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hey everyone this is Scott Roberts from explore scientific and the explore Alliance and I'm happy to introduce you
to the 122nd Global start party um Lucy Larkin who was a author and a
teacher and a poet once said a drop of water if it could write out its own
history would explain the universe to us um these profound words remind us that
even the tiniest elements in our experience can show us can open up the
entire Cosmos to us and uh um so you know giving people a sense of
their place in the universe I think is very important it's what a lot of us who do astronomy outreach are trying to uh
convey to people about how they fit into the fabric of uh of the Universe from
end to end and the Universe I mean the term the universe means everything so all your thoughts all your being
everything that exists that's all part of the universe too and so but we'll
we'll cover that with some of our speakers uh tonight which is going to include David Levy who will be giving
some poetry and talking to us a little bit at the beginning of this program we
then switched to Chuck Allen Chuck is a former president I think two-term president of the astronomical League
um and uh so we're real happy to have him on he has given presentations about the extremes of the universe uh the
largest the furthest away this kind of thing we always love his talks David eicher returns uh uh after being
on vacation for a little while he is editor-in-chief of astronomy magazine uh
we're always pleased to have him on as well he'll be talking about the integral sign Galaxy and uh so Maxie
filaries will join us once again with his astrophotography to the max
Cameron Gillis who has not been on in a long time showed amateur astronomers how they
could with modest equipment and smartphones do amazing work in
mapping out the universe and so he has a segment he's going to recap what he's
been doing in his Camp astronomy series Ronald breacher will be joining us again
uh who he was on last time uh which was great he's a great astrophotographer and
uh really we're very happy to have him in the global Star Party group Cesar
brolo from uh Buenos Aires Argentina joins us after a vacation uh celebrating
his birthday Robert Reeves is coming back from the Texas Star Party uh cat
you know had to catch his breath but he is back on with postcards from the Moon
Marcelo Souza joins us from Brazil and Adrian Bradley uh also not with us for a
couple of weeks is coming back because he's chasing Dark Skies series and then
we'll have John Schwartz in drawing out the Universe I hope you really enjoy it if you have questions uh please join us
in the live chat and thanks for watching
well uh so let's go ahead and get started uh it's great to see everybody
here a lot of people a lot of our presenters are already logged in and we're really excited to bring you the
122nd Global Star Party um we will get started with David Levy
who is at a good friend's house right now and uh so he is uh he is coming in
by Zoom kind of remotely of course we're all remote but you know uh David maybe a
little bit more so today so David it's all yours man well thank you Scotty and
it's great to be here 122 star parties feeling old
102 of them I remember the 40th when you asked me to actually run that yeah for
you yes uh I really did enjoy it's been one of the most enjoyable things I've
ever done I'd like to introduce to my friend Michael
a little bit yeah hi hello how are you nice to see nice to meet you
yeah Michael is going to he is uh going to be tickling the ivories for us in a
couple of minutes but first I have a brief poem and this is a poem that I
like to read when I'm feeling a little low which is today because I really miss Wendy
and it's theology written in a country search yard by Thomas Gray
the curfew told the nail of parting day
the lowing heard one slowly or the lead the plowman homemade applauds his weary
way and leaves the world to Darkness and to me
of course the idea of this poem is supposed to be very sad when you talk
starkness unto me but I don't see it that way I see the darkness as referring
to the night sky which for me is the most optimistic thing I can think of right now
and I just wanted to show that with you Michael is now going to
play for us as soon as we can get him back to the piano and I've asked him to if you wouldn't
mind playing my very favorite song which I just love the way he does is
it's gonna take him a second or two to get ready and it's called green grass
now if you can hear me I hope the audio of some shout correctly and uh but
apparently this is the Dave's favorite song
David you might move in a little closer to him we'll get better sound
there we go
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thank you so much Michael David
okay thank you and we'll see you okay all right you take care take care
bye-bye David bye your friend okay so we are
we will uh go to our um our uh
representative uh from the astronomical League he really doesn't need an
introduction but um uh uh Chuck Allen has been on global Star Party several
times uh as I mentioned at the first part of uh the introduction about uh his
talks which uh I I really love because uh I mean some of them take us to the
extreme edges of the universe or or Beyond the Edge you know beyond you know
trying to get you a a uh a way that you can wrap your head around
the sizes and the distances of things in the universe uh Chuck does that very
well but um uh Chuck it's been a little while since you've been on and um I
think you've also been on travel yourself yeah but it's great to have you on to Global Star Party
always a pleasure to be here Scott and uh before I got off the topic of Scott
Robertson's Sports scientific I'd like to start the slideshow by May okay
so let's see here okay
who's that guy this was uh the person on the right I'm not familiar with so he looks a lot like
you though this was Scott presenting the national young astronomer award uh to a young man
back in 2017. and the reason I'm showing this is because this year marked the 31st year
of this program uh recognizing young astronomers of high school age who engage in incredible
levels of astronomical research I wish you could see the papers they're astonishing uh to see what even 10th
graders are doing these days uh just remarkable stuff and I'd like to introduce to you uh the names of this
year's two winners this is the first time in 31 years that we've had a tie for first place and wow do they both
deserve it one on the left is Caitlin Wang of San Jose California
her paper was on discovery of the smallest Ultra short period Planet using gpsc a novel GPU parallelized
phase-folding protection system that's a mouthful and Leon Garcia of Corvallis
Oregon simulating the Dynamics collisions and morphology of Galactic ultralight Dark Matter Halos both papers
were described as purely professional by our judges this year and we're looking
forward having both of and Baton Rouge at our national Convention to receive these Awards and these Awards the
national young astronomer award has for many many years been fully sponsored and
supported by explore scientific through the generosity of Scott Roberts who actually came to our Aid even before uh
explore scientific existed to provide wonderful telescope prizes to our
winners and both of these young people will receive the whole first place award this year and Scott I hope you will be
there to present it I know you will I plan I plan to be there I know you will okay
um I'd like to talk tonight just about some unusual Stars this is not going to
be the mind bending stuff that Scott referred to but just to give you a little flavor for some uh the unusual
nature of some stars or just some records that they hold
the little star you see in the red circle if you can see it at all is the closest star to us and you need a
telescope to see it and an awfully good chart it's 12th magnitude it's Proxima
Centauri of course and it's the closest star to the Sun and to us other than the
sun it's 4.25 light years away that's about 25 trillion miles roughly 8 300
times further away than Pluto is from us and it orbits two sunlight Stars this
bright star you see in the upper left here is actually two sun-like stars uh
Alpha Centauri A and B and little Proxima orbits them every 550 000 years
uh obviously it's a very big orbit in fact Proxima orbits two tenths of a
light year away from its host stars but it happens to be closer to us than those
stars and so it has the record for being the closest Proxima is a red dwarf star
it's a little bit larger than Jupiter and we could almost fit two proximas in
between the Earth and the Moon it has a diameter of about 126 000 miles and only
about 12 percent of the Sun's mass but it's much denser than the Sun and so
we've been studying it obviously with great interest because we've determined that it has at least two planets those
planets that have been confirmed or Proxima Centauri B and D B being the
innermost the slightly outside of it and in the habitable zone around this red
dwarf star Proxima C is disputed and it's considerably further away
um now Proxima Centauri is about a b
rather is about the size of the Earth and just slightly more massive than the earth uh and here is a a very nice
artist conception of what Proxima and the inner planet B might of D rather
might look like from the surface of B uh the problem with it being in the habitable zone is that out of Proxima
Centauri the red dwarf star as is the case with most Road dwarf stars is what we call a flare star that means it has
mass eruptions quite often that would bathe this planet in high radiation making life a pretty distant possibility
for this particular world if you wonder what it would be like to
be on this planet near approxima Centauri looking back toward the sun you'd be looking toward the
constellation of Cassiopeia which would look very much the same from uh Proxima
Centauri as it does from here only there would be one extra star the sun which
would outshine the stars in Cassiopeia it would shine at about magnitude plus 0.5 and if you aim to telescope at it
and took a nice astrophoto like many of you do you'd find it embedded in the heart nebula
Now Voyager 2 took 12 years to reach Neptune and it's not on its way for the
Alpha Centauri system but if it were it would have to cover a distance of 4.22
light years and at that speed that got it to Neptune in 12 years how long would it take to reach the nearest star to us
and the answer is 96 500 years it gives you some idea of the difficulty of
interstellar travel to be sure looking at the solar neighborhood we
find of course the three closest stars to us through the Alpha Centauri system with Proxima being the closest Bernard's
star weighs in as the fourth closest you'll notice there are a lot of red dwarfs that are closer than some of the
bright stars we see and in fact when we get to the first really bright star that's close to us it's serious but lies
at 8.7 light years away but it's only the ninth closest star to us and it's a
little white dwarf companion called the pup is the 10th then we go out to 11.4 light years to
get to Pro Scion and its companion cos ion B the 19th and 20th closest star to
us and Altair out here at 16.7 light years uh is the 72nd closest star to us
so obviously this realm around the Sun is populated with a lot of red dwarf stars which are of course the most
numerous type of stars that exist looking at Sirius for a moment here is a
image Overexposed image of this brightest star in our night sky along
with its white dwarf companion the pup and serious shines at magnitude minus
1.46 and that's 3.7 times brighter than Arcturus which is the second brightest
nighttime star and again it's about 8.7 light years away roughly twice as far as the Alpha
Centauri system in about 60 000 years Sirius will actually become what we would think of
as our North Pole star and that's of course because of procession they'll Remain the brightest
excuse me the southern pole Star right now it's uh Sigma octantus but in about
60 000 a year that will rotate around to pick up serious as the southern pole
star it'll Remain the brightest star in our sky for another 210 000 years as
it's moving away from the earth though Vega will take over that particular record it's called the dog star because of its
location in the big dog Canis Major and that
leads us to look at the size of Sirius compared to the Sun as you can see it's about uh 25 times more luminous than the
Sun but about two times more massive and not quite two times its diameter
but it's very close the combination of being 25 times brighter and so much closer than most other stars makes it so
significant in the night sky the term Dog Days of August comes from the fact that the Egyptians who relied
on astronomy considerably thought that the light from Sirius which would not be
visible in daylight as its picture here combined with the heat of the sun to make mid-august particularly hot
and hence the dog days of August the star Altair in Aquila is famed as
the host planet of a fake planet called or fictitious planet called Altair 4.
this was a planet visited by humans in the movie Forbidden Planet in 1956
featured Robbie the robot and monsters from the ID and uh there are no known
planets there however this is Altair compared with the Sun not substantially different in size than
Sirius however it rotates pretty rapidly and as a
result has a slight oblate nature this is actually the orientation of the Star as
seen from Earth it has an eight hour rotation rate compared to the sun's 27 days to give you an idea
and of course Vega fantastically bright star it's only about one tenth the age of the
sun some years ago it was discovered to have a circumstellar disc of dust that
was thought to be planets in the forming stage since then we've detected two planets around Vega
and it was the subject of the first photograph ever taken of a star it was a
daguerreotype that was taken back in the 1800s with the great refractor at
Harvard College Observatory which was installed in 1847 and shortly thereafter this image was taken by John Whipple
Vega 2 has a very rapid rotation rate which makes it extremely oblate
and it has a hot neptune-sized planet that orbits it about 2.4 days on a
Saturday's last planet that orbits every 200 days
this is of course Arcturus Arcturus in bodies uh is the brightest star north of
the celestial equator shines at magnitude minus 0.05 and it's about 36
and 37 light years away uh it's a 7 billion year old star becoming a red
giant it's 25 times larger than the sun now and about 170 times more luminous
and obviously very large uh Yorkies Observatory used the light from Arcturus ran it through a
photomultiplier and sent the signal to Chicago to initiate the lighting of the 1933 Chicago World's Fair
and here we have spica spica and Virgo two stars that orbit very very close
together they're only 11 million miles apart which is astonishingly close when you consider the Earth and the Sun or
separated by 93 million miles they're really egg-shaped because of
their proximity to each other and they whip around each other every four days spica a the brighter companion is 29 000
times more luminous than the Sun and about nine times more luminous than
its companion the smaller spica B rozel and Orion a blue white supergiant
uh lies at 870 light years and it's 47 000 times more luminous than the Sun and
70 times its diameter 24 times more massive than the sun you'd
expect it to be a lot more massive than that but again it's a super giant so the material is spread out over a much
larger volume most people don't regard the NAB as being particularly
impressive in the sky it doesn't shine that brightly is the first magnitude
star it's pretty puny actually but it's 2615 light years away and it's 196
000 times more luminous than the Sun at 200 times the Sun's diameter so give it some respect
battle Jazz of course uh dimmed a few years ago is now brightening above its
normal brightness uh so we don't know what's going on there uh although it's the subject of intense interest here you
see an image of the size of the optical disc compared with Jupiter's orbit it
lies at about between 500 and 600 light years distance measurement of beetlejuices distance has been very
difficult because of the nature of the star itself it's about a thousand times
bigger in diameter than the Sun and the surface temperature is only a third that of the sun's surface temperature
and of course Antares is seen here compared with Arcturus
you know the red giant Antares would subsume the orbit of Mars where it's centered on our sun here
so comparing these star sizes here's the sun in the middle compared with the Stars we've just
looked at or most of them working our way out to Capella a and capella B which
are larger than Pollux which is larger than spica a and so on but I'd like to reduce these stars in
size to adjust to this because we've got some larger ones to look at like aldebaran
rajal danab battle juice and Antares and that line you see running diagonally
through the chart here is the distance between the Sun and the Earth compared to the size of some of these Stars uh
they're quite large Jack you said this this program would
not be mind bending mind is bending okay well I lied I'm sorry I apologize
um but the stars get even bigger here we have Stevenson Stevenson 218 and scrotum
it's a 19 000 light years distance and it's the largest known star and here it
is dwarfing and teres uh it actually has a diameter of 1.86 billion miles now
that is larger than Saturn's orbit to give you some idea here is Stevenson 218
compared with the Earth's orbit around the sun crazy as seen from Earth uh the largest
uh discs that we can see on stars and seeing discs of stars is very difficult because they're very tiny the largest
one that we can see is our doradis which has a an appreciable disc of 0.057
seconds of Arc uh Myra adjustable tads smaller in battle juice at 0.046 and
here are the sizes of those discs compared to the disk of Pluto as seen from Earth to give you some comparison
of the sizes we have also of course
this is not a neutron star I apologize that was a this is a white dwarf star
ignore the sign that was it erroneously added this is a white door star roughly the size of the Earth uh it's left over
after stars of eight or more solar masses collapse in type 2 supernovas for
the most part and the white dwarf not neutron star that you see here becomes a
very compacted remnant of the Stellar core it's about a million times denser
than the Sun and the escape Velocity from the surface of a white dwarf is about 13 million miles per hour
now we have a neutron star which is obviously much smaller than the earth neutron stars or leftovers after these
massive stars experience the Supernova implosion that crushes in so hard that rips the electrons off of the atoms now
atoms are 99.9999999996 empty space you eliminate
that empty space by ripping the neutral of the electrons off and cram the nucleons which become neutrons together
and you get a really compact star called the neutron star this one's correctly
labeled on the slide the teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh about 10 million tons give you some idea of how
compact these items are and then we have neutron stars merging in 2017 ligo and
Virgo observatories observed the collision between two of the gravity waves from the collision between two
neutron stars they were able to discern this by the intensity and frequency that
they detected this was observed by 70 different observatories around the world so its location can be isolated and it
occurred in NGC 4993 and Hydra these collisions of neutron stars are
now known to have created most of the heavy elements in our periodic table uh
including a lot of the radioactive elements that were previously this previously questioned how they could be
created in an ordinary Supernova ordinary supernovas of course create a lot of the elements along
this level here when an iron core forms in the middle uh and the star loses
energy at the core and collapses but these heavier elements are now known to occur as a result of neutron star
collisions and here is actually an x-ray light Echo from cersanus X1 which is
another Neutron Star Collision and this was detected and allowed a very accurate measurement of the distance to this
particular item and there's one more hypothetical type of star that I will finish with and
that's called a quark star I believe that some neutron stars can actually degenerate the center to the
point where the neutrons are ripped apart and actual quarks are jammed
together now this puts the star almost at the Chandra SEC our limit where it
would become a black hole they're only theorized but it's possible that they
exist and they may exist inside some neutron stars it is thought so I think
my time is up or maybe a little past so uh at that point I will uh not blow
anyone's mind any further and that is some unusual stars for you
that was awesome Chuck thank you so much you're welcome that's great well
um uh did you want to mention a little bit about the Alcon event yes July 26th
through 29th and Baton Rouge uh Louisiana uh registration information is
on the astronomic league website uh and the uh
all of our major award winners our youth Award winners will be there which is really always nice and it gives them uh
a lot of recognition that they deserve and they will be speaking they'll all be given a chance to speak at the
Convention as well uh there will be a ligo tour uh in connection with this convention
and uh obviously New Orleans is far away if you're interested in a little jazz
music and uh breakfast Bennigan's I think it is
oh great great okay well uh Chuck thank you so much thank you
um uh this guy over here on our right Mr David icker he's going to be it out at
the Alcon event uh I'll be there David Levy will be there and uh and I'm sure
you'll be there too is that right Chuck yes okay absolutely all right okay so
we'll try to have a good time and and uh not have it like a big fist fight or anything
anyways thanks a lot Chuck that was awesome thank you okay David eicher who's been around the
country uh you know he is a uh not only is he world famous in the astronomy
field but uh he is world famous in the American history field and uh he loves
he loves this guy has so many interests you know that uh you know it's just
wonderful just to kind of hang out with him and talk to him about almost any subject but uh his knowledge of American
History is stunning and he's written a lot of books about it um but um uh tonight he is going to talk
about deep Sky objects he's got this exotic Galaxy that we'll be talking about uh but um Dave do you want to talk a
little bit about your trip before we move on sure I guess a little bit yeah it's really has you know it's completely
off topic with astronomy I you know I think that traveling in time time is
interesting and I was infected with all sorts of interests like this from having a university Professor father but you
know traveling in time out to galaxies is great and also traveling in time back to the past to visit some old friends
who you've researched about so you know I started on this trip it was Kentucky Tennessee and Georgia and I sort of
commenced with Andrew Jackson there and ended up with Martin Luther King Jr in
in Atlanta so you know being a historian you visit a lot of you know dead people among other things you know but also
battlefields and historic sites and I one of the treasures that I have in my
collection of things which is gives us a Connection to the Past things like meteorites and other things give us a
connection to astronomy to the universe to the cosmos and and uh objects of
artifacts give us a connection to the past in in history as well so
um I have a a letter written by Andrew Jackson among other things at the
Hermitage there and it was interesting to stand in the room uh where he wrote that letter in 1823 on behalf of one of
his nephews so it's all connections of you know time and space and all of that
stuff in different ways but it's back to work with astronomy here now tonight
so I don't want to traumatize anyone I'll share my screen if I can oops I
have to get back to share my screen I'll share my screen and then I will share a presentation and mine's going to be a
very brief presentation I think tonight um but I will start a I can get to it
here it will start a slideshow and do you see that pair of emerging
black holes we were just talking about black holes Chuck was and here we've got uh a couple of black artwork black holes
tonight I'm going to talk about another unusual object that may be off the beaten path from the Orion nebulae and
the Andromeda galaxies and all the stuff that were very familiar with with observing and imaging and this is kind
of looking at some slightly more unusual objects of which there are many thousands of course in
the sky so I'm not trying to traumatize any of you by returning to that first
semester of calculus that you know is still a nightmare in the minds of some of us but this is the integral sign
Galaxy tonight which uh is otherwise known as ugc 3697 the upsella catalog of
galaxies is a very nearly comprehensive catalog of fake galaxies and and this is
an interesting one it's in camel of heartless and it's really characterized as a thin warped disc that has a lot of
dust around the disk it's an edge on object really and it's very unusual in its shape
uh it has irregular arms as I mentioned it it's a dim object so really to
observe it visually you probably want to have a good dark sky and an eight or a 10 inch telescope it's about a you know
a little fader than 13th magnitude visual magnitude V magnitude
and it's about a little longer than the three arc minutes across so it's fairly
small and fairly fade and there are many thousands of Average Joe galaxies so to
speak in the sky of about this size and brightness but this is an interesting one this one is still poorly studied by
Galaxy standards uh even it lies about 150 million light years away and the
warping which we'll see in some images here resulted from the past interaction believed to be from a nearby dwarf
Galaxy that is another upsella galaxy it's ugc 3714.
so come on if if it doesn't uh oh that's
it doesn't there we go there we go it wants to go either it really has a mind of its own
or my Mac keyboard needs some uh attention there
um yes yeah and a little fussy tonight there it's you know used to having a
couple of weeks off it doesn't want to go back to work here I know the feeling um but anyway this is the field of the
integral sign Galaxy from Ron stoyan's great interstellarum deep Sky Atlas
which is very detailed uh but it's also fairly Compact and portable and you can
see in near the center the the Galaxy and nearby the brighter Galaxy that is
interacting with it they're 37-14 here's the field and 3714 is the face on
spiral that's above the bright star just below and right of Center and you can see there in all of its Glory the
integral sign Galaxy some of the more advanced Astro imagers have probably
been out and and imaged this object already but it's it's a bit of a challenge object it's maybe tough for
some of our Pals who are online here because it's fairly far north in the
northern sky um and of course where those greatest of all skies are down in in the southern
hemisphere it's hard to see but you can see the warping of of the you know the
tidal interaction that it's had with this galaxy over to the lower right has
really uh tidally warped the edges of the Galaxy and the spiral arms which are
very thin and of course we're seeing it almost exactly Edge on here which makes it a nice example
this is a Schmidt visual Schmidt telescope image of the Galaxy and then
over Lane with it from the vla is is Radio emission neutral hydrogen uh and
you can just see a little bit uh more detail with the fader stuff uh in in the
disc of this Galaxy and many faint uh background galaxies in this image as
well close-up so that's it it's really throwing more of these you know let's
get away from you know the really bright stuff that we've all seen and imaged too many times and go after some of these
challenge objects Scott I I know that you know this we still have more than 420 of these to talk about so
I'll be talking about this long after retirement comes yes to
speaking of traumatizing our viewers um so any anyway that's the suggestion
tonight is to go out and try to look at an image the integral sign Galaxy and I
will tell you that there is a surprise coming up um at my institution and that is we're
celebrating 50 years of astronomy magazine which for only about 40 years uh 41 years 42 years has been the
largest astronomy magazine publication in in the world um and I've only been there for 40 of
the years so the first decade is someone else's fault but we're celebrating our half century mark this year we have a
special issue in August here this is the Proto cover for it and we have all sorts
of special features in the issue which we hope you'll enjoy that includes in the introductory essay by andreine and
talking of about Carl Sagan in the 1970s and what a special time it was and an
introductory essay by David Walther who is the brother of the Magazine's founder
wow and all sorts of special features about where astronomy has been and 50
years from now where it's going and we'll see if you wait around long enough you can see if we're right about any of
these things on that last story so that's coming down the pike it's getting close to going out of house into
the printer very soon and I'll mention that another partner in crime Michael
bakic and I have written this book a child's introduction to space exploration looking at the new era that
we have uh public governmental private and all combinations thereof of space
exploration so that's all I have tonight Scott I will turn it back I will thank you
hearing and turn it back over to Scott the commander and high potentate of the
whole operation here and thanks for having me back and being generous enough
given that you know me letting me back on the program after I came back from
Savannah you're you're very uh a liberal thinker so thank you for that you know I
love having you on it's great man so thank you very much David thanks Scott all right so uh we've had some great
speakers so far but it just gets uh keeps keeps getting better here
um we have uh our next speaker coming up here is Maxi filari's and Maxie is from
Argentina and uh he always takes some great images and shares them at almost
every Global star party so Maxie I'm going to give you the stage
thank you Scott how is it going everyone I I'm glad to be here tonight uh well
what I'm going to show you is a little things that I've been doing a couple of days ago because we had a a lot of
interest objects that to capture it you know we have a lot of solar activity we
have Venus we have the moon of course and then I try to capture some live Sky
objects to see what's going on from my backyard so let me share my screen
to get okay do you see it
yes great well first of all uh last uh
Friday we had a while and particularly
was the Tuesday we had a national day from the revolution of May in Argentina
so I I didn't go to work went to work and I have my afternoon free so I put my
equipment outside and try to see what's going on with the sun you know I love to capture it and
see and I and also watch it through the telescope with a the filter the solar
filter um this is what I get
that's a Friday afternoon no there's a lot of a sunspot now this
is passing through the another side remember that the sun rotates it has a
rotation but anyway uh watch all this
dark spots through a telescope is amazing of course I love to capture it
but watch it also it's a really good
a way to imagine the magnitude of the and the size of this that's
a I you know well Chuck May the the conversation of different Stars
this is like a tiny um volleyball or something
comparison with the the Huey the giant stars in the in the universe
picture Maxi and you can really see it's it's starting to increase in activity
quite a bit so you're getting some some action even with just a regular white light filter that's uh that is nice and
some structure there yeah what's your what's your uh what's your equipment you're using for
this my eight inches uh the cwo
33. uh and of course the soil filter but I crop the the field of view it it's
more Beyond but I like this when I when
I stuck this you know uh the the seeing and everything it wasn't really tough
but anyway I then some clouds started to come
passing through and I wanted to capture this
this is a and only single singular picture of the moon
and you can see the the clouds passing by like they were in the moon but not
it's here of course but uh this is only
one shot of 0.001 seconds and no gain
that's a really good camera effect that's a nice effect I love it yeah like you say it looks
like the clouds are kind of going around the Moon that's awesome like the sun is blowing the the clouds through the
lunar surface you know uh it was a lot only single shot because then the the
the clouds started going out so I really like like these pictures so I uploaded
on my Instagram page so of course
um then of that I was trying to capture Venus and this is what I get through using a
3X um Barlow lens and my CW camera
I think in this case is a inverter sorry it was kind of this
like like that it was watching through a telescope because the the sun is right
there and it has the the same position almost than the moon
you can compare it from what it was taken so I love to
get try triangular View to give our perspective you know I
remember a couple of days ago I told my girlfriend you know hey there's lemon
the Sun is going down but do you see Venus and I pointed with my finger and and she
said oh yeah there it is so imagine that you are watching from here then the moon
and the sun is dead and that's been and that's how you get a three-dimensional position of where you are and I love to
do that so anyway I continue capturing and then I
was trying to capture this one
this is not a singular star this is Alpha Centauri
like Chuck Allen it talk about is a a a three systems solar systems
sorry that's a orbiters around but in this case you can see the the the binary
system of Alpha Centauri A and B if I get less Shine for example
let's increase this increase increase the light you can see there there's
of course I captured this and over exposure but only with
even a a second less than a second but anyway it's a pretty much pretty much a
writing so anyway this is a good place to watch
it through it a particular telescope if you have
um a really good night of seeing and you're working with
um a a huge focal length you can watch
these two stars separate and see this double Stars you know like it was two
eyes that's really hard to do it's pretty
hard but every year that's passing by this orbits uh change a little bit and
you can make this uh taking pictures every year
an animation of this rotation of the of this binary solar system
that's cool so for the cream of the night I went to this place and I could
take I think one hour picture because the the gloves started calm so okay okay which one is it 47 taconi
or or is it uh or is it Omega now this is the king of the yeah
yeah so this is all the field of view that I get with my equipment
is a little more smaller but a huge it has a lot of shiny in the in the
corner got the color is really nice and it's beautiful beautiful thank you I work with the UV irie cut a
filter and that's why in this the Alpha Centauri has the
the Halo because it is not a good quality filter
but anyway I try to do it from my backyard so well this is only taking almost one
hour and taking pictures of one minute through an hour
stack the process and this is what I get you know uh this is a really good place
always to also to watch it through a telescope and of course if you're
working with more focal length uh you will start to see node directly
but a if your eye relief is more like in the
corners you start to see these little stars start to shining and that's like a
little diamonds or a sun from the beach you know it's it's really
really cool to watch it through and maybe a eight inches F6 or more bigger
it's a good place to to watch it so then last a Saturday night I put my
equipment no sorry it's Sunday night or a couple days ago
I was trying to to capture again the the moon this
wasn't that night I think well I don't remember I have the picture but it's like that doesn't change a lot
but anyway uh this is a more View more detailed to you from the Moon that
I could get with the same equipment and this is a really good one to if
somebody wants this picture uh I can send you and you can do it like a
wallpaper from your desktop because you can guard it or maybe you can rotate it
like this let's take a and of a second because
okay there it goes so if you want a really good wallpaper like this
I can send you there's no problem for that and
and then when I want to capture is a particular relationship I
first of all I try to um
see what I could capture from my backyard without particular filters because of the light pollution
and the different how you see the the sky so I try to take pictures of a
particular place without the moon and then my when my neighbors turn off the
lights so that's don't bother me I went to this
place um this is called Barnard 72.
is in the practically in the official edges of the constellation of Hugo
and for example this is a single shot of three minutes and you can see there's a lot of light pollution but anyway
you can see these dark places of clouds that's in the in our galaxy
uh this this place is almost 600 light year from us and
it is a good place that I always wanted to capture but I didn't remember how it causes so I
did my search with the Stars and everything and when I did almost
four or five hours taking pictures I could get this
uh oh wow
you can see there's a lot of stars oh yeah I love that and the contrast of the darkest spots
and the clouds that's incredible oh I love them they're just floating around is that cool
wow yeah that is super cool and this is the that they call the snake or maybe
the S nebula yep yep
wow how many how much time did you uh let me see it because it was from this
picture and here 74 Subs of three minutes so nice very nice
24 plus so like four hours or something like that roughly yeah
yeah it was a couple hours so you can see that in a single picture
and comparency with this it's a huge difference
yep that's awesome you know uh I when I talk with Nico and
some friends they saved me now the background doesn't go it looks great but
the the nebula doesn't they really go looks like a much darker so I I don't
know how to process this honestly what portal do you think you were in Maxi I mean in broadly six or seven you know
yeah dark nebular really hurt yeah that's awesome this place is a maybe 3 A.M it's
over my head so I have a lot of dark area
that's a in that place of the sky that doesn't bother me the library of
Darkness awesome yeah nice if we compare it when I started for example
when I started gradient is going to change yes yeah this is almost a 50 25
or maybe 30 degrees from The Horizon over that many hours yeah yeah for sure
so maybe at the middle of the night of when the the the Galaxy goes from our
above my head maybe it wasn't this
and you can see the difference this oh yeah yep
oh yeah yeah definitely it's a huge difference
of the light pollution when you when you pointed to
to the to to your head or more more to
the Horizon and also you have this particular issue of the focus you know
and because every time the the telescope is rising up it changed a
little bit and take your spikes more
open it so you have to uh refocus again and you have to monitorate this every
Maybe half an hour or something and also the if the temperature changes or the
position of the telescope there's a lot of things that makes you a
well not yelling but working with the with the focus
so substitute the experience it takes time you need to practice keeping
practicing and then you learn about all these little tribal knowledge I went to
sleep 3 A.M and then I'm going to work at the at the Monday you know I slept
four hours but I was happy with these results I really like this and well like
we'll see how you can I can continue and process this but I think it's okay
and maybe I try to capture again when I go to better Darkness sky so
let's to comparison of the the gradient of this processing image
thank you guys for inviting me and I I hope that you like it uh well Cameron
it's called let me if you let me I want to introduce our friend Cameron
absolutely thank you welcome back absolutely
I'm I'm never very far away just so you guys know I'm always I'm following all this I just can't do
live it's very difficult uh for me with my work uh I actually often have to work in the evenings including tonight I'm in
Denver as we speak um but uh I there was a great opportunity where I happened to capture
um some M101 Supernova ixf and I just happened
to have it before and after um and I was like hey well you know got
a strike when the iron is hot so uh I was like I managed to pull that together and let's jump right into it so thanks a
lot it's great to be back and like I say um in the future as more time allows
I will I will be back more frequently but for now I got a lot of work to do but let me share on my screen nice to
have you back camera you bet you bet it's great to be back see your share screen
added the whole thing you've grown a little since last I saw you
okay wrong one uh sorry about that
what's the conclusion I'm embarrassed uh Maxie you you really you really you threw some shade on my
M13 you know with that Omega Century I tell you there's no way to compete against that
that's okay it's all about the journey so this is great it doesn't matter that's nice that's right exactly and
actually I have some embarrassing pictures to show you uh coming up in here so first of all I'll talk about the
Supernova um a couple of pictures and I took it actually with three different rigs because I'm what I'm doing is I've been
uh you know over the last year pretty much uh even though I haven't been on a global star party that frequently I have
you know and we've had many rainy nights in Seattle where I'm where I'm based and
um so what do you do you you bone up on your your skills you own up on your skills and you learn things and I I try
to optimize my gear and uh and then whenever there's a another night I I kind of figured out I
want three three rigs one uh wide field one medium field and one Deep Field
basically so you know different Imaging scales different Framing and we'll talk about that uh so I'll talk to you about
those there are different stages of Readiness uh so you know uh you'll see that in in the results but uh but I I
have a lot of fun things to share about that and then just a little bit of image processing I am gonna eventually I've I
figured I'm on a track to get into pics insight for sure uh you know once I get good enough with the concepts and that
and I have more time uh then it will be worth um you know I'll get a lot out of it but for now I've been able to uh you
know there's been some really awesome tools that have come out free which is a wonderful way to make sure that when you
do put the money down and get into fixing site that you are fully you know going to get them most out of it so
praxburg a great gradient expert Ciro and New Image manipulation program those
are fantastic tools for anyone I highly highly recommend them they're a great way to get your feet wet and you know
practice on those Concepts because a lot of the concepts are the same uh what obviously what pixinsight gives you is a
really nice set everything honed and it's a very well supported and obviously
so it's a great environment but but I'm going to show you kind of my dirty quick and dirty uh image flow and using these
tools and then and then kind of bigger picture like my long-term plan like you say when I'm
building these rigs I I've been thinking a lot about uh you know how I'm gonna
actually document and make my catalog and and do the sky survey so you know
I'm doing calculations like yeah how many how many terabytes hard drive do I need and based on an image
sensor and you know you start to you start to look at the math and you say how many hours of Imaging since I'm in
Seattle I need to have fast Imaging systems you'll see my rigs are all fast so I can do like 30 second subs and
stuff like that and the quality might not be so good so I have to kind of get that's where I'm getting into image processing what's the right bang for the
buck where am I satisfied that it's good enough uh that it's uh you know something that I'm satisfied with it's
not going to compete with anyone uh you know who's who's doing like individual
objects um but it's it's I want to get it so it's good enough so that there's nothing
no major aberrations round Stars minimum noise um all that type of stuff so let's dive
in so let's the first thing is M101 so here's a little bit of an animation
and what you'll see uh on the the right is a zoom in and on the left and uh the
the one is uh the first image that you see was taken uh in April
just before the uh and it was just the test image I only took if you look at the bottom 34 10 second sub so I was
playing I have my rig one is is actually I got myself a hyperstar
on my C8 so this is uh these are 10 and 30 second Subs and you'll see in the animation
there it is sure enough I took it uh just last week
um you can see uh but that was a much longer I took 120 so basically one hour of 30 seconds uh
Subs and you can see it nicely growing there of course this is animated but but basically uh it was there it's like
plain as day and it was so nice to be able to capture that and and and and
just by accident I look back and I was like oh I actually did the test of M1 so so anyhow so that's that's the first
image the second one I don't have a before image because I wasn't ready with my second rig and uh we'll talk about the
rig specifics but this was uh 45 UH 60 seconds uh Subs
and then this one here is my embarrassing picture
on my third rig uh it's my super wide field and a couple of things going on here first of all let
me tell you the the difference here um this is only 30 millimeter aperture this is an ascar FMA 135 uh but what I
wanted to demonstrate here is with such modern that tiny tiny 30 millimeter
aperture scope I was able to capture before and after of this Supernova in
M101 even with crappy terrible Flats you can see the dust modes here you can see
when I was tightening the uh the camera it was rotated a bit so it's not perfectly you know in altitude and
Azimuth so you have this interesting animation going on but what I want you to focus on is hey pretty darn good you
know you've got to look at what you want to get out of it I mean I'm not here to
you know for my personally I I don't wanna you know I'm not in this particular case
I'm using this for uh for Sky's uh Sky survey I want to get the pictures better
looking for sure but uh when you when you capture something like a supernova it doesn't matter the data is there
right you can see it with your own eyes so I thought that was kind of
kind of neat there and now the image the rigs himself so the first rig the first animation I showed you this is the
hyperstar uh version four so it's uh F1 1.9 and
I'll tell you that's uh it's a deadly combination it's beautiful um it's it really pumps the photons and
in an hour you know this is just one hour of of integration time and and a
really butchered job of uh you know of image processing which I'll show you is pretty pretty crude and pretty crude now
but uh you know cutting off the black line Etc but um but anyhow uh what's what's
what I wanted to highlight in this is just little things like you've got to look at when it when you're building the
rigs and what I've discovered is uh you know you you know the mount obviously is a big one uh huge you've got to have a
solid mount so this is an exos two and and then of course uh uh you got to get
the camera and and the tracking and be make sure you can do plate solving but little things also are really important
for example do heaters I I have uh the heater uh inside here and it fits inside
and I have a fixed I used to have a flexible do Shield but now uh with the
fix do Shield um there's a little hole on the side so I can feel all my cables through and
that way I can keep this new shield on for my hyperstar and when I'm doing flats or whatever I don't I don't have
to play around with that so those types of details uh really pay off if you want
to you know sit up and you know do your do reliable consistent pictures there's
another thing I I learned in in this as well is I don't want to take apart my rig because you know you start fiddling
around with back focus and and stuff like that now now it's the real justification I I was I tell my wife you
know hey I can actually use all my telescopes now with imaging right in parallel so so it's it's nice to have
you know multiple telescopes all in all operating and then you don't have to
change them out so uh so this is my becoming a stable rig then second rig this is an interesting
one uh it's a an ed-80 Explorer scientific I I piggybacked right now a
60 astrotech 60 on there just for to help me with my my alignment but it's on
a wedge it's on the evolution Edge Edge so I took this scope took it off here but here's the neat
part uh this thing here because of uh the camera um and the filter wheel and that Focus I
have the um the 0.65 reducer on there
from Star Arizona the Apex that brings it down to F 3.9 which is absolutely
wonderful and it does it really nice because it puts that there's an adapter that meets to the to the back so that
makes the um uh the the does two things the flat uh the flattener actually goes
inside the draw tube uh of the focus so that reduces the amount of travel behind
and the second thing is it's mechanically fixated so you don't have to worry about tilt and and and all all
the image train you know getting out of out of Hilter so so basically the other thing the benefit of this also is on the
fork Mount uh you don't have any uh uh you don't have any Meridian flip so I
can easily go anywhere around the sky I have the same orientation and when I go at to the north to Pasadena uh it
doesn't I put cables on 90 degrees so it doesn't bang against the uh it can flip
right around 360 Degrees uh you know all the way around vertically so it's
completely free and safe so it's um I'm really happy with the way this has worked out and uh the big one on that
one is the I have a two uh five position two inch filter wheel and I put in a
dark filter I have a luminance I have a um what do
you call it uh I actually have a UHC from visual from left over I threw that
in then I have an L Pro and the big the real kicker which I'm going to show you later as I got the L
ultimate which is a three nanometer H Alpha and oxygen three this and I'm
really when I took the first pictures with that filter holy smokes and I'll show you some some
stuff um this is my uh homemade uh kind of uh
way to feel I was trying to make a travel scope out of this but still work in progress but I actually took the AZ
GTI and built my own wedge on on uh with some pieces from Home Depot and pieces
of wood and it works perfectly fine you can see the round Stars right this
is zoomed in quite a bit there's the supernova and I have the ASI mini and
this is the 30 millimeter ascar 135 and then and of course another 30 millimeter
guide scope that's the joke about it all the same same aperture and yeah this thing the whole thing
weighs 12 pounds and I can put in a a power tank a battery and it you can just
grab it with one hand and throw it out there so it's it's really nice my my main challenge I'm having with it
is uh his uh back focus and it without short focal length I think it's F 4.5 uh
250 millimeter or sorry uh sorry 135 millimeter out of 30. so basically um
you you end up with uh you know really finicky back focus but that's still
working on that now some of the images so let's compare a C8 F 1.9 again with
hyperstar against a c uh ed-80 with an L ultimate so two nice pictures these are
not awesome they're not going to win me any awards but these are the best pictures I've ever taken of the Crescent
nebula and did again I did did some really rough uh rough image processing
but what I wanted to demonstrate here is I was never able to see the oxygen three
you can just barely see it like this is only uh you know 11 not very much right this
is 22 minutes uh and this is uh you know what uh six and a half seven six and a
half minutes of it's a very very little integration time but you can imagine you
know once I get some longer day nights and and you know I got my systems all tuned up uh you know we pump in some
hours on these guys uh it would be beautiful so this this is this is what I was able to do
and then here's uh Eastern Vale uh 6995 and again notice the difference also in
the Stars uh when you get three nanometers you really cut out obviously a lot of the uh the stars but also the
noise um but it's beautiful the texture I just love I just love the texture of this now
of course if you Pixel People on these guys any of these pictures I'll show you it looks like pretty bad
but again what are you trying to do and you have to think okay what scale you're gonna store it and then you have to
think about the gigabytes right you start that you start to add up pretty fast so I'm I part of this effort is
kind of the system level I I'm a system engineer by by trade and you kind of
have to balance everything out right you have to you you don't want to have like super awesome like I don't know 50
megapixel camera and then you know you run into hard drive space or whatever so it's uh and
processing time it all goes up so you have to really look at the whole end to end and make sure you're enjoying the journey as I always say
um before if you converge your eyes you get this beautiful 3d effect of oh
it's nebula oh yeah yeah that's interesting but I was saying you know what I'm going to do yeah I'm doing that
right now yeah yeah if you got you guys watching here should try this because
um that nebula really pops out and um it's just a great effect
yeah no it's uh I just love how this this nebula floats and uh
and has such texture The Witch's room of course the Western Veil um that that will be really neat and and uh what what
I have I'm finally getting out of budget I'm filing it up my 8080 with the filter wheel and all it's gonna have it has a
what this is a 183 uh by the way MC Pro uh which is my oldest camera
um but I'm gonna be getting the magical 6 2600 one shirt collar that is the one
and when I put that on there I'm going to be able to get the whole Veil nebula on both East-West the whole thing and
pickering's triangle in one shot and imagine that I just I can't wait it's going to be it's gonna be really nice so
hopefully in a couple months I I can get that so let's see um
and then uh n13 okay so this is uh well I guess what is it uh divide by two this
is an hour right roughly of of integration time uh 533 L Pro I put in the uh by the way
on my uh hyperstar this is interesting my L Pro I cheapened out I I figured out hey
because I want to be able to move from from the front hyperstar to the back and
you'll notice actually I'm just going to go back a little bit here you'll notice I kept the uh extension in
the back with my I actually have my f63 reducer uh already there that way I can
pop my 533 with the L Pro filter which is an inch and a quarter which I found
out that you can actually stick that guy if it's a small enough sensor which in
my case the 533 is it's Square um that guy actually with no big
knitting uh you can actually put it and it will stay with the with the camera I don't have to worry about those dust
modes and I can pop it into the front or the back uh depending what what I want to image so basically if I'm doing
nebulae or wide field galaxies I do the hyperstar and then I can take that off put it in there and the L Pro filter
stays with it and I'm really happy with that uh so anyone who's thinking about that think about that one inch and a
quarter is 50 bucks cheaper but um it works works quite well um
in the small sensors because it's close enough to the to the uh you can put it right up against the uh the Imaging
sensor almost the window so M13 so let's talk about M13 and my my image
here I uh the not nearly as good again I'm going to emphasize again Maxi you
embarrassed me everything we're sorry you make me feel embarrassed about this but uh but I have to say Omega Century
what a beautiful I love the colors in that scar I I did a really rough here
um shot and I of course I love this this galaxy you can actually see a little bit of structure and it actually turns out
to be another uh Galaxy up here as well but you can see if your pixel peep is not very good but I want to use this as
an example of my image flow and we'll talk about the tools now so basically what I do I have
I I basically get my bias I always use
Masters Master flats and master darks so so I got my bias frame
I got my Master's Master flat and Asi of course the ASI air helps me produce all
these and in this case I have a 30 second dark and this is using the ASI toolkit I know
there's better ones out there including by the way Cyril and and has a good stacking algorithm and I know pixel site
I know those are much more advanced because one of the things that you'll notice with with those is they have
better stacking algorithms for example Sigma clipping if you have satellite trails in
that if you have more than 10 you can specify the the number of standard
deviations from from the norm that you can reject those those outliers and that
makes your your much cleaner images but but I'm cheap and this is fast and you
know eventually I will when I have more time I will get into those more better
stacking but basically I in this case I loaded all my lights and if you go down
here it's 125 and you can see the star size if you just quickly glance through this this is
my cheap way of uh or my quick way of looking at the you know if there's any uh Subs that I need to remove
I'm not going to run that but basically when that when that produces it produces this stack file it produces two
different files it produces a fits file and a tiff I delete the Tiff because the fits has more Header information and I
just continue to work from there and so what I do is I right click on the Stacked and I go and I have three
different programs here that I'm going to talk about graxberg with radio gradient expert serial and so let's
do crack spurt is the first thing this is pretty new on the scene and uh even
pixels inside people seem to recognize it as a quite a nice thing it has a very
good algorithm and it's it's nice what I do is you can when you load the image it will automatically
create a a grid to be able to do your um basically to remove your gradients and
it's very smart I've tried this on nebula galaxies any extended objects it
seems to do a good averaging no matter what so so you know you can I know you
can click on the one oh there's a star there and all that no I don't it's honestly it works so well uh and the way
they have the default set it's great and what I do is I like to blow it so you can say no stretch of course and then
this is what you see but I like to go to the extreme so you can really see the gradient and then let's just uh create the grid
and then whoops and then as you go down is
calculate backgrounds definitely because you'll see it does a
pretty good job after it's finished there we go
now what you'll see here is it flattens most of the image image
out except there's a couple points here so I'm going to put in a couple more points manually
left click left click left click and calculate again
let's see clear it so you can kind of see what's going on
is everyone able to hear me okay it says I'm having low resources yes
okay so now you can see it pretty good and this is don't forget this is super stretched so you know to be able to get
you're going to get the noise the color noise and all that but pretty darn good now all they do is then you just go save
processed and then it creates this other one and I'm going to go there because I've already done that work so let me
just close that and then I'm going to open up the grass bird version
so this has been processing grasp expert open up and let's just give it that is
right zero zero is my next stage
and a couple of things I wanted uh people so right away of course you have the black image first thing I'm going to do
is going to Auto stretch it so it's already pretty to me this is already good I'm happy you know but
there's a couple of things wrong with this picture right off the bat first of all because I I put on my 533 upside
down I have to rotate it again I don't want to do it because I just want to keep an Imaging I don't want to play with it but basically
um I have to flip it two times and this is the proper orientation so um
so this is so another thing the first thing you'll want to do because you want to go color calibration
for automatic color calibration and you type in M13
and what this does this does kind of does a plate solve using a Simba database and go okay
and it does it basically adjusts the curves on RGB so that they properly
align based on the color and the spectrum of the stars that are in the picture and what's what I liked about
this is it's simple and sometimes it will rotate and correct the orientation
but for some reason it's not doing with my hyperstar but it also includes the focal length and the pixel size which we
know the 533 2600 and the 6200 all have the same 3.76 Micron and it's nice to
have that reference there so I say okay and you can see the set processing there
that's great close and then the next thing is I want to put it back in linear
and we because we want to keep it in the linear but now I'm going to wreck it I mean this is where my my uh my my crude
and primitive stretching is going to come through so histogram transformation
and I I just use the auto stretch here um sorry
there you go and what you'll notice in this in this Auto stretch it basically produces the same thing as the thing
here but this is actually changing the image now if I apply this um you'll notice that the gaps between
the histogram uh are widened because then this is what this is why you want 16-bit cameras and stuff because what
happens is if you undo that it's reset if you look at the histogram this is 65
000 or whatever the adus across the histogram this line is way down here so
when you stretch that guy oh it starts separating so your data gets
you know you're going to have to interpolate this data so the when you're when you're that makes it smooth and
affects the noise etc etc but what I like about this when you do that I'm going to apply that
we're just going to do this now I would notice the midpoint and the the block Point change and you have some
clipping so I've already already done that what I can do is you know you can play
around with you know the different Darkness Etc do a
little bit of a stretch here Etc I won't go into the details but then you can play with that but you can
really see what's going on this is one way of doing it and then the other thing is um after you've done that
you can also go and it has this generalized hyperbolic stretch transformation this is another
way of doing it which is really awesome but what I just use is I use the uh the
block Point shift so if I don't if I just want to chop off the block point I make the background go
away I I throw away a whole see three percent of my data is gone but it's a nicer picture it's good
enough for for what I like I can really enjoy the details Etc and again more
data makes this better easier and then you don't have to clip as much so the cleaner data data acquisition and all
these but all these skills were played and then finally when you have the
Insight uh uh a team coming in I'll tell
you that's that's when it really you start to really enjoy and get the most out of everything out of all your images
so let me uh now what you do is you just export that I've already done it
and then what I do is I export it as a tiff and the reason why I do that is
something in zero changes the header and fits and it doesn't make it it's not
compatible or something any other that there is so what I do is I like to save it as Tiff because because
now I'm going to open up the serial version well actually now it's in now it's a
so I double click it's already my default so I can double click on that this is my processed image I convert it
so now you can see I've already done the stretching here's the histogram on the right with the gaps and then and then what you can do is uh
you know if you want to really play around you can play with levels and curves you know so this is another way
of changing your block Point Etc and it's it's another another way of
doing the same thing but I kind of like uh it's it's it's pretty good at
that and I really like this part the curves this is more of this traditional
you know where you can we can reduce the blood point and then highlight so you can improve that so that makes it a
nicer picture uh but the other thing what I liked and why I was telling you want to save as
Tiff and as you process between these different tools you don't want to lose your history and edit and things so if
you go to image properties here and I go to comment you'll notice a lot of good information is here it tells you
your your pixels it tells oops sorry it tells you see it even tells you
have to scroll down oh sorry about that
I have to open that again okay
yeah yeah that's fine what I wanted to show you here
image properties and if I go down
what's Nifty about this is it tells you all the time tells you
the uh you see explore science that xs2 tells you the mount tells you your pixel X and Y your focal
length your CCD temperature -10 degrees in the summer time I'm doing everything at -10 because I don't want my cooler to
overwork which I found is not good for your hot pixels so basically I have a
winter time at -20 and it's summertime and -10 and then
gain and offset all the good stuff is there and more importantly as you go
down here see it has the the changes that I did in
in Cyril top down mirror my uh linear block point adjustment so I did some
very simple things but if you the more you do it will save that history so so that's very nice to have
um one thing I wanted to before I I ended up this uh one thing I wanted to show you back in serial everyone should
know this if you don't do anything with serial do this uh just you can load any
file that you have and you can just type in inspect
and what it does is it automatically comes up with this Matrix which takes your corners and you can look at the the
gradient essentially and also your your starter is in the corners you can see they're pretty round Stars so I'm pretty
pretty happy and you can see if there's any the other command that goes well
with this is tilt if you type in tilt you can see
um this is another thing the hyperstar I was initially you know a little bit
worried about the you know the finickiness or the backspacing and mirror flop and all that well you can
see from this mirror tilt it's it's freaking awesome uh it's it's really flat it's uh it's really nicely
calibrated starter Zone does a beautiful job and it it fits like a glove so so no
problem until but I can tell you my other one we won't do that now but uh if you run this command it will tell you
where you have tilt which is which is very very helpful it will also tell you if you have uh backspacing issues based
on the center point and the edge points so if we go and it to turn that off just
go tilt weird and then that will take that off so those are a couple of commands that
anyone can you know if you're I highly recommend uh you take that with you and
um and use those it's very very helpful for for diagnosis you know in an easy way
so now I went a little bit over but let me uh wrap up soon here I just go back to my
presentation
okay so this is what I'm working on and this is it is basically I'm taking a
look at my different uh Scopes and my different image scales so I have
my f 1.9 my my hyperstar right now I have the 183 but I'm going
to get the 2600 these are the field of views what I did is I took um
it took uh Sky Safari and I just basically copied it the
constellation I have every constellation mapped out with all the objects the DSO
is down to minus magnitude 13 I should say magnitude 13 which is a pretty good
threshold which gives you about you know in the northern hemisphere about 2 500 objects
plenty to keep you busy for a long time and uh that's that's basically my
camstronomy sky survey that I was doing visually before and I've already observed them all visually
and now I want to image them so how do you do that you know you have to think about the image scale you know how does
it look good you know cataloging storing all that kind of thing in time how look
how much time does it take so I started to do some math and any I just wanted to share with you guys this is kind of
where my I'm at so probably sometime next year uh we're gonna see something
coming out of this but it will take some time but I just wanted to give everyone a snapshot so my last thing is enjoy the
journey just enjoy the journey so Cameron thank you very much that was great that was great
we learned something every time that you you are that you come on so that's that's
wonderful I'm learning so much and I I I you know Ron is following me I tell you Ron yeah
I've been watching everything you're on a marathon this last couple of weeks eh you're doing a lot of uh a lot of shows
and uh I I really am I love your style of teaching it's awesome and when I'm
ready I I would love to uh you know go for one of your classes
thank you I was gonna say why don't you join us on one of the Masters of picks Insight workshops coming up with that
survey you're doing you're going to probably be needing to make some mosaics so our next yes our next Workshop is on
uh uh Tuesday at 7 00 PM Eastern and it's on mosaics
that's oh that's that no that's awesome thanks Ron I I uh I would really love to uh
like I said I I it's really tough for me to do it but I I will take I'll take a rain check for sure at some point when
I'm ready I would definitely I will join I'll be here awesome
great okay well um Ron thanks for coming on again uh to
uh Global star party uh it's uh it's a pleasure to have you be part of our
group and um anyways I we love your images uh last week and I'm sure you've
got plenty more to show us so yeah well you know tonight we're not
going to see too many of my images I I looked at the theme of the global star
party and uh you know I always try to to make my talk true to the theme
so my talk today is not so much about my pictures but about attempts to capture
the night sky into the distant past and um so let me start out by sharing my
screen with you okay and I'll share the full screen and then
switch to slideshow could you see everything okay yes awesome okay so my my talk is called As
Above So Below and um I don't know where that phrase
originated but I know where I first heard it and I first heard it from my wife Gail
Gail uh you know we we have we've been together for 40 years and uh whereas I'm
really interested in outer space scales interested in Inner Space and uh we have a a really interesting
Dynamic here and talking to Gail is where I first heard this phrase that was
above so below and it's so true that what we see in the sky we try to capture
in other in other media and I just included this slide in case
anybody wants to get hold of me either for um one-on-one tutoring or
mastersofpixinsight.com where we have these workshops about once a month I had
my contact information here and I know this is going to be part of the uh YouTube thing so I just wanted to show
for a sec you can read all the other stuff for yourself this is a photo of me in a very happy Moment In The
Observatory and I must say I get a lot of these in my Observatory
so uh I'm gonna convince you that Imaging is more than just astrophotography and uh then give you a
few of my favorite examples of As Above So Below I have a two-hour talk on the
history of astrophotography and this presentation is called from that so
enjoy this one of my own photos any Astra photo you see is mine but there
aren't that many of my photos in this talk I'm going to show you some uh some
images of the sky made in other media so I say Imaging is more than just
astrophotography so it includes Digital Imaging and film photography those
things that we're familiar with and that we do now but before film was
daguerreotypes and before that were sketches I'm a big Sketcher uh Star
Charts is another way that people have captured uh the the sky but I'm
interested in how the sky was captured in the ground so this presentation is
going to focus on buildings and Landscapes and and some really cool caver and in fact we're going to start
with the cave art this uh Center panel that you see here with the bowl
is from the Lasko cave in France and it's about 17
000 years old and it contains a whole bunch of astronomical references uh if
you look to the right panel that's a screenshot from my Cambridge star Atlas
which has stars down to magnitude six and um I want you to notice the Pleiades
in both of those images so you can also see I think you can see where my cursor
is do you see that Circle flashing yes I'm hoping you can see it so these are
the horns of the bull that you see in the last concave drawing so this is as
far as I know the oldest astronomical reference and it doesn't just stop at
the Pleiades we can also see the stars of Orion's Belt this image on the left
is mine again you'll see that Orion actually has three belt Stars this image
here shows four I don't know whether that fourth star is just no longer visible or whether
whether it's something else that they saw um but again relative to the position of
the horns of the bull and the Pleiades this is clearly Orion's Belt in another
part of the cave we have a depiction of uh basically three characters the eye of
the bull the bird-headed man and the bird and those may represent the summer
triangle that's what's been suggested about about that very interesting
okay so buildings and Landscapes um
I think this is the one that most people would be familiar with the idea that the Great Pyramids in their mimic Orion's
Belt Stars the Nile mimics aerodynus that was built you know this complex was
built in the thousands of years ago more than 4 000 years ago um and and that like I say that's the
that's the one that we all maybe think of but I want to introduce you to some
work that my my wife has been studying and um you can see on this map at the on the
right the gray Circle in the sort of uh
right Central Area this is called the Glastonbury zodiac
for the somerset zodiac and it's found in Somerset in the UK
it appears to have been established around 2600 BC so more than 4 000 years
ago and it's really comprised of Effigies that are made out of Roads
paths streams and Earthworks it was first described by Catherine Maltwood in
1925 and you know I'm a good Canadian the Maltwood museum is at the University
of Victoria in Victoria British Columbia Canada and
um you can find a lot of Catherine maltwood's writings there they have a Montwood Library if you're interested
um some people have referred to this as possibly being one interpretation of the
story of Arthur's round table and I'm going to show this to you a little bit more closely Leo the Lion to me is the
is the most clearly seen Effigy here now those of you who are astronomers who are
out maybe looking at the night sky last night in the northern hemisphere
might have might think to yourself that this lion is facing the wrong way
but in fact this lion has its head facing west
and Leo in the sky has its head facing west
as above So Below it's like it's been
stamped out of the sky into the ground very very cool if you want um to learn
more about this I put my wife's website on the slide here secrets of the Grail
landscape.com and it does have two L's in a row there Grail landscape see
secrets of the graillandscape.com okay let's talk about the Sphinx for a
couple of minutes and uh you'll see there's nothing here on this slide above the Sphinx in fact
what this diagram shows is What's called the procession of the equinoxes and it's
one of the big cycles that uh that the earth goes through it's a 26 000 year
wobble that the Earth has so the Earth wobbles on its axis like a top and it traces us
out this huge circle and you can see in the diagram that 13 years from now
Polaris won't be our North Star anymore right it'll the the North Star will be
somewhere close to Vega but it's not only the equinoxes that
shift the shift in the equinoxes creates an apparent change in the position of
all the stars every day and what that means it's a shift in the position of the equinoxes so what's an equinox The
Equinox happens twice a year once in Spring and once in fall and it's the day
when it's the day when the when the length of the day and the length of the night are equal
and uh in the olden days I mean the really olden days it was really
important to know when spring was beginning when autumn was beginning when
was it time to plant when was it time to harvest so you had to track the
perception of the Equinox but what does this have to do with the Sphinx
well here's the Sphinx so mainstream if the Sphinx an age of around 4 500
years and I I've got to say I'm not uh an archaeologist I'm not a historian or
a paleontologist or a geologist I'm none of those ologists I'm actually a
backyard astronomer who loves to image and I'm a toxicologist so nothing to do
with the Sphinx so I can't tell you whether the mainstream theories or the alternative theories are correct but
some of those alternative theories are pretty compelling and they put the age of the Sphinx at more than ten thousand
years maybe up to twelve thousand years and the the head of the Sphinx may have
been recurved so now it shows it's thought to show the um the Pharaoh Khufu
but um originally the head may have been a woman's head and that may have
symbolized the transition from the age of Virgo to the age of Leo Virgo in the
head and Leo of the lion in the body so that's the procession of the Equinox in
action and we see other references on the ground in art especially in Egyptian
are to changing equinoxes or to sorry to um the procession of the equinoxes and
the changing of the sign where the Spring Equinox Falls so we have the age
of the bull the age of the lamb and so on Aries and Taurus so I think I'm going
to stop there As Above So Below it's so cool we've been doing this such a long time I'd
love to show you more of my own images and maybe we'll do that uh in another
presentation soon but people have been recording the sky for a very very long
time and I'm glad uh thank you Scott for the chance to share it with you that was
very cool it was very cool it was a question from the audience book Davies is watching on YouTube and he says does
he happen to know about hold dolmens h-o-led
d-o-l-m-e-n-s in the British Isles and if you don't I do not but I'll bet
you I'll bet you Yale does okay so maybe we can get you on to Gold
Star party next week and uh you can answer this question book loves to watch
uh Global star party and he's he's there almost every time so and Norm here says great presentation
Ron I like the correlation of space and earth thanks a lot Scott thank you thanks and
thanks for coming here Everybody Take Care bye-bye okay uh so we are
um we are going on to our next speaker here and uh let me see we have uh Cesar broo
uh
yes guys how are you beautiful image behind you it seems like uh yeah this is
pretty much that I every time fake from the San Juan sky in in the cordicia de
los Andes this year yeah than me but uh
and it's yes it's a it's an image that I I took uh with my ex's 100 but not mine
the the it's it's an image that uh that I used
uh um the x is 100 Mount that the people of the observatory bow as
uh one year ago uh to work with visitors
a learning uh and teaching material says
uh to May astrophotography and
I I bring my my uh upper chromic active
limiters and I say okay I need to make a picture here because it's it's an
amazing place to make a picture and I took uh
um around 200 a shot of uh only five seconds each
because I I was I was aware about some
moments with the winds like not all the time you know
but I had a lot of great likes to to
stacking um I have a i i i i i i
can get and I am an image a picture of the the Carina Neola in the southern
hemisphere that I love greedy yes um well my presentation because as uh
tonight we have uh um probably cloudy night in Buenos Aires
is about my [Music]
setup in the balcony different things that they can make and finally to
pictures that I took uh in the last uh
two weeks ago because last week was my birthday
um but two weeks yeah thank you
um yes I was not in in uh in conditions of of Mega presentations one week ago
because you know my weird day drinking beer and eating with the family you know
and two weeks ago uh do you remember that I uh in a middle in a middle cloudy
Sky I I tried I tried taking pictures two
pictures that I have I showed um
tonight I'll show you the the fight to final image that I stack it especially
with I used a Serial because I love serial camera because
you you know this program too much more than me and I really
appreciate your presentation because I say oh this you you teach me a lot in
your presentation because many many things of this program yes I don't know
it that is possible it's so good uh that maybe you know maybe
um if you have a two 200 Euros you can
you can by this inside but
for a free a for a free software software for raster photography
it's so good we have a lot of tools um really I enjoy for kids for the
nature for for older people too
that recommend recommend Siri download CD in their computers and start
to use the methods um of course normally I start to explain in in my business in
my store when I say okay you tomorrow or tonight you can try to take you know
that maybe I I say to the people as recite of how many how many seconds how
many shots of uh they need and it's a recipe it's like a you know like a
recital say okay which Which object you are interested in in taking your first
deep Sky object picture um sometimes you know I say to the
people um use for example I don't know for example
maybe small time of of uh it for each each picture uh maybe five seconds if
because maybe they are not uh using a guidance system for the first time for
the first time all about talk with the people uh with recipes done are more easy to
take some some results instead a frustrating situations
um cereal it's uh is like the first
uh the first door the first gate to the the war of astrophotography and of
course that I never I never ending to to learn about this software
and many things that you you show us tonight and say
they have this possibility and I love the process it's very very
um the software is very very interesting to you as well you show maybe next time
I remember that I I told um uh I remember I made a presentation where I were I showed the three
difference uh colors because this is the the axis of the of the
serial program is serious software is that you can't uh you can't uh work over
the RGB picture the color picture if not in one of the channel
and this is very learning for for the people
um that you are working in one channel and you can see many many
uh many parts of the sky how the different
colors the different stars are not only that you are watching in the color image
if not dividing or separating the three different colors
as as [Applause] RGB components
how how the the universe us is sorry well I have a small
presentation let me share the screen
I try question
um yes tell me about the image behind you what what ISO were you shooting at
what was the iso number that you had on your camera you
were shooting five second exposures what was the iso set it is so well now I use
for example for for this is very important separating reflex camera
instead a CCD image um for reflex camera but it's the same
the game the game there is so the the iso is for example for my you need to
know for everyone that reflex camera to make astrophotography
a the sweet point of your camera will have the it's never for example if
you have a camera uh with a for example like my camera my camera have
so guys stop sharing uh my camera have for example a
6400 ISO because it's a it's an old camera the T3i
um maybe you have a modern camera with a you know uh 12
000 ISO or maybe more but for example for my camera where do you have
6400 ISO like maximum or maybe more that you have a a
possibilities of of uh push more ESO this is not real and this is and this is
where do you have a lot of noise um especially in a reflex camera where
do you you don't have a calling system uh you need to know where do you have
the best sweet point the the the great point where do you have the best
um the best equilibrium between noise
and Sensibility and for example for a camera like my camera it's no more that
for example a a a hundred ISO is ISO ISO 1 800 and you
have why you can push more no is it totally
different in a in a CCD where for example an ACC that I try and I I use
them now uh 400 is is a a great number of gang but
um and I use for example -5 is integrity degrees the the temperature but in a
reflex camera the more uh recommended is between 800
a 1600 but maybe you can make a change
between summer and winter uh maybe your camera inside in winter
if if you don't have Cooling in your camera cooling system but you have a natural
coolness that is the winter and yes you can try for example in San Juan I use 1
600 a very cold night in the mountain and you can see that was a very easy uh
to separate the the signal from the noise and it's a reflex camera it's not
a CCD um and uh but in a normal temperature do
you have the best point that you need to know about your reflex camera
800 is for me is perfect 100 1600
it's okay if you have a very cold weather
and it won't be too noisy yes
I'm returned to to share a screen okay
wait a minute
tell me if you are watching the the presentation yeah full screen yeah full
screen okay okay well the cosmos for my balcony it's a
presentation to replace the live image in a cloudy line
well my actual setup is this a tab that we use I use it sorry
um two weeks ago when I make the this this live image
first of all the the amount the yes is 100 the two version
um sorry I have I have both but this one is the is the I think that is the first
I remember that I I bow and I take one for me of this one it's like a beta
version because as so fast that you told me that you have this Bond I remember
that I bought one of the first the first
um uh you know the third numbers of of uh the the first modes that I remember
that I bought a quantity for the first time and I have in my home one of this
that today work perfectly I think that have more than three near four years because
110 is between three and four years old I think that started with this Mo this
model Scotty right yes I I put the the exos 102 but
this the 100 only the first version uh actually I'm well I'm changed between
the first 1880 explores in different refractor that do
you remember that I I used one of of this telescope to make a picture of
um wasn't very interesting because I take a picture with a planet camera using the first light a telescope of
etakarira and was a very very good uh feature
um another thing is another OTA that I have is a siboney
Ed refractor telescope like in the picture uh modifier
simony sv605 uh called it CCD here
modifier Canon T3i that is my reflex camera from 8 years ago
a mini guider here but I don't use it the last week no I don't guide nothing
because it was you know was a lovely night um I don't have time to to to put uh to
work all together uh they also I had a a great polar alignment I use it only
um 10 pictures 10 pictures um
uh uh each shot for 10 sorry 10 seconds
each shot um well was okay to make to to recover to
to have two image for this night this night
and my very all i7 laptop that is a very
the people sometimes ask me about I need a new computer okay my it's very my
laptop is a i7 a great processor but the older generation is the time of the lord
of the ring I think um okay software cup Nina kind of
nutilities Etc serial for for processing but that decision software are shark cup
especially actually kind of utility when I use my Canon camera and a lot of cable stuff running between
the bottle plants in my balcony we have a lot of of uh
of pods with with plants you know garlic um and I don't remember the names in
English but it's a lot for for food for spices you know and it's part of the of the of the area
of of the balcony Observatory well here I began to occupy the balcony
with telescope and when is the the pandemic time starting and when I began
to participate in the GSP of course and I found an unexpected use with many
possibilities for my equipment equipment sorry and really was I remember that I
started uh and this is the proof that I used my ex's 100 a lot of time ago here
I had some Celestron all month uh but I choosing a lot of time
not choosing if not I changed the the the OTA over my my month uh
because I I tried a lot of different telescope in my in my month
and really this is my setup cables my PC
this is excellent in summer of course that in winter is not so great
this is the the feel over my hair
maybe in this area I have in this line that I I move in my cursor where
um here is the end of my field because I have the I have the ceiling of the another
balcony and but for my telescope I can
use for example this is Southern Cross uh here is Karina nebula here the old
area of uh Karina well and Bella constellations is really a southern part
of the sky here I have as always for example here
is the end of Vela in in the end of the winter here I have ending
uh Scorpio and Sagittario constellations
it's very it's very good for to to take pictures of lagun nebula
or you know M7 clusters it it's uh of course that I
have more uh open Open Sky in the rooftop but we are talking about the
place where do you have in your home every day with possibilities to move
your telescope a little bit that's right and put your telescope to work in something
um this is the idea of of my presentation is is not only if you go to okay I can go to the Garden or but here
is is the place where I don't go outside of my home especially in Winter that
maybe you don't have uh the all happiness of how to go to take
a cold weather you know uh suffering or under the cold weather but uh
it's a the first place where you can use fastly and easily your telescope
well this is a I I think that I showed in this picture in in
many times I go presentations uh the idea of scaling uh the moon and popular
filing the city Skies it's a great picture that the whole playing with the
this year run and City landscape the different objects in your sky and this is the
things about your place in the in the your planet and in in your solar system
and in in your uh Galaxy and especially in your Cosmos but here are places are
our nearest neighborhood my neighborhood welding I'm a
yeah I'm mixing with our solar
neighborhood or Cosmic neighborhood because we are in our in our place
between Jupiter moon you know and only the scale between this building
the moon and Jupiter and this stars are totally mind-blowing
you know yes well my winter setup that they are
starting to use now in this time of the year um for example in this occasion I use I
put the my my laptop outside and I can see if the the laptop is working well
and uh for example here I use as if I are using my my yes is 100 I can use one
my cell phone actually I use more my cell phone but in in this picture I use
them a tablet and another tablet
um to to use my computer with a for example when I say balcony
camera connected connected with my laptop which I can also see from the window in this is in the balcony the
balconies only telescope camera and laptop uh you don't need cables between
your balcony and your living room inside a smartphone connects a laptop
using uh any any uh remote assistant
program such as any disk or Chrome desktop are free software I think I tell
him or sorry and I'm asking about free application free software that you can
afford anywhere in the in the world uh and you can use it in a single way you
can make your remote Observatory I remember that that sometimes when you
for example I remember that I I took pictures for example of Lagoon
in this time of the years appears more and maybe 4 am in the sky that I have in
the in the field of sky that I have in my home um for me for example if I like to take
a picture of of my of Lagoon level now or five years ahead
um I can make I can prepare all um if I know that the the night is
um is going to be clear only I use my cell phone to watch my
computer in the balcony maybe in the bed I don't need to go to I mean from the
bed you know 4 am I took pictures working with my computer with my cell
phone connected to the computer in the balcony I was in my bedroom and
my wife said what are you doing I said no I take you pictures you know
but I I only I talking I talking about only a prepare the pictures uh you know
how many pictures in the in my Canon utility software very easy because I
don't I I don't and um I don't talk about any uh any
complicate or totally impossible to make uh well uh iPad table the same
smartphone or another uh I never device driving the telescope we explore star
application for for the case of of um the the XS 100 but you have in the
market do you have mostly of the of the mounts are Wi-Fi now
uh of course for me all School printer printed Skechers because I'm old and I
love have all uh all printed Skies
charts and drink May drink matter for some of course for support yes but yes
ever Martin I'm gonna start drinking Mante sorry I need to find some mate
yes but the mate works like a coffee if you if you have if you need to to for
example in a night that you said you say okay do you do you have you need to to
to to film wake up and yes you can drink mate Mathis is much better
than coffee or maybe well I I like the the coffee too no problem in our last star party we
we um we have the coffee machine and the
coffee tank like uh in the same style like an American Star parties uh no
coffee machine espresso if not you know the coffee tank yeah and this is
a lovely place to go um Martin maybe you start bringing mate
and change to the the coffee time to talk with the people around the coffee
tank you know the coffee dispenser um
and well this is of course that if you if
you use this is for everything that the from the balcony or from you know totally for for
any any situations about using telescope different configuration
with the ex's 100 mode with that maximum casserine as a smooth cast iron pay deduction to the wind if you use long
focal lens of course that all balconies or some places and cities that as my
balcony you know and you can can talk about the wind in my
balcony it's called um yes and you say yes pay attention to the win
if you use long Focus lens also the quality of the Polar alignment because
you are using maybe 100 a half in both telescope you are using here 100
and 100 sorry one matter or 100 20 sorry
1250 millimeters and in this model 100
1500 millimeters of focal lengths and that's a lot of me yes for example here
are using a cvony a planet Cam and you have a small sensor and this is the
opposite that you can you can enjoy in a
windy night here I use it my camera digital t35 reflex camera
[Music] um aps-c sensor big big size and you have
more possibilities of successful with this kind of knights or telescope with a
bigger sensor but you know if you need to make a picture of a planet if maybe
you can experiment what do you need
is absolutely indicated for you say for you to take your solar image make sure
you have an adequate solar filter an accident can damage the sensor of your
camera or much worse IR replaceable retinas don't you don't have a
um how do you say you don't have a spare part for your retinas and prepare all
about concern about the how many your uh
how many you do you need fix your uh your
um solar filter to your telescope if you need to to put
uh you know duct tape
worry about your telescope um looks very very bad if you put a lot
of duct tape you know if not if it's safe it's much better for you is much better
ugly ugly ugly done and safe of course yes
yes [Music]
yes of course yes absolutely it's much better than blind yes that's
right yes and we're here is is the result of
of uh the the picture uh that they took at this moment
um telling that is absolutely with a mile of filter than uh explore
scientific and or in our business that it's really easy to to take a very very
good quality of uh solar sunspots you
can have a lot of details um this is at at the hand of of
entry level telescope in good luck good quality but entry-level telescope this
is something that everyone can make in a sinner of course in a uh safest way
possible and finally
the two image rescue because really I rescue the the the the when I start to
see the lights where when we was talking do you remember
um really I had um I have the likes that I could really
stack it and process it with cereal this one was the first one do you
remember that we have a lot of of clouds but I I can make
um uh regular regular uh image of several box
and later I can took now here is the beta Centauri
with the rest red start that we are talking about and another one was more impressive for
me because it was a Galaxy M the Sombrero Galaxy
um really I have more complicated situation to make this picture and
really of course that is not a picture to to say okay it's a bad picture maybe
for telling about the the process not the process if not the if not the
possibilities um you have a lot of different problems but with a picture
that the difference if if is if you can
get a Galaxy this night this bad night
this this way but now that you say no it's probably nice no I don't get I I
don't like to use the telescope tonight and when you have okay you can see stars
let's maybe start you don't know many do you have some stars in your Sky okay
the telescope in a backyard or in your balcony I am the the mixture of the of
the light pollution here is around 9.3 and you know if you if if
many many times I say uh for my customers if I can make astronomical
picture from my home I'm from my my abilities everyone can make it and enjoy the
surrounding wonderful uh it's a pleasure Scott thank you thank
you Caesar all right well you're an inspiration I think to many people who
think that uh uh you know it's impossible for me because I live in the city or they think of a zillion reasons
why they can't do astronomy and um it's nice to know that you can do such
excellent work uh with today's mounts and telescopes and filters and
processing you know so there's a lot of things that are fingertips that we didn't have only just a few years ago so
you know Now's the Time to get involved if you've ever dreamed about getting involved in astrophotography
[Music] we will transition now to Mr Robert
Reeves and um uh his uh series on postcards from the Moon
well I am pretty much that I know from the moon are from from Proverbs thank
you thank you well I'm glad to be here uh for another
episode of postcards from the Moon tonight I'm going to talk about
nicknamed features on the moon we all know that
celestial objects uh you know very bright busy objects many of them have
popular names that are unofficial uh nicknames so to speak you know the
Lagoon nebula the North American nebula the triffid nebula Swan nebula so uh why
not particular features on the moon some of them have been called by their
nicknames for well uh possibly several centuries others have just recently uh
been tagged and some of them I like to think that I named them myself we will
see uh hopefully uh my name is unique and if people like it it was just like a
uh a celestial objects nickname it's it's
it's it's so named because the name is popular and it sticks so um we'll see how my name's go so I'm
going to do my usual exploration here and see if I can successfully screen share because as far as I'm concerned
this Zoom business is just one step removed from Witchcraft and I really haven't figured it out yet
so I'm gonna click screen share and then click on the uh
thingy here and uh see what happens yes it's working images okay so now you
should see my title card uh postcards from the Moon and uh not yet not yet oh boy here we go
it's the same old routine let me get out of here
uh this happens every time I've looked at your video that you sent out a screen
share and it just doesn't work with my computer stop share
go back screen share um
I'm gonna I'm gonna back out here and go to my other thing and bring up the uh
thing and then come back to you hopefully where are you
that I've lost everything
this whole PC yes yeah uh control you'll have that
these things happen yeah if you hit control tab you can scroll through all your open programs
click control tab control and just hit tab tab tab tab
uh yeah this whole past several weeks has been
not good for me and apparently this is a continuation of it
well we saw the folder with all of your postcards and we could see we could see
in Miniatures some of the beautiful postcards you had planned for us yeah that screen was up if you had them on a
different screen in full full view that was the screen we
couldn't see yeah well right now Zoom isn't even working for me
yeah I can see myself but the rest of my whole thing is is gone gone you still
have your folder with your pictures right maybe you have it maximized okay
staring at myself this is okay so now all right so we can see now we
see it now it's working you know but by the time I finish this whole postcard from the Moon series I might finally
figure this out takes practice I will leave the exploitative out but I will
figure this fill it in okay postcards for the moment now uh oh boy why is it
advancing oh there we go hopefully you're down now all right we are now we're going ah we have liftoff yes
yeah well um you persevered yeah uh well this this
is perhaps the high point of the past couple of weeks because uh I was
supposed to be at the Texas Star Party to do various things and uh as literally as I was packing my truck to go
um had a family medical emergency and I never made it to the Texas Star Party so I'm trying to catch up so we're
talking about nicknamed features on the moon and uh to back up a little bit to
understand anything we see on the moon whether it's a crater a mountain a
valley anything there are only two primary landscape
forming processes that occur on the moon either volcanism or impact cratering
something either hit the Moon and modified it or subsequent volcanism
modified that or more impacts so uh we're looking at the
the face of the man on the moon uh the broad dark volcanic Mari areas and then
the bright Islands um are the original crust of the Moon
and the original crust at the moment is heavily cratered the Mario or have fewer
craters because they're formed later and covered over many of the Mario so this
basic overview of how anything on the moon came into being so advancing to the topics tonight
nickname features on the moon I like to highlight about a dozen of them
um going in this alphabet or in um
a clockwise order around the uh the graphic here the lunar good luck charm
Valentine Dome what I call the heart of the Moon the spider the headlights uh
straight wall the railroad tracks the lay big wall the ghosts of pro Solera
Cobra head Thor's hammer and the Guardians now some
of these you may recognize straight wall has been there forever uh Cobra head uh
Valentine Dome these are are features that have been there a long time but there's some that I have added myself
and I hope they stick first off the lunar good luck charm this
is the four leaf clover pattern created by the overlapping forms of mitton crater and mitan C D and E craters
satellite Craters of miton and this is up in the northern latitudes now this
fairly broad feature almost 200 kilometers across and uh
created back in the pre-dictorian era before the Maria the Basin uh forming
impacts that uh later uh created the bar or were filled in with lava to create the Mario so this is very ancient
formation and the fact that they are all merged together is a very uh effect of
the basic impacts that occurred back during the lead heavy bombardment almost
4 billion years ago the ejecta thrown out of the massive Basin impacts filled
in the uh many of the pre-existing craters completely covered over the
interior of these four craters merged their Interiors so it became a massive
four-leaf clover um another feature chuck wood who uh does
the uh Moon column and scan telescope magazine uh he
designated the huge two and three kilometer high massifs at the mouth of
the Alpine Valley where it empties out into the uh um
he calls them the Guardians and they do indeed look like imposing Guardians
protecting the entrance to the Alpine Valley
Thor's hammer I'm surprised nobody's noticed this before the similarity between this uh uh
uh feature on Northern Mari imbrium uh Rich recently well it is still officially
called python gamma it is uh two mountain or mountainous Ridge or Hills
that are butted together and they form the shape of a hammer very similar to
Monier the Magical Hammer wielded by the Norse god Thor and uh we haven't been
staring at this thing for years it has just never stepped in holy heck that looks just like Thor's hammer so of
course I've got to put that name on it and uh hopefully it will uh it will
stick I like to think Agent Coulson has been running around Earth looking for Thor's hammer all this time and it was
staring us right in the face all along now the Valentine Dome now this is a
huge low well no it's not huge in the sense of tall but huge in the sense of wide a
very low pancake volcano on the moon officially known as the Linea A1 a
volcanic dome but 35 kilometers wide but only about 300 kilometers high
um it's been called a valentine dome for ages because somebody thought it
resembles the classic shape of a valentine heart but I'm sorry to me it
just looks like an oval blob but the Valentine dormant is and that's
the way I'm going to keep calling it uh Cobra head has been the designation
for the volcanic pit at the head of shoulders Valley the uh uh
volcanic reel that was flowed molten lava onto the plains of oceanis
proselyum and uh the volcanic eruptions through this region are what helped
build up the aristarchus plateau now Cobra head itself is fairly small no
wider than the Reel itself and uh it's fairly small but it's a an ancient
volcanic pit that once uh spirit lava uh fire Fountains of volcanic ash I was
quite spectacular in the time now a lot of people uh mistake the larger Broad
um the saltfield crater further south for Cobra head but that's not it that's just
another uh Basalt flooded crater actual Cobra head itself is right at the very
tip of the Alpine Valley and moving on to another one that I saw
begging for a name so I had to name it myself there's a heart-shaped mountainous region north of where I'm a
hygienist now this is almost exactly in the center of the uh
the the disc of the Moon and uh
volcanic ash erupting from the volcanic pits along Rhema hijinis over a billion
years ago dusted this entire region with dark volcanic ash so it's physically darker than the surrounding area
and it looks like a heart shape both uh mimics a human heart and the classical
valentine heart shape so uh I call it the heart of the Moon
uh the lunar spider another one of the ones that I'm trying to make stick is
actually the ghost crater Lamont on Western Mario Serenity excuse me uh
Mario tranquility uh actually it's just a little bit north of the Apollo 11 landing area now this
uh massive buried ghost grader used to
be a substantial crater in its own right you know with uh collapsed terrorist walls perhaps a a good Central Peak but
when the lava flooding the completely paved over uh Mari tranquilitatus it
buried this crater and all we see now are wrinkle ridges showing the circular
form of it and additional wrinkle ridges that radiate outward North and South kind of look like the legs of a spider
so uh I call this one the lunar spider
and another one of mine the ghosts of pro solerum as I mentioned with uh marijuana
qualitatus previously having craters on us on the floor of the
Basin prior to volcanic flooding the same with Oceanus Pro solarum are
considerable numbers of old ancient craters on the floors of the basins prior to the volcanic flooding and many
of those craters are now gone completely paved over we don't see them anymore but some of them are big enough that they're
crowns the tips of their their uh the rim of their peaks of their circular Rim
protrude above the uh Mario basalts and we see them as these circular ghost
craters so we uh I like to call this region in southern Oceanus Pro Solarium
that is dotted with many many many ghost craters simply the ghosts of pro solerum
another one from chuck wood our columnists from sky and Telescope uh we
are all familiar with straight wall the black line feature we see here uh later
in the lunar day when the sun is in in the west it becomes a white line feature
because uh it's illuminum the sun is Illuminating the face of the cliff that is now casting a shadow in this
particular picture but straight wall technically known as rupus
rectite Latin for straight Cliff but we call it straight wall that's a nickname
in its own right but the real feature here is ancient
fabot it's a circular formation that surrounds the straight wall feature we see a
Horseshoe Bay on Eastern Marine nubium that is uh
cradling straightened wall and then further out into Mario nubium itself we
see these arcing wrinkle ridges tracing out the buried rim of the same crater
that we see forming the Horseshoe Bay this crater has no name it's big
almost 200 kilometers in diameter one of the largest craters on the moon but being buried underneath the uh Mario
basalts we can't see most of it now the large crater overlaying its Rim is
stabic crater it does have a name so Chuck designates this entire hidden
buried crater that surrounds a straight wall or we call it ancient sabot
unofficially uh the railroad tracks
I don't know who named this it wasn't me but uh I've heard the term for a long time and these are the parallel
rays we're extending from Taiko that streaked to the Northwest now the Curious Thing
about these is there they are parallel they do not come to a single focus at
the impact site of Tycho they seem to be tangential to the rim of Tycho I've
pondered why many many times and uh I've recently come to the conclusion uh
after uh discussion with some people that I believe these
strange Rogue Rays extending West from Tycho are actually a a form of butterfly
ray pattern indicating a very oblique impact so uh I don't have any uh specific proof
to back that up but it's as close as I can come but nonetheless the railroad tracks do not converge at the impact
side of Tycho they remain parallel on the
line up with the uh about a rim of Tycho instead of a center so thus we call it
the railroad tracks now uh that's pretty much all I have for
tonight but I want to remind everybody that the Moon is a an ever-changing
Target it's not something to be ignored I am trying to make the moon a
more friendly Target for everybody not to be ignored because it blots out the Deep sky but a Target to be observed
when it's in the sky and blotting out the Deep Sky it's an alternate Target very
viable uh Target that uh um you know the phases grow and Shrink
day by day the Shadows change hour by hour uh the Moon is the geologic
Wonderland and some of the things I've just shown are just a a small sampling
of of the Marvels that you can see on the moon through a very modest amateur telescope it is accessible from our own
backyard we do not need to travel out of the Town seek out Dark Skies the moon
laughs at light pollution so it's it's a very accessible Target no matter when as
long as in the sky it's a good Target so uh I like to tell everybody there's much to
love on the moon and please come join me on my playground some it's been fun
thank you so much Robert thank you you bet we'll do it again in the future okay
all right sounds great um let's see uh our next speaker is
um um I think Dr Marcelo Souza Dr Marcelo
Souza that's right that's right Adrian yeah John and I will uh our Shenanigans
come next hello good evening yeah and oh and Robert I don't know if Robert's
still here but um you just added to my presentation uh
Thor's hammer was of interest to me and I've taken pictures of the Moon we'll wait till you see what I've learned the
differences between taking a picture with the moon with a telescope versus using a 600 millimeter lens I find the
results were actually very interesting but uh first we must learn about uh
astronomy and Outreach in Brazil so uh take me out of here Scott and let's give
the floor to her doctor Souza okay Marcelo thank you for coming on to the
122nd Global Star Party um I'm sorry it's getting a little bit late but um uh we appreciate you coming
on thank you very much it's a great pleasure to be here to meet you a few
great and uh all the people that are here it's a great pleasure Sports thank
you very much thank you today I I will talk about our group that we celebrate
27 years of activities right here we never imagined that one
day we will be celebrating 27 years of your activities and today I have I
received a fantastic news about our future
announced here during the presentation this is part of here what will you do
here in Brazil in your region in Brazil that is located we live in the city of
he accomplish great takas that is in huge and every state these are amazes
about your history we organize so many events here and then the our group was founded in
26th of May in 1996 when this year we celebrate 27 years of
actives we did the activity in so many play different place including baltis and the
and I'll show here Ashanti video about our history
Brazilian
mobile planetarium here reference was here
here is a Brazilian somebody this was the first big event that you organized
2015 with more than 3 000 people to see the eclipse of the moon
these are the activities of it s observation of the Sun
that you're developing public squares here
and it really made a lot of events of some observation
with many people here long shot for Hawkins it's more hard water hockets
oh wow this time we offered the presentations that we
we make here with frequency here was the activity that you developing a boat
we have the science boats and the turkey with tides
in this boats um I was talking about tides
this is a a candle of likes
if it's that you're organized to uh for the beginning of the international
area of astronomy here in Brazil
and we ever try to do activities with it joy and the musician involving the
the groups students teachers
entities is the biggest event here with almost 10 000 people with 70
lunar eclipse I hope that's this year we have so many people to yeah we closed
one bridge that crossed the river here in our seats and when I I asked them to
close on one line when I arrived there they had so many
people we had so many people that they closed Audi Bridge they have people's
selling popcorn is hot dog he's in a lot of people there and they have it almost
10 000 people these are amazing to see in 2018 the eclipse the total lunar
eclipse in 2018. this was the biggest events ever
organized here in our history in Brazil
what's the biggest one I hope it is here we organize a big event to Quality
partial solar eclipse here also and the
yesterday we we had the first meeting with Guatemala
we feel astronomers from Guatemala here we began a partnership with the group
from Galileo University that University in Guatemala here is the our meeting
with them here is that is responsible for this group in Guatemala and it was the first meeting
between groups of astronomy from Brazil and Guatemala the first ever meeting
between Brazilian astronomy group from Brazil and Guatemala this is
Fernando from Uruguay he is the representative of the International
Association in Uruguay make possible this first meeting between
our groups then we are now up learning to organize the first event between
groups from Brazil in Guatemala will be working together for one project but
first time that you have here I amazes up this is a image from Guatemala that I
didn't know they have a solar system in the
a represent a representation of the solar system the resistance of planets
in the main square of the capital of the country here you can see the sun you have GF and
the moon we have the other plants in this uh main Public Square of the city
of Guatemala and today we organize an event in a city that's
called San Francisco tabapana here is a meeting with the heads of the secretary
the Department of Education of the seats and here you can see a model of the
Galileo scope well we are going to build the the students of the city we will
build the Galileo's folks this year in schools and also we have a
microscope we have we organize a tip to see the macro the
stars and also what is very small dimitro
bacterias and we will teach the students about Optics and how to build the
optical instruments there it's more what like a gallery scope and a small
microscope these are a microscope that's equals this one dollar that is maybe
with paper man these are different kind of project the name is for the school
here is the rights of the Department of Education with the Galileo scope then
we'll begin to to build the to help to teach students to build this kind of
Scopes the telescopes and it really donated this telescope for
the school for the seats one one of the member of school that has now is a
teacher of the school only to develop activities of astronomy with kids in
schools of the seats she is there he sees why is height for the seat to develop projects of
astronomy of students there you have we tried we tried today to observe this summer to have clouds in
the sky and these are part of the students that you'll be involved and be students from
Audi seats after the school or off all these schools of the seats that will be
involved in the pricing foreign
will be the first astronomy group in this city now we're showing to the students the
Galileo School and this is a historical picture with
Buzzy Audrey when he visited our city in 2009 was the first presentation that was
the audience made in Brazil was here in our city
in 2009 40 years later we reorganized an
event to celebrate the 40 Years of the launch of the mission Apollo 11. yeah
anybody you're in our seats here with my family Andrew Brazilian astronauts here a
picture my father my mother my sister my wife before all together here with a picture
if you're busy out there in his wife in the main field after the seats
and now we have something different in space we have it the biggest
numbers of astronauts in space we have six astronauts from China
at now in space we have six astronauts from China
that's it two missions that arrived in the International the Chinese station we
have six from China and now we have five from United States two from Saudi Arabic one from United
Emirates RBM Emirates entry from Russia then we
have 11 13.
17 astronauts at the same time in Space the first time that this happened
three Arabs three arabizational uh five Americans three from Russia and
six from China that's something amazing that we are
leaving now right this is the mix the mission action that
was responsible for the launch of two Arab is a private in seconds ever
private mission to the international uh
station my space station from SpaceX
here the first female from Saudi Arab this is another man he expected from
United States another astronaut from United States is these are the two Arabs from Saudi Arab
and you have another one that's from United Emirates that you use this one that is International Space Station then
we have 17 astronauts at the same time now in space
all right we are going further in space in the I hope you have peace here enough
that we need they are together in space don't don't have a reason for ours here
and now is the announcement that fantastic announcement that I received the answer should they left a few
minutes before I I Was preparing to to participate in the
program now we have here in Brazil the official first dark sky chapter in
Brazil that is another stage here wow congratulations
it's official received the confirmation a few minutes ago wow that's awesome the first
official one here in Brazil will be responsible for Dr they're here
in our state he lives that's wonderful it is a is a celebration for our the
birthday of your astronomy group yeah but then these are invisions of your
group he is better Maya here and this item news that I have for today
thank you very much thank you for making the announcement
about the uh recognition of the international dark sky designation for
University and nobody knows any of you here yeah no it's great a few minutes
ago they were they were making the official announcement soon that's wonderful there's a lot of hard
work to get to that point and um you know to get a whole Community
um a country to embrace the idea of having a dark sky Park is it's not easy
so there we are working hard to hear but I think that you have much dark sky
please from here so excellent okay thank you very much is
that a great pleasure to be here thank you thank you take care my channel
okay um uh we will be now moving over to
Adrian Bradley Adrian's been patiently waiting in the background here uh and uh
Adrian uh it's great to have you back on global Star Party it's great to be back
um I've been out the last couple of weeks um I take it I call it an annual bowling
trip um out to this time it was in Reno Nevada I did not Bowl well and I think I
would have been better served just staying home and joining Global star party but um it's good to be back and um
I do recommend any kind of exercise especially for those of us who are larger in frame to getting out and
walking it helps any of us the heart moving so yeah any of us yeah so now we
have that talk I'm going to share my screen and I found something interesting
um when when uh Robert Reeves talked he talked
about one of the features on the moon that I of course found interesting Thor's hammer yeah and I started looking
through some images I had taken and I'll show you I had taken a side by side uh
image using the same camera but with one with a 600 millimeter lens which is this
image here and then one using a telescope now the location of Thor's hammer
happens to be where this little blip is right here
so using a 600 millimeter camera I was surprised that I had any parts of this
region let alone these little pixels representing Thor's hammer
um and I said but wait there's more going to the image that I took with the
um telescope and now we zoom in on this region
and you may be noticing the shape of Thor's hammer is actually taking shape
now it's starting to pixelate but you can see it so what I discovered was the difference
in detail between a telescope and a large lens
could be features on the moon that you may not know you even had and
even this region has there's some more detail if you compare
you know with the camera lens same so same amount of megapixels same
everything else But the lens makes a huge difference in what you end
up getting it's just you've got more coverage with the telescope and Thor's hammer actually takes shape
so I found that very interesting um because that's that's a feature
I didn't know I had if you zoom otherwise looking at this whole full
moon it does appear a little bit sharper
um this is the 600 millimeter camera and you can see some of the features here and we do have a full moon coming
up to the eye this picture of the full moon might look a little bit more detailed
um but to me this was a very passable image just hand
held aiming it at the moon and
but now it's there's a standard that we can follow and that's so this is the
area where I believe the Cobra's head was now I don't know if I quite got that
feature see here this is it the actual Cobra's head is
I believe this little area over here if I didn't quite get it as much so
so one of the challenges is always getting more and clear features on the moon but with
a uh 102 millimeter refractor
um at least I believe that's the number a refractor as opposed to
a lens makes a big difference in um
in the features of the Moon here the headlights that Robert was talking about
and here they are again
you know the further the more detail you have the further you move in so even on
a couple of a couple of shots that I took on a whim
um reveals the more detail you can get the more features
they reveal and lastly I think the four leaf clover
or the lucky I believe this is a region the
Lucky Clover region on the moon over here
and it's a little more defined over here but um yeah I would challenge those of
you that are watching that like to take Moon pictures I would challenge you all to go back through your Moon pictures
and see what features on the moon did you capture and how much detail
okay did you get in capturing those to hear it pixelates with a little
sharper or a little larger instrument I'd be able to move down and see more
features but um this tells you the difference between the type of lens
on your camera if it's a big if it's a telescope you know wider a larger
um larger mirror it does make a difference in
um you know and objects in the moon objects in space
so with that recently the region I've lived in
we've had a bit of smoke mess with our
um our skies to the point where Milky Way Photography gets to be a little bit
difficult and I have I have a focal point for Milky Way Photography as well
a couple of them if I can come in if I don't quite nail the focus I come
in and I won't see quite as much detail in some of the nebula that are here
I typically look for Barnard's e and see how far down I can get
and here you can kind of see the this is actually two separate uh dark nebulae
but if you view it from further back it looks like an e this sits near
um these Stars um let's see Aquila is the constellation
um Altair is the bright star here and Tarzan is this other star above it and
that's where you can find Barnard's e which is a dark nebula that may appear
more often than you think it does in your Milky Way if you like to shoot
this region of the Milky Way especially if you're in the northern hemisphere Barnard's e
shows up and not far from Barnard's e and I'm not
sure I have it is the coat hanger and right now I don't see the code
hanger here I believe it's this region of stars right here
that barely shows up but um a lot of these features
show up in the Milky Way in your Milky Way photos if you have enough detail one day I'll
figure out what this region is because this is interesting here there's a lot of things that are great binocular
targets so it's not only for Imaging but visual targets
um are here and it may surprise you some of the things at a dark site you can see
these dark nebulae naked eye and if you go up
you can look for one of these this blob in particular is actually Messier 11 the
wild duck cluster it's it shows up as a little ball in a y and it looks almost
like another star or maybe a double star when you view it
here just looks like another star but you know in keeping with the theme
of not only do we look for just it's more than just a pretty picture
sometimes sometimes there's some detail here that's um that's there that you may not realize
even in this part of the Scorpion which I'll get back to
and looks like I closed it so I'll just move on to this image and
continue talking about it um if you compare to this image was done
in Upper Peninsula of Michigan look how much more defined Barnard's e
shows up a little more definition there's Altair there's Tarzan
and there's our coat hanger I'd have to open up that other image and
look over here the coat hanger large cluster that resembles a coat hanger is right here
um I was over here there's a lagoon and barely see the triffid here so these
are those are things to look for this is Messier four
um it looks very much like a blob
but you have an sca4 that shows up even in pictures like this one that was
processed uh noise reduced um
light from a nearby Town glowing
in this galactic center and there appears to be some Haze over here as well but these P these portions of
the galactic center and now if you're really good these four stars here are
around the center of something called The Lobster Claw I took this photo before modifying my uh Canon 6D and had
I had I modified it I would have had some nebulosity over here where The Lobster
Claw and the cat's paw sits somewhere around here it is possible to see the
cat's paw in the northern hemisphere I've got other images that show it here you've got the butterfly and you've got
ptolemy's cluster hiding amongst the trees here this was a minute long exposure and this was taken during a
time when I wasn't doing many Composites and those of you who've done beautiful work in this region might recognize this
area is where roofyuki starts it comes off of the galactic center
um these dust Lanes appear to reach out to this particular star
um it's all field of view of course it's from our perspective we see these dust Lanes the more detailed your Milky Way
images and the darker your skies this region this part of the Bulge and
these dust Lanes will show up um this showed up even though I wasn't using a a
a modified camera for hydrogen Alpha this still showed up because it was dark
enough in the region and think of bortal force guy is basically when it gets dark
enough with a long enough exposure you will start to pull this out this little region you'll see in some images where
um astrophotographers take long exposures and stack of you get this red
blob that sits inofyucus um there's traces of it here in this
image um after my processing but this is the northern bulge so you are seeing when
you see detail like this and you see all these dust Lanes pop out you know that
you have some somewhat pretty good image you've got some details here that that are shining
through that you've captured I've seen this happen with at least a minute
and with dark enough skies and bortle one it doesn't take it doesn't even take
that long to start pulling that sort of detail out so I think it's a good idea to look at
certain parts of your images to to determine
whether or not you've got a pretty good shot or you know all of our shots always need a little more work but if you have
enough to do Outreach with you can start picking out dark nebula
you can start seeing different dark dust Lanes all of these Lanes have a name
um bodies windows down here and you can see the rising of Sagittarius and there's
M22 in these wide angle views there's a subtle difference with the
star clusters M23 right here um I believe this is M24
uh M25 it's further up and this is uh
m17 and you if you use averted imagination you can kind of see the swan
shape of the Omega nebula and it takes a real lot of imagination at this angle
for M16 this is the Eagle Nebula um maybe a hint of the dark clouds there
but that that's a really good close-up object that um many space observatories
and amateurs alike take well in the plane of the Galaxy it's
only that big so it's uh it's always interesting to see
the actual you know the size and space of how large
these objects really are and which is why I like to capture them
at various sizes so
um that is an awesome Adrian that's a beautiful picture to explore like you
did yeah I really like that it's uh it's mesmerizing and addictive at the same time and uh yes you know you really get
an orientation like you said of the of where their different options are but I like the kind of even though there was
light pollution and all that the clouds they really are like they're real clouds
they those clouds are out there and you that you can really see them as they are and and uh really I love those tendrils
as well this is awesome yes and um sometimes you just have to take it as is
now this was this was a shot taken at the cygnus region uh we just saw where
the uh the galactic center is cygnus region and
um and yeah it's um what you were saying Cameron those are some of the reasons that I like to image any part of the
Milky Way not just the rising part but cygnus as well cygnus stays with us for
most of the year I would say 10 or 11 months of the year it's possible to
image and now you see the effects of smoke we just looked at this region this
is um this was a two-minute exposure into
smoking Haze coming from Canada there's our coat hanger again
and here's our Stars Altera tarzad but a
lot of dust Lanes not much to be found just because of the effects of smoke and
the fact it's low on the horizon this is a lake here's Lake Huron so
these image especially this coat hanger and this plane that flew through but the
coat hanger is a great reference for knowing where you are in these parts of the Milky Way and
unfortunately I closed that other region um it lets you know what you're actually
taking a picture of there's a North American nebula and part of the Pelican kind of shows up here now this is with a
modified camera so this wasn't visible naked eye
it was very hard to see um any nebulacity at all
but it popped out after a two-minute image a a two minute exposure this was
the last shot that I took one of the roadside parks that overlooks the lake
um here in Michigan on the Eastern side and um
it sometimes it helps to go out an image and one of the neat things about Imaging
when their smoke or there's it's not as
bright you typically get the sky maybe one
bortal zone higher than where you you know where you
actually are this is typically a bortle force guy and this is how visible
the cygnus region is in a portal 3 sky and I know because I stood there with my
camera not long ago at this site here now this is this was um
when they're during a time of Aurora an initial photo there's a red light behind
me that shines over everything and I decided to do a little bit of reprocessing
of my photos so this one with the blaring light I
took the original started over and got a more true color view a little more of
the lighthouse and was able to clean some of this flooding red light so that you get more
of a you get more of what the eye sees here the eye doesn't quite see these
colors and there's a hint of the Milky Way that's the double cluster right
there the heart and soul doesn't quite show up and again this was taken before I modified my Canon 6D
and it's still picked up a lot of the uh the pillars and things
and from the Aurora so this image is on its way to this
building this Lighthouse um actually houses a couple
of these images so it's going to house this one and it already houses this one this image is in
this gift shop they no longer have this bright light although I know why it was there now because that bright light
keeps these bright lights from coming on um but they've since taken this down and
they've the sensor they've shown me how to use the sensor I actually have access
to turning off these Bright Lights during normal business or well after
business hours when it's dark if I want a dark view of this
um I simply shine a bright light towards the sensor it thinks it's daytime Cuts
thing cuts off these these lanterns here and I get to shoot
up at the tower now this this light we can't turn off and we shouldn't some lights we should not turn off uh behind
me is a campsite where people go to camp and not everybody acclimates to a very
dark area um but this this Lighthouse and these
that this LED light here um shines out
Northeast so Southeast and Northwest and there are a lot of shipwrecks in
this area and there would be more if this Lighthouse operated remotely by the
Coast Guard but taken care of by the lighthouse Society I'm a part of
um this is a meat this is a museum and when you climb through here you can go up
to the top of this Lighthouse you have to crawl out if you want to come here there's another ring that you can walk
out on and you have to be careful because this it's uh IT projects you can still go
blind if you walk out and Wander over here and at night it would get you so
so this is one of my favorite places to image there's a lot of light here so my
efforts to make it a dark sky preserve are going by the wayside because they're
really the other business that this place has and the the fact that it's a tourist
location sort of precludes it from being able to also be a dark sky Park but the
society is interested in having astronomy events happen and since we
know how to shut these lights off or go to the back of this area where
there are fewer lights it would still make a great place to do visual
astronomy and to have people come out especially from the campsite and look
through a telescope so that is something that I'm working on uh orchestrating
here as well as sharing my images um one has been bought there was a there
was another Aurora image that uh someone has picked up and we'll see how well this one does
but uh that's all I had for my presentation this I left this up to
share with everybody that um I had the opportunity to
you know take pictures at a portal one site the Gentleman Just Tonight said thank you
and these were the pictures that I took
um various parts there's that this was an overly exposed image but it shows you some of the
things that show up here there's that blob that's in opiocas and it comes from
this AJ region um you know that comes over the top it's
part of the center bulge and here I can't zoom in I don't think but there
are the nebula I was talking about The Lobster Claw and the cat's paw showed up pretty nicely here when I took this
image though which is why you see a lot of Milky Way photos where
they'll strip some of this they'll strip a lot of the stars out of here and they have this big bright
galactic center with this Rift here um it's a beautiful sight I like my
images a little more natural
this was late September like October and I think this was last year this was last
year as well wow dude that's crazy Yep this is the advantage of a modified
camera is before we turn it over to you and see if you've drawn any of this
um advantage of a modified camera is that you see Barnard's loop I did get in a
different image I got a trace of the second Loop that's over here but in this one this was a remake of an image that I
took we've got nebulosity here and if I were to only look it up I could figure out what that is well that's the rosette
there's another um image this is um
the dog star series yep there's Precision if that's how you
there's m44 I can't zoom in but uh
beehive 44 The Beehive shows up over here that's Gemini Leo
um I do believe regulus if it's not this star it's this one
um there's Leo Rising chasing and so of course this is cancer and Pollux caster
of um Jim and I and somewhere I think this is M35 this bright area right here
um um ariga is up here right that yeah this
would be part of Gemini and I think it would be the bright cluster M35
um some parts of Taurus the Bull are off screen here um that's the shield so yeah Taurus is
up here this was Mars Mars set in this location
um during last year's star party and I do believe this is a part these are part
of um auriga which floats up here and I was able to
get the um the crossing here with the zodiacal light and this part of the
Milky Way now we were able to scoot all the way below where we could see we
would see the uh magellanic clouds about where Orion is high in the sky that low
on the horizon you'd see one of the magellanic clouds and you'd start to see some of the other wonders of the
Southern Hemisphere it's a shame that Orion only Rises so high and then dips
all the way back down we're in the northern hemisphere we just don't get to see you have to go then that part I have
to go because it's in the north when you go there yeah so it's it's easily visible
yeah it's easily visible so so the one thing that's been rewarding
with my um with the Imaging and it changed my
direction rather than the pretty pictures that um a lot of astrophotographers will take
and we'll take some very pretty pictures um it became a matter of being able to
notice some of the objects that I'm taking and uh being able to share those
objects in the photos now as the moon comes back
um and I'm going back to work there are times when I just get tired and don't
want to drive the two and a half hours and then come back and start working to get images but the planning can still
happen and of course there's Outreach that I'll be doing over the next couple
of weeks even with the moon in the sky we just turned the telescopes on the moon so
so um with that I'll turn it over uh we'll see what uh John has for us
um yep good to see you again Cameron thank you your comments are always
welcome um you know we love the night sky we love the objects in the night sky and we
are we love sharing these things no matter where we're at in our journey we
love sharing those things with uh anyone who listen who's interested and
um it's always fun doing that in this foreign
I do like the pretty pictures but uh I just love the detail you know when anytime you can pull some structure and
also find the orientation of things where things are uh that that's that's part of the because then you have that
connection and people can relate right like you know the biggest thing to me a
big wow I got here huh hey let me see if I can I'll meet my
sorry uh one one thing uh that I I realized that
I didn't know the horse head was right in Orion's Belt I couldn't believe it you know I I thought this was some
remote uh you know very difficult object that was in some OB pure location but
it's right there you're looking at it all the time every time you're looking at Orion's Belt the bottom left star
it's right there it's even better if you get to see it if you get to see it with
your own eyes with the right telescope and right filter it's amazing I got a
chance I can show you in a minute there we go Mr Jones worth the master of
big dogs all right yeah all right Scott I think uh I think
John's been chomping at the bit to show us some of his latest Shenanigans yes
well I can see that so uh how is everybody doing
I think we're fine uh Charn I think you have the audio turned on to one of your
other okay yeah
my apologies
there you go you should be fine good
yeah perfect it's dark Where You Are
yes tonight
it's a very beautiful view where we always go
so uh let me get started real quick
I'm just gonna set this up I don't want you guys to watch my eyes squint
relax if you were at a dark sky sight in the
shadow yes it was hard to see your eyes I know
um I want to get those bionic eyes so I don't need the camera yeah you don't
need those that's right you know if uh I waited for the hip replacements I could
have gotten bionics I could have won a few races
but uh those are beautiful pictures Adrian I am very pleased with that um
lighthouse picture yeah that that Lighthouse is near and
dear to me and they are there are a couple of other places that are near and
dear to me and one of my presentations I have to uh get some images that's that
stars and stripes Memorial Day Moon I have to get some images
yeah where my pictures have been hung up go ahead yep I I called it Memorial Day Moon
so I got a new flag it's a six footer and the mailman comes and says this is
my favorite Street because there's so many American flags
we have uh some military people and a lot of law enforcement on my streets so
very safe place so this is uh the picture that I wanted
to show you first and I got my mouse set up now
but it's uh gonna take a little learning curve
this is another picture of the Moon and um this is looking
from the other end of my Valley in the last Global Star Party
we showed you the same perspective from my house
looking at the cross on McCoy Mountain so this is actually climbing up to the
top and looking at the other side and seeing the moon rise above the cross
rising over Simi Valley with the beautiful clouds
so I really like that one I do it I love the moon it's a great thing to sketch
so easy this is another version from the last Star Party
this is the way I wanted to orientate it so again that's a quick sketch through
the trees now this I have to tell you Scott I've
been meaning to show you this okay have you guys seen mountains on the moon
I have but this is nice this is the uh eclipse the big one we just had the last
time 27 and I was in my driveway and that was with your six inch and look
at how sharp those mountains are you got a good Focus
yeah that's an amazing telescope that's why I keep telling you it's one of my
sharpest every time I use it I bleed for some reason I don't know why
and my baby she's been looking at the moon that's my granddaughter you could
see that she was getting blinded by that moonlight we painted her eyebrows on to kind of
help with the glare but she wasn't too happy about that
oh this is The Terminator I call it uh sketch I did
from a photograph it's a photorealistic
the Terminator was the title I used when I posted it
almost look like you got part of uh lunar X actually you do have lunar X yes
at the bottom thank you there's the lunar X well x marks the spot and
there's a little extra for everybody you don't get to see that too often and
it because it has to I've actually seen it visually went to
take a picture with my uh camera the moment I saw it in the telescope and
maybe 15 minutes later the Shadows have moved on it does not take long uh you
have to catch it you have to catch it right at that moment the the Terminator line is where
those four craters are right it's timing is everything and you know it's a lot of
guys in Cloudy Nights sketch pictures of the sun rising over the craters
so you get the light playing these huge Shadows it's a amazing Target to sketch because it's
always revealing a different phase and different illumination on many of the
hidden features and sometimes you're just blessed to see the most amazing
Shadows that are hundreds of miles long it's pretty cool it's beautiful
now this was the moon in Jupiter this is a sketch look at I had some
Earth shine on there and Saturn's there right there and there's Jupiter
it's a beautiful view to experience when you see the colors and the planets and
the Moon clouds just makes you want to keep looking up
this was a Venus just a quick um shot right now the clouds are very
visible the sulfuric acid clouds and if you use a minus Violet filter
you might see a hint of some Cloud structure just a little gray lines
that's about all you're going to get visually this is one of my prize pieces
it's the Orion it's a culmination of years of work
you try to get better and better with each rendering and the colors on this the effect it was
a different style departure from my usual
you know photographic looking type rendering
look at the Trap and the the cloud is illuminated you
know in front of there by some light years oh yeah it's just amazing how uh
we can look at this the geometric the geometry of the way
that you're drawing this I think it's cool well the girl I used a grid thing again
you know it helps with your star placements sure and
with digital you're able to save these and you don't take up a lot of space
the wife isn't mad there's canvases everywhere I'm painting in like Picasso
no shirt but it's hot up there that's right
so uh I just love to keep trying to paint these and change them and make them
better with every rendering it's a lifetime
accumulation of you know views that I've acquired through large telescopes and
perfect nights of seeing sure you know even with a little scope you would be
surprised that when the seeing opens up you can see the central star in the ring
with a 12 and a half inch telescope this was another version
that I did a little different effect
the Trap those stars are embedded in there and they burned a hole out of the Cocoon
of their molecular gas cloud which formed them
and once they ignited they just burn all that away just like our solar system
and now we're left with planets there could be planets there
it's probably hot in there though but big stars
I always say there's a face of Orion each portrait is a different look
Adrian you know about that yeah it reminds me so much of when I've
seen it visually a lot different from when you take the picture
you know all of it's so important to use to get the best advantage to show people
and um at Star parties you know to do visual and then you have a guy with a four inch
telescope showing you the same object and they're enamored by how much you can see
on the screen as opposed to visual but you don't get the photons
and the connection it's real I mean all of its great stuff I say do all of
it if you can afford it it's very expensive
this is something I've been working on my Blue Snowball using um some of the Wilson views
look at the strange modeling of the gas
some of that might be uh imagined like averted
you know a very Vision but I see hints of structures so
I just try to build on it and these pictures were all looked at through a 32
inch a 60 inch and a 28 inch
this is a different version again the Blue Snowball
it's a very popular Target that's the Saturn nebula again 7009
and here is what we've been waiting for
see it the supernova oh yeah
it's red it blew like Beetlejuice is gonna blow
but it's probably a lot bigger what a beautiful quite a bit brighter
too sure
yeah it's incredible that from that distance you can see that it
would be terrible if we were living near that oh man yeah
barbecue would be cooked you wouldn't even have barbecue
this uh I love this one you know it was based on our border one trip
um with merko when we did the maiden voyage to get the 32 inch from Rodeo New
Mexico portal one we were looking at these good binoculars
so when you unleash the 32 on it you can't imagine the amount of detail it's mind-blowing
the structure that appears with the seeing and the transparency and
altitude Dark Skies that's what you got to do if you want to
see this kind of detail and you need big scopes
I'm sure you found a lot of times uh John that what you do is when you get to the dark sky you start up with little
guys and you're already amazed what you can see and then you're training you're you're training your eyes and then all
of a sudden when you you go to the big guys it's like that all that detail is so easy you can focus on the next level
of detail you know from Mount Pinos they have great altitude and right now we're
getting clouds all day every day and when you go up there you're above it so
we're getting some really good amazing views right now up there in Mount Pinos
it's uh the best you're gonna get for here this is 253
also called the silver dollar Galaxy
and there it is silver dollar I just had fun with this one I put the
coin over it nicely done right
that's just fun you know it doesn't uh go over well everywhere but for here it's pretty cool it gives you
an idea of the name every Galaxy the good ones have a name
uh 101 is the pinwheel 51
is the whirlpool there's a needle
the wedge there's a lot of them
this is the cat's eye Galaxy which is a
beautiful galaxy that has a ring around it my guess is that there was a collision
and um the center one had a lot of mass the black hole and it just blasted a hole
through that other one and I created a ring circling
for eternity so it evaporates into the vacuum of space
and all the stars are gone you know Google on I think it's called
I don't want to be here then it's very cold dark empty
space avoid and then bang starts all over again
that's the Schwartz Galaxy for
oh yeah we don't have any really great ones from
our location right this is in Pegasus right
yeah that's awesome and one of the army guys kind of splits off
yep 45-35 yeah and these are on those best nights uh to
see this kind of level of detail this is uh the sombrero another famous
and a name sombrero uh it's a beautiful galaxy
it's got the dark dust ring circling around a super massive black hole
it's very popular Target pretty bright you look over corve
you look over uh corvus the uh Crow
uh about a third of the way to where uh Virgo is and look for little
sagitta the uh I use those little bitty version of sagitta that points right to
the sombrero it points right at it it's a chain of stars and you just follow that in
and even in binoculars I've been able to spy this from like Bluetooth sky
yeah this is a low one uh The Centaurus a Galaxy
the hamburger that's one that's one on my list to observe
you know I should have looked when I was in Patagonia I got stubborn I wanted to wait for it
to come up higher and the clouds came in now I have to go back
and see Omega Centauri too
this is very special to me
it's uh years and years of work and probably done 20 or 30 versions of
this but this is my victory sketch of the
whirlpool M51 it's my winning sketch for the league
you know it draws shades of the uh the Hubble image the Hubble raw image of M51
so you've captured a lot of its Essence in your drawing thank you you know the
H2 regions actually that you did for that you won the astronomical League
Award with yes I I wanted to make sure I didn't post it ahead of its time I didn't know
if it would win I was extremely nervous and there's so many talented people
and the league is such a great for that great place to learn about this Hobby
and there's so many helpful people you know and um they gave me the opportunity to enter
this and I'm honored and it's a great thing to be a part of
it just takes your game up a notch I mean I would imagine I'll be learning
about some really great obscure stuff there's so many great people
just like here on the global Star Party
so Scott what I want to try is um I have I'm on with my phone I couldn't
get my video to load but I put together a video of the flowers and the clouds
I'm gonna try to do it so let me turn my volume down on the one
okay can you see me on my phone
no I have to stop sharing you oh do you want to
um yeah let's uh okay all right there we go now we can see you
okay this is on my cell phone so great now I can um
share my videos I made
it's a little garbly there
so I missed everybody I missed Chuck and um
I knew I wasn't going to be able to make it but one of these days I'll resume my
old post interrupting all of the big guy the big guns that come in
and uh I enjoy talking and learning from the first half of global star party but
um I've been more tired as of late so I'll just I would need to have more
energy um I I actually did have to work out at the office today and that was an hour
drive so so yeah that was doesn't always uh work
out that I can listen to David's poetry but I have it gives me the opportunity to play it
back and watch it from uh there you know from back from the beginning sure
um yep so so go ahead um I'm going to step
away but I'm still here I I want to help my uh my good buddy John closes down uh
if you get your iPhone or yeah I'm trying to see if I can get this
to work it doesn't give me the stories it gives me pictures and albums
story I'll try one other thing let me see well I'll be right back and when I get
back I'll see you got it working I hope I can this is a great thing I was
looking at
is it an iPhone story John no it's a Android or Android can you Xbox the
movie who I tried to do it but the problem is um
it wouldn't show me I wonder if I did a um
file it might work but usually it's photos let me see if
the files
well I could just go into my pictures and we just won't have the music I'll
have to figure it out for next time my apologies I was struggling with it I
was really wanted to place I mean we've seen
one of the most celebrated images you'll ever draw in 51. that that's a spectacular
uh drawing and uh you know even Cesar bring it up may not
be able to draw yeah tell us a little bit about the contest
well if you want to lose your nerves that's what you do you enter that
contest because it's such a
tough there's so many talented people I mean you won so
Terry maniai it's an OMG moment
yeah sure I'm blessed to be able to see this kind
of detail it's awesome yeah that's the first thing here's your drawing what you
see with your eyes away from contests when I realized that
I was bringing in some of my old sports competitivism into it and I found that a
better use for my images was to describe what I saw and why I took them in the
first place and that made things a little less stressful for me now there may be some contests
um that I could submit the images to but
um I feel like it's a for me it's a better use of the images to just share them and
I've actually had people buy them and put those images up in their homes
or in their places of business which um I'll have to go grab some pictures of
the restaurant if it's open um the restaurant that's hung up a lot of my pictures that are on canvases so
that's a great feeling when you see your others appreciate your work to the point where they'll buy it and that's that
becomes um that becomes more fulfilling than you
know unless the grand prize is a hundred million dollars or something um you know money you can always use but
it's equally or more fulfilling when your image is thought of enough that
someone wants to see it every time they go to a certain area in their house and that that's a wonderful thing that
means you captured something near and dear to them um not so much you know is it the best
view of the lighthouse I've ever taken no but if someone wants it then for them it's a very beautiful view
you don't have to win out over hundreds of other people you went out over one soul that thinks
your image is worth hanging in their living room or one other place so it
makes you proud I'm very proud it makes you glad that you captured what you did
capture for their behalf yeah I have a lot of them ready to show
um locked and loaded but this probably is my greatest achievement
good morning can you zoom in a little bit in the core
I'm sorry can you zoom in a little bit in the core
that you you know what I mean I mean it just kind of reminds me of what Adrian did with you know with the Milky Way
shots that that does cloud kept steering the uh dense uh star forming region
and uh it's just awesome
yeah interplay with the shadows and that real
bright it's more of a circular core in M51 but uh yeah there's details on spiral
too there's a bar that comes this way that's what it's a smaller bar than some
of the other right features some of the larger larger Bard spirals um
M101 I think is is circular kind of a circular tightly packed nucleus
yeah I have to um get the 40 inch to take this to the next level so you know
what John I was just gonna ask you
you know down the problem is
you were worthy you were worthy of that 100 John it it something like that
instrument like that you don't need somebody like this you know I'm gonna bring it to Star
parties I'm a one meter out hard
to be looking at John that's the name when you spend a million dollars to get
that scope call it the Schwartz tank and you bring it we're coming down party
everyone sees it they pack their 22-inch dabs up and they give up because you
come in with a meter a meter wide mirror it's just to share I mean you know the
caveat is incinerating everybody but that's not what it's about right now it is
I would probably put away my 11 inch SCT unless there was something in particular
I wanted to get out of mine I was able to see him in 101 Once Upon a Time
um it surprised me that I had Spire alarms when I didn't think the transparency in that direction was good
enough but there I was trying to locate H2 regions in M101 when I was at Okie
text so with the scope
when you when you get to that side it's a whole new level where I can imagine you know it's all about
the appreciation going deeper into the elect objects like like I had an 18 inch
Obsession at one point and I got to the point where it's like holy smokes there's like thousands and thousands of
uh 16th magnitude galaxies 15 Magnum galaxies I can go after but but but then
when you start to point that of course to some of the like M51 and you see the spare alarms it's like oh man and so you
get a big one like that when you share that experience uh you know you just need to see one or two objects to one of
those big Scopes in a dark sky oh man that's that's life-changing yeah yeah it really is and um it's no
fun unless you can share it because that's the best part is when people
haven't seen that and they see it for the first time and you know that's the biggest reason
why I do this hobby is I love the of camaraderie with the people and
showing kids Saturn or things they've never seen
bringing them back to a real tangible fun thing to do yeah with camping and
they're getting outside and breathing that air and seeing oh yeah
the wonderful skies and this beautiful blue planet nothing better here I work in the
raccoons climb defenses yeah it's magical when you're going up
there you're like so giddy you just you can't get there quick enough like
you come into the parking lot and everybody's like slow down
because you can't wait to set up shops
once you've got your uh when once you got your super dub or your
super affordable Newtonian I should say uh what would be the object you'd told people what would be the odd of all the
sketches and things if you wanted to impress somebody what would be the one object
if you want okay Orion
all right off the ladder I managed to see Barnard's Galaxy in my
11 inch at uh okey tax I was impressed being able to pick that out
probably uh m64 maybe
uh or the NGC 4565
and we don't want to forget about M13 or M5 that would be a great view too
oh yeah yeah you see color the stars in M13 are actually red
here and I could show you um picture
I don't know if my uh video not video but pictures I was going to run you
through the pictures real quick let me see if I can get that on this
it reminds me I I you know Maxi's picture of Omega Century that was
gorgeous with the colored scar Stars I love that
so here's my last bit of stuff another set of flowers beautiful flowers
I have to do them all here that give me another second uh punch them
yes I can't wait till there's PowerPoint in my pocket so I can
actually do something better than what I'm doing
but why don't wait until they have holographic projection man that would be oh yeah the phone only
allows me one you are part of this family no don't worry
oh that's beautiful well let me go into here I'm gonna get
off of this one it's not really working too well so I'll make this quick
my apologies I wanted to really show that movie
that's okay really nice time
I'll help you put the movie together okay Adrian thank you bud nice to seeing you it's good to see you again
Cameron yeah I miss seeing you too I miss seeing everybody on global star party I'm glad we've got the audiences
growing those that are still watching are seeing what true astronomy enthusiasts do with their time and and
hopefully we inspire a few of the others to get out there and go you know safely
go about and see what the night sky says to you it's uh there's a lot going on in
our world and um one way to step away from it for a few
hours is to go find your local astronomy club and look through a telescope any
telescope will do and uh enjoy the night sky get away from it all for a little
while and um you know realize the healing benefits of seeing something that's larger than we are here on Earth
so with that I bid you farewell um
John that's a beautiful little drawing of flowers I will see you all at the
next and we want to see all of you at the next Global Star Party we're already checking in for Star party uh 122 I
believe 120 20 23 123. I'm all right third party behind that's what happens
when you're not here as regular I'll be uh May 6th and um uh we're real excited
we've already got people jumping in to make presentations so yeah I gotta get some more uh current Milky Way shots you
uh I wanna stay down to gauntlet see what we can do
of This Global Star Party is that we get to share our experiences in years
of struggle and uh learning curve to get this kind of imagery
like Adrian and everybody else it's so tough sometimes to get the good
results but now we can share them with you guys yeah
very great we played the long game we
we are playing the long game we we like to uh be around and we're here for the Long
Haul that's for sure this is the evolution for me is is to be able to
share it and um that's why I do it and I I just love to be able to get out
and this actually makes you have to produce pictures every week
so that's the benefit as well is that you have to continually create work
to be able to share new refreshing images and give you guys the best pictures
best astrophotos and explanations and knowledge
and you'll become an astronomer like us
that's right you know a lot of gear in one night a lot of great people
if you can just get out to your star party or even just get a scope
and see what the universe has to show you
it's a lot of amazing yeah I'll say it again the most important thing enjoy the journey enjoys
that's right it's an infinite Universe out there there's too much for anyone to do just enjoy what you can do that's
right you know you're right about perfect you know one last thing is
I have 20 telescopes because really John you have 20 television I do you need to hook them up
man you need more John you need more I know you need to get a whole pile of uh
I need the 40. that's what I'm my that's my goalie is
so 20. it's on sale right now John so well you're wrong
I'm trying to be a pushy sales guy here you just roll out a bigger you'll regret
it if you don't put a down payment on it now no you're you're aware you're working on the bathroom in the kitchen
next but uh look at this it's gonna happen I just
once I make it that's all part of the journey all right yep you just called and say I need it for all these
wonderful people that are watching us and we want to give them a show you imagine using uh 40 inch telescope at a
dark site I mean a really dark you know oh yeah yeah
I mean if you had 60 inches at Mount Pinos yeah no we choke up to 65
inch telescopes he says he can do bigger but he feels comfortable with about a 65.
that's crazy though that's uh right I'm I'm even amazing
with a pair of binoculars in a dark sky oh yeah right you know just getting any
scope out to a dark sky sure that already is just well no scope just
landed exactly Milky Way you know you know
kicks in every scope is showing a great image
it's like there is no bad images um we were looking at Mars and even an
eight inch Casa grains that are getting a beautiful image and everybody's so happy to get those
images pride of ownership you know I Carnival there is that but
it's just it's the experience you know that that calm that you feel
um the uh all your stresses kind of melt away you know and
and uh you know you're out under that night sky especially you see like a
bowline coming overhead you know or uridium satellites anything everybody so
anything ever either you know yeah yeah and when you're really great
camaraderie what's disappointing to me is seeing Daybreak happen you know you go
oh my god I've been up too late oh light pollution wow that's where the second guy about
the eye pollution [Laughter]
where it was just so amazing and and you're just like
you know you just can't get enough and then all of a sudden you look towards
the east and you see the glow of the sun coming you go oh no it's the worst feeling
yeah but especially when you're up north right like uh I'm I'm already in Seattle
it's 47 North right it's already high enough it's way up there and uh it doesn't get done we only have a couple
of astronomical dark you know and then you have people like Pekka and I hope he's doing well uh up in in Stockholm I
mean they're they're even higher in the 50s uh and latitude and so it's uh they
don't have any time in the in the summertime even though that's the nice weather yeah yeah you just go there in the
winter when it's dark all day every day yeah can you tell I've been training for
the 40. I'm working on my yeah
I might need help no no I don't know they probably have
some sort of uh robotics system yeah yep I try to manhandle it
but the problem is you break stuff when you can't handle it
so you don't wanna break anything you have it you have a good spot to put
the 40 in huh make it I'm hoping that I can bring it
around and represent with the Explorer and you know just wherever I want to go with
it sure take it no yeah just blow people's minds and even put a
camera on it telescopes
was the fella who took into Karina with no tracking with that guy
yeah yeah what you want yeah you should have done
I don't know if you already have it but get a 533 just get a square sensor and then you what you do is is when it
rotates in the field even you know there's not you're not going to get the deals rotationally we'll just stack stack stack and they will rotate and it
will it will naturally turn into a circle there's like another piece View and then and then and then you can
overlay that with your sketching so that would be a great tool for you to consider to add it's not that expensive
and uh and it's that's tntwo
like that okay yep yeah that would be really good and then you put that on your dog and then any
field rotation uh you're going to be taking short stocks anyhow right 15 seconds 30 seconds rotation
yeah Merkel got the Fielding rotator it's uh the blue one I forgot the name
of it the Falcon Falcon yeah but he's got it on his 32. yeah I
think what's gonna happen uh if you ask me if uh they're gonna
have forget about mechanical derotation just do digital uh right if you have a
square sensor and and people are okay with the round image you can always crop it to whatever aspect and square because
it keeps it uniform yeah yeah so it will just cut off the corners
and we'll make it you'll have a circle sure this is what a 32 inch does
oh my gosh that's the 32 inch with the zwo I think uh the
294 or the 1600 pretty awesome that's 101.
and yeah you see up there that nebulosity the
just to the left of that where that dark patch is that's where the Supernova is can you see my um
my cursor my arrow but I do not no okay no yeah it just
shows a circle on mine so you would say it's somewhere over here
right there you go yeah just to the left with a dark spot so it's right in that dark nebulosity is the left of the tail
of that uh a couple months ago I wonder if that there's any indicator of
yeah because that might be it right there go down go down left a little bit more
and more right see that that Dark Knight velocity back wall
exactly right there it's right there so that's right now yeah it's all right
beside that tadpole nebula yeah you know what's so crazy is when you're looking
through these telescopes you're counting so many background galaxies that you
can't even believe you're seeing I love that I love that I love that yeah but uh
that that just you know I I am addicted to that right now with my Imaging like for example the Ring Nebula they have
like a 17th magnitude and the 16th magnitude Galaxy right in the same field
right right beside it and I'm trying to make a technique where I don't blow out the ring and I guess
that's one of my projects well there's an art to it you know
because you have to take the layers out and then recombine them uh when I did
that to murko started to call me Dr Frankenstein he got mad at me
because I was reverse engineering his images
super upset because my scope is sharper
it's pretty competitive here's a yeah a neat one this was
with an eight inch Mead can you imagine
I mean that that is the sharpest speed you know Scott I think you got might
have gotten me that one too for some reason when you get me telescopes they are I have to get Band-Aids
right now that's right yep well gentlemen it's
it's that's the boss here I put her on hold yeah it's uh dinner time
you have to have a great wife as well for this hobby to give us
our time away she knows that so she knows that I mean
when you get those nights where you can't view because the weather you're just like and
she goes well you picked your hobby
but you know some nights are tough you go through all the work and you can't
see what you want to see yeah I think I'm I'm good on these uh I had some more
that merko did I didn't load them in but they are wrong 8.91
and is uh 45-65 I've never seen one that
you know pronounced here's the Franken Dr Frankenstein
so oh I took a cell phone snapshot that's why the stars are all weird like
you're in a Time Warp to the Eagles
and then uh merkos is mostly the dark stuff and the center is that's from my 28th
here on Earth with that zwo camera where people said
you cannot do this but we did it so this is all this is a mixed media
yeah uh Frankenstein yeah
but look at the effect could you imagine back in the day
of Sir Lord Ross and the speculum 72-inch
uh they never saw something like this we're so blessed with technology
and that's why I've embraced I don't know what he saw though I mean he had darks guys you know yeah 72 inch
but up where he lived too they probably had a lot of cloudy nights I would think so you know those uh Opticians man they
were like barbarians had like six mirrors now once you
polished up a you finished polishing a spatula mirror so it was really
reflective it started to immediately tarnish tarnish So within I don't know a
week or so it was too tarnished and wasn't at its peak so he had I think it
was six other uh mirrors uh waiting so
that he could have one polished up you know always ready to go and uh so that
he could use that scope at a moment's notice a lot of work you know mounting that massive mirror I
can't imagine how much it weighed and uh you know climbing up those ladders and
getting on those platforms to look through that giant 72-inch telescope you
know that not for the faint of art so yeah no it I can tell you this
after one night observing I might have summited the Eiffel Tower
but after three I've already went up and down the Dubai tower probably twice
and I'll tell you when you go home you're shot in in the the problem with his hobby is
when you show people the stuff and they stay up all night well the solar observers expect you to
not go to bed stay up all day you've gotta you've gotta look at the sun now
I remember sneaking away when Steve has telescope and everybody came to see the 32 and that was my
moment to sneak out and go back to the hotel and go to sleep go to sleep yeah that's right because I
could tell you this hobby you got to be tough to stay up that many times
you know what the thing is it's such a addictive and such a all-encompassing uh
Bobby and it's just such a good feeling it's so um enriching and also very uh
motivating it just kind of speaks to your your tool if you will uh you really do have to
pace yourself um like I said that's why I keep been saying there's there's another side of
when I say keep and keep you know enjoy enjoy the journey make sure you keep on enjoying you don't want
to turn it into work oh people burn out they burn out oh it is about it it's not
fun anymore you know they'll have that's why it's not a business they'll be going
along and something won't work or something you know and they'll just they're Furious you know during this
this moment and yeah when you have a catastrophic failure yeah and you're
ready to image boy but you find out in a hurry what great people are actually in this Hobby
and and they you know they're there for you and they'll come out with their box of bolts and whatever they got
to just help you that's why you go on serving with a club you know it's safer
it's better it's more fun you know yeah yeah yeah or or go to some of your
events yeah well we the next one coming up will be
um uh the annular Eclipse so now we'll have it yeah by nights as well so yeah
but I've asked my wife yeah book can we book the place because
we might be running out of time yeah it will fill up what will happen is
is that it'll be available it'll be available and then right at the very end maybe two three weeks before the event
they'll sell out they'll just be nuts yeah here I'm gonna give it I got it for
you guys so this is uh merkos
you wanted to look at something oh I love oh man this is amazing this is 32.
oh my gosh that's pretty amazing uh have you ever seen and that's what
the dobsonia oh that's beautiful no I'm always amazed even with my images with a smaller scope
because it it's a gorgeous Galaxy but that I can really appreciate that's the other thing when you work your way
through this hobby uh you can really appreciate um this is the better one learn how to
appreciate when you know these extra extra details that you can get as you go
through and also appreciate what you can do with your what with what you have and
it's very uh this is this is awesome I can really see wow yeah
excuse me Gravity wave so this massive
Galaxy that extends hundreds of light years thousands across probably look at
how the tidal wave makes that little s like a ying and a
Yang you know you start something and then arcs down and then comes around
yeah it's just amazing to see the physics you can actually see that in a
photograph this is so amazing so much modeling look at the pillars in
this 4565 I that is amazing the the texture and the that is amazing it's
almost like you know indirectly I don't know how I got so good at
processing but I'm not even using Photoshop or pixel insight I'm just using my meager uh free apps
Photoshop Express I've got the procreate the Photoshop has
you know the suite of adjustments that the luminance color
contrast sharpness clarity um
what else Haze you know you can make it more hazy you
can make it grainy softer so it has so many different little filters that you
can use to you know enhance and I've been doing this for a long time just playing with
images and I've gotten pretty good without even using a real Photoshop you
know what the answer is John the answer is if you you can you can have as long as
you have aperture and you get that you just Hammer the photons with signal to noise
you your processing is so much because you you know yeah I mean so you
can you can just use the PowerPoint and paste it and do some color adjustments and it looks awesome
are you using a pixel insight well you thought what I was doing I don't know if you were there early John
I I'm I'm I was your grandma but I am I'm kind of hacking around with uh with
crack uh gradient expert graxberg
those are all three they're all free uh they're all uh you know open source and
um I recommend there and I'm basically uh yeah I don't use the script do
everything yourself because then you really learn you learn the tools that you need uh sometimes the scripts are
you know they could be good but you have to really know what you're doing it's better to do semi-automatic yourself and then just learn a couple of the
basic tools and then you're gonna it will really help you you know just playing with stuff gives
you the ability to want to learn more yeah that is amazing though right
yeah and on that note I do have to go gentlemen thank you guys yeah thanks a
lot you guys a good thing again thank you yeah so good to see you and um
I gotta get in on the next one and see some of your work because I missed it
and I'm really sad that I didn't get in there earlier watch the replay that's uh that's what
I'm doing that's what I'm gonna do I am I always just so you know I am watching
this religiously uh every week uh within usually a couple of days I just can't watch live I can't my work is just too
demanding right now but uh but uh but I believe me I'm I'm always there and I'm
in it for the long haul and uh I'll be back I'll be back okay pleasure thank
you so much thanks guys okay so all right
so at this point uh we are going to tell our audience uh good night
um thank you for tuning in I want to thank all the presenters that if you're still watching the program uh on YouTube
or Facebook or twitch or Twitter um thanks for tuning in as well
we had a great audience from around the world and it was nice to see so many
friends tuning in and we'll be back next Tuesday June 6th at six o'clock and
we have the theme is Starlet Reflections and so
um so anyhow you guys do as my good friend Jack Hort Heimer always used to say keep
looking up and good night thank you everyone
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