Transcript for Part A:
hello everyone this is Scott Roberts
from explore scientific I was looking
through the latest edition of the
reflector this is the astronomical
leagues uh magazine uh it's a great
magazine it's beautiful uh beautiful
images of deep Sky objects here there's
something about making a sky funnel
which I thought was kind of cool uh
women in observational astronomy before
the 20th Century's in here uh high
school students chasing the Stars uh
just lots of really cool stuff and as
you guys know I mean the sun has just
been Ultra active uh so lots of neat
information about the Sun and how to
view it in h Alpha um plus all the
latest news and going on of the
astronomical League now tonight is the
occasion of the 139th Global star party
this will be our last Global Star Party
of
2023 and um uh it's been an amazing uh
Adventure going through uh you know uh I
don't know how many Global star parties
we did this year maybe upwards of 50 I
think uh maybe slightly less we had a
couple of breaks in between but uh
normally we have it every week uh on
Tuesdays starting at six o'clock Central
like tonight okay so um but uh I'll turn
this over to David Levy who's going to
talk a little bit about comic Shoemaker
Levy 9 and um and also the next Global
star party uh the thing that's uh really
cool is that I was just recently at
David Levy's um property and he showed
me the actual Shoemaker leaveing n
plates and so I shot this little video
and put this thing together uh for you
guys to
watch good day everyone this is dve
David Levy that's me and I am holding
the original Discovery films of our most
important Comet Comet sh maker leing n
these films were taken on the 23rd of
March
1993 Carolyn discovered the uh comet on
these films two days
later and
uh and on about 16 months after that all
of the fragments of this Comet collide
with Jupiter giving Humanity its first
view of what happens when a comet hits a
planet and uh and one of the exciting
things about this is that when comets
hit planets they don't just drop uh dust
they also
drop um organic
materials uh carbon hydrogen oxygen and
nitrogen which eventually turn into
proteins amino acids
RNA and finally on one magic day DNA
comets Comet impacts are really the
first step in the origin of
Life 2
1 I'm
on Jean shoem maker geologist FOC was
looking for rocks not on the ground but
in the
sky that night he and his team found
something astounding a portent of
another kind of big
bang Comet Shoemaker ly9 first appeared
as a faint smudge in space it grew into
a blazing streak of
Light by the time it smashed into
Jupiter every major telescope in the
world was
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watching the impact Unleashed fiery
plumes large enough to incinerate the
Earth and it raised a terrifying
question could it happen here the
seminal event that really alerted
everyone to the the to to Yes Virginia
comets do hit planets was the Collision
of Shoemaker leing n into
Jupiter in all the years I've observed
I've never seen a comet like this I've
never seen anything like this there were
at least five separate comets all
together with the dust Wings on either
side and the Tails going off to the
north which later became to be called a
String of Pearls there were many little
comets all lined up each one going on
its own orbit uh but very closely
related orbits and it was clear that
this had once been one Comet that had
gotten too close to Jupiter and had been
torn apart in the gravity field of
Jupiter not long after discovering Comet
Shoemaker ly9 they learned the comet was
on a course that would lead to its own
violent
end I said oh my gosh and Carolyn sto
and said what what I said are comets
going to collide with Jupiter in 16
months from now I think for the next
half hour the three of us just stared at
the announcement and jeene was saying I
don't believe it we're going to see a
collision in my
lifetime on July the 16th the first
fragment of Shoemaker
le9 craft into Jupiter traveling at a
speed
of
140,000
mph it would be able to cross the United
States in a couple of seconds at that
speed it tore into Jupiter really
Jupiter didn't know what hit it the
explosion from the first fragment of
Shoemaker le9 Rose over 2,000 mil above
Jupiter's Cloud
tops and and the few hours later another
one hit the next day another one hit
Jupiter got hit Bam Bam Bam at least 16
times over the course of six
days but the most powerful impact was
Yet to Come fragment G exploded into
Jupiter raising a fireball visible from
Earth it left a cloud larger than the
earth and a cloud that lasted on Jupiter
for almost a
year one of the questions that that we
all had when we were watching this
enormous Damage Done to Jupiter was what
if it had been
us Imagine One hirosima strength
bomb being exploded every second for
several
years that is the energy released by
Shoemaker le9 in his collisional
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I'd like to invite all of you to uh to
come to the next Global star party they
are run by Scott Roberts of explore
scientific and me we we co-host this
program and uh it's usually done on
Tuesdays and uh usually at 6:00 or so
Central Central Time and so I hope to
see you all there my name is David Levy
and I hope to see you all at the very
next Global star party thank
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you well that's a little sneak preview
let's get rid of this Echo here there we
are okay A little sneak preview of
what's coming up tonight on the global
star party uh we hope to see you there
um and uh you can join us uh uh almost
every week on Tuesday nights 6 PM but
this will be our last one that we'll do
for the year 2023 we'll start fresh next
year in January uh for the 140th Global
star party but don't miss this one uh um
this is all about Celestial Companions
and the friendship special friendships
that we make uh some of the special
couples in astronomy of which uh David
Levy of course uh uh had his Wendy uh
that and they did amazing things
together um but uh there's many others
uh you know that I can think of
including the shoemakers you know if we
want to dive back into history we can
think of the hersel uh you know and uh
you you know but all of us that are
amateur astronomers uh or professional
astronomers we didn't get there by
ourselves we had help and um so a lot of
uh a lot of this uh this journey are you
know are times where you know we're
together exploring uh the skies doing
something and we have amazing events
that happen to us and uh and things that
we never ever forget so thanks for
tuning in and we'll see you tonight take
care
Transcript for Part B:
well if you're just now tuning in uh you're now watching the 139th Global
Star Party co-hosted by Dave David Levy and Scott Roberts um it is our uh
special uh honor to present the last Global Star Party of
2023 uh this is the 139th event and uh we'll start fresh at with the 140th
event in January but um I think this this will be a good sendoff with the
theme of celestial companions
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hello everyone this is Scott Roberts uh and um again thank you for tuning in for
the 139th Global star party uh we are going to bring on a special guest who
hasn't been on global star party now for over a year uh but uh he's given uh uh
many uh inspiring uh uh lectures and presentations on global star party
including I think some live views through his telescopes from his balcony uh Pekka Halala uh thank you for coming
on and saying a few words tonight thanks Scot really
thanks uh I won't show live views today because I took my setup down but I do
have one picture I capture today actually
after almost eight months it took eight months to take one picture and that's my
Celestial uh company that's the moon and um before I show the picture I
can tell you that I have been really sick and ill and that's why I haven't
been able to I haven't have the strength to put my telescope on the mount and do
some astronomy and uh now I'm really good I'm
well I have recovered of lung cancer uh but uh I can
advise you all who is listening that don't lose the Hope because uh if
you have some hobby keep on the hobby because that small thing if
you collect some stamps or whatever you have to because that gives
you the strength but astronomy is something else that's beyond your imagination what you
can do with astronomy if you don't have telescope or binoculars or something
just look up in the sky and you you see something that you belong to you
don't be afraid anymore about your illness or something you
just feel the voice
and the belong to all you see and that is beyond your
imagination I I have proofs that it heals really it
heals it sounds if this is on use in Sweden or in US everybody thinks maybe
that are not true but I am living proof that astronomy
heals um okay now the picture I took
today I don't know Scott you have to guide me let me no problem go down to
the bottom of your your Zoom platform and hit the green button and before you
start sharing you'll find the um the segment that you want to share you'll
click on that and then you share the screen okay wait I have to move
this if I can move this okay and
share and there and
there is it there it's right there it's beautiful the
moon can you see the Moon yes we can okay that
was the capture capture of today and I was so
happy I was so happy to get this picture today and um I felt that I'm on
track this was the turning point for me today
wonderful I am so happy that you decided to come on and and say hello to us and
to uh share uh some of your astronomy with us and you know to tell us about
your your I missed all of you you know we miss I you know my health so I have I
couldn't stay up so long because it's uh 1:00 a.m. right now
in Stockholm yes so usually I have been in sleep for four hours right
now right but um I I thought okay this is my barrier stay up until
you see your friends great great well thank you for me Scot okay thank you so
much thanks for saying hello to all of us and we hope to see you back on again real soon I will be it's good to see you
again too thank you Dave thank you right okay well um
uh uh the uh Global star party is co-hosted by um uh David Levy and myself
and uh so it was really great to spend some time with him this weekend um it
was a special moment uh which David will talk about but uh um uh you know to to
you know we're we're on Zoom all the time uh but it's it's uh nothing replaces actually being in person so
thanks for uh being The Perfect Host uh David I had a really amazing time a
special time a sacred time and um you know uh and we got to uh share uh lots
of stories and U special moments in just a little bit of time I was only there
for a couple of days but can I can I share with Dave one picture because I
see that he has an an orange uh I think it's 5
in it's a uh it's a celestra 90 and I've had this telescope since
1979 can I share one of my babes to you
sure oh my goodness same Telescope yes two of
them said yours is a five right the Orange is from
76 yeah it's Min in mint condition with all
accessories bag the case and and uh oculars from
Japan and uh it's guiding very well and the black one is from 80s I
think so this is my babies oh yeah that's beautiful and thanks for
sharing it yeah I got this my telescope I got about uh 1979
1978 right after my practice wife and I split I to this telescope and I've had
it okay because the orange one is something I saw when I was 10 years old
I saw an uh an advertising with the you know the U from Star Trek
Spock you know he was uh like showing this telescope and I was thinking I will
never ever get this telescope and I found it on on
our we have a some kind of magazine or net on Internet that will sell the stuff
and I found and say I will buy it immediately great
congratulations continue to get many many enjoyable nights with it yes I have
I have actually taken my first and ever
uh picture with of saturnus with did with my mobile
phone yeah with that one with the orange
one so I will will keep it to my grandson and his sons so it will be in
the family forever oh that's a wonderful thought thank you for sharing that it
will be my my gift to my [Music] grandson thank that's great okay thank
you thank you D okay Scot keep on all right take care take care good rest
we'll see you peka yeah all right David it's all yours
well I thank you Scotty uh I want to tell you a little bit about last weekend
we're talking about Celestial companions as the theme of the global star party
this tonight and um the companions that I had
in mind with were not the celestial ones like um Pekka was just
mentioning uh Mr Spock and did you know that there is a real star in the sky
that the fictitious Planet Vulcan orbits and that is a constellation I
believe it's a star in monoceros monoceros the unicorn and it is very
interesting it is a uh star with a uh
companion that is easily splitable and a third star tertiary star which is a red
dwarf and we see very few red dwars because they're so small and they emit a little
light that they're hard to see unless they're really close but one of them is this star near not just west of
Orion and uh what I want to say is that it is the home the real home of the
fictitious Planet Vulcan I got to meet l meore once Wendy
and I were at LEL Observatory and we we got to meet Leonard and he was
having a rough day but uh it was good to meet him and I think we had a good
meeting together and uh which brings me to the real theme of
celestial companions I want to tell you a little bit about Wendy uh last Sunday we did the uh
ceremony the for the unveiling of Wendy's tombstone and we had so many
people there there were about 20 20 or so people not that many but a lot of
them were from our local astronomy club fuson amateur astronomy
Association and uh we had Marty Cohen who is a very fine
physician and uh active with the synagog that I'm a member of and we had our
Rabbi who conducted the service and he did it absolutely Ely
brilliantly and uh and Dean kig was there and I need to mention Dean
especially because he's the owner of star Arizona and Scotty I hope you don't mind me giving him a free plug here no
problem but but starizona Dean is such a good friend and
uh I really enjoy being it being with him but I was definitely planning on
funding that lunch that we had after afterwards we went to Saro Corners
Restaurant which really great restaurant yes first time I was there was my first
visit to Tucson in 1963 and the restaurant had opened just about 10 years earlier than that so it
was already established then and it is still established now
anyway I was enjoying this and uh and
the uh waitress came out and said is this going to be separate chips or one check and right away I said one check
and I think people looked at me as if I was crazy well I might be crazy but that's
what I had planned to do and I spent a good part of the meeting wondering what uh what people would be
ordering and how much and uh how much that bill would be and I was planning
kind of to use half of it on my debit card and the other half on a credit card
and I thought that would be all right anyway when the bill came it was about a quarter of what I thought it would be
couldn't believe it I gave the L the lady my debit card she came went out and
brought it back un incomplete and I said what happened to the debit card and she
said nothing it's paid for I saidou kidding since one of your friends wants
to keep it a secret paid for it the whole thing and uh I couldn't believe it and
we were having a nice conversation it was going on and finally I was looking at Dean and I thought Dean is the most
generous person I've met in a long time and I went over and sat next to him and
I said you paid for this didn't you and he said yeah he said I couldn't let you
do it and uh talking with my brother
yesterday uh after Scotty went back to Arkansas and I told him about the story
and he said gosh you got wonderful friends don't you and that is the thesis
thesis and the theme of tonight's star party and Wendy Wendy is was really my
closest friend we started getting together uh shortly after sh maker
le9 and uh we we met in 1992 before the discovery of
sl9 and then as soon as I found out that it was going to collide with
Jupiter I realized that I had to stop seeing anybody and so I decided that I would
stop said good evening I better out for our first outing in weeks I did get your
skywood hope recovered from Sunday um anyway that's a message sorry
about that my telephone I'm going to take this telephone and I'm going to throw it at out the window crash tinkle
tinkle did you hear that David it went into your window
anyway anyway that's what I do with my computer when it doesn't work I close it
and throw it out the window and god it feels good and uh and it still works
it's doing fine it's Windows 11 self-replicating self-repairing and it's
wonderful but getting back to Wendy uh we started we were fix up my
mom and Wendy's Mom got together after many years absence their friendship had
beun when they were both counselors swimming counselors at camp molden in
Maine and uh years and years later uh Anette came back to Montreal and she
called my mom and uh they resumed their friendship and of course they decided we need to
get some of our children together and it turned out that um I had been living in
Arizona and uh that uh anette's daughter Wendy was living in New Mexico in Los
Cruses and Anette said we got to get those two together and so the next time I was in
Montreal mom suggested that I get in touch with Wendy and boy I jumped at that opportunity I didn't waste any time
seven years later finally got in touch with Wendy and it was only after Mom had asked
about Ting times if I had bothered to get in touch with Wendy yet and each time I said not yet until finally after
the seventh year she said David please forget I ever bothered you with this I'm
sorry I interfered with your life I know you're not going to so forget I ever
mentioned it I took that as a challenge I decided I was going to do something and the minute I got home that
night I sent her a letter I typed a letter on a postcard and sent it to her
and Wendy answered and we decided to meet in July
and I got to the house where she was staying and she opened the door and she was dressed in her summer
outfit and uh I did not fall in love with her it was not love at first sight
but I certainly noticed that here was a gorgeous lovely looking W young woman
and we got together and we had lunch and then when we got back she wanted me to
be introduced to our sisters who were almost as beautiful as she was had a wonderful
conversation when we got back that back to two other Celestial companions that I
could talk about Clyde and paty Tomba paty answered the door and she said well how did your date go and I just stopped
at the door and I said py I've just had lunch with the three most beautiful
women I have ever met in my life and I knew this was going to this
was going to go somewhere I let it go during sl9 but after that I got back in
touch with her asked if she wanted to see me again and she said yeah and we
got together and uh we saw an eclipse of the
Moon it was in December 92 that was before sl9 and we saw other things as well I
gave a lecture to her to her class to her
school and uh all the teachers who was in the gymnasium and all the teachers
were there with all the kids in the school and I was talking about Shoemaker leaving n and impact with
Jupiter and uh and the subject of of Wendy came up
and Wendy was there and one of the teachers said uh and one of the kids had
asked about my future and then the teacher right away said it's David and Wendy and we all had a good laugh over
that especially Wendy and me but there was a story that took place I uh I got out of the car one
night we were driving we stopped the car I got out and I I uh I asked Wendy to
get out and I pointed out Vega it was fairly prominent in the Summer Sky
and she looked at VGA and the first St I'd ever seen through a pair of binoculars back in
1960 and then I
I looked I looked towards her because she was kind of quiet for a minute or so
and I said is anything wrong and she said I want to ask you a question if I were to ask you every
night what star is that what would you
do and I quietly looked at her and I said Wendy I would stop what I was doing and
I would show you that star every single night and I would never ever get tired
of it and she said he got some points with that and the reason that she thought
that was that her first husband had a rule he said I'll explain I'll answer
your questions once but if you ask me again you're on your own with David that was not the case and
I told her that I would point out VGA a million times if necessary but I never
needed to again and uh we got we got very
close and I remember visiting Montreal in 19
1996 and uh when I was at McGill University I I was working on the
student newspaper as one of the contributors one of the editors and that
was called The Mill daily it's the oldest most student newspaper in Canada
and they were having their celebration and I was there when I got back Mom was still up and we sort of had some tea
together and uh she said so is there anything that you have to tell me and I
said yes and she said what do you have to tell me it wouldn't be about a
certain girl would it I said yes it would and she says excuse me I'm getting
kind of excited you got to tell me and I said Mom Wendy and I are going to get
together and she said you're kidding and I said I'm not kidding and we're going
to get together I'm going to propose to her and I believe if she wants to accept
then we're going to get married and Mom said would you mind if I just jumped up and danced on the table table a little
bit cuz I wanted so badly for you two to get together she came to the uh wedding
in 1997 and uh was of course W the wedding she was
married to me and but mom was there a few months into our marriage I developed
prostate cancer and uh I got a uh had to get a biopsy to
confirmed that it was cancerous and uh he took the uh the the
tumor the the little bit the biopsy and um and Wendy was talking with
him and said when will you have the result for David's David's uh test and he said it'll be a couple of
days and uh and then the doctor kind of looked at
her and looked at the biopsy and he said
your husband's name is David Levy right yeah would he by any chance be the same
and Wendy nodded her head with a big smile on her head and Sheldon said I
should have kept the glove anyway it was such a beautiful
story and we become friends and we're still friends all these years later
Sheldon came to visit Wendy in her last days he came to the unveiling the other day
and it was just a beautiful thing I know that there going to be other people here will be talking about their Celestial
companions but I just wanted to get started with someone who meant the world to me and I miss her so incredibly much
not an hour ago just before logging in to tonight's Global star party uh I was
listening to our local classical station and they put on they put on vogner's
townhous Overture and that is one of my favorite pieces of
music I sat I had to stop sit down and listen to it and by the end of it I was
crying my eyes out but it is so beautiful and uh so that brings us to
the poem which I'm going to quote from you today and it was Wendy's favorite poem
it's um it's the ending of of the song of Honor which Hodson
wrote in 1917 and it goes like this I stood and
stared the sky was lit the sky was stars all over it I stood I knew not why
without a wish without a will I stood upon that Silent Hill and stared into
the sky until my eyes were blind with stars and still I
stared into the sky thank you Scotty and back to you okay okay all right so
um uh a while ago I had can I interrupt you just I want to
show a picture for for Dave just one picture if
he if this will uh
uh reminds him oh my goodness that's
him that's him that's slard oh I miss him
too yes he was brilliant and he got brilliant more brilliant as he got older
yeah I explore the real universe that's the real Universe thank you for sharing
that picture us yeah y you're welcome
and I'm really so sorry for your loss thank you I hope we'll get together in
person sometime yes indeed go ahead Scot okay all right so a
while back I had done an interview with uh David and Wendy Levy and um um so
we're gonna play that and and you'll get to know uh if you didn't know Wendy uh
you'll get to know her a little bit better now so here we
go and then I was had the Good Fortune to join Gan and Carolyn Shoemaker who I
finally got to meet after many many years after Dr Stevens wanted me to meet
him I finally got to meet him actually started to observe with him
and Carolyn we found total of I think 13
comets together that we shared together the most famous of which is Comet Sho
maker leaving nine and this is probably going to be the first and only time I'm going to
mention that comet in this particular presentation but as but that was
certainly the highlight of my professional career and after that was over I began to think you know my the
the marriage that I was getting ready for when I observed the ls in 1975 that was not to last very long long
it broke up a few months afterwards although we soldiered on for a couple of
years before finally we split up but after sl9 I was getting together
with Wendy and Wendy and I were fix it my
mom decided that she wanted to get her son David to date somebody
anybody and she knew she knew
that she knew that one of her best friends
Annette Wallock had a daughter named Wendy and Anette wanted Wendy to get in
touch with me and mom wanted me to get in touch with Wendy and I jumped on that so fast it was licky split
instantaneously how many years it was or more years later
1985 or six to 1992 finally I mean every
now and then Mom would say did you ever get in touch with Wendy yet oh no I haven't gotten around to it and finally
she said I forget the whole thing and when Mom says that I take that as a
warning and that I decided I'm going to do it and I wrote to her she wrote back
the nicest most Pleasant letter decided I'd love to to meet her and she was
living in Los Cruses New Mexico at the time we got together
and I got to meet the three most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life they were Wendy her sister Joanie
and her older sister Gail there at her house Wendy and I went out for our lunch
date and then we went back and I talked with the three of them for a
while and we started to see each other just as friends nothing more than that then came
the discovery the next year of comic Mak 3 le9 and its potential impact with
Jupiter and I decided that while this is happening I need to concentrate on my
career and as soon as that was over I thought well maybe it's time to go back
again and reconnect with Wendy which I did and we had I went to Los cruus gave
a talk to her one of her classes at school she was a teacher and that was so
much fun on the way home I remembered thinking to myself I will never ever go
to Los crues again without visiting with Wendy and then Wendy wrote to me and
she said well instead of dinner at home and I said yeah that would be fun and so
we did that we had a very wonderful dinner and uh
but then I thought maybe it's time to get her out here out to Tucson and uh we were talking over the
phone and I said well guess what I'm having I just picked up some papers here
and I'm noticing a special letter that came in you have just won a free trip to
Tucson and she said oh really and I said yes at the time of your choosing you
will get on a plane and I will meet you at the airport and you'll stay with me and uh we had a wonderful
visit but it looked like things were going to fall apart on the last day we were talking and suddenly Wendy
got grew very quiet and she started to um not cry but get very sad and I said
what's the matter serious got very not sad but serious and she said I don't know I can't imagine how
you and I are ever going to get together I'd love to but I don't think we're ever
going to be able to now I think that you need to get together with somebody if you don't get
together with someone and this was the key line what are you're going to have when you get
older is you'll have nothing but your ice comets to snuggle up to oh and I
listen to this and right away I was in love we embraced
I we must have lay on the couch for like 20 minutes or so and that was it we had
a relationship and uh we got married in
1997 and we just passed our 23rd wedding anniversary all right
congratulations and uh so hopefully this
covid-19 thing will be over in time for our 25th anniversary I'd like to go on a cruise or something we to celebrate a
quarter Century of our lives together
anyway all of the uh material that I've talked about plus an awful lot more is
in this book um a night watchman's Journey it is published by the Royal Astronomical
Society of Canada and you can get it anywhere by
logging on to their website just look up Royal Astronomical Society of Canada or
in the United States you can get it from starizona star arizona.com and you can
you can get it you can get a copy there and at some point I'll get to see you and I'll I'll be glad to autograph it
for you but as I was finishing this book Wendy was saying it's time for you to
write another book and I said I don't want to write another book and she said yes you do and she picked up a copy of
[Music] this this is a book that I wrote when I
was 10 years old it's called Clipper and it's about the Beagle that
we had when I was 10 years old and we've had him we had him for
almost 20 years he was a wonderful little dog really loved him I've already
explained how the night I started Comet hunting I was walking him up Sunnyside Avenue and then turned around as the sky
cleared so I could begin my search for comets but I would now like to introduce
Wendy who is going to talk to you a little bit about a a new book that I'm working on
right now and uh we have to bring the
chair where do I look I see Scotty smiling are
you hi Scotty I'm embarrassed David went into some really personal stuff I
thought we'd never we'd never be sharing and now it's all out on the
internet I know I mean I mean that was a long Embrace but I thought here are two
middle-aged people look stupid but who's seeing us anyway and then David describes this thing I thought oh
no okay so just you guys know I mean there's a lot of your friends that are online right now okay and giggling right
along with me say hello so people like Tracy prell and Mark tovy and Gary Bole
and just these people so uh Ed Gunther's on um don't forget Martha I know she's
on she told me yeah yeah so it's nice and uh it's great to be able to spend
some time with you uh during this uh this time when everybody's staying at home you know so I know what else do you
have to do unfortunately David and I like each other well enough that we can spend this time together and have a good
time anyway right that's right but I digress the book David wants me to talk
about is Clipper before when I found his original
book I was trying we have for those of you that have ever been at our house the
few of you that are listening um I was putting some of his books away he has a
special armir dedicated to his writings and um I noticed this little book and
right now what David showed you is where I took the original copy and made it safer because the pages are all falling
apart and I looked at it and I went huh what's this and I started reading about
a boy and his dog and it was enchanting and then when David told me he wrote it
when he was 10 it became even more enchanting cuz if if you if if people
can see can you see the writing on even if you can't read it can you tell that it's original typewriter type in the
typewriter that had a ribbon not a cartridge but a ribbon so if there was a mistake he you could see where David
over typed if he did not know how to spell a word you could see where he spelled it phonetically and you could
tell it was a little boy and his doging the stories that that they told and all
I could do is grin and laugh because it was so David and then we talked about it I said
you realize later on in life when all your books go someplace special the one that's going to be the most important is
Clipper your first book and um he wrote like some um we he writes a monthly
column for our local uh little veil voice newspaper and in it in one of
those s he described one of the chapters in Clipper then he got a whole bunch of
emails mostly from friends and family going that sounds like it could be a great book and so finally we said okay
and now what David has done is Resurrect The generally speaking the
um oh what do you call the the relationship between the boy and his dog
and then a few friends that came along so there are are two main characters in
the book and that's step who really is David but for some reason he liked the name Steven and his dog Clipper now
Clipper is like the mentor he doesn't do a lot of teaching but he makes sure you're there to see it and then they
come across one of his classmates in school Kaa who um was going this sounds
exciting can I come too and they're going yes and then they're in the way they trans Port from one place to
another is through David's telescope so they look at where they're going to go and then as David writes it in the book
who they're there and it's time and space and distance makes no de no difference they're there even if for us
it's an inhospitable place like Jupiter which they haven't gotten to yet they
they can be there safely and then while they're there it turned out Stephen had another Mentor that came to him in a
dream and she became a character in the book and she's the teacher and her name is Tanya and the way she appeared to
David in his dream is even more Charming it's really a child's book she's a
grocery bag like the P old paper grocery bags with a head and arms and legs and
um but when they go somewhere and the kids are going what's this she's the one that explains what everything is and
we're working on this book so it could be read read by Upper Elementary even
middle middle Middle School age kids or people who just want to get into a little bit of astronomy because it's a
tease I won't let David go too far because he's so locked into really explaining things that I'm thinking oh
no this is the age level I taught you're going to lose them here stop here let them get excited and go somewhere else
to get the information and he's going okay so we've been working on the book
and I'm keeping his feet on the ground I'm keeping it to the to the kids' level and more or less readable because I am
not an official copy editor editor I'm the one that makes it so the real copy
editor can read the book and it makes sense and then my sister who's done a little bit of artwork and calligraphy
and everything she we said how would you like to do some of the pictures in the book and she
went yes so it's like a family group project putting this together we have no idea
when it will be published or who will publish it or if we're even just going to self-publish the book right now we're
just having fun putting the book together so awesome that's the book and
I will give it the floor back to David hi everybody that I know out there even if we didn't mention your name because I
think Mark zarski is supposed to be here
too okay um that was wonderful it was
great to uh to see Wendy again and uh to hear her
voice and uh David I want to thank you for sharing that with us and um letting
me uh rebroadcast that uh that very special uh
time during uh the you know we were at the peak of covid at that time and um so
it was wonderful I am so glad that you did that Scotty it was so much to me and I hope
everyone else enjoyed it as well and uh some of the stories that Wendy had to
saying that I had to say in the beginning were repeats of what I said in the live version earlier but uh anyway
if you could make sure that I have a copy of that video so I over again I'd
appreciate it thank you so much Scotty you're welcome you're welcome is that
good for for buying Dave the the book is that on
sale I quite quite catch that okay is that book for sale can i b buy Skipper
book I uh uh I put that uh I put a link
up it's available right now on amazon.com so if you look at the chat um
in uh on YouTube uh or Facebook it's there but I I can send it to you too
thank you I'll do that okay have you thought Dave to translate it for because
that is a a perfect child
book Thank you and if You' if you are someone would like to arrange for it to be translated that would be perfect I
would love to see that happen to finish and Swedish because because it's a so
wonderful story I I know a guy who might be able to help us with that
David cly in for that I'm certainly in for that and thank you so much I got to
say I'm not the only one that's come out with the children's book uh my friend David AER who is uh right here also has
a book for children that he has done and I'd like to imagine in the middle of the night the two dead books got up to fight
mine were mine and David's but in the end of the fight they just started laughing and cackling and decided to be
friends which was much much better than fighting do children's books fight or do
they just yeah you remember the audience that that they're sold together as a pair and that everyone reads everything
I don't know I think they're sold together as a pair and everybody
okay Drew their swords and shot each other a death policeman heard the noise
and came God killed the two dead [Laughter]
books it's all yours David thank you so much for coming on to Global star party
thank you and I would like to once again Whittle away on this list of strange and
challenging objects that we have to look at so I will share my screen and see if
I can share the right screen and once again see if you can uh uh oh now I'm uh
dear can I move this thing no I can't um let me see if I can start the
slideshow there we go okay you are the banner is in the way of things there
nonetheless if you can see santur say we're in business again and uh that's not what I'm going to talk about tonight
though we are working our way through hundreds of objects as long as SC will
put up with this and we've gotten all the way now in the northern sky to the Draco dwarf
Galaxy and as you may well know the local group of galaxies as it was uh so
uh named with Innovation by Edwin Hubble in 1936 uh one of at least 55 galaxies in
our local group is the Draco dwarf possibly as many as a hundred because as David was talking about not only are
dwarf stars difficult to see because they're faint and and it's hard to see them over long distance scales but dwarf
galaxies are hard to see because they're faint and also a lot of them are obscured probably by the disc of the
Milky Way so there may be many more than 55 galaxies in our local group but
that's the base number the Draco dwarf is a dwarf spheroidal satellite of our
galaxy it's about 260,000 light years away
and it was discovered by Albert Wilson at of all places L
Observatory um where this was before Leonard neoy was there in 1954 and on palar Sky survey plates it
was found there at LOL um it's a faint Target it has a relatively bright magnitude V magnitude
of 10.9 but it's really a poor Galaxy in terms of its Stellar population a fairly
uh slight smattering of stars and it has very little Central condensation as
you'll see in an image here although it's fairly large it's about the size of the full moon on the sky altogether but
it looks much smaller than that because of its H poor nature of the Stellar
population well in 1961 the great uh collaborator to uh Edwin Hubble and
others Walter B and Henryetta Swope they found more than 260 variable stars in
this galaxy which is one thing that makes it an interesting object in the local group all but five of those are
are Our lyate Stars these pulsating horizontal Branch stars that are very
good uh distance indicators as standard candles because their behavior is very
well known three years later our pal Paul Hodge who was around until
relatively recent times uh one of the great Authorities on Galaxy and
especially on the melanic clouds among others he studied this Galaxy and he found its shape was significantly
eliptical and it it has a huge amount of dark matter for a dwarf Galaxy in fact
it's one of the richest galaxies known in terms of its percentage of dark
matter um and it's not exactly entirely sure why that is uh to this day although
of course now we know courtesy all the way back to the erasable Fritz Wiki in
1933 uh that dark matter is a major component of the universe and of course
leading up 30 years later to the Carnegie team led by Vera Rubin who
really got the significant evidence for dark matter in the
universe so courtesy of our pal Ron Stan's great star Atlas here the inter
starms Atlas here's the area of the Draco dwarf and you can see there are all sorts of galaxy
in Northern Draco near it um as well and this is an image of the that's
a really high-end amateur image of the Draco dwarf and you can see it's in a
relatively Rich Starfield but it's a pretty poor Galaxy in terms of bright stars there it's it's very difficult
visually you need to be in a very dark sky to to see it as a visual object and
with a pretty healthy sized dobsonian I would say um to see it visually but it's a little
bit easier of course as is everything to image in this day and
age so that's it the Draco dor there's lot a great deal to say about it I will say there's another group of surprises
now coming from astronomy magazine on the horizon the February issue which you'll see in a few weeks now um has our
top 10 space stories of the year uh package as we do each year and I will
briefly put in a plug for the staris festival which is now uh before we know
it we're going to have uh the turn of a new year we're going to have the astronomy magazine Tucson star party out
there near David's house in Tucson at which David Levy will be speaking we're
proud to say and the downside of that is I'm also speaking there and Michael
bakit as well but we'll have some fun there uh just around the corner and then
uh before we know it we'll have have an eclipse of the Sun in the United States and right after that the staris festival
in Slovakia uh a hop skiping a jump from Vienna Austria we hope that you'll be
able to join us there we'll have more than 50 speakers many Nobel Prize laurates there many astronaut explorers
some entertainers and a lot of rock and roll music a star party put on by our
pal Scott Roberts of explore scientific and among speakers there will be myself
as a member of the starmist board and also Dr David Levy will be there so a
whole lot of things will wrap up there in the spring at starmus right after
that period of our Eclipse so that's it uh that's all I have tonight I will stop
uh sharing the screen Scott thanks for having me as always we're looking
forward to a big year with a a great total eclipse next year and also the seventh staris Festival that's right
well David I just wanted to say how special that was and
uh excuse me anyway what I wanted to say
is that um Celestial companions which is our theme tonight are the people that we
talked about and the galaxies we talked about I had no idea that
galaxies would uh could be so friendly and so pleasurable to look at as they
are and uh going outside in the last year and looking at
M31 and some of the other objects that David has recommended including this one which I
have not yet seen uh is is very a very very special
special thing to do but it brings back it brings me back to Starlight Night in
1965 when uh Lesley peler really made the point and drove it home that the
night sky was friends and he started it with by reading that book called The
Friendly stars that he checked out of a library and eventually it was given to
him and I now have a copy of it and uh but then but but then the idea of of the
idea seeing things in the sky as your personal friends it came down from peler
and I still believe that and more than anything else that has helped me so much
in the last year thank you David and thank you for making the star party even better
thanks thank you David and you're right I mean galaxies get together in pairs
and in groups uh by gravity we get together uh as friends uh in pairs and
in groups of friends uh because we like each other and we care about the planet we're on in the universe and sharing
that knowledge and it's a great pleasure to be friends with all of you including
David and Scott and and all of your support tonight so and all friends we
have watching here it's great so yeah that's what this is all about that's
right so thank you thank you very much uh we will uh uh transition here to uh
don NAB from the astronomical League uh don is um uh has been giving uh giving
us um uh uh several uh presentations over the last I think two years at this
point and uh right so and I really I just admire uh what the astronomical
League does um with all their observing programs with all their Awards with their 75 years years of astronomy
Outreach and that's what you're going to be talking about tonight I think yeah all about our Outreach efforts and uh
Outreach resources yeah yeah great well it's all yours thank you Don okay before
I start have to mention how many people have a little Christmas tree sitting top of a 12-inch dobsonian in their living
room so so not too many not too many all
right I'm gon to share my screen okay I will start the
slideshow coming through okay coming through Perfect all right so when I saw the uh
the theme I thought this is perfect for uh the astronomical League because uh you
know observing with Companions and sharing the sky it's it's one of the one
of the pillars really of the astronomical League uh and we do it through public Outreach okay so here's a
a shot from Novak the northern Virginia astronomy club I think last I heard
Novak is around a thousand members something like that so it's probably I'm guessing the largest Club in the league
I'm not certain of that but I would have it almost have to be but this is from their astronomy day uh page on their
website but uh really this is what one of the true pillars of the astronomical League I mean certainly we support
individual observing and you know night sky preservation and education but
Outreach is at least for me really what we're all about so there's lots of
resources that uh the league has that can support this and uh I'm going to
show you those tonight and as John Goss was on last two weeks I think uh States
in his top 10 reasons for stargazing it's experiencing the oh wow moment of seeing something astounding and so I I
call this I think as a sharing the power of all and uh I'm sure David Levy's
familiar with the power of all with all the commies discovered uh schum leevy 9
that had to be a major moment of a when you find those things so absolutely absolutely done yeah we want
to share the power a with as many people as we can and that's really what what
motivates a lot of us in the astronomical League uh you know in recent research uh is done at the uh
it's been done at the University of California in Berkeley uh has shown that when people experience all in their
lives they have less stress less health issues and greater well-being you can
actually measure all I won't go into details but there's a good article I recently read from a a newsletter from
UC Berkeley and there's a lot of research going into all there's the book's been published so and that's what
we do at night sky events we seek to share the all we experience when seeing beautiful object in the night sky so
there's lots of resources and I just want to give a quick overview them won't be too long uh but this is on the league
website now my original intent was to do a live demonstration on the website well
anyone out there who's use zoom very much and has shared screens knows that if you start sharing a screen and then
share another screen and then Download a pdf and have to leave that share to another share it's not long and you have
no idea which screen you're actually sharing what screen is the active screen for Zoom so what I did instead was take
screenshots from the astronomical League website and put them into the PowerPoint because otherwise I tried four times to
get this straightened out and I couldn't get it it would you just lose track of which is the active uh screen so so this
is the homepage um of the website and you know the website is probably 75
85% finished it's not all finished but it's getting in pretty good shape so the first page I'll take a quick look at is
if I if we click on the about us ites takes us to here there's a lot of information here um but we're not going
to look at this very long because the ones that we're really interested in there's a lot of background stuff
history membership uh regions we don't need to spend time on it the Outreach resources are really at the bottom of
the website page uh and every almost everything that's above there is also at the bottom so these are the things I
spend a quick moment on because these items are the ones that provide Outreach
resources not to the league but to everybody anyone can go to the website and get these resources you don't have
to be an astronomical League member you don't need to be a club member anyone can use these resources they are free
for the taking so astronomy day is the first thing I'll talk about this started in
Northern California 1973 uh eventually became two days it it
started with a spring day and make him a fall day and almost every club that I'm aware of and I'm in four of them and uh
a lot of the clubs in Merill including Novak do a spring and fall astronomy Day event now if you scroll down here and
and not all this is updated these the events is not updated but there's some great information here and if you look
at this one down here uh that is the the free astronomy day handbook to plan
events you click on that link it takes you to this page cck on this link and it
brings you to a handbook and i' like to point out there is someone very familiar here to wrote who wrote this astronomy
day handbook Mr David Levy so we thank you for this David so uh this was up to
date in 2017 so here we see David's everywhere thank you for
this and thank you for so the next thing at the bottom I
I'll go into is uh conventions uh of course we always have the conventions next next year is going to be in Kansas
City uh July 17 to 20 another great way to share the night sky and share our
knowledge and share our experience with anyone in the public and go to this further down the list at the bottom
the library telescope program this is a wonderful program um this is where a
local Club will buy a scope or perhaps a library will buy a scope and then a local astronomy club will take that
scope and make it let's say not bulletproof but certainly more sturdy uh
less able to be fiddled with there's a zoom eyepiece fitted to the scope that is actually screwed in so it
can't be taken out the colation screws at the back are covered so they can't be
twiddled with and fiddled with uh so there's a number of modifications done to it and then the scope gets checked
out of a library just like a book so the people who would at no other time in their life have a chance to use a
telescope now have a chance become familiar with the sky and to gain their
own Celestial companions in the sky it's a great program uh Night Sky Tools uh I think we
have John gos to thank for this but every month the new Sky uh guides are
posted so if you would come down here and click on one of these you come to this um and this is from John gos he
does this every month tirelessly uh it's just a very nice very simple but very
nice Guide to the nice sky and not only in English he puts it out in Spanish so
we reach even another segment of the population to share the uh the night sky
with and he also includes a couple in fact anyone who watched GSP last week
will recognize this this is what John talked about was the uh eclipsing of
gamed behind Jupiter's Shadow so here is all the information it's again free for everyone
to take and there's some upcoming events I guess one happening tonight
yet okay the next thing is the observing program now this is more of what
typically is done by a solar person a solar Observer when you sort of like a
uh scavenger hunt for the sky and there's about 80 of these I think that you can find like the Messi objects
constellation Hunter asterism but if you scroll down the page you know every one of these I think is individual except
for this one the Outreach observing award Outreach is so important to the AL
that we make an a just for it and you click on that you get to uh this goes
down several pages but this is for astronomers who take the time to prevent
either 10 for the basic level 60 for the second level a total of 160 hours of
Outreach to the public so uh that's how important this is to the AL to reach the
public and share the night sky uh not only is there things here for
everybody in the public but also there's a here in this website for societies things like how to get more members how
to make your meetings better how to advertise your Club to reach more people in the
public now probably my favorite part of the uh the uh available resources is the
Outreach downloads these things uh are available for anyone and you can
sometimes print even things as large as banners but these are things you can hand out as star parties uh I really
love this what telescope is best for me it it summarizes a very
complex question to the one page that gives people something to think about and a lot of times we get those
questions at a star party what kind of telescope should I buy so here's a great thing they can they can use or how do I
find things here's how to find celestial objects and then uh even though there's
every month a sky chart available there's also a simplified one just for the season there's also a spring
navigating the sky but this is something anyone can download and can be shared or
here's one where are we in the Galaxy here's our galaxy here's where we are and then it zooms in and Zooms in some
more so and you can you can hand these out as star Parts but what we have done more recently the club m in we take one
sheet I created this to hand out to people rather than hand out six sheets you hand out this one and if they scan
this QR code it goes to our website if you scan this one it goes to the astronomical League website and people
can then download whatever they think they want or you can go to Sky maps.com from this QR code or what's out tonight
so you can reach people very quickly this way and you don't have to spend a lot of you don't have to cut down a lot
of trees for people to get what they want all right the last thing I have another credit to John Goss uh past
president of the league and uh this is a a graphic he sent me called The Night of the solstice which is happening two
nights from tonight and 927 central time so his gear was all loaded with a wink
of an eye he sprang to the Sligh and flew off in the sky we heard him exclaim as he drove out of sight happy viewing
to all and to all a clear night so the questions he leaves us with is why is this seem so
controversial is it a the moon should not be full but a waxing gibbous phase instead is it B A Reindeer is missing
maybe one with a red nose and why would Santa r command deer the International Space Station for a slce so I'll let you
pick which one is right but I guess I'll tell you they're all they're all correct so thank you to John gos for
that and I will stop my share well thank you Don I I just I I was listening to
this and I'm just I'm just finding this uh particular star party just
mesmerizing with David's lecture and Don's just now but one of the things that struck me Don
was your mention about a library when I was a patient at the Jewish National
home for asmatic children in Denver as a kid I had a tutor there and one day he
said how many books does it take to make a library and I had no idea he says
two one book is a book two books you got a library and it's two books to make a
library like the one I have here up to 100 75 million books that are in the
Library of Congress and I wanted to take this opportunity and I think the astronomical league would appreciate
that knowing this that Carla heyen Carla Hayden is the current librarian of the
Library of Congress and she has been that way since
2016 one of the reasons that I really wanted to do this is that on the on the
uh 6th of January of 2021 uh I woke up and I said to Wendy
that today we're going to watch television and learn a little bit about how the government of the United States
works that didn't quite turn out that way we turned on the television and right away there was this Banner on the
screen that said one building the Jefferson building of the Library of Congress is being
evacuated and right way I looked at that and I said Wendy sweetie I think you
need to come here and watch this which she did and a couple of minutes later they evacuated all the other buildings
of the library and uh you know as much as what
happened on January the 6 really got to us all it really got to me because of
the library because of the fact that the library was the first building
in danger of that day and I wrote a little bit about it and it is my hope
and prayer that the library is never again subject to the dangers that it was
on that day and in honor of that and partly that and partly of This Woman's
beautiful stewardship of the Library of Congress the international astronomical Union has announced today that an
asteroid in the sky is being named Carla heyen oh wow and I just wanted to share that with
youw Don thank you God bless you Happy Happy New Year may may your the rest of
your year the Christmas season be a total success and happiness for you and
your family and your friends thank you David thank you thank you for that handbook and what great news that's
wonderful okay all right so um uh up next um
uh and thanks to the astronomical League again for all their great support of global Star Party um up next is PR Vera
hini and she uh recently came back from the American geophysical Union and she
wanted to give us a little update of what's going on there and U uh I suppose
she gave a fantastic presentation there so we'll we'll hear from
her thank you scottt uh and hello everyone it's nice seeing everybody here
again it's been a couple of weeks that I haven't been part of the global star party but uh with my school and work and
everything going on it's been super busy for me so I try to make it as often as
possible and even if I'm not here uh presenting or joining you in the zoom I
usually watch in the background in my phone when you guys talk about all the cool
stuff um I'm going to just share a few photos so I will was at the agu the
American Union uh conference uh for the first time and it was great because uh
this conference usually changes a location every other year and I believe
last time was in Chicago and this year it was held in San Francisco which is
here in the Bay area where I live next to me and it was very convenient and uh
generally our University here in Santa Cruz University of California encourages allrad students and anog
grads to attend and even present something or some of their research if
they want to publish an abstract or something like that and um this was my
very first time attending a major conference and presenting my research um
I'm a second year PhD student uh in planetary science and it it was um I
wasn't sure what to expect so these are just some of the photos you can see behind me it was this
huge Hall where all the registration was happening so you could just go and print up your badge and um I I'll try to just go to
the next photo like this this was just some of the pictures that I'm just going to show up and then uh this was one of
the Halls so the conference it's so large it's attended by like over 25,000
people from all over the world like over a hundred countries participate in this
conference so it's not only restricted to Americans but it's all over the world and being part of something this um this
huge this community that everybody is here to either present something or
attend something and this conference covers all Earth and space Sciences so
it's hard to just gasp about how colosal this this entire thing is this
organization and I just took these photos from the escalator so this was spread over four different buildings in
uh the mcone center in downtown San Francisco uh so you have to go in a whole different building to register and
then a different building for the presentations a different building for the hall and it it was huge and um there
were so many attendees everybody was presenting in all kinds of fields and
this video somebody took it it just shows you uh the hall where all the
presentations of the uh posters were being made so it was like an endless um
haul and every day this lasted for a week so every day new presenters would
come up put up their posters at 8 in the morning and then take them down at 6 pm and every day this would you know keep
going and new posters would um come up and new research um all kinds of Sciences you could uh
find um research on um uh pretty much everything in earth science but also
planetary science and geology and uh Cosmo chemistry so my research was in uh
Cosmo chemistry and planetary science and this was my poster that I was very excited to present um again this was one
of my first major conferences to be part of and my research is uh in um a
collaboration with my uh three advisers Miriam Tellis Andre Rifkin and Carl hibbits and we're trying to understand
or experiment with meteorites and soluble organic material and ammoniated
salts to try to understand the Spectra of the asteroids in space you guys don't
have to read all of it but I have some cute plots down there and it was very exciting and I spent like weeks in Labs
um uh weeks uh like and months prior to this conference uh preparing to present
this and of course there were like so many people that came by um and wanted
to talk and ask questions and challenge you about the research and there was so many other people and it's just
impossible to see everything like it was just impossible you had a whole week and yeah you cannot just see everything
because there's just so much and everybody that attends this usually they tried to uh narrow it down and focus on
their field for instance in my case I was only trying to attend uh the
planetary science talks or cosmochemistry talks and um because
anything else you just don't have time for it and this was the exhibition Hall
you can see by the number of people how overwhelming this was with attendees um
there were uh exhibitions from NASA JPL from all kinds of branches of NASA and
also Noah and NSF and uh all the major
uh institutions in the country and they would present some of the latest research uh in case of NASA stopped by
the booth and then they had um uh James web telescope booth and Hubble
booth and some other related missions um and this was somebody from NASA just
presenting to all the attendees uh some information about psyche lunch uh and it was very amazing uh this was just the
number of people how many attendees were there so you just I oftentimes felt like
out of depth because it just was just so much science and it was just a lot to
gasp within one week and then these were just some of the meteorites that some of the people displayed there it was really
nice to be able to hold them and check out all the features this was a um
chabin that uh crashed in Russia in 2013 and actually I do have a chabin sitting
in my shelf here but this was a much larger piece so it was very nice to be able to actually hold it um this was
another condite I just liked all the cond rules this is something that we actually study and we're about to
publish a paper on the condal rim so it was kind of nice to see this very nice slice and then this was a campod delello
u a much larger piece I do have some tiny pieces and then people were just
selling like jewelry like with parasites and all types of meteorites and for me this is super exciting and just to get
people excited about science and about meteorites and to let them know how these things formed in the solar systems
and this is a Campo delello which I accidentally ended up buying um it's a
wonderful thing so as I said I have I have C delas but there's super
tiny and then I ended up with this piece it's a slice it's pretty thick as thick
as an iPhone I would say and you can compared to my hand Palm it's it's large and I just love all the features it's
like a super nice Cut and then all the fusion crust on the around it so I just
I wanted to like um reward myself for Christmas like an early Christmas
present or something but this is so great that it's going to go in my collection these were just some of the
um models that NASA brought from like uh James web and this was I actually like
this one very much this was a slice of Europa and uh this is how Europa would
look like with the ocean underneath and then the icy crust and uh we're about to
uh send the Europa Clipper a flyby mission that will be launching soon I hope you sent your name on board but it
was just great to go around and talk to people and learn about science and share your thoughts and come up with new ideas
of what you want to do next in your research because conferences are some of the best uh places you can attend or be
to advance your um thoughts and decisions on what you want to do next in
your research especially if you're a grad student and you're looking for a second or third project on your
thesis this was me just holding a replica of one of the uh wheels of uh
preserverance Rover that is actually in Mars right now and it was nice it was
not very heavy I expected it to be a lot heavier it's made of aluminum but it was nice to just hold it and have an idea
how large this thing is because sometimes or often times you cannot really tell how large uh they are just
by pictures because you don't have anything to compare to so now you can compare it to me and you can tell it's
it's pretty large almost like us lar as a a car and then there were also other fun
things this was a a sort of a game Who Wants to be a planetary millionaire where you would pick big you know
questions and uh if you knew all the questions then you would be a planetary millionaire and I was glad to earn the
badge and this actually was a great idea to maybe create for all of you who are
into Outreach and you want to um teach the kids or High School rers about
science and you could create something similar for them to challenge them with questions and then reward them with
something similar and then this was a globe of uh people that were attending from all over
the world and they would put their pin from the country they belonged to and then I noticed from Kosovo and Albania
there was nobody that's Kosovo it's a very tiny country and nobody was attending from Albanian land so I was
the first one to put a pen in there and it covered the entire country with one push pen and it was um really nice to be
able to be there and present our country and also my research and just see who
else is presenting from all over the world and these are just some pictures
of other people presenting their research their posters and the people would walk by there wasn't a lot on
small solar system buddies like on asteroids and comets and meteorites it was a very narrow section and I was part
of it but there was other research on planetary science about Tides about Saturn moons about Jupiter Uranus
Neptune it was it was pretty pretty amazing and this was or this is just a
video of when the exhibition Hall open like how the people would just go in and
visit and uh this just gives you an idea of um the number of attendees that it
was overwhelming but um anyway I just wanted to wrap this up by saying that I
was very happy to be part of this it was very exciting uh it was my first time
and hopefully uh that research will be able to further um science and other
people will be able to uh contribute in the future there is an agu every year
it's probably going to be in New Orleans or DC next year I'm not sure but I hope
you will consider attending because it was an amazing experience for me
thank you Scott wonderful wonderful that's great um let me find myself here
geez so you'll go again next year right uh hopefully so our department
encourages us to go and uh present our research I'm also going to go in March it's the lpsc the lunar and planetary
science conference in Houston and I've never been there before it's going to be my first this one it's going to be more
more focused only in planetary science rather than all Earth Sciences so I am
currently preparing my abstract which is due on January 9 and I will be submitting that and we be hopefully
presenting in March in Houston that's awesome that is awesome I was really
impressed by all the meteorites and all the uh the models I mean I can just see
myself just wandering around there you know asking a zillion questions and uh
so uh that's something uh that we'll have to attend anybody can go I assume
yeah you have to register and there is a small fee for attendees who are not presenting they just want to attend the
exhibition or see the posters uh but yeah anybody is welcome to attend and if
it's if it's happening in your area at any point in time I hope you consider attending because it's absolutely worth
it great thank you so much thank you y
okay um well uh David uh who do we got next
here it looks like uh Mr Robert Reeves do you want to introduce
him you are muted I certainly do Robert Reeves I've
known him for a long time he lives out an Oracle and we're always fighting
about which guy is better Oracle or Veil and uh we're having this big argument
and wrestling and throwing things at each other and I don't know who's going to win that but I think he is I think
Oracle his Sky is a little darker than mine the only problem is I get a better
South than he does and uh but basically I think
Robert's sky is a little bit darker than mine he's going to be talking tonight about a number of interesting things and
uh and I think it's going to be fun to listen to something that's always exciting always interested always
inspirational and now presenting Robert well thank you David
uh uh I remember you for many years you were the official introducer at the
Texas Star Party so uh it's kind of kind of an honor to be introduced by you um
yeah following after pra H this this is a hard act to follow um I've I've joked with a number
of people that uh you know that they already have my Tombstone ready it's already carved ready to be you know just
propped up over my grave when I finally check out and it um just says um
something very simple here lies Robert Reeves he brought pranvera to the United
States so I'm very proud I'm very proud of this young lady and what she's
accomplished uh great I remember when we brought her over for the Texas Star Party a number oh gosh almost 10 years
ago now and uh kind of Unleashed her on on the on the science Community here and
now here she is well on her way to getting her PhD so uh I'm very proud of
her uh for what she's done with with the little little meager U crack in the door
that I afforded we'll be always grateful for that to you and everybody who helped me
in this jour yes there's been many people that have uh uh deserved an enormous amount of
credit and U um I'm I'm very honored to be a very small part of your your
journey but getting on to um the theme of tonight's uh program um comp you know
astronomical companions I really really don't um have a whole lot to uh say
about a personal astronomical companion uh I've had many astronomical friends through the years years that uh We've
enjoyed the skies together but uh kind kind of on my own nowadays uh uh so what
I'm going to talk about is companions on the moon of course known being the Moon
being my uh my realm um features on the moon that are pairs companions with each
other uh not necessarily related to each other but observationally uh considered
to be uh companions as we observe the Moon so let's do the great screen share
experiment and uh see what happens here and hopefully you're seeing my postcards
from the Moon uh title slide and then uh we'll nope it's still not advancing
we're gonna have to do it this way um did it Advance yes yes great yeah
finally we got this thing working uh my uh one siiz fits-all slide that I always
put at the beginning of a moon presentation reminding people that there are only two landscape forming processes on the moon
everything we see on the moon was either created by an impact by an asteroid or
meteor or it was subsequently Modified by volcanism um tonight we'll primarily be
looking at the the results of impacts uh craters that are companions with each
other so moving on to the first one um
as the um phases begin to progress uh the waxing
crescent phases one of the first crater pairs uh that comes up is uh Hercules
and Atlas the two lunar strong men the uh the classic uh Greek and uh Roman
mythological strongman U Hercules on the left Atlas on the right Atlas is a floor
fractured crater volcanically modified you can see the the reals the uh running
across it the oatmeal cookie pattern like as I explained this is caused by a
volcanic modification of the crater after it was formed uh originally uh it looked very much like a a traditional
crater U collaps Terrace walls a central peak in the middle but uh then it
underwent this volcanic modification that uh uh turned it into a floor fractured crater um Hercules and at is
formed perhaps a billion years apart uh so they're not related to each other in
any way they just happen to be next to each other but because of the uh the connection um both being coincidentally
well not coincident uh I'm sure that uh giovan reii back in 1651 when he created
the uh the the moon mapping uh system that we still use today or Moon naming
uh feature naming system we still use today uh very deliberately put uh both
Hercules and Atlas side by side but uh not related but considered an
observational pair and moving on a wider view here we
see Hercules and Atlas u in a in a broader context uh uh looking up toward
the limb of the Moon we we go past indon crater the basalt fil crater and then
finally on the horizon we see Mari Holan so Hercules and Atlas are are placed up
in the northeastern corner of the Moon and are among the first of the U
observational pairs that appears as the phases progress um along about the five or six
day Moon um Sunrise has swept past Marin necturus so now we see the triple crater
pair of theophilos um U cus and cathina and these are all
generally about the same age but we can clearly see that cathina on the bottom
is heavily degraded uh cus in the middle is pretty beaten up but um the Aus up at
the top looks fresh and pristine uh this is It's because it was the last one
formed the first one down gets beaten up the most by the ejecta and seismic shock
from sub quent impacts cathina form first then U cus and then finally
theopus overlaid part of cus so uh each succeeding one degraded the previous one
a little bit uh more but uh all three of them are tucked in the Northwestern
corner of Marin nectaris and they are considered an observational
triplet and moving on here um backing up a little bit more
getting into a higher orbit now we see definitely we're on the edge of Mario narus and the three craters nested just
bang bang bang right on the Northwestern rim of Mario
nectaris and sunrise just as Sunrise is breaking across these craters it's
always so dramatic uh they're not necessarily enormously deep no more than
four about four or five kilometers uh in depth but you know compared to their
width uh almost 100 km width they are fairly shallow I mean a a depth to
diameter ratio of one over 20 or even more so uh uh just as the Sunrise breaks
over the rim the Easter rim of these craters the interior is still plunged Into Darkness and it's uh a very
dramatic view uh just after sunrise
um moving up toward the uh middle North on the moon another observational pair
is uh um having a SEI your moment it's been
one of those days um UD doxis and aristot of course I know
these things it's kind of like one of these things where you kind of get in a bind at a party and you you go to
introduce your best friend standing next to you and his name vanishes from your head but anyway aristois on top UD doxis
on the bottom u in this case it's the opposite this is a sunset creating the
uh very dramatic shadows in them uh let me uh back up a little more and show a
little more context we can see that these twin craters are not that far away from the
uh uh Rich observational grounds of Northern Mari embrium we see the Alpine
Valley cutting through the Alps mountains which means Plato crater is just off the left of the field of view
Cassini crater uh easily seen the the bird's nest looking crater lower uh
Center left U but aristois and udoy um
again not related to each other but observational pairs so they're companions lunar
Companions and uh it's not necessarily crater that uh we get in multiples on the moon
that consider them observational pairings um these reals
almost dead center in the center of the moon's disc um the trees neck are real
complex on the on the left U the The Irregular branching RS uh the gowing
shape of uh um the hygienist re um toward the center upper Center um
branching off in either direction from hygienist crater hygienist about 9 km in
diameter of the pivot in the middle of that but uh it is the largest non-impact
crater on the moon it's actually a volcanic collapse pit and then uh
streaking down to the lower right um the arus real stretching almost 200
kilometers uh looks almost like a uh uh interstate highway cut you know cut through the hills kind of like what we
see in the uh um um West Texas U Hill Country uh when we're driving out toward
the Texas Star Party and um another feature very close
to the center of the Moon uh the triple crater complex of tus up on top alfonsus
in the middle or zachel on the bottom um these are very ancient craters uh tus is
pren tan which means it's almost 4 billion years old and its interior has
been completely filled up with ejecta thrown from other uh subsequent impacts
primarily via uh large Basin impacts throughout enormous amounts of debris
filled up the interior of the crater um Al alonsus below it not quite as filled
up with debris but it's also a floor fractured crater it's been volcanically modified the floor has been uplifted you
can see a uh complex of reels running around the inner side uh inner inner rim
of it and then U at the bottom u arachel u kind of a odd placed Central
Peak off center and then artistically uh balanced by the small smaller impact
crater within
arachel now and the uh category of lunar companions um again we see arzachel and
uh uh alonsus to the left but immediately to the right of them is all
kind of almost a duplicate pairing of craters
um and I'm not even going to try to remember their names even though I know them it's h it's been a really rough day
and uh my mind is just not kicked into gear but uh I like how the the pattern
repeats we've got alonsus and tus on the left and then almost an exact duplicate
of their their pattern uh over on the
right and sunset on Wow tus alonsus
arachel uh I love these dramatic deep Deep Shadows and we we can see the Gap
in the Western Wall of tus just letting the last fast rays of sun sunset Peak
through and uh the same on the volcanically up uplifted Central Ridge
in alonsus the middle crater uh you see that Central Ridge raised up just enough
to catch the last rays of sunset whereas uh down in arachel Crater the central
Peak is already gone it's it's at a lower elevation it's not volcanically uplifted like uh the the floor of
alonsus and I'm not sure if I skipped the slide
there there I did I had hopped over this one um again two craters not related to
each other by any means uh but observationally considered a a pair
Companions of each other uh that's cernus crater in the upper right and uh
Kepler crater down on the lower left uh cernus maybe 800 million years old uh
Kepler a little bit younger uh again no relation to each other but their
proximity to each other and their um magnificent Ray structures uh make them
showpieces on the moon uh Ray structure is primarily seen at high Sun angles when it uh is very good at reflecting
light back toward its s source and uh at near full moon of course the Earth is in
between the Sun and the Moon so the uh light reflecting from the Rays um shines
right back at us and they they appear very bright but at Sunset that effect uh diminishes so the
the huge Ray system around Cernic's is not evident at this uh Sunrise view
although you can still see the uh the the kind of ninja star-shaped Rays
around but uh trust me cernus has the second
most spectacular Ray system on the moon and uh for that reason uh uh ancient
observers the early telescopic era used to call cernus the monarch of the Moon
and it still is by by any definition it's spectacular so moving on another uh
another pair that uh we associate with each other even though they're not related um Hanes crater up on top kind
of peanut shaped and Schiller cigar shaped down in the bottom it's a a just
a coincidence that the two most elongated craters on the moon are within the same eyepiece field of view in this
case uh um they're separated by about 500 kilometers and U to put Schiller on
the bottom in perspective uh it's oh something like
170 180 80 km uh long but only onethird is wide so it's not necessarily
considered a huge crater but if you substituted Schiller's length for the
diameter of a round crater Schiller would be one of the 10 largest craters on the near Side of the
Moon um the uh Hansel crater up at the top um that's just an illusion that it's
so elongated it's actually to circular craters that have merged uh by their
close proximity of the impact uh it appears more peanut shaped because of our uh slanted perspective uh it's down
toward the southern latitudes of the Moon and uh as usual uh one of my cats
is here supervising make sure that I do everything
correctly just don't let it walk on your keyboard uh that that's what I'm trying to get it not to do
okay well the next slide of course was my was my traditional ending uh where I say
there's there's much to love on the moon I consider the moon to Be My Playground
and I invite you to come out and play with me uh the Moon is available from your own backyard the moon laughs at
light pollution uh Bright Lights doesn't bother it at all um so uh uh anytime the
Moon is in the sky it's a viable Target and you don't need to travel out in the country to see it you can see it from
your own backyard most almost any modest telescope will show you the details that
I've been showing tonight so uh go out and take a look at these uh these pairs
we're coming up on first quarter moon uh real quick so our achel alfonsus and uh
um uh palus should be right about in the middle of the moon right at the uh first
quarter uh Hercules and Atlas already visible Theophilus cathina cus already
visible so uh all these displays all these things are here ready to to
display their words for you all you have to do is go out and look awesome that's
great that's great well thank you so much um uh let's
see one thing that I would like to add Scotty about Robert's presentation is he
brought back some old friends speaking of celestial companions but
Theophilus it's a crater that I've studied since the 1960s and um especially but one that I
would like to add of course is Tio or Tao as lots of you call it but uh Tao is
the creator that makes me feel I have to watch to 2001 again
yeah yeah tyo magnetic anomaly yeah so anyway Robert thank you so much for
enlightening us with the wonderful thing about the [Music] Moon that I get out of uh out of your
presentation is again from lesie peler if you read Starlight Nights he
has this chapter near the end in which he is opposed to Humanity's going to the
moon and it's one of the few things that he and I disagreed but I think his his argument
is worth repeating now that uh the Moon is um the Moon is
something that we love not just for its theology but as for its poetry and he
quotes in Starlight Nights all that love me all that love me and that now as we
as he writes about people with long eyes looking at the moon as something to
conquer the Moon is Lady moon lady moon is looking back at us saying that poem
that it loved to she loved to say so much all that love me all that lovely we
have to protect the moon and uh just as we want to protect the Earth thank you well
said great great thank you so much Robert thanks for another amazing
indepth deep dive into those uh beautiful creators and your incredible imagery so thank you so much my pleasure
and I'm amazed that you remember any of this stuff at all so well I'm kind of embarrassed that I went blank on a
couple of them I really do know what they are it'll come back to me I know you do I
know you do that's great thank you for sharing thanks bye bye all right um okay
so David we have um uh brolo from
Argentina and he wants to talk about his 30 years of celestial companions you
know um I think that uh gosh when I look back at my friends especially I mean
friendship uh that you and I have had over the decades and astronomers that we have seen that are still here but some
that have already uh passed on um you know uh all these memories are just
incredible uh treasures and uh uh somehow I uh you know I tie them
together with uh the the beautiful uh nebula and galaxies and star clusters
and comets that we've all seen so it's uh it's an honor to do to do the show
with you David so thank you so much thank you okay Soh Caesar would you like
to uh come on at this time uh hi Scott and audience uh yes um the
the thing that that H I have to present tonight is
er this trip of 30 years that I am started in the
90s um reading the reading I remember that I I bought my
Skywatch book of David Le and imagine my taking my my impression
and my the honor that is be a part of this uh show
every every day every night that I can share with with this gray
gray group of people here and it's part
of the my presentation it's something that that I consider
friends um to to the the group and really is is a long trip uh where today
one of of my favorite uh companions is
uh inside of of the global St party but I'll show you uh the idea I start to
talk I start to think sorry first ER making a presentation but I have
something that I have an album in our uh astronomy group or for for our
company uh we have a Facebook um page
Facebook site and the album is Is growing every year every time every five
years because this album start to say that our 15 in astronomy uh uh Under the
Stars our 15 our our 20 years our 25 years and now I'm put more pictures
tonight to show uh the more complete and
actualized H uh history of of this
timeline where we uh make not only a
business if not a a great uh comp ination of friendship and communities
and working and and helping and I start to to to
share my screen this is the Facebook of
astronomia mat and this is an album inside our our Facebook that we start to to
to to uh show to the people in uh
2014 but uh in 2014 I think that the first time that they we put maybe 15
years old because these pictures is for 199 uh
six um 28 years old for example this is when we start to make Star parties in
Argentina we um we start to to make uh
star parties uh from 1994 1995 we started the business in
1992 this is the first s party in 199 uh six and was an st party where we
invited especially people with telescope um people real am ter asers
not only interested people if not we started to to invite the people uh that
came to the star parties with telescopes and well this is my for example this is my brother-in-law Matia Sako this is my
wife Evangelina and uh this is people that I
I and say the name it's impressive because
for example in this time in this time I don't have kids for example this is
incredible this is the first thing that I thought the time I was married with my
wife uh two years Maria actually we are going to to have next year uh 30 years
Mar oh congratulations theary yes next year yes in August
yes 24 well this is one of the first pictures uh for our friend
uh Juan Breer that he took a picture uh
in the St party of 1997 of the sky um this is the the the T with the
computers do you remember maybe 1987 the the software of of the computer
uh the sky map and we put computers um with um sky maps
running uh for the people we don't have nothing about ccds working
or just in 1998 Domingo Barina was a great great
support many many times actually he's going thinking maybe in the future to
return to to to make a a big support and make S parties with us
again this is people from the same s Pary Sorry by the quality of the picture but this is maybe a mik Sony Mika
W the the first digital camera as you know wow yes here do you have a Austine maybe
in in his first star party my son Austine maybe with no more than one year
old atin is really a great support here is
me here is another customer and and people that many many times return to
the St parties today people that pass away H um like uh like well I don't
remember don't remember the names in in this moment but people that today
it's um they are a great remember for me
great memories nice memories I saw the pictures and it's
incredible the the time that that ER ran
under the bridge Manuel Lopez Alvarez was a great
great supporter and he had a 14 Ines and he work a very very good work um of
catalog of supernovas in artina and he took p a lot of pictures of Southern
galaxies to have a catalog to to to uh
watch um uh different places to to to how to find supernovas in different
galaxies a great great supported I had a great times in the 90s with him
accompanying in their home their own telescope and making pictures with a
film with one 120 MIM films with a um
Celestron um SMI camera of 8 Ines and a 14 14 inch
telescope and this is the time of the prices in
our star parties this is my my father-in-law that that he passed away
six years ago this is me younger maybe you can you
can uh uh you know you can watch me and say okay you're not no no it's
me maybe 25 years ago here in a presentation
here is in United States is in in I know
very great people in the Atlant star party in in the
1990s in the end of the century this is of ofana to it's
incredible that this is going to be 24 years
old a science cope this is all in atlana
this is in Argentina in 2000s this is in around
2002 and well this this is full full of pictures of
people um and kids that today's are are are
men's you know ju Pablo patacho when he was a kid
and he's a great friend and I'm really it's a it's was a great time of this
start party was amazing 300 people that in Argentina is a lot of
people vinicio contas The Genius of working and he was a a great man that
was a customer but we make some kind of of friendly
friendly G and really he he make his own system hyraulic system a great H system
to put uh in a track um well you know it's all is a lot of
things that is impossible to me H have a
a an idea to how to show how to to put in in
in order because it's how many how many people like Fernando colum he work in
the in the team of caran in Aro he he was uh he pass away many years ago
and another guy with a lot of of uh not about terrestrial
extraterrestrial searching signals well it's me my my
brother-in-law Matias um pricing give a price price
of it's a mix of business um fun and a
great great moments lot of star parties working in Star parties it's me
again this guy now have family kids you know a lot of people Pedro caar
Pedro talk in a global Star Party one time is
astronomer uh here is is atin my
son Roberto clavier a great great is a man that any any party he is
present more guys people you know what here me that presenting in
2004 we call it Fest St like a party Under the
Stars uh Eduardo Pulver actually he live in Israel is is a great after
photographer Pedro Saar me Domingo Rina and the new I'm going to go you have a lot of
yes and this is people that we are running talking and and
today this is me in the association of this is the association where where my
friend the the astronom that uh Victor wo H found found the
Supernova H is the is the same Association in Santa Fe he found the the
Supernova F tree four years ago
um this is another s party another another one
maybe um we are going we we this is my friend haime Garcia Garcia
is a do is a doctor in mathematics and astronomy he's a a great friend we make
the S party in San Rafael DOA together another s
party maybe my my my my Kiara
atin I have one more that is
Luca L have 17 years old kiar 23 and
a27 haime Garcia in the when we start the star parties in in San Rafael
mendosa we change the star parties in Buenos Isis and we start to to make the
star parties in Mendoza because we have a gray sky presenting products H making our
typical proje live projection of of uh the same that I I make uh from my
balcony I make this in in in uh you know
this is for fedo Garcia fedo Garcia actually is astronomers he the Kime Garcia son and
he's a great astronomer and he investigate in
xrays R of folo me with a very we color jacket and
hat nice
yes and well more s parties more people
Eno berardini Alejandro tombolini
Federico here is is a I like a ghost unfortunately in this
picture Sebastian oo that is a member of the abso the abso in in americ but he's
Argentinian and well uh
Alin Garcia I forget the name of my friend
he's going to kill me if I he watch this um Eric Eric Gonzalez Eric Gonzalez he
Eric told in in the global sub party one time the guy that is astronomer and work
in San Juan do you remember maybe called uh the and H astronomos that I have a
lot of friends it's wonderful and it's incredible this is
the the cila star party another star party that we sponsor and I have my
friends in Santa Fe in another part of Santa Fe you know it's
so um well more people that the problem is
that some sometimes I forget the name okay
Rafael H the guy that was watching in the in the by the telescope uh it's me
Mak talking about astrophotography and Optics here is atin sh Austine like
today for maybe five years ago but Austin supporting us in after
photography software connection
it's me prin Gabriela the physics is a genius
that and he is a a great great supporter for
for our presentation because Gabrielle is a physics he actually is working in
web telescope image right here we are we was in in
something that is the museum night in Bueno ciris and we show to the people
image of oron like like
pictures more activities solar
activities this is the the time more mod times where we have explore scientific
telescopes this is one of my favorites yes this is
one of my my favorite pictures where we we carry a lot of Spar scientific
telescope to the to the eclipse in San Juan was incredible yes
yes and everever the the people that that I talk the it's people that came
with me because we went together to the star parties to the eclipse
say this is in in a in a in a salt field
and this is a wall a wall made of salt
and this is live image of quar city toana in the night in the middle of
Patagonia it's incredible Alim Garcia atin fedo
Garcia gin edic Gonzalez and this is something that they are all completely
friends together and we are a huge community and this is incredible because
I can show you different time and say okay I see these people in in the
picture and they are connected with me and then themselves too and this is
something that that I love another another H Congress of uh in this case um
astronomos andas me and and me in and Sari in in
San Rafael eclipse in San the guys of the
planetarium of malar malar planetarium is amazing the Patagonia in south of
mosa of well you know you can see the white the this is the age of the the
white explor scientific refractors Scot yes
nice yeah yes it's wonderful to see our telescopes out there um giving people
the enjoyment you know it's yes yes a a great supporter for me my my father 8 85
years old a genius resolving mechanics and something that we need or for for
example he have to Eric Gonzalez in the in the observatory about some things
that they can do it in the in the the big telescopes um well my my brother Herman
my another brother diio live in Italy with Eric Gonzalez with the the
telescope the big telescope of the of the do you remember of the of the
refractor the biggest refractor in activities today for for the TV this year for for
the lunar lunar eclipse for the national TV we make a support with a good team in
my rooftop of my of my uh you
know of my building and this is the the place where I transmit the in the global
sub party the live image and it's a global party you the community are a big
a a huge and very important part of the of
the my astronomy life my my astronomy work this is for you Marcelo too yeah
it's great yes I I I hope that with Marcela that we are closer we can
uh make a encounter uh to to to know to know in face to face the
life I have an idea to go to Brazil
Marcel yes well this is the last St parties you know music this is this is
all of the community of the V Cosmos with Santiago
mayi um well jge rosanski Fernando ricardin
W it's Nicolas well it's a lot a lot another
party yeah the best part of our gastronomic yeah the dinner the dinner
is all the barbecue the barbecue yes yes
you know it's every year we make the pictures and many many times you can so
more of the middle are the same faces and this is incredible and it's
something that really we are is karcia with the the gr of from Chile guys came
from from Chile every year two because Chile is very near to
mendosa Menda is in the west here oh I don't have a a closer
picture of this friend that is er um well I need to make another
presentation next time but about Optics and I'll talk about about more
friends yeah we talk about our friends every time yes yes it's important sure
yeah it's impossible because really we work together um have a great ER
connection of actions and we preparing for example this next uh anular eclipse in in Patagonia
we are working and talking about uh our next party in May in San Rafael and
really really we uh are all time all
time uh talking about the future how we can make uh you know NEX party the the
anular eclipse in Patagonia for for 24 um and really
uh every time that I'm running this pictures of this album is yeah actually
I show with 148 pictures and really it's a lot
but I have maybe 1,000 more and it's impossible and really something that for
me is very emotional um watching today with in in the screen and thinking that
all the time that that I had something that that is important is how changed
this book to me uh Skywatch was like a like a live
manual more efficient to to how explain to the people astronomy no was not only
the the the the Maps if not when David start to say okay do you
have a teso and the the things to say the you what you
can do with a telescope maybe a telescope that you bow or receive receive it a GI
um I remember that any for any any people that that b telescope I say okay
you need this book and I show it the the book and uh and was a a
guy ER but was incredible because was something like a guy to
make friends when you have when you have a the right the right um the right um
how do you say information and honest and what the that the the book is more
than than Skywatch of David Levy is
more than a single book if not make the right direction to
explain what can I do about
astronomy and this is something like one of the axes where our
life is uh is running is is you know
this is special and for me David is something that when I return in the time
when I think in 1992 because maybe I
start to to polish my my mirrors in in
the 80s in the 1985 when I started but the connection with the astronomy
me was with the book of David Levy yeah
anden this something that I can say to David Levy tonight and and it's like a
religion when you say evangelize something and say yes I I wrote this
book and this is how you can encourage the people really and encouraging people
do you have something a price that it's unexpected you you have friends part of
my friends of my life we that we share family our kids are
are are friends too they came from the astronomy maybe
they started Bing a telescope you know but the sense of the
things how changed me the the the book as texo book Teo book Chang me in the
idea of Polish uh green the mirror he gave that introduction and how to do it
yes David David's book talking about introdu introduces us to our the the
world of astronomy and the community of astronomy and how how we should uh he
gave hints on how to conduct ourselves that's true yes yes and this is something that
I need to say to thank you today Le because maybe it looks like a technical
book but have more poetry inside that you can you can imagine
really and of course that that I know that they did love poetry and I enjoy
the Poetry but sometimes something like the Skywatch they L B it's something
that I say oh it's something that in each but is so so
important give the time to explain to the people it's it's something of love
it's really because when you have your time to to to to give your a nutlin it's
really really enjoyable enjoyable yes thank you
David well thank you I wanted to add I wanted to add my thanks to you and those
of you who are on Zoom might have noticed that whenever I my camera
appears I often go out of focus and it just comes back in but then goes out of
focus again yes it's a problem of Optics that's because uh my name is Dr blurry
so me Dr blurry anyway Dr blurry yes you've reminded me of my many very
wonderful visits to South America over the years and I hope I get to do that again at
some point and thank you Caesar ah thank you to you really David okay it's a
pleasure really it's a long a long time it's a timeline we're close in this
moment but we continue but yes it's it's something
that that H is real it's a point of of break uh in in and in this is was and
1992 especially maybe the book is a little earlier I don't remember but but
the Spanish Edition was in 1991 1992 um the first thing that that I
found was finally somebody explain at
this gen because I know of I I know you in this time about the sh Le and lot of
things more uh um well so make the comment was was a little
time I don't remember it was what 1996 um the the well I I I forget I I
forget the the the year of the impact over Hub but s something that that ER about
this book is a manual uh that really really um is about this
that I I think something that I feel that is a lot of work to finally explain
to the people and I think that maybe in the in the by the way I think that from
1992 I I uh feel many many times I felt
that the amateur astronomy was going to the all to the sorry to the H golden age
from 1992 1997 the the starting of the ccds and
was totally expon exponential and going now to the to the
age of of the smart telescopes
um the the things are that
ER the the information that you you put in in the book start to
change the things in another way to to make more popular the Notchland in a
materal St I remember the the first time when I start to to to sell telescopes
the kind of people people was more retired people um maybe with times you
know um but more sophisticat um more sophisticated
Hobby and with the change of the years
and um when the Skywatch appear with with a lot of things about using
telescopes or binoculars uh you started talking about how much you see in the sky and say wow
this is the first time that somebody talk about the the instruments because I
know in the past a lot of of books that I had but but I think the the the Modern
Age of amateur astronomers starting with the time of of David Levy
books well thank you you so much again you deserve this and much more of
course and I can I can fix your camera but but it's an interesting uh it's an
interesting uh special effect
they okay that's great that's wonderful Cesar thank you so much ah it's a
pleasure yeah yeah and if we didn't thank David Levy enough
uh all of the books he's written and all the Insight he's given us into uh the
lives and minds of astronomers and astronomy uh is really amazing and it's
it's been an incredible gift and a lot of effort I know uh from his part but uh
but he he's had to get the this word out since childhood so um and he's still
doing it so thank you David thank you one thing that's interesting that I
think the book that you might have been referring to was a book that I had from Cambridge University press and I
submitted the book to Simon Mitten that was the editor at the time at Cambridge and he wrote back and he said
thank you for submitting the book we'll have to send it out for review and for this and for that and then I wrote him
back and I said and I would like to title this book because at the time they had a lot of users guides you know new
computers few things then users guides so I told him that I wanted to call it
the sky a users guide and he wrote me back immediately said accepted I want to
publish I want that title in our list and that's how the sky users guide came
to be part of the Cambridge
Pantheon great okay well gentlemen we are going to transition over to uh
from Argentina to Brazil um and uh go to
uh marchelo soua um who is with us and
marello uh is uh right now putting together the latest edition of Sky Up
Magazine um Sky up was titled by Wendy Levy um and uh um so it's uh it is a
free uh International astronomy magazine and um we're proud to have marchello
gather articles from around the world uh to talk about all kinds of aspects of
astronomy so um marello thank you for coming on to the our last edition of
2023 the 139th Global star party thank you very much for the invitation is a
great pleasure to be here nice to see Dr D
a great pleasure to to be with him also nice to see you seon and it's a great
pleasure I I have hon to thank Dr Dave Le for all the
kind uh words that he wrote about your here in Brazil in his book thank you
very much Dr it's was very emotional for us this thank you
and thank you Scot for all the support that you gave to us all this time it's
our pleasure I will show I will show uh
images of your history here and they also show
some H his his sent
hiss let me see if you work because sometime my computer don't help
me uh I have yeah I can change here
where you are in Brazil and now we are waiting for the beginning of the summer
even it is very hot here we have more than 40 degrees today it's very hot here
because the UN everything changed here we have days very hot and uh they
rains pots and rains RS and rains this is our what's happening the spirit of
summer for in Brazil and as we are located near the trop of
capricorn yeah yeah
2007 is like the beach are today all full and what's curious
because during the SCE that happen for us in
20 20 20 22 in December because it will be after
midnight then it be 22 for us and the sun will be directly H illuminates the
Tropic of Capricorn and here is the place you have the they say here pass
the imaginary line of the Tropic of Capricorn in the middle of the roads
they put this the sign in the middle of the road here I have another one here
here pass the Tropic of Capricorn then another one here then
many places they know where is located and this is something curious that you
have the North Region of Brazil because the moment of because here is
is equator in the state of amap in Brazil
they put this kind of s here and Theos is like this like and this line
separates the sou hemisphere from the north
hemisphere now is a very special place that you have this kind of monuments
that these are the image that I I got recently this is from the NC 2 20 2389
here is the M65 and this h i I
got H last week from the the hor H head
nebula in or and this was something from FAS
because a person Helen that participated in sh project she said to us you have a
comment that is crossing three galaxies in the constellation of Cru then you had
the opportunity to take this picture of the Comet here in the middle the comet C
2020 V2 and we have three galaxies here NGC
79759 975 n and
7582 this I took this image in
December 13 a something fantastic to not this
that was possible to take a picture like this and here is a I will show many
major of your history here we are talking about friendships and then the
our group are founded in 1996 May 1996 these are the
first I was very young here now I'm not young but when begin here was the first
imaz of your group yeah oh and the this
person here this guy here Carlos is until today ref in the group and my wife
that's was there then we begin since the beginning of our group we organize many
events in public places with a lot of people participating you can see here we
have a group of Music composed with students they a theater and
music this this girl here now is PhD in
physics she work at University here uh organize events and the beats in any
place that invited us to make presentation then we had the opportunity
to visit many places and organize many kinds of events these are we begin to
organize big events with many people National events then begin to international events the first
presentation made by H buz Al in Brazil was in our cats in
2009 here when here arrived here in our seat in 2009 to make the first
presentation here in Brazil and we develop a digital
planetarium that's why the first Brazilian digital planetarium we use a
very simple model with a fishi lens and a projector and using stellarium then we
ask to make the the coua
mobile and then we visit many places in Brazil we developed many kind
of activ he's my my wife and then we begin to organize big
events international events this was one of the biggest that organized in
2009 then we have here Nan many people from different parts of
the world that participated here Manaj from India and Mike simos that
helped us a lot to organize this
event this was one with for astronauts that we had the sh duck that was uh
Apollo Astronauts two from cosm Brazilian astronauts four
astronauts here at the same time and they have contact students
here you see here Russia and United States together here they
have and the one guy from China from different parts of the world Char duck
have the opportunity to organize this event here that's make me very happy to
have the opportunity to receive so many people here like Scotch h that was here
Dr David L also was here and a fantastic moment
that's I read the book of Dr David when he reports what happening
here yeah our last event that in this year that he return
off after the pandemic periods next year we are a new
event I hope it's quite EU and Dr D can visit again next year will be April
after the eclipse it will be April 11 then we Cho after the
eclipse and here here was this year the event this
year and these are uh some of these events that you
organized with many people here Dr DAV here Brazil with the
students we are here together here here and here the students that visited the
Museum of [Music]
astronomy they students are very happy here to meet Dr David
Livy and here the telescope that called have donated to us that we are using to
today and here when I met you in St the
staright yes and here was in the event that you met me at the airport thank you
very much for fantastic moment thank
you and this is our history here went seven years
now we have a dark sky we the UN only we have in Brazil only
one chapter of the dark sky and is our chapter here
in next year this is our international events that I hope also you can come
here Scot and Dr David you be very welcome we you send official invitation
I hope you can can participate because many people want to meet all of you here
you also I hope you can come we'll be after the the eclipse only April 11 then have
time to see the eclipse then participate here we are going to honor this this
person that John batist say he bought me 150
years ago and he was responsible
to publish the first observations in our city in the bulletin of the astronom the
French astronomy societ and he was friend of
Kam and live city in brail he has many PS in the bule of the
astronomical the fren astronomical soite few people know about
him and he was the last person that reported observation of the H comet in
1910 have a paper published in Canada
that show that show that he was the last person to report the observation by
naked ey of the H com
1910 a fantas few people know about him and we are also preparing for the an
eclipse but in 2027 next year next year you have one in
neara in artina the first time I saw a
total solar eclipse was inat and next year we happen again
neara I hope I can I can go to see yes we are preparing
too is a fantastic place the C and now near the
Christmas for us here have many Christians here in Brazil most of the
population are Christians the start of
bethle and they also we try to understand what is a comment I conjunction of planets
have many hypothesis about what can be but what you have is only the
information that have in The Gospel According son maew that now when Jesus
was born in bethle of Judea in the days of the king behold wise men from the
East came to saying where is the that b for we saw his star his star in the east
then I have many people that is find trying to find a event in the sky that
can represent the start of Bing and what you have know that probably Jesus
born years before the date that you consider the year that you consider
today then what they imagine that why some kind
of that can represent this or in three years before the time that you consider
today the year that you consider when Jesus born three years before have a
conjunction between huper and Venus why so close
that they almost touch the two stars in the sky then are something that they me
that a a message about this this is what the astronomer
the most important event in the sky that can good represent the start of
Bethlehem if he is a real
report anyway is a special moment here you can see
here and the all the cities in Brazil we have trees Christmas trees the public
squares with the representation of the moment of the Bor of Jesus Christ and
now H unfortunately we have war in the place where Jesus Christ
born that I hope soon we have peace in the
world is a a moment that you need to think about this this is the message of
the Christmas and as Galo said the Bible shows the way to
go to heaven not the way the heavens go then this is what the astronomers do
right and at this moment I re this not that are two ways to live your life as
Albert said one start nothing is a miracle the other is thought everything
is a miracle or I imagine and this is our last picture of
our group we are we are together the Saturday to celebrate our celebration of
the end of the year and of them I send the uh happy Christmas and happy New
Year with health peace for all of you thank you very much thank
you very much dry to be here is is a great pleasure to meet you all of you
and both of you are very special for us here thank you very much thank you very
much marello and thank you Mar marchello this was such a very special thing and I really particularly enjoyed your showing
the shato painting which was really the old data from H's kmet from a long long
time ago one thing that I needed to remind everyone about is that when I was
writing my bi ography and night watchman's journey journey I was having a lot of problems figuring out a way to
end it and uh it turns out that my visit to Marcello a number of years ago really
provided me with that when I was doing the presentation of Shoemaker
ly9 and uh while I was showing the picture the
fellow who was running the microphone phone and the audio came up to me and said David I
think you need to turn around and see what's going on I turned around and the people in the audience had their cell
phone lights on and to the music they were having their lights dancing around
the auditorium and that meant so much to me it was such a very very special thing
to me to be able to see the reaction to that to that
situation to the pictures of Shoemaker leing n impact on Jupiter being danced
around the auditorium ceiling and I've never forgotten that and I decided to end the biography with that particular
story thank you for letting me say that and thank you marelle thank you very
much for we that um thanking you for coming
here and to the special moments for us for everybody that who was there was a
very emotional moment thank you very much thank
you well uh David our our next speaker is Adrien Bradley um you had uh
introduced Adrien to the global star party uh you mentioned to me how how
wonderful his night sky photography is and uh Adrien is not disappointed he has wowed
the audience with many beautiful uh landscape and nightscape uh images but
I've also noticed that Adrien has learned a lot about U the objects in the
skies uh that that he photographs so Adrian thanks for coming on to Global
star party with us and I want to add my welcome to Adrian I I really enjoy your
photograph and as I've told you before and I'll tell the audience tonight when I think
of your photographs Adrian the only response that I can think of is Mozart
and your photographs are Mozart I appreciate that I think I
actually found a Mozart piece and put it to some of the images that I
took um just so that I could repay you the favor one day of having
a collage of Photography um to one of Mozart's pieces
I'm um I tend to like piano pieces so he's
written some uh I think they're called sonnets uh he's written some pieces for piano that are beautiful that I will be
listening to um you know the the theme tonight was uh
Companions and um and I realized in my journey with my
photography I started out wanting to take photos and like everybody else get
all the likes get all the you know the accolades that's a great photo when I stopped doing that and
started highlighting things of the sky that I liked that was at the point where
I noticed astronomers folks like yourself Scott folks like your myself my
dear friend deid when you all were saying that you saw something in the photos I stopped
worrying about the masses and I said continue to do the photos with the idea
that this is your story you're telling about the nights guy not you know we're
not taking photos for you know isn't it beautiful look at me I can produce this
work I know that there's a lot of astrophotography out there that highlights more about the gear that you
take and and I do this every Global star party I come on and I rail against there's some beautiful work that has
been done um you know in all the different phases of
astrophotography um but one thing that I always I always
challenge everyone to say has your astrophotography helped
somebody appreciate how beautiful the night sky really is
without that night sky there what can you do and a lot of what I've done and
this is where I'm going to share screen I'll get into unlikely companions for my
Widefield as photography um sometimes the sky doesn't present a
pristine image that we can look at and um let's see I think I can just share
screen here and start so once again on my iPhone I had
an opportunity to watch my um team
win uh first place let me know if you can see the uh
picture you have a uh Milky Way core and
Scorpio over a lonely road so so the few pictures that I'll show
tonight are you know they're companions that we
may not be thinking of in terms of you have the night sky you have the universe
and you've got Earth and making the two fit as some sort of as
companions are ways that you can share how the night sky looks and um
how it looks to you when you're looking at it and you're sharing to me this is sharing what I see I don't you know I
will look at compositional elements like you've got the r Fuki complex over here
I've seen images where almost everything is blotted out except bright colors over
here then you've got the Milky Way um I tend to go
for slightly more detailed than realistic you know let the sky give me
the photons and I capture it with similar um you know I'll capture it with a similar technique so that way I can
see the differences in the actual sky in the areas that I go so for instance D if
I come take an image uh near near where you live it'll look similar to this but
when I take the image back home in Michigan some things might might be missing or there may be more clouds I
like to see those to me those all are all companions in the sky you know there's
the parts that are from Earth and then there's the parts in the universe that we can see and I think of the two as
companions giving us a Celestial view that's wonderful you can only hope that
there are beings that see that similar Celestial View and can appreciate it and
so you've got a slight light Dome even though this is a bort 2 bort one site
you've got a light Dome as your companion to the uh the beginning of the Southern bulge of the Milky Way here
you've got unlikely Companions of earlier in the night a um a dusk sky with the Milky Way
starting up um let's see I wouldn't call it Civil
Twilight but close the near the border of civil and nautical twilight and the
Milky Way shows up here unlikely companions in an image similar another
similar image here we'll move to here we
have three we'll call it three galaxies in one even though so there's a full Galaxy
here with Andromeda you've got the little speck of uh light that is
m33 and you've got the arm of our galaxy the northern part with this um which I
believe is the northern coal sack I'm going to you know I'd love to look that up there's a there's a lot here that um
you know that you can see and there's some comp there's a couple of companions double cluster two NGC open clusters
heading for us and the heart and the Soul nebula which are Companions and are
often imaged together sometimes one or just one or the other but a lot of
times these things are imaged by themselves together and you can see just
how small they appear you when you compare to the rest
of you compare them to the rest of the uh of the universe the part of the
universe we can see it's a lot bigger than just the simple you know just these
uh objects out here so see more
images this is a view I don't get to see very often and there's another companion
I'll point out this dark nebula up here which is in
Hercules and the rest of the galactic plane with this Rift it's something I've
come to enjoy looking at and if I can get
this dark nebula sharp enough I figure I've done a pretty
good job of Imaging and not far from the dark nebula
if I can continue to zoom in alter and Ted and barnards
E companions that I look for the sharper I
get barard e the uh cleaner of an image that I feel
I've got in the Milky Way photos and those I view those as companions even
though I'm sure those all of these objects are light years apart I still view them as companions and when you
line it up with the the same lonely road going down here you create this sort of
tie in with um with the landscape you're seeing on Earth so now to the star
party people and the universe and then over here the other part the
same other part of the universe you've got Mesa and you got somebody Imaging it over here Imaging a piece of it they
were going after the comet I forget the name of the Comet that was uh
visible um during this time in uh September that we
were um that we were out at okex but uh that's what he was Imaging I was Imaging
the ENT entire area um of that part of the sky it's a favorite part to look at and you can
this this image sort of depicts just how dark the sky looks to the human
eye and there's a there's one for you D I am
observing m33 at the very moment that I had my
camera take this picture and I Stood Still as long as I could I think it was about a minute and
um I like to consider the uh backdrop of the uh the
galactic center and any part of the Milky Way the galactic
arms that um I have a special companionship with it because I seek to
image it as often as I can but the rest of the night sky is important to me as well and that I depict that here with me
looking at a different galaxy Alto together while the uh center of our
galaxy is in the backdrop and um you know that that
describes me and why I like being outdoors underneath the night sky there
are times I've looked around been a little bit worried about my surroundings and as soon as I look at the night sky I
feel safer I feel like I know know where I am you know I'm a part of the universe
I'm looking at it I instantly feel a wave of comfort so where no matter where
I am how dark and whether or not there's anything else there I feel as though I belong as soon
as I look up if I can see any parts of the any part of the stars and especially
if it's clear I feel even more at home and so
yeah and so this is this drawing to a close there are only a couple more
images some unlikely and in a lot of cases maybe even unwanted companions the
rolling Galactic gar where we have signis up here um we have lra we have
Aquilla the eagle and we have AT&T the glowing Tower I can watch YouTube at
okex stream it pretty well because there's almost no such thing as
Off the Grid anymore and some of the light from that Tower seems to be bleeding into this photo where I didn't
have that light before so um unlikely companions the night sky and the glow of
cellular towers here's another and the final list of unlikely companions the
Milky Way Galactic plane showing up in the same sky that a bank of thunderstorm
clouds thunderheads are showing up really beautiful either one I've had
the photo critique to where a lot of photographers and many of you that are still watching me think there's too much
going on that seems to be sort of a sentiment of you know when taking a
photo you want you know you want one subject there's so much to see in the
night sky sometimes you can't cover it in just one subject a lot of folks will do that
but you know I I don't call it uh I have not been diagnosed with ADHD but I like
seeing everything together you know the unlikely companion of a Thunderhead in
our Milky Way this an earlier image where it was beginning to come out and I
realized oh wow I may have a nice shot coming and then I would later um just
take a number of shots and see what I could do this time
I use my tracker for the Milky Way and it actually worked for the Thunderhead
as well and I was able to get some bolts of lightning and the Thunder
head and end up with with the now most would say this
scene would be beautiful enough and I have considered saying well I can craft the image to
this nope I like seeing everything so that's where the image stands but there
there's a number of possibilities when you get an image depending on what you want to show especially if you want
these lightning bolts to be more prominent then yeah you you do this you
give it a little bit of ground and you've still got you know then you decide okay I'm
going to cut this off right here or no I'm going to bring it in so I cut it off at m117 and
M16 when you know what's next M11 is gone now you cut it off at
M11 when you know what it is you're looking at in the sky it's not just the
Milky Way it's there's nebula M8 M 20 M6
M7 and then some of the NGC objects didn't catch this time but that all
belonged to the Scorpion there's the Scorpion itself that's M4 Messi A4 this
little dot right here there's another little dot that there's another um smaller globular cluster I think 6327 is
near um ant's over here you know this dust Lane that appears to reach right
into um this part of Scorpion these dust Lanes there's I know there's one called
the pipe that's in here there's one called The Snake and you know there's even this feature this
uh this Hal Alpha feature right here sort of sitting where this crazy horse
nebula as it's called that's a part of the uh whole structure and you know all
of this 30,000 light years away and yet in our field of view a lightning bolt
flashes of lightning are going on in our same field of view to me that's
remarkable unlikely companions but something to think about if you have the
opportunity to image the night sky there are a lot of possibilities
that you can look at um and not just you know the Milky Way becomes a backdrop
for some fantastic landscape area now there's nothing wrong
with doing that I've done that here back here
somewhere sunsets I like sunsets and somewhere in there there's
going to be some uh there's going to be a light Tower that's what I'm looking for here we
go that one's for you de that's beautiful look at that arch of
the Milky Way over yep beautiful over the Light Tower I was standing in Lake
Michigan um right now as another imager has
shown that Arch can now be imaged to the West over Lake over the lake so I can
turn around stand on the other side of this light Tower and do another Arch if
if I get a clear night and can afford to six hours total plus time to take the
image [Music] um this
is this is one where you would say well it's a beautiful
image um there I think maybe it shows up a little bit better now to me it was an
opportunity to capture because of the way panoramas
work and the way that you know the curvature um the SE curvature of space
itself you watch this rise and you watch it roll in the sky and it appears to be
going around in a Celestial curve but um Imaging over a lighthouse
is a beautiful thing and it also helps you learn how to try different things
with different lenses this is for those that know doing uh astrophotography with
various lenses this was done with an 85 mm lens and watch what happens when you
go into M8 and then you see little M20 up
there as well the detail if you get enough photons your detail you know
body's window right here this region and you look it up that region that's in the
center that little brighter region was a subject of study in looking for
exoplanets and um I forget the name of the uh study but that region was
selected because all these all this dust Lane that you see here was not in that
part bodies Windows technically somewhere down in here but this region I think it's the
and it may just be the whole region I should but um it it's interesting to find those facts out of about you can
see the butterfly right there even in a smaller um setting it shows up there's
your cats spawn your Lobster Claw right there um and that's taken up north um
here on the West Coast of Michigan so never I'll stop here but um let's see if
I can unshare uh stop share there we go so you
know me the truck it takes uh it sometimes takes just uh a
willpower to go out there and see what the night sky brings you um a few images
I took recently that I think I showed on the last Global star party I took those images it took me two and a half to
three hours to get there and I stood there for about 15 minutes five minutes
taking photos about 30 seconds finding m33 in
binoculars and watching the sky covered up for the rest of the time and remarking in how
fast the sky got covered up by clouds sometimes even your forecast um something unexpected happens
it's supposed to be clear then it's cloudy um that's just the way things go you try again next time sometimes you
get lucky it's supposed to be cloudy you go out anyway because you think it's
going to be clear for a certain amount of time and that may be all the time that you need and it clears up you end
up with the only image in your in astronomy group that rode off the night
because it was going to be too cloudy so there's um there's opportunity there
when you enjoy the journey of capturing
and just you're capturing what you see but the it's all about the Journey of learning the night sky it's about being
outside um you know being loving nature not being afraid of nature when it's
dark and um but being you know still be safe you you can't be too Reckless when
it's dark and if you're going to places you know where you you've got animals to deal with and hopefully not wavered
human beings you you don't want that but uh when you've got animals to deal with you have to be calm you have to stay
calm home and most of the time you don't the animals don't come up but you do have to be on guard watching around and
want around you and make sure make sure you feel you're in a safe enough place to be taking those images and you can
end up with something beautiful so Scott deid marello if you're still there with
that I will end my part of the global star party I think that takes us out
because my buddy John isn't here this time but but I've got you all so that's
perfectly fine with me and I am going to go ahead and finish
putting gas in my vehicle so I can go home but uh D thank you for it's good to
see you here to see some of these photos uh de I know most of the time you either
you've gone to go image or or out but it's nice to see you marello thank you
for staying I owe you another image for Sky up I'm sure one or any of those
images are available to you to use if you liked any of them and uh Scott
knocking on your door yeah please do I hope to get a couple more images in the
cold as Orion Rises higher and higher in the sky and try and capture the beauty
of the Winter Circle over whatever
terrestrial area that I can uh that I can find and um forward to looking for
it Adrian there's something I wanted to sort of say at this point one one night
I was listening to our local classical station and they put on Mozart Symphony
Number one that he wrote when he was like eight or nine years old and I
thought okay if there's a boring lousy piece of music I'm about to hear it and
I listened to Mozart's first Symphony he wrote when he was eight or nine and I
thought this guy is not capable he couldn't write a bad piece of music if
he tried if he set his mind to it and Adrien you cannot take a lousy
picture if you tried God bless you Adrian uh it was truly truly
Mozart looking at these pictures and thankk you
you it's uh it's always an honor
to you have someone like all three of you you know especially you my friend
deid to have someone who loves the night sky the way you've taught me to love it
and you know it you're still I know it still surprises you that all of this came from an image of the Southern Cross
you know and I look back at the image and there and they're actually the stars
are starting to Trail and you know would it would I cons it a good image yes
because it was your image and it taught me that you could capture Starlight with a camera and you know
that's it's the one thing that I love about night
photography and and how it's a departure from photography as it has begun to be
taught um some of the online teaching teaches you the you know the triangle of
exposure and starts teaching about composition I'm blocking my own way here
it teaches composition but to me the sky gives you the composition all you have
to do is see it and then capture it when you see it it's uh you know I have
people from classical photography look at photos I've taken and Scott you've done this you've noticed leading lines I
haven't really tried to do that it's I see it now and sometimes I'll if I can
see those leading lines with my eyes before I take the picture and I will say well this is a good way to present it
but it isn't for the sake of the elements of Photography it's for the
elements that are within us and are also in the sky that I take the picture it's
for it's for what I'm looking at the subject is always important to me and
sometimes the subject might be a constellation sitting in a certain place
um imager may look at it and say I don't you know you need to move this here or
you should highlight this more and they're talking from opinion of this is what I would do if I were taking a photo
and um the nice thing about the night's guy it's free for everyone go out there
and take a look and if you see something you that really moves you and you want to capture it you know you can go for
capturing it the other point go ahead point I wanted to make is that I really
enjoy the fact that you're doing your presentation from your vehicle because
your vehicle is a part of you and you're dressed observing you're in your car
ready to go out to a dark sky something place and this is the feeling that I'm getting from the global start party I
think the picture of you in your vehicle has captured that better than anything I've seen
tonight yes and my companion sometimes if it's not the camera it's just
binoculars yeah I meant to take a look at the Moon to see if lunar X and lunar V are visible in binoculars it may not
be as easy to capture with my uh camera I can take the photo and I can find out
yeah but um but yeah it's I think we're all always on this journey and you know
Scott I know you started this a number of years ago I think in response to the the covid
you know in response to co and saying well how am I gonna get people how am I gonna get people together when we're
being encoura we're being encouraged to say you know let's let's keep our
distance until things are better and even now we're still sort of
fighting to well you know boldly state that things are better but we're you
know we're still kind of on on alert but this of course we are of course we are
but the other thing is is that we've brought astronomers and an audience from
all around the world uh and this is the only way to do it yeah and and we keep doing it yeah
yeah we we learned yeah yeah it's and I'll never I'll never uh say anything
bad against the fact that we as almost a globe learn that video
conferencing is a way for us to is a way for us to get together yeah I can see
deid through video conferencing since I've been able to make it to Arizona but
I can still ingest that you know such kind compliments and continue continue
going on um because of a format like this and it's you know doubtless people
that are people that are watching I've I've watched the uh chatter among those
of you that are you that are still watching you all are together even if it's just through chat um sharing your
own experiences your own this is how I do my
photography um even if you're out there saying saying you know my that might be nice but my photography is sold for X Y
and Z dollars as long as somebody is more
aware of the night sky from your work and you've helped
somebody appreciate that there's more to this life than themselves then you know
that's then that's amazing if you make a few bucks off your photo that's great I've made some money too but it it's
definitely not the focus if it were I'd be more broke than I am now that's the truth so so yeah so with
that's got let's I'll let you de marello close it down yeah say let's say good
night to our audience here uh thank you again uh uh for watching uh Global Star
Party you you just watched the 139th Global star party with the theme of
celestial Companions and um we will uh we'll call it quits here but uh you know
we we encourage you all to keep looking up and uh and we'll see you in January
with the 140th Global star party so and in the meantime God bless you all and
have a happy holiday that's right that's right happy Christmas
holid thank
you yeah you know D I get a chance to tell
you I watched the uh funeral of U of your beloved Wendy everyone this is
David Levy oh this is you talking and I am holding the original Discovery films
of our most important Comet Comet shmaker le9 these films were taken on the 23rd
of March 1993 Carolyn discovered the uh comet on
these films two days later and uh and about 16 months after
that all of the fragments of this Comet collided with Jupiter giving Humanity
its first view of what happens when a comet hits a planet and uh and one of the exciting
things about this is that when comets hit planets they don't just drop uh dust
they also drop um organic materials uh carbon hydrogen oxygen and
nitrogen which eventually turn into proteins amino acids RNA and finally on
one magic day DNA comets Comet impacts are really the first step in the origin
of
life I'd like to invite all of you to uh to come to the next Global star party they
are run by Scott Roberts of explore scientific and me we we co-host this
program and uh it's usually done on Tuesdays and uh usually at 6:00 or so
Central Central Time and so I hope to see you all there my name is David ly
and I hope to see you all at the very next Global star party thank
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