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7:00 p.m..Scott Roberts - Welcome
little be able to know about these deep different subjects
7:05 p.m..David Levy – Intro and Poetry
like black holes and fabulous right so me and my mom well libby if you could
give me that if you give me a minute there's something i need to discuss with cameron who's here
7:15 p.m..Carrol Iorg – Astronomical League Door Prizes
and uh i got your um my camera and i got i received your
email in which you said you like galaxy so much and i'm glad to see you here
but i did want to give you my response to your email fantastic okay i'm ready
7:35 p.m..Molly Wakeling - Astronomolly
okay the response is i hate galaxies in fact let me tell you when i'm not their
7:45 p.m..Adrian Bradley - Sky Scapes
commentary they're a big distraction for you a galaxy finds its way
a galaxy finds its way into the um well commences later i have to answer
7:55 p.m..Agustin Brollo – Live from Buenos Aires
the phone so
is that your call david oh yeah he's on a call
8:15 p.m..Libby in the Stars
it's good to see you uh levy and everyone i see jerry
good to see you guys too it's um the 60th anniversary
8:45 p.m..Ten Minute Break
i'm working on a document i'm going to be not showing
8:55 p.m..Marcelo Souza
a galaxy comes into the field of view you know what i have to do because i hate it so much i jump out of
9:05 p.m..Deepti Gautam - Multiverses
the observatory get on my bicycle and i ride as fast as i can to the end of the driveway and then i turn the bicycle
around and ride fast as i can back to the observatory hoping that the telescope has moved so that the galaxy
9:20 p.m..Maxi Falieres – Astrophotography in Argentina
isn't there anymore and uh anyway so um that's what i wanted to say
and this is working as well [Laughter] i love it i love it
9:30 p.m..Jerry Hubbell – Live from the MSRO
yeah yeah i don't know i can imagine it's a you know and especially when you're looking
through uh you know you get i'm sure you're very familiar with the virgo cluster as you're combing
9:40 p.m..Rodrigo Zelada - Live from Chile
through the skies and so uh so whenever there is uh
9:50 p.m..Cameron Gillis - Camstronomy
um i hate the verbal tester almost as much as anything exactly because that's a lot of a lot of
distraction i hate the gallagher own galaxy takes
225 million years to turn around its axis just once
10:05 p.m..Ten Minute Break - After Party
and i know that i'm not going to be alive to watch it do do one turn unless i eat all my vegetables
and listen to all of libby's lectures that he gives that she gives and uh
um but everything else and uh but anyway but anyway cameron
welcome to the star party and i take back everything i cared about i just said
thank you david i love it i love the story that's great yeah it's uh
it's fun it's fun no it's really neat because you know the there's so many
uh different um natural wonders uh you know as we look at the sky and and nature and uh
and you you kind of put in uh you know you have certain filters as you're exploring the sky
when you're looking for certain objects so so uh so i i can you know
me i i tend to be automatically attracted to galaxies anytime i'm looking at globular clusters
or or you know like for example m13 right there's ngds ngc 6702 i think it is uh within within
the same field i automatically you know it's so much fainter and so much more obscure but yet
it just takes me to that place you know um where it's like wow you know
you get this this feeling that of the vastness of the universe it's a
it's a nice journey and one of my favorites is
caroline herschel's galaxy ngc 253 it's actually kind of difficult to see
it's very diffuse but it's a beauty down there in the southern sky
yeah i was just looking at coming through the galaxies uh a couple of days ago and uh in in
pegasus pegasus has a lot of nice uh nice galaxies in that area
and um yeah really really subtle you know they're nothing that you can't see much structure i only have an eight
inch um you know but uh but you can see some different slightly different structures that you see
some are like have a higher density center some are more edge-on just really subtle differences and and
then you start thinking about the size of these and the vastness it's it's really humbling and it's
it's a neat experience i just love i love um you know just looking at those faint
fuzzies if you can call it that you know yeah
it's just so lovely to see these things
now let's see what we've got here we're having quite a bit of rain today how are you
yeah boy it's coming down we had over almost an inch last night or three three
quarters of an inch and we've got half an inch today and i'm going to show you a picture when you just look if i can find it
hello carol nice to see you oh how you doing good to see you again
yeah i'm sorry to everyone that uh i got the schedule out so late i
i had it finished and then it was like one thing hit me right after the other and
i was getting these messages scott are you sending out the schedule yeah yeah it was because you were early
you were early with the first uh first uh on saturday night already with the
yeah with the rsvp and then and then and then was like oh okay and then of course i saw david's uh
reply and yeah he was right away responding so okay and then i called on with my galaxy thing
and then and then and now here we are but it's great i think we're all here
yeah cool we wouldn't miss a 60th ever yeah that's right
okay i'm going to try to show you wendy's picture of the um
of the mushroom we actually get mushrooms here
and uh if i could share my the mushrooms
uh scotty if you'd let me share for a second i'd like to show you oh yeah yeah sure
sure go ahead okay
okay do you see this there's uh just on the right side do you
see
not there yet give it a second
third wow what is that that's a mushroom that's wendy's mushroom that is growing in our desert
with all the you can see all the growth that's growing we've had so much rain this summer
right now it's not even a desert anymore everything's just growing anyway
and that's why i hate galaxies because they run because of that
okay i will try to stop sharing all right
and uh um
okay i can do it for you there we go oh thanks
okay somehow
we've got people have already logged in we've got book davies
wajdy um gazara is on from tunisia
uh matthew walshee uh is on and martin eastburn howdy book
and watch d uh watched he wants to talk about exoplanets and aliens we'll have to
create a whole show for that sometime watchd but not this one this one is about the local group of galaxies so
but there might be aliens out there you don't know uh let's see and we have uh brian
fanning checking in from new jersey um we have um
let's see chris larson barry allen
from the ellen observatory uh marvin huddleston
found this by accident thank you martin or marvin excuse me hope you enjoy it um
let's see mike wiesner
from cloudy and stormy arizona must be storming where you are too david right
and jim's astro and um that's all that's on chat right now jeff
wise but it is our 60th global star party so
libby was uh saying it's our 60th anniversary i guess it is in a way
um you know i think of 60 anniversaries is like 60 years old which this is not but
but we did pack in a lot of star parties in just a little bit over a year so you know
so that's all cool and pekka's here with us great
so who do we study yes
wonderful
and for those of you who are watching uh if you would kindly share and like
and subscribe uh to this that would be great um it helps spread the
educational outreach aspect of this program and you know so that's why we do it
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well hello everybody this is scott roberts from the explore alliance and explore scientific and it is our 60th
global star party so uh we're glad that uh if you've watched
many of these or all of these you know thank you for your uh for always being there um
we have um presenters here who have uh done almost
every global star party and david levy is certainly one of those um
i was uh uh you know looked i was reading
an entry in facebook recently about um
a post that uh alan stern you know uh planetary scientist alan stern put up
and he's uh you know he's the principal investigator for new horizons he's been on a couple of our programs but he put
out some information in support of people who have had cancer and the problem of
you know you know treatments for cancer and stuff and what it can do to families and
friends and stuff like that and um you know one of the things that that
that i know is that you know as we go through our lives as amateur astronomers and friends uh
you know it's it's important to be there in the good times and the tough times and um
so uh you know some of these people that are here
there we go [Laughter] there we go we fixed it
anyways uh i just wanted to let you all know that uh if you're listening or uh
participating that uh you know we're always uh we always want to be there for you and uh and give you
support it was the reason it was the genesis for the idea of having global star party in the first place is to give astronomers a
place to go during lockdowns of the pandemic and so
but global star party is still going strong and i expect that that programs like this
will continue on long after the pandemic has has left us so
but david levy and i have bonded on over several different things and
uh you know his adventures in astronomy uh his good times his tough times uh but
he's always been a great friend and uh the kind of real friend that you can
always count on and so i'm really honored and pleased and happy to call
david levy my friend david thank you so much for coming all
the way through to 60 star parties and and to be there for all the rest of our
special programs that we've done he's done way more way way more than 60
presentations with us and david has been with many astronomy clubs and giving
lectures and stuff uh he deserves he deserves like some sort of giant you
know bowling level championship statue to put on his mantle because uh i don't
know of anybody else that is as prolific as david is in presenting um as he as he
does so david thank you very much for coming on and i'm going to give the uh the stage
over to you well thank you scotty and uh
i was actually a little concerned as you were going on because kent has just gone up and stormed out of the room there
and i want to say hi to ken who is here to libby and to cameron
and uh the interesting thing is that cameron and i were having a little bit of fun because he specified in his letter to
you that he would be coming because he really likes galaxies and i thought well let's take the
logical philosophical opposite to that argument what if you don't like galaxy so i
waited till he was on today and i said well i hate galaxies and cameron said what do you mean you hate galaxies
and i said well when i'm out comet hunting and a galaxy comes into the um
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one of the uh coma virgo clusters of galaxies or caroline herschel's galaxy ngc 653
i get so angry that i jump out of the observatory leave the telescope i get on my bicycle
and i ride as fast as i can to the end of the driveway and then i turn the gap the galaxy i turn the bicycle around and
run right all the way back hoping that when i get back to the telescope the galaxy will be gone but it usually isn't
so i just have to get used to it and uh anyway cameron and the others didn't buy
this for a second they knew that i love galaxies as much as they do
and i love looking at them i love photographing them i love even though i'm the world's worst astrophotographer
libby takes much better pictures than i do and you see i see she's smiling in
agreement there anyway but i do have a poem for you today and uh there's another story of that
it's william wordsworth's poem stargazers and i included it
in my master's thesis about gerard manley hopkins
in the introductory in the introductory chapter and i put it in and uh dr mackenzie may
he rest in peace my thesis supervisor at the time he let me keep the poem in but he put a
comment at the bottom of the poem and he said wordsworth has written some wretched
verse and i still laugh at that i think when i told him when we talked
about it i just broke out laughing right in his office and i think i said how can you say the
words were through some awful poetry and he said well he did so i'm going to quote you part of
william wordsworth's awful poem not gonna quote the whole thing but i'm
gonna quote a little bit of it and i hope i hope you all go screaming into the night and you just might
what crowd is this what have we here we must not pass it by a telescope upon his
frame and pointed to the sky long is it as a barber's pole or mast of
a little boat some little precious gift that dot when the tam's waters flowed
the show man chooses well his place because leicester's busy square and he's happy in his night for the
heavens are blue and fair calm known patient is the crown each is ready with
the feed an envy 10 that's working what an insight must it be
yet showing where can live the cause shall i implement that blame
opposed to that one his tribe fails and is put to shame says then a deep and earnest thought the
blissful mind employee of him who gazes for his gaze a grave and steady joy
the dutch reject all show of pride admits no outward sign he does not have this noisy world but silent and divine
would ever be the cause to ensure that they who cry and poor
seem to me with little gain seem less happy than before one after one they take their turns nor
are i want to spy that does not slightly go away as they're dissatisfied
and i'm really surprised that all of you are still here and you haven't all screaming into the night from that awful
poem but it still is one of my favorites it brings to mind a lot of people who look
for a telescope that they buy at a store and there's just as much
it's a disappointment but in my mind i have never ever looked through a telescope and have been
disappointed no matter what any telescope and as we go through the night tonight
let's think of all the fun we've had looking for these wonderful telescopes and i'll leave it to you scotty with
just this final comment okay after i leave my observatory at night seriously
having seen the galaxies and other things i'm looking at and i closed the building up i like to
imagine that the telescopes therein are talking to each other what did david show us tonight what did
we show him what did we fail to show him and what should we do next time that's
better right thank you and thank you thank you david thank you so much
well that's great uh up next uh
we are going to go right to carol orange from the astronomical league uh
carol is um president of the astronomical league he
has been with the league for i don't know many years how would how long would you say carol
maybe 25 i don't know i lost count a few years ago yeah yeah it's
but almost ever since i've been involved with uh the league myself uh daryl's been there you know so
um you know and he's done so many different things and he's always been vigilant
in uh in support of the league and working with amateur astronomers and
all different aspects of uh the complexities of the league because
you know now the league is has expanded again you're over 20 000
members at this point i think 22 000 and change or something and still growing
you have all these observing programs you have all these awards
and you know you have a responsibility to was it two or three hundred clubs that's out
there so it's it's well over 300 now yes wow i mean it's just it's it's the
biggest thing going and um it takes a lot of energy a lot of passion a lot of knowledge uh
to run something like that so my hat's off to you carol that's great you know so
thank you scott and we gots we've received so many compliments about our alcon 2021 virtual that scott and
explore scientifically so graciously helped us with technologically uh i can't believe for a virtual
convention we would have 600 people register and so it was a real success thanks in large pot apart to the various
social media venues that was on so well done scott we really appreciate it thank you thank you it was a pleasure to be to
play a role in that but uh really was it was you know the organization of it it was
the speakers you know it was just a fantastic event if you hadn't if you didn't attend
during the live presentation you can watch it again because there's a lot of information that you can learn from from
that particular alkyne event so it was truly an international event we had speakers
in fact i'll say more about it when we get to questions because there's one sure appropriate
right now this is our 60th this is our 60th event i asked kent
uh to um come on just for a second to talk about
this special door prize that we're going to do for for this 60th hi scott uh so um you know pop
scott popped me on this about 60 seconds ago so uh
you know about i thought about it enough time since it's our 60th house exactly so so i tried to think very quickly of
something that that had a you know a 60 in it we don't really have anything with a 60 in it
so the closest i could come up with something with a 62 in it and that would be a 62 degree eyepiece
so um close enough to 60 you know we'll deal with it so it's a
we we have eyepieces are sold out we're starting to get stock back in of lots of stuff
i got an idea i got an idea kent not to interrupt you i did interrupt you but
we can give is there can we give uh i don't know if i'm gonna
make you mad scott i'm gonna say two eyepieces 62 and we subtract two
from 62 and we get 60. all right
you guys are killing me that's like
all right let's roll with that that's new math that's like what they're teaching in school today that's really
real it's real math that's real math okay so so we're going to give away two
prizes they're going to be 62 degree 14 millimeter eye pieces which is effectively the only eyepiece in 62
range we have in stock at all so uh it's a 149 value they're waterproof
uh they come with the great explorer scientific warranty and uh you know a nice high-powered uh a
nice uh view so we'll work with anybody's telescope so the thing is they'll
they'll fit in that binocular mount too right that's correct they'll fit in the in the binocular
um and you need two of them for that right correct and so the bino viewer is
available only uh we'll take this moment to for this commercial break uh the vinyl
viewers are available only for explore alliance members so if you want to get in on this on the binau viewers uh
go send an email uh to explore alliance at explorescientific.com
annie will get you set up with uh an explore alliance uh paid membership
uh the legacy membership doesn't get this deal you'll have to get the uh the paid one
but there's great benefits so end of commercial back to the giveaway 62 degree 14 millimeter eye pieces
um and i guess we need to come up with questions to give them away too so
um yeah that we'll we'll let the league do that they're they're all set so
so yeah you got questions go ahead yeah i've got a few here so let's get started and congratulations again david on 60
you've attended each one of these and i know you've been all over the place other places too so well done on being
through so many of these events outstanding okay let me share my screen thanks carol
sure
um
okay can everybody see my screen there's some sort of noise in the background but he's smashing on a
keyboard it sounds like everybody who's not currently speaking should mute themselves yes
we start with the uh normal precautionary slide which says if you
win a door prize that's going to be looking toward the sun with some kind of an
instrument uh make sure you have proper filtering so make sure that's there
and now we've got the answers from the last gsp which was august 24 2021
number one in 1967 this graduate student stumbled upon a
pulsing radio signal that turned out to be a new class of objects consisting of
rapidly spinning neutron stars that were created in supernova explosions who is
she that's jocelyn bell burnell she was our keynote speaker from england just
has such an impressive resume and she blazed lots of trails uh during her
early years and continues to of course was the founder uh discovered pulsars so
we were honored to have her number two who designed the optical arrangement
that is parabolic primary mirror and a flat secondary mirror
tilted at 45 degrees to the primary used in this telescope shown to my left
the answer is isaac newton this is just a newtonian reflector on a
mounting designed by john dobson so that's just updating the dobsonian design but it makes it a lot easier to
maneuver so that's a good improvement and finally number three
johann gottfried golly was the first person to observe a famous object and
know what he was seeing what was the object the answer is neptune
he used coordinates provided to him by french astronomer urbane le verrier who
is credited along with john adams for the discovery we have senator has several winners from
that last star party and their names will be added to the august list of your
prize winners and will draw a grand prize uh after tonight's results are known
josh kovac cameron gillis andrew corkill book davies andrean bradley and neil cox
and about half of those people are on this broadcast right now it's very familiar that's right
so congratulations everybody just keep on coming back don't they scott yes they do that's wonderful
and now questions for tonight and send your answers to secretary
astro league dot org so so carol a question real quick sure
so the people who answer tonight will be entered into the drawing for the
two eyepieces we're giving away and they will be entered into the monthly drawing correct
yeah that sounds good if you want that on top of that that's great okay
okay sounds good so some double opportunities here tonight question number one what momentous space
event occurred on october 4th 1957
what momentous space event occurred on october 4th 1957
send your answers to secretary astroleague dot org question number two
who is the oldest person to fly in space who is the oldest person to fly in space
finally the summer triangle asterism features the stars vega deneb and altair
what constellations are each of them found in the summer triangle asterism features
the start vega deneb and altair what constellations are each of them found in
and again send your answers to secretary astrolage.org and before i
sign off the next astronomical league live event number nine
is happening on friday night september 17th at 7 p.m eastern daylight time
our featured speaker will be claude plymate from astronomical adaptive optics so that should be a very
interesting program yes mark your calendars now and i think that's it back to you scott
great wonderful okay well um it's always a pleasure to have the astronomical league
on and um uh if you have not joined the astronomical league uh uh
certainly consider doing so you can go to astro league and i'll put in the link
here astroleague.org
so if you are a a person that's not associated with
any club you can join as a member at large or or you can join up with a club
that is an astronomical league club and there's plenty of them there's over 300 of them in the united states
uh you know and as i mentioned before or have mentioned before if you're an
international astronomer and you'd like to be part of the league uh can't blame you for that uh for sure
join as a astronomical league member at large as
well and and you you can participate in all their uh their their live programs for sure
their their observing programs their rewards all of that stuff so
we have something for everybody whether you're a beginner whether you live in an urban area whether you live in the
darkest skies around or whether you just want another challenge there's something there for everyone that's right that's right and
you'll be part of the biggest thing going in astronomy so so up next uh is molly wakeling molly
runs a program called astronomy she is a
a fixture in the astrophotography world
i met molly for the first time at the advanced imaging conference where she was holding
up which i an image that i think is actually still one of her favorite images of the rho futures region um
and uh you know molly is uh uh also a winner of the uh
wilhelmina fleming award uh from the astronomical league which is a new astrophotographer astrophotography award
for women which is wonderful and she
frequently appears on global star party so molly thank you for coming back
and um i'll turn it over to you thanks scott yeah i'm happy to be back
and i was uh very thrilled to receive the the first especially the the first ever instance of that william fleming
award and i hope it continues long into the future and uh more and more women are inspired
to get into astrophotography as a result of being more well recognized so
um yeah i'm happy to be back and yeah i i do have that that printed copy of the
rookies region hanging in my living room it's still basically my favorite image i haven't quite popped it yet thank you
um yeah so i will go ahead and share my screen here
uh so uh since tonight is focused on the local group of galaxies and i did
andromeda last time i decided to talk about messier 33 this time another member of the local
group of galaxies also known as the triangulum galaxy
so i what what is the triangulum galaxy uh so it is a spiral galaxy
it is messier number 33 or the new general catalog number 598. it's
oftentimes listed as the pinwheel galaxy in public outreach sources including the
sky safari app interestingly enough and uh and other places but
generally the pinwheel galaxy is is accepted to be messier 101 as opposed to messi a33 and
which is more properly known as the triangulum galaxy due to its location in the small constellation of triangulum
it's the third largest member of the local group after the milky way and the andromeda galaxy
and this is a uh the image in the background of this slide is a massive hubble mosaic so hubble has a very small field
of view so i can image very distant and very small things but is occasionally used to image larger
objects but you have to mosaic i don't know how many frames went into this but an awful lot judging by the uh the size
of the jagged line frames along the edges so uh really an incredible image
the rest of the images in the slideshow are mine
well uh the pictures anyway all right so where can one find m33 so it is in uh well into the northern sky
it's almost circumpolar at 40 degrees north attitude but not quite and i believe it is circumpolar probably when
you get up further north into canada but the way that you find it is it's actually not too far from andromeda it's
if you go to the great square of pegasus and uh the triangulum constellation is
not super easy to spot it's just three stars and they're all magnitude three or less so it's probably easier to look for that
great square and to look for the star mirak which is kind of the uh the next
bright star up the uh the the leg or something of pegasus maybe
one of the wings um and it kind of makes a line with
uh with uh jamal down here uh bright star in aries that's pretty easily
recognizable as well pretty much makes a line between those two stars is about halfway in the middle
so that's how you can find it as far as where it's at with relation to
us from a broader perspective this is a zoomed in version of the map of the
local group so um i'd rather have my mouse on the wrong screen for when i was doing all that pointing uh here is the
milky way our own galaxy and uh up outside of the plane of the galaxy
which is why we see it kind of far away from the main band of the milky way
is both the andromeda galaxy and m33 and a whole host of little dwarf galaxies
and whatnot up over here so it's kind of so it's physically
relatively near to m31 and may actually be gravitationally bound to m31 but that is
still to be determined but it is moving closer to m31 and may have interacted with it in the
past since there is actually a trail of hydrogen gas that connects the two
galaxies over uh i forgot to look up how many how many light years it is but it's quite a a good distance so that's pretty
fascinating so some fast facts about the about messier 33 it's uh obviously in the
constellation triangulum it's 2.73 million light years away so
galactically speaking quite close it's the second nearest major galaxy
after the andromeda galaxy at two and a half million light years away it was discovered actually a lot of
discoveries were made kind of in that 1760s period by messier and others this
was discovered a little earlier by an italian astronomer giovanni batista odierna
in uh sometime before 1694 and it was independently discovered by
messier later on in 1764 and included in his catalog
there's an apparent magnitude of 5.7 so uh but because it is quite large on
the sky it actually makes it a relatively dim kind of diffuse target that can be a little difficult to
observe visually as a diameter of 60 000 light years
which is about 60 percent the diameter of the milky way galaxy which is a
hundred thousand light years so it's smaller than both andromeda and the milky way and it has
about a tenth of the stars that the milky way has and uh and andromeda galaxy has even has
about 10 times more stars than the milky way so about a hundredth of the number of stars that andromeda has
but it's still a very very vis very impressive and incredible
galaxy with the stars that it does have so one cool fact i wanted to to share
about m33 is that it is one of of several sources in the sky uh several
galactic sources of maser emission and masers are sort of like lasers
except that they're microwave wavelength as opposed to optical or near infrared
wavelength and in this case the um the
the gas that's being excited that the stimulated emission is coming from is actually water which i think is
extremely cool um so it's uh as opposed to being
amplified multiple times inside of a resonant cavity it's multiplied a single
time i did a little bit of reading and the exact mechanism was sort of unclear
but i this tends to happen in well really a variety of astrophysical
sources but the place where it's been observed in m33 is in ultra compact h2 regions h2
being another name for hydrogen alpha that are embedded in molecular clouds around kind of the edges of m33
and the the wavelength for the particular emission that has been
observed is in the 22 gigahertz range or uh which is 1.3 centimeters so anybody
who knows anything about radio wavelengths these numbers will be relatively high frequency for radio but
much much lower frequency than optical light so that puts it very handling to the microwave range
um so uh let's see i had oh i guess i
forgot to actually finish making this slide well uh so um i so it like um
like lasers stimulated emission works by you have an atom in an excited state so
it has some extra energy in the electrons that are floating around it and
uh a photon of the same wavelength as as the distance between the excited state
and the lower energy state the ground state will come in and it will perturb
that excited state enough to cause it to drop down to the
ground state sooner than ordinarily would have and then that produces a photon
of that same wavelength of that same energy and so now you have two photons of of
that stimulation frequency and then it goes on to the next
excited state atom and does the same thing and soon you have this amplification
of photons on a single wavelength and that's what kind of marks it being amazer as opposed to just
random radio emissions so uh yes uh these things occur
naturally in nature which is super cool first time i read about it was was like
what i thought i thought laser stuff only existed in laboratories so it's really cool
another really uh fascinating area of m33 that you can go explore visually or with
a camera is mgc 604 which is this incredible enormous nebula in m33
and it's large enough that when we take pictures of m33 it's very obvious you can see it it's extremely bright
it's an emission region so new stars are born here was discovered by william herschel
in 1784 and it's so bright that if it were the same distance from us that the orion
nebula is it would be brighter than venus wow which is i mean you would be able to see
a nebula almost during the day like if that that's so hard to imagine
it's it's an enormous extremely bright nebula and you can you can go observe m33 and
just look at at this nebula and look for um some of the globular clusters too if
you have a large telescope or even just if you have a a small field of view
astrophotography set up you can go image just this uh i mean you're not going to be quite
as zoomed in as this hubble image here but you still be able to get some nice detail yeah
beautiful sorry i said beautiful yeah it's it's a really very intricate region as well
so i always like to show these objects in other wavelengths because we're used to thinking about optical light but
there's a lot of different different features and characteristics in other wavelengths of light
so the first image over here is the uh is 21 centimeter
line hydrogen radio emission this was an image made by the very large array and
the national radio uh africa the green bank telescope
the green bank telescope array um and uh yeah so so that's so you can kind
of you can see how there's actually you know there's not a lot of radio from the core but from all of these hydrogen
regions kind of in the outer outer edges of it where a lot of star formation is happening
in the infrared image here from spitzer you see even different structures than we can see visually that's largely
because infrared light pierces through the dust clouds and the gas clouds and
so we can see structure all the way in toward the core and see a lot more than
we can see visually so in looking at infrared images is always fun as well
uh this is an ultraviolet image from swift and it actually looks remarkably like the optical image but a little bit
less filled in and then i had to reach into a piece of software called aladdin that i have that
has overrate overlays for a wide variety of space telescopes and ground-based
telescopes and the only real x-ray emission in m33 is from the core i'm
guessing this is probably from the black hole i don't know if these are jets or if this is like quote-unquote lens flare uh
even though there's not you know there's not like a glass lens for x-ray telescopes but um it might be might be
some kind of jets but i didn't have time to go look into it and some other brightly glowing sources
as well that are probably a very hot young stars or
possibly some other interesting phenomena going on there so if you want to go observe m33 it's a
definitely a good target to head up on a regular basis it's available for a wide portion of the
year i put september through march down just as like the time when it's visible in the first half of the night if you
don't want to stay up until three in the morning to observe it uh so it's available for much of the
year it is visible naked eye in dark locations most people say that it's the most
distant object you can see naked eye um i would counter that with the fact that i
have a 99 confidence level that i have observed m51 naked eye from uh green bank west virginia
uh so i have to go see how many other people have achieved that um
but uh yeah it is visible they could eye on deck locations it was actually used as kind of a benchmark for how how
pristine the skies are where you are as to whether you can see it naked eye
mixing for a nice fuzzy blob in telescopes and binoculars you can make out the spiral shape using larger
somewhat like modest instruments maybe like eight inches uh and possibly find some detail on some
of the larger h2 regions it is difficult to observe visually because it is too large and diffuse
but you'll be able to make out some of the spiral shape when using an appreciable telescope
under appreciably dark skies and larger telescopes like 16 inches or larger can actually go hunt down
globular clusters that are in the vicinity that that surround m33 so
that's probably i haven't tried that myself but it sounds like a fun a fun task photographically it is quite large in
the sky so not quite as hard as andromeda but you do need a larger field of views this is a great this is one of
the few really good refractor targets as among galaxies so if you have a
refractor this is a good one to go after so you do need some longer exposures but
it is definitely i'd say it's probably easier to image than m31 but harder to image than a lot of other things because
of its low surface brightness it's best done in wide band because it's a galaxy it's not going to have a lot a
lot of detail in the narrow band emissions but there's a lot of star forming regions in there so you can
definitely add some really nice context and detail by taking some hydrogen alpha data and
mixing that in with your wideband especially on those star forming regions
so i wanted to share uh this is one of the other pictures i have printed out in my living room uh that i got printed out
at uh at aic the advantage conference um this one was not done with my own
gear and it's it's uh clear by that because this is by far the
highest quality image that i own this was with a telescope down at deep
sky west uh and i i'm realizing now i forgot to put what the telescope was but
it was a a plane wave 14 inch cdk corrected doll curcum
um using an fli kepler 4040 which is just this insane super expensive camera
astrodon lrgb filters it's all mounted on a paramount taurus for 400. this is about five hours worth
of data over a single night back in november 2018. and this was some time donated to me
by astrodon in conjunction with tolga astro and optical structures
in exchange for me writing up about the experience of using the astrodon filters and how much i am so in love with this
image [Laughter] i just got some really really incredible detail and the thing i love about
imaging m33 is you can actually resolve a large number of individual stars uh
with the exception of some of these stars that have diffraction spikes a lot of these stars especially the ones
in the galaxy are in that galaxy two and a half 2.7 million light years away and
yet we i can resolve them here with the 14 inch telescope which is admittedly a high-end telescope but it's not like
hubble you know it is a telescope that one could own given enough money
right so and here's ngc uh 604 um
which is just really cool to kind of zoom in on an image because it's got lots of intricate detail it's like a smaller
version well from our perspective a smaller version of the tarantula nebula basically but in the northern hemisphere
which is nice so yeah that's what i've got on m33
wonderful wonderful stunning image and uh lots of great information so thank you
very much molly that's great look forward to having you on next time yeah
our next uh speaker uh will be um adrian
bradley adrian's been on our program uh regularly uh sharing his incredible uh
nightscapes and landscape photography um and his thoughts on uh you know uh
of the universe as he makes those images so and how those images kind of affect
him long after uh he's made them so adrian i'll turn it over to you all
right thank you scott and um so as i looked up and realized that the
theme of tonight was the local group and i remember
seeing the quote that you had about our connection to the universe from neil degrasse tyson so i had originally prepared slides to
talk about well here's how we're connected to the universe so what i'll do is a little bit of a hybrid because
as it turns out um i've taken some images that
actually if you look at them they're done with a camera they're done with a dslr camera or or a mirrorless
camera and a wide-angle lens but at the sites that are that i was at
i actually caught light from some of the uh couple galaxies of the local group including the one that
uh molly was just talking about m33 um as i'll go ahead and start sharing my
screen and as always i do it uh
as simple as possible by just sharing the uh a couple of the images
um we'll start with the uh the pretty image of the milky way that everyone
sees and this this was going to be a part of the image of saying when you're looking out
into space and you combine it with things that you see on earth you get an idea that we do
belong in this universe we're a part of it the universe isn't something separate
to just image or that that's just hanging out there we are a part of it
and this is from our vantage point as human beings so it's a um
you can it gets pretty profound when you think well we're part of all of the uh
star stuff that's out there and shouldn't treat it as well it's so far away in the
distance that uh we never think about it and it's we are a part of it and um
now like i said those are things that i think about all the time is i'm out imaging but what i will show also
while imaging the milky way that was the that was the side that most milky way photographers will shoot
this one could be called the local group or it's probably
better called the uh cassiopeia region in the cassiopeian perseus region
because what's interesting about the shot is that there's actually three galaxies visible here the inspire the arm
which someone correct me on the chat believe this would be part of the perseus arm
um since perseus is here uh andromeda which you can see
and m 33 if i see if i can zoom in i may have to
do this to zoom in or figure out what the uh keystroke is
but yeah it didn't work and so m33 the light from m33 is right here
and um if there's a way for me to i see it
yeah you can barely see it so that so what you were talking about molly with in a dark sky you can see it naked eye
it really has to be a pretty impressive dark sky because this is a portal 3 zone here
and i had to image it in order to see it and then other neat little things here which i vowed to
go through and learn what each of these objects are um because they are showing up and i
think this was done with a um i don't remember if i used a modified
camera to get that shot i believe it was just a stock camera but i did use
a modified camera to get this and
sort of blew everything blew everything out here's andromeda again here's m33
and when you get in close you can kind of see the spiral shape that it has
um right here just looks kind of like a bright star but it actually is a galaxy um so here i was this is the same place
a couple of years later so
the other thing i took a shot and i just found it i took a shot a while ago
um you may recognize these stars here the big dipper there's a uh
this was with a small mirrorless camera i think um took a wide angle shot and
okay good that's i can zoom in learn your keys if you zoom in
and you look carefully we're talking about seeing m51 naked eye
this is a portal 4 zone but look right there there's m51
in a wide-angle shot and i'd have to figure out how many seconds i let this go for
but there's the light you can see both in 51 a and b are hanging out right here there's
alcade there's a lot of um i could ima you know do something to get rid of that but the
whole idea being i got the light from m51 in a wide-angle shot
that looks like this with enough this was the dipper was
um close to the zenith and managed to get the light so you may be
thinking did you get 101 as well there's the light from that
in 101 is make sure yep that's
there's mizar alcade and the light from mem101 also
the faint light here this not so sure um those of you that
this could either be a dust grain or it could be something else um
that i managed to get i went over here looking for
m82 m81 and m82 and i haven't really over this is the
part of the the part where i was getting oblong shaped stars near the edge of
my tracking so i don't know if that's what i'm seeing here or not
can't uh verify it but um
i think the the point for me was just the the ability to take these uh long
exposures you end up pulling in light from
very distant objects and you may not even like i didn't realize until i zoomed in after i got
home that i pulled in light now is this perfectly can you see the spiral shape
and is it perfect well no there'd be more work to do to um
get a perfect spiral shape but the light that i got
coming from m51 so it's it is possible to um
pull in light from very modest equipment and what you may think is just a
star-filled shot of the big dipper and the little dipper kind of covered with clouds and a possible meteor
um you may be getting a whole lot more than you um than you actually think so if
you're if you're doing night sky photography and you can do long exposures with your tracker
take a look at some of your images and see if you got a lot more than you bargained for
um really quickly before i end the segment um
deep space um astrophotography done with an 85 an old 85 millimeter
lens and a uh and a canon t2i
turned out pretty good i think through through haze the haze was so thick that um
this is what my milky way photography looked like on that night you could barely see it
milky way photography should look a little more
like the other image that i showed this was my the image that usually sits behind me
in a portal 2 sky maybe i overdid it by trying to go a minute but uh
that was a i want to say it was around it's almost
half a year ago um but to me a couple more shots that are more
impressive with a modified camera you can shoot through clouds and still see
the um core of the galaxy you can still see this part of the uh of the milky way galaxy even when it's
cloudy so cloudy nights don't have to deter you from shooting
now what i wish for everyone to see is this this may not look impressive
but um when you go to a dark enough site and you look up for the milky way
this is essentially what you're looking at if you're looking at the core of the milky way you see
exactly what's in this picture this is from the upper peninsula of michigan in an area that
becomes portal 2. and the milky way will already have this much detail
and this much hopefully you can see it this much detail and this much in terms of um
structure and even color and if anyone asked me what's the
coolest thing that i've seen or taken a picture of this is it
um just looking at being able to see this much detail
without taking a single picture with my eyeballs
and you know knowing that if i if i expose it i can get more it can get prettier but
it's there it's there for us to view just like all these other all those other galaxies are there we
may not be able to see them but um whenever you look at the big dipper you're looking at
even more galaxies than the few that you can expose um using uh
you know if you you do use a long exposure so
and then in closing there's always you know this is aurora up close we know that um
you know that there's uh we see aurora on other planets as well but it's always impressive if you get to
watch it our own star what's impressive about the onstar this
was more along the theme of being a part of the universe like this the sun just hangs here it looks part of this picture
but it's 93 million miles away so it's a it's a very interesting thing to ponder
when you look at something that looks like you know it's just right over there i could throw something at it or you know
i could just go to these pine trees and you know would it get closer no it'll it
it just hangs in the sky like that and when they're smoking the sky you take advantage of that you get some good
shots and then finally
a long exposure can get you a really interesting photo we see storms in other planets and um
this view to me kind of gives you sort of the the idea of you've got a
you've got a sky you've got a clear sky but in the distance the storm rage is on
you've even got a meteor that i happen to catch with this exposure that's cool um yeah it makes for a really cool
picture this is sort of the being the part of the universe you can still see out into the night sky even when there's
something going on raging and i'm sure i could come up with a lot of uh philosophical
things to um say about this sort of picture but
we'll leave it at what's going on here and just just being out there when i took the picture a
couple nights ago and just enjoying it um
so so that's basically it for my presentation um so i did manage to blend in a little bit
of the local group the the part of the local group that we can see here in the northern hemisphere of course in the
southern hemisphere they can also see the uh they can see the dwarf um
you know they can see the dwarf galaxies uh the magellanic clouds and
hopefully one day i'll be able to get out there and see it wonderful yeah yeah i think you will
that's it i think you will all right thank you adrian beautiful beautiful photos as always
um up next is uh augustine um
agustin brollo uh agustin is uh cesar brollo's son uh he is um
someone that's a great astrophotographer himself very knowledgeable about image
processing and it's great to have you on the program again augustine it's been a little while
you still there yes here i am ah there you are hi everyone
so um yeah i was i was going to talk about uh how i
managed to get the guiding going and take some images from
from the city because uh so everyone everyone knows i live in a
very light light polluted city it's a very big city uh
in a sec i'm gonna show the light pollution map is terrible it's really
i think it's one of the biggest cities in the world like the top 15 or something
uh so yeah with my dad uh using the ixos 100 and a 80 millimeter
telescope and some guiding scopes and cameras we
managed to take some actually pretty decent uh
lagoon nebula photos i mean one uh i'm going to share my screen
so yeah
here okay so this is the the final result
you can see it right yes we can see okay so this is the final result uh i am
not the best with uh processing but um it looks nice
yeah i mean i managed to to uh
um bring up some colors and and treat the stars correctly
uh using starlit and everything within peaks inside so yeah what i did was that
using the ix 100 that doesn't have the the thumb knob for the latitude i think
it only has the the longitude correction
we we use the the phd guiding method that lets you
lets you do a polar alignment correction within the program
uh i think it's pretty much like the one from uh
all the all the the mount manufacturers which lets you select a star
it does a a movement that it will show the the error and then it it will tell you to move the
the mount manually to that star so you correct the
set error and it was pretty tough because we had to do it
literally by unscrewing the the main
domain i don't know the name of the thing but it's a big metal stick which holds the
the the mount in the tripod we had to unscrew that and move the
mount manually and we we managed to to
to get it close to like one one minute of error
okay which is pretty it's actually useful from what i i from
my experience and okay i'm going to show you the
here so here in winnipeg that's what i wanted to show
this is the city the the light pollution as you can see
i don't really know the the i think you're still on the same image
of the lagoon oh yeah because i'm sharing the
your whole screen so that you can switch back and forth yeah okay so there this is there we go
okay okay so this is argentina
and here is buenos aires from the east middle east here is the
deferral city and yeah this is how how
high of a light pollution we have i mean actually
the the government the city government started to to change the sodium
lamps for lead so
as you can see here when i select
you can see this graph that it started to go down
it's is it okay i mean it's kind of small but uh interesting from my span of five
years yeah it went down about 40 if i can use percentage here i don't
know overall light pollution has gone down yeah yeah okay so yeah i don't know the
i don't know the the specific um looks like it's in units of radi uh of radiance of something yeah
here that's what i yeah the unit is the thing that i don't know yeah but uh yeah it looks like
here's the scale so 80 is the red which is the maximum you can get
like almost white or orange skies
uh close closer to the horizon so yeah the amount of
exposure i took for each for each individual frame it was about three
minutes with a ch cls filter i think is
or chs i don't remember which is a wideband filter with it which
is not the optimal filter to use because it it still
catches a lot of frequencies that are into the light pollution
frequencies uh those being uh hydrogen
the the blue color of hydrogen and yeah
in the future i'm i'm going to try to use the the uh uhc i think is that the narrow
one filter so we get a better
uh better information but yeah um
so what i did was i think around 20 photos of
three minutes each uh with guiding that's that's the new thing we
we uh we managed to get the guiding going uh we didn't oh
a nice information uh we didn't need to use the pcm8 uh
manager because the i used uh cars the cl
and it let me use i it let me collect connect by serial
without going through the the manager which is say
i mean i was surprised because i every time i use the mount you needed to
make sure you connected the amount correctly using the manager
so yeah this time i can i i could connect directly using either carsocl
or um stellarium so for you guys using the this mount that like the the
the beginner mount uh you are able
to connect if you don't want to use that manager which i mean it's not even that hard but
i mean if you don't want to complicate it you can connect directly and ph guiding
will recognize the mount if you have all your drivers set up
first correctly all the all the software that you have to
download so yeah i got a question about that so you're
talking about the path right the hub is that what you're talking about as the manager
yeah yeah the the pcma uh the hub yeah the one that the path hub right or the
device hub some people yeah yeah yeah the place where you where you
change between uh wireless serial or the exporter starts
up you know the where you find the connection and you
yeah so there's the there's the configuration driver which is i think that's what you're referring to there
where you pull up the serial port and the um and that information you put your
location information in into it and then and then you connect so that's the driver for the for the for
the ixos 100 yes and then you can either use a path the hub which is like a
server to connect to the the mount directly and then you connect multiple client
applications to the hub or you're saying i think you what you're saying is that you were using individual
applications to connect to the mount directly and you found that phd guiding was able to connect
somehow oh yeah without the hub yeah phd guiding uh when you connect
the when you're trying to set up the the new profile and it tells you to
uh to select the camera okay you select the camera then when you select the mount
uh from uh there are options where you can select
the option that it's the mount that it will be on camera because some cameras have
the st4 cable output and yeah the that's a common way to use
it but then because of which camera which cameras we have here we tried using one
for guiding that doesn't have the st4 output so
uh we no longer can use the on camera option
but i found that the ascon ascom telescope i think or i think it directly
appeared in the list as a pcma telescope uh when i selected it
it took like i don't know 15 seconds to to load
with a prompt and then it automatically um
uh showed up this connection being using the serial port right the the usb
cable directly to the mount as if i were using
a hand control right right that's interesting
yeah i i was surprised because i didn't know you can do that
that simplifies things so much for me because yeah i was having kind of a bad time with the programs
uh trying to figure out which is the right procedure
to to do it and yeah this this sold so much it's it's way better
but yeah so if the the results surprised me because of
how bad the skies are here even for i mean if someone tries to do
investigation here in the city it's obviously impossible
it will take a lot of time and fiddling with the processing and getting
the best numbers in each process but yeah uh within 20 photos i think 20
by three around one hour i think one or two hours of
exposure i managed to get that image of
uh of m8 lagoon nebula
after also trying to uh do the right thing
in in fixing side so yeah this is the the final image
um yeah so thanks the colors are very nice on this yeah
i think they are kind i'm like a bit off it's
it's not bad as far like it it's there it's uh it's hard to determine exactly what
shades these things should be but i think this is a very nice representation yeah
i have a mixture i mean i have a mixture of the the canon i used being uh
i had the the ir ir filter taken off
so i have that like little bit of red color
and also the the filter being
only shades of orange and blue so i know this is not the actual color
of m8 because i've seen the hubble palette using filters
and it's not really this color but i tried to uh to get it the closer i could to the
actual it yeah it is mostly hydrogen gas um
with a little bit of reflection nebula but it is mostly red and then uh the white the blue white
stars kind of give it a more of that pinkish hue okay so yeah this is good yeah i was
gonna i was gonna ask um don't we normally assign red to hydrogen
because it's you know we we've just kind of done it we could you could assign any color to hydrogen you wanted
which uh there's palettes where it it uses a different color for that but uh so like yeah so it's so it's true
wavelength is in the deep red it's uh what 656 nanometers which is deep red hubble palette assigns sulfur to be red
because it's even redder than hydrogen so it assigns sulfur to be red hydrogen
to be green and oxygen to be blue so you can differentiate between the different
gases even though those are not uh close to their true color well
the hydrogen is not green the sulfur is is red oxygen is kind of a blue green
um but for the hubble palette they're assigned very different colors to be able to see them but for a natural color
image this is mostly hydrogen so it's going to be mostly red which is what you have here so yes
yes yeah it's i know there's some real beautiful
images out there and then it because it becomes an artist's thing at some point
you've got good data yeah and that and for many of us that's the
that's the top priority is getting really good data it looks like the lagoon nebula not the orion nebula so
you have the right data uh the trifid up or it could look like the trifid up there or half of it
so once you've got the right data it's just you know and muted muted presentations i think
um as much as i love to hit all of my landscapes with color um i tend to appreciate the muted
uh presentations of the nebulas because you can pay more attention to the data
and not the flashy colors that some of the astrophotographers will put on these things so yes
i think you're on the right track with it one one thing is with this image
maybe you can tell that the background is actually not either black or gray
it's blue so that's the pollution
yeah yeah that's gonna be a lot of your light pollution um but i think you've you know because that area uh there is
no real blackness of space especially around there yeah i know i know and i don't think it's i mean i do have a i
guess i have a blue light filter on my computer so it doesn't look as blue to me but
no i think yeah i mean i you do the best what you can with the light pollution
that you have and this is a very nice image considering the amount of light pollution you deal with yeah that's
that's why i was really impressed uh how also there's a
like a balance i think where um maybe
how how the algorithm works on the program when you have like a good amount of
images uh it will actually start um
doing the the when it does the calculation it will actually um
like remove that that color that bluish color i also did uh a
okay so pixel side has this process called background um
dynamic background extraction yeah the automatic one so what i do background extraction yeah
the automatic one uh i don't know what i don't use dynamic someday i'm gonna learn how to use it but
i i had really good results doing this next thing okay what i do is uh on the
automatic background structure you have the option to do i think
three operations which are subtraction division and something else that i don't
remember and what i do is i first extract that background i don't
replace the the background model and i do a division
and then i use that for something else but the division is it's amazing that when you divide the
background model from the image you really uh when you stuck the lights and
you have uh light pollution you will have like a
yeah like a cloud on in the world a vignette yeah like an inverse vignette of blue and
yellow and purple depending on what the song had
and yeah you get like an inverted vignette of colors which is horrible and when you divide
the background uh extraction with the image you really get a
uh like a in average an actual i don't know how to say it i don't i don't know the word but like a plane
it makes it makes it flat optical yeah a flat background yeah it's magical
yeah yeah yeah it's so when i did that i i got a nice
background when i but when i started um when you do this with a thing with star
knit that you separate the stars from the from the the
everything else from the image you can touch everything by separately
so yeah when i started to do things to the image to the background being to the nebula
yeah i started to to pull up all that background which is not still which is still not
perfect that's why it's it's blue and you can see this kind of blue
uh yeah so i there's a a moment where i had to stop
even if i i had i still had processes to to use to apply i said okay i'm not
gonna use this because this will like still pull up that information which is not
useful information so yeah i had to like finish it here and do more with the stars
so yeah that's yeah there's a lot of stuff to learn in pixel sight to be able to attack the specific parts of the
image and the more you use it and and look at other people's tutorials
and talk to other people you'll start to be able to make some of your own
tools to to work on those areas like using a color mask to select just the blue areas
and reducing the saturation of the blue yeah but i think this is a very nice image
yeah thank you very much from yeah from the image of from the city images i think
this one is uh as far like the best i have from the from the city from the city very
impressive yeah thank you very much agustin thank you for coming on tonight
and um uh we you know you're welcome back anytime so thanks very much yeah thanks
and regards to your father by the way oh yeah yeah yeah
um well thank you everyone yeah thank you thank you tell him i said
you did a wonderful job and come on man come on
tell them from adrian come on that's right yeah that's a typical
phrase up next up next is libby and the stars libby has
uh uh only been able to come on uh
less frequently than she did she gave uh my goodness she gave uh nearly 50 um
presentations to the global star party and but now that she's back in school and
the situation school has changed a little bit she doesn't have quite as much time as she had before but
uh she still makes a sacrifice to share her passion about astronomy so
libby i'm going to turn this over to you okay well it's so nice to be back and happy 60th
star party everybody it's i think i started at the eighth star party when i first started doing the
talks and then i've continued on from there and so
um today it was actually yesterday when i started thinking about this
very much and started researching this a lot and and social studies class we were
really just talking about how you know a lot everything that we see today
wasn't here when first or when earth first started and these things have just
some of them are newer things like the computer like that just arrived in 1990
and that we've been getting better at now and now and then some things is like the wheel
as the first invention and stuff like that and so we um i really got to thinking
i mean like who was the first person on earth to really be like
wow what is that up there it looks very interesting i really want to look into this and
research this which started this whole spark of like creation of where everybody was thinking about space and
what brought us here to love space and even to create more inventions
like the telescope galleoscope and all these different things to help us of astronomy
and it was so cool to think that somebody was just like oh
that looks really cool up there and then over the roman gods just over
thousands of years just named the planets and stuff like that and you know when i was born
i went to preschool and planets had a name and that was that and you didn't really learn anything else
and i look back now and i'm like all these planets are named after roman
gods and i like to think as a good example as um
the newest the most recent planet discovery in our solar system of
pluto which was actually less barely less than 100 years ago but
compared to the other planets it's pretty recent so i like to think of that as a good
example when we're starting to use modern technology to think about
the stuff that we use today because today and then when i come to scott's um
scott's building he has telescopes taller than me with like full wi-fi pack stuff
and that is one click of the button you just type um i know i remember a while ago david levy was on here and he was
showing us his observatory he just typed the name of the planet in and it just pulled it right up and i was thinking
you know well back then and a lot of what i use today is i don't
have um telescopes here like observatories i just have um i just have like my telescopes are made
out of metal steel and i use the red dot finder to find stuff in the sky along with star max
and i always think um my neighbor across the street from me he's um
he was um he's my friend's grandpa and he comes over when i have my telescope out and he
always talks about this old wooden telescope he has back from the
1930s and all the way back then because there wasn't we didn't really use a lot of
steel metal back then as we do now because a lot of my telescopes now are
and a lot of our telescopes are made out of steel and metal and it's so crazy to think
that you know back then everything was just they just named everything
after rolling gods and you know today we still make a lot of new discoveries but that back then
it was just discovery central we're just making new discoveries every day and we still do in the new world now we're
making even bigger discoveries but this is the stuff that kind of laid down where solar system was at
and so um today i wanted to really talk about the names of the planets and how each of
them got their names and what gods they were named after because i know a lot of them were named after
roman gods because a lot of the roman gods i know we learned this and uh i
learned this a while ago were really the people who started the astronomy and stuff like that
they were the ones who started learning math and wrote books and decided to teach reading and stuff like
that really got people curious about what's up in the sky and back then we didn't really
you don't know what galaxies or a lot of this new modern stuff was i mean
probably the albert einstein all the way back to the the roman gods at least had a brief
idea of what a galaxy was because they didn't know a lot about what was up in
the sky and they just kind of looked in the sky and that's where telescopes came from and they're like oh look
i think that's part of our solar system let's give it a name and i was talking
about this before um before the star party started the pre-show and i was telling them
um pluto um it was so funny um while i was researching this
a lot today um they said pluto um um its name
is um god of the underworld roman but a little girl all the way from england
was um 11 year old so she was my age and she said you know i think the new planet they
just found should be named pluto so this her grandpa sent that in and said
and then she got back as her reward five dollars and i was joking about that because it
was like you know five dollars back then is a lot of money and
you know even back in the 70s you'd probably get like a telescope
like a newtonian telescope at a gas station or like just their small walmart for
like 12 10 and you know me and my family always talk about that and we're like you know
what's so funny how a long time ago everything was you know we you always see all this stuff that's more higher
quality i was talking about the telescopes how they have um the wood on them because we didn't
really use a lot of metal and the wood is like um
my friend who lives across the street as i said he has a wooden telescope and um
i just thought wow we are so lucky in today's technology that we can just have a computer we don't even have to go
outside to you know is there we just sit here in the computer observe but a lot
of us um don't have that technology i mean honestly i don't have a lot of technology to like set up my telescopes
and have them remotely controlled and i like to just sit out nature and joint myself too and set up my tent but i know
a lot of us have like something that has i know scott and his um office i talked
about this has like a full pack on the side of it telescope's taller than
me and my dad he was in he he was uh bringing me the spots and he was like oh my gosh this is a big
telescope and it's just crazy to think back then that you know the telescopes wrapped knee high like they hired
someone they were just discovering all these planets out and i went and really give a brief
um brief examples of how um what each planet was named after
so the first planet of the solar system mercury is named after the messenger god
and i know a long time ago when i first started doing the star parties i did um i did each planet
and i did that and i did each planet in the solar system i did each um one talk about each planet and i know i talked
about how messenger uh mercury was named after messenger god and then we get a
venus and it's named after the goddess of love and beauty and then we go to earth and i kind of
thought this is a little bit funny which is a mixture between germ it's actu not not actually roman but it's
actually a mixture between english and english and german and um
it means uh the ground it's just i mean look at all the other planets they have all these names
they've got their own gods and we look at earth and we're just z ground
which is kind of actually scientifically logical because i mean we are the roman
gods are like well what should we name this planet that we're standing on well i don't know they just created a
new vocabulary word called the ground and this is we're
standing on the ground so we'll name it the ground and so i thought that was so funny you have all
these gods the roman gods they've got their planets and stuff and i look back at pluto too they were actually named
pluto pluto um they're actually the name pluto planet x and they wanted it to match it with the
rest i actually think earth does a really good the earth name does a really good job of matching it with the rest of
the planets and you know just kind of sticking in with them as i mean even when i was little i just
thought oh yeah it's probably just a roman god name now i look into it i'm like oh it just means the ground
um and mars means the god of war jupiter means the god the king of the
gods and i really thought my mind is one of those moments where i really just think you know this
makes a lot of sense jupiter is the biggest planet in the solar system
and it's the biggest planet in the solar system in our sky they're probably deserving it and they're like
well um it's the biggest one we've seen so far so we'll name it the king of the gods
because it's so big and um saturn is the god of that agriculture
wealth and then the neptune is a roman god of the sea uranus is um greek god of the sky and
pluto is god of the underworld and that's when i said uh that's the one that i said was suggested by the 11 year
old girl who got five dollars in return for that discovery of creating a name for a
planet in the solar system honestly i would probably take being able to name
a planet in the solar system as a reward itself i mean being able to name a planet in
the solar system that people will use for hundreds of more years and stuff to carry on this planet until it
dies is pretty cool she got five dollars in return and so um
i always um i always think you know i would love if we were still making these type of
discoveries like they were back then today i would 100 sending like at least 100 name requests
for the pluto for pluto i'd be like this one listen um because it's like
if that little girl knew if she's still alive today she'd probably be like oh wow my name that we helped choose
all the way back in like 1920s is still going on and it's so cool that they
that all these observers all these observatories are made by just this wooden telescope
and some mirrors and um one of my favorite stories i always tell
a lot of my astronomy friends is that galileo galilei um never say that right
stunned mr galio galley um when he was on the streets um
in town he saw some kids who took the eyeglass lenses out of the stores and kind of lined them up and we're looking
at stuff in the sky and he thought you know that's a good idea and so here comes the galilean uh
telescope and we still use it like a hundred year later and it still is used to make all
these different discoveries of what it is nowadays and it's just so cool to see like
um i told my teacher i came back today and i said you know this is actually a really cool subject
like really dive into because not only is it just astronomy but the
people back then were discovering math and you know discovering how
to write the different languages and discovering about you know how to set up a government and how to set up society
and i was just thinking you know some person on earth
started this whole feud of astronomy that would last for millions of years
longer is like oh wow that's really pretty in the sky
you know and then there's this whole feud of astronomy there's telescope stores nowadays and we're looking at all
these different galaxies and we're sending people into space and we're hopefully sending somebody to mars soon
within the next couple of years and we're making we're making all these different discoveries
and um i know we talked we did a huge project about this when i was at space camp over
the summer and i know me my friends talked about it a lot and i said
back then you know my mom she only had five tv stations and over
the next couple decades now we have like 200 tv stations all these different tv
providers we have all these different telescopes we have giant telescopes
bigger than a couple houses and there's these like giant observatories being set up all over the
world and it's just so inspiring to see all this different stuff going up and
thinking you know the roman gods were probably lucky well really lucky to be able to
name all these planets and be able to observe all this stuff but we're even luckier to be in the
golden age of bashar because i know we talked about this a lot we're in the golden age age of astronomy because
we're making even bigger discoveries and we're naming even more galaxies and i
know um nasa is making different discoveries every single day and they're working on sending people to
mars and the moon again and artemis this artemis mission and even more
observation observatories are being put up and one of my goals
they don't want to achieve over the next couple of years is getting schools to teach more about
astronomy because i feel like they'll talk about what we do and nasa and stuff like oh rockets
and you know sending people to space which is really cool and i really appreciate that
it's just something a little glimpse into astronomy and you know you get like a tiny little summary
of what you learn in school i just want to increase that to where
kids my age are learning about what supernovas are black holes and not just
like oh let's see how many of these people in the classroom at least five can
name every planet in the solar system off the top of their heads so i definitely want to get something
like that to keep this golden age going forever and keep on discovering more and making more
groundbreaking discoveries over the next couple of years thank you libby
you would not believe the number of fifth graders i've encountered who could not name even three planets it was
it was very sad we did like
she asked us she was like okay guys i just wanted to give y'all a little bit of walmart uh
warm up today um just asking you guys like can help let's see how many of these
kids can name all the planets in the solar system and there was maybe one other kid in the
classroom other than me and i just thought you know i'd love to bring astronomy to schools one day and i
know um we do a lot of weather in my school and we have the weatherman come every year sound they come and give us a
talk about like tornado procedures and you know different stuff about storms and i'm like you know when i grow up i'd
love to go to schools and talk about the love of astronomy because i know school i've realized over the years is
just giving kids a little bit of a taste of like math and literacy and if they
really like it that could be part of their career path and they keep on getting good grades and studying more
and you know like astronomy isn't really induced introduced and all this stuff but if it
is introduced i feel like there'd be a lot more futures of the children my age
going into nasa and astronomy and stuff like that that's true i can vouch for that um libby because
you reminded me my high school which was pretty much known for losing football games
and other minor things one of our science teachers actually
took us out to look for halley's comet and we narrowed it in with three or four
points of light in the sky so we didn't positively id but i'm
remembering that actual event as something that
ended up laying dormant only to be triggered years later
as i would get reintroduced to the night sky by an astronomy club
and um and then of course that took off so so you're absolutely right even if
introducing astronomy to you know to kids if all they know
is the planet uranus which also could be pronounced uranus um
getting them out and doing some sort of activity may stick the most and that you know
that would be something that um it does have effects down the road
and um you know when as as you get older suddenly it comes back they look up at
the night sky and then they're reminded of something they've done in grade school or high school
um it's uh i do think it's very important and libby of course you're you're living proof of what can happen
and what you know we say the sky's the limit is a cliche but you know the
you've you prove what can happen when presented with astronomy and then
encouraged to keep going and so that's it's always it's always great to
listen to your talks or listen to what you've experienced and keep at it um
as long as you get two or three like conal at um who's at penn state now
his high school um he started an astronomy club similar
to how you were doing and um you know and it grew um starting with two or three kids
eventually more and more maybe come together so it's definitely something to
aspire to and i think you'll do a great job with it yeah
yeah that's great thank you guys i love being here it's every month i'm like oh yay here comes
the next star party i'm like because i'm like so overwhelmed with all this school because i'm like last
year is virtual so you know it's just kind of sit here for an hour zoom meeting
and do work and you're done for the day but now it's you have to wake up early and i ride my
bike to school and that's all this stuff so i love being here and getting to do this and i tell my science teacher i
told her i said if any time you love to sponsor a club for me and for xiaomi i'd
love to do that too and i have plenty of stuff to share with the whole class i said i probably can't bring all my
telescopes to school but i will share pictures of what i find from my telescope and books and read chapters
from my astronomy books and share i mean you could you could set up uh you could set up a
as a star part like a star party for your classmates that would be very fun
and even in all my other activities i wish chad andrews introduced astronomy to all my friends
even though they seem not to be very interested every week or something like hey anytime if you want to join the star
party let me know i'm like they will be once they actually see saturn through
your telescope uh i have a lot of my friends over and i take my telescope out and
they're just blown away by how this
metal and some mirrors and some more metal like some different lenses and stuff like
that some technology you can see the rings of saturn and i can see the spaces in between
where the rings are yes yes inspiring we'll keep going at it libby
that's great well up next is pekka hautela from
stockholm sweden uh petka how are you i'm just fine
i'm so happy to be next after
libby it's uh like uh mind-blowing how good she is
and um i agree totally molly and adrian what
they told and i would make it show
off that what i should say so my voice is like this but in way or
choke uh okay two chiefs cheap
they met on the field and the other one said to the other one bear
what did the other one say the other sheep told i supposed to say
that okay
that's for molly and adrian so they like took my words
to molly but i'm so amazed about her her exciting about the astronomy and
he she probably knows more than most of
adults know about astronomy and solar system
she she could have a talk to adult people not only for the kids she's
so good but i think and she really goes in deep in astronomy for sure okay
i will keep going on with my my
how do you say a little bit deep in mind astronomy
and this is the first one i want to show you it's text so you have to read by
yourself i'm not so good in english that i would even try to
to say that this in loud
this summer some thoughts that i share with these
pictures i even show you
okay yeah everybody read that one yeah something i
deeply believe that it's true and
i thought about those pictures we have seen on deep sky
with all those fine nice galaxies and stars and so on
but i thought that okay how can i make this those pictures
that we can think about how large and deep our space is and our universe
so we can see pictures from spacecraft and and especially from ess
night time think when you see those galaxies that there will be on cities applied cities
the galaxies and the stars are like just a small suburban somewhere
or even faint stars like a house you are examinating and
like exploring so you get like more
feeling of closeness and you are a part of something when you
think that oh that's a city there are living people there are houses out there and there are
small suburban uh shopping centers and so on yeah they are
maybe not like we do know them but i have some quotes from
from gail sagan who i love very much in his quotes
this one
show you one more
yes and i really believe all of those and
[Music] i think that
if we because we see a lot of so beautiful photos of uh
nebulas and and uh galaxies and we don't really i i i don't i don't know
because i'm only talking about myself how do i connect me to the universe is like
when you watch a picture uh
think the picture like your friend and what what what your
feeling is for that now when you look at picture of your friend and what the feeling would
be if you see this friend in person
the feeling you have right away let's say long
uh no c tens of years no see it's a good friend
and you see you meet this person in life i think the emotions
would like explode and the preparation
to meet this friend every stuff you have to go through in your mind
when you meet this friend and i do have
things i do wait close this one
and this one too wait stop sharing and then i will
before i make my uh really visual and i like to
really really feel get that feeling i am after
uh i do something that not meditation but i
really want to get fully out of everything
so i wrote down what i probably do
when i do with pinnacles or only eyes
or with my remote controlled telescope on the balcony
so uh this thing i need to like
get you know i i need this before i can start because
my mind has to be totally empty it's like they have like the space vacuum
so i can setting every photon that my retina can possibly
suck in and then i have to be like there
and now and not like half of me are there i i completely have to
surround it and when i look like in the telescope or in my binoculars
there is no left right up and down back and forth anymore i'm inside the piconet organs in there
in the deep space so
that's how i do and that's what i would like to
send all of us all of you that try some
try someday some night to do it differently way if you don't
if you don't feel the connection with the universe
when you're doing observatory you only see stars nothing more you see just stars that are
like in the plain paper two-dimensionally and they are just dots on the sky yeah
yes but when you when you are connected with the universe you
completely are in the car what you are
before looked in the parking slot right you are in the car and driving it or somebody else driving it
you get the feeling yeah you get the connection yeah because um earlier today
we had a program uh with ollie nielsen uh from uh
from sweden he's a wildlife and nature photographer there he has
almost two million followers on uh dick dock watching him and uh he uh we talked
quite a bit about the experience of connecting with nature getting this flow
okay um that uh and that's that flow is something that
almost all the astronomers that are on our program and watching this program have experienced at one time or another
yeah and uh it's very important uh it is a i think uh for many people it's it's
great for their health their state of mind and in some cases uh completely change
their lives and uh maybe even save their lives so i'm a living proof of that
yeah i think you are pack us yes you're quite an inspiration so thank you thank
you and thank you for sharing that that's great thank you thank you before we go to our 10-minute break uh
we have deepti gatom from nepal uh she uh she was going to come on after the break
but we're just going to change that schedule a little bit to accommodate her class that she needs to be in so
dt are you there hello
hello yeah hold on
i think you need to turn on your video deepti
might be her internet connection i heard her video she's like a thon it's just a little bit choppy there you are and
you're muted dt so you gotta unmute here we go
i wonder if the oh she is freezing yeah yeah
you could try turning video off although we we love seeing your smiling faces you
tell us um tell us your presentations but video off
may allow the voice to come through my health
hopefully she comes back but hmm
well we may yeah and we lost her i know that she has to uh to take a a on
uh online class so um
so we'll we'll give her a couple of minutes here um we uh let me give you a little bit of an
idea of what's coming up after our break
we have we have marcelo souza he's a professor
down in down in brazil and he uh
has the astronautical and aeronautical um astronomical event that he puts on every
year uh down and i always pre mispronounce the name uh
marcelo what is the name of the the uh uh the school where the event is held
an investor died you started all the march for me next yes down in the university marcelo's a
cosmologist he's um also the editor of sky's up magazine and so
um i think that uh i think that we will go to a 10 minute
break here unless deep tea can come on
and it doesn't seem like she's able to do that
so yeah struggling with the internet connection internet connection yeah
it's tough dt um if you can hear us uh
why don't why don't we go to that 10 minute break you can come on later in the program
after your class and uh we can have you um
then so okay so she just dropped off again so we will go to that uh
10 minute intermission you guys get a sandwich get a cup of coffee uh and we'll be back in 10.
what's up guys maxie is that maxie
yes i'm right here hello hello
as always hey all right there's mr cam astronomy oh hey adrian
excellent uh session earlier molly and adrian uh that was really good stuff loved it
thank you yeah the eye astronomy is one of those things that i don't compete with anymore
so otherwise i'd be looking at all of molly's images and going right i gotta
get something better than that don't worry i look on astrobin occasionally and i'm like oh man why do
i even bother [Music] well yeah but really
go ahead no the thing is this is what's so cool about it it's really uh you're competing with
yourself and you're pushing yourself and that's what's wonderful is we're all sharing our own journeys at our own
respective levels right and uh and egging each other on it's it's great and it's
it's it's nice to be able to appreciate you know all the different uh
all the different qualities because you know i think jerry said it before as like
you know it really kind of depends on what you're looking for are you looking for more scientific data um you know uh
because then it doesn't have to be a pretty picture right if you if you're just looking at some structure in a galaxy and hey you can see the dust
lanes or you can see the central star or something like that's amazing and then you can add spectroscopy to that and
and uh so many different dimensions and uh so yeah to me any image is a beautiful image you show me a piece of
fuzz as long as it's a real galaxy or a nebula or anything it's wonderful
yeah that you mentioned something in your presentation molly how you saw in 51
you're you're confident about 99.39
that you saw in 51 naked eye the only reason i don't say a hundred percent is
because i'm a scientist and i'm literally not allowed to say a hundred percent certainty so is it
three times four nine or five nines ah man like i i checked multiple times
over the course of the night i looked at the star chart there's nothing else in the area that it could possibly be like
a globular cluster or anything like that it's like the only thing that is below alkane uh the the
end of the handle of the of the big dipper it's like the only thing there there's nothing else that could have been there
i believe i i i i totally believe you in fact i wouldn't be surprised
if you could even see i don't know do you think the whale galaxy or
uh is is because it has to do with the size too right because if it's large enough
that it's non-stellar uh you know the the magnitude the surface brightness should be enough i
believe m51 it's pretty darn bright it's a bright galaxy yeah and it's it's
but it was definitely non-stellar it was it was a fuzzy little splotch
and i i kept i you know i did i did the what you're supposed to do that i learned from the visual astronomers when
you're not sure which is to look away and then you know look back and see if you still see it yeah and yeah i had to
use diverted vision for sure but i swear to you i saw it so every time somebody's
like oh m33 is the furthest thing you can see naked eye i'm like [Music] [Laughter]
well i you know you saw it and you saw that picture i put up i was looking for that picture right up
until you mentioned seeing it and i'm like i have a picture where i accidentally caught it i was just
doing a wide field star view there's a dipper in the sky let's shoot at it and i zoomed in and i'm like
that's got to be m51 look at that shape and then then i go up look over where m101 is and
sure enough there's the uh you know the visual
uh signal of it if i had taken an image that was clean all the way throughout
maybe i'd be able to pick out some other stuff i'm wondering what that was that had the two
lines through it i'm gonna have to uh basically uh resolve my
image and see what i really have in there yeah i oftentimes uh go looking at sky safari and stuff like that to see
what that little thing is that popped up my wide field image or um
uh using uh like pixen sight has a really nice um like if you plate solve the
image it has a pretty nice annotate script and you can select like how much detail
you want to have annotated and it will go find all these little ugc pgc
galaxies and stuff like that in your images um and yeah yeah those the milky way one i took
where you can see andromeda and m33 there's got to be tons of stuff in there i just haven't
gone yeah especially if you image like in uh uh candace venetici
or uh virgo any of those areas that have a lot of galaxies like a lot of time
when you're imaging out of the galactic plane you will always find little fuzzy
splotches in the background of your images that are these little
and pgc galaxies that are you know hundreds of millions of light years away which is always really fun to go through
especially like kind of narrower field of view images because they'll be a little bit kind of big enough to actually tell the difference between a
star and a galaxy and realize like wow i was imagining this galaxy that was 10 million light years away but i also got
all these galaxies that are hundreds of millions of light years away and that's so cool yeah
i love that molly that's the coolest thing yeah i know you're right you're trying to get the main object and then you get all that there was other
galaxies coming in and it's it's really fun well there's a couple of different quasars that you can image as well uh
there's i mean they kind of just look like fuzzy stars there's no details to them but there are some quasars that are
up as high as magnitude 12 which is easily killed photography yeah and you can um
you can image a galaxy that is a billion light years away when it comes to
quasars and like they're not really interesting to look at but when you realize what it is
that you have in your image well my goal i know we're about to start this other
presentation but my goal at okitex is to see if i can get einstein's cross
oh i want to do that so well yeah that's all that's my that's my uh that's my ultimate goal i'm stefan emler
a regional scientist working with nasa's swift satellite at goddard space flight center and greenbelt maryland
this is m31 the nearest large spiral galaxy to our own it's about two and a
half million light years away and more than 220 000 light years across [Music]
this is how we're used to seeing it in the visible light captured by ground-based telescopes
but visible light never tells the whole story so between may and july 2008
swift's ultraviolet optical telescope captured 330 images of m31 and three
ultraviolet wavelength the total exposure time 24 hours
we combine these images into this mosaic it's the most detailed view of m31 in
the ultraviolet to date the first thing is the striking difference between the galaxy's central
bulge and its spiral arms the bulge is smoother and redder because
it's full of older and cooler stars very few new stars form here because
most of the materials needed to make them have been depleted in contrast
m31 spiral arms sparkle with dense glasses of hot young blue stars
as in our own galaxy the disc and spiral arms contain most of the gas and dust needed to produce new generations of
stars [Music] m31s clusters are especially plentiful
in a giant ring around the galaxy it's about 150 000 light years across
this ring of fire exists because of thailand actions with small satellite galaxies
speaking of which this is m32 one of many dwarf galaxies or m31
these galaxies are usually not very bright in the ultraviolet because they lack young stars
but m32's core is so bright in the uv because it likely contains many blue and
old stars the swift mosaic reveals some 20 000 uv
sources it's important to study star formation processes in nearby galaxies so we can
understand what we're seeing in distant galaxies this rich portray in three different
ultraviolet wavelengths allows us to study how m31 stars live and die with
much greater detail than previously possible
[Music]
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well we're back um and uh hope you enjoyed that little break and
that great video uh from uh the swift uh team uh up next is marcelo souza uh marcelo
is a great friend to all astronomers and students who are interested in science
and astronomy uh he is the editor of skies up magazine
it's also edited with david levy where the magazine got its
foundational start but it is a global astronomy magazine and we're right on the brink of
putting out the next issue so i thought we would have uh have marcelo come on and talk to us
about the magazine a little bit but also about other projects he's involved with marcelo
hi nice to meet all of you thank you very much scott for the invitation it's a
great pleasure to be here anytime and
i i have a presentation here i will try to share here
because here even with all the problems that you have here in brazil we are going ahead with
astronomy projects of outreach and the teaching of strongmen and they'll share the screen because
let me see if you work okay first of all i will say where do we we
are here in brazil many people ask about we did in a city
oh okay here here is the hydrogenated states
in brazil the southeast region of brazil near the coast we are not in the famous
city of de janeiro but in the state of january in a city that
the name of the city is campus does wait a question is located here
of the states and this is the place the region where we develop our projects
here in brazil here here is our seat in the north vision of the state
leaving seven hundred thousand people here and they will develop a project now
in this region not only our seats in our region and also in this place here there
you can see that is a dark ring there there is a place that he does not
have a electricity there is a park and a
state park that i will talk later about we would like to to do this kind of
activities that we did with frequency that is how to reach achieved with pub
we organize it a many of these this is eclipse observation three years ago we
have more than five thousand people observing with us yeah in a bridge that crossed the river let's
have in the middle the center downtown in our city a lot of people there
but now uh from two years out the world and here in brazil
we don't have the opportunity to develop this kind of projects but we did this one that's a driving
we are going to do another edition in october october 1st october 9 and 10 we
organize a driving a scientific driving of astronomy people participate from their cars
and we project live images of saturn
and the moon here is the an expert scientific telescope that was donated by scratch
roberts thank you scott we are using until today it's nice to see it still um doing its
job so that's great and here we project amazing people stay in their cars
they recall is like iso cinema is a driving scientific driving of estonia
and now we are planning to begin if the delta uh variation of the
virus authorizer gives us the opportunity we we have many people fascinated here
and we are planning to begin public activities in november or december when
this year but in october we are going to organize new driving events in a shopping center
in our city and now this is the biggest event that see the biggest naughty event but the
biggest project that you we already
developed we will we will have it support international
support for this event we'll begin in october and
we have one year of federation of the the project and we uh we organize
activity at least in 40 public schools and with the involvement of at least 2
400 students we are going to visit these schools during two days
and we talk about astronomy talk about new technologies then we and we are
looking for new talents well this is the main
uh goal of the project we're finding new talents here in our region in brazil
and you have international sports i can't announce it today but one of the international supporters we
can also that is the mentor project of the
explorer scientific that will help yours in this thank you this compactly for the students because
due to the problems that have we are going to organize also online events
and contact with international uh researchers
people that you work with outreach then everybody invites to join us in this
project that we during one year we are going to develop during four days
activities in schools then we estimate that at least we have
activities in fact public schools in our region and in 60 seats
that we have almost 700 thousand people in this
in these fart seeds we would like to do this
kind of activity this is my daughter my youngest lot she
is also we were wise look we were looking for
the moon and she tried to show the mouse for her doll
yes and another uh they're having two news that's a very important news to
us that this is the is a state park that you don't have a
electricity inside the park the park don't have artificial lights inside the park
and they signed a commitment to
[Music] protect the sky for the new generations and it is in the middle of the states
right it's a big park natural park in forests and
here is the entrance of the park is a small city that is called
santa maria madalene and they now are waiting to be considered a
dark sky park by the international dark sky association
they have the commitment of the mayors of the
cities around the park we have the commitment of the state government to protect the
park andy soon everybody who will have the opportunity to visit
this region that will be the first park in brazil
that will be a dark sky park here i mean inside the park
that you don't have artificial lights inside the park that's very big it is bigger than many seats
here is a place where people can stay to during the nights
and here you can see here is the meiji of the north region of our state here is
our city campus here is the region where it's located the park
in this red circle here you see that's not heavy it's dark
you don't have light pollution inside the park and there's a protect region and
these are images taken inside the park they are inviting iso photographers to
develop activities there as part of the staff at the park
it's a fantastic place and
what's fantastic now because i coordinate here in brazil the participation of brazil in the global
uh global science sharpener determines this year is the ecosystem
restoration and you you will be responsible for the uh light pollution
right and to talk about light pollution and we have the two two seats that will
participate one of them is where is the headquarter of the park the students of
the city are studying about light pollution how to avoid light
pollution how to mitigate the effects of light pollution and you have because of the park
that is changing everything in this city because it will be
is a very small seat and the uh many people want to visit the parking
lot because it's a protect place that came they can look to the sky and the city is preparing the hotels everything
to organize i achieved activities and which motivated people to participate
and they you have the ashes to these they're very active and we have another place another seat
near us here that you have the turtles that's
there and they they had a problem with the artificial lights in a street near
the beach because at night the turtles walk in direction of the streets
and they die because the cars cross then they had a lot of problems then
they now changed all the lights in the coast like this
you'll see here the dark vision here is the beach then they are protecting you don't have
light if you are inside the beach you don't see the lights well there is a witch protecting they
also protect the night sky forest well if you
go to the beach you can see the night sky without it like oh
not with that light pollution but see you can see a beautiful sky protected by the lights
and the the kids from this these two seats will be in contact and you you
develop a music to participate in the opera international worker this global science
therapy is a fantastic project that they develop
like this now this is one year that the students from our city comes participate
and these erb students from these two seats that you in the team the topic
that's the you have in the music is light pollution
and this is the sky sky that magazine this uh
in this edition of december two thousand plants about
and the cover will have a venus here article from david lee dr david levy
and i think about life on vince and in april have an edition about mars
here is the article from scratch hobbit talk about the program not this problem
this project and we have also an article from there so many other
articles and ones about light pollution in this magazine and autumn out magazines
are free everybody can download in the home page of the expert
scientific and i think that this week will be launched the
new edition of this magazine [Music] that is the mentop
scotland this week saturn yes very good topic for this time that's
right yes it's a it's a wonderful moment to observe
and saturn and here we are and also venus map we
are gonna we are trying to organize the activities of public observation
using real projected maze like we are planning to organize in october
thank you very much scott thank you ever it's a great pleasure to be here
yeah thank you important information that's in magazine
he now has i s s in what number he is a register magazine
[Music] that's right right thank you very much thank you thank you
thank you yeah the magazine is also getting apps made for the apple store and also
for the google app store as well for android and it's absolutely free so it's a great
price and the issues are written by astronomers and professors
and from all over the world they include astrophotography from uh
many of the people that follow this show so um anyways uh a great publication and uh
we're very honored to have uh both dr souza and dr levy to edit that magazine
so all right so up next uh i did have in the original schedule to
have dt come on i don't know if she's available at this point um
i do see her she looks like she just might have dropped off okay so we will go on to the
next speaker which is maxie fellar is down in argentina
hey guys good night everyone how's it going it's going good evening maxie
well uh thank you for the invitation tonight uh like the
the subject of tonight is the local group and i want to talk about some
regions down from here from the south that we have in
in naked eye at night that's the great magazine
cloud and the small and also what i was doing
this a couple days ago and let me show you my screen if i can
and wait a minute okay so i close this
and okay do you see it
yes great well uh basically
what i've been doing this couple days ago i was practicing with my new toy
the new a q a camera and i was pointed to
some regular places but well my
background right now is one of those results and
this is in the coronal strates i took a couple of weeks ago some
pictures of that but in this case this camera has a square
a sensor that makes a a more zoom image and
the the pixels are very medium too small and and give me some
kind of uh details on the on the on the pictures
well but this sunday we spoke with some friends and
i remember the sun the sunday morning someone
said what's up to us and say hey guys tonight is a good
night we met is some place to do some
a single pictures or something like that so okay we went we we meet in
almost six uh 60 no 70 kilometers from
here they are from a great buenos aires from the metropolitan
area and i'm from the farm so we met in the point in the middle point
and this is a us this is the final that night
uh it was a very cold night and this is not the sun
this is the moonlight wow uh this price this picture moonlight
yes uh this picture was taken from aria rodriguez he's a
friend of mine and he put the camera he said okay guys
don't talk on and don't move for 50 seconds he shots this picture and
you can see we were phrasing because at that time was almost
[Music] three three a.m
and we have to go work to another day tomorrow to monday
so i already slept that night
that's pretty remarkable because you guys have to really there's a very little blur in that photo
you all stood either you stood extremely still or you were frozen that way because of the
weather
unfortunately you can see some smoke area because we have a
a very dry season and there are some fires in the delta in
some islands from here and the smoke is coming up to us and
unfortunately it doesn't rain maybe tonight or tomorrow will be rain
here so uh but when we
we do some pictures we uh
we see the the clouds and the smoke it doesn't affect us it was the it wasn't the perfect night
but uh this is a single picture of mine that i took a
for three minutes and to the uh pointing to the south you can
see the southern cross and the um [Music]
and alpha centauri stars omega centauri
yes and here's some airplane coming from the
southwest and so
i the objective because we know we know that we we're going to talk about the local
group and the objective of that night for me was taking pictures of uh in this
case from the great magazine a cloud and the magazine cloud
this is on a also a single picture i
could take a little meteor passing by and what i want to talk about these
places is some kind of history some kind of details
that we have here every time in the south because
maybe in a few months uh we are going to get at the knee and the
and the in the starting of the night this in this cave was almost 3 a.m but
we see we can see it every time in every season almost
uh talking about the the great magazine cloud i want to say it is a place
it's a it's a irregular galaxy a is a satellite
a galaxy that surrounds the an orbits the
the milky way the our galaxy almost has a 163
a light years from us and and some details of the story uh
it was there are some registers that say that
in arabia a astronomer a i think the name is i i know that
al raham al-sufi he
says that they saw um this kind of um
a white um i don't know how to say that the animal a way or like some will
with a with the horns and
he mentioned in some registers that he he wrote
and then the the commercial italian commercial
and mercantile americo vespuccio
he mentioned the this clause in a letter but
it was some kind of little registers and then um
it comes that's why it has that name from a
magazine he's from portugal he was portuguese
and he was the first person that
a they give the they acknowledge uh and the
on the of course the southern skies uh to the occidental people from europe because
they they don't know what they they like and uh and he
also when he do he did the
the travel around the world he see it in every place
and and then in in maybe in the in
19th century john harrison was the first the first time the first
person that he started to study the degree the great magazine cloud
almost in in 1986 [Music]
he found almost a 278
objects of deep sky objects in this place and
also was only the the small myogenic cloud so
this is a picture of the galaxy that is the core at the center of the milky way
and that was taught it took that night this is almost stuck uh
maybe an hour taking pictures of three minutes at eso 800
and i had this late this afternoon i i could
finish the the picture and also this is our galaxy this is a
considerable consideration the of course the a part of the local group
yes and this is the place where we live a very small area of the vest of this
galaxy and this is the this tackle images that i
took of the great megagenia cloud and the small and processed and it doesn't the the
very good image but it's a pleasure to see it at the naked
eye because uh when you see the the south
with without light pollution you start to see this a blur area like a cloud
but it doesn't move maybe it passed a half hour and only
move a little and you can you see it that's in the firmament so
it's a it's a very good place to to watch at the naked eye and also if you have a
mini binoculars and the the
this place has a lot of places to to see because in this case well i in the next
picture we're going some from this but in the small guy
magazine cloud we have this star a global star cluster this is 47 to can i
then i'm going to show you a picture of this place
i never talked took pictures of the small magazine cloud only the the big one i
don't know but uh i i think i i i didn't have the opportunity to do that
uh tokyo about 40 cents who can i this is the global cluster
yes and beautiful this was taken with a telescope obviously because
it has to be very soon and you can see all the kind of stars that's a
going to the same point and they have some a lot of density and gravity that
makes very close and
well this is a a picture that i took in december of the last year in 2020 and
i went a couple of kilometers from here and do some pictures to the great
magazine cloud and this is a also an irregular galaxy
that has the very strong cloud here and like in the core
but when you see it through a telescope you can see this area and this is a
nebulosity a lot of kind of nebulosities and star
clusters and it's a very rich region
because allows you to to watch uh what is it in another galaxy
uh you guys in the north has um a andromeda galaxy
but with telescope it doesn't allow to see you to see it and [Music]
maybe some kind of cloud and the core and nothing else
in this case you are seeing a galaxy
of the galaxy that has it and also there's a lot of places that has a
a planetary with us that
very very very small they only see it with a have a telescope
and but like i say it's a very good area a rich area
that we have to to to explore
this is a picture of the of the tarantula that i took in january of this year
this is obviously the telescope with the two with eight inches
and there's a lot of kind of detailed
stars and nebulosity and gas and dust and this is
a very rich area where the stars can
be born and also where the stars dies because it's a very intense region
and that maybe in that's why it comes to to planetary nebulas and that's the the
rest of the of the the stars and
i love to i i love to see it when i took those pictures because
uh these regions this uh they are very
uh informally but very
very rich and this is the like i said star clusters and there's a lot in this
place and and also dark nebulosity
in the core of the nebula of the tarantula nebula there's there are also some kind of star
clusters and open star clusters and that shine the the gas and the dust to
to and that make able to to see in this case the the
nebula well the other region that i want to talk about
of the local group is the galaxy of sculpture sculpture galaxy
name has a because the is in the area of the of the sculptor
galaxy this is a picture that i took with my smartphone a couple years ago
doing [Music] um
ocular projection and practicing to to when i i started to do astrophotography
and and well i remember to when i did this pictures i
my i was blown up because i can see some in
dark clouds and the core and the stars and and that's uh was very very exciting
and because i never never could to take that that
kind of pictures and well the
a couple days ago i went to try with my new toy like i said my
new camera and could take this picture let me see why
don't why don't come to here
you scoff saw this in my facebook page i think yes beautiful
this changed a lot because in this case i can i was able to see this kind of
little galaxies and also the the details of the clouds
and the background maybe remember this i am
in the in a city that has portals six and seven and maybe it has some this
area very lighted because the light pollution and also was only
two hours taking this place pictures but
the camera went perfectly fine and
the the details and the colors of the stars and the shiny place it was amazing i was very
very very exciting and i i remember a
to to to think uh uh
what i've checked what i going to take now i i explored maybe that night five
or six objects to to capture then in this in the after party i want
to show you some kind of that work and [Music]
well they like i said this is a sculpture galaxy and this is a galaxy almost uh
30 million lives years from us and this is a spiral galaxy and
is he doesn't around the corner is 30 million years uh
that light it comes from that time
when i took this picture so uh the humans it it doesn't exist that in
that time is there was so another area the concerns are a difference and
well and that's it was the
the extraordinary extraordinary ordinary thing that makes astronomy things
because it makes you to [Music] to watch the past
and what well this is my little short presentation maybe i think it was short
but i hope that you like it and and well i
i'm waiting for you the and the at the after party to show you the next uh
thing that i what what i did a couple days ago
great great okay thank you very much maxie thank you
to all of you thank you i'm so jealous of your
your your beautiful uh embarrassment of richmond riches when you look at the large and small magellanic clouds with
filled with beautiful uh objects to look at i mean you look at the star charts and
like you say there's tons of planetary nebula mbla and global plus and it's close enough
that you can actually get some non-stellar view i'm sure i can't wait one of these days yep i say
the same thing but uh well the good news is um like i put in the chat um it's not going
anywhere weird we are truly a uh global star party because we looked
at members of the local group that were visible from the northern hemisphere earlier and now we see the ones visible
from the southern hemisphere and you get kind of a global overall picture
of what we can see um and it's to me it's pretty amazing to
know that these get you know these close galaxies are out there and you can you can see them naked eye uh
for depending on how dark it is and you know all the conditions but you can actually see these naked eye or at least
with a with a modest camera so it's uh this is pretty amazing
thank you guys for for the comments thank you maxie great
uh we have uh dt was able to come back but she's having me download a video which
i'll do uh we will switch to jerry hubble at this moment
and let him give his presentation from the mark slade remote observatory
jerry you'll also notice that marcelo has already embarked on taking
the mentor education project uh international so
that was really cool yeah that's cool yeah so yeah i'll download this um video while
you're uh while you're doing this and then we can have her come on next one of the things that uh we talked
about earlier today scott that i want to also include a little bit uh my topic
for this my short presentation is about the mark slade remote observatory and the msr science training program
that we've developed um [Music] go ahead and share my screen i think
[Music]
let me make sure i got the right
right one
can you see that i think so
yes msro science training um
so we developed along with the observatory that we built
um we've over the the first couple years of operation
it was a private observatory we didn't form the msro science
company which is a non-profit 301c nonprofit corporation
until um 2018
and but before that we were developing the equipment and the techniques to do a lot of different types of of um
of observing both uh beautiful picture observing and
photography but but and also science science imaging and and science data
uh processing and analysis also we've developed some new
instrumentation that we will train on but so the goals of the training program for everybody
it basically there's two tracks okay one is a technology track where you learn
about the observatory itself and the equipment and how it's integrated how it's
operated how it's maintained uh that's one track you can take a
technology track the other track you can take is the observing program track
where you actually learn how to develop an observing program
for whatever objects you're interested in uh and it could the observing program
can still be pretty much anything you'd like uh it could be beautiful picture
uh observing program like what cameron and uh maxie was just describing their their
uh observations they're basically an observing program that they've developed and techniques to use to do the
to take the images and to process the images they they're interested in make galaxies
there's a lot of other objects out there that you might want to develop a observing program for and some of them
you can take you can do just for imaging and beautiful process you know process these
images into beautiful pieces but you can also process the data
scientifically and treat your images like like raw numbers basically are data that you
process to understand the universe in other ways
so those are the types of science types imaging that we have
in the system one of them is is of course exoplanets which is a sexy topic
uh currently for amateurs and professionals but there's there's fundamental um
techniques and procedures that every astronomer learns
to do this work and it's their fundamental ways of looking at the data
and to obtain the data one so you have the the four main pillars
um astrometry which is a measurement of
position in the sky photometry which is a measurement of
brightness which includes not just the current brightness of an object like
for a variable star you did you say you estimate its magnitude but also
time series observations where you take an observation every minute or every 10 minutes then you
create a light curve that's a fundamental type of measurement that you would learn
how to do spectroscopy is another one spectroscopy
is the basis of astrophysics so we have equipment on our observatories to be able to do
spectroscopy we have a spectral grading mounted in our filter wheel that allows
you to do spectra of stars and to determine the type of star it is
through its spectra and also you can for transient events for like supernovae
you can learn how to to do observations of supernovae and and look at its spectrum determine what type
of supernova it is type 1a or type 2 whatever it happens to be
so the other thing uh that you learn observing
and uh because we're located in central virginia one of the things that you learn
not just as an amateur but professionals using this equipment that's available
is you have to learn some patience to use the equipment
do you guys teach patients there so so one of the ways one of the things you do
our observatory is a teaching observatory it's not a um not automated
you don't turn it on spend five minutes selecting your targets and then go to sleep and wake up
the next morning with the data in your mailbox that's not how it works with the msro we
we strive to be the best facility to learn hands-on
operations of the telescope system of a complete observatory system
i have a question do you have a panic
button panic button to stop to stop the stuff from doing what you're doing yes
kind of distance yeah there is a stop there is a stop button so if you're if you're driving
the telescope and uh you think it's going to mess up you can definitely just
hit the so for example on this display of the desktop let me zoom up a little bit more
so you don't have actually a physical button in your desk they're they're
it's kind of but it's not easy it's not really labeled that way it's a power it's a power thing you can turn you can
turn the power off but that would shut the complete system down that wouldn't be a good thing to do mine does only for
the mount yeah so so there's a button i don't know why that's showing that way
so when i zoomed up it didn't didn't zoom up what i wanted it to zoom let me go back
you have to get some cables rip it see right here see the desktop when you're operating it
remotely you can hit this button right here yeah yeah but looking after that when it's uh
critical when you see that your mouth is looking for jupiter
from china you want i i probably don't find that
so i have to have like a yeah now i'm installing also a
microphone under so i can hear oh you can hear what it's doing yeah yes mm-hmm
why because i i was on a virtual tower tower on la
paloma solar observatory that this uh particularly swedish
so-sex so they have this large uh red pattern
and they are to stop and that i have
requested a video but they are not sure because of interpreting uh questions
but you know the the main optics
what is uh one meter i don't know what that's in in inch or
so or 40 40 inches yeah and that is only held
on place by vacuum yeah so it's important yeah so that's part of
our requirement for the observatory is that it acts predictably that it doesn't just go
off on its own and do weird things so we spend a lot of time and effort to make sure it does that
and and you train to handle problems so let's say let's say it does mess up and points the
telescope to the ground that's part of the training also how do you recover from that remotely
yeah you know it's easy for me because i live five miles away from the observatory so a push comes to shove i
could actually go there and if and fix it but i've been successful
at coming up with techniques and training discussions on how to recover from those
types of mishaps remotely you have to know a lot about
what's available to you and tools and equipment to be able to recover certain certain things like that
do you test those systems very often that everything is in function
yeah so there are typically we use we use the system that's one way to test it right with
actual use the other the other way to test it when i do this periodically i i actually do it uh quite often because
i'll just log on to the system during the day yeah and you can operate it during the day just like at night it doesn't care
what what time it is exactly and i i look at the and i've got the webcam view like i'm showing there
and i'll operate the telescope go to an object look at the numbers make sure it it's
acting correctly it it looks good you can't test the camera
yeah daytime but everything else you can test pretty much so
that's cool we make sure it's we make sure it's uh as reliable as we can get it yeah we
don't have a we don't have a huge budget to do this so that's that's kind of one of the
things that scott and i talked about is what you know you can buy the most expensive equipment and it'd be screwed up and
you're not getting very good performance and it's because of your skills and knowledge yeah well it comes down to
the feeling to operate a remote controlled observatory that's like
almost 55 of the of the thing that you can actually
actually control remotely and you can do visually
uh by sitting in your room yes and the the
actually the the hardware okay they should be also 55
but when we only have 100 percent you have to you have to balance you
sometimes right but i actually love my remote and i will like
spend some some resources for do that to
act like it should be and that was an and lesson for me that
have my camera on every time even if it's like jupiter
and make those alignments that are recreated not just a goal too
right right so uh so just to finish up i don't mean to interrupt you but
i want to talk about the textbooks that
that are used in the course and these are textbooks that i wrote along with
one of them with richard williams and linda bellard as co-authors on the remote observatories
book this is the book that's used for the observing program
the other book that i wrote back in 2012 was called
remote observatory or i'm sorry scientific astrophotography
and that goes about that talks about all the details of the equipment that's that's more of a technical
technology type book that goes over every part of the observatory and how it works
uh what you look for in the characteristics of the equipment how you integrate it procedures on how to run it all this
different stuff so that's the technology path goes uses that book and
so if you're interested in learning
the details on how to run an observatory and how to use an observatory to to do your uh imaging and research
please please contact us at um
you can come to us at msr science.org and on the front page
uh there's a go down to it down at the bottom there's a way to
contact us at the bottom of the page
you can send us a message telling us your interest and you can explore the the website of
course and and see what we do
great and i can highly recommend everybody who's listing i have done this
with jerry and it's an experience of lifetime
it truly is so my my recommendation is to contact jerry
and make appointment with msro it's
absolutely one of most uh my inspiration sources
truly thank you great thank you thank you
all right well great um we were going to play uh deepti gatam
and nepal sent me a video she was unable to give her presentation herself
um because of some internet uh problems but i was able to load up the video and i
will play it for you um so here's deepti and her subject
hello everyone it's me titi godam today let's talk about the multiverse what is
multiverse multiverse is hypothetical group of multiple universe each of which will
comprise everything that is experimentally accessible by a connected
community of observer it is also known as theoretical reality
that includes a possibly infinite number of parallel universe
multiple universe have been hypothesized in cosmology physics astronomy not only
this but also in religion philosophy psychology music etc
greek atomism proposed that infinite parallel or arrows from the collision of
atoms the concept of multiple universe become more defined in the middle east
according to 2010 scientists such as stephen only
analyze wilkinson microwave anisotropy drop that is wmap
data and claim to find evidence for this thing that this universe collided with
other universe in the distance past however a more through analyze of data
from the wmw mfp and from the blank satellite which has a resolution three
times higher than wmap didn't reveal any aesthetically
significant means of such as bubble universe collision
in addition there was no evidence of any gravitational pull of other universe
on ours let's talk about the hog ever the man
who gave us the multiverse he developed the idea for his pst thesis and the
theory how held up according to his work we are living in multiverse of countless
universe full of copies of each of us it was sensing
but there are multiple arguments again multiverse theory
many physicists above the multiverse especially advocates of the string lens cap do not
care much about the parallel universe per sec for them objection to the
multiverse as a concept are unimportant their theories live or die based on
internal consistency and one word eventual laboratory testing
and similarly according to george alice does the multiverse really exist
here's one of the scientific um recon uh and according to if his spectacle is i'm
i think con contemplation of the multiverse is an excellent opportunity
to reflect on the measure of science and on the ultimate nature of existence
why we are here in looking at this concept we need an open mind though not
to open it is a delicate part to trade parallel universe may or may not exist
the case is unproved we are going to have a life with that uncertainty
nothing is wrong with unscientifically best philosophical speculations
which is similarly there are many theories that prove that we are living
in multiples the first one is infinite universe the observable universe extends
only as far as light has had a chance to get in the 13.7 billions years since the
big bang the space time beyond the distance can be considered to be its own
separate universe similarly another is bubble universe in addition to the
multiple universe created by infinitely expanding extending space time other
universe could arise from the theory called interlung inflation inflation is the notion that the universe expanded
rapidly after the big bang in effect in flatting like a balloon
similarly another is barrel universe another idea that arise from string theory is the notion of brain world
parallel universe that over just out of race at our own proposed by piston university poles stain hats and
knowledge decks of the perimeter institute for theoretical physics in volunteer canada
similarly we have energy theory that is daughter theory in mathematical theories
a mathematical structure is something that can you that you can describe in a way that completely independent of human
baggage let me say it is said by max tech marks of mit who proposed the
brain to extend nuclear idea and similarly in daughter theory the theory of quantum mechanism which returns over
the tiny world of soft atomic particle suggests another way of multiple
universe might arise quantum mechanics describe the world in terms of probability rather than the defining
outcomes and the mathematics of this theory might suggest that all possible
of situation do occur
very good very good dt if you're watching um
thank you for putting that together and we're sorry that you ran into some
internet problems but she solved it by sending over the video
i can hear you a little bit dt
yes dt we can hear you
and we lost you okay oh there she is okay dt can you uh
uh
e.t thank you for putting that video together thank you
yeah uh so i'm am i able yes
and and we just played the video so it was very good
and uh i found one uh poem over the
multiverse i'll try uh best i is i'm struggling with the internet
okay however improbable i like to think that the multiverse theory is true that for
every choice we made there are version of us who made different ones and that
for every lost opportunity there is whole another universe where we took a chance the paradox will never end and
parallel will never cross but i like to think that somewhere out there no matter
how unreachable there is a version of me that still has you
thank you nice very nice ut thank you for your poetry and uh
and your presentation is wonderful thank you very much
yeah i mean you overcame uh you know a problem that a lot of presenters just go i i can't present
right now i give up but uh thank you for continuing on thank you
great okay so um up next uh we have rodrigo zaleda from
chile rodrigo are you with us
that's good how are you i'm good i'm good yeah one thing last saturday night is
the party club and raining in a few minutes but i
i take a picture from some galaxy and the the
very popular galaxy in the soft hemisphere i shared with you my last photo the this
year for the these galaxies
please [Music]
okay do you see my stream now
yes yes but well this this is me
my last a photo from a spring engineer
and i was in chile the school galaxy mm-hmm
um in la serena in this in this time is
many days a clothing few few days clear sky
okay this photo is from my uh
amazing this is uh the favorite galaxy in this time from
from for soon er from chile and another photo is um
another galaxy the the [Music] robot group is uh
m83 the the intra galaxy
so it's is this galaxy is
not seen now is in this picture for march
but it's a a beautiful galaxy and um
in in this winter i go to the elky valley with a friends on your explosion tiki
dobson and yeah i see this with the
the eyepiece is his spectacular
visual for this galaxy oh wonderful one um [Music]
the another galaxy
the magnetic clothes is a amazing little galaxy
but in is very very nebula in in this little galaxy
and the this picture do you wonderful pictures yeah yeah unbelievable
yeah this picture i shared with you in this summer uh somewhere in chile and um
we've never seen before that one yeah it's beautiful it's beautiful [Music]
your astrophotography over the years just got better and better and better so it's excellent work it's like a blue
butterfly yeah yes and uh and chile is the tarantula um
[Music] spider for this
this area yeah in the telescope is an amazing imagine in the
aeps and the another this nebula
a another set of this this is in the magazine cloud it's
another sector very nebulous
unbelievable yeah yes is this sector in the sky in the
southern sky is is he amazing for astrophotography yes
all of us in the northern hemisphere are jealous of the hemisphere skies
oh my yeah let's just get a northern sky part of sky
for me available so oh my gosh this is so good
this is the magazine club galaxy this is the tarantula nebula and
the another nebula region is here is a you don't see in this picture but in
in the galaxy this area is uh more nebulous
yeah i in this this summer i take this area for my telescope is
many years to take uh other areas [Music]
this is my my imagi to share with you spot and
no i was nice thank you rodrigo how is um how is your research work going in
astronomy um [Music] i
[Music] in october i begin the the master of astrophysic
and and now i work for the astronomer of the baby eggies project
with i work for the face a database of the color imaging of the
baby ap is a survey it surveys
many many photos in uh near infrared near infrared okay
this is my my work now for the storm wonderful wonderful that is good
just to work with astronomy it would be like a gift
from above and scott yeah i share with you
sure chat photo i from
baby yankees i processed the
m17 nebula in insect infrared is infrared
yes it's amazing nebula okay
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and not remember
i charge my computer the yeah of course the screen
was a little slow
um
[Music] and i check with you in a few few minutes
okay that's fine okay that's fine yeah we will go on to the next speaker
and then um you can come back on after the break rodrigo if you'd like to um
our next speaker is cameron gillis cameron uh has done a number of our programs
including focus on astrophotography which is on fridays and he is on
uh wednesdays on uh his program cam astronomy where he does
the uh cons cam astronomy sky survey cameron
hey everyone can you hear me okay yes i just see an orion nebula
okay let me just start hey how are you doing pacquiao yeah that was great
yeah stuff some adjustments here there we go so um yeah i'm just out and about i'm going to
be doing my um my little session here on on my smartphone uh so bear with me as i go through the
uh the screen sharing uh issues here but um but yeah very very good i just wanted to
um uh respond to to david earlier uh you know i love his
uh his statement you know they'll banter back and forth about uh galaxies whether we like them or not
um and uh and i i have to say what i love about astronomy and
and this and this is just a lesson for everyone is uh we can
we can agree to disagree uh we don't have to be aggressive about it
you know what i mean and uh obviously this was all in good fun but just in general i it's nice to be able to
to have a conversation and kind of uh make life of uh serious topics
uh you know and and keep perspective um so so i really i really uh love the connection and
pekka uh your statements about you know the connection with the universe and
and and kind of getting into that zone where you're actually really
uh experiencing the true nature and our place in the universe
i think that's uh that's a wonderful thing and it's it's good as more and more people
on this on this earth as we travel together through the galaxy and through the universe uh
kind of uh have that same common common uh perspective is is going to be
very good for humans and for our survival yeah um i think so
thanks cameron and you know we are the pilots
yeah yeah yeah we're we're playing our role here so so uh what i wanted to
share in today's session is uh let me share my screen i just have a couple of things i didn't
get i'm not as organized as i wanted to be i love galaxies but i'm gonna just show a couple of pictures here um
let me just go to uh let's see how do i do that bear my screen there we go share my
screen and then i go to let's see here okay so first of all
i have my sky safari let me rotate that i don't know how that does that come out okay um yeah everyone see okay great
so basically um what i wanted to show is uh you know we obviously the big uh local
group uh galaxy that we the large and small legend mangelani clowns that maxi shared i love that that's fantastic
uh obviously the andromeda galaxy here um 2.2 million light years away
i have a just a re you know just to be part of the uh the team here
i do have um let me just go back here i do have an andromeda galaxy
uh picture uh my latest one let me just share that there
and then come cameron i never asked you how many years have you done this
to get all those ah you i have i have a saying that i like
to share tech and you gave me an opportunity to say it it takes 20 years to be an overnight
success um you know it i'm not a success by any
means but but the point being what you're seeing is uh the accumulation of experience i've been
into astronomy uh you know and scott has known i think he's captured it well in many of his
interviews uh regarding uh you know the journey that most people take where when you're
a young child you have you have to capture that at a very young age and i was fortunate enough to have a
telescope uh at you know when i was pre-teen and uh and uh so i've been
doing astronomy since those days uh i guess 40 40 years
40 years with your sky survey your survey yeah yeah yeah thanks becca
yes i'm giving you the long answer this guy said let me get my orientation here properly
yeah so so the sky survey uh i started um
basically just over a year ago actually uh pekka um
pure observation i didn't uh what what what prompted me to get into that
is i i just acquired a new go to altazimuth mount yeah
and uh and that allowed me to leverage my visual experience of because
i had a dobsonian before and being able to really kind of i realized that
you know when i had my large aperture telescope i i was able to go very deep into galaxy
clusters and that but but you quickly get overwhelmed there's just so much to see yeah and then i realized you know what i
gotta kind of get organized here because there's a lot of good stuff that's out there that it doesn't have to be that
faint you know i like faint believe don't get me wrong that that's a bonus but uh but i i figured you know what let
me let me peel it back and kind of do a broad brush so i started going into this mode where i was like hey i'm going to
do everything down to magnitude uh 12 galaxies right anything down to magnitude 12
and which was i figured a good threshold for an eight inch mcas a green non-stellar
object right and uh so then i started to yeah and then then what happened checker is recently
uh you know i had my smartphone and i started saying hey you know what i can i i have all my written observations
i've done over 3 000 observations uh today um
and i was able to do that using sky safari so having a tablet
while i'm observing and being able to have kind of a nice fresh notes that i could record in a database
uh right there is similar to sketching right yeah but obviously it takes a little less time
but still the typing and the descriptions uh you know whether it's modeling or you know
there's a stellar nucleus or non-stellar or this type of thing i was inspired a lot i
just want to give credit where credit's due i mean people like david eicher sue french um who who did a lot of that
written astronomy uh deep sky observations where they would describe the objects and then they would sketch
the object that really was a big inspiration for me big time and i thought i'm going to do
my own version of that and and uh and i thought because i
really think that's that's fun i mean it's it's uh it's nice to be able to record your observations
you you actually hone your skills better you're more connected and you also
like orienteering right you get to see the relative you get to know your way
even better around the sky i was already pretty good with star hopping but it was very uh
dissociated like i'd be very deep in one particular area of the galaxy of the particular constellation but now
i'm connecting all the dots and i'm seeing where everything is in relation and uh it's really really fun and then
the most recently i've got to ask for imaging thinking okay i want to compliment my visual observations with
capturing the the image because don't get me wrong i sketching is great
and all that but uh yeah you know i i want to i want to be able to kind of um
match my description my visual with the uh with the um with the image and then basically
start to uh categorize which are the objects that i want to go deeper with you know what
i'm saying because as you start to take as you start sampling more and more objects
start to see the subtleties you know at first glance everything looks the same right when you start looking at think
galaxies but you start to see the grouping the coupling sometimes there are on a different orientation maybe
there's different color stars near it uh it it makes it very pleasing to be able
to see the different um conditions in which you see the surrounding
object placed how it's framed and between visual and and and imaging it's
a really nice kind of um it closes the loop it really connects everything together nicely yeah and
that's only possible because of today's technology right i mean uh it was not possible i can tell you
you know uh before i it's not a trivial thing it's not like you can just plug
and play uh you know uh astrophotography it's it's a it's a very steep uh curve and and and it takes a
lot of refinement so i have a great respect for people who um who take those many
hours of images and process them that is impressive to me that's that's really it
there's a lot behind that and and as you start to do this you really gain an appreciation but the most
important thing about all this becca and everyone's thought is you have to have
fun yeah you know absolutely camera we are uh
you need the energy of fun you need yeah you know and find the wavelength
of what you do because i realized now in couple of months that i'm going back
in aperture to smaller to get back that
real real night sky feeling i don't just want to have
one object i need a huge amount of space at the same time
to really get into it so yeah i'm talking with my hands like
yeah that's i am admiring you admiring you
camera because you have to down your soul into this
and i would like to make that survey also for me
and i i'm too eager to to get everything done up here
yeah and remember remember to record it inside me but i have to make
something that i follow like you do you follow like an uh
list yeah and um you know
and now that you mentioned maybe let me show you becca and then this is for everyone uh how how i how i come to come
to that so let me share my screen here um if you want to make your own observing list you know skies there's a
lot of different planetarium programs out there but i kind of latched on to sky safari and and what really kind of
got me on to this survey is observing this so what you can do is uh if i go to
create new uh where is it not create new observation add to
observing no no that's not the one see i even forgot how to do it getting second here uh let's see here okay so i go to
observe yeah planner here we go planner and what you do is you say okay i want
to i want to include you know what what i usually do is i say okay i want open clusters collaborator
bright nebula dark nebulae but let's take that off for now we can
this is where you personalize it right you decide what you want to look at and let's do planetary
and then what i do is you can specify the magnitude let's say i just want to see up to 10th magnitude
and then uh this is part of skype oh yeah this is this guy safari so
you just do this and then what you do and then here's what's really cool you can even do altitude and degrees you can
do distance separation you can do a lot of different filters here but i'm just going to keep it simple and then do
magnitude 10. in my case i did magnitude 12 and i went constellation and i said
okay restrict catalog you can choose that as well but i'm going to just do instead of
all constellations let's just do andromeda okay so everything and
magnitude ammo drum and then you can even specify timer you can do a lot of fantasy but let's just keep it simple do
search and there you have eight objects so eight objects and this is how you start small and it makes it more
manageable you filter it down you say okay i want to see down to everything down to 10th magnitude in andromeda
of my favorite type of object and then it lists them all here and then what you do is you can say make into observation
list and once you've done that you go to
uh oops sorry you go back and then and we
observe and i'm observing this and uh if you go to the they see search results there's my you
have to change the name so there's my list that i created and we can call it
andromeda drama um
mag10 or something whatever you want right magnet210 and then and then and then what you do
and this is the cool part watch this then you go okay
unobserved and you go actions highlight objects
and then if you zoom back out it will highlight and let me just change the time here
get them a little higher in altitude sorry so you're actually telling me that you can go to
with your mouse exactly these are the eight objects that are magnitude 10
um in in andromeda and then let's say okay i want to look at the blue snowball
you zoom in and you do go to and then you say okay i've observed it you go okay
you're going to go create new observation you type in you know
a nice bright bright blue
blue uh oval let's say i don't know exactly but let's whatever you want and then you you it actually
reports timestamp this is what's nice it's scientific as well you have the artistic piece you have the
engineering piece you have all the different things and then basically uh you can specify the session and then
you actually record your sessions uh through the night and it will actually it will tell you what observation so and
it's part of that list so then what you do is you specify the seeing conditions what equipment do you use so like let's
say the seeing is slight quivering seeing level two uh you can you can put as much detail as
you want but i just can you uh that photograph you take with your
mobile phone into that observation that's the next step i'm not there yet
what i do is i do that offline pekka okay but you can actually
link the photo in your in your phone book on your
image hook in your phone so you can link the program to
get that picture you talk take any observation
i think you can let's take a look uh so if i go
with your mobile phone yeah it's it's not uh you might i don't know the answer to
that quite honestly um i think but i do know this that you can
export your list and you can upload lists uh to uh to the web to
cloud um but yeah that program will go into my wish list
to santa claus actually my what i'd like to do is because uh uh
explorer stars for example is is open right open uh development uh what i what
i'd like to do is leverage explore stars and then now you when you create your list there
you have all your images right yeah and then it explores ours has that image
so you can kind of do a hybrid approach right where you can still use this and you can use explore so obviously it's
great to put it all in one but eventually you know with there'll be like an type of equivalent between uh
different um uh uh
to the the developer that they could add a hyperlink on the pictures you have taken
with this app on your phone phone believe me that's and that's what i'm
doing uh so let me just finish it and let me actually i'll i'll just uh i'll come to
that becca give me a second but just to show you what happens is when you actually record the observation
you notice that little blue circle that's around that is no longer there so it actually checks it and it will if you
go to the observing list now andromeda magnet 210 and you can say all
you'll see a check mark besides the blue blue while nebula so that that way you you
can record and if you didn't get a chance to observe that in that night that session uh you can continue the
next night so that's what i was doing and you can see i did that for every constellation like for example
you know the andromeda that i have so i had this is how i got my 3 000
observations uh and and the real big ones like cetus is quite large uh there are lots of galaxies there
um but the real big one is ursa major is quite large 169 i just finished that up
uh earlier in the summer uh hydra is quite large virgo though is the big one
296 objects down to magnitude 12. um so about the galaxy i actually saw that
that took me five nights um to to go through that and you have a
resource bank there for us yeah and but this is these are just written
observations now i'm doing the same thing what i've done is after i've categorized
that i actually then i go into i'm sorry let's go back to observe
observing less what i did pekka is i put in best and brightest so out of those
3000 or so objects that are down to magnitude 12. some of them are diffuse some of them very difficult to see
um but i still recorded them but the best and brightest are objects that i could easily see
um you know with pretty much direct vision or slightly averted vision
uh and and and that's the 823 and that's what we're going through in clastronomy
um because those ones are the ones that everyone with a smaller telescope has a chance of observing and uh and i'm and
i'm following up through those observations with images and currently so this is a good segue actually into
the the next part of the discussion um if i go here
um so if i'm looking at astronomy i'm on we're on episode
15 now so this is my deck let me just
see how this works uh i don't know how to well sorry it's not exactly beautiful
looking but but basically if i zoom in um so this is my record so we are at
we've done 168 images of 119 objects out of the 821 that i considered our best
and brightest so that's kind of what we keep a log every week when we have the
campstronomy and for next week or actually tomorrow sorry
we're continuing in cygnus so if i go if we go to back to sky safari
we are and i turn on and do best and brightest let's do that one
turn it on okay so here's all the objects on best what i call best and brightest eight
hundred and something objects and if we go into cygnus we were doing it we would start it off
in the south western quadrant of cygnus and we moved towards uh
cedar and we actually ended up with crescent nebula that was the last object we saw
and we're going to continue into seder region gamma signal and nebula
tomorrow and going all the way to fireworks galaxy which is up right beside cetus and
there's a little cluster there but uh we're going to end up with that for tomorrow and we'll continue to d dive
into cygnus in the following weeks including the north american nebula the cocoon nebula obviously the sigma the
veal nebula all the famous good stuff and there's a couple of galaxies to boot i love galaxies like i said before
and we're gonna we're gonna grab some others so cygnus is just a wonderful constellation just filled with every
type of object and it's uh it is directly overhead where i'm at i'm at 47 degrees north
so uh when you look directly overhead believe it or not i have bought portal 6 through bordeal eight skies depending on
which direction i'm looking at if cygnus is directly overhead and i look
uh directly over it i can actually with a vertivision i can actually see the milky way because that's a pretty dense
part of the milky way you can actually start to see a little bit of structure so um that's that's my
uh it's a beautiful region anyway yeah it's it's
yeah no it's uh and now just becca i know you you asked this question let me just answer it uh now going back so just
to show you how i've organized things so i have obviously my gamstronomy but if i go
to my images uh sky picks sky survey fixed um i have
uh all the images and which is the right one probably i
hear you this this is the one okay this is my catalog to your point in
there i have directories and i have let me just uh can i make this into
present ah here we go yeah yeah good good okay so that doesn't come out very nice on the
phone i'm sorry um but basically what what you have here is uh there are
how many slides if i scroll down there should be more than that give me
back let me go back this is the catalog okay hercules draco
oh it's kind of neat it kind of grouped it okay that's interesting yeah so i have every constellation that i've done
booties libra going from west to east and then if i go into each one of those
and it's a little sorry it's a little different on the phone here but basically each one of those has all the
objects images let's go back here yeah um
can i actually go it's not reacting properly
okay i apologize but basically what what's what it was supposed to be it's like 300 and something pages
uh of all the images that i've taken to date and um and then basically uh
what i'm going to do going back to the sky survey here
i look at my observing lists the best and brightest 823 they'll basically be
uh all 823 objects will have an image to your what you're saying pekka yeah and
uh and then and then that will be basically the catalog okay um
and and it's going to be in powerpoint for now uh but uh but do you to your point we
can make a database and link it to uh to an observing thing uh eventually and it will get better because
uh i have smartphone images in there i have various levels of quality
with my imaging everything from big netted images of noise but i'm learning as well and i'm
building it as we go so uh it will continue to be repainted and repainted and repainted
with and you'll have a progression actually for fun to be able to see
how i my first images of you know let's say the veil nebula were
a year ago and then how they are today and um stuff like that so um
that's why what i do when it's cloudy days and uh or evenings and rainy days i
make some that's when you do this kind of stuff to categorizing and making lists and
but i have to have something with astronomy to do
all the time if it's just a little bit or a huge load
it doesn't matter it has to be something with the astronomy to do so i i get my
my vitamins and minerals through that yes so what i wanted to show is since
we're talking about the getting back onto the uh i wanted to show my picture of
andromeda galaxy i have uh you can see the center it's not sorry i couldn't make it can't make it
full screen there's some issues with my phone here i apologize but um but you can see the dust line you can actually
see multiple dust lanes oh very cool let me just rotate this can can it rotate
oh well okay so if i zoom in you can see i just love this picture because um
you know you can actually see the the dust and how it how it um reflects
with the lighting of the uh the glow of the central gal part of the galaxy and then you have the the outer uh dust
bands as well so i'm i just i just love this and then some of the nebulosity in in the direction obviously near the
central core uh part that's oh here's here's one little little bit in there um so that's
that's you know and then this is a 2 000 no uh actually i'm uh 1280 focus i'm using an f63
reducer on a on my c8 um so you know you're not
you you want to take the andromeda galaxy with an eda or a wide field scope but
but it's i just wanted to see what kind of structure i could get with longer focal length and i'm pretty
happy you know to be able to get there so there's there's on my picture of andromeda galaxy so far
and then um and then if i go to i wanted to show you guys
if we're talking about the local group i was looking at one of the purposes of this sky survey
is to kind of get some obscure stuff so here's one if i go back to
[Music] bear with me uh okay it's in uh
sky survey picks and i think it's gonna be in yeah 10 11 i think this is the one
yeah yeah this is one beautiful okay so um so
just beside the little gem nebula in sagittarius if you scroll in here
there's a little galaxy and it's like a think of a large small image atlantic cloud dwarf galaxy it's a
barnard's galaxy and if you look at barnard's galaxy let's look at the object information
barnard's galaxy it's only 1.6 million light years away it's actually closer
than it's kind of in between right where where uh where uh andromeda galaxies are 2.2
and and and then of course as you heard from maxi the the large and small magenta clouds are hundreds of thousands
of light years um so so this guy's kind of in between on its own a little booney lan galaxy
but he it's con it is actually part of the local group and um and if i if i look at my image
i actually got an image of it uh can i actually make this a screen i
apologize for by anyhow let me just zoom in here so here it is so i actually got it
uh you know not an awesome picture but it kind of looks yeah but i managed to capture that
that's a very hard believe me visually you basically impossible unless you have uh dark skies
so it's a great challenge object if you have if you want to test how dark your skies are but forget it in light blue
skies like when i'm looking at this this is only like 20 degrees off the horizon for my latitude
but but here's the cool part hey with a as astr imager look at i was able to capture it so i'm just thrilled to be
able to capture this guy there's another couple more dwarf galaxies um i think there's another one
in the corner of pegasus but i'll be getting to those uh later but i just wanted to share with you the one
just to kind of you know give another perspective that's so awesome
yeah you know every picture counts yeah yeah so that's my uh i kind of went
all over the place you know this is part of the fun and the journey you just don't know which way
each global star party is going to take you so um i i really appreciate you guys letting me um
kind of jump around and share my screen here let me stop sharing here there we go so uh yeah that's
amazing thank you it's amazing you could do all that on your on your smartphone yeah you know
it's it's smart this have is noticed it actually i don't know
how it was on your how uh stud and and everyone uh how was the the fluidity
was it pretty smooth or would it not bad i mean i'm impressed i'm
because you know i don't think there's a the the gpu the the video and and that
is is actually better on this phone than on my laptop as you know when i was trying it starts to delay sky safari
hiccups and stuff like that so so this is doing a lot of multitasking you know it's it's amazing my main problem is i'm
not so smooth with the screen layout but uh but the actual processing is is
really good yeah anyhow excellent excellent
thanks thanks cameron you're bad you bet
that was our that was a the last of our regular presentations um we can uh
take a ten minute break now and we'll come back for any kind of uh after party
activities so yeah which i'm sure they'll be pretty i love the after party as you like the
after party that's right we all do come around we all do you met back here
maxie's ready yeah okay let's take a little ten minute break
yeah see you soon you bet you better thanks
you
dude
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i love the filament structure of the universe
it's so amazing this stock matter and energy
yeah how it's all connected it looks like a brainstem exactly and it
makes sense the dark matter
with natural nature pure nature [Music]
but there is even more things that we don't know
that we don't know that there is [Music]
yeah it's like a it's like we're a two-dimensional being it's like a pandora's box
you have to you have to open a hatch to see what he and then after that i understand what
are we looking at
that's exactly right we need to create the connection to get to those
other dimensions yes without that we have only have a 2d picture on the walls
yes that's what that's why i love telescopes they're they're the they're the first step in that yeah
exactly and be when you realize that you don't have to
stand behind the telescope you can travel with it
too deep space like this picture this is what i want to
see the space like [Music] oh i just yeah flying through the deep
steel that's awesome i see it like a 3d and
in my mind turn around and look on the like sideways and up and down
and feel the feeling that you are in the center
thanks for sharing that scott good stuff yeah
it's a lot of um at the beautiful what you're what you've done it's got with this you know getting
all these nasa footage i mean you have so much it's just a you know a wealth of
uh of uh of and there's so many different ways you can present the data but he's
doing a great job knocks yeah but he's not he's not just dumping
he's well he's putting it in now these are this is stuff that's out on the public domain
and you know you can find it nasa makes it available the esa makes it available
those two organizations probably do the best uh work in visualizations for
uh public outreach you know so it's it's it's i i think it's wonderful to have access
to them and and um you know if you're an educator or someone that does outreach or you want
to give presentations you know look no further than nasa's uh visualizations and the esa european
space agency's visualizations because they they have that's where the
the wealth of all that stuff is so you have to know what to look after and
where to look after exactly that is the key you're right i mean
because the data lots of searching lots of searches yes exactly that that mining
and that that presenting and making it invisible to us that's really appreciated it's uh
it's really good i love it too so i love it too everyone that's while i find a real jewel like that one you know it's just
like wow you know yeah i i i will watch it again just before i go to bed so
it really opens your mind yeah that's a good documentary about
rocket engines and like
high-speed cameras they already have 69 and they showed how the apollo 11 saturn
5 engines started and they explained it everything
in what happens of the fraction of several seconds and those sparks
uh i have read of them but they never explained it why the sparks are coming
under under the engines because they are coming
some gas gasoline uh like uh gas out
yeah so when they they ignites the the the
engines there are some gas uh like uh in the air
so those sparks ignites those gasses yeah around
and uh it's like um yeah but they just want to prevent that there is
like outside explosions so you know those same nights all the time that they are not going to build up
some glass uh gas cloud or something that can be trouble
and those bolts only four bolts like holding
each engine i think it was of the shuttle
and when they like exploding them at exactly fraction of
the second at the same time but you can you can understand that the
shuttle was standing on those uh external uh
solid fuel tanks yeah only four bouts for each
engine four bolts
four bulbs that's what's holding them on yeah or eight bolts together
i saw i was able to see um uh with astronomy magazines uh
reporter they let me go with a press pass uh to watch the last space shuttle launch
whoa i i'll tell you i have never seen i never saw a professional
rocket launch before ever okay and that was my first one so when this thing took off
it was like watching a skyscraper jump into the sky yeah
and we're i can't remember how many miles away maybe three or four mile five miles
something like that i think it's five months something like that this is where the
clock is you know the same clock yes the apollo yeah happened so for me it was very yeah this
is more likely you know and did you see when when the way
the sound wave came did you see did you look at the the the lake
we were very you know from that perspective we're down where all the rest of the
news crews are okay and um uh it is uh wasn't easy to see the lake
i think that you have to be on top of one of the buildings to kind of look down a little bit because you can see that when the when
the sound wave came you can see the you're moving against the leg yeah
and old birds like i haven't tell you it felt like it felt like it
was hitting your chest like this before you heard anything really
like that and all sudden then this thing's in the sky and it's like oh oh my god
that's that's like what i have dreamed of yeah
yeah i i wish i wish i could have seen the saturn 5's launch and yeah you know so
but now we have a real privilege that's the amazing party that image that you showed
on the moon uh in 1969 image of saturn e5 rocket and then that
goes up where it's going by and you see the ice falling off and all those sheets of ice
falling down it is absolutely amazing you know and then that's just a visual right i
mean like you said imagine seeing that live oh my gosh i mean
yeah we have our tim is coming now soon yeah yes it will be like that again so
we can we can go see that that will have you read about the artemis project
a little bit you know okay artemis is the sister
to apollo in creek oh okay meteorology so apollo was
artemis uh like brother i think all or where they're brothers
but artemis is like a sister or brother to apollo
and that's why they call it because the in this case it would be the first woman
that will be i think it was his sister on the moon yeah that's why they call artemis yeah a woman yeah
sister that's cool yeah yeah long overdue
a little a couple of years so to see it but we are i think
very not a space nurse i hope i hope they're on schedule i hope
that we you know uh uh make it back in 2024. um
there's it's it's always a little bit unpredictable because of funding because of politics you know
these kinds of things but yeah but spacex is launching now the whole
thing yeah double so now it's the first
try with the massive it's like 124 meters high it's
higher than abolo or saturn 5 [Laughter]
it's crazy i'm wondering if in a couple years
what a number of gsp will be and maybe
you don't know i hope that we could have the number 100 uh-huh
and this at the place you know the big studio with all of the
who knows maybe maybe it's got maybe it will be
doing the the count the counter down or or or
stay um streaming alive and streaming live
they have a lunch maybe who knows maybe maybe
yeah are we sitting all of us
yeah first time live active same place not online but
in the spring day having stopped 40. this was a
that's only 40 weeks yeah i know so 40 weeks that
makes five months no six months
all right i'm counting here no way no it's time my numbers in my head
two and two are eight i don't know it's ten weeks
no no ten months this is gonna be one of the videos that um
that was inspiring us to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things
not because they are easy but because they are hard this
t-minus 60 seconds and counting we are go for apollo 7 at this time
and from the crew of apollo 8 we close with good night good luck
a merry christmas and god bless all of you all of you on this
price it's amazing we have ignition sequence oh there it is engines on five
four three two [Music]
tranquility um here the eagle has landed [Music] that's one small step for man
one diabetes [Music]
we leave as we came and god willing as we shall return
with peace for all mankind
[Music] from 1969 to 1972 we had you know a
total of six moon landings 12 humans walked on the surface of the moon we have elevated the human
condition we have improved human lives we have raised the standard of living for every person on earth because of
space exploration we're going to go back to the moon and we're gonna take what we learned there
and we're gonna go to mars [Music]
oh beautiful great you know i saw today on tv that they have this pervarance
uh sister vehicle in the united states
and there is one from south africa and they are driving daily
and looking after on today and driving with that car in
similar environment that perverance is on and perseverance
and if they find some software issue
they make the correction and upload that correction to perverance's computer
so they are updating performances software like every time they find something that
can be problem in future
to get practice yes yeah to be prepared yeah for upcoming problems maybe
and then they showed the the the
vehicle that we launched to pick up the sample tubes that perverts will leave
after after it on them on the ground yeah mars and it has
it it is completely by on its own it has two cameras like
like do you do you remember this um this robot who had two eyes and
like i browns the movie um the old movie number five
number five yeah eyebrows oh yes i i was a little boy
for that movie but yes it's like like that yeah and it's
looking after those samples because perverance will take a picture
where he drop it the samples upload it and then the
lander will land with accuracy of one meter
from the samples and it will begin to look them and it has a
smart arm that picks up and that one which will be launched
up to the vehicle that is going around
mars and they will meet and that will like hand over
the samples to that which will gum then back to earth
so it's i know that'll be amazing yeah it's like this chinese
moon landed that they uh gave those samples
yes no it was from this um it's a huge mystery
[Applause] japanese asteroid sample return mission
yeah like go together and then pull out the sample tubes to the other we are coming
in the space this is so crazy this is a golden age yeah
well it's all practice i mean you think about it that was called hayabusa 2
yeah and it was uh
we are living in a golden age i just thought today what it was like kind
without internet without mobile phones there was no more weapon phones
no when i was living in finland the only one two channels
and i'm 10 on the roof
compared to today right
yes attention you have to just enjoy and be happy don't complain about your stuff yeah be
like i told somebody today that most of us don't like
appreciate what we have the like health daily food
roof over a job apartment those are
taking forgiven too often begin to appreciate the you that you
have and then reach for more yes
you know looking at um the hayabusa mission and returning those samples
uh there's a comment here and in one of the articles and it says as for the origin of life there's little
support for the idea that asteroids actually seeded life itself
says jaunty horner an astrobiologist at the university of southern queensland
who is not affiliate who is not affiliated with the hayabusa ii mission but carbon-rich meteorites hailing from
asteroids similar to rugo show chemistry on these primordial
bodies may generate amino acids and even rna
which could have given pre-prebiotic chemistry on ancient earth a boost you know like an inoculation
that's why people are very interested in looking at the very primitive material on asteroids like ryugu
what it actually contains but distinguishing biomolecules due to
earthly contamination for from pristine organics in the asteroid samples is very difficult
um the ryugu samples brought by hayabusa ii are as earth contamination free
as it gets so it'll be interesting you know as they make more
uh sample return missions you know these robotic sample return missions so that
you know large laboratories can really analyze the the materials so
uh you know this will just further perpetuate you know our exploration
of our backyard which is the solar system right and it goes so fast on and
every direction of science so we are expanding like universe are
and sometimes we don't even understand how fast we are going and where is the
our limit to understand where we even are that's true
so we have to like i think in some developments we should
we should continue but we have to have to watch that we have somebody
behind us like kids that they understand what we have reached that's right
you know one of the one of the uh fields of study now that's quite popular at
universities is uh understanding big data you know because we're harvesting
so much data now and it's just um you know it would take us
with you know our old methods could take us hundreds or thousands of years to understand the
full body of data that we have so they still haven't done every
test on the moon rockets right
how long has it been right 50 50 over 50 years and they are not done they're not done yeah they may never be
done who knows you know because they they are coming more and more stuff that uh
now we can examine that rocket and they are i i don't know if every rock uh rock
or but there is one room in united states that where the most of the moon samples are
it's like it's like fort knox it has own
life life supporting system that room
they are kept there yeah yeah so it's going to be so cool when we return
i mean to historical sites right i mean when we go back to the yeah oh my god
yeah yeah it's going to be so awesome i can imagine that's having a hotel you know
where the apollo 11 you know in 100 years you know how did you start you bet guaranteed yeah they're going to
have regular plates is launched i think there are so many
uh uh like uh higher airplanes
that airspace in over florida is so busy
they are going to like charter
huge planes to fly over just circular around florida
so when they did with the solar eclipse they
they was hired airplanes from sweden they flew
to see the total solar eclipse so they
they go together in a higher airplane instead
yes um bobo from who's watching on youtube says
i'd love to get some some ai processing of raw data uh from a
service like astronomy.net to see what we can come up with
uh you know absolutely i mean ai is going that is our that's our tool for
handling all this data you know so uh we need
you know the fastest processing computers uh to be able to handle the volume and to
somehow make sense of it you know uh you know how we look at it and what we
want to see uh it will undoubtedly um
uh conjure up a bunch of philosophical uh you know uh
decisions um to be made on on you know what is it that we're seeing
you know because we can we can apply ai
you know to look at it this way or that way or another way you know
and uh and of course today we have the access to that information
to maybe get some help to the research
and you know uh today we have the hubble images to to
practice to to make a some kind of process
and i can even imagine when we have the james webb telescope images to
practice oh yeah it's ready the
web scope has done its last testing everything was well and now they
are just waiting for it to be like uh uh attached
attached really at the the final of the of this year we
got some data maybe maybe already only in months it's like uh
ready to shoot out oh my god
martin esper not watching on youtube says i heard that the reason to hold
pure samples back was to see if future years might bring future machines
that can look at them differently give the future a chance at a pure sample sure
absolutely yeah absolutely yeah the jobs of the future are going to
be ai algorithm routine development you know what what kind of mining what
kind of ai algorithms are you going to use to
categorize different information and run different algorithms i see that as a big
industry of the future yeah if
if we could colonize only moon for just a little bit because we could
get those that uh there is one
one [Music] is it gas or is it the
oh i forgot the name it's an uh
but it's moon is very rich of that and like
was it the kilogram of that helium 16 i think it's
no i never heard it or helium 12.
it can like give power for a big city in the united states for a month
whoa it's it's like yeah really and moon is very rich of that
of this special helium
helium something i come from so there's articles about helium-3 and nuclear fusion
um
lots of articles about helium-3 yeah could helium-3 power our future
hero 3 on the lunar surface i found it on esso there we go i see it too
so they could mine that and that could be one one
one uh yeah it says the moon has been bombarded with large large quantities of helium-3
by the solar wind it's thought that this isotope could provide safer nuclear
energy and a fusion reactor since it is not radioactive
and would not produce dangerous waste products great oh we said very huge that sounds
very good right so take that from there to earth and
make that energy is yours for us but
we have a petroleum no no yeah i
i was driving today this is far from astronomy but it's it's like it's elon musk
included so then it's qualified for this one but
i've tried back home today with the lexus taxi
and we compared it with an um tesla and the taxi cab driver with lexus said
that his colleagues who drives a
tesla they have problems on winter time to get heated
if they stop with the car the healing system is like eating the battery
right and you more up north you get
i don't know if that is true and i have not done any any
research but uh it could be only for warm
warm uh places that called i don't know i don't know
but then [Music] that technology would be very
very far from us yeah let's see if elon musk will beat a small uh rocket engine
like airplanes has this apu motor uh engine on the back a real back in the
in the airplane you have a small hole you can see it in the in the
back is back on the airplane on the body it's a huge hole like 10 inch
that's called apu and that is a jet motor that when you have pushed off from the
gate all electrical is turned dropped from the plane now you are at
home they ignites this apu that
derives a small generator to get
power to hydraulics and a powerful ac's in cabin
and also needed for get those big turbines to run
and when they are off uh like like [Music]
and if when there is enough uh like power they
push their engine and then ignites and then they can turn off this apu
unit let's see only a start motor wow yeah
everybody if you when next time you fly look at the
pattern but there is a hole there is a hole in every
oh and they hook it airplane and they start the engine right so yeah they they start start that one and when that
generates enough electricity that drives air condition all electrical stuff in
the cabin and then when they have enough power they
ignites the motors so it's like
it's like a you know kickstarter for a car yeah plus some miners and then when my
grandfather had a crankshaft yeah with the engine right did you how did he have it
he had one i i never met my grandfather because he died about one month before i
was born okay but he i heard a story that when he was a young
man you know he's trying to start his engine by cranking it you know yeah and it wouldn't start and it wouldn't start
it wouldn't start and he gets so angry that he takes the crank and he throws it through the windshield
i had a glass i can't imagine what you know i mean cars were not cheap back then right so oh no right
my grandfather i was like 10 years and draw with him and i asked him that
grandfather when did you get your license
he looked at me and like i have never had a license
we didn't we didn't need licenses back then yeah i wrote about the first
speed ticketing uh an englishman got the first
speed limiting before that time when cars came to england they have to have a man
a walker with a red flag to warn everybody on the streets that a high
kill are coming and the police ticketed the man
with the flag for speeding with the flag
and it was like our working speed
okay i had some troubleshoot travel with my
my oldest car i remember when i couldn't
start the engine i i have a power shot
it's a french mark and i remember sometimes to people to
to push it or some with a car to push my my car to to put in in second
a march and then then for the inertia
is i in the in that case i can start to to
the engine and because in this cell you need compression you
don't need the spark like a gas so
uh i i'm still having a diesel car in this case i have a
a volkswagen gold and it's a very comfortable car and
for me and my fiance it's okay maybe the future i will change it yeah but
and so so you are actually driving
hours in united states or in uh south america
to dark places if i go if i go to dark places here yeah
last sunday i went to this a rural place
to meet with my friends and and do some some pictures i met
in mercedes on the outside of mercedes and and then we went to navarro
but we entered to a rural road
maybe 20 kilometers in the
and i i think i have the location of the place
let me show the screen i will open tomorrow my my my
north side of my observatory i will try to get the
first light from the northern part of the sky hmm
yes so i will open this day we we have a
our first contact an encounter with
the policeman with a policeman yes no
but because uh when we been what his sturikoi
i went through the national road to mercedes
and then go to the 41 province road with one with my friend and here in
engineering williams in williams engineering we
i think in this place here's the
the road and yes
this is the the this um the state the old station you can see
the the the raid train the raid road
but it doesn't exist anymore yeah but
you you can see this a curve but we went through here and
we stay here so when some
people of the place came with the car with the with the lights see us
and then i remember almost 10 p.m comes occur very slowly very slowly with only
the lights comes to us and when we see it there was the police the policeman and
they asked hey what we're doing we show some
luckily we we took some pictures and show what we are doing and
they they say well it's okay they asked our ids
our patents of the car and they
and then we see this we are okay and they would they go wow
but you know this is this picture you can see of the
of this little place let me show you the the picture of a
rodriguez took of that place wait for a moment to
uh is that the house just left over
something or if somebody owns that
it's abandoned abandoned place yeah but
take contact with somebody and and buy it
and make an option observatory for you for the in there he took this picture
that night there's roof there and you have this
wine you can produce some power when it's flowing you have some
hard batteries there and make and generate them downstairs
you know i it really was very it was dark we had the
light pollution of the near city and everything but uh
you can see almost nothing but
it was a little windy that night and this a [Music]
molino you can hear it rounded
it was very creepy and also the cows started to
tomorrow [Laughter]
a little scary huh well also there are urban legends like the
shoreonia or something like that when they of course they
they are they're false but uh you you start to wonder if it comes from
animal or something like that well a wild life
of the of the farm yeah and so that's so nice place
i i i would ask if uh look at that and
local collection to collection to to rebuild it
yeah it could be a very good local astronomy what was that building maxie maybe you
already said this but what was that building used for what was it built for that building i think it was for uh
well maybe this road train was um
for a crops uh because the
in old time it comes to the the royal train you can see it's
still continuing okay the the abandoned
and goes to the little places a little
very small town very very small town and then goes to buenos aires
uh it's a train etc exactly every every
a single city and every little town uh goes directly
with a road a train ride road
to one silence and for example she will go we have we still
having the the the role train i don't know if i'm saying okay
uh [Music] but still a passing by the they're also
very very old but in this place where
separate it was separated here
he is still passing by but you can see in this case
it it turns to a a road
yeah they they make a road like to to
to go with the car and this it doesn't exist anymore this is a
place to to get a walk well this is a
the urban place and still coming up and it doesn't exist anymore that that a
rain train oh and this is an example
uh in that night uh we or maybe in some
days come maybe we're going to be in these places in caribelle
you can see the names is very english style in some ways
for maybe some ownness of the farm that comes to from
england or was from spain and they they founded their little towns
and this is the a salado river
or maybe the salty river
it goes and here's for example in
in old a bridge of the train that passed by maybe
6 60 years ago or more and it doesn't pass anymore
oh it's abandoned oh
sorry no no it's okay and you can see it's going very stationed armonia
and and still continuing but it doesn't goes anymore
uh also well he's another a bridge that
is under water oh wow
it's very very old i see like 100 years older
maybe yes yes yes here's another one this is some places where
cycling cycling people comes to do some travel okay
take some pictures but uh this place is a is very dangerous because the
the the ground is unstable oh and
there are too many fishermen in the summer that comes to to
to to put in the [Music]
in the fringe of the of the river yeah and
and maybe it's a very a hot day and they start to swim
but they go to the shore of the river and and they're they're swimming or getting pulled off
exactly so they when when they go into the the river
the ground is very very unstable unstable and your legs is going
to uh maybe a a traps onto the your your middle of the legs
so you give the mud so you're stuck in the mud okay exactly and you can
maybe you you you can go out and then you die
there's too many people that they don't know or they are confident
to to swim because they know swim but the place is very very
they don't know they don't know about the the mud exactly
exactly and it takes up so
like like i show you this there are too many places to to visit in in argentina
uh this is they are very very
a small towns a farmer uh towns and they if you continue in this going
to inside the of the center of the of the of the country
and then when you come to la pamba start to change to a middle desert
and when you continue yes this place is desert
very very dry very very look at this
yeah looks like california exactly nevada yeah
what a horizon unbelievable horizon yeah and very quiet
i can't even imagine this place in the in the night you know oh yeah maybe i
haven't seen i haven't seen horizon like that in
oh well when we went 10 years 10 years maybe to see the
the the solar eclipse uh we met we did this
we went through this a road there was
nothing but nothing and nico
yeah a has a a i don't know i don't have to say a
a confidence uh that he has a a gas
in his car um when we when we stop in vietnam
we we passed by from the province of buenos aires here in carmen de patagones
and a cross debris the the bridge and
goes to this gasoline station and is from here from here how much gas did
he have left he he saw that he has maybe a the house tank
so he said okay let's go let's continue okay i i still have it so i have no
problem maybe i have we have to do some uh 100
or maybe 200 kilometers so when we start wait you can see how
change yeah and then we start to bring to the desert
at the halftime he said we have some walkie-talkies to continue in our cars
and he said hey maxi the result has to
on so i put in front of him
and we travel to 80 kilometers per hour maybe
it's 60 60 miles per hour we were very slow
to get in to san diego
and i remember the the ocean and for example in this place
when you see it
i think it was from yes this area the ocean is from that place very very
very dry yeah there's a question here from harold uh
harold lock watching on youtube he says maxie how is your ground water supplies
here on the west coast it says here on the west coast of the united states we are extremely low
well here if in my region i'm from the
the if you see in
in in google earth you can see they are very green places because we have a lot
of water but obviously we in this case we are passing
by through a dry season uh but underground we have at almost uh
60 meters above us we have a
a too much clear water to drink so
here uh for example in chile in this
this is a a water tower and this is the place where they pumped
from the ground and then uh spurs with all the city
let me see if there yes
[Music] here you go you will see the the one is
more backward it's the water of tower
i see and well i do this travel this road every
every day because i just i when you show me um the cities
and towns in argentina they're they're very clean i mean really clean uh
don't it's nice so-so so-so okay great when i say it is
not too much not so much uh the the people is very
dirty very unclean they obviously
they have too much uh people and some people it doesn't get i
think in everywhere unfortunately yeah for example when when you
[Music] come to moreno this is a metropolitan area
they are too many very good
neighborhoods but they are also the all
the another places for example in this is the i think
the river this is the
another place you know this is a very
um the worker area of
i i don't want to say poor people but the worker people you know and this
blue collar is what we call it you know people that you know the blue-collar jobs might be a
truck driver or someone that works in a assembling part or
something exactly versus you know people that might work in an office you know so
um well in this river my father comes to to fish when he was a boy and today
obviously if you fish
from this river i think you're going to die i don't know
there are too many faces of these places and
the people are very like i say um
very unclean very nicely they doesn't care they don't
doesn't get the the the the ground the
weather and everything but we are starting to
[Music] to make politics of a green [Music]
ecological green situation and
for example the cities has compromises in in some cases
but of course
have a lot of problems here and they don't care about these things because they are
another things to worry like economy like safely and everything so
uh well this is a little tour from argentina
i i want to show you this little uh [Music]
modifying thing that i did with the telescope with the eight inches
actually yes i have to say that i have to go to bed now
it's okay i
yeah it's 7 00 am
yeah so until next time at the next time thanks all right have a
good one well this is a
the eight inches i discerned at all because you can see in the
inside of it there was the light shining through obviously the primary mirror and
at the at the the wall of the telescope inside is very
shiny ah yes the this is the focuser and this is what
you see if you have too much light right so i saw a tutorial and i was wondering
if i maybe like not painted but
there there are um a contact a film that you can pass
inside of the of the telescope yes so what you can see it was very gray it
it wasn't uh it wasn't black it was gray and it has too much uh shiny
places so well this i disarm it at all
this is the contact that i buy almost three meters and
for 45 centimeters and then started to
to pass it you can see in this case i took a picture and
this area it doesn't have it but in this area
yeah so you need to get the rest of it exactly here's a flashlight uh of course
it will be but it's more darkness like this place so
obviously i will not going to point it with a huge light but i think the the
light pollution and some lights that comes from some places uh
maybe they illuminate these walls inside and makes
the a bad image so
you can see in this case i put it at all the the this contact
and i have to put it in in the in the part of where the the tesco
um [Music] clubs
you can see it's still shining but the other side of all the not
it's very dark so it will improve things a lot though
i think it will be more contrast images yes
of course it will so i only did it in almost one and a half
hour uh i only spent maybe 20 bucks
it's a great improvement you know putting in baffles or darkening the
inside of any telescope tube like that and also draw tubes where it comes up to
the camera even internal camera reflections these kinds of things if those can be subdued
you're going to have much better contrast and you know it is you're right it is an
inexpensive way to get a big performance boost on your telescope
i i unfortunately i couldn't try it because then comes the
the the weekend and i a very bad weather and i want i want i
wanted to do it with a very good night to see what happens
so what i did then also these a couple of days
was i was like i say i was taking pictures to a lot of
places for example a m83
this is a three minutes picture
i think it wasn't very focused but
there's a lot of information yes about the structure
yes i love it too but unfortunately at this time is will
go into the the southwest and the light pollution it will kill me
so i decided to go to m20 and
uh i post a a a picture of that but this is a single picture
and there's a lot of info oh beautiful yeah that's so nice love
the colors yeah it's a great i love the different type of nebulosity
all in a small compact package yes yeah one this is great
then i decided to to want to to ngc
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this is the a single picture and there's a lot of
info of the galaxy that's that was amazing yeah you you're so lucky you're
down there i mean i i i always get teased about the sculpture galaxy it's
right basically on the horizon for me it's so low on that so yeah yeah but it's it's it's a very
bright and you know you know magnitude and lots of structure like you see
and so um it's it's very nice i i hope i can i might be able to get a an image of
it but it's going to be it's probably going to be pretty washed out but you can try
i'll definitely try definitely try but this is in the
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a part of the the the clouds of the galaxy and this is the cluster and this is a
little china a galaxy here i don't remember the name
and also the oil reflection of the stars
i think this is the finally that i get maybe the process it wasn't very good
but yeah it's beautiful
beautiful really nice the collimation was okay but uh the light pollution you can see is
very like stretching the image so
i i need to go that's nice you may find you may find that uh with the in
improved uh you know uh flocking or baffling that
you've done on your telescope may improve that a lot you know and maybe also improve
flats and all kinds of things you know so well here's the barnard galaxy but i
didn't stack it or process it but you can see some little places of the galaxy
and i think this is the core you know i never never couldn't see it or
take pictures of this place but
i only took maybe half an hour something like that
but then i went to this a
planetary nebula the snowball nebula i think it goes like that maybe cameron
you know this place you know i love this this is so cool
you're this is like um the southern hemisphere version
great i love it because no no these are very familiar uh you're going through the same stages
uh because you move from smartphone to the new astra imaging look at that
yes beautiful i forgot yeah the six this is an aquila yeah exactly
exactly yeah so i only did some pictures to to try to
how is it going and then
what was this
oh this planetary nebula is is from the south
but when i try to to process i see this is a very good place
or very green area you can see the the center of in the start but
there are also a like um an oval a green
it's like a helix nebula on an angle right with a different episode yeah helical
structure exactly something like that but it's more it's more the thin and the
magnitude is very low and when i do the dba process it doesn't seem very
very good but i love to to capture these stars like
this you know the with the spikes and everything it was so cool and then
now these are just all single single images right you're not stacking or doing any processing right in this case
is a single image but i think like i i'm using the a a s i
if this viewer uh the there are maybe the
they have a automatic uh ethereum
so if i reset it this is the photo
when i put auto it comes out it's like a stretching
picks inside i stay yeah you know what you need to do now maxi you need to um
you need to get some faster calibration frames and then do live uh live stacking
and then then then you'll get take care of the vignetting and then the um
and you'll get it really oh and and you'll need some flats of course right yes of course
if i if i put out the camera the fastest will be off
and this is only a single place i is in the south it's a
a very i never saw this galaxy you know uh it's very small
you can see when i still coming up they are going to be pixelated but
uh i they have a little more a arms to to maybe capture
so it's a very good place to to practice
and i love when you make discoveries like this um maxie you like you say you find that
a a galaxy like that that has a special structure to it unique structure and uh it's not it's not a famous one
but uh it has its own characteristics and details and look at that i mean there
there's like when you zoom in you see the nebulosity the knots and the in the spiral arms and
exactly there's a really neat beautiful structure yeah they have a lot of to suck but
kind of partially barred as well yeah it's really really neat that's a really nice one
i love it i recently discovered one in pegasus forgot the number but it was similar to
that where where the arms were kind of really uh very
uh tight not tightly wound they kind of a very strong bar and then the
there was two arcs going totally opposite similar to that except the bar was much bigger
so they were the the arcs of the spiral arms were like really far so very neat characteristic galaxy love
that and well what i was also practicing because
i have venus when i grab the telescope i did some stuck and
i can get this
with the with it let's be honest whoa penis that's good
that is not easy it's not easy because i have it
maybe 30 degrees from the horizon a little bit
more at the afternoon but it's very blooming
but i use a 3x barlow
and the camera and i did the roi process to to do very
short very small a picture and take
almost 200 fps
and it's a lot and then i stuck a i i did when i when you
were talking i was processing this to see uh i think it comes a very kind of
brown clouds i don't know uh or i'm
i hoping to see that someday but uh but this is a
a very good picture of venus and i think uh in a couple of months it will be very a
more a bigger craftsmanship yeah yeah bigger
crescent yes so i i will try to to do it again
so well uh that's all i think for all
for today that's enough
that's really cool and i really love the uh maxi i love your you know the tour of argentina that
that's fantastic the history and that's really cool it makes you want to travel there and yeah
you know you take me to another place it's great it's great
the another friend that we met this sunday um he only
has a aq5 mount and two and an eight inches
telescope f5 but he also do these natural
pictures of the of the milky way and everything but he doesn't
have a moderate size a mount like for example in a star adventure
but um when i was a voted on this sunday i was
teaching him everything i was doing and he said you know you have to be a
teacher because i i love to to share
a to everyone who obviously want to to know
what a what i'm doing to help
person to maybe in the future when they have it they don't have to pass over what i pass
it so for example
this isn't this is it
well uh i guess this kind of wraps up our night
tonight huh anything more that you wanted to add cameron no that's great uh scott thank you so
much and uh it's always a pleasure really uh really wonderful gsp
global solar party number 60. that's awesome you're 60. so i've already sent out rsvps for uh
global star party 61. the theme is the power of stars okay
so uh you know that the sun powers our solar system uh you know and uh
uh you know stars are and it's only a very small star right so compared to
other star systems and uh so it's uh that that whole subject into itself a
whole universe into itself so um so i think that uh we can uh
have a number of great conversations about that um i'm looking at the
chats here maxie and flyo chachi says max maxi helped me with my
motorized mount and so uh yes great
that's great so you have you have some followers out there that's very cool
uh yeah and maxie anytime that you want to bring in on some of your club members
your friends whatever absolutely you just let me know and it would be fun to learn
more about amateur astronomy in argentina that's for sure uh
okay yeah i i will of course maybe they have to talk in english or if they talk in spanish maybe
not necessarily we have a translator you know so we can do that yeah why not okay
why not so uh i gave uh some talks to
uh amateur astronomers in chile and brazil and um they had a translator for
me you know so so that worked out okay uh so you know
if we have someone that that you can think of would be a good translator then that's great i mean your
english is great so it's fine so anyhow
for all of our audience that's still watching wherever you are in the world you know thank you uh for being a part
of global star party number 60. uh we look forward to seeing you for
global star party number 62. global star party number 63
happens on the birthday of john dobson and so
some astronomers that were part of his group the san francisco
sidewalk astronomers the original guys uh some of them are trying to plan a
star party global star party with us so uh you know the dobsonian telescope and
john dobson created a revolution in astronomy and uh
dobsonian telescopes are used all over the world and you know provided amateur astronomers
with large aperture telescopes at a very low price you know uh so
i met john dobson one time uh he was absolutely delightful
and so i was very happy and proud to have had that moment with him
um until that time you guys have a great night keep looking up and uh maxie
thanks for uh hanging in there with the after party pekka if you're still watching good night or good morning and uh cameron uh
thank you very much we'll see you tomorrow okay you betcha all right thanks
thanks okay thank you everyone good night yeah good night
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