Global Star Party 124

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leaving is being live streamed right into Maryland that's right
so they're they're seeing backstage right now
howdy on the live chat here
they're not going to know what to do I haven't had Global starfighting in a while so
yeah and I think it has a mom's like us I think the last one I
think was 30 30 no 30
a of M.A last day of May yeah I think
that was the last one that's right that's right
but I'm excited you know it was a real um uh you know energy charge to be at
alkyne and uh see all those people you know David uh gave a great talk uh got a
standing ovation you know it's wonderful Fred espinax talk during in the
planetarium was really interesting and uh everybody just had a great time
but don't you think so David I believe so I think it was one of the most successful meetings
yep was really fun to meet our president Carol George yes and uh to talk with him I've linked
on a number of topics and to the Ron Kramer previous president of the league that's right the publisher
of my latest book and uh generally it was a wonderful
wonderful time and if I can just figure out how to get out of bed I'll be doing a lot better
[Laughter] well you'll get there
we'll get there but that sounds really the issue right now is it I just can't get up and when I do one
only one goes off John's will turn it off sometimes I just let it ring
and that's a real struggle to get out of bed but I'm up now and I'm doing much better and I'm all
set to go and I even have a quotation awesome constantly we've missed the global Star
Party Scotty we've missed it a lot definitely you know I follow you guys in
social media and Facebook and when I saw the picture that everyone was
sharing of the icon a ceremony and everything you know I'm really glad for you that you could meet again a passing
through this uh forgotten a Kobe situation everything in
the past and see you guys hugging again
talking again and having a really good time of course in in this case in
astronomy but even that's me beyond that it's very important to still continue
meeting you know and I hope someday I could meet you or be with you in in
another convention I hope so too that would be so nice be
so nice of all of us who get together in person someday yeah yeah there's nothing like that well
there's you know that is definitely um uh happening again and
um it feels uh I mean every time you see somebody you
haven't seen in a long time you know it's just so energizing you know I don't have any other word for it it's it puts
you a big smile on your face and you're so glad to see them and shake their hand
and sit there and talk to them face to face it has a big effect
where that's the thing about of that is when
you meet with and a lot of people that you've been not seeing a long time ago
because you want to talk with everyone and you don't have that sign but well of
course you have to compromise this that anyway it's very comfortable
except this time I made the time I sort of said it was excellent excellent
I really did enjoy that we have uh Harold Locke and Ed Gunther
watching on YouTube right now so oh great dinosaurs
and uh okay I've got like I understand that Mr
Gunther is going to come out for Wendy's unveiling ceremony later this fall okay and I understand that the
weather by then might have cooled off a little bit I sure hope so and uh it'll be a good memory a sad one
but a good memory yeah Ed says hello back so thank you yeah Shane said
[Music]
after nearly two years of studying asteroid bennu in great detail NASA's osiris-rex Mission made its approach to
collect a sample from the rugged surface this spacecraft steered itself down to
the surface of the Nightingale crater dodging hazards on its approach it sunk deep into the surface and
collected an incredible amount of asteroid sample
[Music] osiris-rex backed away from Bennett and the team sealed up the return
capsule and prepared for the long journey to Earth [Music]
osiris-rex is preparing to Rendezvous with Earth and will deliver the asteroid sample on September 24 2023.
[Music] the return capsule will land in the Utah
desert and will be opened and studied for years to come
[Music]
thank you hey everybody this is Scott Roberts from explore scientific and the explore
Alliance and tonight we celebrate the 124th Global star party with the theme
of the perseids the perseids have been observed by the Chinese since 36 A.D and
observed by cultures around the world it was the perseids are attributed to a comment
called Swift Tuttle and so Swift entitled discovered this comment
um let me get their first names here Lewis Swift and Horus Tuttle this
independently discovered this comment in 1862 but this comet has been making its
Rounds Around the Sun for a long long time and no one's quite sure when it all started but humans started looking at it
in very early recorded history so this the debris that's left by comments
create meteor showers and so as we go around in our orbit you know Earth's
going around the Sun at about 60 000 miles an hour it collides with the dust and debris that's left over from comets
um and creates these showers in the case of the perseids the radium the point of
the sky where it looks like it's coming from is in the constellation Perseus so Swift title uh has produced
um the some of the most well-known and most reliable meteor showers the
perseids uh since um since people started looking up at the sky and trying
to figure it all out um the um
you know com comments and uh and the resulting meteors and meteor showers uh
capture you know our imagination uh like few other celestial objects can
and this has a an effect of uh preserving uh dark skies because people
want to get to nice clear Dark Skies to observe these things because they're just fantastic to see you don't observe
meteors uh with telescopes you do you would observe uh comets with telescopes
but a lot of times if they're bright and they have a big long tail you're still going to be using the naked eye to
observe these things so um we
you know expect that our speakers here will have some amazing talks for you we
kick it off with Comet Discoverer David Levy who gives some introduction and
poetry Bob Fugate who is the father of modern Adaptive Optics that's used on
the big professional telescopes but Bob is also an amateur astronomer and does amazing astrophotography all of his own
uh young Navin sentel Kumar is going to join us Daniel Barth from the University
of Arkansas will be with us tonight Maxie Flores down in Argentina with his
amazing astrophotography um we'll take a break and then we'll come back with Adrian Bradley
Marcelo Souza from Brazil Cesar brolo from Argentina and then finishing up
with John Schwartz out there in California and his uh amazing drawings and artistic
interpretation of the night Sky um so anyways uh I'm happy to kick this off
and we'll turn this over to David Levy hello everyone and uh welcome back to
the global star party I I miss it and I think a lot of you guys and gals have missed it also it's good
to have it back good to have it back Scott yes anyway I have a few stories to
share about our theme tonight the Persians the first one is in 1964. I was waiting
for a ride to go see women out in the country and my dad was alone and he said before
they pick you up could we go out to a restaurant you and me and have dinner and I said sure we went to chenois
and at the time they had a lot of noise around the city and this one had you know examine booth and there'd be a
little record Machine by the side of the table you put in a quarter you choose the song
you want and uh yeah it plays over the whole restaurant and I asked Dad if he had any
I asked out if he had any ideas and he said are you gonna let me choose
a song and it was clear he's getting very excited about this and they said I would love to do that
he said I'd love to hear some big band music that was when I was growing up and
we found something and I put in the quarter and we're listening to it and dad had the smile on
his face that I will never forget God I miss him so much
but uh 1966 we saw 906 lady years
and then we've had others I'm looking forward to this year's shower as well not sure if we're going to have clear
sky or not but it is later in the night so I think we have a chance for it
and that brings me to the quote of the week of all the people that we knew the one
that I never knew but I so wish that I did is Leonard Cohen
I mean I heard that he went to Israel to give a consulate in his life
and when he was standing in front of the audience he began with the mottoville or alejayakovich
how goodly are thy tents oh Jacob thy Dwelling Places oh Israel he made a
personal welcome so I think the audience just loved and I think you try to do that in a lot
I kind of missed Leonard he went to the same Elementary School I did but about
10 years earlier he went to the same high school I did about 10 years before me he went to
McGill about 10 years before me and uh he also was a I think his parents
founded the Charlotte Congregation of which my family had long-term members
and uh when we went for my mother's unveiling ceremony a number of years ago
Wendy was walking around kind of exploring some of the other gravesites
and she discovered the tomb of Leonard Cohen she was so excited she could hardly
speak teachers called me to come over and I looked at it and we just gazed at this
beautiful beautiful memory of Leonard Cohen so here's my quotation
it's from Hallelujah but it is
a little extra stanza than I composed for it I don't think minded would have minded because the song that he
originally did was only about a tenth of the number of verses that he actually wrote for it
so here's Ryan it's time to go Outdoors tonight the sky
is dark some stars are bright the Milky Way shines overhead now see uh
a comet rises in the East with them to Strife it brings us peace and calls us
to a cosmic hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah
thank you for letting me do this thank you so much thank you
that's great um now we also have a special guest who
will come on later in our program space artist and author Michael Carroll
so normally we have about a 10 minute break but uh we're gonna we're just gonna forget the break and um Michael's
going to come on uh during that time and we'll give him a good amount of time to give his presentation so yeah really
happy to have him on David thank you very very much I love to hear you're singing so thank you
okay that's great so um uh we are uh uh happy to have people
come back to Global Star Party we've had uh some people Beyond uh for a number of
uh segments uh and uh Bob Bob Fugate uh uh has done that with us
um he took a little bit of a break but it's wonderful to have him back I was pleasantly uh I had a big smile on my
face when I saw his emails saying hey I'll be there so um Bob thank you for coming on to the 124th Global Star Party
thank you Scott it's um really great to be back kind of in the flow of things
here and yeah I really uh I really appreciate what you and all the guests
and astronomers and people interested in the world in the universe
uh contribute to this it's but I can't say enough about all the work you do and
all the great um public Outreach that you do it's just incredible thanks Bob okay I better get
on with it here I'm going to try to share my screen [Music] um
and see what see if I can get this to work
um so I feel like I've gone from the frying
pan which was the suburbs of Albuquerque New Mexico
Into the Fire which is Phoenix Arizona I live
um just North of city center in the old part and
um the sky here is very very bright and and something I was not used to
something I expected uh we made the move because we really needed to get closer
to our family and that's worked out extremely well
so um back in Albuquerque I had a little backyard Observatory and a in a you know
a bortle six kind of area and I was able to do quite a quite a number of things
with that here I brought the pier with me to Phoenix
and set it back up I just have a concrete pillar at the moment
maybe someday I'll think about building something around it but um
and um so I got started here and
the first thing I realized was I needed to go somewhere else that was darker and
so I ran into a couple of fellows on YouTube uh they have a YouTube channel one is
called AZ Forerunner and um
um his name is Jason and the other fellow is Iceman Astro a
very appropriate term since they both live in Yuma Arizona and um
so they have a 10 Acre Site in the middle of the desert uh east of Yuma and I got invited out there
and it's it's quite the spot uh quite a drive from from Phoenix but um
um it was great so I went there one night in May and um
I mostly took my um Astro modified Z6 and a 105
millimeter lens and um here's a here's an example of an
image I got there uh it's about a hundred and three minutes of total exposure wow
so uh this is the cygnus region uh danab and seder North America
Etc in the meantime I decided that I would
try some um improvements to my about a year old
uh Takahashi Epsilon 160 uh it's faster and uh it has the potential to be
extremely good with full frame sensors so I started working on that in the
backyard and I started with some actually Broadband images and I thought I better
shoot something bright so stars are bright so here's M13 this is um
somebody will have to remind me how to close this um
are you in PowerPoint or well I'm trying to close the little um
saying at the top here that allows me to oh I can move it down
um I was just trying to see how long this exposure was 64 minutes yeah
um okay I was not able to see it and um
so I was pretty pleased with that but I I kept I kept working on um
I kept working on the uh tuning up of the Optics on the
Epsilon and I tried M51 this is four and a half hours now
a lot of uh L filter exposures but
but I'm kind of hiding the residual light pollution in these pictures you
know the the dark point the Black Point is set up so that you really don't see the noise in the image because
it's mostly light pollution and then we had the Supernova and I
tried that so here is um about four hours of uh ha with some LR
lrgb mostly with some hydrogen Alpha
and but the but the real weapon against light pollution is of course narrowband
filters and so I started uh looking more toward that direction here is a M16 the
eagle nebulae and The Pillars of Creation uh this is a only 54 minute total
integration using three nanometer filters and I find it even though the
absence yes even though the Epsilon is f 3.3
and these filters are really designed for you know F4 and above
I was I did some measurements actually and and determined that the loss and
signal was about 10 percent which is not too bad so
given the cost of filters these days I'm going to stick with this for a while and see how it goes
so then I met a friend out at um out at the alpha Scorpio
um Michael and he suggested we try a place near Gold Canyon called Peralta
spring so I met him there and it's about an hour's drive from my house
um and it's gorgeous it's uh classical Sonoran Desert and
[Music] um uh when the sunset here's my Milky Way shot
uh this is only 27 32nd uh exposures
the sky was about 20.6 on my sqm sky quality meter
and this was shot with uh a 40 millimeter Sigma art lens on my Nikon
d850 at f2 holy smokes and I also shot the uh Antares in row
complex um this being uh 91 minutes total my
Astro modified Z6 was the camera and again this was the 106 millimeter F2
lens I also shot with um
the 106. this region around m81 I've I've annotated it here to kind of get
you oriented and I was uh pretty pleased with
all of this uh oh dear it didn't uh let me see if I can go back
there um all of this integrated flux nebula here
is M82 m81 and M82 to get you on scale
so that's pretty amazing and as I understand it this material is actually
outside the Galaxy and is being illuminated by a Stars integrated over
over the Galaxy wow so here's I finally got to its current
state I replaced the focuser the stock focuser on the Epsilon I added a
Falcon Rotator from Pegasus this is my filter wheel it has lrgb and the three
nanometer filters this is a device called an octopi which
allows me to adjust the Tilt and back focus of the
camera and it's very critical in the F 3.3 system not as critical as F2 but
but it's still very important if you want really the best quality writing into the corner
and the Optics on the Epsilon are up to it it's just that their stock focuser
isn't quite there my mini computer here um rides on the telescope and uh
controls everything I I the only wire going across the gimbal is power because I'm using a new
ioptron harmonic Drive Mount and it has power
through the gimbals so that helps a lot so here is an image I took in my
backyard in Phoenix it's two hours and six minutes of total
integration it's a it's a classical Sho image with narrow band filters
and I'm quite pleased with it the image quality is superb uh the stars are small
uh the resolution in the cloud structures it's really good so I decided it was time to
deploy this and my friend Michael and I rented a VRBO east of Payson Arizona for
three nights and we had a nice clear view of the sky in the middle of the forest there but it was it was only one
of very few places that had such a view and here was my setup here is Michael's
set up here and I had I ran everything on this lithium iron phosphate battery set it on
a little shelf I made in order to add additional stability to the tripod I
have a counterweight on the harmonic Drive Mount even though it's not required I just felt better when the
when it's over on its side I just didn't want the tripod tipping over
so here's what the sky looks like from that location this is a hundred and this is almost two
hours of exposure um again with my
um Nikon Z6 and the oh this is this is totally wrong
this this label I messed up ignore everything I said about it this is I
think only 30 minutes of exposure um and it's the 40 millimeter lens on my
Nikon Z6 so the label is wrong
so through the telescope on the first night I went after Barnard 150 sometimes
called the seahorse nebula and uh I included the fireworks Galaxy
and this is two hours of exposure um
lrgb on the second night I decided to try for
a really hard Target that is the squid and the flying bat nebula
and as some of you may know uh the squid was only discovered in 2011
um by a French Astro photographer Nicholas outers and it's extremely faint
um so here is a single three-minute exposure it's an outflow from this very bright
star that has an outline and I'm kind of drawing around it here
and I'm amazed that you can actually see some some image in only one exposure
so I did some calculations and figured I needed seven hours
so here's the full frame at seven hours this is three nanometers at O3
the site was averaging about 20.6 uh
I'm sorry that's that's another mistake that should be 21.6 okay
20.6 which is a big difference so please forgive me for that mistake I
I hope that in the future if anybody looks at this they'll hear the audio I put the labels in and then I messed up
so sorry so here is um here is the squid and uh you can even
see some faint 03 in the rest of the nebula here
and when I put um the h8 data and I exposed for RGB stars
to get the star color right and here I made sure that I included
um this dark nebula this is B150 again this was my result and I've had quite a
few of my friends tell me they have tried this object again and again and it
failed so after only seven hours of oh three nine hours total I'm quite pleased
with what I got on my two night visit and the really neat thing is I did some
additional analysis and I'm not going to read this and hopefully you can look at it later but I estimated the signal to
noise in the brightest part of the nebula which is here blown up to 300
percent and I calculated um I calculated that
um the signal to noise should be um well the signal noise is measured is
about 0.4 for a single exposure and it should be around for 151
exposures uh average it should be around five and that's that's very close to
what I calculated and in fact I made a analytical
prediction using my uh simplified signal to the noise model
and it predicted I needed seven hours to reach a signal to noise of five
which was um very very close and what what I find interesting here is
that this object is so so faint that it my telescope was detecting a
photon only once every 280 seconds on average
so this brings new meaning to the phrase counting ancient photons yes
um it's really it's really quite amazing one at a time
that we live in such a great time with all this super technology that allows us
to do this sort of thing okay so uh let me say a few words about
the perseids um this is an image I made at a very very
dark site in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico in 2015 I didn't have a great
camera this is only 30 minutes of 30 seconds worth of 30 second exposures
and I was seeing a lot more than this with my naked eye hmm this was a great
great time because this particular year there was no moon and it was just incredible
and I have friends who have a cabin there and this is a picture of their cabin
with the Milky Way and one of the perseids so it's just
I would encourage everyone to get to the darkest place in in order to take full
advantage of this of this just iconic event
absolutely and in 2018 that's great
um I tried to put I had a better camera I tried to put together
um a collage a composite uh from in this case about 80 minutes of meteors and
here you can see for instance the double cluster in Perseus so I was a little off
it's good to be I think a little off-center of the radiant in order to get a good
display and this was only 20 minutes from my house in Albuquerque on the other side
of the Sandia Mountains um in the Cibola National Forest
and uh was a was an excellent spot in time well and
very efficient on my time and then this is not pers perseids but
um in the in the December in December of that year
um I went back to the same location for the Geminids and um
if you look uh exactly opposite uh the radiant all the meteors are coming down
to the Horizon in parallel and it's quite a striking view
this shot made with a 24 millimeter lens we have one errant
uh meteor up here that you know doesn't belong but uh we'll accept him anyway
and this is the view with uh 30 second exposures for 45 minutes to the 105
millimeter lens so when you're when you're shooting meteors it's very important to get the
brightest lens you can and I shoot all my lenses for meteors at F
wide open at F14 and here is a single one same location
um this one with a 40 millimeter lens on a different camera I just included it because it went right by Orion
and then in my backyard earlier that fall about two weeks earlier
uh I was setting up that 105 millimeter lens for testing
and again I have the wrong label up here um
and uh lo and behold I captured a pretty nice looking meteor
and if we zoom in on this you can again this is Orion and all these little streaks here are
Geo satellites which the Orion Nebula happens to be right in the middle of the Geo belt
and I don't know if it shows in the video but there is a lot of material
being blown off the trail of the meteor in both directions here and then in this
direction the cross winds are causing uh twisting of that material
so that was a lucky capture and I'll end with this shot which is a
super stretched version of um my
visit to the VRBO uh east of Payson and I've stretched the
image to show the dust in and around the Rogue complex and the blue said
nebula so um
that's what I had to present amazing amazing astrophotography you
know bob every time I look at your work I see not only technically I mean excellent work but
you have a sense of style and a sense of composition that really
makes the these images sing thank you very much I feel like I don't have a
creative bone in my body but yes you do yes okay yeah thank you excellent work
you know when I look at the Landscapes even and around lighting that appears to
be in some of the images uh even though the sky is extremely dark uh they're they're inspiring photographs all by
themselves um you know I think many of the people watching this can see the uh the
creative part of this and uh okay thank you spectacular work so thank you very
much for sharing you bet thanks glad to be back yeah I'm glad you are back so
thanks um we are uh going to uh Dallas Texas uh
to uh young Navin sentel Kumar who was also I mentioned earlier he was at the
Northeast astronomy forum and I got to meet him and uh his whole family so it was really cool and uh I think he had a
good time what did you think of the astronomical League Convention of Nevin our cono is pretty cool I got to meet a
lot of people yeah excellent excellent that's great well I
expect that uh when you get into high school that you'll apply for something to do with the national young
astronomers award so did you meet the winners that were there yeah I got to meet a few of them
okay that's fantastic yeah all right well hopefully that that's inspiring uh
to and move you towards doing I have no doubt that you'll do research at one point so thank you very much
I'm actually going to talk about the person's meteor shower
um so I'm gonna share on my screen right now yeah um do you all see my screen yes
all right so person's meteor shower
um firstly we need some basic information for y'all's information it's going to be visible from July 17th to
August 24. um its current right Ascension is going to be three hours and four minutes
for declination it's going to be plus 58 and for some history it's going to be it
was discovered during 30 the year 36 that was the first recorded
if you want to pronounce it correctly it's Perseus and it's in the constellation
Perseus person we need to know what what causes
the Perseus meteor shower and the person's meteor shower was caused by the comet
Swift toodle um we need some information about the comet it was discovered by two
astronomers Lewis Swift and Horace toodle in 1862.
um last time it passed by Earth was 1992 but sadly was too faint to be seen but
with a naked eye the next pass is in about a hundred years which is in 2126
we don't know if we could make naked eye contact but in brightness to the Haley Bop Comet
the Hale block comment in 1997 providing that the predictions are correct we don't exactly know
where is the person's meteor shower um the person's meteor shower is exactly
in the comment Perseus which I was telling sorry the constellation Perseus
which I was telling earlier um you can see the person meteor shower
in the northern hemisphere down to the mid-southern latitudes
and all you need to catch the show is Darkness some are comfortable to sit and
a bit of patience um the person for the constellations
position it's going to be right Ascension in three hours exactly and the declination is going to be 45
degrees visible between the latitudes if you want to know 90 and negative 35 degrees
foreign
so for comment hundreds people they might know better um it's probably going to be doing the
pre-dawn hours um
the peak viewing days are typically your best shot to see the mediums
probably to see the meteors look up to the north the southern latter tubes you can
probably look Northeast to see more meteors
um could comments Swift Kudo collide with their that's a disturbing question
um one astronomer Catholics that Swift toodles orbit will once suggested that
it could come dangerously close to Earth in about 2126 and possibly collide with the planet
that was kind of similar to Shoemaker Levy 9 when it like collided like almost like near the near the Earth but then
which was like a serious threat but it actually ended up colliding in Jupiter we don't exactly know because I said
like I recall it's in a hundred years and we can't predict like that
however show by the comment will or not according to a primer by the
Astronomical Society of the Pacific credit to them for meteor Hunters
they're obviously going to know for like average People Like Us these are some four essential things a red
flashlight um if you want to see fan or meteors your eyes will need to be adapted to the
dark if you're using a night sky map or need to see in the dark we'd recommend using a red flashlight to preserve your
night vision warm clothing um you obviously need warm clothing
because some in some places in like it can get chilly super it can get
chilly even in summer so hat scarf thick coat for long
observing periods they even a nice to have is a sleeping bag hot
drink is the best thing it's like a great way to stay warm during the cold night tea and coffee are
popular beverages to help you stay awake
um actually avoid alcohol because it can make you colder like steaks like hot
drinks that's advisable and probably a deck chair
um hunting for meteors involves like a considerable amount of looking up which can be a strain on the neck a Dexter is
perfect for keeping in an inclined position for maximum comfort and viewing opportunities
these are some additional resources like learning about Comet Swift toodle and
the bibliography and um I'm just going to share some alcohol images
first image was Carol right there
um yeah that was all outcome in Baton Rouge I'm that's David Levy we um have the
latest Sky News Magazine there the volume and then
that was during the planetarium um that day there was like a planetarium
show in the dome like in the Louisiana arts and science museum and I'm just poking around with an
exhibit um that is Galileo that's a statue
that's a statue of him like a model of him
this is I think that's Copernicus
I don't know but I know for sure this is Newton because his apple and like his hair and all that stuff
and that's me with like a huge like Milky Way shot
um that's David Levy speech um that that's also part of his talk and
that's um that's guy and then I forgot what his name was
and that was with Tim Lowry yeah he um I think he's part of he's
from so he's from somewhere I forgot yeah that's all the images I got from alcohol
oh and that and this one's from Terry yeah
yeah guy is a brother guy uh console Magno if that's how you pronounce it
was uh he was director of the Vatican Observatory yeah who's the other person who's with him
the co-op turned left at a ride
quite a bit and he was just he was wonderful
um yeah so I'm glad you got to meet a lot of
those people you know because uh you know you're the next generation of uh of
astronomers and uh you will uh you'll remember you'll tell stories about some
of the people you met back when you were at this age yeah I also got to meet on a few other
young astronomers at Alcon yes yeah so
yeah that's all it's all my talking thank you thank you so much thank you for coming on
that's great well uh so let's uh
let's come back uh over here to Arkansas and um uh we are with uh Dr Daniel Barth
Daniel uh as a university professor at U of A uh he's um I think he's now retired
and he is uh uh he's starting phase maybe 3.0 4.0 of his life I'm not sure
something like that yes but um uh the annual has always been an
incredibly enthusiastic um about Outreach and astronomy educating the public about astronomy
showing people how to understand uh uh you know the processes at work and our
own solar system and beyond um and he's also been great at explaining the process of Science and
encourages everybody to get involved in signs somehow and um well we're glad to
have him on the 124th Global star party for a short segment of uh I guess how do
you know which was has been how do you know it's sustaining programs thank you very much
thank you Scott uh really nice to be back and uh yes I've uh I've officially
retired from uh stem education at least with the university uh so that means I finished up with
something like 45 years in the classroom which maybe that's enough ah but uh in any case I just wanted to
share some of my enthusiasm for meteor showers one of the most amazing things
about a meteor shower for introducing people to the sky one of the most common
misperceptions with people who are not enthusiastic astronomers is that the sky
is permanent it's unchanging nothing happens there it's just the same stuff in the same places and so I Delight in
activities that actually people can experience and participate in and Marvel
at the solar system in motion and there's a few things better than that uh
than watching a bunch of suicidal rocks from outer space come Splash themselves against the windscreen of the earth
which is our atmosphere and um the idea of a radiant and we folks
who are photographers bow down to your mad skills and I love your work
um but I've always taught more low-tech than that so let me share with you a little bit about what I do for teaching
and I've done for outreach with meteor showers we would usually do two every year the Perseus would be kind of a
parents kids welcome come on out and we would have a fun night and we would take
telescopes and set them up in the football stadium we got the uh the custodial crew was in
on the game and uh they would turn out all the lights but the stadium was really nice because
unlike some of my earlier Adventures where I took out in the Boondocks amongst the
sagebrush and the cactus watching meteors and coyotes and whatever else uh
the stadium wasn't nice it made parents feel safe about sending their
kids to come do an astronomy evening because we had this nice environment it was enclosed we could lock the stadium
Gates uh and it was a party where there was bathroom facilities and we would
encourage all the parents bring a crock pot of soup or chili or snacks and
everybody would it was kind of like a backyard barbecue sort of atmosphere for meteor watching what we did
is we would go ahead and print out uh basically we printed out copies of star
math simple star Maps surrounding the area of the radiant where we were going to look and we encourage students by the
time the meteor shower come to be a bit familiar with the constellations to know the major ones
and then the challenge was when you see a meteor the instructions
were as soon as you see a meteor you say ooh meteor which you could hear everybody chorusing which was great fun
uh there are all these shouts of Joy coming out of the dark and I said okay uh I want you to work in pairs and
somebody is going to be primary Observer somebody's going to be reporter and we trade off the Observer is going to look
for where did it start where did it end see if you can identify those points on
a map draw me an arrow is this going to be perfect no
um the map projections have some errors the observations aren't perfect the nice
thing is it doesn't matter kids go ahead and they draw their arrows
and next to the arrow you write a number this is number one number 52 number 37 whichever and then you had a data sheet
you recorded the time the number color because that gave us Clues as two
elements because when different elements burn up in the atmosphere different colors did it fragment were there Trails
were there little pieces shooting off uh was it a bull ride how bright was it we
had students use the shaft scale um you may or may not be familiar uh
Fred Shack who was a marvelous writer and I believe he's been with sky and Telescope forever uh but he came out
with a lovely book some years ago called The Starry room and he had a lovely
chapter where he ranks meteors basically from one to ten basically meteoric dust
that ever burns up at all to you know the dinosaurs are going away today uh
which was a level 10. you know I'd asked him classify the level in the colors and we would go ahead and gather data
now when we were doing this for the landed meteors which occur in mid-november that was also our makeup
lab day so if you were shy on laugh points we were going to be out there from
nine or ten o'clock until dawn the next morning and so I had telescopes set up with little activities and you could
make up lots of lab points but the cool thing was the next day we
would take everybody's data and put it onto one big map
and when we did these things when I started doing this in the early 90s we
would have 6 10 15 students by the time we get into the 2000s and I'm teaching
at college and high school at the same time we would have hundreds of people out on the football field looking up and
recording and when you aggregate that much data the radiant becomes
beautifully apparently clear and we could usually Peg it within about half a
degree which for no instrumentation No cameras was pretty darn awesome
but the wonderful thing about science like Forrest Gump's box of
chocolates you never know what you're going to get so when we went out in 2001
and this is in Hemet California and we went up towards say
where whatever it is it's like
Radiance we had one in Perseus and he had one in person major and so we 2001
did we have the internet yes was it the information Juggernaut it is so we were
emailing people
getting some Freeze Frame here
and I think it's on his side we might lose him here
any meteors from it and could we get a radiant
pull together this chart and uh um
but I have it somewhere the chart with both Radiance on it but I couldn't find it at that time
two Radiance and and the students were so excited
yes of course you have and the wonderful thing about going out Nick
is virtually every phenomenon you see
if for the first time if your photographing the Ada
that thing's still expanding it's going to look different this year and next year if you're seeing a meteor shot
uh which segment because the orbits all leave behind different
they're all quite dense but usually Earth impacts them
many decades to spread out and diffuse
I think it was 2001 or 2002 when we had the landed meteor storm
uh we were going out we were getting hundreds of meteors an hour the Beautiful
so much science so much matter such superb
really can't say I can guarantee
how exciting it's going to be there's always
C well why we don't know we're actually looking at
it wasn't it here last year in the yearbook yes but it might be different
come out with me and we'll see um fourth
why blue why can't we hear them
itself why isn't there rolling crashes of
explain to my students gee if you can hear the meteor coming it's probably going
we all uh we all like to think that we know
but of course then you get the uh
in Siberia and this
four or 500 Megaton explosion window
now I wish I was there well what would you do if you saw
I said I would tape my phone to a wall
down in a lawn chair staring at my camera and waiting for the sonic boom to
wash over me I love that Memorex remember the Memorex ad with the guy said yes I remember
I do and for some reason you're getting a lot of uh freeze frames um I don't know if
uh I'm getting a lot of what uh your your uh you're getting uh you're
freezing up cutting and freezing oh I'm freezing up yeah there's probably no dial that you can
turn to make the internet faster but you know so
I I'm not sure um yeah we've been having issues
but the house with heat in electronics the last uh yeah
same deals so I'm sorry if I'm freezing up I should maybe wrap up then and turn it back over
to Scott but uh I hope to see be seeing a lot more of everybody soon and uh it's
good to be back on Saturday thanks Scott all right okay so
um uh up next is um is uh Maxi filari's uh he is uh I
know I don't think I ever actually pronounce your last name exactly right how do you pronounce it maxi is like an
Italian way but it's faliers like like you say but finally it is
okay well it's French it's French but here in Argentina we call it in Spanish
way so it's valeres but in French is
that you know the vocals when you pronounce them they are different that
like you do in English so that's why when you say it it's different that's that's okay it's everybody here in
Argentina also that they don't pronounce my last name very good because they
called me talies with a t because maybe it's uh where you were to uh your car or
palliative with a P that is a piece of the car of the wheel and you know but
that's okay so they always say it but even in the in the in the school in the
work and everyone in everywhere so I'm I'm okay so okay guys thank you
for inviting me and well it's been a long time that we've been here
um I think a month and a half was our last GSP so what I'm going to show you
of course in this month and a half I was been doing kind of things I only went to
Alberti a one weekend uh it was a really really cold night
that you were going to see in a couple of minutes but anyway I I was practicing with my processing
tools with pics inside new new tools uh Forex
palette using the the L extreme filter and also
a well a lot of things that I'm going to talk about but first of all of course
the pictures you know uh that's why you always are here
so let me share my screen okay do you see it
beautiful a beautiful Eclipse you're going to prepare in a couple months for
this yes I hope you have a lot of solar flares
to to capture and watch it very active so we were you were here on with us earlier
when David Lee was talking about how after the sun is you know counted
something like 50 sunspots and uh you have the next year uh well it's going to
be awesome so it's not as hot now it's going to be you know because
my God it's crazy well uh what I was doing practically was
a processing again some pictures that have been capturing and practicing with this
a Forex tool because it's working with this lxtreme filter is very
different like when you work with RGB pictures so the final image that I will
get I was really happy to get this one or in this
case out of the with a Forex palette and here are the RGB that I've been doing
but anyway you know I have this from the doors
helmets nebula I remember the last one I couldn't get a lot of information in the
process on the background but in this case I had things details on the
processing and I really loved to to capture this ER with the same data you
know because I didn't capture it now it's the in the other side of the sun almost but uh anyway
a capture this it's amazing well this is the lobster nebula that I was talking
about more earlier with Michael but I processed this year yesterday
uh but anyway you can start to see this uh it's like fire you know in this space
belt it doesn't find it doesn't it it is fire but anyway this place of the core is
impressive uh to to try to get a little details of what's around these Stars
and then um was this that I shared to David
eicher of the pencil nebula this is a particular object that we have
in the southern hemisphere it's a southern Skies uh when you capture this with RGB you
you will only have to capture almost this Brighton places only but the rest is
really really difficult and you will need a lot of nice good nights and you
know taking pictures to have a really good data of course on the background but anyway with this processing tool I
was really really happy of what I get um well I reprocess of the Italian
principally the core but in this case you have the Italian
Star and were the the Finger of God is upside
down um well a lot of a box nebula dark
nebulas analysis this is a an amazing place to to capture even with RGB or without it
and without filters and everything you know it's really really good place to I
need also to to watch it through a telescope so uh well this was the Dolphin head
nebula and that is nearby of the helmet nebula
of Thor um
then I capture this that I was taking picture
of three nights with this of the same area
to get almost 200 pictures to Stacked this is in the southern hemisphere but
it calls the Liberty uh this liberty statue nebula like the New York City
statue because it has the the performance shape of the
liberty statue a place
and but you know this this is a really good place to capture
but it's really difficult with RGB like the pencil level and because you have all these pricing
places but the darkness or the darker places are really really beautiful and the shape of the colors
and let me put this away
you know uh Bachelor maxi they it's incredible all these places
and the shapes of the nebula city that has is amazing wow look at that look at
those big swooping arcs you know yeah they split these arcs are amazing even
of course I'm doing this with the RGB camera but of course if you have H Alpha
filters uh all three filters and a monochrome it will be much more better
but anyway you know this place also really blows my mind you know a
all the structures that you have on this particular core a really brighting and
when you go more outside you will see all the the perspective and the the
complete structure that has it nearby this one and of course we have darker
nebulas and that's a really really dense and and this I think it's a little a I
don't know how we call this place I don't remember but it's like to me a little bug
or something like that like a cucaracha I don't know how to say in
English that insect but yeah Cucaracha that's a yeah
cockroach like that after the universe exactly
so well of course I was practicing with the M16 uh
I have this information but in this case I was practicing with two kind of
process one taking pictures with RGB only and a filter of a illuminance only
uh you will be an IR a cut filter but
also with the lxt stream filter and then I try to combine them
only with the Stars and little shapes of the nebula and that I get with the lxt
stream so honestly I I'm really happy with these results I like this a violet
and pink colors that I could get yeah but also
all the the structures that I that I have and the practicing stars are amazing you
know and for example to compare this let me go more
here just so you know
um Harold lock is watching your images on a big screen television oh he says
they look awesome thank you thank you well if you compare this one
I have more details here in the pillars of decoration but anyway here no sorry
this is not a mask he had to go there
I tried to get more bright in this place and well I get lots of detail here on
the core but I love to have all that that start
writing start in uh well in here you you can see there
are much more uh lightness thank here
so anyway I I really enjoyed to to capture this and of course practicing I
am not a professional I am only a rookie in this vast
place called astrophotography um so well when I went to Alberti I met
with a Herman bakaro we get only one weekend to Saturday night to Sunday
evening and you know I
I prepare my equipment I I was working with two equipments that
night with my F4 uh eight inches telescope and the ascar lens a above the
star Adventurer mounts and this was at the afternoon
when the sun was going down and you can see it's
a it's not desert but it was peaceful
there was nobody that only us um
I was Nico there no Nico couldn't get because I think that that's a they he
went to fishing I think fishing yeah he he has that on another hobby that he
likes to to fish I fish for stars and galaxies well
sometimes he combined them he went with his love song and go fishing and you
know uh well this is the the sunset that I could get with the Oscar very nice
um but well I
uh let me go brief to the another day
you can see here this is Herman but this is on the day
on the sunrise but you can see it's almost white on the grass
it was really really cold that's cold really cold you know I could capture
take pictures of the grass and the sun totally frozen grass
yeah you can compare it here because you have a tree covering the grass yeah and
here's nuts so now it's it was really tough
um I don't remember where I put those pictures
uh here I think yeah you know this is the the top of my car
that's called that's cold yeah here we are with a selfie and even of
that cloth we feel really cold yeah
the window gets really white of course I'm grateful that this the
cars start up so we did a sparkly telescope there it's like I got glitter
on it it gets frozen yeah and you know when I
put the the the the machine of the head to to put a
hot air on your head to um to get dry a air dryer air dryer I
use this to you know melt this ice and they when okay but they start to uh get
this little um tingles of water yes Above This aluminum place and they get Frozen you
know it was almost like a cup a lot of water Frozen no no I was incredible no
it was really good a really Frozen night uh it's good
good for your cameras yes of course but not too much not so much if you don't have a protection it
gets gets tough well that night I went to I tried to capture some galaxies of
course I I that's what I'm doing and I was
capturing this of the peacock Galaxy this is the peacock constellation yeah
this is inspired Galaxy that's you if you watching this through a telescope
you will see the core and nothing left nothing more
uh but when you get with this your cameras and everything
you will have a lot of data of this this
particular structures and also this ones you know they are really I
think this part is maybe part of the Galaxy and also this one maybe it's a
Saturday Galaxy I I don't know I didn't research it but
you know there's a lot of galaxies here because I annotate this
[Music] you have a lot like for example here
well here's another one another one one and you can see
in this one for example here there almost BGC
catalogs because they are really far away from us really but of course this
one is and also but they are much more away
and also I capture again the quartet of groups
that's it's a really good place to capture it
and I really love the colors that I get on the stars and the shades of the
Galaxy and also the Deep frames of the the Deep objects that I
get here you know I get this inspiration of
uh well of course you have the telescope but also the James Webb Space Telescope
and you know watch this spider Galaxy floating but looking at
well they are in the background this amazing galaxies they are really far
away and there are a lot of a clusters of galaxies for example here
and also here well sorry they are
you know um I only capturing this oh with a single E gear uh
of a modest gear I I I I don't have a lot of information I don't have a lot of
details and everything but anyway you can capture
many galaxies look at that now I look at the the annotated image that I get I
there's a lot there's a lot there and and they are nuts taking for example in
this one they didn't catch out of it yet and
a lot of galaxies they are they didn't catalog for example this one and you know
in in only a single picture there are lots of Stars Worlds a elements
life everything in a single picture you resume this
uh is when you start to think about it it's going getting more much more deeper
well for the pictures this is the part that what I was doing
uh if you I don't know if we have a couple minutes but I want to show you a
my new gear I want to adoption telescope also
this is an eight inches F5 F6 sorry yeah
like Nico but a little bit more smaller but I you know I was taking talking with
my wife and I say you know this is a good time to buy it this is in a good
price now now we have to cut a buy another
things so I try to convince her and she said okay but that's it
no more please so I buy a from a guy in bragado this is
a a city nearby from here in my my where I live so I we went a Saturday
and I watch it and I say okay this is in good condition
everything is okay of course you don't have to in this with an adoption mount a
lot of detail but inside of that of the optical it's it was of course dirty
you're going to see it now but here is a friend ever that he went now
to live but we watched you know a Saturn
a stars and try to see deep Sky objects because the city is very difficult but
anyway he he loved to to use it
also my father Raul I say I said come
here do you want to see Venus do you want to see the sun so watch it he sit on the chair and you
know he was blown nine with seeing Venus at this time a of the afternoon
and then I I had to clean it you can see yeah a little dirty a dirty fungus
oh yeah yeah it have fungus and these shapes I don't know what
happened there so when you see it now it doesn't reflect too much so I I
clean it and this is what I get ah very nice everything gets brighter no
brighter Maxi a lot of people think that if the mirror is dirty that the images
are not sharp anymore but that's not true no that's not true I in the F4 but
it's the contrast drops but uh it's recommend then to clean it
sometimes because maybe that the same deers it has in the in the mirror will
produce a you know that scratches or
that that doesn't reflect too much in the future because it damaged that
mirror because you don't have a anything that
metal of the mirror but if you capture doing pictures of the
dirty telescope like you said it will works but in the the passing of
the of the months or the years if you don't clean it it's going to be really
damaged to the mirror in per se yes so when you can see here
it reflects a lot of the of the rooftop that that here
doesn't right now it's yeah you can see it's a lot brighter real quick
yeah but I I really like that it doesn't have scratches you know it's it's like a
a new one so I was really happy for that I resemble it all again try to to to
watch and I you know I'm really really grateful
um so well passing through this uh I will I won't want to talk what I was
collaborating in this time uh here's their the magazine C move over this is a
magazine from the planetary of the city of Buenos Aires
that they publish a every season not every month they publish every season in
this case well from there a Autumn of this year so
um Diego Hernandez asked me if I want to to share some pictures uh I asked him
hey what what picture do you want maybe what do you think and he asked me if you
if I have a you do you remember this comment green the famous comic Green and
some deep Sky objects a picture so I say look at what I've been capturing and
tell me and you know a choice for one that that's that's okay there's no
problem so this is the the magazine
they they say of course the detail the staff the collaborators the thankfuls
and of course the the the tumori
and in this case they
published that the city of Buenos Aires [Music]
um and hold say that this magazine is of
Interest educate educational and social interests they declare this a magazine
so they are they are we are very happy for that and
well of course like every Argentine we love the results of the World Cup and
of course the final you can see here Diego Martinez is a
a [Music] gold he's a goalkeeper and he is a a
avoiding that a makes a goal at the final final very
final minutes but they compare the position of that keeper
of the running manual that you can see here they are the arms and the legs like
him and you know this this is I really love to to this really good conversation on
in this case of what happened and of course they
um in in a company from another Plata in other space a
um puts on Space a uh through SpaceX
and engines uh it's a satellite a satellite called
Divo Martinez this is a really small satellite that
they put in orbit that calls like the goalkeeper of a Argentina
so what I in in this magazine I contributed with this picture of the
clams galaxies uh this is the Cardwell he3
this is a really good place to watch it through a telescope and of course to
capture it here and also I
I collaborate with this one of the green comments or bad credit comets uh
but you know I I really love to capture this one because I had in the right
place at the right time I remember and the another contributation that I've
been doing it was an invitation from Marcelo Sosa that is going to talk in a
couple of minutes more later that he asked me to to make an article
of my experience through my our two solar eclipses that
occur in Argentina a couple years ago one it was four years
ago and the another one is going to be free so what I did was practically
approximately a child my preparation my spectatives what
happened uh what was going on what I feel about a
in these two solar eclipses but you know like I said at the final it
doesn't matter what I'm what I say to you or what I read what I tell you you
have to leave it that's all you know and of course if you have the opportunity to watch even a an annular eclipse or a
total solar eclipse do it the rest it's okay but try to do
it so I'm really grateful of course with you Scott and Marcelo and everyone to
invite me to collaborate in this case of my experience of and what I was doing
for participating this is the link I'm sharing it with the audience right now for skysop magazine and you can read
Maxie's article as well as other great articles that are contributed from astronomers from around the world Sky
zap magazine is the uh free Global astronomy magazine
well uh well thank you Scott and my last thing that I contributed
contributed was share my pictures to
a child a theater because they want to
they did um over there in English how to say it
um at a theater um makeup
no sorry I don't know how to say in English and that it tells a story about
a boy that of course it doesn't exist but this boy passed a week with his
aunts and his aunt is a passionate of astronomy so she tells stories about the
skies she tells the stories about a region here in in the southern hemisphere in particularly in Argentina
well in this case I collaborate with pictures of my deep Sky objects that I
captured so they project this on the screen and they well she she only does a
monologue you know she talks only her you know it's an amazing actress
and well they they have a music
through the the this different scenes uh in this case here's the the the
uh the poster and here I am that I collaborated
and they have musicians the they you know they this they did this for the
children because we had two weeks of holidays for the children that they didn't went to school
and you know uh so they went to to see
this particularly a a well
well I think that that's all for today and thank you I hope that you liked it
sorry if I get a little more minutes but you know we don't we didn't have and you
have Global star party for yeah so right it was too much in a half an hour so
right that's right that was great so um thanks again Maxi and uh my pleasure
okay I hope to be there ah thank you okay
okay so up next is uh someone that uh uh
is loved around the world for his his uh art for his space art his writings uh
and uh uh he's a extremely inspiring guy Michael Carroll and uh we're honored to
have him on the global star party uh thank you Michael for being here with us tonight
well thanks for having me uh boy uh Maxi that peacock Galaxy was spectacular wow
I just love the uh the color uh so uh let me see if I can successfully share
my screen here
I do not see what I need
um let me get out of full screen Michael
I'm going to show you the link if you want to see it with more details yeah
great and of course with the audience I will post it yeah yeah suspended on the uh oh here it
is I'll I'll send it here we go
all right she sees our brolo here in the audience
okay let me try that again ah here we go
what does your shirt say Michael um it says stand back I'm going to try
science
I love that
all right let's see if I can start things off here
okay can you see that yes looks good all right uh so good to
be back to Global Star Party we're at 124 that is awesome I wanted to talk a
bit about the things that fall from the sky uh since we're doing perseid things
uh of course the Earth has been pummeled uh from the very beginning we we get uh
about 3 000 tons of micrometeorites a day falling on the planet
um and it's been going on for a long time this is a painting I just did for a a book that's coming out
um in October uh called planet Earth's past and present
um and some of the stuff that is filtering down through our atmosphere
from the perseids during the perseids uh May in fact hearken back to this
formative era beautiful time in the early solar system of course uh perseids
are are from a specific comets with Tuttle we talked a little bit about
where all that comes from uh they did a good job on that already but some most
of that stuff is micro meteorites it's dust dust or grain of sand size some
things get a little bigger this is meteor crater in Arizona you can see the parking lot up toward the top of the
image and this was a this is a very big hole if it's big enough to uh Make It To
The Ground chances are it's going to make a crater and it's kind of
interesting to me what happens as a crater forms the meteor comes down uh or
a comet or an asteroid and it vaporizes The Rock but the layers of rock open up
like the Petals of a rose like the Petals of a flower in such a way that as
they spread out on top you get a mirror image on the Crater Rim of the layers
that are under the surface and uh in fact we see this at maybe your crater in
Arizona you can see the layers of rock here that are beginning to bend toward
the left of the image so kind of cool thing that happens there but how big was
the rock that made this hold well typically
a crater is created by something that's roughly 1 11th the diameter so uh if we
take three box cars on a railroad track that gives us about the diameter of 60
or 60 feet times three of the the ND
meteorite the big thing that came down and made that beautiful hole of course
there are lots and lots of things out there that would love to come and Pummel our planet uh these are all to scale
each Square on the tablecloth is a column across you can see uh Halley's
Comet nucleus in the background with sour cream and chives because it looks
like a potato to me but if we look down at it's a Kawa in the lower left
uh this is how big that asteroid the big pile of rubble would be compared to the
CNN uh CN Tower in uh in Toronto it's a
big big pile of rock and it's been visited of course by the Japanese
Hayabusa uh Lander which returned some uh very very small samples very
um uh treasure uh things that we are still studying
um and here is one of those Cosmic coincidences
Hayabusa and a pickle uh don't ask me why but there you go something to think
about um then Hayabusa 2 from Japan went off to ryugu another asteroid look how
rugged this place is this is an approach image and Hayabusa 2 was able to bring
back a much larger sample um I'm gonna
see if we can connect to a quick little movie here
and I think we'll have to skip an ad first
uh Michael I think you are sharing only the window of the presentations so we can see there when you open the link yes
okay so you cannot see the uh no you have to share it the screen share the
video and then you share the the video or on all that as well okay well we'll
okay got it let's see um
oops all right how do I
let me see if I can get back to my Keynote presentation here
uh okay sorry about that resume share we'll
go here uh and skip that you've probably seen how um those Landers at ryugu and later on
at says Osiris well Cyrus Rex was at next after ryuku and both of those landed on
these things and and as they touched down gently uh they were just engulfed
in tiny rocks so they're they're just uh debris piles of debris this is an image
I did to show how large binu is compared to the Empire State Building so it gives
you some uh interesting scale to look at there uh sample return is coming
September 24th as Scott mentioned in the opening so that'll be pretty cool and of course
there have been other things that were dramatically uh closer Talia binsk in uh
in Russia came blobbing through the atmosphere and exploded above ground
um very exciting event that actually injured 1500 people uh in a very remote
region but uh Italian bins happened a day and a
half before a close approach of another body called duende and this one we knew
was coming it had been spotted by a couple of observatories and this is a
comparison of Dwayne day and tell you binsk the different sizes you can see in
the Heinz Stadium so with all the damage from Chelyabinsk imagine what Dwayne day
would have done um these things are big and they're flying around a lot and we need to watch
out for them uh comment hardly to the nucleus uh compared to the Eiffel Tower
it's pretty dramatic if we saw this one day it would be a bad day probably
certainly for Paris and then uh Comet uh p67 here I compare it to Mount Fujiyama
so these I've I've tried to measure very carefully so that we can get a good idea
of uh of how these things uh scale to
to what we know with our our own experience so the bottom line is there are a lot of Earth Crossing uh bodies
asteroids comets uh things that um May that have the potential at least of
coming close to the Earth and so it's uh good for us to keep looking up at the
sky being amazed that uh things like the perseids and and the things that we are
exploring with our spacecraft but also keep looking up in case we can see
something coming so thank you very much uh to Scots and to
explore scientific and the the global uh community that we are a part of it's
been very fun thank you thank you you are so nice thank you so much
okay uh well uh we're just going to keep on going here uh we have Adrian Bradley
with us and um again thanks Michael artwork and I look forward to seeing you
back on next time yeah me too yep Adrian Bradley how are you man
doing good it's good to be back in global star party yeah you know what
Alcon and other you know that looked like a fantastic party that I just
absolutely missed and my priorities as I posted my priorities need to change one
way or another so I will need to attend
more of these uh star party so so I will uh those of you out there that
are watching I will go ahead and share what I've been doing for the last
couple months at least the month of July um and I call this
smoke or shine is gonna smoke that's the title I just came up with that's what
I'm gonna go with and it's gonna be and off the cuff sharing
so we'll we'll start by just uh
flipping through all these images that I went to do in July
and we will the last two images are of our
waxing um I forget the name of the Moon I think it's a bloody moon but I call it the
smoke Moon because uh it was a lot that's exactly what it is so I'm actually
so I've actually downloaded this I processed this this was taken earlier in
the night while we were doing Outreach and it had this color as it got a little
higher in the sky I took another
image and this was with a spotting scope and I happened to size these the same
way you could actually see the rotation the uh Moon took as it
Rose from one spot to the southeast a little bit higher to the southeast and
Tycho moves over and also noting the little difference in
detail no matter what you do with a uh 600 millimeter lens your detail looks
decent until you zoom in and this was on a Tracker
um I wasn't able to get it as sharp on the way down as I would like but
then with a matte cast spotting scope
I was able to go down now there's noise here that I haven't gotten rid of but
along with the noise you have some of the details from far out it looks this way so
there's a ref there's a refractor that I didn't bring with me that had I taken
the picture with that I may have been able to get away with a little a little bit better image but no damage
you can see I was able to keep that orangish color that to smoke in our atmosphere I'm in Michigan
and I'm near the Canadian wildfires so this smoke gives the moon a bit of an
appearance as if it were um
as if it wasn't it was an eclipse and
let's see I have um a couple other images
and here they are this was as it was growing
so let's see what else is
so there's smoke in the air so we went and did some bowling here did some nature photography so this is for the uh
on the wing as you know I like to share some of my images that I've taken of things maybe none
astronomy related no it's all astronomy related Adrian
everything but that's right everything is related to astronomy this uh this is
when there wasn't as much iron in the blood of that eagle comes from stars that is true that is very true and thank
you for that reminder everything is related to everything that's the reason why they call it the universe yeah
because it encompasses everything everything yes so
um early in the month we come and that's why I like to actually Scott you hit on what like that
yeah I combined the things that are more commonly considered part of the universe with
things on earth because things on Earth are part of the universe also so yeah I should know
um you do know yeah that uh every picture you take is a picture of the
universe whether it is by day yeah which is this with people
around and a whole lot of smoke working on my daytime Landscapes here this has
been a site for a lot of night photography that I've done this is one of these where I attempt to get a little
detail during the day um but
there's the sun and the Sun of course deserves some
some attention so here in Canton well not here in Canada because I'm sitting at home in the United States but I went
to Canada and took a few pictures of a sunset
and so this illusion that's taking place the
size of the sun appearing to be a lot larger than life
due to the fact that these structures are distant and it always fascinates me how big we
can make the sun appear of course it is absolutely large but it never appears as
large um on the uh it doesn't appear as large in
the sky you know higher up than it does on the horizon as it's about to set
and um part of the reason the illusion works is
because we compare the disc of the sun to another distant object in this case I
have a fairy that I had to try and time it so that some part of the sun would be
behind the ferry and I was able to go far enough down the
beach that I was on you see this is sort of moved far enough down the beach so
that I could catch the ferry sailing in front of that part of the disc of the Sun so it was uh
it was a fun attempt so this is the larger overall photo
and that's Lake Erie so I was able to do that and then it was
off to Milky Way Photography but there was a lot of smoke
so here I was trying to edit out the streak of a plane that came across you
can see that this camera picked up the uh kind of the haze there's a lot of
smoke that's in our atmosphere and actually today it is and uh Imaging can be tough
because uh you've got this bright Galactic core
shining through the uh Haze and smoke that's enveloping
this part of the earth this part of Earth's atmosphere in other areas you have a free and clear
sky and it makes a huge difference so you're looking here
um this is another another version a 35 millimeter
shot of the Milky Way as seen through a lot of
smoke and Haze this is uh the butterfly cluster ptolemy's cluster
M8 M20 M22
compare how little we're able to see it's you
know the of that compared to a clear night when I was able to
get a good shot and now all of a sudden everything comes popping through along with this
lighthouse more dust Lanes less smoke in this area
other photographer moving over here I have another photo where I caught him
standing still um framing this part of the Milky Way with
the lighthouse and now all of a sudden M20 shows up
whenever I get slightly stretched stars that means that I pushed the uh
image to the limit of my my tracking may not have been a spot on as I would have liked
um let's see right here a very similar photo
a little more picturesque because not as much movement to clone out you have the
makings of Ro fuyuki here in M4 shows up you can actually see some of
the shape of M4 there's the other globular cluster here but my noise
reduction may have wiped out detail that's the the problem with noise
reduction it makes your overall image look good but you lose some of the details and is
and as astronomers first we tend to like details like M23 right here you like to
see that triangle shape that's in the middle of that cluster this I do not recall if it's M24 or M25
I think it's it's one or the other again with the noise reduction
now there's some detail you can kind of see the shape of M 17
M16 is definitely it's just the pixel
representing where Pillars of Creation are in a wide angle shot there's only so
much you'll get the only way to really hone in on detail
is to try something like a panorama or not a panorama a well it's you've
stitched together a few images so this one I focused I used a
an 85 millimeter lens focused on mostly Milky Way and use the lighthouse as a
prop but then when I dig in look at the density of um now look at
the density of M6 the butterfly you can see more stars because I use the wider
Angle now I've got some artifacts here I'd love to figure out why these showed up but
I've still got I've also got rounder denser Stars I do believe this is I
think this is a star out of uh Sagittarius which
yeah this is one of sagittarius's star Sagittarius is kind of blocked
um but over here next to the lighthouse M22
and there's almost some individual Stars poking out there and then another I don't recall which globular cluster
this is but I know it's one that's near M22 it's a smaller one your detail
coming in this is again using an 85 millimeter lens and taking
um I took 30 second shots a little higher ISO because things
are moving I wanted the entire image to show
um this part of the Milky Way in this part of the lighthouse and I had to take enough images to fill all of that detail
in and so now if we come over here and look at him 23 we've got there's more of
everything even in 20 you can start you can see dust Lanes
starting in 20. when you're doing wide photography the
larger your focal length and the more you put together the absolute more detail with the Sagittarius star Cloud
now you've got some named LDN must Lanes here that don't always it's a lighthouse
though that image is just wild it's great yep the lighthouse it is if you saw how I saw it a little bit blurry so
if I were to go back again I would uh Focus I'm 28. which one the second glove is it m28 or
maybe not this second glob could be m28 you you may be right and this one is
either M24 M25 because there's another object right here
amazing look at that star Cloud wow yeah the star class got some detail in it
that's crazy I almost pick out in NGC objects with this yeah and then your
your detail here here's your Omega that's the Lagoon or no that's m17 yep
that's him 17. here's the Lagoon we what amazing colors that's some of the yeah
we got some of the Stars no goon and we got the shape of the tripod and even the NGC object above it
the the dust Lanes here and now here
it didn't quite resolve is that the eagle that's the eagle and there's the
uh these are the Builder creation here these are the pillars didn't quite as you noticed one of my
the the image I took here wasn't quite tracking how I would have
liked so the Stars aren't quite as pinpoint right as they are when I get
down you're outside in the center of the field a little bit by now right atrium
yeah that's a good question from the audience here yeah Martin uh telechia is
watching on YouTube and he wanted to know what tools you use for post-processing for processing there's
two main tools I use um Lightroom classic
to stitch the photos to stitch all those photos together and
um do some contrast moves um Photoshop there's astronomy tools
that uh do things like shrink the Stars a little bit they bring out nebulosity a
little more so things things like the details in this Milky Way here
um there's a routine called enhanced DSO and uh reduced Stars I use that a lot
Northern Hemisphere Shooters is that right yep in Photoshop yeah you know
Northern Hemisphere Shooters um these are two Targets that you know
they're faint here because they're closer to the Horizon but you see them
for a little while you can see the cat's paw and The Lobster Claw
and if you are in a place where you can look even further the prawn these are
nebula and clusters in scorpion that are briefly the whole scorpion is briefly
visible in the northern hemisphere as The Milky Way Rises it disappears as the
as we get into the fall so so again this sort of detail
is a lot of fun to do but in order to do it stitching um
you know smashing your pictures together and then coming up you know finally you
have some of the light of M11 looks like I went to so with wide angle well here
you go you lose the Precision once you go wide angle no matter how
cheap I make it and this this shows you what a composite can do
you can leave in these trails are actually star trails from me focusing on
the lighthouse and I laid the image of the lighthouse in the surrounding right
star Trails into the image otherwise you'll have a smeared
background right yes and yeah oh yeah that none of this would be as sharp so
this becomes the final image the better you do that the better your image
becomes and this is so this is a case where and
it's it's something I'm still working on at first glance natural that looks really good it looks really natural but
yeah when I move in here oh it starts to break down so Composites are something
to continue working on and this oh wow
looks and is natural it's a three panel Stitch
and it stood the tower upright and the tree next to it and gave the curvature
of the the Milky Way so facing here facing straight at the um
Tower and then facing to the left of the Tower and one of the routines in Lightroom classic
stitches all three of these and makes everything upright and the curve it's
more of a natural yeah there was somebody else images over here so there's some red light it looks the way
you would if you were look if you were standing with your back to the water looking at that Lighthouse and that's
that's pretty much the scene if if I when I do a panorama
I don't spend as much time with the images I'll get 30 seconds each
at a at a higher ISO because I want the overall image to be able to mesh
together like this and as of yet the only way I've been able to do that is 30
seconds at a time I can you know with some tracking I can
get an image and I may not get as much detail
as I'd like you see the details here compared to that other image I had right you barely see any details sometimes I'm
just shooting for the overall picture to have a certain look and yeah I could
have gotten rid of this I wanted to um the overall picture I want a certain look and when I do this I don't have to
do a composite so this becomes a natural shot no right no changes the goal is to
make your images look as natural as you can make them without
um we got a little bit closer here and that's really good for for getting
the lighthouse and the background of you know Blended yeah because they're so
different in in brightness yeah it really plays right and the way that I do that is each
shot is done with the exact same uh Time same settings because
it will if you shoot the milk you weigh two minutes at a certain level the
lighthouse turns out a certain way in processing and this was a composite
um there are stars in the Mast so it's always yeah there's always a work in
progress to get the Composites to look at the beauty of digital you can work
for the rest of your life on it you know yeah and you you get closer and closer and closer because my goal is always to
get good detail yeah now this was shot with a little
less of it it's like a 35 millimeter lens so you see the area where the cat's
paw and The Lobster Claw didn't quite turn out as much but a lot of other features did turn out
including the little globular cluster here they become dots
with noise reduction you lose a little bit of detail yep like you see these
dustling these uh LDN objects dark Lanes dark yeah
globules in there you can see them uh to the left there's a couple yeah I think
stars are being born in those little tendril very likely
that is yeah noise reduction you can't even see pillars here so you
know the more light and the larger and this this is probably a good time to
close um there's other images here
um real quick how much Moonlight can you still get a Milky Way yeah you can you
can aim up at sickness you can barely get it with a three-quarters moon to my
right and these clouds are coming in this is just a single image no attempt
to you know take the cloud photo and do a composite it was just easier to it
gives it a moment without wind it meant that the uh a tree didn't move
so much so you know that that becomes a little more believable
and here so first I'm going to show you this
image oh man is that a moonbow that's a moon bow oh there's a moonbow you can
you can't see those colors naked eye but no no no hammer on it and as you can
see the stars are trailing because I simply wanted to expose for whatever that light was that I was looking at
behind me so I've got some cars that were coming by and this light
all from this
so this is the other side of where I was standing and this moon was bright that's gorgeous and
um so turning around let's see if that works yeah there were a lot of clouds coming
in so yeah turning around there's the other side of that Park
I don't know how the moonbow would turn out if it's distant enough if I track
for 30 seconds and I don't know how long
um it might I may have been able to get both sharper stars and and the moonbow
this I think it's faint but I mean how many times wiped it out
might have been another moonbow starting it looks like it was you had a double yeah I can see it for sure barely
another one so you know lots of we had lots of rain in our area and that's obviously a distant
rainstorm or just a lot of distant rain over sea and that surprised me it made it worth
taking a trip out there that night those are big lakes too they're like yeah
they're seeing yeah it's these so so smoke for those of you who are
watching that are in the northern hemisphere the difference between this image
and the difference between that and this image same equipment same gear lots of
smoke this was a this was a better composite job the trees the way they look here
same view but this is what happens and as you
can see I actually nailed the focus on this pretty good um so this image now granted this is not
at it as dark a location so that plays a role too but
that is the difference between when you have a lot of smoke and things
going on in the atmosphere versus when you have a free and clear atmosphere so
all of those images you see of the Milky Way there's a number of different ways
to do it the larger your focal length that 85 millimeter lens that you like to
use for portraits pointed at the Milky Way and take sections and Stitch them
together you'll get some good you'll get good detail that way but if you're in a
pinch and you just want the entire area go ahead and take a photo tracking and
Composites are a must the more time you put in the sky the more you're gonna get
out and it's like room part of Photoshop Suite so when you yeah it's Adobe Adobe
is the uh the company and you know Photoshop of
course has been out forever um Lightroom classic has been getting better and better at having automatic
routines to do certain things masking has now become easy I mask the sky and
the um and I'm not showing anybody here because I don't have sharing going on but
you know you can mask the sky and you can mask the um the ground separately by
simply selecting masking and this is probably worth it's
got before I before I go okay those of you who like to do
your processing let's go look for something that I've
shot at recently um
maybe I'll find a Milky Way photo this is a
it does panoramas a lot more let's see so you're getting like uh 180
degrees almost yeah and that's here we'll go actually
we can go back to this stage this oh that's pretty good
how you developed that one yeah okay so we're back to the dates where I did some
processing so let's this one yeah where somebody just blur blared me out they
were heading towards me and they they shined a bright light you still have a
bit of Milky Way here and you might wonder if I had to try and fix this
image what would I do well one try
dropping the highlights and then two this masking I can select sky and see
what happens what about like another thing
yeah somebody basically he's an imager and he has the brightest light I've ever
seen notice how the sky is now fast red this used to be something someone had to
select painstakingly and work with and now you don't have to
so now you can work with your you know you can work with just your sky
you can try to pull and you can do
a bit of a logarithmic stretch if you want or you don't have to you can darken
your sky and then you can come in you know you can add texture which adds
more stars Clarity tends to bring more of the detail the Milky Way out and then
dehaze will darken of course there's like a
purplish but I'll take care of that in a minute yeah you got Stars you got
individual Stars yep I got stars now and then I can come here I can invert it
and now I've got the ground so what do I usually all I do with the ground is
darkness and Shadow a bit and now you're seeing more detail
there's the lake right here this is this was the effect of the beach
the sand and this light coming at me
so I can you'll have to uh yeah so it's making
some of your more advanced image problems yeah Yep this is and I know it's not quite
um you know the right colors but that'll be my surprise for the end
so so here you have an image you've I've processed the bottom part the land I've
processed the sky differently so I come over here and now I go to this conversion because
this was shot was a Canon 6D and now you have a more natural looking color I
figured out that was one shot this is one shot okay
that's really figured out a setting to put natural colors if you've modified
your camera for hydrogen Alpha only right there are settings for red like
your temperature goes here your tint goes here you can lift Shadows if you
want to add that add Clarity and dehazing if you want I think I did that
um but the key is this the temperature and the tint right you have to bring it back to a blue yeah like a cool yep and
that's exactly what that does and now you've got an accurate photo that's
amazing and that's that's how I processed all of the images from this
image where he didn't blow me out here I processed it this way uh
I even have this image that I haven't processed yet very first
thing you do now you've got a true color of what you're seeing the H Alpha region
still stick out and from there you can go on with your processing
um straighten this out if you want um you know over here this is another
image what this is one of the uh images and it's a shame
okay I don't there was something going on here this is the image where I just
took it of the sky and you see what happens with the tower so when you combine them you lay in
when I took the image with just this Tower let's see if it's somewhere around here it might be okay so here's here's
the image with just the one of the images I had with just the tower you see how sharp the tower is you see the star
star drag and you see everything's so com it's combining those images that
produces the final Total Image if you get lucky enough so this was a different uh image that I took somewhere around
here and
and getting all that light it's amazing yeah and the the other
thing that I find important I like to take my images back to back you can come
in in the blue hour if you want so that this is brighter
um as it turns out I can probably really quickly do do this
you can to get the brightness of your foreground object
um you can like yeah invert
and then Rarity Shadows on your foreground object and now you see it more like your eyes see it and you're in
this yet this was uh guys guys we need to transition at this point okay so let
me we're pushing up here so yep all righty so there you want to know some of
the processes yeah
very powerful and uh you should do a segment just on that next time so that's
really yeah just focus this maybe that's what I'll do focus a segment on one image yeah one day so
Adrian thank you man thank you oh you're welcome thank you for having me
okay so up next is uh we go down to Brazil uh
and um uh with uh Professor Marcella Souza who is the senior editor of Sky
Zone magazine uh that's just one of the things that he does he is a an amazing force of astronomy Outreach in South
America uh and uh you know he's uh pioneered many uh educational uh
programs down there including getting students making cubesats uh getting uh
uh his astronomy club now that he's worked on for decades and um uh you know
his his television programs his I mean he is he is uh really just an amazing
figure down there and we're so happy to have him involved with global star party
and sky's up magazine and um he's even been up here he's made trips up to uh uh
USA to uh give presentations and talks he's even been to explore scientific so
it's very nice and he's a great friend Marcelo thank you for coming on to Global star party
it's a great place to be here thank you for your kind words thank you very much it is very nice to see all of you after
the holidays in Brazil we have winter holidays are also here it's a short period 15 days but we have holidays
didn't he winter here in schools and the now
in the spirit we developed new projects and I I will show
some of the results that you obtained and let it share the screen
here we are participating now since the the
after Mass twins of this year we are participation
projects that allow us to access the last complete observatives
then you we are involved in approach that is called Global Sky clubs that
allow astronomy clubs to take images using one of the telescopes
and they will can involve students to take this maze and I will show the first
image that we put that is this I'm sorry it is one for me 22 we begin working we
are working out with our group to take image from the Messiah catalog and then
the first one was this the mid-22 and then we try new image
and this one is me83 wow if you are exposure timer 45 seconds
out these three major eyes with a telescope with four centimeters
but then we tried images with a bigger telescope
that's one one meter then we took this image here from me 57
oh yeah and then from Amy 51 then it's another
project that I hope that is the fox telescope project that also uses the
last hundreds of several times and this is M51 then we begin to make it
the addition of the images we took amazing different filters so three
different filters and try to make a color ads image and then we had this
image with this edition of the ways then we are working out with this
project uh folks telescope project and also we are
involved in a group that also use like forms of Observatory that is a common
chaser well let's see looking for images of comets
and we took this image that has a fantastic image that for us that you use
a 2 meter telescopes to take the image of Comedy choreography after the after the
outburst and they this was the best image rewards that he is amazing
of these comets for me who has a great experience and it
is also a fantastic experience to be involved with this group man that is
analyzing comments and the image of this comments shows
some important informations to know what's happening with the these
objects and today I was a few minutes ago I was in an event
place here every value of seven the move the full moon and these are the Maze of the events
today a few minutes ago and had that I was there we stayed there for almost two
hours and half in the main Public Square of the seat and many people
who has that you see that you have a many lights there it's down everywhere
in the main Square Public Square of the seats and many people participate in the
observation of the Moon today we were trying to
to find this Saturn but it wasn't possible because you have so many light and the light of the full moon the and
the clouds in the sky then in Direction after this afternoon a driving password Seaside but now it's beginning a special
moment by the observation Saturn that we are going to see in few weeks in the
beginning of the night then we are planning our special events for this
observation Saturn observation of Saturn here you see a lot of people that
participate today and in July now we have a dark sky
chapter official dark sky chapter in Brazil that is this one dark sky here
is the first Brazilian that is here in our seats and we are we
having now a partnership with the dark sky of Argentina that's the chapter of
Argentina and also refer us through astrotourism group in Uruguay and the
we are working together and the photos we consider July as the month of jazz
tourism here in our 33 countries then we organize many activities of Russia
tourism and they also we try to find dark sky places here to
develop activities this is one of our tips to receive many likes but this is a
a hotel located in a very dark place
here or we are looking for hotels
and Republic squares with you and located the far from downtown
to make us a map of place
where you can see you have a dark skies I never begin to do this here I hear is
a place near Jewish that is a uh uh
Forest has that with the vegetable vegetative plants
uh that you want to see near duration here and here is a place
and maybe it will be the next dark sky place in Brazil you have the
only one here that is dark sky and dark sky park that's the first one Latin
America that's nearest and here we also organize actives in
five different seats in the spirit to celebrate in the month of isil
Tourism that I should buy and the a lot of people participate in
these events that's great and whenever we are looking for places that we can I
also make uh tourism activities
you see I have many people that participate in this event and now the
good news is that here in we have a 10 nucleus 10 different nucleus in 11.
having 11 seats 30 now we have in Microsoft for our astronomy club and
they also unlock you foreign
[Music] uh we'll close them until the end of
October we will have 20 places 20 different seats with nucleus of our
astronomy pool and the locals of the dark sky is then it is growing fast here because of
the success of the first black Sky Park in Latin America that is located near us
many people is looking for places with a few
artificial lighting to see the sky there is much of it many people to join
and the area I also make a project any organized
activities for the partial eclipse of this partial solar eclipse here foreign
[Music] activities of solar observation to Andy
in the beginning of October we will begin to give the glasses for the
population and we we hope that in October 14 we have a clear skies During the
period of the partial eclipse and we can see from here these are the activities here that you
organize in the spirit and we are very motivated with these groups that are
involved with you guys now and it is one of the most important is
the launch of disguise app magazine the new edition I have here I close here
I'll share now the the magazine here
that is a fantastic Edition right yeah I'd like to have a lot of
information about the eclipse yeah including Maxie's article about two eclipses and yeah
as well and here is the magazine yeah
I I'll try to show here quickly yeah all right
it's first tomorrow exactly then they're happy we got article here I was in
Portuguese and they have a images of a historical
image of the eclipses they have the article from Pierre
packets of astronomy
the historical articles nearest let's see is a special place
that they are preserving the dark sky well
here is an uh in the Life edition of Brazil you have this this state that is
Sarah that they have two planetaris and they are building research from the time and there is a place where it will be
possible to see General Eclipse they are organizing special activities for a general eclipse
now an article from David prosper from the another night sky natural about the
eclipse another Arch idea article for Max about
the his experience with in Chulo solar eclipse in Argentina
and our special section about City Eclipse with maps without information
well maybe for someone wants to know have information about the eclipse we
have here I have something that's fantastic scratch that I don't know if you or
let's talk about this today that is this place that you put here in the magazine
that you Crossroads of the eclipse Expedition do something fantastic that have a place that you can see two
eclipse in 2023 in 2024 United States is Disney
thank you Marshall this is fantastic here something fantastic
here is an article for a Hello that is the most famous
Brazilian experts in lunar eclipses about the
lunar eclipses and you have the information about the solar eclipse information about the lunar eclipses
yeah you know what's happening in Colombia also there's a fantastic magazine and they have two Optical phone
Joe jungle Smith from uh Australia
the Fantastic from home that is a wonderful magazine but uh
thank you very much it's quite it's a fantastic magazine three cells
made a fantastic work to make the layout of a magazine that's very beautiful and
it's a free magazine everybody can download then reads the magazine and he
argument for everyone thank you very much
it's ever it's a great pleasure to be here I I think that is so happy good
news new good news from Brazil but we are working hard here but to develop new
activities and the organizer here the air observation of the solar eclipse
nice to see all of you thank you very much guys
I think you're on mute with one of your right you're right yes sorry about that
thank you very much Adrian our next speaker is Cesar brolo and Caesar is uh
uh with us down in Argentina Cesar are you uh are you available
there he is now can you hear me now I can hear you yeah I'm trying I'm chatting away the
Dead Space this is the sky clouds yeah just a little cloudy but I have I have
uh let me share a screen with my Nina
software okay and
you can see now take passion because now you are
watching a cloud
this is me okay
well now the the Green Flash that you can see is the light over the cloud but
behind the clouds maybe in few minutes you can see between
the clouds Omega sedentary Cloud cluster um well
um this is this is uh it's a live image um while while we are
expecting to see something the sky uh let me let me check if we are lucky
with this um I can show you a picture that I took
last week um
we're gonna try one more I I take in picture only pictures of trying pictures
only to get to get um to regulate this position with the
software and of course that I don't save any picture because I have now a lot of
clouds in the sky uh normally
here I have the the number of exposition now I try and only with very very short
position of only 10 seconds and again well here you can see the cluster
but if if we are lucky maybe we can get
a picture between the between the
the clouds but we are not lucky now
maybe now yes here
and I took a here here you have the
do you have the the the Omega cluster
Omega cluster in match with the Stars but of course that you can see in the
scale the clouds and when I have clouds now you can see whether the cluster
and maybe the next one it will be a good one no I don't know I'm sorry but
this is the the the the kind of of the live image
tonight uh I I'm not lucky with the sky
a few minutes ago the clouds coming from from the what South
um well maybe now you can see the cluster and here you can see the stars
many many times I I I show you in live image or maybe image from from a
processive final image but this is this is pictures that the telescope are
talking now and the level the level of different brands is between this
position and the game is um make this
wear effects especially the effects between the bright of the of the of the
cloud and the cluster and this is why you can see all time changing the
variety of the cluster but it's uh you know sometimes it's uh
yes sometimes you can see in another one picture or not but
um while we are expecting an area open between
between a cloud and another Cloud uh a a
small part of open area uh I show I will show you
look back wow I showed you and
another one and another one uh
picture that I took two weeks ago let me
share well you can see the clouds moving in
your background yes absolutely and now unfortunately the
clouds coming in a lot well you might be able to get it there's a
clear spot your lens is going to come into yes John yes yes and the quality of
my new telescope is uh explore scientific
apochromatic yes finally it's got finally yeah I get one for me over the
years the is 100 and I'm really happy
I can show you again
and from what I was seeing that looked really good even through the clouds it was amazing
yeah no no I think that is better here we go
yeah okay yeah yeah there it is yes yes
even sorry that this is a little you're shooting through clouds I mean
it's it's amazing yeah and the guy is there yes and sometimes
the guys are confusing when lost the star for guiding and some pictures of
course that have a little movement uh maybe in this case it's much better much
better stop the guiding but you know well it's
all is uh is something that an astronomy that especially from for uh from the
city than in the 15 minutes ago yes absolutely absolutely
I can I have clear sky at at near to 9
00 p.m and now well the cloud the Maxi told
me that the clothes coming from chival Corey
um I I when I read the Maxi told us that okay the clouds are here
of course that that one hour later the clouds are in Buenos Aires
um but I I had a um an excellent function with Nina with
the exos 100 all work properly uh despite the the clouds
um I'll I'll uh of course I will try to to
show you pictures for example let me you
know what that means that means that's a very good telescope because yes that's a
good scope you because the weather won't cooperate suddenly it's so small so
it's a is that that is not that it's a dream for me because I get all the week
assembled in the living room I don't need uh assembled anything I use my my
another um I use it by another Explorer and sorry
um telescope with a heavy mount and I need
to carry all to the roof of the of the of the welding I need one hour to adjust
everything in a good position now it's a setup of 15 minutes it's
nothing maybe I can I can try again I I see less
I I can see less less
Iron Man of faith
or fight for like like Alone um no no it's the same because it's
it's uh you can see you can see the the clouds yes I don't have it for example tonight
it's impossible to have um pictures lives to to to
calibrate and and stacks but it's fun if you have your
Works go you can see with an eyepiece or you can you can uh enjoy uh some in the
in the in the time that where you can see something uh but normally do you have a clear sky
and you you have fun for example I took I took less two weeks ago this picture
with the same telescope but with a reflex camera
and I
should screen okay this one
oh I like my my first life that's from your patio
yes yes because uh because I didn't only take
the pictures that of objects that came in this line because here you have the
West
in this part of the sky three o'clock is it three o'clock AM
um and this one uh was an excellent uh I first of all I was know how do you say I
was I wasn't um confident with my polar alignment
because I I make a a a role polar
alignment and it's saying this is not okay and I prefer make in the Nico the hammer
system of only in my case five seconds five seconds each life and I use around
180 uh lights
um with a CLS explore scientific filter
and really work properly because the amount here is 9.3 the number of of the
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least it's really bright you can see
low altitude clouds in in like a you are here if you understand that it's so
correct the the the FBI sure but the details the details I
used my reflex camera maybe it was a little noisy much but I really happy
with the details the the quality of my boiler alignment make a little
um try not around stuff that I like but was a a great first life that I
really enjoyed to to to to make something so you know
um where you you can enjoy uh you can enjoy the something that that
really you make in a place where it's a balcony in the middle of the city
and really it's a beautiful nebula to show and release
was something for me very very uh
rewarding yes yes rewarding rewarding is the word
thank you and yes it's when you feel something that you can reward you
yourself I say Ray really beautiful too it's beautiful
and the detail around the portal skills 9.3 yes yes yeah and now now go to nine
this is 9.3 is crazy yeah yes like very much guys like very much
enjoy enjoy the time between between yes yes you can see yes if I move
I'll move a little maybe I move the the picture it's so real actually you did
like a wood floor you know a deck actually
when I took pictures I lived from the balcony and um right normally I use I
hear the cloud return um yes and actually I leave the
telescope alone don't move the the floor right um but of course that you can see that I
make a a huge song between the
in in the in the pictures but despite this is really enjoy enjoyable uh place
to make astronomy yes um really you know is something to share
um a powerful tool for sure like that cluster when it's clear that's
in a beautiful amazing picture to see through that and you know it's a lot of
people can see it at once it's amazing absolutely John absolutely I agree with
you yes uh you can you can see how the clouds are moving beautiful from the
West see the moons out because they're well
yeah do you have now do you have now in in this direction the moon right and the
moon are are illuminate the clouds but I I'm sure that the pollution the light
pollution is making more like that the moon the full moon yes yes
um we have a full moon here at Wilson tonight but the stars are really good
yes yes let me show you the telescope it's a
beauty I mean now I know why Edwin Hubble was uh yeah it's one of those nights
with me tonight absolutely Spirit yes yeah
I I hope that next next year I'm going
surely I'll go to to meet with the globe but in a real
place and for to to watch together the eclipse in the official in the official
uh explore scientific place I don't know where it is exactly but
I'm I'm going to take my tickets because and I I am waiting that that I expect
that the entire group of global third party we are together in a live
in a live real life together presentation you're coming out you're
gonna be there yes yes if you're coming I have to be there now yes of course not this year but next
year only 24. yes yes 2024 I I'll go for my tickets my
passport um on my Visa yes yes awesome
yes all right it's a pleasure thank you it's a pleasure thank you so much thank you
thank you everyone all right good night all right good night thank you okay so
we are here with uh with only half
of John Schwartz your head's being chopped off just a little oh a little
bit um here let me
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that's right okay but anyway so yeah what have you been up to I mean it's been six weeks uh
yeah it's yeah you're you're helping us wrap up the 124th Global star party
which is great and uh um so what's been going on you know the moon a little bit but it's
been real hot it's been extremely hot lately oh my goodness so there's been
some good views when it's warmer for whatever reason it seems to give you a better view so so that's been good and
I've worked on uh our outdoor entertainment center happy wife happy life you know we were
getting that all put together sure and not feeding squirrels now we have squirrels and rabbits in our backyard
that come and visit uh-huh but it's amazing a lot of fun
okay so I could get us started I have my uh it's all yours all those ready I'm
gonna just highlight so how's everything going with you I
know you've been extremely busy as well yeah just fine you know we we finished up a bunch of work
um we we completely redid our warehouse is what we did and so that wow that was
a lot of work and um you know but needed to be done so
so they're just kind of random this is a my latest creation now there's a little
story behind it the uh picture of the moon is actually taken
using a cell phone snapshot that I took through the six inch explore scientific
triplet carbon fiber APO which is one of my most amazing instruments so I did
that Moon and I was able to you know put it in this beautiful Milky
Way scene as if you were out in space and you could see the moon from a different perspective you know
not as blinding but maybe a little bit from the Dark Side you could see the Milky Way shining bright
so it's it's more of a concept of course this is uh me at Mount Wilson
at the 60 inch this is a piece I've recently created so
I almost walked into this spider it's a orb spider and I was walking out but I
didn't it's a big yeah I didn't want my dog to get eaten by the coyotes because
we have a lot of you know stuff coming in the backyard now so I was looking at her some major and I
was stunned at how good it looked and I almost walked into that spider so
very very happy that I didn't this is uh one I recently completed of
the Blue Snowball it's a planetary nebula and um I posted this one on cloudy
nights this is looking through a 32-inch telescope and a 28 inch gives you an
idea of what you can see of course there's my little buddy he's
always looking for me Bosco this is yeah this is my latest Orion so
this is the actual close-up of my Orion the trapezium
so I've really been working on this image for probably two or three years now I'm getting close closer
so you know when you look through the uh telescope with magnification that's what you would see here's a wide field View
basically um same view just wider but you know capturing the color and the
light it's it's hard to get that exact so it's uh like Adrian said always work
in progress this is uh the Moon Venus and Mars
conjunction yeah we had the conjunction so here I had the Moon it was you know
starting to set so you're getting a little bit of atmosphere so it was turning orange just starting to turn
kind of orange but the Earth shine was there and uh that's our beautiful blue oceans
reflecting light back to the dark side of the moon that's what Earth shine then
I was using like a binoculars this is amazing how Venus looked like that in the lycos it had diffraction spikes
which told me what fine Optics those are and uh Venus was brilliant by comparison
and then of course Mars you can see in the corner it's very small but had a
slight color so that's about all you got out of it oh yeah but you know it's a
it's a big event these conjunctions when you we did the Saturn and Jupiter
conjunction that was a real big event you know and how about the Mars um the Moon occulting
Mars that was a wonderful one this is in progress so the seeing to
date that I've been working on this hasn't been as good as I'd like it but this is actually M13
globular cluster it's a sketch I'm working on now if you look close wow
what a graphic yeah what happens is when the seeing is bad and you're powered up
you get this weird thing it looks like worms they turn into worms so I kind of
was starting to do that in my sketch as they get better views I'll I'll come back with more contrasty you know
lighter star points that I'll add to that and uh but right now I couldn't see
that good because the seeing wasn't excellent but I call them worms you ever noticed that before
or the globular yeah I've had a lot of friends say they've seen that
M13 of course Wilson you call them worms
well they look like worms to me you're right I mean I guess you could call them
what uh squiggles or threads yeah threads they
connect together was what I'm saying yeah Snakes on a Plane
Snakes on a spaceship yeah yeah I know it's just a weird phrase I was
talking to my friend Andrew and he we were both saying you know have you ever noticed that they get these little
squiggly lines yeah and I'm like yeah their online makes
shapes out of everything I mean we see you know dogs and clouds and you know
whatever you know that's what Salvador Dali you know he's burnt toast I mean
you know yeah right you're right yeah I know you know very much about this as an
artist so well I do put hidden content in some of my works you know okay I do
on the moon shots I've been putting Bosco in you know because he's always there when I want to do my moon stuff
he's right there like saying why I I'm here you need to pay attention to me
exactly yes you know what are good friends for you know you can't argue with that that's
right the best friend yeah he is just whatever I'm doing we're getting ready
to go to Mount Pinos and I'll show you guys some great pictures when we get back but he goes up there and he loves
you know being up at the mountain everybody has friends two little friends so we get to meet him and
it's a it's a lot of fun this is um the Eskimo nebula sketch I'm working on
and um excellent I mean that looks so authentic too thank you you know I mean
three telescopes um the 60 inch the 28 and the 32 inch
so most recently it's the 60 inch detail that I've tried to add what I was kind
of seeing you know it's amazing yeah it was uh it really looking super
good looking through those that telescope at planetary nebula is
there's probably no better scope to do that with um just because of the way it you see it
in there it's amazing I've never seen it like any better although I should go to
the 200 inch maybe it'll show up yeah I think that the 60 inch actually visually
is a better instrument wow I was told that by many people really
and then I had an opportunity I used to have keys to Mount Wilson and used to take care of one of the smaller
telescopes and so you get invited to go look at through the telescopes a lot you
know and uh yeah the um the exit pupil the natural exit pupil comes out of the
hundred inches so huge you know that it's uh it's difficult to really get an
eyeful you know uh whereas the 60 inch you know the the the national exit pupil
of that instrument is much smaller not not as small as like an amateur instrument but uh you're probably the
largest uh you know television visual instruments that you probably could use
where it was really effective you know uh is probably in that 60 to 70 inch
range that's why those planetaries look so good I mean you know we've seen
views that you just don't get to see too often which is really really a great
thing and going to that Observatory it's just it's Enchanted for me when you go
up there you're right about that there's a feeling nobody feels it when they go there special
place it just has that feeling of Discovery you know yes so this was um a
picture I was working on called uh the moon and ocean of clouds which was
the weirdest thing because I'm looking through my Leica binoculars they're very sharp and um I see these clouds they're
like dissolving but they're still faint enough to where I could see him moving
across the moon much like Caesar's tonight very similar and so I I captured this you know there
was a little hole I just kind of you know made the hole a little bigger what I was seeing but and I just painted the
moon in in the clouds in the ocean of clouds so it has a pretty cool feel for me it's
kind of an art artistic piece for me This was um my friend I made this for
him he sent me the picture of the owl and that's Andrew from Cloudy Nights
he's an artist and a sketch artist I'm trying to get him to come on and uh so he sends me the picture and
it's at the beach down in San Pedro this owl is waiting for the moon to go down
or the Sun and that's Venus that's actually Venus right there nice and it's
sitting in the tree waiting for this Darkness so I can start hunting and it's you know the ocean is
in front of him so it's a really very nice sunset too I
I kind of took the color off of what I was doing was making this his handle on cloudy nights his night owl 99. I'm not
sure what the 99 is could it be his birth year but so I turned that bush into 99
giving him uh you know a profile picture potentially yeah so he he really liked
it it was made from his picture but I thought it was interesting
this was uh actually done with the six inch this is just a problem like a
photograph again yeah that's six inch dude is the sharpest
thing that in in uh the triplet with the carbon fiber the way it cools down the
feather I mean what better scope could I have do my lunar implant and that's what I wanted I
had these in order this was supposed to go with that Moon shot this was a section taken out
uh this was actually Mike Garrett my dear friend just got back from Pinos
this was taken uh with a zwo camera I wanted to share this he gave me
permission it's the trifid nebula and you can see how many stars are really out there in
our star cloud when you're looking across it are we in the Sagittarius arm or are we in the
Orion Army exactly I'm not 100 sure the Orion spur spur okay so it's like so
we're looks like a little wing of an arm coming off you know thank God we got an
arm anyway right yeah so but I think you know I I could be
wrong about this but I think that our solar system over billions of years actually
uh will go from Spire alarm to spiral arm yes and I've heard that we happen to
be in a fairly quiet zone of the Milky Way There is Milky Way
with high levels of radioactivity and uh so we're
in a nice spot here in the Milky Way so it's nice to be here
so I know it's a Sagittarius arm we're looking across that and um boy it is absolutely amazing that we can
look across that grand void of space and there is that arm we're seeing it like
that there is his Lagoon nebula Mike is
really uh getting some amazing shots oh yeah
so you can see you know pretty starbirth it's beautiful yeah and you
look at how many stars or these are 10 minute Subs is what he's using
so each picture is 10 minutes and um these are just his raws I I just
tried to do a little bit with him you know I didn't do a whole lot but
here is the one I was trying to put in order for some reason I messed it up
again but this is your my sketch through your instrument
um using a cell phone snapshot in the procreate side-by-side mode
so literally I can flip my screen put the picture on the right and my drawing
on the left and through weeks and months of tea is work and blending and
sketching I've been able to recreate that and that is done with that explore
scientific six inch that I have I call it my surgical instrument because
it is sharp I lost some eyelashes one day because it
was so sharp I couldn't wink at everybody until I
went anymore I'm sorry that happened to you no it is truly yeah telescope's not as
sharp in the future yeah I mean I I see stuff on the moon that you know for a
six inch just it's unbelievable what you can see with with that even with the one
like Caesar got so I was just I was stunned at the how good the Lagoon
looked with it's just amazing man those they're
really incredible instruments to have especially for wide field solar lunar
planetary even deep space you know yeah where you have big open clusters there's
nothing like it you know just the view through there it's special so we each have a category you know
maxitovs are good but you know reflectors are nice but when you have that contrast of a refractor there's
nothing quite like it's something special about that it is especially when
you're looking at the Moon I mean it just it like it just draws you in like
it's etched out a crystal or something I mean yeah why not sometimes I'll use my
um on the G11 I'll just use a real slow uh so I can move my scope at a certain
speed not 16 times I do it like four times and you literally can just drive like
you're flying your craft on the moon it's mesmerizing especially with vinyl
viewers it's even more oh right yes because yeah it cuts the glare down and
you know because the moon's so bright you don't need the um filters you just used a bin over here and then you're
literally driving with uh dual Vision you know it's amazing
yeah I really like this uh look at the the just the various Zones look at that one crater it looked like a piece of
pepperoni almost so I the pepperoni crater yeah but look at
the the you know that scope really pulls in amazing detail just even at the top like you know one
of the things I did when I was younger is paint a golf ball it's not an easy thing to do to paint
one you know make it look realistic so that was a good practice for the dimpling you know on this
it gives you you know the ability to make it look real
yeah through dating but anyway I'm proud of that one and that was done through that explore scientific
yes so I think that will conclude uh my presentation thank you thank you I
wanted to show you congratulations on on winning your astronomical League uh
award for uh thank you you know for your work yeah that's what I wanted to show
you is um I didn't get a chance to show you that one and I really did want to show that one
so yeah here it is that's the winning schedule the winner
right there huh M51 27 million light years away yep
my favorite it's such an unbelievable Galaxy uh even in the six inch I can see it
really nice from my location I think it's bortal eight
but this was done you know over some very good seeing in in dark skies
and altitude through big telescopes so but thank you so much
well thank you so much John thank you thanks everyone I think um I want to
thank our audience for for tuning in and um uh you know want to uh thank our
presenters for taking the time to be you know for all their talent and effort uh
to put on the uh 124th Global star party uh uh you know it's uh it's always a
pleasure uh you know when I think of the combined knowledge of all of these people that uh put this event on uh you
know I'm really humbled and uh and so it's it's great to kind of just uh be
there near the fires so to speak um we have also just a great audience uh
that watches from around the world and uh for those of you that aren't watching this live you know of course we thank
you for uh you know watching the global star party and sharing it with your friends and so uh we'll be back on we
should be back on next Tuesday uh for the 125th Global star party until that
time uh you guys take care and we'll be uh encouraging you to encouraging you to
keep looking up so good night thank you have a great evening yeah thank you bye everyone thank you bye
everyone goodbye good night foreign
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