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6:00 p.m..Scott Roberts - Introduction
in the explore Stars app and the and the ascom app on the serial port
6:05 p.m..Astronomical League Door Prizes – Carroll Iorg
we're not we're kind of doing some smarts within the application within the
firmware to infer what's going on and askcom always has the primary
um is a primary controller but uh when it's just not when it's not doing
6:20 p.m..David Levy – Intro and Poetry
anything it allows explore stars to do whatever it needs to do
6:30 p.m..Karim Jaffer - The Universe of RASC Montreal Centre
um and we have to infer what's going on with explore Stars based on the communication that's going on within the
6:35 p.m..Gary Palmer
uh firmware itself so that's that's something that uh that we we spent
several months ironing out and getting that Fairly reliable yeah no it really uh it really shows and
6:45 p.m..Nathan Hellner-Mestelman - Powers of One
and I'm excited to share later on in the global slot party I have a couple of new
pictures that you're taking uh with you know I kind of dove into the deep end uh with because I have a long focal length
7:00 p.m..Navin Nagappan
um the Schmick Castle green right and and so kind just by accident because of the uh uh supply chain I I ended up
getting uh that Schmick has been first and uh and instead of the sword to
7:10 p.m..Ten Minute Break
refractor and so so I'm I've been forced to uh to do everything in Long focal
7:20 p.m..Jerry Hubbell - Live from the MSRO
length but I can tell you that uh yeah the X the x is two plus pmca with
coupled with ASI air I'm having some really happy uh results so I I'm gonna
7:30 p.m..Myron Wasiuta - Live from the MSRO
share some of that no it's not awesome like but it's it's it's I can tell you that I'm very
pleased with uh what it can do and what it can grow to as well that's a little
7:45 p.m..Deepti Gautam TBA
you know people struggle with it if they're used to other mounts because it's not like any other Mount controller
it's it's really different yeah it kind of forces you to uh to kind
of go step by step you know like and I think uh you know if it's not
8:00 p.m..Maxi Falieres - Live from Argentina
uh you could probably package it as a plug and play like I told like I said if
you have the ESI error and kind of integrate it and you've set it up for somebody you could you could do it as a
plug-and-play uh but but you'd have to buy an Imaging you know it had to have guy scope you'd have to do a lot of
8:15 p.m..César Brollo - Live from Buenes Aires
stuff uh but but it it forces you if you educate yourself and you go through the
steps boy it's wonderful and then you really understand all the pieces it takes
8:30 p.m..Nicolas Ariel Arias - Hammertime with Nico
and and it performs uh you know when you understand all those things and uh yeah
it's it's it's it gives you all the capability that you need right
it's and it's and it's a great uh a great uh you know for somebody who wants
8:45 p.m..Adrian Bradley - Sky Scapes and Falling Stars
to go down the path of um really learning and then you know not
just like a One-Shot deal you know continue to like well it's definitely it's definitely kind of old school in
9:00 p.m..Marcelo Souza
that regard where it's it's at the same level of any complex equipment that you buy that you really got to understand
and to get the best performance out of it I would say that yeah you know just because you spend more
money on something doesn't mean it's going to be easy to operate
9:15 p.m..Cameron Gillis
completely so this is kind of like a high-end mountain in that regard is you
really need to understand the functionality and all the things it's so flexible it's it's really great but it's a it's kind
9:30 p.m..End
of a pain in the butt for us too because there's so many different ways to set it up and to use it
it gets to be um it gets to be hard sometimes to
understand and talking to customers to make sure they uh they can describe exactly what's going on so you can
understand the configuration they're trying to do and uh and to see where the problem might be that they're running
into so you really have to have a good dialogue with the customer
going back and forth and helping them understand uh how it works and then also helping them
explain to you what's going on yeah yeah I would say a fantastic
intermediate level if you you know you definitely uh if you already know the
basics of you know like in my case I was mainly purely a visual
and you're ready to go into astrophotography this is a great way to you know because as soon as you decide
to go into Astro Imaging you're right away you've the bar has been raised raised in this this gives you that full
capability and even Advanced people can appreciate um you know that it it performs very
well so you know if you know what you're doing so it's a great entry for mid-level I'd say and and growing
yeah so I I love it yeah thanks
yeah oh I love this I love this quote by the way
that is awesome I mean um you know David and I were just
talking with Scott earlier about um about uh you know the circular
nature and and of the uh the universe right yeah and uh I think it's really
cool and the exploration and kind of come back to where you started there was one point in an earlier Global star
party where uh David uh eicher was talking about uh the size of the
universe or something and uh we were talking about um you know and I was thinking hey what
about this Mobius strip a concept where basically if you keep on going in One
Direction you end up where you started um and and if you look back in time
like that's what we're doing right when we look up in space and we look past Cosmic microwave background and what the
James Webb tell us that was gonna ultimately reveal you are actually folding space as you look back in time
because if we believe that the universe is smaller uh you know the Big Bang concept then
when you look in any direction you are actually looking so far back in time that you were almost looking at the same
point so it kind of Falls in on itself um so it I'm excited to see how they
we can actually do some measurements of this right it's going to be gonna be really cool hello Carol hello David how
are you doing sorry I'm running so light tonight it's got Betty yeah all right hey girl
I'll be in trouble and she will be as well so we better get that changed here
using her login yeah okay there we go
all right Carol thanks so much for coming to Sunday's uh really appreciated
that of course
and I know that um I know that Carol's got a tight schedule so he's going to go
on first um uh so a little we'll switch up so we can accommodate Carol tonight I
appreciate that that's fine with me
I've got a schedule tonight and then I've got to leave for Baton Rouge early in the morning so
off our usual but that's okay you get around you get around he was just down here in Northwest Arkansas uh
uh at the Sugar Creek Astronomical Society meeting so it was nice to see
him in person you know yes it was I had seen Scott in probably a year and a half I don't know it's been a long time at
least yeah at least I think maybe all it might have been before then
it could be it I'll tell you this time just sort of goes together it's hard to remember
right
thank you
I gotta start up the observatory
you're going to show some live pics uh again Jerry yeah yeah all right got some
good weather nice to hear yeah I think it's been it's been great this has been
a great uh late late fall early winter period excellent in terms of the weather
unfortunately that terrible stuff that happened in Kentucky
hi everyone hi Gary hello Gary hi how is everyone
hey Gary good to see you
doing well how are things up in in the UK
um cloudy wet good morning Seattle don't worry we have the same
weather yeah yeah I think it seems to be a global phenomenon at the moment
except Jerry was saying that they have been having grief whether in the south
yeah in Virginia it's been awesome this past month or so it's been a lot of
clear nights and uh really uh it's been cold some days and
then like this past week it's been in the 50s during the day and down near freezing at night but uh it's been
awesome yeah
yes
liftoff of the mighty Delta IV heavy rocket in August 2018 in Cape Canaveral
Florida NASA launched Parker solar probe to touch the sun after spending a few
years spiraling closer to our star the spacecraft has finally arrived
it's amazing because full of Pope is touching the Sun and this is noraafi the project
scientist of the mission he has been waiting for this moment since the beginning of his career
this is a dream come true one of the major goals for the Parker permission is to fly through the South Corona and we
are doing that now so what does it mean to touch the sun to answer that we need to look at the sun
structure unlike Earth the Sun doesn't have a solid surface it's a giant ball of hot
plasma that's held together by its own gravity solar material flows out from the
surface but around the sun it's bound by the Sun's gravity and magnetic field
this material forms the sun's atmosphere the corona eventually some of this hot
and fast solar material escapes the pull of the Sun and gushes out into space as solar wind the boundary that marks the
edge of the sun's atmosphere is known as the alphane critical surface we didn't know exactly where this boundary was but
for the first time in history a spacecraft has crossed it Parker solar probe vented into the corona touching
solar materials still bound to the Sun the wispy Corona is too faint to see
most of the time but it's revealed during total solar eclipses for centuries we've been studying the
sun's atmosphere during eclipses because it's important for understanding how our star influences life in the solar system
but much about the corona remains a mystery two of the most challenging
scientific mysteries in astrophysics occurred in religion that we call it the
first mystery is about the temperature the corona is about 300 times hotter than the Photosphere the visible surface
of the Sun below secondly there's a constant stream of particles flowing from the Sun known as the solar wind it
accelerates up to millions of miles per hour out of the Corona and we don't know how
solar wind can disrupt our satellites and Technology to better protect them we
need to go where the solar wind starts in the corona so heading there has been a key goal of NASA's for a while
we first proposed the idea of sending a spacecraft to the sun in 1958. we didn't
have the technology to withstand the journey until the 2000s since its launch in 2018 Parker has been
heading towards our star then in April 2021 during Parker's eighth orbit around
the Sun the spacecraft was around 20 solar radii or 8 million miles from the
sun's surface when it crossed into the corona this is a huge milestone it took
us over six decades to come to this point as Parker entered the corona its
whisper instrument took these images streams of plasma surrounded the spacecraft and Parker's other
instruments detected that the magnetic conditions had changed outside the
corona solar wind gushes out pushing solar material away at high speeds so
that it can't return back to the sun's surface inside the corona the sun's
magnetic field becomes much stronger solar material is slower and Tethered to
the Sun instead of a smooth divide Parker found that the boundary between these two sides is wrinkly these bumpy
ridges are created from huge flows of plasma traveling out of the corona scientists are not sure why this happens
but as Parker gets closer we're finding more clues before entering the corona
Parker had seen kinks in the solar wind where it would momentarily double back on itself
scientists called these features in the solar wind switchbacks but no one knew how or where they formed in 2021 the
spacecraft finally tracked switchbacks to one of their Origins as Parker got even closer to the Sun it
detected bursts of switchbacks scientists Trace these bursts all the way to the visible surface of the Sun
here we see distinct cells as heat rises beneath these convection cells churn and
create funnels of magnetic energy above the surface scientists found that switchbacks form
inside of these funnels before Rising into the Corona and Beyond this is only one piece of the
switchbacks puzzle though exactly how they form is still unknown over the next few years Parker would
keep looking for Clues as it explores our sun the only star we can study up close
the sun is also the only star known to support life so understanding it is critical as we search for life beyond
our solar system that will link directly into the question are we alone in this universe and that is one of the biggest
question for Humanity to answer
thank you [Music]
well hello everybody this is Scott Roberts from the explore Alliance and from explore scientific and this is the
76th Global star party with the theme of the human desire to explore uh we uh we have an All-Star lineup of
astronomers from around the world and uh we're really excited to get going um we're going to change up a little bit
uh this time normally uh we have David Levy uh open each one of these programs
he is still here with us but uh we're going to go ahead and introduce the president of the astronomical League
Carol orange to get started Carol Scott great to be here I can't believe
it's been 76 Global starfires that is just incredible and I believe David's been here for all of them except one
maybe that's what a record okay let me share my screen and we will get started with the questions
it looks like you're in a car Carol yes I am here I'm a little different mode
than you're on the road well it was great because I saw Carol uh just this
last weekend at the Sugar Creek Astronomical Society uh meeting and uh
really enjoyed uh your talk Carol about the astronomical League appreciate that Scott and I our two talks kind of
dovetailed into each other as far as looking for meaning in the universe and what we can get from out there being under the stars right that's
incredible that's right we start out all of our uh talks with some warnings about if a door prize you would win would be
an eyepiece or something like that that you would be looking through uh a telescope then we want to make sure that
you have the protect the correct protection from the Sun then the answers from the last GSP that
is the one from November 30th 2021. the first question was in 1610 Galileo
discovered 36 stars in this cluster sometimes it is called the manger
cluster what is another name for the cluster the answer is the Beehive
cluster m44 second one and some of you may even
recognize that car it's been a while what star in the fifth is the fifth
brightest star visible from Earth the answer is Vega in Atlanta there was
actually a car by that name many moons ago
third question from the that former GSP the pistol star is invisible through
optical telescopes if it were placed in the center of the solar system it would
cover the Earth with flames true or false the answer is true
and we had lots of correct answers from that one Don knabb Cameron Gillis Israel
matarosa so Michael overraker Andrew corkill Rich crawland Josh Kovac Norm
Hughes Rich Eubank Billy Beckett Albert lamperty and Brian Engel so I had a lot
of answers to that and many of the people who are on this broadcast or have been on the broadcast
and thanks to Scott and explore scientific the winner of this 300
explore scientific gift card is Rich Krillin congratulations Rich
congratulations and the winners for the month of
November after we took all the submissions from the Star parties during the month of November or Andrew korkel
familiar name Cameron Gillis and Josh Kovac both uh also familiar names on
this broadcast now we get to tonight's questions and
send those answers to secretary at astrowleague.org
the first question Which Constellation contains the Stars
caster and Pollux Which Constellation contains the Stars caster and Pollux
number two which astronaut is famous for having written his daughter's initials
on the moon which astronaut is famous for having written his daughter's initials on the
moon now I'm not sure where those initials are still visible on the moon or not but at least he gets credit for doing that
again send your answers to secretary at astrolig.org
and finally which star is the alpha Ursa menoris which star is the alpha Ursa
minorus send those to secretary at
astrowleague.org I'd like to mention now that the next astral League live astral
astronomical League live will be scheduled for January 21st 2022. that's
a Friday evening at 7 pm Eastern Standard time we'll have more information as far as speakers and the
subject of that talk at that time so thank you so much and now back to Scott
all right excellent well I have to add something here Carol
you have become quite the uh the zoom operator
sometimes I hit on all of them when we first started doing this to now you're I mean you're on the Fly you're mobile
you're in your car you're going to another event and uh yeah I have made
every possible mistake anyone can make on zoomed so I feel like me too
you can teach a zoom uh use at this point so that's very cool
Carol thank you so much and uh safe travel to uh yeah talk to you later
thanks all right take care take care okay so um uh up next is uh uh dear friend uh
and uh someone that is continues to push
the envelope when you think of educational Outreach in astronomy and
that is that is Dr David Levy David has uh has uh pushed on all Frontiers I
think as far as uh educational Outreach and building awareness and astronomy and
and sharing the passion of exploration uh with the world uh he's done that
through his many discoveries his books his lectures uh his friendships with
people his constant encouragement of uh moving organizations uh uh to do more uh
of that and uh David's going to uh talk about that a little bit in in his uh
segment but uh you know I'm not only proud to be David's friend but
proud of what he does uh you know for our entire community so David I'm
turning it over to you man thank you Scotty and it's good to it's very good to be here tonight
and I don't mind at all following um following our president of the
astronomical league tonight and uh especially glad that he knows how to
pronounce the brightest star in the constellation of Valera and it really is not
pronounced Vega as it was in contact but it's pronounced Vega the car is
pronounced Vega but the star is Vigo but uh actually you can pronounce it any
way you like Scott asked me today to talk a little bit more about the junior
astronomical League subgroup that we are trying to get started and we're really
trying very hard to get more young people involved and I know we have some
a lot of young people tonight on the global star party and I would like to especially give them an
invitation to come to the next junior astronomical League meeting which is going to be
early in January right at the turn of the new year I think it's the first Sunday in January
and if you're interested please get in touch with Scott Roberts and he will
send you the link when the link is available to us uh and I wanted
the reason we're doing this it's part it's very personal with me
because I feel and I know that the president of the
Denver Astronomical Society who uh um will probably be at one of these
meetings in the future also feels that if we do not do this there may not be an
astronomical read there may not be a Denver Astronomical Society it's been a couple of generations
as we get older we come to club meetings and we notice the dearth of young people
that are at these meetings and there if you seem to be fewer and fewer I know that in our club in Tucson
where I live there's almost no young people right now and I'm trying so hard to get the young
people to get these young people more and more active and it even comes from the poetical
quotation that some of you are waiting for and uh and I wanted to thank Scott for dreaming
up T.S elia's quotation about exploration it really got me to thinking
we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all of our exploring will
be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time through the unknown remember gate when
the last of Earth left to discover is that which was the beginning but the source of the longest river the voice of
the Hidden waterfall and the children in the apple tree not known it does not
looked for but heard have heard in the Stillness between two waves of the sea
click now here now always a condition of complete Simplicity costing a lot less
than everything and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well when the tongues of
flame are enfolded into the ground knot of Fire and the fire and the rose are one
and this is from T.S eliot's core Cortez among the most beautiful poems in all of
literature and this last one about the uh children
and the apple tree brings us back to the first of the four quartets for Norton the detail of the pattern is
movement as in the figure of the 10 stairs desire itself is movement not in itself
desirable well if it is itself unmoving only the cause and the movement Timeless
and undesiring except in the aspect of time God in the form of limitation
between unbeing and being sudden in a shaft of sunlight even when
the dust moves there arises the hidden laughter of children in the foliage
hidden laughter of children in the foliage quick now here now always
ridiculous the waste sad time stretching before and after
there's a lot we can learn from these children and I think one of the big values that I get out of working with
children is what I learned from them hmm at the last meeting for for example
one of the one of the young children actually posted a note during the session saying
that there are 40 approximately in the universe 40 supernovae every second in one galaxy or
another I never knew that and this is so exciting to be able to learn that but
even more exciting to learn that from a child
and this is what we're trying to do we're meeting generally every second Sunday
if you're interested in participating if you're a child between say 10 and 17 or if you are an
adult like me who thinks as a child uh you're welcome to come but we're trying to get we're having no
problems getting adults coming to this we're trying to get more children involved
I don't see this as being very structured I see this instead as being a
chance to let the kids spread their wings and do what they want to do even
if they just want to chat by themselves among themselves I think that's great to do that
before I hand it back to Scott a number of you were asking me if I'd ever written a poem by myself
and at first I said no but I lied because I have written two poems and I'd
like to share one of them with you right now it is an elegy that I wrote for my father-in-law
I wrote it on the airplane on my way to his funeral dad was in a coma at the time he was
still alive and I remember trying to hold back tears on the
airplane as I wrote this I also know that Dad was a real liver of the Robert service who wrote
the famous poem The Cremation of San McGee so this poem is going to be in the
rhyme scheme service used to Cherished dad I was so glad to join
your family your love of life and of your wife for wondrous things to see
your sense of fun made everyone smile when they heard you say the little joke
that was the stroke that we needed to hear that day you'd always fight to do what's right no
matter what came you but you didn't boast about the host of times this works for you
your Sage advice was always nice for family and friends to hear most of all
you stood 10 feet tall in the hearts of your most dear dad and mom it must be fun to remember
your children for Joni and Gail and Wendy Avail and Sandy made one more your
pride never hidden what they did but one thing you never knew was that each one seems in hopes and dreams to follow
after you we sadly watched the terrible cost the
years were to your health we shared your hell each time you fell and did what we
could to help you lost your sight but not your fight when we asked are you in
pain you put on a smile that stretched a mile and you said I can't complain
my dad you knew from years ago when Wendy and I were small when Daddy died in 85 I took quite a
fall but 12 years passed and then at last you offered me once more a chance
to shout hi Dad No Doubt that feeling made me sore
I miss you Dad I wish you had I wish you had more time to spend down here
Wherever You Go I want you to know I feel you are still so near the trips we took would fill a book but
what was Second To None was the pleasure I felt that life has telled me the honor
to be your son ah and I'm not gonna give it back to you Scott that's wonderful
that's wonderful uh uh that's guy I got like a little
knot in my throat uh about that so thank you very much David wonderful
okay all right well I'm uh I uh saw I
mention here from Marvin Huddleston who's watching on Facebook uh he wanted
to point out that um that uh uh
uh John Wagoner from the city lights Astronomical Society
for students uh a project called class which I think is from the American
astronomical Association um uh had passed away uh and hit this
program of course was uh you know for children and a quote from him is uh you know he said opening children's eyes to
the wonders of the night skies one of the objects of our star parties um and so thank you uh thank you for
pointing that out about uh John Wagoner and um you know the world's better off
um uh for all the work he's done and um you know he'll live on and kids that
were inspired by him so thank you so much uh we will
move on to um we had Kareem uh Jaffer up but uh
um it looks like that he's not quite here with us yet uh and we do have Gary Palmer so Gary we're going to go up to
uh to where you are up in Wales and um uh check in with you uh thanks for
coming on to Global Star Party hi Scott how are you hope everybody is well I'm good I'm good cool
um it's been pretty quiet over here um busy on courses and other things but uh I'm working on different projects but
in weatherton it's been very very quiet so we've been uh struggling a little bit
with uh capturing anything really over the last month it's just been an hour here and half an hour there and then a
week or two of Frank so there's not been masses going on but I have been playing around with um
some images of uh Comet Leonard which a lot of people have been running
after over the last couple of weeks and I think now is around the point that
it's gonna switch uh might have already done so I haven't checked yeah but it's going to be visible in the evening Sky
rather than anything get started today yeah um no it wasn't far away so
um I thought what we would do is instead of running through um because lots of people go into different pieces of software and
um stack the comet yeah they have trial in the stars or they uh the stack the
stars and the comment and then subtract the comment and then add the stars back in and while that's all okay most people
actually just struggle to get the comment that's the first thing so what I thought was if you actually got one
um a little bit of a talk about timing because timing is a key thing with comets yeah and working out their rough
speed is always a good thing because if you work out your rough speed on them then you can have a good crack
at working out what your exposure time should be um if you're not that good on the maths
which I fully understand most people aren't um and there's a lot always lots of
conflicts in information on Comics um so when you go into Apps there are
different brightness and different magnitudes from and different speeds and things but a good start off point is
normally somewhere around 60 to 90 seconds on a comic if you can get the comment at 60 to 90
seconds then there's a good chance that you're going to get the nucleus of the Comet around and you're going to get the
Styles round yes if you capture lots of images so if we captured I don't know 30 60 second
images you're going to get trial in the comic bit if you're after a single shot or a few single shots to put together 60
to 90 seconds is a good area and what I would say is play around with the iso in
the game because the iso and the game will vary depending on the speed of the
Optics so if you're running on a um a camera lens maybe something like that
and it's quite fast F2 F3 somewhere around there then a lower gain is
probably going to benefit you you know because you've always got this balance and noise the higher the game the higher
the iso the higher the noise in the image and that's what's always going to be a problem
um just on a side subject um and we'll just see whether somebody can answer in the comments uh comments
today it's um a famous astronomers birthday today and I wonder whether one anybody could
name him and two name his pet so while I'm switching over let me see
wherever anybody comes up with that um let me just share the screen over
we should be seeing the comic screen now hopefully yes good right we're going to run back a
little bit because even I didn't know what this was going to come out right so I just thought I would have a quick run
through why the introvers coming on and everything else so this is a single 60 second shot
of the Comet um taken on uh SCI yeah it was the sca
um 260 and it had a Widefield 2400 full frame camera so as we can see the stars are probably
round the um the comet nucleus is pretty round if
we actually look at an integrated image the problem we've integrating
sometimes is you can remove the Stars but this comma is quite diffused
um so while they turn around and saying that it's running down to mag 4 or something like that it is quite hard to
see visibly you'll see easily through a set of binoculars but the problem is is when
you run comments like this through some of the software you can end up with a nucleus turning into really a light bulb
so it ends up really bloated out at the bottom here and that causes all sorts of problems so
sometimes it's nicer to run with just a single image two or three images maybe
together if we actually look at the stars on this I've got to check these because I was playing around a little
bit here that's a mono one don't worry about that so up here smooth these around a bit so the star
image you can see how much it's moved so this was over the course of an hour and
it shows you the movement in the comet so this then starts to work out quite
complicated to um Take It All Out remove all the stars and if you normally if you remove the
Stars you end up with a lot of streaking in the background and that's really hard to to tame that down again
um to give you some idea of what it does that was an image that we took that was an AR that was processed on the actual
Comet head and on the Styles itself so um you can do this but what I was
Finding was some of the free software it is quite good at comics in general
but when they diffuse it does have an issue and it creates this light bulb effect when we start subtracting the two
so my thought in this we would just have a quick look at a single 60 second frame
see what we can do with it and what we could come up with so all I've done on this is applied a
dynamic background extraction so far that's got us to this point and
then we'll make a little preview box and we run a background neutralization
and the reason for that is just uh where it's a single shot it's going to be a bit of an issue uh on the background
it's always noise that is the the sort of key thing once we've done the background
neutralization yeah then we've put a mask on inverted
the mask but what we did do was stretch The Mask first because this is still linear we
can't use a um a mask that's linear it needs to be non-linear or stretched so we stretch
the mouse first that's added on an inverted and then we've run through
a bit of noise reduction and normally I use the multi-scale linear transform on
that and that will flatten down the background on it make it nice and sensible so we can start work on it
once we've done that yeah we can move on Mouse comes off and I do something a
little bit different here on these single images just kind of close the mask off mm-hmm see what's going on
um single shot images and not a lot going on in the but it's really just a comic quite hard to color calibrate
sometimes and one of the easiest ways in this is to um use the stars and we can use the
styles by making a preview and that what we call an aggregated preview so we make preview boxes all over the
the image and then what we do is go into the scripts because of the utilities and
you'll see the preview aggregated it once you run this we've already done that it's going to
come up with this here which when we look at it doesn't really mean a lot but we're going to use it
we're actually using that as a reference for the white point and then what we do is go into the color calibration
so we select that aggregated preview for the white balance and then hover over the image as we
hover over it you'll see the RGB values come up down here and you want to come in somewhere close around what they are
an average across the image on this was somewhere around the 15 to 16. so I've
put that in there um well no point not one down the bottom am I going to use preview one as the
background reference then we just apply it to the image so if I move the image forwards we've
already done that and there we go so you'll notice the greens started to come away now it's a
little bit more neutral in the background next thing we need to do is to stretch
the image to convert it now so you can stretch this manually or you
can run the mask stretch on it if you're going to run Mile Stretch which is probably quite good with some of the
Comets because it keeps the nucleus down a little bit it stops it over exposing so if you're going to run that make a
little preview box on the background try not to get too many stars in it a lot of people forget these preview
boxes don't need to be large when you're running background if you're doing it for other processes you can zoom right
into this and get a small area it can be as Tiny as anything as long as it's got
the actual background in there apply that to the image then the image will stretch
yeah we're just going to reset the screen transfer function and that's really where I sort of got to on this so
far uh when we were in the uh the intro and so on so just going to close a
couple of these things down that we don't need clean the desktop up a bit
and just sort of see where we get to with it so next thing would probably be
starting to look at stretching the image out a little bit more just make it a bit brighter
so you can run the uh the live preview up with a curves transfer motion
and just drop it down and give it a little bit of an S curve see whether we can boost Comet up a little bit
guys and then what we wanted to do is add some color in the Styles now you could
if you're like an hour or so be really smart here and that image here
if you run some of these processes on this just to clean it up a little bit you could rub the stars out of this
image and drop them into the other one because they're from the same camera there's no reason why you can't do that and I would probably do this with that
um just for the simple fact that the stars are going to have more definition and more color in them but for the
purposes of this single image all we need to do is really uh add some
um uh saturation into the image so if we make another mono mask
and then what we're going to do with this is so that we don't add color to the background just going to select that
mask reset the histogram and we're going to darken it so normally just run the
left hand slider halfway into the histogram
and then we're going to apply that to the name bar
okay now we can go back to the curves transfer motion hit the X and reset it
and then hit the saturation button notice the edges go purple and bring up
the live preview and then we can bring some color into the styles and into the comment itself
it might have to be a bit more gentle with this than what you would normally do with another
image that's got a multiple images stacked together
okay probably go one more with that just to get a little bit more in there you can always brighten it a little bit
and play around okay and maybe go to the histogram reset
the histogram and select the main image
and then just give it a little bit of a brighten up so that we're not
to check the image sorry uh
needs to I should then do is take the mask off from the coloring that's why it wasn't brightening
okay do it again
now if you're quite wide field like this there's no reason why you can't crop in on this image yeah it's not a lot of
stars there's not a lot of other objects going on in the background there so you could do something like a dynamic crop
most of these processes you can run on single images of other targets so we
could come in something like this that's just going to make the comment stand out more it's each person's
preference really on what they decide to do
foreign
start messing around and seeing if you can draw more out on the towel you could remove the stars out of this once you've
got a little bit of color in them um it's really down to you but one of the
the good points of doing single shots on this is you can actually see what's going on
more with the nucleus than multiple shots because it will generally just overexpose all of the time so there's
there are quite a few things that you can do as I said different software there is um
there's some new stuff come into let me just stop sharing that there's some new stuff coming to astropixel processor but
they've not enabled to um allow you to add the Styles back in easy
so it's good at removing the Styles at the moment now leaving you with a comment with no stars but it's quite
awkward yeah on getting the stars back in the image so we might run something on that over the
next couple of style parties or whatever and do a little bit on actually integrating everything together it is um
fairly straightforward Now comments are good fun yeah they're good friends to work the speed out on and they're good
fun to um really Chase now I always like chasing them anyway and they're
beautiful so uh uh Gary you mentioned a little bit about uh classes that you've
been giving and you've been busy with that but uh how to uh maybe you can for
people who are not aware of your classes and stuff um how do they get in touch with you how
do they sign up to learn more about astrophotography and image processing but I can do them two ways um because we
actually run it through astral courses here um in the UK that goes out to uh
most of the world and we literally do run them I've had courses in Israel Hong Kong all over the world in uh different
places um you can also sign up for them on the sports scientific website
and they don't just cover um the actual process inside
I do lots and lots of stuff with the equipment so I work with the equipment really 24 hours a day in one way or
another um whether it's coming up with um New pieces of equipment that have
come out working on stuff in the background for different manufacturers um or
um different setups we've got one of the setups here that's going out abroad so we're just starting to rig that up over the next month and then that will be
going off a ball to an observatory so the knowledge on the equipment and the setup of working with different people's
equipment um is quite extensive on my side so it isn't just about
signing up for astrophotography if you're struggling in um getting the equipment together or
even deciding on the equipment we have quite a few people that come here and
just spend a couple of hours two or three hours running through different equipment what they want to image what
they're looking at capturing over the course of time and then really where to put their money yeah where's where's the
best place to start spending the money where you would spend a little bit more money and you know what equipment's I'm
going to give to them the the best choice for their budget um but we run those online we are doing
some more going to start doing some more group ones over the next couple of months um that's something we're working on at
the moment so they will cover the basics getting into astrophotography and all of those sorts of things at the moment we
run them on uh time basis so people can sign up for an hour or they can sign up
and they can run through two or three hours which some people do sure
so yeah it's great to have someone like you that really has mastered uh much of
the um the the puzzle of putting together a system uh and you know it is versatile
uh you know as you are too and looking at all kinds of different uh gear and
combinations of gear and stuff that is something gosh I I there's not many people on the
planet that can do uh has spent that kind of time that Gary Palmer has so uh
you know you can save yourself a ton of money by getting it right the first time
so you might think about if you're getting serious about doing astrophotography is take you know take a
class with Gary uh just to kind of run through it for an hour or so and uh and
then come back when you are at uh you know the point where you're really to uh uh you know
put the uh the uh you know your foot on the pedal and and to really accelerate
your expertise so Gary thank you so much thanks for coming
on and um okay so uh up next is
um uh uh Nathan uh hellner messelman and Nathan's been on our program a couple of
times uh he uh is uh uh a young
astronomer uh with an incredible sense of humor uh and uh he's a delight to
have on global star party and I think that uh I think Nathan you had a uh you
want to talk a little bit about the program that uh that you're gonna have me show sure and just by the way did you
get the link to it I downloaded the video okay perfect uh
would you like to share it or should I do you want to talk a little bit about it first sure yeah okay so uh for those
of you who don't know powers of 10 is a extremely popular video just showing the
scale of things in the universe and it basically works that it starts at the one meter scale
and then every um there's different squares as the video plays the The View zooms
out and every few seconds The View becomes 10 times as wide and it goes all the way out to the edge
of the observable universe um scaling everything in it just explaining how huge everything is and
then it zooms all the way back to the meter scale and then dives into the microscopic world still decreasing by
powers of 10. and um that whole video is just a uh an
amazing sense of scale in the universe and then there's this um this guy who does the webcomic xkcd
and they had this like joke on it it was basically powers of one where
um The View increases by powers of one and I was really inspired by that comic so I decided to make a script for a
video about um powers of one which actually takes the same terms from the the script of
powers of ten and then took some video from powers of 10 and music from powers of 10 and just put together this parody
video um called powers of one and so with that I hope you enjoy it all right all right
so if you're watching from the Eames Institute uh this is a parody so uh but
we're all inspired by powers of ten here we go
[Music]
[Music]
the picnic near the Lakeshore in Chicago was the start of a lazy afternoon early one October we begin with a scene one
meter wide which we view from one meter away now every few seconds we will increase our field of view by one power
of one every few moments our field of view becomes one-time water and is viewed from one time further away this square
is one meter wide one to the first Power the human scale in a few moments our field of view will become one time as
wide as this and we will receive by a factor of one this square is one meter wide one to the second power the
distance a person walks in one second the picnic is beginning to show one to the third power one meter the distance
an Olympic runner can run in one tenth of a second the entire picnic is now entirely in view now we reach the one
meter mark one to the fourth power the distance of racing car travels in 10 milliseconds in a moment the next Square
will be one time as one as this one to the fifth power at this scale the entire picnic is clearly visible as a whole as
we continue increasing our view by factors of one soon we will reach the next scale one meter one to the sixth
power a one with no zeros the distance of SuperSonic airplane travels in one millisecond even as the picnic recedes
by factors of one it remains precisely at the center of every Viewpoint one to the seventh power at this scale the
entire picnic can be seen the distance in orbiting satellite covers in one tenth of a millisecond this square is
one meter wide one to the eighth power and in a few seconds it will be an entire meter now only here in the
journey does the entire picnic show as a whole this squares one to the ninth power meters wide even the grass around
the picnic is clearly visible at its Vantage Point soon we will hit one to the tenth power a one with zero zeros
one to the tenth power a line extends at the true speed of light only at these scales can we truly comprehend its speed
in just over one second it reaches Earth's Moon one to the eleventh power at these vascales we were able to see
the planet the picnic is held on as we can see all around the picnic soon we will pass the outer limits of the grass
in the image now we pass the outer grass it's swinging wide in the wind we now have reached 1 to the 12th power this
number is immense one multiplied by itself 12 times we can now see the entire image of the picnic with the
grass blanket and people experienced as a whole it is only at these immense scales that this picnic can truly be
comprehended one to the 14th power one with no zeros at this scale even the outer grass begins to incorporate itself
into the center image we are approaching the outer limits of our journey and 1 to the 15th power here we stop our journey
and pause this square is immensely large one to the 15th meters wide this is as far as our journey can take us the trip
back to the human scale once the first Power meters wide will be an accelerated version as we reduce our speed much more
rapidly 1 to the 13th power twelfth eleventh soon The View will begin to become more familiar one to the ninth
power eight seven six five four three
two one we are back where we started the picnic is precisely located at the
center of our Viewpoint and it has been even out to the farthest vantage point we now begin to reduce our view every
few seconds focusing in on the man's hand one to the minus one this square is one meter wide the distance a tortoise
can move in ten seconds we now begin to concentrate our view in the center of the image one to the minus two meters
the distance an ant can travel in 20 seconds it is at this point that our Focus begins to fade on the picture and
begin centering in on the hand one to the minus three meters one meter the distance of snail travels in one
thousand seconds one to the minus four meters at this scale the picnic is now seen in a new way the world is a
microscopic is only six powers of ten away one to the minus five meters this is the
distance an amoeba can move in approximately 100 hours one to the minus six meters as we reduce our view even
further we enter the realm of the meter this square is only one to the minus six meters wide this square is one time
smaller than the last one the Square's diameter in meters is now zero zeros and then a one one to the minus eight meters
ten billion angstroms it is at this point that we finish our journey we have seen the Universe on the grand
proportions on both scales the largest and the smallest but powers of one you can only take one so far into the depths
of the cosmos some believe a new realm exists just beyond this all we have to do is look outward Inward and with
advancing technology soon we will find out
[Laughter] I think we've got a nice reaction here
so yeah that's very nice very nice uh so
um Nathan you have uh I I love I love the way you see the world okay
there you see that all right um but uh
you know what uh how did you uh run across this this uh this idea again
oh it was uh originally an XKCD cartoon okay see I'm a huge fan of XKCD and
uh that web comic so I came across that and then decided you know maybe I could actually make a video about it like
powers of ten right right but there's some interesting physics uh decent you know on a serious
note uh the one is a special number in that case right uh anything slightly
less than one or slightly greater than as soon as you do the powers it changes so this is kind of the
Universal constant about the universe whether you expand or contract but you
also point in your parody that you come this is a theme of this uh Global star
party where you end up where you started so it's it's a very fascinating
yes I love it it's a great mental exercise this is great well well done
amazing thank you wonderful wonderful all right well thanks very much Nathan for coming on to
Global star party again and we look forward to having you on uh anytime you know so yeah thanks for having me again
uh it's wonderful thank you so much man uh Navy uh uh Nathan also I I wanted to
um uh mention that uh we are really um pushing on the uh astronomical League
uh junior uh programs and uh we know that you are uh you know being a young
astronomer um you may consider uh becoming like an advisor or something to the young people
that are trying to form a subgroup within the astronomical League that is
really just just for young people so um and if you're interested in that just
get me uh send me an email and I'll make sure you get a link to the next session so
um up next is uh uh Navin uh sentil Kumar
and uh Navin has been on global star party before uh with his uh
presentations and so I'm going to switch this over to you Navin thanks for coming on again
all right thanks for the opportunity again um
so let me just share my screen
all right so I'm gonna be talking about Taiko
brahi and also it's kind of a coincidence but um it's all today is
also's birthday
um introduction he was a famous Danish astronomer he had contributed a lot to astronomical
technology and he was the last astronomer to um like use like well like technology other
than the telescope and he also was the first one to make a
heli he also believed in favor of the heliocentric model of the universe
hmm early life yeah
he was born on December 14th um 1541 in the house and skin it's
called nut store Manor in um Scania Denmark um in a Denmark in a Danish
Territory called Dania now it's part of modern day Sweden today together he he was born to a rich family
full of noblemen and um is um and then um he received a good
education and he had enough money to fund himself and continue his career into astronomy
he was a young astronomer and he he firstly started into law and then later
on on the 1571 solar eclipse he got
fascinated since then he started to work in astronomy and
as an astronomer he worked to combine I see Yom School benefits of the
copernican heliocentrism with the philosophical benefits of the ancient ptolemic system
into his own model which would like which would be known as the tectonic system
in 1573 he made a book called de Nova Stella or in English it's known as the new Star
here if he didn't really agree with aristotlean belief
he did he thought that he he also founded the supernova
and it was caught in news it also indicated new star Stella nove also
known as supernova in part of that in 1572 sn1572 lack
the parallel expected in sub lunar phenomena in order therefore not
careless comets and atmosphere believed their atmosphere Beyond The Hub and this
is kinda on um December 29 1566 when he was
studying the universe at the age when he was in college at the age of 20. he refused he he was fighting in a sword
duel against his cousin parsburg and
from that he lost his nose the reason why was he they were they both were arguing over a math equation
and that leveled up to become a sword duel and sadly ago lost a good chunk of
his nose wow so then the good news is he he had a fate he got
like a car like a nose that's like like a fake nose that he well was made of brass that he
wax glue to his the spot that he was original and those would have been
but he didn't get offended from it he still continued his heroic work
in his later years the Danish King Friedrich II
um left taiko's work so he oh so it was like um
so like the um like the like Friedrich the second like he he so he like granted
Tycho his own island called then and he made this loud magnificent Grand
Castle and he also um named it your anaborg after the
goddess of the sky uranium he also built an observatory with
state-of-the-art equipment and for over 20 years he used he lived on that island
and he continued all of his work that's where he done he is he spent most of his life on
and he did all most of his hero work there hmm
and then his observations he also he cataloged over a thousand stars he
proved that comments were not just components of rhythm its atmosphere but actual objects traveling through space
he also showed your regularities in the moon's orbit and he discovered a new star in Cassiopeia
he also made invented a new instrument called the tyconian quadrant which were
copied and led to the invention of the observed observational equipment and
then later on in 1600s he met Johannes Kepler who was a German astronomer and
he was also also no pretty famous in later year in 1600 he also went to
Prague to um because he got like fire he got like um
because the Danish King didn't really support him
like later on so then he went to Prague and then he met and then he we went as
an imperial astronomer to the the whole Roman Emperor
and then later on there he met Imperial mathematician Johannes Kepler
in last year's he
ather and you've kind of Frozen there see if you come back
and so far is a very informative presentation
coming back yeah you know I mean I learned some
stuff uh from this presentation that's for sure yeah let me grab him from the
other room what's that let me grab him
yeah there we go we did lose him unfortunately uh he may come back on but
um uh it was uh it was an excellent presentation overall
cut me back back here is he back okay yeah
there we go all right let's let's uh
there we go Central um did you want to
um uh you you kind of uh the program got froze in there do you
want to kind of wrap up uh yeah yeah okay
do you give these presentations at uh at your school or with your friends at all Cynthia
no no not yet
we thought you had an excellent presentation going yes um
we were of course I'm so I'm in my kitchen I'll be in my other room later
um yeah especially the uh the history that you were sharing
um very informative um anything in particular that you take away
from having studied it
um I'm curious about that myself Cynthia what do you think about this guy
he fights he he's he's brilliant obviously you know and then he gets into
a sword fight over a math equation and loses part of his nose he gets over a duel sadly but he's still
continued his work you you did mention something also that
um that he really wasn't embarrassed by that or something to that effect
his Island got destroyed sadly oh how did that happen the Danish King
that that Frederick II sadly passed away so he he asked his 19 year old son to
take over and he lost support from the the king so he eventually moved the
Prague where he met the Holy Roman Emperor and Kepler later on yeah yes
to think he wasn't sad about is that his Island got destroyed sadly
and not in in the pair and um his Observatory his castle everything he
spent so much money on it's out in his instruments they all they were all pieces of
expensive equipment but the Danish King just didn't even care so we just destroyed everything jeez
that's all that's too bad that is too bad well uh we still remember him today and
um uh and yes today is his birthday so um you know it's uh it's great to have a
global Star Party to uh mention that and I'm really happy that you brought uh uh
your major presentation about uh Tycho or I think
I'm sorry Scott that kind of reminds me of the terrible stuff that's happened this past week in Kentucky
and some we've gotten contact with uh when James
was it James ball that contact us yes yes he he his home was uh right in the
path of an F4 tornado that swept through Kentucky uh uh he was in another smaller
town outside of Mayfield um but nevertheless lost virtually everything and uh
so we've reached out to him he had some explore scientific equipment and was an
explore Alliance member and so we've reached out to him to uh you know help them replace the stuff that he can still
find and uh and um so that's uh that's great so if
Tyco Brady was alive today he maybe get some new equipment except he made his own equipment you
know right I work for explore scientific maybe it'd be a little bit different but
anyhow that's that might use this is a serious note it is absolutely terrible
uh what happened uh or this last weekend and uh we got you know I got lots and
lots of text messages and emails and stuff like that you know hoping that we were all okay over here at explore
scientific but uh we're in the west part of the state up in the northwest corner and kind of what I think of is the hills
of the Ozarks but through the Ozark Mountains and the tornadoes although they do form around here they don't
really gather much strength and so not like out in the Flatlands out there so
so anyhow um but uh
again sentel thank you very much for um uh you know having Navan uh come on
to the program and uh um I you know also I want to recommend
Navin to check out the astronomical leagues Junior division uh that's being
formed uh as we speak so um if you guys would like a link to that
uh get in touch with me and I'll share that link for the next for the next meeting I think uh I think
Navan would be an incredible asset to the group so all right sure thank you thank you thank you
so much thank you all right um let's uh let's
um go ahead and take a 10 minute break uh so that people stretch their legs and
get a cup of coffee and we will come back um with uh Jerry Hubble uh from The Mark
Slade remote Observatory
I was gonna say whenever we look up at the moon and see the Taiko crater we can
think about that presentation now
well you you stole a little bit of my thunder because I that's what I'm going to be showing is the moon tonight
and we'll take a close look at taiku or Tico I think it's really because
that's what Scott reminded me of the other day he told me that no it's not Tico and it's not Tycho oh really I
think the Danish we I was in Europe at the photokina event in Germany and uh
the uh Danish um uh distributor of telescopes up there
um said it's pronounced to go oh yeah right that's right who is Hugo
yeah Hugo right you go at least that's what I remember it you know so uh but it
is it's interesting when you go around the world and you hear um you know if you go to the
um you know Arabia and you hear Arabians correctly pronounce Arabian names of stars you know uh it's very different
from how we we express it so but um it's it's all cool
later guys piping random potato guys and not Beetlejuice yes
I haven't heard it pronounce Beetle geese and Betelgeuse and and all kinds of different ways little guys and yeah
it's funny when you just read material you have your own personal pronunciation for all these different objects and
things and then you start talking to people and they just and I guess that's what he said
Beetle geese or whatever it is you know it's funny to how your pronunciation
differs between what the really real pronunciation is
right I find for outreach though if they relate to it in some way it helps so if
I have to say beetles used to get some attention and draw some attention to the star
they'll of course think about Michael Keaton but then it eventually does bring
uh public attention to the star itself so you win some you lose um the uh the huge
problem is uh Buddhists the pronunciation of that uh particular
ice Giant that's been kicked on its side
um has lots of different pronunciations that uh capture the public imagination
and also make it tougher to I've read something where the pronunciation may make it tougher
for certain scientific projects to get funding
um people giggle too much when they say we'd like to send a probe to Uranus
and then the probe gets sent in Neptune instead
so you know speaking about working on it speaking of Outreach too that's always a
sticky point when you're you're given talks to kids in classrooms and there's always that one smart alec this is hey
have you ever seen Uranus and they all laugh and giggle and seven in
that's how I pronounced it when I was a kid and I guess now it's it can be either way
yeah I make a conscious effort to say Uranus always I just have to think about
it before I say it
what about that Uranus is like urine I mean it's like it's a it's an unfortunate name
is I actually like I like the way that our Argentinian friends uh pronounce it
Uranus huh oh yeah that's that's a little more noble
yeah yeah well it's ultimate Noble form was when it was just named George
George
yeah he had a star named after him too it wasn't one of the stars in the uh
the Alcor misar system named after him as well they thought maybe it was a new star and uh it was
the one it's right near Alcor sinus I think they call it I can't remember
the name of it but they tried to honor him with that star that's uh right near Alcorn mizar it's the little one that's
like forms a little triangle telescopically but it didn't stick unfortunately either so poor George
yeah I don't I don't remember but that's uh is interesting bit
of uh starnating yeah yeah of course uh we have the uh rackets
going on where you can purchase and some of you that have done this it may have
very uh sentimental beating but you can purchase a star and uh you
know name it after a loved one um the iau has come out and said you do
not need to purchase um you know any stars naming rights
um but for instance is there someone who did
this for his uh late wife and I told him to send me the name of a star I would see if I could put it in an
image and identify it um there was a young young girl who was
having a birthday we weren't able to come and do any um Outreach or you know bring bring a
telescope but her name was Tara and I pointed out the star Tarzan and sent
the picture with the uh star and said this is this star is named roughly after
your daughter and they seem to really appreciate it mm-hmm yeah I can say over the past 10
years or so maybe longer I've had maybe half a dozen requests from people that
I've come across who have had Stars either given to them uh as presidents in
memory of a family member that passed away or they're requesting me to um to
find that that star that they're going to give somebody so I've had a number of times where I've actually imaged these
stars and been able to successfully locate which one was on their certificate and sent them a picture actually of that particular region of
the sky and unfortunately most of the time those stars are very much like every other star in the image are usually pretty faint they don't really
stand out in terms of brightness or anything but it was still very cool to them to see what their star that they
purchased looked like and they have a picture of it now and so we've done that a number of times over the years and it's it's kind of gives you a good
feeling that you're helping somebody maybe get closure or feel a little better about someone they've lost
absolutely yeah one of the major goals for the parkas mission is to fly through
the son of Corona and we are doing that now Pakistan probe is touching the Sun
flying through the solar Corona that is the magnetic field dominated region of
the solar atmosphere will allow us to understand why the solar Corona is over 300 times
hotter than the solar surface and how this flow of charged particles that we
call the solar wind is accelerated to 100 000 miles per hour
scientifically this is a huge milestone we are learning about our star and how
it works and we know that sun is always changing it's a magnetized and active star and
flying so close to it will tell us exactly how it works for Humanity it is a humongous stride
flying through the atmosphere of the star is potentially the ultimate challenge that we can do here on our
lives and Parker probe is just doing that it is just amazing
the the switchbacks are reversed in the magnetic field
the magnetic field will flip over itself in and out in a matter of seconds and minutes what is important about them is
that they will tell us about the origins of the solar wind and how it came about
this is only the beginning for Parker soul of Hope flying through the summer Corona
um from now on every now every time the solar probe flies close to the Sun it will fly through the sort of corner and
it's just amazing that to observe that spacecraft is flying through the structure but we
can see through uh during solar eclipses and it's just fascinating
one thing we are looking forward to is one Parker solo probe flies through one of these huge CMEs very close to the Sun
and tell us how this solar energetic particles are accelerated to almost the speed of light
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thank you
okay here you Scott hold on it works now I pressed the
unmute button and I thought we were back anyhow um we uh uh hope you enjoyed your uh 10
minute break there um where we're heading to right now is in uh uh Virginia where uh the markslade
remote Observatory is um and I've got uh we have two people from Mark Slade remote Observatory we've
got Jerry Hubble uh who's also vice president of engineering for explore scientific and uh uh and then uh Myron
and forgive me if I mispronounce your last name uh but I think it's wasiuda
pretty close yeah it's well pretty close okay all right and so uh
uh I'll let Jerry uh introduce you more Myron but uh
um but uh Jerry once you go ahead and get started sure Scott thanks I appreciate the
opportunity uh so I'll do a quick introduction Myron with suit as I met
him probably about six seven years ago I believe
and he's he's been a long-term long time amateur astronomer and actually he's
he's almost like a professional astronomer because he's taught in astronomy at college level and he's a
he's a uh he's an ophthalmologist is that right or an optometrist optometrist
so but he's a doctor so I respect and and and in terms of the amount of
effort it takes to become a doctor of Optometry and he's an expert on on Optics
and you you go a long way back working on uh astronomical Optics and things
like that and that correct Myron yeah I um started building telescopes in
high school and my one of my first telescopes was a little three and a half inch reflector that I used um to uh
observe various things in its guys some of the messy objects and uh the mirror was actually uh professional of course I
didn't grind the mirror but uh basically everything else that telescope I put together and I found it a little astronomy club in uh my middle school
and we would have uh science meetings once a month and we actually even had a star party once so yeah it goes way back
I love building telescopes and I love restoring old telescopes and it's been a passion of mine uh I was actually
honored to participate in stellophane and actually placed um fourth in one of the telescope competitions there for a
16 inch job that I I put together and uh so yeah it's uh Optometry was my
natural course of uh study after um astronomy it was a way of kind of continuing my love of Optics so thank
you Jared for that great introduction sure uh thank you so um mine's going to be talking I'll let
him talk about what he's going to be talking about but I'm gonna I'm gonna do a quick uh I mean I know what it is but I don't
want to call it who doesn't want to take my thunder I don't want to take your thunder away right because you do great
work at the Mark Slade remote Observatory and and maybe when you come on just for a minute or so talk about
the the background of the mark Slade remote Observatory when you come on Myron sure I'm going to share my screen
and uh uh show you a live image
of the lunar surface
um you see that yep I see it
cool so uh and you can see this is this is a full frame view of the Moon
actually this is through our I kind of I kind of not uh I don't know
what Gary's con uh I know Gary does some uh excellent work high resolution lunar
and but I'm using a astrocam with a low focal ratio telescope to do somewhat
high resolution imaging which is possible which is kind of cool so I like
I like being able to use this typical Astro camera which is not a video camera to take to do high resolution somewhat
high resolution images of the moon but this is a full frame image not I don't say full frame it's a
cropped image of the Moon because our field of view on this camera is one is 0.9 by 1.3 degrees so it's about four
full moons but I want to just show you this is so our seeing tonight is really really
quite good uh compared to uh a lot of evenings so let me let me
scroll over so we can see some detail um but you get an idea here and then
I'll show you a processed image based that I did a year ago which is a similar which is basically
the same phase that we are on tonight I actually imaged uh last year and uh so
there's the the famous uh crater how'd you pronounce it Scott Juco
yeah right there you can see that in my vocabulary yeah
so let me zoom up even faster further so look at look at how good the scene is
yeah it's steady I mean it's really steady these are these are 0.8 millisecond
um exposures and you can see that it's kind of slow
because it's not a video camera it's a still camera it's an astro cam so but you can see how nice and steady
the atmosphere is uh Jerry you are you are among some of
the people that that I know that know the moon very very well you know uh you
know how what is your feeling like when you when you're observing the moon is it
similar to like I don't know like surveying the Grand Canyon or something
I mean well well a big part of it is it's it's a it's a good feeling it's
like people get familiar with constellations and with individuals uh objects in the sky they they observe
them over and over again and they like going back to them that's kind of the way I feel about the moon when I see certain features show up sure during the
lunar month you know they cut the Shadows change you get to see different aspects of the same object and and uh
it's like old friends that you come visit you know to see every month you know
the other thing I was going to add in there even though it's the moon and it's facing the same face towards the Earth
at all times because of that changing shadows and the differences and angles from vibration yeah it's very unusual to
get exactly the same view twice so it's almost like you're looking at you can look at the same region of the Moon you
know for years and years in your life and and you still can discover potentially new aspects of that area if
just by looking at it under a slightly different angle of Illumination right exactly so and and you know
the the way I learned I got an excellent program that I've demonstrated before on this uh program it's called the
um the virtual Moon Atlas and right now this is the area
that we're looking at right now around this area so if you look at this
I'm gonna this is another pronunciation this is Crater of heinzel right here do you see where I'm pointing at that's
this crater right here and uh and then
chuko is right there people know it as Tycho
but uh you get an idea there it is right there and then you can see it right here with this aspect
um actually and then when I zoom up actually it brings in some other images so let me see if I can get over
the crater and zoom up on on Juco
and then you can really see see how that's awesome oh yeah image of of that Creator so
happy birthday Juco uh let me show you so what I do is I
take these uh images these uh slow you know it takes 20 minutes to get a couple
thousand images stack and then I've got an example of the one I did last year
so and then I'll zoom up on this so this is this is showing what real resolution
you can get if you process the image let me go to this area
and I think it's just a little bit over processed it's kind of harsh in some aspects but
but you can really see some good detail looks great on my screen and then I like uh the other crater I
want to zoom I want to go to let me show you a live picture of it oops that's not it that's my Maxim
um where's this is sharp cap I want to um
actually zoom out uh let me just scroll up I'm gonna the Creator Copernicus okay
there's there's another nice image of the Creator Copernicus that's live this is a
live image and you can see the little Central Peaks even with this live image you can see
the central peaks of Copernicus and I'm going to zoom out on the chart
and we'll go up and look at Copernicus um
and you can see in this drawing here well you can see it right here
very much the same no so I wanted to uh
go to my image from last year and zoom and scroll up and look at the Creator Copernicus now this is taken with the
same camera same scope but you can see the similar details that's in that
image that you can see on my image and it's it's pretty cool and in this image that I took you can
see craters down to around five kilometers or so
four kilometers sometimes it depends on which where you're at looking at on the moon but you can see features down below
that you can see these little Hills and things uh but I wanted to just share that a
little bit um uh with the especially with uh juco's birthday today looking at the
moons uh crater Chico so I'm going to turn it over to Myron
now so let me stop my share I don't know if there's any questions out there about that but well let's see
Norm Hughes says the Moon's still fasting fascinates me today every time I look at it
uh Beatrice says great live footage of the Moon Jerry um
that's that you know so they love it right great
okay um and one more thing about the moon Jerry I will never look at the Moon the same again after watching the um August
17th 20 18 or no 2017 solar eclipse from South
oh yeah to me I fell in love with the moon all over again that day because it produced
a beautiful spectacle that solar eclipse was amazing so I don't care if them gets bright and washes out the stars or deep Sky objects
you know for a few days or a week out of the month uh that's a small price to pay for having such an amazing object in our
Sky I think absolutely yeah absolutely well um hello everybody I'm Myron with
suda and it's a pleasure to be here joining you all tonight and I'd like to just uh talk a little bit about the mark
Slater mode Observatory and um show you some live views of this guy in the small
chance that we actually catch a Gemma did tonight as you know it's the close to the peak of the Gemini meteor shower
um so Myron let me interrupt you up I'm using station one so there's multiple stations at the marksley remote station
which station are you using tonight no I was just going to give a quick tour about the different stations real quick
here um I'm going to be used to Sky cameras on station two so we're not going to be actually using
the telescoping station today we're just going to access the sky camera on that station that's the only station that has
a sky camera the other stations have webcams but they're internally mounted in the observatory enclosure so they
don't really get much view of the sky um basically the mark slavery Road Observatory is a uh an internet-based
remote observing facility that we make available to amateur astronomers from around the world
um we have four stations uh currently each of them has a
telescope that's dedicated for sort of a pseudo-specific purpose as you've been seeing these Moon images from Jerry he's
been using the telescope on our station one which is the original station he's uh got a beautiful 165 millimeter uh
epochromatic Explorer scientific refractor in there on the G11 mount with a 163c color camera that's what he was
using to show you those amazing images um station two is our our main Science
Station and it has a 10 inch Richie accretion F 7.9 telescope on a cge pro
Mount and a qhy174 uh monochrome camera with a full complement filter wheel with
um UV VRI filters and a spectroscopy filter the star analyzer so we use that one for a lot of our photometry or
spectroscopy and and high resolution imaging of deep Sky objects still to view is pretty narrow it's only about 12
arc minutes by 14 Arc Mexican like that so it's fairly narrow chunk of Sky um but it's the Optics are very good and
we have really a lot of times can get deep Sky images that are seeing limited
for our location which is typically two two and a half three Arc seconds something like that the telescope doesn't use as the one in
station one we don't drive we don't uh we don't need auto guide because we use Drive correctors that are called the
telescope Drive Master it's a encoder which provides Corrections in the right
Ascension errors so that our telescopes if they're accurately pull aligned could get really nice um tracking so that our stars are again
below the scene of our location um station two has the sky camera on it
uh we use the sky camera I'm going to pull that up here I'm going to share my screen might as well go ahead and do that while I'm at it here
um this is the view currently live
from the Station 2 sky camera and it is a qhy
290c uh it's uncooled it's just a little little tiny uh webcam type thing you
know that you can use for planetary and it aims up it has a field of view of almost like you know 100 and 140 150
degrees something like that so it gives you a wide swath of the sky and you can actually see an aircraft Trail
the sensitivity is pretty good but it's not the kind that you would see like you know if you're watching live streams of
the Geminids a couple nights ago when you could actually see the meteors moving on the screen as if you're
standing there on the mountaintops um the the sensitivity is such a we typically this exposure here these are
um these are 30 second exposures so you can kind of pseudo you can see it
sort of pseudo live but it's not exactly a lie so when you see meteors show up on here you know they've already occurred 30 seconds ago or so but but the main
purpose of this camera is to really provide uh The Observers at the observatory access to Sky conditions so
they can look and see what the sky looks like you know so if they're on the telescope station two or station one
um three or four or whatever station they're on they can actually log into this camera and they can see the sky so
if they're Imaging and all of a sudden their stars go away they want to know why um they can look at the camera and see
if the sky is clouding up or not so that's mainly its real purpose is just to monitor the sky for our remote
Observers um it's it's a really nice uh camera I've got I've put it in a uh a little
um junction box you know those electrical junction boxes that are gray that you can buy at Home Depot or or
Lowe's that that run wire splicing into that you put in your walls when you're putting uh the plugs in I did one of
those and it's got an opening in it that's just the right size to slide down the camera in so then I put a little piece of plexiglass about that and um
that's my enclosure for this camera so the camera sits in there packed in styrofoam to keep it steady so a lot of
questions I get is well why doesn't it fog up at night why doesn't it why doesn't do get on it things aiming straight up in the sky and even on the
dewiest of nights on the frosty of nights this image stays clear well the reason is that camera puts out enough
heat that it keeps the enclosure warm so you don't need to actively warm the Plexiglas window it's it stays warm
enough that it keeps do off so it's a really good really good low-cost design and um it works really well so
um we were using it the other night to watch the um the Geminids and um I
recorded about 22 to 24 Geminids um on it and the reason it wasn't more
than that the geminos was a great shower I mean it was producing I was out there visually watching it one meteor every
minute or so it was really nice but the the camera because it's not super sensitive only picks up the brightest
ones because these things move pretty quick across the sky so you know the exposure even though it's 30 seconds
long you're not integrating that long when the meteor is moving so fast so you really only capture the brightest of the
bright ones and and nonetheless you still see a lot of meteors on our Sky Patrol images
so the Geminids are a relatively new shower it believe it or not the geminists have not been around for for a
very long time they have been around since about 1833s when they were discovered the same year that there was a peak of the leonids when they were
when there was a leaning storm um about a month later they discovered from the Mississippi River on a Riverboat a series of bright meteors
coming from the constellation Gemini and it turns out that the parent body that
creates the Geminids which is actually an asteroid it's not a comet which is kind of cool they think that this this
object 3200 Pace uh faithion I think it's called um faithion 3200 faithion
it has about a 1.4 year orbit it's an asteroid actually on a highly elliptical Comet like orbit and they think maybe it
bumped into another object and a bunch of debris got spread out in its orbit and that orbit that debris stream has
been its orbit has been modified by Jupiter's gravity and it slowly moved that stream to cross the Earth's orbit
in about 1833 and that's when we started seeing the shower and it's been getting relatively speaking better and better as
the uh as essentially as the decades go by so it's now one of the best Showers of the year I think we all agree it's a
it's a really nice shower and um so it's definitely worth watching and that
object that created it you know being an asteroid is a um kind of a a different
class of objects that cause that that cause meteor showers most major showers are caused by of course comets so it's
an asteroid and a comet like elliptical orbit in fact when it's at its closest point to the sun it's it's only 0.15
astronomical units from the solar surface so it comes really really close to the sun's surface so that's really
kind of cool to think about and at its far this point when it's at um athelion
it's out beyond the orbit of Mars into the asteroid belt almost so so talk about extremes can you imagine what a
what a year would be like on that object you know from the solar furnace to uh the depths of of the asteroid belt you
know all within within a year so be pretty cool ride I think so um speaking
of comments I'm going to share my screen uh to a different view now um I'm gonna close out this this camera and see if I
can pull up just um some images
let me close that out of let's see here
I think I might have done something wrong here um let me go back to here and let's try
it looks like you shared your whole desktop yeah that's okay that's okay dude I got these pictures these are the
pictures so speaking of comments I just want to end my presentation quickly with with sharing some pictures I took of
comet Leonard recently and this is um an image that was taken uh on December
morning it's December 5th we can't see the image because I think it's still on your desktop
oh on the other desk on the station two desktop oh let's see I need that you have to
unshare and then select the window again probably oh okay let me do that let me unshare okay so we go to
your screen share is paused oh okay I need to for some reason I see I messed something up let me go to new share
and let's try it this way here how we doing yep
okay great great so oh that's nice yeah so this was taken with um our station
three telescope which is a 102 millimeter F7 explore scientific carbon
fiber refractor on a cge mount that we modified using the pmca system that
Jerry works with with Explorer scientific so um it's a great telescope it's a great
station it's got a color camera as you can see attached to it and we use this for training for pretty pictures people
can get on there and just take pre-aster photos and so so this is one of my better shots of comet Leonard I took um
back on December 5th and it's a stack looks like a stack of 45 one minute
exposures and I was I was guiding on the Stars so there's a little bit of comet trailing
going on there okay so that's basically that's basically it
um if anybody has any questions I would be very happy to answer um oh one more thing uh station four
uh is brand new we just we just are now putting it online it's in the even
smaller station station three is in a box that's about three feet uh I'm sorry about four feet by four
feet by four feet so I think of a box four feet on the side that's about the size of our station four uh telescope
I'm sorry our station three telescope which is the um one that took this picture here our station two telescope
the uh 10 inch RC is in a um an enclosure that looks a lot like a um an
outhouse that rolls on tracks and we push it away from the telescope to expose the sky and then we push it back
over the telescope when we're done station four on the other hand is our smallest station it's only 36 inches by
36 inches it has a roll-off roof and uh it has a 80 millimeter explore
scientific APO refractor in it on the ixo's 100 Mount which is a fantastic
little mount and I'm getting beautiful images with that I have that one it's
it's wonderful I mean I I love the fact that the uh pmca system is integrated in the in the telescope and believe it or
not it's a small telescope Mount that can it can do it it can carry a nice payload it's uh tracking I'm getting uh
15 to 20 seconds unguided round Stars most of my images are are good
um at uh at the focal length of the telescope which is 480 millimeters so it's really doing very well but we're
going to use it for guiding we're going to use it as a science station it'll have a full filter wheel with spectroscopy capability and I would very
much enjoy coming on again at some point and actually giving you guys a tour of all of our different stations with the telescopes at some point so thank you
for your time thank you thank you okay that's great well
um we have uh uh I did find a
yeah and I don't know if this is exactly how uh Taiko or Tico or Hugo is
pronounced but this is this is from Google translate so if you type in the word
Tycho okay and and translate it to Danish because he was a Danish
astronomer this is what it sounds like so I'm going to play this for you
and if you do this last name
wow I would have never got married wrong the whole time it's tikoba
Chico bra but I I looked on Google and they they said it sounds like tea cow
bra so I don't know the the jury's still out so there you go I'll go with Juco
same thing as we call junior colleges Juco that's how I'm remembering I guess
it's more tuko or it could be Tico right right
yeah cow anyways I wouldn't get in an argument
with the guy because he might you know take the slice out of your nose or something be careful uh anyhow
um we are this is the global star party and so now we're going to go around the globe uh to Nepal and uh uh DT Gautam is
our next speaker here DT how are you it's great to have you back on global
Star Party Scott and hello everyone it's been long
and hello Scott uh it's been a long time I have one uh not joining the clothes third party because we're uh by various
kind of uh reasons like uh at first I was in the vacation uh out of my town
and after that I have continued my examinations in my school and so that I
have taken a long Gap from the Star party and I was really curious to join
but I think it's called Robert has saved me one link for the astronomy League uh but uh at that uh it was 2 30 a.m in
Nepal oh yeah the time and uh because of time
zone I was not able to join that uh Global star party in that meeting but uh
as I'm very interested I'm very curious to join today and the topic was very cute topic was very interesting human
desire to explore and I think we all are exploring here and we all have the example of that and
as we know that our human beings are more Curious Chris us and we always seek
for a new thing uh simply to make our life more easier and cozy and uh there
is no limit for Explorations for example so we can take our life uh today we are
in the modern era the age of Technology just because of curiosity and
Explorations uh hence uh we all are here for the for that purpose is here for by
his ex by his curiosity and Jerry who was it so on like me I'm here for my curiosity because I'm curious about the
spirit and uh we all are here for that purpose um I want to join a small story in that
purpose like a small goal was playing in the garden and she saw a number of butterflies flying over her and they
were giving Pleasant feeling for her our number of beautiful flower at the moment
she saw one flower which was blooming in another which was dying she called her mother and asked why they
both looks different but they are when they are the same one is strolling hard but maybe another can't
she asks number of questions and that question give her a strength to explore
and still love exploring uh probably sees here um probably sees here in the form of
many of us and other people all out of here and
um today I have uh it's been long time and today I have taken a short poem uh
related to the exploration uh season of life guessing it the Breezy night empty of
lack of immense on site in the onset of winter sign thought reflecting one of
mankind putting up in the darkness of days but the sense of hopefulness stay
entering down due on a grasslands making of Mary through older teen few carried
watts of pain despair but the nature light internally played
where it is stillness eventually concludes lovely Coco was seeing animals
giving renewals sitting on wire bars hoping of flowers here and they are
embracing love here everywhere every planet are laid getting of of slower
spring prevent is from incover time of little kids being on vacation summer
makes the fullness Explorations fact emergence of anyway insects yet making
family time with this stepping feet in scorching head yet ABS curious to see
and create history in blessed indeed those Shadow fulfilled travels in this
summer summer purpose and um in this uh Gap when I was
not answering the global Star Party there was a number of programs which I
have conducted in around my locality like um in my
school um I conducted a small program so it gives the knowledge of all the astronomy what is the astronomies and um um I
found of my junior uh more Curious like uh to know about uh like what's this and I have talked about the growth third
party too and they were curious like um okay so we can uh so uh you are
exploring there so you can give me some more knowledge about this and uh the regularly consult me and they comes to
me and talk about the um talk about astronomies about the space science and
uh they were uh I feel very uh very good that uh they are they are curious uh to
know about these and um yes Nepal is uh not much developed in this field but
it's developing and all this curious mind um is uh coming together and it's uh I
feel really good at that all of us uh who are interested in that are coming
together and I want to explore our togetherness and so it's this a hope
that we can do we can do far better and we can go far better and beside that uh
the Palestine Society is also um conducting a various kind of programs uh now now it's uh it is conducting the
astronomy Olympic um
Olympia is running out and um recently the um Expo science project uh is um um
is come out coming out and uh all of the Curious mind were coming together and
want to miss a number of projects and in the office astronomy is science
so uh this day by The Busy schedules of my own
schools and uh and this is the this is my last year of high school and um it is
you know it is a very important phase of our entire 13 live 13 year of physical life and um like it determines um you
know we are for we because uh we will leave this school and we'll go for University for our higher higher uh
higher educations and it is United States and there are a number of classes tests and practice uh so uh this day I'm
a bit busy and for that uh because my teacher also suggested me uh rather you
can focus here and you can join uh every programs after this your accomplishment of your high school and what I'm just
limiting in that and um I'm joining and uh like um I'll be joining but uh maybe
I can't join regularly but I can and um I'm because I'm very interested to
sewing here so uh to join with you all and um put my all those opinions and talk
with all of you all so maybe I can be present in once a month uh first year
but uh can we regularly maybe yeah well we we look forward to any time you can
come uh to Global star party and uh yeah I I know that uh you know you're about
to go into a big transition in your life as you uh you know graduate from high school and uh hopefully uh we find you
studying here in the United States at one point so that would be very cool yeah that's great DT thank you so much
uh there is a comment here from Beatrice Hines watching on YouTube she says where
does DT always get the inspiration to write she said it's amazing
um because um in small is I dream to be an um
astronomer or like to likely to explore what I already share many times that I
love it first I love to explore the Jupiter where I hear the words of picture from my uh from my teacher and I
come simply comes to my home and uh Source in the internet what's the Jupiter is an asthma seniors resistors
too and I have one sister and she give me lots of information about the
Jupiters and um I was continuing asking about other planets to the teachers and
like the uh the Curious city which I bring up in my small is is giving me
giving me a strength uh for giving me strength to and for about the writing
and writing story in poem I was um as
guessing in this uh writing and from my small list and like there used to be a
competition writing competitions uh in this school level but the level was
different um I used to be in a small level and other participants with other people other students but uh despite of my uh
having me a lot of knowledge but I love to participate in that so I continue to
I continue to engage in this and I think uh that's uh continuity has given me uh
given me some things to write and I love to I love to engage in literacers I
think the literature gives me a different kind of feelings and uh
different aspect of looking life like a philosophically um when I I wear engaged in the
literaces uh it it's just give me a different eyesight to look the life and
look every aspect uh so I love to engage in it and I continue I write the story
uh in both Nepali and English in my mother tongue and in both English and
recently I read some different uh poem story in English too and
um like for my school and for and I have
public schools are writing this poem and for this week uh teachers have given me
a Target to complete the uh five to ten stories at a time and I'm engaging in
that too and um and for my study too that's wonderful DT thank you so much
thank you and I very much look forward to the next time you can come on to Global star party so take care and uh
study hard you as well yeah yeah and good luck when you make it to the university
yeah I think you will do well yeah we all think she will that's great that's
great okay um we are going to travel over ten
Thousand Miles uh from Nepal all the way down to Argentina where we will uh meet
up with maxi filari's uh Maxie how are you hey Scott hi everyone how's it going oh
sorry I think I do you hear me oh we hear you just fine Maxi you're fine excellent you don't look as under the
weather you've coming on under the weather the last few weeks now you look well yeah no I'm I'm feeling very good
and well first of all I um well I'm glad to hear that you're
okay Scott in Arkansas and and of course I am it's really sad of what happened in
all in Kentucky and Arkansas without storm you know uh Medias from
here those Echoes of that
storm and and it was a really really sad I saw a video of a person that's it was
very shocking because it's a house destroyed but he's was playing the the
piano that survived you know and it was well I I can't imagine what people is
throwing right now but uh well I'm I hope that everybody everybody is okay
so well tonight uh I want what last week I couldn't be
here and yeah I think it wasn't a a global star party but uh
in these two weeks it happens a lot well first of all uh today the the fourth the
14th of December is the first anniversary of the total solar eclipse
that occurred the last year in Argentina and and of course I I have my pictures
to show that I was reprocessing and
also when I want to to show a show you is the the most important news that we
have because the the city of Alberti
announced the the building of the new observatory in Alberti you know we have
the the complex and the place to to do the the educational stuff and meetings
but also a is the another project that it will
going to build an observatory to to be there so
let me show you my screen uh
okay okay do you see it yes
okay I changed my background this is a
a really new uh re-edited version of the
total eclipse that I was processing and I really liked it because it's really
sharpening and also the first is really really really good so first of all four
beautiful images always for remember that data this is our
friend Nicole Hammer the hammer the hammer he's like his cowboy hat it's good yeah
and he's he's dobsonian it was it covered because it was really dirty and
windy and you can see it was really cloudy but we hope in some places it's
going to be a open Skies here's a I don't know if you remember
alangelin Caesar yeah sorry it's called um that he was a with us in in a couple
a global star parties he was also covered with a blanket to see how to
take pictures and well here's me
I was trying to doing it to take pictures with the two Scopes but I only
went with this Newtonian that today's a Nico's owner right now I I saw him to
him and those are your those are like Shields to make some shade uh yeah on
your telescope right exactly because it was a in almost summer
and I really we had our uh the Sun a above our health
so is really really hot and we had to cover our equipments I I have this I
don't know what how we call it in English but it really works because the
camera piece of foam it's a sheet of foam foam
it's air to to get a worm um
carpet or something like that when you pull put it in your in your rooftop
between the the rooftop and the well I don't know how how to call it
and well I was taking pictures I was behind there every single minutes taking
pictures installation yeah and you can see I I went with a lot of
things in my car and well here are us uh you know it's a really
protection because the the telescope it keeps a coal and
the camera it was okay here's the solar filter
and work is another perspection in this place we have you you can see these
caves and we have a parrots that
lived in there and it was really annoying because they were right but when the the the the the the the the
the the the cliffs started to to get dark and they it was really shaky
because there goes quietly and they go to sleep it was amazing
uh we have also because it was a cloudy
we have some rain and you can see this a a ticks of a
and that's in a solar filter uh
and I I think here it was when it ends so
here's the the team that we went uh hisariel
and you know also the chorizo Circle that we ate because we are we're very
hungry and well this is my background right now you can
see a the solar flares that it was really amazing you know when
I was taking pictures of this and watching through the visual of the camera indirectly it was really
don't mind really amazing and this is another processing
uh this was mostly finally the clips and
this bike is because the the spider of the Newtonian that holds the secondary
mirror and gives this little shiny
cross another a stacking diamond ring they call it the
diamond ring you call it the diamond ring we call it the spider web or something like that I don't know why
oh you're talking about the spider from your uh Newtonian the crossbars yeah
exactly yeah we see that that's coming from yeah yeah we call that phase the diamond ring
face yeah and so uh well this is
basically a little a tour of the this anniversary of the
total solar eclipse and well like I say a a couple days ago we uh
well I I was invited by Marcos Santa Rosa to be there and also they did this
um a community event virtually and essentially for those that who can't
come to Alberti but they can see well it's going to to do the in the city and
also participate uh well this is a it's not capture of uh
that captures that they because this was the streaming this is me that I was a
you know I I was takening to the people what means to us to have this kind of a
Observatory and also what means to the community so that I I want Marcos gave
me the opportunity to uh to share my my voice my my knowledge my thoughts to
everyone and of course in encourage the education
uh here's another perspective well it was really shocking the camera yes
Marcos you can see it was a really there was a lot of people that that came
very good and you can see there was the screen behind it here's Nico and another people
and well here I couldn't take this picture very good because I I think it
was in WhatsApp or this is a Hermann level this is the the
mayor of Alberti that supports all this projects of course a
given the the place and also uh the the
phones that we can do it uh well he's the the part of when the
people that it was invited everyone if want to to say something you can say
here in person and also uh in online in live stream uh
well I I think it's this is at the beginning almost oh here's some parts uh
well uh well I don't know how to translate this it's a lot of a
yeah so you know uh
the people was really really exciting to and curious in of this
project and of course uh you can see how uh the the they are
um encouraging this because they started in the schools and they now they are
going to the community and we of course we want to to have this place to be a
note for the Alberta communities it it we have we want to to do it to
everyone the ones who come here so well this is some captures that narcos
gave me this is the you know I I don't know if
you remember that that's all schools uh fashion in the 29th in the sorry 99th
Century uh well this is a version going to the new project of the
Observatory that they want to build here's another perspective that that
they made and I like the um I like the uh the ramp
going up is that yeah this more wheelchair access or how is
that uh this going for of course a wheelchair a person and the disabled
persons but also of course who uh to grab the equipment because maybe it's
going to very heavy because this place is um a visualizer to do a observations and
also if you want to do a astrophotography you can be here more
up and you can see the Horizon really flat and and all the the farm area you
know is is amazing and here's another perspective watching the
the the complex of the of the rural School
here's a perspective in the sky you know and here's going to be the entrance
here's the the role the Farm Road you can go here but also you can go from
this place this place is going to be like a more a
barbecue place you know we are argentinians like to barbecues or
patricias looking forward to that so also uh we have these are bathrooms
in this place a is going to be like a some kind of
living room because you have a kitchen you have also bathroom you can take a shower and in this place it's going to
be a um more like um the the meeting sessions or to do
chattings or educationally things uh here's a a perspective word the the
West the East the South and the North and because
the The Observatory wants to do this kind of pilers or pillars
to to do some study when the the worst
exactly when we have the The Equinox
um and the solstice I don't know if it's okay you can't say it is
of winter or summer and and fall or a spring this is exactly so they want to
do this for the sound and also this kind of
place to to do some measures measurements of a for example
um the the measure of the Earth by the Shadow and and the eratos tennis project
for example that is a worldwide and
where he's some pictures of well this is the the ramp that we say uh here is
going to be some office an Administration place but also according to where they they're going to to save
the equipments uh to of course that people they can use
uh well this is more behind you can see this is going to give by window of
lindex because uh they they want to
for example if you are having a an an afternoon
but it's called you can see it inside of the warming and you maybe you can take a
coffee or something like that and also in the in the other place you can take something
watching the sunrise at the East uh
well this is the The Insider run that's going to the the the the the the
observatory and well I think this is another one
well it's handsome fashionable wave a of course more modern structures
uh well this is another one
uh and this is well the the presentation of the the new Observatory
and you know this was uh not last Friday was the another one it was the sixth a
of December I think let me remember uh no the the third of December
and the 6th of December I went to this place to do because I want to to do a
astrophotography you know I have to once it was in the week I had to went to work
but uh it it doesn't it stopped me to to go
there so I I once you know this is a picture that I took with my equipment
and you know you can see the moon nice
yes his little Saturn and there is Jupiter
you know watching this in the sunset
and practically quietly without no sound
without wind only maybe some bugs going but you know
I went out of my job I came here to my house
put my equipment in the car and went to Alberti run away I came maybe a 20
P.M and start to to grab the equipment and
it was only me it was anyone else I want
only me and well the objective of this
um of these pictures it was um make more publicity another of course
um take an advantage of the important three Skies so
I started to do pictures well this is IC three four three of the horse head
nebula nice and this is only 40 minutes of a
stacking you know you can start to see this tiny
clouds that is in front of the the horse head and also there's another velocity
you know uh then I
I did this of a m33 you know I stuck
almost one and a half hour and
it's amazing I love m33 it looks like lace you know yeah yeah and and the
perspective that give us a makes more like if we we are seeing some maybe a
lagoon nebula or a trip nebula or something like that because you know I I
can't even imagine this it be there and it's amazing to to watch it through
million like years from here and of course the the core of the of the
Galaxy and also really tiny galaxies for example here
and the corner almost there it was they're really really far
and then the objective of this it was taking pictures of
m78 in the Orion constellation
and this is what I get stuck in almost three and a half hours
you know uh this this was the first time that I took pictures of Button no it was
the second time the first time was here in Chile guy but there wasn't a really good night it was really down and the
second was awful but when I get this
Darkness velocity and see this um
Little Stars inside of that gas and the reflection in this place
taking part of the shiny start like we can't see it but you know it's more like
we are seeing a little um a little sound in the darkness you know
it's yeah this is awesome thank you Cameron that is one of the
nicer m78s I've seen I mean uh you know it's often relegated to either just a simple shot
it's like okay but this really gets the color and like you say all the the knots of nebulosity it really shows
the depth and the complexity of this region exactly very very nice
and also what I figure out is that the background it doesn't black practically
it's almost like this golden on brownie
a background and I think this is a really huge place of gas and dust and
you can you can see here you know it contrasts in this place
so well uh thank you for inviting me thank you to the audience to everyone's
got thank you and well uh
I continue with you all right well thank you so much
but we're going to stay down in Argentina a little bit and uh we are going to go to Buenos Aires to Caesar
Brillo Caesar how are you tonight hi it's called how are you hi Maxi come with us
we use a little of Argentinian slang it's more like how you doing it's not
the Spanish excellent
yes but the problem is that we we spoke we speak Spanish with Italian accent
with a mix of anybody knows exactly what is this and
some people say no okay I understand you perfectly and some people say come on
what is this is Spain come on yeah maybe sometimes sure and sometimes
we my favorite hands checking the hands like Italians and you know um you know Scott that I make pizza
sometimes you make a nice Pizza yes yes well I say I I I say myself that I are a
nice pizza but you need to try if I need to try yeah yes that's right one day I'm
looking forward to trying the barbecue yeah I would prefer the barbecue Adrian
Cameron are the guys that why today uh we hi Cameron how are you
and we today we launched the the first stage
of of our third party um um third party basic Grande in
sandrafire Mendoza uh we start talking uh with my partner Jaime Garcia he's an
astronomer that he's the the the motor of the all of this star party and we are
working um as fast as possible to to have the
things ready for for this April April 1 2 and 3 of course that everyone are
invited um we can we are preparing for next
week's uh website uh in in two language
uh in English and Spain uh to everyone to to to to to talk about how how is our
we we will have we are having a huge program of activities uh
um this year next year uh well of course that we are really
um really exciting with this and of course that uh well we are working in in
this uh absolutely and uh this last week I was working in um something that this
college libros books books nag it's uh it's it's
a place where the the people uh go to see uh books libraries
um people don't talk talk uh you know um
uh something like like histories to the Childs if it's very nice because it's an
open guy um of course that every year we are invited with the group
the group that are restoring an iron and part of this group uh that we are
restoring the San Miguel solar Observatory and we had a very nice uh
um Outreach astronomy Outreach uh night
um really we I can show you some pictures of this
um uh I'll I'll be showing uh two uh some pictures of one year ago like Maxi
of the last Eclipse that today is one year of of of my windy my most Windy
City experience in my life today I have dust in my eyes from one
year I think um I was in balchetta like Maxi but in and I think that I was in another place
but very near yes well let me share the screen
and here I don't prepare uh I don't prepare
um a presentation but because it's more easy show the pictures
let me know if you can see if you can see the the main picture
now or or only the because not yet Caesar I
know yeah no no because I can I can see I can oh yeah yeah if you bring them up full
screen those are the thumbnails yeah now it's okay is the the picture in the in
the full screen we see your thumbnails yes stop share
and I need to to choose that
now it's okay because in two years of global sir party I learned how share a
screen of the main we have all learned a new skills
if you don't have if you don't have problem with sharing screen you are not
in the global Safari that's right yeah
yes absolutely well here we starting at 6 p.m
um uh Scott you know because you you do you have a a video with this natural
graphic telescope right we put two of this telescope and that we received
finally last week our Christmas Christmas this year yes we have a an a a
a bigger number of of usually we we import this kind of telescope because
um of course if you're watching and you need a telescope you need this telescope this is for Argentinian people oh I mean
no from United States because in Walmart or another place you know that yes you
need to choose this telescope okay okay no more marketing now
on well but then let's go work
perfectly and was very nice very nice because something that that I can that I
can say about the when you choose for a Outreach astronomy event at telescope
you need to choose something because do you have a volunteer that drives the
telescope okay and you need to give them something easy
to to use or I go to telescope with Alta see mode amusement
but sometimes you know you need a battery like that um many people uh put with the knock
with the feet your tripod and you need to put all the gain and I prefer the
human volunteer to adjust the telescope and here do you have a real Advantage
because you don't have a OTA with uh with a barrel of lenses
inside because this is a nightmare this is a real 520 millimeters Focus native focus is
really F I think this is f 4 60s for 70. I don't remember exactly
but you can start to use something like the moon in a rich field in a really wide
field no um I think that here we have voluntaries
but it's like a work and you need to have something a tool that you need to have something a tool that is
um trustable to to use in the moment and the huge field of view of this telescope
with the in the is is is great to point to the to the Planet
of the or in this case the moon and you can change easily the the eyepiece to
show a narrow view of the Moon with a crack you know with the the surface of
the Moon and the kids was wow and for us uh like in the in the last in the San
Juan Eclipse we choose the refractors of 90 millimeters here we choose this uh
4.5 inches telescope F5 uh 0.7 I think 0.2
or I don't remember the the the number of f
but it was very nice for us was very nice uh choosing this telescope to work
properly with a among huge amount of of a people that come in to watch uh from
our telescopes that's great yeah we have time we have
time while we are what showing to the people the moon to use uh one uh yes
five the the five hand five interest maximum expert scientific over the axis
100. yes we this was beautiful very yeah this
was very very funny because every one of that that coming to the computer because
we we have the computer connected with a with a screen a TV for for the for the
side of the people and everyone everyone were going to the to the computer
of our friend Fernando that he put the computer the uh in the desktop for a
only to to receive the image um and go to the screen to see the
people and you know put the the the push push the bottom of star capture
and anybody yes yes we don't we don't remember how of that of us
took the picture because everyone was like at The Three Stooges going to uh
you remember the the chapter of the three circuit that that put
um I don't remember who is it in English for to to make the craft beer and well here was the same everyone I said who
took the pictures Fernando later found I don't know if uh around 30 videos
and of course they say okay I need to I need to to process that and we have some
pictures of the moments that we we took these videos to to to make later uh
pictures like this is is very very nice a very nice view of of
the Moon it's one thing you know the maxitab is a
how can you see it um it's one of those telescopes that it just this performs so so well
because of its long focal length and it you just cannot beat it when it when it comes to lunar and planetary right yeah
it's a beautiful beautiful design and when yeah you know being a visual Observer as well and now with this
astral Imaging you know you you live live shots oh my gosh uh yeah it's it's
a it's an awesome way for outreach as well uh to be able to have a compact design
and at a reasonable price it's absolutely it's beautiful
yeah yes absolutely and we we were so
proud to show this live image to the to the people and at the same time make you
know you are I I imagine you Cameron or Nico or Maxi going to the computer like
a kid star captor yes I give you a little video later I I prepared I
process this for a picture because it's nice The View and this is was the the the this thing that we have the the
amateur astronomers or the or this Hub is amazing because we like to to when we
have a a beautiful image we like to to
uh to save that and this is very nice because uh I really I'm
um I I wasn't uh with idea to have pictures because we are we was working
with the people explaining you know but it was great really have something of uh
of the last Saturday with the people yeah and and yes you know and you know
it's great to be able to do that because even in light polluted Skies the the the
resolution I mean I I I love the Airy discs like on double Stars you can get
with that so it's so sharp it's it's a really really want it's a joy to use
absolutely absolutely something that is nice is that in this maxutov is one of
the the few Microsoft first of all is 15 at the number f is 15. you have a huge
focal length and you have the possibility of collimate because it's it's one of the few Microsoft that you
can collimate because you have a six uh screw to collimate with a and and this
person typically say you can collimate that and they they give you the LM range
and you say okay of course that I can actually made I try to collimate but I
uh my because I have one of that but I I return to the same point of the
manufacturing Automation and congratulations on Scotty do you deliver
the best performance Optics the the oh that's very kind yeah yeah
and it means a lot coming from you because I know that uh you know how to
make good Optics so yeah yeah it's very nice because it's it's you
know you can see that the image was amazing and with something beautiful beautiful images unexpected unexpected
because was the the uh um every one of the of the volunteers
that work that we work in the in the in the presentation and in this uh uh
Outreach of Stormy Outreach sorry and was um was expected to have so beautiful
image but of course that when we uh was watching
um um sorry this is the eclipse but this is the next uh about that
um yeah yes um this one is is a mix of a picture but
of course that today is one year like Maxi said I have this picture it's a
poor picture but um I I could uh took that in middle of
the dust and and well Scott know perfectly that was a
very difficult very difficult transmission uh yeah uh yes but we have
only this picture and I happy to have that and of course that the in the real
live view of of the uh of the eclipse was an amazing place
um returning uh with the returning
first of all I put the the sound out because I don't know if I
have music in this here let me I here well here I have a
a a short video of this
um here is the place where we what we show the moon a live image here on the
camera for your mission control yes absolutely this Mission Control
amazing everyone that went here to the computer put the finger in Star Video
Star video that's cool 50 50 videos
in the end of the night who took the videos I don't know everyone everybody
everybody everyone knows this is the science team right here so yes
absolutely she's a new in the team she's a geologist and here is our geologist
table we are working a lot uh with uh Metro routes
um and uh you know a lot of of different minerals
um well we are happy to have to have her in our team
um another let me hear well here's another another
part of the of the of the meat of the place
here ah sorry here I have another video sorry
and I remember that she she uh she gave to the kids uh to smell the rock the
mirror because I don't know what is is this I think that is with uh um with
phosphorus fossil from minerals that have that smell different I don't know
really it's from my next presentation I need to know more about minerals
because it's something that that is very interesting we have we are working in a
in a geologist uh uh side in the observatory to have a special
special showroom for minerals
here more kids more telescopes
the people was amazing and here we when we I bring uh one year
ago here you know for the eclipse the clips yes the the
105 100 miles these are 100 miles here yeah your mile per hour Caesar per hour
season yes yes absolutely real yeah maybe have a video
yes look the guys it's really windy it was amazing what's amazing it was an
adventure Caesar you shared to the world uh the eclipse uh where many people
missed it you know so that was that was wonderful yeah yes I I think that was amazing how how was the the uh the
adventure of of uh transmit uh in middle of the middle of nowhere
nowhere absolutely here is yes I think that here this track is of the national
meteorologist uh service and I think that these guys went to went to the
eclipse to say this people is crazy and like we need to to take a measure of that
because it's a it was an amazing situation
a lot of people it's me
it's great the part of the family my wife me and Agustin yes
another two kids and the x is 100 here we used it we used the yes the x is 100
that they have is the first one that I think that this is like a better a
better version and it's the first uh I think that they maybe have three or four
years because it's the is the fear I remember there was very very new the excess 100 and I received one of the
first uh and work is my my ex's 100 at work beautiful
only have the the newest um the newest software
but it's the same machine hmm take note about this Scott because it
says you have a good a good products thank you thank you so much it's real
thank you here is the fire that Maxi talked about yeah yes Maxi if you're
watching uh here is the here is the first uh a first view of the oh there oh
yeah do you do you remember how we see that at night in that place
wow that's a big fire yeah yes it was amazing hi everyone
yes hey Nico in the middle of the night you you we
are watching in the Horizon at the almost uh Southeast every I think or at
the East no Northeast sorry uh the the fire uh maybe I don't know was
20 kilometers no here we are here I was in the same
part of of the fire and here we was at only maybe one kilometer no more because
this this this uh Farm area is not a farm really it's for it's more maybe
more for animals um this guy um he he
um he um for to to to to fight against
the who's the name of the of the no termites if not uh well and and
Nest you said he uses uh he used fire and with the wine when the wind with the
wind was out of control totally yes but number one very dangerous
yeah absolutely here is part of the trip in the area of Patagonia here a lot a
lot of wind chills
the equipment well this is was a a remembering of of
the clips to to share uh with with everyone and was a pleasure really share
this thank you so much Caesar thank you a pleasure a pleasure it's wonderful
pleasure thank you to you and to everyone yeah it's great to have you on anytime every time so and uh also I mean
and they have Nico here too I feel like we have this one family from Argentina that attends Global star party all the
time it's great and I tend to be on at the same time you'll be down in Argentina pretty soon
I I am yeah making the plans I send you I send you the directions for
for the star party in April Adriana and Cameron of course okay and to everyone
of course with Scott too yes yeah and return to United States
in this and another week is the near
niev I don't know Thief yeah yes
I think that yes okay that's great that's great I'll buy you a pizza if you
go okay absolutely sure yes New York I'll do I'll do better than
pizza this is an amazing Italian restaurant uh uh yeah yeah not only sparrows it's very it's okay but we can
go to the more Italian Alice okay I'm sure you're talking New Yorkers Italian
um lots of restaurants yeah that should pretty well beat sabaros but uh
but
it's okay and we have a lot of huge huge pizzerias uh but I think that when we uh
we will go to the small ones uh with Italian Gun Guys
you want the authentic okay yeah that's right authentic yes smaller smaller is
is normally a kind of of authentic sure yes but this virus okay is great
all right well that's good that's great okay well Nico um we're still down in Argentina and uh
uh it's great to have you on uh Global star party uh with us again
um and so uh I lost so you have to say it
uh here we go there we go yeah you have to say it's got It's hammer time it is
Hammer Time that's the introduction
okay so I need to I need him to record like a drum solo or something yeah
the hammer time with the drums and then I go yes so you play something you play
battery yeah yeah well there's something I can absolutely play it I would there's
something from Memphis we'll just find that clip and play it
you know it's called we have the perfect picture of Nico that we can go to give
the the presentation oh really the perfect one
so yeah you care to explain that Maxie what is this perfect picture I prefer
them no I don't know it was it was okay okay okay something
for a family okay yeah yeah
how are you tonight I'm a little late but uh I we are with with my own my
entire family living with my parents because we are making some fixes in the
home and it's a war zone Soho Maybe
it has been two weeks without my telescope and I am crazy you are suffering from withdrawal
yeah no Hammer well here I am so
let's let's talk about uh I I will start I I have now
Maxi shows pictures of the clips so these are the same but uh today's is one
year from from that magnificent travel and the show so I will start sharing
some memory from that time and because we are talking about the
human Reserve to explore and this trouble
with re was really that are you seeing my screen yes yes
this is in the in the drip when we was going
there and and we we take another road just to to know this
place together and what's a really special travel and because we didn't
know if we we would we could see the eclipse because we we know that there
were clouds on we go to the road and hoping the best
yeah it is our camping and the middle of the road because of the Kobe the
the copy the pandemic and everything we can't go to
to any City without the special permissions so we get a field of a friend of a friend
that they say okay you can put your your your cousin and sleep here so we
spend the night there in the middle of the nowhere with oh my God the Patagonian wind is
unbelievable really yes yes there is a famous song called On
The Road to Nowhere here it is yes well this is the pictures with the with the
wind uh machines I don't know how to see it oh yeah a windmill yes this is the
the god of Martin here we with Sebastian another friend we
was looking for some Stones I I like to take stones in every trip and I have my
special stone of the eclipse in my home and I I love that kind of things
and of course I travel with my adoption yeah
with Alan and uh I I I go I went with
the uh with a reflex camera from a friend uh so in similar introduction and
take these pictures of the of the the clips that the the
literally this was raining and the the clothes opened in the exact moment so oh
that's great they were very very lucky yes that's great so yeah sometimes sometimes you have to
go in the rain yes you need to be there just in case yes
and this is my favorite one it's not uh the amazing picture but for
me it was the bits are amazing the perfect um souvenir of that that trip with my
friends very nice beautiful diamond ring yeah
and well a part of the eclipse I like to show you uh as you know I have my
adoption and also I have the old Newtonian with a equatorial amount of
Maxine so sometimes I I used to take some
pictures but using still my my planetary camera the white L5
that it's a monochromatic camera and and I take these pictures a few weeks ago of
the tarantula nebula and so I I want to show you how to
those are awesome yeah really nice really nice very interesting awesome
thank you and I I want to show you how important
in in these cases with a color that there are not especially for for this
for this guy photography and I am not guiding so
there are photograph of about 20 seconds of a picture and I use LGB and she and B filters and
how important is the the light the the light image because uh we without
filter and I I want to show you how why because
when you stack the the channels there she and being
you get a color image but I want to show you the the difference
when you apply the the alive
uh we go with a with this parameter so it's just for
showing you and you can see the difference
of the information by adding the uh the no filter
image yeah you're using it as a luminance
layer right yeah the Luminous layer and the the colors
we will do a a really fast processing just to show you can do even with uh
very well that's good oh yeah so I I used to uh
small processing uh a process a leading once process so
uh but here we have the the picture that makes
some contrast with the chords and some saturation
and it's it's really nice and and it's important to show
those guys who are starting that even with a guide and planetary camera you
can get uh beautiful images this is some saturated I have a lot of noise because
the the city lies and and was a small time of integration maybe half an hour
or one hour at at most but even that you
can get really nice images using cameras that they're not for this
space stacking for deep deep Sky imagine but it works really really nice
that's great okay thank you so well I have no more
for for sharing I have no time needed for a presentation but I I would like to share this these images
and now let's talk with you and I would say for the for the after party for sure
okay Nico thank you so much man thank you there's a reason why I called it
they call him Nico the hammer because he hammers out great images so it's awesome thank you thank you Maxi
we are we are thinking why we have a quadrant mounts Maxi yeah why did we
spend all that money yeah
I I I I confess that that the today we are working we as a
texting with my with maxi and we are talking Maxie I have a 127
hypochromic uh telescope you like it oh let me hey I'm Maxi of course everything
you say let me think let me think yeah it's a special price you know when we
watched to Nico that say okay I have my what
Maxi now is Maxi text okay steps in the story is is
amazing but yeah absolutely Maxi it started to show you a Galaxy and start
to show a nebula into the Galaxy a planet yes
yes you know yeah that he did with a
smartphone yeah yes yeah what are you using yes my my cell
phone old smartphone smartphone yeah yes old one yeah yeah
that's awesome it's great well gentlemen uh we are going back up
from Argentina all the way up to uh Michigan uh which I I don't know how
many miles away that is but uh it's thousands of miles and um Adrian Bradley
is here to share more of his amazing nightscapes with us so Adrian you've got
the stage well uh I was going to surprise everybody since
I'm here with the Argentinian contingent I was going to uh
read uh little Spanish I know or reading online
so uh so uh
um
well in Argentina since there's an Italian no yeah
you only need to work so I want to know
and we will be there is beer it's beer
all right well it's the only thing that you need to know yeah I will I will come
back speaking fluent Spanish all right so
so this crazy image here just shows that sometimes you can you can go too far in
processing your night sky images but this little streak is uh
and I'm just now seeing this little streak has all of the uh ear markings of a meteor
that photobombed the image and what I find in night sky Imaging meteors tend
to photobomb these images a lot and so the images that I'll share
are going to be images in which a meteor photobombed the image this is the one of
the more apparent cases where you see a definite sign that you have a meteor
here um it's one of it's one of those lucky captures where I was looking away someone says did you see that meteor and
then this one popped out um there were other instances
this one just pointing up at the sky seeing if I can track well
and here we are with like three different types of lines this is obviously the Delta common it's a plane
we call it the Delta Comet because it's either Delta or we call it the United Comet the names of the Airlines and then
you have this streak here which could be a smaller plane or
something else it's a steady Line This streak isn't the steady line
and it gets brighter and then it gets dimmer and has all the Hallmarks of a
meteor so here we are pop just aiming up at the skies and meteor shows up so when
your night sky Imaging sometimes it's just luck of the draw if you get a meteor or not and it also
excuse me and it also um depends on if you are watching your scene like this
looks like a straight line here um I remember the great David Levy wasn't sure that this was a meteor just
because of the way it looked um as it so happens I watched this meteor travel into the field of view
when I was taking this image so that's how I know it's a meteor um that and the fact that it tails off
here it was heading southerly towards this part of the sky
so sometimes the only way you know if you've got a meteor is if you uh if you look at it closely here's uh
at a uh not such a dark Park it's a nature preserve that gets to about portal five
or six and here you have something streaking right through the core of the Milky Way
um with me tracking you get those lines here a little thinner and a little bigger
here it's your your Hallmark sign of a meteor now this interesting line here
I haven't I'm thinking this is something more along the lines of a uh plain I
actually saw a satellite as well and you've got another line over here
so you just you never know when you're taking your images meteors especially if you're in Darker
places meteors just tend to show up here's another shot over a lake
with a definite meteor and look we've got two streaking in parallel
so it's sometimes you get some coincidences when you're shooting
um sometimes the meteors just make the uh photo
right here on the edge check it out yep you've got something that
shows all signs of being a meteor just as I'm finishing the exposure
it creeps into the image uh let's see here's
a lot of times if you're in Darker places you will capture meteors they'll
be faint so they'll be small traces like this one faint and then a little brighter this
was during the perseids last year or what was it this year it was during the perseids and um there were plenty of
meteors to see now of course we've got the light of m33 here all those beautiful pictures of m33 when you shoot
wide field all you get is a little bitty Speck there's an NGC object here got it but I
got it yep the light shows up there's double cluster I like seeing the clouds like partially lit and moving
against the you know the the storm of the Milky Way as it's going you know
across the field yes beautiful yeah yes and um notice how they're lit up here
because even though this site is rather dark the clouds are illuminated by light
so you actually I'm going to look for Scott really
quickly I should have another one of those images that you like
um well this is you can't see meteors in here but you can see the Milky Way even though it's
really really cloudy oh yeah look at how bright the Milky Way is that was
something that uh really caught my attention somewhere in here I thought I had some
images um but I am not seeing them there's images
I have of the Milky Way among clouds and um I think they're in here
this is one of them
there you go these clouds are all dark yeah because there's no light you know
there look at this clouds at the upper right hand side and it's just a lot of
drama there it's really cool yeah thank you yep and this is at uh Camp
Billy Joe is a uh it was a Christian Camp so the cross is here
um I know in our astronomy uh world we have all all different types of um folks
who you know come from different backgrounds and what ties us all together as uh human beings is looking
at looking at the night sky and knowing that
um we all come from the Stardust produced out there and uh Adrian I mean
the the um the connection right you're showing you're connected yes to both both you
know you've said this before yeah you have a cloud you have the terrestrial you have the planet Earth and our life
and then you have the the you know our galaxy nebulosity uh nebulosity in our
atmosphere nebulosity space uh yeah it's it's awesome it's uh this really is a
really good to your point about the connection that we have yeah now I forget this may have
actually only taken me eight seconds to create too um with a real fast wide open lens but
yeah it shows that connection that's exactly what I tried to do with this this is taken at a focal length at which
we see which is around 50 millimeters we tend to see clearly if you if you think
about blinders we see um clearly in front of us at about 50
millimeters of a uh focal length and that's what I took this image with so
this is looking up at the sky and seeing it with your own eyes this is looking into the South right yes
it's looking yeah directly south it's it's remind me the perspective what we see is when we see it at the Carolina
and yeah across it's mostly like like that you know it's like kind of
perspective yeah yeah yeah go ahead I'm sorry that this was for me the the
same that I pay attention because where is this and this is a lagoon nebulence
in the middle yes the TripIt is covered pretty barely see
some of it yeah and then you've got I think M16 and m17 yes
there's there's an object right
this may be of seven I know that the uh no no from here
there's Antares right here no this is not Antares I'm Antares is covered by the mountain yeah
it's a big third cluster yeah so yeah there's one
here there's yeah that you see that that and then you have above that of course is the Omega uh Eagle Nebula yes right
and then and of course below you have the right prominent is of course the uh
Lagoon nebula yeah so I think you're right the Sagittarius star cloud must be
it must be the one on the bottom left below the moon I can't remember if it's below it I have to check but there's
like I'll tell you what I have this image
okay and this is this is when there were no clouds covering it
so we might be able to see it in here this is probably my deepest image yeah
that's a Sagittarius star Club between the uh halfway between the Lagoon and the eagle
just south of the Omega that's the Sagittarius starcloud okay so this
region over here and you have the Royal puke the nebula yeah over here yeah
here we have this at uh in in the in this near to the Senate it's incredible
delicious you need to turn upside down yes flip it around it was looking more
like this
yeah well northern hemisphere um so let's see so where do we go from
there um that isn't the image I wanted to show I
wanted to show well here's another it's another version of it that I took
um but the image that I replaced that with
the one that I wanted to show let's see okay this one um with all these streaks in it
and here you have whoa It's amazing now this is taken with
no um and this goes on and on and on this
is the Sony yeah there is a lot of
no no the chaining one at the left you have more
here you have a radiant here and yes at the left
you can just take a picture like this and then just come in yeah
yeah this one this was a 24 megapixel camera here I'm looking for and I
thought I had for you all the uh let's see a similar
um image but very few streaks let's see I open this one
this is the one that everyone liked I'll close this once we saw it um
and we saw this we saw the meteor here
there's a there's meteors in almost every shot that I take and I can
the H Alpha version of it if I go to
um let's see
so very similar photo I got a streak this time but not as many
streaks here and this is with the H Alpha modified so you might see more
now the the Precision is still and you know there's still a
little bit of star trailing this was 30 seconds and I was fighting with my mount and doesn't get quite as clear as you
you as you go further down but you do still have
a little bit of the cat's paw it shows up better it shows up better on that other image
um this is basically a wide field um the other image we were looking at
let's see here I think the cat yeah look uh the cat's
paw is a little cleaner here this is this is just a little bit of a cleaner image
and you can see all of the Clusters you all were bringing out and the plane that
appears to have crossed through but this is a stacked image it there's four different images here and I stacked them
I got dust Lanes in the lagoon
these pictures is especially this area that you're in front right now you you can see
like thousands and thousands of stars in front of the dark and nebulosity and
then we already know that there are many that we cannot even see right yeah like
our sun you wouldn't be able to even see at these distances but yet you have this
massive speckling in front of this dark nebulosity and then of course never mind the glow of which is basically millions
and millions of stars of the the tour of a galaxy incredible I mean you can just
get an idea the nervous system or the the yeah yeah this is our milk of our
galaxy this is the galactic center right here this is awesome this is this is what we
are we are all orbiting around um
and of course if I were to go find a picture of m87 even this massive structure
and Us in it I think this is your Sagittarius Cloud right here
um yeah we're all orbiting let's see what see what we get if I go in uh it breaks
down we don't the dust Lanes aren't quite uh
that good but I could see it making some
that velocity out and then as we well you can clearly see the the shape of the Eagle Nebula up there and then the Omega
nebula down there you know so this is the Omega this one's the Omega and this one's the eagle that's the eagle yep yep
okay yeah barely it's like it there in this I
think this region right
definitely not precise but the light shows up but like I said I'm not kidding you know
as as you know as terabytes uh pictures and and higher image sensors come out
uh you'll be able to take higher you won't need long focal length telescopes
anymore you'll just be yeah look there's there's your uh dust line to the triffid
yeah yeah this is taken these are I think my Canon 6D uh there's
four one minute exposures I have more but in order to process them even better
than this um I'll need some darks and some flats and get with Gary and or you guys say I
want to take this data I mean just with four four of the the one minute exposures I
took um I ended up with this and yeah before I end my uh presentation
I want to show specially you Scott this is the first image
with the ixos that's a great first picture
first picture all right you could see all the Lambda
orionis aka the afro how many uh
I like to pretend I can see the witch head here but it's not defined I mean
this is and you know this is through this was an opening in clouds right and uh so this so you have these
Stars uh Beetlejuice however we pronounce it and uh Bellatrix
in the Madera three stars here that if I can see it I call it the best
of Orion I don't know if it has an official name but the darker the sight
the easier it is to see these three stars I believe they're magnitude six
or they're either magnitude five or six they don't show up unless you're at a
dark enough spot and here's another interesting Factor about this photo I'm
shooting over this is a giant Lake that's a lake or that's Canada where
this light is emanating from across the lake in the distance um the way that I with the lids I used
it it kind of curved here but it is a wide angle lens now I noticed
that the clouds over here are darker where the Beehive is they're kind of
obscuring the Beehive right here m44 the clouds are darker than the ones over
here and I reasoned that these clouds are sitting directly over the lake
where there's the man-made light is not shining on them so they're behaving a
little more like dark site clouds that they just kind of flow in and they shroud
um whatever they're covering whereas these clouds are on there over the shore where
there's plenty of light to illuminate them and so it's like you're seeing a tale of
two different uh portal zones almost um when there's little light it's how
the clouds look when there's a lot more light your Sears clouds look like this
so beautiful yeah with that I'm going into my presentation thank you very much
thank you all for letting me share my work
when you track your pictures and it's incredible how you can make zoom and you
have all the stars like points it's it's yeah exchange congratulations uh thank
you the new Mount yep we'll continue working with it and
um I'll be working with trying to do some composite images
um yeah to yeah and get longer longer exposures
and then combine them with a single exposure for the uh you know for the
image and then lay them on top of each other so we'll yes we'll see how the we'll see how it goes but uh you have
some pretty good equipment there Scott now I gotta now I gotta start adding the
skill of the astronomer that that you know you can have you know we just try to build some equipment that uh is
reliable you know and uh yeah you know so that's you know it um it went okay
until it got too cold for my uh tablet that I was using to run the mount then
the tablet shut down but they are working in a in a in a next uh up next
um software application for cell phones I know that
is now in the beta version yeah because the smartphone kept going
it'd have been nice to just take over with the smartphone there yeah you're keeping it in your pocket you're keeping
it warm yeah but
yeah great okay oh the Great Red Spot is visible in Jupiter right now for those
that are um out there looking up my watch just told me so so uh go look at the Great
Red Spot those of you that are uh looking uh using your telescopes
all right love your uh you have a real Arsenal you're building your all your you're uh
your uh skills and everything and it's uh it's really nice to see thank you a lot of astrophotographers
and I'll let you move on they're swearing whenever I show a picture with that Sony camera versus my uh Canon
camera they tend to tell me the Sony camera has a cleaner look to it so I
wonder if there's something to that and I'm gonna I'll be taking some more images with both and seeing now the lat
the one that you saw that was stacked that was uh the Canon and uh you know
it's the modified for ha and I thought it did a pretty clean job so so I guess
it depends anyhow uh back to you Scott great thank you so much well up next is
uh Dr Marcelo Souza uh up in Brazil uh he is um I've been working very uh
diligently with the young astronomers of tomorrow uh and uh
um and also uh with a national park that's there in Brazil
where they're trying to protect Dark Skies so great to have you back on Marcelo
foreign
first I would like to thank my sort of manifest my solidarity about what's
happening in the United States and the
Forest ever when we hear about this kind of presence we are very
concerned about your life now I hope he now
in United States you don't have a lot of tragic languages
I I wish I know it's quite the informations about one person that lived
in our city in the beginning of the 20th century
few people know about him and you see how important it was his
contribution for astronomy here is his name is
thank you and let me see if I can change here
1874 and in June said 98 he was accepted
as a member of the associated
and he was friends of Camille flamario
and he he was living in campus our city here in Brazil you can imagine in the beginning of the
20th century it was very difficult to have contact with
other places from campus that the seats that is far from the Edition here the
famous city of Brazil and he sent a parts to the
uh the magazine of the uh the French instrument was on side from
1980 to 1918. and he died in September 1969 in our
city I have showed contributions that he sent to the
uh here was he was indicated for the
Astronomical Society by Camille flamario
here is when he was he
he here is the publish a publication of the some Society in June 3rd 198 right
and Camille from Mario all that indicated him to participate in the
Astronomical Society of Friends and he was leaving yes and he he's he he
works in uh in nowadays is the mail service or
in this period was in May of severity and results I don't know if he is correct correct in English that is
telegraphy is this that you say in English that you have in the past to send a
message he worked in Gmail services in Brazil
wow what he did here you can see uh Amy Says
from campus Brazil observing uh 50 October the conjunction
okay between Mars and loon and the moon 6
October the Hawaii is very near the mass Saturn and the Moon and they are also in
11 to 12 V of October a conjunction of Venus in Egypt
he said Audi from where that he observed from the city of campus in a in a place
that was far from downtown you can imagine what is this in 1908
and this is one of the most important observation that he sent to the to these
foreign
1910 why is the lifestyle also the observation of the Comets wow here you
see our observation that he made from campus since he begins to observe the
observation in May 18th and he observed until June 13.
that's fantastic and so historical I mean uh you know I was as as uh you
brought this up I started searching on the internet and it was not easy to find information about him so
yes a few people know about him even he all said here I really did a research
and here is something that is fantastic from him he sent contributions to the
Sonoma Society of France during the war the first World War and here is a message to the Friends
Society they are thinking who to send the a supplement for the
contribution that everybody sends every year Society of Friends this is a message
from in 1917 yeah you see few people in the world
here yes that they they considered as friends and you have here
and here again in 1919 well they thank you
try to help that's they sent to the assalam Society of France
it is in Brazil the astronomy here in Brazil
in disputes most of the astronomers that work in
Brazil live in Hinduism here that's its capital there was a
place that they just runs Society of France had most of the Brazilian members
the second seat briefing members in Brazil was accomplished after his
engineer and you're having other big centers in Brazil due to the participation of the thing
because he he indicated many members from our city to participate in the
society Astronomical Society of France all right the second seat in the beginning of the 20th century in Brazil
with members in just another Society of France that was one of the most most
famous Society in the spirit amazing he he changed the message with Camille from
Mario I mean family all sends a a letter I
didn't find this letter he this letter but his son who wrote a book
and one of the information that he was in this book because say that Camille
family all said that he was the sixth amateur astronomers of the words most
important I didn't find this letter but this son
who wrote in his book about his father are here to prove that was the last
observation of the Comets he was a publication in the horizontal Society of
Canada 1979 and he said that
was last date with that instrument that he asked
utilizing until June 13 in Brazil the association of Community Center
he was the last person in the world to report the observation of the commentary in 1910.
fantastic so by by with no telescope right no no
he he has a telescope here oh he did okay yes yeah I don't know if he observed you with a telescope until June
13th okay I get it now I see but he has that he has telescope in
Brazil I I don't know if he used to see the comments highly because he I I need to
read the report that he posted in the the magazine after some Society of
friends but he he had a telescope and that is a special observation you
know uh being the last one to see it uh yes the Halley's comment in 1910 was
feared around the world because they had recently discovered that there was Cyanogen gas in in the tail and that the
Earth was going to pass through the tail and so there was uh lots of uh uh you
know Comet pills uh Comet uh gas masks Comet all kinds of stuff to try to
survive this because some people really did think that that was going to be the end of humanity you know so uh but I
think that this observation was about instruments because I I because I think
that with instruments it was possible to see it later I think that I'm almost
sure that's why I'm servicious without the instruments observation
but you see what's Pope said you know reports about the visibility of jalis
comments that they say that he was the last report of the observations comments
well any I don't know who I after 1918
he didn't send any new reports to GSM Society of Friends
in 1918 after this I didn't find any parts
I don't know what's happening because I don't have information from his family I
talk with many members of a family but most of the sons are
I think that now of them already dead
so there are no more no more relatives no nothing nothing about him only what
I'm showing here this is the only picture of him that's it because they
said that they lost everything including his telescope yeah
I try to find many things about him but I I have the certificate a quarter of
the certificate that he is even profess when he was accepted in the Assam
Society of France it's it's very nice for you to honor him uh and to uh you know bring back the
memory of this important astronomer that's great yes in few people know about him in
Brazil no and this is something I think that's the most important
because he worked alone here on campus
he motivated many people to participate in actives of astronomy he did Outreach
activities in these periods that's why I appeared that you don't have people putting telescope in the
streets to City but I talked with his grandson
daughter and she said that she remembered he
invites everybody to look to the sky with him in his telescope
I think fantastic a great contribution personally
and this is the images of the activities we
realized him with you as part of the project and we started off tomorrow this Wednesday
we will have a ceremony to because he we chose
five students from six seats of your adhesion to
participate in the thing of the project there are students from the fundamental
schools and High School from our reason we visited school during three months
and it shows five students to participate in the team and tomorrow we
we will have a ceremony well to
present these students and to show the results that you have we had during the
actives of the project this year we are going to continue next year into October
but now we have a team with nine students these are the name of the
students from five differences one of the seats we
have only five scholarships for the students oh wow all
the scholarships wise
offered by the West consulate United States consulates scholarships
and then we're having 90 students five from high school and fundamental schools
and the fourth that's a University students that you
receive supports from the United States consulates here in Hinduism
now we have a a big thing and we are
will show we produce the first app
for astronomy we produce an app to foreign
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developed here that is an app I will show and next time is an app that allow
people to send the reports about Job salvation of valuable stars in Brazil
and we also give it every week you show a picture with the magnitude of the
Stars near of the variable stars for they for them to make a test but to
estimate the magnitudes of Vista then this is the project that you we are
developing and a problem in next and next week we
will have a fantastic new the most important news of the efrs then I
believe that soon we have many people visit us I hope so I hope so too that's
that's great that's great well that was a very interesting presentation martello thank you and um
I'm glad that uh as I said before I'm just really glad that you were able to
uh to show some of this information occasionally we find uh such amateur
astronomers in the United States too that were important did important uh
work but uh almost no one knows who they are you know so it's it's useful I think
to um something that's important I I visited
here with the audience papers here in our
seats and I didn't find any mention about doing this paper
even during the observation of the Highlight comments um you don't have any information about the
Indian newspaper even when they were independent that people were observation
observing the Harley quality he is mentioned in the
um I I sent you a link uh in chat and I I sent the audience a link of his
observation from uh Harvard uh University
so apparently it somehow made it through into Harvard's uh data wow great yeah
I found him yeah oh wow fantastic interesting very interesting he's famous
outside Brazil now yes it is he was the
last one that's observed the the Harley Quinn by naked eye this I think that is
is a is a true information man that's it was the last one to see the chromatology
naked eye without instruments that's wonderful thank you very much
guys nice to meet you on my channel thank you huge pleasure to be here yes and um uh behind me over here is the
telescope that your students will be using we we have been doing uh upgrades to it
and everything so uh I look forward to getting the uh object list that they
wish to image and uh we will start the work serious students have access I will
announce tomorrow there okay sounds good thank you okay thank you so much thank
you all right so uh where are we we have um
uh um I think that we are now going to take uh about a 10 minute break and um
uh uh or uh no actually let's have Cameron come on uh Cameron uh it's been
a it's been a while since you've been on global star party I'm really glad that you I mean you were here during the
entire event so that's that's wonderful and uh com giving us commentary and stuff uh so let's uh let's turn the
camera and the stage over to Cameron Gillis and camstronomy one more time
hey thanks a lot yeah am I muted no you can hear me right nope we can hear you yes excellent great
I I have two sessions open one is my uh my uh phone and then the other one is my
desktop I'm actually uh on a work trip right now uh in Denver so normally on my
home is Seattle but you know thanks to Scott and explore
scientific and this awesome virtual star party we can do this anywhere you know
anytime and uh this I'm very happy to uh to join I have been um definitely
following along uh on all the uh the global star parties even though I haven't been uh online all the time uh
but uh it's great to be here I've just been very very busy with work but uh it
was a great opportunity to come back so it's great to see everyone again and I look forward to uh
sharing my latest adventures and um let me share my screen here
okay foreign so basically uh let's just go
and put this in presentation mode here so Global start party 76. so I wanted to
just Dive Right In and and just you know in the last six months uh I I really I've been in a visual
Observer for all my life and uh in the last year
and a lot of credit I Gotta Give Scott this community here uh you know Jerry uh
Kent and of course all my colleagues on this call uh really got me motivated
and you've said this before Scott the Golden Age of astronomy right I mean
we're in it we're in it right now I mean we've got we've got a spacecraft touching the Sun and we've got
spacecraft and Interstellar space uh we'll be on the moon again very soon
um we have Rovers crawling around on Mars and uh yes uh it's
it just makes my head spin really you know and we have the James Webb Space Telescope finally getting launched uh it
is just an incredible time the next week yeah I mean I've got I've got both
fingers you know my fingers crossed my toes cross my eyes crossed yeah I'm gonna be holding my breath until that
thing gets up into space and then unfurled so right on right on no it's it's it's it's great I mean uh and you
know I look at this and you know what full disclosure I mean these are not
you know this is not by any means professional or anything but I don't know about you but when I was thumbing
through astronomy magazine in 80s and 90s if I saw pictures like this I'd be like wow you know you know it's pretty
awesome so I mean to be able to do this um I I I am so happy that more people
can can uh you know take this journey and make the big transition from uh you
know Visual and complement that with uh with uh with uh digital astrophotography
it's it's really cool and to be able to share this and share our experiences
and each goes around one personal Journey so this is just a collage of uh
you know the last really three to four months of of a couple of
the highlighted images I've done learning stuff like you know stacking
um you know uh darts Flats calibration for frames getting my equatorial my access to I've
only had it for a couple of months and uh you know doing uh guiding and
learning about polar alignment all that kind of stuff um which you know I I've known about
I've learned about but after watching a lot of the shows seeing what you know everyone's doing kind of getting enough
confidence to be able to do it myself and uh and uh yeah I wanted to kind of
um show in my setup now you know I kind of went backwards most people start with
a wide field like you know what Adrian's doing is is really cool with the wife feels you get a really nice survey you
got the a lot of you're able to frame the picture really nice uh but I I I had
ended up with the Schmidt Castle green that just after cool good uh struck in 2020. I got this C8 on an altazimuth
Mount before inventory shortages were hit and then uh and then I got uh so I
started doing LT azimuth's uh go-to pictures like 30 second exposures and
get an astro image camera and then now I have the xs2
and uh learned about Auto guiding because you absolutely need that when you have a high focal length and um even
though the image the uh the image scale and the and the uh you
know it's a 1300 uh millimeter focal length it's really zoomed in a lot of
these are but I love galaxies I love nebula but I love galaxies so this is
perfect setup for me and uh as you can see even with m33 it's kind of really
cropped in but but you managed to get a lot of stuff so anyway what I'm gonna go
through is this like a mini tour of a couple of the latest ones um and a
little bit about some of the things I've learned along the way and I'll jump back and forth to um my favorite Safari app
so we can kind of do a little exploration and give you some context for each of those pictures
um so uh just let me just skip ahead so 7331
I love this galaxy I remember seeing it in my 18 inch uh dub a number of years
back and it's so fun to see these companion galaxies on the side and if we
go to um let's see I'm just going to move this out of the way give me a second
move this thing out of the way yeah moving down here I guess
uh how do I get this thing diary and I
I'm Auto hide this thing anyway I'll move it down here okay so this is uh October 29th okay so this is the
earliest we'll go back uh on at that all right yeah 8 30. so if I go to Sky
Safari and I go to uh
I'm gonna move this out of the way again sorry about this everyone
all right so it'll be October
and it's uh
I gotta find out how to get rid of this thing sorry sorry for me uh I'm gonna hide video panel yet
physical
eye floating yeah there we go okay sorry it was just this thing wasn't really blocking what I can see okay so uh
uh 10 31 so let's go and this will be smoother now so 10 31
in the evening so let's go backwards 10 31.
and then October 29th so
nice and this is 7331
I go this galaxy is magnitude 9.25 quite
bright so even a smaller telescope can can see it uh 15 or 47 million light years away
and it's um yeah it's uh very nice it's in the
constellation of uh Pegasus I'm going to zoom right in so let's go
Center on object and zoom in so we're just in the northern part of
the uh Pegasus here and it also has a nice friendly neighbor called Stefan's quintet so if you have a
higher aperture if you have a challenging image that's a beautiful thing to image but I always Focus
because of my Limited oh and you can see the image scale let me just kind of show you what I got here
is so uh the inner square is my I have I'm using a
a ASI air 183 uh Pro
um so MC probe so I recently got a cooled camera so that is a very narrow
field of crop sensor so that's the image the equivalent optically is putting a a
13 millimeter naggler on Native focal length of 2000 so so
that gives me gives you an idea of kind of a narrow field of view it's about half a degree
and then this larger uh image here is taking that same camera 183 and putting
it on an 8080 which has a 480 millimeter focal length just to give so when I have
my 8080 I'll be able to take a wider shot and I frame both step and print that 7331 nicely and then optically uh
that would be like putting uh the 13mm angler on the 8080 and this large
beautiful wide field that visual image circle is putting my Explorer scientific
40 millimeter 68 degree um image so it has like a five degree
so kind of like binoculars if you will uh gave you an idea so so as you can see
as I was mentioned earlier you know starting with a focal length of you know
uh Schmick has eight inch massaging with I have a focal reducer so it's 13 plus
1280 uh um millimeter focal length that's pretty long and there's a lot of
challenges that come with that we need Imaging including you know periodic error you know drift uh
technique pull the right alignment there's a lot of things that I needed to do to be able to do these images and
they're not the greatest pictures but at least I have uh the the fundamentals so
that now I can start to make nicer pictures I spend more time at it so
anyhow that's 7331 so let's go back to the picture
and uh this is a stock a livestock snapshot three times three minutes so I
only got three minute exposures but the significance is now I can track about 30
seconds uh so that's good so there's nice round Stars another thing I'm learning about there's a nice little
Galaxy up here too another thing I'm learning about is you know I might want
to because of the image scale I might want to bend uh two by two for example 183 has a very small pixel size so it's
like probably half an arc second uh which is which you really want to put between one to two Arc seconds so I'm
figuring I'm probably going to go two by two binning and I'm going to have to redo all my calibration frames but these
are all the things I've been learning over the last couple of months but this is my initial shot again only nine minutes of total
integration time here is uh n33 photobombed you know
we're all worried about uh yeah you know starlink and all that kind of stuff but you know nothing beats a 747 crossing
the path um and uh yeah beautiful nice streak
here nice and straight you know clean but you know what's cool is as bright as that is look at this the Galaxy still
shines through so I'm happy you know but it's kind of interesting to see that so I'm going to begin
and a day later and I at this time I really wanted to push them up so let's
uh to the long period so let's uh let's actually before I go to this image
go to m33 here
and Center on that guy so that's in the constellation of
triangulum and if you look at again see the image scale this props it down so again in Eda
you would be a beautiful frame right you get nice proportionally but one third of
the size so you know I can't wait when we have the ed80 it's going to be this
shot's going to be beautiful but for now pretty darn good you can get a lot of detail uh you know this is over this is
exactly an hour of integration time and I wanted to really test the tracking and
the you know my guiding and uh if you can
see up here that my guiding you'll notice I I have the diagrams and all of
these pictures I'm typically around one or around one or a second with RMS
with both the uh right Ascension and declination so sub Arc second in any one
axis but the total tangential uh drift
um is is within one Arc second still pretty darn good so good enough considering seeing conditions
um so I'm I'm happy you know I I can definitely do better but uh but I figured that
because of my image scale and because of atmospheric I'm usually getting around two Arc seconds uh this this is very
very good um and good enough right that's that's the whole point of that is to be able to
pull our line quickly enough and get uh the maximum capability based on scene
conditions so so this one here I blew it out as you can see but I'm really happy
to be able to see all the nebulosity a bit grainy I can probably uh you know
the next thing I'm going to probably start doing is uh dithering where you know you can basically offset the noise
uh and and cancel it out uh we snap so uh that will help as well but you know
it's it's pretty good um then let's go to 891
I love NGC oh yeah
this is a beautiful galaxy yeah NGC 4565 or just you know
they're just science fiction like galaxies they're just you know so beautiful
oh yeah and what's really neat it's kind of it's a very Ghostly Galaxy so yeah
it's very sensitive to light pollution but boy oh boy if you can get to a dark sky it's a 3D it's like it's it's uh
it's awesome I mean did you ever get a chance to look through a large job in a
dark side go go to check this out you're gonna love it it's uh it's also in a very rich star field as well so it
really pops out and it's like poof and you really see this dust plane very well
pronounced it's quite large too uh as you can see the 13x3 arc making that's huge and uh and it's bright but it's
spread out so it's very low surface brightness um 32 million more years away yeah yeah
yeah and uh so here's my image only two five minute exposures I was having some
problems with uh with my guy and I realize that when you when I was I didn't do the polar
alignment it's so great what happened is um you know I was still getting around one second
of uh deviation on my my tracking but but uh what was happening is
uh somehow the uh resolving was not good so it would drift out and um I
attributed that to uh I have to re-calibrate my guiding depending if I
make a huge swing in declination uh that changes the the rate in which um The
Guiding has to track so I needed to uh I needed to okay basically compensate for
that I didn't do that here but author of Lessons Learned right so this is only 10 minutes but foil you know pretty nice
you know and you can see the other thing on 10 30 let's take a look at 10 30 at 2
what happened there so that's so Center on this guy so here's the 891
it's up in Andromeda and uh if you take a look at its specs
I think we already looked at 32 million light years spoke illegal so if I look
at the date um it was second year so that was October 30th so
at uh 10 25. yeah it's good enough okay so if we look
at this let's see where the moon was well the moon wasn't in there okay so it
must have been uh you can see there's a little bit of offset my my
you can kind of see this brightness here I think this was because it was getting close there's a neighbor
light um that's in that direction and uh I didn't uh do my calibration frames
so I think that's the reason why there's a bit of shift on this uh brighter and the right bottom right anyhow let's
continue uh cocoon nebula so this is my image let's go to ic-45146
or we can just look for a cocoon
there you go there it is 195146
uh quite a bit uh you know bright but very diffused uh
bright in terms of over absolute magnitude but they're very very diffuse it doesn't show the distance for some
reason here but uh this is a beautiful object very uh subtle difficult to see
visually and also difficult to photograph by the way if I Center on it so it's a good if you're back in cygnus
but I wanted to do um if we take a look at the time that I took this picture it was 10 31 at 23 23 so
10 31 23 20.
well I was doing a swing as good enough so you can see I'm past the meridian and
it was overhead so uh this is part of the fun about having an equatorial amount I don't have
to worry about Zenith uh like normally um you know I all these images that were
passing over Zenith to me before I had my equatorial amount my my autism it was
basically a dead zone you can't really use too much image rotation in it basically the mount is craps out um it
just won't work uh above 60 degrees altitude but once you got the equatorial
oh I'm swinging all over the place I'm getting everything in its prime location directly over Zenith and then anyhow
continuing with the kahun nebula Center on that again um
zoom in passing cygnus on the Far Eastern side
and let's talk about so this was at 20 minutes of a total
exposure and you can see a little bit of the danger darker night velocity you see some a little bit of color texture but
here's an example where I really think two by two binning would really help because the stars are really bloated and
uh and because of the signal to noise that you want to and the weld that you want to be able to take advantage of
more pixels per minute uh per per area
um so that will that's what I'm gonna have to try out but this is
then I did something completely different I went to the double cluster so uh
sorry 100 as a double
yeah that's good so it is equal to 869
these guys are only six and a half point eight thousand light years away so obviously with our galaxy much closer
very bright beautiful beautiful Audrey wonderful and I love to um I want to get
really good at and this is in the constellation of Perseus right on the right between
halfway between the tip of Perseus and Cassiopeia you can just basically when
you're using binoculars just go to the end of this triangle go to the W and
then bang it's right there so beautiful object nice to find and then you you frame this and you can see this is where
needy 80 comes in beautifully just it would frame nice but long focal length telescopes have a tough time seeing both
and that really impacts your overall experience but what I did is I made two
pictures uh each uh 4 by 30 seconds
and uh and it shows the star colors nice um I kind of overlap them you can see
there are different uh not not only very nicely um but uh you know again with two by two
bidding uh that will really make it even more beautiful but uh just a beautiful
cluster I move to M1 as you can see we're moving gradually
the east as the sky and the seasons progress
also my number please go down dramatically in the Pacific Northwest
um so I'll take anything even if there's a moon out and that's what all these getting to so
M1 now we're in Taurus and if I look at that guy
again famous Supernova regular uh Remnant that
discovered in 1054 I even remember that year Chinese astronomers and we've seen
the cool animation of this guy uh the 10-year animation of photographs that's amazing
I mean that's just awesome it continues to expand so just think over a thousand
years it went from a star to this that yeah and you're going to
continue to see this you know in another thousand years right you know it's been
start to look like uh you know the cygnus loop or something nice is Big yeah yeah
and then uh it's only six uh yeah it's around the six thousand in the thousands of light years is all within our galaxy
arms uh so that's cool uh pretty right but it's it's large enough to be kind of
diffuse but very pronouncing but it's very sensitive to um to Moonlight
um and if I go to my this is only two times five minutes to go as the same tracking area where it was having plate
solving issues um but anyhow um you can see some filaments you know it's not the best picture but uh you
know it was uh at least I could see the filaments which you definitely have uh
you need a large scope to be able to see that uh but you will see kind of like this patchiness as a great patch it was
a pronounced s shape uh usually even in a smaller scope I think six inches
pretty good a eight inch of course very clear um okay and of course the Orion Nebula we
all love it um it's going m42
foreign
uh yeah it's 1.4 000 light years away very super bright four magnetic this is
like an amazing object you can see it with the your you can even take snapshot
probably with your uh your smartphone if you zoom in uh you know you can see this with binoculars even Moon lit you can
see the inner part of the nebulosity super easy um but it's an interesting test because
there's such dynamic range of nebulosity here that uh and we all know that the
center around the trapezium gets blown out that's why visually it is oh yeah so
easily yeah you can easily blow it out so I tried to get to the threshold where I'm not blowing it you can barely see
the trapezium this is only 30 SEC Subs and you can see how smooth it is because
your signal to noise is blown out of the water so you don't you hardly have any noise
um this is only 30 seconds so but in order to get the outer nebulizer you're going to have to blow this guy out so
this shows you how amazing our eyes are right when you see them visually especially in a large scope you can see
all this filamentary structure and more um and and and the trapezium and
everything very beautiful detail um and so you know eventually I can
imagine you know Imaging systems that allow Dynamic uh matrixing of uh dynamic
range so that you can kind of do what the Hubble Space does right where you can take a wide image and it just has
that ability to have that dynamic range and not blow things out
um but anyhow um with with some sort of transform um but this is my image uh only a minute
and a half and then I took another one and where I blew it out and I wanted to
see what that does and this is just a single uh one minute sub and uh but you can see the field of view
it's it's framed it's a little bit I love this um I especially love this thing you can see visually this this uh
reflection This Cloud uh with an eight inch pretty easily um that's such a satisfying thing to see
and of course you can see this with its kind of like poke holes here
I love this uh this little angular uh piece here and of course uh how the Arms
Reach Out it's just a beautiful and you can even see this part here with an eight inch on a moonless night
um so you start to see a lot of that uh but anyhow this is my my picture everyone's seen it but uh I just wanted
to see mainly to see the dynamic range now we get to my this is something I am
really proud of I know it kind of makes me uh not feel bad but you know there's a
lot of images we'll say oh yeah horse head is the easy thing to image but as I mentioned in previous uh in previous uh
Global star parties I have never seen nor imaged the horse had never this is a
very significant milestone for me personally um to be able to for the very first time
uh have my own image of the horse head and just to give you an idea of the sky
conditions let's actually go uh I have this there's a story behind this so it's
going to be uh November 17th so that's November 17th
remember 17th
and it was at all actually let's go
18th and I'll go backwards 16th
16th and then we'll go forwards uh and it was that
midnight at 12 30 in the morning well yeah around 12 30.
this is actually go to the horse head all right
I said go there
and then basically now what I'm going to zoom back out here
you see where the Moon is the Moon is right
in uh in Aries and and basically that was the clear night and then if I move forward in time
two more days that was when the eclipse the lunar eclipse was now I had cloudy days on
both sides of this image okay so when I dislike you know I was like well I'm
gonna try it you know Moon's out who cares it was really high humidity because of the like I said rainstorms on
both sides I didn't get a chance to see the lunar eclipse but I saw it on the video stream so that was cool uh but but
the Moon uh you know was there and also at 12 it
had already been doing about four hours of Imaging and you know what I was showing you before with a lot of
different stuff so at 12 30 you know the duel was everywhere I had a
dude Shield uh but that didn't matter because the corrector plate was starting to fog up I didn't realize until after I
did the picture how much it was fogged up my guide scope was having Dew dripping on it uh the the uh protection
so so what you're seeing here is 25 minutes
right and I was wondering you see this texture here there's a little bit of
texture on this this is the product of Duke and the Moon
so when when the Dew forms on your corrector plate or on your Optics and
you have a moon uh pointing in One Direction these you'll notice these are tangential or or you know they're
they're perpendicular to the direction that the Moon is the moon is up here to the top right and you can see these
little greens so I found that was rather because I've seen this before in another image I took
uh in another time and uh so this is but this was this is I got it I got the horse head I
could see the stuff and then I took an image again a week later
but this time no the moon was on the other side it was still bad timing if I
go to the 23rd School the 23rd
and it is even worse see the moon is up here now there is a horse head in nebula there is
the Moon yeah and you can see but yeah because he had a
lot of obstacles oh yeah Seattle I mean we could do what
you can yeah that's right but I am so thrilled I I don't care you know I this is not
awesome picture but hey I got the horse head you can see the detail you can see 2023 here you can see uh you know some
of the different you can see dark uh piece here some of the other nebulas you could see how this has a different shade
and you can imagine on a moonless night you know one of these days when maybe
one of these years uh and I and I I start to stack it I do some binning I'm
gonna get a nice shot but I'm just thrilled to be able to actually capture it and I just wanted to share that so um
if I go now my last image is a tribute to our friends in Argentina
I you guys are so lucky you have the sculpture Galaxy I know
you know Maxie was showing it off multiple times it's like yeah no problem it's directly overhead or whatever for
me let me show you where the sculpted so 253 let me search for 253
. oh I have to go NTC 250. sorry
go back and you see
there we go okay super bright right it's bright if you have a high enough off the
Horizon but I'm I'll show you how high it is off the Horizon for me 12 million
light years away pretty close so now we're going to go to it and way down
here this it's at the threshold now I'm going to show you this is with the equatorial amounts mode so it doesn't
show The Horizon let me just quickly turn on the horizon for everyone and you can see I'm gonna go
yeah I'm gonna use this I'm at 47 degrees Yeah that's good and then we go
coordinates yet let's choose Horizon yeah I think that's all I need to do
yeah there we go Okay so let me Center on it again
there we go again what day was this this was um 11 23 at 20 at 1003 Okay so
three ten or three
oh I'm a bit of a delay here
one thing about blue stats it's a little bit slow I I'm going to be getting a new computer and then we'll be faster by
Neil look at how low this is this is only it's only uh very low how many degrees
actually I'm gonna change one more thing gonna go uh
to do telescope for a second
here we go uh alkazam this
yeah this is
yeah see altitude only 14 degrees 14 degrees off the Horizon and I have my
house right here and the neighbor has a light all that kind of stuff you know Wonderful obstacles never mind the rain
and all that and then this is what but I got two two minute Subs sure it's noisy
as heck but boy oh boy there's no chance of doing this visually I can tell you that you know to be able to see the
texture in the in the in that spiral this is it just makes me thrilled I mean
this is beautiful EAA right I mean it's not yeah it's not a work of art but from
a you know from a capability perspective this is just wonderful to be able to do and and have that satisfaction this is
like better than what you can see any chance uh visually um so
that's how I end so thank you so much I know I took some time but it's been a
while and I definitely wow share with everyone yeah it's great great to uh uh you know
and I'll I'll continue to get better but what's happening now is uh very very few
uh clear nights I I haven't had a clear night for a couple weeks now this was my last uh chance but uh that's okay I I
now I'm gonna organize my stuff and um and uh but thank you thank you Scott uh
thank you for making this possible and uh thank you thanks everyone this community is awesome yeah thank you so
much I tell you what what we're going to do is we're going to take a a little bit of
a break and then we're going to come back for some after party and then call it a night okay so uh let's let's take
10 minutes and uh we'll be right back thanks
so Maxie not not not a not as good as your uh uh
sculpture Galaxy but oh you're unmute
oh hey Maxie yeah
now I put my microphone up and it cuts the the signal so what I
told you that you got in camera and you
got you you are taking picture to another galaxy so you feel lucky with that even doing only
one sub that's all exactly yeah yeah it's it's it's it
takes you there uh in the journey and it's uh but the other part is hey that's
how it starts it starts with one sub and then you get better at it and then and
then you can make uh it will only improve right I mean you start to learn uh how to overcome the obstacles and
work in your favor yeah and also when you doing well
when you're starting to uh guiding and take pictures of more time and then when
you stack in it and you do the calibration you you realize
that okay this is the way so uh you you keep still in practice and of
course you you have to too much to do uh without
pictures so even maybe if you having a a
couple of minutes with the cameras that we have in now they are amazing so oh yeah they're
really sensitive yeah yeah you know I I was one I'm wondering when we have again
the the planetary season the next year I can't even imagine
a what you're going to do with that camera at that scope I can
what I'm going to say to you save space in your hard drive disk
why do you think I'm getting a new computer this is completely opposite of taking a
deep sky pictures you are going to do videos
and taking those frames and stacking processing but
in those videos when you process them a
a using for example the software pipp or pip how we call it here and
you will get Maybe what a 40 gigabytes of one video that it
maybe have I don't know a 40 megabytes so
that's why you you gonna you have to to
save space and and see what you get without videos and not do not record
only once because right now you you can
do the rotation with you win shoe boss and also to get more info and get sharp
sharpless the the planets and with that
scope that you have with the focal length and and the the the
aperture that you having oh man no you're right I I for those reasons I
I haven't got into that yet but I I'm learning
you know through osmosis I I'm learning by watching these programs and when you
say pip like I didn't know what that meant before like six months ago but now I know why you need things this is the
thing as you go through this journey you don't just you can get all this
stuff but it's good to know why you're getting the stuff like like tip is what
I've learned and you can correct me if I'm wrong Maxi but basically what pip does is it it actually reduces the
amount of wasted processing it basically makes a box around the uh the planet
uh and and basically uh cuts out all the extraneous video that's black and and
and and basically Pro it stays focused so you basically uh even if you're not tracking it will basically realign I'm
not saying it's going to make the picture smaller but what it does it basically makes the image so that lucky
Imaging can can process it in a standard way um did I get that right
it will get centered but not always
um but if you are doing videos it doesn't matter because
um when you stuck in well I I use a Auto
3.0
version um when you select those frames that of of
course where is the planet and you you mark those points
even if it's the planet in a corner or more down it doesn't matter because it
will get stuck in that place obviously if you are taking pictures of
should be there and you have some moons and the moons get a
a out of that square well you will not get too many information but for if you
have in the the planet there there is no problem yes no you're right then and then what
I'll do is like you say I'll be going to the native focal length right now I'm using an f63 reducer for uh to get the
you know to help with the flatness and getting the maximum field of view but when I go to planetary to your point now
you have to go more full length yeah exactly full focal length and then maybe even a bar level
um and then it's not so critical the tracking I understand since it's video and you're taking really small as long
as it's within you don't even need to worry about uh guiding I guess right I mean it's no no
it does well wait I I was guiding maybe
two or three times I remember but uh you know when I was recording I
remember that the planet was going because of the um this
the lettering configuration is going up and then down
and then down and then up and it's like that like this even
it that I was guiding because it was detailing it was considered I was doing
deep sky pictures so oh you didn't turn off tethering yeah
so but you are recording a recording so it doesn't matter
a of course is you need to get a really good polar alignment and also a remember
that you are having a lot of focal length in the scope so
if you have a little a
bad position of the Polar alignment
maybe in a in a minute it will be out of that a field of view so yeah yeah
yes and and also you will get to find
that Target without focus is very difficult sometimes
but oh yeah you know this is the biggest thing I mean as a visual Observer I mean
you know I used to just use tell rad and uh you know you had a wide field scope
or something so you always had a way to optically and I'd used manual right I wouldn't use even go to I mean so I
could easily adjust and push and adjust quickly but when you're working with imaging system the image scale is
already cropped so it's not the same as an eyepiece so you're already working with a smaller field of view exactly and
then on top of that if you start borrowing it getting rid of the focal reducer yeah I can admit like one little
touch and it's like where the heck yeah you have to to help with the the the the
find the scope yes and that's when you
yeah
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quickly find it yeah yeah well we're back we're back so this
is uh this is officially what we call the after party here and uh
so uh those of you that are still watching uh you know feel free to ask
questions or to interact with our guests um but uh somewhere back there is still
Caesar there he is and Cameron all right of course here Maxie and the other wake
up Nathan's still back there watching or listening or something so all right
so we were just talking about Maxie's is getting me all hooked up on uh all right
good stuff thanks for hanging around so uh we we were just talking about
planetary he's getting me he said hey you have a long pool going fellow smoke you know I'm learning about tracking and
all no problem let's just do a planetarium to start filling up the hard drive
lucky image yeah and also when you process the image uh
prepare to get warm with your PC because it's working
yeah it's going to be giving out a lot of exhaust yeah
no actually I you know that's the thing I I three months ago actually I ordered um
my new um i7 uh you know with SSD hard
drive 16 gig ram you know nice uh nice Pro nice machine but uh guess what uh there's not coming
it hasn't come it's stuck on a ship probably in La um they're flooding I'm pretty sure I'm
pretty sure yeah so uh I I have firsthand experience that
you know one of the worst delays because that's something I really need my I have a very tired four four-year-old
five-year-old computer yeah it's uh I don't even want to tell you it's uh fairly working
so I I I'm doing uh planetary Pro Image processing
or any heavy stacking I'm taking advantage of the line stacking of the
ESI air for now um and but then eventually you know I
guess you could use sharp cap right on your PC to do kind of the same
thing right yeah I I for doing what a planetary or deep Sky
no EAA I mean I I really like the idea of doing live static like basically
taking advantage of CPU power to do this to do the image processing as you're
watching it as you're doing it uh you know so that way when you're finished you say yeah that looks good and then
you save the image you know while you're watching it um I really am a fan of that uh maybe in
that case it's going to be more like well I I don't use live stacking
because you will need a more later the the I I I
I I I don't know how to say it um well the flats the darks uh between that
um prepare for every Subs that you take to to get the the good information you know
the way I have sorry to interrupt you that's exactly so so I've learned is about master master uh uh darks muscle
Flats yes but you can't do Master by uh uh uh sorry a library
yes plus I can only do one flat for some reason I cannot stack and create a
master so I just pick one of my my flats
remember that when you do Flats um if you move your your camera oh yeah if
you rotate it is you saw in my pictures it's because I
rotated the camera yeah it's exactly right it's exactly right yeah and uh but
but what I learned is that uh If instead of doing real time stacking
of let's say 20 darks or 20 bias or 100 bias frames right uh what I do is I
create a master I stack those create a master of each of those and that allows
my Raspberry Pi my low powered ASI air um Pro to actually just deal with the
master and then to your point uh the other thing that you need is you need to have a cooled camera
so that you can you can calibrate do all your your darks and your bias uh at minus 20 degrees Celsius during the day
um yeah which is what I do and then and that's this is I think what uh Molly uh was talking about in another GS GSP she
she does she said every year she does a full set of Master uh darks and master
flat Master flats and master bias she has that library and then you have a whole bunch of images but
then you end up with only a couple three three per configure right one dark one flat and one bias once you have that
uh then you're set you can switch but but you have to this is the other thing
I am very uh uh resistant now to changing my Optical
training I have my telescope set up yeah because I've calibrated it now it's
ready to go I don't want to touch it now I have I don't even want to take out the filter
because it's so much work to tweak and tweak and tweak until you get it there
and you don't want to mess with it exactly so it's like and that makes it allows you to be more productive you
know this is your evil plan right so you can have a whole you can sell a whole bunch of uh amounts and that's a whole
bunch hey I didn't invent this kind of scenario I just and then one of the guys
that helps to supply the gear you know so that's all sure
no that's why I I will these are does the same thing you know we are
100 I'm gonna get a GM all of the needs of the the astronomers you know so yeah
so what I what I try to do to over to help is I'm I'm going to piggyback on my
xs2 uh two Scopes have them fully calibrated
uh and and that will be my main system but I can see in the future uh wanting
to get you know the XS 100 uh or what what Caesar has right an icing grab and
go keep that configured and then you have a nice wide field and this is what Adrian can do too with the camera that's
a beautiful setup and then on the other side you know one of these days I wouldn't mind getting uh you know like a rest at
11 or or a uh or you know 11 inch those are beauties and then put that on the
table 11. but yeah that would be nice but one thing I've learned is
the journey and anticipating this when you recognize what this does for you and
you see the benefits it's nice to be able to see the building blocks because you don't appreciate like you can go out
there and buy and spend tens of thousands of dollars on astronomy gear but you won't know
why it's ten thousand dollars right until you go through the Journey it's
like like for example you know 2400 MCU Po and Asi 2400 MC quote what a
beautiful image you know Imaging sensor it's it's
it's a full frame right massive wide field of view yeah great pixel depth
16-bit all that beautiful stuff why I wouldn't go out there and spend 3
500 bucks 4 000 bucks just on an imager right if I didn't know what it does when
you start working with the lower end stuff uh you know and and you started you start to squeeze every drop of
performance start to see why you want to spend that money because and what it
gets you and then you start to do a cost benefit analysis and say is it worth it right for that and and and it really
makes you appreciate the different scale things I could be quite happy it's like you know maybe I don't need that but I
could see in the future there's a reason like do you want to get a wide a lower focal
length scope or do you want to get a a wider Imaging camera because you can get
the same result with getting a wider uh you know a wider image scale
um so uh yeah you know like like if I let me just show you you know that we
were talking about um so if I if I say on my screen yeah
yeah so what I'm talking about you start dreaming about this stuff
it's so much rain in Seattle in the winter you start thinking about the
future um and so for example let's just stick play these right
and uh you can see my screen here I'll pick it um okay so here we go so you know
with an f63 let me just make this cleaner here
and let's put in some of the good stuff so I'm going to take care of my eyepieces
and let's put in uh let's just put in it okay so here we go
okay so we got ASI we'll stick with the 183 for the the triplet and the uh six three
okay so that's good let's add here we go okay what this can do
yeah and even this now let's not get it too confused okay let's go so what you're seeing now
okay watch this here's the Pleiades with 183 at uh with
the f63 vocal so focal length with 1280. on my eight inch McCaffrey that's what
it does this is the same sensor the same imager on an ed80 okay
so you can get you can nicely frame depletes but look look at what the 2400
does the 2400 on the same 8080 look at this
beautiful juicy field of view right it's more it's like three times the size
because it's a full frame compared to a crop sensor so basically but obviously
you're going to need a fuel flattener because you're going right to the edge right and then of course if flatten the
reducer is going to make it even wider uh and then you start looking at image scale and all that kind of stuff and uh
pixels Arc seconds per pixel and that but the point is that uh you know you start evaluating
okay do you want a NASA or do you want
you know you want to spend three thousand four thousand on the Russell or do you want to get uh just uh on the
8080 just stick with a nicer sensor you know what I mean um so so that's that's what I started
realizing and uh there's a lot of things to factor in of course then you need good tracking but you can go with access
100 and you have beautiful tracking and take long long exposures with the White
Field to compensate with a much smaller aperture um but you know focal length is focal
length so again eraser 8 is equivalent to an ed-80 as far as focal length it's
F2 compared to uh F5 or something like that with ADHD so from a focal length
but you have way more aperture uh so your your exposure time is going to be shorter
um with with the uh with the same sensor so anyhow all these things you start
exploring but I digress I just wanted to share that let me stop sharing again but uh
yeah so and then there's the other way Maxi like we were talking about earlier planetary
cameras now you're looking at frames per second and uh and and and uh process raw
processing power I want to be able to see the the images of the moon that you showed Oh My Gosh
those were absolutely gorgeous right I mean with the mac and and and did are
those did you do any lucky Imaging or those just snapshots hey no no uh we uh
we took uh lapses of video and anybody any everyone that go to the computer the
the the the the the funny fact was that you know we was working in the in the in
the astronomy outrage the the meeting was showing to the people explain to the
people uh about the things in the sky you know um but everyone that every volunteer
that go to the computer put the the the the the the the the
button in the software of uh how do you say that I don't remember the name of the software uh well
you know star star video or start recording you know
um um my friend Fernando when in his home when he opened the the computer he found
50 videos 50 minutes of the Moon and of course
that he choose the best for it's lucky image of courses are all video videos uh
everyone knows that they they needed to to record in videos of uh you know maybe
7 500 um 700 sorry uh frames 1 000 frames
um it's something something that you talk about the Schmidt cassegrine
telescope maxit of Taylor so the people sometimes don't know the so difficult
that is take pictures with this telescope because for example the
maxitov do you have uh do you have uh um uh the same focal length and two
matters two matters long tube
that that is crazy um but you know uh you using this real
telescope with a very huge focal length it's a challenge and uh
um maybe you Cameron you feel like a in
your comfort zone because you started uh with um
uh Mount but now you are going to to uh
a great way to to using the ex's two
um guiding and maybe in the future say okay I can put more calibrations like so
but it's something that that it's a it's a a way without go without
uh go back and it's it's a great it's a great thing I have I have a picture that
you know I working with a group that is starting again with his Observatory it's
a a friend uh Groves uh a group of friends that one of these friends means
both for both us to our company
nine years ago a 14 inches Edge Celestron telescope but you know the the
fun fact is that this guy don't have any idea any idea nothing
he I confess that he paid me to to go uh
um and he told me please [Music] to to teach
because we need to that you teach us yes whole years this telescope but well we
installed the telescope we give us he have a
a manufacturing facilities he he make toilet paper he's a benefit okay it's
genius it's a genius I
absolutely no no yes we are talking about actually Scott
um I talking with him about make a very soft clean and with a special oh yeah
yeah for lens cleaning tissue yeah yeah
we we changed the the you know I teach
him how they use tissues have fiberglass in them you know
and high abrasive kind of uh fibers and so
um yes we are difficult to get good tissue sure and he knows how to make
something without this uh chemical or or physical things that of course that in
in cleaning uh in cleaning uh papers is very important and
great because in the first day you have a monster in your in your well like he have a a huge
facilities uh uh manufacturing facilities I I saw him the the sketch
for the Dom and he made in his uh the the Dom as I uh I'm uh give you the you
know the directions the all about that and he have a huge Observatory with four
matters domain in his home and 14 inches telescope
um grow with friends they are very very interesting to learn how to use that and
but it's uh and he had a closer The
Observatory by eight years it's a craziness I started again
I I um I uh when he told me I thought that
maybe yes maybe why the pandemic uh he his guy is told me again you know maybe
three years I think that maybe three years the observatory was closed no when
we open the computer before many many times to say okay but this Windows is not 10
it's very old why and when we found the the folders they had 2012.
wow eight eight years I closed well I need
to disassemble the the plate the corrector play because uh receive water
and um lubrication from the dome in a rain
and the telescope was completely completely foggy
you know that I need to to to to to to to carry my my chemicals uh products to
clean completely the plates and you know that is so yes I close completely the
dome in a in a day without wind and I
carry a lot of equipment to to clean to to come a compressor air compressor you
know uh water the water asset saturna
um well another chemical for for cleaning because you have not only uh
it's fully with grease Grace how do you say like uh
um Grease Grease yes horrible well I
cleaned this I I assembly again the corrector plate uh I'm I'm calibrated
the telescope again and I have a picture I have the first picture at the Grove say wow let me show
you sorry while you're doing that uh Caesar it's like we talked about before it's you
there's no substitute to experience and and the appreciation of what
that can do you know you have a beautiful beautiful instrument
yes you know in the right hands it will be really appreciated uh and and I you
know I have a story I'll I'll say after you've finished yours but I I will I'll tell you about my my going from large
telescopes back to smaller and the technology because the best telescope is
the one you use and as you start to appreciate and have that experience you know
what go-to does for you right yes absolutely absolutely absolutely you
start to uh you know it's kind of like our kids today they start with the internet they start with tablet they do
a touch screen they don't understand right what we were working with before
right um they have that instant uh thing it's important to
to uh to have them experience and and get some some raw yeah yeah Vision World
just with binoculars basic stuff you know absolutely and then and then you
then you start to get an appreciation for the incremental pieces and then you're ready yes and absolutely camera
and nothing is much is Magic and these guys have the problem that have the
maybe one of the huge a telescope to that in the commercial
field and they don't know how works the smaller telescope well yes this is uh
this is to share with with the group here here this is an Orion picture of my
uh my uh I had uh nine Evolution
Evolution telescope with a nine point uh
yes yeah look the difference this is this one is a it's a it's a it's a
picture that I took in in my rooftop here in Buenos Aires here is a single no
not a single picture it's a um maybe
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six take six six legs of a maybe
seven seconds a a hundred ESO and and
I couldn't I couldn't explain that this is this is incredible because for
example here here do you have a a line that you can see with that 14
inches this one is something for me was
um it's difficult to explain to the people that have an incredible things uh
that is not for everybody take in in six
single pictures and put only with a deep Sky stacker you know and process a
little uh this amount of details well I mean let's let's put it this way
a c14 you don't only want to see the color in the in the right nebula and that's it I
mean yeah it is the difference you got to use it for planetary like Christopher Go I mean that's awesome it's absolutely
awesome for that and but you have to understand okay the the two currents and
Cooling and what kind of you know atmospheric dispersion and then and then you and then the other thing is you
super awesome for Galaxies super awesome for goodness yes but yes most important
though and this is where I'll tell you my story mount mount try to have an awesome Mount
without a good Mount forget it it's like me the focal length of what four thousand millimeter is huge right yeah
yes these well this I don't have the focal reduction because this guy oh my
gosh yes it is an F10 look Maxi too uh here for example I show I needed to to
compare these pictures because this is a huge telescope this one yeah
but this one have maybe a a a processor
a process a processor sorry of maybe 40 minutes the the first pictures this one
have only maybe less than one minute and here for example here you don't have any
stars and here do you have one the the trapezium is really more separate and
here you don't have nothing around the trapezium and here do you have a lot of
stars it's Optics yeah I was saying that
earlier it's like what's so pleasing is even when I was doing three star alignment with a an eight inch compared
to like a four inch when you can see on price Stars you see all the spainter
stars that are like 13th 14th magnitude and in that place there are a almost
um protocol solar systems they are foreign
stars that just makes the whole experience so much more beautiful I mean
right Caesar I mean when and actually you can see that like you say all those features and you look at this and you
also have the color uh yeah yes yes how you can see that here have more process
more processing this picture and here we have a picture that only I I don't I
don't finish the color correction but do you have in the in only six single legs
uh Stacker um song calibration takes like dark some
flat I'm sorry and Bs and bias sorry do you have an incredible amount of of uh
details yes here I can see this bubble but here you can see you start to see
this bubble stars that are boring stars but this is the the the the things that
say come on you have a a telescope for a a telescope for an observatory of a new
University in your home yes you have idea is this is this is not easy
sometimes to to explain to the people
um because sometimes the people say okay I can see colors and points no no no no
but these colors and these points are really different really different Maybe
yeah it just adds so much more uh depth and again there's that appreciation again if you don't
have the building blocks if you didn't go down the path it's kind of like uh you know it's like basically a climbing
a mountain but you're at the peak instantly right it's like okay it's nice but you don't appreciate the whole
scenery along the way the journey right it's it's yeah and then you connect the
dots and you see uh what all those pieces are like I like you know um
like you say you just if you just take that those images you showed
that now you can see the colors start to become richer and you can start to see
more of the 3D of those Proto planetary discs right yeah yeah I mean it's
awesome yes yes well for me it was an amazing night yeah
it was great thank you so much uh it's uh so many it's so nice to see you all
again and and talk and uh yeah you know bring bring the world closer we missed
you coming back come on you guys yeah are you happy holidays again yes yes
especially for the after party with cameras guys the best of friends you you you you
you you don't even have to see a regular all of a sudden you connect instantly
right but like I I find that we can we can just pick up where we left off so I I'm not missing we're not missing
anything you guys we're gonna I'm always watching the live shows and I want to join but uh you know sometimes but I you
know time won't allow but guess what it just makes the time like this uh even the better so thank you it's really
really nice yes yeah it's great for me the same yeah
yeah great thanks a lot Hey so uh okay so I guess we're uh Scott what do you
think yes we're trying to wrap it up folks you know I wish I had like a song
I could sing at the end yeah but when we get together with some beers
and stuff next I'll have to have the I'll have to have the Nico uh drum solo you know yeah
yes we need to finish the year with something special yeah
you know what last you know what guys a year almost a year well I guess the 20th
when was the Saturn conjunction Jupiter Saturn conjunction 21 the 21st so you
know that was the major Milestone I think for this whole webcast uh I I want
to emphasize again this is this is actually where I got tuned into the
global star party at Scott and Caesar all you guys and uh I I think um that
was a very big event and uh you've just taken it to the next level this the
whole year so it's really worth celebrating uh the the people on this
Global Style our party the contributors just I mean and you're included in this camera and have done remarkable things
um for the audience for and for me I mean just personally just experiencing all this stuff you know it's like it's
like this variety of all this uh you know the spectrum of of what uh amateur
astronomers uh uh contribute to not only our community but the uh you know the
the incredible astrophotography the live views the tips the techniques the
camaraderie all that stuff is really it just came across as you know bring the
bring on the best of what amateur the amateur astronomy Community is you know from around the world and uh and to
share with this audience that we have too that has been very loyal and has been following us the entire time it's
been great you know you've created the right environment for this uh it's got you just time to pause that's really
good again I just connected some wires yeah plugged in
the Next Generation all the new kids like Nathan who's uh they're you know all the Young Generation they're going
to be 50 year olds at some point and they're gonna you know look at uh Libby and the star I like your comment you
know I I I do hope I do hope that things like that because like no media still
exists this is propelling astronomy to the new
level and and I don't know you guys but I'm seeing even in in national news and
just news in general there's a lot more I think society and Humanity has become
more aware of space and exploration and all that it's it's uh it's it's it's a
good thing for our our culture and our survival and our our mental health I think it's
it's a very very good thing to see and so to be a part of that uh you know and
and having the Next Generation uh continue that it's it's gonna yeah it's gonna evolve I know there was some
sentiments about the older um uh star parties not star parties uh different uh
clubs and all that but I think this has gone to an whole new level I mean uh you
know I'm not worried about going to the Planetarium you know on a
Sunday night or something like that to meet uh we can do this anytime you know
yeah this is awesome that's right that's right well I'm already thinking of the next
Global star party which is going to be um of course next Tuesday and so that is
going to be on the day before the alleged launch of the James Webb
Space Telescope so um
yes so it's it's you know something about uh you know going beyond the
horizons or something like that is kind of uh you know uh teasing there in my
mind because you know that's that's what we'll do with James Webb you know we're going to see
they think back to either perhaps only a hundred million years after the big bang
you know so it's it's just it's mind-blowing and the things that they
might be able to infer you know from those earliest times of our universe uh
you know it's uh you know I I humanity is really
come of age you know in in all of this so I think it will I think it will
further unite uh people just like the Hubble Space Telescope did you know with
the double Deep Field the pillars are creation you know those iconic images you know and we're just gonna see a
whole new Canon of of uh images and and
new science and stuff that's uh you know the scientists were asked again and again what what should we expect what
are we going to see and they're like going you know what we don't know you know because they're going to go
it's going to be a new area in fact that's what I'm gonna that's the theme
the vast unknown okay is is the next thing okay yeah
more than ever you're gonna need AI because you know we were talking about planetary Imaging well imagine imagine
you post processing all the data from James whip there's gonna be so much data that they're going to have to uh find
some algae items to go through that to find all the patterns and it's going to be it's going to be a massive task in
undertaking just just analyzing that and and making interpreting it uh it's going
to be awesome though there's going to be some quick really cool things that we're going to learn but but there's going to
be a tons and tons of data that can only be processed with AI I think to be able
to get through it fast enough right it it is you know being able to handle such huge data sets and stuff you
know but also too to think about taking those giant data data sets from uh you
know other Sky surveys like the iris uh orbiting observance yeah all the Hubble
data and all you know all this stuff and then start combining it and harvesting you know new discoveries from old data
you know so it's it's uh is you know AI
is really well suited for this you know it will take us to levels that you know we could hardly
perceive now so yes yeah it's going to be awesome well fun
times ahead yep all right thanks a lot thank you well guys thank you so much
thank you uh Cameron anytime that you can come back on of course you know you
always have a uh uh you know a VIP ticket to Global Star Party thanks a lot
Scott means a lot it means a lot for those guys out there watching um star party if you want to participate
uh all you have to do is get in touch with either myself or with uh Annie or
anyone in customer service and say hey I'd like to make a a presentation uh and
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all right uh gentlemen thank you so much and thanks again to the audience and uh
uh we'll see you uh tomorrow uh with more uh programming uh with the explore
Alliance so take care you're looking up thanks everyone good
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