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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
the picture uh to show right here [Music]
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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