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so deep d have you been able to watch the conjunction at all have you had clear skies no it's very
foggy yet foggy right now yes
well there's a picture of it taken by christopher go yeah yeah christopher
that's something i i i stare with my friends the picture captured by christopher go
yes yeah he sure knows how to tickle a camera doesn't he
yes
we're starting to have people log back in uh first comment is is good evening it's raining all night
here where is that from scott stefan del pra
i think stefan's in australia
and james the astrophotographer good morning again everybody i think james also does not sleep
he caught the last program thanks for signing on yep stefan's in
melbourne down in the southern hemisphere and
michael whittaker i think michael whittaker's in the uk i know michael whitaker
do you yeah he's a pilot isn't he i don't know he might be
by the way speaking of tim hunter he did say he's going to try to visit at some point during the day
okay very good
i'll have to get tim to give a short presentation sometime
he doesn't want to but i think you should try to get him yeah i know he doesn't want to
we'll have to uh do some arm twisting i think he'll do it if you ask him yeah
i want to go to the lyndon baynes johnson school of arm twisting
yeah i think did you remember president johnson a
long time before both would be a dt but he had this way
of persuading people and he would stand up and he would lean
over when he's asked people and you couldn't say no to the guy right
that's why they call him the arm twister call him a lot of other things too yeah
he got caught a lot of other things too i don't think it bothered him much
well the war bothered him a lot there's a pointless picture of him sitting at his desk where there's
people outside the white house protesting and yelling and screaming and he's sitting at his desk in the oval
office all alone with his head on the desk in tears yeah and i have that picture and one on
the book here it's it's he really was unhappy with
that says good morning everybody our weather
man says cloudy tonight here in rochester new york so i think i'm out of luck to view it
uh after you guys watch this segment you can go and uh watch the earlier segment that we
did with christopher go in the philippines uh and you can see live views of it through his telescope
and um so that's why we're doing this we know
some people are clouded out some people are rained out uh some people are fogged out so
um but you know there are there are people watching it around
the world and it is a beautiful sight um just amazing um to see it through a
telescope and that's the way to see it is see it visually if you can if you can't then you'll see
it here
and that view that you're seeing right now is a shot that christopher
go did yesterday and even today jupiter and saturn are much closer than
that than the image shows here as i have shared with my a lot of
friends in this school about the great conjunction and i have associated them to look up the sky today
and they just message me like saying i just i'm just able to see the two dots
oh hey but you're seeing it that's okay that's okay yeah
you're seeing something that's not been seen in 800 years yeah there was one
400 years ago but it took place in daylight so nobody saw it yeah and there was no telescopes of
either of those two so uh really this is the first one
that we're all able to see through a telescope and enjoy it isn't that amazing it's not wonderful
it gives you the sugars almost yeah so deep to you what time is it in nepal
right now 6 43 p.m 4 30
6 43 6 43 p.m okay so it's getting dark over there
and it's foggy right well you still have a couple more days
to see a spectacular view
it's beauty about conjunctions like this is that they take the time
you'll have at least um maybe about half a week if you get the sky clear one of those
days you'll still see them very very close uh kareem jaffer says clouds here in
montreal at the rafc montreal center hello
thanks for sharing the pics and views with us explore scientific
yeah i know him very well
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well good morning everybody this is scott roberts uh with uh david levy and steve
malia steve is being our co-host today with the royal
astronomical society of canada morning good morning david um
our special guests are libby and the stars and deepti gutom deepti is in uh
uh is in uh nepal uh libby is in uh uh here in the usa
and uh we are here to talk about this great conjunction that's happened
today and we will be this is the second
install of a five-part series that's happening today so we've got three more
three more shows to do there'll be talks there'll be live imaging going on
uh door prizes so it's uh you're going to see some
amazing stuff but our youngest participants are here with us today uh libby is
10 years old and dt is 16. she has started her own astronomy club
in in nepal so we'll we'll hear more about uh dt's impressions of the conjunction as
well as libby's um but we start all of our programs with
um with our co-host um uh so steve uh um what did you think about this
morning's program this with uh christopher go oh it was absolutely amazing it was great to see
um jupiter and saturn in the in that same frame i can't think of another word other than
magic really um because you know as dave had mentioned earlier uh
uh on air and off there or he was talking about uh last time that that this had happened
400 years ago and was during the daytime no one had even seen it so that this is probably
the first time that it's ever been witnessed by by humans which i think is quite exciting um so it
it you know i ca i can't think of any other way to describe it other than than magic and and
beautiful uh really really it was great it was great to see and and i'm really really glad that
christopher uh was able to get clear skies as you said it was just there where he was everywhere else in the philippines was
clouded out um yeah that's hard work magic too he was supposed to be in a storm you know so yes so
it was wonderful it worked out it worked out and you could hear the excitement in the background too everybody wanted to take
a look through the eyepiece while he was imaging so right need to hurry up and do that so that was that was great
um and uh you know after our call went outside and it's cloudy here now so what do you do
but uh so i'm grateful that we're doing this event and and we can share this experience with uh people around
the world which is again another to me a magical thing right that we can do this
right yeah yeah so if you're again if you're watching uh please take a moment to share this
program with your friends and with uh any special groups that uh
you enjoy astronomy groups especially if that you enjoy participating with
our our programs only start with a special talk by david levy and david
has uh been someone that has given so much he's devoted his entire life
not only to explore the night skies but to share
that exploration and discovery with others he has he has been a constant inspiration
and you know through his books through his lectures through uh his camaraderie um uh
you know he is someone that you could often find at a star party uh and he's been to many
of those unfortunately uh with the pandemic
he has not been able to get out under so many dark skies but he has done
so many virtual events with astronomy clubs and all of the global star parties of
which we're now at the 27th global star party so we'll uh i'm going to turn this uh
stage over to to david and let him
describe what's happening and only the way that david can
well thank you so much scotty and it's uh more than an honor to be here for a
number of reasons to being with steve one of the
center former center presidents of the royal astronomical society of canada that's right um it's a small group of
people that have run centers and i think it's um it's wonderful to have steve here look
forward to what he has to say in the next little while thank you but really what is really
magic and steve talked about the magic of what's happening right now with the conjunction
what adds to that magic are the two younger people that we have today
libby and the stars and deepti and uh these two people represent what
amateur astronomy is going to be they represent the next generation
of amateur astronomers maybe two generations or more past mine but
what they represent is the future and the hope for the future if they weren't here today i would say
we really shouldn't be here we shouldn't be looking at this conjunction at all because what's the point what is the
point scott of looking at it and just having it all for ourselves and having it all for ourselves that's
true when when we can't really share it with people like deepti and libby
i am so glad that they're here today to add their wisdom to us in the last 27 star parties i have to
admit i've learned more than i've expected from libby in her presentations and you know i would be
listening to her and i'd be thinking and then after her talk is over i'm
thinking wait a minute i didn't know that and i'd look it up and say i'm gonna show her wrong
and i look it up whatever she said she wasn't wrong she taught me something and i am
really very happy to have both libby and deepti as teachers they're very very
very close to me and i and i'm really so pleasure so pleased to have them here and thanks
for coming and joining us this is it this is the day we've been
waiting for this all year i remember looking up in the 2020 handbook observer's handbook
of the royal astronomical society of canada and i totally agree with steve
that this is the book that rules all other books
if i were marooned on a desert island
and the ship that went down had a library full of books every book that has ever been written
from the bible to everything else i would want a copy
of i would want a copy besides the first folio of william shakespeare
i would certainly want a copy and a copy of starlight knights by leslie belcher
and i can't remember what the other book was but it'll come to me later it's been a long night people anyway and i'm gonna go on
and no sleep well i've you know it was an important book i was
remembering but i just can't remember it right now but i would certainly want to have
i would want to have have the bible and i'd want to have because there's so
much astronomy and so much about the night sky that you can find there and also leslie peltier's famous book
starlight nights which has such wonderful things in it
i have something that can confess right now and that is that i have never in my life taken a
course in astronomy i am officially an idiot
totally i have totally no knowledge of astronomy
that i've picked up from any courses ever in my entire life
i do have a doctorate that i got from the hebrew university i got it by writing a thesis about
william shakespeare and you're probably all wondering well what is he doing here if he doesn't know
anything about astronomy well my dissertation had to do with the night sky
during the time of william shakespeare and shakespeare during his life would
have loved this conjunction most of the people who shared
his interest in the sky who did it for different reasons they did it for astrology
not for astronomy and i agree with almost all of you that there's really no place in modern
science for astrology but
this conjunction that we are looking at right now is really bringing us to ancient
astrology to what happened thousands of years ago
when astrologers would look up at the sky and make calculations as to where the planets were
where they would be in the sky they'd predict eclipses
some people built stonehenge to predict eclipses predict emotions of the planets but one
of the things they learned all those years ago was that every 20 years
jupiter and saturn get very close together and they form what is called a great
conjunction the first one i saw was on september the 1st 1960
wasn't nearly as good as this one but jupiter and saturn were pretty close together in the sky
and that was the first time i looked for a telescope september the 1st 1960 really something
i'll never forget and as i kind of wish that shakespeare
could come back for a couple of minutes attend our global star party i do firmly believe that if he did come
back he would a want to look at the conjunction with us and b wanted to hear what scotty was up
to with his global star parties but even though he knew his audience and
he knew that most of them were interested in astrology and interested in the stars because of their astrological significance
one of the few things we know about shakespeare as a person is that he did not follow astrology he
didn't believe in it and he actually told us that in sonnet 14 not from the stars do i my judgment
pluck and yet me thinks i have astronomy but he doesn't never followed astrology
interestingly enough in my thesis i actually quoted and referred to some
of the things that shakespeare wrote and a lot of the presentations and a lot of the plays that he's written
he talks about astrological things he talks about trigons he talks about all kinds of alignments
of planets and other things that could really scare you in the night sky the most
famous one of course is from julius caesar where calpurnia says
when beggars die there are no comets seen the heavens themselves blaze forth the
death of princess when i read that in high school in 1965
that was one of the things that kind of persuaded me to start a search for comments
not because i was afraid of comment was going to come and knock me off but because it was interesting and it
was something that i should do and i could learn about and it was fun to do
and and so i followed that throughout the
rest of my life and i've tried to unite
the two very diverse and different fields of english literature especially
particularly english poetry and the night sky
and so for my quote now i am going to quote from gerard manley hopkins it happens to be my favorite poem ever
my master's thesis supervisor at queen's university in kingston ontario canada
gave a speech once in which she mentioned the poem and he said one of my graduate students fell in love
with that poem and so help me i have never seen a person
express more joy and enthusiasm over a work of literature than david did about hopkins and his
comment poem i really love this that's great and i am
now going to read it and as you can see i don't need to read it i can just say it yeah i am like a slip of comet
scarce worth discovery in some corners seen bridging the slender difference of two stars
come out of space or suddenly engendered by heady elements
for no one knows but when she sights the sun she grows
and sizes and spins her skirts out while her central star shakes its
cocooning mists and so she comes to fields of light millions of traveling rey's piercer
she hangs upon the flame-cased sun and sucks the light as full as gideon's fleece but then her tether
calls her she falls off and as she dwindles sheds her smock of gold amidst the
sistering planets and then goes out into the cavernous dark so i go out my little sweet is done
i have drawn heat from this contagious sun to not on gentle death now forth i run i hope you're all going
to be able to get a chance at least in the next few days if not today to see jupiter and saturn
visiting each other enjoying each other's company and trying to remind us
that the sky belongs to everyone they belong to our generation they belong to scott and
steve but most of all to libby and deepti back to you scotty thank you thank you
very much that was a beautiful poem yeah i don't think i don't think i've
heard that poem before it's beautiful so thank you i'll have to uh i'll have
to find it and um and keep it you know so how about if i send it to
you that would be wonderful that'd be wonderful uh so our first speaker uh
uh this morning uh will be uh libby and the stars libby uh i met libby um
a few months ago and she came into our showroom here at explore scientific and she was
looking for a new telescope she already had a telescope she had a 60 millimeter telescope that
that she taught herself how to use and taught her friends how to how to to
properly use it and as well as her parents so she is someone that loves astronomy she loves
space exploration she loves it so much that she went through her school library and
read every book in the library about the subject of astronomy or space exploration and uh
and she still to this day is is uh very um uh very much involved in learning more
and more about uh the heavens and uh and how um you know uh the the cosmos works
and i think it's quite remarkable uh for a young person to be so involved with this
um and i i wish that i had friends like her when i was a
young boy because that would have been really awesome to to share that
enthusiasm that i also had uh trying to find uh you know the moon and
the planets with my small telescope so but uh libby i'm going to turn the stage over to you
um thanks for coming on with us today it's i know it's early but
here we go today is a very exciting day for like
all astronomers all over the world because jupiter and saturn are having the conjunction and
i'm pretty sure a lot of the shows today are all going to be about that and a lot of that live
imaging uh i think it's really cool because we're now in a generation or
hopefully like the next couple years uh we're now stuck at home because of
quarantine and i'm actually kind of happy because you can enjoy some of the things at home
like the conjunction and the astronomical aspects and all the
like all the astronomical news happening right now in our generation and uh
and it's so cool while we're stuck at home a bunch of the amateur astronomers you can go outside
right now like a pair of binoculars or a small telescope to be able to see the
conjunction really easily and maybe even when you're just like your eyes
even and this is super cool because while we're stuck at home you can still do all the uh astronomy
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you know just jump in and and start doing astronomy more and more and more because i know there's a lot of uh
a shawnee astronome yeah a genre is like going out
and there's a lot of news right now uh there's a conjunctions there's comments this year
but it's kind of nice while we're stuck at home to be able to have you know something easy to look at and
something that's so convenient to be able to go and see outside
um i'm very excited because the first planet that i started to observe with my
first telescope was saturn and um saturn's probably one of my
favorite planets just because of that being one of my first planets to look at
and me and my family once we got interview we were fascinated by it
not only was it me but my mom my dad my my brother we were all out every night
in the summer until about 10 o'clock and we went back in but uh saturn is like one of the coolest
planets to me because uh it's so easy to look at and you know view just the conveniency
of it um and went along the jupiter one of the it was my second plane i started viewing
because they're so close together and they're just so easy to find in the sky uh i always look at its moons like you
could see them all out like all spaced out and um it was always so cool to me
because uh i was like looking at scales of the solar system
in the usual scale they don't space it out correctly um if you like find a
real scale online not actually as long as it but a model uh you can actually see how far spaced
out these planets are and um i don't think a lot of people realize that because
i have the solar system model that i made and it's not like the actual skull of the
universe and uh because i know the universe is very like spaced out and the solar
system is too and the planets are huge huge and big and giant
um and i know a lot of uh models don't capture that because they're like um they're just so
they're either itty-bitty and tiny or they're either going to be huge or ginormous and spaced out and it's always so
and i never knew about how spaced out the planets were until i started like observing saturn
jupiter and um i think that's super cool because like they're still spaced out in the solar
system but now in our sky they're so close together
you can get them in the same view and you can see them it's like you could see them together so
perfectly and i know this won't happen for another 800 years or so or longer like it did
probably a long long time ago but they didn't have the technology of a telescope
they didn't have the technology binoculars they just had the technology of their eyes and i'm sure
the people back then would probably still happily enjoy the conjunction all the way back
then without a telescope and binoculars and now that it's you know our generation and the
conjunction has happened we have telescopes binoculars we have
better stuff to do it with i'm sure there's a lot of stuff out there you can view the
conjunction with and back then they didn't have anything but they sure didn't enjoy it and i'm
sure this generation will too of all this technology and
everything that we can use to capture with a telescope and
we also have editing now and computers and we can go online and we can
zoom in and we can we can crop it out we can take pictures through telescope
i'm sure a lot of people have observatories here where you can like move the dome
and back then they didn't even have anything to work with they just had their eyes
now they may have something to magnify it if you were lucky you were a
scientist back then all the way back then you were even a human uh
you could enjoy the you can enjoy it a lot too which i think is super cool because
i mean now we have like i'm pretty sure there's a lot of technology out there uh
huge telescopes it's awesome to see it with um and like even me i could go and do
my dobsonian or my 60 millimeter even i still use that telescope a lot and i
still enjoy it because uh it's just a nice like little
telescope i mean uh it i still enjoy like the simply
used like simply like easy to use telescope and i'm sure and
that's like connecting to the people back then a long time ago when they didn't have anything
when i didn't have like a heat my huge dobsonian i still enjoyed my tiny
60 millimeter telescope out in the yard and i would be amazed if i got a look at
saturn or in the moon and i would take pictures and i would share it and i'm sure that's how it
worked back then a lot too and uh i wanted to talk about this cat
named felicia the space cat uh because i'm very inspired by this cat
i've always been a cat lover in my life and i thought this was kind of amazing and kind of like sci-fi like
and like something that would never happen in another 800 years of sending a cat into space and i was
just so amazed by this because uh connecting to that uh that cat was a street cat and then
people of france their space company was like why not
let's send the cat into space to test for like to test and see if humans could go
to space and see it because they don't want to risk a human
before you know they would rather risk a cat and now obviously that's not what that's not
what i thought it was i was like there's something they were sending a cat in the space back then
oh my gosh that's amazing and uh and i was very deeply interested
into this cat and i did a presentation for school on this cat um and i thought
it was so cool because everyone else just did presentations on normal stuff and i was like guys there's a cat in space that
launched 1963 and a lot of my class is like huh
yeah people don't know that right they don't know um i'm sure another um i heard another cat
got credit for it uh felix what because there's 14 cats that uh one they were testing to go
into space and that felix is one of them so there's a felix and feliciate
and so felicia was the one that went into space but felix got the credit for it which
i'm kind of a little bit mad about because you know like that cat was so brave to go in his face
me and didn't even have a choice in france it's just like off it goes in space um and i thought it was so cool
because like you know a lot of people don't treat cats like you know a lot of people don't treat
cats nicely and i have my a cat myself and i often think of that because i'm like what if i set my cat in
his face you know it's pretty cool and like
sci-fi kind of to think about because like that cat was probably like a street
cat and then yeah it was a street cat didn't have anything to do with astronomy
you know and then it just got like right into it and it was in the orbit for
20 minutes and i was looking back at the pictures and i'm like this is so inspiring you know i mean the
cat didn't have a choice but i'm sure once it got up into space it really enjoyed it just a small you know one hour trip into
space one hour back and it really enjoyed it um and i think that's part of it too me
enjoying my tiny 60 millimeter telescope now france probably enjoyed uh
sending a cat up in the space for one hour you know i know that was hearing scream at tate experiments
and stuff to see they could send a human to space but i'm sure france probably was like
why do we send another cat into space you know and i think that's really cool
because like a street cat had no knowledge about space probably doesn't
but like it just got swooped into astronomy just became an astronaut the next couple like 14 weeks
and it's just now it was an astronaut and um i'm very inspired by this cat
because uh again it had nothing to do with astronomy and no resources
like the people back then when the conjunction happened and they had nothing to work with not
telescopes binoculars but it still went they but the cat still went to space and they still got
got to see the conjunction with their eyes which i think is super cool you know it like a very like
inspiring story for like amateur astronomers excellent libby that's excellent
very good thank you thank you i'm gonna have to look more into the to the uh these cats myself you know i
i'm aware of dogs being sent into space but i i did not know that cats went into
space too so that's something i need to learn thank you very much that's great thank you that's great
excellent talk okay well uh we're going now from the
united states all the way to nepal and uh deepti is uh she was
letting us know that this is her 17th global star party and i was letting
both libby and dt know that uh many many thousands of people have heard their uh talks um
over this last several months that we've been giving global star parties and uh they've been inspiring uh you
know they inspire us as adults but you know i know that they're also inspiring a younger generation
dt has as i mentioned earlier is the president of an astronomy club
that she started in her high school uh she has also joined uh let me make sure i got it
right it's the is it the nepal astronomical society is that right yes so you're a junior member of that
which is great and that's a very serious organization um uh and uh
so i hope that you're finding that exciting and rewarding yourself dt so yeah so i'm going to turn the stage
over to you thank you yeah this the today is the day we are
waiting for and um yeah i have something uh to so um as
we as we know the great conduction is about the connection between the jupiter and saturn and
i heard some picture we saw capture here capture ions so that
about a great conjunction of okay
yeah are you able to see yes yes look at that
did you take this picture dt uh it is uh captured by the alien
by his own telescope just now he has sent me this picture
and um all about these uh i have something here okay
and uh as we knew the about the great condition is about the jupiter and saturn also
and um jupiter is an amazing that jupiter is my favorite favorite one
and um all about in this uh solar system uh there is a conjunction between the
jupiter transaction and you can see here this uh conjunction uh between the jupiter and saturn
um as we are familiar the uh jupiter's here then uh it's a diameter distance yeah and all
over the info and um yeah about these jupiters is uh the fact about the most
distinguished features of the jupiter is the great red spot and that cloud plane and
the galleon moon and um strum on against scientific and last law along is because there is no
continuance over with the which they can lose their energy and dispatch and
and some fact about those jupiter is um uh jupiter is um
just 11 times and more than 11 times bigger than the earth and it is also called the king of gods
uh jupiter is uh according to the um
david said uh over this uh astrology i believe of astrology and
the jupiter is said to be the kings of god and um in jupiter and
uh jupiter has the strongest gravity and uh 300 which was like this guest scientist
strom that was said to be 300 300 years old and um it has the highest
number of uh and jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system and um
here we go or to to other saturn uh saturn um in um saturn with the rings a very
beautiful planet and after this jupiter uh saturn is one of my favorite
uh because the mysterious about this um its rings and its beauty itself
and this saturn is the second largest planet in our solar system and um
that our planet that is less dense than water and uh it has uh mainly uh saturn is uh
wholly covered by this uh contains the hydrogen and heliums and cloud and storm and um about these uh
rings so it was made by the rocks and ice uh and uh from jupiter's end let's talk
about the great construction and i have one uh poem
about the great conjunction are related to the great conjunction okay i'll say that sun below the
horizons in the cold winter evening or hint of orange and dark to cosmic giant okay
two cosmic giants so close it so far cause tonight we are gonna witness the christmas star
we are gonna witness the christmas star after centuries here comes the historical night
after centuries here comes the historical night beneath the roof of heaven the
excitement to see something that amazed amazingly because tonight we are gonna witness the
christmas star we are gonna witness the christmas star lucky to exist in this wonderful cosmos
uh hope for a new beginning wish for you all a merry christmas and a happy new years
let's make a moment to be happy living behind all those scars because tonight we are going to witness the christmas
star and jupiter the giant gas and saturn with the rings and
um comes and meet after 20 years just like doing meat and kiss december 21st our
daughter and our day waiting for and now we are ready to observe and capture a great conception
of great conjunction thank you thank you very much dt thank you
all right so uh that concludes our second segment here we've got uh
jerry hubble's joining us here as well so it's nice to see you drop in jerry
um we've just now finished the second segment of our
five segment uh global star party so this is this is kind of new for us but hey
there's only this kind of conjunction once uh every uh uh 20 years and
and the first time for it to be this close in 800 years so uh you know it deserves our time so and
as steve malia said uh to me earlier you know we can stay up scott we used to do it in college so
absolutely i'm gonna give it my best right now i'm running off of about two hours of sleep
i i i bought stock in various coffee companies um beforehand
yeah um uh i really enjoyed those two presentations they were very informative very well
spoken both of you thank you proud of the work that you've done
um the work that you're doing um please continue with it don't let anyone else tell you otherwise
um you are the future of of astronomy not just the hobby but
the industry the science right everything to do with it right please continue your work continue
to inspire you've inspired me um and renewed my faith
in in uh astronomy as well so thank you very much that that that to me is an excellent gift and
and i thank you for it yes i agree i agree our next segment
is going to start at 10 o'clock central which is 1600 utc
and this section of the 27th global star party the great
conjunction will cover from europe to africa we have mike simmons will be joining us
he was instrumental in introducing us to
these new participants to the global star party so it'll be a lot of fun uh and i'm sure very educational i'm
looking forward to their presentations um if i'm not sure if we'll have any live
imaging during this segment or not but i hope so but nonetheless we're going to learn
something and share the excitement of astronomy around the world
and that is the essence of the global star party is inspiring all of us uh to look up
and to share the one sky uh that we have so um so we will be back
um is there any last thoughts any for many of you you have some
yeah i do um i was just outside just briefly
to take a look at another planet that's uh in the sky tonight we have jupiter and saturn that
are really the stars of our show and that libby and deepti were talking
so eloquently about i really loved your poem deepti i really
thank you david you are muted
there we go and but now as i went out to see the dawn because here in arizona
the night is ending and dawn is coming venus is in the sky venus is brighter than all the other
planets it's a small planet and i remember what carl sagan in his
famous cosmo series he did a section called heaven and hell
venus was hell and mars he thought was heaven and i can see his point on that but it
was lovely to see venus this morning and thank you all so much for joining us and i hope some of you will
join us again in a couple of hours yes yeah and venus deserves a uh a
a closer look in fact it's getting a very close look right now as uh astronomers
are debating uh the the data that uh was observed that maybe there
was phosphine uh observed in the atmosphere of venus and
the possibility that this phosphine was created from life that's living within
the atmosphere so this is a very tantalizing observation there's a group
of astronomers that say they didn't find any phosphine there's another group that say they did
so we're going to have to have more observations uh a more careful study but
it's it's really interesting to see the uh the back and forth uh debates that are
going on and um you can learn more about that by just doing a simple google
and if you looked at google today you would see the google doodle of jupiter and saturn uh uh
you know giving a high five and and saturn with using its rings is like a like a hat so
it's pretty uh pretty cool uh kind of humorous and i just love it so i love
you know the whole world right now is celebrating this conjunction and uh uh i don't think that uh libby or
dt will ever forget it uh so um thanks for sharing uh your your
insights and your programs and we look forward to having you on again
so all right so we will be back at 10 a.m uh central uh 1600 utc
um the the episode that would come on right after that would be at 1 50 p.m central and 1950
uh utc and then the final segment will be at 4 45 p.m
central and at 22 45 utc so that would that would complete
the five part series um but uh i hope you all are as excited as we are
about the uh about the conjunction i plan to run outside again and go see it
um because um i saw it uh yesterday evening and it was just
beautiful just beautiful it was surreal magical uh you know uh several of us had said
that uh it was as impressive as seeing a total eclipse of the sun you know and that is amongst the some of
the most spectacular things that you can see in all the all of uh the skies so all right
so sure before we uh take off there's a there's a picture that i
shared earlier um okay let's see on facebook on facebook and uh this was taken
hopefully you can see my screen oh yeah yeah beautiful my sebastian
voltmer he's in uh uh this was in france right so this was on the uh this was
five days ago when um the moon saturn and jupiter were all in a
in a straight horizontal line um and uh this is probably one of my uh
more favorite pictures that i've seen uh so far of uh the this event leading up to
uh uh up to today in the conjunction today so um yeah i thought this was just
absolutely beautiful i've shared it um in a few places it's been making its rounds
as well um it's got 5300 likes or reactions to it lots of over 30
000 shares so it's it's made its rounds but i wanted to share it again um i i
think this is absolutely beautiful and uh a great great shot of uh
of what we're witnessing today i agree i agree that's awesome
okay jerry did you want to you're here with us did you want to comment on anything
yeah i kind of i kind of uh snuck into the meeting or into the broadcast a little bit i
just got up i got up early this morning and i watched your christopher goes i've watched the recorded version it was
awesome to watch uh what this was providing us with the great views of saturn and jupiter
but unfortunately i i came on also to tell you that um that at the msro we're gonna have
cloudy skies more than likely tonight with the forecast and uh and we've we've got issues with our
horizon as i said in the chat so it's not in the cards for us
right now but uh well you can hang out with us and enjoy it so yeah that's what i'm gonna do so i
appreciate it thanks that's great all right jerry thanks all right well we will see everybody very soon
uh uh it's now uh 7 47 a.m here in uh arkansas where i'm
broadcasting from uh and i'll be back at uh 10 o'clock so
a couple more hours and uh and we'll see you uh for our next segment again it's going
to be europe to africa with uh mike simmons so take care
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