Transcript:
6:00 p.m..Scott Roberts- “Introduction”
5-0 did you say of irrigation irrigation is a street here in Argentina and one
6:02 p.m..Carrol Iorg - The Astronomical League “Star Dust and the Master Observing Program”
five zero is the altitude or the number of the address so yeah that he repeats and in the
6:12 p.m..David Levy – “Introduction and Poetry”
transmission I don't know if you could hear it
no no uh share your sound
6:25 p.m..David Eicher - “Dave’s Exotic Deep Sky Objects - Galaxy IC520”
uh let's do it and then share that you'll see there's a little option to share
let me okay
6:40 p.m..John Johnson - “The Nebraska Star Party”
and you can see the astronauts it was outside and you know well that's a taxi
communicating with the International Space Station yes yeah the ISS ordered a
6:55 p.m..Maxi Falieres - “Astrophotography to the Max”
pizza exactly that's awesome no it was incredible you
know uh it for that you can't communicate with them you don't have the
7:10 p.m..Ten Minute Break
power or maybe you have of course if you are a radio featuring aid but in this case it was a radio taxi in his car
7:20 p.m..Cesar Brollo - “The Star Party Valle Grande”
working you know late and say that now it's unbelievable
incredible
7:35 p.m..Adrian Bradley - "Chasing Dark Skies"
so we are live right now you are watching live this is uh the 119th
Global Star Party um an Awakening Cosmos and uh
yeah I kept thinking about uh Carl Sagan's famous quote of you know we're
8:00 p.m..Robert Reeves - “Postcards from the Moon”
we're Stardust we're a way for the universe to know itself and um
so uh it's uh it's interesting once you kind of and I
8:15 p.m..Normand Fullum - “Feeling the Universe”
did go down that rabbit hole so
that you know if we're if we are an intrinsic part of the universe you know the
8:30 p.m..Marcelo Souza - “15th IMAA”
just the very idea of Consciousness in our search to explore and find ourselves
as really kind of an interesting Human Condition You Know so
8:45 p.m..Navin Senthil Kumar - “Young Astronomy”
but uh if you're just now watching or signing on we're going to get started here uh
thank you for watching the um 119th Global star party with Carl hosted
9:00 p.m..Michael Carroll - “The Cosmic Canvas”
by Carol ORD who's going to kick this off
oh my gosh I see it that is amazing whoa that is so cool so cool
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9:15 p.m..Jon Schwartz - “Drawing Out the Universe”
hey everybody Scott Roberts here from explore scientific and the Explorer Alliance uh welcome to the 119th Global
star party I'll be talking about that a little bit but we're just rushed back from the Northeast astronomy Forum we
got to see you know a couple thousand uh people out there and we have some great speakers that actually
presented live from our booth at uh at neef we also attended the Northeast
astronomy Imaging conference which was a grand Affair
um probably the biggest one that I had seen ever um you know probably double in size
double the attendance that kind of thing at the Imaging conference uh of course
that was Major speakers at neef including Nagin Cox from the general
Laboratory um so many others there was uh Apollo people there it was really a spectacular
event overall and we're always happy to be at neef
um and we wanted to take our hats off to the people that put that whole program together
um tonight Carol orgs the president of the astronomical League will be kicking off this 119th Global Star Party
um where we will be talking about an Awakening Cosmos with the theme that is
based along the lines of Carl Sagan's famous quote of the cosmos is within us
we're made of star stuff and we are away for the the universe to know itself so
um that was a big inspiration in itself welcoming back space artist and author
Michael Carroll Master telescope maker Norman Fulham young astronomer Nevin
sentel Kumar who was also at neef so was Norman Fulham um and then Nebraska star parties uh
John Johnson who'll be talking about the uh star party coming up in addition to
that of course we have David Levy who will be making his introduction in poetry uh David eicher with Dave's
exotic deep Sky objects this time focusing on Galaxy IC 520.
um we have uh uh I mentioned John Johnson Maxi filari's with his
astrophotography that always blows people's minds um Caesar Brello just got back from the
Star Party via valet Grande so he'll be talking about that major
event that goes down in Argentina uh Adrian Bradley is with us chasing Dark
Skies Robert Reeves with his postcards from the Moon he was at Northeast astronomy Forum as well uh Norman
fulham's presentation is feeling the universe uh you know his uh intimate
connection with the stars and the photons that uh that make all their way
to uh to Earth and to our eyes through our telescopes Marcelo Souza is is kicking off the 15th
imaa this is the international meeting of astronomy and astronautics and uh
that gets started I think in the next day or two so he's really excited about that
um uh Michael Carroll will be uh covering the cosmic canvas and we have John Schwartz who will be uh talking
about his drawing out the Universe um segment as well anyways thanks for
tuning in tonight and take it away Carol thank you so much Scott
I would like to Echo what Scott said about the wonderful time we all had at Neath and it's so nice to see all of our
friends back here after a couple weeks from Neath and we're very pleased to welcome many new friends as well
uh and yep it's so fitting that we call this session an Awakening Cosmos because
the cosmos really shows the way and leaders in the proper path to go out that coffin I'd like to share my screen
now
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yeah excellent yes Tyler my talk is Stardust and the astronomical Lakes
Master Observer program and I would like to explain a little bit
about what the master observe program is all about that is the Pinnacle of our league Awards and we have several
different levels of that award but basically the people who spend all that time out under the cosmos they've
seen a lot of the results of Stardust over the years so that's why I thought I would tie it together
and we are here for the 119th Global Star Party it doesn't seem possible that
we've reset Pinnacle Scott thank you so much for hitting this up over these many
months thank you and echoing what uh
Scott was saying about Carl Sagan's uh famous comment and this is another
rendition from another author we are all Stardust you're all Stardust and that is
so true foreign
the elements that within the human body uh there are things what we see in space
all the time and are out there as well so we're all together in this universe
one of the things I'd like to talk about specifically as I said before is the observing program the master Observer
program and the master observing program itself
is primarily a telescope program and
it has the one level the basic level if you can call uh five uh requirements
basic but it does require five different sub programs in order to be a member of that
the general requirements for the master Observatory program is that the person
must be a member of the astronomical league and there's two ways of doing that either through an individual
Society or as a member at large and we have several members doing those programs in both ways
things about the program is that as I said before they must complete five
observing programs and occasionally the sub programs will allow Imaging but it
all depends on the program foreign
s required for the master Observer program the number one one can is either
the constellation Hunter for the northern Skies or the constellation Hunter program for the southern Skies
and then the second program in that uh part is either the Messier observant
program that's the 110 object version the binocular Messier observing program
or the Bennett observing program and the Benet is a relatively new program
also the lunar observing program as well as the solar absorbing program
in addition once you get all four of those done then you have one other choice in order to complete that
requirement it can come from either the Galileo observing program the sketching
Observatory program that's sort of a lost art but it's coming back in a big way and we're very pleased with that
the other option is the sky puppy observing program which is primarily for younger people but we see lots of adults
having a good deal of fun with that program as well also we have the Beyond Polaris
observing and the view observing Universe sampler and the urban program
in the urban program fills a little of real important Niche for many people who
are in light polluted skies and don't have the opportunity to see uh broad
objects or I should say the dim fuzzies very often one of the things we encourage Master
observes to do is to show up for one of our national conventions I'll come and
get their prizes for that major achievement in person and we had that happen in Albuquerque for Alcon 2022 and
just ironically considering that they have some fairly decent skies in the Albuquerque area uh I think there were
18 something like that the total hair and half of those people were from Albuquerque imagine that those wonderful
Skies out there that they have a little Advantage there but anyway in the
midwest we take our skies when we can get them
we're also again encouraging our Master observers to attend Alcon 2023 and uh
come get their Master observers plaque in person and at least two of our in
fact three of our speakers at alconnor on the broadcast tonight I would encourage you anyone who is
interested in the ligo ligo trip make sure you get your reservation in soon
because those are filling up very rapidly we have one trip that's opened
about 45 or 50 people so get your registration in now
also I would like to alert you and remind you that the next astronomical
League live is being held this Saturday I'm sorry this Friday April 28th at 7 pm
Eastern day lap time and our special guest will be makabakich
and wonderful what Michael would be talking about I bet it's about solar observing solar the solar eclipse and
that's we're very honored to have him uh as our guest for them I'll be there along with Terry Mann and
of course Scott and David Levy there's credits
and now as we do it all of our gsps I would like to introduce Dr David Levy who will give
us his words of inspiration and this is the 119th GSP David have you been to
everyone or have you missed one or two I think I've missed one
that is an incredible run although study and I are debating that we're in
disagreement well I'd say you've had that you've been
a 99.9 of those and that's as far as all the numbered Global star parties he has
been to everyone so there you go but David we always appreciate your
wonderful words of wisdom and your beautiful poetry and at this point I'm going to turn it over to you
well thank you so much it's really an honor to be here uh We've listed the last couple of weeks
but I know that Scotty and you have had a wonderful time at neef
and as I like to say neef is neat anyway
um in honor of Carl Sagan my quotation day will be from him
and yes he did say that the universe is a way for the the we are away from the universe to
know itself which reminds me of the very famous line that I heard
from the original series of Star Trek the episode bounds of Terror and the
line is given to uh to Forest Kelly and he says to um
the Captain Kirk he said he looks at him and he says
there are hundreds of billions of stars in our galaxy there are more galaxies than anywhere
else than all the grains of sand on the earth and more clusters and superclusters of
galaxies then all the greens of sand on the earth let me pause it a minute and then he says and despite all that and
possibly more there's only one of each of us we are unique
when I first heard heard him say that it really affected me one of the reasons
that I am such a Trekkie today anyway so I'm going to quote today
that's not the quote I'm going to quote today from Carl Sagan about radio telescopes and this is what
he had to say modern radio telescopes are exquisitely sensitive
a distant Quasar is so paint that is detected radiation amounts to a
quadrillionth of a what the total amount of energy from outside
the solar system ever received by all the radio telescopes on the planet Earth
throughout time is less than the energy of a single snowflake striking the
ground wow I knew Carl I I knew him and I know that a lot of you who did know
him know of his reputation as being occasionally somewhat unfriendly
it was never that way to me and I really I have to say it was quite
an honor to get to know that man and now thank you so much and back to
you Carol thank you so much David uh those are wonderful words what a
reputation he had in the astronomical community that was wonderful and now Scott back to you okay thank you very
much um uh and and thank you very much Carol for making the effort to come on to a
global star party and kicking us off um up next is David eicher and David has
uh hundreds of deep Sky objects that he's going to talk about and as roster he constantly reminds me of it but uh uh
it thinks I'm going to get tired of it somehow I don't get tired of this I think it's uh you know his explanations
of of um you know what's uh in galaxies how galaxies work nebula I mean the
whole thing of uh you know the broad range of celestial objects are so fascinating to me and I could listen to
someone talk about it endlessly so um so and that's that's I guess good
news when uh when it comes to uh us listening to
Striker because he has a lot to say about this stuff you're sure you're not tired of this
stuff already Scott I think we're 10 objects into this list
now 424 to go so we have not run out of them yet
but uh well this one you picked is really there's not I couldn't find a lot
of information about it uh we talked about this earlier and I only found I didn't find the atom block picture that
you talked about that I found a couple of others and they weren't great astrophotographs of this object so
um so I'm eager to learn more and I hope I didn't misspeak and and mention the
wrong catalog I so I'm going to talk about NGC 520 and I didn't say I see 520
well that's a completely different that gives us the next that's my fault yeah
but there's not a lot that that's that's published on this object either so go
ahead and and these are are unusual Critters if you will so I will share my
screen and I will start a slideshow if I can and do you see the illustration of
two merging black holes yes okay that has nothing to do with anything forget about that immediately
okay pay no attention to that at all I don't want to confuse you but but
instead we'll talk about A peculiar Galaxy uh tonight which is kind of a
famous one because back before uh everyone understood the spectrum of high
energy distant objects in the 1970s and and through the mid 1980s this was kind
of a poster child of a high energy Galaxy at various wavelengths and it was
kind of a favorite object for a while of Halton Arts of of Chip art who was a
famous guy who cataloged peculiar galaxies and in fact it's the the art
catalog is the atlas of peculiar galaxies that we know about today so
this one was kind of a famous object because it was very bright in in its emission in a couple of wavelengths
which we'll talk about this is a turned out to be emerging Galaxy a pair of galaxies in Pisces it's about a hundred
million light years away it was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 who certainly didn't know what it
was but it was an odd looking object uh even to him in his large telescopes in
the 1960s astronomers recognized it as a pair of merging galaxies and now of course we know as we've talked about
many times that despite the expansion of the universe the universal expansion
gravity plays a significant role in local and Regional areas if you will of
the universe so many many galaxies are merging and have merged over time and in
fact the Milky Way galaxy May consist of something like a hundred tiny
proto-galaxies that came together so this is a merger of a couple of sizable galaxies that that is still going on
it's visible to amateur observers pretty well because it's about 12th magnitude
it's V magnitude it's about four and a half art minutes across so it's not a huge object but in the infrared
especially uh it's a very bright object so it was it stuck out as a strange
suspect early on uh back 50 and 60 years ago
simulations that have been run about this galaxy pair suggests the merger has been going on for about 300 million
years so it's still an early merger uh and as you guys may know and on our
viewers long into the future maybe about four to five billion years from now the
Andromeda galaxy which is coming toward us in radial velocity will merge with
the Milky Way So eventually we'll be in one of these kind of you know more or less head-on Galaxy mergers although it
will be long past our time and long past any life on Earth
most of the mass of this galaxy pair is is kind of more or less approximately Edge on and and show it so it shows us a
lot of prominent dust clouds along the edges of the galaxies which makes it
kind of a neat object for medium and large backyard telescopes
let me see if I can go to the uh oh it's not cooperating
there we go okay oh yeah yeah I see 520 for sure yeah yeah I see 520
is a much smaller object which we can get to by popular demand or by command
of the the head of the whole organization here we can do IC 520 as well but for now it's mgc 520 this is
essentially the best amateur image of this object and you can see that this is
a merger you can kind of sense the chaos that's going on with the merger here at a block they're not far from you David
uh up on with the Catalina uh telescopes uh made this image a few years ago and
this is a really good amateur image then we can kind of step up to this is the
Gemini Observatory Peter Michelle um here and you can see in you know in
you know major a league telescope showing a lot more detail here and many
many background galaxies in Pisces as well then we can also go to this is
something you may have seen it's a Hubble image of the Galaxy pair and here you can see this incredible detail in
the dust lanes that are sort of Edge on more or less to us and some pretty good structure in in
some of the much more distant galaxies as well so there's not a lot to say about this there has not despite this
being sort of a pet object of Chip Arps many years ago there hasn't been a lot of stuff published on this galaxy pair
and of course there are many many merge Galaxy mergers in in the universe even relatively close to us in the cosmos
so but this is an interesting object that is fairly high up at Northerly definitions and you may not have seen
yet that you may want to check out especially if you have an eight or a 10 or a 16 or a 20 inch telescope it'll
it'll look pretty cool than the detail that you'll see with it so one more object down
um and again just to mention this is astronomy Magazine's 50th anniversary year so we have some special stuff
coming up the August issue that we're just kind of getting done with now as far as the production is the anniversary
issue so there's some surprises coming up uh in it including the opening story
that is by uh andreen who is Carl's Widow and the executive producer of
Cosmos kind of kicks off the issue for us there this year I'll also mention because Carol you
mentioned Michael buckic one of our uh retired now senior editors he and I wrote this book that is a kids uh
introduction to space exploration hoping to inspire a new generation of children
to get into this crazy business of exploring space that is exploding no pun
intended right before our eyes you know it's exploding in popularity in
the numbers of missions and sometimes we have a rocket that explodes too but
that's the that's the price of progress so I will stop that's all I have now
I'll stop with the share of my screen and Scott thank you as always for letting me tick down on that big list
thank you thank you I I'm curious you probably in the know of the
um uh the commercial lunar lander that's being
um that's coming from Japan what is the uh what has been the
progress of this uh particular Enterprise you know I don't know exactly where that stands now but there's a lot
of work you know and and in Asia we're not hearing we're not privy to a lot of
what's going on Japan jaxa and also China you know has a
breathtakingly ambitious program of essentially doing everything that has been done already before and doing it
again and in greater detail and the the head of the Chinese program in fact was
a starmus speaker two star misses ago now and people's Jaws were open you know
at all the things that China is planning and putting governmental funding into in
a big big way so there are Chinese lunar uh manned missions also on the drawing
board that are being worked on as well um as well as Japan and uh presumably
the United States of course sure as well um we have that exploratory orbital
Mission coming up here uh with American astronauts as well so real exciting over
this next few years it's very exciting do we have another space race you know the we may maybe we do because now we
have you know Russia going off and doing crazy things but China also now a major
competitor as far as the West is concerned has a serious space program
that is in uh overdrive as well so maybe we have a a second generation Space Race
coming along here that will uh be able to watch um in the in the coming few years here
or decade great thank you yeah I had a comment about that space race this one
includes uh private Enterprise with SpaceX trying to get
some groundbreaking stuff off the ground as well so it's going to be a little different not just as far as countries
and political um possible political implications but
pre-enterprise joining the Space Race as well so it's even more I think there's
even more higher Stakes is uh as this goes on absolutely right Adrian and and uh you
know not only do we need to you know there's ambition is is tremendous here
about what these guys are talking about and the amounts of money that they want to do and if we ever get Beyond going
back to the Moon which could be done individually by countries um if people want to you know shovel
enough coin and do it but you know aside from the danger which is very very real
no less than anything else from radiation of a months-long flight if
ever humans go to Mars it's going to have to be in the international cooperation and also involving Private
Industry because it's so incredibly ambitious and so expensive so let's hope
that we can you know not to you know preach follow politics but let's hope we
can minimize the chaos destruction and warfare and maybe you know cooperate
using things that are constructed for the the whole human race together here that that we're gonna see that I think
yeah to do some of those things if it's one community that cooperates across uh
country lines and even across uh corporate lines it's the astronomy
community and the science community so I I would love to see that continue when it comes to
something this big so I think it will that's you know and I I
you know every to everyone watching you know we just have to unfortunately it means making sure that
the politicians that are in place agree with that and you know voting to make
sure that continues so um I I this might be a plug for the
planetary Society but I'm going to stop there because we don't wanna they don't want to derail this too much it's a good
organization though and and I think I couldn't agree more Adrian with what you said and and I think uh it's gonna be a
very exciting decade whereas we're not going to be you know bless the Apollo
Astronauts you know and thank goodness Charlie and Jim Lovell and others are still around but but we may begin to
sort of look a little more toward the future here and just instead of just remembering when we did great things uh
you know 50 years absolutely yeah I know we're I know we're as the generation I think we're eager to uh take the next
step so I think that that's going to drive some of it you know hopefully it drives the type of cooperation we need
yeah absolutely well said all right all right so
um uh yeah before we go to our next speaker uh Mr John Johnson of the Nebraska star party I do just kind of
want to touch on the uh April is global astronomy month within this month we had
astronomy day we had dark sky week uh you know we saw a launch of uh you know
spacex's largest rocket ever in fact the I guess the largest rocket ever you know
so um we got lots of spectacular things that happened in this month
um uh being at neef again you're being able to rub shoulders with uh our
friends in the astronomical Community was was uh fantastic and it was also I
guess the 33rd anniversary of uh of the Hubble Space Telescope and they did a
little feature about that I'm going to play that right now and then after that we're going straight over to John
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I hope you enjoyed that um it's now my pleasure to bring up John
Johnson from the Nebraska star party it is getting close to that time again uh
you know the Nebraska star party is sight of one of the world's darkest sights for amateur astronomers and
John's here to talk all about it
okay thank you Scott how's this look everybody hear me all
right we hear you fine good good okay
um yeah I figured about time to bring everybody up to date on what uh we're
doing up here in Nebraska uh Star Party wise and otherwise I was trying to figure out how I could maybe tie into
the to the uh the theme there of waking in the Kyle samosion and the best thing I'd come up with was
uh we're up here trying to awaken everybody up to the fabulous Dark Skies
we have especially up in north central Nebraska and Awakening people to the the
sheer enjoyment of of learning more about the stars and and the nice guys uh
as most of you know I'm also heavily involved with Outreach events here for
the Omaha Astronomical Society and I think I've done at least five already this month and
have two more this weekend so wow uh so we're Awakening everybody to the cosmos
up here so there's my there's my tie-in okay so I I have the little PowerPoint I did some
updates let's see if I can bring this up
there it is
yeah how's that is that working for everybody perfect looks good okay I I'll run through these uh just my
general uh Spiel for the star party and uh and then if anybody has any questions
we can talk afterwards uh as I said we're we uh fully registered non-profit
organization to promote the and encourage both public and private astronomic observing sites
or activities we encourage dark sky friendly outdoor lighting practices in the state of Nebraska uh we sponsor the
annual Star Party up at Merit Reservoir which is about 35 miles Southwest of Valentine
uh and 2023 will be our 30th year of holding the star party so we're finding
some extra special things this year uh including some special speakers and uh
hopefully some International dark sky party representation to help commemorate
our our site up there at Merit Reservoir it's just for you that haven't seen this before here's Nebraska uh there's
Valentine Nebraska that's the closest town to our site Valentine is a
population about 300 or about three three thousand two hundred uh their uh the a teardrop Mount uh marks the spot
there uh it's a beautiful Lake that was uh built back in the 60s as a
agricultural irrigation project but it has become a beautiful Recreation site
not only for uh observing the night sky but also for boating and fishing the
nationally known fishing lake there too but here's a little reason why we hold
it there and I I have got I in my little presentations I do for outreach in the
public uh this this always blows everybody away uh as you know if you're
seeing this as a a Bartle scale representation of the mass of light pollution uh especially uh in the
eastern half of the United States and you'll notice there is that odd looking a little looks like some
kind of Critter up there and this black up there in North Central Area of
Nebraska and that is where we have the star party and now
this is where up close the x marks the spot we're inside that border one area there uh the the little bit of light
plume we might get from out here this is Valentine about 35 40 miles away on on
really transparent nights you barely see anything uh there other than that we got
the rest of the 360d Horizon is dark yep
and Scott can attest to that I should attest to that you can watch the Stars rise and set just almost yeah
overhead right at the right on the horizon yeah okay we we emphasize education and and you know teaching new
people about the night sky we hold a beginner's Field School uh we hold free
to our sessions uh Monday Tuesday and Wednesday at the Valentine
High School on Wednesdays we also have our lecture series and I'll tell you a
little bit later about who we're lining up for lectures and talks this year
um we also hold and we try to really emphasize our event as a family event
family oriented that's why we we try to have it during the summer months uh
before school starts for most people in the fall although that's getting harder and hotter every year it seems like to
get it ahead of the hat but um so yeah bring your families uh we have a
on Wednesday too we hold a Children's Program which is a well-received but you
can't beat the beauty of the nice guy and the most pictures don't even do it
justice but here are a few to give you some ideas there's a shot I think I took the summer
Milky Way there's the the north Milky Way there you can see
a little bit of plume this is probably a 30 30 40 minute Expo or second exposure
um of course you see this is natural light pollution you see the green streaks there of ionized oxygen but you can see
the Milky Way the trailing all the way down to the northern Horizon too ah there was just a close-up somebody
took of the Andromeda m110 there will you also get uh some other natural
light pollution it's been a few years when we since we've had it but I have a feeling this year with all the increase
in Sun activity but we may see some Aurora uh we had quite a display up here
Sunday night I'm sure most of you have heard about well probably others have taken pictures of it I I almost got out
but I missed it but uh there was other members of the Omaha Islamic society
that did and got some fabulous fabulous uh Aurora pictures
there's a scene from called dobro it's a an asphalted area about half the size of
a football field where we can set up the big scopes on nice smooth Asphalt Services and it
makes an ideal spot uh and it really does just become one big party uh people
you know yelling out hey come look and see what I got in mind and oh look over here and everyone just has a
enjoyable time there now these are some shots taken by a regular attendee from
from Chicago area Matt uh Matthew or Matt
biliski these are some he took this is just this last summer that shows our our tents
that we set up not only for vendors to for swap meets and vendors but for our
uh evening meals we have meals on uh Sunday Monday Tuesday and Thursday
nights there at the campground there was another beautiful shot from
Dover with the telescopes wow this is wait howdy how did he uh
sneak into dab Rowe with that Astro camera he must have covered it really well to be able to stand there I get the
shakes when I take well I'm sure he had it he probably had it on I mean he's
I think he has a full-frame Nikon with one of the really wide angle lenses yeah
well even those you can get some light peeking out of the back so he must have taken care of that in order to interrupt
the uh yeah so that uh something for me to keep in mind if I if I attempt
anything like that during that dive bro yeah bro you're you're yeah you got to get out
here one of the most spectacular ones because we had a yeah early evening we had a
thunder skirted bias bias we missed this but it it built up and down that's looking of
course the south south east there and it was a phenomenal display uh
of uh lightning in that huge underhead that went on down there
I love that that's a shot of um it's like the Milky Way explore the Milky Way
and that's another uh fella that comes out from Chicago uh some of you may have
heard of him Dragon nicken uh he's got uh what is that a 25 inch 25 inch Obsession
there he brings out incredible yeah
and and and that's okay uh that's my last impressive
yeah well I'll get to yeah we brag about it but Scott can attest and and so does
Kent March who was up there last summer oh yeah the Milky Way casts a shadow when you get fully dark adapted
uh you can see faint shadowy thing especially if you hold your or stand up
against a white surface like a trailer or your hand on a white sheet of paper the light casts a shadow yeah how dark
it is when you go to Nebraska star party you're going to want to bring like some sort of uh
you know like anti-gravity chair something just don't lay back okay because just to sit out there and look
at the Milky Way with no telescope okay it's such an incredible Joy you know and
just a bask and all that Starlight uh you know it's it's uh
you know it's it's amazing um I'm always shocked at the numbers that people have never seen the Milky
Way um you know they say something like uh 80 of the population in the United
States yes there's never seen it and yeah it was just I I was down last even
in Nebraska I was down last Saturday night we held uh an event
uh now that I guess it was Saturday four but anyway we held event down in University of Nebraska and Lincoln at
moral Hall which is kind of their science thing and and uh we had you know
people from not only representing Omaha economical Society but the Prairie astronomy club which is a partner Club
in Lincoln that we that members work on the Nebraska star party and then several
other entities there and and yeah like Scott said I'm always just amazed you know people who come up and I had those
pictures laying out there and it was like I mean can you really see the Milky Way and you really see it oh boy
your Sky probably dark as if not darker
um very similar to Okie text so I know what it's like or it can be like yep
yeah when the Milky Way comes out and it's not even full astronomical Twilight
you're still in nautical twilight and that core comes out yeah
um and that area down there around Sagittarius is just always yeah it's very it's bright what you're seeing in
that picture you're showing us is what you see with your naked eye and I
even though I've seen it a couple times now going down um Doki text I it's still it's still an
amazing thing to watch it just appear right in front of your eyes and um I I
yeah it comes the highlight of any guys yep yep I have um
I I've only missed three in the 30 years so uh yeah I A lot of times the first
night like Scott said just bring your zero gravity chair up there uh maybe
have your binoculars laying with you but just lean back and watch the night back yeah that's right yeah develop and uh
yeah another hint for you all watch the Milky Way go from Horizon to Horizon two
you'll not only see that bright area but the whole Milky Way
comes on display and if you stay up all night I don't know if you're there in
time for Orion the Orion side to come out because you're doing your dates are
June it's Italy is
two years ago I did an all-nighter because I was Imaging the or not two
years when it was three years it'd be three years when I was Imaging the comet neowise and
uh as Dawn approaches you'll see I think um you know some of Taurus you know uh
what's Bellatrix Beale Jews might pop above the Horizon there before you uh at
that time of your end of July yeah and it gets a little bright brighter there but uh but uh yeah so that no it's oh
it's fantastic to see the whole the whole Milky Way drift through the sky uh
both sides can't go wrong with him you watch it if you're out there that
many you know several hours you see how it rotates and shifts around in the sky it's always fascinating to me anyway
let's move okay and yeah not only night time but daytime you'll have some
awesome sights uh this was one for oh a few years ago but this Thunderhead build
up to the east of us and uh that is just just an awesome sight
now last summer we had one build up to that this is the earlier picture of that storm I showed you the night time we
just dodged a bullet as they say here it was built enough to the Southwest and then then it drifted on it and it
cleared off that night and we were clear but here's the another example of uh we have a great partnership with the
Nebraska game parks and they mow down you know it's all they call it the Sand Hills but it's all natural grass land
and so they'll come out and mow off so we we never have a problem of not having enough area for you to pull in your RV or set
up your camper or whatever and and just observe right from where your vehicle is
someone and that was the awesome Sunset yeah okay uh
we had great news and I've alluded to it earlier just after star party or in fall of last year working with the Ida and
our collaboration with Nebraska Game and Parks Commission and Nebraska tourism commission uh we were that area was
designated as a merit Reservoir SRA as a dark sky Park yay officially yay drum
roll yeah uh we've been working on that for probably a better part of it 12 15 years but we finally got it to happen
um it became the 200th worldwide dark sky Park and uh we're working with the gaming
Parks uh people to help them because as
part of the designation for a park you have to put on some other events and a minimum of four events and we've got uh
four events lined up for this year now one of them actually starting this uh it's going to be out there this Saturday
night the 29th I got some other members uh that our attendees uh live a little
bit closer than me because it's about a five five and a half hour drive up there but there's some of our folks working
with the gaming Parks people are doing present a program um Saturday night the 29th so we're
actively continuing to promote and push uh Dark Skies uh whatever okay specifics for this year
the dates this year July 16th through the 21st we had to bump our costs a little bit uh
just because we provide uh you know uh the setting up the tents and food and
you know extra porta potties and everything so we had to up our price a little bit we're probably still the most
economical star party around but uh so sixty dollars for adult we've kept the
kids at 15 and if you don't get it in before July 1st then we bump it to 75.
because we need to know numbers and get things going we'll probably still take walk-ins if if
you want to wait and take your chances but and as I said earlier we have a really fabulous catered meal on Sunday
we kickoff on Sunday Monday Tuesday um and then Thursday Wednesday we don't have anything because we hope
everybody's in town at the high school and Valentine that's part of the the the our thing for
the community our Valentine the you know bring the tourists in have them spend money in town so we promote that and
they're really really on board with us here and beginner's field classes
uh lecture series I guess I've been through some of this before
and we have a great t-shirt design there's our t-shirt design this year already made up celebrating our 30th
year Nebraska Star Party popping the cork there uh so uh you can order your t-shirts ahead
of time too we got some great speakers at least tentatively lined up uh we're gonna have
half Griffin he's vice president of engineering at South Carolina ETV uh but he's probably most known for
his uh modifying dlslrs I I don't know if he's still doing that or not but but
he's also built himself an amazing observatory in his his uh astral imager
and into uh Imaging looking for asteroids and everything
and along with that yeah he's Lexington County Kentucky or South Carolina uh
pran Vera hasini which I think was on GSP what just a week or two ago yeah yeah
this young lady has been caught her her star continues to rise I'm just totally
impressed I first met her at the astronomical League convention in 2018 up in Minneapolis
but she was out uh didn't get a chance she gave a quick talk on her background
then um and uh the one of the other gentlemen we had
there speaking that year was uh Martin Gaskill who is a uh PhD professor at
University of California Santa Cruz that's UCSC he was so impressed and at
that point she was trying to see where she wanted to further her education so he got her in out there and she's
already blowing through her master's program and is now an application and today is her birthday
I think it is perfect wow thank you for bringing that up to his favorite we all
happened to jump on and wish her a happy birthday I I haven't been on Facebook today to see what was
only so many hours in the day as they say and I mean we're still trying to see if we can get an idea uh International
rep uh we may end up just having to either have a recorded video or uh do a
you know a Facebook or I mean what's um
how electronically haven't been but um so that's kind of our lineup let's see
what else here oh our website there uh just Nebraska starparty.org you can
um save more pictures and the more what we're about there we do have a Facebook
site I try to keep that up although I don't get up there very much to do much but uh
it's there with details the early registration I said is open
through July 1st uh we'll still take reservations but it'll cost you a little more
and you can register online or you can download your registration form and mail it with payments
questions and okay anyway I'll take it back so okay that's great thank you John
thank you
I need you to keep shaming me if I miss it each and every year because you're going to get me to jump in the vehicle
okay I I'm gonna make it the if I can't do the whole week I'll do a couple of the days
at least well that's it yeah don't uh don't stress if you think
he can't make it for the whole week Adrian once you're there you won't leave so we'll leave I better bring my work laptop too
because that's yeah that's right okay all right well thank you any more
information you know how to get a hold of me um
um real quick John um in case you covered it I'm sorry but internet how how does this pretty decent
uh internet out there uh I think there's a cell tower with 5G on it out there
okay not all not all uh you know depending on
who your carriers are but uh and I could do a little more research if you want me to find out which ones for sure but I uh
we usually have somebody at least with a good phone there watching the
weather because we we try to keep it's not one picture showed we we dodged a close one there last year but they they
do have a tendency to build up and and strike uh with very little uh warning out there that's one of I hate the but
that is kind of a thrilling thing if you've never been in a out there and seen clouds like that build up and
they'll they'll build up extremely fast and uh and and cause some women whatever
you know yeah well good to know that's that's definitely something I'll be looking
into uh but can't play hooky from work but see
Dark Skies I'll do I'll try and do almost whatever it takes
and ironically I drive we drive through that area on the way down to Oklahoma so
yeah yeah for you if you get at least to the
Nebraska border you're you're three quarters of the way there yeah that's right that's right all right all
right guys so uh up next is Maxi filari's uh all the way down in
Argentina uh he always shows us some really cool uh Southern Sky objects and
um I'm sure this week will be no exception Maxie you've got the stage
thank you Scott good night everyone and John a impressive place to to be there I
hope one day in my life could be in the Nebraska Star Party and so well tonight what I'm going to
show you is what I'll be doing last week because uh we have started having a new
moon so I I try to run away with my little scope
with some friends to a farm area 20 kilometers to the north
to see if I can capture uh some play some Galaxy places like the barkanians
chain but first of all let me share my screen
um okay do you see it
as always Maxi we see that beautiful eclipsed photo so great
perfect so basically I wanted to show you where I am where I was taking pictures for
example this is my city this is a pollution unfortunately light pollution
area but I drive to the Northwest almost 25
kilometers and almost here I have
class three so you can see stars with
naked eye you can see the gray margin as well you can see all
a lot of of course the core of the Milky Way and uh what I was doing here was trying
to capture to the North Area because the this is the Galaxy season that we call
it and I have it almost on the uh north
of my my place so before that I remember that David
Liker was showing some a a great big
crashes of galaxies and a another example that we have is the antenna
galaxies that maybe some someday the Milky Way and
Andromeda galaxy we Collision it like this and in this case you can see the
both arms spreading away and to mix all
in one single Galaxy this is amazing and
this is one of my goal for the caption last week but I couldn't because I have
a lot of wind but anyway uh let's uh I want to show you what I
was capturing first of all uh I started with a famous triplet of Leo this is
with the a telescope Oscar a lens a 200
millimeters an F4 for example and my cwo 5033
a color camera uh and you can see
let me minimize this okay
you have the the tripod of video but also another galaxies and Tiny galaxies
this lens it works really fine capturing a nebulas another stuff but galaxies
doesn't match if you if the Galaxy doesn't really really huge
but my wish was capturing the Americana
exchange or part of that because my I have one
inch a square sensor and that's why my pictures are square
um and for example this is what I get a post processing and stacking the part of
my of the American chain you can see here is M80
7 here's aim m86 um parts of the rest of the galaxies
uh here's another ones uh you know
this is a really good place almost uh to to watch this through a telescope but to
capture it it works really fine um
they then we was capturing this but more later the
the focus region is starting to goes up so I point my scope there and I was
taking almost a 45 minutes pictures of three minutes each one
and this is the results but I didn't process this very very well yet
but uh looks pretty good right now you you see a lot of colors fabulous
Stars shapes lower a global clusters
processing and it looks mind-blowing already so yeah yeah you catch clusters
that I think this was M4 that's here four oh okay oh so you're a scorpion so
M4 and NGC 69 20
I don't either but yeah that's one that we can see in the North
yeah I have it here all the night you know uh I when you watch it it's a
single that is gonna turn out beautiful if that's just one frame no no this it was stacking of uh okay oh
you stacked them yes uh almost a 45 minutes capturing of three minutes
15 pictures I stacked it yeah
like I say I have a square sensor so I doesn't have this part of all that place
so it's a incomplete so I try to do the last weekend because
we went and meet with some friends in Alberti in the observatory and well at
last hour we don't have too much uh hopes that we could be there because the
weather says now is going to be cloudy it's going to be raining and everything but it turns a one in 1800 degrees
um we went there with some friends we've been preparing our scopes
kill for example he's preparing his a GCO a eight minute
eight inches this is a reticulating I think it calls with a qhy
capture a camera and and a filter with
and everything this is my uh telescope or my car here
and my eight inches and also I prepare the ascal lens
and this was the the equipment of um Gabriel perdusso
the this is another angle you know you you can see here behind of
this place you're wondering what what is what is the what what do you think is this
behind here barbecue Bravo
yeah the number two thing that that every astronomer does in uh in Argentina
they look at the stars and then they barbecue yes of course I'm going to I'm
going to have to start this tradition here in the Americas star party all we do is look at the stars and that's
supposed to be enough barbecue no way yeah this is a barbecue place because if
you meet with a lot of people you will need to prepare a lot of food
you know and of course if you can build one way we don't have two garages that
we call it a this is a parisha but we didn't use this that night because we
went to uh to keep it dark yeah we need
to keep it dark and keep it clean without smoke because we we saw fire
here you know and but we're going to
inaugurate this place someday maybe in a couple months
so here's another angle of of the equipments and we have all prepared
before the the sun sets and you can see here in the north there are some clouds
almost I I it does it does simply see pretty much yeah but a little bit but
it's in the north so they were to say now say
um um lies for being a
come on it's a great place so this the sunset is going into
to go uh you can see I I capture a lot of pictures with this is with the Oscar
lens this is the fence that uh surround the The Observatory for security
but anyway uh you can see the the sunset and also in this place in the of the
tree it was a bird flying perfect
um also this is another one I really like when the Sun goes like
this this reminds me for example that scene from The Lion King in Africa or
something like that you know I really love that it's even better because you can
actually watch it yeah yeah it it's below the point at which the light will
blind you mm-hmm I know so we have the the Moon it will say there you go a pretty Crescent known
uh after the the hybrid eclipse in Australia or in Oceania
but um you know this was one and a half days
and when I uh searching for the moon I I
couldn't see it because I thought it was more thin but now it was beyond that
uh well here's a Gabriel peruso
this is typical mate and the thermo where is the hot water so you can
drink it and of course we were chatting it is on
um biscuits and of course preparing for the nights I I took this picture of him with his
scope
I like that
loves this picture you know he's saying oh man that's that's a really really good picture I I told him it's a profile
picture too yeah yeah he could put that first profile picture online
yes so well that night we prepare we start to taking pictures uh they went uh
to the Sombrero Galaxy and the c83
this is the I don't remember the the name a Galaxy 2 in Centaurus but uh I've
been doing working with two equipments uh with my eight inches telescope I was
capturing uh these objects of course the moon with the scope with a
big one before the the moon goes out so let me out the stretch you can see
all the circumference of the Moon and then I started to try to capture the
antenna Galaxy but the wind was really tough so you know sorry before that I started
to m87 because this is not processed yet this is only the Stacked image
because I want to capture the nucleus and
let me see if I can stretch it manually because you see all bright in the in the
in the core but here in this place is the jet that's
coming up from the inside of the um
um [Music] the black hole of mag-7
let me see if I can stretch it sorry
um yes preview
here 's the core and here's part of the of that jet
that's coming from this Galaxy now this is an incredible of
course if you search it through a hubs the Space Telescope you will watch it
with a little more details but anyway capturing this is unbelievable doing
with your scope so do you hear me guys or I lost connection
no we still hear you good at least I do great uh well if like I said this is the the
object that I want to capture and if we can if we compare of what I doing last a
couple days before this you can see this is m87 and it's right
here you know I have almost the same field of view at the same position sorry
if I assume it you'll see this star is here this three
stars are here in 87 two galaxies a star and but look at the difference if I
assume this this is one-on-one and this is one on one
it's a huge difference of course it depends of the the lens of the the
equipment that you have um well then I tried to capture the
the sorry the the antenna Galaxy but the wind was really tough so I searched
another option that I could do almost all night long and then I went to the classical M83
this is the the southern will build Galaxy this is a really huge object that we can
capture here in the southern hemisphere um and in this case I could resolve the
more of the a core and the arms of the Galaxy and of course the another little
galaxies beyond that here they're really really far away
but I I'm really I'm really happy with this process
but unfortunately I could not do this all night long because at 1am
the a fog starts to to comes that we couldn't see it in a any pages of
weather even satellites images and they wasn't there but
we were under that a fog
and we have to grab our equipment and put it against
our cars uh and say okay oh that's that we get
oh yeah gorgeous thank you Scott um so we are trying to to process and
stack some images practicing and then everyone goes to to pay our homes I
bring here 7 A.M I think I have only one hour travel but these guys have almost
two and a half or maybe three hours driving without sleep you know is really
really tough so um this was with my first equipment but
with the lens I was capturing
this is the the field of view that I get with a with my Nikon d80 this is a
really old camera but anyway I could solve when I start
and I process pretty quick like this a picture you can see all the colors of
the velocity and of course it doesn't see too much
details but I'm I'm pretty I'm I'm really really good with your
results uh I also try to capture the Raw Future
place that uh try uh the days ago
you can see this is M4 this is another one this is Antares
but I have this square but here I have a lot more
and you know there's well here I I couldn't
start this yet and also I was capturing or tried to
capture the the challenge with the core of the curry machine cloud
and the another ones the velocities that surround this beautiful place
that we have here in the in the southern hemisphere
um so well I think this is all what I've been doing uh let's continue with the
schedule sorry if I I I've been a little more no it's just
fine it's just fine thank you so much um uh Maxie I um so what is your next
adventure what are you going to be uh well I will try to uh maybe focus on the core of the Galaxy
maybe and try to capture some well practicing with a new filter a that I
could be doing after Photography in my home in my backyard because the light
pollution doesn't it's really tough so I want to work with a emission nebulas that or
planets are enabled us that with the feature will comes more the data and of
course blocks the light pollution in the city but maybe next month we will go
there to Alberti again try to Hope if the weather help us but anyway
I'm really grateful to to Marcos from Alberti to a you know
he couldn't be there but he said Maxi go there you are a a he treats me like if I owe
the place of course I don't oh this is not my place a you know uh he brings uh
he say he goes from my um a political father uh he will give
you the keys of the place okay because he
[Music] um Believes In Me of of course I I will not trust me and
you know I'm really grateful for that and of course a every every time that I
could help him of course a in the astronomy or maybe someone has a a
question if I I can answer I will do it when no
problem you know uh he invited me again maybe because he will going to be more
people like the a couple months ago and I say yes man if if I I I don't have to
do anything yet but for me so yes you can count with
me so um you know I I didn't pay for this place this is
free this is for everyone that can that want to come so that's my
um reward for them of course doing publicity of the place because it is a
really a comfortable place you can chat and you can refer the this guy and of
course we he he allows me to grab a Dobson a telescope and when we start to
to take pictures uh with a parallel we start to watch the some places that I
know and you know some of the guys didn't remember how how it looks like watch it through a telescope so
sometimes it's really good to remember that or feel that and you know they
failed like they have 10 years old only yeah because
you feel the passion you feel it and you remember when you capture it but you are
seeing with your eyes and that's a huge difference right that's right wonderful well Maxi
thank you so much thank you now thank you to you guys and have a good night all right good night okay so we're going
to take about a 10 minute break here um uh and uh uh I have a little feature
just it's like 30 seconds long but it's like another audio uh file of uh of what
space Sounds like so this is done by NASA so after the 10 minute break you'll
hear this but uh so you want to be watching for it otherwise you're going to miss it it
goes by really quick so here we go
foreign
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Orlando
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president
um
[Music]
[Music] the first day
this is
Wayne I I see you soon hi Buck Davis how are
you okay when I mean
I Norm Ally
yeah we got a lot of people watching from around the world it looks like here yes
yes I'll close the doors for the noise here
in one second um
sorry sorry are there parties happening um the another Star Party
no no no no no but but you know that that the last uh two weeks
ago when I was presenting from the balcony I had in our Zoom because we
have a we call it soon uh to a place where the people use to make Paris and I
had a party in my back good with music yes yes and and but
because it's from in the same condo of the tower um we have the
Saloon for Paris or barbecue very big um I remember that that this two weeks
ago maybe I remember that I I we three weeks ago that if you if you feel music
yes what's real was an electronic music from from the from from the salon
yes yes yes absolutely
um I have a baby sister excellent well I'll close here in my
home doors and I can start to present when you tell me
it's going to be scissors time
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together
the doors to close no where no no no
no I almost four of doors
I I closed the doors I need the faster it reminds me get smart Siri
yes yes what I'm more more
yes it sounded off of his face this sounds like uh
fluid or something dripping out of space or something it's really
I I thought it was that one more time this was now this is
some science program that you can participate in
um [Music] thank you
almost like it sounds like a photon traveling through space yeah yeah yeah I
thought you might like that Norman yeah it's not the same with the scissors
doors closing okay so
um uh up next here is uh this is our brolo he is just coming back from the
valley Grande star party or Valle is it Valle is that it's pronounced
star party so the the Grand Valley Star Party um
and uh the stage is all yours Caesar so take it away
no audio but not but now you hear me yes yes
sorry okay um well hi everyone good night uh just
yesterday I returned from the province of Mendoza in my country
Argentina and I just returned uh from
basic Grande starpari that is a third party that
I am a part of the organization I am a sponsor too and
we started in 2008 2010 in the year 2000
um this year was a particularly a great
Edition because it was The Institute that is of the astronomer Jaime Garcia
it's an Institute that work in education
um all about the the teaching and
for the people for astronomy and science supporting to students in many many
places founded by Jaime Garcia my friend and
the his mathematics and astronomer and he worked
he worked by many many years with this the whole Institution
um he started 50 years ago this year of course that as
um I feel a member of especially in the part or to maintain
and support their instruments Optical instruments
astronomical instruments um and working to in uh the
working together to make every year this third party from the to 2000 year
um well I'll show you the last sarpari I have some pictures to
share with the audience um inviting of course for the next
Edition in 2024 um in two three and four May
2023 24 sorry and and of course that all
people that can contact me to to give you the directions for the
next year um opportunity Maybe
in the end of this year I prepare a special presentation to to invite
for for the addition of 2024.
well let me let me share
the screen
let me uh you can see the picture or you can see the
I can see the thumbnails okay no no no I I need to show you the pictures
screen okay here [Music] you can see now the the picture
yes okay well here is the first day when I we arrive
this is the the hotel which is all the the facilities this is
the first day when the people arrive something that was funny this year was
that normally we started on Friday but
this year normally one night one night and before
um we started to make a barbecue only for the people that arrived early and we
started to to be no more that 15 people
and 10 people 15 20. this year
um in the in the unofficial barbecue of the Wednesday
we was 60 people 62 people and we decide
start uh one day early for next year
officially because don't have more sense to make a very big you
only only to only to think
yeah this comes from India I don't know I have something else we
have some audio if you're not if you're not speaking right now please uh be really cool I've got it um I was in
India I think in October November and they gave me and I thought William
yes okay I think it may be coming from I want to
know I think we can hear okay
yes he's got a big party he's going to come up next here so there it goes okay
okay and uh well
um something that was great for us that we put a name
we make a a new knife uh we we will having uh two
and at one night more in our self parties well this one is the first thing
that we can go to make um we repair
um we went to The Institute of copernic Observatory that is in the facilities of
Jaime Garcia one year um he worked in measuring brag of the
stars and we we uh put
um we installed last year uh exos to explore scientific mold
um this year I don't know if if Alex scanders
tell you Scott that Alex was working
with us in this picture Alex we was on yes Alex skander was inside the
the pictures he worked with us last Friday don't put yes he was a a great
support uh to configurate the
all things that uh that the emergency I need from this Mount uh to
uh for a work remotely and we was happy to
to have this amount working now
um of course Jaime Garcia was totally a
thankful about this um yes yes I I I need to say thank you
to Alexis skander from explore scientific because he make us a great
work uh to configurate the old functions of
this model that as guiding remote controls and you know using uh not so
new uh um notebook the computer
well this was one of the first day part of the of the lunch
you know that in Argentina all about Foods is very important and of course
that our body have a lot of a great great
part of of uh you know um of food and happiness and well and
this year uh well here is is a
an astronomer astronomer from from Chile she's a
physics and astronomer um Jaime Garcia
and a an uh is she is a Catalina Mora or
recola is a Jaime Garcia
um here do you have one of the first pictures of the Milky Way
[Music] with a cell phone
here we have uh the uh the first dinner in the night
here you can see the talks one of many times
in the in the Hotel facilities
all is inside inside the hotel and and
you have a telescope types everything is in the same place it's very comfortable
this one is another another kind of of tongues this is a Turks that is their
tradition in our in our star parties
um it's a cosmologist physics
um he is one of the best Educators and investigators it's a
researcher um but he's very very great to explain
and while we for example he um we call it a clandestine talks
clandestine talks to these thoughts because our outside program and our
talks when you are when you feel that you have you feel you know
cold in the night we are watching your telescope or if you left your telescope
taking pictures you can return to the lobby of the hotel to this talks about
physics about you know everything about astronomy and this is gray because
Gabrielle have a a great you know a
condition and he never feel entitled to explain more that all that the people
ask is is really uh treasure in our star
parties have have to to Gabrielle
here you can see the the complicate of
the the level of of craziness of in the clandestine uh yes it's it's growing
growing you know and it's very very interesting more astronomers from Chile here it's me
with Jaime Garcia and we really enjoy uh our our neighbors
from Chile that they came to to Mendoza as Mendoza is is near to Chile but you
have the conic many many times
astronomers from Chile came to our Star Party
here is a a first moon
from Gustavo Valen that he's a great astrophotographer and he found yes he
found the minimal minimal first move like an hairline it's absolutely
absolutely here were another view of the hotel in
the night foreign
place of the telescopes
here is when the first line 130 with a exo
small explore scientific telescope is the single shot by Pablo Barrios next
week I'll show you the the processor the processor pictures
you know that that is a Newtonian telescope from Super scientific very
simple telescope and we really had a lot of of fun with this telescope
that's great this is another picture with the same
telescope but single teller but single picture without without a processing
peace yes yes when we talk sport about is about
entry-level telescope like a first like serious yes you can make this uh
you know that amazing it's amazing it's amazing really
more pictures of a Milky Way without processing
all that present here is the pictures that we that that many many
participants in the third party share in the WhatsApp grow all alone
is a very nice picture of Jose Sanchez
the the author of this picture is Javier Javier taravanov
this picture is of Jose Luis Sanchez here is my my uh Juan Paulo patasso my
Sona gutin like taking picture of the the Milky Way
or sorry taking picture of uh of nebulas
here it's the the uh is of Adrian no week I didn't know which is a master of
of taking spectrograph um this is the spectrum of mimosa
Cruz he Jose Crooks here Mimosa here do you have part of the
of the Southern Cross and hoshido
here where do you have they have here the image of Jose and
here the Spectrum with a gratin net
here is is uh using Martin Ruiz using uh
exos exos2
explore scientific mode with a camera next week I'll show you only pictures
that all people took I he showed me a beautiful beautiful
picture of a Orion or your nebula
um he took a lot more and here here do you have The Source like explore scientific that
Pablo various you see yourself to take the pictures that I showed you
something that was was a nice that the third party was full of exos 100 and
exs2 I I for yes I I was like an explore
scientific night absolutely absolutely yes yes
really really I lost how many months we we saw in the last
time while the pandemic and um for me was so happy because this was
like uh like uh a new generation of mounts and people uh talking in another
another language of because it's um you know uh we was talking about the
new use of uh how exploration typical PMC a system is and wasn't really
fun yes yes is foreign
[Music] of the place this year will receive 110
participants and last week last year we received 60
participants really was a a growth of of uh
amateur astronomer uh population very very very interesting very interesting
really uh we we with Jaime we talked a
lot a lot uh about um you know uh about how is the things are
was um despite the economic very bad economic situations and you know and
really we appreciate a lot a lot when a star party
return return to to to be more popular
or you know more interest the people more interested
um you know that that for me the first thing is about how how the people come
into the Safari and enjoy and you know the Friendship the
it's it's the most important part here
took a lot of a lot of pictures and this one Martin is like another you know
another how do you say [Music]
I think that that the people that love uh
uh take pictures of a Milky Way like Adrian Bradley Martinez and many more in
in our group I I hope that one day
Adrian came to our sir Paris and they start to
took a picture of overhead yes yes this
is a single shot of a Milky Way by Martin de lechea a single shot they over
our hair this is a part of a roof yeah Adrian would hate to have that much Milky Way Starlight yeah yeah absolutely
I absolutely would no I would
oh I'd absolutely love it and I've got more pennies to save I'm already
scheming on how to get to Nebraska and I've been scheming on Australia on um
Australia no I'm scheming there too um but uh Argentina
um would be the Fulfillment of being able to see the other part of the Milky Way that I can't
see here something yes yes well maybe the
barbecue more than the Milky Way
it's a very important part you know that for our for our architecture the first
thing that I told to to Maxie I thought that this was uh was uh uh welding for
the observatory but no it first the barbecue first the barbecue
or the barbecue and well something something that is incredible
that this picture is with cell phone it's not a reflex camera oh that's a cell phone photo yes yes okay yes that's
incredible another thing that this is a picture of
a guitar is from Rosario and he is uh
uh it's a very concerned and very as you say uh but that is very interesting in
in finding things he know a lot about the sky is an excellent excellent
amateur astronomer um he find the Nova in Scorpius
was it very interesting because the Nova appeared one night ago and was a a
situation where we we was able to see the Nova of course by telescope
um this is the things that are very very interesting yes another picture in
of the the another guise of planetarium of Rosario and if if somebody I I forget
the name of uh the girl from the planetary of of uh of Rosario
um she's she take this picture of the ability way
look that look the the yeah look at that go suck yes
alphabeta centauro Southern Cross on the cloud yes yes yes yes
like you can see the the you can see this the LMC right
yes it's something that sorry that I couldn't
yes yes this is is something that that the small one you can see too no problem
but this one is is the large one yeah and well part of
but it looks bigger it looks way bigger in in real life than it does in
photographs absolutely Scott yes absolutely you you see that in Chile
I remember and it's impressive I would stand how big it was you know absolutely
it's an impressive patch of the sky you know but it was yes it's it's big I
think it is enormous for enormous maybe four or five degrees yes
I remember yes yes and and well here was the surprise
for for a for a my friend
Jaime Garcia Jaime it's it's the the main motor of the this star parties
um I am the crazy man that I'm go together to make this and ever ever yes
um ever ever we call it okay it's a crazy we are we are turned crazy every
year but we say okay we can make the next next
um next next time next year yes of course we can go to make another one
every year um and this was was uh many it was a really
very very you know uh um emotive or
um very nice because it was a surprise that we we prepare uh a reconnaissance
um you know uh uh I don't remember always in English
and um I was something that was very very nice
his daughter came like a surprise from for another part of Argentina and well
it was was a very very nice
moment here how much does it cost for someone
to go to the star party was the what is the admission fee a I I I I give you the
price now it is around it was uh it's
like today you you say about a four with
foods and drinks yeah and the the everything accommodation everything
uh is is like a do they say because we pay less because we pay in January or
February we pay maybe no more than seven um
70 uh no sorry 20 27
000 pesos now maybe because uh it's around tell me
uh it's like today if uh 40
000 pesos okay
no no I think that it's a show but it's maybe I think that is no more than
150 uh US dollars for how many no no yes yes it's full
because it's it's real yes I I can't believe when I turned to US Dollars it's
I think that is is no more that
uh 150 okay
and that's for what three nights two nights uh this was was for three nights
um wow yes yes every river I think that normally is no more than 200 uh actually
the situation of Argentina economies yes is and here do you have the this year we
have radio astronomers I was a very interesting they work with Metro ritos
they work in with a with a antenna antenna and he worked a searching
um for example if you they
meters and they
work only with the
with the reflection of the unoffera
and they found for example if you found one
material in one hour they found the 100 it's so sensitive the system that is is
really they they make a great work only with radio astronomy with antennas
well we have every year we have fun in the area of the of the
uh and
um uh it's really for example this this place is for Rapid
um it's very interesting you can make rafting Rappel or a trekking biking you
know very very nice place
this year we prepare we prep we had a a concert of Dark Side
of the Moon Pink Floyd you know Pink Floyd the recycle of the Moon with the municipal
of Orchestra of San Rafael um Luca Rocco is a great musician and he
prepared and he turned they all uh
complete LP Long play of Dark Side of the Moon
that if this year is five five years old
five years old after Side of the Moon and they play the complete album
uh was really really nice in this night came from San Rafael City 300 people to
visit us look that
that they they showing with us they start party this music session
um was very emotive and very nice it was really a amazing amazing Federico Garcia
the the Jaime Garcia songs he is astronomer and he's a great uh guitar
player like Norman Fulham and singer yes Norman and
and he he sing he sang A a big part of
you know of a Russian water singing
and yes yes Norman you are invited here we have a lot of music in our third
party the music is a big lot just go say I'd love to go send you a few songs yeah
yes I'm we we are expecting that you can play in our third parties normal
and yes and a dark side of the moon is a great album and we enjoy it yeah and we
of course after that we we follow what in the sky you know
um this is another picture of this one he's a Fernando ricardine is a great
photographer and he worked a lot in the details
another part of the dinner another dinner you know talking with the people
about the program or the or about the the things of of here is me and
Jaime I don't remember maybe it was the last night I don't remember
we talk a lot and me here
with actor and we have a a a nice session of solar observation we have two
spots or two spots areas a different part of the of the sun if you are
watching the the sun is in the last day and we was using an another explore
scientific that we prepare uh and 80
millimeters refractor with a with a
Handmade by me filter of the Miler and
we we enjoy it a lot the the sun spots
um the people came to you know in the coffee break the people came to to watch the sun
because I was unexpected to have to have some you know
some some pots but they appear
first of all I I check space space weather and say okay we have sunspots we
can go to the to the Garden to watch
to the park I love that this is this is something so
simple and it's a great part of every Star Party
because everyone forgets Korea solar you know this typical solar land
telescope or you say okay but we can we can watch this and we we watch
another night
here the first here was in the same time of of the of the this The Scholar of the
observation preparing the telescope for the night
the night with moon and Venus
the the buffet of the dinner very important part of each
Safari ah this one was a pizza and salad night
very interesting yeah it looks great looks great yes you know and when you
think that you are you are in the scene you can put something of salad and you
looks gray and healthy yes only a little
but enjoy the pizza first
and here is is the LA the picture of of the growth the main of the main group
because we we found that many people many people went to you know to to make
trekking and but mostly is is the part yeah all of the ground
wonderful and here sorry sorry
ah sorry and this is the the picture that uh that I think that the the
picture was took by Pablo various and was the last day when all people went
out and only we uh was 15 people
watching the sky in the in the moon in the Sunday night
and this picture of the dog that this dog was every time of the hotel in the
pla in the empty place was a little sad picture but when you the party going off
and and his his uh awaiting next year
party ah maybe I'll get it yes
thank you thank you ah it was a pleasure it was a pleasure next week I'll show
you all pictures thank you Norman I I showed you all pictures that that the
participants sent me of course all processor
um and I'll talk about the next star party this year in katamarca October I
think it's October 2 3 and 4. um I know
because we are the same people that prepare Bashe Grande and now the new one
the new one katamarca that I showed you of the of the the first edition was uh
last year wonderful wonderful thank you thank you
thank you for the audience report it's great and uh
um for any of you that are uh interested in getting uh you know maybe your first
experience under uh dark southern hemisphere sky is these star parties would offer an incredible opportunity to
you and uh I know you'd be very warmly welcome and they sound very affordable I
mean you know that's yes yes the prices are really low because accommodations food stargazing everything for and the
quality equality absolutely and you have all incredible absolutely and do you
have uh all near the city and if you have some problem you have a healthy
Center one of us is suffering uh in a
fall and they needed well they he went to the city and he returned in this
Indian in the next day completely safe and you know it's it's not an
adventure but it's safe and sometimes what you have in a family kids you know
or or do you have something that we understand that uh for the people need
the accommodations and in a in equilibrium and something doesn't say something that that
dark sky safe places you know yeah
it's everyone are everyone are welcome for for uh you know for next is great
thank you so much now thank you all right so
we have um we have Marcelo Sousa he is
uh kicking off the international meeting of astronomic uh astronomy and
astronautics and he's down there with a whole group of people um and uh apparently we have somebody
here from the international dark sky Association so I'm going to bring them on
um you guys are live here on the 119th
Global star party so thank you very much for spending time
thank you for invitation and
um
and it yeah
oh I left the meeting hello
I see nothing of Bright Smiles stream with everyone
um have you been any of that over to me please oh yeah definitely I'm working on
it right now but we wanted you to being some of those drinks through the internet uh I will do my best
yeah he's gonna have this straw um so yeah it's actually really nice to
meet you Scott um I've always wanted to meet you so it's great to meet you virtually from
Brazil um but I do just want to want to thank you for all the work that that you do
and we're having some issues here with the sound okay um and I would like to encourage
everyone to get involved with the international Sky Association my title
is director of Engagement so I run our Grassroots Advocates program
basically which is just helping people make friends in the dark sky field which is how I met Marcelo which is how I
ended up in Brazil doing amazing things like this so I would really encourage people to get involved even go to
darksky.org and then there's like a take action Tab and then below that is join
The Advocate Network and you just have to fill in uh really simple information and you'll get a link to join we have a
global online communications platform where you can chat with Advocates from all around the world ask questions you
can chat with Ida staff directly share your successes and just learn from
the hive mind of the dark sky field and we also hold monthly trainings
that are really action oriented about kind of getting involved in your own Community to reduce light pollution and
then we have other monthly meetings as well that are more informational about various topics on light pollution and
just really interesting stuff that would be good to share at Star parties and in
everyone's Outreach as well so I'm super honored to be here in Brazil and to meet
Marcelo we just uh went to the first ever dark sky Park in South America
yesterday and then this evening we saw a potential Urban night sky place right on
the coast that has hatchling sea turtles and beautiful birds and really cool insects with glowing green eyes on their
back so yeah I don't know you're hoping for for me to say talk
about the idea do you have anything yeah I think it's fantastic I mean I'm having an inner that moment right here right
now because here we are talking around the world um you know you're you're all the way
down in Brazil uh you're doing something I wish I was doing I would love to see
the first uh Ida Park uh in in South
America but I know you're in great hands with Marcelo uh and I know you're having a
good time so yeah so I I recommend to anyone that can make
it to Brazil uh you know maybe next year or the year after um and attend this amazing event so I'm
glad you're part of it will you stay are you going to stay for a while
um I am actually heading to Argentina right after this with another Northside
Advocate Alejandro summer you might actually be on this call as well uh to
explore another potential dark sky part called which is one of the Seven Wonders of the World which would be an
incredible dark sky Park uh and to work on a kind of a strategy for Latin
America Dark Side fantastic fantastic well that's great we
have a quick question for you and hopefully yeah quick question do you use like Sky meters when you go do you use
Sky meters when you go to these parks to see just what they read when you're
checking those out or just other factors um
and it's perfect conditions I have one with me all the time and I will just do it for fun and also to help people with
their annual reports and just to have that data but we're at first quarter now so I didn't I didn't do it this evening
accurately
I think that's a good point Thank you questions
thank you so much okay
yeah nice to see you nice to see you yeah
I'm sorry say that again last year yeah that's right that's right you were a
featured speaker that's right yes thank you thank you for being on global Star Party
um
yeah that's awesome that's great and so you will you uh you are going to be a
featured speaker at the imaa event uh coming up here is it going on right now
or is it is it happening
I'm sorry excellent excellent well thank you for uh your
greetings and good luck to you down there okay thank you my pleasure yeah thank
you okay thank you very much
thank you very much [Applause]
wonderful okay all right thank you you guys enjoy your dinner tonight and uh we
will uh we'll see you next time um hope to have you all back on global Star Party once again okay
wonderful so where else can you experience something like this
okay so up next uh we have Robert Reeves uh we're going from Brazil
Texas and uh um be our next speaker here
Robert are you uh
I'm sorry I think he said goodbye
so Robert you are you are up next
right here all righty now can you hear me I can
hear you fine good already whenever you've got the stage oh
hi I am up okay uh let me stop the clock for Celestron because I was doing a
little bit of tech help for them and then we will
then we will do the grand experiment and see if I can Master this screen share that always causes me a little bit of
trouble you always know people are on Zoom because they always go let me try and
share my screen and boom it does oh well exactly well maybe a little bit of our
luck from Neath and deak will rub off because uh it was great seeing you up there in New York
it was the smoothest most uh well-run
Convention of all the neefs that I've been to everything was just everything just hit the Mark's perfect there was no
no glitches nothing so I was really amazed so let's see if we can uh continue the good look I'm going to
press the share my screen thing and uh bring up this
thing and click on that and then are you seeing my
thumbnails right now okay here we go known I did not
did not get the good look I had hoped for uh how how do we do this yeah
eventually we stumble over this and get it right but uh yeah and stop uh go back in and um reshare
okay share hit share and um
hit the thingy and now do you see the mains of the elite side yes I do yeah it looks good all righty uh well
um as uh I mentioned last month or last well not last month it was about three
weeks ago I think last time we got together before nif niacca yeah I I titled my whole series here postcards
from the Moon uh it was the uh the talk that I gave at neef talks this year and uh many of the slides that you're seeing
are actually uh stolen directly right out of my uh neef talks presentation uh
I was I was very honored to have been invited back to speak again in my second
time at neef talk so uh it was a lot of fun first time I was so nervous I don't
remember a bit this time I just got up there and had fun and I think everybody enjoyed it too because that was really
amazed at the number of people that came up afterwards uh the Celestron Booth where I was working and uh talk to me
about my presentation so it was very heartening to see that it was making a connection and I hope that my
presentation is here on the uh Global star party uh do the same thing now today I'm going to be talking about
volcanic features on the moon now we all know that the uh the moon's face the
craters the basins of the Mario Leon were all created by impacts
but there are two basic uh landscape formation processes on the moon
volcanism is one of them and impact creating as the other volcanism subsequently modifies many of
the impact features so we end up with a variety of geology um
last time we spoke or well two times ago we spoke about the Maria the dark
regions on the moon that the form the face of the man and the moon they're volcanic they're created by by lava
flooding over a period of almost a billion years that filled in the impact basins on the moon
they're relatively few craters on them because it's a fresher service surface
that was paved over by Basalt after the fierce asteroid bombardment of the late
heavy bombardment about 3.8 3.9 billion years ago what remains above
the level of the basalts that filled in these basins is the highlands which we
see as the bright areas on the moon and this is primarily the uh uh uh an
orthocytic uh mineral meaning it's a uh uh a mineral made out of just one one
type of uh of rock primarily silicates that floated to the top of a global magma OSHA when the moon
melted almost 4 billion years ago this area retains the heavy cratering from uh
over the ages because it has not been flooded with Basalt and paved over by by
volcanic action so but tonight we're going the other way we're going to concentrate more on the effects of this
volcanism on the moon one of the largest longest features on the moon is what's
called A Wrinkle Ridge of these are known by the scientific name of dorsum or dorsa and they're actually foals on
the Mars surface where sheets of Basalt have crushed together and buckled
together so this happens when the mass of the
basalt in them in a basin that forms the Vari of the weight of it depresses the
center of the Basin squashes it down and the basalt slumps toward the middle of the Basin and as it does it'll buckle up
into these ridges and they can be um
several hundred kilometers long but rarely are they more than just a few hundred meters in elevation so they're
only visible at very low Sun elevation uh wrinkle ridges on the moon are named
after uh uh earth scientists famous earth scientists and in this case this region
on Eastern Mars serenitatus we see what was called the serpentine Ridge and it's
actually the uh interwoven ropey-like fans of dorsa Smirnoff and on
the North endorse a list around the South um dorsum Heim lies on the Eastern excuse
me the western shore of Barry embryan that's just south of sinus or Rhythm and
there's other unnamed wrinkle ridges that look like frozen ocean waves that are washing into the Horseshoe Bay of
sinus and rhythm some more unnamed wrinkle ridges on the
moon arcing around the Eastern side of Mara humorum where we see a a series of
three parallel uh curved wrinkle ridges oops keep pushing the wrong button here
now another view of those same wrinkle ridges this is a sunrise just breaking
across half of Mari humorum and we see those same arcing wrinkle ridges where
the basalts are slumping toward the center of the Basin and buckling up and creating these ridges now notice on the
shoreline of uh Mario humorum these three parallel reels we'll
talk about those in a minute but I've always thought it was very curious that the forces that created the three
wrinkle ridges also created the three parallel reels just an interesting
symmetry on the moon and we'll get to those in just a minute um another uh wrinkle Ridge I forget the
name of it running through uh craters near the center of Mari imbrium which is
a fairly Bland area of the moon but this is the Mario that forms the man of the
moon's left eye now up
and uh yeah I was particularly happy with this one too this is uh up near aristarchus
plateau uh the crater aristarchist just breaking into Sunrise right on the on the on the Terminator uh this is a
northern oceans Pro solerum and uh uh more wrinkle ridges arcing around the
harboring your mountains the little mountain peaks poking up casting the Shadows uh the harbinger mountains are
so named because they are the harbinger of sunrise on the aristarchus plateau which at this point is still in the
shadow but what I like about this is it almost looks like uh flowing water on a
on a stream that is causing ripples uh around rocks protruding in the in in the
uh in the Stream now of course the the Mario basalts are are still they haven't moved for uh billions of years but it
gives that illusion of flowing water swirling around these rocks protruding
up through the the moving stream another type of volcanic feature on the
moon or is a real and uh uh these are are lengthy grooves or
channels on the moon that are appreciably longer than they are wide and uh the scientific name for them is
Rima or rimei and the plural and these are formed by three different processes
uh all related to volcanism now uh for instance straight reels are
formed by the slumping of land between two parallel faults now what happens here is back when the
moon was still hot still had a molten interior uh the crust on the surface is
split apart by a volcanic Dyke and what a volcanic dike is is a sheet of
vertical sheet of magma that pushes up for the moon's molten core splits the crust as it's thrusting
upward but didn't completely breach the surface to create a volcanic eruption
so uh primarisiotis in the lower left prime
example of that the Ramos or Solace on the right hand
side this is one of the longest street reels on the moon it's over 400
kilometers long that's that's uh longer than driving from my hometown of San
Antonio over to Houston Texas now uh look closely at the picture and
you'll notice the rear on the bottom the real splits through a pre-existing crater
I'm going to continue up to the north and uh notice the uh the the large double side-by-side craters just below
them another smaller pair of graters and one of those craters is overlaying the
pre-existing reel so uh you can tell who came first on the moon now obviously the
crater on the bottom was there the real split through it and then later on the
crater up on top formed on top of the rule and you can see some degree of white Splash around it obliterating the
region around the uh the the right hand of the smaller of the two craters that indicates this crater is less than a
billion years old because Ray structures typically fade after about a billion years meteoric impacts turn the soil uh
erase them solar radiation darkens the uh the soil so this is a fairly recent
Apparition uh only within the the copernican apoc path the newest time
period on the moon uh getting back to the uh rules on
Western uh Mario humorum um our cue it are curved drills are
created by the stretching of the land near the edge of Amara uh again I was
mentioning how the wrinkle ridges are formed but they've Mario Basalt depressing the center of the Basin and
the basalt slumped toward the center of it creating the the wrinkle ridges but at the same time as this Basalt is
pushing or or being pulled toward the center of the Basin it is pulling on the
shoreline and stretching it and these curved or acute reels break open and the
surfaces as the as the the surface is stretched
well sinuous reels um you know almost look like a like a snake these are formed by flowing
streams of lava molten lava much like channels are cut in the Earth by flowing water over a million years ago of
flowing lava on the moon also sliced out flowing channels and this particular
area is the Apollo 15 landing area of the Hadley real near the appenite mountains up in the northeast corner of
mariambrium so let's uh use your mind's eye
imagination and go back uh two billion years and volcanic eruptions Happening
Here red hot molten flowing lava slicing down through this this twisty uh real uh
literally glowing into some parts of it of course covered over by a cooling Rock
so uh it's not like the whole thing would be constant red hot all the way down but uh surely there's there's
bursts of pyroclastic activity as the as this flowing molten love is slicing down
through the sinus reel it must have been a spectacular sight
another uh sinuous real running right down the middle of the Alpine Valley up
near Plato a lot of people don't see this in their telescopes because it
takes good seeing and high resolution the spot this thing this this reel that the zigzags down the middle of the
Alpine Valley is only about half a kilometer wide now this is technically
too small of a feature to be seen by a typical amateur telescope but uh what
was working in our favor here is that these reels even though they're very narrow are linear and it's just like the
effect when you're looking at distant telephone wires if you uh try to see an
individual object that's only as round as that wire is wide you will never see
it it's like trying to look at a BB from a quarter mile away but since the phone wires are linear they have length to
them we can detect them with our eyes it's the same way with these these lengthy rules on the moon even if
they're narrow their length allows us to to perceive them
crater on the bottom of uh orbs of the southern part of Mario nectarus
the uh crater overlays the
inner Basin impact ring of the uh nectarian Basin nectarus Basin and uh
you can see the Mountain Ridge kind of uh the rim of it coming down from the
upper left through the edge of Frac astorius and then it will continue on off to the right hand side of the image
what I find Curious is this uh this real running across the floor of Frank
astorius that follows the exact same curvature of the rim of the inner impact
Basin ring on the nectarus Basin so uh something under the surface there
um the rim of the Basin was buckling the uh the basalts as they spilled into
practice stories Creator and solidified and created this crack running right
through the middle of it that follows the same curve as the rim of the Basin itself
cool moving up to the northeastern part of the Moon we're looking at the uh that
was called the lake of death um lacus mortis that's the
feature down in the lower left-hand quadrant of the of the image this used
to be about 150 kilometer wide crater which would make it a substantial crater on the moon but when the uh Mario
basalts floated uh in or the low-lying areas flooded with Mario basalts this
low-lying crater filled up and now we just see it as the barest
hit of a crater though the remit it is still protruding above the basalt and so
it's a giant ghost crater but uh right Square in the middle of it bird crater formed about a billion years
ago and created this Bullseye effect and the recioli uh named this region the
lake of death back in the uh 1653 and the name still sticks although uh if we
classified it today we'd simply classify the region as a ghost grader but you see
more of these uh rules splitting the surface of of the basalts
within the lake of death this actually classifies this as a four factored
crater where I talked about four factored craters a couple of weeks ago ordinary
craters much like Hercules crater on the Terminator at the
right hand side of the image ordinary crater that uh started out as a complex
grader with terraced walls slumping Terrace walls and a central Peak but volcanic eruption From Below
lava pushed up through fractures in the crust created by the impact of the uh of
the uh crater and flooded these craters from inside and as the basalts
solidified and slumped and hardened the rules create cracks create inside the
crater much like what we're seeing here on on the lake of death and thus we call
those floor fractured craters foreign
I just posted this a few minutes ago while I was waiting for the uh uh fellow
ahead of me to finish uh posted is by postcard of the moon for the day so if
you go to my my Facebook's uh site you'll see this particular image with my
my daily postcard write-up but again the sir Solis reel uh 400 kilometers long
one of the longest features on the moon continuous features and certainly the
longest uh straight reel on the moon and uh again I was talking about craters
that fill up with lava that Wells up from below the crater from underneath we
see Kruger the dark floored craters Kruger and Billy on either side of the sir Solace reel these are kind of like
Plato wannabes uh we'll uh everybody knows about Plato crater the the great
black uh crater up near the man of the moon's left eye
okay now um scarps on the moon basically Cliffs
they're scientifically known as rupas and they are formed by two processes one
of which is volcanic the other is impact uh now some scarps such as the
Rupa Sal Thai scene running vertically through this image
this is a two kilometer High Cliff that is the outer impact ring from the
nectarus Basin the rest of the Ring has been obliterated by subsequent impacts
this is the only part that survives today and we we know it is rupazole Thai
so it's so basically an impact feature but other if I can go the right way come
on guy other features are scarps are volcanic in origin here we see
Rima couchy on top and a rupas couchy on the bottom Rhema couchy on top created
by the action of a volcanic dike that I mentioned uh Roop is couchy out of the
bottom probably formed by a similar volcanic uh Force but instead of two
parallel faults where the land slumps in between them uh sure that we feature
like what we have here on Earth we call them a grabbing but in the case of rupus couchy only one
side of the land slope down so we end up with a with a a sharp cliff
now the most famous these these these shots are so sharp and well behind I
mean it looks like well I've been taking these for I think
I started taking them in uh about 2011 is when I started uh and um
what you're seeing is the best of the best because the scene here in Central Texas is in a word is lousy so you have
to wait for the scene to come to you so uh but the perseverance works in your
favor and uh finally after almost 20 years of doing this
um I have a fairly nice library of over a thousand good lunar images like this so uh you're seeing the best of the best
you're not seeing the 10 000 pictures that I threw away but nonetheless getting back to the
theme Here rupus recta straight wall is perhaps the most famous uh scarp on the
moon uh on the western uh Mara humorum yeah when you uh see it at Sunrise when
the sun is rising the Terminator is just past it it's casting a shadow we see it as a black line feature but uh wait a
few uh I guess I didn't put another slide in there uh
let's back up then and just Wing our way through this one when the Sun is setting and it's Illuminating the face in a
straight wall we see it as a white line feature because the sun is reflecting off the cliff face
now we've all seen the uh the famous paintings by uh space artist Chesley
Bona still who uh was a master at uh imagining what the moon and the planets
look like before the Space Age well Chesley had a wolverine active overactive imagination when it comes to
geology and uh he portrayed straight wall as a vertical sheer Cliff a 600
foot drop uh it's not really that dramatic the straight wall is
more like a pretty steep slope it slopes
down about 30 degree inclination sometime in the future I'm sure a
spirited astronaut will be able to Traverse this by foot slowly descending
this slope it's certainly not a cliff by any means but the the dramatic images that the
monostel used to paint back in the old days they sure stirred our imaginations
now moving on to uh more volcanic activity on the moon the air Stark is Plateau up on northern oceans Pro
Solarium we see it as this raised rectangular area this is all built up
from pyroclastic deposits that were blown out from volcanic vents that were
a lot of flowed down this real we call Schroeder's Valley it's one of the biggest reels on the moon five
kilometers across and a couple hundred kilometers long and this flowed molten
lava out onto Oceanus Pro solerum
beautiful and backing up a little ways we see more
volcanic action again there is the uh air Stark is Plateau at the top where we
see uh Schroeder's Valley just exiting the view but down on the lower left
notice all the bumps and dimples this is a vast volcanic field of Cinder cones
and small shield volcanoes this is called the Marius Hills named after
Mario's crater the uh crater bisected by the uh almost bisected by
the wrinkle Rich look at this at sun sunrise or sunset on the moon you see hundreds of little
dimples each one of these is an individual small shield volcano
um a parting look at the air Stark is plateau again and then off in the upper
right way again we see the harbors or mountains poking up and notice the uh
kind of Pitchfork shaped rules of Rhema Prince
p-r-a-n-z uh not Prince but prince prince is the Horseshoe crater just
below them but those uh parallel
uh uh rules protruding northward was always fascinated me the the just any anything
that's so dramatic looking yeah anything that repeats anything that's straight on the moon is out of place and it catches
my attention but uh anywhere you look on the moon particularly around the edges of the
Mario where there was a lot of volcanic activity uh with the sun elevation is very low you're going to be finding
various rules and channels like this so it's it's just a natural part of the
formation of of the moon when there was a lot of volcanism uh over a billion
years ago the Moon is volcanically dead now so uh there has not been any fresh
flowing lava on the moon for perhaps over a billion years
and oh okay I wasn't sure which is my last slide I just threw these together a
few minutes ago another pyroclastic region on the moon is sort of the these low mountains just
north of Rama hygienists and uh the uh volcanic ash that blew out of the
volcanic vents that you see dotting the uh the length of uh Rhema hijinis
showered down on this region darkened these Mountains they're they're
physically dimmer and darker than the surrounding territory and the the whole region is
shaped like a heart like a valentine heart so I call this region the heart of the moon it's my own official name for
it and more volcanism in the inside of
Earth or Alphonsus crater one of the floor fracture craters I was talking about the we see these dark volcanic
vents uh spewed Ash around the inner rim of the uh of the walls of Alphonsus
and I know where we're at second the last slide a close-up of the Marius
Hills these pancake small shield volcanoes on
the moon are rarely more than a couple hundred meters high no vast volcanism on the moon like what
created the Hawaiian Islands even though the each of the Marius Hills is technically similar in geologic form to
the Hawaiian Islands the Hawaiian Islands are also shield volcanoes uh whereas the ones on the moon are very
very small um now mon zaromker up on North
oceana's personal era it's got a little bit more Dimension to it uh a big bump
on the middle of the barrier with a number of uh small about half a dozen shield volcanoes on top of it
uh this this region didn't get any uh respect for a long time for for several hundred years at early telescopic
astronomy it was misclassified as a crater even though it's clearly a bump
and my final shot backing up a little bit uh uh again seeing uh mons Romper in
context on northern oceans uh wrinkle ridges radiating out from it and uh
I uh little sinuous rule creeping in from the top from the highlands so
evidence of volcanism is all over the moon it's not just a place filled with bumps and holes that were created by
impacts the moon has been heavily modified by volcanism and that record
stands today because there is no weather or oceans or plate tectonics on the moon
to change it now once it's there it's there so I think that's pretty much it for my
uh discussion about the moon this time thank you very much it's great to uh get
such an intimate view of uh the moon and all this fascinating uh features so I
always learned something new every time that you give a talk so thank you very much that's what I'm here for thank you
we'll see you uh next week absolutely okay all right so
um uh up next uh from Canada we're going from Texas to Canada up to uh Quebec and
we have uh Norman Fulham uh so Norman uh thank
you for um coming on with us tonight uh you've been waiting patiently there and uh it's
great to have you on it was great to see you at neefen to hang out with you and talk with you and and um
you know so uh so I was just uh and they have dinner
with you no so thanks very much thank you well thank you Scott for having me is my
sound all right you sound great okay so uh yeah I'm just gonna take a couple of
minutes here of your time guys just rambling about my astronomy passion and um
about the universe itself I don't want to be too deep in my thought but of
course my compressor just starts all right
I'm gonna try to close the door here you're still at your facility where you
make yes I'm at the shop right now yes okay I worked a bit tonight and um
I'm all I'm always at the shop I mean it's my second house okay so uh yeah
[Music] um my thoughts today are about the connection we have with the universe
my connection started uh very early on when I was a kid and uh I kept
interesting astronomy for all my life but like I was telling you in previous
uh presentation I started quite late as a as a telescope
maker because of life and as actually astronomy and Telescope
making saved my life in the in some ways but I don't want to get into this topic
of my my life I want to talk about my connection with the universe universe that was made possible through
telescopes I mean my first telescopes that I built was a 12 and a half inch
and um just before that I had bought a small refractor a two and a half inch
reflector or something and I had looked at the side room for the first time in a it's a little tiny disc with the with a
little ring around it and then from that moment on I was hooked I had to see more
and more and see more and um over the years building telescope and
seeing things through the the instrument got me closer and closer to universe and
uh spiritually talking it got me really very uh humbled
about what I saw and my vision about the universe completely
changed from that point on I would try to make some kind of a small comparison
of because I have a lot of respect and I admired in major the people that do
imaging Astro Imaging and that what we see today
what they are able to do with the small equipment that the 20 years ago it
wasn't constantly Unthinkable uh I tried to do some Imaging when I started and
there was no digital camera there we had to take a camera with the film and put
it on the camera on the telescope and tried to do get a one or two nice
picture out of the film of 36 and was very expensive and time consuming and
very frustrating so I really concentrated on viewing a visual viewing
and the more you think you get at that can hook about visual astronomy the more
you want to see and um the comparison between Imaging and
visual the imager got better and better equipment every year every month every
six months you have a better camera better way to to uh to take pictures and have more detail image with the with a
small normal telescopes versus visual if you want to see better
and more details you need more aperture you need more and the darkest guy so
it's it's we kind of limited at a certain point by aperture
uh and that's where I started to think of bigger telescope mirror and
that's really when I started to make a bigger telescope like like I was saying to um to Scott neef uh
20 years ago a 12 and a half inch telescope was big telescope I mean 12 and a half fins and we had to line up at
this at the star party behind the scope but today uh you go Star party and you
get up to maybe 20 24 inches telescope that's about it so at some point you get used to see the
same image in a large twin a 20 or 24 inches telescope so there's nothing new
uh to see or unless you have a very different a very particular observing
site that you have a perfect sky and good seeing otherwise you're limited so
uh I decided to make larger telescope larger mirror to improve my my site now
improved what I was seeing so I went from 24 to 26 to 28 to 30 36 and even
that 32 36 and the more the more aperture you get of course the more
details you see and more texture you see you see colors and you start to see very stuff that you see in an image in a good
picture taken with a very high class equipment so the bigger
the telescope the more uh details you
will see in the it's hard to explain in words uh what the what is the effect
on on my brain or myself when I look to or let's say a one meter telescope
usually and look at nebula or Galaxy and start to observe it not just looking at
it but observing profoundly and think about all those photons that
travel billions of billions of trillions of kilometers and millions of light
years it's it's humbling to see it live I mean it to have the
feeling of traveling through time traveling through space in that small
eyepiece there that you looked through and I will try to make I will do another
comparation here the vision is a sense that we have and
we also have another sense which is the Taste okay let's see you have you have a picture of
a hamburger on the left side and you have a real hamburger on the right side
yeah the picture looks nice very good looks very good but the real thing right next to you
smells good I mean tastes good too also so it's the difference between looking at something
that's pretty and experiencing something good live okay and if you cook that
hamburger on the top of that it's very it's very humbling because you're the creator of your feeling
um I when I when I look to one of my telescope I cannot describe what I what
I feel it's too personal I think it's uh
I remember very clearly the first time I looked to my the eyepiece or my first
telescope not knowing what I was going to see and I thought I was going to see something
very blurry or whatever but the first thing that I observed was Jupiter and
with a 12 and a half inch F 7.1 the image was just mesmerizing I stayed
at the eyepiece looking at Jupiter I think for hours for that and I'm not knowing not wanting to see anything else
that night was it was just so rewarding uh to say to think myself that I did I
build that instrument to see the universe this is something that uh
was I wouldn't have been able to see if I didn't do it on myself
so I like I said I respect following major Astro imager but for me
uh large aperture telescope for visual it's something that not too many people
experienced but I wish people had the chance
to observe n42 in a 50-inch telescope usually like I did a few times and like
looking at a global cluster M13 in the 15-inch telescope live with Bano viewer
I mean it's like something that you can you cannot imagine what you see you're swimming in
the sea of star when you look at that it's like I don't know so I'm not gonna ramble too
much you know Norman it's not often that people share
a deeply personal um uh aspects of what it is for us to
experience the universe and to really let that soak in you know
um some people are afraid to talk about it it's uh you're making you know it's
you're showing a vulnerable side I guess of of ourselves but these are things
that I think all astronomers experience yeah otherwise you would otherwise we
wouldn't keep doing it I mean we wouldn't be doing it all our lives exactly exactly we've been doing for
years and yeah yeah that's right our life depends on yeah if I could make a
if I can make an observation um as someone who does images but
learned through Visual astronomy um one thing that maybe brings some of
the uh um that do images in is when we have a
telescope with enough aperture and perhaps the right filter and we see some
of the objects that we like to image naked eye yeah so for me who loves to do
Milky Way Photography when I see the everything that I the first time in a
dark enough sky that I saw the outline of the Milky Way and the
detail naked eye and I said this is like one of my pictures
um I had always I had done visual I'd seen some impressive things I'd noted
that M13 the cluster you mentioned looked better to my naked eye and my 11
inch than in any image I could try and get of it yes
um there's just something more that's there um last year at Okie text we saw the horse head directly and we saw Thor's
helmet directly yeah and those two images are things that uh people like to
image I think what you bring out and what I don't want us to all Miss would
feel the images yeah that you're looking at sometimes as
photographers we point to the way that we process them
and we beat our chests and say we're good images we know what we're doing and
we miss the lesson that these deep Sky objects are already beautiful all we're here to do is just take a picture of
them there's there's nothing more but when you visualize them you can feel the
light that light is sitting your eyes directly it's like you're seeing going the object directly that's what keeps me
uh pushing the boundary a little further on
side the aperture and large telescope for visual observing uh
Scott knows me well about my my full the Newtonian design that I created for for
those large aperture telescope to be easy and safer and more enjoyable to
observe instead of being in 15 feet high up in the ladder you're right almost two
feet on the ground so yeah you're more confident you fall off that ladder and you're you're in trouble yeah exactly so
for me unlike yeah see John Schwartz John
Schwartz has joined us he's got one of those that you got to get on a 30-foot ladder to get to the sky to see some of
his uh work so he knows I've done it appreciate your design to make it
I've done it I've been easier I remember I I'm one of one of my first Optics
large optic that I did was a 36 F 4.5 on a regular uh Newtonian uh type Dobson
telescopes and man I was so scared at the top of the ladder a little just a
little wind and then you can't enjoy what you're looking at exactly exactly you cannot concentrate
on what you see but let me let me tell you the first time that I saw m42 in a
50 inch with vinyl viewer someone had to take me off the eyepiece
someone had to grab me and get out of there it's my turn and it's like it's
it's sad right an experience that's uh you never forget it's like
I don't know I would agree I don't want to take too much time because I know there's other people after me uh it's
late here it's 10 15. uh I have to go back home eventually yeah same here but
uh before I go I gotta sing you a song okay all right like last week and the
next one so I had to take the time and I send you a couple of songs
that's right so um
it's all about friendship eh astronomy friendship so uh
[Music] foreign
[Music]
[Music]
thank you close your eyes and think of me
and soon I will be [Music]
even your darkest [Music]
and you know wherever I am running
to see you again
the winter spring summer of fall all you've got to do is call her and
I'll be there yes [Music]
thank you [Music]
this guy above you
could turn dark and full of times [Music]
ahead together and call my name out loud now
it's true I'll be knocking upon
you just got and you know wherever I am I come
running [Music]
yes I will yeah
[Music]
[Music]
[Music]
I come running [Music]
you got a friend
good night everyone thank you goodbye Norman thank you you're all welcome
that's great thank you you have a good night up there and uh safe drive home
and then yeah back to work tomorrow yes sir make big mirrors and big telescopes
yeah yeah that's right that's right good night yeah good night about uh I put a
link into the chat which you can see actually I've been posting a lot of uh of uh quotes and stuff by some of the
great thinkers of the world about their musings of the universe and uh hope that
you find uh find some inspiration in some of that um up next is
um uh we've got uh Adrian Bradley who kindly yielded his uh time to uh
Marcelo Souza down in Brazil because they had all those people but uh Adrian
uh thank you for coming on global star party and you've got the stage
all right well you've got a couple other people behind me including uh he says
Zoom user British guy John you've got naven who's got a presentation
I will try and make my presentation brief I normally do a splash green
chasing dark skies and unfortunately it does not look like I will be able to
share the opening but some news I am now a part of the uh
Vatican Observatory Ambassador group oh wow so I
recently got the go-ahead from my archdiocese so if you've heard of brother guy consono who's uh yes you
know the lead of the Vatican Observatory and the goal of course is to change the
narrative around a religious organization but
we look at the science first we're trying to reverse the ill effects that
are still felt by many astronomers the feelings that the Catholic Church did to
Galileo um you know we won't get into all the
specifics but um we do you know part of it is to say
hey we would like to look at the science first um we use the observatories you know as
a professional Observatory that um we use for attempt to further
scientific discovery so trying to close a gap there
um focus more on the science you know in you know our faith doesn't overshadow it
like it um like it might um other organizations let me go ahead
and share my screen what I'd like to do is just share some of the images that
um I was able to get over the past couple weeks while Global star party was on Hiatus and uh also share my Ode to
some of the um Aurora that was happening which I
unfortunately could not do I did get this picture Scott as you know yeah
um to the on the wing series that you did I like to include at least one
birding photo and this eagle yeah now the the actual Eagle was maybe
I don't know 400 or 500 yards away in the air and processing it with some
similar tools that I use to process Astro images with denoising and with a
little bit of sharpening so that you can actually see the eye looking forward you can see the different colors
um of this Eagles Wing whenever I do images my goal is to tease out details
that are already there but maybe harder for me to see with my eyes or harder to
see um as long as the camera equipment captures it
it can be it can be manipulated to show what the object and in this case this uh
juvenile bald eagle but I would say young adult because it doesn't look like this Eagle is long for
losing some of the extra coloration here and just becoming a full becoming the
full-time adult so it and I believe her um later I saw
this eagle with a mate so but I didn't have the
camera so of course they saw me they flew the other way so I wasn't able to
get a picture so let's talk about where I went which is the west side of
the state of Michigan and this Lighthouse um little Sable Lighthouse which is a
very tall lighthouse on the shores of West of Lake Michigan
um in the U.S it's a sky that appears to be
a dark enough Sky to produce some nice images from this angle if I were to wait
until Milky Way rise it would come up through this tree and this Lighthouse
there were other buildings on this site but the lighthouse or Lighthouse sites
but they did not leave an innkeep ER site or any other buildings they
basically raised those buildings to the ground
as not as uh what is it um tight before you get total darkness and there's
nautical twilight we are in nautical twilight um you have Venus here the police
and Orion and notice the size of Orion when you're closer to the lighthouse
um this was taken with a wide angle lens and also this photo
um interesting enough this photo David eicher had actually posted on his feed
and I ended up with sort of a flipping comment about the composition
and it led me to realize that sometimes your images may or may not
um Inspire the uh same feeling that you had when you
actually saw the scene for yourself from Lighthouse but for me
I liked the way that this scene looked of course I'm able to look left and right and you know always have the
option to do a panorama one problem we had is that it was very windy when I was here so getting the image and then
heading on out was my main goal but um it's a beautiful lighthouse it's a
beautiful scene the waters were very choppy because of the wind So It produced this ripple effect here and
um just looking at the number of stars during nautical twilight and you see
some of the light the receding light from the sun here you say this looks like it could be a really dark
place so um I would come back later
this is a dark sky park with a whole lot of light pollution but with a couple of
different exposures for the ground in the sky I was able to make this work to
where the reflections you can see the stars are starting to oval a little bit
but not nearly as much as if I were to leave this in for two minutes and it
produces this reflection effect with Orion setting and you can just see the Milky Way over it so that was an
experiment and learning that in some cases matching the exposures for
different settings for the sky and for the ground and doing the composite helps to produce an image that rep that
represents more of what you see with the naked eye and so that was the
goal of this image to take you to the park that I was at and now some of you
know there's some things like you can barely see the California nebula here custody here that's because I use a
modified camera but then I adjusted for white balance so that the this is the
exact color of the brown and the trees in the distance that these all match so
after working with settings for a couple of couple of years I came up with a
repeatable way to get good coloration on what I'm seeing all of this tungsten
effect I tend to leave it in the photos here so we go back to the lighthouse so
another trip out to the lighthouse and you see Orion and the colors here I did
jam on the colors a little bit and you sometimes I'll saturate them a little
bit to just show if if I think it's a particularly colorful or beautiful scene
and in this one you're approaching the lighthouse the parking lots behind you you've got these sand dunes with
each with these trees and you're approaching the solitary Lighthouse and
the shore of Lake Michigan and looking up you see Orion you see Taurus and the
Pleiades is just to the side of the lighthouse with Venus
here on this different night and a little close-up of that region
which I you know I it's what you see as you're coming up
this is more to the view of the eye um what you see is if you miss the
sunset but you're watching
as you know Nightfall is coming we're heading to the astronomical Twilight
and based on the way this streak looks speedier just because of
the the trailing effect here
and then walk out past the lighthouse and shoot straight out over
the lake because it's a long exposure the waves that are coming in gets you
know smoothed out and you have this effect over the water for me and it's something despite all
the hazy clouds up here it was something I felt it was worth sharing yeah
getting darker hoping to catch and you've got Orion right here uh Venus
of course because the exposure time I use Venus
because it's hazy the main stars automatically brighten up these are
stars of The Winter Circle there's capella Minka lean in here
um they're serious and I you know I could be wrong this could be preci in
here um it's at any rate there's your little
California nebula that's for you John the California nebula showed up we're not quite an
astronomical Twilight but we're very close and we're a little a shorter this was a
shorter exposure and you can see Nightfall happens pretty quickly and
it's getting even darker here the Leaning of this um is due to using the
wide-angle lens um even with corrections it leans quite
a bit is because it I used uh I forget which lens I think it was a 14 millimeter lens
that um I borrowed from a fellow astronomer um it's quite a beautiful scene out here
but it was very windy tonight as well we we just get to
Nightfall and as I'm getting ready to leave I look
back and I say okay I'll bet you I can catch the Milky Way Through the haze and sure
enough here are some dust Lanes here's some more nebula that you can
actually see Lambda Orion is here a little bit of
um I always forget the uh sash that goes around
it just it left my head just now um but the part the nebulosity that goes
around Orion's left side um I'll think of it of course when I am
done with the presentation the uh rosette nebula here
um in California nebula some of these some of these other brighter stars that show up in this wide-angle view with the
um Dunes over here this place is not far from a place called the uh there's
another darker area to the north of this place
that um I've been told about that has sand dunes as well Sleeping Bear Dunes
State Park and that's one of the places I hope to go in a not so distant future so
we tried it again at a different state park um
this tranquil scene taken not long after Sunset and for whatever reason I make
these choices and I miss Sunset I do have a sunset picture I've taken here
though so it's there were some waves but
this picture does accurately reflect um there was some Rippling so
Venus here the reflection you know shows that there was some
Rippling in the water but with the long exposure even a shorter long exposure
you still get that effect and once again we travel so now about an hour
later you have the photos here where
Barnard's Loop just thought of that it it was it was
slightly present in the last image a little more present here sometimes it's worth it to go out even
if you can tell it's very hazy if there there's enough of an opening in
the sky and you use a long enough exposure you can still reveal some of
the detail this part of the Milky Way going through and behind Orion and
they're serious and you see all of these clouds coming
thank you and that you know Venus of course blows out but that's fine
um there's the Pleiades this is when we
image things sometimes it's good to just enjoy a lot of what I did before taking
the image was to just enjoy seeing the sky and
noticing the difference on how it went from this brighter Sky which
let's see if it's yep back here how bright this was and then
how much different the sky looks once the sun does go completely down and its
light is no longer affecting the sky here and this was another image with uh a
deeper shot of the Milky Way of course the clouds are oncoming but I managed to
get a bit more precision and look at all the stock High border well not so high
portal for about mid border four um
part of the reason that we like to do longer exposures is because even in a
bortal force guy you can see a pretty good number of stars and when you image you pull
out all of the rest of them get many real clear skies so so we take these
images and this is so if you want to do you want to get to that location you
gotta cross this bridge and go through these Woods So You Gotta Be You got to be brave
enough to uh wanna go to some parts where you're not you
have to have your flashlight preferably a red flashlight so you keep your dark and dark vision don't put on headphones
you want to listen to make sure you can hear what's going on around you
um I'm crazy enough to do this on my own but sometimes having a companion might
help if you I know this area so it was
less of a concern to go on my own after I look back this is there's a roadway a
parking lot and a roadway behind me so lights from that those areas basically
gives you light painting of this bridge and um you've got the stars in the night sky
you can still get a pretty good image and so this this is actually Milky Way
but it is very faint just based on all the surrounding light
it's tough for the camera to pick up all of the Dust Lane detail
but um there's a nearby business that I have sold some of my photography that
I've taken to this area and this is one of the images that I definitely want to get to them as well
um this is a bridge that people in this particular area know
about this Trail bridge leading to these Trails back here and so it's uh it's
always good to try and get and if you need you need something for your spooky
novel well let me know I'll I'll make a good deal for you if you want to use
this image on your front cover right so now
here's a typical milky yeah here's a typical
Milky Way Milky Way shot in the northern part of the state of Michigan this is over the
Mackinac Bridge um I'm maybe 30 minutes north
and the Milky Way looked spectacular you're seeing some of the sky glow here I did not have a sky meter I would
expect to see a 21.6 or maybe 21.7
on a night like this night was always worth it if you're far enough
North to turn around and just fire a shot towards the north even if you can't
see anything because it may surprise you I did not
see any of this auroral activity with my naked eye but I wanted to get a picture
of the Big Dipper and this part of the Galaxy this is what's behind you there's
double cluster the Heart and souls didn't show up too well in this particular photo
but this Aurora did and you've got a little bit of Sky below
kind of mixing in but these colors here from auroral activity that was happening
today I didn't even know about now we've all heard about the big storms that
happened over the past um couple days I didn't get out to get
those um I wasn't as worried because on March
2021 I happened to be up at three in the
morning and a storm kicked out and I was able to get
and enjoy looking at some auroral activity near one of my favorite places
in image which is this Lighthouse and I think I've shown some of these images on global star party before I had an
opportunity to try and combine another way to get the Milky Way with
Aurora and the north is to capture the Cassiopeia Perseus
region because it faces North as The Milky Way is rising and if you happen to
have a rural activity you can get both of them
now this is this is one of the first couple images there I am in the shadow
looking out at it and going it's amazing and it and it lasted most of the night
so I was able to take my time and try and do a couple of different
composition and see if I could do the Milky Way the sickness region
Justice with the Aurora and
I ended up this is back when I was session and it was one of the finalists didn't win but I was still just happy
that I was there to capture this and then
this was now this was actually the first picture I took when I got out of the
truck I parked not far from here saw a lot of activity going on and said what's
that this is a little town and this is the actual Aurora that was going on it
was quite a sight and man that is it
oh thank you very much so let me stop sharing that's it for my presentation I'm gonna
have to get going no go ahead okay yeah uh would you like
to introduce uh would you like to introduce our next speaker yes
yes I would so uh Nathan who um I think Nathaniel to name a an up-and-coming
astronomer I think I've got about 30 years or maybe 40
on him living and he already knows more about it um live or we'll be watching
this later if you replay it um please enjoy uh Nathan's presentation
um Skylight astronomy as you've got back there Nathan you are an inspiration to
us all and we look forward to what you have in store for us tonight firstly thank you for having me on the
show and um it's an honor to be here and I have a very interesting presentation
um let me just share my screen first
so this presentation is about neef I experience an eve and
my experience the first thing was it was I was absolutely speechless when I went there it was such a nice place
I was super energetic I got to meet a lot of different people that I never expected to meet many famous people too
and it was really it was a really nice event but sadly I only had got to be there for the Saturday
which yeah
um I I also learned some knowledge I learned a few things that if you were
in a low latitude location with an equatorial mount then you have to have a wedge since the
counterweight bar is gonna hit the tripod which is gonna lead to tracking areas
so um I got to take some photos um this is firstly the overall hot like
the like the overall like all the vendors is like from the balcony it was a really nice view and you could see a
lot of people going around we took a couple photos because it was a
nice view my um grandparents right now my dad my grandma and me in the
background Maybe firstly I got to go to the zwo booth and meet Simon Lewis he was a really nice
guy um so yeah I I got to see some cool stuff and um yeah I'm like yeah
and then the second thing I got I finally got to meet Scott in the explore scientific Booth
um and then the next part of my journey was software bisque which I got to look
at the look at a few of their mouths and I'll take a picture next to their amounts
and the next thing was skywatcher and you see Kevin laguar on the right
he's a pretty famous guy from skywatchers so and I got to see some of their newest mounts it was pretty cool
and then the next thing I got to go to I stopped over astronomy magazine and I
got to be edited and retrieved Dave biker which that was that was a very that was an honor and pleasure so I'm I'm happy
about that and then the next thing um we went over the lunch solar systems
to look at some solar telescopes and we looked at if one of their um 80
millimeter apochromatic refractor I think
um and then they're 40 millimeter and they were very impressive so yeah
and then the next thing we got to go to actual TV meet Den Higgins Eric and
Jesse and it was really nice hanging out with the crew we spent some time there and then right next door there was
Primal Lucha lab and then we got to see Tom from there
um and then the next thing we went back to explore scientific when we saw Kent and then we meet met him and we took a photo
there it was nice and then we got to meet Tyler
and then last but not least Gary Palmer
and it was a really nice experience at neef but this yeah and I look forward to
going back to neef next year hopefully
um I now joined the Texas Astronomical Society which is a new well I'm a
movement new member and I'm moving to Texas and then the big deal is that looking forward to the solar eclipse
on April 2024 um there's a spelling error for Eclipse
which don't please don't mind that um so that's gonna pass over my house with Frisco Texas which I'm super
excited to look oh yeah reported that that's awesome um and I'm looking forward to explored
the dark sky in the southern part of the country which is generally Texas like okay and I'm planning to go for a lot of
star parties like Oak tax um Texas airport and there's a lot more
now time for some local Novak Club updates on May 7th there's a northern Regina
Shopping Club public meeting at 7 30 p.m at George Mason University and but sadly we can't really have an
astronomy day on April 22nd so they had the postpone it due to weather on May 13th
um it's at 6 pm uh uh and that's all thank you
okay well thank you very much Nevin that that was excellent it was really fun to
see you in person and meet with your dad and your family so thanks again for stopping by
e thank you thank you for having me on the show again all right to be here next week anytime anytime of course
all right so who else do we have here we've got uh uh we've got John Schwartz
here uh with us John uh you've got the stage
you are muted sir
you are still muted unmute there we go there you go wow okay
yeah yeah you know I left my phone here so I had
to come back and they had the gift I had to run the gate I mean I'm I'm like exhausted
right now oh yeah I got these new um night vision Shades what these do is you
know before you look you wear these for an hour and then take them off and you can see a lot better in the dark yeah
a long time ago and it was all visual right so it would uh they would hide in
some dark place um you know and for an hour or so and then come out and look at you know
through the telescope so yeah I mean it does help uh to use
a head cover like a shroud you know uh Howard Vantage is an amazing astronomer
slash Sketcher and he uses he fabricated a rotatable like a camera obscura it
covers your eyes it's all Kydex and um velvet and it's you know it really makes a difference when you're trying to
see those photons from that distance especially if you don't have the 50 inch
like Norm we could only wish for something that big but uh yeah he was right you know when
you see the photons it's different um you really have to study the object in detail and spend a lot of time and
make sure your eyes are dark adapted and the more you study it the more you start
to reveal as far as what you can see so and there is some you know patients
involved but uh when you're sketching it really takes your game up a notch it uh
actually teaches you how to see things with averted vision and actually record
those so it's really cool I'm happy to you know have that Advantage but
anyway I'd like to show you guys some uh picks here that I've got going what I'm
going to do is cut the video for a second so I can uh concentrate on getting the um
photos up so how was neef by the way was nifa a good good turnout and um good you know
so uh super busy for the Imaging Conference of course um bigger than uh yeah there's two parts
of this event there is the Imaging uh the astrophotography part of it which
happens two days before the main event and then Neath itself with all the you
know over a hundred uh vendors that show up and plus all the speakers and all the
rest of the stuff that's going on there so uh but everybody was uh satiated
um uh and really happy to see each other you know
in a few years and like Nathan said I mean Nathan how
lucky is he to get to Texas for that and I heard a lot to live right on the
center line is that is it true we can't go there to view something about Texas
being closed off I heard something I don't think that's true oh good taxes
so I'll slip under the gate if they have one yeah I just I really gotta see one
of these I've never experienced uh one of these events and I heard when you see
the the actual totality it's like a life-changing experience the Birds Go
quiet and and there's just this surreal you you will have a paradigm shift
wow that's all I can say you know it's it's beyond anything that you've seen
through the eyepiece it is Beyond probably any other astronomical
experience you've ever had it will change you
I can't imagine uh what it would be like to to see that so I've I've got to get
there for sure yeah there's just no there's just no good way to explain it
you know so and this is why people uh go to see Eclipse after Eclipse after
Eclipse you know because they just can't get enough of that yeah it's got to be one of the most uh
life-changing experiences yeah that you could imagine is watching like yeah
right up there with uh you know they're first born uh child
um that kind of thing I mean it's just really unbelievable you know oh yeah it's got
to be just like spiritual it is to be able to see that it is okay
so I think I'm ready I've got a few I just wanted to uh make sure it's
seamless you know so you guys don't see me struggling to get all these up okay I'm gonna come back in
did it cancel me yeah I think it did so all that was in
vain oh wait here it is okay so let's go ahead and start uh with
the first one uh this was actually the sunset tonight we had a wonderful Sunset
because wow that's beautiful yeah I mean and and you know like how Galaxy spiral
arms yeah they form and I see a lot of the structures in clouds they're very
similar to the face on spiral galaxies you know right so it's actually amazing
to see I'm gonna go back it dropped my thing when I put the photos on I had it all set up but anyway
um so you know when I do my solar sketching and you know they talk about
the advantages of a smaller scope in what you can see and you know actually the smaller Scopes are incredible for
what you can accomplish uh in this hobby you know especially if you're doing lunar and solar work and even galaxies
and and different um star clusters you know it's a very valuable tool to have
and uh especially your refractor I mean it is honestly like that one of my
sharpest telescopes granted it doesn't have the aperture but it makes up in in
sharpness and resolution yeah and that's an important thing for me because you
know when I'm doing these uh sketches I really need to to have some sharp you know views because
a lot of the time you don't see uh the detail if the seeing isn't that good or
as you know Optics can have you know little problems here and there but you know
it's really nice to have the quality and um the sharpness and that refractor and
it's given me some great uh sketches as well and I'll share one of these sketches
with you in a second once I get my game plan back on
so Adrian uh did he check out altogether
uh maybe uh yeah because internet was yeah he was getting uh some interference
in there yeah but um and maybe you know it's wireless
it could have been Wireless issues yeah okay I'm I'm almost there
sorry about that no problem it's been a long day long day yes yeah I made it
though I almost didn't make it it was like crazy because uh the guy was still
working on my bathroom and I'm like hey you got to get out of here I'm up in a few minutes
and thank God we had everybody up before me because I I really was starting to
panic uh you know because I don't want to miss this this is so great for me and
um sharing my work and just spreading you know astronomy uh to the public and
and giving back it's really important stuff and um you know our our planet
really depends on this uh that we are able to detect something
coming towards us before we get hit right so the more eyes it's amazing that
we can do that isn't it amazing yeah push back um an asteroid and change its orbit and
yeah it's just unbelievable it's unbelievable it's like but you know what
seems um interesting to me is that it's almost as
if anything that we can imagine okay if we apply
um we apply ourselves and really continue to explore uh we eventually find these
things out there so I know in the the web telescope is
debunking all of our theories they're not you know adding up like these new
galaxies they found which are massive uh oh yeah that before we get a new window
in the universe it's like okay back to the drawing board guys you know yeah and
that's the process of science you know the future process of science is to try to build one on D one idea one
experiment on top of the other and that's kind of The Crucible to trying to understand what the nature of reality of
the of you know is you know the the reality of the fabric of of nature
itself you know and boy these red lights get you boiled up here it is
it's hot in here I'm sweating to death I got my NASA jacket and I ran up here so
uh-huh but anyway just make sure the camera isn't good
okay here we are so this is um of course the refractor that I do all my uh you
know my lunar eclipses and my planetary work uh it's just an amazing tool and
I'm very proud that I have it it's beautiful and I like the uh I like the
pure extension that you have on yeah a lot of time to get that telescope up in the air you know because yeah that
eyepiece gets really low you know so and you know with the sun you always got
to be real careful like Adrian said that one time he um almost burned his eyeball
that would have been scary right because it doesn't take long at all
you know before something happens um a beautiful Maxi showed a beautiful
image of this uh you know yeah Maxi man we need it no I
missed it and and I'm so impressed I've been telling everybody about Maxie you know people that were viewing they had
catastrophics um where the scope just quit working the electronics and and they couldn't get it
to work and you know some nights end up like that but when when you're him there is no
setback you're Your Own Worst Enemy you know right and and what he did with that
edtech Arena that homogeneous or that was the most amazing picture I've ever
seen for a telescope that doesn't track you know that that was Nika that's Nico
Mika Mika right okay I'm tracking with his dobsonian by hand you know so
because I mean that he so this other image that the other fella did it was
the antenna NGC 4038 in corvus yeah yeah and like what Norm says so this is
actually like a view that I get through the 32 and the 28. I mean it's not a 50
but it's uh part of the way there if I could get get to the 50 one day I
would that would just make my life you know like the the uh total lunar or solar eclipse those are two moments uh
you're not kidding when you see details like Norm was describing it is
mind-blowing yeah and and it's a real connection you're part of you are part
of those photons that's uh they're floating in space and and humans they actually interact with
the photons so that's right it's unbelievable and it's not just um
you know some sort of uh esoteric thinking or something like that it's really
we're really hardwired until you know so
and when you keep your mindset you know on a nice calm wavelength and you know
you align with the frequency that nice hum of the universe and and you know
anything that you wish or want you could do you can make it happen because you're connected and it's the laws of the
universe it's so you always gotta stay positive and just look at how wonderful look up and
see these things and it just takes away all the other stuff you know
uh this one I wanted to show because we're at Wilson and this was from Wilson that's the carbon star
the Campbells the Campbell's carbon star amazing to see these stars that red
and and there's a lot of these that are you know red dwarfs and and cooler red
stars They're Not Cool by any means but you know they emit a red wavelength so
when you see that with your eye yeah you don't it's amazing because we
see in Ruby colored yeah yeah that was a great object who would have thought just
a star amazing yeah this was a moon sketch again
um I think I did use your six inch on this one it was just a
quarter yeah the triplet it was a little hazy that night I was
able to get some good resolution but uh you know again it was it was
going into the clouds a little bit but I was able to get something some fella actually asked me if he could use this
for a church presentation oh nice and that's why I create these images to share and I told them please feel free
Alfred because the more I give the better it is um you know to help people enjoy this
this was my oh image that's a sketch of Stefan's quintet yeah and uh Pegasus now
I always enjoy to see through the eyepiece yeah I mean you know again like Norm normal I'll tell you I'm sure in
Norm scope this is probably almost like the web telescope it's got to be brilliant W that you have
right there is incredible yeah that was uh viewing through the 32 and the 28 on
a perfect night you know at Pinos when when it's 9 000 feet up almost and you
get super super transparency and you know it's not always like that so A lot
of times you gotta just you know get out there and and keep trying and then you know you get those nights that just are
like a perfect night and then everybody just you hear people yelling and screaming out in the parking lot and
then everyone what is it then they come running and uh it's just so much fun it's so
great to go to these events again this was uh I was driving home and
I was really people were trying to run me off the road it was just a crazy day
uh after all the rains and then this was the Venus Jupiter conjunction
and um I saw this view so the mountains that you're seeing is from the 118 going
down into Simi Valley from the San Fernando Valley in the mountains and the way in the background is like Mount
Pinos and the mountains in Ojai and Fillmore and that's that's where we view so it's
very you know uh a special place for me so I I pulled over and I walked on the
bridge and I took this picture and and there were flowers these flowers all along the freeway the bloom is going on
you know in Gorman and Frazier our daughter was remarking to me that she's never I mean she's lived in California
all of her life and has never seen a bloom like yeah in California right now
so right all the water we finally got but you know it didn't do much for our astronomy I will tell you that really it
killed me uh I've been trying to get some sketches done and you know that's the beauty of Cloudy Nights is if you
can't see your stuff you go on that sketching forum and uh you know you have to join cloudy nights but I can tell you
this you can see the most amazing drawings of these objects and I I'm like
blown away every day by the talent in that forum and it makes me strive to
better my game this is actually a good friend from Pinos Andrew so we met in the Forum uh
he was doing these sketches and and at first I thought he was some old man you know because uh I got him confused with
another guy his handle and um so he would post one you know I just went
outside and looked at the Moon so I thought I'd sketch it so he did that so I did one and I said kind of
something similar yeah and uh it was kind of funny you know uh then later on
we got to talking and and he goes yeah that's not me and I go what so I felt
pretty bad that I had him confused but um he came up and met us at Mount Pinos
and uh did some amazing sketches and that's him uh at the helm you couldn't
talk to him because all he was doing was was concentrating on getting these sketches that were truly amazing through
a 10 inch telescope I was and I'd like to have him on uh some point and show
you all some of his work because he's very very good very good uh artist
um you know astronomer very knowledgeable and it's kind of amazing actually it's like
I think he was an astronomer in his past life but you never know I'm sorry about that one that uh you
know you have the guns to uh yeah you've been working out yeah no that's I have to carry these
Scopes as you can see this is my Helm my setup Christopher did this picture so I
got things everywhere I got video scopes I've got uh you know the the big 28
right there and um so I just kind of do a variety of stuff and and people come over and when
they see that big scope boy they come running it's it's a real treat to be
behind the helm you know like Norm must feel like God when he has one of those 50-inch telescopes again you know
flowers that I see walking because you know it just reminds me of how beautiful the universe is and what's created from
you know stars and commentary dust and asteroids that impact our planet bring
in these uh Elements which you know form life eventually the building blocks
amino acids and such amazes me to see the beautiful color and
and the growth all reaching for the Sun The Giver of Life and the taker too if
uh these flares go any bad then they have been we could be in real trouble but let's pray
uh these are just a couple of the tools I use uh for my good viewing and um I
couldn't fit the nine millimeter in there because it's too big um it's actually one of the biggest eyepieces I have uh you're nine amazing
eyepiece hey what's that guy looking at me for it it's the neighbor get out of here
uh this was a Crab Nebula um I used a little bit of the Mallon cam
data to pull in the interior because visually you see basically the outer
two-thirds uh pretty much like that in the big telescope but I'm sure in the 50
you would see it just like this and uh in the center is a pulsar and that's
spinning that's emitting uh frequencies like you know like a flare almost like a lighthouse but they're little blips
super fast I think they have a time lapse through Hubble that shows that
it's pretty amazing this is a tough object to to sketch and to see in a
scope you really need great uh seeing and um we gotta do it for quite some time to
get that detail to start to come out this was M101 the pinwheel now this
galaxy we could see this on our way to New Mexico uh going to pick up merkel's
32-inch and we would hit all these turnouts because they're border one and and we were like using binoculars
and we're seeing spiral arms with binoculars so when you can see like that and if you
had an eight inch telescope or a 10 inch top you can see quite a bit of detail of
course this is looking through that 32 inch and it blew me right off the ladder it was only a two-step ladder too
you know my Scopes eight steps up and and that Zenith it's like almost 12 feet
so I have a picture of a um Event Horizon underneath my ladder if you fall jump in
and you'll transport to the Galaxy of your choice this is my um comment neowise I did this
sketch it was actually right over the neighbor's house um which was a real cool View and I I
told my sister and a couple other friends how to find it and I drew a
diagram on a dinner napkin as a at the restaurant before I came home and they
were able to find it based on my drawing so that was very rewarding very cool yeah and you know whenever we get these
events people always ask me like when Venus was out there what is that
is that an alien I go well did it move yes well did it move fast and jerky no but
you know how you can see uh objects that appear to move it's an it's a weird effect that happens much like a um
an oasis when you're driving you see that that you know and sometimes stars appear to move uh if
they're low to the Horizon there's a lot of disturbance in the air and particulate you can it can trick your
eye it's some kind of an effect I'm not sure of the name but anyway this was uh
one of my sketches from cloudy nights and it was a view we had through our
scopes at Pinos again and if you look at uh the little baby
companion that my dog photo bombed me again I don't know how he got in there
Bosco see him I think I have a close-up in there somewhere
um let me see if I can find it oh sorry about that
I have to go back
sorry guys almost there
now that might be the end of those I might have to load a couple more so is anyone else coming up uh after
this or am I the Finish you are the last one okay let me do a couple more and
then I'll leave I'll leave you guys alone for the night so and that one is an eagle and that's uh
from Alaska and just like Adrian said you can see uh amazing detail with just your camera
or a cell phone so like sometimes when I go to restaurants you know and it's dark
I can't see as good as I used to I'll take a picture of the menu and then you
know do a little enhancement and then I'm able to read what I'm gonna order yeah
and this is the finish of that beautiful six inch triplet man
I'll tell you this is one of my prize Scopes you know I got the 28 not surprised but in this category this is
my my tool of uh you know that I use it's amazing love that scope
my license plate 253 uh yeah uh same shot of you standing in
front of your truck yeah I know it's I'm gonna I'm gonna move on we're almost done here I've got a couple more to show
you uh I'm scrambling it's been a very long day um
here's the Bone Collector so boss made another appearance you know he for some
reason when I give the other dogs a bone he would take the bones and bring him up
in a closet and stash them for himself he's kind of a funny little fellow
I love him too he's a good boy he you know I take him to all my star parties because um I have to bring him along
with me because my wife you know she says all he does is sits by the door so I have to bring him
or else he'll he'll just sit by the door for days and days and days and and I I really feel bad and then I
start getting anxiety so I have to go home but I wanted to show you uh just one
more here I'll close with this one um
uh you know I I tried to put some of the picks in and and sometimes they don't
get in uh loaded properly but I can just close it with this one
I'm really proud of this one too I love this one again so this is like this is
what's capable with uh today's technology and big aperture telescopes
so I I created this using merko's um view with this 32 inch which is
incredible the resolution and then I I also used a part of a cell
phone shot and and that's why it gives it that little bit of a you know spherical aberration because
the the lens but it's amazing you can even pick this up in a cell phone and uh the pillars right there
those were done with my 28 because of the sharpness just like your six it's
one of those sharp you can really get the resolution and believe it or not this was taken
right here from planet Earth to get that and uh they're changing the
pictures there John oh you're not seeing it no oh I know why no wonder
let me bring up Zoom I think I did it uh through the I thought it was showing you what I was seeing okay
anyway here's boss again in uh he was in the that you know M16
I always see him in it so I I kind of paint him in you know just try to bring him along
with all the moon shots and uh he just really wants to hang out and be with me
and uh yeah okay I'm gonna wrap it up here
let me just uh do the last one
and I'll show you this one as a good one um this is a the last two so that's him
close up he's in the nebula can you see it oh yeah I see it yeah
it's awesome he's a good boy yes and then uh This was
done uh I like that that's nice yeah that was actually flowers growing and uh
I used a cell phone snapshot to get my basic layout but I painted that in in the style of Georgia O'Keeffe if you
remember George O'Keefe she was amazing lady artist that oh yeah painted
beautiful flowers and other things and I was always envious of the beautiful Creations she would create
and um so I kind of did this one in honor and again you know the symmetry of
it the Symmetry it's just amazing how these things form like a flower it looks
like a face on spiral you know yeah amazing yeah well thank you Scott I'm glad I
apologize about the mishaps no no problem no problem thanks everyone uh
for your patience and it's a pleasure to be here so thank you all all right okay
so um we I just want to thank uh all of the
uh people that uh gave presentations here um and um uh you know I want to thank
the audience that watched our program uh you know from around the world
um and uh you know if you're watching this and rerun there's there's so much information in global star parties that
uh you really should kind of just dive in and check out the different presentations and stuff we do things
from you know uh image processing techniques to uh you know music like
Norman Fulham singing he killed that one right uh incredible uh you know space
art um uh like what you see here with John Schwartz too uh people using some very
simple equipment to uh to make amazing astrophotographs some some uh you know
one or two of our present centers has done astrophotography with the you know
dobsonian that you don't even you know has no Motors no has no you know
Electronics uh you know only a camera attached to his computer you know at the
uh at the focus or end um but I'm really uh you know uh you
know I get humbled by the people that come to Global star party and express themselves
um and uh you know share their views of the universe and their knowledge and their expertise and all the rest of it
and if you are someone that's interested in coming on a global star party uh just
uh email me my my email address is the letter s it's as simple as can be S at
explore scientific.com very happy to uh go over uh what Global star party is and
how you two can be a presenter so anyways you guys have a a good night and
as my friend Jack horchheimer always said keep looking up good night thank you bye
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