. So
what we want. And again as I said this is different for every single person.
Let's just use that as an example. If you want to get the red out of the background, if you go to adjustments and
contrast and then select the legacy mode. That will drop down the background very
slightly. And embrace the intensity, make it brighter on the surface. And then what we
can do is is go down to adjustments and selective colour. And under the red,
adjust the black down. and then your blacks
Nice. Okay. So, that would be one of them. Then, we would go to our magnesium one. I've done
all of the work on it. So, we would just go to image mode, browse scale 8 bit, and then in
our dual tone, we would change the colors now. So, now we were
looking for a green. So, we're just going to randomly pick something and start to turn it green. That'll work quite well.
And then we would go back in RGB mode. Mhm. And your colour
balanced and adjust it accordingly.
and it's quite hard with green. A lot of people don't like a green sun. It it's they're not
used to seeing the sun in green. So therefore, it's not so easy on the eye but you can
play around with it quite a bit. And then same thing again with your sodium. That's very
similar to your and very similar to your HA. So go into
Duetone, yeah, and maybe just go for a very slightly red color.
Little bit more. Something like that. And then maybe to justice
and so on. And that would be it. That would be how you do it. Other stuff that we're
working on at the moment is something like That's a full disc image all shot in one go.
So that's a new double stack we're working on at the moment. That's going to go on top of this system. Um and the idea of
that is so that we can see any solar flares going off. At any one time. And then try and
automate the system to move in to that solar flare. So there's actually three going on at once here. Yeah. Um what we can do
is is then get the system to hone in the main system or maybe the solar flare there. Um
then if another one goes off under here the problem is, is
when you're looking through the main equipment and using higher resolution or larger
telescopes, you miss 99% of what's going on on the sun. So, there'd be, as it, in this
case, yeah, two or three flares going off, and while you're looking at one of them, you're
missing something that's even bigger on the other side of the sun. So, this is the idea is is
to try and automate it. But this system's actually working quite well because we've got the prominences all in one go.
And there's no Mosaican or anything on this. Little tiny flat bit there but that could
be anything like higher cloud. But you've also got the detail of all of the filaments and any
of the active areas. So that's the sort of stuff we're really working on at the moment. Um
guessing that up and running and and sort of working from there. So let me stop sharing.
Excellent. Beautiful far. That's excellent work. I guess
if it's going to be cloudy, shoot at the sun. You get more data. Yeah, but we've got, you
know, issues with all sorts of stuff. I mean, I was looking through data here and we had a
really bad season sort of last winter season. We went from December to March without
really getting any images here. Um just to due to poor weather and we've had a fairly good
year and then we've hit this winter season again and now we've got exactly the same thing. We're starting to get a
lot of cloud and a lot of storms come through. Um and you're just picking off. You
know four or five hours here and there. So one of the projects that I've been working
on at the moment is on the flying bat and the squid. That's been running since
August. To give you some idea. Yeah. So every time you eat clear observatory's open. And
that's using some of these new dual bound filters. it it's
showing the limits that are there with the filters. So what we're saying now is is on some of the seamless cameras you get
into a set point where maybe 30 hours, 40 hours and after that
it doesn't matter what you do. You're not actually adding anything to the image. Mm. And that's showing up quite well
now and even if you you sort of switch so you might have a mix of images there. Maybe five minutes and 10 minutes. You
know on different nights. Um it doesn't make any difference. You hit a really a brick wall.
It's the easiest way of putting it. Um But you're not seeing it with all of the filters. So
that's why it's taken us since August. Yeah because you're working on, you know, repeated
data. So some of them is into, like I say, 50 hours, some of the others are into sort of 20
hours, and it's seen that the squid part of that only really comes out after about
twenty-five, 30 hours. And it's seeing whether they pull it out or whether they're winding these filters up too tight.
That the not actually picking enough of that data up. So
there there's a lot of different projects we're working on at the moment but a lot of them are time consuming.
so not a lot else is coming out. Great. Great. I guess
Thank you very much. Yeah, muted. Such Gary. Um. No problem. Up next. Excellent
work. Um is Cesar Brollo. Cesar with us here?
I thought I saw him earlier. I did see him earlier. I have a presentation ready if you
want to. Oh, yeah. How about if you go ahead and go on, Adrian? Alright. Well, let me put this
phone down and I will see. I'll start. Slideshow. I've got a
few. Screens here. So, I'm going to share one. It'll be
too. So, what I saw my I saw
the presentation I was asked to do I saw that I had Blood Moon
and so I said, okay. So, I actually found couple of images
from Eclipse Past and I decided to go ahead and just put it all
together in a presentation. So,
this is my presentation, Blood Moon. When the alignment of the sun and the Earth casts a new
light on the moon. And these are affiliations that I'm with.
I'm with University Low Brow Astronomers. Um the Astronomical League. Um this is
the Rask and I'm also a member of Warren Astronomical Society.
Um also in Michigan. So, part of a few clubs and Scott, I need to add the Explore
Scientific the Explorer Alliance tag on there somewhere and he, I gotta add that for
presentations. So, let's See if this works. Here we go. GSP
seventy4. and I shared with the world these four images of me
trying to capture the eclipse. The one in 2022 happened similarly. So, the moon did the
same sort of thing maybe from a different angles as I recall, the moon disappeared from upper
left in the Northern Hemisphere to lower right. Now, we only got to 97%. So, there was this
little part of the moon that is that was lit up, that stayed
lit until the moon until the moon or the moon moved out of
shadow and then more of it began to show up. So, we never got to totality. that kind of
reddening effect and actually I kind of these shots where it
shows partial illumination I think are fascinating because you see all these gradations on
the moon and I have another, I think I do have another one of
these coming up later. Um But I did a little bit of research,
just a little bit. Call me the Common Man astronomer here. And I said, you know, we see the
moon. It has this reddish look. Um, and it isn't necessarily
during the eclipse. Um, we get it loaded to horizon and it
carries kind of this or reddish color now. I looked up this
term rally scattering I believe is houses. I think it's pronounced Raleigh and not
Raley. Raley. Relay? Okay. Alright. Being corrected is.
Raleigh. Raleigh. Is it Raleigh? You know. Anyway. Um we just had Doctor come on and
tell us. Yeah. Science is always changing. So always be willing to learn. Even as
you're doing your presentation. But this scattering is what is responsible essentially for the
view cast on the moon as it rises and as it sets. So these
are these are rising moons. This is a rising last quarter.
Which you don't see as often unless you're up at three in the morning. Again and I think
both hemispheres. If you want to be up to see the waning
moons they usually show up in the sky during the day. But close to the horizon they carry
a similar color. Uh And it this is an interesting image here because you see the moon's a
little above where the belt of Venus is here. As soon as it gets down here it assumes that color. Um this image there, the
moon is actually low on the horizon. It's turning to that reddish orange color. And as
you notice in these images, the Milky Way was visible. That's
going to come into play later as I go through the presentation.
and if you've got smoke in your sky like we did, I know the July of twenty twenty-one, that
cast a reddish hue on the moon as it got up in the sky. Um this is maybe couple of hours
after Moonrise and we had we had smoke in the sky and not I
think of it. I think this was more than a couple hours after Moon Rise because look at where Tyco sits. Tyko is generally
your indicator for how high the moon is on a close up. If it's
to one side, it's rising to the other side. It's setting and
near the middle like this, it's actually high up in the sky. So, so no and I was incorrect
earlier. This is the moon is up in the sky and it's still red. So, different things can turn
the moon red. I look this up closely and it
turns out the Raleigh scattering happens but while
the Earth is in between the moon and the sun. So the light that scattered from sunlight
going around the earth's limb and then gets cast on the moon. It is rally scattering but it's
also happening during an an eclipse. So it's while it's a
similar color. It's it's still unique and that it happens only
when the happens only when the earth is in between the sun and
the moon. To where the moon be looks like it's being eaten
away and then the whole thing appears with this lower dimmer,
red color. So, it's still gives a different look than your
rising. Your rising moon still has sunlight, a lot of sun on it and an eclipse moon does not
have sunlight. Um it has well it has raleigh scattered light coming off of the limb of the
earth. So so it is not as bright as a rising moon or a
setting moon near the horizon.
GSP pass. I forget which one it was. I shared a few images that
I had taken of the total lunar eclipse of twenty nineteen. 0
degrees and I remember the moon being near M 44, the beehive cluster. that was my first
attempt at trying to capture what the sky looks like at an eclipse. You're going to recognize this constellation
Orion. You're going to see him a lot throughout the remainder of this presentation. Because
Orion tends to be around this time of year when the moon
is being eclipsed. We had a lunar eclipse that I didn't include in here because I only
had one image of it and that was the lunar eclipse that was near the galactic core. It was
in the summer sky and that's one eclipse I would have loved to have gotten. Uh there's the
beehive right there. M 44 sitting next to this particular one in 2019. So we had 2021. As
I told you, Ryan seems to show up when you have, if you're
going to have eclipses in the winter, Orion's going to dominate the sky and be somewhere near the moon. In
this particular case, you may remember this eclipse was near the Pleiades. So then, on my
birthday, November 8th it's happening again. This is a not
so sharp close up of the eclipse as it's taking place.
here we are a little bit different camera equipment this
time and went to a dark area and there's same old Orion.
This looks fairly similar to last year's November eclipse
except this is about as this is about as dark as the moon got.
Maybe a little darker. Um it still isn't fully eclipsed here
but it's already dark enough at this site to start seeing the Milky Way and start seeing more
stars and you've got some Sky Globe. All of this is happening during the nearly very
beginning of astronomical twilight. So, the sky colors,
there there is some brightness there and there is some sky glow in this location. So,
that's why I mentioned. If you can get to a dark side, if you, if you're used to viewing your
lunar eclipses, and you used to viewing them from the backyard
and you take the close-up pictures Um next lunar eclipse twenty twenty-five. Try finding
a Dark Sky Park and looking at it because not only do you see
the eclipse happen but you watch all the stars of the sky come out and if you're at a
dark side, you watch the Milky Way appear and even if you can't take pictures of it, just
observe it. It's it's actually a very beautiful sight. I looked at moon in binoculars
and was blown away by how it looked. Um it was a beautiful
sight because not only do you see and you're going to see a couple pictures here. Not only
do you see the moon and you see the stars that are around it. It's it's a unique viewing
experience of the moon. So here you go. Stars and planets even.
Um that little dot's going to be I'm going to point out what that little. is in a minute.
But that's this is one of the unique views that you try to get when you're imaging lunar
eclipses. Get the stars that are around it. Because that's not something easy to do. We
have a lot of great astro imagers who will take a normal full moon and they'll put a
star field behind it and it looks wonderful. Well, lunar eclipse gives you the
opportunity to shoot both in real time. This is a single
image. I've stretched the background to bring the stars out and I've dimmed a little
bit to give the moon the appearance that it has in binoculars. And this is the the
appearance the moon has to the eye. You see some of these. So
there's Uranus. Um you may may have recalled that Uranus was
near the moon. Well I made sure to check out the stars match
them to Sky probe and verified that I had indeed caught your
the disc of Uranus in this image. So, you there sometimes
nearby planets will show up even Ice Giants will show up if
they're nearby. So this this was a very recent find in the images that I take. Take
multiple images, take different kinds of images, because you
never know what you'll get. I had left this eclipse thinking, well, I didn't take a shot of
the moon with Uranus, come to find out when I looked through my images, yes, I did. So,
that, this image hasn't been share online. It it will
probably get shared online pretty soon here but you all the GSP are the first to see this one. Because I figured out
that I actually had it. So that was nice. Now, this image you
have the California Nebula. This time, I'm using a modified camera. Going back to really
quickly. I'll go back to this image. This one was taken with a non-modified camera and I'm
for 30 seconds, I'm getting some of this data here. There's there are, there are things
online that suggest you don't need a modified camera to get this sort of data, you just
stretch it with your processing. my thought on it is
this is also 30 seconds. And
it's more prominent. And notice the white balance colors are
very similar. Right. If you can get your white balance correct
with your modified camera you get more of this light. This HA
light. This spectrum. You get it easier. Um than you do when
you're using a stock camera, I believe in astro camera, if you
were to rig it with a wide-angle lens, you'd get this you'd get this information.
Astro cameras, if I'm not mistaken, you know, the chips in there, the cameras are
designed for full spectrum. So,
as fate would have it. This is a meteor shooting straight through the California Nebula
and I've got these two as well. Darker sight s, you'll see more
meteors as the event is happening. There's your eclipse moon. So now, another really
cool thing about this particular eclipse in twenty twenty-two is that we watched the sky begin to brighten while
the moon was yet still eclipsed And this one, this was a
non-tracked image. As you can see, the stars are streaks here and I believe this may actually be one of these may still be
Uranus, right here but We have the moon and we have the way
that the sky looked. As I was shooting over here. One thing I
would've liked to have done was make this a composite and sharpen this because your eye
wants to make this in focus. Hm. Our eyes can switch between
looking at something in the foreground and then looking at something in the in the
distance and it does it seamlessly. And if I want to capture that, I have to make
that front, the front part sharp. This was, this was sort of a last second, hey, let me try this and I focused on
shooting at the moon. Um, it's easy to take a couple of shots,
so that's something I would do, you know, in the in the future. I also took some scenic shots
and I, there's a title, if you can't capture beautiful pictures, just sit and observe it. You know, enjoy seeing it.
And you'll you'll have the memory of it. For those of us that can capture these
pictures, we try and capture them in a way that mimics what you see. Maybe a little more
than what you may notice. You'll see you'll see a more a
larger version of this image. This is a close up. This is the Asaba River. And you can see
the moon still has its reddish color. This is near this is the
last image I took. It's near the end of the eclipse where part of it is still in the
earth's shadow. Later on, the moon would take on the reddish
color dude that due to Earth's atmosphere and more of the
sunlight hitting it rather than it being in the shadow. Hopefully, some of you got
that. This was my final shot before I called it quits. It
was this shot of the moon setting over the trees in the Osabo River. Nice. Um a
beautiful morning. Of course, sunrise is behind me. You'd think I'd go ahead and get sunrise and in I probably
should've but I was focused on the moon so that's the direction I shot in And this is
the image that David Eicher shared on his feed. Um it
didn't it wasn't the one with the meteor. but the each of these was a it was two minutes
for the sky. 2 minutes for the ground and a couple of seconds
for the eclipse moon. Blended it into a composite. And I
thought it turned out really well. Gave you an idea of what the sky was like. Um and what
the scenery is like. So, for an epilogue here, I actually
wanted to shoot the eclipse here but the forecast was for clouds. Kinda like what I was
seeing couple days before. I came hiking out. So, the eclipse moon would have been
here. I may have tried to redo this whole panorama but
decided to go further north on the day of because the forecast for this location was clouds.
So, sometimes you have to have more than one location picked. If you're going to go out and
try and get images of the moon. Here are a couple of images from the campsite that I chose
with the Alcona pond right here. This was a winner shot with light pillars. And here's
That is beautiful. Yeah, this one. Um. It's like some sort of
heavenly Roman columns or something, you know? Yeah. If
Now, everyone, it looks like everyone here in this distant town is being called into the
heavens but actually, that's the light being shaped in the
light pillars. Sure. From all the different lights, man-made
lights in the town. I see. And that's the pond that I shot that image from.
that boat dock that you saw is behind me and to the right. I actually ventured onto the ice
for that shot and as in most of my winter shots, Ryan tends to make an appearance. There there
he is again. Um the full image of that has like the full
constellation and then as
summer's turning into fall, I captured this image in between the clouds. You had the vessels
of the summer Milky Way setting in the
in the pond. Well, yeah, they call it a pond but I've seen bodies of water called lakes as
big as this pond. Um Bortle three and Bordle four skies here. When I go back, I'll get
my SQML reader which I just got and I will be more than happy
to get a good reading on a good Dark Night Sky and see what's really going on here. I think
the numbers are going to shade more towards Bortle three. It is a nice darkness. The middle
northern part of the lower peninsula of Michigan. And so
that's it for my presentations. My big. Thank you very much man. Thank you. And you're welcome. But don't forget the
moon will be doing the eclipsing. So you've got your annual eclipse. October 14th
and the total solar eclipse. April 8th twenty-four. That's right. So. That's right. That's
my presentation. Yep. It's awesome. Okay. Well, thank you. Beautiful shots once again and
Adrian, you never failed to inspire and and enthrall people about the you know, the
amazing, beautiful night sky. So, with often with clouds.
Yeah. Yeah. Great stuff. Yup. Just keep on shooting. Keep on
shooting. And that's right. And now, the anchor of the program has arrived. Cesar Cesar.
That's right. Cesar, how are you? Howie, how are you? How
are you, Adrian, Scott, I'm friends. Oh, I'm good. That was my birthday present to myself.
That's a good birthday. It's a beer day. It's a beer day. Happy birthday, Adrian. Thank you. Excellent, excellent.
Excellent present for everyone, your lunar eclipse and was are
amazing and really I enjoyed the the image. It was beautiful.
here tonight. I am taking some pictures of Orion and Orion
Nebula and because it sounds funny that eh the key of part
of the rooftop of the building was broken. It's unable to open
the door to the so the south is eh part of the rooftop and now
we are going, now we are in the, in the part that eh, is
for the north and west, and we choose Orion, that is not a, a
South Emifire but it's a beautiful, it's a queen of the summer here, and the queen of
the winter, of course, in, in Northern Hebifer, and is a
nebula that we enjoyed a lot in the
Cat America we enjoyed watching the this area of Orian Nebula
like we we like a picture Uh the Nebula I I
enjoyed Flame Nebula and we we receive, you know, the
Horrison, Nebula, that eh to the naked eyes with some
telescopes over eh 11 inches, 10 inches and really we was
amazing and well tonight I we are taking picture
with me First of all, and I may
just share the screen. here I am with a with a that
because it's it's a great
we can share everything Yes. Well, here, here we have we
have okay, maybe we we move the picture, 1 minute, Orion, Hi,
guys. An individual picture is 1 minute. Yeah, we can see it.
Yeah, yeah. Yes. That is how Ryan looks. At Oki Tex. Yeah.
Sure. Well, here the guy then, he says, terrible, but, let me
show you, you can try, take a picture. Cesar, I've always
known you to image no matter how bad the conditions are. Right. You're tracking. You
will never give up. Oh, yes. But we can take a another
picture. Then we can try 30 minutes. 30 second story.
That's 30 minutes. well here you can see
Uh no. Okay. I I tried to show you the the trapezium but don't
give don't give me the possibility, the software eh while taking the picture to
show Ikea.
Let me, let me here, you can try a picture of 30 second.
Okay. There you go. Okay, here,
here is, is the, the, the nebula, from the city, you know, it's, it's great, when
here, you can, you can hear the noise of the airplane. From the airport. Right. But, you know,
you know, this is stormy, middle of the city. Nope. And it, it's, it's the, it's in a
37th floor, at maybe Wagan, the meters, 100 20 meters of over
the sea level. well we we are
we are making pictures that I can show you next week of of
Orient Nebula to start the the summer, the summertime here. Mhm. Uh to to make
after you know a a picture of of an ebola that is is really the the queen of the night in
summer here and we I think that we can make a beautiful image
because it's a great the optics, the focus and maybe the scene is is okay too. Here you
can see maybe something that we call it Vans or Canon Van Vanding and of course that
later we can we can try to process something maybe I would think and process something
with the fix inside and But it's it's a beautiful nebula
that we can we can try eh next week to with a smaller
telescope maybe with an entry level telescope we can make some some eh tricks ah with a a
smaller camera not a reference camera ah well we can we can make a lot of different things
and when we we will be having the the another parts of the
rules of a watching to the south. Ah
we can we can make a picture of Tarantula Nebula that was my idea originally but we can't
open the door and ah for the another side of the rooftop.
And this size of telescope is impossible to use in my balcony and really I need to go. He to
come here to because ah I need ah more space. and interesting
telescope of course that me I need some space and it's impossible from my balcony. And
he made me check it, I can try another picture. The funny thing about this night is that
we did all the, all the go-to setting, all the setup and the, the polar alignment with only
the stars of the Orion Constellation. Because, like,
we only used Ritual and Metro games. For the outer, for the
which is funny, and all the, the, little error we got for
the and yeah eh eh
okay yeah those only watching to the north yeah we we only a a window of like painted house
rental 20 degrees like we we can only see about a an an an
an eighth of the of the sky here. And I think less and yeah
that's that's the guiding right there. Kind of another victory.
Well we can we can we can try to to get maybe 20 or 20
pictures of 30 seconds. Or maybe one minute we don't have problem. We can we can put
normally the idea here is put the the the eso for this
camera, it's, it's okay in 8hundred eh, he saw that he's,
is a, a, a good point, the the sweet point, and it's something
that is great for this camera. Well, I think that next eh,
next eh, week, I can show you next presentation, I can show
you a, a great picture of, of Nebula, Orion Nebula from the
city. Maybe we can try, we can try something more tonight.
Well, this is my, my presentation. Thank you so
much. These are excellent. Yep. It's great to have you guys on and to be observing with you
from the live from the balconies of Buenos Aires. So, it's great. I love it. Yeah.
Yes. Yes. It's something that that we we have we have really
it's fun that we have the possibility and of course that my entire idea of introduction
to the people, to use their own telescopes in middle of the
city, is something that everyday, every day that for example, we saw many telescopes
like the national one hundred forty one for 14 millimeters
and and it's an entry-level telescope and the the the kids
are making things very beautiful in in observations
and it it's a entry level, I'm very educative telescopes,
something that, that is great for, for kids, for people that
are not kids, and really they, they use eh, they start to use
a telescope with open wide vision, and this is very important that, eh, eh, is, is
very important to, to, don't have frustration about the first time that you use a
telescope where the things were, sometimes you use maybe 300 300
magnification for example. In a small telescopes and the
don't use the barlow with the smaller ehm the smaller IPs the
first time and maybe they use the entire capacities of their telescopes and you have very
small refractors or and ah the idea is is for is use ah sure
to eh with the right optics and
where the people the people understand
them that they are watching and the quantity of life is they
are in their eyes is enough to understand or see the nebula or
see ah a cluster you know and when the peoples told me that
yes I found Orion Nebula, I found as it as you tell me
maybe I I know I remember the the the great day that we take
a picture of omega syndrome with the national choreographic one hundred fourteen
millimeters. The bump and tube. This is my favorite tube in my home. The bumper tube is is
it's a treasure in in the in our home. And you remember Scott that? I showed it the the
the yes and with them, yes, yes, and I say something that
is, is, is great because, no, no, it's made for a donation or for or for, for years here in
home, and we found with this very simple telescopes, that
you can make adults. Eh, before to make a, a big sin eh,
pedestal special, alright? You can prepare as customer, using
something that you can start to learn and eh enjoy more your
second telescopes that can be a a special telescope like if for
example your in in your bag it's maxim top there let's go
or the special refractors of the line FBC 100. Of course
that that are beautiful but if you start with a smaller and
open wide vision telescopes you can enjoy a lot and you can learn a lot For the second
telescope you are special by buying of of special telescopes. Like this is RC
telescopes you have a lot of of ah ah of ah last week we have
many many eh problems with you know the corridations and you
have is part of the the fund maybe you have a lot of different different things when
the people say okay I I was frustrating because I can't
make the the right focus and okay some people that for example the people that fly
airplanes, eh model airplanes, model air sea, sometimes they crash their their
it's part of learning how to do the the yeah and sometimes they are happy because why you are
happy? Because okay, I pressure. But I have my entire week to to refurbish and and
repair. Yes, part of a hobby. We are we are kind of by now.
Uh yes, sometimes it's we show you the suffering of of learning. Yes. Yeah, not not
getting anything to work, not even the alignment, not even to go through anything and then,
then it works for, like, one, one microsecond, it works for
one microsecond and that's all the happiness. That's all you get there, yeah. And that's
enough to, to have, enough, just to sustain you for a
while, huh? Yeah, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Absolutely. Yeah. Okay.
Well, that's great. Well, guys, thank you so much. I want to thank you all. You're welcome. Thanks for tuning in. for the
you know for our Global Star Party, the 06th edition. Our 0 seventh edition of the Global
Star Party will be next Tuesday starting at 6 o'clock Central.
Um and the theme is ancient photons. And so looking forward
to having a great speaker lineup and a great lineup of of
audience members here. If there's anyone out in the audience that would like to give a presentation on Global
Star Party, simply get in touch with me Um you can use the letter S at Explore Scientific.
com and I'd be happy to arrange all of that for you. Um you
know, it's it's it's it's fun and thrilling to be in front of a global audience like this and
you know, it it'll sharpen your presentation skills and you
know, give you some experience for giving more presentations
to other clubs which is what it's all about. So, yes Cesar, I have a question for you
before we go. How many presentations are you now
giving or maybe a better question? On average, how many
lectures and presentations do you give a year? It this year or in my entire career but I
want to know. Yeah. Young Global Star Party. In the race. Yes. Yes. That's about fear. To
52 presentations a year. Um right? Uh but how about other
clubs and stuff in Brazil? Uh Dina. Yes, this year was
fantastic because was the the first one from the pandemic time, pandemic time, sorry,
where I started with the Bashi Grande Star Party, this year,
you know that we we put in the calendar start starting with
Catamarket Party. Uh we made a lot of of present with the guys
of San Miguel observatory and maybe we I I account now eh
about ten, eh ten eh different ehm different events eh IP
county meetings and surparis and special eh eh meetings to
to for example, well, we, we, we
preparing in our new store that we are making our new store in
in in the downtown of the of the city. Uh we are having a
basement, a big basement that we can use like a warehouse in a middle part and another
middle part, it will be small auditorium and it's placed for
for to to recording videos for
for Sasha. Yes. For social media, interactional videos and
of course real real life place to to meet people, to talk. Um
we are really exciting with this. A good interview. Yes, it will be a
because we are restoring the complete basement to have, of course, a great place without
humidity, without you know, all about that you need to make a
a, a great place, and over this is a, is an optic store with a
huge, huge of technology 3D
printers, eye preparing, the,
the, the machine for polish, mirrors, and it, it will be a
very interesting place to show to the people, and football
test, is ready to use in, in the basement, and and as, as a,
very interesting eh test for quality you know and maybe we
can do it the future we are
having a a table for optics, for control, in the control,
and well, this is that really it's a it's it's a year where I
have I'm having 30 years working in my business and it's
it's very very inspiring for me that is all alive with the
years and seven telescopes repairing eh teaching to the people and I am preparing the
new store like ah like a special peripheral ah of my
specialty is sure and this is it will be very very eh eh
exciting well ah when you're ready for Cesar ah we can also
do some special seminars for your for your customers, you
know, for yes. Your general public, I'm doing one. Uh coming up here real soon for a
dealer in Armenia, you know? So, for Space Shop forty-two
and we've got lined up already Uh Christopher Go and
Ocean Zakarian. Uh Ocean is one of the twine Night Sky
photographers. It is does beautiful you know, night sky images from the Elvis Sacred
Sites and stuff like that around the world. Really cool. Um so, yeah, it starts off with
you know, Night Sky Photography, Planetary Ima and then we'll be doing Deep Sky
Imaging as well. So, a kind of a four-part series and we can repeat that with with audience
for you as well. So, let me know. Okay. It will be it it will be a pleasure and of
course that I am totally open to to make this is is a is something that for me is very
clear. Very great. Thank you so much. Uh and Take care. Thank
you. Take care. And take care to all the audience here
watching. And you guys please stay up and or set an alarm and
watch the you know the Artemis launch here. So I think that I
think it will be historic if it takes off. Um and I so far I
think everything still looks pretty good. So keep looking up Everyone.