Global Star Party 120

Transcript:

6:02 p.m..David Levy - Introduction and Poetry
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8:15 p.m..Jon Schwartz - “Drawing Out the Universe”
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[Music]
roughly every year or two somewhere in the world the Sun appears for a few moments as a Ring of Fire in the Sky
this is called an annular solar eclipse annular comes from the Latin word annulus which means rain an annular
solar eclipse occurs when a new moon passes directly in front of the Sun but appears too small to cover it completely
but why is that it's because the moon's orbit around Earth isn't a perfect circle but rather an ellipse or slightly
oval shaped this causes the moon to move closer to us and then farther away during its month-long orbit when the
moon is at its closest point called perigee it appears slightly larger in our sky
when it's farthest from us at apogee it appears a little smaller but we don't see an annular eclipse
every month that's because the moon's orbit is also slightly tilted in relation to Earth's orbit around the sun
this means during most months the Moon is either too high or too low to block the Sun so only when a new moon is at
apogee and passes directly between Earth and the Sun to Spectators on Earth get
the rare opportunity to see the Ring of Fire in the Sky unlike a total solar eclipse when the
moon completely covers the Sun during an annular eclipse the Sun never fully disappears so if you're lucky enough to
be in the path of an annular solar eclipse make sure to wear your solar eclipse glasses or use other safe solar
filters to witness the spectacular Ring of Fire in the Sky [Music]
hey welcome to the 120th Global star party with the theme of Starshine
there's a very cool quote from Vincent van Gogh and it goes something like this
it says I know nothing with any certainty but the sight of the Stars
makes me dream and I think that is uh something that everyone who's stargazed
before can relate to uh we have a great lineup of speakers for tonight and I'll just kind of run
through the list here uh we'll start out with uh David Levy from Vail Arizona
will be giving the introductions and some poetry
um and then that's followed up by Don knab of the astronomical League uh Don has done tons of Outreach and is a huge
contributor to the astronomical League um but his talk tonight is three leaps
of the gazelle which is I think a star asterism out there
um Moxie folaris will be showing some of his latest astrophotography maybe some live images uh he often does that but
throughout the whole program Gary Palmer from the UK expects to have some clear skies and
some live Imaging that we can intersperse throughout the global Star Party
um so if you've uh if you've ever aspired to do better astrophotography you could
definitely sign up with Gary Palmer astronomy and um you know and and learned how to take your
astrophotography to the nth degree um we have uh Nicholas Arias or Nico we
call him Nico the hammer he is someone that does incredible astrophotography
with very modest equipment and he'll he often shows us how he does this
um so I'm looking forward to some of those new images from him uh Connell
Richards also a young astrophotographer a speaker at many astronomy groups and
also with the astronomical League uh he'll be talking about his astrophotography so it's a whole night
of astrophotography Jay Kelly Beatty from Sky telescope magazine
is going to give us a segment of a talk a larger talk that he does on the James
West Space Telescope and this would be this the chunk that he's going to give
us tonight would be about early star and Galaxy formation which is very very cool
Cesar Brello expects to be Imaging live from his rooftop off of his balcony in Buenos
Aires and he's always a great person to show what
you can do from the city and so he's uh also with Optica siraco in Buenos Aires
Argentina Adrian Bradley will be continuing on with his chasing Dark
Skies Adrian's well known for his Skyscape images and so he's of course
always with us generally always with us and we always love his contributions
Marcelo Souza from Brazil will be joining us today uh maybe giving us a
recap of the 15th imaa program that he put on um plus telling us what his uh youth as
the students that take his programs uh will be doing as well and then John
Schwartz who is someone that loves to draw at the eyepiece he's an artist and
always a lot of fun to have on our program as well uh anyways thanks for
watching and we'll kick off uh this 120th Global star party with Dr David
Levy thank you very much committee and it's
great to be here for the 120th Star Party and as you say I've been here for every
numbered Star Party you've done yes the old section of one but
um it's really good to be here and it's especially good to see Kelly here again it's been a while welcome back and I'm
really glad Kelly you're here Ellie Kelly's friendship with me goes
back decades I remember when we were together in Germany for the Halley's
Comet symposium Kelly got to meet my mom and that was a lot of fun
years later after Gene shoemaker's funeral Kelly drove Wendy and me back to
Archie to our home in Tucson and that these These are Memories One
never ever forgets anyway I wanted to say that um
you know it's been a tough tough few months for me as as you know
and there are some days that are really really good like today and there are some days that are really
really terrible like last Tuesday I was
um I do poetry readings for a lot of organizations the global star party is
one I do them for a lot of different Zoom sessions astronomy club even on a
tourist study that we have for a local synagogue but one group really took it to a higher
level the Denver Astronomical Society I joined them when I was an asthmatic at
the Jewish National home for asthmatic children in Denver and um I was part of their junior group
that they had at the time and uh I came back a few number of years
later to get an in-person talk but in the last couple of years I've become very active with them online
and they actually gave me the great honor of officially appointing me
the das's oh at Laureate wow and I thought that was a lot of fun I really
enjoyed that until I realized it involves some work
and last Tuesday which was my really bad bad day
one of the people there asked me if I would write a poem that they could use
and I said you know I might be okay at reading poems but I haven't written a
poem in years and only then it was one poem and so I I can't say I write poetry
they didn't let me off the hook so easily they said we want you to write a poem so I dropped what I was doing on that
Dreadful day and I wrote a poem about Wendy and it's called Wendy Among the Stars
and it goes like this each day I awake
today is the day I look towards her she is not there
my heart goes on but do I care well anything anything let in a ray
the night is dark as dark as cold the sky is stars from west to east from
south to North just like a feast a pill Evan sent to call my soul
a telescope stands it stands and waits for my eye
it asks just one brief look forward through space like an open book
and back through time open wide the gate I see a star why is it fair
lapis philosophorum Philosopher's Stone if it strikes the night it uses my own
as part of a pattern to learn I dare but Reason Not general relativity
gravity's geometry no Speck of thought no idea Works no system but a space-time
crash to save its dignity he's a part of me a being of light Among
the Stars in the Sky a plant not there but there
my soul enchant from grief to Joy all through the night
thank you very much and back to you Scotty thank you David thank you
um the uh being a poet laureate of uh
the Denver Astronomical Society I think is a big deal and uh um you know the energy that you give out
though David is phenomenal and uh you know to be able to Avail yourself of all
these astronomy clubs and all these people that ask you to give presentations is really amazing thank
you very much thanks Scott I remember um I also that uh there's the first
Arizona dark sky star party people were stunned to see how how much staying
power you have uh in doing uh observations I mean you can go literally
all night long and there's a lot of people that have done astronomy uh for
decades but uh you have the enthusiasm for it as if you were just starting
amateur astronomy you know so um it's it's really cool and uh anyhow
but thanks for being on the 120th Global star party thank you Scott amazing special every time thanks
all right so um okay so up next uh we have Don knab
from the astronomical league and uh Don
has uh something I think that's going to stomp most uh of us that uh count
ourselves as amateur astronomers so don I'm going to turn this over to you uh
thanks for coming on and thank you to the astronomical League all right Scott let me uh share my
screen and you see the three of the gazelle yes
all right I'll start the slideshow let me just minimize this thing here okay so
we leave the gazelle and uh this is some star shine we're getting from between Ursa Major and Leo the Lion
it's in here I'm not gonna show it to you now but I'll show it to as we go on
so this is an asterism okay this is not an official constellation but it's a
group of stars that make a distinctive shape who are the most famous in the sky you
know the astrums are the Big Dipper and the sickle or commonly called a backward question mark now when I was young
I was back about a long time six decades or so we didn't have I grew up in the country
we didn't have the gas lawnmower we had a push mower for the lawn and the rest of the yard was Tall Grass I had to mow
it with a sickle so I'm old enough to know what a sickle is but maybe young people don't know but here is the
Big Dipper and here is the second the backward question mark So sickles would have a
handle and a sharp blade you would sharpen this thing before you used it and you would swing it to
cut Tall Grass down to a reasonable uh height so that's the sickle and Leo the
Lion so you know people have always been thrilled enthralled by the beauty and mystery of the Starfield Sky since we
were whatever people in our modern technology age we can be difficult to imagine we you know when
was a time we had no smartphones no games no television no internet they didn't have books
so back in ancient times people entertained each other through oral storytelling
relating stories to an audience with nothing more than human voice and gestures probably around a campfire
more than a campfire Camp a fire that kept you warm and cooked your food you know they started to entertain to
teach the audience about traditions and values and uh it might be used to explain the
world that our ancestors encountered on daily basis the way they explain things to the rest of their their tribe or
their group you know along with our Liberty for storytelling there's also uh the fact
that our brains are wired to seek out patterns when I last spoke on the GSP
probably uh six eight weeks ago I talked about Harry doylea which is uh I talked
about the lunar axis when we see an image of something instead of what's there I talked about the lunar ax you
know the face on Mars I've seen shapes on clouds and even some people see shapes in Bound marks on toast
um so that's peregoria in the ancient times no light pollution the sky would have been overflowing with stars and it
was long before people began to see among the this chaos of stars patterns we want to see patterns
you know the patterns that they thought represented characters from their favorite stories that they were telling
around around the fire so that was the point we reached where we had consulates and asterisms
uh with constellations asterism night sky that becomes a storybook uh as far as we can tell throughout
history every single human culture has ever existed upon the Earth has had their own constellations of skylord pick
along with them now that the league actually has an observing program for asterisms uh I'm part way into this
program I know one person in my local astronomy club has completed it it's a lot of fun you're looking for shapes in
the skies uh there's 112 in the list and you have to document you have to sketch
uh 100 of them and you know record of course like most programs where you record the scene the uh transparency and
things like that and what equipment you used something's naked eye some are binocular and some are telescope it's a
fun program it really is it really is a joy these are the kind of things you look for one of my favorite probably
everybody else is ET NGC 457 up in uh scpm but there's other
ones the engagement ring the kite the letters the fish hook a leaping minnow I
haven't found these smiley face uh 37 I have found in fact 37 I think I
talked about in January that's an Orion NGC 2169 there is a a
open cluster that makes a 37. it's a lot of fun
so here's a a a known constellation booties the herdsmen but we can make up
our own we can make a new consolation up here here's one that a woman in our
astronomy club our past president has made a martini glass okay same Stars
but rearranged to be the martini glass so we can make our own up anytime we want
so here is Ursa Major there's Leo minor and in here
are three pair of stars okay three pair of stars now my wife and I live about 20
miles or so west of Philadelphia so it's nice okay at best uh you know if I'm not
I can see down the magnitude four I can barely see the Milky Way but we're out here a week or two ago and I looked up
and I can I can see these stars without a problem even in ancient times these stars were
easily visible and here's a here's a really old-time uh constellation of uh Ursa Major and I've circled them on it
those are the same stars that we are looking at today so according to eulog bag back in the 13th
century an Arabic astronomer he made the first mention of the three leaps of the gazelle
so the gazelle was uh grazing Among the Stars and what we now call Leo minor
which if you look here's Leo Miner okay so the gazelle was grazing
and uh along the whole line and the big lines swish its Mighty tail across the sky
so if you've ever seen videos of gazelle's running they actually bound they jump so this startled the gazelle
it founded a way for safety leaving behind it softly blowing tracks in the sky that we still see to this day
now just in the back of Leo you know this is Misty patch we call it
Como Bernice uh but back in ancient times in uh
Wednesday that was recognized by many as the Leo's tufted tail reached all the
way up to here and uh so on Leo squished his mighty tail that scared the gazelle and it
bounded across the sky so three there are three pairs of stars are unrelated uh biggest events there
are different distances they just happen to line up uh lucky for us they form close prayers and we look toward them
the most impressive of all the uh the footprints left by the leaping gazelle is
I guess it's alua Borealis it's a red giant and that is this one here
that's a little borealis 70 times uh wider than our sun it's a
red giant buffed up near the end of his life and it's more than a thousand times brighter than our sun we'd see it across
400 light years of space the stars in the gazelle Footprints they're all about magnitude three to four so from any
reasonably dark side if I can see it from Westchester PA you can see it from most places maybe not deep City but most
Suburban areas so here they are again the three leaps of gazelle they're not too hard to find to find the Big Dipper
and Leo the backward question mark right in the middle you'll find those three uh
three spots where the gazelle bounded across the sky uh these are my sources uh do want to
mention before I go I'll con 23 is coming up the end of July it's being
hosted by the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society this is their their logo and uh
it's going to be a great Gathering of people so I'll encourage everyone to go
I think that's all I had questions no I I was asking the audience how many
had heard of this asterism but um I think uh I think this is new to
everyone excellent that's what I was hoping uh Laureen Harvey koshif watching on
Facebook uh uh said this was very interesting so this is great
so go for it yeah so how do how do people get into these
um observing programs of the astronomical League well you need to be a member of the of the league that's
either through your club or if you don't have a local Club you can be a member at Large and that's all you need to do you go to
the economically website which is in his last few weeks of the old site the new site will be opened up in a few weeks
click on observing programs and there's a whole list I forget how many it is now
110 programs Maybe 110 oh wow something like that it's a
lot of programs I I don't remember I don't remember but it's a lot of programs and I've done
I don't know maybe eight of them but there are people that have done dozens and dozens that have that's full
of the pins that you get this is my uh constellation hunger pin oh that's cool
that's also a guy Alcon some years ago and it's not was covered in pins
so uh you got a pin here's my uh lunar lunar one so I'm a certified lunatic
now you got a certificate so people ask me am I crazy I say yes to my paperwork to prove it
they're fun programs they are these it's called clubs now they're called programs
awesome well thanks Don thanks for uh presenting for us and uh remind us too about when
the next astronomical League conference will occur that was
let me check July 26 to 29. in Louisiana right Batman
yep that's my movie okay all right now as as uh our program goes on I'll put in
the link so they can go straight to that page and you can join uh the astronomical league and you can go to
the convention and uh really get started with their great observing program so thanks a lot again uh don happy to be
here see you sometime next month probably okay sounds good all right so
um uh our next speaker um we're gonna go from the United States all the way down to Argentina uh and uh
Maxi filari's is with us uh Maxie um how are things going on tonight
hello everyone hey do you hear me hear you just won yes great excellent so have
it been a couple of weeks of takeoff from of the GSP yeah uh well tonight
what I'm going to present is a little short of things that I've been doing and the most of the principle in this case
is I was invited last Friday to a a b
um a helper or a
but I don't know how to say it uh someone to that
shows the sky but uh in this case um it was a meeting of the science club
from different City from here from this region in in in Argentina
and it was most like a local region that a kids from different schools meet in
Alberti the the my neighbor speedy and they did and work with their Robotics
and also a different science and
of course astronomy in this case a Marco Santa Rosa invited me to be part
of the the assistance for use
to enable living terrorists sorry eight inches telescope
and in a Q5 to to watch the skies for all the students that went to the
Alberta Observatory and also because they they the student from Alberti did a
different presentation from a telling stories about a a Tales of Orion uh the
the Southern Cross and of course different places from the southern
region that we try to uh watch through a telescope so let me
share my screen uh okay do you see it
yes right so this is the Facebook page of silos
albertinos from the Alberti and this is our mostly some pictures that they took
all the different teachers directors and people from
the the mayor CD and of course they
uh there's some um Outreach with robotics
but in this case they are dark pictures of the sales
Observatory you can see it's kind of different that I went a couple years ago
we have this is almost a 8 P.M I think and you have all this light because you
have to be secure but of course when you do a astronomy Outreach outside this
lies a show that's off even that blue light so you can see the entire sky
above your head uh these are the this the the multiple
um um a room to they used to to do the
presentations and they they talk about satellites and
well in this case a Orion cell a a lot of
[Music] practical things or principal things about this constellation and the
principal objects that we we see for example in this case we have the three
stars or the Orion's bells and
uh in the in this case is compared to our sun for example in scale and also
the gray Orion Nebula the m42 that we try to watch it for a telescope but it
was pretty late because it's down through the Horizon at the west but
anyway uh we and of course we try to fight with
the clouds of course in this particular time of the year
um for example this is the location of the silos albertinos Observatory
here's my city here's where I am this is Alberti and you can see it's practically
in the middle of the farm area so if I assume it this is a really good place to to do
astronomy Outreach without light pollution be secure because you have
cameras everywhere the the the the the rural
they watch you through the the camera and of course if they see something that
you know doesn't know that is going to be people there they go there to see
what's going on so if you want to leave your equipment
outside and go to take a nap or sleep that's no problem you can do it nobody
going to bother you and if you are with friends of course you are convincing
with them um so well this is what uh it was the
meeting of the uh did Last Friday Night
um but what I was doing but I I didn't doing a lot of Astro astrophotography
since the final of April but I was starting to
reprocess this particular picture of the
um [Music]
in this case it was with my Nikon and ask her to 200 ACL
lens and this is a single picture of two minutes uh you know of course this is a
how to stretch it this is the way what I capture it but when I out of the stress
it you can see all these things so when I started to
stack this almost one hour pictures
I have all these details so I was I tried to work with all the the
background the lights you know in this case you you see that in the corner is
pretty dark because it has
um I'm glow from the sensor so when I do darks you know a stuff of
astrophotography that we try to be better in this case so well
my first process was this this is a picture from
WhatsApp and that's why you can see it very pixelated
but uh I I I think maybe I could do it
much more better so I only did my
principles a a tools from ticks inside
and this is what was the the result of that let's process it's pretty much
more better from the colors the background the details
you know I I tell my wife if maybe this
picture we can do it to to hang it on the wall because I really love that and
and of course all the the objects that we can see here in this single picture
sorry I said that I said it's that would definitely be something you would want to put on the wall
yeah uh and also they call this I try to not
passing through leaving the the lights of the Stars a shining but not too much
not try to burn it and of course you can see here this is
and this is the one of the places that they change website they took a picture
very detailed and last year I think and this is a open cluster that's really
really good that has also a neurosity right there now this region is really
really good to watch it through a telescope capture it with cameras and or Draw it in a paper
and this is a really good place so then
of course that night and I was trying to capture the raw focus in nebula but I
didn't like the the way I captured this one because I overex
overpass my ISO and the things that I
didn't I don't I didn't think it about it I just did it and without thinking
so anyway I will try to do it again with a fresh mind
and also capture the this of the place
of the large marginal cloud but uh actually what did you think that
you did wrong it looked like a beautiful shot to me no it it's myself speaking
right now now it's you know uh you try to get better when maybe
you're going right you're going good but no that's not enough you need more
there's not enough you know it that's a that's a part to be an extra photographer yeah I talked with too many
pushing yourself all the time yes uh and of course this is an obsession that of
course you you it could be bad for you you
don't get into the Press but you see oh come on I have to do it again because I
I and maybe it's okay maybe it's really good picture the details uh but no I
think it uh I I didn't took this place very good
maybe the angle is not okay maybe the stars are not okay a lot of problems that
a you forgot to say no man I'm taking pictures from the sky and it will not
going to be much better or less
than than you know every once is your work your uh
you're you're still learning and you have to enjoy it that's the principle of this you know
this is her hobby if you are not enjoying then do something else
right so yes Saturday uh three weeks
after that I use my scope my telescope I put it outside my backyard and start to
capture you know practicing again with open clusters uh the principal object was this this is
the Dual cluster box that's really near of the Southern Cross
this is a really good place to look at at the well every
single telescope that you have even a refractor of 50 millimeters or maybe a
like Nikos ersonian 12 inches you know this is a
really good place to watch it for a telescope with different a a IPS and of
course the the heart of this place is particularly this star and well this is
a single picture of one minute only and it's out of strategy by the software if
I reset this you will get this this is the original picture but
in all that info when I stretch it I have this
but I I didn't staggered yet because last Friday I was watching a
well when I was watching the with the telescope through a telescope with the
people that and the students that went to Alberti I love to watch this place
you know this is a a stacked image
and this is an open cluster in the tale of Scorpio
Nico if you remember the it was NGC 63
21 right I don't remember what
uh yeah the six three uh one two one two
six three Twenty One
and you know when I I watched this open cluster through a telescope
this in nearby is a neolocity of the I think it's the shrimp nebula
but with your eyes it's almost kind of impossible to watch it but
I love to watch the open cluster and these three stars they are a from the tail of the Scorpio
a constellation so I simulated with a few pillar view of the of my equipment
and I say now I have to capture it so you know watch this open cluster and
also these three stars you know you can you think that these stars are really
near but I remember this one is almost 79 like Year from us and I think this
one was 200 maybe but it's really far away and they are like the one
really really near from each other so
the another object was I was capturing almost one hour all two
to this object so then I try to recapture a place a
call the sorry [Music]
that this is the the place that it's also in the cell of the
Scorpio a constellation and this is only a single image with the
camera and of course the the scope and that's thought but
if I if I compare this one with this one
you can see a lot of a neurosity of a a hydrogen
Alpha and this is a single sub of three
minutes also but using a extreme filter
if you compare this to this one
there's a lot of difference anyway I try to do this to get luminance
and then try to work with that luminance with the Stars
because this feature maybe turns the end different colors the Stars so
but anyway the information that I have here this huge so I will be trying to
capture it again this object for the next days maybe and let's see what we
get maybe in the next GSP so thank you Scott thank you everyone for inviting me tonight and I hope that
you enjoyed these pictures right so would you like to introduce Nico
um he's up next we're staying down in Argentina yeah well and now in our get next guest
is Nicole Diaz he's a friend of mine that we met almost I think
um five years right Nico yes more or less more or less in August it will be four years I think
in Navarro when we did our first star party in the lake of Navarro it was a
really good night and cold but it was amazing and of course meeting people
like Nico and everyone's that loves
astronomy loves astrophotography loves to share everything it's a really it's
good for a also I think so well Nico
thank you for being here and it's all yours thank you Maxi hi Scott how are everyone
how are you yeah long time without tears yes yes it's great to have you back on
so thank you I I'm very happy well let me let me share my screen
okay can you see the presentation yes
okay well uh the the topic of or the CSP
tonight is Starshine and uh I thought that it will it would be really nice to
to start showing some some pictures of our star the sun
and as you can see in my bag I I have mounted the the
explore certificates first light the 80 millimeters in a exocyan ex's 100 and I
was trying uh to do some dollar a solar Imaging with this equipment
you can see the very professional solar filter that I I made for for the test
and I use the a camera the SB money as we 305 that is a planetary camera
but uh it's really nice what you can get with this uh this uh Light Equipment I I
think the the first type is a really nice scope to to start to making
observations and make it in some photography too
you can see this is a from another day with a better wow better thing and if
only the the first light with a a solar filter
a common solar filter and then the camera but you can get a lot of details if you
can see there and not not only the the sun spots
but you can see some I I don't know if granulation or
how to yes yes it's it's really nice well this is the same day the sun spots
but with my daughter and and uh I start to to to try the to teach
my kid to observe and he is really happy because the this scope is more he sees
more comfortable to to observe and he loves to observe the moon and some
Bright Stars so this this setup will be a really nice
adapt to to start making some observation night with the with kids and
and and the people of the neighborhood
and also I I I was trying the equipment
in some Imaging of deep Sky you can see here the this is a 47 took an eye
and it's only a livestock but uh I love to to show that you can do you
can you can make uh even after photography and no matter what what setup you have even with a small
telescope you can do a lot of a little things on and no matter what the camera
is you can use a single planetary camera or guiding camera and get some some nice
pictures this is a from M m46 but with the create
uh y5 camera is a monochromatic camera and you can see here is the applicator
enabler that I love to observe this open cluster and
and try to observe this this particularly Planet it's it's really nice
and well we start the the planetary season this year uh I I started to work
woke up really uh early in the morning this is my my first Saturn for this year
you can see Titan up here with a really nice morning and today I
make my second attempt because I watch that the thing was very good and
I saw this in my Sky Safari families that we have the Enceladus Transit this
morning so I give my shot and if you
you are good you can see a little Dot down there
and I can I could get the enclosed Transit on Saturn is my first Transit
and Saturn is really really hard and I am really happy with the result
of course Saturn is is is not a
close to the opposition the next month will be better but even now you can get
some details on equatorial advance and if it's really nice to to start the year
with Saturn and as you remember I was a making a assistant to drug with
my dobsonian well I remove it because it was not a
good enough and I enjoy to do a hand Dragon so these Saturn's these years was
again with hand dragging you can see my shaking hand in this video
and this is one of the 10 videos I started to get the the final image
and I am back to to capturing with the with
hand tracking with adoption and this is something that I
it's really shocked this is the the Rings comparison the the position and
and the tilt of the planet of the last year this was in October
last year and this is today it's amazing how
how much it moves on on the I don't know if Dash or or how to to say it but
it's really nice that this year and the next years we are watching the the
entire South and hemisphere of of Saturn and
I keep looking the image and I say I cannot believe that a few months ago we
can watch almost the the whole ring and this year is completely different
so that's that was I was doing this
this few weeks and I hope you you enjoy the presentation
wow thank you so much Nico um are you uh
um planning on attending more star parties in the near future yes I I am talking with the the people
uh in the in the school of Market a few months ago I I do a presentation
for my young kid in in the kindergarten to show how what is there let's go and
watch the moon and this year we are planning some I don't know if store
parties but yes reunions to observe with the kids and to talk about the the
planet and watch the moon on daylight and so I that that is why I I get the
the like equipment to to be more easy
to to show the kids excellent thank you well that's great I
noticed that is 100 man I guess is working okay for it's
working perfect yeah it's really easy yes that's great well I just wanted to
uh thanks again uh Nico thank you I hope to see you at the next Global start
party um uh I just wanted to uh kind of recognize our audience here we've got
people watching from around the world but uh um we have uh we start off with
astronomater I love that name watching on YouTube we have Julian watching on
YouTube Mike Wiesner um out there in Arizona David icker uh
tuned in for uh this uh this particular event he could not be here at the um to
give presentations tonight but uh we really appreciate him watching Mike overacker uh is watching from the stormy
Blue Ridge Mountains of Southwest Virginia uh Nick Nico was uh in the chat here
um we have uh Mike uh as I mentioned Mike overacker uh tarek uh Ola morani uh
I think he's from the uh United Arab Emirates um uh region uh Laureen Harvey Kashif uh
from Northern Alberta um and uh anyways uh thanks for all of
you for tuning in uh others book Davies is watching uh pren Vera hasini from
astronomy Outreach of Kosovo uh Cesar brolo who will be giving the talk a
little bit later since he'll nagapan who has given talks here before uh is on as
well and uh and several others so thanks again for tuning in
um our next speaker is uh Connell Richards who has grown up in the
astronomy world and has given many great lectures including many on the global
star parties O'Connell I'm going to turn the spotlight out over to you well thank you very much Scott
um can you hear my audio okay can you see everything all right yes very good uh well it's my first time back in quite
some time so tonight my presentation is going to be divided into the first half
is the master photography and astronomy related stories from the past couple months and then the second half I'll be
talking about how to prepare an observing session uh like I've said in some past programs I always like to
think of what I was doing when I was starting out in this Hobby and what information and what advice would I want
to know that's one of those things I'll start by sharing my screen here I have some fun after photography we start
back in January let me know if you can see everything okay
should be seeing the PowerPoint right here yes very good
right so I'll bring us to uh the first image
which is quite a wide angle one here and it looks like a pretty normal nightscape but if you notice uh right here there's
two there's three stars right here I'm kind of one on top making a pyramid shape a little bit fuzzy that's actually
Comet ztf which graced our skies uh back I think starting in December and then
hung around until about February uh beautiful green Comet um even with some uh 25 millimeter
binoculars that I was using I was able to see just a little bit of color from that sticking out from the background
Sky it's rare that you get such a rich color like that but that was really nice to see and I had to photograph it of
course so uh on the left in that image there you'll see some of that green Comet
color in that star field and it's a little bit pixelated it was kind of dim but I was very fortunate to get a hole
in the clouds when I was observing that I'm sure many of you have seen the picture on the right I thought that was just too good not to share I took this
from a friend's house out near Penn State and that night we were having a Christmas tree bonfire uh it was about a
month after Christmas people had thrown out their trees and left them on a curb and we gathered up almost 70 of them and
had a bonfire with those and they give you a sense of scale uh there's that huge flame sticking up it was definitely
a fun night so I was able to share the comment with friends show them where it was in some binoculars and kind of walk
out on the snow and get a nice winter nightscape as you can see over here some of the pine trees holding onto their
their needles and that Comet hanging uh in those clouds it was about a 30 second
exposure there uh but it was the fifth con that I vlogged in my observations and it was always a very pleasant one
David Levy has said many times before on this program uh that comments are like cats they have tails and minds of their
own and it's always nice to see kind of what flavor you get from each comet uh now a little bit later this was down
in March um you're actually looking at some rocks rather than the sky but at the time I
was looking at it in a boat so for spring break some friends and I headed down to Northern Alabama to do some
caving there and the local geology is such that you have these massive sinkholes in the ground so you drive
down to a Trailhead in some Valley hike up a mountain uh going up about 200 feet
in elevation and then you would repel down about that same height this cave was about 130 feet
down and they would have these beautiful waterfalls going in them and all kinds of different wildlife and Moss and
things like that and it made for a really beautiful experience but on this particular trip
we hadn't gotten into the cave until about six o'clock and if you can imagine this giant sinkhole we're in uh it's
basically a cylinder shape we all get down to the bottom and finally Nightfall and here is a couple of images that a
friend of mine took of us looking up out of the cave and there was a point in that trip where we all turned our lights
out and we're still kind of being sprayed from water from this waterfall and we looked up and out in Northern
Alabama it's a lot of Farmland a lot of dirt roads a lot of back countries we were quite far from all the city lights
and that turned out to be quite a blessing because we looked up and if you do some simple math we had about 10
degrees of Sky across this hole in the ground that we were looking out of and they're right above us was the
constellation Gemini with Mars passing through it was a really beautiful sight because we could see so many of the
dimmer stars in that constellation and also the planet passing through while being inside our own Planet so it was
quite a unique experience and rarely do you get such an adventure out of astronomy but you can make those stories
up as you go along in your astronomical careers it's always a better experience with friends and it's always better when
you get out in the country and you can experience all different aspects of nature at once that can be a really
beautiful time now I've come back to a little more recently so I just got back from school
about a week or two ago and engineering school will keep you quite busy uh but I
wasted no time as soon as I got back home for a little bit to get my telescope out and take some pictures so
this was I think Tuesday or Wednesday of last week and the sun has been pretty active lately we even had an aurora
display that was visible as far south as as where I live in Pennsylvania but on the left here is an image of the
sun with plenty of sunspots uh mostly in that top portion of that image there and I've zoomed into them a little bit more
on the right here uh both with the telescope and with the camera itself and you'll notice if you can see my cursor
there's this big Sunspot kind of right in the middle of this triangle you see here and that Sunspot if you include the pen
number and that that slightly lighter outer rim that's about two or three times the size of the Earth that we're
looking at projected onto the sun if you go back and look at this image on the left you could really put that in the
scale so that's it's like three Earths right there and that would be a huge band of them that you would have to
stretch across the disc of the sun to actually breach that Gap and it really
gives you an idea of scale for our solar system how small our Earth is and how large our sun is in comparison
closer to home about 250 000 miles we come over to the Moon here
um and I had a beautiful night out with the telescope I'd set it up during the day with the solar filter I was able to
look at the sun in some sunspots I did some double star observing for for quite a few hours and as morning was starting
to roll around last quarter moon rose up and in my opinion uh I always see the
last quarter moon uh or the first quarter moon rather much more often than a last quarter because the first quarter of course is visible
in evenings and the last quarter visible at dawn you're not always up that late so it always seems like a real treat and
the moon always seems a lot more mysterious and magical when you get to look at it that way you see some parts that you don't always see
so here is a larger image showing the whole last quarter moon you see a lot of the bigger craters towards the South I
think these are the appendix mountains here you see Copernicus and it's beautiful Rays sticking out and then I zoom in to do different parts
of the Moon here the northern and the southern portion and you can get a little bit better idea of what those
look like a lot of these craters in that part of the Moon just have these beautiful Ray systems they shine right
out at you in the telescope especially when the moon is a little bit more full like this it always makes for a really great
experience and it's one of those times that might actually lead you to use one of those lunar filters or maybe a number
11 or 12 gratin filter just to cut down on that brightness a bit but there was a particular Target that
night that I zoom in on here as blurry as it is uh now our speaker from the
astronomical League talked a little bit earlier about uh what are those what those observing programs can be like and
how addictive they are in many ways so this one was part of what I was pursuing for the lunar 2 program
and I encourage anyone interested in astronomy to at least check out The League programs even if they aren't a member because they give you a good idea
of some targets you can check out that are off the beaten path a little bit and this one is a range of Montes
Cordillera and mantis Rook we see them kind of next to each other and most
notably there is this huge Notch right in here and that's one of the targets I was asked to look at and you can't
really see clearly in this image because of how zoomed in it is it's something you should really go and pursue for yourself
but if the vibration is a little favorable and this this I think it's the Eastern limb of the Moon uh is towards
you you can see this Cliff here that's what that Notch is you're looking at the Mountains Edge on I'd say it was angled
maybe 45 degrees to the surface and it always draws the imagination to what it must be like to walk on the moon an
astronaut could stand atop that mountain and look down and see this huge rolling plane uh down below them and then
another sharp steep angle and there's another mountain range on the other side of that so it's one of those nice ways
you can wander around the solar system and give it some Dimension from your own backyard
now we come to the second half of my talk here I wanted to talk especially to the newer observers about what it's like
to put together a night of observing uh now I would never discourage anyone from going outside with the telescope and
just seeing what they could see I've done that for many nights myself probably hundreds of hours at this point and it's always a really great
experience it's kind of like you're going in a library and just finding a book that has your interest and checking
it out and seeing what it might be like well when you're doing another type of observing though if you have a program
uh you're following through like the league programs or maybe you just have your own list of targets that you want
to explore you'll probably come up with an object list like this and this is for a program I'm currently working on
called the double star program you can create any list of objects whatever you want to see and here they
are organized on the left you see the name of the targets there's all kinds of data here specific to the double stars
but what I want to bring your attention to is that right Ascension column so that's basically going to tell you
how far east or west those targets are going to be and consequently that's
going to tell you what is the best time to observe those in the night so say I walk outside at 10 o'clock the stars and
everything in our night sky feds in the west and everything else rises in the East so if you want to make the most efficient use of your time you can start
by the targets that are setting in the West so you're actually going to want to work highest up on this list here so you see
there's some stars and Pisces Andromeda triangulum those Stars according to this list are going to set earlier in the
night than something that might be an Orion down here so those are going to be your priority targets that way you don't
start down here and then miss out on the target you want to see and that's especially important if you
live someplace like I do Pennsylvania is a very cloudy State you really want to make the most of your observing time
that's something I would recommend for you to do if you wanted to get the most amount of targets possible of course
there's something to be said for the quality of the observing how much time you spend with the object and how much you're really seeing and if you want to
make the most efficient use of your time work west to east or highest that would be the lowest right Ascension value and
work up in that value another important consideration is going to come from the quality of your skies
what are you going to be seeing when you go out in the sky at night and kind of what are those guys going to look like
so here I have something from the clear sky chart which is a great website that I'm sure many of you have used before I
think these same data are channeled into an app called astrospheric and you can see I have Albuquerque up on
the top Seattle down at the bottom and this I really didn't expect when I was pulling these earlier Seattle actually
has the more favorable conditions for observing tonight but when you're setting up a night of
observing of course you're going to see the night times here that's that's the darkness or the daylight that you're
seeing on that bottom scale but you want really dark squares up here depending on the hour so these dark squares mean
there's not a lot of cloud cover I'm looking at Seattle right now uh there's okay transparency because that's a
little bit lighter but if we go up to Albuquerque we see that some clouds are definitely rolling in as Nightfall
happens and the transparency really isn't going to be that great but it's all the way to that white end of the
spectrum uh you're really not going to be seeing much but the darker it is maybe like midday on Wednesday tomorrow
you're going to get a much better sky and of course you want those times to fall at night if you're doing astronomical observing that's going to
help you prepare in advance and find out when are you going to be able to observe and what targets do you want to see
that'll inform your decision a little bit better consideration will come from your star
atlases they're going to help you find all the objects that you want to see and these come from one of my own star
atlases snt's pocket Sky Atlas which has been well loved at this point in my
years of observing and it will be for many more uh now a lot of people might think that
uh you just keep your your star at this on a shelf and you can use them to plan a session out at night and they're very
useful for that but you can also take them out into the field and sometimes I like to make pencil sketches in my or pencil notes uh for something that is
transient like Uranus moving through the sky or a comet or an asteroid you can draw a little pencil dot like I have
down here for where that is and it looks like that's where Uranus was on December 30th
of 2018. so if I were going out and star hopping in the night sky and trying to find where that was I would look for
about a 7.5 magnitude Blue Dot right there relative to all these other stars
that can help you find Targets especially in our solar system a lot faster
now as a product of that you're going to want to record your Observer and I've spoken about this a little bit before there's all kinds of ways you can do
that which is the beautiful thing about amateur astronomy on the left here I have an example of notes in a notebook
here I was taking some binoculars through a tour of Sagittarius looking at some of the brighter nebulae and
clusters there on the right is a high power sketch I did of Mars back when it was at opposition in 2020. and with that
Saskatchewan with those notes that you take of course you want to you'll want to include the date and the time the
equipment you were using magnification and you might include the seeing and transparency as well to give yourself an
idea of where those really the most favorable conditions and should you do a follow-up observation
and these don't necessarily have to look like that on the left here is another image of an astronomical league program
also from the double star program which I mentioned earlier and here the program asks you to do a simple pencil sketch of
where all the stars are and the double Stars you're observing plus the description and plus all of that other data the seeing the transparency your
equipment and magnification and so on now at the right I have another series of sketches these are all from the Moon
much closer than Mars of course and they don't have to be the most elaborate I
think the Mars one took me maybe two hours of really straining my eyes and pushing it to see what I could find whereas these lunar ones were maybe 10
or 15 minutes just some simple outlines and shading and they give the Observer a good idea what they saw that night
they're always a nice way to record things because you have the photography which I shared earlier but sketching and
writing descriptions they really push you to get the most out of your eye at the eyepiece and they really enrich your
observing experience so in conclusion when you're planning your your observing sessions at night you want to work most efficiently from
the lowest right Ascension values to the highest if you're starting at zero of course you want to find the time with
the clearest guys the darkest guys and the best transparency and then you want to select a method in advance of how
you'll record your data you can print out those sheets you can have a Sketchbook ready and the fun part which
I have right here and I showed some images from these earlier you'll have your notebooks right here I think that's
blurring that out on Zoom uh but you have all your notes in here or I have the pocket Sky Atlas here which has all
kinds of exploring out this didn't work so well um kind of right here and you can blend
that all into a stack of books of what you've observed so not only will you have your observing guides and your
magazines written by others but you'll also have all kinds of references that you can finally look back on and that
really makes the experience better because it lasts so much longer and you record it so when you get the chance get out there
plan your observing sessions and always record your notes to share with yourself in the future and with friends thank you
very much
excellent excellent thank you very much
Scott I'm talking and nothing there we go
I coughed and I wanted to keep it quiet anyways uh but it's been often said that
you know if you don't record your observations to many astronomers you
didn't make an observation you know you might have looked but you didn't uh you you have no uh
record you know so um but anyhow I think that the drawings
that uh you make in those the notes that you take uh really do add to the
experience of understanding the night sky that you're uh exploring and um you
know that reference that you talked about going back later uh you know does
kind of give you a rush of uh of what what that night was like you know it
lets you relive that to observing experience I do it uh in my sky Atlas
2000 I I will sometimes write notes directly onto the star map itself you
know so yeah but anyhow thanks again uh Connell and
uh what's what's uh what Adventures are on your horizon uh well this summer I'll be working
again with my local library on the program which I described last summer and that will be expanded to a couple
more libraries in the area um there is a program I do over a couple
of weekends um and it's mainly meant for for elementary school students that they come in and one session might talk about
the solar system another might talk about galaxies and then at the end of it all we take the library's telescope out
uh kind of during Twilight just before they close can we look at something like Jupiter or the moon and I teach them how
to identify a crater based on a map or how to identify the moons of Jupiter that's really a rewarding program to do
and then once this summer wraps up I'll be back in school again starting my
junior year of aerospace engineering and that's when the real big classes start so astrodynamics and aerodynamics and
all those nice things and hopefully those inform my amateur astronomy in the future they give me some better
background excellent excellent well thank you very much Connell uh thank you it's always a
pleasure yeah that's awesome okay uh well up next is Mr J Kelly
Beatty uh Kelly Beatty is an award-winning science journalist uh and
astronomer uh he uh was one of the first uh uh science journalists to gain direct
access to the Soviet um you know Space Program which you know I'm gonna have to have Kelly uh give me
a uh or give us a whole presentation just on that but tonight he's going to
be talking about the James West Space Telescope and it's uh
observations of early stars and early galaxies um so Kelly thanks for coming on to
Global star party and uh giving us a nice presentation and an update on Jay
West hey no problem but first I have to ask you about that uh Eclipse chart behind
you Scott how close is the path of totality next April to your to your offices there to my offices actually
um I think it's about a two hour drive actually to the center of Center Line in
2024 uh yeah uh the um we are doing an
event in Hill Country of Texas where both eclipses cross to the same spot
okay so uh we've got a a ranch reserved a private Ranch and uh you know people
that are interested in attending uh you know securing their observing site for
both eclipses um the one in October and then the one just what six months later in April
um uh they can do that and uh so uh we're like
I need to get my numbers right but we're we are just a few hundred yards away from one of the center lines and then
the other one we're about a mile away but uh still nevertheless you're gonna get uh several minutes of totality in
2024 uh you're gonna get four minutes and change and um uh and then in this
year I think it's again about four minutes so uh it's going to be an exciting time and because uh it's new
moon it's going to be a dark sky star party too and we've got Mickey's kitchen out there and if you haven't had
Mickey's brownies at 2 A.M you haven't lived and of course the Hill Country of Texas
is is uh becoming renowned for its dark sky sites and the certified dark sky
places that uh that are there so I I know the folks there are really eager to host uh thousands tens of thousands if
not more uh people on Eclipse day all right so I'm gonna I'm gonna jump in here and share
um let's see we've got this I don't have to share sound so I'm just
going to share that and let's get this party started
okay got that got it all right so you know one of the things that when
Scott approached me I thought gee I don't know really anything to talk about and then I realized that I have um a
public talk on the web Space Telescope which spends a fair amount of time
describing how this amazing instrument will be used to try to find evidence of
the first stars and the first galaxies and so I thought that really fit with the the theme tonight so let's let's
talk about that but first we need to understand a fundamental which is that
we live in an expanding universe and it expands in a way like this loaf of
raisin bread here uh that the farthest things away from us are moving away the
fastest if you imagine that you're in this raisin bread and and there's two raisins very close together you're
you're not separating very quickly but from one side of the lobe to the other the farthest raisins from you are moving
away from you the fastest now I have to tell you it took me a while to find a YouTube video of rising raisin bread but
I did I succeeded and so um uh the the essence here is
that as we try to see Ever more distant objects in the universe that light has
uh those are objects are moving away from us at ever greater velocities and
because of that the light that's emitted from them as it makes its way towards us
is redshifted in other words the the wavelengths of the light gets stretched out and so something that's maybe an
x-rays or ultraviolet get moved down into something closer to visible light and the stuff that we're
used to seeing in visible light gets stretched into the infrared where our eyes can't see it and so that's where uh
the Hubble the the James Webb Space Telescope comes in but first a nod to the Hubble Space Telescope its
predecessor and I want everyone to realize that last month the Hubble
telescope passed its 33rd anniversary in space it's only a couple of months away
from being having been in space for a third of a century ponder that for a few
minutes okay now the Hubble telescope was was optimized for ultraviolet and
visual observing it touched because it had CCD detectors it touched on uh the
near infrared but not very much this is one of the most famous images not the
one I think a lot of us are used to seeing but this is the ultra Deep Field which stared at one little spot in the
sky for more than 13 days in cumulative uh uh exposure and virtually everything you
see in this image is a Galaxy and the ones that are closer to White there is there is one little here's a foreground
star between us and these galaxies but um the the ones that are whitish are
the ones that are closest to us and the ones that have the reddish hue are more distant and their light is
being redshifted because of the great distances and so uh that that was a first taste of
what awaited us at the edge of the observable universe so the Hubble telescope as I said was
optimized for visible and UV uh the James Webb Space Telescope is
almost exclusively in the infrared the the mid near and mid-infrared and it's
important to realize this is not the first time we've had an infrared telescope in space Spitzer Space
Telescope preceded it uh there have been uh Herschel and Planck from the European
space agency that have sort of paved the way but Webb is certainly the most capable
uh it's going to show us this this slice of the electromagnetic spectrum as we've
never seen it before not only because it has the most capable detectors but it's its aperture is is huge compared to the
Hubble telescope it gathers far more light and and as pretty much all of us know right the more light we can gather
the things where we can see and in this case the painter we can see the farther back Across the Universe we can see I
always have interesting conversations with photographers we often use lenses
that are comparable you know a refractor lens and and a photographic lens but
photographers are all about the focal length and astronomers are all about the aperture right so
um uh anyway the Hubble uh the web telescope is much bigger than the Hubble telescope it gives us great capabilities
and so uh you know it's now out there in space and it's got this really unusual
design we would call it a truss tube open trust design uh Scott maybe you can
make up a you know a nice big reflector uh based on this model with a segmented mirror I'll I'll wait for the designs
yeah get right on it but the real thing that separates this apart is is this stuff down here which is the um
reflective heat shield because we're working at the infrared infrared is heat radiation it's important not to have it
the detectors contaminated by heat of any kind so it's it's far away from Earth and it's it's these these shields
here it's a five layer Shield uh prevent sunlight from getting at the mirror and
the detectors and dropping what would be otherwise uh you know very hot temperatures above boiling On the Sunny
Side to very very close to absolute zero on the cold side so these detectors are
are cold and they they're sensitive to even the most minute amounts of of infrared energy
the telescope has four detectors on it I'm not going to spend a lot of time with this there you can see there
they're all in the near infrared and uh and the and the medium for red especially is are going to be really
useful so with this these detectors in this telescope will be able to peer farther
back in time farther away and therefore farther back in time Across the Universe you know that that that slice there on
the right hand side represents the big bang and uh we'll talk about the radiation era and the Dark Ages but but
the first Stars uh and the first galaxies have been to this point beyond
the reach of the Hubble Deep Field you can see it there uh this was the first
Deep Field and then this was the ultra Deep Field and still we're we're only looking back to
oh maybe uh 700 million years after the big bang and that's not going back far
enough Webb hopes to go even farther already has gone even farther
um and and so here's your little bit of primeval cosmology after the big bang
the the universe was super hot so hot that there was nothing that we would
think of as a normal atom it was all subatomic particles protons and electrons in this
uh incredibly hot uh soup and because of that any light rays that were emitted
um never made it they would they would run into one of these particles and and be absorbed and so even though the
universe it's it's counter-intuitive the universe was extremely hot at its beginning but it was also black there
was no light escaping from from the the the growing Universe then over time the
temperature cooled and these protons and new and electrons were able to come together and form atoms and only then
was light able to escape and so that became What's called the air
of recombination the the temperature of of the the the the sort of expanding uh
Fireball had cooled uh to more reasonable temperatures and so like it
travel freely and importantly this happened 38 uh 380 000 years after the big bang before that
we can't see anything and so that echo of the Big Bang from that from that era of reionization we
see as what's called The Cosmic microwave background this is an all Sky View taken with the plank uh of
Europeans plank uh spacecraft it's a map of temperature and these Reds and blues are deceptive
because there are only millions of a degree apart here's a little blow up of one section but what this tells us is
that very soon after the big bangs explosion it wasn't really an explosion
but the big bangs event uh the universe had started cool and it wasn't
homogeneous there were hot spots and cool spots and these cool spots are the ones that became the condensation uh
locations for future galaxies and stars because they were cooler so the job of the web telescope is try
to look back as far as it possibly can uh to to a time well
before what we have now where we have these beautiful spiral galaxies which are actually fairly mature we want to
see them when they were their you know a primordial Blobby selves
um and and so we want to get past this 13.7 billion years uh as close to the the
beginning of these 13.7 billion years as we can now the web
has already made remarkable progress this this Z is a measure of the redshift
the amount that the the speed at which these galaxies are receding from us and
and therefore how much their their uh light has been stretched into the red part of the spectrum and uh the 13.2
that you see there at the upper right hand corner and you know represents something that's about uh
five or six hundred thousand years after the big bang so that's how close we're
getting now one of the most amazing discoveries to date from the web telescope is that
we expected to see these little blobs but we didn't expect to see so many of them
and we didn't expect them to be as fully formed as we're seeing take a look at these these don't look like you know uh
puffs of cotton candy they have shapes to them here's one that you know it's a little spiral maybe down here and so
this was one of the first big wow movements from the web telescopes uh
young career it's only been in space for less than a year and a half now is that those early galaxies were were more
mature and more plentiful than our current thinking about how the universe
early Universe cooled and condensed uh seems to indicate here are some examples
of those very early galaxies and you can see this is color coded I mean they're not really lime green okay but uh you
can see that that they are they have um a maturity that if you know if we were taking uh uh Connell and Nico we're
taking pictures of these uh you'd say oh yeah that's a nice NGC object but these are not NGC objects these are way way
way out there and they're pretty fully formed now I'm going to show you just to kind of conclude here
something that is just now this is from a preprint that is literally only two
days old so you heard it here first okay the web telescope let me let me set the
stage for you over there on the left this is a foreground Galaxy cluster all
these white things are galaxies these are a couple of foreground Stars the white things are galaxies and the thing
about galaxies is they're enveloped in a huge shell of Dark Matter this is mass that we can't see but it gives more mass
to the cluster and it causes the the Galaxy cluster to be able to bend light
in in very demonstrable ways and so these Galaxy CL this galaxy cluster
which is macs0647 has been bending the light of
the of the galaxies behind it and in particular there's one which has been nicknamed JD
which has it's been it's been lensed as we say into three separate images one
two and three and they're shown over here on the right and what it appears is
that these are two galaxies very early in the universe that are in the process
of merging how cool is that that we can look across all this time and see these
merging galaxies so one of the things that seems to be emerging in our thinking about the very
earliest stars and the Very earliest galaxies is this as the Fireball from The Big Bang cooled
you would think that the first things to come out would be stars and then later the Stars would collect into galaxies
it's probably the other way around as those hot and cool spots
you know intensified the cool spots were places where Dark Matter collected along
with the normal matter that we associate with stars and galaxies and only when you had this material
concentrated were the first star is able to form and
so what you see here is a simulation of Dark Matter uh uh voids and and
concentrations coming together in the very early universe that that scale bar up across the top it's it's encode it's
about 390 million light years across so we're talking here a very large scales
and so if you want to go check this out this is an incredibly cool uh simulation it's called the Millennium run and you
can check it out it was it was uh published a few years ago now at this point
so you know we're on the trail with the web telescope of finding these very earliest galaxies the thing I didn't
touch on is that those little blobs the web telescope with its spectrometer has the ability to determine the composition
even across these billions of light years of distance we can determine the
composition of these very earliest galaxies it's a very very exciting time and one last thing I want to mention uh
while we were kind of you know enjoying uh spring or early fall depending on what part of the earth we're at you may
not have realized this but just within the last two weeks astronomers have announced some new moons around Saturn
like 80 of them Saturn now has
145 known moons most of them are only a a kilometer or so across uh but it's uh
it's it's an amazing thing and it probably has something most of them are what they're called the regular moons
which means that they are um uh they are in weird crazy orbits around
around Saturn and the fact that there are so many of them and a lot of them are in families just like asteroids
exist in families probably suggests that there has been a collision or collisions
within the saturnian uh satellite system in the in the fairly recent past within
the last you know several hundred million years several million years or so so Scott that's about it for me I
hope you enjoyed that and uh I'll turn it back to you it's awesome I love it so
um some of the comments here um uh you know the the the
large-scale uh uh you know view of the universe uh to wreck and UAE says it
looks like brain Network and cells connection yeah isn't it interesting how like the Mycelia network uh our our
brain our nervous system and uh and the universe at different scale else kind of
all look the same you know so well right and this notion of this bubbly you know with lots of voids and strands and web
like structures sort of emerged in the 1980s uh and just in locally you know in our
local groups of galaxies and it it's apparently extends those that were by
the way that I showed at the end that was a simulation it was not an actual view of dark matter because if it were a
view of dark matter it would be a Nobel prize Well image you know but uh you know it
it it Remains the case Hubble revolutionized astronomy 30 years ago
and the web telescope is in the process of revolutionizing astronomy again that's great awesome well thank you very
much Kelly and pleasure yeah well great to be back yep okay so
um uh I noticed that Gary Palmer has popped in he promised to uh maybe give
us a couple of minutes of um of uh live views before we go straight over to
Cesar brolo but uh um Gary do you have uh what's your sky's
like tonight um they're not so bad thanks Scott uh hi to everyone hope you're all well
um we are running an M16 at the moment we've got a mono rig
up so should be that one there there we go so it's running in S2 at the
moment um we're quite we don't get a lot Darkness
now so we're only on about three hours three and a half hours something like that and over the next month that will
dwindle down to about two hours here um so you're just having to grab a
couple of hours here and a couple of hours there and at the end of the month put everything together and see what you've got
um I did jump onto a couple of things before I came on to the show so it but
uh Photoshop that was solar from today one of the sun's groups
um that it's been quite dominant over the last um three four days and also there is a
supernova in the Siamese twins which is just there so I just managed to grab
um what was that that was nine shots so it's just um RGB there is
a color version there there we go and it's just in the middle there
so yeah it's is what it is it's uh we're running on M16 for the rest of the
evening just to try and grab some data but there's certainly bits around at the moment okay well Gary thank you we will
uh we'll pipe back in and check on you as we jump from speed yeah of course so
that's great thank you thank you okay so up next is uh Caesar brawl
um and Caesar I think is out there on his uh
um uh his patio uh Caesar are you with us
Allah Caesar
now can you hear me yes
hi everybody
we have a noise okay can you can you hear me good
I can hear you but there's a noise yes I I try
um using another microphone the microphone of the computer maybe is
too much for you know let me let me check if I can
I come the gang of the of the microphone okay
now for those of you who are watching yes I can I can
I think that I can make a
put uh put the um less gain in the microphone
oh yeah I can tell it's getting better yeah maybe it's okay now
a little bit less [Music]
yes here maybe can you hear me it is better yeah we hear you guys but yes
well um now uh we have I have some clouds
here but as we are talking about shine shine Stars shiny stars
um I I like to to show to the audience real star signing and I like
um and maybe for a nebula tonight you can see the clouds with Sky
but let me share with you
possible aim at a live image of um
the the jewel box the devil walks
cluster in Center
well here are using this telescope and apochromic
Telescope with a ex's 100 expert scientific moment
and here can you see my screen
it's called can you can you see my screen yeah I see your screen okay sorry and
um well here I use him my my
smartphone to Center the option
and I will try to try
to put a little more exposure because in this part of the of
the sky
here okay simple box is a very interesting cluster
let me yeah
hmm okay
I try to put a little more of exposure
to show more details but it's like a little cloudy you know we need to
suppose but here you can see that it's a very rich part of the sky is this they are
continuing shortings of of the
across Southern Cross area maybe I can show you one of the stars of
of the um Southern Cross
obviously each time that I sh I move my telescope you can see these
third trails
maybe yes here look that
here is I'll try to show to show you a map
that what are we are watching now
the stars that you are watching is mimosa and something that is very
interesting in the field of view is that this star
that we call the Ruby is one is a carbon star very very red
maybe one of the most rare stars in the in the sky
is d d y cruises right Caesar Mimosa is yes yes I show you I change
to the stellarium map to show it's a it's a beautiful carbon star to
observe yes it's incredible yes well here of course that we need to
change we are here outside this symbol box and here we are watching mimosa
Bakers big rocks and this is the Stars
the carbon Stars yes Nico is is a beautiful star that is very easy to to
to to to watch in
let me show you if sorry let me uh ah sorry here I can
here we have the map now
here this is not an opposite of course that we are watching javel box
side and here we have big rocks and the
carbon Stars
and this is that we are watching now in life that's it for me is incredible
especially from the city and in the Cloudy night never never
never ever is is uh something that for for every everyone that love the sky
something they'll say okay we are watching uh live image with a small
telescope we are sharing the sky with the audience
um maybe sometimes you can if I can change you get the gain of the camera
Maybe you can compare for example something that maybe if I use my my eyes to watch
the sky now this is the similar
image that I can get with my eyes um for the audience for people that
never watched my telescope or for us that
that we are immersed in the technology sometimes it's great
enjoy the real Shine the real break of the sky of the stars with our eyes and
you can you can see
so red and centering the the
change and so on yeah before yes I'll put a more more life
uh here for the people I'm changing the the Sensibility
of the camera I'm I'm putting uh now you can see the the clouds yeah
you know that the both of that stars the the red one
in the shovel box and Dia cruises uh yeah they are both carbon stars is yes
it was really nice it starts to observe exactly do you have two boats are the
red one in the in the jewel box here and here
the the Stars beside
at the side of sorry of uh big herbs are very very rare
carbon Stars amazing you know and when you when you
slew the telescope slightly you can really see the deep red color you know yes yes absolutely yeah yeah the the uh
you know the exposure time uh does yes yes I'm using now uh
milliseconds
pretty short I can change
and you know this is the telescope you don't need more electricity but than this
forum they uh field of view easy to use amount
that is very easy to to drive with that cell phone that uh
really the beta version is the best version oh
yes yes I love it I love it with the Android phone right now that's
cool yeah it is it's something that that really really CC and get an enjoy a lot of fun
and this is very interesting and something that where people's watch uh
Sky the quantity of clouds and the telescope in the same time
um and
um [Music] showing showing the telescope showing
apart small part of the sky uh it's beautiful it's really a magic that that
really is is improved that today we from
the invention of the telescope and today all electronic staff
to to support astronomy instruments is really
beautiful this is my presentation it's alive thank
you Caesar thank you it's a pleasure as well it's great so it's not no matter
the clouds no matter the clouds great well yeah you're going through the clouds so it's it's it's it's awesome so
yes but you can you can sometimes you say what as many times we told that
sometimes you have a clouds in the sky but you are you need some fun and you
can use the telescope between the the clouds um
so many many type of clouds don't don't
be a problem for a some type of object maybe it's not a knife to make as a
photography but maybe uh you can enjoy live image like now let's go in your
screen and you can think about about uh
companies components of cars or you know you know enjoy enjoy the the
magic of the this time yes I use the Cloudy night scissor to
separate the components of double Stars really right for example uh I think that
in both hemispheres we can see Syria in Marshall County and seriously if you
have a little clouds you can see the serial view because Syria is not that bright with
the clouds it's really nice yes work work better Nico yes yes many
many people like you that work with uh with a variable stars or to see a component
like bitcob yes it's agreeable yes I'm not so technical but you know
but I impressive I impressive with your pictures of of uh
of the Sun the technology of yes I I know because I
give you the filter but you put the the Argentinian technology is in the silver
tape yes our yes our typical yes I never I never can imagine
if someday we can go to the space how it will be the suite of the
astronauts or you know you can hear about this with tape
[Laughter] well thank you guys
in your presentations and we'll we'll visit you again on your
balcony uh Cesar at the next Global Star Party so up next is Adrian Bradley Adrian is
uh our official nightscape photographer here he's done some amazing stuff uh and
um he is busy I know he's working on a book and uh he is uh I think he's
helping to protect the Upper Peninsula up there in the night skies up there so
thanks so much for uh coming on tonight um
Adrian no problem I was hoping to show yeah
yeah I think you can see it this is now you can it's it's popping in and out
I have the yeah the Prototype of the book is flopping around the plan is to
make it a hard copy and add a few more current pictures to the book uh right
now focused on one particular location that's uh in our um thumb area this is I
don't know if this is gonna work Michigan looks like this and up here
somewhere is a very reasonably dark area kind of an oasis of Darkness around here
the uh readings are typically 21 point two well it's certainly 1.4 in that
little area here so um so it's a uh it's kind of an effort to
preserve that little area for dark sky and I'm a member of that Society for
that Lighthouse um I will find a picture of it but what I wanted to talk about was the um
the Canadian wildfires have been going on over here in North America and
because they're close enough to our state of Michigan the uh Wildfire smoke
has now um blown into our area and really
briefly um for those that love doing night sky photography it can make a huge
difference in the images that you see so this is a typical for this region this
is typically what the um Milky Way a two-minute composite
Milky Way shot will look like you'll get this much detail now many of you have
seen more detail out of the Milky Way in some of the shots I've taken this is you
know over solid bortal Force guys and I was able to get the sharpness for the Stars
here's the Scorpion you can bear really see some of the um
some of the Dust Lanes heading into this area where Antares is and this is where
of course um rofiyuki which if you put a lot more time and a lot more hours you get all of
the colors of these uh the um that velocity around these Stars
really pops out it's a that region is a popular region and the better you make
this area look the more hours you spent Gathering your data and your tracking
your guiding has generally been on but take a look at what happens when
there's smoke in the area I stepped back a little bit I was over here and I took the first shot this is
looking over the same part of the lake and look at the effect another two minute exposure
with smoke in the sky look what happens um
so this was taken you can this was a 35 millimeter lens you can see some of
those same features here of the Milky Way but with all of the smoke
it really blots out the night sky to the point where
what used to be fairly clear and easy to notice becomes
you know blotchy blurry it's uh it can be a
disappointment when clear skies finally return and in fact this um
this particular image the Moon is supposed to be rising somewhere in
this part over this part of the horizon and you really can't see it once the
moon got about here above the smoke line it was visible but it wasn't uh wasn't
visible before so um so part of what I wanted to do with the
short presentation was just to highlight not every image
um not every night sky image is going to be perfect and sometimes it's not the clouds that get you it can be the smoke
that gets you and um but on the other hand if you think about how bright and
um how large the um galactic center is the fact that its light can still shine
through thick smoke and in our cloudiness to show up you
could still see some of the nebulosity here if I really quickly re-share
the nebulacity you're seeing here there's M8 M20 there's a Sagittarius uh small star
field the larger star field is lower to the Horizon as it rises so it's more
obscured body's window even even the nebulas yeah so these
yep these nebula here um we can pan in and you can still see to
some extent you can see the nebulosity definitely not the way you can if you if
you're completely clear so there's M20 three
um 24 I'm not actually seeing there's 22. there's a globular cluster M22 right
here so it goes 23 24. this is
M16 no m17 and there's M16 as you can
see the stars are a little bit more dashed than I would like here
um so tracking tracking was okay but maybe not as spot on as I would like
this bright spot right here is m11.
of course we're not going to resolve to individual stars at 35 millimeter but um you can still see some of the
star clusters and nebula but you also see this smoke that's thick
as pea soup so these things large and bright enough
to make it through our atmosphere whether it's got smoke or
clouds and the light of it still shines through the thicker the clouds it
doesn't quite get through but if there's just enough if the clouds are
transparent enough or smoke that nebuliza even the dark nebula you're
seeing hints of the dark nebula here um this dark nebula's visible naked eye
and a border one zone but here we have to tease it out with um
with a long exposure and this dark nebulae and the uh
I think we call it the Crazy Horse um kind of at the top of where the galactic center is visible naked eye in
a border one zone but here you tease all these details out with a longer exposure
and you end up with this image which um
it just shows the effects of smoke when I went out I had expected to get a nice
clean image and then wondered if it was foggy if there was fog over the lake and
then then I looked and realized oh there's smoke
and now the smoke has spread to the point where today looking at the sun which of course the astronomical leak
says do not look at the sun without proper protective Gear Well if you
glanced at the sun with the smoke covering it you probably found it didn't hurt your eyes
and that all that's always a sign that there's so much smoke in the in our
lower atmosphere blowing around um from the wildfires in Canada that
it's actually blocking some of the sun's Rays to the point where
you know you view it it looks it looks like it does um as it rises just over the horizon so
but it's higher up in the Horizon it's maybe some 17 degrees off of the uh Horizon so so we're we're enduring some
smoke here um in Michigan at least Michigan USA North
America the eastern part of uh North America is suffering from a little bit
of uh smoke from those wildfires that um when it gets really dry in certain parts
of uh Canada there's those wildfires start and
um the jet stream and other you know other factors can swirl it around and you know
the smoke can then end up even though we're west of Canada it'll it may still get to us and in fact
looking to the east as The Milky Way Rose it could see it quite clearly so we
have we have the same problem here in the southern Wi-Fi yeah
yeah that's um well the the wildfires grow out of control it kicks up enough
smoke now of course a volcano a volcano eruption would do that as well probably
do worse damage but um yeah the it takes a few it takes maybe a
couple of weeks now of course for us that's not good because in a couple of weeks if you want to do dark sky
photography or Moon you want to go on a moonless night you're going to be yeah
on Full Moon by the way yeah full moon the smoke will clear so yeah so more
human photography is in your future when that happens you were saying about the
sun when it is slow in the Horizon and if there is a smoke or maybe clouds with
clouds we you can even see some big sun spots at the negative
yeah and um but with the smoke it really dulls and it changes the color
of um you know the appearance of the Sun to where the reds are redder I guess is
a good way to put it um yeah it smoke acts like a huge filter
and uh but I have to repeat those of you watching Global Star Party
we do not consider it safe to look at the Sun naked eye at any time either the moon
covers it yeah we you know you get in trouble if you encourage well go look at
the sun if the smoke is covering it just look right at it we will not take responsibility never with a scope or
binoculars or anything yeah we will not take responsibility because even if
there's too thin a layer of smoke maybe there's clouds and smoke if the sun
comes out from Beyond the clouds and starts to shine again you're risking your eye health or I guess your eyesight
so so it's not it's not a very wise thing you may notice it and if you if
you can still see afterwards that's great but I wouldn't risk it much further you'll notice the differences in
the color of the sky um because of the smoke but that's uh you know chalk it up as
and I've one quick observation and move on and again I really do not recommend
um looking at long periods of time at the sun if you happen to notice that it seems less bright than usual it's still
the sun it can still be dangerous to your eyesight because of how bright it is now
segue into the eclipses the annular eclipse coming up in North America
do not look at the sun through anything but the eclipse glasses because the sun will not be completely covered it'll
there'll be a ring of fire total solar eclipse in 2024 the only
time it's safe to look at the sun because the main disk is blocked by the moon exactly and you can see the sun's
Corona yeah and you have maybe a one minute or at most yeah well know exactly
how long totality will be because a few seconds before it's over it's time to
put on the glasses because yes it only takes a sliver of sunlight that ring
light is yeah you see the diamond rings for that
moment and then you got to get you got to get away so the glasses on don't look
because your eyes will be dark adapted um some will and some it takes longer to
darken that but they're the eyes are going to start to darken that so it's even more of an effect with the bright
Sun coming through um right after that um diamond ring phase so
really have to be careful hopefully wherever you all go to visit your total solar eclipse or your annular Eclipse
there will be a knowledgeable astronomer on hand to uh guide guide the entire
group as to when the eclipse what to do during the eclipse
during the eclipse hopefully someone will be counting down for the total
solar eclipse it's always helpful to have somebody count down the time before
the eclipse the totality is over and that way you you know to turn away when
he gets to three two start turning away
um so yeah that's it Scott I'm turning it over back to you
um I have to yep I have to take off I see uh Gary Palmer there always great to
see your images when they come out Nico to hammer Cesar uh Maxie who has uh
turned off his camera and uh and Glenn thank you for hopping on
um as always um I do have to um
do have to take off I had a long day um unfortunately my stepfather passed
earlier last week and we had to take care of some family uh business today we
laid him to rest um so Adrian
yeah we but we got through it and um you know one I can use this to say well
one way to deal with the loss of loved ones or even if there was some contention as it was my stepfather had
his ornery moments but he also could be very very kind and um
you know one one way to manage that is regardless of belief um looking up at
the stars in the sky um helps you to gain a perspective on
you know life on Earth is a precious thing however it was created however you
believe it came about even even the Catholics understand Stardust
um you know so it's uh and I am one so
so uh be kind to one another and keep looking up keep uh though we're doing
these doing Outreach you know it's it's for the astronomy is greater than just one
person who's uh you know that pulls out great images um if you're taking pictures of the
night sky just because you know you're able to get thousands and thousands of likes on social media I challenge you to
use your images to do Outreach to share with other people who may not have seen
the type of things that you image and challenge yourself to image something that isn't among the popular things I
know uh David eicher if he was here earlier in global star party has his
um objects that uh you know off the beaten path objects that he's challenged
the astrophotographers to uh take a crack at and I challenge all of you as
well um don't just sit by on your equipment and your laurels
um go out there and share what you've got with the world not just for the glory of
being a great astrophotographer we've got a lot of those but um help the rest
of be a part of the uh a part of the Outreach efforts to show
the rest of the world what's really out there that's right and so so that I don't continue to preach I'm gonna I
better turn it over to you Scott but I wanted to get that I I want to get that message out yeah and someone who
submitted images for different um things and now you know submitting them for using them for outreach is uh
the most rewarding thing for me that's right uh you know so that's all right
I'm gonna go on mute now thank you all for listening those of you watching thank you Adrian take care yeah
take care everyone and take care of each other all right so we are going to go over to
Gary Palmer in the UK uh who's running his uh telescope with live views
high school how are you um good thanks for doing this no it's
fine but I'm still running on the same Target at the moment so I'm still running on M16 it is a bit dark because
it's in um but we are very no three at the moment
so on the mono camera but over the last couple of days I've been capturing some
of the other images so if I switch over to this screen this was just a five
minute shot it was just a test shot um just playing around really seeing what
we could come up with um off of different equipment we've also got some on the Crescent
nebula on the same system that we're using now so they've been capturing that
different wavelengths again so um HIV no three
and this was the beginning part of what
we're running tonight M16 the Eagle Nebula um this is in h8 so
um quite a lot to process I'll go the next couple of weeks as we gradually capture the images
but some of these new filters are coming out let me just drop these down because I lost that one
um where are we some of these new filters these dual band filters that are coming out are
very good this one's using the new tri-band filter
let me just move these out of the way so considering that's just a five minute shot one of the things that I like with
this filter is that it gives you nice style color and it gives you blue in the image most
color cameras give you a real residual green
um because of the biomatrix on them so when this is processed up we can already see the Blues in the edges of the stars
there so these images when they go together are coming out quite nice off of this filter certainly
um ones have a good play around with you can also image Galaxies for this filter which is quite unusual for these
dual and tri-band filters so it's certainly worth a look at and it's not that expensive over here
um I think they're around 200 pounds for the two inch filter so it's not a lot of money at all
but apart from that not what else is new it's just nice to get a couple of clear nights because we've not been getting
any clear nights um it's been quite poor over the last couple of months certainly in the winter
season so it looks like it's gradually changing now um and lots of other term engines some
of the summer targets which would be quite nice wonderful wonderful now uh Gary the last
time I saw you was at Northeast astronomy Forum uh yep we're there
um uh showing a system with a bunch of different uh solar cameras on that uh
what can you tell us about that setup so that that's the rotarian solar filter I
do have one if you give me a second yeah
foreign
it's he says I'm thinking about a dual band filter but the manufacturers never
helped me to decide uh which which uh new filter to get so what do you think
well um the best thing I can say is look up the
Sky night month magazine not last month a month before yeah so it
would be April's April's one and I did an article on all of these filters in
there um one of the main things I would say with these filters to be careful of is the
most popular ones a lot of the manufacturers were sitting around on the Zone were removing the Halos and we even
noticed in the when Imaging with this for a long time on different targets
you were guessing um a lack of O3 so were they removed in the
Halos they're actually removing the part of the wavelength as well so they're making it very very weak
and last year I did um there's about 50 hours on the flying bat
and the squid and generally that would start to come out around 20 hours for
the squid in the middle 25 hours somewhere around there and it's more or less an unexistent on one of these
popular filters and that's what got us thinking that the actual wavelength so
um being trimmed down is the UCS by putting it on certain filters so
some of them the companies have got two models of these out and you you can you
couldn't tell any difference between the two filters for the same amount of time so for the test for the magazine uh that
was run on the running man next to Iran and on quite a few of the filters
certainly these ones that are saying they're Halo free you couldn't see any detail in The Running Man
so that was the thing and this is where I say really you've got to have a look around at the images because when I was
looking around last year after Imaging with one of them I was seeing that there's a real lack of 03 in the filter
so it's not really about the cost of the filter it's having a look around on
Google click on the images tab and that will take you off and then you you'll see the
product first and then it'll search for all of the images that are taken by people and posted on places like
astrobin and so on so that's the best way of getting it but it also depends on your your cameras and
other equipment as well so that's why I say Google should escalate but for a cheap filter that
does nebula and galaxies I would certainly recommend that and Leah tri-band RGB filter they've done a lot
of magical work with that even I struggling to work out how they've got the Coatings onto the filter but it
gives a really nice balance so back to the solar product we did have
this on the show a while back this is look at this thing so the rotarium so it
holds four quarts in it and effectively this rotates around so
we can image all full wavelengths in one go without taking them off because the biggest problem is is if you want to
align all your images it's actually quite a while when you remove a cork so then put one back in align all the
camera up and everything else and quite often in that time something's changed so something in the structural region
that you're looking at will have changed so the idea behind this you know there's an idea we came up with
that neath the last time in 2019. so we sort of sat down with um a few
scraps of paper and different other boots as you do at these events and come up with an idea
um and we've had it on test here for probably a year now
um just over a year since the the first process I came along there's one of these running now in Spain at the moment
we've had that out there for a year that's producing really nice images and
it's now available so um you have to go on the company over here first like Optics they're selling
them and I think Woodland Hills might be doing it out in the US at some point but
I can't be 100 on that um
device okay so the the idea behind it
um eventually what we'll be doing is putting another unit so this unit is going to change or be optional to change
on the top and then we're going to be able to change cameras as well so you'll be able to mount two or three cameras on
the top there the idea behind that is different conditions on different days
so one day it's really clear and you're going to be really close to the Sun and another day the the atmosphere is a
little bit poorer so we want to be able to drop back and we can use the camera for that
so the system we're using in Spain at the moment uh Icarus remote Observatory is remote
there's nobody there we log on to that each day we can open the roof
um and away we go so we don't have the option of running out there and suddenly changing something when the weather's a
bit poorer the idea is now is is to use the cameras to change
um so the more acceptable uh for the different Zoom additions
but people can also stop um uh buying time on that so that that
system is up um fully running now so people will be able to go on to that system and buy
time on there and I think it's one of the only sort of Animation systems that you can jump onto and
um get time on image in the sun in all the different movements there's not a lot of systems around like it
excellent excellent there you go great so when will we see you uh what what
event can you um there's not a lot of events in the UK
the the other large one that's later in the year um that's been moved off because I think
they're doing maintenance work on the buildings the international astronomy show has been moved off uh but I did see
this week that Daystar are holding another event um which is where we met uh
eight years ago so um they're a whole another event in
September so I will probably be heading out that way at some point
okay all right cool well um uh thank you for coming on to Global
Star Party um we have um I have like a a video let's see who
else might be here with us um I have a video that uh uh it's
actually a series of videos that NASA has distributed uh there is no
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whole thing all the way through so really amazing symphonic
works and incredible imagery and visualizations from NASA
um we're going to take a short uh Segway to back down to Argentina where
Cesar has a live image of uh at Ocarina I believe is that right uh yes yes it's
called is the the name and then we're going to uh Brazil yes only
two seconds but now is really near to the building
but only only show you okay the idea of something so so alive
well now I I I think that's
it let me show you uh right yeah
thanks particular
particular you know um image of
NGC NGC objects um near to the city buildings oh yeah
but look at all the stars yes this is this is something Unfortunately
they that's what the game apart is here but yes you can see many many
stars and this is the part of the of the rooftop of the welding because we are
watching uh you know something that that the scale of the
things and the quantity of of stars
are incredible yes early when I when I write
I was watching part of the nebula maybe you know you
can see that I'm using no more than 600 milliseconds half seconds of exposure
but this part of the sky is so rich yes all of the stars in the in the area of
of Carina constellation
and you know mixing with a roof top of a wielding is
something that it's really it's really weird or really I don't know the adjective for that yeah
rare it's rare yes yes because you cannot see this I don't
think you can see this with your own eyes uh from the rooftop of your yeah in
the middle of the city but uh with a relatively affordable uh camera and
um you know the yeah the sensitive of the camera today is 100 and uh you know
a um easy to obtain telescope uh you can do this I I don't how long does it take
you to set this up Cesar sorry how long does it take you to get
everything set up and uh tracking and and uh nothing nothing because when when
I used to bus today earlier that yeah my my presentation it will be one hour
ahead right and I travel I had only 15 minutes
to prepare all right get everything ready wow and yes my family watching me
say okay you have problems because you're really yes I'm really I need to be fast because
I know that I am going to leave now in 15 minutes you have this
um I when I returned to Mendoza to San Rafael our third party I never use it
again this setup what's only you know connect the camera
connect the telescope the mold um broadcast
yes yes and this is amazing absolutely it's good and this is
why I told to the people I tell to the people all the time use your scope your
use your gear in the city because you enjoy a lot every night that you have a
uh you know or a quarter of moon present
moon or or uh you know do you have a lot of and who knows maybe you capture
something that no one has ever seen before so it's possible yes absolutely and something that that I found in the
small ones that telescope um us Nico show earlier that small
telescope don't break your back and it's very true and this is the real
and sometimes the people is scared to use the telescope when you have a very
heavy telescope and ask me that I need to to put the telescope and go into the
balcony you know if I the another one the eight inches the original telescope is in
isn't in their in their box because it's too heavy to use
but this setup was only 15 minutes is unlike uh here here when you uh when you
put all together it's like for me that I don't like to break my my back is right
yeah once you set up a big telescope then later often you have to take it down you
know unless you up there permanently Caesar do you do you ever leave the
telescope out on your balcony uh like for a few days or do you uh no no I
don't leave I don't leave the telescope in the balcony because these are not so big a balcony
but if they told the people if they need to to leave the Periscope in
the balcony at least they use uh they something like a motorcycle bike motor
motorcycle uh uh covers
oh something you know in the in the in the um really covering with something
really okay I I I I I lost the connection
can you hear me now okay I didn't lose you so we're okay
yes okay but um but the the things for for live outside
on the earth a telescope really do you need a a high quality cover sometimes
for for bicycles you have a a good quality covers the color of the cover is
very important that this it will be uh played uh like like like silver color
uh avoid to avoid the you know the UV the the cards
of the Sun but I think that that sometimes I I live
only the moment however but not the entire telescope because
here is very windy you know and a little scared to leave the
telescope all day or or do you have a storm sometimes I say
you know thank you thank you if you need only 50
minutes to to put the telescope you don't need to leave yeah you don't need the that's right that's right no and my
background is full full of plants for flowers um like you know I I'm different things
to to make salads yeah you got the barbecue to cook sausage absolutely yeah
this is our welcome is full of tomato plants or you know it's okay I don't
have more space here it's multi-purpose yes absolutely in the city you enjoy the
small places I love and you know okay well that's great thank you so much
thank you Marcelo to use this part of your show
here we go okay so Marcelo thank you for coming on to the 120th Global star party
I I know that uh you were very busy uh with the imaa uh conference that you put
on um uh of course you've got your students with their young astronomers program so
um I'll turn the stage over to you but thank you very much for coming on thank you very much for the invitation cards
it is a great pleasure to be here I share my screen yeah reorganize it here
you know seats uh During the period of 27 2019 April
the 15th international meeting of astronomy and
the astronautics and the the event didn't begin in 27 began five
days earlier because you're having fun invite three invitable Spotify to the
speakers until arrived early and visited receipts then they involved a lot of
students from three four five different seats before the beginning of the event
and I I'll show this is our our logo show some images this is the opening
ceremony of the event well here you have Audi invited speakers here together we
have it here Gabe Gabrielle from uh former another engineer bet my foot from
the International Taxi Association Alejandro summer from Argentina
he is representative of international Sky Association Argentina and we have
also the participation of overstat that he comes from Norway she is the
international manager of the science Global Opera this
year the science Global Opera will be the topic of the Global Science Opera will be the James Webb Telescope
since 2015. yeah we have a
Eduardo from the iau is
generators of the office of astronomy education for the international
astronomic Union and here I have two Brazilians that she
work with astronomy now that uh Legends in legends that the same here in
Brazil they have astronomy that's here he has 80
9 89 years old he works
parathomy during 70 years he knows everything that happened here in Brazil
about astronomy and the other is that is here in his other side in his
side here or is the guy in Brazil That's he built
more planetariums here he built here at Beauty three planetariums Big Brother
titles in United States in the northeast of Brazil because Sarah State and I have
here a participation of Fernando fabiani from Uruguay he is
high Association Uruguay and here
we have a high percentage from Mozambique he has an astronomy club in Mozambique
this was the group and here very heavy in
below them you have the our astronomy club here the members of our student
group [Music] yeah the clouds we have a lot of students that participate in the event
this first day we organizing the main theater of the seat
this is a image of the the group that's participating this day the first day of
the events ah here we have these speakers and the
the members of our astronomy club here all together at the end of the event
is a small group our group is a small group but it's as possible to organize
this event today there's a lot of people that participates this is the second day of
the event second I had many people involved uh
representatives of many seats in Brazil and the we will celebrate here in the
front here you see the Demi Buccaneer because it was the birthday of the
planetarium office the birthday happening during the events
and we were celebrating ah here is really fabulous I forgot to mention he
is a cosmologist uh Brazilian States near us that
participated also as I speak in our events another picture of the group
these are the last image of the events possible to organize a big event and the
demand topic of the event or as the light pollution and the dark sky how
it's preserved the dark sky we organize an activity during the events in the has
that is the place near us there is a protect Forest nearest is a different
Force because there is a forest near the ocean we have a small trees on
and we organized these events there you see here during the night
you had the opportunity to try to look to the sky and here you can see Alejandro summer from
Argentina yeah from United States cheese
director of Engagement of the internet is
here have the two managers of two places here new places that see now they are
trying to be recognize as a dark dark sky please we have the first Dark Side
placement America nearest any probably we have two new dark sky place here they
are making one is this place where we took this picture that is here yeah here
you see how is that behind you is here because here is the forest they have a
40 kilometer Square the the this protection the protect first near the
beach here is the same place in the morning in uh the first event that you organized
before this event that happened during the hour in our meeting
I included here to show the place that we are trying to
now to be recognized as a a new dark sky place in Brazil and you'll see here how they have
Delights they have Smart lights the very few rides outside I've got a few minutes
they're running behind it here you can see
the period 19 hours two months ago
and this is my daughter this is using telescopes you know it's nice I'm very
happy with it yeah if you like to use the telescope and now uh last uh week we organize a
new event in this place yeah it is
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obviously a special place here that coordinates this protective Forest they
is associated a with the biggest posts of Latin America that's coordinates this
place and they are supporting us now and these are the moments that we made
the announcements reorganizing a exhibition there why did you direct us
you'll see the directors they offer the company and the organizer an exhibition
and you have our telescopes and there are a lot of things and there is other opportunity
to announce this fantastic new partnership that you have with this
company now and this Friday we will have a new event there
have a few new events at least two events per month in this
place and now we're having news about Saturn before ever again
three months ago or four months ago now everything changed because they
announced the discovery often more
now Saturn has 124 moves wow
coffee image perfumes but the group that made the discovery announced that they
soon They will announce what 21 moves then Saturn will have a 145 moves wow
they announced 80 3 new moves 83 new moves wow
but until now the countries that we have Saturn has
124. the the new 21 there some places internet already
includes but it's not official but I think that's it one week or more
time will be announced it will be included the Audi difference the internet that Saturn has
145 new movies
on Saturn you're gonna have to throw them away and get get new ones
now is the Lord of the Rings and The Lord of the wounds yes yes
both it just announced the last week now we
are fighting to take over the these uh some dial that
that is located in my University but it's almost destroyed today I was there
make an observation
and here is I'm we are trying now to take picture of the sun this is the
image today in 80 Alpha all right and telescope
and the sun will rise much so active today and now we are will begin to build
an animatic sunrise here preparing for the observation of the
eclipse in October 14th here will be partial
let's see here is the information about the
eclipse here Brazil
here is the path of the eclipse and here is the path here in Brazil
then we will cross this state of Amazon Poe
five Brazilian States but see here we can see a partial
eclipse will be like this almost uh
less than 50 percent that's recovery
but see we have glasses now to to give to the population we already have it
three thousand three thousand and 500 grass to give to the population really
we are looking for more to enter the day of the eclipse and this is important
because another one for us will be only in 2027 nearest
here will be almost 90 percent of the partial almost nine percent the United
States we have two well in 2003 another 2004
for the people that live United States then is this this is what
I love it and yeah we are plenty new activities
let's see because you're having many results from the the meeting no no any
many people here is talking about the uh how to protect the dark sky many groups
in Brazil are talking about this then as far as you'll be an opportunity to
a popular Rising here the protection of the dark skies and it may be soon we
will have two new dark sky places here thank you very much for the opportunity
it's great so um I I had a question for you Marcelo
okay doing uh these programs this uh uh this international meeting for this was
the 15th Edition of this what kind of impact has
this had on the society with the people in Brazil
or maybe America what what is the what is the impact what's happening uh what
what are the benefits yeah here you know a lot of people now always involve to
frost around me a heavy groupie coordinates groups of astronomy six
seats now nearest right then they're having many groups uh his hip
information that you choose schools now are also begin groups of astronomy in
the schools wow this is the results
go over two we have two big channels of Brazilian TV here in Eurovision they
covered the events and the the population here in this region where
we live that involves almost 3 million people here that's believe in
this region included out the seats they follow everything that happens that we
have the participation of students from these seats that came here and they are
also the forest speakers visited us
before the events then we had a small events in our increase seats before our
events then this time we have a lot of people involved
that we had as the recognition of the dark sky Park
we hadn't published in the cover of the main Brazilian newspaper man the
announcement of this discovery during his Sunday that is a day that people
buys didn't paid newspaper here more people buy then something that you have
two reports in a Weekly Magazine in Brazil about the dark sky part
then I'll having many many supporters here and this what happens here
groups for another places in Brazil knows what's happening then I received
many messages from different places here in Brazil asking about how to have a
dark Skype places there and they are now trying to to discuss about the effects
of light pollution then it's something that it's not in your vision something
that also motivates groups all around the country it makes us very happy for this is
having a huge impact on the environment and the health of not only Wildlife but
for humans I'll show you the magazine take a hit it's behind me here the
newspaper foreign
congratulations this is the biggest Brazilian newspaper
congratulations
these are two Brazilians yeah
weekly magazines here I assure you you have two reports about
dark sky facts or light pollution and the i participates in both they
invited me to I and the other groups here in Brazil
I'll show you that's something that makes us very happy because it is very difficult to to
have a informational browser student I mean Brazil in this Weekly Magazine then
something for us that's it
where is uh I didn't
I'm sorry I I need to find here and my number I'll find if you give me one two minutes I
will show you sure I think ah here here's your mom
ah oh yeah
great I'm here I'm here
I see congratulations Marcelo and we have
another one that's a big one this one
oh wonderful
and I'm here also these are results of what we are doing here
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the uh demand Brazilian TV channel here they wanted to make a
special reports about see what we are doing yeah I'm sure it will have uh influence for
other countries in South America as well I I see uh
I've seen uh you know Nico's watching right now but and Maxie but um NCS are
uh there is a dark sky uh Mission I guess
um uh in is it missionus is that how I pronounce that and Alejandro Somer
um is someone that's interested in uh spearheading a dark sky Park in
Argentina but you guys have plenty of Dark Skies down there and you should be
recognized with it so uh you know reach out to uh
Marcelo and if you are interested in creating this dark sky space
um I can help you with the international dark sky Association as well so is
the the uh our near Province uh to Brazil here in Argentina
and I think that here we need to to
there is a lot of groups of astronomy but there is no
like Organization for doing this kind of things and and I need I think that we need to move that way yes and to promote
and to and to to to start sharing with the people and talking about this protect
your dark sky Heritage you know so yes uh amazing uh dark skies and you have a
deep interest in science and astronomy um but um uh you know protecting Dark
Skies uh does so many other beneficial things uh so
um but uh you know I'm sure that uh if anybody can do it it's it's the group
that's here from Argentina on global star parties
is okay okay so up next is um uh John
Schwartz uh John is um our uh
is our one of our artists that appears on global Star Party John are you able to uh to come on at this time
I know he's here so okay I tell you what we'll do we will I have another
um uh short video this is on uh uh
images taken with the Hubble Space Telescope and they are running this uh
series um which I think you'll find interesting um but this is about Arendelle and uh uh
the uh gravitational lensing uh that occurs uh so let's let's play this
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Space Telescope of the sunrise Arc which is this long red banana that you can see
on the the screen right there and then what's highlighted by that white arrow is the lens star arendo which is the
most distant star that's been observed so far so we're seeing this entire galaxy as it was about 13 billion years
ago this particular Discovery was thanks to gravitational lensing so what you can
kind of see in the background here with all these sort of yellowish galaxies those are all galaxies that are part of
a galaxy cluster and this galaxy cluster is a very massive object that actually bends the the space time around it and
as the light from this distant Galaxy passes through that distorted space time it gets magnified and stretched out into
this long Arc that we see because of exactly where all these galaxies are there is a peak right here right on this
point where the magnification starts to Skyrocket so it starts to become an incredibly High magnification just right
in that spot and that's how we're able to see this one star original image looks like this so this is where you can
see you know all of these sort of fuzzy yellow galaxies around here form a pretty clear cluster
you can still kind of see this faint red Arc down here at the bottom and that was
what piqued our interest originally anything that's that red is going to be at a very high red shift which means
it's very early in the universe so that was kind of why we first got interested you can also see just kind of how long
this object is so this is the the longest lensed Arc that we've seen at
redshift six or above so that's within the first billion years of the universe and it kind of opens the door to looking
at the very first generation of stars so very first Stars would form you know a
few hundred million years maybe one to three hundred million years after the big bang he's kind of that ballpark so this kind of gives us a foot in that
door that gives us a really good chance to continue to discover more of these objects and you know hopefully push that
boundary a little bit further and really get a chance to to find one of the very first generation Stars
foreign
so we are back and we have John Schwartz from
California with us uh John you are muted
you are still muted can you hear me Scotty do you read it
now okay so I can see that you're at the uh it's like the 60 inch at Mount Wilson here
tonight yes now I'm back again it's my favorite one of my favorite telescopes let me show you oh yeah
yeah it's kind of a hazy tonight but you know what come with the 60.
can't be all bad there that's right well I'm going to turn it over to you you have the stage I do so uh tonight's
topic is a good one you know stars are very important
there's a little bit of a star in every one of us and uh everything that we have is
Created from a star so let me uh get started
started you know I'm trying to get off to a good
start here uh I actually was finally able to um
to share now let's see if this is gonna work this
is a first
okay
I'm almost there Houston we are in yeah
okay but it's not where I was supposed to be hang
on let me go back again
so how's the evening going what's uh was there some good great some great
speakers um of course you included um but uh you know we started off our
evening with uh David Levy uh Don knabb uh from the astronomical League was on
talking about beautiful three Leafs of the gazelle uh which are these three
asterisms that yeah I've never heard of before and David Levy had never heard of before so
I I think it was all new to all of us but uh so cool we're back yep there you
are okay you know the learning curve is a great thing
so this is me uh at Wilson at another trip hot summer night
getting amazing views uh for all of you who uh had Mother's
Day I'd like to celebrate your day with uh a couple pictures
thank you happy Mother's Day yeah
that's a flower and a heart shape that grew and I did a little extra painting
there okay we're almost back
new operating system but now
we're there so the sun is still very very active as
you see there's been some amazing sketches on cloudy nights
the Slayers have been really going off
okay
this was another flower I was um walking with Bosco tonight and uh
beautiful the blue that's going on right now and the clouds and when the sun
lights the clouds really nice it's wonderful to see
this is these are all for Mother's Day for the mothers the stars of the world
[Music] um this was another one I created uh like that dandelion one yeah so you know like
flowers and clusters they kind of group together sometimes you'll see flower
patches and there's just certain ones that Clump together and stand out
there's stars in almost every Galaxy that we have this is a real nice Galaxy called M101
the Pinwheel Galaxy It's a grand spiral face on
so this was uh actually a sketch using uh merko's 32 inch
and you can see there's a couple H2 regions and just think how many billions of
stars are in every Galaxy that formed
I mean there's so many stars
there's stars in our Milky Way when you look up in the summer Milky Way
you can see so many little clumps of glowing hydrogen those are basically clouds that
the stars are born in and sometimes they create different types of nebula
but our summer Milky Way that's what you see and then if you scroll through that
you'll see the swan nebula m17 this is a IP sketch and then further
done working with the procreate it's one of my favorites
the Eagle Nebula stars are forming in there too uh The Pillars of Creation this is what
it would look like if you're looking through the 32 inch or the 28
clear dark transparent Skies where you could see real good um
detail in the dark matter so that's a real fun one
my dog made it in he's if you look at the little guy right there
that's my dog making another Cameo Bosco
he's a photo bomber uh we're at Wilson so I thought I'd show you an eyepiece view of M13
lobular cluster and Hercules this one is uh so big in the 60 inch that you can
only get like a half of it maybe
it's an amazing view though notice all the red stars those are much
older stars so that cluster's been here a long long time
M2 another result of stars the star formation
clustered together it would be tough to get enough you know
material to form into a star without burning out if you're a neighbor Star right next to
you they're almost like galaxies right Scott
I think yeah they there's some thought that maybe they are
beaten galaxies yeah they're old galaxies or something
so this was uh some of the oldest stars in the universe how's Adrian I missed
Adrian are you good yeah he's good so um this is a comet neo-wise another
sketch you know they form from the death of stars when the stars blow up and die
there's a lot of stuff left over or even in the star formation uh they uh create and they make you know
the inner solar system and or cloud and all the everything in there all the elements of Life are formed there
even constellations cygnus I was uh looking through the leica's
they're real crisp and um color really transmits nicely so I tried to replicate
the colors of the Stars it's kind of a neat one
looks like a cross Orion we've seen this one before in the
clouds even the clouds all the water was probably brought here from a lot of it
from comets and probably the volcanic active regions
put a lot in there remember this one Scott you can see the Orion Nebula yeah the
baby Orion there's where all the stars are being born right in the center yeah
Jupiter the gas left over from the formation of the solar system it's
could have been a star if it got more matter uh probably would have been a brown dwarf Maybe
but it's it's extremely hot in there and I think a lot of that drives the um storms that gives off more heat than it
receives from the Sun boy could you imagine being that close
and feeling the tug of the like IO is basically getting
melted from friction of just warping Saturn
this is a good one so you see the white clouds on the bottom yeah we were at Mount Pinos one
night and there was like a major shootout we were all seeing who had the
best view and uh there were some really good Scopes there was a
16 inch ogs Casa grain carbon fiber tube
that was just destroying the planetary and now my 28 was giving me a little bit
of trouble because the aperture you know the seeing so I put on off after bask on there
and uh when I did I was like blown away and I put the bino viewers in so it cut
the light way down and you could see the white clouds on the bottom of that Saturn they were
actually clouds that were separated looked like they were you know
cumulonimbus almost a greenish white color and uh Dave he ended again getting it in
there later but it was it was a tough job to do but that that Casa green gave an incredible View
but I think the clouds were more present in the view I was getting with two eyes
for planetary Mars that was the Wilson shot
how about the application yeah so I I worked it was too blue and I used
a blue filter because it was so bright that I used a polarizer and a blue filter
and um it was giving me a killer view I could see a lot of detail if you look on
the surface the different shapes I created out of the cratering and
that was a great night I gotta tell you Mars with the polar cap
you know without Stars none of this would be possible it would just be a
black cold empty Dark Void of space a vacuum
even the craters that are formed were created from leftover parts from the Sun
Archimedes Creator this is
this is the raccoon Moon I was telling you about I never got to show you
I wanted to um so I tried to paint Bosco in there see how he's sitting inside
there and his hands are crossed and he's got his feet there and up top there's his
eyes on the right nose he has a little nose okay okay I was trying to make it Bosco but
somehow it looked more like a raccoon than a my dog but
it's pretty cool different I have fun with him
yeah so you know our our atmosphere and everything's been formed from right the
sun Stars being in Mexico with my father watching
the moon set on the meech with Earth shine across the bay of zoo watanejo
amazing picture beautiful
even we were created from Stars this was my trip from Alaska which is an
amazing place to go but you want to go there when it's dark all the time later
then because it didn't get dark till 11 o'clock when we were there that's my wife and I in the woods
nice oh notice all the green growth around the dead tree as it decays and it just recycles and
feeds the other trees it was so plush and like a rainforest just an amazing trip beautiful stars
dark and stars blow up you know what happens
hopefully Beetlejuice doesn't go and be as bad as they think or maybe it already didn't it just hasn't got here
yet that'll be a good view though this is the Crab Nebula
all right that's a um spectacular assisted Photo Sketch I used some uh
looking at the Mallon cam exterminator which is an amazing camera
this is another dead star that we all know about M57 this is actually
from Mount Wilson that's a cell phone snapshot
looking through the Wilson scope
so if that is that basically what our son will do right someday blow up and turn into one of those yeah so where
would Earth be in in the scheme of things if this was our solar system would it be in the Rainer this is the
Ring Nebula which is I think roughly three light years across So like
um you know definitely would be uh past
um past the earth the earth would still be contained in that dot okay I guess okay
and maybe all of our planets would be and um in fact they would be
um so yeah but uh you know the this is uh you know it shutting off its outer
layers of its atmosphere and the Stars uh that that's M57 so the Stars turned
into a white dwarf it's so hot and uh you know it's it's it's you know now a
carbon you know type of star and uh um it's exciting the uh gases to glow
like a neon tube you know so it's beautiful and um you know we're kind of
looking you know it's a bubble that we're seeing through it so uh you know it's it's diffused as well so it looks
like it looks like a ring around the star but in fact it's right cocooned in
in a bubble yeah yeah and you're just seeing the brighter part of it because you're seeing the edges
yeah like our Sunset when you see a sunset it's this thing that's a great analogy
yeah okay I gotta keep it moving I got a lot to cover this is another famous one
these are showpiece nebulous and folks if you get a chance this summer it would be a great time to to look
through somebody's telescope and see what these really look like and they don't look like this exactly the shape
is there this is through my uh 28th and murko took it with the zwo camera
I was pretty happy with the result you know they say you can't take uh faux
astral photos with the dobsonian but we're doing it but you can yeah yeah
this is this is one you know right there here's another Dead start what's nice
about this is even in a an open cluster such as m46
in puppies it's a beautiful sight to see because
you see it the open cluster and then if you have a filter that actual Ring Nebula similar to the
ring it's a blown up star that blew up so it's probably really old maybe one of
the first stars that form I'm not sure this is kind of what it looks like when
you use the vinyl viewers with the 32 inch or the 28 and you zoom in high
power not too high just enough to resolve and then the filter gives it a
little color it's still very much monochromatic our eyes don't see color that well
on a super transparent night yes here's my latest sketch of um
NGC 7009 the Saturn nebula so this was actually through my 28.
and it's uh in Capricorn just above it's an amazing one to see
it always has a greenish cast this one's monochromatic but I'm almost happier with this than the
Wilson but that's the color version
looks like a genius Lantern you know yeah it's amazing the different shapes
the Stars blow up and they cause you know one of them called The Hourglass uh
the spider the ant cocoon I mean there's so many different
ways they can blow up right cat's eye
beautiful hey Bob's go not now dude come on he's
hungry boss you gotta go now you like that I made my Cameo with
my dog it was supposed to be like a movie where he was coming up but I
thought it was fun so just telescope here if you look at yourself you can see
how happy you are when you possess this instrument this is uh Scott you might have seen one
of these before yeah I might have look at the beautiful
I mean to tell you but you know what's deceiving is the performance I mean it
looks good right looks nice but the performance is better
that's what I want to tell you it's amazing thank you John
hang on uh something drops I gotta go back another technical so to wreck uh from the UAE is asking uh
John what is a good scope to watch and image planetary nebula
well I would say anything from the smallest you can see it in a small
scope but it's not going to give you the image scale I would say 8 to 12 inches
depending on your capacity in ability to handle you know
big instruments but I mean if you want to get a big top
12 and a half is going to be great the 16 is ideal that will pretty much give
you almost everything that uh that you need to do
so I would say 12 and a half what do you think Scott yeah
or the 16 yeah a larger aperture lots of focal
length you know um depends on how you know
some of the planetary nebular pretty challenging you know because they can be
small you know of course We've Got Big Bright ones and they're beautiful and if
you go really big um you know like uh if you're using like
one of Norman fulham's uh 30 inch or larger reflectors you're going to see
color visually you're going to see color and planetary nebula are fun to look at
in that way no the ones I showed the M57 and the ring and the dumbbell nebula
yeah those are easily seen in an eight inch mid Caster grain or even a six inch
for that matter of course yeah but the more power you can have an aperture is
good but you know the cutoff is the atmosphere at some point you can't use it because
the atmosphere is too unsteady so that's why I recommend you should get like 10
telescopes in that way you have one for every occasion and then
if you have to roll out a bigger one because somebody out imagery you have to
bring out the big dogs then you get into the Norman scope I don't know if I can move Yeah well yeah
no I I saw the guy with the 40 inch it's like they look like ants moving a big
sugar cube you know they're trying to get it over and that's a big scope to 42
have you seen it it's wooden I have not well I've seen big wooden
dobsonians that's true well Norman's not for wood and yeah Mormon scopes of
course you know I've seen uh illustrations of them I've seen photographs of uh one or two 50-inch
telescopes that he did uh which are incredible um but uh Doug struble who's a
astrophotographer who works uh from his home his backyard Observatory which is
wow just a few blocks from downtown Detroit uh he does an amazing uh
planetary work with his uh I'm proud to say Ed 165
um yeah scientific telescope which is what you have there John so right
I I was gonna uh I gotta get back the picture this is uh coming together a
little different than what I put together hopefully I have uh the picture of your scope with me and then the
picture I got at the last eclipse and that's it right there this is what amazes me is wow look at
that when I look through that scope you know and I used a polarizing filter and
I used a a wedge a Herschel wedge so you still even though you have a
Herschel wedge you want to filter it and the polarizing filter works extremely
well on lunar planetary and solar it just cuts out and it's like sunglasses
you know and then if you look these sunspots were bigger than the earth this was the
eclipse actually that we had um a couple years back it
was it was partial here look at the follicula and just the granularity of that it looks like it's
burning right the smoke yeah man I gotta tell you you know I have these huge
dobsonians and I have some of the finest mirror telescopes that took me a
lifetime to collect you know and this one is one of my favorites because it's my lunar planetary solar
even open cluster and um different nebulas just absolutely incredible to
see like Orion when you look at Orion the colors there sort of to me I see color I just see it
because I probably imagine it but I mean I I always swear I see a slight pastel Hue of pink and green
in almost every scope but the rest of my vision's gone
um and you know when it can resolve sun spots like that it's amazing I just love
it thanks for getting me that one this was actually from yours from our night the
uh great conjunction right Saturn Jupiter remember we were broadcasting
yeah that's a uh screenshot of the video from YouTube I had to clean it up a
little you know being an artist I I've I can fix things you know
this was uh the night when I showed you that big Schmidt Cassidy green right before this was a night at Pinos
so I sometimes I bring up two Scopes that's the 28 that's a 22 behind there
we're gotta free just to get a spot it's so Crystal Blue up there it's a local
great spot to go that's me at the helm I think I showed you this one before
but I want to zoom in look at the video how awesome it is to use video as well
right that's a lot as live views to to show people the heavens and um
you know I just got in the membership to the astronomical league and I'm so happy I did
because there's so much going on there and so much information so much you can
learn this is m64 another one from a few nights back uh from that night a few
months big summer Star Party beautiful galaxy Spring Galaxy actually
m64 the black eye
this was uh from the videos that I'm making a necklace of this
it's like a peace sign but this is 51 and um
it's going to be cool but if you can imagine it's like the ipcu like you're looking into the eye piece yeah
and um you can just see that black field ring the field stop you know like those
92 degree eyepieces you have that's exactly what it looks like dude it just floats right in the middle
and pops out and it's dimensional I must tell you beautiful incredible
there's the actual uh pencil sketch softened I did a little work uh after
digitally to smooth it because it's a little rough when first start this is my latest
it's it's from last year too from but I'm work I've been working on it you
know what I'd like to do is I like to get my basic sketch and and
um a good layout of the actual what I'm seeing and sometimes I might have to
write notes usually I can just make a mental note of what I can see in
jot down most of it just get a general shape and some of the better clouds and then then you fill it in later from you
know these are accumulative views this may have taken me 30 years to get it to
where it is today because each time you go out and look at it more and use someone's bigger scope
and you get a different nights where it's super clear super transparent or if you can ever have the honor to look to
one of Norm scopes you would you would see that on your first time out but yeah yeah that's
right this was Mars at 5.6 Arc seconds
so this was on uh April 28th this is a sketch and I was using my 18-inch
starmaster zambuto with the bino viewers and the thing was so small I had to jack
up the power I didn't even know what I was running at but um I was using the power switch with the vinyl viewers
and then if you do planetary work you gotta have vinyl viewers
into aperture but uh when you see Mars that far away
it doesn't really exhibit that kind of detail but I was actually seeing a little surface detail I think there was
a storm going on uh on there too because some of it didn't shine through what looked like it
should have been there wasn't like on the left side of it I I think that would
be West Side Maybe and then there are two polar caps were
prevalent and that's pretty good for 5.5 Arc seconds
yeah you don't usually see that unless it's it's at right up close at its best
opposition Venus folks if you get a chance right now get out and look at Venus because I
can tell you this even with a small telescope you can see some surface detail I've never seen the clouds of
Venus before until this year and um I have to tell you it's really amazing
to see they're not like you know popping out you have to really stare at it and concentrate
and uh wait for the moments of killer seeing but it comes in and
you see a little faint in the center oh yeah
yeah that's what I uh the league is good for information like uh there's so many great things in there about different
objects and times to look and what's visible I got this killer globular
cluster handbook and um I'm excited to use it because uh
there's stuff in there I've never seen I thought I knew stuff you know but they've got a lot of great things to do
and it gets you active you know you become a better Observer you can really see a lot more when you
practice and take the time even sketching it really makes a difference but just
getting out and spending time on an object not just looking at it going oh great let's see you have to really look
and let your eyes adjust and then you can see stuff you don't usually would see unless you take the
time and really it's a bit of a skill at first but once you get it down it's infectious
and um just as a wonderful Hobby and it's a great group of people
I'm so excited to get in there I'm hoping I can do some uh Outreach on
their behalf but I kind of already do with them you're doing it right now
wow stoked hey I watched the league uh one you guys did with the Terry man yeah and
um Carol the other fella I I was I was familiar
with those two because I corresponded when I joined but um sure yeah that uh
was amazing those lights the um auroras what we're getting right now and
boy I think they were seeing it down in Florida I heard the the Aurora I heard that too and they
they did see Aurora down in Southern California from Mount Wilson so oh really yep wow I want to try one more um
I don't know if I can get it in time we're probably getting pretty late now huh
uh it is getting that time yeah yeah all right um
yeah I'm sorry let me close I hope I didn't go on too long no it's okay the
next time I do this so I apologize for the um technical issue that was uh on my
behalf no that's uh here's here's a cool shot to close with and um you know just
getting out looking with your eyes sometimes is uh you know you see great things and always
look up and just remember the universe and how lucky we are to be a part of it and to be able
to to see this kind of stuff it's just a loose sketch but I was
enamored by what what I was seeing um you know the trees they're just
coming back and uh they're kind of weaved I got all these trees out front I never really
liked the tree because it's falling on my car and it's a dirty tree but you know some of the views I've had with
this tree have been pretty special this is just a loose pastel style it is
digital but you know you can paint with any tool and you know doing these little just
sketches like this is amazing how much more you can see uh When You observe and it just enriches
the experience and uh just doing it you know getting the equipment and getting out I you
don't even need the equipment but I mean if you want to get close you could just put it put in an eyepiece and you're
there you know but uh what a great thing to be a part
of and I wanted to share this one I thought it was cool
thank you all righty this is a great image to close with that's great thank you okay all right thanks everyone yeah
so let's um uh you know I want to um
thank everybody um uh that uh participated as a
presenter on the 120th Global Star Party um we'll be back next Tuesday with 121st
program uh and um you know so I'm real excited with uh some of the new presenters that
are also coming on and if you uh watching out there would like to present
on global Star Party you have a nice little program you want to talk about an experience in astronomy or your live
images through your telescope or you know uh even we've had people
musically gifted that have shared their talents on our program
um I think that's wonderful and um so uh but uh thanks for uh participating also
from the audience uh side our presenter side and
we're going to go ahead and wrap it up for the 120th Global star party with the
theme of Starshine so take care and keep looking up thank you good night everyone
good night good night everyone
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