Transcript:
6:00 p.m..Scott Roberts- Introduction
good to see you back on the global Star Party David I'm really glad you're back
6:02 p.m..David Levy – “Introduction and Poetry”
yeah me too
6:10 p.m..The Astronomical League with John Goss
I'm here everyone just getting set up hello Carlos
6:20 p.m..David Eicher - Dave’s Exotic Objects _ Abell Clusters
hey Carlos
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7:05 p.m..Maxi Falieres - “Astrophotography to the Max”
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7:35 p.m..Marcelo Souza - Astronomy Outreach in
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7:50 p.m..Cesar Brollo - “Astronomy from Buenos Aires”
we're all being so well behaved the moment well we're being really quiet
8:05 p.m..Douglas Arion - “Galileoscope”
we're not actually that well behaved that's better
inside it's busy busy busy
hello maxi
hey David how are you hey how you doing man how are you Maxie
I'm good I'm good a coming back from holidays about vacations
8:40 p.m..Jon Schwartz - “Illustrating the Universe”
last weekend so now it's starting to work again
they start the the year again so but
anyway during astronomy and astrophotography like I always
8:55 p.m..Adrian Bradley - "Chasing Dark Skies"
yep I went in my vacations with my small
gear and I met with a friend that he
also do astrophotography in near the beach you know and it was a
really good view because we don't have any wind and an almost at midnight uh in the
Horizon of the East starting to go up there let's rise the Moon now it was
amazing and see some big ships that they're going to the port
then and it was a really view really good view so I enjoyed a lot
so hey Molly how are you yeah
how are you guys doing yeah there's this David I wanted to tell you about this new contributing Editor
to astronomy magazine astronomy magazine I thought you might even let me introduce the new contributing editor
tonight's guy I don't want to send anything I I'm not saying who it is okay I'm not saying who
it is we're very pleased to have Molly on the team yeah I was glad to hear it and I
thought that was fun to to read about that right and we get some people tuned in right
now book Davies is tuning in from YouTube mostly everybody from YouTube uh book
Davies Dusty Haskins uh you know these two guys have been watching Global star parties since we
started it and Mike Wiesner another one uh dust he says I keep telling my
brother to stop and see you guys and get me a shirt because he goes over to Bentonville three times a week to ride
bike Dusty you got my phone number and you got my email you went up shirt
contact me we'll we'll work something out Josh Kovac howdy from rainy Michigan
um uh Jim Mosley is watching hello from Rio Rancho New Mexico
well we got a great program you guys so let's go ahead and get started
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how can astronomers determine distances in the far reaches of the universe a small Galaxy close in looks similar to
a large Galaxy farther out this is a real challenge that researchers have found several solutions
for one method uses something called a standard candle a standard candle is a
type of object or event that emits a specific known amount of light allowing
scientists to find its distance with a straightforward formula this works because light sources
appeared predictably dimmer the farther they are from an observer since astronomers know how much light a
standard candle gives off they can determine its distance by measuring how dim it appears from Earth
since only very bright objects or events are visible in the far reaches of the universe the options for standard
candles are limited some of the best and most reliable are exploding Stars called
supernovae there are a few different kinds of supernovae but the best for standard candles are type 1A these
supernovae involve a white dwarf the leftover core of a dead star and one other star in a binary system
some of the time it may be a white dwarf and a larger host star scientists think
the white dwarf steadily accumulates material shed by the host star gaining mass in the process when it reaches a
specific Tipping Point the white dwarf has gained enough Mass to trigger a runaway reaction at its core and it
explodes spectacularly sending out an expanding sphere of super hot material that glows from the energy of the
explosion in other cases scientists think two
white dwarf stars may form the binary either the Stars finally merging together triggers the Supernova or it
happens as they spiral in closer and closer while the more massive of the two pulls Material off its companion in the
final few minutes before they merge it reaches the same
mass Tipping Point and goes Supernova always releasing a similar amount of energy
foreign because white dwarf explosions are all so similar the energy and light output
of type 1A supernovae are easy to standardize type 1A supernovae are rare in any one
Galaxy occurring only once every 500 years or so in the Milky Way but because
there are so many galaxies astronomers using current telescopes observe type 1A
supernovae about a hundred times a year by comparing the observed brightness with the intrinsic brightness
astronomers can determine their distances within six percent
the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope set to launch in the mid-2020s will
observe large patches of Sky repeatedly increasing the opportunities to spot
these supernovae scientists predict Roman will see as many supernovae in one month as they
found in the last 20 years finding more of them will help astronomers refine the accuracy of this
method contribute to an improved three-dimensional map of the universe and better understand how the universe
has expanded and evolved throughout Cosmic history
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hey everybody it's Scott Roberts from explore scientific and the explore Alliance and you are watching the 111th
Global star party uh with our theme of candles in the dark
um I am really pleased to have our line up as I always am I I genuinely get real
excited about the presentations and the people that come on global star party uh
as well as the audience and uh you know it gets uh it gets me charged up during
the day and um so uh really really pleased to have everybody here
uh we are going to start as we have traditionally with uh my good friend
David Levy who uh presents his thoughts on our Global star party and uh and
gives us a nice poem so David thanks for coming on to the 111th program thank you
Scott and well I'd like to add my welcome and I I'm sure this is going to be a wonderful start party especially
with Molly here and David and John and Maxie and Carlos it's going to be a good
start party we're going to have absolutely thank you anyway I was um
thinking of candle in the dark and actually reminded me of Elton John's famous song candle and the wind I think
it is of that he wrote for Diana's Princess Diana's funeral
and um reminds me of a story that Wendy and I
were at my mother's unveiling of her tombstone which is something that we do
in the Jewish religion but 11 months after the funeral
and we went out there and of course Wendy who doesn't miss a thing started to wander around a little bit and then
she stopped at one of the gravestones and she said David you got to get over here immediately
that particular gravestone couldn't have been more than 25 feet away from where
mumstone was and I got there and the name on The Stone was Leonard Cohen
and wow I like to imagine that Leonard Cohen and my mom have become very good
friends up there in heaven where they are now welcoming Wendy and I hope that
she will join them as a friend anyway um candle in the dark
so tonight I am going to um go back to someone who is very very good
with candles Leonard Cohen himself and I'm going to do some Cosmic variations on the theme by
Leonard Cohen it's time to go Outdoors tonight the sky
is dark some stars are bright the Milky Way shines overhead now see uh what comet
rises in the East within to Strife it brings us peace and calls us to a cosmic
hallelujah hallelujah
thank you and back to you thank you so much David
I love it when you sing dude thank you well okay so
um only on global only on global Star Party it's awesome uh we have
um coming up next as uh again as tradition has been when Global star
parties is to talk a little bit about the astronomical league and bring on one
of the executive officers uh that comes up with questions uh to challenge our
audience um but the astronomical league is still
a quickly growing organization right now maybe the largest uh
membership-based uh group of amateur astronomers with over 20 000 members I
think they're maybe up to 24 000 at this time uh so there's a lot of
excitement going on and why is that because well we've had uh the pandemic
itself uh force people to go out in their backyards and look up but we've had some amazing things going
on with uh privatized space flight um you know there's a great comet in the
sky right now with Comet E3 uh we've got a couple of eclipses coming up so it's
just many different aspects of why it's a good time to get involved in the amateur astronomy but there's probably
no better group to join than the astronomical league with their over 80
observing programs there are dozens of uh of award programs that they have and
the world famous Alpine event uh which um I think that David Levy will be going
to uh this year I should be there as well so it'll be at Baton Rouge Louisiana uh but uh anyhow uh let's
bring on John Goss from the astronomical League
if I can yes it would help if I unmuted myself I realized
thank you for the introduction Scott um yeah I I I love listening to to these
talks uh David is always interesting he's always says something that um relates to me you know he talks about
Leonard Leonard Cohen and he starts singing Hallelujah you know all that stuff is is excellent excellent stuff
and uh thank you for doing that but let me jump into what I have prepared
okie dokie
there we go um I'll call in 2023 yes as Scott was
saying it's coming up in Louisiana it's almost six months away still the organizers are still assembling uh more
and more speakers all the time as um as Scott mentioned uh David eicher is
going to be there great hi Dave thank you so much for um Meandering down the Mississippi uh from Wisconsin area for
Espionage uh David Olivia I'll be great that would be great we have some other people who you may not know of or know
much about uh Primavera High cine is from Europe I can't remember which country
but she is pardon me she's from Kosovo oh god oh
that's right that's right Costco and she's she's been to a number of these but her expertise is traveling around
engaging people in amateur astronomy especially young young people and we have another another a number of other
people which we're going to have um speaking at Alcon as I said all that is still being a simple uh
I hear about something weekly about this stuff if you want to know more about Octon
alcon2023.org is where you want to go before we jump into my questions I'd
like to bring up something which I it's kind of kind of come come back to us during the questions uh the league is
producing has produced monthly storm maps for the beginners and we have it uh
well in English as well as Spanish so you see the Spanish one right there and these are available on our Facebook page
when our website gets fully functioning they will be all um stored there as well
um so we have these coming out every month in fact the the February bash will be out in next next week
so we try to keep up with that this is all all for beginner stuff really and how to find your way around the nice guy
find it very useful we also have another batch of these things which
um shows beginners newcomers uh just some things about amateur astronomy things about the nice guy things about
the hobby this was is on magnification and field of view Spanish and we do have them in English
too but uh again these are on our Facebook page but uh periodically they get posted but it's for uh has said for
newcomers to a hobby um here's another one Saturn uh a two-pager for that
um interesting uh facets on how to observe Saturn what the beginner is going to see and what the beginner may
not see so this is all directed toward really a certain set of people we're
just starting something else now and that's on double Stars easy double Stars well I'll say easy double stars to find
but you know Cass is just the star Caster it's one of the brightest stars in the sky and it's fairly easy to find
this time of year so this is a great chance to start your double star observing pie uh investigating what
Caster has to offer a small telescope can see this so this is something that that we're doing on our Facebook page
and we will also um introduce it to our website excuse me at a later point
and as I said a lot of these are in Spanish and English let's move on to our questions
um you know we always like to caution people when they observe the Sun for obvious reasons that the sun is 400
000 times brighter than the full moon so it doesn't take much time of looking at the sun before you do get permanent eye
damage so you got to make sure you have the correct solar filter placed on the front part of your telescope uh and not
have the telescope pointed in any weird directions to make sure that kids know what the deal is and no one messes
around with it with the filter but if it's done properly it's very rewarding object to study in fact I was looking at
the sun yesterday and right now as we speak the sun is pretty active and you
can see a lot of really good stuff on it uh when it excuse me when it rises tomorrow enough of that
okay let's go on for the answers from last week's questions number one uh
Halley's Comet excuse me one moment Halley's comment was famously captured in the 230 foot
long cloth artwork produced shortly after the Battle of Hastings in what city can you go to see it well as the
Bayo tapestry and I tell you I'm not going to pronounce that French law Tapas series
enough of that that's the answer for that one excuse me all my French friends
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okay what I'm going to do is stop sharing and then
yep when in doubt stop sharing well that was that was advancing like crazy
okay number two what person who did not but you're not sharing right now oh I'm
not sharing not sharing oh I I you have to go back to the chair one more time I'm in big problem big big trouble here
yeah I know I know
it's always I'm on the wrong screen sorry it's all right well here we go it's important to yeah
time is important here so I want to put things going okay question number two
question number two what person who did not own a telescope co-discovered this comment while observing M70 through
reference telescope in 1995. now how lucky is that and how frustrating for the friend I
mean geez who gets top billing now all right uh Thomas Bop and that was a great
comment I think uh well it's certainly was the best comment I've ever seen and
at least this in in my life very very good number three
comment c24 2014 you win 271 is famous for what commentary record it's the
largest nucleus uh which is about 85 miles in diameter and I think most of these comments with their nucleus is 10
15 something like that so this was a real giant among among colonists so
those three questions um they were answered correctly by uh several people and their
names will be added to our door price list for January which will be taken care of in the next couple weeks uh
Andrew corefield Josh kobach uh Yolanda come bring Jim Mosley John Williams and
Cameron Gillis thank you for for participating in that on congratulations now we're going to go on to this week's
questions if you know the answers please send them to Secretariat astrowleague.org that
goes to Terry Mann who's our secretary and she'll handle all that so if you know the answers jot them down and email
them to her first question
okay here we are we got a little Spanish chart there but I think you can figure with with this stuff out where this stuff is
questions yeah I I know I have people out there
looking over my shoulder so to speak thank you uh the stun is bright it shines this with a magnitude of about
minus 26.7 is viewed from Earth what is this magnitude as seen from the
orbit of Neptune further away a about minus 12 or minus 13 or about as
bright as the full moon B about minus 19 which is about halfway
between the magnitude value of the full moon and the sun or C minus 26.7 the same value is viewed
from Earth question number two this is another uh
topic which we would like to talk about double stars and we have a little uh primary guide on that
what percentage of stars are members of a binary or multiple system a
surely less than 10 percent B nearly a hundred percent maybe not
everybody but almost everybody C it may be as high as 85 percent or it may be
less than 50 percent no one will say for sure you know the answer send it to uh
secretary at astrowleague.org one more question
we hear about Super Moon quite a bit and I have my own feelings about Super Moon and kind of amusing sometimes
question number three a super Moon occurs when a full moon is near parenchy
when the full Moon occurs near apogee such as the one coming up on February 5th what is it called a
no official definition exists B Mini Moon and Mini Moon C sub Moon
you know the answer to that jot it down and send it to a secretary at astrolog.org those are the three
questions I'd like to end this presentation with one more thing just want to remind everyone that
astronomical League live will be on Friday night January 27th Chuck Allen
who's the vice president of the astronaut astronomical League we'll be speaking on this program we have a
number of people present things about the night sky uh not everything related to the astronomic
league a lot every but everything is related to amateur astronomy so please join us for that uh on this on this
station uh you'll be hearing more about it when when the time approaches so thank you thank you
um that's it I appreciate you listening to all this and
um you might want to check out our Facebook page for some of these guides in Spanish that we have popping up now
and then as well as English thank you Scott excellent John thank you
so much for sure for uh presenting those questions uh you know we're going to have to have you on also to talk I mean
you do great talks about uh the solar system and uh uh space in general and uh
so we're gonna have to take advantage of that because well that's why as long as my screen screen share works here that's
all right that's right thank you no you've done it a million times you just uh it was just kind of a
glitch but that's no big deal um uh but uh uh next I want to talk a
little bit about um uh the contributions of uh David eicher uh he's coming up next uh and
he's going to talk about you know Dave's exotic Universe uh and talk about some Abel galaxies but this is a guy who is
constantly uh working on new not only written material but the guy does
back-to-back lectures he doesn't he's not only on global Star Party often but
he contributes to astronomy clubs he is now uh a major force in the starmus
event which is one of the most amazing uh you know astronomy events in the world
the one that we did in uh Armenia had tens of thousands of people attend it it
was just stunning unbelievable you know and just this this uh uh you know when you mash
it all together of all the things that uh David eicher does uh he's fitting in
I think many lifetimes I don't know what what kind of vitamins he's on or or what
he how he does this every day but uh he is an amazing individual I also want to
say that uh it's not lost on me that astronomy.com and astronomy magazine
have done a lot to uh participate in the programs that we do and I'm very very
grateful so I'm going to turn it over to David eicher David thank you so much for
coming on to the 111th Global Star Party thank you so much Scott it's a pleasure
to be here as always and I couldn't be here last week I was actually giving a talk on the Civil War of all things
after quite a long time no I forgot about that
there's this whole Civil War life that that uh David has so back to the present
here at least and and I'll share my screen if I can uh for the moment here
and I'll see if you can see a PowerPoint uh and see if I can start
a PowerPoint slideshow and can you see an illustration of cygnus X1 I think
we're in business if you can yes and I have a positive report Scott for
you tonight because I'm going to be talking about object number five out of the list of 424 that I okay we're making
progress we're moving on that's right so I wanted to talk uh this uh week if I
could briefly about an interesting object that typifies lots of objects
that we normally don't think about much that are spread across the sky these are a bell Galaxy clusters and
this is a bell 2256 which is up near the northern North Celestial pole in 1958
the great extra Galactic astronomer George a bell he was at UCLA he's one of those guys in that era I never had the
chance to meet unfortunately but I think some of you probably did and he was an amazing
guy who worked on all sorts of uh objects in the Milky Way and and distant
galaxies as well so he produced this famous catalog of Galaxy clusters uh and it was extended
then much later on after the 1950s and eventually uh numbered more than 4 000
Galaxy clusters and you don't think of you think of Galaxy clusters they're really bright ones you know around the
sky but there are an enormous number of Galaxy clusters that are very distant
most of them of course that are spread around the sky and therefore they're very small in terms of angular size but
it's a big universe with lots of clusters of galaxies and they're interesting things to look at and to
photograph some of them are so faint that they're sort of beyond the reach of visual observation but they're good for
Astro imagers we have these very high-tech Astro imagers who are now going after really faint things and this
is one of them it contains more than 500 galaxies within the cluster and it's
about 800 million light years away um it's about 10 million light years
across which is about the same physical diameter as our local Group which has uh
55 and maybe as many as a hundred galaxies so you can see that this is a
much richer five to ten times richer environment of galaxies than what we're
used to around us so these are interesting objects to look at and to photograph because many of them are very
faint the brightest Galaxy in this one is NGC 6331 and it's a 15th magnitude
object and ugc 10726 is the second brightest member
which is uh just a little bit fainter it's about 140 arc minutes across but
most of the galaxies of course are in a much smaller size on the sky than that in this Central core David are you
intending to show an image of this yes okay after I stop blabbing on and
horrifying you with all of these data forgive me I didn't mean to interrupt
you so no no no no no no no no no no no no no no God you're always looking out for my best interests bless you okay
I'm you know you know me it's hope I do but uh anyway this cluster has been
studied by Chandra and in the X-ray portion of the spectrum and it's
interesting because they're really main uh three three sub clusters within the this group
um that are remnants of a merger thought to be remnants of a very old merger and
a bullet-like system of of in-falling gas within the cluster as well and then
we get to well we didn't you know boy I thought we're gonna get to an image of the club again I disappoint Scott here
it's a Starman we're not even to the image yet but but this is I love star
Maps I do that you know we might get at this rate you might let me get to object seven out
of 424 and then pull a plug on the whole damn thing but but uh let me just say
quickly while we're here that no no kidding Ron stoyan a few years ago published this phenomenal star Atlas if
you don't have a copy of this there are more detailed star atlases that are really large and unwieldy you know to
deal with but Ron stoyan's uh star Atlas the interstellarum Deep Sky Atlas is a
phenomenal uh compact star Alice no bigger than a laptop computer and it has
a mind-numbing uh number of deep Sky objects plotted on it so it's an you
know I'm not affiliated with ronstorian in any way trust me he's in Germany but
but this is an incredible star Alice and you can see the cluster there left of center and there's a brighter NGC Galaxy
there 6217 in the region and so on this is in USA minor and and I'm eventually
over many years if you'll put up with me going to work my way Southward Scott but
we're still in near the north Celestial pole here so here we go here finally oh
there it is uh in Austria who's a great deep Sky imager
um has produced this image of the cluster and you can see there are a couple of what uh extra Galactic
astronomers call CD galaxies that are that are very large centrally dominant
elliptical galaxies as is typical in a lot of Rich clusters near the center of
this group and a lot of bright Milky Way foreground stars but this is the the best amateur image that I've found of of
this cluster that's a beautiful image here and I will just go on then to illustrate
briefly um how many galaxies are in this cluster this is a Dutch Astro imager meno Jansen
has produced this image and labeled you think that some of us waste our time
thinking about galaxies all the time here he's labeled all the cluster members that are in this field and you
can see how many galaxies are in this uh um field of about 140 arc minutes so
um you know everybody needs a hobby and uh bless him for for doing this you know
because this is an incredible piece of work and yeah that's awesome it is many many you know all the morphological
types are here too you know ellipticals and Spirals and and everything you know lenticulars barred spirals the whole
nine yards so that's kind of the object you know which is a little bit more unless you have a really large you know
dab or something this is a little bit more for Astro imagers this as a challenge object but of course a good
you know 16 or 20 or 25 inch scope in a in a dark sky would show this the
brighter uh members of this cluster very nicely so
anyway just a quick reminder that this is the 50th anniversary year of
astronomy magazine we we commenced the year with a special on comets which are
esteemed colleague David Levy wrote the introduction for and I will stop sharing
my screen now and say that we have a really big special issue that when I was
not fooling around giving talks I pulled the lineup together or it's going to be the August issue
this year which is the 50th Anniversary issue of the magazine and we will have a
very nice introduction to that whole issue first of all from Dave Walther who was the publisher of the magazine
originally and the older brother of Steve Walter who founded the magazine and tragically very early on died of a
brain tumor um but there's an introduction by Dave Walter who is still around written long
retired and will have an introduction by Annie dream as well the executive
producer of Cosmos and of course the Widow of Carl Sagan who's a friend as
well so that's going to be really special we have an issue Scott I will tell you
that this is the first copy that is out none of you have seen yet that is the
March issue that has what does it have among other things not only the eclipses
you know late this year and especially next year but Scott you were there starmus rocks are nice Armenian they did
it really my story is coming out and then and yet another highlight is that
there's this fellow who's been writing for us in one way or another Glenn Chapel
who started writing for me when I was 17 years old and I was doing this little publication deep Sky monthly he began
writing a column that's the column for beginners in astronomy magazine many many years ago and he's now finally
hanging it up and we have a distinguished new columnist taking over that beginner's column whose name is
Molly Wakeling who you may just see speak next so Molly welcome to the
astronomy magazine team and Molly has many many great ideas of things that
she's going to write about in the coming months and the First Column of Molly's is going to be in that special August
issue wow so it all comes together I'm get I'm going to request a signed
issue so I want a couple of that
I'm uh yeah absolutely blown away and got some really big shoes to fill so you're gonna be great we're looking
forward to it it's gonna be fantastic Marlene I think you'll have a lot of a lot of fun with it of course too
yeah absolutely absolutely so welcome to the team and thank you Molly thank you Scott thanks
David thanks everyone and it's a pleasure to be back with you after talking about Gettysburg last week uh
it's nice it's nice to have you on and it's great to have you introduce Molly as the uh as one of the new editors of
astronomy magazine so that's great that's great thank you well Molly you've
got the uh you've got the stage uh now you're not new to Global Star Party
um but um I'm I'm sensing that this is a new era
for you so yeah congratulations thank you
thank you well I I'm still going to give my regular segment of this John O'Malley's Universe on here uh because I
love getting on and and talking about uh all of um all these different incredible
objects in space that you guys should definitely go look at and take pictures of and just like know exist out there uh
so uh tonight I'm talking about Messier 63 the sunflower Galaxy
um I'm going to share my screen here uh yeah
yeah today is the 17th is okay the sunflower Galaxy I've finished it a
couple of times and uh it's it's a really cool and interesting looking Galaxy and I'll get into why here
shortly so um it is what is called a flocculent spiral galaxy and uh flocculent as a
word is just kind of a joy to say and um uh yeah it's a fun word used to
describe these kind of really dusty galaxies it actually it has only two actual arms even though it looks like it
has over a dozen arms but one of the divining characteristics of focus in the
galaxies is the fact that their arms are very disordered and chaotic so um and the the two arms are a lot
easier to see in the infrared image apparently um but uh yeah it looks like a whole lot
more arms than that when you look at it it's in Kenneth spinachi which is the um uh hunting dogs constellation up more
toward the north that also has a whole bunch of galaxies in it but this one is a lot easier to spot than a lot of them
all right so where to find it so if you are familiar with where M51 Whirlpool Galaxy and M101 are located sort of near
the end of the handle of the Big Dipper the sunflower Galaxy is not too far away
from it um between the star at the end of The Big Dipper of the big Dippers handle
alcade and another prominence to our coal quarterly and uh it's a little closer to corcoroli
but kind of in line with alcade there so uh yeah up in the north off the handle
the Big Dipper a little ways all right so some fast facts it's magnitude 9.3 so not not too bad for a
Galaxy 15 to 34 million light years away the estimate varies depending on how the
Galaxy is measured based on if they're looking at Supernova Spectra or
um uh like a Doppler shift and stuff like that uh has yielded some various measurements
on how distant it is it's it's in the M51 cluster of of galaxies in that in
that 951 group uh with the whirlpool Galaxy group it has about 400 billion
stars and is 12 and a half by seven arc minutes in size so not terribly tiny in
fact actually image is pretty decently even in a 500 millimeter refractor
and it was discovered by uh Pierre machine who uh added several items to
Charles messier's catalog and this one was done in 1779.
um so flocculents what is a flocculent
Galaxy so the name means uh flaky or fluffy think of flock of wolves kind of
the the origin of this word it has a patchy discontinuous spiral
arms and actually some 30 spiral galaxies are considered to be flocculent and ten
percent are of uh compared to ten percent of grand designs spiral galaxies such as the whirlpool Galaxy so it's
actually a more common type than the type that the whirlpool Galaxy is
uh the structure is probably the results all the the um the dust and the kind of
multiple looking arms is probably the result of a process called stochastic self-propagating star formation or
sspfs as it's called and um what that is is the uh so star
formation propagates okay like moves forward moves outward kind of moves along by shock waves that are produced
by the Stellar winds and supernovae from existing and older stars moving through
the interstellar medium so the shockwise kind of shake up the dust and start the kind of Kickstart the star formation
process and the word stochastic is just a word that means a random process like um
radioactive decays is stochastic process and the the GIF that's showing here is
um it starts with just a couple this is a simulation it starts with a couple of
cells that have uh new stars forming in them and then uh randomly
thus the adjacent cells can form new stars and then this quickly propagates
out to more and more stars forming and then I added a a rotation term and you
can kind of see how the apparent mini armed although not actually many armed
structure comes into play and the dark spots here are active areas of star formation and the lighter spots are
where stars are formed recently or areas that are in regenerations kind of Post Star formation
so there's your science for the day awesome so uh in I like to show what these
things look like in other wavelengths because uh you can sometimes learn different things about what's going on
in in all kinds of objects in Space by looking at them in different wavelengths of white so here we actually have two
different radio images one of them is the national uh radio the
the green Bank radio telescope whatever the the NRA s stands for it's the green Bank radio telescope and the very large
array Sky survey at 1.4 gigahertz and the ordinarily radio images are are
relatively low resolution because of the long wavelength but actually
um I found this image from the low far two meter Sky survey that's only at 144
megahertz it's remarkably high resolution and actually went and looked up the paper for it because I wanted to make sure that this was actually the
image that that came out of that survey at this wavelength and if apparently it is so it's just a really they did a
really high resolution survey at one point of a small patch of sky that
picked up the sunflower Galaxy so it's kind of a radio picture of it where uh
the gal the core of the Galaxy is quite bright and there's a couple of other bright spots that are probably areas of
active star formation with lots of hydrogen glowing um in uh infrared there's these are two
different representations of the same data from the Spitzer telescope um go on the left I don't know what what
wavelengths they chose to make that image from you can see a lot of the um like that's infrared cuts through the
dust so here you're really seeing the stars and the gas clouds and and really
cut through the dust and the picture on the right is is a color image of a composite infrared data at three
different wavelengths to kind of put it into a color palette where it actually specified that red is eight Micron light
green is four and a half Micron and blue is 3.6 Micron um which like uh blue light or sorry um
red light is like a 750 nanometers AKA 0.75 microns so uh that gives you some
scale of um kind of how far we're moving into the infrared here and actually eight Micron is not very far into the infrared it's
still I think considered relatively near infrared um but uh yeah anyways
uh here's an UltraViolet image of it where uh you can see even different
kinds of details and some really bright ultraviolet glowing spots which is where
um new stars are being formed because the hot young Stars tend to put out a lot of ultraviolet light
and then on the right is the X-ray image of it from X-Men Newton and these also tend to be relatively low resolution
um just because of the instrumentation involved in needing to create an x-ray telescope when you can't use like a like
a mirror actually to bounce the x-rays around so um you end up with these kind of lower
resolution images than you might expect but for anybody who speaks x-ray that's the color palette listed down below the
energy the X-ray energy that was assigned to each of those color channels and I'm not sure if these if these
spikes here are like diffraction spikes for x-rays or if there's some kind of
jets coming out of it I didn't see much about some x-ray Jets coming out of it
but um it does have a special type of nuclear a galactic nucleus called a liner nucleus that might I didn't go
read that deep into it maybe if it's not X-rays I don't know all right so if you want to go observe m63 in
Optical light uh the best time to do it is between February and July really
about the April time frame which is right in the heart of Galaxy season and
it's a Galaxy season Galaxy It's relatively bright you can't actually see it with binoculars as a
fuzzy patch at six inches you'll get a little more of its oblong shape and at 10 to 12
inches of aperture and some patience you can start to pick out some of the structure photographically it's bright enough to
do from the city uh if you're using light pollution filters although you will need a lot of subframes to beat
down the noise uh the image in the background here is is one of mine um and it's it's noisier than it looks in in
this uh uh on as the sideshow background it's kind of hard to beat that noise down and smaller fields of view are
better to pick up more of the details so like mccaster greens are great to to image this galaxy you can actually get
pretty nice detail even with like a 500 millimeter refractor which is what I'd used to take this image was my Takahashi
refractor so you can still see quite a lot uh even that that shorter focal length so you can really image it with
whatever telescope you have to be honest and that's what I got that is awesome
thank you thank you Molly um I wanted to
um uh I was I was sharing kind of via chat some of our the last numbers that
we did for the we had our 110th Global star party and
um you know normally uh it's not unusual for us to get a few thousand people to tune in uh but we broke a record uh for
the 110th Global star party we had um a look at the numbers right now we got we
had 36 000 people uh watch the uh uh the
uh Facebook broadcast or not the broadcast but the replay that you guys
uh uh it's it's great if you can watch us live but we understand that everybody
has busy lives but it was great to see you know that number uh tune in so we
had a lot of Engagement we had a couple over 2 000 people engaged with the program uh and uh the reach was just
slightly more than the viewership so um again we want to thank everyone for supporting us with uh that kind of uh
you know participation and viewership and all the rest of it um and hopefully it just gets better and
better so thanks a lot um our next uh speaker uh is I I should
just have this memorized but I don't um our next speaker
um is sorry hang in there with me
Carlos Aragon Carlos I met Carlos uh as
he was kind of watching our programs uh maybe about two years ago and then I
invited Carlos to come onto the program Carlos is probably one of the most
inspiring amateur astronomers that gets engaged in astronomy Outreach and I'm going to let you I'm going to let him
tell his story but uh this is a guide that is really making a difference in
people's lives um and uh you know it's a it's a story of Triumph uh and uh you know he just
certainly deserves some sort of an Oscar or an award for what he's doing because
he's making a big difference uh Carlos do you want to come on to um
to our program here absolutely I'm here great great so
um uh just to kind of give you a little bit of a background on Carlos uh two
years ago I had learned that Carlos had uh Troubles of his own uh he had if I
remember it correctly Carlos you were um uh you were hurt during uh your your work
as a aircraft mechanic as I recall and you had maybe your shoulder was crushed
or something like that anyways um and you you know sadly I had to recover with
painkillers and all the rest of it but uh uh you know I'm gonna I'm gonna stop there and I'm gonna let you tell the
story okay because it is an amazing story and you guys need to hear it from the person that experienced it so thanks
again for coming on to Global Star Party Carlos it's an honor to be here Scott um thanks everyone who's joined the
stream and watching uh from around the world uh it's incredible that we get to do
this um and no it doesn't matter if I'm at home comfy in my garage I still get nervous it doesn't yeah so all right
bear with me um so welcome I am the CEO of an
organization in Tucson Arizona called Reach for the Stars
um we are a new organization we are three years old and the way it came about was kind of interesting
um and I'll share a little bit about that but uh our mission is to
one second our mission is to
use astronomy and charity work to uplift Empower and positively impact so health
issues in youth teens and adults
so um by the way I'm going to go through just a couple slides but just so you
have an idea all the none of these are stock because they are all from us my
team um so yeah cool
am I still here you are still there you just dropped out for just a second
okay maybe I shouldn't share my screen okay so
um I joined the military when I was 18. I I was in for
um almost seven years and I had my entire life ahead of me I was dedicated
to the military I was so excited uh you know I I did my best in everything that
I could and I learned my job very well but um one day after after five and a half
years I was inside of a C-130 aircraft and I
um I was crushed I was crushed in my right shoulder I severed a few nerves including the long
thoracic which controls all the strength in your shoulders especially overhead strength and as a as a mechanic you know half the
work you do is over your head so that was devastating I was immediately put on painkillers and and
they didn't really describe anything to me I was young um and soon became dependent you know if
you take if you take them especially at the level that I was for any amount of time over a month your brain starts to
change it gets dependent so I I became dependent very quickly
um and they immediately they immediately medically retired me from the Air Force
so I lost my entire career um in an afternoon and
I was forced to move off the base uh relatively quickly
and my wife at the time she was struggling to find work
um and long story short I ended up becoming homeless divorced addicted
for a little over a year I was on the streets of Tucson living in
at first it was from a few friends houses but then it ended up being a bush actually next to a Safeway
and I made a little cave out of this big old Bush and it was
you know you try to hide from everyone it was it's very scary especially at night
and so that went on it was very difficult but I make a disability so my
40 disability paycheck was enough to to keep me alive and keep me fed
um one day someone basically looked at me and said you're
dying and I realized that I was I could feel my body withering and they took me to the VA rehab
I joined and decided to change my life well after about six months I graduated
and even though I had I was clean off narcotics I
had a fresh start I couldn't find work I didn't know who I was anymore
I don't I didn't remember myself from five years ago um you know I grew up as a you know happy
kid with aspirate like big dreams but uh
that all that all left so I became really depressed
and one day here in Tucson we went to Walmart and got a 40 telescope
now I'm not advocating for Walmart telescopes
but that little telescope changed my life drastically and that
night I set it up in the backyard I pointed it at the brightest thing in November or something and it happened to be Jupiter
now the moons were visible of course I could see Cloud bands and every few seconds or so I could see a little mushy
spot on the surface and I realized it was Jupiter and it just blew my mind I
could not understand how a little plastic tube with a couple lenses could transfer me from one place on Earth to a
bird's eye view of a planet or something so for the next three hours I began hunting I started hunting and looking
everywhere and getting just completely dove into this and I wanted to learn
more and I went inside after a few hours and my wife she said whatever you're doing you need to doing
that that that's helping so keep doing that so I did some research I got a x uh I
got a eight inch uh telescope the dobsonian and
um I I just I realized that when I was looking through the eyepiece I didn't
feel any type of stress anxiety any type of pgsd symptoms I was I was there
traveling space and I I wondered if anyone else
could get the same type of feeling out of it could get the same type of help or coping mechanism
David Levy's face in his hands right um so
yeah it's a huge huge thing and and so we just brought the telescope to the
Safeway um to the Safeway and uh see to see if
anyone else would want to come and it was a huge hit um at the time I couldn't I didn't know
there was an astronomy club out here we're actually closer to Vail just outside town
and um and so we just started a little Facebook group and it blew up and
and for a little while we were we were volunteering at a veterans non-profit
helping the homeless and that fell through [Music] um and so we were at home just thinking you
know we don't need to be at a non-profit to be doing something for people we can still do stuff at home but why don't we
combine the charity work that we're doing the homeless backpacks the food program with this astronomy stuff that
we're doing and mesh it all into one charity work is good for the so it's uplifting
um there's so many positive things about it and then it's the same thing with astronomy it it turns out that
astronomy's proven to help with Stress and Anxiety what the heck why aren't
people talking about this so we we created reach for the stars and the name
describes itself but it it is a non-profit that combines the two charity
work in astronomy into one focusing on kids at first because
think about it kids are easier to Mentor when they're young and adults were not so easy to get you
know to change unless you're in a very vulnerable state like I was when I was very depressed after even after being in
rehab but the main thing we focus on kids is is
there there's a Arizona has 17 percent higher than the
national average for youth uh stress anxiety and suicide
um and that's very that hurts so
the fact that astronomy can can be so influential and change a lot of things
we we've wanted to focus in on Youth and so that's our main program is youth we
also have a monthly Star Party um on the outside of town uh it's always
everything we do is free and uh it's it's just an amazing organization and
could you believe it we're 30 years old today not today a month ago but we we
one we got in the top I don't know how to say it we were awarded a favorite the top three
non-profits and Air in Tucson which there's a few thousand of them wow we
were awarded the the best non-profit in Tucson between the Humane Society
and Pima Animal Care Center wow puppies I don't know how we're competing it's
hard to compete against puppies my goodness so
wow whatever our mission it's working it's changing kids lives we we have a
food program the homeless backpack program the kids build the boxes build
the backpacks we have them involved with the charity work we involve them with stem
um Rockets science experiments anything to find out what they could be
interested in in the realm of space in science um with a goal to better the future with
the goal to better their lives to send them on a trajectory help them find find something to stick to and to want to
learn kids a lot of kids don't like school including our son so we you know
finding something that really interests them and am you know gets them excited
can help with school too um you might not think it but kids do have anxiety think about bullying think
about problems at home with your with their parents um divorces
um all kind kinds of things and so these kids need help and we're that's what our
mission is um we also give we donate telescopes to
low-income families the little Celestron first Scopes um and we do fundraisers for that but
it's an amazing Mission and I'm very very proud and happy to be here and and
it's incredible to me that the terrible experiences I went through led to this
life-changing you know this is a 24 7 passion that I get to live that's awesome it's not a hobby anymore it's a
lifestyle and a lot of that will resonate with with the viewers you know
so for some of us it's a lifestyle and uh it's just it's very inspirational in
many ways so very fortunate to to be doing this and we hope to spread the
word but one more one quick thing one thing I want to talk about is how how do
we get them excited about astronomy sometimes it's it's a little difficult especially if they're always on Xbox
playing Call of Duty or something you know having them come from that to this we have to blow their minds okay
blow their minds at Star parties on these live streams do anything that we can to figure out what they're
interested in or get them interested in for example at our stargazing events we
try to have one of every piece every type of equipment a refractor a reflector an SCT
um a big dop uh binoculars an EAA setup
um even for teens and adults we try to figure out what they like to try to get
them to come back if they don't have a great experience and it doesn't blow their minds they're not going to come back in the future to another stargazing
event if their friends are talking about it now let's go to the movies no we have to blow their minds so I I want to
inspire each of you to truly try to share this lifestyle with as many people
as possible and to get you know try to figure out what they're interested in
and share your knowledge with them you know we we let people rent out some not
rent but we get we let them borrow the equipment for a month or three months to try to get that that to uh flourish into
something and and uh so we have to get them excited whatever we as whatever it is we have to do
um we need to try to do it so we even have like a big 14-foot projector on the
side of our trailer and we show the Skies of Safari or stellarium app
during sunset until it gets dark and then we switch it to red and we try to give them an amazing experience fire
them and all that all the above that I just talked about wraps up into making their lives more positive and up
more healthy and so that's our mission we're currently working from home and uh
we hope to find a building soon whether it's an abandoned building I don't care we just need a building to turn into a
community Observatory and learning center for free access to space for anyone who
wants to come and join us for volunteer work Galore we do all types of fun stuff
like that so thank you guys for having me and um it's an honor to be here again
wow hey good Lord thank you again uh yeah I've got uh I've got uh Goosebumps
uh from all of this um you know certainly uh you know I know that that
astronomy is it can be life-changing uh that it's a gateway to
exploration it's a gateway to constant uh to start a constant path a journey of
curiosity um you know and that wakes people up and lets them see the other possibilities
that exist in their lives you know uh most astronomers know and this this is
one of the things one of the great advantages of astronomy is that we know that we're you know as Carl Sagan said
you know we're on this pale blue dot that's out there flying through space we're on we're sharing this spaceship uh
kind of you know this is kind of the way I think about it you know um uh but uh you are you are someone
that I so deeply admire Carlos for the work that you're doing uh to lift people
up you know most people when they see homeless people they want they just want
to pretend they don't exist uh you know because they think they're to be asking them for money or they're going to be
you know there's going to be something wrong they're not clean whatever it is okay uh and for you to roll up your
sleeves and show these people the universe and feed them and to get them going wow I mean that is just that is
amazing it is it is really amazing and and um so I'm I'm pleased that you're
you're back on to tell your story again uh I have posted your website in chat a
couple of times here um if you're moved by what Carlos and his team are doing give them some
support you know uh every little bit helps and uh you know I I as soon as I
can jump on I'm gonna I'm gonna send some money your way as well so you know
every dollar every dollar right every dollar pays for a three-course meal for
a low-income family your neighbors so one one quick thing my wife also went
she had a traumatic brain injury she became bedridden and became an alcoholic
and we met in rehab that's where we met and I know it sounds
crazy but when you have someone who understands triggers understands the
signs of of you know whether it be Cravings or depression or all that type you know
those those symptoms um it's very very helpful and she is an amazing Beacon of light and she has an
amazing story herself and together I I don't know but you know
she we just got married a few months ago and oh wow I've never been happier in my
life even you know when I was making money and um in the military had a career ahead of
me that's nothing compared to this and we don't make any money we're all volunteers Carlos I have a question for
you yes I wanted to I wanted to first of all say that I was deeply deeply moved
by your presentation it is one of the most moving that I've ever heard on the
global Star Party where is the Safeway which Safeway did you set up your telescope at
the one in Vail on Marion Cleveland way and Wentworth no kidding yes so great I
know you live just down the street just down the street from us
yeah well I'm glad to hear that and next time you do that please let me know I will I
will thank you so much that was very kind of you to say yeah and Carlos I just want you to know too
that uh you have resources uh not only through a global star party but explore
scientific would be so moved to help out and myself personally and
um you know there's uh you know this is the important stuff this is this is why this is a big reason
why we do this these these uh this Outreach and uh you know I am you know I
I do sidewalk astronomy from time to time uh I often run into someone that is
homeless uh uh you know there's uh there's a college town real close to
explore scientific and uh you know I never turn them away I always engage
with them talk with them uh many times they're hello or they're whatever you
know but uh but you know you can capture someone's attention a little bit
um you know I'm not handing them food uh and maybe I should uh but uh say hello
yeah people ignore you and it's it's a it's very hurtful so
yeah oh great um everyone well thank you so much uh uh
Carlos and hopefully you you're inclined to come on to the next Global star party and to show more about what you're doing
and uh um you know uh let's uh let's do what we can to bring more attention to uh your
Reach for the Stars program thanks again thanks Scott okay all right so
um uh up next is Moxie filari's we are going to go all the way down to Argentina where Maxi uh does
astrophotography of the Southern skies and has helped many many people get started in uh in their journey of uh
Imaging the night sky so Maxie uh take us away
thank you Scott good night everyone and well thank you for inviting me again it's good to be back and this is 23 year
and well you know I well last week I couldn't be here because I I wasn't in
my home I was in vacations in the south of my country
and also you know I I went to to take a break clear my mind enjoy the view the
the beach and the and the Heat of the summer here in Argentina but also I have to do some
astrophotography you know my wife say oh you're going to take your gear again in
the car and no no the big one now about the small one yeah it comes with me so well
I I we we went to Las Cruces this is a
small city that is in the Patagonia desert but in
front of the Argentine sea and also I went there two
years ago almost because in that place it was the
2020 solar eclipse that we went with Nico hey Alan oh yeah since I went to
there so for me it was a
leave that again in the journey and the places that we've been and you know you
know uh you know when I was in the route a driving I I had to send my wife I had
to stop there because we went we were in there and sleeping in the deserts
waiting to the next day to go to welchetta to see the the solar eclipse
and all of that so I I took a picture of that and sent to the guys
and say oh man how how much memories but well
uh we enjoy the beach but also I met with
um a person that calls a Gerardo ferrarino he rented a a a house when I
been it's but he also do astrophotography he also is a well he
has a two apods from NASA and he is a really good a photographer
and astrophotographer so a he invited me to go let me share my
screen okay do you see it
yeah looks good great great so
here's where I live in chirikoi and I went to LA rutas here is in the
Patagonia you can see I'm from the farm area and this is the desert it's uh well
we have to see and he invited me to be uh in this place
the it's really really far away from the
city uh well see like
like here for example and we have a really good night we don't
have wind because a Patagonia is really windy from the west but in this case now
we have clouds of the day but the weather say now is going to a clear sky
so well we started to take pictures for the
night and for example I I grabbed my ascal ACL
2000 200 sorry and my cwo 5033
and this is for example a single picture of m42 that I took
of three minutes and I today I stacked and and do the the
post processing so I got I could get this from that
stacking and process you know I did this a weeks ago from my
backyard with the same year and yeah
I I really love to When I saw this I had to point this with my big one
because that's a colors of the lights behind these
clouds is stunning and wow I had to point this when I go to Alberti before a
Orion goes away again for the winter so you know I love also watching this
places and oh yeah look at that you know that there's
some sort of embryonic star system being born there right
yeah and we have protocol solar systems of practices yeah I think it's like that
yeah and the background the Blackness behind
the nebula it's just beautiful this is stunning and you know I did this
in my back here and when you process
you can see the difference of the light pollution how how it works you know I
importantly six and seven here in my backyard and this is in like router it
was almost two pointing to the north and maybe one because
it's completely there's a there's nothing
else surround only at the East they are these two small sounds and that's all
and you know uh
this is the the backstage of that night he's Gerardo ferrarino you can see the
the sea behind and the sea is going down for the for that time and you can see if
a 24 a 40 p.m and then of course when you when we put
our requirements together we have to celebrate with some beers
and of course yeah but it was a a 20 a
21 or 9 p.m and 20. and we have we still
have Sun you know it was almost uh 10 p.m and we have a
um solar solar light almost from the Sun
goes down but it's like the afternoon was amazing so I only pointed to this
place a m42 and surrounded because I
every year I do pictures of m42 so I I want to do this difference maybe next
year I come back and do some um how you say and mosaics with eight
inches but the I had to program for I have a year
to do that but before that I also
pointed in my back here to the three Maria's that we call it here
and all the Orion belts and because I
want to to get the honor to my national
selection because we have the three stars in our
in our in Jersey for the World Cup
winning so but I I didn't update it but I really love the field of view
and you can see here sorry what lens are you using and a
NASCAR a c l two a two hundred the 200 okay yeah
and it's a really good one it's small a little heavy maybe but uh well in this
picture but it's a little blurry it's there they ask her here's the the
primary camera and this is the guiding system and the esar
a plus with a skywatcher star Adventurer a really small equipment
and you can do pictures of three minutes and and that's okay guiding
um and a couple of days again I put my eight inches outside my backyard and I
pointed to the same place so you can see the field of view how it
changed let me put it almost at the same size
you can see that the difference of course of the details because this is what with
a Newtonian and this is what but
this is one-on-one scale and this is 2-1 scale
and even that now it to capture all this data I was shocked but anyway
I struggling with the light pollution and in when I did this picture I have
almost a person Moon and what a nearby
so well I this is what I did uh in this
couple weeks and maybe next a week I will have a something that come from
mail and it's a as L extreme filter
so I can go yeah I I I I have to practice with a color camera maybe
did you use it Molly or yes yeah I've used it quite a lot from my also very
bright Sky City backyard is you you recommend that right
okay I'm glad to hear it so and I have a
1.25 inch because my sensor has a one
inch a size so it doesn't matter if I have the two inches or the
1.25 so I went to the 1.75
and because it's more it's less expensive so well
let's see what we have a in a couple of days and well thank you for inviting me
again and see you next week maybe okay I hope so I hope so great and um Maxi uh I
know that you've been gone for a little while uh are you uh are you planning any
programs with uh larger star parties or Outreach programs out there
yes I well today we create with some guys a small group from the nearby
area from Buenos Aires they want to hear my city and maybe another city to see if
we could do some a encounter or stargazing and of course they do also
anthropotography and let's see what we get but also we're still in touch with
with my friends and see if we can do do some run away and go to maybe Alberti or
another place to to do some Ultra photo but we sit in touch
you know even our responsibility responsibility in our families and homes
we try to to take some nights to see or a you know
disconnect from the society yeah more connected with the sky so
[Music] I don't know what is going to happen in this year I I wish that everything go
better and also in my country because it's struggling but also with struggling
with Brazil it's happening but anyway and we have to continue going forward and
keep looking up that's right well you also have that struggle that you're the world champions in soccer so yeah yeah
I you know there are some guys that they watch again the the game yeah and they
suffer more if they're watching the first day second time yeah no no no no
no no no and they already know what's going to happen yeah I I watched the the penalties and I I
have to be honest I cried because now I cried for for happiness yeah
because I I looked to my dad and say we are champions We are a champion and
now I that's great understood the story so
this is how the argentines are so yes that's right that's okay though that's
great it's wonderful well thank you Maxi thanks for coming on and uh we're going to take a little bit
of a break uh and um uh we'll be back with uh Marcelo Souza in Brazil so
thanks for tuning in to the 111th Global Star Party
I'm gonna slip out have a good night everybody hey cam you too once again for
having me definitely gonna try Imaging the
sunflower again I haven't tried that in a few yeah it was interesting to learn about the structure the spider arms and
all the rest of it you know yeah it was a lot I posted along with the while she
was talking the astronomy magazine uh did an article on m63 so if you're kind
of following along and you can kind of Zoom back to the uh chats there if you want to go back and click that link uh
obviously um we shared the link for Reach for the Stars uh I made a
I made a small donation myself and uh but uh yeah of course and um uh there
are there's some things that uh we want to do uh at explore scientific with um
you know normally we we kind of have followed a traditional path of just
making donations at events and that kind of thing but I think that um uh what
you're doing is um is definitely changing lives I you know
uh I don't have to just hear it I've I've you know experienced it to a degree
and uh so I'm I'm really enthusiastic about uh supporting your program
well that that's incredible and yeah you know everyone's been through something
everyone's in need in some kind of way sure whether they they're open to talk
about it or not and I think astronomy you know when they say it's for everyone
not only age-wise but mentally
so it's just very important and I hope we can lower that 17 down you know and
one day I hope to add a PT as a dedicated PTSD for veterans program for
astronomy so Carlos do you get uh I mean obviously
you're affecting the you know the the psychological aspect of of people
struggling through this do you have people on your team I was kind of looking at the different people that
have volunteered on your website do you have any I mean direct uh uh help from
psychologist or do you know on that farm where
so to become a actual Health Care Organization
a lot of steps in licensing and
um we don't have any Professional Health Care Providers on our team we do have
volunteers who work as a school therapist or at a
psychologist um but no one on the board
but uh we we reach out to those people and get Mentor from them sure
so they they assist us and and basically you know we
astronomy is a coping mechanism in itself you don't really have to
talk too much about the you know how to improve mental
health outside of astronomy astronomy is the key so the right the
better the better we can translate astronomy into their lives whether it's giving them a telescope with a 10-hour
lesson a private event at their house learning teaching their entire family how to use it
um we try to do what we can but when we're working here from home we just we can't really do much so we're trying
to raise money as you can see this big mass monster telescope behind me
um right for restoring it for for a client so I'm doing Restorations and
trying to you know raise money any way I can so is it broken
it's just very old he hasn't used it in eight years he bought it 10 years ago
it turns on but the Optics are are quite quite dirty
um the that there's Gunk inside the bottom of the of the tube yes so he had
the corrector played out at some point um don't know why but we don't ask
questions I just died now uh if you run into a problem with
that I do have people on our staff that are very familiar uh I would be one of
them because I worked at Mead for 21 years so um you know and been all of you know
helped build them and take them apart and repair them in the field and all the rest of it so if you if you need any
advice or help in that regard let me know so yeah
okay we're going to uh switch to a couple of little uh videos and then
we're going to come back uh with um Marcelo Souza in Brazil so here we go
so it's a beautiful sunny day and uh we have uh you know a refractor out and
I've got my close glasses on and I've got my safe solar filter of course the eclipse is not here yet but
um I wanted to take a few minutes just to show you some things about solar filter safety the filters that we use is
the Thousand Oaks material it is rated to the highest ISO standards and
actually independently tested by us as well so just to make sure that those standards are met so if you're going to
use in telescope to look at the partial phases and part the let me underline partial phases too you use eclipse
glasses to observe the sun in partial phases when it's uh in total if you're going to
be on the path of totality you can take the classes off and only during that time which is going to be roughly two
minutes this time on August 21st only during that time can you directly look up at where the sun is because it's
completely blocked out you'll see the corona you'll see you know lots of really cool effects that will they'll
leave you speechless but during all the partial phases you have to have safe solar filtration so
how do you do it properly let me show you first off let's show you what you
shouldn't do what you shouldn't do is put on these classes and look through the telescope that's unfiltered and I'll
show you exactly why here we're going to point the telescope directly at the side
and right now we have sunlight coming right through the eyepiece
turn that up a little bit if you use solar glasses and look right at the Hilton material you see inspiring
burning it's burning a hole right through the solid filter material that is how powerful a telescope is so this
is definitely something you don't want to do you can now see it there is a hole through there and that could be your eye
so this is what can happen if you think that you can use eclipse glasses to look through unfiltered telescopes or
binoculars if you do that the sun's energy is going to burn right through the filter and burn right into your eye
so if you're going to use a telescope or a pair of binoculars so what's the partial phases of a total eclipse or
just to observe the sun to look for sun spots or something like that make sure that you are using an over the lens
solar filter that has the proper ISO safety rating and all of that and so
what I'm going to do is I'm going to put this filter on it's uh you can see how snuggly it's fitting here this is not
about to come off but you know if you have a loose fitting
filter use tape do anything that you can to make sure that the filter is not going to come off
and then the the other thing is too is that finder Scopes Optical finder Scopes are like little
telescopes and they need to be filtered as well in this case I just have a red dot finder there is no
magnifying power to it so I'm not going to use it to sight the sun in the way I'm going to sight in the sun is
literally as I'm going to look down at the shadow and align the scope up so I'm getting
the smallest Shadow possible of the telescope as it's hitting the ground
and now I can safely look at the Sun and comfort
and look at some spots and if we have partial phases going on in the closed I'll see them all
our Milky Way Central black hole has a leak this supermassive black hole over 4
million times more massive than our sun looks like it still has the remnants of a blow Torchlight jet dating back
several thousand years NASA's Hubble Space Telescope hasn't photographed the Phantom gem yet but it has helped find
circumstantial evidence that the jet is still pushing feebly into a huge hydrogen Cloud this is further evidence
that the black hole is not a sleeping monster but periodically hiccups as stars and gas clouds fall into it the
hiccup results in superheated material blasting away from the black hole as narrow beams or jets shooting in the
same direction as the black hole spin axis along with a flood of ionizing radiation
as the jet blows through the gas it hits material which creates a series of
expanding bubbles that extend out to at least 500 light years the streams continue to percolate out of
the Milky Way's dense gas disk into the galactic Halo scientists concluded that the black hole
clearly surged in brightness as much as one million fold in the last million
years that would be enough for a jet to punch into the Halo of material that surrounds
the Galaxy this Hubble image of galaxy ngc1068 shows a similar scenario
occurring previous observations by Hubble and other telescopes found evidence that the
Milky Way's black hole had an outburst about two to four million years ago that it was energetic enough to create an
immense pair of bubbles powering above our galaxy that glow in gamma rays Hubble was used to see how fast the
bubbles were expanding and what they were made of Hubble later found that the burst was so powerful that it lit up a
gaseous structure as far away as 200 000 light years from the galactic center
called The magellanic Stream seen here in pink this gas is still glowing from
that event even today the residual jet feature is close enough to the black hole that it would become
much more prominent only a few decades after the Milky Way's black hole Powers up again
whenever that does actually end up happening it's sure to be quite a spectacular show
well we're back um I hope those uh those videos were in
uh informative the the solar filter video was back from 2017 I probably
should redo it um but I think it gives uh gives you the safety information that you need
um the reason why I made that video was that we had an amateur astronomer who
owned one of our larger telescopes and he calls our customer service department
and asks us can I use my eclipse glasses to look through my telescope and uh wow
that was like a five alarm uh uh emergency for me and I immediately went
out with my iPhone and shot that so but um anyways uh uh the astronomical League
often refers back to that particular video and now that we're getting closer
and closer to the annular eclipse in 2020 you know this year in October uh you know we're going to
have to really spread the word about safety because we want everybody to be protected but we want them to see
something amazing which you will um so but our next speaker here is uh
Marcelo Souza Marcelo is the editor of sky's up magazine he is a cosmologist
he's a professor of astronomy and physics down in Brazil he is also an
amazing individual who does incredible Outreach events attracting tens of
thousands of people his uh special Forte is getting youth involved in astronomy
and space exploration they've done everything from uh you know helping to
set up the South America's first dark sky Park to making cubesats to uh doing
sidewalk astronomy so you know really just an amazing individual running an amazing program
Marcelo thank you for coming on to the 111th Global Star Party
all right thank you very much for invitation for your kind words
holidays here in Brazil wow we need summer photos but even I'm tired Sharma
even during the holidays we are organizing activities I'll touch here
yeah our astronomic Loop the logo for some I'm glad to share the
other moment my computer is not so it's fine
it looks okay but I'm trying to to change the page okay there we go now here we are in
Brazil it's very hot today here but it's raining a lot here
you know then we have a time here here the Janeiro the states where we live in
the location of our city that is far from the the capital of the states it's
campus Greta cause and it now is what you have in Brazil here in our history Main Place in Brazil
a lot of people at the beach I was at the beach last week
for a few moments but we began the activities near the beach
organizing activities with support of a city in the others here that San Francisco
yeah you have two members of our Islamic group here we have some in the air
that's a responsible to organize the events and here as you read of the Department of Education of the seats
that is supporting the activity is that and it has a lot of kids that
participate in this first activity that happened 10 days ago
and the two two days a last Saturday three days now we were invited to
organize again yeah our team was composed by Hobson and Casey and we
involved a lot of kids yeah to make observation happy exhibitions there also
with this was produced by the Internationals it is a box yeah they're
made by you now Universal awareness that you have information about this planet model of the planets and the
reorganizing exhibition and also we have the opportunity to
foreign [Music] it was fantastic fantastic experience
experience in the spirit and now I I will remember this image
that I saw again this two days ago
and the for me it's uh a very special moment for us in Australia that is the
first image that you had of a solar outer solar system as assistant like our
solar system this is a fantastic image that for me for me it was a special moment for us is
an image from Izu VLT is a sun like star
it is located 300 light years from Earth and there was the first select to look
at the multi-planet system then is a fantastic image that he
I saw again last two days ago and I don't know if all of you remember of
this announcements but until today for me is a fantastic
moments for us my daddy we have a maze of a star with two planets robbed in the
Stars beautiful that's it well this is something fantastic here again is the
image we have only two planets the other stars
this is a fantastic now we we have a lot of information about the blind
interrupting foreign [Music]
big Sunspot that is the size of four Earths in the surface of his son
and we can see with naked eye using a protective system to to look to the sky
to to the sun these are using solar glass and this is something very special for
this moment and the we are expecting that you have the acronym a coronal mass
ejection from this sunspots Andy is in the direction of the
Earth let us see what you are going to happen but it is a fantastic image again
now that you can see with naked I use a solar glasses need to be protected to
see and here are the image well after these big sun spots here is the office
cave this message from the spacewire.com the home page that's a fantastic
homepage who wants to
follow what happened in with the sun right and in the sun yeah
yeah again the we have a lot of sunspots we are near the peak of the the solar
cycle you need to be protected okay I hope you
don't have a big column massage action but I think that you have a big
possibility that this can happen this is a very big one
before I talk I found an article in Georgetown posts that's something for
me that is amazing because it is a I don't know how that I think that
everybody knows United States is about the solar flies
so this is something that shows that many people want to know about what's happened with this song
and this weekend you have a special event that is the conjunction between
Venus and Saturn and there's something that I think that it would be fantastic but I don't know
if it's possible if we can receive images from worldwide different people
that take pictures of these events we'll try here in Brazil because it is near
the Horizon for us well but it should be fantastic yeah idea both here Venus and
Saturn and I thought today is very bright
Jupiter also and Saturn is coming close to Venus that's something fantastic okay
please will this be visible throughout the entire
yes World northern and southern hemispheres yes yes awesome I'll do it
thank you five events
and it'll be fantastic man fathers here in Brazil is only I think that's how the
world will be only the beginning of the night because this needed some yeah [Music]
here because here I think that from six to seven PM for us will be a good moment
to see I saw today you know and Venus and it is fantastic in the night sky in
the beginning of the night sky is it a crescent right now I download face
now I didn't see with telescopes okay sorry
you saw the Crescent naked eye I would say that you have incredible eyesight
and this is fantastic and I hope that's a good moment to to receive the pictures
well from many places to watch of this Construction
maybe or if this guy's app reports that's a very special event and I think
that in many people [Music]
I believe it I hope this guy helps us to see these events as well and then it
should be fantastic and here we are organized our 15 international meeting
of astronomy and so now we're happy EET date yeah sorry it's so wrong with the
data here I'm sorry is a 20 well I think that I made a mistake here
sorry this is this is not the correct date I I use it uh old one sorry no
problem I but is it at the end of April 2023. everybody will be very welcome
here in Brazil resistance we organize a very special moment here and it's quite
it is cover of the new edition absolutely
absolutely you're the editor and this is the next the new edition of
Sky's app that soon will be available oh wow at
your home please it's a fantastic one yes you have many specials
yeah it's mainly special articles well and it would be a lot of I think
that's it so man it is right that soon will be available to everybody and to
have many special we have an article from Kurdistan well you know what's
happening that's a friend who wrote an article about what they are doing good stuff
yeah that's part of Iraq I have your articles from India
from Morocco from all over the world yeah many
different culture i i forgot about some ah from Romania
Romania and from United States from Brazil then it's a it's amazing a
magazine that will be available soon to everybody and thank you very much for our job
students and it will be great if you have a special activity for the
construction maybe you have some live event or no I
don't know if someone shared the images that's the good because it will be
fantastic right Marcelo thank you so much thank you my
pleasure thank you man very much for invitation yeah yeah I'm very excited to
uh uh you know to actually read through the final uh uh version of Skies up you
know we do assemble it here and stuff that it's Marcelo that gets all the contributors from all over the world and
uh you know so it's it's it's a privilege to be able to play a small role in in getting that magazine put out
there it's absolutely free uh to subscribe to and um uh all you have to
do is go to explore scientific.com forward slash Skies up and um and you
can get your free copies um our next speaker is uh is Cesar
barolo Caesar down in Argentina um and uh he is on his balcony looking
at Southern Skies so we're gonna turn it over to Caesar thank you for coming on
hi it's God how are you how are you everyone he's a pleasure tonight starting in my
first uh Global Safari presentation this
year um um yes like Maxi we enjoy it in the end
of the of the uh of the year uh the the
government ship uh the championship of uh the world championship of Argentina
um yes yes we started very very uh Happy the year absolutely well tonight I use
him uh explore scientific uh first line 80 with uh 80 refractor 80 millimeters
refractor um I was pointing I I was attacking
taking picture of ETA Karina nebula
I tried to process something without theirs only only to to
to to have the experience in in a very simple
in a very simple steps you have some integration of the image
um well let me share the screen if I have
the opportunity to to make some something
I I use the most simple program the three program that is a deep Sky stacker
because something that I need to tonight something that I need to
to know if I have some integration I took pictures 95 pictures of
um of uh nebula each
image is uh 10 seconds because it's an unguided pictures and I
took a 10 seconds with 400 is so using an all reference camera let
me check if you can see the setup
very simple very simple the yes is 100 the mold that
that in the First Time explore scientific don't uh design for
astrophotography but all people using a form astrophotography
and this is something great because it's I I felt the same when I started to sell
this this mount in our store and I I know that
that was the same was something that let me check where I have
I stopped share because I need to this is a real live experience sorry
that that that I don't have let me check
if I have where
okay what
this are you sure again
you can and you can see my the mess that they have in my
in my desktop
okay well first of all
are you going to
okay
the first thing that isn't very important for to say for the people is remember where you have the pictures
just like me yes okay well
are you sure again here we go again yeah sorry no problem
well it looks like it's not too windy which is unusual
um yes they win tonight I we have a um a fork uh cast of
um of strong wind but is from the opposite
side of this welding this ah because tonight is very very clear and it's it's
okay that's great yes well first of all
only I choose I go to desktop
and
okay
this is very very easy it's very simple I have the
it's just a quantity number I see yes
okay
I'll select all
um well
I start to well I I choose the 95 pictures
I think that it will be very very fast but you know it's something that is a
live experience yeah tell me a question I have is how
long did it I mean what is your setup like how long does it take for you to get set up with your
astrophotography uh equipment and everything on your patio
yeah the first the first is uh make a
polar alignment of your what your mom the best that you
can get um for me for example it's something that that is something that everybody
can make the the same it's take marks or
uh or how do you say marks in the floor or uh some
reference points where you put your tripod and you can have the first thing where
you can get the the asymmoud position
for the South or the North in like the states or North hemisphere
um and the idea is sometimes when you have your
best position of uh latitude and keep the position of course that in
your party on your balcony you and you you don't leave the telescope
outside um you don't have
um an uh Observatory but in this kind of small telescopes you have the the
possibility of have the position for your equatorial mode
that every night that you use the most accurate or near to your polar alignment and
I think I sorry I I telling about what about a first level telescope because my
ideas show this kind of telescope where do you have maybe a motor equatorial
maybe a notable too I don't use the go to this night
uh I think that for example this is why because many people say okay no but you
have a very very complicated Mount or you know but the mostly uh objects in
the sky are very very easy to find in the sky and you don't need to go to of course that if you if it are for a go-to
mode um the super regularities that where they have the amount that is flow to is
going to to find the object that you need to point
and tracking the object that you need
to make an exposure and you have a two points
and for win a better a better picture
but the most important part of of the picture is not equal to it's not the
tracking the go-to is really helping to to put the the telescope to
the right option absolutely but for maybe 20 the 21st grade options that you
can make a picture you can use uh first lights telescope without go to for
example they aq3 and with a motor and the regular Ascension and you have uh
something that is great for you know for for your uh
births picture of the sky in this in this uh example let me buy my
balcony actually using uh the exos 100
um something that if you if you for example you don't need
you don't need make the tree starts alignment each night because
at this moment have naturally the position and of all starts and
um for example if you put in the same position each knife that you start to
use the telescope you can go to the catalog instead make the three star
alignments and maybe with the first star that you choose you uh what you press
sync for example tonight I use a hronor I use a pattern to synchronous size
um I and when I choose ETA Karina
Karina the telescope was
was today takarina really really very near to the star to
the to the nebula and this is a great A great experience because do you have two
two points and to win a great experience
uh first one is that you are making the best polar alignment or as simple tell
us why the telescope we are talking about make the things samples very first level
and this is the setup where you are thinking in
make something you know uh within small mode with a motor with a
first level telescope that is really great and do you have uh the option of
um you know of uh to have in this in this option in this
equipment something go to but you don't need a
the the most the malls that are go to so starting many people I talk to many
people that choose the the the option uh without the go-to and if when you you
feel confident to buy uh uh go to Mom
you will have you're having a better solutions for you to to
um to find new objects in the sky um it's really this is a I I don't know
if I I was clear with the the setup of
of the for all of the steps of the balcony or how choosing equipment for
for places like the city where where do you have uh something that you can carry
uh completely assembled to your living room and going outside and putting your
balcony or your patio and you have something that take pictures with an old
reflex camera that you can you can uh phone like a bargain in in the market
uh excellent refractor acting limiter telescope first light telescope and uh a
uh um firstly moon with motor or ex's 100 with motor
maybe it's the best solution it's very small it's something that you when you
see your telescope in your living room completely assembler you say okay
tonight I go to outside to use the telescope and if you put the
marks in the floor where you can put the telescope if you have the same position from the last time maybe
you can choose in each Exposition maybe 10 15 seconds
that are totally enough totally enough to make a a good integration for a great
image I'll try now maybe we are stacking 50
over 77 maybe it will be a disaster or something good I don't know but it's so
easy that he has wild Maxi
um and Marcello spoke about the different
things in the story I was stuck in the pictures and and I started
I I was taking the picture and um and now I started to you know you you
watched me starting to to to stack the
pictures that now we are uh awaiting whole it will be the quality of
integration of the image I don't know because I I don't put the darks normally
the darks are for um subtract or the the noise of the
camera of the camera sensor but as I use
a forehand 400 ISO for this camera for the level of noise is very low and you
can use something that I can I can explain to the people that love the Star
astronomy uh astrophotography especially is something that
you need to know your camera and you need to know the the sweet point if
you're in in your camera where is the best the best situation
uh for for this the sensor of your camera this is very very great I don't
know let me check we are finished you you can you can
see okay I think that this this is
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it will be a disaster don't apologize till we see it
sure it's gonna be fine okay here we go
you know sorry by my apologies because it's it's very fast I I'll make this one
later for for you know is the best position this is very it's
so it's not a great software but it's so great
when kids are many many people started with this
oh yeah yeah you can start to see the nebula yes yes now this is just so
everybody knows I mean if you if you haven't watched Global star party before and you don't know uh much about uh
where where uh Caesar is he's in the middle of the city of Buenos Aires and
uh yes right it's very light polluted uh where he is uh he's on the he's in his
apartment uh on his balcony making these images and one of the things that he
really inspires people to do is to do it doesn't matter where you are okay you
don't have to wait for perfect Skies or the perfect conditions or whatever you
can do astronomy for almost anywhere you know and um certainly the more astronomy
that you do no matter what your conditions are you know the better you
become more skilled and so that that is um yeah I think that's the the great
message that Caesar delivers here look at this I mean he's getting uh nice nebulosity and um yeah
and if you if you see each here fancy
processing here right sure um and do you have something that is real
you can see you know the nibulus the
maybe it's it's too hard but you can show an evolution team
let me put as safe as soft a soft thing a soft
curl yeah and the first light 80 millimeter
refractor is not uh it's not an apple you know it is a um uh absolutely
portable range uh telescope for most beginners uh to get involved with and
you're doing a great job with it Caesar so thank you what camera
it's it's an old it's an old uh three 350b
es kind of nails from from eight years ago oh wow and now of course that I'll I
of course that I try to to make the something with the you know with the
let's see the histogram to show now but of course that
that later I'll I'll prepare the I'll prepare the
um I make the the darks and yes the flats okay I'll add this in picture so
this was just raw images coming through yeah you did it live
thank you very much Caesar thank you it's a total it's a total
pleasure really yeah it's nice to see is something live
um it's uh totally totally you know
something that it's to share um to us
all online we have because tonight we have results about enabler that it's
maybe 15 000 uh
um like years maybe I don't know I don't remember attack Arena but until you have
something yeah imagine for for activity if you are making this for your son your daughter
you know we are the experiment it will be maybe took half hour totally
a little more I I I took I took only
um 195 image of 10 seconds each
was very easy very very fast and the magic uh that you can show
oh thank you 7500 thank you Scott yes
yes I I thought I get these numbers wrong too so yeah thank you but it's far
it's still far in a Skate World you can see nothing
right and with a small telescope tell me about magic this is Magic is
technology going to be crazy and it's something that when when
you talk to the people that you can make this is is really it's fantastic
thank you so much sorry thank you for my young presentation but it was a lie it
was not that ever it was live yes I'm gonna ask a question in the chat
okay don't go away don't go away just yet okay okay well you guys are chatting
I'm going to introduce uh uh Douglas Arion uh he is
um uh professor emeritus at Carthage College but that just I mean that's just kind of
the tip of the iceberg of what this guy is he is he is uh an incredible Outreach
individual um I kind of learned a little bit about him uh during the international year of
astronomy when he and a team of other people got involved in building what
became known as one of the Cornerstone projects of the international year of astronomy the Galileo scope and uh uh
we're proud to be the makers of the Galaxy the Galileo scope at this time
um but that telescope has a uh as a long story it has
been used in classrooms all over the world uh and um you know so that was
just kind of the end of Doug's story that would be amazing all by itself but
he has he has a program called um mountains of stars which I will share
the uh the link to his website um you know they they do amazing
educational Outreach through that program you know and anybody would be very very
fortunate to have uh Doug himself uh teaching you uh about the universe and
about physics I imagine that he is uh one of the most gifted Educators around
so thank you very much for coming on to Global Star Party Doug
well thanks Scott that's that's quite an introduction I really appreciate that that was exceedingly complimentary
um I'll share my screen here and uh share the proper screen that should work
there we go um yeah so so briefly um I've been very concerned about how
people treat the environment and so I launched mountains of stars about 12 years ago
um and what what we intend to do is what we call environmental awareness from a cosmic perspective we use astronomy to
connect people with the environment and it's great because you know everybody loves astronomy and of course it's the
study of everything so it's the perfect link you can talk about absolutely anything in nature by having astronomy
um as the basis for that um and most Summers we have undergraduate students who work with us
and we train them in science Communications we do all sorts of programs all over the Northeast
um we have telescopes uh our big Partners the Appalachian Mountain club we have telescopes at every one of their
facilities from New Jersey up to Maine uh one of the big things we accomplished over the last couple of years was to
create the first International dark sky Park in New England we now have a hundred thousand acres and northern
Maine that is protected and not only is it protected but there are beautiful lodges there's a meadow whistle Lodge
Gorman chair back Lodge little Lyford Lodge and Cabins so beautiful cabins and
lodges that have great food terrific uh hiking paddling
um nature watching and we have telescopes and the only dark sky east of
the Rockies in the United States and it's accessible I mean if you live anywhere in the Eastern Seaboard you're
only a few hour drive you know a day within a day's Drive could be a long drive but within a day's drive you can
easily be up in Maine and have a truly truly wonderful dark sky so that's awesome I urge everyone to go up there
and experience it because there are so few places you can go in this country um especially one where you can have
such wonderful accommodations this evening though I'd like to talk
about what Scott was mentioning which is galileoscope and tell you a bit about where it came
from and where we're at and a wonderful opportunity for everybody um so you know here's a beautiful night
sky and this is what we wish everybody saw and everybody was connected with and
in 2009 was held the international year of astronomy and there were these
Cornerstone projects the goal was obviously to connect everybody with the sky and everybody with astronomy around
the world not just in the States but around the world and somebody uh had this idea that well
people should have a telescope so you have a little look at the sky which seems to me to be a brilliant idea right
now all of us love telescopes and want to do that um but we're talking about everybody around the world not just you know rich
people in the United States and Western Europe we want everybody to have a telescope and
um I got involved with this with Rick Feinberg who was with the American Astronomical Society uh and several
others and um we got samples of pretty much every low-cost telescope made and
frankly they were terrible it's very hard to find a low-cost telescope that
was also any good so we committed to making our own and so it was an interesting process because
um uh I came into it I'm a really odd duck in that I make telescopes I I'm a
professional astronomer and physicist but I've also worked in economic develop government and and business Consulting
and so I already had um Partners who could do manufacturing and could do distribution and handle the
financial and so on so we put this team together and engineered um this wonderful uh uh product and
um we started making them and this happened in you know 2008 into 2009 when
the world financial markets kind of collapsed and so um Rick Feinberg and I put in our own
money to actually make the tooling and produce these uh and we started selling them around the world
um so uh that was a very big push for the Iya and then in 2015 it was the
international year of light so we continued uh the Galileo school project uh year upon year
and over the course of the you know decades since we started this over 270
000 are now in use in 110 countries wow and during the Iya we had a buy one give
one program so we were able to send an entire container of over 7 000 Galileo Scopes to South Africa for distribution
for free to kids throughout South Africa uh it's been quite a tremendous
um a tremendous program now um we have done these and used these
with audiences frankly of all ages these are pictures actually of a workshop I
just did um this fall at a charter school in central New Hampshire where all of these
kids put together their own Galileo Scopes um so you can see at the left there even little little kids can put
these things together and you have a telescope that's really very high quality and it's a way to connect not
just to connect them with the telescope but this is something they can keep forever and continue to use
right and um they've been used in a number of interesting and different ways
there so on the left uh there there's Brad VG um he's part of the Northeast Kingdom
astronomy foundation and we've been doing programs for their kids and their
schools um at the bottom center there there was a gentleman who took many cases of these
to Tanzania and gave them out to kids you know in villages across the country
which was which was pretty uh pretty cool um and there they get used
um and then at the Other Extreme people have taken Galileo Scopes and made all sorts of interesting things out of them
so here's an example of somebody who built a finder and auto guider because where where are you going to find a 50
millimeter telescope for you know the price of a Galileo scope if you're
building up a finder and and uh Astro Imaging system so people have done all
sorts of really really cool things with them which I think is is pretty wild
now um this these have been great we've been putting them out they've been used for Education everywhere from kids up
through college um individuals have bought them we think they are absolutely the very best Christmas present you can give somebody
of any age because you can introduce them to astronomy they can put the kid
together learn how telescopes work observe the sky but um here in North America we have
wonderful things happening this coming year which are the two eclipses the annular Eclipse uh in 23 and the total
eclipse uh in 24. but one of the important things for us to get across to people is sure if you're in those two
paths you get to see the annular and total patterns but the entire country
gets a partial eclipse and that's where you most need a capability uh of
watching it and this is a great simulation that somebody put out that larger Circle that's the shadow of any
part of the the moon on the Sun so anything inside that bigger circle gets
the partial eclipse in 24 which you can see is basically all of North America except for Western Alaska and all of
Central America as well so this is this is a tremendous opportunity to be able to connect people with astronomy and the
sky and the Sun but what do you need um you need a telescope that is safe to
use with the Sun so these are pictures of an eclipse trip I ran back in 2017
and we had piles and piles of telescopes all with safe solar filters and Herschel
wedges but what we'd really like to do is to let people do that with a Galileo scope so
um since Scott has taken over production of Galileo Scopes which has been tremendous because Rick and I were
running this on our own for many years and Scott's capability to produce these and distribute them is so much greater
than what we can do so we're super excited that he put the effort in to
take this on but we work together to come up with a safe solar filter and a
solar screen that people can use to use Galileo Scopes to safely look at the Sun
so um just as martello mentioned before you know the sun has a lot of activity now we don't even have to wait for the
eclipses the Sun is going to be a great thing to be looking at in the next few years but for these eclipses this is I I
can't imagine really a better thing to put in the hands of people to be able to
watch the eclipse you can see it close up and you can watch it safely through all of the partial phases uh wherever
you are from you know almost the Panama Canal all the way up through Northern
Canada yeah um one of the great things about this is um they've done tremendous work
at Explorer to be able to offer these uh very inexpensively in large blocks and
so our our goal is that educational institutions museums science centers astronomy clubs
National Education organizations State education organizations will acquire
these and distribute them and get them into the hands especially if kids across the entire country I mean think about
how many fourth graders there are in the country alone there are about four million fourth graders in the country
wouldn't it be great if every one of those kids had this tremendous tool not just for the eclipse but to watch the
Sun at any time and to look at the sky every single night I I think that would be um absolutely
um terrific so um we've arranged to be able to take pre-orders so that production can be uh
begun um so um you can contact us through the
Galileo scope site which you can see here it's also linked on the mountains of stars site that Scott is sending you
the link to so that you can get information there or directly through
explore so other things that we're going to do um obviously those who get these
especially the organizations that are going to distribute them are going to need training some help to be able to
get many people to put these together and use them safely so we are planning on doing a series of webinars
um this summer so that folks can learn how to use Galileo Scopes both for the Sun and for nighttime observing and most
importantly our site at galilescope isn't just about the telescope um there are observing guides and instructions
and manuals and all sorts of great information that people can use
um to use their Galileo Scopes observe the sky and to enjoy the eclipses so
this is all resources that we're making available to everybody around the world and we hope that they will take
advantage of this and do that also on the mountains of stars website in
addition to obviously a link to the galileosco we have a lot of really cool
nature and astronomy resources so uh I hope that you'll go to the site and use what's there there are
TED Talks podcasts videos of all sorts of different kinds links to books
articles an entire library of resources of really cool stuff about astronomy and
the natural world um so please take a look at that please use that uh for yourselves share it with
families with with Educators with schools with anybody who is doing really
cool and interesting nature education we make all of that available uh to you
there so um I will stop sharing my screen and
be happy to give you any more information you'd like about it
um but uh Scott and I wanted to make sure that everybody knew about this opportunity
um because it's really it's really really cool and a great thing and uh just to show you here's a galascope
right here that we have available to you and uh the package for it it's a really terrific thing I hope you will help
spread the word um to organizations you knew you uh you know high schools colleges science
centers astronomy clubs and even yourselves to buy a block and and give them as gifts to to kids in your
neighborhood it's a way we can help get everybody connected with this guy right
yeah I am uh I'm on the mountains of stars website right now and uh a ton of
great information on this website as well um so and of course there is a link to
for inquiries for the Gallia scope with the special solar filters so
you definitely want to tune into that especially if you're an educator or if
you run any kind of community programs and you know you've already heard on
global on the 111th Global Star Party about how astronomy can change people's lives you know we had uh you know uh
you know heard everything from you know homeless people turning their lives around to uh people that uh even
ourselves that are have been in amateur astronomy or in the case of Doug
professional astronomy there's something about looking up at the sky and finding uh something that
connects you and it really is kind of a uh a healing effect I know that uh Doug and
Rick and his whole team have you know when you take like a quarter of a
million people building their own telescope looking up at the sky exploring and going on that
Journey they those people are touching thousands more each one you know in
effect you know so I can imagine you know if we could do some sort of visualization of how many people were
affected by astronomy as it went around the world uh you know I think that it's uh
it's amazing you know and uh and it's it's creating
um uh growth in uh the tech environments it's creating growth in education uh we
are you know we have many large-scale problems that uh Humanity has to face
but you know what they're gonna they're gonna face it and solve it with science that's what's going to happen and um you
know the doorway to the Gateway to get there uh for a lot of people is through an astronomy experience and uh Doug uh
you've been a great leader in that and you continue to be and uh you know we
can it'll be exciting and very interesting to know how many more people get turned on to it uh during these
eclipses that are coming up you know the eclipses are tremendous
opportunity throughout North America and and the other thing is you know there are eclipses around the world I mean for
us here because we happen to be in the States this is a big deal for us but you
know the there are eclipses in other places in the future you know in the next couple of years so you know whether
it's the good eclipse glasses or solar capable Galileo Scopes those are going to be useful throughout the world you
know uh so thank you for the kind words but yeah I really do believe that
astronomy is the best way and the most straightforward way to get people connected with science and the
environment absolutely absolutely so uh so check out his website and uh if you
haven't already bought a Galileo scope you know what are you waiting for so right so thank you so much Doug thanks
for coming on to Global Star Party thanks a lot Scott it was fun okay thanks a lot okay uh we had uh John
Schwartz who was supposed to be on uh and he may come on later but right now we're gonna go over to Nepal uh uh to
bring back in deep teak of Tom uh deepti thank you so much for uh
coming on to uh Global star party it's been a while it's been months since you've been on and uh we're really happy
and pleased to have you uh hello Scott and hello everyone uh it's me deepti Gotham and today uh I'm
going to give the presentation regarding the theme uh let's go through the theme first and I will explain the reason
behind the gap between a month earlier of this program uh so let's go through
this connecting the theme based on the life uh dreaming of something happening in the dark indicates that you are going
to experience a period of Darkness per se and some bad things are going to come your way and postpone your success on
the basis of life you need to try and get rid of things that are bringing you down on the other hand the night school
represent the darkness which denotes the end of everything if you see the sun rising uh it's it's suggests that you
are going to see the light and make a fresh start So based on the theme iconic
candle in the darkness to the beautiful sparkling star of night sky that's
Darkness uh Stars uh chemical object comprising a luminous
Spirit of plasma held together by its gravity in the nearest star of the earth is the Sun or we know that and some of
the brightest star of the sky are Cyrus Vega little girls Etc and stars are huge
celestial bodies made mostly of hydrogen and helium that produce light in heat
from the Turning nuclear force inside the course and some stars shine more
brightly than others and the brightness is a factor of how much energy they put out Anonymous luminosity and how far
away from the is Earth they are and color can also vary from star to star
because their temperature are not all the same hot star appears white or blue whereas a
cooler Star appears to have orange or red and most of the star in our galaxy
including the sun are categorized is main sequence star and they exist in a stable state of nuclear fusions uh
converting hydrogen to helium and radiating X-rays and this process emits
an enormous amount of energy keeping the star hot and shining brightly and that's
how I connect the candles in the dark and I found some of the interesting facts about star and most star travels
the Galaxy with companion or in clusters but not all the star to that our sun for
examples move through the Galaxy without a stellar campaign uh wind and energy is
when you look at a star or any other in a space you are seeing how it looked in
the past and the Sun appears was it was 8.5 minutes ago and the more messy we
start the subtle is life is spanning is a very massive star may leave only a
sort of time while a cool draft will sign for billions of years it in days of
about 4.5 billion years our son is considered as the Middle East Star and this is how uh connecting the themes
in uh uh giving the answer of uh being taking a Gap a long Gap I was involved
in a different kind of outreach program uh here in Nepal through these uh
nepales to mental Society being involved in a Palestinian Society so I'd like to share my screen
please do so here is
so I'm at his office diary and it was fun involving uh in the
outfits program uh throughout this month and uh this is the program I conducted
in the one of the remote area of Nepal uh um I have my
estimate of telescope which is 76 mm telescope which is a resource from the
office actually from the Palestine Medical Society and uh this was the program or which I
conducted in my high school uh where I studied uh when I completed my high school and uh actually we named it as an
extra phase uh where we conducted about the making this uh more like rocket and
soul observations plus um uh making a moral of uh
solar like making the model of uh solar systems in making the model of how the
eclipse work and different things and different kind of funds uh plus uh this is the uh here's the
kids uh we're excited to see the sun show the telescope this is the beautiful view from the
upside of the hill of from Nepal is there when the sun set uh actually I
want to say the sunset view from the upside Hills and uh this was the uh one of the school
of high school from Nepal which was on the off side of the Hill uh with are we
nearly uh walked for one 1.5 hour uh to
go there uh actually we did a checking for this and we decided there and conducted our programs and in this
programs we conducted a solo observations and plus uh uh
constellation beer how we uh I made a constellation beer so it's made easy to
student to understand how constellation looks like and uh and also I conducted
uh I made them understand how the rocket will work the mechanism of the rocket so
here uh we can see the student casting the paper rocket that's that's some model and I saw them how the paper
rocket uh how the rocket actually work work it's cool and uh this was the uh my friend and me
uh conducted uh like uh making through the solar glass this observation
and uh discussion with the student and uh saying the uh little kids are the son
it was really fun and uh their curiosity was a different level and it was fun seeing them and uh
it is available for myself and this is why the constellation beer I
made uh I reflect the constellation Bureau in the white background and uh
this is how I saw them their constellation and that's the some claims
uh where I have been involved for the last few months and uh it's I think uh I
conducted a nearly five six hours program in different places and that's how I uh I was unable to give my time
for the global star party and similarly it's been a long time and I created some
poem A Small poem oh good
in the dark he enthusiasts heart the darkness of nighty Skies seems to be beautiful then
everything which actually enlightened our heart and in our soul the star in the sky the sky symbolize the candle in
the Deep darkness of beautiful sky star help human navigate through Earth candle
gives the clear pathway of Life ups and downs is what the life is going to the
heels and exploring different Vibes start guessing looking Moon just need a scope and a good times they'll see
everything will seems very fine they'll see everything will seems very fine thank you wonderful
thank you very much Steve T thank you I hope to I've been following you on
Facebook of course and uh seeing your exploits and um uh it seems that uh
you're having a wonderful life and uh you know and that you're still very very
involved in science Outreach so thank you for all the great work you're doing
thank you Scott okay all right okay so we are going to um go from Nepal
to California uh where John Schwartz is an old friend of mine a great amateur
astronomer uh and also a great artist and so he combines his passion of giant
aperture telescopes and um uh and his ability to
illustrate and draw uh the cosmos and so John's going to share some of his work
with us tonight thank you for coming on to Global Star Party John hello can you hear me everyone we hear
you yes beautiful I can't hear myself but it's okay
so uh yeah I just was able to get in I've been very busy out here in
California the weather has been you know extremely rainy oh yeah tons of rain yeah it's been um hard to do anything
other than you know stay dry yes so I was enjoying you know the moon
through the clouds there were some beautiful evenings where we were able to see the moon come out for a brief moment
and um so I tried to capture it so I was gonna just start uh with one of
those Moon shots that I did and then I'm also doing a new platform I'm starting to use my new iPad which
I'm on right now very I'm very happy about so let's see if you guys can see that
one oh yeah now just to get everybody straight here John this is not a photograph right this
is no this is a drawing uh mostly sketched on my cell phone to get the
basic you know shape and the position the clouds of course the clouds are moving rapidly so the view changes by
the minute so when you get that awestricken view you kind of you know
build this sketch around that and um it looks very photographic it looks very
yeah the raids were coming out I'm not sure let me uh let me do one thing I'm
gonna go out of this one okay and um back in that might have been the wrong
one one of them I put Rays because the Moonlight it was actually
so you can see a slight it's not like the Sun but you know those little pockets of Clear Blue Sky the Rays would
come down and it was just a ray of hope that the skies were clear and I could get some views you know Orion is
positioned quite well right now so uh in the early evening if you don't like
staying up all night so yeah now you were with us at Mount Wilson uh on the
60 in should I recall correct um actually doing your work right at the
eyepiece is this a is this your typical technique you're at the eyepiece or
um well it's a varied approach you know um when you're sketching for forums or
you know like a place where you can show your sketches like Asad uh astronomy
sketch of the day you know you want to keep it more to the context of a true
rendered you know View and plus my telescope's big so I get a lot more and
Wilson is extremely big so you know the only problem with that is if you start
sketching a lot it takes time and usually they have a list of objects and
there's a lot of other people that are participating so it's a little selfish and I'll get kicked off The Operators
and then you know sometimes they want to keep that too minimal so I've got to be
quick take if I'm going to use some cell phone snapshots to get a basic idea
that's about all I can do you know I can't sit at the eyepiece and sketch but that's the beauty of digital and these
new cell phones it just is absolutely amazing what you can accomplish now that
you're using um you know and you're not spilling paint all over and your paper
isn't getting wet and if you make a mistake you just go back one notch and you're right back where you were
so I'll show you my um other Moon shot that did so this is
after it cleared of course and this was just after full moon
yeah it is amazing what you can accomplish but it you are you are a skilled and talented Artist as well so
that's it's not just uh you know my my efforts compared years will be
you know what with the digital it's it's amazingly easy because you're not you
know overdoing your pages and making it muddy you know typically if you're doing a sketch and you start to build up and
you don't get it quite right so you come in with the black and you go over that
white and the gray it just makes a muddy it has a dull appearance and so with the digital you're really
able to you know get it spot on because you do layers you know
uh you can do the layers but um that's my new platform in a future Global Star
Party we'll have to have you show the technique sometimes oh yeah I want to do it and then I also want to show you the
amazing cell phone which you can do with it through a 32 inch telescope and uh
you know the new iPhone and the Samsung all right cameras are amazing in there and if you just do that mode where
you're taking you know it can actually take up to 30 second exposures I think the new ones okay but I mean in 10
seconds you've got a basic outline you know uh of your
object like Orion it'll barely come in you know the swan will come in really good there's some objects that work
better than others especially in the 60 inch so let's go back to the 60
this was a um one that I did pretty much from the eyepiece and then my friend had
gone up there like five times this year so he has some good snapshots a variety
of different planetary nebulas and so he was kind enough I told him I would help
him with some of his you know um processing his cell phone image and then
sketching him up and cleaning him up and doing what I do and so I sent him his
and then let me ask you a question John I mean obviously you love drawing and and you love sketching but how do you
think I mean what do you end up with that you think is different or maybe an advantage over
someone making an astrophotograph I mean is there is it do you feel like you're
part you're like um touching like there's this creative
process where you're you know really engaging you know as you're creating the
image is that different than just seeing you know you made this whatever 100 hour
exposure or whatever do you think that there's a more tactile kind of Engagement uh as an artist oh you know
for sure because you know you're looking at the photons coming in and you're trying to capture that faint glow you
know and like with the Wilson 60 inch this is uh NGC 6826 and this was my best
rendering and it almost floats three-dimensionally and that's the beauty because you see that in the
eyepiece of the 60 I mean it's light polluted as it was you know on certain
planetaries there is no better view oh that's true and if that scope was at a
dark sight there is nothing that could compare to that telescope but
you know some of the objects we look at they're confined to brighter planetaries
or you know even the planets and some of the open clusters M13 but you know some
objects aren't worth looking at in there just because it's too powerful the focal length is too long and it doesn't give
you the field of view so like for instance Orion you would just look at the core of a riot I mean
not a rhino M31 excuse me I am 31. yeah they had a fog bank because you're yeah
staring at all these stars but what you can see uh you know if we go back to the 60 and talking about what you can
visually see you can't see globular star clusters I mean just no mistake yeah that sounds amazing so that's it that's
uh we do a um uh John was there we do an annual uh Mount Wilson 60 inch star
party and so for all of you that haven't tried doing something like that you should definitely do it you know it's it
is uh yeah how many times it's open it's open um there's a if you go online and find
the right thing you can sign up and buy time yeah you can actually reserve the
scope for you and some people for you know a certain price so you get you know
enough people to make it it's not it's worth it it it's worth it and we reserved the scope and um you know and
then sell off you know tickets for I think it's like 150 bucks or something like that to go you know versus
ponying at the money for the whole facility yeah so yeah plus you you do a
nice touch because you have a nice uh food and there's a lot of um great
speakers and you know there's like you're speaking to there you were yeah yep it was it was an amazing time and um
you know each group you get a different feel you know I was blessed enough to go
three times this year and each one was a different kind of um you know some
people are more into taking the photos and because you can't really see that kind of stuff through any telescope
anywhere I mean when you look at this planetary so this this is called the blinker and you know in most Scopes it
blinks even in my 28 it's pretty steady but when you look here there's no blinking it's just there like
dimensional and and the central stars is floating in and the star colors you
can't see it too well but I tried to reply applicate that's what I was using
his photo it was advantageous of getting some start positions a little more accurate sure and then um the color
these colors are true and it was very intricate to try to get the right size
and the paint you know because in the 60 inch things have color you
know that's the beauty yeah and then like looking at Jupiter and the moons I mean you see detail on the moons when
that scope steadies in as you know there is no better view uh for the moon
the planets and other things yeah but um yeah I've really enjoyed my time
over there I'd like to do I would like to check the 100 inch out maybe one night one night and and see what um that
has to offer we digress it's hard not to get excited about Mount Wilson but uh but let's let's go back to your images
John okay sorry uh yeah okay so this is another one that I did so I I've done a
lot of orions and um you know it helps me get better and better and better so each time I do when
I look at it I go I think it's great and then I learned some better techniques and the illumination with the um
with this uh backlit screen it gives you almost like oh wow Dimension Ty you know
what this reminds me of this reminds me of like some of herschel's drawings I mean this is beautiful yeah this one um
is my evolved you know I had one I was working from uh the Panama Valley
stargaze they have a big event out there near past you know the desert I think it's Mojave
or Death Valley one of them it's way out there you know and um yeah the weather
wasn't real good but um so this some of this was based on that night looking
through the 32 and the 28th and um then I used some of my other sketches and I
just tried to keep it real simple and more of a sketch than a photorealistic
type rendition and um so this is funny because the story behind this one was I saw as you
know the bay lock the original Star Trek from the Carbonite all right and and
when I saw the colors and you know as a kid that that color and the dimension the way they lit
it and it's our it's art so I really responded to it at a young age the puppet it's amazing I should get one
um but the colors you know it had the colors of Orion in it but a little more pronounced so that's what I you know
used as a kind of a color palette and you know exactly what I saw using
um the H beta filter yeah one of those gives you a complete different view of
Orion like you've never seen it it shows you different clouds and structure and
it's like something you've never seen you should try it yeah um and then also I use all of you that have never tried
drawing uh an object like Orion you should try that too because you're going
to become more familiar more intimate with it you're going to see stuff that you didn't think that you saw you
know and all you have to do is when once you're once you get into drawing it and spending more time at the eyepiece go to
a photograph and look at it and you'll go wow I got that I really saw that okay
but you just stay stay at the eyepiece draw as you're going along and um you
know when when you're at a star party so I do a lot of you know I always turn mine over to the public because really
for me Outreach is is the ultimate goal and um showing kids and people like I I
showed a mom and two boys you know they didn't even ever really see the ring
they've heard of it but they saw the two stars in the central rings so to hear these people say that and because they
were real passionate and and um intrigued by the Hobbies so they were
focused and they really tried to look and see and then other people just go oh
that fuzzy thing that that's yeah yeah yeah it's like you haven't seen it and
so you know when you really concentrate your eye in your passion about this you
know and you spend the time you know and let your eyes dark adapt too because you know you got to get your eyes adapted
because light stray light will blow your view on some of these faint objects sure and then um man when you see the detail
and then you're like wow I really see it it's like Saturn it's just next level
it's almost not real you know but it is it's actually there and
um you know that's what I love the kids just really love that and um you know I
showed them how to use their phones a little bit to do some shots and all these people were taking pictures and it
was just great so yeah it's always fun to to share the view and
you know when you have the big scope they come running you know yes they do you have to go well please don't I don't
want them to fall in you know right yeah this is uh so these are the
ones I've been you know working on recently well John thank you thank you for showing this and sharing with you
and come back to Global star party and oh yeah to share more about uh some of
the technique and all the rest of it let's let's kind of take them into the world of uh of sketching at the eyepiece
I think that's going to be oh yeah it would be great to do that and you know it's so easy to do if you just try and
every time you do it you get a little better and then you really see a lot more at the eyepiece too so that's right
that's right John thanks very much just try to stay dry out there oh yeah it
actually cleared but um everything's frozen now so Frozen um yeah it's like
permafrosted in the mornings after the the rain so it's really California right
I mean yeah Southern California no it does it does get cold in the morning there it can and um we'll see ice and it
turns white on the rooftops and the Lots out there too so a nice change with the beautiful blue
sky and and the Crystal Clear air it was amazing that's great that is great all
right thanks so much man thank you see you soon okay so much it was a pleasure yep thanks a lot great evening all right
we will we will okay so we are now going to go to Adrian Bradley
um uh Adrian is uh been bowling and um uh yes he fit he's got this Adrian's a
dynamic guy he's got his he's got baseball he's got bowling he's he's a
great birding uh photographer
how well can you hear me Scott by the way because I'm using uh we hear you five by five it's all good very good
yeah yeah this is uh a Mac laptop that um we've had for a while
um my wife was able to get her a brand new updated model so guess who gets to get the hand me down
yep they do yeah they do that's great so we're at the uh are we at the bowling
alley right now we're at the bowling alley we're in the uh Lounge so we're the uh League just ended and I ended up
with about a 580 or something that I shot today oh wow
a couple 200s and a 188 in Mississippi you're a good bowler um I've tried to be consistent I was
consistently not throwing strikes but that's okay it's League it's fun you know if anything if you're if you do a
couple of things out there make sure you enjoy them um and then make sure you get back so
that you can um present and Global star party no matter where you are so you are committed thank
you so much thank you using the bowling centers internet and I am going to share my screen what I'll do John you I caught
the tail end of your um drawings and they're beautiful they're absolutely Adrian uh nice to see you man you look
like you've been training dude you've filled my whole screen with your neck that's an optical illusion if I move the
camera further down you'll see a spare tire will you uh send me that filter I need to get looking like you man well
they do sell the beers here so I can send you a couple you'll fill out if you drink some of
this stuff back here yeah I watched a few of your presentations and man your
work is amazing it's uh the way you compose the the foreground and the Milky Ways and those scenes uh I see those a
lot you know yeah but not not like they look in yours ears are like magical the
way you put them on well it's great yeah I'm I'm having to
set up system preferences so it may take a little bit of time
um how creative at the bowling alley too dude you're a dynamic
you got to be able to do all that I love it um it'll share soon I gotta let me try
share screen again oh yeah you have to go into system preferences and let it share yeah so open system preference yeah I
just learned a lot a lot yeah I allow these apps to record the contents of
your screen uh
uh click the oh I gotta click the lock that's right it's the I do the lock yeah
he's probably a share of content
and you might be able to record the contents of screen until it's quick so just give me a second look back and when
I come back I will share my screen this will just take a second yeah
in the meantime uh Caesar is back there uh busily uh photo you know photo
processing uh so the last part of our program will be Caesar showing us uh uh
the image that he made uh down off of his balcony in Buenos Aires so
yes I don't pronounce that correctly do I I'm not current how do you pronounce the name of your city Caesar
sorry the the name of our city um
I don't I can't quite get it yeah yes I'm ruining I'm ruining the Argentinian
Spanish language yes yeah is that really really we don't we don't speak and in a normal way no it's
great I love it maybe maybe you are you're watching uh a lot of crazy videos
of the the the the you know
the World Cup we did watch those yeah yes
and really what in US was very very interesting because this
was a guilter uh ourselves we are crazy yeah sorry he's stealing
the show from you Cesar Ian how are you
doing good and great so here is what I
want to share because I'm just well not really being cheap but yeah I'd
like to have you put this uh the website adrianbradley.myportfolio.com I've made
some updates to it and most importantly I decided to link this Google album From
Dusk Till Dawn I decided this was a good place if I click on it
it's a good place to go to the photography that I love
um what you're seeing here are pictures hopefully you're seeing them I think you guys yes we are okay
so these are all favorite pictures from the last two or three years
that I've taken um you'll see a couple that have been reprocessed
um this was the image that David liked right here
with the and it's I think it's coming through he liked the overall composition
of it I decided take the same data and I made it a
little cleaner using some processes that I use now and so it it resembles a
little more of what you would see with your eye a little bit more natural yeah
it's a little more natural and so I started to do that here's some conjunction pictures here
click on this all right quick and I don't know if I can zoom in I won't but
somewhere over here you would see Jupiter and Saturn getting closer together this is actually a lighthouse
shaped like a boat and that's Jupiter and Saturn my image
that was the star that was the fifth Moon Galilean Moon if you remember there
were uh we called it five Galilean moons because the star happened to be in line
with the other four during this conjunction and there are a couple of other moons that I was able to capture
oh yeah wasn't that amazing when that happened this image
um John your um work reminded me of
um I've seen still yeah John your work with the moon reminded me of this image that
I took oh absolutely yeah yeah John check this one out
this one's for you you've sketched things that look like this dude
it is the blue that blue I see that color
it is hard to get this as in to take this with a camera
I think the technique to sketch it is probably overall a little easier than to
make it is it is easier yeah this one I haven't been able to repeat this shot
um it reminds me of the view I had it's very similar to mine it it probably is
crazy that you know these things happen in nature and you just try and catch them you do what you can and
um yeah that one wow dude that's unbelievable man yeah I
gave a print out of it to my daughter for um her past birthday
and uh this is just advertising for the northern part of Michigan the Upper
Peninsula that's what it looks like this is one of our falls in the winter that was taken with an iPhone sometimes you
just use the camera you have and if what you've got in front of you looks beautiful you go for it
you know these the lights it's amazing uh that the way you got the illumination
and of the bright brighter sun with the in the shade there's no you know over
you know like the lights not spilling over everything's been really well balance I'm yeah this was lifting some
Shadows um and I noticed the way the light reflected off of these branches I that
looked really dimensional it has Gap it does here it's kind of it's there's a
lookout if you look over it this is exactly what you see so it's
um yeah it's beautiful up there yeah that's we did a lot of card worthy right
there yeah that's where we vacationed when we were kids uh we're from Chicago originally okay so we would go to
Michigan fishing yep this is sometimes you just want Stars
you you know we we do I do a lot of Milky Way Photography and I do Milky Way that comes through here but you know you
got the bright Mackinac Bridge I just wanted some Stars over it there have been some beautifully composited
pictures with Milky Way rising over to Mackinac Bridge and things like that but
um sometimes I just go for I go for things that you can see naked eye or
things that you can see you know it may be a little bit more than what you can see naked eye so you
know sunrise sunset so I called it Dusk Till Dawn you got a Milky Way shot right
here the moon's rising and it's you know nautical twilight so Sunrise is
beginning in the Milky Way like a couple of minutes after I took this shot the
Milky Way disappeared you know so sometimes it isn't just to take these bright Milky Way shots like
this in the U.P um sometimes you want to take you know you want to get other areas the
Milky Way in it every single dot is a star um
and because of that this is what happened when I got to to Common and falls and I was gonna image at night
clouds were here last vestiges of stars um
and it very much was peaceful um I ended up staying there a little bit
till the sun actually came up um I know I showed those images Global
Star Party um last week this one has a little bit more detail in
the Milky Way and then you see the aurora the two are sharing the spotlight over Lake Huron
and it was at once lucky and absolutely beautiful that I came to that lighthouse
to image it because we had a fairly large storm going so
so that all of these images are here from sunrises sunsets zodiacal light
you'll see quite a few where you get this glow of light at Sun if it's at Sunset you're talking spring and if it's
before Sunrise you're talking fall um other
concept videos or shots I think Venus Mercury may be hidden somewhere right
you know this is Venus fitting in the belt of Venus so it's just one of those things where
I think that's cool to get Venus sitting in the belt of Venus when we had the
partial eclipse um in July of 2021 I believe
I came out and captured some pictures of it at Sunrise
um even shots like this this is something I'll bet you John you would sketch Moon half covered I I'm gonna
tell you something I swear to you I have the same image but it looks like a skull I made it into
a skull because it was like a Halloween moon but my gosh that is like deja vu
right there I when I looked at your images I said I've got some images I've captured that
I'll bet you yeah I'm drooling on them man maybe I could use some of your work
you you feel free to inspiration I'll check with you but they're unbelievable man uh yeah and that's what I look at
too I look at the same I don't see the Milky Way like that because you got the that Lake and there's not a lot of light
pollution I know there is but you're really teasing it out those are unbelievable that's yeah and you know
you're seeing it over time when you go these are the dark sites when you go down this is a different side of the Milky
Way it was featured in skydip magazine Sky It Up Magazine there are people that
will image the Pleiades and the California nebulence oh there's some nebulacity here and I always tell them
it's part of the Milky Way that's a dust Lane coming between them are those ifns right is that what they
call those um say that again you know uh Mel Bartles he does a lot of sketches and he
sees from those dark sites in super fast giant aperture Scopes he's seeing um
what's called an ifn because
ldns for large dark nebula I haven't thought of them as ifans yeah they're
filamentary uh structures you know dust and and the um circumference various
objects and down they're everywhere yeah that sounds like the exact
description of what you're seeing here yeah and if I zoomed in I don't have a wheel to zoom
into this but um yeah that that's that's amazing and then all of this hydrogen
Alpha data that you're seeing in Arizona Ryan right here yeah that pretend you're
seeing the witch at nebula if you look here but I don't know if I've really got it or not but uh
you know down here that there's a rosette you know how often do you see Astro photos of the rosette this is like
it in the grand scheme of this structure this is it now when folks say Milky Way season they
talk about this thing the core and in everything coming we see this shape a lot this was taken with a non-modded
camera um first time I went to Okie text and so
this was a modded camera the dark sky the dark clouds give it away just how dark it is there
and uh you know you'll want to go these other regions
you know cygnus setting just looks beautiful and then and then I have to come back to
Michigan and you know then I have to shoot things like this because there's nothing but clouds all the time but I
still try to I still try to work on the crap and improve so like you'll see this
this is a shot of Orion with the winner Milky Way there's a light pillar here
yeah I'm gonna jump all the way and then this picture of sickness by this tree
so keep those shots in mind jump all the way down we're just gonna we're just
gonna skip it off that's a couple days ago same region in cygnus I was able to get more detail
and that's around this dark area a little bit of Sky glow and sunlight
pollution just all sorts of things and talk about Orion and the uh
Milky Way more detail now when I was sitting here around this was a parking lot surrounded
by a lot of Evergreens and some other trees so you can see as as I try to evolve in what it is I'm
shooting and trying a few different things to keep the detail of the foreground and
play and the detail of the sky and just try and get them to match that's you
know this scene the other scene that I shot from here
and somewhere I think I have the yeah so I go and I'll probably close on this one
I go when it's cloudy get an idea of the scene I want try and predict where the
Milky Way will be in the scene but sometimes I come back and I miss I
get here and it's a little late so when I try and shoot the scene the
Milky Ways here but it might miss so then you know we've got a tree we've got
the Milky Way and we've got what I've believed to be Jupiter um
you know the planet over here so I just set it up so that it borders
and because I'm using a modified camera in this shot I get some of the reddish Sky glow
that's present so so all these images this was
well the comment is showing up and I am gonna see if I can
see if I can zoom in um because I would love to let's you know
yeah the the comment is here let me see if I've got I've got this shot right here this little fuzz ball for those
who've seen comets distant comments in the eye yeah that little fuzzball is
Comet C 2022 E3 from the the zwicki yeah
there's what everybody's photographing right now yep it uh it got bright I
think a day or two ago this was from uh midnight on Martin Luther on MLK Day
Martin Luther King Jr Day in 116. I took the picture there's this bunch of
haze out there I'll show you exactly what the um this is what it looked like overlooking
Lake Huron all of this Haze yeah took this picture now if I were to zoom in
this is alcade zoom in and you'd see him 51 you'd see
him 101 you know you'd see some other stars and you would actually see the faint
blob of that comment I looked it and said I wonder if I'll get the comment if
I shoot this way you know Sky Safari says it's over here and lo and behold when I shot it I saw that faint fuzzy
blob and I said oh you can get the comments so this is uh zoomed in off of a 35
millimeter shot Adrian are you using a uh clip filter H
Alpha on some of these to get like you had to get all of that I'm not using
a flip filter it's just it's the filter within the DSLR was actually taken out
okay so it enables that light to hit the sensor
um that's why you're seeing the North American here when I shoot at the cygnus region at this location
and uh I brighten this up a bit but this was the same river El Salvo River no your
message shooting at you know the Horizon of Orion
and so for a while we did for a straight month
we had clouds so whenever there was a hint of stars I would go out
and as far as portal zones go um
still with us Adrian
I think we lost him possibly
I think so okay yeah I just got I boot oh there you go my laptop
so it's probably a perfect time to uh end okay all right Adrian yeah if I can
all right thank you so much for coming on to Global star party uh I had
mentioned a little bit earlier about uh you you were on the last Global star party as well
and um we broke a record for uh viewership we have 38
000 36 000 people watch that program so just on
Facebook so that was that was great um never quite had that much viewership
before um in aggregate we've had many many people uh watch Global star party over
the couple of years that it's been on as it you know been seen by a uh around a
million people so um so we really want to thank all the people that do tune in all the regulars
that are on with us right now thank you and uh we're gonna we're gonna wrap up
uh This Global star party our 111th with um with a last look from Cesar brolo uh
uh who uh as uh should have be done with the image processing or the image he
made tonight so yeah you want to come back on yeah give it back to you I stole
it from you and I give it back to you now I've gotta take off but um as always it's a pleasure thanks Adrian
for your part of global Star Party John pleasure Adrian pleasure happy New Year good to see you happy New Year good
seeing you man yeah the next couple I'm ready now yeah we'll
we'll get back and we'll see if we can get easier to come here all right thank
you again everyone bye-bye
okay okay well I think we lost Caesars no he
is there but um I tell you what we're going to switch over to another I have a little
feature to run and then if we can get back uh Caesar we'll come back on but um
uh thanks again thanks everybody well here he is there we go
Caesar we are ready to bring you on yes but we are processing uh okay
and uh maybe five minutes we can talk yeah okay okay okay
and I I have uh describe what you're doing right now as
far as image processing oh yes I'm I'm I choose
because I I needed first of all the first uh that I I send you or much
whether I made it in a live an integration of uh 90 I took 90
sorry I took 100 100 likes
of 10 seconds each and
in 400 is so this is the result okay of
course that as we don't have time I don't have time my presentation and I
integrate without the darks and without the flats and
without the beers right I intro I integrate only I showed you the
integrator uh picture of the
ETA Karina but without subtracting nothing of noise of
electronic noise and or electronic current in the sensor lines and times
and uh well I don't attack my my I my
thing was that I I don't I don't take floods
normally because in the refractors maybe they it's important the the
attacking blood but you know the Optics us first of all like we don't have a
right an accurate or an alignment I choose 10 seconds of exposure
I I I I choose 10 seconds what's the minimum the maximum sorry the maximum
time where the stars in in in
each individual tank is near to be
around if you have for example you know maybe you
you you don't have an accurate uh polar alignment and you feel more confident to
use maybe 20 25 30 seconds and it's okay
if you have a great a grade for an alignment over 30 seconds is is uh it
starts to see some drift yeah yes you have a dream in each Stars you have a
maybe a long uh part of each star
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um earlier I have the position for my ex and 100
where touch the sorry that next week I'll
I'll send you a presentation of the details of okay
of the setup the pictures where the the the tripod the triple legs are
putting in the in the world are great ideas yeah it makes for a fast
setup yes because it yes you can get a faster setup each time that you need to
use the telescope yes for example you touch of course that you remember don't
change in the week right the position of of your attitude and nasty mood polar
Enlightenment but if you use this of
course that we are talking of not
not a guide picture
guiding is another chapter that we can yes a hair
uh this telescope don't have a place
or make a second telescope you know oh yeah you have to make uh some bracket or
something to put a yes maybe you can make a yes you need you need to choose a telescope in a
sport scientific for example with metal parts to put an another mini guide or
guider telescope with another camera and um you know that I use
[Music] um a user and an 80 millimeters uh explore
scientific over the exos 100 with a mini guy there and were totally properly with
three counterweights um of one kilo each
but it's another chapter where you have another situation and you haven't helped
in a system Abdul or in the same program pH guy there do you have
in this software do you have a helping tool to make them
very accurate for an alignment that were excellent and excellent with a
with the exos 100 if but in this case in
this situation we are we are using uh the xs100 with a first level telescope
or entry level telescope that is great because you did only to choose the
maximum time where where your scars are around
um of course that the situation of the sky here in
my town are you know it's a mix between
wieldings part of the Skies it's the worst it's amazing you give what you get
yes yes are you polar aligned yeah these people are aligned too he's
polarized absolutely they
where is my finger it's hilarious yes it's not Polaris in the South oh yeah
this is around this okay sir
that's unbelievable that you can do that from your balcony with all the lights yes yes that's a gift to be able to do
that sure yes and it's a it's a miracle that I have clear area of my polar point
because you know um maybe it will be beside the this
building but you'd have to drift um probably yes absolutely and this is
great because the the the tools for foreign alignment in the piatric guide
there and right in the in the video area yes in the right area in this area of of
uh the the polar the salt polar something that that in the in the last
month was very interesting I started to make uh just to to learn
we're sailing okay silence your thing yet sailing and
um something that of course you know yes absolutely yes
yes we don't we don't use uh sextants yet because uh the first level it's for
you know maybe uh I I don't remember the the the the quantity of Miles uh nothing miles but
but we start to think for example something that is very interesting and
is connected with astronomy was that um another people have
chosen the the a very bad situation for a very low tides and
[Music] for me was not only watch the tables watching sorry the the the the tides and
tables maybe um and for me it was simply the connection
with the where is the sun where is the the the moon and I just said the best
the best hours to practice I for example and this is the the connection between
us and the people told me why you choose the best the best time when all the High
Tides because it's and maybe you you uh
check the tables no I know that is full moon or
you know new moon it's easy at the time and
the connection with this with astronomy is something for every day every single
day ever every regular day and the people sometimes regular people like me
sometimes we don't we don't think that we have the tools to to think very fast
many different things that we have in in in things about the astronomy
um for me it's really it's fantastic that I need to know
which uh part of the sky it will be in what hour for example if I like to to
take a picture of Orion from this side of my my apartment of course it is
impossible it's near to the to the Sun to the uh to the morning it's you know
because it's this this one you do have the South and
foreign
I see so you're limited to um also certain parts of the sky will give you
more rotation uh which makes it harder to take the the 10 second exposures yes
and something that that many times I talked with uh with a Scott is not only
for me because I have the the top uh the top roof at
126 meters over sea level in the same building it it's a it's a tower you know and
but many people told me the same and when I explained I explain them to the
people the people told me okay I bought you a telescope but I never use it
why yeah right I have a part of a South I have a part of the West you have a
part of the West come on you are meteorite
that's true you know uh we had a gentleman um his name I will come to me but he um
uh lives in Singapore and he has a very I mean beautiful
astrophotography rig it is polar lined in his house
in his condo okay and he has a he has a window uh
uh he has a window that looks like it's about this wide just why I like that
and all he does is he photographs what he can see through this Square
oh yeah just running like this night after night capturing more data more
data more data he's in Singapore and Singapore is very light polluted okay
but he's doing narrow band Imaging and uh wow his images are fantastic they're
just beautiful images but he he uh runs
his telescope from the comfort of his apartment his condo inside of his condo
and shooting outside of a window is something I'd never really seen
where I saw that kind of quality of images before the images are stunning so
I'll have to get him back on global star party sometime I absolutely um when I use of course that that I I
don't I'm Happy from here I I showed you the the in the in the end of the last
year I showed you the I let me let me show you your Orion
picture it's so good
oh so some pictures that that you know but examples that that
let me check
you can see the picture now not yet not again okay ah okay here I change
okay man you must have a real nice guy down there uh that southern stuff is amazing
you can see now yes this is from here this is from your your
patio from is from in the top room in the top
roof yeah watching uh in a park this was very very
was a very very fun situation very funny situation where the the the the people
that work in I I don't know maybe Consular or no not
Consular wow yes
he broke the key of the big part the big
part of the top room that is is watching to the South to the West the very high
part but for me was very disappointing oh my
God I need to make a picture for for the of course the eyes playing to him that
okay I work for for for a global stir party you know and I need pictures to
show in the show yes to smile because my career is the TV
comes you know but uh but he told me okay but I can I can open up a door for
another part a secret part that is watching today today is
really yes and he opened uh uh uh he
open uh a door that they never I never seen that of a beautiful balcony for all
people yeah balcony beautiful they said come on it is where it's part
of a part of the common area yes and well I put my telescope and it's nice
this night and I took the picture of Orion going up over the driver of the Rio de
La Plata I think that I made I made uh maybe half hour of exposition and I and
we with Augustine we process the the picture with pictures inside and really
I love this picture because it's from the city um show the possibilities
that do you have from the city to have to make a beautiful picture and it's a
picture full of details that really we really I enjoy
and it's a picture where maybe for yes it's it's already on in this beautiful
yes how do you get star diffraction with a refractor are you using yeah so it was
not the refractor yes it was a um this was uh Richard
okay great yes very very good job because yes
we have the eye to say okay as you can see this fight yes yes no those are hard
to paint That's why yes and and I grew up really a little um
yeah it looks amazing amazing work because the city and and it's upside down you know there for
us it's different absolutely and you have
orioni is is gray a gray nebula with a lot of
of liars you know and it's a nebula so
so um you know that that show everything
about that is enabled and this is a medium Exposition I I saw uh incredible
pictures of Orion but this one to understand that this picture from from a
city like Buenos Aires it's incredible that's amazing yeah I
was I was really I'm maybe you can see I the Richard are very Sensi sensibles to
to be out of collimation yeah the collimation is yes I mean your whole
field yes yes it's amazing out of collimation really no no I I optician I
really I I is very ashamed of because
um yes later that's my refractor but you know it's is first of all I like
to enjoy the the moment and maybe next time I make a a great collimation for
for this one and make another pictures but in the in the totally in the totally
do you have a beautiful picture from the CP and of
course I am I am the camera today I say
350 EOS but it's a 650 EOS the model is
very old it's a yeah and it's a camera
that is it's a reflex camera I removed the ear filter and you know it's it's a
companion for me uh that uh that is great to show uh to the people that
maybe you can afford another CCD with the cooler with a a coolant CD but
um if if many people start start awaiting to to get the best gear don't make
anything and the possibilities with a with a entry level and this kind of entry-level uh you know
a kind of gear guys like this telescope uh
you can show to the people um that you can the people can make
especially kids young people make a very very interesting yes
pictures and not only the pictures if not the interpretations they not live
well
to know to know comprehend it yes yes sorry my pronunciation today
yeah it's yes how what
the the pictures say say us about
the kind of stars uh you know or this
kind of nebulas talking about an Essence times for uh
born Stars you know it's very very interesting the
colors you captured when you're rendering are they're just really unique
to that camera and how far you've pushed the boundary to get that shot it's amazing and um the Reds you have like
some yellow red orange in the middle there and it really you know shows the
power of those stars are burning in there you know and burning out that and that's a neat look I don't usually
see that from you know a lot of the photos we get here and the colors are definitely different and and um but
they're natural and very nice yes yes in our next star party in Mendoza in in
[Music] San Rafael Mendoza we make
one supper in April we are sponsors our company sarago is a family business and
we are the the the the dealers for explore scientific
this is me and uh and our next project in in the
next in next April in our third party it is make
uh three different stunts or different tables where the people going to work
um about interpretation interpretation about a for example photometry
as a photometry anthropodometry and
spectrometry and a nebulosity astrophotography general but with idea
to to guide the people to to understand in in a deep in a deep
in a deep way what each color of the Stars which uh
information of each picture says this is very important
and because then people say okay my picture is very very okay it's great but
if you can give uh to the people that keep something from the third party to
say okay I learned something about you know because sometimes you have people that you know is very very experimented
or know a lot of asthma photography or astronomy but sometimes you have many
many people that go to the third party as like the first experience
um it's if you give something about a
notion a notion and you you can give a gift that is very important for these
people wow great hello
okay well thank you very much thank you for for sharing with us and um uh you
know I want to thank our audience for tuning in and hanging out with us on another Tuesday night here for Global
star party uh we'll be back next week for the 112th Global star party and
um uh you know with some more great speakers and if there's something that you would like to contribute or you know
you would like to uh you know just see on global Star Party certainly get in touch with me here at explore scientific
uh you can use my email at the letter s at explorescientific.com
so thanks again and thanks to all of you and um
and Caesar you got one more thing to say thank you
thank you okay all right well that's great we will uh we'll go ahead and sign off and um uh until next time take care
good night good night
with 2022 behind us the European Space Agency ESO reduced itself with
enthusiasm for the challenges and opportunities of 2023 another year in
which it will strive to support and realize Europe's bold Ambitions in space these Ambitions and programs do not only
benefit the citizens of Europe but also the global community a prime example of this are the six
meteosad third generation satellites which Esa has developed with umetsat
the first of this new generation weather satellite was launched at the end of 2022 and will soon deliver its first
images the mtg-i-1 and it's still to be launched siblings will allow for an
earlier detection of Storms and extreme weather events serve to improve Aviation
safety and contribute to our understanding of Earth's changing climate
monitoring our planet from space is also a task for the Copernicus Sentinel 1C
satellite this third Sentinel one satellite will be lifted into orbit on
top of a Vegas sea it will replace the Sentinel 1B and will provide day and night radar imagery of
the Earth's surface strengthening the European Union's Copernicus program which is the most expansive Earth
observation program in the world to understand the universe and our place in
it ESO will launch two new astronomy missions in 2023 the Innovative Euclid
spacecraft is scheduled for launch in the summer of 2023 and has been designed to help us understand dark matter and
dark energy to fundamental yet elusive forces governing the universe but how we
still do not fully understand earlier in the spring Aces Jupiter icy moons
Explorer juice will be launched the spacecraft will make detailed observations of the gas giant and its
three large ocean-bearing moons Ganymede Callisto and Europa by studying The
Wider Jupiter system in depth it could help to better understand the population of gas giants Across the Universe juice
will be launched on top of an Ariane 5 rocket Europe's soon to be retired but
until then uncontested Workhorse launcher after its retirement Ariane 5
is to be followed by the newly developed Ariane 6 which will make its maiden voyage later this year and for which
preparations at Europe's Spaceport are ongoing Ariane 6 combines Ariane 5's
reliability with a more flexible launcher configuration and more efficient assembly process it also
shares its p120c solid rocket motors with the Vega C esa's cost efficient
lightweight launcher with this varied and competitive launcher portfolio
Europe consolidates its position in the global launcher market and ensures
independent access to space 2023 will also be an important year for
the new class of Esa career astronauts in the spring they will start their
basic training preparing them for future missions to low earth orbit the Moon or
even Beyond another Esa astronaut who is training is Danish Isa astronaut Andreas
Morganson in 2015 Andreas became the first Dane in space and later this year
he will fly to the ISS for his first long duration mission on board the station
his arrival will re-establish European presence on the International Space Station since the departure of Samantha
christopheretti Andreas is also expected to be the first European to Pilot a
SpaceX Dragon capsule meanwhile the development and testing of Esa missions will continue throughout
the year with Esa working in collaboration with institutional partners and European industry these
range from drop tests for esa's return Vehicles space Rider to the continued development on Hira
the first probe to Rendezvous with a binary asteroid system and Europe's
Flagship planetary Defender for human space flight Esa continues to
collaborate with NASA on the Artemis program producing The crucial European
service module which supplies the Orion capsule with oxygen water nitrogen and
power during its trip to the moon after a successful Maiden flight for
Orion and esm1 on the Artemis one esm2 is prepared for the next flight and
esm3 will soon shipped to the states another mission worth mentioning and
another symbol of international cooperation is the esa Jackson earthcare Cloud aerosol and radiation Explorer
mission this new satellite is the most complex Earth Explorer to date and will advance
our understanding of the role that clouds and aerosols play in reflecting
incidents solar radiation back into space and trapping infrared radiation
emitted from Earth's surface it is scheduled for launch in 2024
all these missions bring together the brightest minds and the greatest skills across Europe and Far Beyond
to do this Issa can rely on support of its member states by the end of the year
another space Summit will be held where under the leadership of director General Joseph ashbaka Issa will continue to
push towards High Ambitions for space in Europe just as it did in 2022 where the
ministerial Council in Paris rallied behind the European Space Agency with an
increased budget the plans and missions laid out by Issa at this Summit 2023
might Echo for years and bring a bright future for space in Europe
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[Music]
[Music] wow