Global Star Party 78

Transcript:

6:00 p.m..Scott Roberts - Introduction
fly even with the prepared presentation so a bit of improvising is always pretty
6:05 p.m..David Levy – Intro and Poetry
good probably in such things as this yeah
yeah I it's a little more than a little bit when I do it but I'm working on it I
actually I see how Libby does it and some of the other younger astronomers
6:20 p.m..David Eicher - Minerals and Gems
and I'm like I have light years behind them
6:30 p.m..Astronomical League Door Prizes – Terry Mann
you're very good Adrian yeah yeah it's I
6:35 p.m..Adrian Bradley - Night Scapes
like uh I kind of like doing some things off the cuff but I think a good mix of
uh off the cuff and a little bit of a theme
6:45 p.m..Conal Richards
you know and that way I don't go off the rails I mean I can I can go off the rails anytime
um but uh having a little theme kind of keeps you know it keeps it all within a uh certain standard deviation yeah
7:00 p.m..Cheyenne Smith - Cheyenne's Cosmos *New to GSP
and uh I can let the standard deviation be wide but keeping it there I think
helps sounds like a good policy
7:10 p.m..Ten Minute Break
um I'm trying to stick with it I also enjoy getting on I although I'm
7:20 p.m..Rodrigo Zelada - Live from Chile
I'm getting on a little earlier tonight but I I enjoy sometimes being on at the same
time as the argentinians it almost feels like family of course I'm
7:30 p.m..Jerry Hubbell - Live from the MSRO
I couldn't be any further north from them but I think we're at a similar latitude but
just in different hemispheres so you know their Crux is probably about
7:45 p.m..César Brollo - Live from Buenes Aires
the same height in the sky is uh when I see the big and little dipper so it's uh
it's an interesting symmetry there
8:00 p.m..Dr. Marcelo Souza - Live from Brazil
oh and I appreciate the compliment on my presentations I need to I want to always
acknowledge if someone says I'm doing well I will acknowledge it absolutely yep Keep On
8:15 p.m..Maxi Falieres - Astrophotography to the Max!
Rocking will do
8:30 p.m..Tyler Bowman - Arkansas Skies
David how are you tonight oh I'm fine thank you David it's good to
see you again enjoyed your report I said Wendy and I saw the 2003 Eclipse from
Antarctica oh wow the highlight of it then was we got a 12 minute
8:45 p.m..End
uh Shadow bands oh yeah yeah inside of totality and we saw Shadow bands like
they never before of course on the ice yeah it was incredible yeah
I I don't think you could even hypothetically imagine seeing them that well anywhere else you know they forget
the desert even you know the the ice was perfect for that
yeah it was it was really very special did you see the launch of jwsd oh yes
everything is A-Okay thus far keep fingers crossed
I sent the note to uh Dr Thomas zerbucken who uh
you know one of the project managers he gave a talk at one of uh one of my uh astronomy clubs uh meetings
and uh he he uh I had to get his number
because I basically helped get him into our Zoom call so because I had his number I sent him a
message saying congratulations I know this must be great um his response was thank you
everything's going good so far and Merry Christmas so
it was uh it was nice to be able to talk to someone directly uh who I knew had a
huge hand and finally getting to jwst off the ground and and who is near the
top of the NASA administration too yeah that was uh
but more so more important than that is the fact that the jwst did launch and
they it does appear that the precautions they took were a very good idea
well today they deployed one of the sides of this structure that holds um
one of the solar panels successfully so you know another step crossed okay
a-okay yeah yeah I I don't mind the speed at which
they're taking it they only get one chance right if it doesn't unfold correctly
we're sunk so let's right let's hope that we're all right here
yeah I uh I have high uh
let's say expectations but it's looking like everything is going according to
plan we should understand ultimately the
first Stars galaxies and black holes and the formation sequence of matter in the
universe if this works okay which is big that's huge from all the other things
that it it should do too I wonder how close we'll get to
um being able to have some serious discussions about the big bang I don't know
how close Jade of UST can get to identifying
you know anything like that in my very limited knowledge of um
you know the exact theory of how the big bang worked
um would we be would jwst be able to come close to seeing that
well I think that cosmologists would argue that the evidence for the Big Bang is already overwhelmingly overwhelming
multiple ways but we should see the first luminous matter uh that that
formed which we can't now uh were several hundred million years after the
start formation of the first stars planets and and galaxies with with
Hubble and and other instruments so that can show us you know how did the first stuff in the universe form when the
universe cool nobody knows yet that's big right I know that's going to be
exciting to have basically I think the word is interpolated but I
could be wrong and then drawn up so as to give kind of uh image to go along
with the data that jwst gets um
so another question is do you know does anyone know how long Hubble
will will uh go in order to say combine Hubble and jwst data on uh some of these
observations that we'll be able to do no but it's already outlived it's planned Lifetime and alleged according
to the those who ought to know if they're being completely forthright which they probably are it's going to
last a little while you know a few years more so there should be some overlap there and of course the the wavelength
coverage is different you know the two telescopes but but it will be useful to have simultaneous observations of some
things yeah looking forward to seeing it seeing if they uh
if there will be some time given to where both instruments can see the same object
um I'd love to see if they're able to get any detail on some of the more distant galaxies that uh Hubble's been
able to able to detect and turn them from blobs into something
with a little more structure that'd be cool it that's certainly one of the main science objectives here for web is to
look at and understand the you know nobody knows whether galaxies form first and then black holes in their centers
and stars turned on within them did stars form first and then accrete into
Galaxy did black hole seeds form first around which luminous galaxies no nobody
knows yet so we should solve that riddle which is a big piece of the cosmological
puzzle we'll see all these questions coming in will globular clusters be a part of that
discussion oh yeah yeah is that the their formation I know there's a little
you know there's theories surrounding that maybe those clusters were at once dwarf galaxies and that's all that's
left or they simply formed on their own and I think it's it's thought to be some
of each Omega Centauri is agreed upon by everyone now to be the defunct nucleus
of a dwarf Galaxy but it's enormous for a globular cluster but it's clearly globular cluster you know the stars in
them are you know 10 or 11 billion years old they formed before the discs of
normal galaxies built up which is pretty amazing yeah
no that out that always got my attention as uh mighty Delta IV heavy rocket I
think we're starting so I'm gonna go ahead and go on mute thanks um
after spending a few years spiraling closer to our star the spacecraft has
finally arrived [Music]
is touching the Sun this is 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 particular progression is to fly through the southern 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 material 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 occur in religion that we call 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 spurs 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 who can answer
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[Music] [Applause]
well hello everybody this is Scott Roberts from explore scientific and they explore Alliance and you are watching
the 78th Global star party uh with the theme of The Amazing Life of stars uh
that video from the Parker solar probe team is amazing um and I you know I can't say that all
stars behave like the Sun but we are learning a ton about
um uh what goes on inside of our star and uh you know the energy and the all
the dynamic processes that happen there so it's starting to help unlock some of the secrets of of stars uh as as we
apply that knowledge towards the distant ones that we look at with telescopes earlier in the program if you had been
listening uh uh you would have heard uh Dave Iker talking to Adrian Bradley
about his experience in Antarctica with the um with the uh eclipse and uh some
conversation about the James Webb Space Telescope that we saw launch on Christmas Day we have a great program
lined up for you but like on every Global star party we started with our
dear friend uh Dr David H Levy who uh uh entrances us with poetry wisdom and uh
getting the feel of of each Global star party so David I'm going to turn this over to you thanks for thanks for coming
on uh for the 78th event and um uh you know it's amazing that you're here every
time thank you Scott Roberts and uh welcome to the 78th Global Star Party
um we've had a lot going on David has told us about being total eclipse in Antarctica
that he just witnessed and I think most of us saw the launching of the James Webb Space Telescope but tonight's uh
Global star party has to do with the lives of stars and that reminds me of a of in a very apocryphal story
that took place after the 1919 solar eclipse in which the general felt theory
of relativity was proven by Arthur Stanley Eddington and the um
and the light coming from jerk from uh being bent as it goes
around the Sun and and that's not any I wasn't born yet I
was far away from being born but my dad and my mom would have been one year away from being
born dad would have been around eight years old at the time and he might have read about that
anyway um it's kind of interesting as we think about the in this Christmas season
uh all the things that are happening hmm and the thing that I was thinking
about as we were watching James Webb and its Flawless lunch the other day
was a quotation that we heard on Christmas Eve of 1968 56 years ago and I
would like to share that with you right now we were all watching our whole family was sitting in my parents room watching
their little black and white TV set and uh they had the show the program
with the little Banner at the bottom that says live from the Moon and uh it was really so Unforgettable to
watch the to watch and listen to the astronauts in Apollo 8 read the
following quotation and they actually took turns all three of them and here's how it went
we are now approaching lunar sentiments and for all the people back on Earth the
crew of Apollo ages has a message that we would like to send to you in the beginning God created the Heaven
and the Earth now the Earth was unformed and void and darkness was upon the face of the deep
and the spirit of God was over the face of the waters and God
said let there be light and there was light and God saw the light that it was good and God called God separated the
light from the darkness and God called the light day and the Darkness he called night and it was evening and there was
morning the first day and God said let there be a
a division in the midst of the waters and let it divide the waters from the other from the waters and God made the
firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament and it
was so and God called upon him in heaven and there was evening and there was warning on the second day and God said
let the waters unto the heaven be gathered together into one place and let
there I land appeared and it was when God called the dry Landers and the Gathering Together of the waters called
he sees and God saw that it was good and God said
bearing fruit after its kind and there was evening and there was warning on the third day
and from the crew of Apollo 8 we close with this good night
good luck a Merry Christmas and God bless all of you all of you on The Good
Earth and I think all of us remember with everything that went wrong in the year
1968 the Time Magazine chose to make those three astronauts the people of the year
and before I give it back to um to Scotty I'd like to introduce Dina
who is here from the Denver Astronomical Society and Dina and I have started the junior
astronomical League and we're going to have our next meeting this coming Sunday afternoon I believe
and Dina if you would like to say a few words I would appreciate that hi David thank you very much it's a
pleasure to be here again and I am certainly looking forward to having you
and some of the other folks here at yet another meeting of the junior astronomers here in Denver
um we hopefully will have more of the more the local kids on and more from
around the continent and maybe around a few continents join us so I'm looking
forward to that and and seeing what these young folks come up with what they want to work on and where they want to
take this just today I spoke with a young man who's a member who just graduated from Colorado School of Mines
and he's going to be a speaker at one of our upcoming meetings and what he's been
up to is was really exciting and uh I'm I'm thrilled so thank you for helping us
launch this and being a part of it if any of you are interested thanks Nina if any of you are interested if you
could send a chat message to Scott you will never rings to send you the link when the link is available for Sunday
afternoon's meeting and I hope I hope that a lot of you here especially the young people will be able
to join this was a worldwide effort we have we
have the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada involved in it and other groups around the world
and it's going to be very simple and as Dina says eventually we think that the
young people are going to handle the entire effort themselves and thanks very much to all of you all
of you on The Good Earth and now back to you Scott that's great thank you yeah David I do
remember watching that on uh on television and uh you know all of the
Apollo program you know the kid you know kids from the 60s had quite a treat you
know and it was almost I think we were almost all in borderline disbelief Believing on one
side that we could do anything okay but on the other side that you know we were
going to the moon at such a quick Pace you know that uh um it almost started to feel normal you
know and uh of course we later in our lives realized how unbelievable and
remarkable the whole scenario really was so but uh
that we've seen in the last years of our lifetime my lifetime
um I have to say that the launch of the web telescope is one of the highlights
but not to launch the launch was great but I've seen lots of launches so a lot
on TV some in person but what really made this one special turned out to be a little speech driven
by the NASA administrator and uh at the end of it and you know
he's a government employee giving a speech what do you expect and he's going through talking about the
people that were involved and as a near the end of his little scene she said and there was a little
Shepherd a small Shepherd boy in the Middle East who looked up at the
stars and then wrote a poem about it the heavens declare the glory of God
that little Shepherd boy became king of Israel eventually and that really struck me to the court I
thought that was wonderful and I just wanted to mention that thank you Dad thank you well that's
great well um uh as I mentioned earlier we had been
talking kind of behind the scenes with Dave Iker and he was relaying some of
his experiences in Antarctica which he's recently back from
and also his uh his thoughts on Jay West which have us all very excited I myself
I can say I was on pins and needles the whole time and I probably will be somewhat that way until I know that
they've completely unfurled everything and they've turned everything on and that it's really you know doing the
science it was born to do you know so uh because we're going to we're going to
see some amazing stuff but um uh that this uh this week after a a
bit of Hiatus Dave eichers rejoining Global star party uh and
turning his sights on something a little bit more Earthly uh which is the Minerals and Gems out of his amazing
collection in case you guys don't know it Dave Iker is uh the editor and chief
of astronomy magazine but he has devoted his life to writing and popularizing
astronomy he's known throughout the world uh for for the amazing work that
he does his books his lectures uh you know his inspiration and it's amazing
that we have uh Dave Iker here uh back to back with David Levy so David I'm
going to turn this over to you thank you so much Scott and I'm almost thought out
um now and and I think maybe I'll talk a little bit next week about Antarctica
um and we did see the eclipse we were lucky enough to see a brief Eclipse down there on the ice so maybe I'll talk
about that a bit I apologize for my absence but there was no Wi-Fi at Union
Glacier camp in the middle of nowhere so I tried but uh
for better or worse so let me share my screen I'm going to talk tonight about a
little bit more on the mineralogy and I promised to
um give you a part two on a favorite mineral back when we left off many
couple moons ago favorite mineral of mine fluorite which comes in this is not
fluoride here this is a tanzanite Crystal the placeholder there but
fluoride is one of these minerals it's cubic mostly it comes in basically all colors of the spectrum it's easy to
collect it's inexpensive many of the specimens so it's a good one for people who are starting out in you know this is
really planetary science studying minerals this is how the universe makes pure substances combining these atoms if
you will so let's just review very quickly uh what we're talking about here with a
little bit of mineralogy a little bit of planetary science I believe in a divinely ordered Universe said Thomas
Jefferson one of the uh Heroes of of American history in in some ways uh to
some of us Isaac Newton Another Hero of ours said truth is ever to be found in
the Simplicity not in the multiplicity and confusion of things
um and this is uh underscoring how the universe is ordered uh and it exists in
an ordered way because of the principles of physics not by any supernaturalism
minerals demonstrate this their atoms are assembled in precise ways because
they're attracted electrochemically they don't just magically form in the ways
that they form there's a reason for it and we understand that chemistry and physics now the inherent properties of
the atoms that make them up guide them into assembling in the specific what mineralogists call a crystal lattice
which for fluorite usually although there are modifications usually for fluoride it's a very simple one a cubic
Crystal assembly so fluorite part two as as I mentioned
before it's it's calcium fluoride caf2 fluorine when it's a gas is
extremely dangerous and toxic but when it's locked up in a solid like this it's
inert and it's safe to play with and as long as you don't take minerals and grind them up and put them on your
breakfast cereal most minerals are many minerals are relatively safe to handle as is a fluorite it comes as I mentioned
in a huge range of colors purple lilac yellow green colorless blue pink
etc etc it's a primary gang mineral which means it's a it's a sort of a
secondary mineral if you will in hydrothermal veins very hot fluids that
contain calcium and fluorine atoms that are flowing together and crystallizing
at the right temperature and over the right time intervals it was named in 1797 by an Italian mineralogist Carlo
napion for the Latin Fleur to flow because it was used from very early on
in in history as a flux as an aid in smelting iron to control the the
viscosity if you will the thickness of the iron flow it's a member of course of
the fluoride group there are other minerals in its group and there are many many many
unbelievably large number of great localities where it comes from mineralogists are always very interested
not only in the minerals but in the precise spots where they come from because
that's important in understanding how they formed and the relationship from specimen to specimen so they get down to
not only you know states and countries and counties and regions and so on but
sometimes even actually specific areas within a specific mine to study where
things came from individually so we looked at this again a few weeks
ago when I was with you last time this is the crystal structure of fluoride in a simple diagram it's isometric which is
a fancy pants word for cubic and as I mentioned it consists as you can see of
calcium and fluorine atoms well and now let me just give you so
this is part two I showed some of these already last time but I'll just show a few more examples there's so many and
I've been shamed by other mineral collectors that of 1500 minerals they think that you know 1400 of them in my
collection are fluorite that's not exactly true but I do have a lot of fluoride so I have a part two of showing
some nice examples of what some of these things look like and as I mentioned before if you want to get into mineral
collecting which is a kind of a partner hobby with meteorite collecting a step
closer even to astronomy if you will um in the old days you could go and
collect these things yourself in my father's time uh now you know for about
the last 75 years or a little more uh there are enough lawyers in in the
United States in the world that they don't want people falling down shafts and getting lost and so on so you really
have to collect these minerals at Mineral shows where dealers bring them but fluoride is a really inexpensive and
a really pretty mineral so it that you can have specimens of these for relatively low cost this is from a
famous mine in uh from Derbyshire England this kind of Honey colored uh
example here there are not too many Fantastic minerals from my home state my native
state of Ohio but this is one of the localities a fluorite with a mineral it's the white mineral called Celestine
that comes from Northern Ohio from Clay Center Ohio and this is a very unusual
um honey or or it's often called root beer colored fluorite which comes from
this that's the best examples of this color come from Northern Ohio here
there are examples of very bright bright and Vivid blue and all of the colors in
most all minerals and in fluorite certainly here come from very small
amounts of impurities that are locked up in the crystal uh lattice the crystal
structure so there are different chemicals a smaller number of atoms that are in there as impurities that color
the minerals differently this is a nice Vivid blue fluorite from China from
relatively recent fines here here's another uh blue from from a
very famous fluorite District that's an area in Kentucky and Illinois that has a
huge variety of fluoride and a lot of calcite and and this area where there
are lots of caves and so on that's a very rich area for forming uh minerals
like fluorite and so here's this pale blue from the so-called cave-in Rock
District which is well known to Mineral collectors here's another English
example with this uh sort of Honey yellowish color of fluorite
and we have a variety of places one of them the more recent finds from Pakistan
of a pinkish fluorite this shows this this is probably manganese atoms that
are coloring it pinkish or reddish um and here is another Vivid blue
Chinese fluoride on a on a big quartz crystal here
you can see the modified these are not cubes really but you can see even some dodecahedrons there uh of their various
modifications and twinnings and so on of how the crystal builds up depending on
how it grows and how much material is available that can be contributed to the
crystals as well here's a German example of a fluoride
another yellowish one with little that's speckled with some little quartz crystals on top
and here's a very famous Colorado Western mine for that's a silver and
gold mine called the camp bird mine in near a Colorado very famous American
mine and this is a piece of fluorite that's sort of a sea green color where
most of the famous stuff that came out of the camp bird mine was gold and silver huh
the Swiss Alps and Italian Alps are very famous for very nicely formed crystals
of fluorite with a very deep pink or sort of uh dull red color this is one of
them and you can see a nice octahedron there on the left that's the largest crystal these are fairly rare and valued
by collectors here's another sort of uh this doesn't show the blue quite as vividly as it is
but it's a sort of a sea green blue green um here in a famous French locality here
that's called the liberge mine uh and here we have we're back to the
the cave and rock District in the United States here and here you can see an example of what mineralogists call
zoning on the edges of this big this is a big fluoride crystal that's almost as
big as your palm and you can see that the chemistry of the crystal as it finished building up change from the
impurities in it from that deep yellowish color to uh sort of a light
sky blue on the edges there so the the chemical makeup of crystals
even can change as they as they crystallize here's a somewhat more recent find that's that's coming out of
the Middle East this is an Iranian uh fluoride and again you can see a little zoning of purple color around these uh
crystals of fluorite here's back to the Alps here here's
another example of smaller crystals uh in an Alpine Matrix Rock here of this
Vivid Pink color of fluoride from Italy the Italian side of the Alps here
and here is a famous Russian locality that produces all kinds of fluoride and
you can see these very modified cubes here that are dodecahedrons and other
shapes other geometric shapes from a famous example of lots and lots of
fluorite that comes from Eastern Russia and that's it those are the examples I
had today and because Scott always encourages me to I'm going to do a Shameless bit of self-promotion here
momentarily as well and say that my uh partner and one of my partners in crime
and in doing some writing Michael bakic and I have a kids book about space
that's coming out late this coming year here uh from uh Black Dog in Leventhal
it's called a child's introduction to space exploration that is all about space so I'll talk a little bit maybe
more about that in a few months but that's the latest book Venture and uh
that's all I have tonight Scott so thank you and maybe next week I'll I'll go
back to the Frozen uh uh Wilderness of Antarctica Wilderness okay well
something else I would like to uh talk about is uh Comet Leonard I would
imagine that astronomy magazine is getting tons of really wonderful images
of comet Leonard at this point we are getting Deluge yes and of course the
tail is in a dark sky is really really long and sort of you can see you know
solar wind effects in in the tail now and and the the coma is nicely detailed
now and and maybe David can comment on this being a comet expert as well a bit
but this is As Nice a comet as we've had of course in a long long time now
um and so being discombobulated getting back from uh you know the trip and and
living in Milwaukee of which means that it's cloudy here about 90 percent of the time I haven't seen it in the last few
nights but I hope to again soon it's a beautiful comment though the images that are being produced that's very cool and
the other thing I'd like to uh point out I I read an article um can't remember exactly where but uh
November of this year uh it was announced for the first time they detected an element found in our bodies
which was uh fluorine uh in a galaxy 12 billion light years away
um so this gal this galaxy is called uh in GP not NGC but NGP
um 190387 and they have determined that uh
fluorine hydrogen gas or whatever uh was coming
from Wolf Riot Stars okay the wolf Ray and stars are very rare Stars so when
these stars explode and release uh the stuff that they fused inside of their
cores one of these is fluorine and so this is this is something this is a you
know a uh you know a starlink of of the natural kind okay
um uh you know that we have with the universe you know exactly yeah exactly and that's very exciting and if if
you're if you're French wolf Rye stars are massive stars that have been that
are uh uh that are far down the road in their Stellar Revolution and they've been stripped of their atmospheres so
they're intensely hot they're radiating the hell if you will out of the
surrounding nearby interstellar medium and that's why we get a lot of nebulae that are around wolf fry a stars and and
so these exotic elements are are out there uh uh sort of pushed into the
nearby interstellar medium as well um we know of course ever since 1862 you
know the the fortunate invention of spectroscopy by Bunsen and kirkhoff and others that the chemistry of the
universe is uniform form everywhere we look you know so we know that all these elements you know more than 100 elements
that exist in the periodic table many of which are in our bodies even some toxic
elements if there are too much of them and you know that we're also radioactive
slightly in our bodies you know so so we have a little bit of stuff that's dangerous in us but but all these
elements are out there in the universe and it's exciting because fluorine in a distant Galaxy is is a somewhat exotic
element uh but there are much more exotic compounds that we've seen of
course uh outside of Earth you know as we've talked about before and forgive me if I've said this too recently Scott but
the first commentary material that was returned to Earth in 2006 from the
Stardust Mission you know Comet vilt 2 had glycine in it now that's the the
simplest amino acid so the stuff the building blocks of proteins if you will
the stuff of life is out there uh in our soul in our distant solar system far
away from Earth so so you know this again is very suggestive as Carl Sagan
always used to like to say that you know the building blocks of life are ubiquitous through the years
and uh you know it would be absurd to imagine you know we've gone through the
entire history of the last 2 000 years scientifically finding out how not special Earth is
so there could be a whole lot of Life out there the problem will turn out that the life life is special as it is is
not just special to us well it's incredible that we can be alive and made
of atoms and talk to each other and think about the universe but we may not be so special that we're unique that
we're the only living beings anywhere that that would be pretty remarkable given that there are 100 billion
galaxies and a couple of hundred billion stars in every Galaxy you know but but the distance scale is so huge that that
we need to take care of each other here because it's a long long long long long long long hike that's a direct
civilization certainly yeah No One's Gonna No One's Gonna swoop in and save us I don't think so it takes you longer
to get to the next civilization than it does to get to Antarctica even that's right so that should be a lesson to
everyone out there be responsible okay do your best out there but that's a
great thanks for bringing up that exciting finding Scott yeah I I was I was really uh impressed by that I'm
always looking for those kinds of connections because uh you know we always say that astronomers always say
that we're made of star stuff but you know how exactly are we made of star stuff you know and where does it really
come from We're literally and again forgive me I don't want you know sorry for babbling on I've been maybe saving
this up for three weeks but you know we literally are made of the atom the atoms
in our bodies were created uh the heavier ones in supernovae and exploding
massive stars or dead massive star or colliding neutron stars or the deaths of
lower Mass Stars you know so literally the same atoms are recycled in to us
we're literally made of the stuff of the Stars not it's not hyperbole right yeah that's
right but uh still science is trying to figure out how you know how these things fuse uh you know and um
uh it's just it's miraculous just that we've figured out as much as we have but
still just as miraculous to know just how much we really don't know you know
and we're just starting out another chapter now in in learning a bit more
with with web so let's cross for another month to deploy this
thing basically right right David thanks again for coming on thank you well
um up next is uh tearing and Anne Terry Nan is the secretary of the astronomical
league but she is a force within the astronomical league and a force in amateur astronomy uh herself and and she
has been for a long time uh she is an adventurer uh she travels uh all over uh
North America uh to uh seek out uh the Aurora Borealis uh to see nature and all
of its Splendor and uh you know I'm always uh constantly
um in awe of of what uh Terry has done as far as her uh courage and uh and and her
uh knowledge of you know being out there um so uh from time to time she shares
some of that uh some of her experiences with us um but uh uh and and she might tonight
you just never know but uh uh she is uh with us from the astronomical League
that we uh uh so uh so much uh appreciate and um uh you know I I like
to point out that the astronomical league is uh if not the most important
one of the most important uh astronomy organizations in the world they are a
Federation of over 300 clubs they have uh in the neighborhood of 20 000 members
and they're growing um and uh they take care of their members it's very inexpensive to to join
you can either do that through a member club or as a member at large
and you can get involved in their observing programs in their award
programs uh you know they have really supported our community in ways that
it's hard to express but it's largely an all-volunteer group
so and I'm sure Terry can relate to you how much she has volunteered over all
these years but I'm glad she's here with us tonight and uh so she will start the the door prize
program part of our show and so uh Terry it's
all for you well thank you Scott it is a pleasure to be here
um it's been a while since I have been here actually I just got back from Death Valley and I have never been at Death
Valley and I had the best time I want to go back there I spent the night at the
racetrack Imaging and it was spectacular I it was just one of the best trips I
think I've ever taken so um and I'm sure a lot of you Dave I'm sure you've been there this is not a
racetrack with cars right I mean I'm sorry yes the moving rocks yeah the
rocks that race but yeah Death Valley I could not believe how dark the skies were I mean it was it was incredible and
I've already said I'm going back next year I think that's going to be one of my favorite places to go so absolutely
yeah definitely a lot of fun so I am going to go ahead and share my screen
and ask the questions for this week as you know we always start off with our
solar slide you know make sure that if you ever look at the sun you have the
proper filters to do this and those can be bought at a variety of places do not
think sunglasses are strong enough I really had some people say if I wear two
pairs of sunglasses is that just as good as a solar filter and no it's not you
really have to think about what you're looking at when you look at the sun because it will damage your eyes in the
blink of an eye so always be careful when you're first learning about the Sun and you want to look at it make sure you
have the proper filters and so what I want to start with is the
answers from December 21st the first question was a star with the
following designation is famous for being what that is a designation for the southern
pole star second question was Fred Hoyle was
famous for naming something that he opposed what was it well that was a big bang
Hoyle was stead was a steady state theorist and diversively used the term
Big Bang on the BBC Radio Show that's called Instant Karma yeah
largest storm ever observed in the solar system occurred where
it occurred on Saturn Saturn's Great White Spot of 2010 to 2011.
and these are then all the names of the people that have answered the questions correctly and their names will be added
to a list and at the first Global Star Party of every month we announce three
winners that are chosen by random
and so the questions for tonight please send your answers to secretary
astrowleague.org first question will be a true or false
there are more trees on Earth than stars in the Milky Way is that true or false
second question the new general catalog is assembled in what year
and again please send your answers to secretary astrowleague.org
the last questions about 12 000 years from now we will have
a new North Star what is the name of that star
and lastly we have our next astronomical League live coming up on January 21st at
7 pm Eastern Standard Time please stay tuned uh we will have more information
about that coming up and Scott I think that will do it for me
okay well thank you very much Jerry thank you Scott I look forward to seeing
some of those images from Death Valley I'm working on them now okay thank you
wonderful wonderful okay well up next is um uh a
gentleman who um uh always Wows us with his nightscape uh
photography and his descriptions of of the uh the Landscapes and the
nightscapes that Adorn them and uh so uh Adrian Bradley uh you are uh you've got
the stage all right thank you for joining us again for Global star party not a problem can everyone hear me
yes and we can see okay good I made the successful switch from cell phone to
computer um behind the scenes so that I could uh find some images to share when I talked
about what I wanted to share tonight I talked to Scott and I said well I've got
some interesting cygnus region pictures um I know the theme is
um stars and um The Starlight that I usually like to
capture um turns out to be Milky Way Photography any nightscape photography will do for
me just trying to mesh put Earth in the picture and I know Terry I've seen some
of your work and uh you know you've got some of your work behind you with the star Trails um you've I'm chasing your
amazing work so uh yeah I was um I hope to share the uh image of sky's up
magazine I can do a plug for you Scott reach sky's up Magazine from explore scientific especially this month
especially the cover especially the cover I will uh yeah I just gathered
some images so I will go ahead and share my screen um so yeah read Skies Up Magazine I'll
try and find the um
yep and so in fact we'll get that out of the way so this is not the um
cygnus region but it will be a very familiar looking image if absolutely
look at the cover of sky's up magazine and it was one of the better images of
the Orion region um this goes along with a lot of Milky Way Photography that I would see as I
was learning how to do it and getting interested in it I would see a lot of Milky Way Photography of the good old
yeah the good old core and a lot of Milky Way Chasers prefer to shoot at the
core and there's good reason for that because it's bright and it's a beautiful thing
here's a here's an example of what everyone tends to shoot at it's this core region and if
you're in the southern hemisphere you see the other side we see the Northern Galactic bulge and you see the in the
southern hemisphere you see more of the um you see the southern side with the
jewels that are there what I wanted to do was highlight that you don't have to stop shooting the
Milky Way yes it's colder and you have to bundle up but there can be Beauty in
the sickness region and so some of the images that I've been able to shoot
excuse me even if you shoot something like this which is sort of a fuzzy band most of
the time in the winter the months of November December you're looking straight up you're shooting at the summer triangle as it recedes and it
it's a very busy place and it's worth turning your cameras to
now this is more of the Cassiopeia region here and realizing because I see the double cluster the heart and soul
and Andromeda cygnus comes above it let's get an actual
here's an image the cygnus region is marked by cygnus
which there's seder there's deneb there are the stars here and albirio is sort
of hidden down above the trees there's me and
most exposures will show the North American nebula and if you're uh if you
expose long enough to Pelican nebula and then get out the book and get this nebula too
that's a part it's a part of a very busy cygnus region
um I've attempted to image this and you can see this although this looks more
like a painting the North American nebula shows up the Pelican shows up right here
here we are this is when the Milky Way is rising and in at about 41 north
latitude the this part of the region becomes parallel to the ground as it's coming
out and um compared to the Cassiopeia region
it's a brighter part of the Milky Way here we are again with
uh one of the many lighthouses in Michigan Point O bark Lighthouse with a whole lot of light
shooting with a lot of light going this isn't even that bad the lighthouse light shoots outward and if when you're there
it's it seems a lot fainter than it really is and it's shooting straight out you know to the ships at Sea uh they
recently added these big bright yellow lights and I had to play around in post
to get rid of them but there you are North American pep um Pelican barely
and this nebula here which I will uh I will have the name of my next star party
because now I have to uh I have to look up this region but um
those are the nebula that I look for when shooting the cygnus region
once again turning around this is more Cassiopeia because you can see Andromeda
and you can see the light of m33
so really I could have titled this both the cygnus and the Cassiopeia regions Milky Way shooting again it isn't just
um shooting the core um and then go home inside because it's cold shoot at some of these gems here
and these other parts of the Milky Way that are visible and you're shooting light that's I think
2.4 billion light years away and on a collision course with us um if it doesn't swallow m33 first
and um you're basically seeing go three Galactic arms in one and then
there are other objects here this knit they're NGC objects here um there's a lot that shows up even
though it looks like just a starry nightscape and you've got the Earth from our vantage point we're staring off into
a deep and vast universe and we can see a lot more than we think we could if this is a dark sky a lot of this is
visible naked eye so um so I never stopped shooting no
matter how many planes or actual meteors show up to photobomb the shot within
with a modified camera for ha you get this pinkish look and the uh these um
nebulous regions show up a little bit more with um
when it's fainer you know the foreground here this is a this is a portal four Zone that I like
to go to it's the beach area called Lake Hudson State Park it's a small dark sky
park that's uh about 30 minutes from your area David in Ohio the Ohio border
so it's uh most of the good uh visibility the darker skies are Northern
Michigan and Northern Wisconsin um but there are some darker Skies that
are South and you can at least get an idea of what the night sky really looks like
when you go out to these areas um and I think that this is the final image
that I wanted to show this is an attempt to pull out the
cygnus region because here it is setting here's seder here's deneb here the other
two stars other two stars of uh cygnus of course there's many stars in the
constellation that's beautiful with about a 45 second exposure tracking
um I was able to pull this out there's ground fog in the distance and this is one of my favorite Farms to
shoot because you've got this enigmatic tree here that uh it's very easy to see that it is it's
very peaceful now I've tried let's see if I can find the the image that I shot here
prior um before coming back because I like to take a lot of images
and then I plan on coming back and saying okay I tried it once I'm gonna try it again
and I'll see if I can find it if not it's okay um
this doesn't uh help as much but come in during day I shoot this this is what the
tree looks like more up close and this is what happens
when you take your scene and you you come back and it transforms completely
um somewhere here I have another night scene with the tree but barely any stars
visible Adrian there's a there's a question uh in chat uh from yeah from
the UAE he wants to know if you can recommend which wide angle lens he should use to go super wide
um to uh you know get those Milky Way images with a small sensor
uh like an APS an aps-c camera yeah yeah
I I would recommend starting around a 17 millimeter
wide angle lens that basically is effectively 24 millimeters this is shot
at around 35. it's actually 37. this particular shot and that's how big the
Milky Way looks at 14 millimeters with a full frame sensor
this is how much real estate you get this is back down to the Orion region oh yeah
um let's zoom in to with a 14 millimeter lens
you will take a shot that looks kind of like this yeah
um with an aps-c sensor so definitely 14 even 10 millimeter
um in order to do a One-Shot wide angle shot otherwise what you can do is a
panorama and I am going to see if I pulled one off here
um I know I had a couple of panoramas that excuse me that I did
okay here's a this was actually shot with an aps-c camera and this was an 18 millimeter kit
lens so effectively uh 24 20
up to 28 millimeters effectively this is it's an earlier image I managed to get
Earth shine as the moon was setting and um this is a good start for wide angle now
if you're wanting to go super wide um
do a panorama if you can take multiple images and then stitch
them together Lightroom um Lightroom CC will actually do it or
Lightroom classic as well as Photoshop in fact we saw Gary Palmer last week show how he stitches his Sun photos
together to create beautiful panoramas of the sun here is
this is made of two wide angle shots the Aurora
um at the winter solstice I may have a slightly there's a lot of color it's
beautiful yeah there's a lot of color this one's a little smoother because that's a double cluster right here and um this is the Cassiopeia part of
the Milky Way at the time and you've got a lot of color there's some purple coming off of
here in green this is actually two images stitched together using like room
to get kind of that wide this is this is wider than a 14 millimeter with a uh
you know with um you know the full frame
this is 14. and so you see we've got you know
there's more of this part that shows up so
I definitely recommend all of that to say wide angle lens
um 14 mil 17 millimeter on back The Wider the better and the faster the
aperture which we mean uh lower numbers on the f-stop F28 on down
um just helps the lint a lens like that helps bring in all of the Starlight
and if you don't have a Tracker like I've got and I've also got an explore scientific Mount
um if you don't have the tracker you can still get with effective 14 millimeters
you can go 20 seconds without tracking and still get a pretty good shot so
that's what I recommend very cool and and Adrian if people would like to
follow you where should they go um they should go I've got an Instagram
page which I will the handle is simply at ATB Sigma 713 I put that in the chat
we could share it and then I do have a I have both a regular Facebook page it's
just my name Adrian Bradley and then Adrian Bradley photography
and yeah I will post especially if I think I've got something that's worth
printing I'll post it up to Adrian Bradley photography and
um let's see what this was not all of my shots are great but they lead up to
um ultimate shot so like here's a different trip I took this photo
and then I show up same angle and we get this so we we keep trying so those are my those are two
areas I'll type in a website of galleries I'm looking to start a um
looking to start a Squarespace space because I have sold a few prints and I've had inquiry inquiries about them
and I'd like to do a better job of offering prints to those of you that love the photos and wouldn't mind
hanging one of these on the wall this this one is actually sold so
um I'm typing in a uh URL with some with a gallery of some of my older shots I
think this one is on there um stat so okay so that's there and
let's see if I can pull this off I will but if not just go
go reads guide sky's up magazine and you'll find a uh
you'll find a special uh a special image is on the front of that
cover I've read some of the others and very informative magazine
um our good friend David is one of the editors um a lot of folks that are
that come on to the global Star Party have uh presented and so it is
definitely a uh here's another shot with the Big Dipper in that tree so
so I'm gonna stop sharing and turn it over because I'm pretty sure I'm past time but uh
but yeah feel free to check those out any prints that you want I'll work with
you if you would like to have a print or canvas and um it will be a fair and a reasonable
cost because um I use these images more so for outreach
um than anything and I'm more than happy to share these images um thank you Scott for the platform to
uh share these images on um Global star party thank you thank you Adrian thank
you for sharing them with us yeah and thanks for contributing to skysup magazine that's awesome anytime Scott
awesome okay so up next is um uh uh
young uh and inspiring uh astronomer uh Connell Richards who uh continues to
pursue his Outreach a little bit of that is actually here on global Star Party he
was first introduced to us by Chuck Allen um of the astronomical league and uh for
good reason because connell's uh connell's uh talks are inspiring informative uh and uh really
um uh I would say uh honest in in the
way that uh he presents what it's like to get started in astronomy and uh and
how that really has affected him and uh how it inspires other people around him
so Connell thanks for thanks for coming on and uh you've got the stage
I appreciate it thank you very much for the introduction so as you mentioned a lot of the the
work I do is in Outreach and one of the projects I really enjoy kind of working with is looking at Targets that are
available to small telescopes and binoculars and beginners because I'm usually thinking back to my first year
or to an amateur astronomy and when I was starting out I was going through books and magazines I was trying to learn how how things worked and what I
could see so a lot of the targets that I present in my talks are kind of geared towards that and exploring different
topics through just a small aperture or binoculars so oops
click something okay I'm going to share my screen now let me know if you can see this okay
yes everyone see on my screen okay
yes thank you of course
okay so tonight what I have for you is well when I saw the topic for tonight of
Stellar Evolution and thinking in mind of some of the different targets that
I've observed over my time in astronomy and some targets that are easy for beginners I compiled a small list of
some great objects that you can look up with most of these you can see in a pair of binoculars and kind of trace the path
of seller Evolution for different types of stars so we're going to start off I have the time set for December 28th today's date
and this is around 11 o'clock at night for my location 40 degrees north roughly so these are some great targets for
Northern observers but there are some wonderful Southern cargo Parts as well I'm going to start very far north we're
looking at the Pleiades cluster here the Seven Sisters as they're called and this cluster in fact it always
impresses me because of how young it is it's estimated to be 150 to 300 million
years old based on different estimates that I've seen but in geologic time and astronomical time that's really not a lot so if we
look at this and and think of how far back this goes around the time these Stars started to form these very young
Stars you can even see some of the gas around them in this particular image that Sky Safari uses there were
dinosaurs roaming the Earth and all kinds of different creatures that we might not recognize today so it brings
kind of a sense of perspective to a lot of the targets that we look at the Pleiades I always think is really
beautiful it fits nicely into binoculars and if you've seen the upper right hand corner of my screen Sky Safari has this
neat feature where it shows you the size of the field you're observing and this is about four by three degrees so if you
say a pair of binoculars a typical pair of binoculars has a field of view of five degrees then this fits quite
squarely in there and you can get a great image of the Pleiades now a little farther south a little bit
like the Pleiades is the Heidi's cluster um it's most identifiable by Alder Baron
and Taurus here but interestingly all the baron this this bright orange star here is not a member of the Hiatus
cluster it's kind of superimposed it's a little bit closer to us than the cluster itself
however the other stars in this cluster are very bright they're all fourth third magnitude visible and even some light
polluted skies for those learning astronomy so it's quite accessible from a lot of different places and it also
sits quite nicely here on the ecliptic this yellow line here so it's easily accessible from both the northern and
the southern hemisphere from most latitudes you can see some wonderful double stars in here whether they're Optical doubles or astronomical doubles
and all kinds of different colors as well so there's yellow there's white there's a little red one in there it's a
really beautiful Target to observe if you're in the neighborhood of Pleiades and you're scanning the winter sky
now moving out we're going to stay in Taurus for now this is more of a telescopic Target but a bright one it's
about eighth magnitude we have the Crab Nebula here and if you can see again I'm looking at about one degree here uh
going up top to bottom here if we're looking at the Crab Nebula I can zoom in a little bit but these are all
accessible from low Powers into telescope I found the Crab Nebula looks really stunning if you get some low
power eyepieces and personally I use a Newtonian reflector a six inch The Crab
Nebula is a really nice Target in that it's visible All Night from from northern latitudes during the winter
months and you can see these these kind of simuly structures in here from this Supernova Remnant this star has exploded
and all of its mass some of which we looked at in uh the minerals earlier tonight is spread out in this cloud and
there's these wonderful structures these veins and these clouds that you can all see in in a little telescope
now I'll pass this over to Orion here um first we have Beetlejuice up in
Orion's right shoulder if you're looking from the outside in kind of like some old star atlases Beetlejuice is very
easy to find in almost any Sky it's a very deep orange color and it's actually
a red super giant so it's this old star that has gone through much of its life and it's swelled up quite a bit and it's
giving off all this material now as many of you I'm sure remember back in 2019 Beetlejuice started to dim quite a bit
its current magnitude is about 0.5 and that's been uh what it's looked like for
most of its lifetime but it does dim quite a bit and during that period in 2019 astronomers weren't really sure
what was happening and the answer turned out to be that it threw off this huge mass of material as the star was
evolving and dying and slowly moving towards the end of its life so if we're considering Stellar Evolution here we
have stars that are just beginning their lives in the Orion Nebula below and then stars that are ending their lives such
as Beetlejuice up here in Orion now like I mentioned I'll trace this down to the Orion Nebula here this is a
beautiful Target for beginners and advanced astronomers alike I always find
myself returning to it it looks wonderful but in binoculars it looks great in a wide field telescope at low
power you see m43 here and m42 they're kind of two parts of the nebula and then inside
Orion if you get some high power in a telescope about 200 times magnification you can see the trapezium in here which
is this little cluster of four stars forming at the heart of the Orion Nebula now what we're looking at here is what's
commonly referred to as a stellar Nursery you have all this gas all these building blocks of life and planets and
stars coming together and forming these Stars so it's quite an interesting place to look for amateur and professional
astronomers all kinds of mysteries to be solved and processes to be happening in there that teach us about Stellar
Evolution especially the birth of stars I can zoom out here one of the last
targets we have here in in the winter part of the sky would be serious of
course it's the brightest star in our Sky very defined as its whitish blue color and I found that when it's at low
Horizons you can even see it twinkling quite a bit if the atmosphere is turbulent but it's it's undeniable what
this star is it's a white dwarf and it's really beautiful to look at now some astronomers have even seen Sirius B if I
can really zoom in here it's a small companion very hard to see in a telescope but you see it has a little companion
here it is in fact a double star but the main component that we are seeing just with the naked eye is very very bright
and it's this white white dwarf star so what that means is that it's a very Dense Star it's also towards the end of
its life like Beetlejuice but it's actually shrunken and you have this very dense material inside
and moving over one last Target in the winter Skies around this time of year is m46 it's a beautiful open cluster in in
the Messier catalog and you can see in this image here there's all kinds of bite and red stars different colors
different stages of evolution and different types but really interesting about this cluster is is a visual and
photographic feature is this planetary nebula inside now when I was looking at this the
planetary nebula was quite bright you could even see the Central Star there and it's this nice round shell really
defined in the telescope oxygen three filters bring it out really well for those who have those it really pops the
nebula out and you can study the structure a little bit more when you're taking your notes but the reason I bring
this up even though the nebula is not part of this cluster it's superimposed kind of like all the baron on the hiatus
is that you can see different parts of cellular Evolution at the same time in the same field of view so planetary
nebulae are how the lower Mass Stars die you'd have a star swell up slightly then shrink but also blow out all of this
dust and debris and and Cosmic material that's wrapped up inside the star's
outer shell in fact our sun will do the same thing so there's this massive Sun uh or excuse
me massive shell expanding outward that's been forced by this star Stellar Wind and that's all superimposed on top
of this beautiful open cluster so the open cluster alone is a great Target in binoculars but if you have a telescope I
highly suggest checking out that planetary nebula now to wrap up my talk I'm going to push
us a little bit forward I'm going to bring us into this should be June here
so this is June again around 11 o'clock we're going to look at a couple of Summer targets now I have just just a
couple of these most notable of course in the summer Skies is the great Hercules cluster you
can see once again I'm in 1.2 by 1.7 degrees so this is a very wide field but
the Hercules cluster always seems to grab headlines and and titles and astronomy books it's really a beautiful
cluster and quite large and there's all kinds of features that can be observed with different levels of equipment very
easy to see in binoculars if you look between these two sixth and seventh magnitude stars but then it has this
really rich core and this this outer shell that's expanding out it's a very large cluster and for those with larger
instruments I've heard there's even a propeller kind of asterism inside formed by uh clumps of of Darker dust and gaps
in the Stars so that's really beautiful to see if you have the um equipment for that
now nearby we have M92 which often gets overlooked I think because of nearby M13
it's a little bit of a smaller and a dimmer cluster but in my opinion it's very beautiful to look at a lot of the
stars in this cluster have a yellow or tint they're more along the main sequence of what we call a herdsprung Russell diagram so you have types of
stars going along their evolutionary paths some are outliers but these are pretty typical of what the universe has
to offer and they have a very distinct progression from younger Stars forming in a protostellar cloud to the planetary
nebula we looked at earlier so you'll find a lot of these stars in a cluster like M92 and then also some aging giant
stars like red super Giants and blue super Giants as well
and some final Targets in the Summer Sky would be the Ring Nebula and the dumbbell nebula also known as M57 and
M27 I'll start with the Ring Nebula this was the first planetary I observed in my
telescope and I even found in a six inch instrument you could see a little bit of bluish green color in the outer edge and
I'm still not certain if that's exactly what I saw but it really does tempt the eye with things you want to see it looks
like a little smoke ring if you're centering your telescope your finder scope excuse me in this part of of Lyra
you can zoom in and add about 150 times magnification you're in at about 25 arc
minutes across but this field I'm looking at here and you see this really beautiful structure and in larger
dobsonians and larger telescopes you can even see this Central Star on the inside and again that's how a lot of the low
mass stars die now looking at a planetary from a different perspective the ring nebulae
we're looking straight down into the core outside of the Stellar Wind so it's much easier to see but here we're kind of looking at the edge in the dumbbell
nebula this one is much larger and very easily visible in binoculars I've had a lot of fun with this at uh during the
summer and viewing from campsites and dark sky places it's a really beautiful nebula and it almost looks like an apple
core some also say it looks like a dumbbell of course but you see this really distinct shell with these outer
edges and then this kind of cloud in between and then once again there we have our Central Star pushing all of
this gas out so if we zoom out here we have some wonderful Targets in the summer and if I
go over kind of looking through the Earth we have some great targets to view in the winter as well so I really hope
those new to astronomy and those interested in Stellar Evolution are able to get out and see those those are some
really beautiful Targets in my opinion and I've had a lot of fun with them so thank you very much
thank you very much it's uh great to have you on again Connell um I feel like I've been to an amazing
planetarium program so that's great um hey Connell can I interject something
quickly Scott sure please go ahead that's great and and I really enjoyed that and your enthusiasm and your
knowledge is is extremely impressive there's a strange thing about the Pleiades for for many decades it was
believed that the reflection nebulosity the dust was associated with the
formation of the stars as you said they're young stars for an open cluster about 100 million years old or so but
the Motions of the dust and the stars are very disparate so there are some
recent papers uh that demonstrate that the cluster is simply moving by chance
through that dust they're they're astrophysically unassociated which is
interesting that's really fascinating thank you for sharing that and that's just a fit you know just last some few
years uh a sort of an oddball fact about the Pleiades that's a that's a gym to
keep and put in the pocket because anytime we describe the Pleiades right these are young hot Stars they're giving
off gas and dust and that's what we're Imaging and that's I had you're telling
us it's not the case so it was a totally logical assumption you know for a
century everyone thought that this is obviously the leftover dust from the formation of the stars but it turns out
not to be so so the universe can throw a curveball at us oh
yeah good thing about science is the continued you learn things as you go and
you pass these along so it was known as dust but then last few years someone
took a closer look oh no it probably isn't dust it off or it is
but it but it's simply moving through that dust in in its motion through the
Galaxy yeah yeah it's not directly from those Stars right right even though
they're so in a quick question are there other examples of those bright hot young
stars that are producing the gases and the dusts that we see and I guess m42
comes to mind yeah now now obviously you know almost all a mission nebulae you know have a
lot of formative gas and dust still involved with very young stars and you know those early Hubble images of of
protostars in the Orion Nebula pro planes and so on those are literally you know stars that are proto-solar systems
that are just forming but there are quite a number of reflection nebulae
um on the sky uh with dust that is believed to be associated with the
formation of those young Stars yes so this is an oddball sort of you know
exception and it's one of the best well-known most well-known open clusters
in the sky too so it's kind of weird yeah
those chance encounters are really fascinating because I mentioned with some of the objects in my talk uh we
have that one open cluster m46 I think it was with the planetary nebula right in front of it yeah and you also have
Alder Baron and the Hiatus it looks logical to say well there's a star and it's a part of that cluster but uh our
perspective is is just you know lining these up by chance so it's really beautiful to see visually but there's
there's so much more to be seen with the astrophysics which is wonderful and of course there's so many Optical double
Stars there's so many stars in the sky there's zillions of examples of optical
double stars that are uh at different distance that are not binary Stars
gravitationally Associated you know all over this guy that are just chance alignments you know that appear to be
double Stars lots of those yeah I think alberio is one of those is that correct yeah famous example yeah
yeah we admit she can call it the Maze and blue star I had to throw that in
that was one of the first things when I uh the first astronomy club the low browse it's one of the Stars we would
always look at in the summer high in the sky and the astronomers would proudly
brag this is The Maze and blue star and since I graduated from Michigan I I
simply assumed that and I take that on now so but that's another I think I
assumed that was a double star with them orbiting and apparently they are not so I'm learning a lot of things here on a
global star party tonight so I'm very grateful um that's a good one too I'm waiting to
look it's hard to get a a star uh pair of stars with more beautiful color
than alberio presents you know that's a beautiful field I think there are some
there's a triplet in Cassiopeia that can give it a run but I forget the uh
yeah yeah yeah but uh yeah there I know there are a few of them but I'd have to
go back to Sky Safari and start looking for them so that uh yeah that that's that's always a go-to even
when it's cloudy and we have to show them something we pointed right at um alberio yeah we try to remember the name
alberio because could be a hard one for me to remember but uh yeah and people go ooh and uh oh
yeah oh it always impresses people if we run out of other things Scott we can do
a whole night of double Stars someday okay we will but before we do that I have to get to
our new uh uh guest uh Cheyenne Smith Cheyenne is uh uh doing some important
Outreach work in um uh in Tulsa Oklahoma which is really close to us you know I
was so uh excited to find her and to to learn about some of the things that she
does uh she's relatively new to uh you know the community of uh educational
Outreach and astronomy uh she's been doing it for just a few years but she's already a NASA solar system Ambassador
uh and is involved with organizations uh or you know at least one organization uh
that is dedicated to educational Outreach and astronomy I'm going to let her talk about it and introduce herself
a little bit more we did have some uh conversation earlier today uh as we were
practicing on on Zoom but um uh I'm going to uh turn this over to you
Cheyenne how how do you feel about your first Global Star Party
thank you Scott for having me that's great that's great so
um uh as as we're still kind of new to each other I'm gonna I'm gonna let you talk about yourself a little bit uh and
uh some of your experience and uh getting involved with um uh science
heads uh which is a program that you're involved with but I know you're also involved with uh artists the art artists
scene in Tulsa and um and that you have taken on some uh
ambitious projects to do educational Outreach and astronomy so I'll turn it over to you yes so um yeah I started out
uh talking about about myself so I'm sure like some of us I was always
fascinated by the stars and galaxies and I wanted to know about the universe and
our place in it since I was a kid I was obsessed with crop circles and UFO
abductions but you know that thankfully um
turned into something more uh or evolved into something more sophisticated which is astrobiology so that's
um something that I'm interested in and and and like looking to pursue uh I
recently um was in a graduate program for studying archeostronomy but now I'm
looking um to pursue a degree in planetary Sciences in pursuit of astrobiology so
uh huh good luck with that oh thank you for
you yep thank you so much um But as God said I'm also a solar
system Ambassador um I've been one for almost three years now I'm also the chapter coordinator for
science hits here in Tulsa which is a non-profit non-profit headquartered in California
um so in both volunteer positions I aim to make Steam activities more visible and accessible uh to marginalized
communities locally to do this I've conducted third parties both in person and virtually and have spoken to panels
and been involved in other science communication opportunities to talk about my love for astronomy and the
search for life around the Universe um and this theme park comes through my
Arts worker position uh here in Tulsa so I work full time for the Tulsa artist
Fellowship which is a residency um apparently have like 45 artists
um it's an artist residency we provide them like like you know a housing stipend and a studio and all this other
stuff when we subsidize our Studios and are living here in Tulsa in Tulsa's Arts District so that's great yeah there's a
lot of poor artists as there always has been but yeah yeah there's so there's so
many they're wonderful artists um I highly recommend you all going to our page and checking them out
um they're they're they're they're pretty great um so just a little plug there but
um yeah so to further my efforts as mentioned previously I started a project
to build a mobile observatory to be featured in all neighborhoods uh neighborhoods locally uh this idea kind
of stemmed for me wanting it at home Observatory for the longest then that evolved into wanting me to build an
astronomical experience here in Tulsa to make these kinds of places like observatories easier to get to so I
started doing some research and actually found a couple of other organizations who have built like these mobile science
centers but was really intrigued by the design science heads had engineered and
so I ended up reaching out to them to start a chapter here in Tulsa um since our Visions were like very much
aligned so to give you more of a visual I have a video and a couple of
um slides I can show you by the way you got some very cool glasses on thank you
blind kind of open clusters you know so right yes
um I love them they're I I say Elton John has nothing on you know yes he's right
here well if there's a it's the style points contest You've Won hands down oh thank
let me give you you get the trophy thank you so
so can y'all see my screen okay yes we can now I can you bring that up full screen or
is that is that there okay is it there
yes it's it takes it a little bit but it gets there so we we can see it full screen there we go okay great
oh please I always knew I wanted to be a scientist and an astronomer I didn't see
anybody that looked like me doing it I really want to be able to inspire young minority communities
through my passion for astronomy my name is Cheyenne Smith and I'm a
builder from Tulsa Oklahoma a lot of people don't realize that they
have this passion for space until they see that dark sky with all those celestial objects and they see the Milky
Way they don't know that they have this passion until they're introduced to it I started doing star parties around
Tulsa everybody bring their hostels the binoculars and they go out and we just start games and people loved it that's
why I started this project to build a mobile observatory it's the mobile observatory it's
the trailer it's nothing fancy right now but what I'm hoping for is to have that
whole astronomical experience inside [Music] I'm bringing science to you literally
I was really excited when I got the builders in doctor's brand because it was reassuring that this is something
that is needed and I want it to be right in your face that
this is here this is your resource I can be your resource let's get to the
star
so um I'm gonna put in a link to the GoFundMe
page oh thank you so much uh-huh so um a couple of other visuals I don't
I think I always have trouble with Zoom I always no
I always knew okay we've all been through this there we go
okay to where that's located
in Orange County California um as mentioned briefly before the observatory is designed to well uh the
one I'm building as well is designed to be a primary Outreach tool for educating
children and adults about astronomy related topics each Outreach will be designed with the specific objective and
audience in mind um as such the topics cover will vary from Outreach Outreach the mobile
observatory is designed to allow for maximum amount of flexibility uh topics
covered include but are not limited to solar system objects the Milky Way
objects Solar Dynamics astronomical events um and so forth uh and these are just a
couple of here we go again uh
hold on sorry y'all there we go these are very old renderings of what's gonna
what can be expected on the inside so you have two monitors two monitor
monitors here that would be used for like you know cloudy days I can you know
upload some simulation software onto the monitors and still do some programming
um and also that's where artists can come into play too when we you know co-partner and do some
um do some programming planning together um and then the telescope and then you
have the pier here that's hope that the telescope would be mounted on and then
of course a little desk and you know a chair and maybe some other things but this is just a really rough rough draft
of an early um rendering of what that can be
expected on the inside and then um this is just a very rough shaft of
the pier um that's to be built oh so does the here does the pier go through the floor
and hit the ground or how does it work yes it's mounted to the ground
okay yeah yeah because it so it so many questions
um go with the questions I had before I was going to ask another question about the pier if it comes up because you're
saying it's mobile so it obviously can't stay on the ground but it goes through the floor to the ground to steady itself
when when you park the mobile observatory no this thing is
actual floor of the trailer really I see okay so yeah and the other question was
where was the telescope intended to be a visual thing or were you going to consider
Astro like live or what they call EAA which is like live view astronomy using
it you mean like do I plan on doing virtual astronomy with it or or just basically
it's like it's live astrophotography where you have a camera on the telescope and your two screens then show the image
of what your telescope's looking at or where you're going to have it be visual where you have an eyepiece and you let
people see these things it's gonna be a visual um
astrophotography yet well you've got plenty of resources that could help you turn that into but first things first of
course and of course I was thinking you know you I I shamelessly think about your
Outreach and how it might reach the hood areas and I've shown people or pointed
at folks and the love of Starlight from Hood to any all walks of life will look
up and you point at something and they'll stop doesn't matter what street what side of the city they're from
um is that one of your goals to you know set up an outpost and let folks come in
and see something that they made with all the street lights haven't had a chance to look at
um you know because everyday life you know might there may be some other things
going on is that kind of a target for you out there in Tulsa yeah no that's
that's the main target is to my main target audience is underrepresented communities so I plan on going like
thankfully in Oklahoma uh we have some pretty we have really dark parks that I
have already been in correspondence with and having this thing like there on a monthly basis and so we have north south
east west Tulsa um my primary target is North Tulsa because that is primarily
um the um
that's where um yeah folks are yeah life can be a little roughly represented
urban community I want to spread yeah we want to spread
astronomy to more folks out there like I said it's out there you know you have to
have great schools out of him McLean High School you have Booker T High School um and you know you and it's there's a a
park O'Brien part that gets really dark at night and I know there will be a lot of
I've already gotten a lot of interest in um people wanting to get things yeah
that's wonderful keeping in mind of course this idea you have is a very Global idea so
I don't see it limited to the hood I think you're going to be you're going to
be going through a lot of different neighborhoods different different groups
um just people in general love the stars and um I think that
this has even far more potential than just you know the main goal of course we
got you know we got to do it one step at a time um Scott you said you're gonna share the GoFundMe page and yeah I did yep and I I
have a lot of interest in where this goes um you know Outreach
on one hand when I share pictures for instance and I share them with
um you know the friends and family from Detroit and no one has looked at them and said I
don't have time to see this they're all looking at that's really good I get the same answer no matter what the
backgrounds are it's truly space is truly a global human thing to you know
want to enjoy the stars and regardless of where you're from so you know I really am excited to see how well you
know how your Outreach efforts go thank you and hopefully they uh I hope
they you know not just the hood but reach everybody I mean you've this platform is a great platform it's a
global thing you're you're reaching folks in different countries with this idea so you know you never know what
this could spark and hopefully it does really good and um looking forward to seeing how it grows
thank you so much yeah that really means a lot to me I I've so far have I've
raised about fifteen thousand dollars for this project um of course I I need more funds for
this it's kind of ambitious but uh thank you Scott for posting the GoFundMe
um yes so and and so yeah I I plan I have so many ideas for this uh for this
project and it just gives me goosebumps every time I get to talk about it so I'm just so thankful to be here tonight and
thank you so much for your responses um um that was all that I had for my slides
but before I close out uh Scott earlier had asked me to explain a bit of why do
what I do and kind of how what Adrian was talking about it's all due to this
Cosmic perspective you know um as you all know in astronomy you all often hear genre speak about uh the
concept of having a cause of causing perspective and I think you know Dr Tyson said it best when he said
something along the lines of like um when you start to study more and
learn more about our Cosmic address and you start to realize how more alike we
are than we are different and that's exactly why I do what I do and this kind
of perspective is something that drives my work and my passion and I want to try and embed that in others that I come up
in contact with especially with this project so thank you so much for having me and I can't wait to see more of the
night and if you want to reach out to me uh yeah I can put my information in the chat box and go to Facebook and do that
as well sure please do just put links up I'll share them uh with the uh the
simulcast chat apparently thank you
okay so um we are going to take a little bit of
a break and um uh this will be time for you to get a sandwich or a coffee or
stretch your legs a little bit and we'll be back in about 10 minutes you're
watching the 78th Global star party uh The Amazing Life of stars
foreign
maxi it's like more what's up yeah I I I plan
on getting my Spanish I wanted to say como estas just by uh
commanders how are you going okay Commanders
an attack okay so it's yeah there so there's
definitely a dialect that I have to learn yeah it's not the same here for example in in
Mexico or maybe Colombia or Central America it's it's a different uh
kind of tone that we have of course here in Argentina
we have a from where I'm from we have this a accent uh like a porteno or the
Buenos Aires but if you go to Cordoba they they have
um more funny accent because for example
um it's more more large no it's it's very
cool and obviously it gets stuck with you when you're living there
it's impossible to not talk about like them Beatrice
[Music] below um Norm is saying yeah get your name on the big screen type of way
and of course no one's doing it they're all at the right they're all going to get something to drink
I don't know if you hear some kind of noise or you hear me good because I'm
using a wine blow here it's really hard
this summer today we have 41 that's right it's summer now yeah I got a time
now when it's it's cold up North but uh
carry on yeah it's I I invite you for plants the cold weather you know
[Music] right except uh it's the cold weather
when the Milky Way goes directly overhead for you though right yeah exactly yes yeah so it's like there's
give us and take us away um what part of the Milky Way do you see during your summer month
s and practically we see almost the South the southern because a lot yeah
from the Southern Cross and what the the Recycled and for um
some kind of that place and also we see the the Orion arm of course the Orion a
constellations
we we can see it from here but um
we must see that part in a in the South like you see for example
the north a the north California I think it's called
or not North American Ebola for example yeah we we can't see it from here
yeah that uh yeah the all the images I was sharing were mostly
um sickness region North American nebula showed up and a lot of them I don't know if I have some picture now
let me find it to open my background well here's the Lionel comment yeah I
should I should change my background although I like the like the new velocity of this one but
it was in this time of the year and so water
viramus corkill reigning here this week it's sunny somewhere it is always sunny
somewhere those of you that uh are dealing with clouds snow and rain like I am this is the part that we see
oh look at that yeah coal sack nebula I think exactly
yep and then the Crux is near there here's a Heather
um Alpha Centauri or Ricky cantarus and when you continue well you can point a
from there and in this place is a
Omega Center okay and yeah and in this
place in the in the center is I think uh the the Southern Cross and here up
this is an amazing Place yeah yeah it's really enjoyable watching that
place and of course there's a lot of dark nebulosity and this is the most
part that we see and then we continue to the core of the Milky Way
so yeah it's the it's a complete opposite of what we normally see right now we're seeing the
cygnus region set to the West which is a beautiful sight I forgot to share that
in my uh presentation how beautiful the cygnus region looks at a dark site
um when it sets to the West it's this Bright Beautiful area but then I did
share with the Orion region can look like um yeah it it's an often unheralded area
but more Milky Way Shooters are beginning to get their modified cameras out
and they're beginning to shoot those areas because they're they're real they're
seeing some uh postings and um they're starting to realize that
that area if you process it right can look a lot you know there's a lot more
there than you may think so there's a lot of processed um a lot of processing
and a lot of nice nightscape Shooters are trying to shoot a lot of time a lot
of time but it is cold when it's cold sometimes it's frigid and uh you got to
be ready I this is a new Christmas gift for me is this uh this camouflage nice
weather yeah and uh so I wear it if it's cold I wear it under the coat and I go
out there and and I work you have to be prepared yep definitely yeah
now here I'm only a T-shirt and you know a T-shirt and barbecues outdoors I I did
a barbecue with my father also Merry Christmas everyone and Feliz Navidad
exactly and I did a barbecue with my father last Friday and you know it was
kind of enjoyable but it was a really hot night here well you know people from
here when we see Santa Claus and we see the the snowing season and we when we
when I was a child and so cartoons we where the the Christmas is
with um with no and cold really doesn't yeah here it's beautiful
I'm gonna make a point to the chat I just realized the James Webb Space Telescope did launch lunch
I think that counts as a new telescope so that means the whole world's going to be cloudy because we all got a brand new
telescope yeah so uh that's so if it's for those of you in the chat if it's
cloudy it's because the James Webb Telescope launched and is continuing to successfully unfold all of its science
instruments as it gets closer and closer to its uh um final spot LaGrange point the L2
point that it's going to orbit um it's gonna orbit from so that is that explains everything because
we got snow again um over in Michigan and it was just 50 degrees on Christmas Day suddenly it's
snowing in 34. so thank the James Webb
and uh the formula is any new telescope the bigger the telescope the more you
affect your region with James Webb being as big
it will be cloudy on the moon yeah that that's life will happen but it will the
um the sun will shine again once it gets uh to the um LaGrange point so it won't be
cloudy forever some of you are lucky enough to be where it's not cloudy at all so you're defying the um you're
defying the telescope thing but uh yeah we're all glad that it launched I think we all um
we're all happy for that so uh maybe
okay we're back um we're having a little change in our schedule tonight uh but I wanted to
bring on uh Dr Marcelo Souza Marcelo is uh the
um uh the editor and coordinator for Skies Up Magazine along with uh David
Levy but uh uh Marcelo has been the force of uh coordinating this and
Reviving the magazine so we're really happy about that uh he is also uh a
professor of uh of astronomy and uh he is a cosmologist
down in Brazil and uh he has led many uh amazing uh
programs about uh astronomy and astronautics and has had uh such uh
speakers as Dr Buzz Aldrin and uh uh many other famous uh astronomers and uh
astronauts uh at his uh at his Gatherings his
um he also had his uh a long-running television show devoted to space science and astronomy
um and uh he is right now leading a group of young people to explore the
universe uh in a special program that he will be talking about
um but uh it's it always amazes me how many things that Marcelo Souza has been involved with and he is a fountain of
inspiration and uh and energy so uh thank you for coming on Marcelo
thank you Scott it's a great pleasure to be here and thank you for your kind rewards yeah we have uh we have been
highlighting some of the articles in Sky zap uh in some of our other programs so
it's been really amazing and uh you know thank you for getting these people to
submit articles I want to thank you and thank you I would like to thank you everybody that
sent the Articles and the send contributions to the magazine including the cover page yay okay sorry
I had to is that fantastic photography that is in the cover of the
magazine congratulations for that thank you I will show I will show you know
here today uh I I will share my screen
I have a fantastic news about here what's happened here in Brazil now
not here I think that now you can see the the screen yes I forgot to say well
it's quite sad that he had the invited and he saved many people associate with
astronomy your country one of the person that you participate here was quite hard
but that he visited the Earth has a greater honor to have a participation here
thank you and I I before I
I talk about the news that I have something that is important because many
people don't know about the decisions here in our County Brazil right you have
the associates that is some Associates for us here it is very hot here now
today here in my case but a few people know that Brazil is it
is a big country it's the equator line here across near here
of Brazil and the parts of Brazil is a small part of Brazil is in an
African in northern hemisphere most of Brazil is in the southern sphere but
there are small part of Brazil is in the Northern Hemisphere and in this region
that is Amazon we can't talk about Seasons As We Know
as we you have in United States or in Europe because here it is it is hot
during Audi year what is difference is because you have a
part of the year that you have a lot of rains any part of the year that you
don't have so many rings then you have they call these two different moments
winter and summer but it is hotter every time man you have a part of the year
with the race a lot of crazy parts of rains we feel not so many ways and the
in then when we we talk about Seasons like United States you have United
States Europe for the people that live in general of Brazil it is difficult to
understand because they don't have winter there do we interfer them as I
said is a region is a moment the summer winter for them they use these words
only to say that during one moment you don't have so many ways in other fields
you have a lot of rains all of this and but it is hot
for the people that lives also that live is near the equator here
I live here near the trap cross cap one that's cross 80
a patch of proper Captain uh in Brazil we can located here is a state near us
that is Sao Paulo uh our latitude here is 21.
21 and a half in here until the the capital prohibition
here then father is here it is hot it's our son
but you have part of the south region of Brazil that is below
then you have different seasons here and the winter movies
it is not like the United States New Opportunities called for us here when we have the wind in the
middle of the year we have 20 degrees nobody wants to to walk in the streets the practice is very cold for us oh
20 degrees 60 degrees which is very difficult to have this temperature here
but when we have we reach this nobody wants to walk in the streets it is very
cold for us I know that for you it's almost
in some place you know 20 degrees better here foreign
she is also here and the the international you don't have you can't
stop in Seasons like you're talking United States in Europe
here for this defense I live here in Indonesia States and they're talking now
about what happened here in our states yeah it is very hard to know he is a
major of the Copacabana beach that is very famous in here the engineer and now is the time for to go to the
beach here when the people let me believe is near the coast but here here
I live here I was here in this place let's campus here you can see uh
dark green region here that you have a forest here but that's a protect first in this place
is a stage park that's protects in forest and now here you can see you know
decision here his campus here is this position here near us
um of this park is located almost 100 kilometers for for a while here
this is the state park of this engine you have this kind of monkey they
protect them with another animals and now we had the announcement for the
international dark sky Association that the spark now is the first dark sky Park of
Latin American Brazil the first one in Latin American Brazil
they excellent for that they they chose to protect the dark skies and they I
showed some image of the parking other programs where he is global style but
here is the park the the total area of the park is 200.4 kilometers square kilometers
well but see if you include division around the park it's more than 1400
square kilometers and it is look part of the packs we have
three cities here that is in is inside two three different seats
and the watch is important here is that in this audio distribution of the park they don't have artificial lights inside
no lights no lights they don't have electricity inside and they sign a commitment to be
considered as that International tax uh dark sky Park that they you continue
with this in the next years they will not allow any kind of artificial lights
inside the back and they you don't and you will not find any kind of power in
the crispy power inside the path no power no power so if you're going to bring a telescope that has power you
need to bring batteries I think yes yes you need to bring batteries because you don't have power inside the pack and
they will continue like this here you can see here this is the dark
part here he has composed our city that is the biggest city of division
you can see here the lights in your city and here is the pack
inside this red circle here you see that you can't see any kind of
Lights here inside the park nice they had quite out of the back is located far
from the park it is here in this dark Arrow here
's the red pattern of the part that he is located to eight kilometers far from
the entrance of the park and here is this is near the nearest
seat that is a Jamal City with 10 000 people that live you there that's it the
name of the city Santa Maria Medallion they are celebrating these moment in this city because it is very important
for them to have to receive this recognition International recognition and this city now is changing the lights
according to the suggestions made by the
International Taxi Association they're changing all the urban Lights of the city
that's really good because I think uh you'll have that light Dome to the west
but all of your eastern northern and southern where you'll have a bit of a
light Dome to the South too but um yeah especially in the center of
that area if everyone does change their lights in the surrounding towns you
could you look like you might be able to be on the borderline of achieving a portal 2 zone right in the center there
um that would be that yeah the sky really pop out so
that's really good and also either what you have here is that you're having
mountains here around to the park all right yeah it's a little better so it'll
block the light with the mountains you have a lot of mountains here man and
they are the pocket is is near 800 meters from more than one thousand
meters oh okay yeah so it's it's up there um is there do you have what portal
rating do you have in this area sorry what portal rating as in darkness
rating I know you got these the designation so I'm thinking those come
with at least like the portal 4 which you know you still have some light domes
but it's dark enough to yeah yeah it's not because they they measure
inside the the parking in many places inside the park uh the lighting that they have and you
have parts of the packages absolutely dark you don't have any kind of light
you can't see lights you can't see the cities around okay yeah
here is the region and you see these red arrow here oh yeah you know what I see
that little spot that's your that's your darkest of the dark yes this is a part
of the park that they shows to allow people to put telescopes in this region
yeah these are essential part of the park that people use they can use in
many places here but it's a a big Forest I don't know how to say in English trees
the canopy the tree can't see these guys inside inside that that makes sense
you need to find places in this region to allow you to see Andy most of them
are near the border of the mountains no if that makes sense
I'll show here this is one of the picture from the right he is not inside the park
this image was taking uh to 80 kilometers far from the entrance
of the park and he'll see it he puts a artificial
light here Flash and you can see the sky in this part that is not inside the park
it's not even inside the park wow it's not inside the park it is
yeah yeah it's still so yeah that I I have a question for you
Martin hello uh being that it the park now has International dark sky status uh
how is that affecting the local um economy uh in the area
they are planning now activities here they have they are
planning to receive tourists there yeah then they are training these students
they are training the population they are training uh the security of the park
and they they are they are planning to organize the activities inside the park
events you know for astronomy associated with astronomy for
astronomers and for the population then we imagine the in this city that is near
where it is located they live this only uh 10 000 people in the outer city
but near the original downtown you have almost five thousand six thousand people
living there then everybody in the city is talking
about this yeah the schools of the city now
you they are planning to have classes after astronomy they are preparing the
students and the population to receive the tourists that's that are planning to
visit the particles is the first one of Latin America yeah
change everything they they now is changing the lights of all the cities
yes and there is something that is amazing
that's happened there you and uh now your group uh your group
of young students there uh were they involved also in uh
uh popularizing or or supporting the idea of a dark sky there yes we
participated into group that was responsible for the recognition uh Audi
the project was made by the staff of the pack but see we got participated
uh helping with the astronomy part of the project
then we were responsible to help and to give support for our astronomy uh
informations and we helped them to measure delighting
inside the park and we're participating events in the
city in the past everything began because in this city
when we organized the first activity inside the park we met a bridge right
that he is member of the international lifestyle Association
great and he motivated the back to
become an international dark sky oh that's great and they asked our help
to end support and we participate since the beginning of the project
that's wonderful and now our project is available at the homepage he this is the
official announcement in international black Sky Association homepage
I I have here I will share the page because I'll show our students are there
in these announcements I will show now I will stop here this is
the group one of Jesus Samir was one of the guys that was responsible
for this recognition because he made out measurements Inside the Box
let me show here I stop here I'll show the the page I'm sharing of the the home
page I've got it right now I have it I will share it with our audience
yes yes I'm sharing the same page
yeah and here we have Santa Maria Medallion his name is
by the state environment Institute achieved an unprecedented title in Latin
America nomination of the protection as International black sky but
designated by the international tax Association it is the first one in
Brazil Indian Latin America the name of the party is
here is our group de Luis Cruz astronomy groups
we were involved since the beginning of this recognition
do something fantastic wow
I have a map here to show how it is important
for us here okay uh one a month let me uh here here was
the locations of the communities in that Skype packs around the world right we
have many different kinds of dark Skype places you you had a community here in
Chile but not a dark sky Park it's a community and now
here is the ruby in the map the first dark sky pass of our Latin America
including Mexico until until
South America wonderful he's the only one that you have in this region
so we need to make this whole map just solid green right yeah I think that's
the goal yeah after the announcement I I received
contacts from other groups in Brazil that you want also to be hip organized
I think that's soon we will have your other party in Brazil
and I'm hoping Latin America yes it's something that motivates many
people there's a lot of work still left to do you know to educate people about Dark
Skies um Mike Wiesner who sometimes is on global
star parties pointed out that if communities just use Smart lighting
not not no light but smart lighting you know that they could save enough money
to apply towards uh organizations that feed uh the the hungry of the world uh
just by just by reducing the way that we use LINE uh the money that we would have
spent could feed all the world and uh you know so a lot of times people make
arguments about oh let's just pick one like the James Webb Space Telescope cost
10 billion dollars okay that sounds like a lot of money but we waste that kind of
money just by using too much light so that that's uh you know if we got our
priority straight um and used our resources better uh you
know many such things such as light pollution uh you know curbing light pollution could uh could feed the world
so here you can see the seats here this is
a small seat that I said and here is the park these motors that you see
here is located in the past I don't like to congratulate the staff of the routine of the the England states
park because they did a Fantastical yeah coordinated by the name of the manager
is Carlos Dario and he he has the support of two guys fantastic guys that
is Samir that's his photographer let me make all the measurements and the Jean
Rafael that are responsible to write the project and it was fantastic this is
some finger that we are very happy is a gift a Christmas gift for us in Brazil
because it was announced near Christmas here celebration of Christmas
now they have the recognition here and there are other wonderful news near
Christmas why is the launch of Disguise art magazine the new edition
is about well the light the how to protect
but this front light pollution you have
three articles about this magazine and the Deep Cover images from
Adrian what thank you yeah there's uh yeah it's a
nice uh nice cover shot there yeah some of those that saw the uh presentation
um that's uh this part of the Milky Way Kenton Oklahoma
um there's a little bit of Sky glow there you can really dig in with uh you
know I think this is just a 30 second tract exposure and all of these things
the California nebula some of the uh the gases that we learned from uh David
eicher that the Pleiades are passing through um you can kind of see that here the
Hiatus that Kono talked about Lambda orionis as a part of Orion and uh
the rosette is here there's other nebulosity that's all around and um
you know the darker the skies the more you can image
um in the night sky and this is a this is a perfect example of things I didn't
know that this is what this part of the Milky Way looked like I had tried to image it back in my home state of
Michigan so when this came out it surprised me and you know all of the
Dust Lanes here and everything these this is this may have been the first time I saw this part of the Milky Way
State Park and do a Milky Way shot it'll blow your mind all right so I have to I
look forward to that um and then on your way to Argentina okay yes on my way uh so many places to
go so much uh so much to do but uh yes and and in actually reading Skies up you you
know the articles by uh Marcelo and um the
rest it's uh it's definitely a wonderful on um online magazine that I follow that's
great that's great thank you thank you fantastic image if he wants to visit us
you'll be welcome here you want to visit Brazil I I
go ahead okay you'll be welcome I will share here and now the Jamaica is in here on the
moment I have here
of course here is your homepage
where you can find all the magazines yes
you have out magazines here
then you only need to come here and click it it's other magazines are free
yes and here is the last Edition
you have a articles from Morocco uh
Romania I don't know if I said correct in English yes
here is the article from David Dr David Levy about the manual here it is much more
some informations about the license yes from Morocco from
my friends here image is from Us photography for Romania
it's sorry for Morocco he is from Romania
he's from Canada Quebec Alfred
a path back Sky Park the first one I believe that he was the first one in the world
here is is when we finish the magazine it was
recognize this this seat is a dark sky police in busy in Japan Japan yeah yeah
look at the difference in in controlling the lights
is a fantastic art for us here you have an article from the uh
Outreach the night Skynet you're working from us
yes yes David prosper from night sky Network that's right yes it is a
fantastic way to to know if the how is the sky near you
using your Rio as a reference for this
now is an article from Canada about the planetary Arts
he made a long studs about this
yes yes Pierre ISO poetry for Romania from Valentin
delivery and his friend Romania
and I'll have a wonderful astrophotographies from many
fantastic as photographers
in the magazine is available for everyone but it's free it's
fantastic yeah thank you for the opportunity yeah it's an honor to be con you know to have
an image up with all the beautiful images that are here um looking at uh Andrew fryover's image
he's captured some of the Dust lines that are in Lambda orionis and you know
the D he's got some of the same detail um that I had in my shot
um with his with his panel Mosaic and um it's it's a it's a beautiful under shot
region of the Milky Way that you really can only see you know if with your eyes
when you're someplace dark and um I've tried to shoot it back in Michigan
ever since and it may not come out quite as well but it's still uh it's still a
beautiful area of the sky and um you know that that I would hope would be
my fate that seeing that uh Caravan there or not Caravan but um camper
reminds me of all the things that I saw when I was at Okie text all the campers and uh RVs and people looking up and a
lot of astrophotography so there's a lot of red lights around of people just aiming at the stars and um
it's a beautiful time whether you get a good picture or not you just love being there and just being underneath
The Starlight and I I'll put here the
the homepage if anyone wants to to
hell here's the expired scientific platform yes pages that Skies up his business
cards correct is it correct there's a link here
I think that it is correct you know but it is or or you can just do explore
scientific.com forward slash Skies up um I'll spell this one word so but I've
included that as the link and people can get their uh issues of the magazine and
uh if you have ideas for Skies up magazine or would like to contribute either images video we can even do video
um or a nice article uh you know certainly get in touch with us and I'll give you an email address that you can
touch base an explore Alliance at explore
scientific.com
but uh I'm very excited for uh Brazil to have their official dark sky Park and be
recognized for all their hard work oh yeah celebrating even it is uh Yeti are living up and
then but foreign
[Music] projects and the animations this is the
full team we have students from Fundamental school high school and the
quality students that's participate in the meeting this is a heavy from five
different seats nearest all of them are receiving Scholarships in the project it
is something that yeah I also help very happy about to know that now we
have a team we feel these students that see during the
our visit in schools we notice that they
have a great talent and now they are working with us
this is the final thing that you both will be working 2022. it's wonderful it's wonderful
Marcelo we should have um we should put in some advertising for the young stars
of Tomorrow program and the next skyset magazine for sure and uh also about the
dark sky Park uh in Brazil and maybe we can have an ongoing series of articles
about dark sky parks around the world great it would be fantastic thank you
very much Scott nice to meet you all of you Andy I wish to all of you
a new year with peace and the health that is the most important thing moment
yes and happy New Year Marcelo and extend uh happy holidays to everyone in
your programs and your friends and family thank you thank you thank you thanks
okay so we will um uh bring on Maxi
filari's uh from Argentina and uh Maxi uh
you have been busy with the comet hi everyone yes uh
I really are not you know my my fiance says again you're going outside to put
to get that piece of rock well it's once in 80 what 80 000 years or something
like that so yeah so basically I like I present last
weekend uh last week I'm sorry I did this picture of the the common learner there
is in my background and you know I was really excited because
we here in the South I tell some people that
we was very we thought that maybe we couldn't see
the the comment because we had the experience of the near wise government
last year and we say now it's passing through the Southern Hemisphere and
maybe it's going to get more sharpened and then disappear and go anywhere but
it really surprised us because it has three outbursts that get more shiny get
a really long tail there's amazing pictures and astrophotography from
all around the the southern hemisphere from Australia and Namibia and we're
here in Argentina Brazil Chile in New Zealand and
uh there are you know this is a extremely a really a really good comment
that we we are uh enjoying the view yeah Comet limit
Leonard has come to avenge you all for not being able to see Neo wise exactly yeah we had our comment now you
have yours it's it's not visible well at first it
was kind of visible in Dark Skies but uh
you know I was drinking mate you know I when when we was chatting Adrian and I sent that picture
of and then I saw it in my home with my binoculars
and I say my to my father look up you can you have to point from Jupiter then
jump to Saturn and then go up to this start and you're going to see it and
what it was it was really really good time you know it was outside hanging out with
my family enjoying the the Christmas Eve and and well let me share my screen
all right so now what I'm talking about
uh uh sure is great yeah okay do you see it
yes well you can see there's a lot of dates that
when I do astrophotography I get a
the the the to to get every picture that I did that
I do with the date because it's more organization it's kind of a talk
but I started in the 19th of December
but then I couldn't get until the 22nd of December
then I get you know the next day and also in the Christmas Day at the afternoon and then two days ago
the picture that I sent to to Adrian you know here's the the
telescope the camera it was all together but also we had the mate
and I was really a that's the that is
the only way to do astrophotography it's with the food on
hand and all the gear set up and ready to go before it gets dark yeah it was
really hot for Ticketmaster yeah well since I will know that but uh
you know it was a special moment because I was with my family and
and I was doing what I like and it was really good good time
um what let me this is a stack of pictures that I did
the first time of the Comet this was the 90 of December this is only the second
and outer Street uh the image because if I go here this is the
stacking that is nothing only this kind of that there but when you auto switch
you get the info right there so I was really excited that I didn't
know what was going through because this was really passing through and really
near from us uh uh two days sorry three days later
this is what I get on this side really changed a lot the shape and the
brightness that it has this comment was amazing um
thank you I was really excited because we thought that maybe in the 20th
of December maybe Christmas time and it will go in for a decrease in the the
brightness and the magnitude but it was really the opposite this was the 23rd
it really changed the the shape obviously changed the some oh yeah a lot
more defined more defined is it has started to have the tail and if I reset
this the comet it wasn't like that it's more like a
flatter a piece of rock because I think this
time it was having an hour burst because when I
when you get the this picture well I have I have the here the the editor it
was the 23rd and what you can see this set out the files and I was I think it is this this
is that's interesting to see the ion tail you can see the ion tail is going
slightly different direction than the dust tail you know and the dust tail is
going in the orbit that the comet's going around the Sun but the ion tail is stretching out from the solar wind yeah
exactly and you can see I could get more info here in the core almost in the coma
but it's more well you have this kind of
helmet it has and well the next day it was this was the
23rd the 25th of December it was like this
uh well I upload a couple days ago in my Facebook page you can see again the
shape of the core is really bright when you
get stretched [Music] a
change every single day you know I I was watching the pictures the
12 hours later take in Australia and really change a lot really a lot and you
know oh they taking this but what are you good what I could get this night here you know it was some kind of
surprise so my last one was this
I think this was getting a little more uh less brighty and the magnitude is
kind of decreasing but they tell is still a observing and capturing and you
know like I said this is a really good comment we think well and the prognostics say
that maybe at the third of January is going to get the perilium and then we
start to to decrease the magnitude but we have
too many days ahead to to still watching it it's it's going to get a
a more down that where a I have the
possibility to say here in my home almost at 9 00 pm at almost 10 pm I help
I have it some a 25 or 20 degrees above the Horizon and
then my home starts to to block me but uh this is really interesting to
what the info that you that I get this is a an example you know uh let me
this is a single frame and here's the blink application of a tool that does a
in an animation to what I what I want to
show is the movement of the Comet that has in almost a half an hour
you know it's going to be a little fast or I think it's more late but that is
going more let me see if I can this
[Music] sorry because the outer stretch [Music]
mistake working on it how it works this program see if I put in there
I think the the software is running out
let me
the stars are aligned that you can see how the comments is
moving it
so this it wasn't a half an hour only yeah maybe in the passing days it will
go into get more slower but this makes
you the opportunity to to get info to get pictures and also oh yeah if you
have a school thank you if you're having a binoculars
uh you can you can watch it or if you are are in
the southern hemisphere uh you can watch it with your vinegars almost at the
afternoon with the Twilight you know this this day it was amazing to to watch
it through the clouds and the the the the little shiny stars and you can see
the the core of the of the of the Comet it was amazing
uh also what I did
I think it was the 22nd I have my equipment outside and I said
tomorrow I don't have to work yeah so no I I think I have to go to no yeah I have
to go to work but I I did some pictures of Orion
and I try to do some uh
um I don't know a mosaic pictures of different place because I have a square sensor
and it's really really gets soon
but [Music] this is what I could get because I want
to get the the running nebula and another place of star but
this is what I get that night wow nice
you know it was in this part is the Running Man nebula I think I have I I
didn't oh yes I deleted the the picture let's see if I can get the the only
frame second Orion well I started to the
running manual this is only a a one so of that place
because I want to stack in every place to to get the info but I couldn't maybe
I I still I never did that kind of picture but I really like to to get it
someday so to get this part in there and it has the the running manual and the
Orion Nebula with this shiny stars so also what I'm
what I'm doing a uh last day I last day I was stuck in
I think I have yeah I have the the DBA
picture I was in this place of a galaxy
[Music] is is M77 I think this is a really good
Galaxy it has this shape of [Music]
that is difficult to watch it but also we have this place
is more like the Sombrero Galaxy it's really similar
and also I I love when the stars are really like that really with the spikes
and this tiny Galaxy really
far away from us and also there are so many in the background you know look at
this foreign
it's really really far away that one yeah but I also try to get to the
a another but I couldn't get it and I couldn't
find it um also I think I download this picture now
it was the 25 yeah here and I did some pictures of the that I
have to uh of the well today we were talking
with Kona of the playlist so I guess
because I want to to show to my mother how it looks like with with a picture
and I think it was this no sorry this was
the they've already placed it wasn't there yeah here
here are some place of the player this I think I miss one star because it doesn't
fit on my field of view but this is the the neurosity that says
today a colonel and then also um
correct us or or say us that this is not part of uh of the of these Stars you
know this is a really good place to to watch it and also to take pictures and
this was only practicing and try to to see what I get that that night
so I hope in this next days I
maybe I will try to get in dark area maybe I will go to Alberti I don't
know yet um and try to
to do some pictures of the of the Comet with a good dark skies and also having
more time to to get it and also enjoy the view and well
support the the heat of the summer unfortunately well thank you everyone
and I I want to to say you to you a a
really a Happy New Year to all of you and I hope this trendy
20 20 seconds here and gets more better than
that we we pass through so thank you Scott and I will continue with you
thank you very much Maxi thanks it looks a little windy out there still no I I
have I have my my tour my Windflower because oh you're a fan hi
fat yeah let's go on you're outside you know the wind's blowing you around
it was almost 41 Celsius degrees today
it was great [Laughter]
now you're crazy man Dave welcome
this is yes sorry [Laughter]
languages no problem or pronunciation is a nightmare I know
that this is to understand something but it was amazing uh the week of the
Comet here I don't I don't have a lucky with that because or return at nine
o'clock uh in the in the in the Night from from the business putting boxes in
the warehouse yes inboxes for to to deliver to another day and we have a
crazy crazy Christmas uh um
time to deliver boxes for our country of
that let's go yeah to your program Cesar tell us a little
bit about uh Optical Soraka and um uh so for people that aren't familiar with it
uh sorry it's called the I I could understood the yeah yeah tell us about
your your shop your store ah yes yes thank you yes
yes no no yes I mix it some words and I I'm sorry there's no no it's called
different your pronunciation is very good no no like my opinion because
you're an American and um but uh yes
um our our business is is from 1954 my father-in-law
founded Optica saraco especially for for uh uh contact lenses and glasses of
course and he he from from the beginning of the of the
business he started to to uh to sell telescopes but you know a few
quantities in the window maybe you can imagine about uh you know about Shalom
telescope some old Tasco or another Branch from Japan in the in the 60s 70s
80s but in the 1992 I'm I'm uh entry to the business
um I am next year I'll I'll be 30 years
in the in the company yeah family family company my wife is sarako too I I need
to say that that we are really yes and
um and my idea I I was very interested in my my teenager time
uh going to to take uh lessons to La
Plata astronomy Observatory but only for for me because
it was a teenager and optic student uh we could we could uh study in the night
um in the in the day we went with another uh uh classmate more we went to
the to to learn about Optics uh to to
figure eight optics for you know uh and my experience uh in in my my teenager
time was very very great to start to take uh
uh apart the parliament of telescopes in sarako
um well we started in August of 1992 with with this area and we are going to
to to get our anniversary of 30 years next
year um we have a showroom we have a laboratory to re for repairing cleaning
Optics and well a lot of different things it's very interesting
and tonight it's cloudy but I I could
take a picture with a cell phone with adapter because I was you know that you
you know me that I I like to try all telescope that we
sell of course for every of every stock we take one two or three
to our staff to show to the people to show in the in the showroom and to use in store parties
um tonight was the first time that I I could uh used
the expression scientific series but the the brand is national graphic but it's a
sprout scientific um was very interesting because I was looking really really for for uh
many many years to to have a real uh 500 millimeters
Focus uh telescope without uh without
um Barlow lenses inside inside the the
optical axis um when you have a real 500 millimeters
uh do you have a um f number very short and this is very
nice because you have a wide field that is great for the kids because the kids
when when other people their parents too they lost the the Mind
finding something uh that is really shaking and when you you can use the
the the why wide angle um eyepiece like that this is Plusle 26
millimeters do you have a huge y feel because you
have only 500 millimeters focus and you have a 20 20 6 millimeters that is
um only 19 19 millimeters sorry a magnification
that is a little more that binocular with with but with a huge huge
luminosity and well I enjoyed tonight
uh despite the the clouds and and
something that is an open cluster with you know how is my my sky
um from from here from my balcony but I can show you a picture in the in the
early maxify latest style with the cell phone you know maxi
yeah sorry I was eating yes I can see no no sorry okay
[Laughter] let me show let me show you let me share
a screen and here
you can see the screen yeah
okay well this is the the
a couple of pictures and it's it's fun because I don't have an idea
what um open cluster is this is of course in reverse because
here it is is um really uh
it's um is down is uh in reverse
here I can I can make a a small change with
the most interesting is not the picture if not is
what is the who is the the cluster the open cluster isn't the in the Villa area
and I don't know if it's a cluster or is a mix between an asterism
here do you can see two stars more um
let me show you you can see the stellarium or I need to change the the screen now we can see
okay I have an idea
tomorrow more clearly I'll founding who
is the exactly the the the cluster but I think that this
I'm not sure because it's found when you don't use go to
I am totally lost with that
but I think that this may be an asterism only because this was Maybe guitar cumulo or
maybe in this area I don't know the name in English
[Music] but show something like more stars
and I can see they they their rev star in Karina
because it's I know that I know that the star and it's really huge and I think
that it's not that this isn't this area really but
the fun fact is that I couldn't see
which cluster is it's an open cluster you know but maybe sometimes you have a
a cluster mixed with a some asterism and well it's a it's a nightmare to
understand which is the the cluster but I I of course that I
I'll I have I have really uh
um uh and uh fun time
taking picture with the cell phone that is really great in middle of the city another thing that we have problems in
the city and really we can we need to put
um the distance between the between the
between the eyepiece and the cell phone camera lenses
in the eye relief that is is the best place because if not if you are in the
if you are in in the Maxi faliers sky in for example you don't have problems
because the parasite like it's really so low that you don't have prayer with with
this but here where you have a very short focal distance and a long uh uh
focal distance in your eyepiece your eye release is critical and you have a lot
of of you know of likes that that is if you are not in the in the right center
and in the distance between between the the eyepiece and the camera you have a
lot of of different kind of like that is impossible to to get to get uh
[Music] uh clear image with the with the how do
you say with the completely um completely you know something that is is
the same in our in in the all areas of the picture the the quantity of right
and this is the only thing that is more easy with the the shorter Focus ocular
to take pictures and especially take pictures of the moon and planets but I
could I could take pictures of open open cluster
um for with the the regular mount you know I can use
I can use the the the the the
ex's 100 tonight but I I use and I'll try
the telescope with the with the go to mount maybe I don't know tomorrow or
when the the greatest guides returning
but this is a great a great uh way to to have a fun and thinking that many kids
received this for Christmas uh it's really really uh
nice and and and it's for the people to have fun to
especially for kids it's really a great combination between short Focus wide
angle um eyepiece um well you know this is all
is it it's really special for Maxi that Maxi have make an excellent pictures
with with the cell phone returning to your past Max yeah I you
know I was I was remembered that time and I when I see my grub now
I say oh I pass a lot in this years but
sometimes it's good to go back again and and still get practice and yeah you know
I I still have in the same phone that start they had helped me start in this
Hobby and now it's more like kind of
type of professionally but it's it's good to sometimes goes back
and yes I I I I have the intention to to send you one
yeah if you want no my wife we will not not be really
yeah so only only the no problem only the the OTA yeah and sent to Maxi to try
yes yes in hands of Maxi what is
possible to make with this telescope and with a cell phone only of course
it's important yes of course we'll maybe m42 how we see it
how is the field of view maybe it's with a really good eyepiece like 25
millimeters or that the 32 is more discuss more yeah
but the 32 is has a more a coma no yes
and you need you need either a relief and a relief to to yes to separate and
yeah you know also this is no no it's for a kid telescope and you don't have
here uh yes the high gray explore scientific telescope if you need that of
course that you I can send you that you can pay that but but no the idea is yeah
yes no no no this is only but word very well
is God and the first something that this is great and is when you see the
telescope especially in our business uh when we choose a telescope to sell
um um [Music] is we every time we
really are with the expectative of to say what kind
of telescope because I saw the videos with of leaving the Stars uh making the
the unboxing or or a Scot or I found a all one video with Kent
um now I have one in my in my hands and I can see too that is a gray is
telescope just a starting excellent telescope many many times in the past we
have the starting telescope with only 60 millimeter or 50 millimeters and you can
say you can see nothing here the the the the the
tonight uh maybe half hour uh
uh before uh I started to I started in this room tonight
I take pictures with with my cell phone and of course there are
because the problem of of the light pollution and the cloudy nights do you
have a a lot of illuminate illumination inside the picture but do you have a
open cluster and you can have a work for a kid for example you say okay I have
this what cluster is this I feel the same um I have I have for a kill it's not
only for a keyframe the nature that are interested in astronomy is I have the
picture of an open cluster and I make the same question what plaster is and
this is great because you need to put in reverse and you need to start to show to
to to see the picture comparing with the star Maps going about going to a book to
to to see see if it's an asterism or it's a real open cluster because do you
have an idea where is the in the sky do you have a compass inside the the
inside the Alderson mode Mount and I have an idea where is the the the the
area of the sky where you found this but the interesting thing is you don't need
a um first of all you don't need for a star uh a quarter amount
this is something that that is irrelevant you need only
take the idea where is the in the sky the things that you are watching because
this was in Reverse this is okay I can see an amount of stars in an area of the
sky if I see to this area with my naked eyes I can see anything
this is the idea first of all the real power of a telescope it's not magnification it's right like the
capacity to to get like and uh
I try if if I come I can put an an
amount of stars in in uh in in the field of the eyepiece and take
a picture and have something like um you know like uh
register or something that you say like in a small Observatory you have
something and this is and starting really good comparing with a telescope
where they're really small well you have a your first telescope and I remember my
my in my childhood the telescope was maybe 40 Milli uh 40 millimeters of
diameter uh um today uh it's for if you think that
for kids you can have uh f
4.30 f number you have a very fast telescope you can put a cell phone and
show more stars maybe like a Naked Eyes come on do you have a started telescope
starter sorry telescope uh that it's really really is much more that you can
imagine in uh in few years ago um the Optics of this uh something that
is important that is not an aspheric mirror they have a huge work
making a very huge difference between the sphere and the parabola
and for an industrial telescope thank you for kids
it's amazing that the industry say okay we can do it very good because they the
I have a focal test I put in the focal test and really
was I I couldn't put the you know the good idea fragment
for to see the to to to take the measure of of the parabola but
the difference between Delta and Delta uh we call it Delta Del Delta peprima
the difference in the uh um spheric aberration
was really really uh really uh short talking about a really a great
uh quality of of Optics I'm thinking for uh uh again for a
telescope that we are thinking to sell it is in you know a Walmart for
Christmas and you have something that is beautiful in in Optics that's right this
is a really really the how how was improving the the industry
uh in in this 30 years when I thinking that I I saw from 30 years telescopes
come on it's this was so so impressive for me in the
in the last 30 years how the things change it and despite the the go to
mounts and a lot of an amount of technology that that incoming uh but
this one that is for kids and this is the Christmas telescope is amazing and
work really very in a very good way
yes well you know the time of the web
telescope right yes it's amazing it's amazing what
we're going to see with uh a huge telescope in space but it's also amazing
what you can see with the small telescope from your patio or your backyard you know so uh
you know telescopes just peel away the the the onion skin you know to let you
see to probe deeper and deeper in the universe but overall what what
when we apply our mind to this exploration and what we've learned you
know um it doesn't stop at just what you see it doesn't stop where you what you see
you start to make the connections of of uh how we are related to the Stars how
we are connected to the universe uh you start to learn you know you you see a
conjunction with Venus and the moon or something and and or you see an eclipse
and you get you start to understand that we're in this dance of our solar system
you know and things are moving and uh it's it's all Dynamic and as Dave eicher
pointed out before early in the program he talked about you know how amazing it
is that uh that we as living living beings
that have learned how to look at the sky and try to make sense out of it make make the tools that we make you know
it's just uh we're just so fortunate so lucky so um you know and uh I think that
most most astronomers understand that that is kind of the message of the theme
of our of the star party this this uh this this week which was the uh life of
stars you know it is they are they are amazing they are it is where uh a
process of creation is taking place and uh um you know it's uh when we look at
beautiful things like the minerals or we look at planets or exoplanets or other yeah bars explosions that happen the
universe the beautiful nebula all these things you know it all starts uh uh much
of it starts with the Stars itself you know so so I hope that with uh James Webb Space Telescope that we can see
some of the very earliest Stars the the formation of stars perhaps in our
universe and uh you know it's gonna it's gonna start to put together the pieces of the puzzle that is missing for a lot
of physicists and um you know the cosmologists and theorists so
absolutely Scott yeah yes it's incredible and how how in the media
it's every time it's more have more uh in the popular media in the popular
culture is starting to have more space uh well the space really is there were
uh the astronomy um in the last uh successful movie of
Netflix the the don't like don't look up
um the history is about of course politics and you know the political shows and but the idea starts with the
astronomy um when they are the astronomers they
are making the same that that amateur Stormer we are watching in the
in the Stream watching if something more different um uh hope because they they uh they uh
found the the comment and yes the the this is well we have a lot of fun with
this movie last week and with my family and really despite the the politic jokes
that is uh is in the same countries this in the in the in my country is the same
as is yeah the same idea the middle time
elections and you know but uh um but despite this the idea of for the
people to pay attention and the people who hold fighting with idea the media
fight uh with the scientists and the politics and it is the same kind and
it's so important to have to to give education astronomy education to the to
the kids um and really and we are really happy that we saw a lot of telescope for kids
uh whereas a choosing um of their parents when when the kids
can be um amazing with the sky but the the they
choose to make this gift is from from their parents I'm really happy I I have
uh my hope in humanity is restored again yes yeah no no but it's real and they
said with the parents came to the to the store and say look we we have our kids
that he have 12 years old and he's really interesting sometimes is is
younger sometimes yes my daughter have seven years old and sometimes you know
sometimes say okay I don't know if a telescope is the best option but
if you when I talk with their parents and I say okay if you if you
um make the the history around the telescope you take the telescope
and go to the back and your backyard with a daughter or your your song and
make the experience and I can help you to make this experience you have this
kid maybe now seven years old sometimes you know watch the moon watch a planet
maybe Orion Nebula that it's more easy to understand to understand in in the
sky but this kid going to their first years
of their own uh denature time when when he gold or she
go she she go to to to be a teenager yeah
carry their own telescope when the first night that carried their own telescope
and she or he used by first time
only the telescope without their parents the magic starts
and it's the same that okay I took the picture of this group of stars and come
on which which one is I can I need to see in a map I need to to to to to ask
to my teacher I don't know but I my
curiosity my own curiosity started and this is this is the magic it's really the the the first day the
first night that you you
put your feet in the in the fur in the first step
of astronomy of your astronomy you know uh
amateur or maybe a career in the in the future I don't know I have I I know
professional astronomers that recite with a telescope that bogging our our
store many years ago maybe 10 20 years ago I know it's professional astronomers
actually doctoral that received by their parents
a telescope 20 years ago this is a it's great really great that's right that's
right yeah you never know where a small telescope uh can take someone you know
so it's absolutely most uh professional astronomers that that do like to use get
their hands on the equipment there are some professional astronomers who just look at data you know they just do math
you know that this kind of thing uh but um it is uh uh I have met many
professional researchers who also say that they are amateur astronomers too
you know because they love the sky so um and they love they love to do uh
backyard astronomy as well so yeah it's uh you know it's
it's important uh that you just apply the the telescope and try to
um get the best performance that you can out of it Caesar you are absolutely one of those people that do that Maxie's
another one uh Nico is another one you know so I I love I love what uh what you
guys do and um uh you know it is inspiring uh because many people think
that you really do need to have huge telescopes or spend lots and lots and
lots of money uh you know to the point where it's almost unobtainable you know and so some people don't get involved
because they think it's unavailable but uh um but you can do some wonderful work
and make many personal discoveries uh with with uh very modest equipment so
yeah absolutely absolutely today today how Maxie managed the the
pictures of of the Comet and a lot of things that uh that or Nico or
show how well the the picture of the Comet that took Nico is amazing too
um and it's a it's really really a great time
and something that that returning with this kind of telescope without cameras
only with cell phones and this is something that is so important because
the technology can be affordable something
now that was impossible in the past this is technology too because not all well
the cell phone is amazing it's it's impossible to when we was kids we
thought maybe you you too Scott that the cars in the in this in this time
with we thought that the cars in 2022 are flying only only not yeah right
cars in the ground yeah I remember but as children absolutely for me was yes or
the movie they all say okay no but this technology isn't was impossible to to
imagine yeah this technology was impossible if you return to the past and
show this it's more
and this more this and first of all a
telescope in in the 80s only to if you see okay uh Fargo
um carbon fiber to with uh with a very full I remember that the Never Never in
the 90s I I I could afford a telescope under a number seven F because it was
very complicated to make a parabola sure yes here have a physic Parabola and a
high vacuum aluminum Parabola too and they make a a perfect a perfect shape
yeah this is technology and this is maybe so complicated to make an industrial grade like make this because
it's the same it is another way but you know when and when you put this here and
make the this magic is come on it's it's simple
works and for me it's more important that another things that I sell like
guide or you know guider cameras or
um you know the old stuff all the stuff that that the people love but for me
this year um after maybe three or four years that we
don't be able to have a stock in Christmas to sell telescope starting a
level telescope was I have really an enthusiasm
that really this year I remember again they say come on I love to to to solve
uh startle level telescope it's
because if it's World Time begins absolutely Maxi absolutely because with
all my my um in the last three years maybe I I couldn't
get a huge number because maybe I don't
know why because maybe I choose a high level a middle and and a high and level
telescopes uh for for from the another companies well with the pandemic
situation was impossible last year and but my connection with parents that
say okay I need to to get I need to to make a gift with for my kids I say come
on I'm returning again for for something that that it's really
uh really amazing because they they ask the questions that you receive are
different and they say come on I can see the whole Peter and I say yes
I can watch that I don't know well this is something that I really appreciate a
lot is is great what's right these days I I I
was making giving support but very very
you know the the starting support to say okay this is something that the yes this
is Venus it's not the moon okay a couple days ago I get a friend request
from a person from Hebrew and he
um he wrote they rode Me In messenger and asked me if I can help to to to I
don't know it was him or her and to how to to use the the new telescope that
they bought to their daughter because they thought that maybe it's a
uncollamated or how it works it's only ultimately
amount as 76 refract a reflector
but I say I have no problem let me what what do you what what you want to learn and
what are you asking then I I say tell me if and I think the
better is if I go to there to explain you how some kind it works and and how
to to use it and some um know a little bit of the sky at night but
they didn't tell me come here to my home or because they want to bring me their
telescope to I so I explained how it works I think it's
better if I go there because the uh is if is it collimated uh is valid is in
there first of all and also you are using your house that
that is where you're going to use it that's where you're going to use it that's right that's a good point exactly
so yeah if you see my how I see this guy here that's okay I have almost the
entire sky but maybe I don't know if you have a building I don't know if you have a tree or a little patio exactly yeah
exactly so uh well I I don't I'm open uh to to that kind of
question even I I didn't sell that telescope I didn't
know that person uh I think this person asked in a group a Facebook group a
hidden intergoi where people sell things or no ask for if no something that if no
someone know how to use a teleco hidden here we go
the director of the Southern Sky Park uh
and also a friend that has a a couple years ago attacks me and then they they
text me but you know I really enjoy how I was explaining
and with voice to to get I I don't know if
you could understand me because I tried to not be really technical technical
but because sometimes it's very difficult in that case and also I I'm
not a very technician sometimes but a
I like to to explain and I feel
um really grateful because yeah they have that tool they have that
telescope they don't have they don't know how to use it but today
they can um find a way to how to use it when I was a
child it was very really really strange hidden tube you go in a farm City
a telescope what is that you know only they know glasses that's all and
today is well with the internet with the connections is more easy to
to to make a or to make the the the the
they know uh of how to use it or the awareness yeah so yeah
it's really wonderful Maxi and Caesar that people like you uh will take the
time to um to teach other people the sky how to use
their telescope to find things in the sky you know to understand some of the culture of astronomy and uh uh you know
I mean when you think about all the things that you did learn all the things that you did know and all the wonderful
people that that helped you you're you are carrying on a great tradition
of you know passing on the knowledge you know yeah yeah that's the point it's
expensive for any of us to pack up our car and drive a long distance to go show
somebody how to use their telescope I I've done it uh you know most most
amateur astronomers do it I think we do it because there's some responsibility
because somebody did it for us so you know there's uh there was a movie
called Pay It Forward okay where somebody would do something before they
got something you know they would just like I don't know who you are but I'm gonna help you anyways and they're
they're paying it forward and uh astronomers do that a lot you know they
they help people they don't know uh they they uh share
um experiences and uh uh you know lots
of knowledge to them and even though Maxie you say you're not a technician uh what you do know is really amazing you
know and you you can enable people to um understand the sky in ways that they
never thought would be possible you know um and it starts
I mean Caesar you know this and Max you know this by showing people uh a planet
for the first time Iraq and the United Arab Emirates he's
saying he says you really have no idea how my friends and even kids visited me
and looked through telescopes they were so much they were so much so happy when
they looked through the images in the magazine then then the images that they saw in magazines or
you know huddle Space Telescope images on the internet he says nothing beats live by eyes or seeing the images done
by an amateur astronomer you know you feel that photons through your eyes and
get to the the retina yes
so the eyes yeah to to get processed by your brain
and see oh no you are looking to Planet to another place to another a body
celestials something something yes you're right Maxi because uh something
that I felt tonight because I started to see okay in between the the clouds uh I
needed to to to put something in the in the line of my telescope and when I
found the the cluster I I felt again
this magic that you you talk about the command wow stars and a lot of stars
um was not a global cluster or a nebula only a open cluster or maybe an asterism
but you know what's the magic again I I
forget a lot to put my eyes in the eyepiece of course that after I put the
the cell phone I said oh I have to take a picture yeah no yes because what's the the idea of tonight but uh but first of
all was funny because I I used the the a
part of the wielding that I have to to align the idea to where I can I can
search something and with my eyes with a telescope and this is really great
um I really I appreciate to to use again the uh to use against
the you know the uh the telescope to to
watch and enjoy again I I show in the two weeks ago the third party not was an
another star party but the the the booking books night in San Miguel where
I we we put a couple of that of this telescope to the for the kids watching
the Moon um with a great experience because when you see the kid and say
because sometimes the fun thing is that they like me if I don't use a telescope
it's maybe if especially with this kind of of uh
of uh short focus and wide-angle uh eyepiece that if you are not in the
center of the eyepiece you can see nothing yeah and the people say you can see the parents say to the kid and the
kids say uh first of all when the the kid is in the
in the axis they receive the like of the moon in the in the in the eyes yeah but
the most important is desperation exactly yeah
yeah yes it's not crash yes absolutely absolutely Crush yeah yeah yes
absolutely maybe some must remember if they're
watching is going to kill me but you know I because I love to do astrophotography
but I really forget to watch the comment through a telescope for example I only
did with the max2 when I was taking pictures because I put the another grab
and I find it that it was freely
for the the diameter of the telescope and the focal length it was it wasn't
really bright in but I have to try with the the eight inches F4 so watch it and
and take that Knight to only watch it now take a picture on the result for me
I think but uh I I really forgot it
yeah yeah I decided I decided to jump in at
the very end just one Rea I figured out a problem with my other webcam the cable
was bad and then two um just uh listen in live to the uh
excellent talk about Outreach I am going to be heading
too bad here so I finished dinner but um I in agreement with everything and the
there is one issue I've run into when I've done Outreach is because of all the
beautiful images that we've taken in astrophotography and things that are available online
sometimes folks will expect a um to see that through the telescope and
we have to inform them that no I'm sorry the uh the Hubble image isn't what you
see this is actual light coming directly from that object into your eyes yeah
absolutely sort of have to level set because yeah they can't see it you know
they're expecting this big bright colorful thing when in reality they should beat all they'll see maybe is a
little hint of what the object is now if you're using different filters or something
sometimes when the people's look through a telescope for example to watch the the
most m42 nebula they they even
don't know how to get a shape you know they see the stars but if you ask them
do you see the velocity do you see the the the stars in the center and they say
no no I don't know please
I'll tell you what I had a sky glow filter in I'd seen you know the
beginnings of um m42 43 I remember putting in the sky
glow filter with an eight inch and I pointed it at the Orion Nebula and then I I had to go back like whoa and I just
remember that being because of the filter being in place I saw more of the
wing tips and all the yeah and all the things that you can see
my neighborhood it did help is
show them later they see through a telescope they I show you a picture of
m42 and I say okay what you saw is this and then they remember something that
they oh yeah it's awesome okay then they go again and in that case they start to
get that shape and yes you get more clear and the same thing that does help
yeah describe what it is yeah it's someone unfamiliar with it they're it's
like I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be looking for so unless it's just absolutely you know
blows their mind then yeah they're like looking at the right thing well it's
this yeah they just have to process it I was watching the movie yeah of course of
Marvel Comics and game and when the the movie start you see it
Tony Stark in the middle of the space in the middle of nowhere and that spaceship
and the background it was m42 I say man
yeah yeah and yes absolutely and then you start to of course they took a
picture of maybe everywhere and put it there and get the shape the colors it
was amazing it was you know it was floating in the middle of nowhere but it was the m42 right there I I don't know
it was another one I couldn't recognize it but it was shocking in that case when
I saw it and I saw something maybe invited
something or you know but when I saw again again
oh man you know what I would emphasize most in
those Outreach projects is like you said they see a movie and there's Tony Stark in front of this huge beautiful m42
and while there are some beautiful images and paintings out there of some objects in space what I think is really
important in Outreach is to say here's what you are looking at not just the name not just the title but here's
what's going on here 42. it's a stellar Nursery there's Stars forming if you look at m87 and Virgo it's it's just a
white blob in most telescopes but that's where they photograph that first black hole a year or two ago so I think that
really drives home a lot of the points we want to make to the public yeah and hope yes as much as you can and the
processes as much as you can is is very important um but also too you know and if we're
going to talk about Outreach I think it's very very important that you don't talk down to people if you know
something if you know more about the subject than they do you don't try to talk down you know and some people they
they do get um uh they're very proud of their knowledge and they really want to share that you
know in a way that uh uh you know that comes off like hey I'm I'm a little bit
smarter than you are okay and that's yeah that uh is very good point unfortunately a turn off for people that
are getting into this but it you know if it's if it's uh you know people like
yourselves uh wow that's that's a treasure because uh you start to open up
the whole universe to them you know and and you can see them starting to um take those steps to start exploring
and learning and that's and that that is really really important yeah especially
the kids it's amazing yeah that they are interested and sometimes
something that that we talk about the nebulas on how the people sometimes see
the fir their first nebulas um of course that we we talked many
times in the global third party about when what kind of of object do you show
to your neighbors or people it's not the same for for everyone of course that
it's the moon but it's if you don't have the moon in the sky and you have uh you
are the you are the the guest and you have visits in in your home okay
choose the the Orion Nebula in here in summer but I think that like Maxi that
you need to show you something like a picture um to have the idea to prepare to
prepare the people to the show because if not they say okay I remember
I remember that we was we was uh in for a special party we were contracted for
for a special business party in a in a in a palace very uh we went to the to
many telescopes we we carry out an 11 inter status call to this party of all
rich people and you know what's the people um drunk people
especially and people say come on what's the same what's the same if you show a
picture or a nebula or I say okay no problem the the kids the
the kids you know sorry the my my assistants the people that come in with
me uh today to the party to the island um they they they told me really worry
come on the people don't understand nothing and come on no problem don't
worry these people is drunk now they are fun and
um certain Maxi is lost but for example something that this one of the name of
the of the old channels of uh the the XXX TV the name is Venus and I remember
that we are we are showing Venus in the sky very beautiful Venus you know like now with a a a a very big with a a
finest um finest uh how do you say like the
moon uh um when the Venus is it's very very
thing yes yes yeah okay and and the people say oh Venus
they they make the show about the channel of xxx porn movies
um I don't know Maxi if you if you listen the last um
yeah yeah the worst part is
at every minute some people imagine the same joke and make the same and we say
Okay Maxi about the the Venus the channel for
porno tv and all people in a in a party
in a special event we are we are showing people
Ultra uh 11 inches Schmidt Castle telescope you know and the people all
people make the same shock is the same I I can imagine if you if
you appoint to Uranus horrible okay Uranus no yeah yeah yeah I'm making a
point adults uh often can ruin the event oh yeah yeah that could be yeah the way
to handle it is acknowledge what they're seeing
and um give the other explanation say yeah we we realize that that's what you're
seeing isn't it amazing that any you can imagine these things in space because
it's really it really is up to what your mind is I remember the last star party
um the planet Uranus was one of the planets that we were able to show so
everyone comes up with the jokes um yeah about the pronunciation and
so one of the things that I read in an article is that um that can pose a real problem for funding
for scientists to send the space probe out because here we go with our you know
with our perverted mindsets you know we would like to send a probe to urine you
know we'd like to send a space probe to Uranus and then somebody repeats wait let me get this straight you want to
send a probe to Uranus and then everyone starts giggling yes
and his face is one of those one of those things that you can't win
I'm sorry I can't win and the bad part is you want to visit what's called an
ice giant you have to say well we're going to send one to Neptune the joke isn't there because Neptune doesn't
evoke any joking so yeah so so real science that you want to do at Uranus
sure and you have the attention for the kids and you hey okay you okay you made
this joke okay and you you first of all they wake up in the class because maybe
here's the 40 I I think that is third degree the first time that they really
make the show in Argentina I think that but in Argentina it's impossible because
the urano in Spanish is unable unable to
make a shock and English is perfect it's yes but here is because of you or yeah
no no it's not like that because boss or two it doesn't make me finish but yeah
but but I remember within Cosmos when the first time that Kar Sagan started to
talk about the Uranus uh they told the
the farmers planet that was the shock of every third degree kids you know because
uh it's a religion but every year that the teacher that start to talk and the
the kids love because they it's something to wake up to start to talk
and it's great it's yeah it's it's not bad many people say no okay maybe to
avoid that kind of joke you can pronunciate in some kind of Latin word
or maybe in Spanish
uranu Ary this is the planet
yes but maybe we we produce or call it
Planet George like it originally was I think it was originally Planet George
yeah that's true it had to be it got renamed
because other planets uh celebrated uh I think the Greek
um got like Jupiter Saturn and then the moons all got named after Roman
characters or you know Roman mythology and then there's Planet George and of
course planet Earth doesn't you know planet Earth doesn't have its uh you know its uh name it
stays planet Earth and um so it got changed from George to uterus
and and in over history it's you know you ran us you're in us and Uranus and I've
you know
but what it does all this does remind me of too is uh a book
um a star map a book of star maps by Johann Bayer and it's called uranometria
and uh beautiful it was a beautiful book you don't want to meet Korea it's uh
incredible uh drawings classical drawings of the uh constellations and
the mythological figures and all the rest of it um so if you haven't had a chance to see
your animatria um well I'm going to put a link
to it so you can see some of the pages and stuff but I went to an old I went to
an antique bookstore in Los Angeles one time and I just asked him do you have any anti-star Maps
and I had just read about the iranamatria I would never believe that I could actually hold one in my hands and
see one okay but uh he says yeah I got this one and I opened it up and I start
looking through the pages and it's it's got writing in it by Johann Bayer okay
yeah so this is about 1989 something like that he wanted two
thousand dollars for the book if I'd had the money I would have bought it
let me look in my pocket charge up my credit card yeah he pulled
his GSP we could probably get it yeah let's do a go me right
this is something that we know now the gift that Scott need
yeah well yeah we'll be ready for next Christmas yeah that's right all of you still watching we're gonna build
GoFundMe page we're gonna get the uh we're gonna get this book for Scott yeah
actually a book like that belongs in a museum it really does yeah yeah
someday I will I will take this book and uh donate it to a museum and this
book is um I've shown this before but this is the astrophysical journal
from 1916 wow wow so uh and this is a
the journals uh were not hard bound like this one uh the guy that hardbound this
was uh George Hillary Hale and he did it for his private Library okay so this is
a book George Hillary Hale's private Library if you look inside it has some
stamps on it this says the astrophysics Library that says from the Palomar 200 inch Dome
and there is a little stamp that says Georgie Hale on it and the second set so
he kept two sets and then on this page
is George Hillary Hale's signature in pencil yes
that's incredible oh my God over a hundred years old but it's a collection
of Articles and stuff uh about astronomy you know
um yeah yeah that goes into really cool yeah it goes into the safe I'm surprised
showing the signature just didn't wipe it out somehow exactly the light just bleached it out
yeah but um yeah that's definitely a uh it is a a very important document I see
it's going back into the uh dark uh Chasm with which it can be preserved I
have a glass plate uh taken on the 100 inch telescope of the Moon uh from Matt Wilson and that's over 100
years old so it's uh these things are being thrown away those both of those
items were thrown in the trash oh man yeah and preserve yeah I didn't
observe them friends of mine did and they said okay if you want one of these yeah yeah it's like you bet I want them
I know the Vatican observant territory has a lot but I I just I'm taking care
of them yeah it's all such time that I can get them to a place that won't throw them away you know so
that's that's the deal no but um yes all right really all right
gentlemen I'm going to I'm going to disappear for real yeah
it's always wonderful Tuesday night star parties or if they happen on another day
then that just means whatever bowling that I might have wanted to do just got canceled star party is always just more
important to me yeah um I have enjoyed being on and sharing images and and hanging out with the
Argentine and contingent does it work welcome welcome to uh Team Argentina
yeah thank you Star Party usually and uh
this is where we have to come on and have these discussions
good discussions you do yeah Happy New Year to all of you
you know yeah uh you know have a safe uh Happy New Year weekend and um we'll be
back next Tuesday with another Global Star Party number 79. yeah yeah see you
next year getting bigger Scott fantastic year people all right good night everyone thanks good night everyone bye
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