Global Star Party 101

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hello bob hello we haven't met uh
good to meet you i've been watching your replays over the the time i've been here
okay so i'm very very impressed uh it's uh great to meet you
okay thank you good to be here i'm one of the one of the uh how can you see it the fans of
global star party but um right yeah so it's well i'm a newcomer so um
i'm just getting my feet wet oh it's uh it's super good i mean uh what
you bring to the what you bring to the party and uh your contribution is excellent very very
impressive all right thank you hello bob
hello david how are you oh i'm fine thank you it's good to be
here after a bit of a break yeah it's good to be back
okay i've got i've got to do a few chores here but i will be back i just wanted to make sure i was logged in
you are all good and me too so i shall be right back
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hello kareem hello david hey cam hey kareem good to see you
long time how are you doing oh yeah no it's um doing good and uh
it's good to see you i'm uh in canada in kamloops right now yeah you bet you know where
that is yes opposite side here and um i've been watching your uh awesome
sessions been being great so i i even though i'm not hero uh live very much
i am it's good to be back i appreciate it i've been seeing you winning uh winning
the strong astronomical league questions every week yes yeah no thanks i i love those
they're really fun to um you know they're really good questions and uh i love to uh
to participate in that it's a it keeps me uh you know keeps me my mind going and uh i
learn a lot of a lot of new things so it's it's great oh fantastic how's the weather in kamloops
well we had some thunderstorms last night but um uh now it's uh pretty clear starting to
warm up and i was just telling david and and um and scott
that uh i was really really lucky a couple of nights ago karim and i'm going to share this a little bit on later when
i my session is um i actually saw the aurora oh i couldn't believe it i mean the odds of
that happening it was like but anyhow it was it was awesome and it didn't come quite far south we had clouds so i
didn't have a chance but it had come it'd come fairly fairly south i know a few people in maine saw it and uh
southern uk they they were astonished to see it in their backyards and the neat part is even though i have
very crude pictures i was able to use my cell phone and i i i'm going to share a couple of the shots it's they're not
awesome but it's uh it just gives you some some idea and it's like i'd love to be able to share and
it's not going to be like adrian or or terry for sure but uh
hey there's no there's there's no way to uh subs a good scene with your own eyes and that's what pictures are about right
they inspire and share right exactly exactly and honestly i mean i love
watching their pictures and and they they stir something but incredible
at the same time just having a capture that shows something that you want to talk about
yes it inspires on its own yeah yeah so so i i'm i i just have a couple
of shots there and uh yeah i just totally lucked out and uh but otherwise yeah the weather's uh was good enough
well i'm glad it cooled off a bit because i was feeling for the people in linton you know after last year's big
fire and then this year they reached over 40 again for like a week straight
yep yep it's been it's been yeah and dovate apparently has been having rain down
there we've been having rain almost every day it's a very rich rainy season we really do need it
but yeah the star party at the end of september by then the rains are expected to be
gone and the sky should be clear oh fantastic yeah no knock on wood i mean uh this time
last year uh there was lots of fires in in this area in british columbia and uh but now luckily again uh nothing
so far so it's it's uh hope that continues did you notice how that happened you you
mentioned aurora and terry joins absolutely she not only chases aurora physically
she chases it virtually too it's magic isn't it it's it's it's incredible terry i'm
totally fluke it's very very humble what i'm going to be sharing is nothing to the way you're done what you've shown
but there's when you see it for yourself it just makes you inspired and when i see your pictures it just makes you want
to go out and go you know chasing those aurora it's a beautiful thing
yeah you never get enough because it's always different it doesn't matter how many times you see
it it's always different oh yeah i mean yeah it's and it's really uh like
ethereal right it's very surreal you're really it's like wow it's like you really get a sense of this is
we live in a dynamic world but it's a good thing we have the van allen bells to protect us from the sun's radiation
you know yes yeah so so it's like a lot of science and and all art and and
all that combined it's really neat definitely
kareem you've got that in your backyard don't you i wish
i wish i i have yet to see a vibrant aurora i've seen a little bit of steve
and i saw aurora out of a plane window once you know just just shimmering in the distance when i went to calgary and
that's it i i need i've told you terry i gotta i just gotta jump into your suitcase and
you drag me along and we'll do that welcome if it makes you feel like i've
just talked about it earlier that uh i'm over 50 now and for the first time i actually been into like the
portal 2 sky and i saw the milky way like more than i've ever seen
oh wow it was it was just uh it was incredible yeah i i haven't got a chance
to to go to dark skies uh with my career and all that but uh yeah but this was uh this was a nice treat
well you know that's exactly it is is you know we we read about it we see the pictures but
going there is not easy for everyone there's there's a lot that comes in the way but when you finally do it you
realize why everybody told you you have to do it yeah and that's the beauty of it all
it's like you you know the universe and and these events they're not going
anywhere like they're around for millions millions of years so you know it's just if you're patient and
you you want to see something like that you would you will see it you know yeah and all in
good time all in good time yeah and that's what's so nice about these these
global star parties is you know everyone's sharing their different experiences and uh and it's
it's very inspirational so you know some some of us may not have the opportunity
to go uh travel or go to a dark sky or whatever but you can you can really see and it's really nice to be able to share
that experience i have to ask is scott here right now
he was but i don't see him in the in the room yeah i'm listening oh hey bob
no i was asking about scott because uh i have to say and david might back me up on this i'm a little bit disappointed
that we have oh he is here we have the 101st and i saw no references to dalmatians
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or beagle
m101 there you go
uh how are you bob
well i'm uh i'm i'm busy um i'm retired but i'm
you know i can i can't imagine uh what it would be like if i were also working
so i don't know i guess that's a good thing yeah yep
that's a nice that's nice cameron and i i think we found that uh
if you forgo sleep you can get a lot more done
i don't know if you saw what scott just wrote he just wrote i refuse to retire because i don't want to work that hard
i've heard him say that a few times
i don't know sleep is overrated it's like cameron is talking you get under a dark sky and the last thing you want to
do is like you know terry that's but two nights in a row that's what happened i was like okay
you know eleven o'clock i had a couple beers and i was like you know i'm going to be like a little bit tired i look
outside and i was like no i'm not going i'm not going to bed and uh because it was it was a little
cloudy earlier and it was like i just saw the milky way pop and it was like okay yeah that was it i was up until
three o'clock and then the next night i was like oh it was a little bit you know the moon was a little bit brighter and i
was like yeah i'm gonna take a look i see this band of cloud and it's starting to shimmer i see the
aurora and it's like okay that's it i was there for until two o'clock and was like just watching the aurora
and it was uh yeah that's that that just flips the switch and yeah
see i think aurora was on july the 8th 1966
covered the entire sky it was just magnificent oh
that's wonderful that'd be awesome it started at sunset and then i was what getting ready to do some observing
and i was watching the twilight glow sort of slowly shift from the northwest toward the north
and then it never disappeared and then some rays started coming out yes and uh that's night i forgot all
about karma ending and everything else at the end of the night it was a covering the entire sky
fantastic that's magnificent yep yeah it takes you to another place
are you going to tell us about the league uh el con i'm going to mention it a little bit
yeah yeah we definitely missed you david and everybody else too it was it was very nice
i miss not being there well i'll be in baton rouge in 2023 so
come on down yeah it was hot out there i will say
that i uh i went into moab right before the conference and when i got into moab
it was 109. yeah
and that takes a little while to get used to i mean and i don't know that you do get used to it but coming from in the 80s
and then going that hot that fast kind of took me a cup it wore me out for a couple of days it just
kind of drained your energy yeah
but new mexico is gorgeous i've only been once but it's still it's it's ingrained in my mind yeah we need to go
back there yes it is beautiful my wife actually made fun of me because
i came back with a with a suitcase full of pottery yeah and
just carefully carrying it on the plane ah the fermi mission yes
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well hello everyone this is scott roberts from explore scientific and the explore alliance and you're watching the
101st global star party our theme tonight is unfolding universe
and uh you know this is something that kept coming back to me again and again is a
is a great thing because we are living uh as we often say in the golden age of
astronomy and um uh it is uh spectacular that we are
making the discoveries that we are the rate that we're making them and now armed with
telescopes like the james west space telescope and giant ground-based observatories being built
you know the adventure continues at breakneck base this also continues with the amateur
astronomers as well and uh you know there's no better time to get involved in astronomy than right
now uh you know whether you just like to look up at the sky and see the milky way and aurora uh meteors falling from the
sky or you know get more serious about it uh and start observing with the telescope
or even contributing to science so it's all here for you and uh
you know you're gonna hear from many of the people that are deeply involved in this
from around the world so we've been gone for a little while
we attended the astronomical leagues convention in albuquerque it was uh
absolutely fantastic and we did have a chance to interview some
speakers david levy was able to come on for a little while with us
so [Music] as well some others and it was also a thrill to meet
apollo 17's astronaut harrison schmidt who was at the event but uh
you're definitely going to want to learn more about the astronomical leaks conference
and attend the next one so um we're going to go and get started with
david levy one of my best friends and uh david i'm glad that you're here with us
on the 101st global star party it's all yours well thank you so much scott and it's so
nice especially today to be with my friends on this day i have
two quotations for this global star party the first one is based
on uh scott's choice of a title for the universe unfolding
this comes from a poem by max ehrman called the citarada
we'll placidly amidst the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence
beyond a wholesome discipline be gentle with yourself you are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars and you have a right to be the way to be here and whether or not it
is clear to you no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should
and thank you scott for uh coming up with this idea for this global star party
my second quotation was is an unhappy one i'm sure most of you know by now
that don malkols died suddenly yesterday at the age of 69 probably from covert
and he just was not able to keep breathing i had a long talk with michelle michael
his wife yesterday and we talked a lot about a number of things
and i was just mostly listening and uh you know in memory of dawn and
the wonderful things he has accomplished he was the record holder for visual
comet discoveries in the world with 12 comments
at the time of his passing and so i'm going to quote in his memory
my favorite comet poem it says my favorite poem of anything it's called i am like a slip of comet
by gerard manley hawkins and i do that for memory because i just
love it so much i am like us and thank you wendy for recommending
this to me i am like a slip of comet scarce worth discovering
in some corners seen bridging the slender difference of two stars
from out of space or suddenly engendered by heady elements for no one knows
but when she sights the sun she grows and sizes and spins her skirts out
while her central star shakes his cocooning mists and so she comes to fields of light
millions of traveling rays piercer she hangs upon the flame-cased sun
and sucks its light as full as gideon sleeves but then
her tether calls her she falls off and as she dwindles sheds her smock of
gold amidst the sistering planets until she goes out past
single-set and last consolidated so i go out
my little sweet is done i have drawn heat from this contagious
sun to not on gentle death now forth i run
thank you so much and back to you beautiful that was beautiful
well i i too knew don don mackoltz and uh um it is uh
i did i did not know that he had passed on uh so it's a bit of a shock
i think the last time i had a chance to speak with john's been about maybe four to six months ago something like that
um so uh you know but he was a gentleman uh and a
great astronomer um of course a great comet discoverer too and uh
so um you know i'll be thinking of him the next time i look up at the sky that's
for sure yeah was he one of our global star
parties or on one of our illegal feels like he was on i will have to go back and search there
have been so many people on global star party i know i was on a live show with
him at one point so you know both you and i have done a lot of uh
virtual uh programs for some clubs and and that kind of thing so um
but uh i think that uh if he wasn't on our show i i think that
he was in live chat with us a couple of times so but uh
definitely will be missed you know so
okay so we are we are going to move on uh to uh terry mann uh who
um uh is also recently back from the the astronomical league convention uh
it was uh something that took a while to put together um as far as being an in-person event but i
think it went off rather well i was really excited to be there and terry why don't you give us some of the
highlights of what happened oh i think there was a lot of highlights it actually went very well
the weather was good we had a few nights of clouds and they had some trips out to their local observatory for the club
uh the speakers were amazing uh you interviewed harrison schmidt i mean he
was just amazing he was one of the nicest people ever and seth was there seth show stack
yeah and yeah and the banquet oh my gosh we had so many awards
and all the people i mean i think it topped out in attendance at 193
which considering covet and gas prices that was a factor too we heard quite a
few people said you know trying to pay for gas just was a little bit out of range
but it went very well we had vendors there and all kind just everything going
on whatever you wanted to do if you wanted to sightsee albuquerque had so much to
go and see you wanted to listen to speakers we had michael blockage there
many speakers that were just excellent so i had a great time um
and i i from everything i heard when i was at the airport coming home i ran into other people that were there and
they were saying oh my gosh i had such fun i've never done this before you know this was a great time so hopefully
everybody else out there will join us in baton rouge in 2023 that it was a
fantastic time fantastic well i think there's probably some
people waiting there to hear answers to questions from the astronomical league and to hear the new
ones so they might win surprise and i think i i just might be able to help
with that maybe if i can get more pile going here
as you know we always start off with the warning about solar observing
always have a filter if you've never done this check with a local club check with friends that might have a solar
scope make sure you have the right filter before you ever start solar observing
and the first thing i really would like to say is thank you to all the people that attended alcon all the virtual i
mean there was so much virtual activities going on i heard so many good
reports scott about all of the interviews people watching they loved it they really loved it right
yeah uh so thank you for everybody that was even watching virtually and thank you very
much to our presenters david levy uh adrian was there and i'm not i can't remember who else
those two pop in the top of my mind but thank you both for taking the time to be
there we really appreciated it and i enjoyed watching you know i had fun watching too
so please presenters i enjoyed just being able to
be a part of alcott even if it was virtual so thank you all for having us
well we were glad to have you next year think of us again uh if you don't join us in person that'll be something you
know we will do again we're sure we're going to at least have a hybrid and we might make some more changes and uh make
it a little different next year we learned a lot i think as we went along and things that did work things that
didn't work well what we need to work on for next year so uh thank you all again
for everybody that attended virtual or in person and the presenters it was greatly appreciated yeah and i just want
to add terry you know to what adrian said it was well done i watched the replay um
and it was well put together and all the components and as a as a follower and also as just
somebody coming in to what you put together it's i think it really worked well so well done
thank you and that thanks goes to the albuquerque astronomical society they were our hosts they did a fantastic job
uh you'd seen jim fordyce on al live and his committee and him just did an
amazing job it just went fantastic so let me get to
the answers from clear back from july 19th
the question was asteroid vesta is going to be at opposition on what date and time in august and that answer was on is
august 22nd at 3 p.m eastern daylight
the next question what's so special about um yeah i've got everything in the way
here uh m31v1 well it's a sepia variable uh this is
what helped hubble show that andromeda was beyond our galaxy so it is a very
special variable star
last question what supernova is the oldest recorded supernova and how long
was it visible and the answer is supernova rcw 86 is the oldest supernova
recorded about an 8 ad185 and at that time it was visible for
eight months wow yeah that's quite a bit so we had quite
a few answers because scott is giving away special prizes here
uh we had all of these names added to the door prize list that's right and
here are the three winners that won special prizes and scott do you want to
talk a little bit about that yeah uh since it was our 100th global scar party
we are one of the prizes is going to be an ixos 100 mount um
another one will be um uh we have a couple of uh a hundred degree um
eye pieces so there'll be a selection that uh that the winners can choose from
um and uh so that's that's uh i don't see how i can get much more
special than that so definitely if you would like we could also laser engrave
those eyepieces um with your name your club name
you know however you would like it so it's special it only belongs to you
thank you scott and somebody from explore scientific if you're connell michael or mike somebody
from explore scientific will be reaching out to you so thank you scott those are amazing
prizes unforgettable yes
okay the questions for tonight perseverance recently spotted mars moon
phobos eclipsing the sun watching such events science helps
scientists to predict what so watching this helps scientists
understand better how something works what is that something
okay i love this shot what is this what do you see here
uh to me it's amazing so what is this this is a recent image
or fairly recent anyway so what is this an image of
black but [Laughter]
in the professional astronomy world you'll understand what i'm talking about
what okay last question what is another name for vv 689 and this is a picture of it
what is a nickname for this
all right tomorrow night we're all going to be back again tomorrow night for al live
we have bob anderson bob anderson is a recently like i think in january or
february retired engineer from green bank radio observatory and he will be speaking
about observing the nearest star our sun and i think you know we're all going to
kind of begin to gear up for solar talks about solar we have the annular eclipse
coming up next year and we have a total eclipse coming up in 2024
so get ready you're going to be hearing some about the sun please join us
tomorrow night at 7 p.m eastern daylight time for astronomical league live right
here and scott thank you very much and scott thank you for all the broadcasting and all the time and everything you did at
alcon it was so great appreciated that's very kind it was a thrill it was an honor and a thrill so thank you so much
thank you okay all right so um
coming up next uh oh i do want to give a recommendation anybody out there that
has not yet joined the astronomical league you can do so as a member at large if
you don't already belong to a an astronomy club that isn't already a league
club if you have a league club that's near you
you can find lots of them in the united states a quick search on the
astronomical league's website which is astroleague.org will will get you there
otherwise you can just join as a member at large from anywhere in the world and again you'll go to astroleague.org to do
that so highly recommended thanks scott yeah
um our next speaker is professor green jaffar and kareem has got done
many global star fighters with us so far he is a powerhouse of
educational outreach and astronomy teaching students in class teaching
people on the street and teaching people around the world through all of his
virtual presentations he is
a fantastic partner to have with us in astronomical outreach and i'm proud to
call in my friend uh kareem thanks for coming on the global star party thanks scott i'm uh
really happy to be here it's uh been been a good couple of weeks since we've been able to get together and
thanks for setting this up and i'm glad we didn't wait another week because i mean sharing the unfolding universe is
just such a fantastic topic and i wanted to mention look i have the astronomical league symbol there online it's it's one
of the things that i definitely am proud of belonging to i have yet to submit anything for uh for
any of the certificates for the astronomical league i do have to get around to doing that at
some point but i do i do i do try to share the word for astronomical league for the royal
astronomic society of canada and for explore alliance wherever i go i'm also really happy to be part of a
couple of clubs right now and this friday no next friday i'm giving a talk for the university lowbrows on uh the
two-eyed scene similar to what i did at stellophane this past uh well a week and
a half ago now but it's going to be a little bit deeper and with a few more tales from different
areas all across the globe and i'm going to share a little bit of that in terms of sharing the universe
i unfortunately didn't get to attend alcon live but thankfully adrian shared one of the photos that i sent him which
was when i popped down to the adirondack astronomical retreat i got to go and visit with jovid because
he made it up to this neck of the woods i wasn't going to let it go past without getting a chance to say hi and there at
the observatory you can see patrice and laurie putting uh closing up the the shelter for the observatory because you
can see those clouds approaching and i think it was two minutes after that that it just started to absolutely pour
but i managed to get to the car in time to to head out to stellophane now cellophane was a fantastic
experience this year um we we rushed to get there on the friday because my daughter was taking part in the teen
program which was focused on james webb space telescope and on friday night i gave one of the
informal talks on the use of two-eyed seeing and outreach and one of the examples i gave was when i come onto the
global star parties and i talk a little bit more about some of the stories of the first nations of ancient
astronomy from across the world and connected to what's happening in the night sky so i'm going to share a little
bit of that later on tonight we did an entire segment on stellophane
uh lou mayo and myself both uh did almost 40 minutes during one of our space oddity shows walking people
through the experience of cellophane so if you're interested it was the august first show and you can go to our youtube
channel space oddities live and you can watch that walkthrough of the cellophane experience
but there's a few bits that i wanted to highlight here tonight and the first is the fact that we actually did have
beautiful nights on both the friday night and the saturday night at the end of july
now those were new moon nights which meant that we had a wonderful view
of the entire night sky even when clouds came and fought with us for a bit
my daughter tara actually started experimenting with my wife's iphone and this is one of the pictures that she
took it's a lovely picture that captures the milky way arm in the southern sky
but one of the things that fascinated me is that she decided to play around with the settings and she took one of the
exact same area out of focus and you'll notice out of focus just how much the teapot of sagittarius
pops oh yeah right because when you go out of focus yeah exactly the colors of the
stars come out the the the stars that form the constellations that
we're used to are the ones that become magnified because those are the brighter ones in the night sky
and then the nebulosity you can actually see just a little bit of lagoon there if
you look really carefully through that area of the milky way and when we zoomed in on some of her pictures the lagoon
and even the trifid were visible in there and then she took a few artistic pictures now this is all handheld
right so she actually tried to do a little bit of a star trail handheld to see what would happen and i love that it
looks like a painting to me it doesn't even look like a picture now what i ended up doing is i ended up
taking a series of exposures south and then switching the camera to the
north west and or northeast and tried to capture a
little bit of the arm of the milky way on both sides so i wanted to share that with our global star party audience so
here we go so this is the friday night and this starts off looking south
and now most of those were satellites and airplanes but there was one meteor in there but that was it
and then towards the northeast i just absolutely adored this because is bright but look at andromeda there
right in the middle of the field with the clouds coming in and out so i took one of those pictures and i actually just tried to highlight it and brighten
it a little bit nowhere near what you know adrian or anybody else with with a little bit more expertise can do but
i love the fact that cassiopeia pops and that andromeda was there and
it was clear enough that if you were looking at cassiopeia you could see the fuzziness of what was referred to in the
early days as the andromeda nebula with your bare eyes and you can start to see the double cluster rising and the double
cluster was vivid late into the night on saturday now on saturday the big attraction is
over on breezy hill and it's the telescope builders competition and you have all different ages all
different levels of expertise you have binocular telescopes you have dobs you have refractors you even have
spectroscopes that are homemade spectroscopes and that's amazing because you have the spectroheliograph just up
there on the hill so i love going there and spending time looking through the equipment and then saturday night in
addition to a dinner you have a keynote talk and the keynote talk this year was davisobo who was one of our gsp uh
guests just a couple of months ago so that was really neat because i had gotten a chance to talk to her
on this platform and then i got a chance to meet her in person and davina had asked myself and bill stropal from our
montreal club to please give his best to david so we were able to go down and talk to her for a little bit
what a wonderful woman what amazing story she told us of the harvard
computers those women who did all the work behind the scenes decoding what starlight really means
this is our group that was together for cellophane we had a smaller montreal
presence than most years partly because of covid partly just because of the timing with a lot of people but there's
my wife karima myself my daughter tara bill from our club and then you have lou and his wife susan we we all got to
really just enjoy cellophane together which is a wonderful experience and on sunday we rushed back because my
son was flying back from mount wilson and so i want to invite the entire gsp
audience and i'll put this in the chat later but you can register in advance for this
zoom meeting my son was one of the soar program attendees this year it's a very very small group that they
accepted this year just nine people and they got a chance to experience what mount wilson observatory is all about
and he's going to talk to us a little bit about it and share a little bit of the results and the pictures that he took and i think it's just a wonderful
experience for him and he just came back on cloud nine now ever since he came back we've been
doing a lot of outreach and uh our club did a wonderful outreach for the junior
council of the local town bader faye and this was last saturday night and then
this week we're doing two back to back tomorrow and saturday for my town beacons field we're doing a moon
conference and then late night observations of the moon and then we're doing a community camp out where we're
setting up telescopes to share the moon jupiter saturn and of course hopefully
some perseid meteors now this is one of my favorite times of the year for outreach partly because of
the meteor shower partly because the milky way is so beautiful and our timing is perfect because just this week
we ended the japanese festival celebrating the cowherd and weaver girl mythology and this is the idea of what
a lot of people talk about in southeast asia as an explanation for the milky way
and you had the weaver girl who's represented by the star vega and cowherd altair who were separated by the
arms of by the arm of the milky way the river of the milky way stars because their love was not sanctioned by the
emperor and so their family was actually torn asunder but at one point every year on the
seventh night of the seventh lunar month the magpies form a bridge that allows
the weaver girl to come back to her family for that one night now that seventh night that's your first
quarter moon and when your first quarter moon comes out there's enough brightness that it changes a little bit of the way
in which you see the sky but still not bright enough that it moves out the whole milky way view and so this idea
that the stars look different when they're completely overhead at our zenith at that moment when just enough
moonlight shines on them to show this band of light which would be the magpies
forming a bridge that's beautiful observation and it connects directly to the mythology in southeast asia
here in north america we tend to talk a little bit more about the milky way as a reminder for us
of the animals that took pity on us during the winter and helped us to survive
so the wolves which were the first earth beings they pitied the first humans when they when winter fell and we had trouble
feeding ourselves and what they did is they came and they showed us how to camp how to grow food what food is safe to
eat how to set fire and how to survive and cooperate with the other animals
that we would hunt animals with hoofs and horns were all right to eat animals with paws and claws
should be left alone and then come spring when the weather starts to become milder the wolves would
leave the humans and of course as they leave the humans and move off that forms a trail in the sky that then
stays there all summer long but come winter that trail comes back down and the wolves come back to help us again so
this idea of what the milky way represents in different cultures is something that we carry with us when we
see the night sky in the summertime and it's something that allows us to connect a little bit more not just with our
universe but the universe as seen by others who we share this world with in this night sky with
but of course we're in the middle of the milky way or the middle of the perseids meteor shower at the moment and so i
want to tell you the legend of coyote in the hoopa legend coyote dances with the stars and i've told this one before it's
one of my favorites because coyote was a very arrogant animal and so he was lying
back and he was singing the dancing song and then he saw the stars twinkling and he wondered to himself that they looked
like girls that were just twirling and so he thought he wanted to go and see these girls up close so he went into the
woods and he asked and the redwood said it would bend down and throw the coyote up into the air and the spider said that
the spider would weave a long web so that coyote could catch it and climb up to see the girls
so coyote managed to make it all the way to these girls and when he got there he realized that they weren't just girls
who were shining in the sky they were actually dancing and twirling so now coyote was very full of himself and he
said may i dance with you and the girls laughed at him and said we dance all the time we don't stop you
can't keep up with us but coyote was like i can keep up with you i can dance no problem they said well you can join
us but you have to stay with us you have to keep up if you're going to dance with us so coyote started dancing and the
first night wasn't any problem the stars were twinkling coyotes up there moving around
and then the second night coyote started to get a little bit tired and he thought i didn't want them to know he was tired
so he said can we stop so i can get a drink and the girl said we'd never stop we told you you have to keep dancing with
us so coyote up and kept go dancing and then the next night he said you know i'm really hungry can we stop
so i can eat and the girl said we can't stop you have to stay with us so they dragged him on
but the problem was the tireder he got the further and further down he fell
until he re-entered earth's atmosphere and crashed to the ground and in fact the ojibwe actually have a
name for the wolverine as one who came from a shooting star because the first wolverine the ojibwe tribe ever came
across had come out of a lake that was formed inside of a crater
so this idea of animals crashing to earth being what we're seeing in the meteor showers
is kind of captured in the names that they give some of these legends and some of these actual animals
so with that i'm going to invite all of our audience uh i'm very pleased scott
invited me to come and join him at starmus so i finally get to not only meet scott in person but i'm not meeting
him in person down at explore scientific i'm going to fly to armenia to meet him in person so in armenia on the thursday
night we're going to be going out to garni and we're going to be doing a star party and during that star party i look
forward to learning the stories of armenia and sharing the stories of the rest of the world with our audience
there so anybody in the global star party audience who wants to come out to uh starmus it's going to be an
incredible experience and we're really looking forward to it yeah and it's going to be great it seems
crazy that i have to go we both have to go halfway around the world to finally meet each other in person
it is but it's going to be a story we could tell which is david eicher is going to be there i haven't met him in person yet so right
right norma i've met so you know norma i'm going to be looking for at the airport
it's going to be an amazing time okay so um uh karine you have uh
uh introduced a new um astronomer to us uh uh young lucas vieira is that correct am
i pronouncing his last name correctly yeah kind of how would we pronounce it well let's
bring him on uh lucas thank you for joining global star party
and uh for being a big part of the cosmic generation oh it's a pleasure thank you so much for
inviting me so we're very proud of lucas here in the montreal center those those three outreach events i told you about lucas
is volunteering at all three of them and he actually lives in town so he commutes all the way out for these outreach
events and then commutes back on his own and he brings his his nice little sky
watcher heritage the small tabletop model and he shares the moon with anyone and everyone who wants to see it
mine is actually a first scope sorry first scope yes yeah
fantastic so lucas uh lucas is a member of the cosmic generation and he gave a talk for the cosmic generation recently
and he agreed to give a talk to us at the global star parties on uh is it
sophia that you're going to be chatting about today excellent fantastic
and lucas before you get started i mean what got you into astronomy to begin with
i'm sorry could you say again what got you interested in astronomy to
begin with oh that's a kind of long story
back in my country i'm from brazil i i used to do some competitions some
olympias as it's called and i really liked it you know
when i went to the backyard of my home i would see the the sky and the patterns there
and even just like studying from especially from studying
and trying to understand more of this in the sky was something that made me really really
happy so i kind of i got really engaged into those competitions
and just kept trying a little more wonderful wonderful that's great
well there's a lot of great astronomers that have come out of brazil so we're real happy to have you on our program uh
later on the program uh marcelo souza also from brazil will be on so
i'm not sure if you know of him but uh he is a big influence in
astronomy education in brazil
yes okay well if you'd like to go ahead and get started all right just wait i'll set some things
here okay
it's been nice to be able to bring in a lot of these youth uh nicolina when she joins us and deep tea and yeah
libby and the stars we we have we have a really good group of youth out there there's been more
there's been more yeah nathan tara uh sabella
um yeah he brought in a very young
astronomer i think he was like five years old wow six years old at one point brilliant kid you know
it really is i mean doveed actually uh was one of the inspirations for getting the cosmic generation together and he
set up and started most of their first few workshops and events and this is really you know one of the
one of the prides of of uh what we've been able to do with this collaboration
between rask and astronomical league and explore alliance is to support the cosmic generation and these youth to
come together
at the moment they actually were at alcon right did you get a chance to see bella down there
she was with dina from the denver astronomical society yes i did see her down there just briefly
we talked for a little bit i really wanted to interview her but you know like anyone that comes onto uh
global star party or any of my virtual events i always uh
if they're not 18 years old i get parental permission first oh absolutely right
absolutely so i'm not sure if lucas is having some
some issues or not um i see that he's muted
lucas if you need a bit more time uh scott can go to the next person and then come back to you after yeah that's easy
yes i guess it's better okay okay all right lucas we'll do that okay thank you
well let me see who is next in line here we've got um uh
we have maxi folaris is maxi on with us right now yes i'm here
what's up guys how's it going here we go
i'm going to hear wow what's up shot behind you that's uh
this is the the wishing well a cluster isn't it
it's beautiful yeah the in the southern region nearby the caribbean
and this is an amazing place to watch it through the telescope even a dobsonian
or a single one you can see all these shining stars like
omega centauri for example but this is more more brightening so
you can see there's a lot and a lot of stars
so how's it going guys right now i'm pointing my
telescope to the full moon here so karim i think i is going like
you this or i think his once uh he he had to run
so let me share my screen
let's see okay
oh this is this is not a full moon this is a new moon but
very new yeah uh here's
some pictures i'm taking 60 pictures of one
[Music] 0.001 seconds it's really fast
but it's downloading the pictures that i was taking nice live view yeah
and this is the the field of view with the cwo 5033
right now and you can see it's completely
full i'm struggling with the smoke because here we have some people that
starting fires in the farm area because they have to
to reseal the the ground but the smoke is almost
300 kilometers on the north and the the wind comes from the north so
it's it's really bad for
no i it doesn't have it because this is an auto stretching with the software when i reset
this is the the picture without
uh but you got it really nicely in focus there maxie it looks great
well i was struggling yesterday with a with a collimation because
i want to do with my scope i know it's very short
it's an f4 to do some planetary uh and well i
i was doing some pictures last week of jupiter and saturn
but now there was really really of
i didn't like that so i clean up my videos that i did
and also erase some [Music]
lights that i did from the i don't know if i show you the last gsp
the the enable of the the alex nebula i don't know
i upload on my flicker page let me see if i to show you
if i can show you it was two nights
of taking pictures and i stuck almost 10 hours oh that's nice nice nice
and you can see here well this picture unfortunately it doesn't exist anymore
the the in my pc because i delayed it
accidentally yeah you got it you did you didn't end up
processing it you got it this is beautiful and yeah you know you see i like the color the colors of this star
jpeg and you're out yeah uh you know this was taken in my backyard 50
days ago and tonight i leave my equipment outside
and i did some 13 hours of pictures
and well when i did the planetary pictures or the
videos i put it here in my pc but when i
get some kind of angry and frustrated i say now that's it i delete this it doesn't
uh it doesn't work so i delete everything and
in that files there was all this data so
yeah well luckily i could upload this in my flickr account
so well this is the last thing
it goes but you know i i remember the the james w oh
the change web test i'm sorry a picture of the southern ring nebula and
i remember seeing those tiny galaxies very far away
but here in this star you can see almost in the spike a tiny galaxy you know
is it's really good to to compare that of course it doesn't have the same field
of view doesn't have the same details but it reminds me that and also you can see
there's a lot of galaxies in the background and
wow well that's maxie that's one of the awesome thing about what they're doing with james webb with their publishing though
it's showing familiar objects and you have a frame of reference right and then and then you can go deep and you can
still see these objects in your backyard and that and then you have you have it means something right you have a sense
of scale and you have a deeper appreciation and then you can literally connect the dots
and then you know as you it kind of drives you to you know you can say go deeper and deeper and you
know play around with different filters and stuff etc but the point is that you can even take
binoculars and and see this and say hey i can see this right exactly yeah and
then the james webb took this same picture but it of course it's a lot more detail but now you know where all that detail is it's fantastic it's uh
i love it i think everyone's though their minds with the james webb pictures and
well and also what i did that planetary night i started with of course
with the moon i was taking pictures like i did right now
with the camera this is a at the same expo and the sun and the
same time this is a single picture and when i get a stacked in pipp and
then go to autostacker and some
planetary software to work with the wavelets i got this you know
it's like very colored but i try to do some mineral moon
i think i go really far away from that but
so i want to to to go because i i put them
in my cell phone background when i block it so i i cropped that area
and put it in [Music] in what a white and black
color and you know when i when i block my cell phone it's
it's good to see this like uh let me
like that you know
is that right no no no no this is the background that i have right now okay
when i block my cell phone so
you saved it as your background yeah very nice so you know because i want to to practice
and well i i i don't know if the collimation was okay
maybe the night it wasn't good but well uh i hope
50 days maybe at the final august
i want to go outside again do some stargazing and astrophotography
of course with friends and well uh well
i think that's all for today you know i i will try to do again planetary tonight
i hope the smoke doesn't bother me but also i have
my neighbor is doing some barbecues and masado so the smoke comes from smoke
yeah the smoke and the smell you know you want to eat that but now
so well uh thank you again for inviting me i hope that you like it thanks for coming on
okay and we'll see you next time thank you very much take care okay all right
so uh we're back at this point um uh lucas do you want to you want to try
again sure sure all right let's try just after sharing here
yeah
there you go all right can you see it excellent good
the the pointer the pointer as well yeah we can see the mouse yes
all right and the little red dot pointer sure
good so today i'd like to introduce you to this
marvelous creation which the stratospheric observatory or
for infrared astronomy is it is what we call sophia it's what we
call an an airborne observatory and its main objective
is to explore the universe mainly at infrared frequencies
this range of the the spectrum it's really important because there are many properties like the
many objects that many objects that emit light at infrared
their light is is by the interstellar medium
so many objects that for example
i'm sorry many objects that emit light in the visible or the uv much of this light can be blocked by the
interstellar medium but when you use the infrared you see detect the infrared
some of those objects are not so opaque so the light can pass
and there's also the characteristics of the circumstances on which infrared light is emitted
so for example by looking at this range of spectrum you can see many objects which are faint
at the which do not emit much light at visible or uv spectrum
but may have its peak emission at infrared you can see accretion discs of black holes
star formation zones and many many other things so it's a really important
zone of study or understanding our universe
and just one example you can see in this image where
which is a collaboration between sophia and hubble
where these lines right here they make it look like kind of a fluid
can you see it yeah these lines are the magnetic field of
the ripple galaxy and they were obtained by sophia and combined with the
the colored image from hubble so this is an example of how soft you
can collaborate with others other programs
well it is not the the first airborne observatory
and many especially at the the half of the 20th century
was when the these ideas came from and was mostly because
due to the development of new sensors so these sensors they were really powerful and
detect there were some wavelengths that could reveal many important data
they were mostly blocked by the our atmosphere so
as you can see in this graph the permeability of it shows the permeability of the
atmosphere it is really low when you're gonna half kilometer above
the sea level or even 3.5 kilometers there are many frequencies that are
almost completely blocked but when you go up or much higher
example 40 kilometers here you see the the permittivity is much higher so
all right well observe these wavelengths you've got to go much higher than some mountains
and for solving this problem some proposals were made like for example the moon
the for some proposals were made for putting telescopes on the moon
another is that in space building space observatories could be a
viable solution but aircraft could also solve the problem
and imagining especially the technology that was available at the time you're talking
about 1948 the polls was born
talking about space observatories things you could put in space and operate reliably
these were still to the future so there were many technologies to be developed
so it could be reliable with this aircraft became a
a really really useful idea
and here you can see some of the older ones
airborne observatories and the first ones were actually not focused for astronomy
if i'm not mistaken in 1948 sir john halton
he was making a phd work for atmospheric atmospherical
studies and he wanted to measure how the the heat distribution how the
the heat from the sun would affect the circulation at high
high layers of the atmosphere so for this he talked to the
to the british air force and got a plane then installed the radiometer on it so
and then he flew to measure it but the first attempt it wouldn't work quite well mostly due to the
to the device he built but in 1957
he used a different play on different instruments and got up to 70 000 feet to measure the
solar flux and this was a success it worked pretty well
seeing this these ideas uh how it worked right
going up in the atmosphere measuring things from above the atmosphere this idea was adopted by nasa
and it bought for example right here it bought some conveyors 1990s
and modified them into observatories making the galileo
galileo observatories and these were really useful
especially when you compare with with balloons for example stratospheric balloons
these were not really controllable and many of the
in many attempts of making observations they would crash during the landing and
many many experiments were lost so it was kind of an adventure
launching experiments like that but if you had an aircraft which was
fast there are many advantages so it was more controllable than balloons
they were they were more vessels so for example you can
observing distinct bases it's in different locations of earth
if there isn't a temporary event for example an occupation
an eclipse if you are stationary to the ground
it may be really hard to take a long exposure so because the
the phenomena maybe too too fast may pass too fast but when you get an aircraft
you can follow this movement so longer exposures are
are possible and this was
and this observatory is specific he made a lot of observations on eclipses occupations so it was really
useful for that and seeing how it worked well how well
it worked there were other other attempts so leader chats were bought and modified
for testing new equipment and at the the decadal survey of
1970 which is a survey they do to decide what what are the next steps
the astronomical community should do at some decade this survey of 1970
it made the recommendation for building a larger telescope more much more capable
which came to be the qpr airborne observatory
this one was a whole a whole other step
from the others the telescope was much bigger and it made delightful discoveries
so for example the martian uh detection of water at the martian poles
was something you contributed to the detection of
i guess is methane and ammonium at venus or venus dome at jupiter's
atmosphere and also the discovery of uranus springs
so it made really good contributions for science
and after nearly 20 years of operation it was getting kind of outdated in some
there were already new projects being made for a more powerful one
and this especially with the recommendation of 1990s decado survey
the project sophia was able to be executed and began the construction i guess in
1995 so here you can see some pictures of it
the practice section here this is this has a really interesting story this piece
it was for a building sophia they bought two boeing 747s
one which was the actual sofia and another there was more scrapped
so they cutted a section of this this plane so they could practice the assembly the
of the telescope so they make sure they will do it right
sophia so this is the practice section here below is the primary mirror being
polished in the polishing process
the assembly of the telescope here
and also some pictures for the from the the inside the operations theme
now let's uh do you have any questions until now no i'm just i'm amazed that they bought
two aircraft it's like okay why buy just one when you can buy two at twice the price so you know
yeah one was was a a plane from pan am pan-american
which used to fly into an american the other was kind of scrapped because all of this was only one
aircraft okay yeah it's really interesting though that was very smart move on their part
all they wanted to was just to to practice
now moving more to the to the details of sofia telescopes its primary mirror
has a 2.5 meters of effective opening so it's kind of large especially seeing
it as a plane right and this configuration here the nasmith
screen is really interesting because it because of the
how it redirects light so there are some advantages i will explain shortly
so when the light enters the telescope you'll be reflected through its free test three mirrors
and will then be redirected through this tube here can you see it
yes so this is called the nasnet tube
it will be redirected and here at the end it's where the science instruments are
located so they will process this light
and one thing when you're especially when you're using these big telescopes with a lot of
precision you need a stable you need it to be stable
and putting it on a plane which is on a fluid so the atmosphere
has a lot of turbulences it's not it's not stable there are four roaring engines on the
plane and there's also the atmosphere hitting the the plane hitting the telescope which is
exposed so there are many many sources of vibration
and how they overcame this it's really interesting so this blue ring you see
it's a bearing and at almost each point
of contact with the with the plane's fuselage
uh at each point of contact from the with the bearing from the bearing to the fuselage
there are some dampers really precise dampers and there is these are responsible
for eliminating almost all the vibration from the plane
but there's also the fact that this the telescope is placed on an aperture
in a cavity so there there will be a lot of air coming into it
it not only had to be designed to to overcome this so some aerodynamics
had to be used in it but there are there are also some powerful gyroscopes
which play the role to stabilize it against these the winds
oh that's how it stabilized incredible and one thing here in this image you can
see this this cover here this one is
is actually covering the the exit of the nasmit tube it is exactly where the science
instruments are placed and just like a regular telescope an eyepiece
one instrument can be only one instrument can be used at a time
which will be inserted right here so this actually helps for saving weight
for for its operations it's kind of interesting
so more than the the necessity of configuration it is kind of interesting because
this fertility mirror is dichroical so it has two surface two reflective
surfaces one which will only reflect the infrared part
and another which will redirect the the visible light so it creates two foci which can be
analyzed simultaneously the infrared one it is
of course the objective of the mission of most of the missions so will be analyzed by the scientific
instruments the main ones but right there but right here
while the visible focus it is used for the
mainly for the the guiding systems so there are some cameras placed around
the frame of the telescope but also an instrument right here
and these are responsible for the guidance of the scope of pointing making sure it's observing the right
place and just for giving an idea
here's a graphic showing the sophia's instruments
and also some characteristics there their range wavelength
their resolution power
and now with these these high-tech these high technological
features these precise instruments many contributions have been made many
significant ones two of which i would like to mention here the first one
is the detection of this molecule this one helium hydride
it's predicted to be the the first molecule to be formed in our universe
right after the big bang when temperatures were too high to for molecules to be formed
uh when the the temperatures cooled a bit more to around 4 000 kelvin
this molecule was able to be formed and people made it in laboratories were
studying it since 1925 but now in plain 19 it was actually
detected in nature aiming towards this this planetary
nebula here so this is this was really important for
these studies of cosmology reject their predictions
definitely unfolding our universe and there's another one
which may even have more more recent impacts which is the discovery the detection of
water at the sunlit surface of the moon it was previously known
that there was water the moon but mostly concentrated at the poles
but sophia using its spectrometer he managed to detect water at the the
surface of the moon which is directed directly lit by the sun
it was first thought that water was too volatile to be there and it is in fact
so any water that was formed will probably probably escape the moon
but analyzing this the data collected by sophia people created another
people managed to see another way of how water could reach this and it is related to the the impacts
that happen at the moon high energetically impacts of asteroids bodies
and it is it is now thought that these impacts when they
[Music] when they hit the moon their high temperatures will create a
some form some sort of glass and glass surface and this glass is fought to
[Music] to put the the water to block
block the water and not let it escape so
it was really important this this discovery can also will also be
explored by the the soon artemis program
which which is plain to be launched soon
and contributed a lot to our understanding of how water can reach some bodies how can it be formed there
so that's it i hope for that interesting
thank you i hope that for this this extended mission sophia is going now
it continues producing this marvelous science definitely unfolding our universe
absolutely well thank you so much uh lucas that's that's great we hope to have you
back on uh global star party and uh with another program that would be wonderful
um have you given this uh presentation to the people at uh um the cosmic generation already
not exactly the the same slides but a different form for the cosmic generation
wonderful well uh i would say it was a first-rate presentation uh very informative i learned some stuff
about sofia that's great you know and uh
yeah well it is an amazing observatory i did put a link into chat where people
can learn more about sofia science and um yeah there'll be a lot of uh
work to do on sofia's data for years and years to come so
sure thanks a lot and uh yeah have a great uh a great night you're welcome to stay
backstage with us if you'd like um if you've got homework to do or something then
we'll let you go but uh thanks again lucas it's awesome thank you so much scott for inviting a pleasure
take care okay so uh next up is dan higgins from
rascal world tv dan how are you man
where is dan there he is i'm gonna add a spotlight he's
i think he's taking a break and that's okay
um we will um let's see we can move ahead a little bit here and
go to bob fugate bob are you available
uh yes i am all right okay well thank you trying to be quick
on my feet thanks for coming on to global star
party it's great to have you back well it's great to be back and um
unfortunately uh even though i live in albuquerque i was not able to attend the alcon um
i registered early and all that but uh unfortunately my wife um
is still recovering from a hip operation and i had to stay home and take care of her
but um i did watch a lot of the virtual stuff and uh and i really really appreciate
all the efforts you did scott to put that on thank you thank you it was a pleasure
you know actually a very much of a thrill and an honor for me so
um we had some great speakers but we missed you so
yeah i did do one talk um in a in a virtual manner um
and uh but i know that wasn't it wasn't publicly available unfortunately
any rate um let me see if i can share my screen
hopefully the right one and um yeah
perfect so this is um
a little bit of a mixture and uh i was i had made some slides back on the
sharing horizons global star party and never got to present those
uh because you know of a conflict that i had but um
so i mixed those in a little bit so um
this is this is a really great topic and um i'll start like
this this is my lame animation i'm really not
into doing much animation in slides but uh this is a
panorama of the milky way which is certainly part of our universe
you know the kind of the near field of the universe so to speak and this uh image i made
in a in a really dark area of new mexico um in chaco canyon
but if we start looking beyond that
now this is a graphic generated by uh sky safari the planetarium computer
planetarium program yeah it's a great program so it's not it's not an image a
real image but what i found really interesting is if i now display and this this field of
view here this is the coma cluster region of galaxies and
um it's about 25 by 15 degrees so it's about the field of view of an 85
millimeter lens if i now add uh galaxies
that are in sky safari uh i see them come on the screen
and they're everywhere so it's just
continues to amaze me uh how
dense our universe really is
and now i'd like to move to a real image this was made near magdalena
with john briggs um and his um [Music]
telescope there that we were at the time operating remotely and it turns out in pics insight there
is a great utility that allows you to annotate objects in your image
once you've plate solved the image it just goes out and looks up various catalogs
and puts those on the image and so if i put the galaxies on this
image [Music] we see there are
a lot and this is about a three degree field of view
so we can't really read this but if we zoom in
we can start to see that even in this image which was about 30 minutes of integration with an
8-inch telescope there are in in every one of these circles which are put on
analytically on the on the image not no way to check whether there's actually
anything there or not but we see that in almost every one of these cases
we've detected a galaxy and these are typically
um tens to hundreds of millions of light years away
so again a really um sort of mind-boggling
you know in your own with your own small piece of equipment
that you can see this sort of thing it's like someone was mentioning
being connected to james webb this is this is something similar to that
so i thought i might i thought i might show um
some images around new mexico since alcon was just here one of the places they visited was the
vla so here's a shot i don't remember when i
took this but uh one one of the features of the vla is it works in the daytime and it works
when it's cloudy so that's a big advantage over a lot of us optical astronomers
but when it gets to be nighttime it does make a gorgeous picture when the clouds go away
and the stars come out it's beautiful so this is a picture of the vla from
mount whittington which is very nearby uh it's between
magdalena and and the vla and a bit south and if you look along if you can
see it in the picture you can see the antennas in this image they're quite widely spaced
here's one leg here's another leg that goes out of the frame and here's the third leg
coming along this direction so um from mount whittington
i thought it was interesting as as the sun sets
and the universe unfolds how that looks
so here's looking off off to the horizon
and then when the sun gets very low and the sun has now set
but but we always need to remember to look behind us
when we're shooting pictures and so i turned around and i saw one of the
most magnificent examples of the belt of venus i think i've ever seen
wow so pretty um as you as you may know this dark band just below the
magenta color is the shadow of the earth and what we see here is the atmosphere
illuminated in sort of a terminator mode and the reason it's pink is because of
rayleigh scattering all the blue light has been scattered out
and what was so amazing about this event is the whole landscape was pink
and it just kind of blew me away i don't know if it shows i'm almost
certain it doesn't on on the simulcast
but right here where my cursor is is the magdalena ridge observatory
operated by new mexico state university and in the original image on my screen
you can see the white dome there of the 2.4 meter telescope
impressive and then a little bit later um when the sun when the when we're
starting to see more twilight uh it's just it's one of those
kinds of places that just kind of gets your blood going and
someone was mentioning before the program that you know it's not the kind of place you
want to go to sleep it's just filled with excitement
so a little north of albuquerque is a place called cabazon it's an it's a volcanic core
remnant and i was there one year to shoot the um
meteor shower and um the perseids
and of course it's monsoon season now and there's clouds and thunderstorms so
what i got instead was a storm in the desert an incredible landscape oh yeah it's
just but you know even during the storm the milky way just sometimes pops out
and so we've got a big downpour over here we've got lightning
in the milky way really quite the combination proud of that one that's great
fantastic here is this is cabozone um with the milky way
and this glow here about 50 miles away is albuquerque
so it's it's pretty dark there it's probably a bordeal two to three
um very nice so the milky way in new mexico
in the landscape is just filled with opportunities and
this is actually magdalena and i'm standing at john briggs observatory
here looking to the southeast at the milky way
and one of the things that the folks in magdalena are concerned about is light
pollution and you can see light on the hills here coming from the sodium lamps
in magdalena so that's something that they're actively working on
and he's amazed about the contrast it's awesome thank you um this is um
the milky way at choco canyon which is a border one location
at least occasionally and you see lots of air glow in the image as well
so this is fajada butte where there are solstice markers that were
you know put up by moving rocks in place and setting them at the right angles
and this was done a thousand years ago or more
and it's quite uh it's quite amazing there are a lot of astronomical markers
in chaco canyon that's beautiful
and this is uh another part of the new mexico desert that's
a little bit uh north and west of albuquerque and i went out here to to shoot neowise
um when it was around and it's just very a very fitting environment um
i i even have i don't i didn't include it here uh
i bought a picture of a dinosaur that i pasted in here uh running and screaming uh
and so i thought that was appropriate i call it cretaceous extinction yes
but but in you know even though i i'm not sure about the copyright i i bought
the image but uh i didn't want to get in trouble so i'm not showing it
um so here is a focus stack uh here's a
troy a cactus that's inches from my camera and uh i
i stacked a bunch of images at different focal distances of the setting of the lens
in order to get everything from the choya to the moon in focus this is just up behind my house here in the northeast
heights and this is the beginning of a wilderness area actually just east of
albuquerque so you know with a five-minute walk
you can be hiking in the wilderness and here's a lunar eclipse of 2019 in
january wow that i shot in magdalena again at john briggs observatory
and there were very thin high cirrus clouds sub-visual
and it was a it was the bonus actually because it fattened up the stars and saturated
their color yeah which which normally you know the stars would be much smaller
and they wouldn't have much color but seeing the eclipsed moon hanging
there in the cosmos is just really really awe-inspiring and
of course this is the winter milky way arm of the winter milky way here sure
and here's the eclipsed moon at cabozone next to the beehive cluster
and um i really missed an opportunity here because
when the moon was fully eclipsed the coyotes started howling really big time
and i should have you know turned on my phone and made a recording that i could play when i show
this image but um they were you know disappointed that um
that the full moon was gone
and here's our most recent uh lunar eclipse this one i took during
wildfires down at daddle new mexico at this point the moon was well above
the smoke but um and i think i've shown pictures of
that situation before and here is a is a whole bunch of coyotes raining down
uh based on kareem's story and and fable
so this is what you get when you point away from the
source of the meteor shower the radiant if you look 180 degrees away near the
horizon they're all moving parallel to one another and put on quite a show
this was taken just on the eastern side of the mountains from albuquerque
where it's at least one and a half the sky is one and a half magnitudes darker
so in terms of deep space things here is an h alpha panorama of the
horsehead nebula and the orion nebula and the you know the orion cloud complex
basically and i mean if anything speaks unfolding this
is it to me and it's um it's creation
personified just an amazing collection of nebulosity
the fabric of the universe the fabric of the universe yeah um
and here is uh antares in row of ophiuchi
and the globular clusters m4 and someone remind me which one this is
but it's you know it is clearly 27 i think 27 that sounds right
it it um is clearly one of the most beautiful parts of the sky these
really opaque dark dust lanes are just incredible
absolutely gorgeous and here's the heart nebula
kind of a close-up of the heart of the heart and all of the
carving of the nebulosity by these bright young stars solar winds
the galactic center this was taken um
this was taken in the gila at my friend's cabin
which is truly the darkest place i've been in new mexico
and here is the cygnus loop kind of on its side so it'll fit the
slide better in narrowband and sort of a modified show
um [Music] bob i've never seen the sigma sweep like that that's beautiful
thank you the orange here this is uh modified sho in the sense that i've sort
of converted the color of to gold for the hydrogen um
and oxygen is is still blue here
and um zodiacal light in the gila
and it's kind of the reason i put this in it kind of reminds me of it's a fold of the
universe uh here's here's the winter um
milky way and here's the plane of our
uh of our solar system right and here it is again this is at bosque
del apache national wildlife refuge which is just south of socorro
and uh i was on a photo workshop that allowed us to go into the refuge at
night and i don't know if you've noticed it yet
but the subject of the picture are these two cranes
that are standing in the water sleeping their heads are tucked under their wings
and um they're just enjoying the evening the cranes stand and sleep in the water
because the coyotes will not go in the water at night and so it's it's a safety mechanism
so this picture was taken about an hour after sunset but even an hour after sunset you can
see the remnants of the sun and the bright star is reflected in the
water which is perfectly still
so that's that's what i have that was mind-blowing
beautiful that was beautiful thank you thank you bob i mean it's a whole new
level i mean i i have to first of all thank scott for allowing giving bob
this forum to be able to show these absolutely incredibly mind-blowing
images that are absolutely world-class and capturing those moments and and
it's awesome bob it's awesome thank you scott for making that happen
because you were yeah what make a global start so bob i have a question about
the uh time the exposure time on some of those where you
you had a combined milky way core and row of fiyuki
yeah about how long let's see and for for the ro ofiyuki picture
that was 37 minutes of total exposure to a
uh takahashi epsilon 180 ed
in a nikon d850 um all right so the epsilon
is f 2.8 and it's eight almost eight inches um
180 millimeters so that's a pretty fast telescope um
and uh you know 30 i it's 37 minutes total
exposure but it was done in magdalena which is like
so fast telescope very dark sky so that makes sense now for the uh
for the field image where you had the uh galactic center rising and you could
still see royal fiuki and all those dust lanes and the blue
emission how long of an exposure for those um not that much longer um
you know i was shooting fast primes
typically f 1.4 primes that i shoot at f 1.8
and those pictures [Music] total integration time typically is 35
to 45 minutes ah okay so typically
so it definitely you had some integration on that sky and then you shot you took your shot for
the ground and mined them so okay
the last the last picture that of the bosque with the birds in it is a single
20-second exposure at iso 6400 because it was because i was in a
workshop group i was not able to make uh lots of exposures
right you just did one exposure at high iso yep and then clean it up a little bit
and post get a beautiful picture yeah yeah i found yeah thanks to and
mentioned it for global star party thanks to um another talk that you gave on here
a lot of the shots that i take now are between 32 100 iso and 5 000 iso
on my canon 6d because that tends to be the range where
it'll still do pretty good signal to noise without me having to take out as much
noise in the final product so i've noticed an uptick in my detail in
my images because of that so once again i know i've thanked you before but i'm
thanking you again for that talk you gave us and
being able to use some of that info in my own images so really appreciate it
okay you're most welcome i'm glad i'm glad something i said helped somebody
i think it's helped a lot on somebody's so thank you very much bob that's great
okay uh we are going to um turn our cameras over to
dan higgins at astroworld tv uh dan how's it going
can you hear me we can hear you awesome no no no
audio glitches no no we could
[Music] from there all right so
good evening everybody um for those of you that don't know me my name is dan and before you get into me on the hair i
just refuse to get a haircut i just won't do it um but uh it's it's it's
been a rough day but um for those of you don't know who or what astroworld is
basically we get together twice a week uh wednesdays when we're back on from a nice
um i don't know 13 or 14 day vacation um which is gonna be yeah we kind of we
kind of chilled out we you know you gotta focus on what's important or else you lose it you know
and that means family friends all that kind of stuff yep yeah
you know so um so every once in a while we're going to be taking three vacations this year because uh i don't know if you
know this scott but uh um i'm doing an astro tour of canada and and the in the
northern new york uh in october very cool so i'm i'm jetting up to
uh saint catherine's to first see uh rush up
so so it's a it's a it's a it's a tribute for the drummer that passed away that was supposed to happen before covet
but so now that's happening and uh while i'm there i'm gonna be catching up with sean nielsen and ron
preacher up in uh up in uh um on in guelph
ontario and then uh i'm gonna be coming down um and we're gonna got it gotta head
through hockey hall of fame uh we gotta hit that in toronto so we're gonna help and then on the way back from
there um we're gonna be hanging out with pete poole and his family uh and all these
guys are from masses of pigs inside and youtube but but we get together twice a week um and uh if i could show my screen
really quick um and screen one and share so
um so this wednesday all these travels you're still coming on the air twice a
week yeah yeah awesome you know i mean you know actually
wait no during my little october tour no there's going to be no show that's going to be crazy
no okay there's no way i can't guarantee wi-fi i can't you know and i can't run the show
from you know whatever but so it's it's impossible so but this wednesday and
everybody knows everyone here knows uh molly wakeling so um she's gonna be coming on the show and
hanging out with us uh this wednesday night at nine o'clock so so come on and
hang out with us and uh and molly uh on um on wednesday that's gonna be very very
cool and then uh in september um
we have nico carver and let me get rid of this go away um
nico carver from never nebula photos um is gonna be coming and visiting us uh
september 16th we try and we try and make a nice balance
between the technology aspects so we had members like like um
david gieson from um photonic cleaning technologies come
on scott roberts yourself you have been on a number of times it was fun
oh it's like you know you never know what you're gonna get it's a mixed bag it's a mixed bag you don't you don't
know but every once in a while there's a little jewel of knowledge that make and you just don't know when it's
going to come out so so so um so come on and hang out uh with us at nico that
should be good and what and i'm gonna throw this out to anybody who's watching and any of the presenters
in fourth quarter sometime in fourth quarter uh we are going to be doing
astropalooza and um so far we have sean uh amy little
molly's coming nico's coming i have a bunch of other people that are coming
and if anybody else wants to make a presentation and throw it to me and i'll play it on when we go
on um more than welcome to do so so uh
this is gonna be something that's gonna be quite interesting i'm thinking it's gonna be about four or five hours and it's gonna be really based on
astrophotography and um you know so it's gonna be it's gonna be very cool so even if you just wanna show
some sort of pictures for five minutes or if anybody wants to do anything i
think it's gonna be kind of cool i already got a bunch of fingers out on some other guests that
i'm trying to get as well but i can't say who yet
um what else when when is you say fourth quarter about what time would that be
well look we're looking november you know maybe right before thanksgiving
yeah yeah oh i thought yeah okay yeah so we're looking in november uh right in
the middle um and uh you know gets away from the holidays in december and you
know you know once once black friday comes it's a complete disaster so you know just
just want to go um we did have two winners last night we do a lot of giveaways
on it and uh one of them is in the chat right now and he was able to win
this which i haven't sent out yet um we gave away um an opto long filter
um we gave away a two inch l pro and uh
and he also gets without the lovely uh straight from china calendar
and uh that comes without the long so so so congratulations to normal hughes
um hello newman yeah that's great yeah so norm hughes won it last night
um and uh what else what else molly nico
um oh we came up with an idea last night
about so i i it's a spin-off of something i saw i saw on discord
we're going to be doing a contest and if anybody wants the link for the contest let me know
we are doing a contest and it's going to be called i had to write it down because it was so
it's the most interestingly messed up astrophoto contest
so so we're gonna be doing that most astrophoto contests that happened in the
world what's that more more messed up than most astrophoto
contests that happen no no but it can't be messed up because it's bad it needs to be messed up because it's
like a cool artistic mess
you know so so you know it can't just you can't just throw up by a um a picture of a really bad
deconvolution you can't do that you know you know so it needs to be a finished
project you know color added to everything okay it doesn't have to be the right colors oh wait am i still sharing my screen
yes oh man there we go um sorry about that you've been looking
at that screen the whole time a little picture of you is on the side
so oh okay okay okay um but yeah so we're going to be doing that
and soon to come soon to come the next dan higgins
um video music video is coming out um based on astrophotography so that's
coming out very soon too very cool although i cannot put it on
youtube i will get slammed so you're going to like
mail it i'm going to put it on the website and you can see it there so go to www.astroweb.com
and if you want to sign up for any of the gifts like that norm one you could sign up for all
of the of the um of the i think the uh the giveaways there we also just gave away this
we gave away a copy of the deep sky imaging primer but
it's also autographed by charles bracken so um
we were able to get charles bracken was a guest on the show and uh he gave us three copies of his books to give away
so i think i put on the wrong url here it's astroworld.com
astroworld web okay
let me fix that that's right i only get about three or four visitors a day so it's
okay yeah i'm sure
but yeah so so that's what we got going on um come and visit us tomorrow night our
next show is tomorrow and we're going to be doing back to basics we're going back to the beginning we're
talking about um how to set up your scope what you can see what to expect to see
with different sizes of telescopes not necessarily astrophotographically
that was a really bad way to pronounce it but um you know
it's just going all the way back to the basics of balancing um put what kind of scope you need to do
the right tool for the right job all that kind of stuff focusing yeah
real basic stuff i mean even like we're going to be talking about what is right ascension
what is oh wow declination you know you know all these kinds of things that exactly you know
yeah a lot of people take for granted and you know some of us say yeah i know what that is but don't really know
and uh so we're going into that
excellent excellent oh yeah so sorry sorry i'm late thanks thanks bob for taking uh you know
the whole show is running ahead by several minutes so uh that's nice and then that's actually
kind of unusual because normally we run a little bit behind but right now we're going to take about
a 10 minute break and then we're coming back with more so
stay tuned awesome
you are mute says scott
hi
i'm yes i can hear
can you hear me okay we can hear you
we can't hear scott uh yes i can i can hear scott yeah yes
we can't hear you well i can hear you both about that can you okay okay yes i can hear you now
it's good good night everyone yeah can you hear me good yeah yeah we can
all hear i i immuted everything that i saw this other mute button which is a third
even a third mute button here on my system so and yes i have the same problem now that i
forget changed it yes the system the the speaker that you use or yes it's for
me is the same message well this is the the polluted sky from buenos aires tonight
huh yes we have first of all i choose maybe i i
make a bad choice in choosing uh because um
instead the my rc my bridge right here uh
eight inches telescope i choose uh the the 100
let me show you that it's beautiful and work very very well but in a night where we have with the exodus
100 sorry this is my my gear tonight
it's the same of the last night that i i
made a picture of omega centauri um with the the
uh camera that this uh let me show you
a cam a camera a
regular planet planetary camera color camera and um
well actually i was i wasn't ready for for tonight to to get my go-to
alignment and and for for make some pictures but actually i can
if i can share the the image that i have now
is in the in the polar uh polar
south polar uh area here yes i can show you
this is the two stars that are the same that you can see
you can see the stellarium note maybe i can choose the no we we
i need to sure i need to show you screen again
yes huh yeah the supporter yes where we have here
this uh this area where we have these two
those two stars okay yeah yes wow so it's right
but it's not quite in the middle of those three but it's uh yeah pretty absolutely
and let me show you share how we can switch to
to the image again so caesar maybe you can describe a little bit on how you do a
rough polar alignment in the southern hemisphere yes yes it's
really normally we don't use uh we don't use the sigma chances
star maybe it's one of these let me show you where is the the polar
what is the salt polar salt uh here you have the two the three stars
over the the polar south and here do you have two
stars i think that this one is is a sigma than this
one of this is yes that's right yes yes and it is
the first of all that is totally difficult choose this this kind of stars
for for uh made a a
roughly polar alignment and we use more the
the the drive color drive where do you have a star when you
see in your camera or on your eyepiece if the start is drift for example right
you can change in vertical vertical side
vertical uh um what you say well ever ever is 90
degrees to the to the drift
yeah and here i can
you can see the the shark up uh the must okay well here do you have
yes because you you don't have a and star uh very
very uh easy to to find but
returning to stellarium the best way that we have is uh the
first for route for probably alignment is let me show you
is uh take the this the south polar
okay
here let me show you this this i have a very very i show you a very
small feel of you
and normally we use this
here you have the the grooves and you can use
between uh to know that the first uh thing that you need to know is
this large of the large axis of the southern class
you need to extend three times and
half to have this area it's something that we made you know sometimes we do with
our open uh hand or you know you can you can use
is something that i learned in the book of david levy
skywatch uh i say oh yes this is great um
is is a is the first thing that we make here in argentina or chile we see the
southern cross and i extend three times and half more
and here do you have the line of the the real sound
uh this is the first thing that you can you can use for put your telescope in the south
of course that for astrophotography we need a lot of things more for tools like
i show you in in a free software like shark up or another ones where you have a very easy
very easy steps to show with the image where is the south
the southern pole and the tool that i showed you
[Music] is it's very easy because you can you can uh
first of all you can put your telescope in um in for example you can make the go to
and you can go with a zero and you know the the position with your
go-to of of uh your south pole and you can
finish uh moving only not the telescope if not only the
the acid mood and altitude adjustment for the uh of the mount
the battery amount and you have a a very fast uh midsole for
to have um alignment polar alignment more of course more
accurate for astrophotography and this is something that today is
every time is more more easy to to have
for example if if i have if i move i'll i'll move for example
let me show you
here well in this mode i don't have the the
the azimuth uh fine adjustment but i have the altitude for for bowler and i can show you how
how the software detected the movements and
change the position of the pole i see that's very handy it is absolutely handy
and this is easy to [Music] to use for example many many people told
me that sometimes if if i don't have a uh
micro uh micro mechanism for to to change
the the position you know in the horizontal the the azimuth adjustment
you can take gently a little and you can get the
a a great position but if you have the micro the micrometric uh
them and of course that is it's more easy but this is something that that you have
first for this do you have a great uh start to make uh
a go-to go to alignment again and
you can get uh maybe one minute uh for example for this focal distance
maybe you have a one minute without uh uh star trails you have a
round stars in your picture in your single picture if you if you make a
great alignment and you have maybe uh you know
for example sometimes you in the in the cities or this the system that
we use uh like nico the hammer used is very short
photographies and even you don't need a a bit of roundly um
polar alignment and you can use uh maybe five seconds of in each picture
and again i'm i'm using a a planetary camera this is a new age where
the sensors that that mostly of the new models of planetary camera use
are a back illuminate pixels and
big size pixels that are that have a great
capacity to to catch the light for catching the light and this is something that
you can use think of in this kind of things first of
all we have an optics where it's an easy or an entry-level optics where you have
a four and a half inches uh only and you have
a very short uh focal rate uh focal raiser and or focal ratio
sorry uh do you have a big i mean
it's a a really big support from your instruments to make these kind of things
if you if you think that you can you can see in the middle of the city
a few numbers of stars of course but you can detect
between the weldings you can detect stars it's really gonna be great it's really
great well
tonight is not for for especially match but are great for techniques
yes yeah that's great hey um i uh found something and put a um
i put a link in chat and it's about the association of uh friends of astronomy in argentina
yes it's very strange about this group it's amazing it's a very old very old uh
society uh maybe maybe 100 years or more
uh for next week i can i can
press a lot of information and i can invite something of the
uh astronomy association club is really great i have
a lot of friends in the in the the four a's
it's in the middle of the city it's in the park centenario and this is a geographic
place in the city a big park they have a beautiful instruments they
have a instrument of cars uh they've got argo d8 uh that is a
refractor telescope and they made a great work
um from many many years i i i am not actually a partner because i
um actually i am very busy uh supporting to the san miguel observatory
and it's very important to to work in the last two and three weeks we have a lot of
improvement in in the in our space and we
receive a new new space to make uh you know uh
our facilities area for for repairing a laboratory and we are now we are
receiving for example we're receiving a donation from
from the government of san miguel how we buy a
cnc wbo camera
we are going to to make a we are going to put in a mint condition
the the refractor um dotier refractor telescope i am going to
present again the the works uh of the in san miguel observatory because
we are going to to start now we are receiving the
we have something like it's a the legal name for our association that
is the partner for the observatory um this is very important because we can
we can start to receive donations for another you know business uh
brands it's very important um we can start to make a real things to
repair and restore the instruments this this
this will be a real change in our work because uh you know that in the last two years
we received the big uh place and the place have a no
agreeable owner if or from the air air force or if is of
from the the municipality or government of san miguel and actually is going to
be [Music] fortunately going to be a
a place for for the government of san miguel and we can start to
put in mean conditions you know because we repair we put in in
functions the the first telescope that is the gustav the height because the height on telescope that is a good
guidance is a telescope of uh 120 years old
wow and we are using actually is a fracture of i think that is maybe
sorry that i don't remember now what is a around the six six inches telescope
uh um have the you maybe you remember that this is the telescope that have the
the black volcanic the stone
filter obsidian obsidian [Music]
solar filter um we are working um
[Music] to put in despite that this is
totally functioning we are going to put stepper motors
you can change our idea is put two stepper motors
to move the telescope remotely and without without a
change or broke or disassembly the old clock system you know
we are we are thinking in the in the idea of made a go-to telescope
with the same mode um without uh disassembling the the original clock
system and maybe maybe as we are using the same name media
mi motors lima motors that
maybe we can use we can talk uh in in a close future with uh
with the technique support of export scientific and we can put uh
the um bmc a box right to to drive my idea is
yeah it is is adapting adapting to this motor because with i i was reading uh
with people that we love uh about code coding um
we found that the pmc you can change to the amount that maybe
how many how many steps do you need and this is beautiful because
we put together a uh professional uh version of the
um of the pmc8 for a 2 000
or 2 ton telescope um now it did require bigger stepper motors and
uh basically a more beefed up electronic system uh you know to handle the the
torque requirements and all the rest of it but uh um i was just talking i was just
chatting well while we were doing a little star party i was chatting with teresa hoffer from the badlands
observatory and i will share to the audience um the uh
some photos of the pmc8 attached to this telescope
um let's see it's called uh this is the blog it's a new telescope system
or a new telescope control system and this is the pro
version of the pmc8 and so we think that uh we could control
very large telescopes with it if necessary so yes
old ones new ones big and small yeah yeah this is the this is the great
the great side of of uh the the design of of the system
something that is really great because i i i know that now the titan mount of his
is available to to drive with the bmc yeah
yeah since it's great this is great yes if only all the way down
iso 100 to this 2000 or 4 000 pound telescope yeah
yes which is which is uh name of authors uh that are great
very strong yes motors yes absolutely i we choose uh and we
what we bought uh nema motor for the celostato um
there's a lot of philosophy or in english i maybe i i i forget the name but you know the the system that moved
the the mirrors um for for the the size uh
[Music] the fracture size telescope the big one and the good stuff hiding
six inches for a fraction and you know that that the the torque that you need
to change the movement from zero to you need
some uh uh you need some uh torque and that is not nothing this is it's a
strong um yes we will we'll be you work together in in adaptation of pm
right well i hope to bring the people from badlands observing observatory on
to global star party and you can see how the telescope works in
in real life so but uh thank you steve thanks for coming on it's a pleasure global star party and
we'll see you next time thank you okay see you next time okay
so uh up next we're staying down in argentina still and we're with uh
uh nicolas arias uh nico otherwise known as nico the hammer and uh
i'm glad that uh nico could make it back onto global star party thanks for showing up
hi scott thank you i'm really happy to be here hi cameron adrian lucas cesar how are
you and well this these few weeks
i got the the planetary fever we are near the saturn opposition and
we have a jupiter uh really high at 3 or 4 am
so i was doing a lot of planetary machine and i will share some with you
let me share here okay can you see my screen
yes well this is a jupiter the
the last day friday to saturday night that
it was a really good night for moments and we have the the the great response
and the europe uh transit so it was a a really nice
try to to get a good composition here we have the channels this is my my
luminance the red channel the green and the blue and and you can
see how it rotates because the oh that was the last one
because the the the dropzonian i i have the the fuel rotation
and uh i get this this image i am really happy with this
because i was able to to get the europa transit
there and also i have the io here
with some shape maybe and was was a a really
good night for for a jupiter he's a closer view of the same
nice and uh i get this image well i i turn
this uh with the south up i i love to
to to rotate the the planetary sometimes and uh
last night uh i was doing a lot of testing uh with with saturn and that
night uh i was reading a lot and changed the
the my setup i was using i don't know why for years the bar low after the
filter wheel and yesterday i say okay i can put first
in the focus of the parallel then the filter will and separate the camera from the bar though
and get more magnification and i i get
some really nice images well here you can see the hand tracking
system was a really stable night
also you can see really steady at the tiny moons for for moments you
can watch it and well this is the
the video that i captured i i was i do for this image of saturn
two videos of each channel two for luminance uh two red channels two green
and two blue uh so i was capturing 90 seconds videos
eight times to get one image but it's really funny here you can see the the result
when i i processed the videos with pip to
fix the planet in the center in each frame you can you can see i have a little
turbulence but was a really really good night i was uh working with my
10 inch dobson at about f12 maybe
three thousand millimeters of focal so it was a really good night
i think this is a great demo demonstration nico of pip that's a very significant step and
showing how how helpful that is in processing is very important because of the compression and the size yeah that's
that's right it's critical in more ways when you're working with with adoption because
uh even even auto stacker or resistance
it's not easy to to stack the the movement in the planet if you
have only a short video with one movement maybe it works but when you move all the
time it's really really hard to get some some good work so pip is
my favorite program and well here you can see the the four
channels stacked this is the the result that i get
then when i use the the wavelets in resistance and the rotate each channel
uh separate in english the luminance the red channel the green and the blue
you can see in the in the in the blue channel every time it is the the hardest channel i don't know why but
i every time that i go out i go out to see how is the night and the scene i is the
first test is to put the blue channel and watch if you can focus
is a good night if you can't focus the blue channel it's
really really hard and this is the the
imagine they rotate uh all together but beautiful no post processing
and in the post processing i get i think that is my my best saturn image
till today i am really really happy i finished uh the processing
uh tonight uh today and this is the result yeah i think that's your best image it
looks beautiful
and i get details in the south that is the first time i get this kind of detail
so i i was stuck this morning when i stuck all the emoji and see this and say wow this is amazing
and all the work it really works so this is this i
i is my my second image that i report to alpo japan too uh so i'm really happy this
was a really nice week for planetary imaging here
super
is a masterpiece i love the inner e-ring as well right nice and shaded
very subtle just beautiful it's really he is he's really happy really really funny uh when you talk to
someone and say no i i do the hand tracking now it means they say you you point and then but nico
you also should no i didn't
you show the building blocks though as well right i mean that's i think again uh you know
when you did it all very smart you know you said okay well you don't worry about how accurate the tracking is initially
because you know you have tip to line it all up yeah and then you have registax to handle all the wavelets and so if you
know the right sequence then you can really look at the way you've done this is fantastic this is great
even maybe some people have an equatorial mount with a new scope and has no go-to
or no drives you can actually keep moving really slow the
the array movement and you can manually track him yeah just
manually rotate the right ascension yeah yeah nico how long did it take you to
really get this good at hand tracking it was a test
and test and test uh you you know um i i have uh
i always say you you keep learning and learn uh what are your limitations and
for planetary machine forget a nice movement or or an easy
movement i need to wait the planet the planet to
to get above 16 60 degrees near the the meridian
because if the planet is is moving up or moving down you have to to to do a lot more
movements and it's really hard as you can see in the videos i wait for saturn
to get a almost in the meridian so i made my movements only in asia and not that that
hurt in attitude and this is really hard when you try to
to to capture with the planet uh i don't know maybe uh 45 degrees at the east and
you need to move up uh you probably you probably lost the planet in the field of
view it's it's really uh not not uh every captures
is is like this i'm i mean last night i was capturing maybe for an hour and a
half i i made four uh four sequences of all the channels and i
get this from one of them so right it takes by doing what you've done
you've broken the barrier you've broken the barrier for a lot of people i think uh by demonstrating this
nico because uh you know what obviously this you've done this with a lot of the practice and that
but yeah you know i think that i think a lot of people can try this out for themselves
and and and you know get get perhaps get some more experience with it but uh you this
is very inspirational i think a lot of people have access to this capability
i we always say that we are we live in a in a golden er
age of the astronomy because we have all the technology and software processing
uh it's more easy [Music] i am using a twitch wi-fi a camera is a
guiding camera not even a planetary camera and [Music]
this this guiding camera works great so
it's it's about uh try and keep learning
right fantastic okay that was all for me tonight scott thank
you thank you so much nico thank you so much that's awesome thank you i will be here with you
okay thanks a lot okay all right so um
our next speaker is uh adrian bradley who's going to share everyone's nightscapes with us as he usually does
uh thanks for coming back on to a global star party yeah and
and thank you by the way for for presenting at the astronomical league conference too that was it was an honor
to present and i just went with something each time i present i just
basically rattle off what i've been learning and experiencing as i've been doing imaging
and today i got an opportunity to show a prototype of this because your
background my background is killing it isn't it yeah it's i'm gonna have to turn my background off
so you're gonna have to see the mess behind it but i can do that let's go to
uh virtual backgrounds
i should be able to click none okay so now you have this gray
and this is a nice that's the book that's the book that i'm
yeah congratulations yep that's me in the back i know i've shown this on global star mo
think just about all of these that's actually look at that yeah
and i took it up to i should get it in front of the camera i took this up to um
the actual lighthouse in the lighthouse society that uh works with it and they loved it
they're looking forward to me bringing some copies so that they can sell as well as a i decided i would do a canvas
of um i would do a canvas so the of one or
one of these images or perhaps one of the other images that are not in this book
and um it just needs a few corrections and then i'll be taking some and then
i'll be figuring out how to make it available for all of you to order if you would like it right now it's at a paltry
30 dollar fee and i can ship it to you because it cost me twenty dollars to make
there you go amazing i'm showing you the math and how i
arrived at thirty dollars for a thirty page book and as it says in the end i hope
that uh you know think of this place as not just
a daytime destination but some place to go at night and i was thrilled when they
said we'd love to do some sort of astronomy night here we'd love to have astronomers come i had
the lowbrow astronomers i'm a member of the warren astronomical society as well as the royal astronomical
society of canada and great lakes association of astronomy clubs which is you know
comprises of a member of all of the southeast michigan clubs um
so a member of a lot of clubs by war my university lowbrow hat and that triggered their interest in
um seeing you know having a night sky event at the park and even better one of
the uh members there then told me well here's how you turn off the lights here
if you ever want to come an image that was that's the that was the key right that
was the uh that was the key so what i'll do is i'll share
um let's see i'll go ahead and share a screen i actually
meant to share tonight a couple of images um this is
the mcmath telescope that used to sit at the mcmath holbert observatory in
lake anglais some many years ago it was transported here to
um the peach mountain observatory which is where the low brows hold open houses we're going to start holding them again
in um in a couple weeks august 20th and august 27th
we'll be holding our first open houses back from times of covid so you have this massive
24 inch cassegrain a true classic casagrain scope on a
massive equatorial mount and we've you see kind of a light on here and this box
controls the tracking we actually have tracking so that once we do
manage to wield this heavy thing around and find something then
people can sit and look at the eyepiece and then someone else can come in we've got a couple of other finders on here
that are not in view as well as a telrad and um
so we this is our main instrument um for sharing the night sky with
with the public as they come in and so while i was there operating it on my own
i went ahead and posed it next to the milky way here and
if i'm going to zoom in because part of part of what i'm going to present is
as i've been learning to get more precision in this part of the milky way you just saw about bob fugate's uh
presentation a little while ago and you saw the detail he was getting
well there's a couple of reasons that landscape astrophotographers or
nightscape folks will take milky way pictures one is just to see if they can do it now
this is i believe a 10 inch refractor this is one of my other um clubs that i'm in the warren
astronomical society this is their observatory stargate
and there's their refractor with a finder and up here you've got the cygnus region
it was very cloudy but you can just make out the north american
you have to use your imagination to see the pelican it really you know in the cloudy skies really didn't come out but
you can just make that out you know that you're looking at the cygnus region there's the beginning of the cygnus rift right
here so milky way photography when the skies are rough you can still sometimes get detail
and remember another bob getting the milky way to shine through
a storm it looks an awful lot better in bortle one skies but when you're here
at about at a best portal 4 or maybe even portal 5 you can still
pull some milky way detail as long as you're shooting at a bright spot
within the milky way and the cygnus region is a is one of those bright spots now in
this is where cygnus is so you know that there's something here the
veil 61 cygni which is a double star that appears the way our sun would
appear each of those stars looks the way our sun would look if we were 32 light years away looking back at our sun
61 cygni is 11 light years away and it's smaller but it's a g-class star just
like the sun so that's one of the special stars i tend to remember that are in the in the cygnus
constellation and then other times you when you lose the precision but
sometimes you gain beauty in terms of a beach scene with a beach house
and at times like this you some and when you don't have your tracker with you you sometimes process
it for the sake of making a beautiful night scene and that was my attempt now this is
saturn over here i do believe this bright little dot right here we just saw what it looks
like thanks to the hammer and his uh excellent processing of his uh videos of
saturn it just looks like a little dot to the naked eye but you get you get niko out
here and you'll see what it really looks like and so now two different images this was a
single image we had photographers from one of my photography clubs that i'm in come out this particular gentleman is
pretty all three of the gentlemen down here tom eagle is the ghost down here dennis hallilay was shooting
and keith matt's um who looks more who stood still for 20
seconds as i took this photo of this is our observatory peach mountain
and you can barely see part of the telescope pointed at some of those kinds of shots
yeah so you have you have life you have the sky you don't have much
milky way precision here but maybe you don't really need it so much
because of the overall scene it's a really nice nice capture yeah
that looks like a painting yeah exactly and that's a lot of times that's how i process it um and i do
believe this is bryan adam over here also a really good imager and this is another one of his tracking units that
he brought so there's there's good milky way shooters from michigan in this area
you can see some of the people so compared with the photo i took the
next night no one's here and i made a panorama of it it looks
lonely because you've just seen the other photo but if you go into the milky way
all of a sudden there's a lot more detail because i did a panorama
with a 35 millimeter lens and this is about 20 to 22 panels
of a panorama some i had to throw out and i retook a couple of others on the
spot i ended up with these little black holes here um just because of the way that it's
processed so there's more work to do in learning how to there's no black hole
where it should be which is right in here but um i just work at stitching adrian
yeah it's yeah it's a they're stitching artifacts that are here
or noise reduction so some more work to do however you're seeing
you're seeing some detail like the shape of the omega nebula shows up that's true and uh
you know it'd be really cool adrian yes you you do the same thing but you do it for the person when the
person get meteor showers yeah if the moon wasn't full yes i know i know yeah it's it's it's
going full tonight and there's going to be a bit of a two-hour window before the late moon rises um
in the next couple of days so they're you you yet may be able to get some perseids
so eagle and uh yeah yeah the eagle and the omega and i actually
the wild duck was in there too so now okie text which is where i'm going
to go for uh star parties um
not all photos when you rush photos you end up with something like this but it was i figured i'd try to give the big dipper
some love because i could actually see it but processing skills change
over time i think there's i still have value in a lot of the images that i took
and processed but i've recently gone back through and reprocessed them with some things that i
know just to see um what i could do so this is
a pretty good representation of what okie text looks like to the eye
this is you look up you'll see the milky way coming in you'll actually see the set the small sagittarius star cloud
you'll actually see the lagoon m8 um you'll see the dust lanes come in you
may even see these dust lanes which if you go straight up from those dust
lanes m11 is right here where my hand is this street could be
a bright meteor or it could be a satellite that was caught and at the time jupiter was over here now as we
know it's moved to another part of the sky
you can see the stars of sagittarius here so i decided why not reprocess with what
i use now in my in my process and see what happens and this is what that image became
so a different look all together right stunning
yeah you still have this red light but we've cooled it we've cooled off the um
image a little bit from the original one and you have
now you can see everything that's out there yeah this is this is more of a when you
process it now you're seeing everything at once the sky color is a little different but
it is still um we're talking transitioning from
ash from uh nautical twilight into astronomical twilight
and that's how bright the milky way is so we kept going
we reprocess the core when it's dark now this is a simple shot you'll notice
the cat's paw and the lobster claw show up you can very you can barely see him down
at oaky text you figure you should see him a lot brighter this wasn't the most tractive images and it still came out
with a lot of detail here this was i want to say this was 13 seconds i
really believe this was after only a 13 second exposure
so it does make a difference it makes a huge difference where you are
how dark it is so this is an original photo
that i took you can still see sky glow it's a warm it's the warm photo but things like m33
still show up here this ngc object heart and soul
a lot of dsos are in here decided to reprocess it
and i think it looks a little more natural the color of the sand here
and the fact that i could brighten it up and it's a different look the the dust
lanes show up a little more in this cassiopeia region
in perseus region of the milky way which is brighter when you first see it it's a lot
brighter than then you're used to seeing it in any other
in any other portal zone it you know the um the galactic center
truly is not just the star when you go to a dark to the
a dark site high portal 2 or border 1. so couple more
i'll show i always loved this image because of the
zodiacal light and the milky way going you know from all the way to the horizon
but when i look at it i go this might have been a little too warm for my tastes even though the rosette shows up
here and different regions of orion show up and i said
i'll try again with the processes i use now
and there you have the zodiacal light oh yeah look at that yeah
i think it's a little more it's a little more of a natural look
and again not the best tracking but decent there's a beehive right here
in m44 and i still remember seeing
what the sky looked like when it was like this to the naked eye realizing how much higher orion was as it was rising
it seemed to be a lot taller or a lot higher in the sky than um
than it was you know back here at 42 north latitude and i also learned that
this little cluster is colander 140. for a second i thought i was looking at
another coat hanger but it's it's a y-shaped it's a large y-shaped
cluster so sometimes your images can show you things that you may not realize
exist if you're if you take enough detail you're taking a detailed enough image
you can look back at this image and say hey what's that and then you start looking it up and figuring out what all
of these glowing objects are and that's that's something i still have
to take up but i like how that came out and then finally
this wasn't the best version of this i sent the better version uh to march up to marcelo i believe
for sky's up magazine similar color similar warmth and i said
you should never try and reprocess something that has already been deemed excellent
so what do i do reprocess it why not so once again
so as you can you can tell my color the colors that i'm looking for have cooled off from what i liked
a year ago and so it's ever-changing
um the dust lanes are still here but yeah the milky way takes on this
more of a more of a color you know a brightness that you would see
naked eye and um still messing around with things the
pleiades are still here and you can actually see some of the nebulosity around them
and uh there's the hyades i'm sure that this is something here
this looks like a that looks like a clump so so there's and there's california so
differences in processing come over time and usually it's up to
there's two ways you can do it you can either process to see if you'll win more contests or you can
process to see if you can produce something that's closer to what you saw
you know with the added extra benefit of your camera pulling out
hydrogen alpha if you've got if you got a modified camera you try and get closer and closer to
whatever you think reality is it it changes for everyone and you can
your images can inspire or you can
you can send them out to contests and see if you'll win
and then you're sort of at the mercy of you know what anyone in the general public thinks
or you can see if by processing something a certain way
you getting more detail than you normally would
and um and it's really up to the imager to try and determine what he wants to do
get a get something that works
and stick with the process and let it evolve over time that's
that's basically what i've um you know come to know over
over the couple of years that i've really you know dove into i really dove into
doing this sort of um landscape astrophotography
and not to mention that big old telescope um i have a couple of instruments that i plan to take the okie
text to do visual astronomy and kind of get back into that a little more because um
there is a satisfaction of seeing even if it's a faint glow of light being able to pick that up and have its light hit
your hit your eyes instead of a sensor every once in a while it can be uh
you know it can be a beautiful thing to um you know to go out and just sort of
immerse yourself in photons i think there's a there's a good balance that you can strike between
bringing it bringing down samples and taking them in for yourself so so that's
turn it back over to you okay thank you very much okay well up next is um
is cameron gillis and uh uh cameron uh has uh
made many uh programs on uh on the explore alliance programs has
been on global star pretty many times uh he ran a long series called cam cam
astronomy and showed people how to photograph uh quickly photograph the sky
and um how to record your observations you know in a very systematic way and it
was uh he helped a lot of people really progress in their astronomy
and he does this all from his balcony in seattle so uh it was uh
pretty amazing to see that work done but you've recently been to dark skies you talked about that a bit at the early
part of our program thanks for coming on to global star party again cameron
hey thanks a lot scott and good to see all my my buddies here and
i'm actually remoting in from my parents place up here in kamloops
british columbia in canada so uh uh let me just give you uh
um a quick view of the radar in the area uh
i have an unstable connection so you can see there's some thunderstorms coming by uh loops here
and so if my yeah you know the deal so uh if you see
any um uh if there's any interruptions uh you know uh just bear with me uh i think it's
passed now so um but yeah so thanks scott and and again i just um
i i missed the the 100th uh global star party live um you know i i went the
hundred and first so this is great um but uh because i was actually uh
traveling um overseas um and what i wanted to share with you there's three things i want to
let me just stop sharing my screen for a second here uh the first thing is uh
i happen to be in florence fiorenze in italy um with my
family and i brought myself a pair of binoculars uh uh eight by forty twos
so you know i can do my astronomy in galileo's uh hometown or uh town so
i wanted to kind of share a little bit on um you know just scanning the skies with binoculars
you know when you're traveling and uh and what what i've done with that and then kind of go
while i was there you know at the same time the milestone achievement of the james west
web sorry james webb space telescope images the first five images were released
and i really expressed keen interest in stefan's quintet and i
want to kind of do a little bit of um uh exploring i i i kind of had some
epiphanies there when i was looking at that image and i wanted to kind of share that a little bit um
and then finally uh like i said i'm here in kamloops area um
in a remote area where my parents live and um and i uh happened to get
some dark skies and uh and i managed to catch the aurora a couple of
nights ago i would complete fluke i'd never seen the aurora before and it was
absolutely wonderful and i wanted to share i used my smartphone just to capture the moment and you know it's not
going to be even close close to what adrian and terry and and you know
the gurus had with their beautiful uh uh cameras that are doing uh just the smartphone but uh
but it's uh it's it's it's nice to be able to share that uh experience and and show what you can do with just a simple
smartphone so um kind of a lot of different things and uh well let's let's dive in um
so i'm going to share my screen okay the whole screen actually
okay now we're going to go to so we're going to start off in sky safari in july
when i was in florence and what i did is i i made a little observation uh
list for binoculars so i went to my observing list and i created what i call bino best so i have bino best
uh and i kind of looked at you know it the good part is uh the summer milky way was coming up so
there's some good clusters to look at could nebulae and
global clusters are fantastic and as far as i'm concerned they're really nice to look at with binoculars so
kind of practicing my star hopping and that so i identified a number of objects here in the circle i won't go through
all of them don't worry but uh but just to kind of pick out some objects and just explain a
little bit uh how it was you know it was just um it was in the evening around 11 o'clock
and uh you know booties and and that we're setting and
you know and m3 is a beautiful one nice and bright uh easy easy to spot and you can see if you look at i have the
binocular field of view here in the center if i move over here so when you're doing this with binoculars you
you kind of have to do some star hopping which is kind of fun um so you kind of zoom in and you
you kind of line it up and say okay well we got another star here and then you look at some you know pairs of stars and
triangles and you finally aha then you see this little fuzzy m3 there so that was that was
really fun this one here m53 a little more difficult uh you know you have to go off and and then it m53 is a bit uh
fainter a little more diffused so um you know that's that's an example and then of course here in ophiopus i saw
some more uh but what as i was doing this and the the night went on
um you know the lagoon nebula comes up that's beautiful you know you have a nice wide field of view but re what was
a really neat discovery or rediscovery well well i cannot emphasize enough for
us northerners
and for those of you who want to look at something a massive global clustered in the northern skies m22 is a good one
um so that was that was a nice uh experience and then you pop up uh you know
nebula is one of those nebula you know compared to uh you know the eagle nebula is kind
of diffuse and difficult uh it's more but you it very highly defined high
contrast so it it even in a full moon you know you can see this and so that's a really nice thing even
in a binoculars you see a very distinct uh line there um then
you know i always love uh at any power uh the wild duck cluster m11 uh just at the tail end of uh
of um uh sorry of all um oh man uh uh uh
not harika oh man this man what is it called it is
aquila sorry i'm i'm just had a little bit of a misnomer so what you do with that with aquila at the end at the tail
end of aquila you can go and you see these three stars here and they're all in the same field of view so as you zoom
in when you're with your binoculars you can see a nice you just take these three stars and you go uh and then you find
the m11 so that's that's a really nice one nice one and then of course you've got uh
you know a nice uh asterism is the coat hanger cluster very distinct
and of course the dumbbell nebula so you when you go to the to find the don nebula and the coat hanger you have
the nice sagitta um which is the arrow and you go basically and you you in the
same field of view with binoculars it's easy to start off and then find out where where uh m27 the dumbbell nebula
is and that's be actually pretty small enough but you can
uh pretty easily see it it's it's very distinct um as well very puff and
and then of course you continue on through the night and of course because i had jet lag if i go into the morning
so then just i had my morning stuff so at around around four o'clock in the morning
i had the nice dance of the planets they were all beautifully in the line
right you have uh you know neptune jupiter mars uranus uh venus and uh saturn
where saturn should be around here um and and basically uh
um that was really nice that you could see jupiter's moons with binocs um pretty easy
uh and then it's always wonderful to see pleiades rising i i just love seeing that
uh and then of course uh the hades is is is a nice uh you know in taurus uh with
the binoculars a nice rich
that's a nice one that really looks good in vinos um and then also merlot 20 in in perseus uh
again a nice a nice grouping of stars so so what you find is you know at any
scale of of with your naked eye your telescope or binoculars you'll always
find some nice nice things to observe and for traveling yeah i can't emphasize enough
it's great great to have a binoculars at your at your side and then of course the double cluster
and the owl cluster the double cluster is beautiful just hangs there suspended
and it's pretty easy to find the double cluster you just look between cassiopeia pointing here and then
perseus pointing there and halfway in between roughly and the binoculars have a big enough field of view can easily
catch them i was even showing my parents how to how to how to do that with binoculars
and actually now we go to the last uh uh one which um which is going to dug tail
into the next topic is uh an andromeda galaxy a beautiful um a beautiful binocular object
and it's really good test for dark skies because we all know that it's multiple full
moons wide but depending on the sky conditions and transparency and darkness and contrast
you'll get this thing you know huge it can be quite large uh in binoculars and with the naked eye even
and the way and again i taught my parents how to find it you just go off of the corner of first pegasus the
square top left corner and you go two stars over and then when you go over here there's three stars in
a row you go up and then you just look and use a little bit of averted vision
uh if there's light pollution and then you'll see the little fuzzy of andromeda galaxy
now that's that's kind of uh my little exploration there um and
now on the opposite side now we're gonna move into the after i've done i had my nice uh
evening and morning observing with binoculars in in florence uh then there was the announcement and
the publication of the james webb images and it was like oh all right i know
where stefan's intent is so i wanted to kind of show everyone again for orientation because one of the beautiful
part of what they've done with james webb images is they're showing actually quite familiar objects that you
can see with uh with your backyard telescope or you can image for
yourself and the way you find it and is um you go kind of the opposite corner
you know you've got andromeda galaxy to the left here on the top left of the pegasus but on the bottom right or so in
the top right there's this other star cheat or whatever and then if you zoom in a favored
mind is what i call andromeda galaxy's sister is
ngc 7331 which just goes here and a kind of an elbow
up here and 7331 if you don't know is a beautiful miniature m31 it's it's it's further
away you know andromeda is about 2.2 million but 7331
if we just take a look here is around uh see it's 47
million light years away which is interesting and you'll see why that's interesting because if you zoom in here with a
larger telescope [Music] you have a little group of galaxies
known as stefan's quitet so one of the things i always emphasize and
i always like to encourage for those you know in the age of go-to mounts and all that kind of stuff
it's really neat to be able to see where everything is in you know in
the universe relative to where you're seeing so you can kind of connect the dots and you get orientated on where
everything is and so so when you go from seven three one you got the seventh quinten and of course this is the famous uh image if i go
go to uh this one here this is the famous uh hubble game hubble uh james webb telescope
picture uh that show is that and you can see this pattern and if we go back to
our sky safari there it is and there here is their cluster and i've seen this um in various size
telescopes i mean i've i've found them you know some of it uh with um
you know the cluster and i can kind of see it with averted vision with an eight inch uh i've had it in the past i've had an
18 inch tub and it's absolutely wonderful in that you can see very easily the the different shapes
and it's a beautiful cluster and what's fascinating and i want to call out uh
dr um uh this man let me get his name yeah it was a doctor um
uh seth says
he studied this uh cluster and he pointed out to me something rather interesting about this group which i
remember uh is that one of the one of the members of the stefan's quit that is actually
not in proximity of that other so they're not all together and if you look it's kind
of obvious with the color and i'll explain to that later um but if you click on this guy this is seven let me
move this out of the way sorry this is seven three two zero okay so ngc tip and
let's do the same thing as we did with seven three three one and you can see that its distance
is it happens to be uh where is it uh so you actually clicked on one of the
stars near there yes you you selected oh yeah yeah
thank you there you go i was wondering thank you so much there we go 47 million light years isn't
that rather interesting it happens to be the same distance as 7331. so it's
actually closer to 7331 then if we go back over here and we see the rest of
the members of the group of stefan's quitteth let's take a look at this one with this uh
731b uh let's see here if i go there and we'll take a look at that guy
look at this 280 million light years so basically what you're seeing
is that even though optically these guys look well close together they're like a darn 230 million light
years separate from each other that foreground seven three two zero
and seven three two zero is actually much much closer to seven three three one
so again uh um it's really interesting to see the dimensions and see how all
the dots connect in in multiple dimensions so you can't imagine how big
this is in this galaxy is because you watch both like
similar sizes yes the difference is amazing
exactly these these galaxies here uh in the rest in the main part of stefan's quintet pier point
uh nico is they are what five times further away and yet they're
almost the same angular size as seven three two zero so you're absolutely right that you can
imagine they're huge so what there's another thing so now let's go to the
let's go to the the the wonderful image that i can't get enough of from james webb and kind of look at this
a little bit more well obviously there is the immediate thing that you
could pick up in his pool you zoom in and you start to see all these galaxies right it's like wow right just beautiful
spiral arms and all that and but there's another thing that i want to point out is look
at their colors okay they're different colors and they're different
basically red shifts so you can see these galaxies here they're kind of orange but then these ones that are
they're in quotes closer they have the correct color correction they have more
colors at the spectrum because of the filters and i'll get into that and i started figuring this out it's
like there's another thing here is if you look at these galaxies have you noticed how because of the awesome
super ultimate resolution of james webb notice how this galaxy here 7320 is much
grainier in fact it looks a lot like adrian's awesome picture of our milky way where you have individual stars
shown here whereas these guys are very milky the stars are very
uh you know highly densified because they're so far away so here's another
just optical observation i came to that just by the james woods resolution
you can see this is much closer because you're able to distinguish the stars much cleaner than these further galaxies
that are five times further away the other thing on the color piece and this
spectrum something uh you know professor karim jafar um
shared uh two uh two sessions ago i think it was global star party 99
and i was really impressed uh he did a great job at explaining um
why do you have these infrared filters chopping it up so that you can you know
understand what's happening in with the redshifted galaxy well let me go
explain that a little bit and this is just me you know i haven't done the full
research and all that stuff i i admit them uh i i i but i do have engineering
background and you know spectrum but i want to keep this very simple for people uh so that we can understand what's
going on because this is kind of something the journey of self-discovery that i just found out by looking at
you know why the james webb is telescope uh is significant i thought originally the game whose webcam
would ever be red color because it's looking at the infrared so all it's going to be boring pictures it's going
to be like oh everything's going to look red and you're sure it's going to be nice but it'll be just like luminance
but actually they have different cameras for different parts of the spectrum now
this is the visual spectrum if things are within you know normal near near near to us so
there's much redshift but as you look further away
there's a red ship so these this spectrum the visible spectrum gets stretched into the infrared and
typically when we do imaging in our backyard and also because of the atmosphere we only have a big filter for
the infrared so all of this gets lumped into one luminance if you will for in the red
but if you look at the james webb telescope it has cameras with cool filters and if you go to the website let
me just show you where did it go actually i want to use this one yeah it's going to zip ahead
here so here's here is the uh and this is something again professor karim javar
uh showed two sessions ago but i just wanted to kind of bring it to light
again you'll notice the wavelength let's uh let's go actually
to this one here no no um yeah no this one okay
so on the left here you're in the visible spectrum but then you start to get to the uh to
the infrared and you see that they've actually subdivided these wavelengths into different chunks now i'm not going
to get into all the details but all the different cameras okay that are in that infrared
are actually split in the filters are split obviously very intelligently and were selected specifically and probably dis
argued about which filter to have but anyhow the point is that let's go back to the
the image what you're seeing and what the significance of james webb
uh is is you can look at galaxies that are being red-shifted
yeah you know deep into the red spectrum and you can you can actually put them in
true color as if they were false mice you because these are filters you can
actually create um a true color image that's why when
you're looking deeper into this image it's fascinating because you can start this
imagine what's happening is you're depending on your filter set and how you process this image you can actually
bring out true color deeper and deeper depending on which filter is your choose so if you they happen to choose a middle
ground and i don't know how far this galaxy is but it is pretty true color but it's
probably redshifted if you took this image with for example the hubble or some other telescope that doesn't have
the the division of filters that at the james webb it would just look like a red galaxy um and that's what
you're seeing here with these other ones because of the colors it was chosen so i just wanted to share that bit of insight
as i was digging into this and i i think it's really neat to appreciate
you know the thought and the engineering and what james webb is going to be darn he's going to be giving us we're going
to be able to look at red-shifted items objects
uh that are near the edge of the universe um a visible universe but we'll be able to see them in true color which
is which i think is really cool anyhow so that's the that's my thing on on on the james webb
and this image i just love exploring this i mean i can just you know we could
spend all day you know all night looking at this but i just love looking at that and what's really
there's one i just want to show you here these uh diffraction spikes are fascinating because there is even
galaxies if you look uh
see this galaxy it actually has diffraction spikes you know what i mean i mean that's how
awesome and faint the uh this the detectors are on uh james webb anyhow so that's that now
i'm gonna bring bring it back to earth again let's go back to um here so okay here we go
and i was zoomed back out so remember stephen's quintet is just close to seven three three one and it's you know you can see seven
three three four one with no with banana pocketers and it's just on the opposite side of the andromeda galaxy in pegasus
and so now um i'm gonna for my last segment one thing i have to
say is i have i'm over 50 years old i've never been in actually truly dark skies
but i came up to my parents place they recently moved to a remote part of
british columbia north of kamloops and a place called pinatan lake
and and it is so dark here and that you can see
the milky a milky way and i've never seen the milky way so deep i have a 60 millimeter
refractor that i took um you know just as a portable scope and i was able to
see the veil nebula that's what i'm telling you i mean it was that's how dark it was uh i i could see
the western and the eastern veil and uh and i've never been able to do that and it
was just incredible you could see the north american nebula right overhead uh straight overhead but the bonus of all
that was i just happened to be out and i looked up and then i was like what's this
what's this uh cloud you know what's this cloud over here that's going perpendicular to the to the
milky way and i was like that's rather interesting i'm gonna watch that for a bit i started going around and let me
show you this is different angles i started uh
it's gonna be a little bit animated and i kept going so a little bit rotate sorry for this
and then it started watching it watching and look at this you start seeing i saw the aurora that's
a curve i saw the aurora it's a curtain right overhead and you could see it
so this is i took basically i took a sequence of 15 second exposures and i was kind of going googly
eyed when i was just kind of rotating it around trying to get i would i just wanted to capture this and and share
this like i wasn't trying to make anything awesome i was just like i only had my phone at my hand and i was like what am i
going to do i'm going to put it in pro mode 15 seconds wide angle and let's see
what happens and and and here we go and then you keep on going let me just keep going then on the horizon look at this
i mean just it's not a curtain but you can start to see the colors
it was super glowing it was over the horizon but um sorry let's go if you zoom in i mean
pixel peeping here there is a pleiades not not high resolution or anything awesome but
it was just it was just incredible and um and see let's keep going and then you
start to see this type of thing some fragmentation overhead so i was there for like a good three hours just
mesmerized i've never seen the aurora and i've never seen the milky way as good as that so it was it was a real
treat so uh thank you actually i can't you know pictures just don't do
it justice i think you saw that stream and i'm thinking you might have
seen what's been called steve and it's that's an acronym for something
it is related to the aurora but it's in like it's what
you're showing in a picture it's just a straight line overhead um yes
so i think it was incredible you've actually seen something i haven't seen i've seen the aurora and taking
pictures i haven't seen that streamer going overhead so that's uh you got to see a lot of things
in one in one setting you got to have your mind just completely blown
all over that's that's a wonderful feeling oh yeah
that's cool it was a complete fluke i would you know
we have thunderstorms tonight uh and and uh like i was telling earlier
at the beginning of the show i i had a couple beers before that and i was about to go to bed and then i looked up i was
like no i'm not going to bed because first of all the milky way was just fantastic and then and then and then i
was looking at this aurora and initially by the way i thought it was like this is strange why is uh it looks like a comet
like a huge one and it's like there's no comet that big you know it really so i started going around like what is that
and it was like and then all of a sudden it started to shimmer and i was like it wasn't moving like a cloud and then i
started seeing these lines and uh and that was that was pretty cool and so um
so yeah so you know um kind of now going full circle and
i just want to say one philosophical uh thing that uh that's uh
you know when i think humanity's biggest challenge
is is basically ignorance um
and and i think it's uh you know the solution is this outreach
and and and sharing and and and and basically keeping an open mind and education education is the solution i
think to human humanity's future i mean if by being aware
and and being uh looking around taking it all and looking at nature
looking at the signs the dinosaurs they didn't know what hit them right but uh but we we we have the capability
and you know we should really be educating and opening so this this outreach is is absolutely uh
a wonderful thing i think it's uh important for our our future absolutely
absolutely thank you cameron thank you so much
thank you it was amazing cameron thanks
really good camera thank you so much thanks well excellent
that's wonderful uh i hope to see you on uh on our programs
a little more often but i understand uh you know uh all the demands that you have so
uh but it's great to see you tonight so thank you thanks for participating you haven't lost that
let me just say on that on that note scott i really appreciate it no thank you sir
and uh since cove the travel now is is uh my i was working doing a
lot of travel for work and now with the covert restrictions uh released
frankly uh that now i'm traveling a lot more uh for for work so uh that's been a
challenge but but absolutely i i'm there just know that i'm watching every single one i'm with you
guys we'll be back when i went when i worked on my retirement
so i'm not going away well we'll be we'll still be putting out programs thanks very much cameron take
care man okay so um uh up next is uh
uh marcelo souza uh in uh in brazil and uh he is uh he's the
editor of sky's up magazine he is um also someone that's uh deeply involved
in education in astronomy and physics and um we've all seen him do his amazing uh
uh astronomy drive-in programs and
the huge audiences that he attracts for all kinds of celestial phenomena
with the general public so it's great to have you on again marcelo thank you for coming on to global star party
thank you very much for the invitation it's a great pleasure to be here yeah now i have a
small telescope that i bought for my youngest daughter it's a barbie telescope
now i have a baby astronomer and i bought i bought
them now i have this small telescope and
i hope she will be motivated to look to the sky
and i'm sharing my screen i want to share some
data about what we are doing [Music]
this is the project that we are doing for the support of the united states consulate in hindi
and now we reached a mark that is fantastic these are the the newspaper
that he received from the consulate to give child students we are out distributed more than 600
meg journals like this newspaper that's the same like this about the apollo mission to
the students in the school how the students received the co-op
and it also they have a degreas to look to the discern donated by charlie bates
solar stone project and now we're reaching more than one thousand four hundred students
we visited 44 schools and here we are we believe that you have
two more months to develop the project we reach more than 50 schools in six different seats
talking about astronomy development of apps for androids
and they are also developing animator a cartoon animated i think that
is correct to what he needs for the this kind of and this is the mac the
new magazine sky's up that here in brazil we had an are participating
events two days ago and they showed during the event the magazine
because of the dark sky park here in brazil they're the first to learn latin america then while everybody here knows
about the magazine mainly in the people that like astronomy
and this is the the the articles
of this magazine and the everybody that wants to contribute to be
welcome articles will be welcome for the magazine here is the article from dr
david levy from scratch roberts about star parts
and this is the the article about the first black sky party that's dark sky park in latin america
that's located here in brazil near us here yeah i participated in the group
that produced the documents otherwise responsible to
help with the topics everything associated with astronomy this is the link to
read the magazine it's a free magazine and it is a fantastic magazine
this is the our characters of your
cartoon an animated cartoon i think that is correct the same englishman
and we have four characters and now we produced five episodes
of tv and the audi episode this week is being transmitted by tv
next week the fifth one that they they are they the local tv here in our region i
trust meeting live the the animated cartoons
i will show you the second one if you work let me see if you
i will show here [Music]
what's happening i'll try to to go to the presentation to open
wait a month well it's not working right
no it's not working i cannot move i don't know what's
happened okay aki you begin off i think that's your beginning
this is megan
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eclipses
we try to explain eclipse for kids and for the general pub
and the episode has approximately five minutes each one
and it's talk about the eclipse and try to explain how happy the eclipse is
and we're having actors here and [Music]
different kinds of eclipses
and then you have histories about the allegiance
about the moon is a
everything uh was made by the students that participate in the project
they this is the legends from the greek mythology
about selenium that you say in portuguese not
sorry i did something wrong
well this is i'm not
okay but this is the we have a one new one after this that's
about what the series is about today how to go to the moon
then we talk about everything about timu in 80 episodes and we finish
the last one that will be transmitted next week easy moments that we talk about how to
live on the move right how or how to build
your base on the moon and this is the the last episodes that you were
finishing and you already finished and will be transmitted next to it
and now what's he is a big success here is activities actually tourism he is in
portuguese how we're saying because i don't know if he's correct you will have the same words in english that
isotourism yes yes here we have in portuguese disorder duo here at the end
and the the motivation i participate two days ago in a forum about the tourism i was
invited to talk about astronomy in this forum but the the a happened in the city where is located
the headquarters park that is the first black sky park of
latin america this shows how it is important to have a dark sky park
it is a small seat and now this title that this city the
recognition to be as a dark sky part is motivating
tourists to visit the seats and now they are organ they are trying
to understand how they can organize the activities and
events to motivate more people to visit the city and the
the biggest motivation easy astronomy now then the
first time i think that here in brazil has had a forum of judicial and events of tourism
that see one of the topics wise astronomy i was participating was one of the
people that make made presentations during the phone these events
and here is the first activity that you organize that you call ecological isotourism
that see we are trying to associate the observation of the sky at night
with daily uh active during the day and here is a group
that works with fish fishing i think that is fish in english that is active
and they are also bird watch
the sun right and we are trying to organize the first time here in brazil an event
nowaday as that associated astronomy with the nature the observation of the
nature birds and they're also fishing and the if everything will
find or you do the first event in two weeks
there's a big first time here in brazil that have event like this and here is our
southern cross i took this picture with my smartphone from the seats at the beginning tonight
i took it with my smartphone then this is south and cross here
and they are also alpha and back of centaurus here
now we are working with the students to take pictures with the smartphone
to motivate them and i make many tasks to to know if you
we work well and it's working yeah and my smartphone is not so a
special smartphone but to have a camera of 64 megapixels you know
but it's true and now with the support and the help of the squad from expert scientific we're
organizing two events and you we are offering prizes to
the people that participate one of the events
sorry two contests that you organize two contests that you are giving prize for this
everybody that participates involving students any people from the seat the
six seats where you're organizing the project we are doing the project
and the the first one is we call
i don't know what corrector wrote in in english but celeste means from the sky
man elijah built from skies i'm thinking
like it is not wonderful for my marvelous from the sky something like
these encounters celestis and they will give prize for the three best well
as photographers and also we asked them totalizers to publishing
the magazine skies app and we are also
have students from different schools here uh writing articles for the magazine and
we will give prize for the three best articles about astronomy and space exploration
that the students produce then
i hope that you you have many entries for the contest this contest
and you are motivated everybody here to read try to read the magazine to understand
how he's organized the magazine and i believe that you have many
now many participations from students and people here that like astronomy
but this is you know this is what we are doing what we are doing now yeah i hope that's so in this
week we have a full moon today well we are organizing an activity of the
observation of you know every full moon that you caused in the water of the moon that's
important to have a uh uh how to say that something that people
like here that's in portuguese something that is new project next we have you know
thank you very much but thank you so much marcelo that's great for the opportunity very exciting programs you
have going on i i hope uh more people feel motivated to send the
articles for the magazine everybody will be welcome to should we meet an article to be
published in a magazine thank you very much okay it's a great pleasure to be here
all right well everyone uh we are uh this is uh the the the rest of us
that are still here at uh uh on global star party but we all want to thank you for watching
uh our program tonight um and um you know just like our uh
our you know my friend uh jack horkheimer always used to say as to keep looking up
i think that there was a lot of inspiration tonight i really enjoyed all the presentations but tonight we had
of course david levy terry mann from the astronomical league
was with us uh professor karim jaffer was with us talking about sharing the
universe young lucas uh varera how did i pronounce your last name lucas
is that about right you're muted you're muted lucas
in portuguese it said vieta vieira okay okay maybe maybe not quite exactly right
but thank you again that's wonderful um we have maxi folaris with us uh
dan higgins from master world tv talking about his uh upcoming programs uh bob fugate who's
with us right now uh showing some really just stunning amazing um
uh deep sky astrophotography and uh night landscapes which are just uh
the guy has a real talent you know so um i i i know that from my experiences
and uh you know when i was an aspiring uh black and white um
artist photographer you know studying under uh some masters so he's he's
actually quite excellent um
nico and the hammer is with us caesar brolo of course with us as well from his uh from his balcony in buenos
aires and um adrian bradley with his nightscapes uh
again some stunning stuff there uh cameron gillis uh uh you know dissecting uh stevens
quintet from j west uh with us and uh ending with uh marcelo souza uh
giving us all the highlights of what's going on in outreach in brazil and uh you know
talking about sky's up magazine so anyways we we hope to see you again
on the 102nd global star party i'll be announcing uh those dates here rather soon
so uh thanks again and like i always say keep looking up take
care good night scott good night everybody
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