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hey everyone Scott Roberts here from explore scientific and the explore Alliance and welcome to the 116th Global
star party with the theme of Journey oh my gosh I see it
of course the theme of Journey resonates with most of us that are astronomers
because the amazing journey that we're all on as we're learning more and more about our universe it seems that
discoveries never stop and that often old theories have to be revised or
completely thrown out as we learn more about the what the true nature of our universe
uh we're gonna start tonight uh with pram Vera hycini from astronomy Outreach
of Kosovo you might have followed her on social media as uh she worked towards uh
educating the public about uh astronomy and uh you know her struggles her
triumphs and all of that have been remarkable now she's at the point where
they're starting to build uh what I believe is one of the first observatory's public observatories
anyways in uh in Kosovo and so she's very proud of that and we're proud of it
too and so she is going to be co-hosting the event with me tonight uh we'll of
course introduce David Levy uh who always does a great introduction in poetry for Global star parties very
happy to have him John glass from the astronomical League will be joining us uh to talk about the conjunction the
Moon Venus and Uranus um David eicher continues on with his
Dave's exotic deep Sky objects which can be told uh
the way that he describes the universe is uh is awesome I for as long as he's
been doing it uh you would think that Dave might get tired of of uh of talking
about deep Sky um galaxies and nebula and that kind of
thing but he doesn't and he makes it just absolutely fascinating every time Dr Caitlin Ahrens from Goddard space
flight center will be on and she's going to be talking about the 54th lunar and planetary science conference so it's
nice to get some insight from the professional World Dr Frank marches from
unistailroad unicellar sorry I stumbled on that you can see the unicellar display behind me actually we're going
to have a lot of these telescopes we're starting to set up our displays for the Northeast astronomy Forum
that's coming up this April and so then we're expecting Nico uh the Hammers to
join us to talk about astrophotography Ed Seaman from the Northeast astronomy
Forum will be joining us giving us updates on who will be talking what would be going on if the 2023 uh neef
event this is if you've been following neef you'll know that this is the first time in a long time that they've been
able to pull together the event to do it in person so that's that's great
cesarbrella will be on with us um John Schwartz from drawing out the
universe he's got new drawings Robert Reeves is going to start a whole series with us about the moon as he takes us
across the lunar surface in photos that he's done
um you know the guy knows the moon like the back of his hand and of course Dr Marcelo Souza
as he goes on to talk about astronomy in Brazil so
thank you again for joining us and I'll turn it over to to pram Vera
thank you Scott thank you very much I hope everyone is able to hear me very well uh hi everyone from Dublin here in
Ireland I'm from Vera husseini from Republic of Kosovo and currently like
residing in San Jose in California where I'm pursuing a PhD in planetary science
at UC Santa Cruz focusing uh on the mostly on minor planets trying to
understand the organic content of meteorites and comparing that spectrally
with a low Albedo asteroids and commentary services and try to make
constraints on the distributions of these materials which is quite exciting
and at the same time I'm the founder of the astronomy Outreach of kotovo that
was founded in 2015 in Kosovo and ever since then my organization and I we had
a goal where we wanted to of course popularize the astronomy in the Republic
of Kosovo and our country which most of you know has been through a really
variable past where in the last uh recent very recently came out of the war
and the conflict that ended up really badly and somehow we had to start
everything from zero in every aspect and of course education is one of the things
that is very powerful for every country for every person and we were aiming to
focus mostly on science especially astronomy which is a science that not
everybody thinks it's important but and you know when you're in a country that
you don't have a lot of resources uh people seem to just kind of not go after
it because they're not going to have a lot of opportunities and all of it but we are here to inspire the Young
Generation to pursue dreams to pursue a STEM related fields and uh I am actually
one of those that uh wanted to go and pursue you know something in planetary
science something that not every student in Kosovo wants to probably do and we
want to change that so ever since we founded AOK we had implants how we can
bring and how we can make the science of astronomy more exciting to the people of
Kosovo and we started by collecting different telescopes and setting them up
in public squares in different schools cooperating with people and of course
everyone seemed to very much appreciate like we had missed for so much like the
sky above Kosovo was like uh Shredded in darkness like everyone was ignoring
what's up there and we were we had no clue how beautiful these things were and
how interesting and how science works and how these things formed so kind of
bringing that uh perspective in our country was something very new something
that nobody had done before and it just uh took the attention of everybody and
seeing this seeing how everybody was very excited about that we kept going
and going and we wanted to grow our Outreach activities we wanted to find
the best ways to present the science not just astronomy but we're talking about planetary science and physics and
chemistry and all of these how we can make them more interesting to the public
and we also came up with an idea that Kosovo does not have you know a science
center unfortunately and long time ago my board and I were discussing how we
can build something and we can operate it and and have an observatory have a planetarium like every other country in
the world and of course making this as a non-profit organization it was not easy
because you have to have the resources you have to have the funds it's a long process so uh in like eight years since
we started we started um you know meeting with government officials and
explaining our idea and then finally it took five years for the government of Kosovo to open their eyes and listen to
our idea and finally they decided to invest 310 000 Euros to build the first Planetarium
and observatory in Kosovo that will not only remain at Planetarium and Observatory but it's the aim of it the
goal is to be a science center I am in fact going to share
in just some photos of it how it will look like as I speak so that's how the
building is going to look like it's not a very big building it will have a planetarium that will probably be able
to fit around 50 people we already have a projector with a spherical mirror
donated that will be set up there we have different shows that we have been offered and we're going to translate
them in Albanian so that when schools come by we will have different shows
different informations all the time and then of course the observatory uh will
be consisting of the telescope that will be set up there not only one Celestron
has donated a 14-inch Edge telescope that will be installed there and we're
also planning to have a solar telescope on top of it attached that we will be
able to look at the Sun or maybe two or three I didn't I don't know yet we will
have to decide because we want to make sure that The Observatory will be operational also during the day because
uh we want to look at the sun in different wavelengths hydrogen Alpha calcium K visible light and then in the
evening we can also look at other objects with the c14 and of course as you saw we have a
beautiful roof where we have other space areas to set up other telescopes that
our organization contains and then inside the building there is enough room we'll have the lobby we'll have
classrooms uh remote uh control uh areas through control the telescopes from
downstairs so that we don't have to always be in the dome and this every
time every time every time since we started thinking about this project the idea was to make this a science center
where every person that walks in this building when they leave they will leave
with basic knowledge of the fundamentals of science so we will have all the lobby
we will use every corner to display to make exhibitions to have uh you know all
the Sciences involved not just astronomy we want to start from the origin of the
Universe from the Big Bang we want the evolution of the Stars you know all the planets you know manned missions we want
to do chemistry we want to explain the structure of Adams and and fusion and you know nuclear fusion and then we want
to do like geology for instance we want to have like mineral displaced meteorite
displays to to have uh things that every Science Center around the world has and
this could be very exciting because Kosovo has never had anything like this before and to me not that it's only
important and a very successful achievement for AOK but this is this is
a very very great like miracle for Kosovo because we have been able to
accomplish something that we have never had before and this is going to help a
lot of students to to learn to like develop their interest in science and
it's a start this thing May expand later on all of it but every person that wants
to you know know more about science at least they will have a door where to
knock and come and learn about this I started from zero I had nobody I didn't
have anyone walk up to my town or in my classroom with a telescope or any of it
I started from nothing and then I had uh you know people around the world that um
helped me out and give me you know you know telescopes and other equipments I could views and that's how I started out
but now it's my duty and my organization's duty to help other
children in Kosovo and other people in general of all ages I am just going to
show some photos because the the science center has started to you
know the construction started last December I was not there for when they laid the foundation but these are some
of the photos from the construction and of course I had to like closely monitor the construction because when you build
an observatory you have to keep in mind that you want to have the peer that it's
isolated from the rest of the building uh you know you want to know how high the walls of the planetariums are so
this this whole project that we designed was in collaboration with professional
Architects with Engineers with astronomers because we all were talking together how we can make this work
because even for the architects of Kosovo they have never walked in an observatory before planetariums for them
it wasn't easy to design something that they have never seen so I was very proud
how this turned out and how this is actually moving along it's a lot a lot
of progress so this is going to be the planetarium inside it's like nine meters across and
[Music] um uh this is the telescope here it's going to be fully isolated from both the
second floor the Upper Floor and also the foundation so that when we walk around we don't cause any vibrations
um these are were the observatory it's going to be and again the planetarium and here they
were filling up the planetarium with cement all around the walls before they start up building the Dome on top of it
uh this is the observatory Dome from inside where they're preparing everything to build the walls and
um I am just very excited I was able to go to Kosovo in this trip for only three
days and I went there exclusively to check out how the progress is going on and I was I was very happy very proud I
can't wait for this thing to be fully constructed and we're anticipating that
uh the object will be finished or fully completed by July of um this year but
then we're gonna spend a couple of months finishing all the interior design all the displays and exhibitions and
we're hoping that by March by next spring of you know next year we will be
able to be fully operational and I hope all of you will be able to join us and
visit us at some point so thank you very much Scott and if anyone has any questions please feel free to ask
that's great thank you very much uh Prim Viera um I am uh you mentioned that uh you
might have a grand opening uh coming up this spring uh so I know that you don't
know the exact date yet but uh uh when it does happen uh please let me know and
we'll do our best to spread the word and uh so that uh you know we can all set
lend some sort of support I'm also curious um you know astronomy I'll read you Constable but does so many good things
uh you know and and it does you know um
projects like this and organizations like this need support what's the best
way you know someone feels moved to uh to get lend some support uh what's the
best way for them to do that now
going on on GoFundMe side which is is the Kosovo Observatory and that's where we started
collecting funds for this Observatory because of course the government is funding the construction part of the
observatory and uh when this goes operational of course it requires a lot
of other things including you know the attack part the audio parts a lot of
things for instance for the planetarium uh there is an astronomer have Griffin a
very good friend of mine from South Carolina who has donated uh committed himself to donating the audio system for
the planetarium but now if we want to have a very nice display with very nice
monitors and pictures and high resolution in our projectors and all of
that of course all of this needs to you know funds and we are thinking about how
to come up with ideas to collect funds to make all the design and all the tech
part you know the computers for the control room and all of it and and even
people that you know if they have things like a monitor or a computer and they're not using it and they don't know what to
do with it uh just let me know and I am in United States and you can just ship
it to me and I can carry it to Kosovo because we are in need of all that and yeah and of course other softwares that
you use for you know like Sky Maps and other things that all
go with the setup for the telescopes um we are welcome to any kinds of donations
donations not just Financial um but yeah that's the link if you go and Google it Kosovo Observatory and
GoFundMe everyone will be able to um I was able to find it right away and
I put the link into chat so so that's great okay well uh I will give you um uh
Premiere since you are the co-host of this event I'll give you the opportunity to introduce David Levy who is our next
speaker yeah I I I'm actually honored to be able
to introduce David leafy which I actually grew up reading about uh his
discoveries and all that David Levy as I'm aware lives in Arizona still right
and David Levy is going to have its own introduction dedicated to poetry uh
related with astronomy in space and I'm very happy to uh invite him uh to this
show well thank you very much friend Vera and I really did enjoy listening to your
wonderful introduction just now um if you go back to the long and
ancient history of Kosovo the um the actual looking at the stars has gone
on for Millennia into the past and I'm so delighted that in a new way it is now
going to continue for my poem today I have not something
that you're all familiar with I think it's Sarah Williams Sarah Williams 1868 poem
excuse me the oldest remember to his pupil reach me down it was published in 1868.
reach me down my Tiko barahi I would know him when we meet when I share my later science sitting
humbly at his feet you may know the law of all things you'll be ignorant of how
we are working to completion let me get my voice back I can continue
this working on from them to now pray remember that I leave you all my
theory complete lacking only certain data for your adding as you need
and remember men will scoring because original and true and the oblique of newness will fall may
fall bitterly on you but my pupil as my people you have learned the worth of scoring
you have laughed at me with pity we have joy to be forlorn
what for us are all distractions of men's fellowship and smiles but for us
the goddess pleasure with the meritrickious smiles and you may tell that German college
that their honor comes too late but they must not waste repentance on
the grizzly Savon state though my soul may set in the Darkness
it will rise in Perfect Light I have one of the Stars too fondly to be
fearful of the night thank you and back to you great great thank you very much
um uh David that's that's awesome I don't think I've heard all of the uh
that verse before so uh it's nice nice to hear it and because that right at the
very end you know what's coming so it's lovely and um so thank you
um uh Primavera I want to thank you too for uh you know coming on and helping us
kick off our 116th event you know so congratulations we hope to have 116 more
so uh but uh I know it's getting late uh you're welcome to stay as you'd like to
um or comment as we go along but uh the next person thank you so much Scott for
uh inviting me to be a part of this it's always a pleasure to come here and get to catch up with all of you and I often
see all of these shows even though I don't have the time always to join but thanks again for the opportunity and
thanks everyone for watching yeah enjoy your time in Dublin take care
okay all right so we will um uh we will bring on John Goss John uh
has been a leader uh not only in in uh you know
just amongst amateur astronomers but also with the largest uh Federation of
astronomy clubs which is the astronomical League John has been served as president uh he I he's the guy behind
you know many things going on at the astronomical league and he's a fantastic
speaker so we are going to turn to John he's also very humble he's like shaking
his head no it's not me but it is you and uh we're really happy to have you on
the 116th program oh wow so thank you Scott I uh yeah that's a
little unexpected but uh the other is a little bit of Truth into it but but then that truth gets stretched out quite
quite a bit so you know uh the astronomical league is well you know our organization is composed of
22 000 members or so there are a lot of people who do a lot of things and if it
wasn't for their efforts and the time they put into it uh we'd be dead in the water and I would
just be kind of standing there smiling you know looking around
so but so I I think all the volunteers that we have for all their efforts and
their their contribution Center I certainly sincerely hope that they continue uh what they've been doing
because we do have a great organization that's been built over the years um I'd like to uh screen share something
here
see what I can do but thank you
um I'd like to start out by giving a big plug for the astronomical really good
just to give a brief description of who what the organization is what it's all about uh type of things it does
um we'll start out as you can see we have uh two sides of a rack card uh the first uh thing there is Alcon
uh which I'll discuss in uh in a minute uh that's our national Convention every year
um on on the back side of the red card we we have listed here just a few of the many things that the league is involved
with we put out a quarterly magazine called the reflector and in it uh we have news about amateur astronomy across
the country and and the world uh we have members submit uh incredible photos
um members submit a lot lots of Articles and plus there's just League news about what's going on with the astronomic
league it's regions and its members and so on um we also have observing programs so
it's probably what we're most famous for I'm not going to go go through all these because it's going to take way way too
long but we have like 70 observing programs so that's uh that helps
encourage our members to get out under the stars and you know actually do do some observing uh we also do a whole
bunch of awards and again I can't go through all them because there are a whole bunch but I
will personally thank Scott Roberts and explore scientific for sponsoring for being one of our major sponsors on these
um we have Youth Awards and some adult recognition Awards uh which we try to give out every year and it is it's it's
a big help now I could go on with with these Youth Awards and maybe someday I
will because occasionally I receive word from uh years of past years winners
and how these the words have affected their lives and it's it's amazing uh you know these are words
are not given to uh to have these young people become astronomers that's nice of
course but these words are really given to uh open up their minds to what their life
could be going into some technical field including physics and astronomy but uh
encourages them to get out there and expand their Horizons so and that that I can say it's a complete success
there um we also issue monthly Sky Maps and
activities one of those which I'll be discussing here tonight um anyway I'm gonna get off this page
because this isn't really why I'm here maybe I won't come on
the league won't let you there we go there we go there you go okay Alcon our astronomical League convention this year
it'll be in Baton Rouge end of July um funny thing about that that's on
Rouge um I could say things like this because I'm from believe it or not I'm from Louisiana
uh so I was asking one of the members to to to describe it in July and he said well come to Baton Rouge and find the
difference between humidity and oppressive humidity and like yeah it is
it's it's pretty humid there in the summertime but remember every place is air-conditioned so don't let that turn
you off for going to Baton Rouge now with this tonight we have two speakers uh on this program who will also be
there Dave Iker who you'll be hearing from in in a little bit and David Levy who you've just heard from both of these
guys unless they have a chickened out for that aggressive humidity will will
be there and we have a number of other speakers as well plus there will be some um tours of the local
astronomy and physics sites the area probably the most famous one would be ligo
um and I think a lot of people will want to see that um fortunately or unfortunately is it's a limited tour
so you got to be one of the first ones to sign up to be able to go but there are some other tourists uh planned as
well you know you have your uh LSU physics and astronomy and some local
observatories and planetariums and so on but anyway
now this is why I'm here tonight one of the things we like doing with the astronomical league is trying to get
people to get it out and do do some observing it doesn't have to be any any uh
complex high-tech observing we have a thing here which is uh something that's
going to be happening or starting to happen and then the next couple of nights and all you really need is a
parabinoculars your standard 10 by 50 binoculars in fact I often use my my birding binoculars my 8 by 32 simply
because they're easier to uh to carry but um big opportunity to see the planet
Uranus you know I spent 240 few years since Uranus was
discovered in fact I believe it was discovered in the month of March so it's almost exactly 242.
um and a lot of people really haven't seen it or they just kind of brush right by it well this is your chance to have
another peek at it because it's easy to find or it will be easy to Define on on March 24th and again very easy to find
on the LA in the last week of of uh of March uh on the 24th the really pretty
compressive movement you know it'll be a nice thin Crescent seemingly full with
Earth shine so it's it's quite eye-catching it'll be right next to Uranus and using this chart you can
easily spot what's the planet and what's the star it'll be one of the brightest I won't say stars because I'll get in
trouble one of the brightest star-like objects there uh to the lower right excuse me lower left of the Moon about
two wound diameters away from it so if you can get out there on the 24th go
ahead and give it a look but if you missed out the following week Venus comes in the moon leaves so forget
about the moon in another week but Venus comes into the scene sliding across the field of view beginning on March 28th
and going until April 1st you can use that as a nice guide as well
this is another another depiction of it um
on what what night is today's 2C pay on Thursday night Venus will be one field of view off to the lower right where uh
the Moon is and where Uranus is so it gives you an idea of where it is right now but over the next week the planet
will be chugging along and eventually catch up to two Uranus and you'll be able to see it on as closest approach
sometime on the on March 29th or March 30th is again this is something use
binoculars to find and it's well worth your time you know great thing about binoculars it takes you
what 30 seconds to go to the cabinet and pull them out and and undo the strap and all that and head outside you got them
right there and nice wide field of view you'll be able to find it find it pretty easily give it a shot
now I also like describing uh what what you're actually seeing uh or or why
you're seeing or why it looks the way it does why the scene looks the way it does well we do have um Venus and Uranus
appearing almost in the same line of sight and that is simply because Venus is coming from around the Sun and uh
Uranus is quite a bit further away and those two happen to be in the same line of sight in the next few weeks Venus
will move away from Urus and it won't it just won't be a big deal about it
anymore sometimes something to think about and also I like thinking about you know how
far away these things are um we we joke around about you know uh uh light minutes and miles and all this
well here's a little chart here which which gives you an idea that if you were driving a car
you know non-stop to Uranus from from Earth traveling at your normal freeway speeds it would take you about 3 100
years to get there that's pretty far that's pretty far and
well light takes a little over two hours to to get there and 1.9 billion miles
now Venus is much closer but it's still far I mean when you think about it maybe
just 0.115 billion miles right now but it still takes a car traveling freeway
speeds non-stop no bathroom breaks no sleeping breaks no food 190 years to
reach Venus from where it is right now crazy so that is is one reason why I
think astronomy amateur astronomy is so amazing because we deal with these
numbers which are kind of ridiculous when you think about it they just they roll off our lips and there's billions
and millions and all this stuff we just we just take it all on stride but that is that's that is pretty cool I think so
keep that in mind uh when you're looking at it now what will you see well I have I have a friend
uh Michael good Who belongs to the astronomy club I I belong to the Roanoke Valley Astronomical Society and he's
taken pictures of of Uranus and I I'm going to show you what what he
has now and I appreciate Michael showing this to me but you look at this you
think well yeah but you know this this is 1.9
billion miles away it's a it's a planet it is so far that it's um it's pretty
small in the sky and now when you use your binoculars to see Uranus it's going to look like a a star obviously it's not
a star but it'll look like a star it will not show a disc you have to have a decent sized telescope well you have to
be showing something like 200 uh Power for that and you will end up with a little disc like this and you know it is
so far away uh you won't see much detail but this gives you an idea of what a really nice telescope can can show for
uh for Uranus all these observations you make are uh
can be applied to some of the League's programs observing programs namely two of them the uh
solar system observing program observers Venus is one of the objects of obviously
uh and it is coming into a really good spot in the sky uh late spring through
mid-summer it'll be close enough that even a regular pair of binoculars
could can show a really nice Crescent in the sky be small be very small but you
should be able to see it just with a pair of innocuous and also with the absorbing programs we have the lunar
observing which uh which you can note uh certain objects or features on on the
moon for these programs so I encourage you uh to go to astrolig.org and look at the observing programs and you will see
that there are many programs for beginners and intermediates and advanced
people too but if you're coming into the hobby there's some really nice ones for you to start out with
um I encourage you to check that out one more slide and then I'll turn it back over to Scott
next month April 28th yeah that's that's Cinema a
little over a month from now uh the astronomical League we'll be presenting it's uh I will say it's monthly program
we didn't have one last month or excuse me this month we are going to have one but uh on a Friday evening we
have an evening of astronomy a lot like the global star party in which we will have several speakers uh talk about
various things in the sky uh talk about what's going on with the league now you may all know uh Michael backich and
certainly know uh Dave Iger knows him and Michael has been gracious enough to
offer to speak to our our Al live a bit about the upcoming solar eclipse as this
is not too early to start thinking about it in fact in some aspects it might even be a little on the late side if a hotel
rooms might be kind of hard to find now but uh there is an eclipse coming up and that is something for us all to see and
enjoy and I'm looking forward to hearing what uh Michael beckus has to say about this
um with that I'm gonna turn it back over and I want to appreciate everybody to um
who have put up with my nonsense here for talking about all this I appreciate all that
let's get off that good and uh you know I I encourage everyone
uh not right now because you're you're watching the program here but over the next couple nights go out and have a
look with binoculars or you can use your telescope too with with binoculars you know we've got a couple of these babies
um they aren't uh they aren't really all that sophisticated but in a way they are because they are Precision Instruments
go out and look at the Moon and Uranus next week look at Venus and Uranus too
it it gives you something to think about that's all I ask Scott thanks that's
great thank you so much uh John um uh now people that want to join the
astronomical League uh uh where should they go at this point
well we try to make it as difficult as possible [Laughter] well I mean actually memberships growing
by thousands so it is yeah it is I I kind of joke when I say that but there is some truth to it simply because we
are refurbishing our website so it's hard to find things properly spaced on on our on our website but we we've been
saying this for a while but we really are nearing completion on it um you can join two ways we have a
membership program called the member at large which an individual can can join and there is a spot on our
website uh telling how to do this but most members of that twenty thousand
twenty two thousand I'd say 21 300
um become members through an astronomy club that they belong to uh a lot of we have like over 300 clubs across the
country that are members of our organization and if you belong to one of those clubs most of the time you are
automatically a member of the astronomical League um that's probably the two well that is
that the two best ways of joining great okay all right
there's something I would like to add if that's okay I really did enjoy John's
presentation and uh David Ecker and I will be at the
David and I will be at the league meeting in Baton Rouge this summer
and on a personal note New Orleans is a very personal City for me
my grandparents my mother's parents live there most of their lives after my
grandmother moved there after she was part of the group expelled from Russia in the early
20th century and but on a personal note my mom was
born in New Orleans a lot I am really looking forward to coming to bachelor's
birthday and another good thing for our viewers is I got both you guys on here on my
screen right now uh with our viewers if you come to Newark on Baton Rouge bring your books
that these guys have written and get them autographed you know bring a PIN to it so they can't sneak out of it but I'm
sure they would be happy to to sign up for you I would and so I mean I'm not
shy about it and uh I think they they'd enjoy it too so I think we're both going to do book signings there I'm really
looking forward to it and and thanks so much for having us John there it's going to be great great fun I love Baton Rouge
it's my favorite Red Stick of all and and I will be not only enjoying the
meeting so much but then I'll be sneaking off to do a little uh Civil War history after the the meeting is done
too down here so yeah if you want if you want Civil War stuff though that's the place to go oh yes yeah yeah yeah yeah I
know I I know you've got a lot of people out there going through their dictionary right now was it Red Stick what's he talking about what's Redstone
well come to Baton Rouge and find out astronomy and history with David eicher
that's right well thank you okay well thank you very much John
um uh we are um going to go ahead and bring well he's
already here it's uh David icker you know astronomy magazine Scott why
don't you let me on here it's hard to get rid of me I want to give you a warning
uh you're gonna take we're going for a deep dive into more exotic objects so
I'm I'm excited to uh take that dive with you and as you mentioned before I think you only have something like
several hundred more to go so we only have 431 more to go so unless
you're smart enough to get throw me off the program we've got 8.2 more years of
these words to talk about them we're going to talk about something years now so every object that's ever been seen
ever this guy ever yeah okay yeah
okay I'm gonna bring on guys that will do like the Hubble guide star catalog
and the Sao star catalog and and so on and so on but uh they'll have
to wait in line because you're first okay thank you Scott so much and and thanks
for putting up with me and having me and I will again and I will share my screen and see if I can start a PowerPoint show
and do you see the graphic of two
merging black holes the result of which by the way would be gravitational waves
that would be detected by ligo just a reference back to John um there do you see that graphic now
has nothing to do with anything okay forget that okay just let's move on from
that but instead tonight we'll talk about another strange object and we've
started up near the north uh Celestial pole and we're working our way over a
long time Southward but this is the Lemon slice nebula uh here I see 3568
which is in Northerly is just white screen yes I know I
instead of showing you the whole thing here I'm going to go one line at a time now see that's after about five years I
figured out how to do this on PowerPoint now it's a slow learning curve but
eventually I learned okay yeah so this is an interesting nebula because
of about 3 000 planetaries you know remember our old friend William Herschel uh and his collaborators named planetary
nebulae because they look like things like Uranus in the telescope uh but
they're of course uh the sloughed off gas from dying solar mass stars
essentially um how stars like the sun die so this is one of about 3 000 planetaries in our
galaxy most of them though are very asymmetrical and and this one the lemon
slice nebula which is in camelopartilus close to polaro only a few degrees away
from Polaris this is really the poster child for a very symmetrical planetary
nebula as I mentioned it's IC 3568 it's very young which is part of what contributed
to its symmetry we believe but the mechanisms of how planetaries form
exactly are not perfectly understood yet you know which is probably easy for you
to believe um so it's really small it's it's only uh I think it's about four tenths of a
light year um in diameter so it's a young planetary
um you know much less than the maximum age of dispersing this material back into the interstellar medium which is
about 50 000 years and it's fairly faint it's about a 12th magnitude nebula
um overall and the uh Central Star uh is about about 12 magnitude as well which
you can see this object is about 4 500 light years away so it's unusual and you'll see why it's
one of the simplest nebulae known and and it's not exactly understood why but the material coming off of this elderly
star which is in the throes of of going out of its lifetime if you will has come
off very very symmetrically and evenly which is almost never the case so it makes a very unusual and interesting
telescopic Target and it has it does have a bright as as I've talked about before planetaries will uh sort of belch
off the first stages of material that come off of the dying star at a very low
velocity but then there's higher velocity material that follows and it's kind of that shock front that will often
illuminate the nebula very well so that we can see it across the Galaxy this uh nebula has a
sort of a brighter higher higher velocity inner region that's only about two tenths of a light year across so
this is much smaller than the whole physical diameter of our solar system by
the way um and uh this is how you see the interaction this one was discovered by
Robert Aitkin at Lick Observatory with the 12-inch telescope at Lick in the
year 1900 this is a late Comer which is explains why it's in the index catalog
it eluded the herschel's uh in in their fundamental observations that put
together the NGC so again this is a little tiny section
of Ron stoyan's incredibly and nice Atlas the interstellarm Deep Sky Atlas
you can see the lemon slice nebula here it's way up North and there's not a
whole lot there around it it's in a fairly sparse part of camel apartilus with a couple of nice struvet double
Stars nearby it if you look at the lemon slice nebula
through a small to medium-sized telescope at low to moderate Powers this
is essentially this is a pretty good representation of what it looks like which is you know not all that unlike
Uranus you know which we just saw a nice image of as well that sort of blue
greenish slightly larger than a stellar disc like
if you go to High Powers though in a large backyard telescope you'll be able to see those two areas of the disc and
you can see the inner brighter faster velocity material that is creating this shock front in the nebula and the
Central Star there pretty nicely as well and if you can rent time on the Hubble
Space Telescope this is one of the early images that was taken of this uh object
with Hubble uh in the mid-1990s and I don't know if you remember the great Jim
kaler who we lost late last year uh he named this uh object gave it its popular
name from this image that was taken with Hubble this is the image that led him to
name it the lemon slice nebula and Jim kaler was really something it's a shame
he lived to a ripe old age but but we lost him late last year he was down at
Champaign Urbana and he was one of the few one of the maybe you could even say
handful of real experts on Stellar astronomy Stellar classification who was
really writing a lot about that in the world if you go and look at popular books about classification of stars
important Stars etc etc etc about two-thirds of them in
the last 20 years were written by Jim kaler so he left an incredible Legacy
for us about Stellar astronomy this is a slightly more recent HST image
that shows you in a little bit better detail the phases of expansion of the
lemon slice uh in in not this sort of false color if you will but but a little
bit more natural uh you know oxygeny color of a planetary if you will
with the inner detail and you can see this uh you know even though uh you know
there's this interaction between the inner and the outer regions uh the older
outer region and the inner newer region it's incredibly symmetrical most
planetaries are very asymmetrical many of them are bipolar even and and so this
is quite unusual for its symmetry just again to remind you shamelessly
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issue that will have all sorts of special features in it so we're working on that one right now and then just to
close the loop uh on Michael bokich this is the book that Michael and I wrote
recently here on a child's introduction to space exploration to help Inspire
kids to get interested in this new era of space that we're in
so that's all I have tonight Scott I only am down to 429 objects left now I
am ashamed to say yeah it's sad to know that the end is coming you know yes the
end is coming 8.25 years from now um so unless I'm thrown off beforehand
which would be completely understandable but so that's all I have uh tonight Scott uh the lemon slice nebula and I
think we will go into some interesting uh nebulae again but also some galaxies coming up in the next few weeks galaxies
are my favorite that's the whole reason I got into amateur astronomy was I wanted to see that fossil light so you
know what that proves Scott that you like galaxies so much seriously you're a damn good man that's
what that proves of the this nearby really bright stuff that gets in the way of Galaxy you know
in the solar systems and stuff it's just that's that's anybody can see it's right
here you know okay in front of you you know the the galaxies are where it said yeah yeah
well thanks very much David so thank you and Timothy Ferris if you're listening
to this program again uh thank you very much that I got really into all this stuff
yes and me too yeah yeah yeah okay well thanks very much David we'll
see you uh next week take care yes indeed see you man all right take care okay so uh it's been a while since
Dr Caitlin Aaron's is a planetary scientist uh her specialty was like uh
uh planetary ices which maybe she's still I'm sure she's still an expert about it but um she's at Goddard space
flight center and she comes back uh to tell us all about was it the 54th lunar
and planetary space conference so Caitlin thank you very much for coming on to Global Star Party
thank you so much for having me here again I uh boy
I ride my goodness I so yeah when I whenever I got a text from Scott like
what you got I was like Hey I just came back from this uh lunar and planetary science conference so so good timing on
your part Scott thank you I so it has been uh quite a year uh so this is a
yearly lunar and planetary science conference uh Nationwide and we open it
up internationally as well we all I huddle around uh just north of Houston
Texas uh for a whole week and it's just non-stop planetary science from about 8
30 in the morning to like 5 p.m in in the evening so it is truly just
jam-packed there's talks going on right in like five different rooms all at the
same time I NASA headquarters will come in and give us updates uh on uh on the The Good
the Bad and the Ugly I mean it's it's it's all uh open to us it's all uh our
our journey together it's all a matter of just what's everybody doing and it's
this one giant very weird family reunion uh for a whole week uh and uh you get to
make new connections we allow students to come in uh sometimes the students are
also presenting work as well which is really fantastic uh but we get all the
updates I like I said some are good some are bad and uh so happy to share uh some
stuff that has been released uh during that conference um so the big one is is
might be pretty obvious it's the Artemis I I program coming up so Artemis one was
a success Hooray at launched back in November uh 16th of 2022 hooray okay
that was our our big Milestone there I'm Artemis 2 is slated
for November 2024. guys so that's already been uh you know
just in the books we're we're getting ready for it uh the Artemis 2 crew uh
will be announced uh the first week of April so I keep an ear out for that
that's going to be a really really exciting um it's coming up for Artemis three and four we now have
our project scientists announced uh through NASA's that's going to be really
exciting because Artemis 3 um for 2025 we're finally gonna put
boots on the ground South Pole of the Moon uh and there's a lot of challenges with that as well
um and then happy to to answer questions about that as well but having project scientists what is so like big whoop
what does this mean well this means that we have scientists taking the Helm of
making sure just the ring leaders essentially just making sure the program
runs well um what did the engineers need what do any of our contractors need what about
stakeholders I uh all the different um side contracts uh private business
partners versus NASA's that you're dealing with private space companies and also government as well it's it's really
just going to be a an interesting experience to be sure and and much much bigger and louder uh than
than Apollo not to say Apollo wasn't great Apollo was fantastic and we had a
lot of lessons learned however we're going to the South Pole of the Moon that presents a whole different level of
challenges for us I on on many different levels uh it's and it's exciting and
we're going somewhere that we haven't been before great now it's a matter of just kind of starting from scratch on a
few things too so we're wanting a lunar terrain vehicle or a LTD
um so what's the design of this vehicle how is it going to do well with very minimal lighting conditions like at the
South Pole what about cold environments um so now we're having to deal with how
does the spacesuit look uh they just released the uh the spacesuit design
um fairly recently so that's exciting hooray uh but all all of this Artemis I stuff is
is all the back end behind the scenes stuff is getting busy or getting ready
it's uh it's going to be uh quite the show for sure
um and then in thinking about the moon we gotta think forward to lunar Gateway
um so Gateway is going to be kind of our our little Stepping Stone Point
um to get us toward Mars uh as well so that's in the foreseeable future as well
that's a lot of exciting work but we just we just gotta get back to the Moon first and foreign
and now for some of the some of the the bad news that we have I reached at the
conference as well so this has been somewhat uh released in the news uh but
this was more confirmation than anything so the psyche Mission uh has now been
delayed in its launch because it's now been delayed
um by about a year unfortunately a year delay then delays
other projects even further yeah so what now
um the Veritas Mission out of JPL is now uh three years delayed
uh so that's uh that's gonna be that's a bit of a bummer for the Venus community at least it hasn't been scrapped so I
mean that's that's still still good news but it was still a rating scale here of
do we scrap or do we delay and so the the issue with delay is obviously delay
but you're also extending your cost as well and so there's there's a lot of pros and cons with either one at least
either one has been scrapped though so there's a little bit of a silver lining
in this but unfortunately I one tiny delay even if just by a year uh
of one project now can really affect um delays and even longer delays in the
future unfortunately mainly because psyche had unfortunately um
JPL missed its time window to Launch uh they weren't ready so
they have to wait get that window back and then finally launch uh so so here's
to hoping that psyche doesn't get delayed uh anymore uh the Venus missions
are are really really exciting so we don't want to delay those any further uh
as well so you know going to space is hard and uh and so that's that's the Crux of
it I mean just planning for all of these missions things happen uh so it's it's a
very Dynamic uh time to be a planetary scientist for sure because then we got
Europa Clipper coming up um I believe Europa Clipper is supposed to be launching very soon so
Europa Clipper is going to be a really fantastic little Orbiter uh going around the icy Moon of Europa
which is around Jupiter that's going to be exciting uh okay so it's it's slated
for October 2024 as its launch
that'll be really cool I'm excited about that one uh and then we got we got
dragonfly to look forward to as well some dragonflight uh launch date is mid
2027 so we got we got a little while for that
um yeah so you know happily put it on your phone but you know don't like wake
up tomorrow and expect something to happen I and then Osiris Rex uh is gonna
be really exciting uh to come back
uh if I could type on the computer that would be fantastic so I yeah so beginning
July of this year is when we're gonna start uh bringing it back the sample return is
supposed to come back September 24th of this year that's gonna be really
exciting we get to have a nice big couple chunks uh of an asteroid from
osiris-rex spacecraft uh from from the by asteroid Banu and uh and then it's
gonna promptly get picked up and then shuffled off into a lab and we could
just start doing science on it yay that's gonna be exciting as we were excited there's so much going
on in a space to keep jackham there's so many tabs open on my computer let's do
just what's going on next I have a question uh for you and there's a question from the audience as well and
we'll go with that question first book Davies is watching on YouTube uh was
curious what sort of orbit would be required for a lunar South Pole Landing
oh that's a very good question that is not my department but uh yeah I would
imagine you would have to do nearly nearly pull to pull but
maybe not exactly cool beyond that I'm not a rocket scientist
okay I could tell you where all the good spots to land but yeah over all the ice
is right where all the ice is so I'm still working on Ice just mostly on the moon
but I still go back to Pluto every once in a while so I guess still working still working on Ice
um actually there's gonna be a conference a ritual conference uh in the in like three weeks that builds upon the
lunar science Community we're supposed to be presenting I
what what Landing site do we think might be higher priority than others
um to get us ready for Artemis so we're allowing the lunar science Community to to speak forward and go okay we need to
actually we need to land here better than this other area and so on what's this what's the science behind these
different areas so there are 13 different landing potential Landing sites at least narrowed down right now and so
it's a matter of which one of the 13 are we going to go with wow okay that sounds
very exciting sounds very exciting so um uh and I guess also for the um manned
mission or person Mission I could say it that way
um you know what are we going to do there first do you think it's going to be picking out a place where we can build a
habitat or are we looking for lava tubes or what do we what are we looking for we already got a
bunch of rocks we got a bunch of soil you know we might bring back more but but um uh yep I mean you're not wrong on
that where rocks and soil would be good I the thing about the South Pole of the Moon that we had a little bit of issues
with with Apollo but it's going to be even more of an issue in the South Pole of the moon is radiation
radiation environment at the poles of the Moon are very extreme much more extreme than the eye equator of the moon
so with that uh we're gonna have to monitor
uh that very closely so that way we can help mitigate that or at least help
Shield um ourselves better for future Artemis missions
um so radiation environment a little bit of sample collecting mostly soil uh
definitely some nice geology but specific tools we have not decided yet I
see I and uh and that we're still working on our vehicle as well
um so that's a wonderful uh partnership with the Japanese space agency going on
right now uh is that they're helping us design the vehicle um designing how is this going to work
um the lighting conditions when you're in pitch black for hours on end I could get
can get a bit tricky with that um and then also yeah yeah exactly so
we're definitely going to have to do battery power uh because illumination you only have just a short when short
windows of your illumination to comes back to Earth very quickly and
then Darkness for maybe just a couple hours and then I you know they're
they're worth what's our good limit here so Artemis 3 is definitely going to be just a really much a test run
to get us then ready for all the cool stuff let's play Let's play with more stuff
let's play with more tools uh let's let's actually get ice um because otherwise we're we're not
planning to really get ice per se at Artemis three again this is truly just
gonna be let's try to just get boots back on the ground what do we need to do better
uh rehearsal it's a it's a redress rehearsal Artemis four then this is
where we get to play hopefully get some ice um how do we contain the ice so that's
part of my job right now uh at Nasa Goddard is very cool Miguel we're we're
dealing with uh very cool very cool
I see what you did there okay one more question from book Davies
he says um what sort of magnetic field does the moon have
oh very good question I not much not much of a magnetic field however there
are uh particles very energetic particles uh being bombarded around by
little itty itty itty bitty magnetic fields uh within trapped within the the
soil so the moon itself doesn't have this big Grand magnetic field like the Earth has
or certainly like the Monstrous magnetic field that Jupiter has or anything nothing spectacular like that
unfortunately um probably for the past honestly uh but
there are little itty bitty magnetic I
influences uh with the particles uh so understanding how how those work
um it does seem to change between Dawn afternoon and dusk on the moon
um so paying attention to that paying attention to how dust um yeah so the the really creepy part in
all this too is um dust will hop around depending upon your your magnetic field
or your radiation environment and a little itty bitty grains will just hop around
and it will depend upon what time of day it is on the moon so Dawn
these are very like solar powered particles essentially just when it hits Dawn those are particles will start to
get jumpy and then they'll settle down um so dust is also a big Hazard for our
uh well yeah yeah so we're truly just doing test runs dress rehearsal and
what's all the hazards yeah all the safety all the hazards are going on with Artemis 3
um to get us really really prepared and ready for Artemis four there's already talks for Artemis five and six already
two so I mean we're cool all over again I know we're we're
getting ready we're getting ready folks and I hope I hope you guys are excited and ready too
absolutely okay well thank you so much Caitlin thanks for giving us some insight as to
what goes on at these uh meetings and um uh I hope that you know as many of these
things can get lost as possible one other question though if you'll indulge me about that
if one like this one Mission isn't going to go and you say it's it's pushing back
these other missions why don't they just like go okay you can't go we'll put this one on you know
it I maybe it doesn't work that way you know maybe there's too much prep or uh
the windows or whatever a problem so it's it's all of the above honestly so I
okay Veritas you don't want to get it any earlier because the teams wouldn't be
prepared in time either and then you're just you're just tripping over yourself um
and it's and then it's Windows as well um so to get the cheapest fastest orbit
you can get to your destination so you know psyche's going one way for an
asteroid and then we have to hit Venus at a certain time too um so it's it's truly a juggling act I
at least it's not outer planets because that's way way trickier uh for sure so I
mean at night it's not great to uh um to get that sort of delay
um but I mean it could be worse and it could be it could have been scrubbed as well right yeah so take the delay and
get what you get I can imagine all the various uh incarnations of things that
might happen I mean you could lose 10 team members you could have people that go on to do other you know uh projects
that kind of thing and uh so keeping the team intact it's got to be a big deal as
well so oh for sure because you never know what's going to change it I'll give a good quick example here so astrobotic
I one of our um are like lunar contractors is planning
uh a mission to what would have been uh lackas Mortis on the moon and drop of
the Hat they changed the location that they've changed the instruments of their payload so it's just like whoa wait a
moment you're Landing where now and so you have to keep track of where
is everybody landing and uh and they had to like descope instruments so descoping
means you Chuck it off um mainly because you're either over overweight
um so you gotta loosen up the mass or you're overpowered and gotta um still check out instruments
unfortunately it and it happens it happens I you know to make to make the
thing work but changing location though that that was that was a bit of a new one
it's like okay it's not even near where it was supposed to land it's truly on
the other side of the moon it's just like oh my God okay sure all right well thank you again so
much Caitlyn thank you for having me back anytime
okay so um up next is uh the uh Chief
science officer for unisteller uh also one of the founders of unistolar and if
you have not seen a uniceller actually I have one right here in my office uh we
are building out the display that we're going to use uh for unicellar at the
meetings or excuse me the explore scientific Booth I worked at Mead for so many years sometimes I still say it but
uh anyhow uh uh uh Dr Frank marches is
also one of the astronomers at seti and uh he is running a citizen Science
Program like no other um and the last time he was on we talked
about uh how unicellular citizen science worked with the dart Mission so uh Frank
thanks for coming on again and uh informing our audience about uh how they
can get involved with citizen science with with the interstellar thank you thank you very much uh can you hear me
well yes yeah all right okay so I'm going to uh choose a presentation that I
put together with two of my colleagues uh that you may be able to see because they're just behind me in the glass
window are they working did not pay attention okay never mind I will call them later
maybe so they'll probably be doing some writing some papers okay so this is the work we
uh we're doing at the at the city Institute in collaboration with unicella the network of small telescope that I'm
going to describe a bit in more detail and this is a work with Ryan Lambert and
ayal wikowski two postdocs and Institute which was really recently high
is just got it
so just a reminder the United
telescopes we are full of them right now they've discovered one and two The Equinox one and two
those are portable smart telescopes you have one in the back I have one in my bag here there's a telescope that you
can carry around the electronic telescopes uh they they are easy to use
they find themselves where they're located so the point here is that you use those telescope to enjoy the dark
sky but also to to do citizen astronomy so to participate to Citizen science
science programs that's what I'm going to talk mostly about today so this is not something we do about
ourself alone uh unistella Simon and mou with a city Institute four years ago and
City Institute is the main scientific institution of unicella and at the city
Institute we work with other institutions to develop scientific application for the network and this can
be uh NASA programs for like the test mission the Lucy Mission but also
amateur astronomical clubs like a group like Iota and we also work with other
professional Institute like the observator of the parishal University MPC and aavs for instance and the goal
here is to broaden the application of the unicellular Network and make sure that we don't we do a broad range of
Science and we also do scientific application which could be interesting for a world a large and diverse group of
people not only in the US but also in Europe and soon in Japan and the rest of
the world so the network has grown with 10 000 at
least I should say not 12 000 because I think we're closer to twelve thousand telescope and ten thousand now around
the world and among these 11 12 000 telescopes we have a 1800 of them that
register to become citizen astronomers meaning that they are they receive notification the access to our slack
they know what we look about our campaign we guide them to explain to them how to do it this year we just got
this slide that Florence scientists in my group put together this
morning this is the number of unicellular citizen scientists we had in 2022 so
it's almost around 600 of them those are 600 citizens universe that did observation using the ministerial
Network and send them to us so you see them mostly concentrated in Europe Japan
and United States and Canada but we're starting having a point popping up in the rest of the world and I must say
that I'm very proud about seeing observation taken in the southern
hemisphere like Chile Brazil Namibia but also observation observation
taken in countries like India and now in the Arabic peninsula
so broadening the network give us of course the opportunity to observe almost
continuously the Sky by taking advantage of the full rotation of this of the of
Earth and that's allow us to develop scientific programs that I think are compelling in comparison to Telus to
Observation from very large ability steps so
brief description planetary defense is the is the feel of research which course aim at defending the planet against
asteroid impact and part of this program consists in
mapping this close finish vicinity of our planet so
finding those rocks that couldn't impact our planet catalog them follow them to get the
Norbit and derive information about them such as the size the barrel rotation if
there are binaries Etc we have 31 000 of them known so far and
there is probably more than one million we know only 50 of the one which are
between 100 and 300 meters in diameter and those are called uh
uh city killers so meaning that if they impact our planet they could destroy an area as big as a city like Los Angeles
or New York so they are very important to map it's very important to map them so we know if one day one of them could
impact our planet uh so to do this every month we select
between one and four asteroid that we do a close close approach to our planet meaning that we'll be observable by the
ministerial Network and what you see here is one of the calls for 2005 yy128
not a pretty name I'm sorry for that which is a 800 meter diameter asteroid which has a close Fire by in February 15
or 14 for Valentine's Day 2023. so we send this call to our Network they
receive either notification or slack Channel or they go to our website and uh
and they have instruction on how and when to observe it we calculate the window of observability for them
and they collect the observation and we show you this later on we also have a bot and this is not yet
public so I'm kind of revealing this for the first time which is reading continuously the minor planet center
data and fine as newly discovered asteroid that could potentially could have a
close flyby to our planet and here the goal is to be able to continue to monitor them because sometimes a big
Observatory we just detect them I would say in Chile for instance or in Hawaii
and then and then the asteroid is basically not observed for
a few hours and this is a problem because we don't then we can lose them
we lose it so having continuous observation and be able to catch it as soon we have the first detection it's
important to be able to continue to to estimate this position so derive its
orbit so this is something we are starting doing now and we're going to be able to send very soon notification when
an asteroid displayed by Earth and has been recently discovered
so if you are an observer within istellar this is what you see this is what you
get so you observe you can see uh you know even the telescope sometimes the
motion of the asteroid you send us the data we have a pipeline which automatically analyze receivers the data
automatically sort them out get rid of aberration issue wins whatever you name
it flights from the city Etc and then process the data the data
reduction is quite classical because those are digital telescopes but then we do also measurement of the asymmetry
meaning the position of the asteroid and the photometry meaning the flux of the asteroid and then we send to our users
movies and report so this is what you receive after our goal is to do that in less than 24 hours now and we are very
close to this goal so you can see here like the those are frames for second
exposure frames taken and there is something like five minutes of 20 minutes of observations here so you can
see their steroid in the center of the field of view here and the stars in the background moving and here this this is
the stack image the same more or less the same movie but in this case we we
use the the background Star as a reference so you see the stereo in the movie in the field of view
and what you have here is the flux of measure on the asteroid so the what we
call the Leica the light curve is the is due to the the fact that yesterday is
not perfectly circular he has a void shape like this one for instance and when it spin on itself what you can see
is a variation of light due to the fact that you see the asteroid with different angle different different projected
surface and from that the goal is to derive this the the spin period the pole
solution in the orientation of the asteroid and you have enough data the shape of the asteroid by doing what we
call inversion method so those observation taken by Foreign
of the asteroid 1989 ja and this one is taken by Martin smollen in the U.S in
California um the semester in 1999 ja which has been the focus of our attention last
year in May 2022 we collected 38 observations parallel observation from
38 Observers and we focus on this one because it's a very interesting like
it's a large Nea one kilometer it's a S-Type it's a rocky asteroid is he has a
number meaning that it's orbit is very well known but despite that its period was still
unknown at the time we observed it the spin period of the asteroid this is an important parameter because
the spin period without entering too many details give us some indication about the formation of the asteroid but
also could give us some indication about the presence of a of a moon or and also
give us a medication about uh how we could mitigate this asteroid in the future if for instance this asteroid
could be a threat for our planet so from these 38 spouse observation you
can see a few of them here we run an algorithm that I'm not going
to go through the details which combine them to all together and try to extract what we call the like curve that you can
see here and a pair of rotation so we derived the period of rotation of a disaster World which is quite small 2.6
hour typically an asteroid this size as a spin period of 8 to 10 hours so this
is what we call a phosphor data not extremely fast but it is quite fast and this result uh the point of our
research is of course to publish is not only to do science just to keep that on
our server we want the work to know about this because that's useful information for the other scientists so
we publish this result in the minor planet bulletin this year and you can see the paper here so Ryan will lead who
is the lead on the planetary defense wrote this paper is here first daughter and we also include our citizen
astronomers in the paper as well and this is one of the key key of key part
of our scientific program we involve our citizen astronomers in the process of publication as well they received the
draft they can comment on it uh we like any science scientist and then when we
publish the paper they quarter of the paper so this was the first uh this was the first publication in the minor
planet mirror 10 of the city of the unistail network
we have done the same last in 2020 this was published by Josef alusion presented
at the American geophysical Union last year um this is a campaign that we did in
December um to observe the asteroid 1999 ap10 which is also a very large Lea
and for this one we collected enough observations at different angle that we
are being able by combining with additional observations from professional telescope we're being able to derive the shape of
this festival and that's what you can see here so we send this to all our citizens members they receive basically
here a 3D printed version of the asteroid that they upsell this is one of the like curve but between this and that
there is a lot of work that I'm not going to go through it could be will be a paper in the future but it's basically
an inversion method that allow us to approximate the shape the shape of their
server so despite the small size of the of the telescope we can do this kind of work
that is was reserved in the bus to professional astronomers we can derive
the shape or solution and spin of asteroids
um the second discussion I wanted to have with you is talk about comments so comments are great people love watching
them because they're beautiful they are they're very valuable over time you see
them beating becoming bright sometimes they disintegrate they disappear very quickly I mean we have we have been very
blessed recently with a large number of comets over the past four years we have neo-wise we have recently E3
Etc so I was our community has been observing combat for fun for quite a long time using the telescope and those
observations they can with our telescope this one is near wise they can at very low I took this one so that's why I know
that a very low elevation in San Francisco and I remember I was moving
the telescope yeah to avoid the light of the tower the Salesforce Towers in San
Francisco we have this big tower now the 74 star which is extremely bright because he's they put the blue light on
the top so I was trying to avoid it and I managed to get this observation with
our telescope so let's go back to the science it's not only science comets are great because
the beauty should be that all they are also very interesting they are pristing
elements coming from the outer part of the solar system for the long period one
the activity is an indicator of the amount of volatile elements in the in
the interior and how they interact with the solar with the Sun the heat of the sun and the solar wind so by observing
them coming closer and drifting away from this from us and from the sun we learn about their composition we learn
about the their behavior as well so we have run a program to monitor the
activity of comet and this is a word by Ariel glucoskey that join us in June of
this last year um so yeah the goal here is to be to Monitor and of comets so we refine the
model of variation of brightness of comets so we'll be able in the future to
predict accurately the the brightness of those comets so what you can see here
um it's the comet K2 2017 K2 pen Stars so the gray points here are observation
taken by a large number of different telescopes in the world and these come from cups and what we have in blue here
is our observations so one of the advantage of our telescope
is that they're all identical the series 1 and Series 2 are very identical in terms of the sensor the the
the output Etc so it's very easy to put together an observation and we you know we don't
have to take into account some difference of sensitivity from different type of detectors there is a filter and
all of this this does not exist with our telescopes so we can basically refine
have a very good estimate of the brightness of a comet and have much less
dispersion that you can see on this tiny Point here there is like more than 10 points here and then they're very close
to each other because there is no dispersion due to the fact that you have different type of telescopes so from
that we can run models um to derive basically the behavior of
this Comet that's what I've done for this one um something we can also do because all
those telescopes identical is to create super images of comets so we have done
that multiple times we've done that for K2 in July last year we asked our users
some different area of the world to observe together the comet at the same time and we create a super image of this
comment by combining the observation and stacking them together observation coming from different telescopes so here
is one image one participant this is 12 this is 23. so what you can see is that
by putting together more participants you basically increase the signal to
noise so you can see fainter features in the comma of the Comet of background style
as well I don't have the exact number but typically with one telescope in the
city of San Francisco with which magnitude 16.2 in terms of sensitivity in less than five minutes if we combine
observation from 20 40 telescopes you reach magnitude 1890 so you basically
get an observation like if you have a one two meter class telescope instead
so I have a question for you Frank is is can some of this Imaging be done in uh
in near real time with your network or is this still no this is not yet yeah
this is post processing so you send the data and then we send you back the the
super image
those are things that we're considering doing in the future as well right okay
um another amazing comment was committee three I think most of the audience here know about it so we've monitor it so you
can see uh how it changing this is very faint and it's getting brighter and closer to us so you can see the change
of the orientation of the tail because of the change of location between Earth the Sun and the comet
um we have observed this comment for uh eight nine months now
those observation my headset died so can you hear me uh we
can hear you yes so we observe this comment with um with the tennis with the telescope
Network for multiple months and um with this data we predicted as well the
brightness when you be closer to us and that will be barely visible to Nicolai
with naked eye and that's exactly what happened in fact it was just at the age so if you were located in the
countryside in a good bottle Sky you could see it but in fact a telescope or
binocular was needed to be able to see the comma and to see the features of this comment it's been anyway a
beautiful Comet the Press called it the green Comet because it was a catchy name but it was uh one of the I think
probably the bright the nicest Comet we are going to have this year
another thing we do is to observe comets which have this kind of outburst so one
of them the most famous one is 29p Watchman which is a comet a short period
Comet and he had recently two-hour bursts this is the one in November so
that's the normal brightness of the Comet that you expect at this time so 14.8 and he got an Albus in which they
only made to 12 so two um increased Effects by two magnitude
and then you can see the decrease here and this each of these data points here with different colors are different
observers our community love observing this car this uh this comment and get
some um uh some photometric measurements um we observe this observe another
outbursts in February 2023 and when I say we I'm in the citizen astronomers
this is a data set by Darren revert I think he's in located in New Zealand and
The observed 29p for multiple days and you can see the brightening sudden brightening of the of the comment
the goal here is to identify find out identify those
outbursts follow them up and monitor them and we have a program with a large
telescope we're setting that setting this up now where we'll be able to send notification
when our small Network did take a now burst so large telescopes like Keck or
gemini or others will be able to take spectroscopic measurements so we can have information about the type of
material rejected by the comet this is great because we see fresh material
basically if in this case so you can have information about the composition of the comet
there is ton of mechanism that could explain this I'm not going to go through that but maybe it's an impact maybe some
thermal stress or outgazing stress we still don't really know in the case of
29p the source of this of this brightening this outburst
okay I'm gonna finish here by just summarizing that despite the small
appear too that we have with this telescope we can do some very significant measurement for small solar
system bodies one of the reasons is because there is millions of small solar system bodies so you always find one
that is observable with your telescope and that's one important part and we will find more of them in the future
with the arrival of the Vera Rubin telescopes and other large surveys the
number of small solar system bodies which is currently 1 million will be probably 10 million in the next four or
five years so we are going to have a lot of work to monitor those asteroids
comets and other weird things flying by towards us like maybe comets coming from
another explanatory systems planetary systems so there is a lot of work and
most large telescope will not be able to do this monitoring so we rely they will
rely on small telescopes smaller telescope like the unicellar network but also others so I think it's uh it's
important to understand that we will unders we will be able to car properly
characterize and understand the behavior of this small solar system if you continue to monitor them regularly and
small telescopes will play a major role for that um we have achieved some significant
results we have papers coming out and soon more will come out so stay tuned about some of the development we have a
uni Stellar Network the key for us right now is to optimize the data processing
so we can do everything almost automatically and extract photometry
astrometry automatically I didn't mention that but right now with the planetary defense 85 percent of the data
processed automatically and sent to MPC without any human intervention
we're going to improve that to reach 95 hopefully in the future so this will become Focus only on the problematic
observations which are most interesting one and uh yeah that's all join us that's
wonderful and so what does it take to become a unicellular citizen scientist
uh but you need to buy a telescope for that you can go on any website to have a
telescope explore scientific you have our telescope if I remember yes we do and then I I did mention also in chat
that you are going to be at the Northeast astronomy Forum um uh with um uh some other people from
unistellar I believe and uh uh it'll be exciting we we've been working on the
displays and everything for unistellar we're real proud to display that product
at uh at neef I think that anyone I'll say this I think that anyone that is a
serious amateur astronomer that has not yet really adults or participated in
science we'll find that a unicellular telescope would be really a perfect
addition to your arsenal of equipment because this thing can you can throw it
on on an airplane you can be somewhere at a moment's notice uh you know the
telescope is uh you know it's it's got self-contained batteries it's got a
network of other scientists citizen scientists that you would be involved with and uh your name too would appear
on a paper science paper in the future so I think that's very very cool and that's
something a lot of amateur astronomers right now can't claim they they love looking at the sky they're in love with
all the rest of it they're the first to uh tell you how important science is to
humanity but uh you know with unisteller it you were you were just that far away
from actually being a team player so uh thanks very much Frank and um
we're gonna go on a 10 minute break and um uh we will uh we'll be back with um
Nico the hammer so stay tuned bye-bye
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my name is Madison brodnax and I'm an electrical Power Systems engineer on the
Hubble Space Telescope being an electrical Power Systems engineer entails making sure everything
goes smoothly on the telescope basically keeping it safe something I do every year is manage the solar eclipses for
the telescope to make sure that it can powerwise make it through that me and
the other Electrical Power Systems Engineers manage any anomalies that might arise that are power or electrical
related or even thermal related I think a lot of people think it's just a telescope floating around in low earth
orbit and it just kind of does its own thing but in reality there are tons of
people keeping it safe and healthy day to day with whatever problems may arise
it goes through hot Seasons cold Seasons there could be electrical problems or pointing and control problems with it
there's a huge team of people that keeps that going and seamless so that the public gets these really great images
you know year after year what I find most rewarding about the work is probably being able to flex my
engineering brain every day I think of working on such a historic project that
has a lot of information that needs to be learned about it back to its conceptualization all the way up to now
in 2023 and is really like a privilege and also keeps me on my feet every day
in my day-to-day I wake up and I pet my dog for a good like 15-20 minutes if I'm
coming in office it's me versus 295 drive for a good 45 minutes once I come
in I usually get to talk with my teammates about the things that have been happening for the past week I
really enjoy being able to collaborate with everybody in the mornings then I sit down and do some work chug away at
some more coding or some more numbers hopefully have a cool meeting and get to schmooze some other NASA people and then
also head home and go to the gym or trivia I think one thing to take away from you know being a woman in stem is
that you're stronger and more knowledgeable than you think you are the smartest person in the room all of us
are the smartest person in the room and I think you know worrying about confidence level is not as important
just showing up flexing the knowledge that you know you already have is really important my favorite Hubble image is
probably the butterfly nebula it's you know one of the older ones but I love all the pinks and purples in it
thank you
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this is an object called v838 Mono serratus or v838 Mon and it's
a series of images of the same object that are taken over about a half a year
or so in 2002 so we see the central object here is the
same in each of the four Images but what is immediately apparent is that there's a expanding brightness around it so what
was first thought would be that wow we've got this gas cloud that is just spewing away from this object but it was
spewing away to incredibly fast speeds what is actually happening here instead
of that gas itself being in motion and causing that expansion is something
called a light Echo so just like you hear an echo with sound waves as some sound waves come directly towards you
you hear the main source of sound but then as others bounce off walls and come to you a little bit later that's where
the echo comes from the same thing is happening with light in this image we're seeing some of that light coming
directly towards us we're seeing that at the time that we receive it but some of the rest of the light is actually
bouncing off material around that binary in the center it bounces off it and then
it comes to us that's the light Echo and so each one those succeeding images
where we see this shell further and further from the center is actually that light Echo coming to us later in time so
we're actually basically taking a CAT scan of the material around that Central
Star there's still a lot of mystery surrounding where that material came
from is it being blown off by these hot young energetic stars as a process of
their star formation one of the coolest possibilities is that one of these Stars actually engulfed a
giant planet in its orbit it's like a giant planet like many times the mass of Jupiter could be in orbit very close to
this very hot large star and the tidal forces and the energy dissipation could
have been acting on it in such a way that that now massive planet is losing energy spinning more rapidly and closer
to one of those stars and eventually gets engulfed in an explosive event could have been a large planet could
have been a small star in that system we don't know what the mass of that Intruder was that that interloper that
caused this explosive event but it is very likely that it was something in the neighborhood of that binary system that
just got too close to one of those Stars got sucked in and we saw this explosion as a result
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yeah I think something like half the world speaks Spanish anyway so
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so we have next it's a little feature a little feature just a couple of minutes to talk about uh NASA's uh maps of the
uh solar eclipses that are coming through and then Nico Nicholas Arias
will be on with us to uh talk about his uh his journey and his adventures and
I'm sure some astrophotography yeah we have some that's great
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well thanks for hanging out there with us um hope you had a chance to stretch your
legs maybe get a sandwich or coffee or something or your favorite adult beverage if if uh if that so moves you
um right now we have Nicholas Arias from Argentina with us and uh it's been Maybe
a few weeks since he's been on um it's been a long time Scott has it been a long time
ways we always love to have him on uh his uh his talks are always inspiring he
always has amazing astrophotography and he mixes some science in it too so I'm
going to turn it over to you Nico thanks for okay welcome to a global star party I think it's good hi everyone it's
really nice to be back and I was I was really stunning with the
with the Frank presentation about the how how they make the
in a team of uh a lot of small telescopics is really
it's really amazing and it's really important that you say it's got that
even any astronomy or or astronomy lover can
do science that's right and I think that the this is part of the that Journey uh
I I think that in the in the time that we started looking up at the stars or
get our first telescope with our journey of learning and even I don't know I I
was thinking early I didn't have have any physics in school and now I grew up
and I study Physics to understand the astronomy and it's really it's really motivating and nice to the
to do some science well let me let me share my screen
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okay can you see yes sir okay
well um for for tonight I I was
I was thinking about how how to talk how to to show and uh
I I think it would be interesting uh when I go back to that special objects
in the sky that it it makes you to to observate in the time and and to learn
about that and uh as you know I really love uh the attack
system is the the brightest star in in Korean constellation uh is in the center of the
career nebula but I I really like to to
focus on this style that as we know we say it's a double star system
and this is a comparison of the whoa blue shy on the stars there
and uh this is this is a picture I take a maybe
two years ago with with my dog son oh wow
did you have a tracking system no no I I started making a a homemade Dragon
system but this is a home tracking and I am hand tracking again so wow it's being
a I I need to to improve the the tracking system and this was a hand dragon
and I love to observate this area and this particular star
from the city sky because I I I love to to play with other
if if I go to the to a really dark skies I can see the whole nebula I can see
galaxies and everyone and every the defined objects but from the city
you can particularly observe a small planetary
enable us that maybe in dark sky uh it it loses and this is one great
example the um
is a small nebula around the star that if you look it in the dark sky you will see the whole Karina nebula and it's not
easy to to observate this uh this small nebula in the star
and this well this is a special nebula because it's a bipolar emission and
reflection nebula was discovered from for Enrique gabiola here from from
Argentina and uh
I was making some observations and this is the this is a a sketch of how you can
observe this nebula from the convolutional sky
you even see in my skin that if you use no filter you cannot see the
the Karina nebula but you can see if you use a lot of magnification maybe 100 or more
magnification you can see the the nebula behind the the register of
this was a a drying drawing procedure of
this week and the seeing was really really nice
that night so I got my white Wi-Fi camera with my dachshund and
I tried to to make another photography of the this nebula using
um what we call is lucky e machine Let's it's the same process that you use when
you want to to make a an image of a planet that is make or you can make
videos or a lot of short frames this is a a video that I take
you can see the star and some of the nebula and this is all images of 12 mile
seconds is really really short exposures because if you make a longer exposure
the star breaks so much that you cannot see any details of the nebula
and I get these result and I I think that is the best shot I
will get uh nebula because I I started to to find some details that you can see
here down at the right you have the they have an image of that nebula
and you can see I I was comparing the capture with what I observed with my eye
and I was surprised that night because I can see this dark area
that is a from the south east of the nebula and
this particularly [Music] I I don't know how to to say that this
this thinking thing part here and I was really styled whether the
stack that frames and get this image is
it's amazing that what what you can get from even absolutely
a city sky when you can see no nebula of the Korean
language but you can see this planet enable us and a
I I I really love to do yes this is stunning I really love to do this kind of
observations from from home and to try to to capture and this is a really hard
to catch because uh as I say you need to do a very very short exposure and
because the star is a magnitude six and it breaks so much even with one second
exposure it burns and you cannot see the democracy
uh so I I I would like to to share again
this because I was really happy with this kind of observation when you have a really good seeing
you can see those details I I show you in the in the picture the dark area here
and the bytes on the sides of the the
is a really beautiful nebula that we have here in the in the Southern
Hemisphere and when you come here we will put that
upside and to point to the Mongolian nebula is you can spend the night observing that
so well this was my my presentation for tonight I want to share that experience
that from these weeks that is awesome thank you so much Nico
thank you I mean just to see the detail in the uh in that nebula as compared to
you know professional imagery uh is really remarkable yes it's it's really
amazing when you get that that data is the first time I try to to make a
capture with the same technique
I did not expect this kind of video let me share again yeah this this kind of
details on the stack is it's really nice and the shape you
can see the I mean it's the certainly is the brighter part of that nebula near the center but
um and you can see the two stars that are off to the side there yes right uh
but just uh really tremendous
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he's he's survived like my sky is only yeah 14 kilometers from here yes the
same neighborhood where I yeah yeah
genius perseverance
I can't believe I can I get rid of the word that you you are
you make I think that every option has a way to
to catch and you can go for information or for a nice
picture but if you read and find the way to you can do
anything without tracking or with any camera you know here in my background we have
the the semi region you can see all the cake but here sorry right there right
there prices star the Carina the ETA Karina star so behind that bright is
what Nicos captured so without filter without anything only
with a planetary camera and his dobsonian telescope you know yeah double
Drive no no no electronics no no Motors nothing nothing no no no Nico this is
why we say the hammer
that was amazing that's amazing I you know he only spent electric uh with only
start up the computer and the camera because he doesn't no no need the
electricity for for his telescope and it's really fun because we are moving the scope and wait and move and keep
recording yes
don't work like it's like a sniper of the enemy for example because
we have I saw a Nico one time with the the SSI
the the the yeah the sorry the restaurant uh
only in few seconds moving moving
yeah but for foreign
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right there yeah that is amazing technique so yeah eco2 yeah I think what
helps here is that this object is in the South Pole so yeah no rotation you have
the rotation but less yeah little rotation it helps a lot but
anyway now you're back yeah
you find her to keep that centered you just do it right on screen yes yes I I found it in the screen and
then we keep moving my adoption yeah doing that you gotta dub Sony and
Telescope with the camera you Center It Up by hand okay yeah by hand folks okay
and then you follow it by hand and you capture images like that
that's tough to get on the chat that's amazing okay well that's great guys thanks for
coming on and uh commenting on this amazing image we're gonna switch now to
Ed Seaman from the Northeast astronomy Forum ice cut how you doing I'm great
glad to have you on man great to be here thank you yeah I'm getting the wrong guy here here we go
let's uh oh sorry no that's fine here we go
yeah and how's everything working out I mean it's been a couple of years
um and it has and um it's um it's it's been a lot of work quite honestly
there's um a lot of things have changed over the uh over the past three years
um a lot of things uh needed to be reinvented so to speak
um but um it's it's coming along nicely it's um I'm exhausted but it's coming along nicely
so we're very happy um I got a little uh presentation here
Scott that I could show you guys so I could share the screen here
now Scott I got one question I have a a video in here with uh with Sam should I
mute my microphone when that place so there's no feedback or there is
when you share there's something where it says uh uh share like system sound or
something in the I think in the lower left hand corner
this is this is after you click the screen share screen button uh share
sound yep okay so click on that click on that and that should work out for you
okay so then I don't have to mute I don't think so all right
let's see what happens let's see letter wrap I'm sorry are you guys seeing it yet it's coming on now
okay all right well again Scott thank you
very much for the opportunity um we are very pleased uh to announce
that neef uh 2023 is back live
is working
oh um
bear with me a second Adrian's good at these um technicals yeah
there we go the switch there we go yeah okay so uh neef 2023 is back live uh
April 15th and 16th um suffer in New York uh at Rocklin Community College what
happened here there we go this will be so um what is neef maybe not everybody
knows uh so I have a little video here that I'm going to play that uh
hopefully the sound won't feed back and hopefully it should give everybody a good idea of exactly what neef is all
about all right
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I did okay great um I don't know if anybody caught the uh
little Clips with Scott in them I saw them [Laughter]
sharing the right screen here but I guess we can make do with it is
90 000 square feet of showroom floor it's the world's largest shopping opportunity for uh astronomy equipment
um this year we have 120 vendors and manufacturers this is the actual
confirmed vendor list um it's a little bit small to see on the screen but this is going to go up on our
website in the next couple of days uh we have a Pro-Am conference uh
bringing together uh professionals and amateurs and real research collaborations
we have solar viewing featuring some of the finest solar telescopes out there and also featuring The Charlie Bates
solar astronomy project we're really happy to have them back this year
we had beginners classes uh helped to teach folks the right type of
telescope to select for their first scope and of course we also have the
incomparable neef talks speakers this year Eileen Collins first
female space shuttle Commander awesome Holly writings the deputy
program manager for NASA's Gateway project uh Jerry Griffin Apollo ERA flight
director we're very honored to have Jerry with us this year Felix slang if anybody loves space
you've seen his videos on YouTube uh what about it is the name of his program
uh team director for the dragonfly project which is an aircraft type
Explorer for Saturn's moon Titan and Megan Cox JPL systems engineer for
the Mars rover mission great lineup of speakers
um neef if you love space and astronomy you have to come to the show
um and uh I'll leave you with uh with this
2023 is here back live at RCC suffered in New York April 15th and 16th you
won't want to miss this event learn the latest in space and astronomy featuring world-class speakers 120 vendors and
exhibitors from around the world including every major manufacturer workshops beginners Classics program
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[Music] that is awesome I'm excited
I'm excited too I can't wait to get I can't wait to get back at it yeah so uh
I I want to add one other thing that Ed did not mention about neef it's rarely
talked about or maybe not talked about enough is how nice the staff is okay and how
accommodating these guys are not only to the vendors and all the rest of the people that are there but if you're a
speaker or a participant you know uh it is it is really a place to be uh
especially if you take uh your your lifestyle of astronomy seriously this is
a must-do type of event and uh uh you know you just never know who you might
meet at neef there are astronauts there are sometimes there's uh movie stars
there uh sometimes you just you just never know I I have met some people and
just my jaw just dropped like they're here you know so it's awesome and uh uh
Ed Seaman and uh his whole team work very very hard uh to pull it off and
um so it's great to return back to Suffern New York and we'll see you there
well thank you Scott appreciate it look forward to seeing everybody there thanks
all right so um you know so I got my uh astronomical League uh jacket on the I
understand that the astronomical League will also be at neef yes they will
right so we're going to go back down from uh from New York down to
um uh Argentina again to Cesar Barillo uh and Caesar will tell us what's going
on on his rooftop and in his area Cesar thank you for coming on to Global Star
Party it's a pleasure on Scott every night is
is really uh something that from many many times from Maybe
more than one two years uh was a pleasure every night of your Safari to
share with with the audience um tonight I I don't have a live image
for to show you today to the audience because you can see
clouds yeah that's a big nebula up there yes over over the city you can see beautiful
yeah thank you
absolutely absolutely it's something that um tonight I can share
I'll share the the second part of my presentation about the the star party
Grande Instagram Mendoza it will be
um at 21 22 23 of
um of April next month um I'll show you let me
let me share that
here and
I have my presentation the second part of the presentation
and share and now okay
you can see that my screen yes
you can see the presentation now yes not the not the the program if not the
entire presentation ah yes okay I can see in my my monitor
is my my phone in YouTube it's the best way to say okay well
well uh making a um a fast uh resume of the of the last
week um I talked about uh about the the
history of the Star Party version from 2004
um we decided to decide from 2004
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third party together with the attitude of copernico this year
is having 50 years old his his foundatories
Dr Jaime Garcia drone astronomy uh well
I'll show you firstly the slides where I I talk about the distancing driving in
the road uh 987 kilometers but yes of course that
you have I really enjoy going driving it's not a
it's a highway but it's a it's a single rule road but is
um it's a it's a gray it's flat the Landscapes go in driving from Buenos
Aires is is AC road to drive but you of course
that you have the option to go by by fly
and you can get a ticket in one hour a half you can go to San
Rafael and it's very near to the to the to the third party it's very near
there's no more from the airport to the third party location you don't have more
than 30 kilometers really really near
well here I I thought about uh about the
they are the area of all the the worries exactly the the place this is a zoom of
the area which is the commodity the the place the hotel
in the live pollution map uh I show I showed the
the big area of pollution Maxi is in around this area but in an
area that have a better live pollution condition very low and
here it's really really low because I I showed last week and shown
that it's in a in a part between the light of the new world actually they use
less less light in the in the in the dump
uh because um they changed to live and they use a
low quantity of energy and I think that it's better
and we change from here in this area to here
and this area actually is like this it's it's a part where it's cut the the
luminization of from the city of San Rafael and the likes of the of the the
dump I don't know if I'm talking with the the
pronunciation of pique what is the waterfall from nmg Electric
thank you because sometimes I say dumb damp yes okay
well here the first the first time of the global global pregnancies Grande
and uh it's me and here one of the the first edition in
2007 we made 2004 thinking that we thought he
made each three years and we repeat in 2007 and the people tell us why you
don't make this every year okay I'm from 2007 never stopped until the
pandemic uh the pandemic the pandemic in
2020 from rock walls talks
yeah all pictures from the Safari and now
more pictures and now from the last
I I this is one year that we found a very very giant spider maybe the
it's very interesting if you have time yes the size was like this is yeah I
don't remember the yes it's like this yes it was so heavy uh
um working by the the wall where we put the telescopes mm-hmm incredible yes
very very it's like um it's another kind of
tarantula it's bigger because we have tarantulas in Cordoba for example but this one is like the amiga
I don't remember the name but in Venezuela or another part of South America to have a
a bigger spiders and this is kind this kind of of
size but bigger like a Toronto is Big this one is bigger and heavier wow
yes it's a great place to enjoy a natural life about birds
condores it's it's a nice place to enjoy in the day to go to the to make some
sports in the river and it's very very we have a lot of fun in this place
in the second part tonight I present the newest mentioned of from the last star
party grandis the activities um something about the talks maybe for
next week I'll present uh exactly the program and
which kind of talks we we're having we have we're near to to close the program
and we have perfectly the the
the about about the concern the the results
but I prefer for next week this uh well typical product stands we have
uh all times products here was from two two parties
ago it's it's funny to say this where is a bendito that is soul
nice yes ever is nice yes yes
and here is the lobby of the Santa Clara elevation Hotel
here do you have well our typical expert scientific uh sign letters I'll prepare
the new ones for these years because we have new products to show awesome
Alex the the the the essential things of
our third parties thanks here is Jaime Garcia talking about
viable Stars he's a genius I told that Jaime Garcia was a honored
president of the American Bible star of Service Association
[Music] eat the second one I lost the picture of the chorizo the
barbecue but well this is our dinners
I'm sorry music music too you gotta have music and Sky
yes yes yes every every right look at Rocco it's the director musician he's a
very very good musician [Music]
all all our third parties a show with music from Mendoza from you
know something of Tango or nice all about about the folklore and tango music
especially wonderful and of course in each sir
Party Never Never we miss we forget sorry the the
uh the photo the the photo of the group The Group yes yes it's it's a religion
like in every Easter part in the world that's great it's great I too over the
years yeah over the years okay so yeah I met this person here and and uh all the
memories come back you know yes absolutely and it's it's fun it's it's
so I I'll feeling the happiness of going
into the third party especially in an annual Safari is coming with the happiness for example in the Grove of
what's up what's up group of this star party is in the in the year was flying
but in the last week for example tonight I I told to everyone
please it's all the show because see this watch the show yeah this one
because I told about the Safari and all people writing and you know it's
something that that is is really great well the typical our typicals are
probably like all surprises they were in the sunset preparing telescopes and
watching the creepy man um approach the of course the the
natural light because later when in the in the darkness you suffer a lot when
you do you you don't have the parts of your telescope you know and we
we call every surprise to the people to
prepare their their hair the economy
especially we have many mountains in a
Far Far Away uh maybe three four kilometers with
um things that are very very uh how to say you know maybe antenna or something
that that are raised to eliminate the finders and of course
[Music] the first Stars taking everything you
know we will stop normally the the adults at 4 00 pm and uh or 5 PM no
later 6 pm that we cause the people to deliver
their telescope not in the directs if not in the natural light of the day in
the daylight and this is something that is it's really
um how do you say it's really uh supporting to people because
my work in in these hours between the sixth and
PM is very high to support them to the people many of them are customers
to prepare their equipment you know
um they they enjoy of course more or less needs me
and it and how I'm talking to me about how says I can show you things or you
know and this is something that really I enjoy the customer service in in the real in
the real place more of the of the of the place of the
Terrace where we we use for example we have all all this area in the ground in
the grass and this Terrace is very nice too it's really to use
um equipment for after photography uh heavy equip Amino tables we prefer use
the Terrace for this and all people with small mounts
um and cameras or a small telescope they they go to the grass
to the grass this part of the park
more people trying I'm prepared telescopes
is incredible house great yes yes all these guys are the team from the
planetarium of malarue they have an awesome digital planetarium in a small
town a day the municipality
a lot of money uh to have a planetarium because it's a
place Valar where this is the high particles
Observatory appear our share Observatory um they they was very uh very smart to
think he have something connected with Observatory and a planetarium connected
with Observatory was a great idea and many many people that go to Malawi this
is their unitarium because it's the second planetarium in the country the
excellent quality of projector um is very nice the museum they you can
visit and watch mirrors the same mirrors that that using in the
air user Observatory um the sensors you can learn a lot it's
a great and this team is is active now
um actually many of them change and work in the government and they have a new
team of younger people well visual corner is a place where all
people who news and all people put their
[Music] pieces session is only of
these are our own section of one guy really that is a fanatic fanatic of to
collect uh to have a great collection of pieces you can see six or even a seven
it's a lot of glass in that case yes he had a lot of money
yes yes enjoy share their their
eyepieces with another participant and it's I can tell this is
absolutely and we we enjoy the visual corner it's one
of our most besided Corners um you know I'll show you different
Corners where for example in the last star party we use it only two corners or
three visual photometric sorry um
spectrometric with filters with net filters and um and after photography this year but
this year we had only 60 people 60 people because before the pandemic situation
you know this year we have we are having 120 visitors
and we are preparing uh more corners for these years
corners or tables you know or right where the people can change and go
to another telescope to use uh as we have
two two nights near to three because we are opening the the Third
the third night this year and we are we are
[Music] preparing more corners
to to make in the life corner last year
was was the most decided and of course the people choose this option for learn
and practice size in life situation we have telescope that we both
especially for this
[Music] this is all about well this is the after
photo the after a photo corner and here in this area you can see a visual corner
with binoculars
you can I can show you to Sean that now it's more easy to in the newest
pictures you can see more easily shaped like a Scorpio here
how you can you can you are in a very
comfortable place um without without go outside the area
the park or the hotel you have a very very dark sky
well here here is a specifically corner with uh
filters yeah all right sorry that the name in English is a diffraction the filters
sorry yes attraction filmers filters and they they present to the to another day
all pictures and the the resolution of the each spectrometry and all people
that choose this corner had an incredible a lot of of fun
here you can see the the choice of happiness
yes it's incredible it's like I say okay they are Meg spectral
spectrometry and they have happiness yes of course yes why wouldn't they
yes pictures of that the summer participants
give us to show this one is uh is it's a picture that a
participant took of the grass uh it's an amazing a few few potions
posters he took this picture with the code so uh and the Southern Cross
and it's some it's amazing this guide for after photography and of course
visual is amazing too uh well you know it's something that
it's amazing another picture that the other participants took of uh Galaxy
it's a special place a special place to watch uh enjoy take pictures
visually draw you know it's it's on the the kind
of the people they it's it's really amazing for the year
2023 Visual and drawing Corner especially driving we return to the to
the sketch that you can see maybe we can make a
contest again after a photo corner spectrometry corner
photometry corner and of course for next week I will talk about I'll
talk about uh I was talking about the the
program about about what are talking the astronomers
um well this is all my presentation thank you and thank you Caesar of course
it's always great to uh to have someone share the love and passion of astronomy
with you know that's enjoyed by so many people and uh you know that with the
backdrop of the Southern Milky Way uh you know it just makes it really
exciting and makes me want to jump on a plane and go to Argentina right away yes yes yes it's it's it's a pleasure
received the people here unfortunately I can go this year to the Naf I can
just are you watching the the presentation of the Nia and it's
incredible it's going to be the the most important [Music]
event of astronomy in the world is amazing um really really uh I think that next
year with the with the eclipse I can go of course
especially I can go to I know yeah I hope I hope that I I'll visit to you and
your staff that is amazing thank you Scott thank you thank you so
much thank you well okay sir hi John right sorry about the clouds
that might be from here oh yes but yes but but really we are happy that the
the really short weather that we had was terrible
um really for the for the special for all people for for the kids once a very
very high temperatures are record a record total in in maybe 60 years in
Buenos Aires in Argentina you know huh
is really maybe we have I don't know maybe 20
2014 degrees I don't know in Fahrenheit but but it's
very very comfortable well now but yes the rain is a rain a week of rain change
you know but I prefer if they hold on coming here they all the Hilton the
hotel I mean I mean uh
this is the the change of Summer to go to you know happy springing in United States in
America Cesar thank you so much thank you
welcome you're welcome okay thank you all right so our next speaker uh is uh
uh Robert Reeves and if you have
seen photographs of the moon on the internet I'll bet that
at least some of those shots have been from Robert Reeves uh he is uh uh
extraordinary in his ability to get the finest details uh on the moon he's
recognized for it I'm sure he's won awards for it um I I'm constantly seeing his uh lunar
terrain images uh on um uh you know very various forums uh including uh social
media in advertising he is a Celestron Ambassador
um and uh you know he's becoming an ambassador uh here on global star party too so we're really happy to have him
he's starting a new program called um Postcards From the moon so I think
that's how it's called Robert do you wanna okay can you hear me okay we can hear
you perfect great uh I'm kind of a zoom rookie so it's always a bit of magic if
it actually works uh but uh you do this enough you'll uh you'll become yeah you'll be teaching other people well
yeah I have been very uh very fortunate uh uh with my lunar photography that uh
you know it hasn't uh exactly uh got me great uh Fortune but uh it has gotten me
a good deal of recognition and the the payoff is in and really in in the meeting of people all around the world
um as a direct result of my lunar work uh uh I've got a two-week my wife and I
were given a two-week almost like a royalty trip to China A couple of years ago where I addressed uh I was the first
Westerner to address the Chinese Academy of Sciences about the moon wow or or at the Harbin Institute of
Technology which is very equivalent of MIT uh those are Honors that I will cherish for my entire lifetime and
nothing like that would have happened uh if I hadn't been uh passionate in trying
to spread the word about the moon that's what I'm doing now I'm uh the title postcards from the Moon actually is a
take off on the series that I'm doing on Facebook right now uh pre-covered for
about three or four years I posted a new picture of the Moon every day with a write-up on it it wasn't meant to be a
replacement for Chuck Wood's uh lunar photo of the day it was kind of meant to be a supplement to it uh uh you know
another view another perspective and uh now I'm doing a similar thing uh I call
it postcards from the Moon and um I try every day some days don't work out today
was a a very unusual uh unfortunate day for me and um I don't have anything to
post today but uh I'm glad to be able to hear to talk a little bit about the Moon tonight and um if this becomes a regular
series then I'm going to start off uh at the beginning the creation of the Moon the uh uh how
the moon's face came into being we all recognize the full moon we see the
caricature of the man and the moon as the moon rises above the Eastern Horizon
um the the moon has a very friendly face at times like that but the nature of how
that face came into being is uh very key to understanding how the moon evolved
and then after I talk about that a little bit I want to talk about some of the naming on the moon uh how the moon
got the uh the name comes on it that we understand and and know about today like
Plato crater Copernicus crater Tycho Creator uh those features didn't
always have that name uh there were other competing systems that uh fortunately lost out and now we
we have a common uh name for features on the moon so to start off with I'm going
to try my share screen and see what happens here what immediately happens is
it says Zoom what happened to my sure screen where am I
hello uh I told you I have a bit of rookie on this there it is there it is let me see
what happens when I do that now do we see a collision all right here well the
the the first recorded incident incident incident on the moon of course was the
creation of the Moon and uh there's been various theories over the years how the moon came into being you
know captured from another Another World in our solar system captured by the gravity of Earth uh earth and moon
created at the same time from the same blob of solar nebula so forth so on various ones but the only one that
really holds the water when you stack up all the observed evidence and look at the uh
geologic evidence brought back from various manned and unmanned missions to the Moon is uh the Earth and the moon uh
were formed about four and a half billion years ago by the Collision Of Two Worlds in the early solar system
that unfortunately tried to occupy the same part of space uh the proto-earth a smaller version of
Earth maybe 80 percent the size of our current Earth and a uh a mars-sized planet that we hypothetically call Thea
um ended up in the same place at the same time there was a great big bump in the night
shattered Both Worlds uh various computer simulations have been run that uh
there we go um particularly those by Robin Kenneth but Southwest Research Institute and uh
her team that the show that the the Collision shattered the Earth melted the
Earth melted failed and out of the debris our current Earth formed and the
moon formed for the debris that orbited the coalescing proto-earth and
the various simulations show that this happened relatively quickly as little as
24 hours the moon formed into its basic form or it could have taken up to about
a month but either way you look at it on Cosmic time scales that is an incredibly short period of time
the early moon was much closer to the Earth uh than the current its current
position the Moon is slowly receding away from the earth because of the interaction between the uh uh you know
the transfer of angular momentum by the tides on the earth and the orbit of the moon and so forth so the Moon is
drifting away about two and a half centimeters per year so uh the moon right now is about a half
a meter further away than it was when Neil Armstrong set foot on the Moon and uh that continues to reseed away but
early on it was very close to the Earth no further away than the current geosynchronous satellites so tides on
the earth were Fierce uh gravitational attraction between the worlds was was enormous and back during this time uh
let's move on to the next one the early molten moon was very similar to the Earth Both
Worlds were undergoing the same Evolution at that point Earth and Moon and the heavier elements like iron
radioactive elements sank to the uh core of Both Worlds silicates floated at the
top on a global magma ocean and it took millions of years to solidify
now at this point when the moon began to solidify we entered a period of various apocs of
time that the delineate events that happened on the moon now we're all
familiar with geologic time on the earth uh remember back when we were kids and we were fascinated by dinosaurs and we
knew about Jurassic era on the Triassic and the Cretaceous and all those really
cool sounding apocs of time on Earth the same thing as on the moon we have
various recorded apocs of time pre-nectarian
the is before about 3.9 billion years ago a brief period about 100 million
years long of the nectarian apoc where a majority of the heavy asteroid bombardment formed the features that
evolve the face of the Moon uh then about a billion year era of the imbrium epoch where there was extensive
volcanism and Volcanic flows flooded the great basins on the moon and uh created
the dark areas the Mario the Moon that we see as the caricature of the face of
the man and the moon and then there's the eratosthenian apoc lasted about two
billion years much of the volcanic modification of the
Moon uh a lot of the familiar craters formed during that time and then we
entered the copernican apoc which was from about a billion years ago to the present and the moon has been fairly
quiet in this time a number of very large craters all of the raid craters
were formed during this period of time because crater Rays think about a billion years to fade if a crater has no
Ray structure at all then it's very likely uh eratosthenian or ambrian or
nectarian it's definitely older than a billion years old but if it has a raise
like Copernicus like Tycho like a number of very bright raid craters on the moon
they're fairly young as far as lunar geology goes so uh we classify lunar
features by this neck pre-nectarian nectarian ambrian iratocenia copernican
apoc uh when we look up in a catalog and it lists a certain crater as being from
that a particular apoc of time we immediately know the region
of time that was formed whether it was during a very volcanic era or later on
when the moon was fairly benign now um the nictorian apoc is where most of
the action occurred this was a very brief period of time a little under 100 million years old and uh 100 million
years sounds like a long time but when you're talking about the age of the solar system this is a very brief period
of time uh this time the moon's crust had solidified this was a period when we think the
planets and Mars excuse me the planet's Jupiter and uh Saturn uh were not in
an orbit that were gravitationally stable with each other they were the
interacting gravities of these worlds were disturbing thousands and thousands
of asteroids and some of them were slung out of the solar system others were slung toward the Sun and all of the
terrestrial planets Mercury Venus Earth Mars the moon were all hammered by
thousands of asteroid impacts the Earth looked very much like this painting here
uh I can't remember if this is a Don Davis painting or a uh a Hartman painting but anyway it depicts the moon
as it was almost 4 billion years ago after the massive asteroid impacts and
uh but before the lava flooding created the Mario
now at this time the impact rate was perhaps 300 times more than it is today
the solar system literally had more ammunition to throw at us nowadays we
Define a planet by the iau one of the iau rules as it's cleared out its
pathway around the sun will the earth and the moon have pretty much swept up all the asteroids in our area although
you get an argument from a planetary scientist about that whenever a nearer of asteroid sings by we haven't quite
cleared out everything at this point there was not yet any more
reforming volcanism the next billion years the embryon apoc
there was extensive volcanism the interior of the moon was still melted uh
the volcanic the magma flowed up through fractures in the bottoms of the great
basins and flooded these basins and created the face of the man of the Moon
that we see today uh but you'll notice there's many features that are still not there
Copernicus crater is not there tycho's not there many of the familiar landmarks that we see today uh were not yet formed
these did not come into being until the eratosthenian and the uh copernican Epoch so we'll skip over eratosthenia
and go directly to copernican which is the last billion years on the moon and now we see uh the
uh huge restructure from Copernicus near the center of the Moon
the diconian race system which virtually spans the entire southern hemisphere it
kind of Blends into this image so you really can't see it that well but it's in place now
at this point during the copernican apoc young
creators retain their race structure raise fade after about a billion years because of
the gardening of the lunar regolith the lunar soil by constant micrometeorite
impacts and uh blasts of solar wind from uh solar eruptions
affect the surface as well literally stripping it apart molecule by molecule after repeated millions of years of uh
um the uh gases blasted out by the Sun during these massive solar eruptions and
of course there's fortunately for us a significant reduction in the rate of Greater formation uh we might not be
here as human beings if the crater the impact rate had not died down uh the uh
Extinction rare events uh like the chicksalube impact the dinosaur killer
uh 65 million years ago in the Yucatan if that was happening almost on a uh
every day every uh a century basis uh life would as we know it wouldn't have
formed on the earth so we are very fortunate that things slowed out a little bit yeah
we have to understand that there are only two landscape forming processes on the moon
volcanism and impact cratering if it's on the moon a feature on the moon uh it
was either created by an asteroid striking the moon or subsequent volcanic
modification of the lunar landscape there are no plate tectonics on the moon
there are no oceans like there are on the earth there's no atmosphere to modify things once a mountain is in
place on the moon it's there until the end of time I'd like an uh at Earthly Mountain that may only last about 100
million years before plate time plate tectonics weathering oceans changing
Shoreline whatever Alters the face of our planet the moon is going to pretty much stay the way it is
now uh we'll just concentrate on the Mario today and we'll go into other things
like different types of crate the evolutions of mountain chains on the moon and so forth in in other episodes
but today the uh the Maria or the lunar seas are are dark basalts deposited by
these ancient volcanisms in the basins that were created by asteroid impacts
now you see these basins all of these Maria uh are basically round
uh 350 years of telescopic observations by
astronomers never really deduce that that simple secret that we can see with our naked eye looking up to the Moon
that the these these uh large Marias are circular they were created by impacts
and subsequently Modified by volcanism now the basins in on the moon and the
Mario lying within them are not the same feature there's a basin carved out of the Moon
and then Basalt laid in that Basin so uh
they occupy the same spot on the map but they are two different features created
by two different forces and of course not all basins on the moon contain a Mario there are 50 some odd basins on
the moon and the definition of a basin is any crater that is larger than 300
kilometers if it's under 300 kilometers it's classified as a crater over 300 kilometers it's a basin but they're all
caused by the same thing a really big rock fell out of the sky and went boom
so uh the Mario defined the face of the Moon and we see it as our beloved
caricature of the Man in the Moon there are 21 named Maria on the near Side of
the Moon now 11 of those were named by Giovanni riccioli in the 17th century his naming
system is the one that survived in a minute we'll talk about several other naming systems on the early boom Maps
but the Giovanni riccioli's system is the one that survived the test of time
so uh the the classic Mario Marie imbrium the Sea of rain Serenity the Sea of Serenity
drunk bullittarius where Apollo landed nectarius Nubian humor of these these
classic names are all from the uh uh uh mid 17th century now eight more lunar
Seas were named in the 19th and early 20th centuries primarily along the rim
of the Moon the limb and two of them are actually named during the space age uh Mari Cognito was named in 1964. I was in
high school there I was a senior in high school back then and uh Cognito was named in honor of the first successful
American Moon Pro Ranger seven all right Ranger 7 photographed this area in high detail and uh Mario Cognito the sea that
is known was named after it and then Marie in solarum which is dear uh
Copernicus was named in 1976 uh so uh a newcomer on the lunar map
now uh I said these Maria the lunar sees the great Basalt Fields
they're circular they're round because they are a giant impact crater and um
obviously they've been subsequently Modified by further impacts like Mario nectares here has all of these wonderful
large craters uh that around the rim that formed later so a constant modification
impacts overlaying older impacts Mario chrysium another example around
impact basin filled with basalts
the same with Mario serenithatis around impact Basin on our perspective from
Earth kind of looks like an egg but it's it's more or less around uh embryo it's
one of the largest basins on the near Side of the Moon almost like 800 900 kilometers across uh
imbrium forms the man in the moon's left eye and as we look up at the Moon uh it
appears to be the largest Mario on the moon but uh that's just a trick or
perspective uh the uh oceanis oops I'm one slide out of my sequence here uh
Mario humorum another round impact Basin now saying Oceanus Pro solarum is
actually the largest Mario on the moon covers two million square kilometers
but it's so foreshortened off on the western side of the moon that uh it doesn't even contribute significantly to
the face of the man in the moon when you're looking up at the uh at the character you see his eyes his offset
mouth his nose uh oceans Pro Solarium off to the side doesn't even enter into
the uh the illusion of the face yet it's the largest feature on the moon two
million square kilometers of flat basalt
now not all basins completely filled up with uh with lava flows
you know near the edge of the Moon limit of the Moon I should say and especially on the far side the crust is thicker uh
physically thicker and this thicker crust restricts lava eruptions so uh Mari austral near
the limit of the Moon closer to this thicker crust on the back side didn't completely fill with lava instead it's a
collection of Basalt filled craters now we see this down in the lower
Southeastern corner of the moon sometimes you can see more of it less of
it as the moon's vibration rocks back and forth but uh it it it it's easy to
spot it's a dark modeled area down kind of in the man of the moons the lower left right cheek
now not all of the basins lie within a single uh well excuse without all the
law of Maria lie within a single Basin Mari fragoras which forms kind of forms
the man and the moon's eyebrows over his eyes the uh Mara imbrium makes his left
eye serenitis and tranquilitatis combined make his right eye but above it
there is Barry figures 200 kilometers high but spanning almost 800 kilometers
across the the northern rim of the Moon kind of making a single eyebrow above
both eyes uh these the this particular Mario and portions of the proselyum
embryo and serenity spaces well all combined into a one long ribbon of the
salt so I was talking about jumping topics here how the moon got its
name we we we saw all of these uh um lunar maria the uh uh you know
imbrium and uh uh serenitis and Tranquility these were all applied by a
Giovanni recioli uh he named the lunar Seas after
um types of weather or states of the Mind uh see if Tranquility uh sea of rain uh
weather and states of mind but uh back in the early 17th century there
were actually three well uh well-established selenographers there
was uh hevelius in Poland languages and um
Belgium and uh riccioli in Italy
um the uh uh Moon of evalius had names on it that
we don't recognize today like Copernicus he had it listed as mons Aetna Tycho
modern Sinai the dark Apparition of Plato crater he
called it the greater Black Lake uh but these names didn't uh didn't survive the test of time there was also
a competing um series of uh Maps drawn by uh
languidus but his naming system was very regionalistic and uh preferential to
Regional royalty and uh that didn't go over well in other areas
of Europe I mean they were always fighting each other at War and one one country didn't necessarily like the
other countries King so uh the the uh langrinian naming system uh was just too
political so it fell out of favor uh instead the system by riccioli where
lunar craters were named after famous poets philosophers scientists uh the
large dark Maria named after states of the mind or the weather but the there
was another map well the same map but another system that riccioli also had on
his first map that fell out of favor after about 200 years very few people know that the same lunar naming system
that we accept today had other things on the original map as well the bright
features on the moon also had names just like the dark features did just like we have Mari
imbrium the Sea of Reigns uh the bright areas now there weren't dark I had uh
names like uh Terrace whoops Terrace uh sanitatus the uh uh or or Terra
fertility fertility my Latin is not too good at this hour at night uh down by uh
Nautica or terrorists they're really Titus the Siesta of the land of sterility the land of fertility
um Tara colorus the land of heat but after about 200 years back in the 18th
century uh I mean 1800s these names fell out of favor and they were erased from
the map so uh the uh evolution of lunar names
eventually settle down to the uh the the map we see today with riccioli's naming
system of famous poets uh philosophers scientists dotting the map of crater
names and the new Maria that were added followed
the same uh naming convention the iau now adopts this as
the official naming convention and uh there's quite a few features that have been added to the
Moon map just in the past 50 years but uh oddly there is an enormous
whoops yep that is the last of my slides I shouldn't do that um there's an enormous amount of features
on the moon that are not named and uh we'll see some of those in my future episodes but um uh getting a feature on
the Move named is it's a tough slit there's conventions that must be
followed if it's being named after a particular individual who is qualified
for that then you can't name the features on the moon after military personnel for instance but if you want
to name them after a famous scientist they have to be dead for three years before they get their their crater it
has to be approved by the iau it's not just something we could slap on there although there are popular names on the
moon we'll talk about that in the future as well but the official names
are have to go through the iau lunar nomenclature committee and uh uh today
that that person is headed by our friend chuck wood the fellow who does the sky
and Telescope lunar uh column uh I've thrown my suggestions at him and uh he's
uh giving me various reasons why well we can't do that because of this that or
the other rule that they've got but the it's a slow process the the map on the
moon is gaining names slowly and uh uh I'm very pleased to see that some people
that I do at admired Pro new personally and admired uh for their lunar work are
getting their names on the moon very soon so uh the Baton is being passed on
so uh I think that's pretty much about all I have to say today uh we do this
again next week yeah if we do this uh again next week he's got a whole
education about the creation of our planet and and that other planet the
moon okay well uh next week I'll talk about the various types of craters uh
craters are not just bumps and holes in the ground they have personalities they're different there are many
different types of them uh how they're modified uh into in the various forms uh
that'll that'll pretty much think about my segment so I look forward to doing that next uh next week and uh
I've enjoyed chatting with you I hope you've picked up you know just a little morsel here and there it's it's a
learning process where none of us pick all of this up overnight uh it's just you know keep your ears open
it's wonderful to have somebody like you that uh can uh gently guide us through
all of these naming conventions and uh you know the history of the moon and the
way that you have tonight so thank you very much it was great I learned a lot too oh great that I've done my job so
well I appreciate it and we'll see you we'll see you next week yes you will okay okay next week we have
um uh we have our we've already picked out our theme uh and it is uh from The
Big Bang to you and uh it features uh uh Carey lately who's an
award-winning nightscape photographer uh from Chile and she will be co-hosting
the event with us so it's going to be a lot of fun and um
um we are excited to have her come on and um
so uh good night Robert Reeves and uh you know happy uh Happy Moon exploring
up there I look forward to seeing some new images thanks we'll see you then
okay so um uh up next we have
um I let me double check my schedule here sorry guys
a little bit lost here I believe it would be
um Marcelo Souza Marcelo are you available
oh good I'm here hi
great great Marcelo um uh I understand you're getting ready
for your big event um yeah I promise and uh
um can you tell us a little bit I mean I've been at the event but how did you how did you get the idea to to
coordinate this event it's been going on for eign
then we begin to since the beginning of uh City we begin to organize a regional
and National events in our city Andy we begin to make contacts
using internet since the beginning of the group because you have internet to my university
then I made contact with many groups in the world since we began to include during our
astronomy group then 10 years after the we found the group we have the
opportunity to organize it we already organized to National events in our city
now why the first national event here in Brazil professional then in 2008 as we
begin International contacts because we have we were preparing for the
international we are astronomy in 2009 then as we began to make international
contacts we begin to participate in the astronomers of that borders
then as I had many friends international friends I
talk with your groups if we could organize an event with International
speakers then we organize our first event in 2008
for the second event in 2009 we had the opportunity to invite a lot of people
from different countries we had in our city busy Audrey
from Italy and the Brazilian astronauts Max Sports
Andy the Ice Space Explorer Nationals that is an ocean Ansari
then in the in fighting editions of our
events we had the participation for more than 190 invited speakers from 34 countries
wow yeah from all the continents we had from Oceania Oceania Asia Africa
Americas [Music] man Europe then I have people from
different countries they are near our seats but that's far countries and this
year we organize the 15 th Edition and the here in Brazil we
have a problem in the beginning of the year everybody knows now heavy they tried the state cup here
now even with these problems it was possible for us to organize this event
and here I would like to invite all of you to be here with us if you come here we have conditions to
offer a place to stay everything to be with you is here
and then I I prepared here it's quite ancient I'm sure here uh these
last week I visited a special place here let me
see if we worked well here these are our links
and here is the first dark sky parking in Latin America that is nearest the
events that you're organizing during the night we are going to make observations inside this dark Skype back let's locate
the mirrors and here again to show where we are he is composed in this dark edition here
Israel is located in the dark sky Park [Music]
and here right here we have three seats this is one a big one here's the back
the path that don't have artificial lights here and now I visited the park
from this region here that is another seat that you have here and they invited me to visit there to
find a place where they will begin to organize the observations there
and they will show the place here here we were in this seat that is far
from my seat here is almost one one hour from our city here 50 kilometers from
from my seat and here is the place where we left to
go to the dispatch that is in the mountain it's one thousand meters high
and I will show the police here we need this kind of special car the distance of
this month at the top of this mountain from to this city is 40 kilometers we
needed two hours to to arrive in the top of the mountain because it is the roads
is not a good roads we don't have asphalt here it is and then here is the
beginning of the park in this religion here's the view that you have you don't
see any lights here only forests and mountains
here is already near the top of the mountain you can see here your horizons here
and we had the opportunity took pictures here
here is Venus because you use the Flesh of the it's
much funds yeah yeah well at night foreign
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here you can see the players here the players here here capella is near
here I I think that is this position here capella and
um yeah here is Venus
then it's a wonderful place you don't have any kind of artificial artificial
lights there it's a very beautiful place is the place that you are planning to organize many
observations there and this is the place you don't have lights you have a house
here where we stayed but see didn't it's only one house and the when we asking
the lights and everything begins to be dark and we had learned to make activities in
school sinks at the beginning of Mars and the throne Thursday from last week
until today we make presentations and the show informations about astronomy
for more than 250 students in four different schools
here is what I see I was doing in the spirit today more and
more during the morning I also made a presentation for students here you can see the schools that he
revised here then in many places you had a lot of
students they put out the students you know the story to and I had opportunity to talk with
then about astronomy and we are again trying to find talents for astronomy and
for new technologies and here was a presentation this Monday
yesterday and today I made a presentation in this school
more than 250 students from school from Thursday last week until today wow and
the Thursday I will visit another school every week we are visiting three or two schools per week and this is something
that a teacher made contact with me about this question she
prepare the past about astronomy for their students and she asked do students
to answer if it was right or wrong and the one of the quest the what she
said is this the plans are illuminated by the moons and then she asked for the
student to say if it was right or wrong one of the students asked answer that's
it if she is right and what are you going to do is quite if
she answered this you say that is it correct or not
uh if the moon would illuminate a planet right yes no no it's not not correct but
but there's more light okay so we can see Moonlight on the Earth but it's
reflected sunlight okay
well the student considered it's a correct answer because Jim moons have Flags sunlight and illuminated the
planets she didn't said say that she is the only source of it that illuminated the
planets that are the lights that comes from the Moon and she made an interpretation that she
demons illuminated the plants but it's not the demand
a light that you arrived to the planets that comes from the Sun and she based the hair reason on the
miserable effects of the full moonlights [Music]
it's something fantastic interesting answer yes and he has small kids yeah small
kids and the teacher made contact with me because she didn't know what she what
she can do because
how that she wrote this sentence
it's not saying that you need to have our source of light
but today most reflect the light of the sun and the in some way these lights
arrive in the planets like the full moon here that illuminates
uh during the night photos then something fantastic what she said
no yes I I said that it was incorrect but when I I read what city kids
gave good reasoning for her answer yes yes I I would I would agree with that
it's fantastic you you find the kids that is think about the question and the
finest these kinds of questions that make you think you know yes and make you
think because uh um many times we hold firm to
um our answers being right or wrong you know um but sometimes it does take a it can
come from a young student to challenge you uh on how you're thinking about it
and um so to me illumination means that uh there there's it is a source of you
know the the ultimate source of light and uh you know I think a lot of people
would agree with that um uh but there probably is
uh unique effects of the illumination of reflected light
from the Moon and what it does okay yes and there's this so there is there's
some interactivity with that so and The Descent of it it didn't say that you needed to have
it uh your a sauce of energy
right yeah then I I think that's it the students was right right but something
that's not fantastic because it happened today it's a made contact with me today to know what she can do because she
didn't know how to cast how to say to this student that's it she was incorrect
and they said that she's writes also you need to make a new sentence now yes
and this is what's happening with this song this is uh this is from the spacewed.com
from today and you see the color now hold here
what what the size of the coronal hole that appears in the Sun
is I think that's one of the biggest Corona hold that's it I saw in the last
years something and you have judge action of coronal
marks is it because it here is only in the current
of this this the Sun by something that's it
something different is happening with the Sun it is happening let me see a few
function here uh out here the move
can you see here the tornado here
14 times the size of the Earth
for three days
but it didn't come in direction of the earth reaction
is something fantastic you can see this is from the NASA my
name is
thank you again you've seen different wavelengths you can see the tornado here
in the last folder of the Sun then something different is happening
right it is active now is the maximum of it we arrive in
the maximum of relative you can see here again in a different wavelength here
then so the sun is very active
and this is our event that uh I would like to invite all of you to be
refreshed it will happen from April 27 29 this year
and we have now Gabe Gabrielle will be here
he made presentation for students fantastic International Association will be here
we will be talking about the dark sky
and to begin a chapter well for the international doctor Association Brazil
she's coming here he presenting the direction Association
from Norway she is the coordinator of the global science chapter and the topic
of the global science chapter disease is James Webb Telescope man is a way to show that he acts and
science can be together and we produce an opera with his
students about the topic about this talk you have contributions from different
countries and we all together make a presentation
is
Brazil and he is responsible to organize job salvation or Fiji
eclipse solar eclipse that are happening in
October this year and in his state will
be probably the best place to see the annual Eclipse here in Brazil
I have a place that there that you don't have a race here is
a Brazilian that you okay as 100 coordinators of international astronomy
Union officer of astronomy for Education that's located in Germany
Alejandro summer that he is
Association and he also knows about the
indigenous and he is developing a lot of work there
to protect the night sky
is one of the most famous Brazilian cosmologists and you have more people coming I hope
one of you will be here with his house it will be very welcome and now it's near where I almost
finished the next edition of Sky's app we have a special collaboration from Max
Max thank you very much
about his experience in two solar eclipse
now we we feel fantastic images thank you very much I'm glad that you like it
Marcelo and thank you for inviting me to participate in this case Out magazine
thank you very much fantastic and here this is my daughter again no
she was looking at the telescope and the he was with a dog she was with a dog and
then she puts those two to look at the telescope this happened
three three or two years ago but I ever remember this and now I showed unless
let me see it now knows how to use the telescopes and she
is out she she has only seven years old and she likes to be with a telescope
this is something that makes me very happy thank you very much
everybody is a great place to be here with you all of you thank you very much
thank you very much that's great okay all right guys we are uh uh now at the
uh end of our presentation uh with uh our final speaker is John Schwartz who
has been doing uh an amazing job in illustrating little literally
illustrating the universe for us um and uh he is uh he he talks to me at
least once or twice a week about things that he's doing to push the envelope into making his work even better
and it's great to have John on I uh I do want to apologize to John because I
screwed up her schedule a little bit here but uh John thank you for your patience and uh it looks like you're out
in the cosmos there well yes I am I'm uh again at you know Pine Mountain tonight
and I'm so high up in the mountains I broke through the clouds foreign
yeah you know the the lighting uh from the Milky Way is incredible how it kind
of illuminates and um you know I I take advantage I can't quite read my paper
uh this way but it's dark out there right you know they say that in some
places you can actually read the paper By Moonlight which is absolutely crazy
I've done that myself one of the things that I have learned too is that uh you
can see uh this your shadow cast By the Light of the Milky Way okay if it's if
it's you're in an area dark enough so I was with uh Tim hunter from the international dark sky Association and
he was showing me this effect while we were at Bryce Canyon and I was I was blown away you know so
but uh that's a that's a nice uh uh image behind you and makes me yearn to
be under really dark skies again yes uh it's amazing to see some of these
uh things when you get up you know at altitude above the uh Marine layer and
above the clouds and the transparency is tenfold you know everything just gets
better the higher up you go so it's been really fortunate for me uh
to be located this close to Mount Pinos and to be able to get access to this
amazing dark sky site so anyway I'm gonna start uh I've got so
many pictures now let's uh go ahead and start with um
this is uh me posing with my two Dolly portraits
I tried to you know look the part
you know my father was a friend of Salvador Dali I did not know that wow
yeah Meryl Chase and and he has pictures with him I never got to meet him personally but I surely enjoyed seeing
real paintings done by Salvador and and just the ability that he had you know
and and um he painted clouds and a lot of hidden connotation you know which is something
I like to do this was an actual portrait of Salvador that I did uh 30 by 40 acrylic on canvas
it was a commission that took hundreds of hours
when I was doing it I was it was the heat wave here and we don't have uh
great air conditioning in the one bedroom I worked in so literally it was like 100 degrees and
and I had been working throughout the day doing uh torch down which is a torch
applied Roofing so I basically had to have this done by Friday morning uh this
was the other one I did this one was already done this is awesome yeah that's what I practiced you know
growing up I was really intrigued by Norman Rockwell um schlauser was another guy Dolly's
work you know just uh Maxwell Parish just to be able to see the way they
would capture the light and the moment and and the way people were portrayed in such a happy way you
know uh these days it's hard to get that you know but you gotta just hang in and the
good times come you know uh this was a symbolic painting for me
it was uh one of my first real paintings back uh I did it's acrylic on board
and uh it's called Standing Tall and it was uh in Kings Canyon you know Northern
California where all the big uh trees are the Redwoods and uh it was a moon like a full moon
and then all the stars and the Beautiful pine trees in the background and it's
symbolic of my um recovery as you know when I had my hip replacements standing
tall is the name and you know I've been truly blessed by the wonders of medical
procedures uh another great thing about digital
painting is this uh picture I did here was kind of got destroyed but I was able
to restore it through digital uh art and this is a view of um looking out my
window at McCoy Mountain it's a mountain in Simi that overlooks the West End of
Simi Valley and it has a beautiful cross and the moon was setting down on it so I
I just wanted to show this this is a lot of my uh most of my art stuff that I'm
doing here uh this is me at the helm at Mount Pinos so I have one giant telescope mount with
a 12 inch tube assembly Schmidt casser grain and a little five inch Celestron
uh F7 telephoto if you remember that one little five inch Schmidt
and so that's my video viewfinder and then I can see
um you know 51 dead centered when I put it in and it was quite an amazing show
the monitors don't do them Justice you know I plan to get this up and running once our weather clears here right once
those numbers yeah we have not had a break this is something I'm working on
uh it's called m46 it's kind of zoomed in a little
so it's a rare uh treat to see a blown up star in a cluster you know M15
has one it's very difficult to see uh the globular cluster has uh you have to
look extremely hard with a filter and have really good conditions but this is
you know a real cool view because it shows you the dead star that blew up
amongst all the living Stars right there's more of an eyepiece type
crop you know to give you an idea this was uh my winning this is how I
started the Year by winning cloudy nights sketch contest very proud of this
yeah it's quite an honor I'll tell you there's I'll bet there's a lot of people don't know that there's a sketch contest
on cloudy nights you know it's something I mean people should check out there's some amazing artists uh uh
they're just dedicated observers and very technical um I'll tell you in there there is a lot
of talent um from the moderators you know Frank and Michael and yui there's a few more
and then uh there's a whole gang of guys that just I could name a hundred people
that I consider outstanding you know just amazing work
that I've been able to enjoy during the rain you know I haven't been able to get
out so this is how I get my fix I go on cloudy nights this was actually done uh
through your scope this is a sketch of uh one of the sun spots it looks like a
guitar to me um you know that fluorite telescope it's a
beauty this is look at the finish on that you know I use Carnauba on all my
telescopes well you know it protects it up well I
like to see myself in there so I know it's real because this telescope is one
of the most amazing uh Tools in my Arsenal that I use for my lunar work my
planetary work and and some uh open clusters even comets 51 there was me
posing with this beautiful instrument with the three inch feather touch
focuser um you know that was the day we had that major solar eclipse and uh it just
cleared barely so I wanted to show that one uh these are a couple sketches that
I did of uh galaxies looking through my 28 and then merkel's 32 inch which I
have constant access to which is really nice to be able to look through its uh F 3.0
so it's super low to the ground and it's very stable because it's real short and
squatty but boy does it pull it in this is um one that you helped me get
this was my video uh you know um thank God for telescopes because when you get
in trouble you can just sell one and bail yourself out that's what I did you know it took me a
lifetime to trade up to a 28 inch telescope and then I had to get rid of
it and you know I kept the ladder I didn't think I'd ever have another one but two years later the universe dropped
another one on me but during that period I was using this wonderful
um Mead 16 inch which is quite a hefty load and I would sit in my trailer and
just do video and relax for a change instead of yeah and I have people coming
I don't think I ever saw that rig I don't believe yeah that was the one you got for me at uh for me these were the
rockets that we built remember yes they're in the explore scientific showroom right now and I did um your
colors on the V2 Vernon Von Braun a wonderful scientist from Germany uh
helped us with our journey to space and so I was very happy to build this
particular rocket and uh the other one is called an Estes Alpha it's like our
first rocket we ever yeah I built one of those Estus Alpha bottle
rockets you probably did too oh I built that one's uh 13 foot six uh and it goes
eight thousand feet Mach 2. and um so here we are at Mount Pinos this is the
classic Star Party Clint Whitman I'm directly behind him my scope was too big
it wouldn't fit in a picture you know it's too bad here's another uh Mount
Pinos Star Party experience it's like you gotta fight for territory if you
don't get up there early you're gonna be off on the edge that's right this is just a weird twist I did on 51 like you
could go to it and and come in from a different angle like you're actually there you know maybe like 10 or 15
million light years you know getting close yeah that's it's not even close
you know that's just getting a little bit there but I always like this one I
keep playing with it uh here's a couple other galaxies NGC
three five one one three five one three uh double pairing which is kind of cool
they're unique you know 81 and 82 is a good one this is another uh contest entry I
didn't win but uh that's 45.65 NGC nice
drawing thank you yeah it's a beautiful one to look at in
in the big job I mean you can actually see a little bit of star activity of
course you know 253 is one of my favorites yeah yeah yeah the the silver
dollars yeah it from here it's for you guys in South America you're killing me
because that thing's probably directly overhead and I couldn't imagine what that looks like I saw it last December
in adoption it was eight inches eyepiece yes you know you know because
it's so big edge to edge sometimes it's better to use a smaller scope
um to get the whole thing in you know um so I've seen that happen before where
it looks sometimes better in a little scope because you can get the whole galaxy uh this one I'm proud of this was
actually merko couldn't make it this one um he's been very busy with work
but um he helped me take this picture and uh we got the apod Astro bin uh
picture of the day which was quite a reward through my
achievement 28 inch right there yeah and and we didn't guide that was
just shorts of course there's my license plate as you know I do love that Galaxy
all right 253 they made me put the G on there I don't know why I had to put
another letter but I can't argue with it California made you put it on there yeah DMV don't wanna
so here's another star party I think this was 2007 could it have been
um so this is uh our setup that's me with that video set up and there's Steve
Kennedy with his 32-inch oh yeah um job and and there's Steve at the table I
don't know where I was I was probably talking to somebody in and behind me is my old 24 you see
behind a little trailer with the white needs 16 that Dobb that was one I traded up to so I've had
you know two 24s 228s and I'm still working on you know
the 40. yeah don't stop there man okay this one is um
a nice planetary and and with that transparency at Pinos through the 32 it
just opened up so I was able to get get the best You Know sketch I've ever done of this object this thing's really cool
looking it's a blown up star it's bipolar kind
of blew into two separate lobes but you know the polls is where uh
everything goes out of usually the this is an actual sketch that also won
the contest in uh cloudy nights last year now if you look at uh M82 look at
the top you can see like a coral in the middle of the core that like dark gray I
was actually resolving this on the maiden voyage to pick up
um the 32-inch for murko we drove straight there so stopped at border ones
all the way along the way and we were looking at galaxies with binoculars uh 51 in in 101 were clearly resolved in my
fujinon 16 by 70s but when we got this scope started and
that first um couple hours two three hours when it stabilized it was the most
amazing dark sky I've ever seen it was in uh Rodeo New Mexico had a huge
um plot in there it's dark it's yeah and and I think it was dark yeah it was
originally might have been Steve cove's place but had like three absorbs I wanted to buy it I almost talked my wife
into it you know I had a million dollar house in a workshop that could drive two
giant RVs through double garage doors so you just do drive-throughs all
self-contained huge Observatory domes two of them a warming room and then a
roll off just the absolute perfect for an
astronomer yep but I cried because I knew I couldn't do it because we still
were stuck here still but you can see the H Alpha being ejected out of there
in in deep uh Sky astral photos you can really see the red like um Tony
hallace's picture or so many others you can see that the actual plasma being
injected out of there because it's a starburst Galaxy it's very active so
it's feeding you know and it's spitting out massive amounts of uh plasma it can
ingest so it's almost like a jet but they're they look like Coral to me can
you see that on your screen yes the little bit of you know you never
you've never been able to see that unless it's a photo so that that's an actual view of what I was seeing
visually visually through the 32 from border one a true border one that's what
Dark Skies in the big scope can do yeah I mean and it was very transparent not every night is that good
um yeah Rodeo New Mexico is very dark very transparent uh from there uh Jack Newton
uh held a star party helped one and it was called the Jack Newton star party
but with an eight-inch telescope we could see color in the Orion Nebula and
that oh my God everybody it really was yeah that that is truly
amazing it's not like Technicolor but it wasn't blue gray okay it was kind of
this reddish and you go wow that's color you know and so that was amazing
okay I'm gonna put a couple more here and then I can uh wrap it up I I've got quite a few of the
um scope pictures that I I accumulated over the years that I like to show you know
uh it's just it's more than a hobby it's a disease
you know each instrument provides a different application you know you can
um use a lot of these instruments are good for doing the video others for the purest the Newtonian view
which is what we all like to see you know you can never forget your roots
uh you have to always remember that uh
you know visual astronomy is so important you can't just get away from that and do the other video or or even
astrophotography it's just too good to do you know visual astronomy
and not only that the absorption of photons that'll get you home before you
completely unravel from staying out for three days just you know being giddy
like a kid because the views you had that night were just so amazing
and and that's all you can think about is is how wonderful uh the scope performed and everything was working
great and and everybody was just blown away by the views that we had that night
it was very tremendous yeah really really a
great night I'm just looking for one more I think that's it
okay let's go with this I think we have enough for now I can keep going that's
what I was doing was loading up everything getting ready for my moment so this was
actually Hawaii I wanted Adrian to show this too This was um right at Sunset it was like
the only real clear day but you can see Venus and Jupiter
right there over the ocean and you know in Hawaii and look at the ship in the
background I mean it's so crystal clear the air coming off that ocean oh yeah and um you know when you see the Big
Dipper set into the ocean there's just something different you know it's it's a
magical feeling uh something I've never experienced that we don't want to see here's uh one
of my other Scopes my Celestron with there's that five inch I was telling you about my AP 1200 that's uh my video one
of my video platforms uh here's another setup
nice you know always I like having the little guide scope on top so you get two
views here's Big Daddy this was uh the one that I took pictures of uh it's a GM
200 Los mondi 200 pound supposed I think it's more like 150 pound weight capacity
but that thing will break your back let me tell you it's a head it's a heavy
unit so you really got to be in shape you know I collect these instruments each one is hand-picked and
um you know this was actually believe it or not the floor model from telescope City
so that this was a very good optic as you recall Scott
um you know Maurice would never sell anything but the finest equipment
but this was a a great performer that I uh deforked because you know how that
goes anyway this is me uh looking through my scope we did a big star party that's a
beautiful photograph too thank you Bjorn that was Bjorn's photo I'm in the the movie too
so this was an amazing night he uh you know recorded the whole setup and then
we got started and what a night it was man I gotta tell you
uh it turned out that's just below Mount Pinos and it has a full Horizon so you
can actually get Omega Centauri from there which is rare it's a tough shot but um that's a big scope you know all
night long up and down I've probably summited the Eiffel Tower in one night maybe even higher but this is um a
beautiful galaxy uh NGC 4535 I like it because it looks like an s
so it's pretty cool unique shape yeah you know and again in uh South America
Argentina uh Patagonia Chile all those wonderful places they get the best views
of the barred spirals they have some incredible um stuff and the sky down there boy you'll get lost
in a hurry this is the eye of Cleopatra it's a planetary nebula really cool one
that's nice thank you yep you know uh always a new deep space
deep Sky object name that yeah that's awesome she winked at me and I
thought I was an Egyptian first yeah that's right but no uh you know that's what gives it
the Intrigue the names like the star queen or even the silver dollar Galaxy
the needle the spindle the you know there's so many great ones this was uh
direct view from of Mars through my 28 I had an incredible night we were having a
shootout there uh who had the best Optics you know I threw a sneaky trick
in is I put an off aperture mask online and I had like a 10 inch refractor
working and it devastated uh this was the view through that as
well I've never seen the vorticity on Jupiter do like when it hit that red
spot man it just went right around it that thing has some serious power uh
going on because um you know that those bands are moving uh circularly around the planet and when
it hits that spot it just has to go around it there's too many wins and and uh you know it's
almost like a massive typhoon or hurricane I would imagine but how many Earths fit in there I think
three something like that that would be terrible if that came here wouldn't it
uh this was Saturn this one I'm real proud of uh through the 28 inch
a lot of hours on this one you know we get incredible planetary views up there
just uh insane from being up at you know eight nine thousand feet
with that onshore flow of air you can really get some and you see those uh
white clouds on the bottom and and that was what was amazing I could actually see those storm clouds and um you know
you don't usually see those white clouds like that um on on a later one I did their clouds
got more pronounced it was really amazing to see uh just you know those planets are huge
so uh this is a real good one I did it one of my favorites to look through the 28
is m106 it it just completely uh reveals the spiral
structure and you can see how there's some kind of an interaction on that
upper spiral arm got a little distorted perhaps from that uh satellite Galaxy
could be uh tidally affecting it so I'm not sure
but that that's a good one to look at this is another favorite antenna
NGC 4038 and corvus so this is what happens when two
galaxies collide they basically seamlessly float through
each other they don't really even hit you would think those Stars would hit each other but they're so far apart that
it just goes through like it's invisible and then when the gravity gets hold of
it it just destroys the structure of each Galaxy and creates
a new type of galaxy a lot of times it'll end up being an elliptical this
one's just a kind of a skewed I don't know what kind it is but it definitely
uh is feeling the effects of that title tugging you know it just shredded out
the arms and um created a whole bunch of active starbirth regions you know it's
pretty cool to see that through your telescope just another cool one
um 3187 so it's another kind of an S you know my
name is Schwartz so I like the ones that looked like an ass you know these are this is again through
big big aperture Scopes you don't really see that much detail on you have to have
a real good night so this is uh my newest version of the
uh Blue Snowball NGC 7662 I'm really on the 60 inch yeah
that's using the 60. correct yeah but this one I went I went further you know
I I just uh did a lot more work to it you know once I got got my procreate I
was able to create those like lobes look at the two inner lobes that's like just
an incredible thing to see in yourself you know in the brighter
this looks when when you see it through the 60 inch and and and then you compare this
drawing it it is really authentic I mean it's this is yeah that you know and it
you what you see is better than any cell phone snapshot and and that's what this is representing I mean the cell phone
will give you an idea of position and basic shape but it's always blown out all the subtlety and the range and you
know you know all of that is it's difficult to uh you know you can it
can be intensified in astrophotography but uh the vision the real visual view
through big scopes of these kinds of objects is uh is unique and um again
through a drawing you know that's the beauty of drawing too is is like so a lot of people always
say that's it I I just saw that that I don't really see anything and I gotta tell you
they're missing it because you need to really study these and um use your
averted vision and it really shows you what it actually looks like for real
when you look through a telescope and you know so many times you see that box
with these giant uh nebulas on it and you get your scope set up and you can't
even find a star in it that was the old Sears you know back in
the day yeah right but you know my how things have changed but you know uh it's so important to do visual to to actually
see it you know plus that light's been traveling a long time to get to your
eyes so it's um just a real kind of cool thing to
think about when you're looking at it you know the photons that they're real so they go right in you know you're
absorbing them so you're part of it you know you're connected through the photon connection
and um you know that's something I never want to lose when I started doing video
I was getting real excited about the reward you know I could just sit in a chair and it was mind-blowing how much
detail like the astral photos and everything show but you know every time I come back to the
Hobby I go back to visual because um that's the that's the starting point
for me and and um I'm never gonna let that go and it's so important that we
continue to do visual astronomy because uh you know it's a direct connection
um you know even video and and astrophotography it's just got a little more time added on to it what does it
really matter if it's been traveling for 30 million years what's another half hour or like if you've seen a 10 hour
exposure of some of these things and what they're showing now it's just so incredible yeah so I believe to have a
whole different array of of um instrumentation and you know cameras
and lenses and you know just you need to have the best of the best to use for all
applications and it's like your your eyepieces are so amazing when we're at Pine house we're always comparing uh the
ethos with those 92 millimeters and and I got to tell you it's hard to tell them apart in these big jobs they're they're
just amazing views and and I was stunned how the field on that 92 degree eyepiece
you make others three of them Jerry has them and they are amazing I was just like blown
away he goes John what do you think I go is that your ethos he goes no that's explore scientific and I go wow what eye
piece is that and so he told me you know and um about those 92 degree eyepieces
that's um to me remarkable you know and I'm not I I relied on a very talented uh lens
designer to create those those eye pieces they have 20 millimeters of eye
relief which for a hyper wide field of view you know I'm not selling right now either this is no it's true really the
real deal hyper wide field of view uh you know to be that far back from the
eye lens is really comfortable you know and it's just it's uh you know a lot of
the hyper wide eye pieces what you give up is eye relief you know but these are
these are unique and they're a standout in in that regard uh you know and um you
know if there were Awards to give out to lens designers uh this guy would definitely get uh get one he he lives in
China he's a Chinese lens designer and he's a super talented so
anyways that's great it really shows and um man it's just a pleasure to have
access to all these great things you know I got lots of toys There man everybody
up there is uh you know they're just going for it and and uh we use the best
of the best equipment so and you know that's why we all you guys you guys
share that that experience too you've been out at many Outreach events with your awesome gear and um you know it's
not like you you keep it all to yourself so that's very cool this is just another
uh version I I've got a hundred of these orions that I work on
um that I really love you know Orion is probably one of my most favorite uh targets just because every time you look
at it it's just so spectacular yeah and and to think like uh you know sir Lord
Ross and and the pioneers of this hobby they were drawing these with grids and
star plotting so accurately yeah it was just stunning to see the result that
those guys could do and and we're so much luckier to have what we have today
I mean there's no reason why we shouldn't be putting out great stuff you know right
well thank you everyone that's about all I got John thank you for wrapping up the
global star party tonight my pleasure I I enjoy it it's great to be a part of
this and um share this stuff and and you know help people get an understanding of
the Hobby and in the real view that you can expect to see and you know the
benefit of having good equipment and and um you know especially good customer
service like I said you know everything's great yeah it's
something that uh you know for us that are in the
um industry you know we have this I think it's a very
um uh unusual uh relationship you know with
with the with the the people that are into the lifestyle of astronomy you know
they are uh a very giving very sharing uh group of people very uh you know if
you're not into amateur astronomy um uh right now that you're just watching this program uh uh and you've
never been to a a star party event or kind of them that um you know that John
was just showing like at Mount Pinos uh you learned that there that this is
these are great people you know and they're very interesting people and they're all uh they're all sharing the
wavelength of uh this journey that they're on you know this exploration the
threat that they're on him and and so that is the reason why I chose the um
theme of Journey for this particular uh Global star party so
thank you for in encapsulating all of that and sharing that John oh yeah great
job I appreciate it you know that's what we live for is actually is is sharing
this with the public and kids and and just to see a kid when they see Saturn's
rings and they yell out it's not real it's just man
that's where you really get your thrill from astronomy is when you share it with somebody and potentially that you're
blowing their mind yeah that's right and then to see people tell you that they've never even heard of the Ring
Nebula but they saw both Central stars that to me was just incredible to hear
that you know that somebody a mom and her two kids saw that and that was at a
big start party we did uh it was they came up like 90 people came up and I'd
been up for two days already this is my third day and you know what when you know what you got
to do you just do it and so I just started to go and uh shared all these
views with everybody and and I got uplifted and it gave me the energy to get through it and then um we shut down
and did some view until daylight with uh another Sketcher Andrew right and uh
those are the guys you want to hang with the ones that'll stay up till daylight because uh so many go to bed early and
miss all that work you you set up and days of planning and then you come up
set up and go to bed that's not happening here not right now it's raining like crazy
out there yeah well it is past my bedtime but um yeah now that I've been talking astronomy I'll probably be up
all night away hey no I want to thank all you guys that uh
came on tonight I uh some of the other speakers have already dropped off but um uh for those of you that are still here
thank you for participating in global Star Party Maxie thanks for dropping in
uh and hanging out with us and commenting on uh on Nico's work uh Cesar
thank you again for uh showing us what goes on at those star parties in Argentina and Marcelo thank you for all
the great work that you're doing in Brazil uh you know if if if this group
of four guys could get together and uh and and do all the things that they do it would be the most amazing
astronomical event on the planet um and they do them actually you know
they do them in their own individual way and so we're really lucky to bring them
all together here with global star party and we'll be back next Tuesday on the
28th um uh Carey lately who is uh I mentioned
her earlier in the program but she is going to be co-host for uh the 117th
Global star party and uh she'll be broadcasting I think from Chile as that's where she lives that's home for
her she's recently back from Iceland and when you guys see the images that she
came back with from Iceland the Aurora and these ancient formations and stuff
like that uh you know it just made me want to just drop everything and buy a ticket and go to Iceland you know so uh
I think you guys are going to really enjoy it um I really enjoyed this particular
Global star party uh and I look forward to seeing you back so
you guys have a great night and um I want to thank the audience who's been
watching from around the world um uh thank you and uh we will as I
mentioned too we'll be going to the Northeast astronomy Forum uh we'll be there from we'll do actually the Imaging
conference which is called uh the Northeast Imaging uh Astro Imaging conference and uh and
then and then neef you know this all happens in the same area in suffer in New York so it starts uh
um on the I think it's the 13th 14th and then Neath is the 15th and 16th so we'll
be there for that whole period uh come on by if you're coming and uh say hello
so you guys have a great night and as my friends yeah quarkheimer always used to
say keep looking up good night good night have a good evening everyone thank
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