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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
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collected an incredible amount of asteroid sample
[Music] osiris-rex backed away from Bennett and the team sealed up the return
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[Music] the return capsule will land in the Utah
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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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meeting is being live streamed right into my That's right so
they're they're seeing backstage right
now see howdy on the live chat
here they're not going to know what to do i haven't had global star party in a while stop
yeah and I think a health a month and a half i think the
last one I think was third 30 no
30 of May last day of May
i think that was the last one long time that's right that's right
well I'm excited you know it was a real uh you know energy charge to be at Alcon
and uh see all those people you know David uh gave a great talk uh got a
standing ovation you know okay was uh was wonderful fred Espanac's talk during
in the planetarium was really interesting and uh I everybody just had
a great time 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 yes and to talk with him at length on a
number of topics and to meet Ron Kramer previous president of the league and Ron Kramer
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
well you'll get there you'll get there but that's that's really the issue right now is that I just can't get up and and
when I do it when the alarm goes off sometimes I'll turn it off sometimes I just let it ring
and it'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
awesome we've missed the Global Star Party Scotty we've missed it a lot
definitely you know I follow you guys in social media in Facebook and when I saw
the picture that everyone was sharing of the alone ceremony and everything you
know I'm really glad for you that you could meet again passing through
this forgotten COVID situation and everything
in the past and h see you guys hugging
again talking again having a really good time of course in in in this case in astronomy
but even that 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 if all of us could 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 um you're so glad to see them and uh shake
their hand and sit there and talk to them face to face it has a a big effect
the the thing of that is when you meet
with an 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 time uh but well of course you had to comprehend this but anyway it's
very comfortable except this time I made the time I sort of sat on one excellent excellent people
talk really did enjoy that we have uh Harold Lock and Ed Gunther
watching on YouTube right now so Oh great nice to hear from them hello Ed
Gunther oh you can't wait 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 ed says hello back so thank you yeah
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sample osiris Rex backed away from Bennu and the team sealed up the return
capsule and prepared for the long journey to Earth
oseris Rex is preparing to rendevous with Earth and will deliver the asteroid sample on September 24th
2023 the return capsule will land in the Utah desert and will be opened and studied for years to come
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hey everybody this is Scott Roberts from Explore Scientific and the Explore Alliance and tonight uh we celebrate the
124th Global Star Party with the theme of the Perciads the Perciads have been observed by the Chinese since 36 AD and
observed by cultures around the world um it was um the perciads are attributed to
a comet called Swift Tuttle and so um Swift and Tuttle discovered this comet
um um let me get their first names here lewis Swift and Horus Tuttle um this
independently discovered this comet 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 um humans started looking at
it uh in very early recorded history so uh this uh the debris that's left by
comets 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 Perciads the radian
the point of the sky where it looks like it's coming from is in the constellation Perseus so Swift Tuttle uh has produced
um the some of the most well-known and most reliable meteor showers the periods
uh since um since people started looking up at the sky and trying to figure it all out um the um
um you know comet comets and uh and the resulting meteors and meteor showers uh
capture you know our imagination uh like few other celestial objects can uh 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 uh you don't observe meteors uh with
telescopes you do you would observe uh comets with telescopes but um 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 uh uh you know expect
that our speakers here will have some amazing talks for you we kick it off
with comet discover David Levy uh who will give 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 all of his own uh
young Navin Santelkumar is going to join us uh Daniel Bar uh from the University
of Arkansas will be with us tonight uh Maxi Flores uh down in Argentina with
his amazing astrophotography um we'll take a break and then we'll come back with Adrien Bradley uh Marello
Soua from Brazil Cesar Brolo from Argentina and then finishing up with
John Schwarz out there in California um in 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 missed it and I think a lot of you guys and girls 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." And we went
to Shenoise and at the time they had a lot of shenois around the city and this one had you know you'd sit in the booth and
there'd be little record machines by the side of the table you put in a quarter you
choose the song you want and uh you it plays over the whole instrument and I asked dad if he had any
I asked dad if he had any ideas and he said "Are you going to let me choose a
song?" And it was clear he was getting very excited about this and I 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 this smile on his face that I will never forget god
I miss him so much but uh 1966 we saw 96
meteors and then we've had others i'm looking forward to this year 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 concert late in his life and when he was standing in front
of the audience he began with
the fore how goodly are thy tents oh Jacob thy dwelling place is always he
made a personal welcome that I think the audience just loved and I think he tried
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 Sharim congregation of which
my family are longtime 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 grave sites and she discovered the tomb of
Leonard Cohen she was so excited she could hardly speak she just called me to
come over and I looked at it and we just gazed at this beautiful beautiful memory
of Lenny Cohen so here's my quotation it's uh from
Hallelujah but it is a little extra stanza that I composed for it i don't
think would have minded because the song that he originally did was only about a
tenth of the number of verses we actually wrote for it so here's
mine it's time to go outdoors tonight the sky is dark some stars are bright
the Milky Way shines overhead now see a comet rises in the east with end
to strife it brings us peace and calls us to a cosmic Hallelujah
hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
hallelujah thank you for letting me do this david thank you so much thank you oh
that's great um now we also have a special guest who will come on later uh
in our program uh space artist and author Michael Carroll so normally we
have about a 10-minute break but uh we're gonna we're we're just going to 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 hearing you singing so thank
you okay that's great so um uh uh we are
uh uh happy to have people come back to Global Star Party we've had uh some
people be on uh for a number of uh segments uh and 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 on my face when I saw his email 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 I really uh I really appreciate what you and all the guests
and astronomers and people interested in the world and 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 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 uh 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 um
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 in a in a you know a Bortal 6 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 uh 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 4Erunner and um uh 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 10acre
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 here's an example of
an image I got there uh it's about 103 minutes of total exposure wow
so uh this is the sickness region uh DAB and Sedar North America
etc in the meantime I decided that I would try some um improvements to my
about a year old uh Takahashi Apsilon 160 uh it's faster and uh it has the
potential to be extremely good with uh 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 um PowerPoint or Well I'm trying to close the little um
thing 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 that on the screen 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 uh M51 this is 4 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 M16 the Eagle Nebula and the Pillars
of Creation uh this is a only 54minute total integration using three nanometer
filters and I find that even though the epilon scope huh yes even though the
epsilon is f3.3 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 in signal was
about 10% 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 uh Alpha Scorpi
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 a classical sonoran desert and
um uh when the sun set here's my Milky Way shot uh this is only 27 302 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 Antar's and 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 um 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 uh 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 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 which has LRGB and the
three nanometer filters um this is a device called an octtopi which allows me to
uh adjust the tilt and back focus of the camera and it's very critical in the f3.3
system not as critical as f2 but but it's still very important if you want
really the best quality right 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 IOPron
uh harmonic drive uh mount and it has power through the gimbal so that helps a
lot so here is an image I took in my backyard in
Phoenix um it's 2 hours and six minutes of total integration it's a It's a
classical sho image with narrowand 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 PAC 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 setup
here and uh 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 counterwe 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 uh this is uund this
is almost two hours of exposure um again with my
um uh Nikon Z6 and uh 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 40mm lens on uh my Nikon Z6
so the label is wrong um 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 try decided
to try for a really hard target that is the squid and the flying bat
nebula and uh as some of you may know uh the squid was only discovered in 2011
um by a French astrophotographer Nicholas Outers and it's extremely faint
um so here is a single threeminute 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 3 nanometers at 03 the site was
averaging about 20.6 uh I'm sorry that's that's another
mistake that should be 21.6 okay not 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 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 HA data and I exposed for RGB stars to get the star color right and
here I made sure that I included u this dark nebula this is B150
again uh 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 have failed so after only seven
hours of 03 nine hours total I'm quite pleased with what I got on my twoight
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% and I calculated um I calculated that
um the signal to noise should be um well the signal to noise measured is about 04
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 noise model and it predicted I needed seven hours to reach
a signal to noise of five which was u 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 200 180 seconds
on average so this brings new meaning to the phrase
counting agent photons yes um it's really it's really quite amazing at a
time that we live that we live in such a great time with all this super
technology that allows us to do this sort of thing right okay so uh let me
say a few words about the Perciads um this is an image I made at a very
very dark site in the Hila National Forest in New Mexico in 2015 i didn't have a great camera this is only 30
minutes of 30 second worth of 30 second exposures and I was seeing a lot more
than this with my naked eye this was a great great time because this
particular year there was no moon and um it was just
incredible and um I have friends who have a cabin there and this is a picture of their
cabin with the Milky Way and one of the perciads so it's just I would encourage
everyone to get to the darkest place you can in order to uh 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 um 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 uh radiant in order to get uh 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 Seabila National Forest and uh
was a was an excellent spot and time well and very efficient on my time and
then this is not p perceds 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 that's 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 through the 105 millimeter lens so when you're
when you're shooting me 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 mm 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 um and if we zoom in on this you can again this is
Orion and all these little streaks here are geocatellites 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 uh 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
uh version of um my uh visit to the VRBO
uh east of PAC and I've stretched the image to show the dust in and around the
row complex and the blue horse head nebula so
um that's what I had to present amazing amazing
astrophotography you know uh Bob every time I look at your work I I see not
only technically I mean excellent work but you have a sense of style and a
sense of composition that uh really makes the these images sing and I love
that thank Thank you very much i I feel like I don't have a creative bone in my body but Yes you do yes you do okay yeah
excellent work you know and I look at the landscapes even and foreground 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 Navan Cintelkumar 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 Navan a con was 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 Awards so did you meet the
uh winners that were there yeah I got to meet a few of them okay that's fantastic
all right well hopefully that that's inspiring uh to and moves you towards uh 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 the I'm going to share in my screen right now um do you all see my
screen yes all right
so first it'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 it's current right ascension is going to be 3 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 3 the year 36 that was the first recorded
if you want to pronounce it correctly it's Percus and it's in the
constellation Perseus firstly we need to know what
what causes the Perseus meteor shower and the Perseus meteor shower was
caused by the comet Swift Tood um we need some information about
the comet it was discovered by two astronomers Lewis Swift and Horus Toodel
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 100 years which is in 2126 we don't know if it could make naked eye
contact but in brightness to the Haley Bob comet the Hail Bob comet in 1997
providing that the predictions are correct we don't exactly know where is the Percid's meteor
shower um the person's meteor shower is exactly in the per comet Perseus which I
was telling sorry the constellation Perseus which I was telling ear earlier um you can see the ped meteor
shower in the northern hemisphere down to the mid southern latitudes and all you need to catch the
show is darkness somewhere comfortable to sit and a bit of patience
um the p the for the constellations position it's going to be right ascension 3 hours exactly and the
declination is going to be 45° visible between the latitudes if you want to know 90 and
-35° when is the best time to view the person meteor shower so for comet
hunters people they might know better um it's probably going to be during the
pre-dawn hours
um the peak viewing days are typically your best shot to see the
meteors probably to see the meteors look up to the north in the southern latitudes you can probably look
northeast to see more meteors um could comet Swift Tudo collide with
Earth that's a disturbing question um one astronomer calculates
that Swift Toodles's 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 on
Jupiter we don't exactly know cuz I like I recall it's in a 100 years and we
can't predict like that however show by the comet 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 scan 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 so 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 cuz it can
make you colder like stick to 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 you in an incline position for maximum comfort and
viewing opportunities these are some additional resources like learning about comet
Swift Tood and the bibliography and um I'm just
going to share some alcon
images first image was Carol right there
um yeah that was all at Alcon in Baton Rouge i'm That's David Levy we 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 Capernicus i don't know but I know for
sure this is Newton cuz his apple and like his hair and all that stuff mhm
and that's me with like a huge like Milky Way
shot um that's David Levy's 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 he um he um I think he's part of he's from he's from somewhere i forgot
yeah that's all the images I got from Along oh and that this one's from Terry
yeah guy is a brother guy console Magno if that's how you pronounce it he
was uh he was director of the Vatican Observatory yeah who's the other person who was with
him the co-author of Turn left at Orion and uh that guy I I got to talk to quite
a bit at Alcon 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 Nathan and uh 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 a few other young astronomers at Alcon yes yeah
so yeah that's all it's all my talk and 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 Dr daniel
Bar daniel uh is 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 Daniel has always been
incredibly enthusiastic u about um outreach in astronomy educating the
public about astronomy showing people how to understand uh uh you know the
processes at work in our own solar system and beyond um and he's also been
great at explaining the process of science and uh he encourages everybody
to get involved in science 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 your sustaining progress so thank you very much D
thank you Scott uh 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 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 few things
better than that uh than watching a bunch of suicidal rocks from outer space come splash themselves against the
windcreen 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
uh 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
sage brush 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 crockpot of soup or chili or snacks and
uh 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 uh
we printed out copies of star maps simple star maps surrounding the area of
the radiant where we were going to look and we encouraged 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 "Oo meteor." Which you could hear everybody chorusing which was
great fun i hear all these shouts of joy coming out of the dark then 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 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 to 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 bully how bright was it we had students use the
shaft scale um you may or may not be familiar uh Fred Sha who is 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 1 to 10 basically meteoric dust that ever burns up at all to you know
the dinosaurs are going away today which was the level 10 and I would ask them classify the level and the color 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 lab points we were going to be out there from 9 or 10 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 six 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 Forest Gums box of chocolates you never know what you're
going to get so when we went out in 2001 and this is in Hemtt California and
we went up towards
say is it's like radiance we had one in Perseus and
we had one in Ursa Major and so we 2001 did we have the internet yes was it the
information jug or not it is
people getting some freeze frame
here and I think it's on his side we might lose him here
just seeing any meteors from it and could we get a
radiant pulled together this chart and uh
um I have it somewhere the chart with both radians on it but I couldn't find it at that time thing with two radians
and the students were so
excited yes of course you have and the wonderful thing about going
out is virtually every phenomenon you
see for the first time if you're 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 show
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 and we were getting hundreds of meteors an hour the beautiful
So much science so much math such
superb can't say I can
guarant how exciting it's going to be there's
always and see well why we don't know or aren't you looking
at Wasn't it here last year in the yearbook yes but it might be
different come out with me and we'll see um
for why blue why can't we hear
theming itself why isn't there rolling crashes
of 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 what but of course then you get the uh
the in Siberia and
this four 500 megaton explosion
window oh I wish I was there well what would you do if you
s 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 allah that Memorax remember the Memorax ad with the guy sitting yes I remember i do back in his hair for
some reason you're getting a lot of freeze frames um I don't know if uh
you're getting a lot of what uh you're you're u you're getting uh uh you're
freezing up cutting and freezing oh I'm freezing up 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 at the house with heat and
electronics the last uh because We haven't had air conditioning at the house same deal since June early June 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 it's good to be back on great thanks Daniel
thanks Scott all right okay so um uh up
next is um is uh Maxi Faris uh he is uh
I don't I don't think I ever actually pronounce your last name exactly right how do you pronounce it Maxi it's like
an Italian way but it's fier like like you
say okay exactly well it's French it's French but here in Argentina we call it
in Spanish way so it's palees so but in French is
but 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 but that's okay is everybody here in
Argentina also they don't pronounce my last name very good because they call it
me talier with a t because maybe it's a where you were to the your car or pal
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 in
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 one weekend it was a really really cold
night that you were going to see in a couple of minutes but anyway uh I I was
practicing with my processing tools with Pix inside new new tools uh Forex H
pallet using the the L extreme filter and
also 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 it's 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
Um we were you were here on with us earlier when David Lee was talking about
how active the sun is you know counted something like 50 sunspots and and you
have the next year well it's going to be maximum 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 p practically was erh processing again some pictures
that I've been capturing and practicing with this uh Forex tool uh because
it's working with this L extreme filter is very different like when you work
with RGB pictures so the final image that I will get h I
was really happy to get this one h in this case are the with the forex palette
and the here are the RGB that I've been doing but anyway you know I have this
from the 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 thins details on the processing and I really love to to
capture this 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 h
anyway capturing this is amazing well this is the lobster nebula that I was
talking about more earlier with Michael but uh I processed this year
yesterday uh but anyway you can start to see
this it's like fire you know in this in this space but it doesn't it doesn't it
is fire but anyway this place of the core uh is impressive uh to to try to
get a little details uh of what's around these
stars um then was this that I shared to
David Aker of the Pencil Nebula this is a particular object that
we have in the southern hemisphere southern skies uh when you
capture this with RGB you you will only have to capture almost this brighting places
only but the rest is really really difficult and you will need a lot of
nights 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 ETA nebula principally the the
core but in this case you have the
star where the the the finger of God is upside down um well a lot of uh box
nebula dark nebulas uh you know this is this is a an amazing place to to capture
even with RGB or without it uh without filters and everything you know is
really really good place to and also to to watch it through a telescope so uh
well this is the dolphin head nebula uh that is nearby of the helmet nebula
of to um then I captured this that I was
taking picture of three nights h with the of the same area to
get almost 200 100 pictures to stack this is in the southern atmosphere but
it calls the Liberty this the Liberty Statue Nebula
like the New York City statue because it has the the perfect shape of
the Libert statue place
and but you know this this is a really good place to capture but it's really
difficult with RGB like the pencil nebula and because you have all these
brighting places but the darkness or the darker places are really really
beautiful and the shift of the colors and let me put this
away you know uh spectacular Maxi
the the it's incredible all these places and the shapes of the nibloity that has
is amazing wow look at that look at those big swooping
arcs you know yeah this these arcs are amazing even of course I'm doing this
with the RGB camera but of course if you have H alpha
filters O3 filters and a monochrome it will be much more better but anyway you
know this place also really blows my mind you
know all the structures that you have on this particular core uh really brighting
And when you go more outside you'll see all the the perspective and the the
complete structure that has it nearby this one and of course we have darker
nebulas that are really really dense and of and this I think it's a
little I don't know how we call this place i don't remember it's like to me a little
book like or something like that
like kukaracha I don't know how to say in English that insect but
yeah kukaratcha that's it cockroach cockroach like like that of the universe
exactly so well of course I was practicing with the M16
uh nebula i had this information but in
this case I was practicing with two kind of process one taking pictures with RGB
only and and a filter of luminance only UV and IR cut filter
but also with the L extreme filter and then I try to combine them only uh with
the stars and little shapes of the nebula that I get with the L extreme so
honestly I'm I'm really happy with this results i like this violet and
pink colors that I could get yeah but also all the the structures that I that
I have and the pricing stars are amazing you know um 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 periods of decoration but anyway here no
sorry this is not a mask i had to go
there i tried to get more bright in this place and well I get lost of detail here
in the core mhm but I love to have all that that star brightening stars
in well in here you you can see they are much more lightness than
here so anyway I I really enjoy 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 Herman Bakaro we
get only one weekend to Saturday night to Sunday
evening and you know I I prepare my
equipment h I I was working with two equipments that night with my
F4 8 in telescope and the ASCAR lens above Star Adventurer
mount this was at the afternoon
uh when the sun's uh was going down and you can see
it's it's not desert but it was peaceful
there was nobody that only us um
was uh Nico there no Nico couldn't get because I think that
that's the day he went to fishing i think fishing yeah he he has that
another hobby that he likes to to fish i fish I fish for stars and galaxies mhm
well sometime he combined them he went with his doson and go fishing and you
know uh well this is the the sunset that I could get with the Diasar very nice
um but well
I let me go brief to the another day you can see here this is
Herman but this is on the day when on the sunrise but you can see it's almost
white on the grass oh it was really really cold that's cold
really cold you know I could capture p take pictures of the the grass and the
sun totally frozen grass mhm yes you can compare it here because you have a tree
covering the grass and here's not so now it's it was really tough
um I don't remember where I put those pictures uh
uh here I think yeah you know this is the the top of my
car uh yeah that's cold that's cold yeah
here we are with a selfie and even of that clothes we feel really cold
the window gets really white of grateful that this the
cars start up so sparkly telescope there it's like got
glitter on it it get frozen and you know when I put the the the
the machine of the head to to put a hot air of your head to
to get dry yeah air dryer air dryer i used this to you know melt this ice and
they went okay but they start to get this
little tinkles of water yes above this aluminum place and they get frozen you
know it was almost like a a lot of water frozen no no it was incredible but no it
was really good really frozen night uh it's good for good for 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 this is an spiral galaxy
that's you if you watching this through a telescope you will see the core and
nothing le nothing more uh but when you get with this your cameras and
everything you will have a lot of data of this the these particular structures
and also these ones you know they are really
I think this part is maybe part of the galaxy and also this one maybe is a sat
a satal galaxy I I don't know I didn't research
But you know there's a lot of galaxies here because I annotated this
[Music] um you have a lots like for example here
uh well here's another one another one well and you can see in this
one for example here they are almost PGC cataloges because They are really far
away from us really but of course this one is an also but they are much more
away and also I capture again the quartet of Grus or
Quartetto that is a really good place to capture
it uh and I really love the colors that I get on the stars and the shape of the
galaxy and also the deep frames of the the deep objects that
I get here you know I get this inspiration
of well of course have a telescope but also of the James Web Space
Telescope and you know watch this spiral galaxy floating but looking at what they
are in the background this amazing galaxies they are really far away and
there are a lot of clusters of galaxies for example here
and also here well sorry they
are you know and I am only c capturing this of with a single g gear uh with of
a modest gear i I I I don't have a lot of h information i don't have a lots
of details and everything but anyway you can capture
any galaxies look at that no and look at the the annotated image that I
get there's a lot there's a lot there and and they are not taking for example
in this one they didn't catch all of it yet and a lots of galaxies they are they did
in catalog for example this one and you
know in in only a single picture there are lots of stars
words elements life everything in a single
picture you resume this uh is when you start to think about it
is going getting more much more deeper well for the pictures this is the
part that what I was doing h if you I don't know if we we have a couple
minutes but I want to show you my new gear i went to dosonian telescope
also this is an 8 in F5 f6 sorry niko
like Nico but a little more smaller but I know I was take talking with my wife
and I say you know this is a good time to buy it this is in a good price no no
we have to buy another things so I try to
convince her and she said "Okay but that's it no more please."
So I buy it from a guy in Bra 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 uh
everything's okay of course you don't have to in this with the dosonian mount
a lot of detail but inside of it of the optical is it was of course dirty you're
going to see it now but h here is a friend ever that he went now to Marla to
leave but we watch uh you know
Saturn 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 said I said
peni 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 blowing mind with seeing Venus at this
time of the afternoon mhm
and then I I had to clean it you can see yeah a little dirty dirty fungus
oh yeah yeah it have fungus uh and these
shapes i don't know what happened there so when you see
it now it it doesn't reflect too much so I I I clean it and this is what I get ah
very nice everything gets brighter now 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 but it's the contrast drops mhm
but it's recommended to clean it sometimes because maybe the the same
dirts they has in the in the mirror will produce uh you know that scratches
or that that don't reflect too much in the future because it damage that mirror
because you don't have a anything That's the metal of the mirror uh but if
you capture doing pictures of the dirty telescope you like you
said it will works but in the the passing of the of the months of the
years if you don't clean it it's going to be really damage to the mirror in per
se yes so when you can see here it reflects a lot of the of the rooftop
that then here it doesn't right no it's you can see 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 going want to talk what I was collaborating in this time h here's the
the magazine Simu this is the magazine from the planet charity of the city of
Buenocidis oh that they published every season not every month they
publish every season in this case it was from the autumn of this year
so Diego Ernnandez asked me if I want to to share some pictures i asked him "What
what picture do you want maybe what do you think?" and he asked me if you if I
had do you remember this comet green the famous comet green and some deep sky
objects h pictures so I say look at what I've been capturing and tell me and you
and you know choice one that that's that's okay there's no problem so uh
this is the the the magazine they they say of course the the
editorial the staff the collaborators the thankful and of course the the the
summary and in this case
they of publish that the city of
Buenosides um um hall say that this magazine is of
interest educa educational and social interest they declare this magazine so
they are they are we are very happy for that and well of course we like every
Argentine we love the the detail of the World Cup and of course the final you
can see here Duo Martinez
is go he's the goalkeeper and he
is well avoiding that Golo Mani makes a goal at the final
final very final minutes but they compare the position of that keeper of
the running man Nebula 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 a really good
conversation on in this case of what happened uh and of course they
um in and a company from Nard Plata Inova Space
um puts on space a uh through
SpaceX engines a a satellite a satellite
called Duo Martinez this is a really small satellite that
they put in orbit that calls like the goalkeeper of
Argentina so what I in in this magazine I contribute it with this picture of the
clams galaxies this is the Cadwell
H3 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 comet or bad colored green
comet but you know I I really love to capture this one uh 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 minutes more later that he asked me to to make an article of my
experience through my our two solar eclipses that occurred in
Argentina a couple years ago one it was four years ago and the another one is
going to be three uh so what I did was
practically practically uh tell uh my preparation my
expectives what happened uh what was going on what I feel h
but in these two solar eclipses but you know like I say at the final it
doesn't matter what I'm what I say to you or what you 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 experience of and what I was doing thank you for participating this
is the link i'm sharing it with the audience right now for Skies Up Magazine and you can read uh Maxis's article as
well as other great articles that are contributed from astronomers from around the world skies magazine is the uh free
global astronomy magazine
wow uh well thank you Scott uh and my
last thing that I contributed contributed was share my pictures
to a a child theater because they want
to they they did a over in English how do you say it
um a a um makeup
um no sorry I don't know how to say in English that it tells a story about a a
boy that of course it doesn't exist but this boy pass a week with his aunt and
his aunt is a passionate of astronomy so she tells stories about the skies she
tell the stories about our region here in in the southern hemisphere in particular in
Argentina the 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 manual logo you know she talks only her you know it's amazing
actress and well they they have
music through the this different scenes in this case here's the the the
the uh the poster and here I am that I
collaborated and they had 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 want to school and you know uh so they went to
to see this particularly
well well I think that's all for today
thank you i hope that you liked it sorry if I get a little more minutes but you
know we we don't we didn't have we didn't have global star party for six
yeah so right it was too much in half an hour so right that's right that was
great so um thanks again Maxi and uh we'll be My pleasure next week 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
let me get out of full screen michael I'm going to share you the link if you
want to see it with more details here yeah great thank you and of course with the audience I will post it yeah yeah
send it on the uh Oh here it is i'll I'll send it here we go
all right he 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." [Laughter]
I love that that's right folks
all right let's see if I can start things off
here okay can you see that yes looks good 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 perced
things 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 periods during the periods uh may in fact hearken back to
uh this formative era beautiful time in the early solar system of course uh
Perciads are are from a specific comet
Swift with Tuttle uh we talked a little bit about where all that comes from uh
they did a good job on that already um but some most of that stuff is
micrometeorites 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 uh 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 a 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 uh 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 Meteor
Crater in Arizona uh you can see the layers of rock here that are beginning
to bend toward the left uh of the image so kind of cool uh thing that happens
there but how big was the rock that made this hole well typically uh a crater is
created by something that's roughly 111th the diameter so uh if we take
three box cars on our railroad track that gives us about the diameter about
60 or 60 times three of the Yendi 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 kilometer across uh you can see uh Hal's uh comet nucleus in
the background with sour cream and chives because it looks like a potato to
me uh but if we look down at Itakawa in the lower left
uh this is how big that asteroid 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
Hayibusa 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 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 going to see if we can connect to a quick little
movie here i think we'll have to skip an ad
first uh Michael I think you are sharing only
the window of the presentation so we can see the when you open the link yes
okay so you cannot see the uh No you have to unshare the screen share the
video and then you share the the video or on all the screen 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 Rex
Osiris Rex was next after Ryugu 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 uh dramatically uh closer chalya Binsk uh
in uh in Russia came blobbing through the atmosphere and exploded above ground
um very exciting event uh that actually injured 1,500 people
uh in a very uh remote region um but uh
Chalia bins happened a day and a half before a close approach of another body
uh called Duend Day uh and this one uh we knew was coming it had been spotted
by a couple of observatories this is a comparison of Dwayne and Chela Binsk the
different sizes you can see in the height stadium so with all the damage
from Chela Binsk imagine what Dwayne would have done um these things are big
and they're flying around a lot and uh we need to watch out for them uh comet
hardly 2 the nucleus uh compared to the Eiffel Tower pretty dramatic if we saw
this one day it would be a bad day probably certainly for Paris and then uh
comet P67 here I compare it to Mount Fujama so
these I' I've tried to measure very carefully uh 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 uh being amazed at uh things like the periods 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 Scott and
to Explore Scientific and the the global uh community that we are a part of it's
been very fun thank 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 Adrien Bradley with us and um
again thanks Michael artwork and I look forward to seeing you back on next time yeah me too
yep adrien Bradley how are you man doing good it's good to be back in Global Star
Party 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 parties 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 that's the title I just came up with
that's what I'm going to go with and it's going to be an 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 that was a lot of smoke 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 Tao moves over and also noting the
little difference in detail no matter what you do with a uh 600 mm lens your
detail looks decent till 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 Mac C 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 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 good image you can see I was able to keep that orang-ish
color that the smoke in our atmosphere i'm in Michigan and I'm near the Canadian
wildfires so the smoke gives the moon a bit of an
appearance as if it were um as if it was an was an eclipse
and let's see I have um couple other
images and here they are this was as it was
growing so 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 non astronomy related no it's all
astronomy related Adrian everything is 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 that 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 com and that's why I like to
actually Scott you hit on what I like that yeah i combine 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 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 Can 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 dis of the sun to another distant object in this case I
have a ferry 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 th 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 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 mm shot
of the Milky Way as seen through a lot of smoke and haze this is uh the
butterfly cluster talmies cluster
M8 M20 M22
compare how little we're able to see it's you know as a 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 as spot-on as I would
have liked um let's see right here a very similar photo little more
picturesque because not as much movement to clone out you have the makings of Ro
Fiuki here and M4 shows up you could 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 as and as astronomers first we tend to like details like M23 right
here we 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
M17 m16 is definitely it it's just a 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 oh not a panorama a well it's you stitch together a few images so
this one I focused I used a an 85 millimeter lens focused on
mostly Milky Way and used 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 used a 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 and 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 M23 we've got there's more of everything even M20 you can start you
can see dust lanes starting in M20 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 uh named LBN estanes here that don't always the
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 M28 isn't it which one
the second glob is it M28 or maybe not this second glob could be M28
you You may be right uh this one's either M24 or M25 because there's
another object right here your star is amazing look at that the star cloud wow
yeah the star cloud's got some detail in it you That's crazy you can almost pick out in NGC objects with this
and then your your detail here here's your Omega that's a lagoon oh no that's
M17 yep that's M17 here's a lagoon we what amazing color we got some of the
Yeah we got some of the stars noon and we got the shape of the tripffid and even the NGC object above it
the d 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 pillars of creation here these are the pillars but it's it
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 the center of the field a little bit by now right Adrian
ask a question from the audience here yeah martin uh Telia 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
enhance DSO and uh reduce stars i use that a lot northern hemisphere shooters
photoshop 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 horizon the cat's paw and the
lobster claw nebula 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 stitching 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
sharp you try and 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 and
yeah that none of this would be as sharp right 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 that looks natural that looks really good it looks
really natural but yeah blended when I move in here oh it starts to break down
so composits 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 three shots 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
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 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 with the shot because
they're so different in in brightness it really plays havoc on Right and the way
that I do that is each shot is done with the exact same uh time same settings
because it would if you shoot the Milky Way 2 minutes at a certain level the
lighthouse turns out a certain way in processing and this was a composite um
there's stars in the mast so it's always Yeah there's always a work in progress
to get the composits to look that's 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 and that is brilliant wow yeah now this was shot with a little
less of 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
uh with noise reduction you lose a little bit of detail yep like the you see these dust lane
these uh LDN objects dark lanes dark you have some 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 tendrils very likely that is noise reductional you know you
can't even see pillars here so you know the more light and the larger
And this is probably a good time to close um here's other images here um
real quick how much moonlight can you still get a Milky Way
you can you can aim up at Signis you can barely get it with a threequarters moon
to my right and these clouds are coming in to swallow it 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 motion 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 moon that's a
moonow oh man there's a moonbo you can you can't see those colors naked eye
but the camera 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 that there were a lot of clouds coming in so yep turning around there's the
other side of that park i don't know how the moonbo 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 moon bow
this I think it's faint but I mean how many times wiped it
out might have been another moonbo starting to It looks like it was you had a double yeah I can see it for sure yep
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 the trip out there that night those are big lakes too they're like
Yeah they're Yeah it's seas 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 much 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 a 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 point it 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 uh take a
photo tracking and composits are a must the more time you put into the sky the
more you're going to get out and is Lightroom part of Photoshop suite so when you buy Yes it's a 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 Scott 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 which is you're getting like 180 degrees almost
yeah and that's here we'll go actually we can go back
to this date 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 sky and see
what happens what about like another thing
yeah somebody basically he he's an imager and he has the brightest light
I've ever seen notice how the sky is now masked 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 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 the haze will darken of course there's like
a purplish but I'll take care of that in a minute now 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
raise the shadow a bit and now you're seeing more detail
then you 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 So it's making some of your more advanced image process
sometime 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 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 with a Canon 6D and now you have a more natural looking color i figured
out a more composite that was one shot this is one shot okay that's really I
figured out a setting to put natural colors if you've modified your camera
for hydrogen alpha only there are settings 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 more of a 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 um
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 Halpha regions 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
where this is one of the uh images and it's a
shame okay I don't that 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 you know the sky so literally
uh you're stopping it right with 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
this you can to get the brightness of your foreground object
um you can yeah invert and then raise shadows on
your foreground object and now you see it more like your eyes see it and
you're guys we need to transition at this point okay so let me push back so
yep all righty so there that is really want to know some of the process you
Yeah that was a we could look at we could go on that all day so that's
really Yeah Patriots very powerful and uh you should do a segment just on that
next time so that's really Yeah just focus the maybe that's what I'll do focus the segment on one image yep one
day so Adrian thank you man thank you oh you're welcome thank you for having me
take care okay so up next is uh we go down to Brazil uh and um uh with uh
Professor Marello Soua who is the senior editor of Skies Up magazine uh that's
just one of the things that he does he is an amazing force of astronomy
outreach in uh South America uh and uh you know he's
uh pioneered uh many uh educational uh programs down there including getting
students making cubats uh getting uh uh his astronomy club now
that he's worked on for decades and um uh you know his his television programs
is I mean he is he is really just an amazing figure down there and uh we're
so happy to have him involved with Global Star Party and Skies 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 marello thank you for coming on to Global Star Party
it's a great pleasure to be here thank you for your kind words thank you very much is very nice to see all of you
after the holidays here in Brazil we have winter holidays also here it's a short period 15 days but we have
holidays in during the winter here in schools and now in this period
we develop new projects and I I will show some of the results that you
obtained and let I share the screen yeah we are participating now
since the after March 20 of this year we are
participation projects that allow us to access the Las Observator the telescopes of
Lascom Observatory then we are involved in a project that is called global sky
clubs that allow astronomy clubs to take
images using one of the telescopes and we can involve students to take this
maze and I will show the first image that we put that is
this it is one from M22 we begin working we are working now with
our group to take image from the messiac and then the first one was this
22 and then we try new image
and this one is M83 wow with exposure time of 45 seconds
how the two image was with a telescope with 40 cm but then
we tried images with a bigger telescope that's one one meter then we took this
image here from M 57
oh yeah and then from M51 then it's another
project that I invoke that is the Fox telescope project that also uses the Las
Observator and this is M51 then we begin to make the addition of the images we
took amazing different filters three different filters and try to make a
color image and then we had this m with this addition of the then we are working
now with this project uh flescope project and
global sky clubs and also we are involved in a
group that also like observatory That is a comet
chasers that looking for images of comets and we took this image that has a
fantastic amazing that for us that use a 2 m per telescopes to take the image of
comet 12 after the after the outburst and this was the best image we got
that is amazing of these comets for me was a a great experience
and it is also a fantastic experience to be involved with this group that is
analyzing comets and the image of these comets
show 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 in a public place
here we were observing the moon the full moon and these are the maze of the event
today few minutes ago that I was there we stayed there for almost two hours and
a half in the main public square of the city and many people was there you see
that you have a many lights there is down you were in the main square public
square of the seat and many people participate in the observation of the moon today we were trying
to to find the Saturn but it wasn't possible because we have so many light
and the light of the full moon and the clouds in the sky then in direction of
the Saturn that it wasn't possible to see that But now is beginning a special
moment 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 of 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 one dark sky jir and
director of the dark sky jer is the first Brazilian dark sky chapter that is
here in our city and we are we have now a partnership with the dark sky of
Argentina that's the chapter of Argentina and also with a a tourism
group in Uruguay and we are working together and for us
we consider July as the month of the tourism here in our three countries then
we organize many activities of tourism and also we try to find dark sky places
here to develop activities this was one of activities you receive many lights
but this is a a hotel located in a very
dark place here we are looking for
hotels public park and public squares with located far
from downtown to make a c a map of place
where you can see you have dark skies then we begin to do this here here
is a place near that
is forest with vegetable
veget that you only see nearation here and here is the place and maybe it will
be the next dark sky place in Brazil have only one here that is dark sky dark
sky park that's the first one in Latin America that's near us and we also organize activities in
five different seats in this period to celebrate the month of isoturism that
July and a lot of people participate in this events that's great and wherever we
are looking for places that we can also make h a tourism
activities you see have many people that participate in this event and now the
good news is that here in we have 10 nucleus 10 different nucleus in
11 having 11 seats that now we have
nucleus of our astronomic club and also a nuclear of the dark sky
janeer and in all these places we found dark sky place and we are going
to develop teaching out to activities and also aro tourism activities how
exciting we have 10 nucleus and we are we are planning to have more 10
uh nucleus then until the end of October we will have 20 places 20 different
seats with nucleus of our astronomic and the nucleus of the dark sky in the
Janeiro here and it is growing fast here because of the success of the first dark
sky park in Latin America that is located near us then I think that a
tourism here many people is looking for places with a few artificial lighting to
see the sky and is motivate many people to join and we are also make project and
organize activities for the partial eclipse of the sun partial solar eclipse
here for us will be partial notar eclipse then we have many glasses that
received from Stephen Hamsley and we organizing activities of solar
observation to and in the beginning of October we will
begin to give the glasses for the population and we hope that in October
uh 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 organizing this period and we are
very motivated with these groups that are involved with you now
and one of the most important is the launch of the skies app magazine the new
edition I have here I I close here sh I share now the the magazine
here that is a fantastic edition Yeah to have a lot of information
about the eclipse yeah including Max's article about two eclipses and
yes as well and here is the magazine
i I try to show here quickly here's the first one second then
we have your article here also in Portuguese for the
Brazilians and here have images of historical images of the
eclipses i have the article from Pette about the dark of
astronomy that historical articles here is a that's near us that
is a special place that they are preserved in the dark sky [Music]
here is in the north region of Brazil you have this this state that is that they
have two planetaries and they are building the third planetarium and is a place where it will be possible to see
January eclipse they organizing special activities for January eclipse
now an article from David Prosper from the NAZA night sky network about the
eclipse another article from Max about the his
experience with in solar
eclipse and our special section about the eclipses with maps without
information if someone wants to know have
information about the eclipse you have here I have something that's fantastic
squat that I don't know if you already talk about this today that is this place
that you put here in the magazine that cross of the eclipse expedition this
something fantastic that have a place that you can see two eclipse 2023 and
2024 United States is Isn't it thank you Marello
this is fantastic here something
fantastic here is an article from Elo that is a much famous
Brazilian expert in lunar eclipses about the lunar eclipses then you have
information about the solar eclipse information about the lunar eclipses
you know what's happening in Colombia also that is a fantastic magazine and we have two article from Joe Jo
from Australia fantastic articles from that's
is a wonderful magazine that thank you very much it's a
fantastic magazine also made a fantastic work to make the
layout of magazine that's very beautiful and it's a free magazine everybody can download and read the magazine
and I recommend for everyone to to look the magazine thank you very
much it's ever it's a great pleasure to be here I I think that soon have good
news good news from Brazil we are working hard here for to develop new
activities and to organize here the observation of the solar eclipse in
October nice to see all of you thank you very much
guys you are much
Scott I think you're on mute with one of your Right you're right y sorry about
that thank you very much Adrian no problem our next speaker is Caesar Bro 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 chat 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 Nenina software
okay and you can see now take passion because
now you are watching a a
cloud let me
Okay well now the the the green flash that you can see is the light over the
cloud but behind the clouds maybe in a few minutes you can
see between the clouds Omega Cinti cloud cluster and well um this is this is a
it's a live image um while while we are expecting to see something in 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 [Music] um we can try one more i I taking
picture only pictures of try pictures only to get to
get to regulated this position with the the software and of course that I don't
save any picture because I have a now a lot of clouds in the sky
uh normally here I have the the number of
exposition now I trying 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
um here here you have the you have the the the Omega
cluster Omega cluster image with the stars but of course that you can see in
the scale the the clouds and when I have clouds now you can see better 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 i I'm not lucky with the sky uh
a few minutes ago the the clouds coming from from the west south and well maybe
now you can see the cluster and here you can see the
stars many many times I I I show you live image or maybe image uh from from a
processor final image but this is this is pictures that the telescope are
taking now and the level the level of of different brides is between the position
and the gain is make
this word effects special effects between the bride of the of the of the
cloud and the cluster and this is why you can see all time changing the bride
of the cluster but it's uh you know sometimes
uh it's [Music] uh also experiment
yes sometimes you can see in another one picture not
but while while we are expecting a an area
open between between a cloud and another cloud uh a a small part of open area
uh I show I'll show you look that wow I show you
Um another one another one uh
uh picture that I took two weeks ago let me share
wow you could 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 the
quality of my my new telescope is a explore
cent apocromatic yes finally got finally get I get one for me over
the 100 and I'm really happy i'm used to
the Sony say yes yes um and um yes ah
let me I I I can show you again
from what I was seeing that looked really good even through the clouds it was amazing
yeah now now I think that is better there we go yeah okay oh it's Yeah
that's looking good there it is yes yes and even sorry that this is a
little you're shooting through clouds i mean it's it's amazing yes yes it's not easy
and and the guy Yes and sometimes the guy confusing what lost the star for
guiding and some pictures of course that have a little movement uh uh maybe in
this case it's much better much better stop the guiding but you know well
it's all is a is something that in in astronomy that especially from for uh
from the city that in the 50 minutes ago it is absolutely
absolutely absolutely I had I had clear sky at at near to
9:00 p.m and now the the cl the Maxi told me
that the the clouds coming from Chibi um I I when I read that Maxi told us that
okay the the clouds are here of course that that one hour later the
clouds are in Buenocidis and but I I had a um an an
excellent function with Nenina with the XS 100 all work properly uh despite the
the clouds um I'll I'll of course I'll trying to get to to
show you pictures for example let me
You know what that means that means that's a very good telescope because when you get a good scope you can't
shoot because the weather won't cooperate absolutely it's so small so
it's a it's a telescope that it's a dream for me because I get all the week
h assembled in the living room i don't need assembled anything i use my my
another um I use my another explore um
sorry Richier 8 in telescope with a heavy
mount and I need to carry all to the rooftop of the of the wielding i need
one hour to adjust everything in in a good position
now it says a setup of 15 minutes is nothing maybe I can I can try again i I
see less I I can see less less
uh I am men of
faith or fight for like like No no it's the same because it's
is uh you can see you can see the the clouds yes i don't have it for example
tonight is impossible have um pictures lives to to
to uh calibrate and
and stacks but it's fun if you uh have
your scope 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 you have a clear sky and you you have fun for example I took I took
last two weeks ago this picture with the same telescope but with a reflex
camera and
I'll share share screen here this one
oh my my my first live with this that's from your patio
yes yes because h because I only take
the pictures that of of objects that came in this line because here you have
the west and sahitario is going is falling in this
part of the sky 3:00 3:00 a.m um and
this one uh was an excellent uh I first of all I was no uh how do you say I was
I wasn't um confident with my polar alignment
because I I make a a a polar alignment and I say it's not
okay and I prefer make in the Nikico the
hammer system of only in my case five seconds five seconds each light and I
use around
180 lights um with a
CLS explore scientific filter and really work properly Because come on
here is 9.3 the number of of
the of of bark scale is really too too
it's too bright it's really bright you can see you can see the the low altitude
clouds in in in like you are here you understand that it's so bright the the
the sky sure but the details the details
I using my reflex camera maybe was a little noisy image but I really happy
with the details the the quality of my polar alignment make a little
u tray not around stars that I like
but was a a a great first light that I really enjoy it 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 a middle of the city and really it's a
beautiful nebula to to show and really is was something for me very very uh uh
rewarding yes a word yes rewarding rewarding is the word thank you Sean and yes it's
when you feel something that you can reward you yourself i say rain
really it's beautiful too isn't it beautiful the red and the detail the bordal scale
is 9.3 yes yes yeah and now scale go to nine this is a There we
are 9.3 is crazy yeah yes live image guys live image
there you go enjoy enjoy the time between between
yes yes you can see yes yes if I move If
I'll move a little maybe I move the the picture it's so real actually you did it
i have a a wood a a a wood uh floor you know a deck actually when I took
pictures I leave from the balcony and um right normally I use I hear the cloud
return um yes and actually I leave the telescope alone to don't move the the
the floor right um but of course that you can see that I make a a a huge zoom
between the in in the in the pictures but despite this it's really enjoy enjoyable
uh place to make astronomy yes um really you
know it's is something to share um a powerful tool for sharing like that
cluster when it's clear that's an 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 and you can you can see how the clouds are moving beautiful from from
the west you got the moonlight too you can see the moons out because they're well blue
do you have now do you have now in in this direction the moon and the moon are
are illuminate the clouds but I I sure that the pollution the light pollution
is making more light that the moon in the full moon yes John my background um
we have a full moon here at Wilson tonight but the stars are really Good
yes yes and your arms disappear let me show you this telescope it's a beauty i
mean now I know why Edwin Hubble was using this it's one of those nights i
think Edwin may be with me tonight absolutely
in spirit yes yeah uh uh I I hope that
next next year I'm going surely I'll go
to to meet with the group but in a real
place for to to watch together the clips in the 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 star party we are together in a live h in a live real live
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 2024
yes yes 2024 I I'll go for my tickets my passport um and my visa yes yes awesome
yes all right it's the calling no it's a pleasure it's a pleasure thank you so
much thank you everyone all right good night good night thank you okay so we are here
with uh with only half of John Schwarz you your head's
being chopped off just a little bit little little bit um here let me There
you go okay there you are yeah you lowered you know it's hard it's tight in here i make the same Sean in this part
of I'm running out of room you know my shoulders have Yeah your massive
shoulders but they were likeing back into the cosmos i don't know how that happened sorry it's all camera settings
it's been a while since 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 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 yes it has 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
uh feeding squirrels now we have squirrels and rabbits in our backyard that come and visit uhu it's amazing a
lot of fun okay so I could get us started i have my uh It's all yours
photos ready i'm going to 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 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
um 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 6
in 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 could That's a big
spider 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 uh I was looking at Ursa 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 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 in gives you
an idea of what you can see of course there's my little buddy
he's always looking for me a Bosco
bosco this is Yeah this is my latest Orion so this is the actual closeup 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 oh
that's conjunction we had the conjunction so here I had the
moon it was you know starting to set so you were 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 Leica
binoculars this is amazing how Venus looked like that in the Leas it had
defraction 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 you'll see graphic yeah what happens is
when the seeing's 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 I 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 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 uh
you're right i mean I guess you could call them what uh squiggles or threads yeah
threads they they connect together was what I'm saying how about
Yeah snakes on a plane snakes on a spaceship
i know it's just a weird phrase i was talking to my friend Andrew and and he we were both saying you know have you
ever noticed that they get these little squiggly lines that you know when Yeah yeah yeah and I'm like "Yeah our mind
makes shapes out of everything i mean we see you know dogs and clouds and you
know whatever." You know that's what Salvador Dolly you know burnt toast i
mean you know yeah right you're right yeah it's 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 moonshots 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
you know what are good friends for you know you can't argue with that that's right the best friends man yeah he is
just whatever I'm doing we're getting ready to go to Mount Pinos and 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 too 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 to Thank you you know I mean
three telescopes um the 60 in the 28 and the 32
inch so most recently it's the 60inch detail that I've tried to add what I was
kind of seeing you know it's amazing yeah it's it was uh Yeah 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 no I think that the 60inch actually visually
is a better instrument wow you know and I was told I was told that by many people really then I had an opportunity
i used to have keys to Mount Wilson and used to take care of the smaller telescopes and so you get invited to go
look through the telescopes a lot you know and uh yeah the um the exit pupil
the natural exit pupil comes out of the 100 in is so huge you know that it's uh
it's difficult to really get an Eiffel you know uh whereas the 60 in you know
the the the the natural exopil of that instrument is much smaller not not as
small as like an amateur instrument but u probably the largest uh you know tells
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 of everybody feels it when they go there special place it's just has that feeling of discovery you know yes
so this was um a picture I was working on called uh the moon in the 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 them 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 i see and it's sitting
in the tree waiting for this darkness so it 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 out but what I was doing was making this his handle on cloudy nights is 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 and it was made from his picture but I thought it was interesting this was uh actually done
with the 6 inch this is just a looks like a photograph again that
that 6 inch dude is the sharpest thing that in in uh the triplet with the
carbon fiber the way it cools down the feather to I mean what better scope
could I have to do my lunar implant and that's what I wanted i had these in order this was supposed to go with that
moonshot 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 ZWOO
camera i wanted to share this he gave me permission it's the Triffid Nebula and
you can see how many stars are really out there in our star
cloud when you're looking across it uh are we in the Sagittarius arm or are we
in the Orion arm exactly i'm not 100% sure i call it the Orion spur spur okay
orion spur so it's like a looks like a little wing of an arm coming off you
know thank god we got an arm anyway right yeah yeah
and I think 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 spiral arm to spiral arm
you know so and I've heard that we happen to be in a fairly quiet zone of
the Milky Way milky Way with high levels of radioactivity and uh so we're in we're
in a nice spot here in the Milky Way so it's nice to be here
i know it's a Sagittarius arm we're looking across 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 of
starburst it's beautiful yeah and you look at how many stars are 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've 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 split my screen put the picture on the right and my drawing on the left and
through weeks and months of tedious work and blending and sketching I've been
able to recreate that and that is done with that
explore scientific 6 in that I have i call it my surgical instrument
because it is sharp thank you i lost some eyelashes one day
because it was so sharp i couldn't wink at everybody until I
can't wink anymore sorry that happened to you no it is truly telescopes not as
sharp in the future yeah i mean I I see stuff on the moon that you know for a
six inch it's 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 where you have where you have big open clusters there's nothing like it you know just the view through
there it's special so so we each have a category you know
maxavs are good but you know reflectors are nice but when you have that contrast
of a refractor there's nothing quite like it there's something special about that that's it especially when you're
looking at the moon i mean it just it like just draws you in like it's etched
out of crystal or something i mean yeah when I 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 It's mesmerizing especially with bino viewers
it's even more Oh right yeah because Yeah that cuts the glare down and you
know because the moon's so bright you don't need the um filters you just use the binoir and then you're literally
driving with dual vision you know it's amazing but 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 a pepperoni crater yeah but look at 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 good practice for the dimpling you know
on this it gives you you know the ability to make it look real through
shading 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 one congratulations on on winning your astronomical league
uh award for 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 here it is that's the winning sketch that's the
one the winner right there huh m51 uh 27 million light years away
my favorite it's It's such an unbelievable galaxy uh even in the 6
inch I can see it really nice from my location i think it's Bortal 8
but this was done you know over some very good seeing and in and
dark skies at altitude through big telescopes so but thank you so much well
thank you so much John thank you you got it thanks everyone thank um 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 u 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 fire so to speak um uh 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 uh 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 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
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