Global Star Party 128

Transcript:

7:00 p.m..Daniel Barth - “Why are all Big Telescopes Reflectors?”
thank you
7:15 p.m..Navin Senthil Kumar - “Spaceflight”
I'm back I close everything now I was saying that if I had the
chance I will try to watch it because it's a huge story and
of all mankind like the the different events that we have in this in our
7:30 p.m..Maxi Falieries - “Astrophotography to the Max”
history of everyone in the world so it's a
I always wonder why they don't did that kind of movie but maybe the context of
7:45 p.m..Ten Minute Break
that area of that time maybe they
7:55 p.m..Adrian Bradley - “Chasing Dark Skies”
they want to see what what happened really or they want they don't want to
remember what happened really you know build and that's only bomb
or science is good but for doing depends of where
8:10 p.m..Cesar Brollo - “Southern Sky Astronomy from the Balcony”
they they own or what you're going to or the way that you're going to use it so
that's maybe that's why they didn't want to to do it
well and at the time in real time the probability was that Hitler would have
8:30 p.m..Marcelo Souza - “Astronomy Outreach in Brazil”
one before the United States so there was no choice really to go but to go
ahead with the Manhattan Project you know that that's true that's true
but unfortunately the the Nazis came to always oh
they escape and they you know when you talk about Argentina they always say
that we received the German or the Nazis with the open hours but now not
um they escape and we we found a submarine in the coast of our country
they're going to study and see if a German is and if is a German submarine
but anyway uh you know we have a battle here
in the Rio de La Plata there are we song A a boat of German I remember and
Uruguay did an exploration and they captured the
the eagle of the with the Nasi symbol and everything and I think I don't know if they destroy
it or I don't know I don't remember but a
I don't know um there are people they they are covered
in acid but they are also people that they don't want to be here and also they
went to another place like Brazil and every part of South America unfortunately
thank you well gentlemen
are you guys are ready to get started yes yes Here Comes Sarah
so x-rays really shows us that the University's Ferry University
we find x-rays in Jets erupting from the centers of active galaxies
we use them to measure the spin of black holes or supernova explosions
it takes a powerful event to produce Cosmic x-rays
sometimes people also go into the hot universe because you know when you have this gas in Galaxy clusters or also a
wrong Galaxy that you can see only next race this gas is about 10 million to 100 million of degrees which is
so hot that this gas does not radiate in inoptable does not forget to infront but
it only radiating experience to further understand these hottest
regions we need the Next Generation x-ray telescope
the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or jaxa is partnering with NASA and the
European Space Agency to launch the Next Generation x-ray Space Telescope
the telescope called crism launches from the Tony gashima Space Center at the
southern end of Japan on an h2a rocket
the spacecraft weighs over five thousand pounds stands over 30 feet tall and will
orbit approximately 340 miles above Earth
we're familiar with the medical uses of x-rays extra light is energetic enough to pass
through our skin our calcium dense bones absorb that light blocking it from reaching the
detector and creating a shadow luckily for us x-rays from space don't
make it through our atmosphere but what that does mean is that we have to send x-ray hunting missions into orbit to
detect this high energy light
chrism also needs special kinds of mirrors which were built in NASA's Goddard space flight center
the title of the mirror is called a nested mirror it looks like a cross
section of an onions
x-rays are so energetic they fly right through typical mirrors
for the visible light we typically place the mirror like like this so that light just bounce back
for the x-rays this doesn't work so that we put the mineral like this like a
so the X-ray is just grades surface of the shell
when they strike mirrors at very shallow angles x-rays 2 can bounce
and that's what we made it to like a conical shelf like this then actually can be drifted
prism has two instruments each with their own mirror assembly one for Imaging called extend the other for
spectroscopy called resolve Jacksonville to extend to provide
Crimson with a wide field of view
observe an area about 60 larger than the average apparent size of the full moon
NASA's resolve instrument is a spectrometer that splits x-ray light like a prism
so scientists can detect specific elements present in the sources they're studying
it uses a small six by six pixel detector called a micro calorimeter
nestled in a refrigerator-sized container of liquid helium
resolve will measure the small temperature changes caused when x-rays hit one of those pixels to track such
small temperature changes results detectors must be kept extremely cold
that liquid helium cryo cooler will keep the instrument at .05 degrees Kelvin
it's so cold it is a fraction of a degree above absolute
zero heat is simply a product of moving atoms
keeping results detector that cold means that
p.m. 01:50 - Jon Schwartz - “Drawing Out the Universe”
okay the tourism really has this capability of decomposing this
Israelites in a way that's much much more accurate ever been believed
hello everyone this is Scott Roberts from explore scientific before Alliance and welcome to the 128th Gold Star Party
the tools possible duration
guys we are getting audio problems right now I don't know why
um but um I think it's going to frustrate the audience here so let me reconfigure the
audio and I will come back so give me about five minutes so
okay so Mike you can hear me now okay but uh the audio is pretty low for the uh for
all the video stuff so um and perhaps what we do you know what
guys let's forget about the uh the videos I I uh Ben you're saying just uh
turn the video audio up it's not that simple there's there's some sort of configuration problem
um I updated zoom and it didn't like it so um so we're going to go ahead and we're
gonna do this the old-fashioned way and I will um
uh talk a little bit about our uh our presenters tonight uh we've got
again we have just a great lineup of speakers uh starting with David Levy
um uh giving us poetry and commentary David eicher who's going to talk about the bubble nebula in his uh Dave's
exotic deep Sky objects Carol orange is going to talk about astronomy day which is an important program for astronomers
everywhere everywhere but also to the astronomical League Kerry letelia is
going to join us from Chile she's just got back from uh some major trips she's
been going around the world making all these incredible night sky photographs and uh so I I know that you're going to
love that young Navin cintel Kumar who's been kind of growing up with us in
global Star Party is um uh is going to be talking about space flight tonight Daniel Barth will
join us here if you don't know it Daniel uh retired from teaching but he's taken
kind of a retirement job here at explore scientific which is so cool so I get to see him every day Maxie valaris is going
to talk about his astrophotography he's always got new work and stuff like that Adrian Bradley joins us Cesar brolo will
be with us as well I see all these guys in the background here Marcelo Souza from Brazil will be
joining us and of course John Schwartz all the way from California so
um we will go ahead and get started with uh Dr David Levy
what crowd is this what have we here we must not pass it by a telescope on his
frame and pointed to the sky as long as it is a Barber's pool or a mask of little boat some little pleasure
skiff that does contains his Waters float this poem is called Stargazer he's
playing William Wordsworth who is England's Poet Laureate until 1850
when two things happened he passed away in 1850 and Queen Victoria appointed Alfred Lord
Tennyson to follow him as poet laureate and while I was doing my
Masters worked at Queen's University up in Canada I read stargazers and fell in love with
it and I found a way to include it in my thesis and when my advisor Dr McKenzie was
looking at it his comment was Wordsworth has written
some wretched verse and I thought that was the funniest
comment I could get and but he didn't tell me to take the poem out so the poem is here
still lives as a part of my thesis and the part of the books that followed it the Showman's use as well as Play Still
slicers Lizzy square and he is happy in his night for the heavens they're blue
and fair calm no invasion is the crowd each is ready with the theme
and Andrew's him that's looking what an Insight might be might it be yet showman working live across shall I
Implement that blame the posters that even tried fails in his foot to shame
or is it good as others are and be their eyes at fault
or their eyes or minds or finally is this your Splendid world
and so he's wondering do we blame the telescope do we bring the sky I don't know
but the theme of this week's Global Center party is instruments
for observing and I wanted to start not with the instruments of outer space
but my own telescopes Miranda is a 16 inch telescope with
which I've discovered I think it was eight of my nine visual chronic discoveries
I don't have Miranda and mortis now I think the owner telescope Museum of the Royal Astronomical Society of
Canada I do have other telescopes my favorite now is Eureka 12 inch that I got from
Scotty and uh this morning just a few hours ago I
observed Comet nishimura with it if you know where to look it's easy and it's
bright it's about seventh magazine and brightening by the day
it's just a beautiful comment I recommend it all to you and when you go see it then you have to
go see up in heaven which is I think one of the best movies of Our Generation
it is about the atomic age and I also need to say that I was
actually going to decide a few years ago with Wendy and David Rossiter and we actually trust
saw the monument a maternity site which Bears witness to the birth of the atomic
age and so it is now time for me to finish this one
would ever be the cause to share that they who cry and poor seem to meet with little games seemed less happy than
before do you ever had a telescope out when people would look
expecting to see stuff from the Hubble and they get to suggest what's your
telescope has to show I have to say I've never looked at a telescope and not been excited why would
I see but I've seen people who really were bored by it and didn't like it
and uh but I think everything I've seen through a telescope whether it's mine or
yours or any of the others it's just been wonderful one after one they take their terms or
have I won a slide that does not slightly go away as if dissatisfied
dissatisfied for them perhaps for me never thank you all and back to your
Scotty World wow thank you very much David that's great that's great so leave it to David to be
able to find poetry that perfectly matches our theme so thank you very much
okay all right so um up next is David eicher David has been uh out in Boston
is that right yes indeed yeah it's telephone you know the cellophane
meeting celebrated its Centennial this year a hundred years of Stella so I was
happy to get back there and see lots of friends at stellophane and then uh of course being a history type guy among
other things I had to take three days and see everything in Boston re-fight the Revolutionary War don't re-flight it
yeah and we won again you know so I was a
little yeah I was slightly surprised but you know it turned out the right way again that's right that's great so
you're going to be talking about the bubble nebula yeah so I will see if I
can share my screen now I've been talking about some real challenge objects this one is a little bit
brighter than the norm here it's not quite as obscure as uh as some of the objects that I'll be
talking about and have talked about um this is one this is The Centaurus a here the placeholder the the opening
slide but the bubble nebula is an object that is reasonably bright it has a
relatively uh decently high surface brightness so you can see it with a moderate size telescope in a dark sky
relatively easily and you know Cassiopeia is a you know the northern
sky doesn't have the greatest collection of Rich deep Sky objects compared to the Deep South but Cassiopeia is a pretty
rich area of the northern sky it's a great piece of Milky Way and there are lots and lots of open clusters that are
very nice there and also nebulae of different types of both emission nebulae
and planetary nebulae so this is a good example of an emission nebula the bubble it's known of its catalog
number is NGC 7635 and it has not its brightest part that's rather spread out
in a sort of a rectangular form more or less but but the central faint part that
is hard harder to see visually is a bubble that's excited by a very hot very
young star um and so uh it is an object that you definitely can go after if you have a
good sky with a six or an eight inch telescope visually the bubble altogether
is about 10th magnitude as an object a whole emission nebula it's about 15 by
eight arc minutes across so it's pretty large the total extent of this object it's about 8 000 light years away from
us relatively close to us in the Milky Way and the really faint bubble that
from which the object derives its name is illuminated by this ninth magnitude
star Sao 2575 5 that is really hot on
this very young blue star and is ionizing the bubble to Glow in a very
nice symmetrical uh sphere if you will it's a very rich field also there are
lots of objects around the bubble nebula that you can see and if you have a wide field eyepiece in a dark sky you'll see
a lot of stuff in addition to the the bubble with this small scope there's a bright open cluster M50 m52 that's very
close to the the bubble and a bunch of other fainter nebulae including NGC 7538
a sharpless nebula and ic-1470. so it's a really rich area of
the Cassiopeia Milky Way here's the Ron stoyan interstellarum
deep Sky Atlas chart showing the bubble nebulae in the center more or less they are Bubble nebble uh they're in in
German and you can see this sort of scattered region of all sorts of clusters of nebulae along the plane of
the Galaxy there that runs from upper left to lower right so it's a very rich
area to explore this is uh one of Adam Block's shots of
the bubble nebula and you can see the bubble in the center of the ear and this whole patch of nebulosity is really the
bubble nebula but the central spherical bubble is what the object derives its
name from of course and you can see the bright star in the center there that's below the center of the bubble is the
exciting star that uh that creates that glowing bubble that we see the Hubble
Space Telescope does a little bit better of course with this object no disrespect to Adam but that's a pretty good
telescope of the Hubble still this is its shot of the bubble nebulae and very high resolution and you can see a lot of
this material at the upper left that's blowing out with protostars and creating
at the ends of those tunnels of dark and light nebulosity um some infant Suns just like we've seen
a little more easily in objects like the Orion Nebula foreign this is a Ron brecker's photo of the the
bubble it's a nice wide field shot and you can see m52 is an upper right there
um in the in the uh the field and and this is easily a low power field takes
in all of this and more so you can see quite a lot of stuff in a very very rich star field it's a good thing we don't
have to count the stars in this area the Milky Way and then I have some breaking news if you will because Tony Halas sent
me the this image and the next image about two hours ago these are from last
night Tony coincidentally happened to shoot the bubble um and his stuff is just incredible you
know the stuff that Tony is doing um in very high resolution this is actually with a large Stellar view
refractor at his very dark site in Northern California so there's the
bubble the center of the bubble and then here's a wide field shot and you can see m52 of course on the left Edge there and
it's just a you know the stuff that he's doing this is just a completely kind of new look you know from the way we're
used to seeing these deep Sky objects you know Tony is really on a a sort of a
unique level here he's just crazy the stuff that he's doing so this is brand new from last night an image of the
bubble and unrehearsed with by totally by coincidence
um he said this alone and so I'll mention uh that's all I have on the bubble nebula it's a good object
it's not quite as challenging as some of the super faint stuff I've been talking about and I'll talk about how it's
astronomy's 50th anniversary year still we're celebrating that uh Michael bokich
and I have recently produced this book a child's introduction to space exploration that we hope is inspiring a
number of young kids to get excited about the new era of space that's rolling along and then I will mention
once again the starmus festival we're going to have it next spring once again
starmus seven this is in Bratislava Slovakia which is just a stone's throw
from Vienna from Vienna Austria the great European city so we will look
forward to all kinds of fun there at starmus we hope you can join us with Scott Roberts and his start party and an
astrophoto school and many Nobel Prize winners and astronauts and some rock and
roll from Brian May and friends as well so that's all I have tonight Scott for
the the bubble nebula it's a joy to be back with you from Boston thank you
um you know an essential tool an essential
tool of exploring your Cosmos is astronomy magazine in all the great books
made available by Dave eicher well thank you Scott a lot of the people that are on our programs that you know
of course David Levy's another one who's written a great book on there and hiding in the back backstage
just off the curtain is Dr Tim Hunter and uh he'll be talking about a new book
that he came out with um about well I'm not even going to tell you what it is it's fatigues okay so so
there you go um uh but uh uh Tim Tim has agreed to
come on later in some weeks to talk about his new book so excellent we will
all look forward to Tim's new book no doubt absolutely thanks very much David well thank you okay so we are going to
uh bring on the president of the astronomical league and so that is Carol
uh Carol orange and Carol is uh one of the friendliest
um most engaging individuals in our community of amateur astronomy uh he
travels all over the place attending different events and he's always pushing the envelope to um get more and more
people involved in amateur astronomy he deserves like some sort of a Emmy or
Oscar or something like that but Carol thank you very much for coming on to Global Star Party
I'm not sure who you were talking about there Scott
introduction we've got a great lineup of speakers tonight it's good to see everybody here again and I'm going to
share my screen and talk about astronomy day hopefully
okay you can see your PowerPoint outstanding presentation mode perfect
oh astronomy day can be seen as a potential passport to a lifetime in astronomy
and uh you may look at the object to my right and say well what is the
connection to Stonehenge that's a different era well yeah that's correct however Stonehedge uh I I would venture
to say was the original astronomy day
here's the oldest known depiction of Stonehenge in this graphic here a giant helps the
mythical figure Merlin Millstone hinge so the spirit of international astronomy
Day dates back approximately 2800 BC starting with Stonehenge and Dave Acker
may have a little different date on that I'm not sure but I think we're in the ballpark anyway
so what is astronomy day and to the right of the screen is the latest
advertisement for that event and the latest issue the September edition of the reflector
astronomy day for the fall version is coming up within a month on September
23rd 2023 that's a Saturday and we encourage people from all over the world
to get out and set up your telescopes and engage the public and really tell
them what astronomy is all about and the kids like to get around telescopes and
we have to watch them sometimes but that's our future and we've really got to engage the younger Generations as
well as the uh other uh people who have never looked through telescopes or been
around astronomy we get over the years have gotten submissions for astronomy day awards
from many different groups including astronomy uh societies science museums
planetariums and so on all activities to share the public to
teach the public what the local astronomic the astronomy resources are in the facilities
and I would say uh on the bottom of that ad over there you'll see the name Gary
Thomason some of you know that person he just announced his retirement after 40
years as the astronomy day coordinator so he says I need a rest I need to pass
the Baton on so we're very thankful for Gary for uh serving that many years as
head of that organization what is astronomy day it's was a
Grassroots movement designed to share the joy of astronomy with the general public that's a nice General phrase and
as we say uh it's it's been going on for uh many years 40 years plus that the
league has been actively involved back in the fall of 2022 actually
September I went to the Minnesota Astronomical Society I was up there uh
helping them celebrate their 50th year uh of being an astronomy club and just
coincidentally that was also astronomy day that weekend and they put on quite a performance uh if you look at the
graphic there the mock-up of Apollo 11 lunar lander it's the first time I've seen something like that in astronomy
then I've seen many other uh but they had an engineer in that club who uh
decided that he needed to set up a replica of the lunar lander for an
astronomy day activity and as a result they bring it out during their astronomy
days as well as other events of that club and it's been real effective obviously when you see that it does get
people's attention and that was the whole purpose he was very precise in how the instruments were laid out on the
ground there and it was just really a delight to see what Ingenuity uh that
that person and the whole club actually exhibited for that event
here's a picture of the observatory complex for that organization and that's
where they had their astronomy Day activities and there's reasons called Eagle Lake it's located on a lake a very nice Lake
and very picturesque and I was there during the fall very very beautiful time
of the year and they uh here was one of the exhibits there at
that point uh observed the moon night was going to follow about a month or two after that and they had a wonderful
display on that another thing I found very fascinating
they had gravity buckets to illustrate the difference in gravity on the planets
and it was well thought out about every having different amounts of uh dirt and
each one it gave an idea of what the difference is between the plants very effective I thought in fact since I
published some of this uh other clubs have flashed onto this thought that was a brilliant idea for their astronomy days
also uh they had the typical planet-sized comparisons with different instruments uh the basketballs baseballs
and so on and going all the way to the left Mercury was depicted as being a
very small rock in the little jar there
while I was at that event we also as I said help them recognize their 50th
Anniversary that weekend and it was a very nice experience they spent the whole weekend celebrating 50 years and
throwing a strawberry on top of this it was a very busy weekend but one of the things I would like to
emphasize going back to the straw based section astronomy day section is that
clubs or other organizations can exhibit a lot a lot of creativity in how they present this to the public whatever it
takes whatever it takes to get people out and that can take many forms uh just get out there and do it and uh public uh
often sees none of this just in their normal lives so it's really good to get out there and show them what's going on
so going on from here I mentioned earlier that Gary just retired Gary
Thomason after 40 years with the as astronomy day coordinator what uh right
now we're in the process in fact I've already appointed a new astronomy day coordinator
and he will be uh at the helm very soon here we're going to have a revision of
the entire astronomy Day program in progress I bet that's in progress right now and we continue to have the
sponsorship with the sky telescope and AAS and here's the address the link
to submit interest for this event happening next month I'd encourage you
to get out there and see what you can set up with your uh local community it
doesn't have to be the the fanciest thing in the world but it does uh it is
a good opportunity to get out and share astronomy put your solar telescopes out
there and let the uh the people really do some imbuing with the well-shielded
telescopes foreign
you to get out there and keep those submissions coming because that's what we'd like to see as we go forward and
Scott now back to you okay well thank you so much thank you okay so
um our next speaker comes all the way from Chile uh and other remote parts of
the world uh uh Carrie letelier is um uh quickly becoming one of my
favorite of all time night sky photographers uh her uh recent images of
uh was it Iceland is where you were Carrie yes it was in Iceland both photos the
apocals were both in there thanks God I'm so happy to be here again so much
time that I haven't been joining This Global store parties so so nice to
yeah that's great well thank you for coming
on and uh if you haven't if you haven't been to um
uh Carey's website you can go to our page at explorescientific.com forward
slash GSP 128 and you'll see her picture down
there we're going to make a link later on straight to her profile and you'll go to
carrielethelier.com and see some images that will blow your mind so they they
come across well when she shares them here but to see them on your own screen like that it's just it's fabulous so
here we go thanks God thanks a lot well
um about that about photography as a tool for develop for uh for us for a
develop of us as humans is what I want to talk about let me just share my screen
um so we all know that throughout the story uh
very Stills and inventions had significantly contributed to Humanity's
understanding of the universe but photography played this pivotal role and in advancing our understanding of the
universe by providing a new way to capture and analyze Celestial phenomena
here's I I want to show you or make this a very short Journey about
um analyzing how understanding of the universe by
providing this new way to capture and analyze the less cell phenomena has helped Humanity to gain new window into
our understanding of the universe so some of the points the of this issue
is that photography revolutionized astronomy by enabling the capture of faint and buried and so distance
lifestyle objects right um accurating record keeping of Transit
events and the studio which I love them also and this
facilitated the discovery of the storage Spectra created comprehensive catalogs of celestial object so
right on to guide about their names and about this Celestial map that we have
and provide a detailed image of planets and moon on well in the other hand we
have composite image that has rebuilt this very faint and we hide in uh
structures that we have in in nebulous and in the other hand we have tools like
for example the Hubble Space Telescope that produce hydronic images advancing
our understanding of the universe Evolution and complexity so to start this journey
um I wanted to start with one of the first astrophotographers in the story
that is this one is at the gear chip of the moon right it was made during 1840
by John William dropper actually this achievement marked a nearly step in astrophotography showcasing the
potential of photography for capturing celestial objects and contributing white to the development of this field
um I wanted to name you some facts about this image that is actually a composite
image because droppers uh he made two image for this he took the gear tips
plates for this one exposed for the very varieties of the Moon surface right and
another one exposed for the much Beamer details of the Moon illuminate abortion
so there were more photos before this one of the moon but this is like the
very first one very well exposed well if we have the moon we obviously need to
talk about the first decorative of the Sun during um
during uh 1845 right made by our banffisul Al Leon
foco this very first successful decorative of the sun you can also
notice in there the dark spots right the techniques they're using here was the yellow set and the device employee uh
well this device employ a rotating mirror that tracks the sun's movement across the sky and reflected the image
into the camera well this allowed These Guys these astronomers for uh to get a
much shorter exposure time compared to the earlier attempts and trials that they had resulting in a more clearer a
more detailed photograph of the sun's surface after that obviously we have the sun we need to talk about the first
decorative but total solar eclipse during 1851 by Julius berkowski so the
process that of Julius using here was a length exposure time of 84 seconds that
means that the photograph capture the solar Corona right we know that only there are total solar eclipse so we can
see the corona or also using special filters like the H Alpha and by this way we can see the other
atmosphere of the Sun and in this case also the surrounding stars that were so
so gamma silver thing were also available to watch them in this debut
chip and actually this breaks remark make a significant milestone in
astrophotography allowing scientists to study the sand Corona and contributing to our understanding of this of the
solar phenomena during eclipses actually for example I don't know if you knew about with this
photo these Eclipse generated such a widespread public interest and such a
huge media coverage leading the increasedness uh the leading the increase of awareness among Society
among the people about astronomy and Celestial phenomena and also there were
advancements in a spectroscopy as some of the observers use prism to split the
sunlight into the component colors revealing the sunset Spectrum after this we have the very first BSO
photo right the Deep Sky object but the very first image of Orion Nebula made
during 1880 by Henry dropper and actually dropper medium an exposure time
of 50 minutes to allow the sensitive photographical plates to capture this
very faint light this was so amazing because this image revealed so many
details that they were not aware about of all the destructors of the nebula
showing the nebulous gas and the dust clouds were the meters were forming this
Mark a significant step understanding the birth and evolution of stars right and with this Henry dropper was settling
a legacy in a tour and he like the foundation for the
intersection of this amazing Union about photography and astronomy
obviously I can forget to talk about the first image of a comet it was the comet
tablet um 1881 3 made by Jules Johnson
and well with this heat demonstrate the potential of Photography to capture the dynamic and time-sensitive nature of
comics actually with this photo uh this allowed astronomers to study the comet
appearance and the structure in more detail providing many valuable insights
onto the composition and behavior of this amazing Celestial Wonders that we
actually have I guess two comets uh getting into the solar system this next
year right and we all know this one and we all know we'll love this one this is
the first image of Andromeda galaxy made during 1888 by Isaac Roberts and
actually this pioneering Maybe is a relative of mine
A Very Old Uncle no no sorry but you can say that if you say it
I I I can believe it well this pioneering achievement Market
crucial advancement for astrophotography we're building this the immense scale of
a structure of a distant Spirit Galaxy remember that in the beginning the first uh observations of Andromeda uh most
astronomers in that beginning thought that was an ebola not a Galaxy right well with this they rebuild this immense
scale instructor of this Spirit Galaxy so far beyond our Milky Way right our
neighbor and well and this one is I have
a huge jump to this image that is just one of the it's a screenshot from the
good Edge that I'm pretty sure that it had to be so up in there the date is not
correct because it's during 1969 right that Nila instrument was the very first
person and we put a foot into to demand but we know at nowadays with all this I
don't know maybe this trends of the Flat Earth and trying to deny everything I don't know why people
keep doing that kind of things and and Trends but the concept of the first man
and moon is often associated with historical uh fiction rather than
historical reality right and this is because of Jules Verne he was the first one in thinking and writing a double
thinking of this thinking in a man having a journey into the center of the
Earth or actually like this one the in his novel that he published during 1865
that it was called from the Earth to the Moon right but this is reality the first
human to shed food on the moon was Neil Armstrong um an astronaut part of the Apollo 11
Nation during July 20 during the year 1969 right he became the very first
person and we all remember that amazing quote that he he gave after this that
was that this is one small step for man and one giant length for mankind right
will stay into the space perhaps that this one I wanted to show it because
it's the very first light of the Hubble just trying to calibrate the equipments uh all the instruments right uh during
1990 uh just with some stars because the very first photo I have it ahead but I
wanted to show this as a president after this one I want to show this other
one that was the very inspiration for color Sagan right the this is a very
special photo for NASA because it was made during Valentine state right during February the 14 in 1990 and it's called
the family portrait because we have uh the photos of many of the members of
this family called the solar system we're still missing there are three of them well it depends how you see it but
in here uh we can see Neptune Runners Saturn Jupiter Earth but sadly Mars had
a little sunlight Mercury was too close to the Sun and well Pluto the dwarf
planet uh it was too dim to to so that uh
and a fun fact about this is that this photo it was not part of the original plan
right it was uh actually an idea of of the theme of YH Carl Sagan was member as
he was a member of the blue Jagger imagine team at that time and the idea
that he had was to point in the spacecraft back towards to its home to
the Earth and with this is with what he got inspired right with the purple dot
that he was in town depicting Earth on a scale never seen before
actually I I always like to to read about the girl that uh very famous girl
about Carl II had about um getting inspired with this image right that I will just read a few words
of this girl that he says that's here that's home that's us on it everyone you
love everyone you know everyone you ever heard of every human being whoever was
live out their lives you know what what gets I I always get
very emotional when I read it so I can stop now and
returning to the Hubble Space Telescope in here we have a part of the very first
image that actually most of the astronomers of the time believe that this guy's new chart of pointing the
Hubble to some space empty this empty space area
was maybe a waste of time but they trust in trying to capture the life of
galaxies right in this very very small area this L Jello shaped area
and made during 1995 um
despite the rules the Hubble was 10 days capturing images to this very small
portion and well this image uh is a landmark a landmark that in
Hubble history that this image displayed 10 000 galaxies that were both near and far
offering a glimpse into galaxies so and over the years A New World improved
images like the Hubble Ultra deep feel and the extreme deep field reveal even more of the universe height and deaths
um well if I already named uh the portrait family I can't forget to name
this other one made by the necess Cassini spacecraft right The Day the Earth is made is much modern it's smart
uh actual but it also remember us about this
inspiration of Carl Saga that we have on uh it's here to remind us right the
Earth significance in the universe and it's attribute to this Mission the
casino Mission and also the Carl Sagan Pablo that concept inspiring all and our awareness about our cousin home I'm just
getting to them I swear I will be very very fast and we can forget to to
to name this one the very first image of a black hole located so it's my my dog
that also wants to be part of this presentation uh
2019 by the Evan Horizon let's remember what is the Urban Horizon telescope
um that is This Global collaboration of variety of telescopes that work together
to create a virtual hair size telescope right I don't know they all synchronize
to observe the same Target simultaneously that was the way you worked
chapter that was the way the way
everybody covered give me just one second okay
okay so and this collaboration was a huge shaper
to obtain this very first image of the black hole we know that it's approximately
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that having uh all this knowledge that we gained with the first black hole image
we have uh made possible to have this first image of Sagittarius say right
um the first image of the black hole that we have in our galaxy
and this image provided visual confirmation of the black holes even Horizon white the the point be done with
where nothing can escape even the light the the light right this breakthrough
after Einstein's theory of general relativity and provided direct observational evidence of the existence
of black holes so nobody can deny it now right and also uh it allows astronomers
to directly observe a phenomenon that was privilege only theoretical this is
the main thing that we can reach uh through photography right so
from the first degree tips that we we already revealed to the very far Riches
of the Space Telescope image on Event Horizon telescope image that have
reached uh have unfold galaxies and build Cosmic
processes and deepening our understanding these photos are not just
visual marbles they are tangible connections between our careers team and
this is the celestial expense offering this very intimate view into the the
greatness of the cosmos right as we pair through this Cosmic window waiters and limits embrace them noun and further
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all right well thank you very much uh Carrie it was very interesting to see so
many historic uh images back to back like that so
um I really enjoyed that I had not seen the uh the solar image it was nice to get
some historical uh information about how newsworthy that was you know at the time
I'm sure all these images were shocking and really changed uh people's view of
their world their universe everything you know upon seeing them
another shot was the first time that the Earth was
seen Rising off of the moon's Horizon you know another amazing
experience for people so and there's going to be more and more that kind of thing
happening as we go along so yeah that's another one that I definitely need to add to my
presentation there right right okay all right we have
um uh Dr Daniel Barth coming on next here um Daniel are you uh are you available
I am you are I am and it's uh it's nice we're we're running a little early this time
and that's great so no I am already and um when we're talking about the tools of
astronomy um one of the things that it kind of
it's one of those things that we see all the time but we don't pay attention to and that's the fact that all of our big
professional telescopes are reflectors if you go to purchase a telescope if you go to buy a telescope and you say
hmm I want to shop for telescope you have lots of options you have uh reflectors you have refractors you have
moxitovs you have all kinds of different telescope designs but when you go to large research telescopes are even very
uh relatively large amateur telescopes they're all reflectors
and part of the reason we look back at that we say well gee how is that so
telescopes started out as reflectors and when Newton invented the first successful reflector actually uh James
Gregory designed his successful reflector before Newton but couldn't he was a bad technician and couldn't find a
shop to make the mirrors to his specifications uh and Newton came out
with the first reflector telescope the one that we know is a Newtonian today his mirror was made of metal
these mirrors uh we didn't really have good technology for glass mirrors until
the 18 late 1850s so all these mirrors were essentially bronzed what they call
a high TIN bronze they were about uh two-thirds uh copper and one-third tin
traces of Arsenic and other it was really it was not past theater of
alchemy Metallurgy and Alchemy we're still pretty close in the 1600s and so
they were making these mirrors out of special formulas because they needed a mirror that was relatively white it
wasn't tending toward the red like copper or toward the yellow light gold they wanted it white like silver
and they also wanted a metal that was quite hard they wanted to be able to
grind it you see they wanted to be able to figure a mirror because they didn't have the technology to make a mold and
uh grinding mirrors was grinding a true Parabola they knew about
it but they they didn't know how to grind one most of the early mirrors were spherical and so it was subject to lots
of aberration so you wonder why uh
uh they built telescopes with focal lengths mirror telescopes with focal lengths of 40 feet I was to get rid of
some of the chromatic aberration that they or excuse me the sphere collaboration that they were seeing
anyway the technology for putting silver on glass was invented by a guy you've
probably heard of if you're a math person Foucault and uh
Foucault working with a fellow named Stein Hill
which actually translates quite literally to Hailstone anyway these two fellows invented a
process for depositing silver on mirrors now where the bronze even at its best
about 66 reflective imagine if you came in and says do my mirror need need a new
coating it's only 66 reflected we would think that was awful uh what are you using you know tin foil wrappers off of
gum it would seem terrible but that's what the standard was the time silver gave you about a 90 reflectivity so
imagine killing basically and you're collecting uh 50 more light per aperture so your
eight inch performs more like a 10 or a 12 inch uh it was a revolution putting
silver on glass glass was even easier to figure and polish than metal was and of
course the technology for figuring glass lenses for eyeglasses had been around
since the 1300s so now we're talking 1850s an era of glass working understanding
how to figure glass and the technology to deposit metal to make these things
more reflective well at this time the 1850s the refractor was still considered
to be the instrument and professional astronomers in the 1800s uh around the
world pretty much certainly up to about the 1870s the refractor was the thing
because the alternative for a larger telescope was high resolution was a
telescope with a massive metal mirror keep in mind that where you have uh
bronze has a density of about nine grams per cubic centimeter glass has a density
of about two and a half so bronze is many times more dense and a given blank
for a given mirror is going to be what four or five times heavier than it's
glass equivalent requiring think about those of you who've built telescopes mounting a big mirror takes a lot of
structural support and what your mirror is made of bronze uh yeah the support
has to be massive and so we get this uh this revolution
with Foucault and steinhale and basically the last time anybody made a
big metal mirror reflector was the great Melbourne telescope it was a 48 inch
instrument which is indeed massive built in 1867. uh which is kind of sad because it's 10
years or more after the Advent of silveron Glass Technology but no
and after that the Andrew common telescope in England 1870 uh 79 a 36
inch reflector and remember that the Yorkies the largest basically a one
meter refractor is the largest ever built and refractors anywhere over 50
centimeters are incredibly rare um and they're really difficult uh after
that 1908 we have the Mount Wilson telescope the 60 inch the hooker the 100
inch comes on in 1917 and of course 1948 we get Palomar
and we think about these things and we go wow you know this is this is amazing and of course we have other technology
now too Mercury mirrors uh these crazy things where you take a pool of mercury
and you spin it sometimes large mirrors themselves are spin cast where you will
heat a glass slug into a molten blank and then the furnace spins to create
that perfect parabolic shape uh and we think about all of these things the back
of a glass mirror can be a hexagonal honeycomb to reduce weight but the real thing that killed the
refractor my friends is the idea that a Glass Lens through which light passes
must be perfect throughout his volume and on the inner and outer curved
surface that's two perfectly figured curves surfaces and a perfect volume with no
ripples no distortions no bubbles no sleeks no contaminants for a glass mirror we simply don't care
we're just going to figure the first surface top of it and then of course the modern technology is aluminum and
aluminum Alloys we Vapor deposit this now we also have Coatings but even silver
mirrors could take uh a coating to protect them but metal mirrors bronze
cannot these old metal mirrors they had to be repolished every time you wanted
to go on an observing session and because polishing was abrasive think Brasso right well every so often
the massive mirror had to be refigured so glass was the way and reflectors were
the way because refractors Beyond a certain size are just really uh
increasingly difficult to make and terribly terribly expensive
so there we go next time you go out and look at your humble dog you know gee
there's there's a lot of science there Foucault's there steinhales there uh of
course Newton is there we remember it as a Newtonian but there's a lot more people than that who got a sort of
modern reflector telescopes great
okay okay so um
I will be um moving on to uh young Navin uh
senthil Kumar who uh has been patiently waiting in the background there Navin
your program tonight is going to be on uh
spacecraft as I recall base flight
um hi everyone the first thing I'm going to do right now is I'm going to share my screen
and can you guys could see my screen
all right so my presentation is called the basics of space flight uh the first thing we're going to talk
about is the one of the most important things it's um science payload
um there are a lot of con different kinds of scientific instruments and this is primarily about The Cutting Edge
scientific innovations that NASA's created over the years
so there's many kinds of scientific instruments and they're designed built
and tested by teams of scientists who work at institutions around the world and to deliver them to a spacecraft
before it's launched once they deliver it they are integrated with the spacecraft and the tests
continue with other subsystems to verify their commands as it function as expected the Telemetry flows back from
the instruments it's power thermal and mechanical properties are within the limits
after launch the same scientists who created an instrument May operate it in
flight through close cooperation with the rest of the flight team so all this we're going to talk about
Voyager Cassini Galileo and these are many of NASA's cutting-edge satellites and these
and many of these are NASA's earliest Innovations of the technology that we
still use and we still use today
and the first thing is direct and remote sensing instruments
um this one is from Galileo so direct sensing instruments also called Contact science instruments
register characteristics of phenomena in their immediate vicinity so in this example it's Galileo's heavy
ion counter is a direct sensing instrument it registers the characteristics of ions
in the spacecraft vicinity that actually enters the instrument it does not attempt to form any image of
the ion source both Galileo and Cassini each carry dust detectors
they measure properties such as mass species speed and direction of dust
particles which actually enter the instrument they do not attempt to form any image source of the Dust
so you see down here is the Galileo heavy ion counter part of it this is
with one section of it right here 2028 881 the left segment and then the
right segment is 2020 A1 they will do the same thing they're just different segments
and then the next thing is active and passive instruments um most
instruments only receive and process existing light particles or other phenomena and they're said to be passive
the typical of this type would be an Imaging instrument viewing a planet illuminated by sunlight or a
magnetometer measuring existing magnetic fields an active instrument provides its
own means of sensing the remote object typical of this would be a radar system
that we all know radar generates pulses of radio waves that it sends to a surface and then receives their
Reflections back from the surface to create images or deduce characteristics of the surface
um radar you can see that on a lot of things um that's like the earliest version
some radio science experiments um described in the chapter a of the
book of the article sorry are also examples of active sensing since they
send radio energy through a planet's atmosphere or rings to actively probe the phenomena
but the results being directly on Earth being received and the next thing we're going to go to
is some examples the first thing is high energy particle detectors this is all on
Voyager all on NASA's Voyager satellite high energy particle detector instruments
measure the energy respective trapped energetic electrons the energy in the
composition of atomic nuclei they may employ several independent solid-state detectors telescopes the
cosmic ray subsystem CRS on the voyagers measures the presence and angular distribution of particles from the
planet's magnetospheres and from sources outside our solar system electrons of 310 Mev and sorry I didn't
catch that repeat your calculation sorry guys it's Alexa
I'm being annoying all right let's just keep going on
310 Mev and nuclei one five 1 500 Mev
from hydrogen being converted to iron the energetic particle detector epd on
Galileo's sensitive the same nuclei with energies from 20K AV to 10 mega EV
so this is Voyager Voyager is a very Cutting Edge satellite that NASA builds and all this Innovation is all in the
70s which is pretty impressive what NASA did then um I think the voyagers are still being
used um so the next thing is also on Voyager it's called the low energy charged
particle detectors a low energy charged particle detector lecp is a mid-range
instrument and designed to characterize the composition energies and angular distributions of particles
charge particles and interplanetary space within planetary systems one or
more solid-state particle detectors may be mounted on a rotating platform the voyagers lecps are sensitive from
around 10 KV or up into the lower ranges of cosmic ray detector Ulysses lacp is
similar and is named God for its principal investigators lockler and guys
and then this is like the voyager's technical diagram so Voyager for example has a lot of
these instruments on there and you can see a spectrometer on there there's a lot of stuff on Voyager
and then the next thing is planetary radio astronomy instruments
planetary radio astronomy instrument measures radio signals emitted by a Target such as Hobby and planet
the instrument on Voyager is similar sensitive to signals between one
kilohertz and 40 megahertz and uses a dipole antenna around 10 meters long
which it shares with the plasma wave instrument the planetary radio astronomy instrument
detected emissions from kilo Plus in 1993 you could see the illustration in
chapter one Ulysses carries a similar instrument
um Voyager and Ulysses are very like similar and like they're related to each other the related satellites and many of
the instruments they have are are a lot in common um Imaging instruments an Imaging
instrument uses Optics such as lenses and mirrors to protect an image onto a
detector which is converted to Digital Data a lot of natural color Imaging requires
taking three exposures of the same Target in quick succession through different color filters different
typically they're all from Filter wheel earth-based processing combines data
from the three black and white images reconstructing the original color by utilizing the three values of each Pixel
picture on pixels movies for example are produced by
taking a series of images over an extended period of time in the past the detector created the image was a vacuum
tool resembling a small CRT cathode ray tube called the video cone
in a Videocon signals applied to detection coils and focus coils sweep
and Electron Beam from a heated cathode an electron Source across to photoconductor coating inside of the
types glass front where the image is focused um this is just a diagram of the Mars
2020 Rover and on what instruments this has
um and then just a lot more of the last one synthetic aperture radar Imaging some solar object
system objects are that are candidates for radar Imaging are covered by clouds or Haze
making Optical Imaging difficult or sometimes impossible these atmospheres
are transparent to radio frequency waves and can be image using synthetic aperture radar SAR which provides its
own penetrating and illumination of radio waves SAR is more or a technique than a single entry is a hardware and
software as most instruments too but it also implies the motion of the spacecraft in orbit SAR synthesizes the
angular resolving power of an antenna many times the size of the antenna aperture actually used
last but not least is an altimeter spacecraft's altimeter extends coded
radio pulses or laser light pulses straight down to a planet's surface the
natter to measure variations in the height of the terrain below the signals are
timed from the and stamp they leave the instrument until they are reflected back and the round trip distance is obtained
by dividing the speed of light and factoring in known equipment processing delays dividing by two then approximates
the one-way distance between the instrument and the surface actual Turnpike is deduced based upon knowledge
of the spacecraft's orbit and this is an altimeter it's on an airplane it's on everything
well that's all my presentation is um thanks and that's all thank you Navin
thank you okay all right so uh we will uh go to
back down to Argentina to uh Maxi filari's
um and uh to um talk about uh his uh recent
astrophotography Maxie hello guys how's it going well I was in
the background but I was listening and Gary congratulations first you know for
our region you are the top you know I think and congratulations for the apod
and the the cover of the National Geographic magazine
and of course the images that you capture of the uh well auroras are outstanding so my
foreign thanks Maxi hope to have you on one of
my expeditions to handle the likes well I I hope I hope someday you know uh but
I do more deep Sky objects so if I will have a Lotus I I think hey that would be
a challenge so well what I'm going to show you what I
was doing this past a weekend I Was preparing again the equipment to do some
planetary pictures of Saturn because we have the opposition of a the ring planet
so let me share my screen um
okay do you see it yes great so I
first of all I was sleep a you know when you do
astrophotography you're still processing and in this case I was doing some pictures of Jupiter 2 but first of all I
want to show you what I was doing uh yeah that's here
uh do you remember this is the the equipment that I was taking on the the
F6 eight inches telescope and this is my my backyard
and we had a really good night that it was
luckily was clear sky but it kind of windy but anyway I Cho I tried to give a
shot on that and I was first of all
practicing with some videos on the moon you know let me
do you see this video you know you can see the the wind and the the the the the
atmosphere going to very crazy but anyway
I this was only a few seconds so
for a little short time we had a very good thing
so to do Moon surface or planets it will
helps you to to get some details because you stack the better
pictures of that video so you can select that also this this was a
only cropping a place of the field of view but then I put the 3x Barlow
so for example this was a from Plato crater
and you know you can see this mountains there they are amazing so I give a chance to
stack this and this was the the results that I get for
that for that night of the surface of the Moon surface and I was really happy for
their little short time of videos and anyway I could get details of the
crater and the the amount size there and also in other places
uh for me was outstanding and the another one was this
and I think I yeah this one no sorry it was the another
here you know this is without the the bottle
of lens so in this case uh this part is a I remember or I think it was the the
lady of Cassini that he draw on the map
of the moon at that time to get honored to her love a wife and
well then I the surgeon is coming rise up uh
luckily we had it almost 75 degrees here
of altitude so that's really good for planetarino any kind of Photography
because the the atmosphere it will help you or will not so
I did a lot of videos of a 90 seconds
and then process them put on group of
a a 10 videos every each other so then I
did rotate it and then I stacked them and everything that you have to do in
hours and so the final result let me find that the
images I think it was this yeah because I put it a upside down depends of the
the perspective of where you are but for
example I think there was this yeah this is one of the night
you know I was really uh of the Rings that they are they were
really shining and I see and I didn't think it calls this has a and visual
effect that cause well I I don't remember how to go sorry
um this is more Dion and
I could get you know details of the of the Cassini division uh storms and I
couldn't get because a Transit of Enceladus it was passing by but in the
videos I I didn't know why I couldn't get it Nico has it unfortunately he he's
not with us tonight uh this is the the another perspective
of this field of view um you know
I love to do Saturn and I I can still believe that in
2025 in two years the Rings going to be very
horizontal so it was it was going to be almost difficult to watch it so then we
start to see the the southern part of the planet so this was I was doing with Saturn and
then I tried to give a chance to capture Jupiter but unfortunately here in
Argentina we have it almost at the maximum 40 degrees above the The Horizon
so um anyway I said uh it's it's not too late
I can try it and do some videos so I was a
I I did all these videos Almost one hour one and a half hour of videos
and thinking of a hobby there and you know the the better one was the last
ones for example here's a little
stack a single stack that I get you can see the the movements
I'm clicking here oh in only 10 or 11 minutes
uh there you can see the the rotation so I process this I'm still working on
it but anyway I want to show you what I get and this is worse
uh I think most finally a picture of will be there of that
regular night so for to get these results
I'm happy you know anyway any way of the
the weather conditions and the uh the the stabilization of the atmosphere and
everything I don't care I love to I have the the gray red spots I see a lot of
storms in the uh in the northern place and the Southern and anyway I'm I'm
really happy of course I will be glad if I will get more detail but anyway I'm
I'm really really happy for this so uh I will still working on it I I am
still practicing and talking a lot with Nico and other persons about this or how
to process or what I could date or what I could do and you know
it never ends you never stop to learn so what I I think this it was all for
tonight it was a really short presentation I hope that you liked it and then of course if you want to to
follow me of my social networks is Astro Max okay in Instagram or you can find me
in Facebook page Maxi faliers and of
course if you want to ask me something or talk about something if I could give
you the answer I will so if I will not let's uh we can find the answer together
so thanks for tonight and continue with the GSP okay well thank you so much
thank you and um uh if you would put the uh put your link in the chat and I hope
yes or you could put it directly into the YouTube chat but I I wanted to share
to all the different uh yes yes social media channels there's so all right guys
we are going to take um I was hoping to get a quick my
presentation is going to be quicker than Maxi because as you can see there's a game that will start yeah
I am okay all right before I do my game I wanted to quickly
share with the folks um maybe share a picture but it'll just be really quick I'm going to let
everybody know that when I'm not out playing baseball and I'm out um or working and I'm out at uh dark sky parks
and oftentimes we talk about the equipment I know the global star parties
talked about the tools that we use and in some cases it doesn't take a lot of
tools for me and my pictures I have an old DSLR camera that's 12 years old a
Canon 6D I use a star tracker that's fairly small it's called a move shoot move you've heard some other star
trackers and I use a tripod my lens is a is a wide angle lens sometimes I use a
more narrow angle or Zoom but and that's pretty much it and I I'll show one image
before we go break let's see I think I can get it out of
photos yeah here we go um pictures that you can take
with your iPhone let's see if this will work so this is none of the uh
imagery that or none of the equipment that I use I use my iPhone composed and
ended up with this shot using wide angle if you're out there you just use your iPhone
and uh you're fine now there are some things you must use equipment with and
uh really quickly let me share my screen
and start it and I'll show you a type of picture that
you that is very difficult to do with if it'll work if not then
we'll just let's see uh sharing screen okay cool
let's do this this and now you should be able to see
some other pictures that you cannot do and we'll use this one as an example
are you able to see it Scott the Moon yes yeah this is the sort of picture
that try it with an iPhone if you want it's dusk it's darker there's not as
much light that you can do this sort of these sort of pictures with so some of
these things do require panoramas do require and sunsets
sometimes do require that you have at least a DSLR so those are the pictures
that and just doing that and of course before I forget if you want to do Milky
Way Photography you should probably use a DSLR
as this picture shows this is very hard to do with an iPhone so those of you
that are um let's see I don't know which way this is pointing but uh let's just say if you
are attempting to do and I'll stop the share here if you are attempting to do your
Imaging there are certain things you can use your um
iPhone 4 there are certain things you just simply cannot and so with that
Scott that is my presentation okay uh get the most out of your equipment by continuing to use it don't fall for the
I gotta have this in order to take great pictures all right you just have to have a process by which you take it long
exposures play around with the other settings till you get pictures you want and then expand from there and that is
how you do it so now the tools I'm about to go use involve a ball and a bat and hopefully not breaking my leg so wish me
luck and get out there and enjoy the sky when it's clear all right
all right so um at this moment we will take uh some
minutes uh and come back um and uh since we already have had our
presentation from Adrian uh we will go to Cesar brolo down in Argentina so stay
tuned
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okay guys we are back um thanks for letting us take a little short break there uh our next speaker is
uh Cesar brolo Cesar has been involved in uh with telescopes and Optics
manufacturing for many years and um uh he has uh runs a shop telescope shop
called um Optica siraco in Buenos Aires and
he is also involved in the restoration of a historic Observatory complex in
Argentina you can often find him uh looking off into the skies from his
balcony in Buenos Aires as well and anyways I'm going to bring on Cesar are
you ready to come onto the program good night everyone and yes ever ever I
am ready I'm ready all right okay but as as is
um normal it's not totally cloudy but this foggy
um we have full moon tonight yes it's not foggy it's exactly it's like like
smoke it's the the kind of of uh clothes that looks like uh like a
smoke you know and let me let me share because I can show you
yes
let me let me check if I can
because my idea I see the doubly
but then it's impossible to to [Music] you have a
a difference between because I have a great Focus
but maybe the diffraction you know something
is that I can you can see the clouds
that as normally my presentations that this is the area of of freaking
Towers something that well I I can talk about
tools uh Scott because I use my tools like
yes um the area where I can avoid that I'm
appointing my my tool my telescope it's
um it's to richer than Taurus or Alpha Centauri the the brightest star of
santori is an area full of stars
and I can show you in this area let me show
you maybe with a map to have an idea to the audience
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yes after the star I don't know if that's yes that that's the double star
or not no no I think that
let me check if I can share screen
yeah if you're switching between programs you may have to unshare and then yes yes I I did yes but I am preparing
the estellarium right uh yes with it you know with them
with the the the the only I need to to
to show the ad audience the area and I I yes of course that I stop
sharing the live image and I'll share
stellarium Sky Map
my telescope is avoiding here but maybe we can
I see in the same yes it's the same totally with the bride
mm-hmm it's difficult to I we have the same
the same problem like in the map just to write to
to make a separation for the CCD but we can try we can try and let me we
can we can go to this cluster
we return to the telescope image
there is uh yes tell me how many people are now
buying this small kind of uh uh telescope system for home use at this
point in in your area is that is it popular or do people want large
dobsonians or what what is it that they are they're typically buying is that
it's a total total Meats of different different uh telescope I don't know if
we have uh I you know I know people with
a uh uh of course is the lowest number
because the ghost is higher but mostly of the people in Argentina use
um 130 millimeters and 150 millimeters the
most uh um F5 X F5 the focal ratio
um uh and uh of course that
um here I'm trying to to why we are talking
I trying to to take the idea which is the Dracula cluster
this area I like the name that's cool yeah Dracula yeah that's a little scary
but you know sure where is exactly but it's a rich part of this guy you know
sorry but but reflections of another relaxed eye pollution you know we are
appointing near to the to the building and we have some reflection of the
lights it's not the best living situation to to watch by Davis spring okay enemies
you know it's a lively munch
alive maybe I think that this is the this open cluster because it's not a
global class sir I say and you have some some different colors
and why why is it called the Dracula cluster I've never I don't know I don't
know mostly imaginationally people
that was from Czechoslovakia perhaps or Transylvania
yeah I don't know maybe and of course that that you know
we can think that can be this or can be this maybe our asterism
this is interesting too let me remove the telescope a little
not bad sorry
I love more here's a live telescope that you know
and the big one yes or the big one or have only
processant pictures because it's the magic of
that and you know that
we are we are making a searching live searching you know
that it is going to be in this area we can
you can try if um
I can see something I can see it looks like we can also see clouds a little bit
yes uh yeah sorry that every time that
without clouds in any any moment I see
that we are lost part of the program usually
right sorry John you know
you have a reason John sorry that I I I couldn't listen to you yeah
actually in the last week was part of the program
yes you're lucky we had a hurricane here yes in the past the people told me the
uh do you remember Scott 100 miles per hour by the wind uh see sir and actually
the cloud is cloudy scissor I don't know it's cloudy sees her now
and for all of you that are listening out there okay is that
um when you do presentations you know you do an Outreach presentations and
stuff uh you know it's it's something where uh if if I'm being asked to go out
of course A lot of people are going to expect oh Scott's got telescopes we're going to do astronomy we're going to see
something in the sky and it's amazing and if I promise that people are going
to see something almost always if I promise it's gonna come and over okay so
yeah it's absolutely so I I like to give a presentation and talk about you know why uh we're into astronomy why why
um you know that that we're passionate about it and what it is that we're learning on a
personal on a deeply personal level you know because yeah you know I yeah I don't want to be
tongue-in-cheek about this or you know I don't know if you yeah it gives you the
ability you know that's an American idiom tongue-in-cheek but uh but uh
the uh the point is is that if we are
made of star stuff if we are here and live on this planet because of the
conditions of the entire universe okay then um just just waking up in the morning
and peeling back your eyes and looking at the Sunrise and just going about your normal day
which might not feel very special but it is unbelievably special it is incredibly
special you know that that we have this ability and
um you know amateur astronomers kind of wake up to this they they uh sometimes
they like all of us and we go about our normal average everyday life I'm saying
average but there is nothing average about it it is just a almost a a miracle
that we're able to breathe all the complex gases in our atmosphere and say
that that's a breath of air for us to uh you know to live in an
environment that we live in it's just it's it just blows my mind sometimes and
you start looking at the connections that we all have uh with everything and uh you know and then you have these you
know we're animals you know a lot of people don't think we're animals but we make these tools
so that we can explore our environment and our environment goes as far as you
can see into space um it go it goes as far as our the tools
that we can use to detect what's out there and that includes what amateurs can do I mean look at Caesar here he's
jumping back and forth between a star map an electronic star map on his
computer he's switching uh to live views through his telescope and he's
broadcasting live all over the world right now and yeah it's not actually actually I don't know why but is this
open dress there is more like it and that's the reason that cluster I see
and what should the the complexion of the Stars I showed you
again this is the daily of this and of course that you tell them that to
the audience they think that looks simple but is the it wasn't long a long
way in technology you I work divided by most of 30 years yes
in this industry and this one in 30 years ago
made the sense that we are making tonight was impossible
you're right yes absolutely we are watching we are watching a
non-processing image I love you imagine yes this is the
this is the cluster this is the cluster why the name is Dracula we don't know we
don't know I'm talking on the internet right now yeah why it's called Dracula and I don't know yes
I don't know [Laughter] but but
who knows um yes yes and this is um
I I know people actually a professional astronomers that are very interested
in study open clusters because they know
that they it's very interesting the condition
um the interactivity between the stars of the open clusters because it's very
interesting um all they have in open space
not they are not globular clusters and have a very interesting structures of
gravity um and they're you know their type of uh
in the in the HH ER diagram how
many many open clusters have uh no no expected stars in in the in the
in the Grove um the interactivity between the stars
is something that many astronomers actually are working on in the open
clusters you know sometimes open cluster you know are okay I can use and an IPS
of you know 40 35 40 millimeters and you
can start to to watch this open clusters um it's something to to study there is
very interesting here I don't know but sometimes I can see more stars
depending you know you can see junk Zhang can say that you can see the the
clouds the the foggy clouds are not the same clouds that that in the last
presentations with with some shame tonight is something like like a smoke
and I hate them very thin inversion layer perhaps
yeah yes yes it's maybe you know Los Angeles
yeah yes we have the humidity it gets capped off
it is very interesting well you want to say this is a city that is
um that it's very near very near uh into
the Big River or toario that is everywhere it's so big that you you can't see
another cause another causes you know why another country we have 60
kilometers about 40 miles 40 miles uh the the size of the river
and here of course that it will it's making a lot of unity change in the in
the in the weather when you say okay we don't have maybe we we don't have a cloud tonight
no you have um of course that that is uh
last week we are we are sailing in the river and with a friend
um trying a new a new sailboat it's so big and it's it's crazy because
it's big but it's very shallow very maybe sometimes you have two mentors
deep they just walk across yeah yes sometimes
you have you have 20 meters but in many many parts you you you
uh took took the you you knock with the
with the channel or with the battle yeah yes but it's a big a big story of fresh
water I said the color of the water would have sediments it's a brown color
like a lion color um well it's something that is
unexpected uh changing the time every every time but tonight is you know yeah
um okay we we've made something we watch the uh open cluster Dracula
um maybe with four and a 49 Blue Moon have sense to see a Dracula cluster
yes dude that's in Centaurus too so that's a southern you know you have to
be low on the horizon right that's right John Ray is watching on Facebook he says
wonderful Argentina and all of us are fortunate to have Caesar spreading the
science of astronomy so thank you oh thank you so much for you Caesar uh you
know about the tools of astronomy what is the setup I mean if if I was a
beginner and I don't know how to set up a telescope such as the one you have set
up there what what's your process how do you get set up for the for the night yes
first of all I I can say that uh and especially for for starter for for
beginners in astronomy they can choose sometimes
um for example my my sister have on let me show you
yeah here this is the the quarter Mom this is very important to track the
stars or have something they go to mounts are today are very very popular
this is a small and very very smart uh go to mount and but if you if you need
to start and for example here in Argentina that this kind of months for
starting are not so cheap like like a single tripod you can start for example
in this Pro scientific you can found the first like uh first light
um series of explore scientific where you can have a very simple
where you can use uh the first the first steps with a great Optics
and you can you can uh choose something
where the the optical tube is the first is the starter and many mostly of the
optical tube in the first line series for example for scientific
have this same the same big same dot tail
yeah or the entire sirens and maybe the first year you can use
um refractor maxuto uh without a go-to
um without a go to Moon you can use the cell phone with a with a map to start to
know the star the the Stars the position of this in the sky and
for the second year you can buy the the amount only the mount okay and put
together your Optical tool that you have from from the your first line telescope
and make a more efficient uh telescope like in small Observatory here of course
that I I use of apochromic chromic telescope very small but
high-end and it's and actually I use something
that is very interesting that I change maybe you you can see let me show you
for example in the city I I put a an upgrade of a bigger size
binder or guider because I need to see
more stars when I I'm guiding with a camera making
to the to the mount the precise tracking of the star for photography but for
example tonight I did another thing I need to see if I have inside the field
of vision the option that I can show you to the audience and I prefer to to use
this like a finder today you have a lot of different things
to change um it's a it's a time where you can
choose your mode your Optical tube your fa your uh uh finder or guider and you
can arm like a Lego your your different setup and maybe not
uh I prefer uh for for the people
um but in my experience uh try to have
small telescope very very difficult
transportables that you can you can bring in your your trips or something
small that you can put complete uh
assembly in Europe
they try that that tonight we have is that I can show you a very fine open
cluster with the same maybe with the same condition of um
of a bigger telescope and uh but you know you have a small
setup that you have if you don't have play a an open place or a big space to
put an instrument this is a a great real solution but you can you can
mix for example this mode and a small uh Mall it is yes 100
with a different kind of telescope and a small maxuto and acrome an atomic
telescope um today we are talking that Scott you
you asked me about which is the the most uh popular yeah
yes yes
for five or six inches I say
but but the actually the connection for the not the
first level the first level uh amateurs if not the second level the level were
not so started you know when you go to
choose your second telescope you are going to buy an uh apocromic Optical
tube for example but if you if you are more interested like Nico in visual
um make a but especially in this one of course that they are going to find a dobsonian
it is it's different with the dobsonian telescope yes it's the same like in the past yeah
uh and I think that that the tools was changing a lot
um today that we are talking about the favorite tools um today the the small observatories are
totally crazy thing because we are using and every time more a pocket telescope
or or a conditions to to watch something
that are incredible because maybe if if we are
um watching like tonight and a small cluster or three weeks ago the Omega
Omega giant cluster that is a a seed of an all
very old Galaxy it's it's magic it's incredible and we
are not you can see the clouds and we have actually have I have uh some image
it's incredible um this is something that that it's part of the magic of the technology that you
can have uh for example you can have planetary planetary cameras that you can
use for big deep Skies image and this is something that 10 years ago
was totally impossible to understood and actually they started to choose a battle
illuminate back illuminate and chips ccds and sensors with more a
bigger with a bigger size of each pixel and this was the the great the the idea
the this change totally totally the
the the game yeah absolutely and yeah the the the of
course that the cell phone the cell phone call the cell the cell phone well this is this is how I use my my mom for
the audience because maybe the the people that know these moments uh no no no this is a proprietary
software a free software for the exos 100. it's a it's a a it's something that
that where do you have uh uh the total control and you have for example let me
show you if I can uh for example I can go here here you have a catalog Messier
and you have it's very very very just click click on the object you want to
see and it goes right to it from your cell phone yes absolutely thank you
boy who would have thought yes yes you
can absolutely absolutely I and and this is something that how many how many
things you can see and this is something the tools that that today we have to to
enjoy the astronomy from our backyards or you know are totally something that
if I can show show to myself if I can treat I can be a time traveler and show
to me or use God when you remember but maybe maybe with technology no many know
a lot of years 20 years you know in the time of of 25 years in the time of of
the LX 200 that yes I remember all of this starting yes but the the ccds were
so complicated so expensive so exciting so complicated so absolutely so small
the the sensors are very small uh yes uh extremely difficult and all the
techniques had not been worked out yet okay yes so um only the most advanced astronomers
were what is Tony using is Tony using CCD or the uh CMOS technology because
I don't know yeah that picture that David showed was beyond phenomenal I I
suspect he's using a large CMOS chip I've never seen that look like that
before yeah yeah wow CMOS came out to the scene for
amateur astronomers uh many astronomers said no that's not the way you want to
go you need a CCD sensor but uh huge
advances started happening in CMOS and this was driven really by the regular
photography Community not the amateur astronomers there's not a ton of knowledge or astronomers out there but
there are millions and millions and millions of regular photographers you know and they were driving the market uh
night sky photography like what Adrian Bradley does and Carrie letelia do
became very popular because they discovered that at night they could see
they they could image something that was really otherworldly and um
so uh and and this was another Landscapes and you know historic you
know ancient buildings against the backdrop of Milky Way and and star trails and stuff like that it's just
beautiful gorgeous you know and it just made a lot of people want to go out and do it you know so and those people those
people were largely younger people they were traveling out to these remote sites to do this and now those people are
going gosh I can see there's a little nebula in my shot I want a telescope now
to go and get detail of that nebula you know or that Galaxy so yes
it's like if you tell sport this was another game changing thing yes in the
early 2000s where that's right where the reflex camera are becoming digital and
the people start to use the the old uh you know the people that that me that we
uh we are all all school about photography and we check we started to
to enjoy the capacity to use long
exposures and of course the first for me was I can I need to to use this in in a
Dark Skies yeah um I remember my my first sales Revel
and I was totally amazing uh to to to
use the in the night the sky
um this one is this one this one is something that that as you told people
started to know about uh how they can make a better enable the pictures and
they they came to the amateur astronomy to use this kind of Gears it was it was
a revolution it's something that sometimes I can believe that in my 30 years of selling repairing you know uh
manufacturing something mechanical Parts domes and it's so crazy
so crazy the chain that from only from 1992 to uh today is
a total insane craziness of technology that we have in our world in our
community in our uh hobby our Specialties you know and
um of course that I to tonight I only saw something in the in the clouds but
um the the possibilities of this kind of of
uh telescope very small and I show you many times pictures that from here with
colors of the nebula yes you know yes it's something uh incredible something
very powerful for sure it was a pleasure and this was my
presentation presentation live images of course thank you it's a pleasure enjoy
with that okay okay
a little bit ahead uh I hope you enjoyed um Cesars uh presentation down in
Argentina we are going to go to Brazil uh at this point with uh Dr Marcelo
Souza our cello thanks for coming on to the 128th Global Star Party
hi nice to meet you thank you foreign
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I'll try to share my screen here okay
yeah this is I will begin first to talk about here isn't it Copernicus model
that's why it's a changer of view of the
the milk way and I'm trying to I know yes I can yes
and then the changes that we happened when
Galileo use the telescope to the sky AOS is not
the first person to build a telescope one year before
in Netherlands he asked for to have a patent
of a telescope a refractor a telescope and he didn't get to the department that
was in England I think and the but he was the first hedgeist of someone that
tried to that he used a telescope a very simple telescope with less and the
Galileo received information about this telescope and built two different
stethoscopes and used to look to the sky here is the problem that he has when he
was he wrote a book that he was a defense of
the model of Copans I understand right he was he is a drought of he made by
Galileo of his first telescope whatever and I have a insect here
like a first I don't know if you can distance is nice here you have the
exactly inside of my house here today I don't know how to say the name of this fact in English but his maker our
finalizing and here is the telescope is built by
Galileo first telescope here is a draw this
various nuisance how that he saw the Moon yeah
is he he was explaining the moves of Europe wearing his book and sahaja Musa
these eyes are way to support the idea of a heavy is the Sun in the center of
the the solar system like you see moves
around Egypt and these are something that's always fantastic I remember uh last week last
two weeks ago when I was looking for villains and I remember that the Galileo
was the first person that he wrote a draw make a draws about the faces of
reviews that's fantastic and I saw like him well
I'm very thin the views and what I I would like to
talk today is not about the plant let's see about his view of the Milky Way
he saw that actually where you see the Milky Way in the sky is up is a place
where you have a lot of stars and this is a big change for iag or idea
of the universe when he died the year that he died is a year that born
Isaac Newton by the same year and this is the the change this
proposed was proposed by Thomas writes he was the first person that he imagined
at the Milky Way as we imagine that is
today as we imagine today Thomas writes from his book an original Fury of the
universe that was publishing 1750.
he made the first explanation of the appearance of the milkwange has been to
show immersion in layers of stars then if you're looking in One Direction you
see few stars and if you're looking another Direction you see many stars
right then we live is nothing in a few place in the universe this is
our but he imagined that he was the cover of uh ice field but this idea his
idea motivated a one famous philosopher
that is Emmanuel currency basically his hypothesis
he uses his idea as a motivation to imagine that see like
you can live not only in this you don't we
not have only one region in the universe like this you can imagine actually
living something like it is a small coin and if you are inside this coin if you
you look it up and now you see few stars and if you look right and left you see
many stars and he imagined that it's responsible that she exists in many
different regions like this in the universe that they call Iceland's
a universe Iceland's Universe something like this universe that to me let me
find the correct to watch that he was Iceland universe that's why you correct
to us that he used Iceland's Universe an island space
Island Emmanuel Kant
in Portuguese that is made the same Innings Island the
universe right that you have many different regions like this India that is I did
the idea that you have today of the galaxies right the idea of the Galax that I propose the first time by
Emmanuel kante based in the original idea from Thomas Wright
but you need your observations man then we
needed to wait until herbal into the train sample he proved that the
Andromeda Andromeda galaxy was a different in the Galaxy there is not inside the same region that you live in
universe but I will not talk about you this is Kent this is the idea but the big
telescope that they they begin to build big telescopes
to make it better observations and this
telescope was proposed Me by Hashem without her show that he builts are 40
foot there is hope that this is the project of this facts telescope that was
another was built under the department of King is Joshua Tree
Andy he used to to make observations and he he made the best prediction of the
shape of the Milky Way around this episode that he made from
this telescope then we have another one that's very famous
that I hope I say the name correct in English that is
in English no thank you in Portuguese
that is this on big telescope that they have a platform but it is
fantastic because you need to wait the the Stars to pass right
in the direction of the telescope because you you can only move the telescope in one position in One
Direction but it was a fantastic telescope that also help with job salvation
you have a fantastic results using these telescope that's uh 48 inch diameter
telescope that's a fantastic one
it was possible to discover the spiral arms and galaxies damn
this is fantastic that they support the idea the model of Hashem this is the
draw made made by hash of Milky Way
that's fantastic fantastic imagine the using the data that you retained
observing using the big type scope that he proposed
then it is a very special um because today we are
following you're having many formations about new telescopes that they are built
in like the elt um that you will be a
fantastic telescopes yeah in surface of your I think that's it you have you need
to wait a lot of time to see a telescope bigger than the iot that they are
building
you have three big telescopes with uh
biggie mirror and this one is everybody did three times the the size
of the modern three times the size of engineer of the VLT that will be
fantastic heavy you we have the opportunity to see something
that you guys need to imagine but I I will finish now talk about it my soccer
team here in Brazil uh that can imagine that to have nothing about associative
astronomy but it has it is associated personal my team here in Brazil the name is
batafoo is this team here soccer team is the leader of Fiji Brazilian
happy this weekend but who I I'm talking about the my
soccer team because the symbol of the soccer my soccer team
is beautiful yes we say that is the
most beautiful symbol for a soccer team in the world I don't know but for me and
here is the symbol but what is the origin of this symbol because in the
past the the this club was founded in
the beginning of the 27th it was a football team but also you have in the
same place here here de Janeiro a group that
a wake wake up very early to go to the the beach in boats I don't imagine
anything how to say this every in Portuguese come over that they do in the Olympic Games then they need to wake up
very early to make the exercise and to go to the beach with these boats and
they during during long periods they saw the Morning Star
then they use this symbol represents the morning star that is the planets of
Venus there this is the history that the symbol have you only want to start to
understand because he presented Planet views and these are sarcastic my soccer
team I think I hope that's how the astronomers in Brazil like this thing better
is is my I'm a fan of this thing thank you very much subscribe to Jesus
thank you so much thank you very much and uh good luck to your team and thank
you for sharing your uh insight into uh the discovery of the Milky Way and uh
the precursors to understanding about galaxies so
is a very special moment because he proposed this idea
a theoretical proposal based in what he saw in the sky and then you happy many
years late that's the how do you how do
how do you suppose I mean without formal training or no
Stepping Stones really but just to have like this Insight that happened his idea
yeah it's fantastic because many people saw the same thing that he saw that is
part of the sky with the milk way yeah and he he tried he begin to imagine what
what's happening because he knew that have made more stars in it where you see
the nucleus man from Galileo Galileo Southeast then if this information this
idea imagine uh maybe we are inside a place with a lot of stars so maybe he
used logic and his imagination together but sometimes because many people saw
the same thing that he saw right the same thing everybody saw and he has this
idea proposed why out to having the idea of
the island Universe now right like Iceland's Universe now that is the idea
of the galaxies that you have today he imagine uh maybe it's not the only place
in Universe like this maybe you have different one
in the universe yes this is a fantastic someone make
this theoretical propose and many years later you see
that he was right yes what ideas martial you're a cosmologist
what ideas do you think are could be right
uh and the best have a better understanding in the future is that string theory is it
um yeah I I I I awoke with cosmic strings that's the uh topological
defects in the beginning of the universe that's we have a problem to understand
what's happened because if you you imagine that you you live in an
isopropic universe we don't know who I in some place you
have structures near the place you don't have structures what happened in the universe that changed in this place to
begin to a beauty new structures there yeah it also why what happened because
if you have an isotope Universe all directions and the oppositions at same
this is something that's it we need to find a solution for Hades and what I
worked and many people believe that in some reason this was caused by the
expansion of the universe and you have the the temperature is investors now and
that you have something that you have face transitions like it happens when you have water okay and then you have
your eyes right that you don't Maybe this yeah could happen in the past in the
universe but nobody you can't accept this today as a
correct explanation because we need more elements for this but we made the
discovery in the of the Basel of his
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transition was made by this particle that was that's uh Eddie it's not a
particle but it is a bosom that's responsible for this transition that's
when I started a wise supply model
something that shows that our model is not perfect but he can't explain many
things that you should do but we need to make many Corrections and one of the
promises who I have structures in in north in other regions then I think that
this is something that we need to find a solution for Jesus so do you think do
you think that humanity is getting closer to understanding or do you think that we're going away
and I I I don't think so because if you you know the model that you have the Big
Bang model today 90 95 of the model we
don't know what is because 20 is a dark matter and the seven percent
is dark energy that's when you use these
words because we don't know what is then we need many things to
um I think that's it we need another uh propose right because he I think that's
when we have this kind of problems is that we are going in the wrong direction
right and then is there a different it's part of important against spider jig I
don't know the correct word in English but it's a differential I don't know if that is
if he is correct towards in English that you use in Portuguese for this is something that we use many times but you
need to find another Vision another position and see from a different region
to to find the different way like Einstein did when him he he proposed the
general relatives that in the idea of your instrument used to be gravitational
is not a force it is it is uh what happened with the
topology of universe
okay it's fantastic man yeah it's really
funny James Webb is starting to teach us more but we don't know what to think of it
because it's already so far Advanced from what other instruments showed us
that were ostrich and we're relearning everything that we potentially knew before that's right from that telescope
is going to really change the the way we see our universe yes once they could figure out you know
the the data yes yep okay all right uh Marcelo thank you so
much is a great pleasure to be here okay okay all right uh so uh we've got it
I'm not in the Dracula cluster I'm in a blue origin no no you are in the
dark side tonight John I um
he's got his glasses on upside down these are tools for my astronomy and I
wanted to show everybody more tools for expiration so let me take these off I
apologize but I'm dark adapting this is my Knighthood my dark hood that when I
look through the eyepiece I like oh yeah that's a good idea and it's duplicated this is a material that that uh you know
basically blocks all stray light out and as you know being an astronomer when uh
you get cars I'm gonna take this off I'm burning alive I've been whoo
it's a beautiful night anyways I was viewing a couple objects in my blue Heavens yeah tonight so it's it's quite
a beautiful night here yeah got my NASA NASA shirt love NAFTA yeah right
but uh so yeah I mean there's a lot going on with tools of the universe uh
I specialize in you know bringing tools of the universe to view the heavens and
for visual you realize well it's not only an addiction but you
need all these tools to do every aspect of our of our hobby you know like the camera in that setup that
Caesar had is absolutely amazing what you can do with that because just on
your balcony alone you can have views after it starts to stack and build the
image equivalent to what I would see from a dark sky site through my 28 inch which is unbelievable
so uh the views you know are very important but also astrophotography all
these are tools that we have for exploration and it's teaching us a lot more about it and um Man Tony's image
tonight was beyond amazing oh yeah I could not believe how wonderful that
processing I've never seen one like that it's unbelievable
but uh so what I'm going to do is I'm going to get my photo started here okay
uh this is GSP 128 now right 128
wow I remember when it was 50. yeah me too
yeah it's really been a fun adventure yeah you know
I I can't wait to get up and running finally so I can show you some live
views I I'm gonna do this sooner later but anyway Let's uh begin with some of
my work so this is Star Party weekend that's why I couldn't make last uh Tuesday this is
Bosco my dog waiting for me to take him to go to the mountain s that's where we go
it's a 9 000 feet up very nice clear transparent Sky he uh this was just
after the hurricane hit he was out in the back he got locked out so I had to get him in and dry them off he was not
happy uh here we are at the start party this is up at Mount Pinos we're set up a
group of us ready to go that's uh my 28 inch and my ladder of
course in my trailer we need a big ladder to go up these things that's another you know with the
big telescopes like the Leviathan you really need a big ladders to get up in
there and you know what another neat thing is when you think of the Leviathan they had to wait for the view to rotate into view
because the Earth is rotating yeah and they also have mercury mirror
telescopes where they spin Mercury and and it performs uh it makes a
parabola like a spherical Parabola and then they can use that as a telescope so it's actually a liquid mirror and the
same thing they have to wait for that to drift into view because they can't tilt it because the
Mercury would fall out so I I thought that was kind of cool
here's a set up this is the 24 inch Kennedy that's and behind it's my 28.
and uh that's by Mike Garrett's trailer
here's another angle at the star party these are Big instruments uh you know to look through for amateur work
28 inch is pretty good size and we had some amazing views at that altitude
just absolutely stunning views um with the transparency and had the hood on I
was really cutting out the Stray light and it made a big difference on your dark adaption
this is um actually a picture taken through that 28 inch telescope
from here on Earth of The Pillars of Creation I was very proud of this picture merko
helped me do it he's the astrophotographer and we use my telescope but that picture was
propped out of a larger wide field shot and this is what I was able to get from
here on Earth with the CMOS camera pretty proud of it
yes beautiful it's almost hubble-like but not quite
this is another section from below that so if you look at the bottom of the
section you see those little it looks like hands are reaching out to the to the glowing gas cloud to you
know it's just an amazing painting that nature has created
through the molecular gas clouds and when they condense these are paintings
right I mean they're these well this is actually a painting from the actual photograph yes photograph okay yeah this
is through the 28 again and from here on Earth this is what I was able to get with that scope with the camera
I mean the hands see the bottom part with the hands is isn't that just
uncanny yeah the gas clouds how they're reaching like they're reaching for light
like life so just amazing the nature of the
universe what it it does we have a question from uh Robert on who's
watching on YouTube sure he says these are amazing he says what was your
favorite object to see visually that night well I'm gonna show you
okay it's funny you should say that because it's coming up uh let me go to it it was
this one M51 this is another version that I I've been working on as well and um so I was
looking through the 32 inch on this night and you could see some amazing spiral structure so I would have to say
this was my favorite object for that evening uh to be able to resolve spiral arms
with uh direct vision and to see the core as a stellar point of life and then
even hints of the dark dust Lane which is actually the spiral arm being
gravitationally affected by the other Galaxy the satellite and it's distorting it so it's
pulling on it this tremendous Force you know when two galaxies Collide they
virtually go through each other until you know the gravity affects it once the
the gravity starts to take hold then everything gets ripped apart and you
know misconstrued into probably a large elliptical anyway so there you go that was my
favorite one this was another very good one to look at that evening uh this is
NGC 246 the skull nebula and um
it's also considered maybe even uh an emission nebula
partially it has a three-star system in it and when you look in the eyepiece you
can actually see this is exactly what I was seeing with um an npv filter and a
VHC filter uh different times of course you have to rotate the filter selection
but you know this is a great planetary nebula to see in a very large aperture
telescope and this is a drawing Scott very happy with the way this
yes it almost looks like it's floating there right yes
that's a it's a white dwarf in there too um yeah very powerful system
you know um for those of you who might be seeing some of John's drawings for the very
first time uh John is a great artist in his own right he that was visiting his
Facebook page and uh I really you know I don't know which Gallery you were in but
the Salvador Dali portrait that you did oh thank you really amazing you know so
uh you are you're an extremely talented uh and gifted artist so you know
Salvador was connected to the universe I mean a lot of his stuff was uh clouds
and space you know in his mind he was very aware of a lot of the stuff
and um his knowledge of you know was very good but he was a very unique
artist uh seeing hidden imagery you know within nature
was probably one of the neatest things he ever did was creating you know hidden
content so very very amazing artist to be a part of
my father you know knew him as a person I never got to meet him but I did get to
see it like a lot of his really nice works that were special wow this one uh
this is what we're gonna get with a best night at malpinos through a 28 inch
and this is called the Cat's Eye Nebula in Draco the constellation
now this was uh roughly 1600 light years I believe
and um so it's basically what would happen to our son when it blows up
it goes into what's called a planetary nebula so the internal star will
probably become a white dwarf and then that inner ring is actually the the blast of the internals of that star and
that would basically probably be reaching out to the outer planets the you know the inner ring
so as far as earth goes we would be in the inner inner ring probably vaporize
uh if that happened but it won't happen for a long time but you know inevitably
a race is faced with having to leave their Planet because
their star is going to explode so alternatively there is no alternative
you have to look out to space to find a new planet to colonize or a new place
to live so for any race especially ours it's critical that we make progress on all of
this knowledge that's going to get us to be able to survive you know
in the past the seeds of Life throughout the cosmos that's what I believe a race
would do if it could survive until then you know super intelligent
we're getting there slow but sure yeah very slowly it seems I mean how long ago
was it that they had the Wright brothers and not look at what we're doing well that's true I mean we did make nothing
that's right an astronomically my goodness can you imagine how far we've
come like Caesar on his patio doing images that out and nobody saw that kind of detail
no that's true but it's just such a gift we have with this technology and you
know the little refractors the more I see him that's how I was horrible it's crazy I mean it's multi-multi-million
dollar technology you know yeah so but that's what we does what we do as humans
you know we can take right we do something that uh is it was was
extremely costly and we bring it down you know so you know I mean
that's what I'm hoping to my friends about the invention of the wheel you know and and when it might have cost you
know well the square ones you know once they chipped off they probably figured it out
yeah that's right the corner fell off and hey wait a minute that's right so
um it's a question here John and a comment uh Andrew corkel is watching
um on uh looks like YouTube here and he said he wanted to know how long do you
spend the eyepiece to create these drawings you know I have to be honest uh as much
time as I can each night but we have a list of objects that we go through so
you know maybe 10 15 minutes if I'm drawing it I'll go back to it when
everybody goes back to bed and and I'll look at this object for at least an hour
and and I've been looking at this opportunity yeah I've I've drawn this a hundred
times so I've got years of looking at this under my belt to be honest with you
I see so you know this is this is really exactly what you see with the big
telescope up at Mount Pinos I mean right that's you don't really get much more resolution visually than that I mean
that's actually really good views it looks so natural and real Wilson you know we went to Wilson Wilson
shows better yeah but of course yeah I mean this is kind of dimensional it has
that little glow to it I was very happy with this I just barely got it finished you know a lot of these I do a field
sketch and then then I go ahead and and then take it home and really you know
work on it and so let me see um this is my field sketch so here's something I
wanted to share with all of you you want to talk about a time machine so we were
doing spiral galaxies that were double interaction galaxies so there was two or
three different ones this was the best one other than M51 so if you look at that it resembles M51 right very much
sure and this is an actual field sketch so this is what I do right on my cell
phone I write from the eyepiece right from the yeah exactly what I'm seeing all right and um now this object get
ready for this M51 right here is roughly 23 million
light years away and a magnitude 8 point something so
you're gonna see this pretty good from a dark sky site you can see this in
binoculars yeah a six inch and a six inch telescope is a great reflector to
start with I have a fiber this object in a 70 millimeter Toyota before
so you can see how bright and how much definition you get now you go back over
here check this out here's where you're gonna this is gonna wrap your mind
this object is 270 million light years away
in Pegasus the constellation there's uh 77 53 and 77 52 is The Edge on
right so they're they're interacting and so that means when I was looking at this
in my eyepiece that light traveled at the speed of light for
270 million years can you imagine how far that is at the
distance no you can't I mean it's you can't even light years 5.9 trillion
miles um
got lost so now um this is not this is not the enormity
of the universe this is just no this is a close neighbor actually right so I
mean when you're looking back at the James Webb Telescope images some of those uh redshifted those were before
the recorded you know Big Bang supposedly so it just proved how are
their galaxies already there before the you know they don't know it's just yeah
it's amazing it's crazy and then we got we got some more comments here uh okay
uh space time with Roberts watching watching on YouTube he says he says oh wow these are drawings I was just taking
these for CCD images these are Stones no see the thing is is um if you want to
see the best views visually there's several factors and like Scott said you
can promise people views but then when you get up it clouds up or The Scene
goes to crap you know you just don't want to curse it you just want to kind of lie low and let it unravel and we
were rewarded with some amazing scene because of the altitude so border one if
you can get to a dark sky site even with a six inch telescope you can see a lot
of these objects they're going to be a lot smaller but you can see them now if you combine portal one with six thousand
feet of altitude now you're getting some transparency and darkness so you're
really taking taking a big advantage of visual astronomy because that's going to
get you your best look is being above all the Hayes and you know it's true you
know and it's not always guaranteed now here's the evolution of this galaxy
after I just imagine being there I traveled 270
million light years in my mind and Bam through my eyepiece this is what
it looks like so that's a simulated eyepiece you're looking into the eyepiece I see and
you're seeing the there was hints of some spiral I I attitude kind of like what Michael Carroll does where he shows
us things imagined by a space artist okay yeah
um but this looks so natural yes these were averted Vision hints I was able to pick
up in the 32 inch yeah the 32 inch had a little more grasp you know than the 28
and that's where it hurts me the most is when I get against the 32 when you look
at galaxies and globular clusters you're in for a surprise
um the first thing you notice is like the deerlick Galaxy NGC 73 7331 was
completely uh an edge on spiral with a brilliant core I mean I could see the
arms wrapping around and it was tilted you know very similar to Andromeda and
in in Tony House's picture there's actually Jets coming out of that thing I mean that's an amazing Galaxy to look
at Pegasus is a great constellation um has many great galaxies they have
another double 73-31 73 32 which is visible in
binoculars it's that bright um again from a dark sky site a six-inch
telescope will get you there an 8-inch cast of green you know even refractors
um which I always say when I started I started with a refractor because it was simple I didn't have to
collimate it no and I could I could move it around real easily and I got real comfortable using it so I could find
stuff you just shoot the tube you know and then when you get into the reflector
well the first real reflector was from telescope City it was a parked six inch
f8 with extremely good Optics and I witnessed the fragment g hit Jupiter and
rotated around I looked at that from my outside of my apartment I couldn't believe it
hey uh John uh we have an opportunity right now Cesar has got for the moments
in clear skies and he's got 40. oh yes let's let's do it let's do it sure let's go so let's let's go ahead and switch
and then we'll come back to you because we've got more comments and all right we want to know more about your Technique
here yes of course that that you can continue in John I I can show you why
why oh yeah
this is great oh wow there we go live yeah wow yeah yeah
beautiful globular it's a it's a global it's 13 no uh 92. I
uh let me let me check because for me why he's a propeller almost like it
looks like 13. yes I don't know but uh yes I think that is it's very
bright very bright if we we can compare 15 000 light years away and uh yeah
diameter thank you Scott which got which globular
is that it's a 47 to Kenny oh my that is the
best blogger ever okay yes at this moment we have this one in the
in the uh in the in the field and it's very interesting because it's
sorry that the noise it's a it's a not I'm not uh you know
uh processed image if not it's a live image but it's very interesting really
it's a I read that I wrote that this cluster the globular cluster it's a very
curious curious for for astronomers because don't have uh doubly binary system that
is normal to found in this kind of clusters and this one have a particular
structure that is outside the box in this kind of cluster
it's very interesting and it's very bright and it's in this in this small
brightness second brightest globular cluster in the sky yes yes it's called
sure and I have the particularly that is
not in the in the Magellan small bagel and Cloud if nothing is in the light of
in the line of vision but not is inside of it okay yes it's outside the the
Magnum Cloud small magnet and Cloud is between is it the same line of vision
but it's it's not it's not a part of a magular Blog maybe maybe in the field of
vision maybe maybe we can Moon
it's it's like an over I think that we can see tonight the Magellan Cloud you think
so let's try let's try it that's a satellite Galaxy Star cluster was
discovered in 1750 or 51 by Nicholas Lewis de la Cai uh from South Africa
uh he um it says that they did it telescopically
that 472 County uh reveals about 10 000 Stars
and may contain an intermediate Mass black hole
I was down there and I saw that through a 12-inch telescope that I brought oh
man and it looked like literally like M5 or M15 very similar in my 28. I couldn't
imagine seeing that in a 28 inch telescope it knocked right off the ladder yeah yes it's very very really
very interesting sure here's a comment from
John Ray watching on Facebook it says Scott thank you for another thoroughly enjoyable Global star party this plus
other space science astronomy channels have been the high points of an otherwise washed out New England summer
not much use of my CPC 1100 in a Skyship wow
thanks again yeah beautiful beautiful telescope CPC 11 yeah
Andrew corkill was commenting on your drawings there John he says he says hey
I stepped away for a minute wait a minute John is sketching these on his cell phone
well that's pre-production then they go to post-production which is to my iPad
with procreate but I'm very comfortable on the cell phone
um I'll show you my M13 I'm working on my thumb was seized up on it but um okay
I'll show you when we get back she's or can you do Omega or it's still
not okay I'm continuing you and I I if I
have another another interesting thing in the field I advise yeah come back
I'm still I'm still yes we are in Star party yes
maybe something in the area of of a Scorpius okay oh yes there we go okay so
back to you John I'm back I'm back yes
okay um all right so we had a question you were talking about your process uh
uh where you do like your initial drawing on a
oh here it is this is my my latest M13 very nice
so it's early stages I'm not done I just this is the rough I it's
I've been working on it for a while but um you know they start out very
crude and then um how how accurate I mean if I took a photograph and then I laid your
like took your drawing as a transparency or something it it's similar to the
Stars well what I do is um I'll go back after I go on the field with some of my
globular clusters and I'll go into procreate with the side by side mode and when I when I check in I realized how
far off I am on some of these star plots yeah right so I corrected but you know
depending how transparent you are on the post when you post it you explain stuff
you know that that yes I was using yeah there's some people make extreme claims
you know yeah no this I could never do this at the eyepiece this accurate
there's just no way I use my skills um feeling of it is definitely there yeah
well I mean honestly when I'm trying to capture is what I'm seeing right at the
eyepiece and I'm telling you the truth this is exactly what I see with a 10 ethos
or even your uh nine millimeter hundred and 98 degree eyepiece they're very
similar yeah I like the little extra power it gets you in a little closer but we were comparing those two eyepieces
and there is not much difference you know other than the power I mean that
nine is stunning um that Jerry has that's your nine that we always use thanks thank you
unbelievable eyepiece and literally resolves these down to the core this is
what we're looking at it's just really amazes me that we can see this kind of
detail Andrew says he's still using white pencils and black paper so he wants to learn your cell phone yeah um
now if you want to check out Lord if you go to cloudy nights sketching forums yeah there's a forum dedicated and you
can ask questions and uh there's a lot of people my friend Andrew Clark very
good he does the same way I've actually done pictures like that sketches with a
white powder and um you know brushes and then using charcoal and some uh
different color you know gray dark black and then white charcoal pencils from General General makes them use a
blending stub and um there's a technique that that they use that's based on that theory so
yeah I recommend checking into cloudy nights and um sketching forums and you could get a gist of what can be done
there's some amazing guys on there doing the same same kind of work as you are and it's it's a fun place to go and and
the beauty again is with you know astrophotography and and this platform
the global Star Party we're able to enjoy our our hobby all the time like
the the fellow in England said we got friends around the world right and you
know what that's why I love tuning in I mean when I can't do viewing this is where I go or I'll go to cloudy nights
and and I'll get my viewing in through other people's hard work you know like uh it's a beauty of this um platform yes
yeah I had to I had to jump in I mean I was always more into you know star
hopping and not using computers and sure but now now it's just you just use the
technology yeah yeah advantage of all the tools right oh you see so much more
and this enhances look at Caesar controlling his telescope so I can tell
you a story my buddy's hand controller broke he was he was done he goes wait a
minute I can just use my phone and then he went to Sky Safari much like
your program for the exos yeah with his cell phone and and saved the
night now he's like back in Action you know he was a letter a lot better
controller than what he had before I know and that's what I got to do with mine I gotta get my cell phone connected
because yeah that's right it's just I could even show you some cell phone pictures uh you know what what you can
do with some of this stuff yeah it's just amazing uh what what can be done uh
I just thought I'm gonna scroll do I have a second are we gonna go back go ahead go ahead I'm just uh uh we got
some people that are okay people watching in many different time zones and stuff so right we gotta keep on
schedule I did oh no no no no I'm I'm just saying you know good night to some of these people because
yeah that's crazy they're around hours and hours of difference here between
where they are so here's a cell phone snapshot so this just gives you an idea
of so you have the CMOS Technologies that's in our cell phones in our phones yeah
that's crazy and and this was taken through the eyepiece and that's the
Pillars of Creation with the cell phone yeah is that just there's a creation
right there yeah through your cell phone handheld probably right yeah handheld uh
it was like a 10 second exposure I think through the 32 inch it's crazy so yeah I
mean it it really it really gives you just it's amazing what you can do with
it uh so many different you know so that that oh I gotta finish with my
presentation hold on yeah yeah I'm sorry you know I get I I'm a Segway kind of a
guy anyway but I apologize for that uh it's got to stay on task you guys get me so excited
Caesar man he's pulling it out I haven't seen 47 in a while thank you Caesar it
was fun uh it's a pleasure it's a pleasure really yeah I have I have
another option in the field M4
all right we're gonna switch yes this is the beauty of able to switch
here I know I'm sorry I'm gonna add you it's only foreign
of the final picture you lose these details that are very interesting
because you have here like a line of stars of course that is maybe something
uh you know uh from our part of you yes
our point of view but it's very interesting it's very interesting you know the Stars I can see uh explain so
they have a reddish cast does that mean that those stars are older they're old
red stars I don't know I don't know maybe that
have Wikipedia can you straight up about about this this cluster I don't know
well I have sorry I have ah I have if I zoom in on it you could see the stars
I have here sorry I have protected in my application of of explore scientific I
have a lot of information sorry
is a global cluster in the consolation of Scorpius was discovered by Philip
Lloyd soon in one uh
1070 46. by Charles Mercier in
1764. it was the first globular cluster in which individual stars were resolved
wow M4 is a conspicuous sorry my my lecture in English
the smallest is is conspicuous in even
the smallest of telescope as exclusive vowel of life it appear about the same
size of the moon in the sky and this is one of the easiest globular cluster to
find they look at only 1.3 degrees west to the brightest tarantaris with World
objects being visible in a wide field telescope most of the sizes telescope
will be going to resolve individual stars of which the bride is in M4 are of
apparents magnitude of a 10 point a M4 is a writer Loosely concentrated
cluster of class 4 and measures semi-final years across 75 years of
science it's it's bar extruder ah the bar is true
that we are watching this is pretty interesting because it's something that we are watching now
this is the virus structure I wonder if they're titling I I love when do you
have the information in in the you know in the application I love that
I love that okay and it's so so clear the people that write this is amazing
and funeral is approximately seven the the distance seven uh thousand two
hundred like years away the same distance that NGC six three nine seven I
don't know I don't remember the what NGC is making this two or closest globular
cluster ah in the our solar system you know two hours sorry two hour is the our
one of the closest uh lower cluster two hour solar solar system
the age is 2 12.2 billions years wow
I I can say it's very old but I don't know if comparing with another cluster is so loud
it undergone a core collapse one of 20 globulars that had the core collapse
yes meaning that the core is contracted to a very dense stellar
agglomeration yeah yeah it's probably might even I
don't know have a black hole like [Music] um yeah the one you just looked at uh 47. I
tried if we have in the field of view maybe I have n to a 22 in seconds yeah I
was going to suggest go to that one because it's such a big one it'll be a mind-blower
you can continue with your presentation I don't know why I what I search in
another another Global cluster you are agree Scott yes this is awesome Caesar
good job yes thank you too much time away from John yeah we don't want to go too far
because the noise because the noise of a go-to watching yeah but you both have the stage right now so okay yes yes do
things in the area of a Scorpio and Sagittario
plaster that you remember or you know but I I am I'm trying if n 22 is is in
there so I think you're going to get a good show with the 22. now this is uh
something I'm looking into I just this isn't my friend Tong from Hubble Optics
okay he sent me a picture of the 40 inch is this a show Newtonian yeah it's a
folded and I'm just checking into it you know I'm not how could I afford
something like this
which is so it's amazing or or even arm scope the one you guys are doing it's very similar
yeah Norm has uh he has a 50 inch right now for sale for only 150 000 I say only
okay but a 50 inch telescope you know oh yeah you couldn't buy the mirror for you
know no not even that's your professional Observatory
you think my wife would let me take a second out I'll move into the scope who needs a
mobile home I'll just travel at the speed of light put wheels on that thing
yeah you don't need Wheels it flies on its own now how much is this scope it's
for sale I I don't know yet yeah he just showed me a couple pictures I was asking
about I'm not you know I gotta I'm looking almost 50 inches also a folded
Newtonian yeah what it does it pulls down it's it's like all uh light weighted and
everything that Miracles down in 20 minutes see how their mirror is a sandwich on
top yeah yeah you can see how the eyepiece goes up at an angle and then yeah and it's so it's a much bigger
secondary because it's intercepting the light cone yeah right earless Heights you know where if
you fell off you might be done for you know so it might be worth it though at
F5 40 inch F5 that's only 200 lines okay no that's an F 3.5 but I was just
imagine having that small secondary and in the view you would get with the with
the long focal Newtonian um some sort of uh cherry picker or something yeah
because you know if you just laid back for a second you could be dead you don't want to do that that's right
yeah I had to use fire and you know what a torch a mini torch I just was joking I
wasn't gonna light them up but um what it what I found out is that their fear of fire was greater than their fear of
heights they came right down I see yeah but
so here's a group of the the Japanese fellows I can imagine on that island they get some good seeing you know good
spots it's pretty and it looks similar to Norm's design really I mean Norm has
a great design his is probably more rigid I don't know I have to
have to look at it but it's just a dream you know these are dreams but again
these are tools for exploration and when I get these things you know I share these with people this is my mission
you know that's what we do in with this Global star party we share and you know
we've been together at big big star parties and we've had crowds of people looking through our Scopes and sure you
know that's that's what that's what this is about for me is is teaching the public and giving them Real views of
what can be seen in the universe and uh there's nothing better than than hearing
people say they saw something like two people told me uh a lady with two sons
I go do you want to see the central star in the ring and they the seeing was so good we saw both Stars oh here's a lady
that does hasn't even seen the Ring Nebula she's going oh my gosh I see two stars in her sons they saw the stars and
I was just running around happy because that's cool man I hadn't even seen it like that before and then for just some
novice people to come up and look and get a look from nature lucky great observers you
know they they don't even know they have no idea that they're already gifted you know so and then you know with this
you have to spend a lot of time and then you can see the light that shines you
know there's a lot of scattered light pollution in some places and so shielding your eyes really makes a
difference uh if you want to get the best view and you know using techniques
like averted Vision drawing if you're doing art and trying to draw what you're
seeing at the eyepiece it's going to make you a better Observer by many folds
because you're keen on little details and if you just spend the time looking at that they reveal themselves but it
takes time your eyes are very sensitive and you have to understand those photons
they've been traveling for a long time and when they hit your eyes
man it's yeah it's it is beyond you start drilling down and start really
thinking about yeah you know then it's it's uh yeah and and that's that's one
of the things and anybody's listening to this I mean they they need to kind of you know shrug off you know thinking
about what's normal and what's what what they experience every day there's no such thing as the everyday
experience you are I mean just I mean you know you start learning about uh
just from a very general a very basic level some of the um things that you know that the
physicists know okay um that uh you know the the Rays of you
know the different Rays coming from space some of them passing through our bodies the atomic structure of our
bodies the age of the elements in our bodies I mean we are you got stuff
that's Ancient Ancient stuff you know and uh so it's it is uh
it makes me dizzy sometimes too bro how about that but it is why I'm into
astronomy you know and I so I I sometimes I force myself to think about
uh Carl Sagan's pale blue dot first thing in the morning yeah you know I'll pull it up on either on YouTube or I'll
read it you know and uh and that puts that puts things into perspective right
there whatever problem you had is like zero compared to what's going on in the
universe okay so uh you get humbled you know if you just you
know look at things notice the the Sun the Stars the the trees
everything's reaching live you know it's it's all connected together everything
and um that's what's so cool so this would be hard to go to Zenith
in in popular uh English language and it's called woke
up look that's it you know I I just every day I I think
God when I see the sun in the morning and I look up and and I just see this
glorious blue sky and and the color shift from from night to day and that's
the magic hour when when you just take a time to reflect on how special of a gift
that we have in in that you know looking at the universe is so important for us
as it has been for for all Equity of man and and they build monuments and there's
a reason yeah there's a reason why it has a connection we're all part of it
and eventually we're trying to yeah experience so it's a gift man every day
is like the like the last day of my life it's the best day I'm ever gonna have I
think I thought John Ray was going to sleep he woke back up he says he kept me sane and firmly planted for over six
decades that's right wow yes that's right it really does help and Robert
watching uh space time with her Robert were watching on YouTube he says my dream is a 10 inch go-to dob using EAA
that's electronic oh yeah astronomy these Scopes are a whole different level
he says I need a bathroom after looking through one of those no you know what
the 10 inch will show you so much if you put the electronically assisted a reflex
camera or or a like a CMOS camera you don't even need a big telescope you just
have to get through the learning curve of uh and with the with your program with that you know phone program it just
makes like a cell phone controlling it and then you've got so easy fairly simple camera I mean you're the
effect of that it'd be an interesting experience experiment to actually calculate what the effective visual
aperture is you know time seven using one of these electronic cameras on 70
inch probably like using 100 etch or something yes I think that is the power that real
power Optics and upper tools yes it's magic without electronics without many
people sometimes when I came from the store to to ask about telescope tell me uh it's
something that they need batteries to have and they are talking about
Sonia now you know and they because they don't expect that only the Optics make
the the magic another magic not real in physics I have the back nebula if you
like it oh yes let's go now now
okay you need to switch Me Maybe okay okay okay okay
few seconds here here
oh yeah tonight tonight this is live from Caesar's balcony okay
wow 10 seconds
they this one the the 18 millimeters apocrymic Optics no Which object is this
is that I am sorry
I will say but in a big telescope this looks like a big bow tie in the sky you know yes and
this is she grabbing it's also called the butterfly nebula it's a bipolar
planetary nebula in Scorpius um and uh wow it's got some of the
hottest stars known with surface temperatures in excess of 250
000 degrees so wow sunburn there uh we could have a
barbecue there must have been very large okay um so this is really cool uh
it was um the earliest known study this is also called NGC 6302 it's by Edward Emerson
Barnard okay who uh Bernard is was one of the greatest visual astronomers of
all time um and uh it says that nebula featured some
of the finest are the first images released after the final servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope in
September of 2009. so very cool okay well
I find it another another what happened M22 it was is it too low still because I
know from there I remember it was lower you tell me if you have if you like to
find another another option now in a Scorpius yeah okay well let's ask the
audience here okay my field of view is very sure very very
narrow okay because I have welding yes I have an entire the entire I have
in the field the telescope don't have a million so tell them Caesar tell them what constellations you can see
now it's a Scorpius uh that is falling in the East and maybe I'm try like a m
22 is maybe over the over the roof of your family
but I think that in 10 minutes I'll I'll have in in the field of view let me try
I love Scott it's working always go to the software I could show you absolutely
okay here comes mine's got the bug now mine yeah
you put the fog in me yeah yeah here we
go baby this is wow wow man quit bugging me the full
beautiful yeah Robert wants to know is the swan nebula
you know Mega oh please may I
you know I I did one for the magazine was that uh marcelo's magazine or
somebody I forget whose magazine it was
um yes let me try if I have in the field of
view and there you go that is a great bug wow there's a swan last one I need this one
Ah that's a sketch by the way let's see let's see if Caesar can get the swine
come on Caesar you're up against by 32 now right here
any day the NGC because it's I think that this m17 I think I could give you
the NGC number is what I mean in the chat because I here we go I'll do it oh yes
so you can see that this has many names they call it the Omega nebula yeah Juan
nebula I guess Omega because it has the whole like a train that I'm not quite
sure but I mean this honestly is what I see
I see this in my big telescope with the DGM um npv filter two inch
this is the kind of view you're going to get with a 28 inch from a nice dark site
this is my best work Caesar so this is great
you amaze me man that's my my dad raised me in the art
environment with Picasso and dollies how couldn't I be an artist you know
I was blessed to see the greatest artists work um Rembrandt Albert NGC 6618
this is in Scorpio's uh uh
it seems Sagittarius I believe uh yes yes yes
it's creeping up though um yes the northern two-thirds of Sagittarius
yes I think that Sagittarius is a little a little over the roof of the balcony
unfortunately next one of the the global surprise I'm
going to the roof again Sombrero up
sombrero odria sir corvus it may be sombrado
Sombrero Galaxy M77 m104 and 104.
I'm gonna dip my um that's in the constellation Virgo good
but it is yes maybe let me check let me try let me try 45.90 one zero one time
okay now we are trying with NGC 6682
uh it's probably it might be up for you it's it's probably West
I would say it's west southwest from you um yeah
Premier latitude it might be yeah yes this is here here I I have the south
in this area it's good and here is
Scorpio falling to the to the West and appear in this area
Sagittarius that is mostly of secretary now is over
unfortunately I have the roof of the another balcony my situation is is great
because it's my home and I can try sometimes I can use the telescope in my
living room but it's bad because it's really small area in the roof my
internet connection is very bad this is the problem here we go uh
they have maybe have m140 one and maybe let me I I try I try with with Now with
uh Sombrero these are here's my sketch yeah she's beautiful I love I I love
that it's going with the Horizon turned off we will with telescope you uh
it's beautiful yes you you capture the sensation of a big telescope really you
know that that um sketch one that was the January cloudy night sketch contest
winner I know it's it's all sorry here now is is under the clouds yeah under
the under the Horizon okay um no no no it's okay on YouTube says
I've seen that through a 16 inch and it was Haunting it looked like it was on fire he's talking oh it looks amazing it
got stuck in my brain like a catchy song trying and sharing that drawing
thank you eighty one cordless has a great uh a lot of good
stuff in it too uh has a couple uh interacting Galaxy galaxies NGC 4038 which is uh
I think that now is explaining it's in the same have you guys ever had dreams
where you're stargazing in in a dream yes yeah me too
and and you know what's weird is I could float in my dream meaning I've had
flying trees that not with stars I've yeah my dreams you know some of them in color
you know where the you can see colorful nebula and stuff it's cool stuff yeah that's what's amazing about
photography is it actually shows you color and and you don't see color when
you're looking at these objects visually very little colors you got a really big telescope yeah and and uh Skies
yeah I saw I saw color in the Orion Nebula with Jack Newton uh yeah and
Rodeo New Mexico yeah that's where I was incredibly dark and Incredibly
transparent and we could see red color like a reddish color through an eight
inch at low power in the Orion Nebula it was just like wow
isn't that crazy in a little crazy and I've heard people doing it with a six inch yep
it just depends on the transparency if you have extremely good transparency
said he had dreaming looking at the stars but experiencing like looking through a telescope at stars but there's
no telescope in the dream just Stars [Laughter]
too you know I mean you went from the lens to the um right out through the
scope you're in you're already in too bad I can't do it at will you know because I don't know stargazing in my
dreams all the time you know I wish I wish
this was my Eagle so uh I wanted to say at this last star party this is how it
looked again I was able to see this level of detail with the um npb filter
uh DGM makes it it's a great filter if you're looking for something to enhance
your nebula views yeah you could get that filter or even the lumacon 03 the
Gen 3 it's very good but this npb it's doesn't distort the star color is bad so
it's kind of nice you know Mike I have over actor says okay what is
Scott on I know I wonder if I'm on the universe
okay tell him I don't need anything I already got it so yes you guys are guys I have
M22 22 in the field okay okay
are you ready okay I'm ready
oh yeah come on look at that little scope could show you
this much unbelievable oh there it is oh yeah there it is
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and 10 seconds the M22
yes we did informations in the application is I think it is a
very good information in in the application of uh um
also know as a Messier 22 of NGC 6656
it's an electrical globular cluster in the constellation of Sagittarius near the Galactic Bulls region
I don't know that balls bulge sorry bulge okay I think that you can read
much better than me it's an easy word to say in English
in diameter and uh is
9785 light years away pretty far it was discovered by Abraham
loud is that how you say it in 1665
how does that spell of it's I i l l e
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an amateur astronomer there you go oh well yeah it's a metal metal form August
26 1665 while observing Saturn wow
there you go oh by the way speaking of Saturn did you tell everybody that two nights ago was
Saturn Opposition so you want to get out yeah you want to go out and see it that's true yeah
unfortunately my field of vision I don't have a Saturn because it's uh it's very
low on the horizon after Sunset so you have to wait till about nine or ten
o'clock and then it's starting to get up high enough here yeah do you see the planets overhead do you
know I'm sorry sorry John it's just I read that I and this cluster have
seven thousand seventy sorry 70
000 Stars incredible yes and it's comparing with
uh Omega Centauri that we show magazine Dory in the clouds two weeks ago
wow yeah yeah I know
20 32 uh well it's one of the nearest
globular cluster in there to here to Earth sorry at the distance of all ten
thousand six hundred like years away wow well hey what about it when John John
continuing with the representation
because it now is uh it's in the uh view
Eclipse said eclipse how about M8 the Lagoon
Lagoon yes and minutes more I have Lagoon in the field too I think
okay because it's in the same area yeah that's an amazing truck you might even have the terrific in there too yes
tonight is it's um a full moon I don't know but maybe I
can see something of the tripod yes yes but we can try we can try I I'll
go to some neular because it's going to appear uh
um n22 also contains a planetary nebula
yeah really wow wow I've never seen it yeah yeah yeah
uh it was found by Fred Gillette in 1986 as it lost like so it almost looks like
a star okay but it's a planetary but but I uh I am the planetarium Central Star is
a blue star I'll share one a few seconds more okay but where is the the but this
enabled I don't know uh no yes but maybe it's something that we need more
exposure more more stacked pictures to see I think
would be good I'm going to find it okay so this was not easy
yeah no no of course it will be uh something very particular to see this
this nebula is called G like JJ like Jack Jack
C like Charlie one wow jjc1 is the designation
and this is so obscure that Wikipedia doesn't even list it yeah I used to I
use the information of the explorers and different application for my Mount okay
that is awesome and this is this is the way that I
explain for for people that start to use bones and this is very important stop
and read the information of your application and it's beautiful for me I
really enjoy that two black holes of between 10 and 20 solar masses each have
been discovered initially with a very large array radio telescope in New Mexico
look this this cluster have inside like uh or magazine Theory have to
to black holes inside what is that it's incredible
it's amazing totally wow it's one of the beautiful beautiful uh
clustering Global classroom in the sky are amazing and Visually visually with a
well with a 20 20 oh yeah you could see this is amazing yes I I saw I saw with a
14 inches many times and it's so big it's incredible okay
let me describe to you this is this is amateur astronomers trying to find this
planetary nebula and M22 oh no not full of amateurs who have reported spotting
jjc1 there account seems to have four things in common first they were all
using 20 inch plus telescopes okay yeah that the Observer had in hand a series
of finder charts you need finder charts showing the area around the Target in increasing detail so you can't just look
at it and go aha there's the planetary nebula it's like trying to find Pluto all right all we're using what I would
call crazy high magnifications that is in excess of 600 power yeah
magnification exceeded 900 power that means the final common ingredient had to
be very steady Skies sure even minor air turbulence that these apertures and
magnifications will quickly turn it turn Stars into mush okay yeah yeah there you go
but it's right there really finding yeah well here's another planetary this is um
wow yeah and this is in that open cluster so it's it's a planetary Olive right
right yeah so you know you get a little color in there
um this is in um I think it's
an M sticks maybe or seven one of those open clusters I gotta I'm drawing a
blank here Alzheimer's again
that's very hard for me to go to work
color right I'm trying to call Robert to come on global star party next week so we'll see if I can get him yeah he says
speaking of Saturn in the recent opposition how well do planets look in your big Newtonian compared to smaller
Scopes like a 10 inch what would you say I would say seeing dependent again but I
can tell you this when the skiing opens up you know the big scope's gonna do very well but
when you have poor seeing the smaller aperture telescope is always going to
show you a better image you're looking through much less because here yeah yes
you're right I can't tell you how many times I sold a big telescope and got a
complaint phone call saying hey the Stars don't look any better through
this telescope than they do through my binoculars or my toy telescope okay yeah
and that is a seeing condition problem you know because you have to do that
over weeks of time to to make a deduction of how well your Optics perform over many
nights in many different conditions because right you know the bigger the scope the more it takes to open up this
was uh NGC 40 38 in corvus
right yeah the antenna it's interacting and you know that
Hubble shot shows you how much time is it yeah yeah it's it's being destroyed
from the pull of each other you know they basically you would think when the two like andromeda's headed at us right
now at what is it how many miles per second yeah and we will collide and two
million years I guess um the hubbled heritage site has good
information about this uh during the day is amazing guys for a
single picture that they have now I have it in the center let's see it okay
yes wow the antenna beautiful
there we go 9 000 feet it helps nine thousand feet helps yes it does
is to I think that this too much is too much for uh foreign
first of all I have a a gray gray it's rewarding for me regarding that the
the word that John is you know part of your work for you right yeah
look look they they work and sell telescopes and not do it this is like this is as good as going viewing hanging
out with you we've been seconds 50 seconds without guiding my my polar
alienation alienation is beautiful unbelievable the tracking I I give you
my I don't ever ever I I don't lose my polarization explanation because I use
the my leg floor in the balcony I put
the legs of the tripod between the tables and I have the position I am put
this use is in the right polar thing of
course they have a little a little um
so yes I I listen to you John Herschel uh because you know we got a guy who
likes to do a sketch here so John Herschel made it what he attempted was
the most accurately drawn draw drawing of the nebula as part of the series of
sketches of nebula uh in 1833 and he published in 1836 so that image of that
is on the internet here 1833
uh Swan nebula I don't know if they called it this one then
I have more information here in in Europe your application is God okay go
ahead uh the Omega nebula I'm sorry no I don't
sorry no no no but okay okay I thought first of all I
think that I had the the the yes the wrong information the mega nebula also
know as a strong nebula checks
here 17 or um well um I'm 17 and as AGC 6680 and 18
is an age or interaction duration in the constellations of Sagittarius it was
discovered by Philip Lois of soul well I don't know I don't speak French
but maybe it's too soon or something like this yes I speak Italian Argentinian and England
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in the rich surface of the Sagittarius area of the
Milky Way the mega nebula is between five thousand and six thousand like
years from here and it dispension 15 years in diameter The Cloud of
interstellar matter of which this nebula is apart it's roughly 4 40 like years in
diameter and has a mass of 30
000 solar masses whoa the total mass of the Omega nebula is is an estimate of
800 solar masses I don't know how I I can at this hour I
can read in English
is a craziness absolutely it is considered one of the brightness
of our galaxy yeah it's a local geometry it's similar to the organ nebula except
here but I don't know how to produce you with watching or age on rather than face
on this one is maybe I can explain because yes my the English is number
it's okay it's okay an Open Class sir of 35 Stars lie and bever in an evolution
okay and causes the gas to
radiation from this called young Stars
however the actual number of a star in the nebula is much higher up to 800 100
of a spectral type earlier than 89 and 9 of a spectral type O O zero I think uh
plus more than 1 000 stars information how
this operation it's also one of the youngest cluster no with a h of just one
million years it is crazy that we talk about one million years like something
uh young in our in the universe the Luminous
tell me tell me I don't know oh it's a it's just a tick on this planetary clock
you know it's yeah billion years isn't much time for Stellar you know yeah
it's it's incredible the strong portion of m17
Through The Years through the decades in the 1800s yeah here let me let me show
your picture I did a little something to it real quick while we were playing I did it on the fly yes show again you
sorry so again you're you're escaped one compared
nebula [Music]
listen I have to go full screen oh there we go yes yes there we go attempt to
correctly draw the nebula as part of the series of a sketch of nebulide was made
by John another John Eric a great name
Herschel in John Herschel yes 8033 1833
so let me show you what that looks like okay because I found the drawing okay
this is oh man ah yes yes I want you guys to remember I want you to remember
what John Schwartz's drawing looks like okay so John just for a second once you
share your Swan nebula drawing just so everybody has a reference yes we need to compare
yes there's yours I just I did yours I played with it look I just enhanced it a
little bit and so that's yours I took his cell phone snapshot of the screen
and I did a little processing just to show you you know that's your baby right there
not bad right now let's go to your drawing yes it is the same but ah yes
yes it's gonna be mad at me okay so that's your drawing okay now this is this is
1833. um John Herschel let's see if I can do
this here we go this is better because oh wow
wow that is amazing now this is just
Okay so let me see um
I I agree with the with the bar structure but I don't know by herself
another thing right maybe maybe imagination or whiskey I don't know both
both
the most accurate description of the Swan nebula the
Omega nebula of that time but arguably one of the world's greatest astronomers
you know at the time yeah don't have the telescope of John
Schwartz yeah that's true yes that's true
no I'm just saying aperture really does make a difference in what you see like
you know like this picture I did this is literally what I'm seeing in my eyepiece
yes and maybe and the filter the filter helps it's really the filter
does this that maybe yeah that part would make the difference
and again uh you know this is this isn't just drawn right this is like probably
two years of work I I wonder I wonder if Herschel would have seen your drawing
and just been in utter disbelief or if he would have said you know
well if I had the scope I could show them because you know exactly the light pollution there was none so if you were
to take our telescope of today and bring it to the sky this is exactly yeah is
better it's dark super it was Pitch Black backed up
he would have just you could just wear all three would have went to a coma like
disbelief I go John Lennon with O3 glasses
oh yeah you just be able to see everything and you know you're trying to show us
something here Cesar what are you what are you doing the quantity of information I never seen
this quantity of information about that in application or astronomy obligation
Congratulations by the yes yes I I love because
the the I I I I forget the name of the initiation sorry
um explore Stars the the this application for for for ex's month oh
yeah it's it's something that is made with love really but because only people
that make with with a a lot of love by astronomy make an entire book about
nebula and something that something that I I found something that that described
that that one that you show us Scott in in the in the Zhang hair show
sketch yes uh that this is say that the figure of the nebulation early that of a
great capital of Mega uh somewhat distorted and very inequality right yes
and describe the the thing that we see in the in the sketch of John Herschel
sorry branch of the nebula now in question without any of the attached
convolutions which one is really too large but it's very interesting I I
encouraging to the people to to download if don't have the uh despite that they
the people that don't have uh exos amount yeah encouraged to download for
this their cell phone because it's full of information I I love because it's
many really few times you have yes it's free it's free yeah it's free
information scope from that with your cell phone everything right there so Robert Robert
is making a point about Herschel here he says that he had to sit in front of his telescope so yeah it he had a front view
telescope he didn't this was not a new town oh that's right right so he's blocking it out light out of his
telescope that's probably his head so the dude did
I guess he didn't even have an eyepiece is that right yeah they just looked at
the aerial image of the nebula out in 3D it would look
like in 3D in front of his telescope you know uh I've done this with
Newtonian telescope so you look kind of at the mirror and then Focus your eye out into the air you know right to where
the image is starting to come to focus and um it's easier on a brighter object to do it but once you once you learn how to
do it you can do it on anything that's in the sky and um uh and you can see
it's just weird it looks like Stardust in the air you know when you do this it's cool
yeah it's really different because it's a trick to focus your eyes on that it
you have to it's like one of those view things where it pops in and out yeah but once it once it comes into view you can
keep your eyes on it yeah Norm fuse is talking about the 80
triplet that you have here and he says he said they're absolutely the best telescopes and everybody should own one
I couldn't agree more um well I'll tell you this because he's
getting his ready to do some work hope I can get as good as Caesar with mine uh
and uh yeah and Norm says well I can help you we can always do Skype that's
right guys don't forget you know you can help each other out no matter where you are because we got something called the
internet and a bunch of free software that lets us communicate around the
world so it's really cool
do two more and then I gotta go eat I'm hungry okay I'm gonna just go Um
I'm going swanny so uh yeah Swan again so what I've done is um I've I've
introduced a my white light sketch the the before I inverted it okay I'd like
to show you the level of detail that that I've I've accomplished
which is quite amazing and then um I've got the the cell phone
snapshot I wanted to show you it's a little shaky I just held it up again this is through the 28 inch
so we're good let's go here back in I'm getting a little better at
this finally this is a cell phone snapshot
and I just held it up to the IP so you know I got a little smear going but I
mean look at what a cell phone shows you so you think those guys would like it back then if we had our cell phone with
us it would have blown their minds you're seeing color in there and that's
just a quick you know three second shot look at the amount of detail I'm getting
Herschel might have argued with you about the color you know yeah I don't know if you use the 70s speculum you'd
see color yeah there's the actual original pencil sketch okay just look at
how intricate it is I mean it's almost abstract until you
invert it and then of course I had to work on it smoothing this is just the
like the rough after the field you know before inversion
but you could see what what it teaches you to study the things you see like
look at the the wing of the Swan I mean those details with averted Vision after
hours of study these little details start to pop out and when you put that
shroud over your head oh yeah yeah it was really everything's not what the herschel's did too they would go like
into a dark yes or something like a portable dark room or something and sit
in there for an hour
yeah I mean gosh that seeing back then because they had to get out of the Starlight right yeah because the
Starlight was so bright mobile star party which is
sad but I know this is the best thing it's like I think if I'm gonna put this
tonight you'd be going wow you know these are maybe we should hook up and I can have you do a few pictures for me
real quick I I need some uh Omega Centauri shots
and in a few of the hamburger galaxies if you could the uh 51 39 or 5128 see dude I'm
getting hungry you're talking about okay yeah all right let's Let It Go here's the last thing uh this is what that's a
beautiful ND shot yeah and that that right there is um you know when you're at the eyepiece near zenith you don't
want to fall off but yeah that's look at that beautiful sky and all those telescopes what a great night I think we
officially kept John Ray up all night long he says thanks enjoy your well-deserved meal yeah
rifle black rifles really strong yeah thank you guys thanks for watching yeah
if you like to close me yeah put it up for closing image what do you got yeah
if you guys got clear skies out there no matter where you are you know get out there yeah for a few minutes you know
grab your little batteries Saturn's up it's ready
hello thank you man thank you thank you everybody thank you thank you you should
have like a ending song but I you guys do not want to hear me sing No I was
contemplating writing a song but I'm a little embarrassed at this point I don't know
maybe if I go with him thank you yeah it was a wonderful a
wonderful end of the global sir party yes Caesar thank you yes
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yeah he's looking down on us he goes to Herschel yeah
few seconds all right here we go live
Live Peter you're killing it tonight Memorex that's see that's dating me
oh man look at that yeah
this is crazy magic look at that Isn't that cool yes we're a full moon full
moon 15 seconds each so many amateur astronomers complain about
guy I can't see anything I can't do anything I live in the city blah blah blah this is this is from yes Caesar's
balcony okay yes don't have excuse use your tennis ball you're not cooking
hamburgers are you on that balcony or he may he makes pieces you don't you you can yes yes I made
pizza yeah Amazing Pizza yes 4
[Music] 000 light years away and um
it is boy that's almost as close as uh Alpha Centauri Maybe
maybe we should go there instead of the you never know you never know yeah
that's right I was discovered by games
a tornado like structure caused by a hot O type star that emanates ultraviolet
light Heating and ionizing gases on the surface of the nebula the Lagoon nebula
also contains an at its Center a structure known as The Hourglass nebula so-called by John Herschel yeah I mean
wow I you know named everything which should not be confused with the better
known engraved hourglass nebula in the constellation in Moscow in 2006 four
herbig Harrow objects were detected within The Hourglass providing direct evidence of active star formation by
accretion Within it so there you go yeah you guys so there's a little homework for you out there you learn
about the herbig Harrow objects they're very strange and very interesting so are
those all Stellar objects they're Herbert Herald Herbert the right patches
of nebulosity okay with newborn Stars so it's like ionized you know wow yeah
between nebula and star or something like that so
or that's those are the first astronomers to study them in detail so
yeah well you better get some dinner Scotty thank
you yeah singing to me in my stomach can you sing
yes yes oh my God it's really really you
are in Argentina a time to dinner it's not right this is it's not for real no
no no because in Argentina I know this is when you start yes right I I I I took
my dinner tonight uh I started to to put in the in the in the Spiel uh a chicken
yes I I took my dinner with my family at 10 o'clock and I returned to here yes
yes but was after my presentation earlier but oh I see no no but yeah you
know guys you need to go let me do let me do the um let me show you Mike's Lagoon so
this is the Lagoon after it's been processed somewhat processed I don't even think he processed it yet
but uh this is the Lagoon from Mount Pinos last month
in full Glory and that's um Mike Garrett you know Mike
and um wow he's in the zwo six inch telescope dark nebulous
structures in there that's right six inches look that's what six inches gets
you you will never see that in a 30-inch telescope never mind
it's amazing and that's so where's The Hourglass is it is it the dark in the
middle is that what that is the Divine in the middle yeah yeah look at all those the the baby Stars
yeah this is this is a star Factory it's the it's a
womb wow yes you're looking into the heart of this whole thing that's so
amazing yeah thank you Mike very nice nice all right
guys all right guys good night what a wonderful night yeah good night
to the audience we'll do it again next Tuesday 120 Minutes star party next Tuesday starts at 6 p.m uh you know at a
computer screen near you so there you go thank you see you guys Caesar good job
man I'm doing this week really nice I enjoyed that thank you all right good
night everybody thank you and um uh sorry for some of my technical difficulties starting up but we had an
awesome start party so that makes up for it take care and good night
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thank you