Global Star Party 153

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good tutorials and if people come in from a photography background um then they uh you know they
tend to come into it a little bit more prepared but yeah not
me someone handed me a camera someone handed me a camera and I
said what can I do with this thing and the result the results weren't as
good they weren't as detailed as some of the results I'm able to pull out now but
that that involved learning and you know trying different things and Sleepless
days at work trying to recover from having been out to two in the morning
because I'm still working a regular 9 to-5 job oh my
goshan yeah I I found this love of astronomy l in life um unlike you deid
you knew even if if you had to go through school you knew astronomy was
going to be your love and life next to Wendy um and in the rest of us so but me
this is year 10 I didn't know Wendy when I was in
high school and nor did I know kamla Harris who went to the same High School
about eight years after yeah you told me about that wow told me about that
yes yeah see hi High School of greatness our high school had a running back named
Eric ball and I think a woman who went on to be a talk show host named Amy des
and from there our choir well we won a couple of
international music festivals as a as a 20 person so that was that was about
it cool so well hopefully Scott comes on
soon but we'll just entertain the masses until he
does there we go everybody that's watching out in the
uh our audience right now we are live this is the 53rd Global star party with
the theme of cosmic connections we are really happy that you're joining us
tonight and up first will be David Levy but we got a couple of intros here so
let's go 15 years ago a remarkable Mission
unfolded above the Earth the Hubble Space Telescope Humanity's eye on the
universe received an unprecedented upgrade during its Fifth and final servicing mission in May 20 9 a brave
team of astronauts embarked on a daring Journey aboard space shuttle Atlantis their mission to Breathe new life into
Hubble ensuring its Legacy of Discovery could continue for years to come over
the course of five intense space walks they replaced aging components installed
state-of-the-art instruments and rejuvenated Hubble's capabilities the impact was profound
Hubble's Vision became sharper its reach extended deeper into the cosmos and its
scientific output soared to brand new heights 15 years later we continue to
celebrate the remarkable success of servicing Mission 4 a testament to human
Ingenuity perseverance and the enduring Spirit of exploration
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well hello everyone this is Scott Roberts and David Levy where are we are your co-host tonight um David is in
Canada right now uh coming in live over his phone and um
anyways uh I know that you don't have a lot of time David but thank you for making
it well thank you as my pleasure I wouldn't have wanted to miss
this being all but one of your Global star parties and I think the one I
missed was the one about the special Moon thing and I just kind of just how somehow I didn't get to that one
however um today we are C in the
life of um the founder of the international dark sky Association David
Crawford who has now passed away and uh I knew him very well my very first
meeting with David was while I was friends with the famous Milky Way
astronomer Bart Bach and uh he wanted me to become a member of the American Astronomical
Society immediately and he said in order to do that you need to get reference get it from my friend David
Crawford so I went to David and sat in his office and I started by saying Bart
boach has an idea before I had a chance to say anymore David said it was a very good
idea the two of them thought that very highly of each other anyway today I'm going to utter as
a quotation which probably stays the same for both David and for me um um
when I was gradu after I graduated from Acadia
University I went through one of my very severe depressions when lasted a long
time but uh I
still during that time I graduated from
M with a ma with a bachelor's degree and brother Jerry my younger brother Jerry gave me a gift of a poster that he had
found and the poster had a line from Henry David thos Walden from the concluding
chapter and it really kind of expresses my goal in life and my path in
life and I'd like to
quote if a man does not keep pce with his
compion
perhaps A Different Drummer let let him step to the music
which he hear Scotty thank you and back to you anything I said just now thank you thank
you okay that was it was a little a little bit garbled but anyways we got a
lot of it David thank you thank you well can I give have a great time up there in Canada can you
hear me a little better now right now is good yes okay I'm gonna say it again if
a man does not keep Pace with his companions Perhaps it is because he
hears A Different Drummer let him step to the music which he hears however
measured or far away that's did you hear okay that was
great thank you thank you very much David enjoy your time in Canada take
care okay okay um our next speaker will be
Don NAB from the astronomical League Don uh has given us many uh great um talks here
on global star party and uh uh his talk tonight is going to be summer star
clusters but I think he's going to talk a little bit about the 2024 Alcon uh
which David spoke at and I heard it was really fantastic and I'm sorry I I was there virtually but not really and so
anyhow here we go all right well I'm going to start off by
sharing my screen and I just I had not a lot of time to
put the uh the pictures together but I did get
some together yesterday afternoon okay coming through okay yes
yeah should be in screen show mode here y okay that's perfect so um this is of
course the uh the skyline of Kansas City Missouri you know I should have asked
somebody why why I was why I was there Kansas city is in Missouri what so why didn't they call it Missouri
City I'm not sure but it's Kansas City so uh we had a great time so the first
night uh well the first day for the astronomical League U leaders we had a
council meeting all day and we survived that and then the the first evening was
uh going to the Planetarium had a great show and this actually all the photos REM except this one Terry man took
through the bus window that's how they got us around so uh so beautiful Planetarium and it's a Union Station
there's all kinds of beautiful things to see there all kinds of different different museums and I took this photo
right outside of course is the TX and if you can see there a nearly it's a a waxing gibbus only like two days from
Full Moon over the head of the T-Rex I guess we had I had we had a full
bus I went up to the Planetarium the next night was at the Linda Hall Library which you know I have to admit I
was ignorant of this but this is one of the Premier science libraries in the country if not the world so we went in
again had uh got transported up these are some of the uh historic books they pulled out
for us they didn't pull it out but they actually do have a book by Galileo that
has handwritten notes in it by Galileo so that's be coming out I think later this sum sum but they pulled out a
number of them uh a classic star map historic star map was was nice to look
at but my favorite was this one this is the they have David Levy donated his
manuals his observing books to them and here's the one of the night that Carolyn
Shoemaker and the three of them together discovered Shaker Ley n here's as
Carolyn discovered the most unusual comma today just after four and these
are his hand his notes that he uh he put in here so it was really really nice to see that since we were right around the
30th anniversary of the the impact so this is David's observing log from that very night when they discovered it David
gave a great presentation in the library and the library I mean let alone the books it is a uh architectural amazing
amazing place architecturally just beautiful beautiful facility and here he's talking about this is showing the
the Hubble image of when the uh the comet hit
Jupiter then the next night we had what they call instead of barbecue they call the starbq so this is where we were
eating it's at an arboretum Overland Park arum beautiful beautiful place we could we could Lounge outside while we
were waiting for dinner and here is a
cap anniversary of the Comet Shaker leev n Jupiter impact here is being presented
to David and that's Carol org president of the astronomical League there in front of
him then we went to Pal Observatory which is the Kansas City local clubs is their Observatory they have an amazing
30in mirror ref reflector and they give a great presentation and the again the
uh the moon Rose over the trees it was a very enjoyable night got a little late but it was a really enjoyable night they
took great care of us here's are scenes from the uh actual conference this was the meeting room uh
the AV was done very well we had a speaker in the front screens on both sides I might recognize a few folks here
this is the president's panel I was in it Terry man and uh Lori and Carl this
was uh Ed he was from uh the southwest region but it was just an open discussion about uh various topics but
they a lot of GSP people on there and a name you'll see later tonight Robert Reeves Robert zoomed in he wasn't there
live but he zoomed in this was his final slide which being a cat lover I I I
really fell in love with this slide but he did a great presentation astronomical League was there at their store and uh there also
was a presentation about the library telescope program which the astronomical League presents working with the local
libraries and here the final night these are the winners of the astronomical
League AST photo contest and uh there you see Lori ansorg
who was also presenting for the astronomical league on on the GSP many
times here's the uh the leader table you can see Chuck Allen and Terry man
looking very small next to Aaron clevenson Carol Oregan his wife and this is one was one of the presenters and
here is the current president and the incoming president Carol or and Chuck Allen so it it was a great event it
really was uh you'll see more from it because the astronomic league had a photographer going full board the entire
time so I just only had time to put together that quick slide show but I wanted to share that because it was a very nice event and next year we're
going to Bryce Canyon so I'm just going to do with three Southern uh deep Sky uh Southern
Sky deep Sky objects this is the great time of year to look for these things because uh we can only see them during a
month a couple months of the year and I'm going to talk about very briefly the butterfly cluster Messi A6 tomy's
cluster Messi A7 and if you have a pretty low Horizon you can even get NGC
6231 which is called the northern Jewel box and it's part of the false Comet so these three are you know some
of my favorites in the entire sky and uh during summer I just get drawn to the southern Sky because we only have a
couple months to see it uh messi6 is a butterfly cluster messi7 tmy cluster and
from a dark sight uh for me that would be Northern central Pennsylvania there's a state park called Cherry Spring State
Park and uh it's a mecca for anyone within driving distance it's one of the the premier dark sky sites in the
eastern half of the country and you can see both these clustered naked eye uh they're close to the Stinger of Scorpius
between the tail of Scorpius and the teapot of Sagittarius and usually up there we can get the northern Jewel box this time of
the year also called that's part of the false comment so all these clusters are open
clusters and sometimes they're called Galactic clusters but an open cluster is you know a couple thousand stars they
form from the same cloud and they have roughly the same age and there's about 1100 clusters within our milk Galaxy but
they're expected be more out there but uh they have not been discovered
yet so they are Loosely bound to each other because they form from one cloud and they can be disrupted by other
clusters uh they do orbit the galactic center and they survive generally only a few
hundred million years which is very short time in uh in the compared to the age of the universe they're they're
really shortlived uh compar this is in contrast to globular clusters which are much
stronger gravitational and they can go on for billions of years and they orbit more outside of the galactic plane they
can be above and below the galactic plane well that's a topic for another night so going to talk about this
section of the sky this is the southern almost due south Sagittarius on one side
um Scorpi the other up above them is uh ucus going to zoom in a bit this is more
on Scorpius and the actual things we're going to talk about are these three the butterfly cluster pmy cluster and way
down south near the Horizon this the false comma neula GC
6231 so first of all the butterfly cluster now you can tell looking at this picture this is from
um Italy you can tell with the background of stars being so intense that we are looking toward the the
central region of the Milky Way and you can sort of see the butterfly there's a there's a Wing down here Wing over here
antana up here it's not real obvious when you're looking at it with all these background Stars okay in binoculars it's
much easier to see the butterfly asterism okay and uh it's really unmistakable then in telescope like we
saw in this picture so many more stars were revealed it gets a little harder to recognize but the view is interesting
because you get to see color and all more stars but use your telescope when there's a little thin cloud or maybe a
lot of humidity or maybe maybe half a moon and then you'll see the shape in the telescope very clearly and as always
with a cluster this large you want to use your eyepiece that has the highest number in other words the minimum
magnification Okay so we have a 25 mm 24 even a 32 or a 40 use that in your
telescope cuz it's a large cluster so it was uh I think it was
discovered by our friend who we've talked about before in previous uh gsps
Giovani Batista odia and I finally found out today by Googling how he pronounce his name that
the H is silence so it was odia and that was back in 1654 Robert
Burnham who's very famous for his is U I think it's three three volumes of the
celestrial handbook one of the classic classic um books of astronomy he uh he
suggested that perhaps tmy even saw this when he discovered M7 but I like like
Burnham's comments here the present author regards this for small instruments completely
Charming group whose arrange Arrangements suggest the outline of a butterfly with Open Wings he's he's
captured a pretty well which just very well put now we'll go to mesa7 which is
called tmy cluster as you can imagine who discovered it well that was tmy right and you can see again this is a
incredibly dense Starfield behind the cluster of course the cluster is in the in the foreground looking toward the
hardly Milky Way uh behind the cluster this is on europees Space Observatory
image beautiful image so this cluster is you know um
credit H Tommy listed it has in his algamus as object number 567 let's go
back to 130 ad and his description is a neous cluster following the sting of
Scorpius of course our pal Charles Messier with his uh list of things that look like comets he listed it as number
seven and then John hersel another very famous English astrometer He described as coarsely scattered clusters of
stars so this thing has been observed since Antiquity and it's a beautiful cluster
so you can find it in your finder scope of the telescope or again pick your eyepiece with the highest number and uh
which could give you the lowest magnification and uh it's very
bright and again this dark sky site you can see naked eye so it's about 80 80
mixed magnitude Stars maybe th 800,000 light years away from Earth a beautiful
cluster if you have any chance to see it this summer you need to look for Messa 6 and 7 the Eason to find um you just have
to find easiest is to find Messa 7 first because it's brighter and then you go up to the right and find mess A6 and we'll
review that location one more time and then there's the uh the northern Jewel box it is part of the
false comment now just recently John gos past president of the league puts
together all our uh night sky guide Graphics he just put one out about the
false comment and uh here is NGC 6231 down the lower part here there's an open
cluster we'll talk more about John's sheet here in a moment so here again we'll review where
we're at so if you find Tommy cluster you need just go up or right and if you're using binoculars don't go not
quite in the same field but close tmus cluster is bigger and brighter once you find tmy cluster M7 it's easy to find M6
you need a very low Horizon to go down follow the tail of Scorpius to find the
false Comet nebula as it's called NGC
6231 so again you can tell by this picture the background Stars we're looking way deep into the Milky Way
we're looking in not out so this is a beautiful picture from a a photographer named Casey good I contacted him and
with an hour as he looked back to me he says please use the image so beautiful image the northern Jewel
box so we call the northern Jew Jewel box because the regular Jewel box is in
Crocs in the southern near the Southern Cross uh so here's pictures of the one we just had earlier and this is a
picture from ESO of uh the jewel box the IR regular Jewel box not the northern
Jewel box again we saw located Scorpion's tail makes the sharp left turn and Zeta one and two are actually
members of the cluster again our friend giovan Batista odia discovered this in the same year he discovered uh the
butterfly cluster and you know it's been given many names uh I created this image in in
plant in stellarium this is really the false Comet what they refer to as the false Comet but it's been called the
table of Scorpius been called the lizard and this is the false Comet so if you look at this especially with binoculars
it gives you the impression of of a comet down here was uh Scorpio Zeta one
and two would be the head of the Comet and just all these open clusters little bit neocity up here making up the taale
of the false comic Probably coined by Alan Whitman at the 1983 Texas Star Party is who this is
attributed to he described as a striking comet-like structure dreams North from
the colorful naked I Double Zeta scorp so again it's it's Zeta
6231 and h12 is a large spread out open cluster and all of it gives that
illusion of a comet again you have to have a very low Horizon to catch this but I would I would encourage you to try
to see it and that's where I got the information did a little research for this so uh I will stop my
share okay Scott okay wonderful um I
thank you very much for that uh report from elcon I wish I had actually been
there um and uh but uh seems like uh the astronomical league has also really
embraced the ability to do um uh virtual things too and and um uh you know
bringing in Robert Reeves like that and I know that they also had a uh you know
the ability to log in and watch those um uh speakers um you know live uh through
a zoom meeting as well so that was very cool yeah um and of course you guys do
astronomical League live uh regular and you're on global star party all the time too so that's wonderful as well um the
Bryce Canyon event do you already have a date I'm sure that many people would be interested in going uh we do it is it is
I think I think it's the last week in June I don't remember the exact dat that sounds unfortunately it's the same week
it's the same week as uh Star Quest and Greenbank so we got to pick one of the other that next year oh okay can't go to
both well Don as uh I as a first time uh
person well first time going to the from Alcon um I loved it I do plan to go to
Bryce Canyon for my second one and uh I was also invited to the Colorado the
Rocky Mountain star stair which is also the same time that that time is just a
great time to be somewhere dark so it it always seems to get stepped on but uh I
really enjoyed myself and uh it was a pleasure meeting you in person as well
as a lot of the rest of the uh board members and members of uh the astronomical league and look forward to
somehow getting out to Bryce Canyon yeah um reservations will be
starting to open in early August so I'm sure we'll see things from uh the officers of the AL they'll be putting
that out but I would encourage people to register early because it's likely will
sell out there's only so many slots to go there I think in 2011 there were like 400 attendees yeah proba be about the
same so yeah so we my wife and I intend to register we're going to register as soon
as we can so it should be quite an event the skies are are supposed to be amazing
that's right great Don thank you so much okay great oh quite welcome thank you um
our next speaker is uh Ron breacher and Ron is uh um uh you know an amazing
astrophotographer um but Ron also he really gets involved into the heart and
spirit of uh personal exploration of the universe he does that with his images he
does that in his talks and uh I always love to have him on so Ron thanks for
coming on to yet another Global Star Party thanks for having me as usual your
uh your theme for tonight gave me lots to think about and it's uh I see Rachel
Rachel it's so good to see you it's good to see everybody that I yes nice to see
you really nice to see all folks here but uh Rachel I missed you since I I
don't know when the last time I saw you was but it's been too long um yeah tonight uh the theme
tonight kind of intersects with my daytime job although I I have a lot of
astronomy in my day job but my my other day job is I'm a I
have a PhD in biomedical chemistry and I'm a toxicology consultant okay that's
half of my practi is on the science side but the other half is on
teaching leaders to communicate effectively in high concern low trust
situations so I've really looked at the landscape of what it takes to communicate effectively and so you know
usually I show a lot of pretty pictures and I can do that at the end if you like but I just want to share a few Thoughts
with you that are may be a little bit more about Outreach so uh I'm going to
share my screen and uh navigate over to my slide
deck and launch the slideshow so star share star star
squared um you know when you share you multiply the
goodness of everything however much fun I have at the eyepiece by myself you get two
people there it's more than four times as much fun right so Stars shared Stars squared
but especially if we're doing it with new people we have to really think about
the effectiveness of the communication and um I wish it was all roses but it isn't there's some
challenges so um I'm going to talk about the theme of tonight and then I I just
want to share with you a couple of important sort of uh what do you want to
call them bumps in the literacy landscape and I'm including numeracy the
ability to work with numbers in literacy so we'll talk about that and based on
that we can think about a very very broad Outreach educator checklist now
you understand I can't drill down down too deep in a 10-minute presentation but it's use useful to
think at least in Broad categories about the things we have to think about to
make our education effective and then I thought I'd leave you with my idea on
top five Outreach observing targets and uh we'll go from there by the way this
is in my driveway just about a week ago I had my whole family's medical
practitioners my family doctor came out with his family my daughter's physiotherapist came out with his family
and their in-laws and so on and so on and um this picture that you see here is
two little kids looking at the screen of my iPad and we looking at the moon
through the sear that's sitting right in front of me here so this is just this is where it
starts folks it's too late for all the grown-ups or many of them but it's not
too late to get the kids so uh let's uh look at the theme
tonight and lot of words here I distilled it from from a couple of paragraphs but here's what's really
important to me is the idea that astronomy Outreach education can bridge
the gap between the scientific Comm Community Specialists if you like even
if you're an experienced amateur astronomer you're a specialist right and the public and and
it can make complex Concepts accessible to everybody and these Concepts things
like distance scale the age of the cosmos when I tell people that something is 10 billion
light years away I mean I personally have a hard time visualizing that
how is it for people that don't think on that scale routinely uh and also we want to Foster
scientific literacy that inspires the Next
Generation so I said I come by this kind of honestly um this is just one of the
many jobs I've had in my career I was the senior scientist uh for public health toxicology and risk communication
at Public Health Ontario which is uh basically like our state level uh public
health agency and uh I published this uh
document on risk communication and some of the information that I included in it was
this literacy landscape and some of the quotes I'm going to give you are pretty
old but the new data is even worse than the old data furthermore all
of this data comes from Canadian sources but the results are very very similar in
the US and when we're talking I should just mention what I mean when we talk
about literacy I'm talking about literacy in English and in the case of Canada French as well so somebody might
be very fluent um and very literate in their mother tongue from the place that they
came from but if they're an immigrant and are not literate in English and French uh they may not do so well on a
literacy test so 40% of Canadians would have difficulty reading this sentence
and by the way the end of the senten is or understanding the instructions on a
prescription bottle oh my God yeah nearly half of
adult Canadians struggle with literacy and 55% of Canadian adults have
inadequate numeracy skills and that's getting worse and if you're not sure
about that pay in cash for something at a convenience store and see if the um if
the cashier can make change without looking at the cash
register and beyond that there's really a political war on science there have
been issues of um you know uh well-regarded magazines that have been
devoted to this and you can see right in the middle of that list of five on the cover one of the pervasive of hoax is is
that the moon landing was fake and a lot of people believe that so that's just a
little bit about what we're up against all of us as Educators so we we have
people that also the other thing I forgot to mention is if you're talking to people and uh explaining in light
years in Millie Parx and Arc seconds per
pixel people don't like to feel stupid and so people won't stop you to ask you
to clarify they'll perhaps go away without
understanding some really important information that you could share if you only took the time to figure out what
the needs of the audience are in receiving that information so uh I thought I'd give you
an Outreach educator checklist and again really broad Strokes because we only
have 10 minutes first of all think about the audience think about what they know
about astronomy think about the communication barriers it's really helpful to
anticipate terms that are likely to be misunderstood and to find simple ways to
explain them and if you happen to find yourself speaking in Goble you'll notice
it now catch yourself and and rephrase telling people what you
mean accommodate different learning styles not everybody learns the same way some people are visual Learners they
want to um see things they want to look
through the eye piece some people are tactile they want to touch it they want
to see that model of how far the planets are like they have at the level Observatory and many other places um
some people are auditory Learners and they need to hear you talk about something in order to learn it well
recognize that you have to accommodate all of those Styles
planning hope is not a strategy right you need to plan your Outreach session
and that is whether it's a live Outreach session or something online like I'm doing
here or uh doing a web post or teaching a lesson planet including a backup plan
what if the technology fails what if the sky conditions
fail what if there's a road closure and people can't get to the site have a plan
think about location equipment power safety is really really important when you're planning any event and approvals
you have to get the appropriate approvals for whatever that you're doing listen to
people sometimes when you think you're the educator you don't really listen to
people well maybe I should say sometimes when I think I'm the educator I don't
really listen to people it's a bad habit I got and I've noticed it and I'm
breaking it and that means listening actively without judgment just letting
people Express themselves before you formulate your answer we already know that we
know if we're talking to a group of beginners we either know the answer or we can
legitimately say I don't know but don't formulate the answer
while people are talking to you listen to them people will forget what you say and they'll forget what you do but
they'll remember how you made them feel my angelu said that she's way smarter
than me on that stuff but that's part of empathy it's really just uh helping people understand what they're seeing
listen to their questions so that you can give them really good answers stay
available um you know these Outreach things they're they're events but learning is a process not an event and
so we need to remain available to people after the event so give people a way to
get in touch with you and encourage them to do so some people don't think of their questions right away it takes some
time or they don't like to ask their question in public because maybe they're shy or
whatever so um here's my top five Outreach observing targets and by the
way right here I was we were shooting the moon at this
point but I was telling them and I was about to show them that as soon as it
got dark I was going to shoot an hour on the dumbbell nebula and there it is and that's what
the sea star as 50 it's an hour of 10-second exposures
that were automatically stacked by the sea star crazy
so what are my top five Outreach observing targets okay you got to think
about the principles here right people have to understand what they're seeing as much as possible the more they know
what they're seeing going in the more rewarding the experience is going to be at least for a beginner and that's who
we do out for when people are more advanced it's not Outreach in the same
way or I don't think of it in the same way so let's start with the moon any
phase any time be ready to explain its relationship in space with the Earth and
the Sun be ready to show have kids walk around each other without turning so you
can show why we always see the same face or don't see the same face of whatever
it might be let them get involved the sun is number two right why do astronomy
just at night when people are mostly sleeping the Sun is up during the day people are awake it's a great great
Target and with a white light filter or an Hal Alpha filter it's a great visual
Target there's lots to see number three Saturn when you've seen
Saturn doesn't matter what telescope you saw it through or what the situation was
There's No Going Back back after seeing Saturn for me it was one of the most
um I don't even know what the word is it was like it was a life-changing moment very
stirring that's that's a good phrase for it yeah it's and I I I bet most of the
people listening can relate to that the first time you see
Saturn you can't believe it's real but then you see it
changing year after year you know I've been looking at Saturn now since
1998 and so I've seen those rings come and go I've seen that
dance and uh it's really cool number four is a bright star
cluster and here it kind of depends on the season but this is the way to get your toe dipped into deep Sky objects so
the playes is a really good one uh the Double cluster in Perseus NGC
457 um is is the owl cluster uh all of these by the way are really good in
binoculars you don't need anything fancy for these and you can tell people what
they're looking at now generally I leave globular clusters off this list unless
you have a bigger aperture telescope for a newbie maybe the second third fourth
time when they start to know what they're looking at and they start you know you have to train your eye to use a
telescope uh and you have to train your brain to know what your eye is seeing once you get good at it with bright
objects it's easier to see fainter objects number five a bright nebula or
Galaxy and here really I mean a bright one so the Orion Nebula the Ring Nebula
is visible in just about anything it's incredibly bright dumbbell nebula
visible uh maybe not in binocular as easily although all the mess objects are
actually visible in binoculars um the melanic clouds if you're in the southern
hemisphere is are they're fantastic and their naked eye and the androma Galaxy
in binoculars in a dark sky or with the naked eye it in binoculars it'll fill up
and spill out of the field so that's my top five but if you
have a big telescope so I have a 20in job even with beginners I can look at
some fainter targets so um for example bright globulars M3
M13 they're both great with beginners they look like spilled sugar again you
got to think about how are you going to describe it sugar spilled on a black tablecloth is how I usually describe it
and I ask people to look for the granularity and in M13 to I tell them
what to look for do you see the propeller you know so we we can help
people see a lot more uh so here here's me and Outreach I love to teach and
write you know I write for sky and Telescope probably and amateur astronomy
magazine uh I do lots of online teaching oneon-one and through masters of pix
insight and I'm a PIX Insight Ambassador and um I added this is not usually on my
bio slide but for tonight I added that I do lots of Star Party presentations kind of like what I'm doing here and I have
friends over for observing from home and I get my visual scope out or some
binoculars almost every night that I go Imaging and um I have a friend who has a
cycling company called changing gears Adventure she takes four to six people
on a bike tour and they stop by the dogghouse and uh we do some uh observing
through my 10-in homemade scope or my 20in obsession so um Outreach all the
way help people learn is great fun and uh Scott thank
you very much for having me as usual thank you yeah I look forward to your next presentation Ron but I I loved all
the tips uh those of you in the audience that are uh into astronomy Outreach um
you know you're going to get lots of amazing Insight from this group tonight
uh it's thank you Ron for giving your top five and all that great
advice thank you all right okay so we are uh our next speaker
is um now Dr Rachel freed uh which I'm
gonna have to doctor that's right yes it's awesome so uh what an
accomplishment and um uh I met Rachel for I think the first time at Mount
Wilson Observatory and uh uh she was there when we were forming uh
a group called The Alliance of historic observatories and so I learned a lot
about Rachel at that time she is a Powerhouse of uh of information and
energy and uh you know uh her her project instar uh is something that is
uh uh phenomenal she is teaching uh students how to do science through
astronomy and so I'm going to going to give you the stage Rachel thank you all
right thank you for having me here and I'm going to go ahead and share my screen um and what a great lineup of
speakers um so you can see my screen I think um Ron I loved everything you were
saying about scientific literacy and how we interact with the public and the
importance of all that and that's that's like my mission in life is to get that
um you know improved scientific literacy in a way that's fun um and and exciting
in in a way that people are just intrinsically motivated through astronomy so um I co-founded The
Institute for student astronomical research about eight years ago now um and so I'm going to talk a little bit
about what we do and then some other programs that I'm involved with so we do astronomy research and this is a team
I'm working with right now um and what I want to point out are a couple things one we I work with students and college
instructors and high school teachers and students in college and high school and we work in these very diverse teams I
usually including now have students and Educators from all over the country and
sometimes globally and we work in teams to do really simple double star
astrometry so what that is is just measuring where two stars are relative to each other and we can compare
this to the historical data on these stars and eventually orbits can be calculated and from orbits we get masses
of stars and from the masses of stars we get to learn everything about their life cycles which is really exciting so we
take these students through this process of learning about the night sky learning how we plot things in the night sky
right Ascension and declination and how to select systems that are visible
through the telescopes we have access to and the telescopes we have access to um
our The lesce Observatory Global telescope Network this is an amazing network of we have uh access to the
point4 meter telescopes all over the world North and South hemispheres um and
there's always a telescope available and uh it's really amazing so students learn
how to select a project they learn how to use the telescopes to put in their requests so we study Washington double
star uh catalog Stars WDS stars um so they learn how to you know determine
exposure times and um how to select filters and so they go through this
process where they're using professional equipment and learning how to select a system to study and then they get their
images back and I I'm a little bit glad that Ron's whole presentation wasn't his amazing um photographs because in our
simple introductory astrometry we get pictures like this a bunch of stars but
it's actually really exciting because when you zoom into the center you see that double star you were interested in
and it's really obvious and we can measure those and there's always even though I've done this dozens of times
there's always this moment of excitement where like oh my gosh that double star that I just looked up all its values and
then I took an image with a telescope in Chile or whatever um there it is um and
so students do get excited they get this sense of ownership over the star they select um which is really important in
developing a science identity which is a sort of a you know a feeling of I can
become part of this community I can become a scientist or I can start to think like a scientist and this is
really important in developing um sort of PE people developing um persistence
in following science careers um and then they write papers and this is what sort
of sets this program apart they write papers on their double stars that get
published in the journal double star observations which was really set up to capture all of this data so these
observations can be um added to the uh US Naval observatories Washington
Doublestar catalog where all of this um all of this data has been collected for
literally 150 years this data hasn't been collected by the US Naval Observatory for that long but the data
itself has been collected we sometimes study stars that were first reported on by John hersel in 1800 hundreds I mean
it's really exciting um to connect to history and to to sort of feel like you're part of it so the students
measure the position angle and the separation so where the two stars are relative to each other and they write
and publish papers and speaking of scientific literacy oh my gosh for most
students this is the first time they've ever actually had to read scientific articles so we give them articles to
read to see how they're going to be writing and definitely writing scientific articles they go through a
peer review process where someone reads their article and maybe tears it apart
and says did you consider this how about this um and it's a really great learning experience they learn the the the true
nature of how science is done and in a time when we really need to improve scientific literacy in in this country
in the US and elsewhere um this is really valuable and my goal My Hope Is
that students will gain an understanding of Science and a trust in how science is
done and start to feel like they can be scientists so um what's exciting also is
just how big this program has grown over the last well I I really got involved in
2016 um and since then we now have 30 or so papers or more a year in the Journal
of double star observations by student research teams and they're not all necessar neily taught by me what I love
is teaching the teachers and then they go out and teach their classes my favorite thing I'm also the the editor
of the Journal of double star observations now and so I'll get submissions from a teacher and their
students who I may have taught several years earlier and and now they're just running it on their own and so we're
spreading this this interest in astronomy this access to telescopes um and this increase in scientific
understanding um and it's very very exciting um the percentage of Articles
contributed by seminar students is also uh it's huge now now 70% of the articles
in the journal come from these different student groups so they're contributing to real science in a meaningful way and
that's really exciting um for me and for them um you know it's there's there's a
lot to be said for for being a real part of a community um and contributing to
the science having ownership of that and then the other thing so Scott
mentioned to that I I have a PhD now I have been studying for the past four or five years the impacts of telescope use
and how that in impacts students and Educators and it's amazing because their
sense of self-efficacy self-efficacy is a very specific measure of of of confidence in your ability to do
something or to learn something um it's actually one of the biggest predictors of persistence in science if
someone has a high self-efficacy or high confidence in their ability to do
science they're more likely to persist in science um and we really need to grow
sort of our our stem Workforce our stem understanding science technology engineering and math understanding and
Workforce and women in the Sciences like physics and astronomy and computers um
tend to have lower self-efficacy but what we found was over the course of a semester of using telescopes in their
astronomy classes we we measured this in several thousand uh undergraduate
students it closed the gender gap in self-efficacy so what we're showing is the beginning of a semester and the end
of a semester the self-efficacy of the women and the men and the women start out with lower self-efficacy but by the
end they have higher self uh they have similar self-efficacy to the men and this is really really exciting um and
these two different graphs one is astronomy personal self efficacy learning astronomy content how you feel
about that and the other one the ISC is the instrument self-efficacy so your
sense of confidence in using the telescopes in manipulating scientific images um so this is this has been sort
of the most exciting finding from my years of research as we can close this gender gap in
self-efficacy um so the other thing we do Scott mentioned Mount Wilson is we
often take students to Mount Wilson in Southern California up on the mountain
and they get to use the historic 60-inch telescope or the 100 inch telescope uh
we were there in June with students and we were using both telescopes and we attach this tiny little camera
high-speed camera on there and we do speckle interferometry so this this
technique where we can actually study double stars that are even closer than you can normally just image with your
CCD camera and so we bring students up they learn how to control the telescope
they we have all these computers controlling the camera and telling the telescope operator where to move the
telescope to and then download the data and then they write papers on the on these stars that they study at the
mountain it's a really magical experience um and we've been doing this since about 2018 I think and we're going
to be growing this into a larger program so um that's really exciting and uh Ron
was talking about um how looking at Saturn for the first time can really change a person and some of the people
in the audience were commenting about that as well and it's really transformative I know that seeing Saturn
in the telescope for the first time was transformative for me and these kinds of experiences for students are
transformative I've seen students become part of the community for years after their first experience up on the
mountain or using the professional telescopes remotely um it's really it's amazing how this can um bring people
into the community and transform lives which is really what we want to do um the other thing I have so very
many things that I'm involved with um I work with Skynet which is another Global
telescope Network this is and this is where I did my research on we have thousands of students using this Global
telescope Network to to in their astronomy introductory astronomy college classes
and they can do things like study star clusters Ron had these or uh we were
looking at Star clusters earlier in this um program and uh we can this is actually it's a funny
picture because it's actually photobombed by a planetary nebula but it's really the star cluster we're image
we're interested in but students take these images and analyze the data in a
really meaningful way so it's they're not just collecting their own data they're not just making beautiful
pictures which is an amazing experience in itself but then we have online tools
that they can access that do things like create HR diagrams of the star clusters
where we incorporate um we incorporate Gaia data gu data from the Gaia spacecraft and
other other surveys and we can look at parallel at uh parallx values and proper
motion values and do cuts of these things where we isolate the stars in the cluster and separate them from the
background stars and create these HR diagrams of star clusters and not only
create these beautiful diagrams that tell us so much about the stars but we can manipulate the the age of the
cluster and the metallicity of the cluster so how much how many elements
besides hydrogen and helium are in the stars in this cluster and the reing due to their distance and intervening gas
and dust and come up with better um better measurements of how far away they
are and their ages then are in the cataloges in the professional cataloges so here again students have access to
these amazing tools where they can contribute real data um and have and
really just be part of the scientific Community do real science using telescopes um and so based on these
kinds of tools and access to global telescope networks there was a conference that we held last month at
UNCC Chapel Hill um called new technologies and dangerous questions in astronomy education and this sounds very
exciting and actually it was but um this gets to again what Ron was talking about
about scientific literacy and what are we trying to do for students how do we get them to trust science and to become
more involved in science so the questions we were asking were you know what is science educa astronomy
education now in the time of this amazing technology and this the James web Space Telescope and all these these
Technologies and on the huge ground surveys that are coming up the reuin observatory The Argus array you know
what should astronomy education look like how do we prepare students in this very Advanced sort of technological age
um are are we and I will say not just
with the technology itself but with AI and how do we how do we incorporate that or do we incor orate that in our
education system basically how do we make students how do we help them be critical thinkers who know what
questions to ask in science how to think scientifically how to vote scientifically how to understand their
prescription bottles um how do we how do we just
improve in the end it it's sort of improving quality of life for everyone through scientific literacy and
understanding in this really fun way through astronomy um I will tell you we are writing it's so far it's over a 100 page
document as a result of that conference and it will be published eventually um
and we're going to be presenting it at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference in SE in the end of August um
and so this will be published and will become available to the public to sort of see what we um as a large community
think astronomy education should look like in the time of these amazing telescopes and astrop photography and
online data analysis tools and just this amazing time that we live in and that is
what I wanted to share and um I'm going to stop screen sharing now um it's just
really amazing to be part of this community and thank you everyone for listening
scottt I think you're muted Scott are muted sorry I'm muted that's right hey I here I am talking up Rachel and it's
just like just going into the ether here um but anyways uh uh John Ray had
mentioned on uh who's watching on Facebook about what a wonderful job you're doing for uh investing so much
time into Youth and so um it's uh she's well recognized for this but uh I think
she gets like a certain kind of super energy from this so and I think that that is I believe that that is probably
one of the selfish aspects that all of us are guilty of that do astronomy Outreach is that we get so much out of
it okay do just just uh showing other people Saturn for the first time or
introducing them to concepts of you know what's going on in the sky and u i often
see um when when I have my telescope out on the uh street corner I sometimes see
the light bulb go off and they realize oh my God we're on another planet and
we're hurdling through space at unbelievable speeds yeah you know and all of this stuff starts to sink in you
know and um uh and that's when I know that they too are becoming astronomers so yeah it's an amazing experience yeah
it is it is I love that well thank you so much Rachel uh wonderful I hope to
have you back on to Global star party soon thank you thank you thanks okay our
next speaker is Cheyenne Smith and Cheyenne hails from Tulsa Oklahoma uh
she starts out uh always interested in astronomy and science um but uh uh had
some barriers to break through you know being a woman a person of color uh maybe
a lot of people telling her this really isn't for her okay uh which when you
hear stuff like that you know it it breaks your heart you know to to know that uh this is probably going on not
only in this country but in countries all around the world uh and we'll hear some of that later but uh you know
astronomy and science is for everyone it is a unifying um uh thing that we can uh
realize it is something that uh you know I think I think that if every world leader had to spend time at the eyepiece
and start to understand the concepts of astronomy uh that they too would find
out that uh you know this pale blue dot as Carl Sean coined it uh you know is
really uh you know it's the only it's the only world that we have and it's something that we should cherish and we
should cherish each other so I'm really happy that Cheyenne's on with us she's
doing some important work in astronomy Outreach and I'm going to give you the stage Cheyenne thank
you thank you so much um this work Dr freed and Ron just very infectious I'm
like Goosebumps over here thank you Scott for having me tonight um I'm going to share my
screen let's see
here and I'm trying to move this little bar
over all right can everybody see and hear my hear me and see my screen okay
it's coming yes it's loading okay it say that it's
paused let's see here maybe let me try to stop share and
do it
again there
just give it a minute is that good that is good that looks like your first slide okay perfect
all right well hi everyone uh thank you for having me my name is cheyen Smith I am a
NASA solar system Ambassador I am an aspiring astral physicist and I'm the founder of space for us uh and my
nine-to-five job is a creative Community manager at Tulsa artist Fellowship which is a local uh artist residency here in
Tulsa um I'll start off by telling you all a little bit more about myself and some of my favorite subjects in
astronomy and about some of the people I admire in these respective Fields then I'll go uh more into what I do at space
for us later on um I also during this presentation I know that most of our audiences uh is astronomically literate
but I'm going to present as sort of I would a general audience so there will be quick easy questions I may ask and
familiar footage to build on a point that I'm trying to make so uh my favorite topics are black
holes quantum mechanics and astrobiology uh and the Fallen women uh
are what I like to consider my Beyonce working in those fields uh these are
faces I wish I saw more of while growing up these are people I believe we should
be making more famous uh there are people I believe our kids should be idolizing more um and this is what we
need more of because like you all you know these people truly know what it means uh know what it means and takes to
be a global Community uh they know there's something greater than ourselves out there and we need to learn how to be
a part of it because we are and we can only do that by working together so this
is Dr Jah iser she is a astrophysicist at Dartmouth studying
blazars um she is also the first to graduate from Yale University with a PhD in astrophysics this is Dr Jessica she's
a prodical physics uh physicist at uh fmy lab and the these two are Dr Lynch
and Dr Shields both are astrobiologists uh Kendall Lynch she uh studies
extremophiles uh in efforts to understand how life could persist throughout the Universe and then Dr Shields is in uh she studies the U
atmospheres of exoplanet
so those women are um I have you know
some connection too um and I I really want to show their faces to the Tulsa
Community especially our students which I'm excited to like coordinate some
webinars and FaceTime with them in the future um so what is space for us so
space for us aims to make Steam through astronomy more more visible and accessible within bipo and UND served
communities for example you know it's hard to be what you can see is what I like to say uh that's kind of the
emphasis on my story um I subconsciously like act myself out of those rooms uh
when I was first pursuing uh physics um so showing a diverse demographic of
people working in space related fields is part of the reason I do this work and creating space for us um another goal of
ours is to of course advocate for dark sky protection and um yeah you can read
more about our mission at space for us- for spacefor us.org and also follow
space for us on social media which I'll post uh the handles
later so speaking of Darker Skies here's a little pist moment for everyone can
anyone tell me what this is you can leave a comment on YouTube or wherever you're viewing at and I'll give like two
seconds or because I already know everyone on the call knows what
um so this is the Milky Way uh the Ryan sign arm to be exact uh
and then I I wrote can anyone tell me what they know about the Milky Way uh you can leave a comment uh in the in the
live as I mentioned before um but the Milky Way is a Galaxy and it contains
roughly 100 billion to even billions and billions of stars alone it is also where earth and its solar system resides uh
one of our one of my favorite facts uh is that there are more stars in the observable universe than there are
grains of sand on all of Earth's beaches and that's incredibly massive uh how how
incredibly massive the universe is so there's so much to learn is what I like to tell uh uh my guests at some of my
star parties um uh and then did you know that this was some you
know above our heads every night but you we just can't see it due to life pollution
these images were taken by my friend Ian who is an astronomer and astrophotographer whose work I admire uh
much like Adrian who's on a call tonight um yeah and so this is another image I
like to show the public to give them more of an idea of grasping how small we
are uh and so we are here orbiting along in a Milky Way galaxy but the Milky Way is only a spec compared to the entirety
of the observable universe um and this is also a quick video I to show people
so that they can really grasp the observable universe so I I'll play it really quickly it's it's a clip from
Cosmos um with uh Dr Tyson this is what the Milky Way looks
like in infrared every single dot can everyone hear okay just the bright ones as a star
yes how many stars how many worlds how many ways of
being alive this also inspires me where in this picture every time I watch it see
that trailing outer arm that's where we live about 30,000 light years from the
center the Milky Way galaxy is the next line of our Cosmic address we're now
100,000 light years from home about giv visual visual the fastest thing there is
100,000 years to reach us from
Earth this is the great spiral in Andromeda the Galaxy next door we call
our two giant galaxies and a smattering of smaller ones the local [Music]
group can't even find our home Galaxy from out here it's just one of thousands
in the Virgo supercluster on this scale all the objects we see including the tiniest
dots or galaxies each Galaxy contains billions of suns and countless worlds
yet the entire Virgo supercluster itself forms but a tiny part of our
universe this is the Cosmos on the grandest scale we know a network of a
100 billion galaxies it's the last line of our Cosmic address for
now so the video I really love to show my stakeholders so they can fully
understand like where I'm coming from when I'm doing this work because a lot of people cannot grasp you know um I
mean like Ron mentioned earlier you can't really grasp billions of light years you know and when it's someone
that you're talking to that has never even looked up or even consider looking at the moon you know you're starting
from pretty much ground zero um this is what oops didn't mean to
play it again so part of our program initiatives is to Showcase this vast to the community members but uh by having
star parties building Community science programs astronomy clubs and schools and of course advocating for Dark Skies um
I'm highly under impression that the more we know about our place in Cosmos the more we can experience the parts we
have access to of course and the more we can understand each other and simply be
better to one another hopefully um I know for a fact that celestial events connects us just like you all uh because
look at you know for instance the award board realice event that happened people
loved exchanging and sharing their images and finally getting to witness uh
a Celestial event without having to travel far it was in their backyards right um so these are images taken of
celestial objects with the space for us telescope at Star parties and other related events um these are also free
takeaways for guests to have a piece of what they actually looked at the night and learned about I put them on
Polaroids so people can put in their wallets or build an album of the universe as they continue to come to my
star parties uh also wanted to add that the images the image quality is very
intentional as I wanted to build a certain expectation for the guests uh that this is what you see through a
regular Star Party telescope and that you're not going to get like a j j jwst image you know um it also goes along
with my branding for space for us which is uh retro space Aesthetics
um yeah and these are pictures taken at a solar viewing that was at uh here at
Gathering Place guests were counting sunspots and learning about our star um Gathering Place is a local park
attraction here in Tulsa uh here's more images of uh that
imagination celebration is what they called it at Gathering Place uh we met with many families and individuals who
had never looked through a telescope before and you know didn't even know that you could look at the star safely I
mean look at the sun safely with of course uh proper
filters all right this is the space for US Mobile Observatory project uh so to
do this work we are building this mobile facility to bring to neighborhoods of Tulsa primarily hosting north and east
Tulsa which are predominately Black and Hispanic uh just like Jinx which is Sal
Tulsa they have this lovely Planetarium and so I really wanted to build
something for the community that I was raised in because this is something I wish I had growing up and as I'm doing
this work I'm learning that a lot of kids and students are into space um like
I was and I really just want to nurture that uh we want to um let students feel
like they're astronomers by using this facility uh and build on a unique Community experience overall uh also one
thing I want to mention is that we found that transportation to events or after school activities is a challenge for
most students uh so building this Observatory out would resolve that
problem um and this is just more progress images of the
observatory and I just wanted to mention some highlights of space for us to dates
um so that includes are branding development this is something I'm really proud of and my first event um which you
can oops I'm go back to that my first event here to the left uh was at a high
school career fair uh e Central called e Central I didn't have much to much to
show uh the story behind of what I'm trying to do um just this clipboard and
whatever that is behind me um and then this year we showed up
really decked out and um it was really so much fun having visuals to help me
emphasize this work I had some donation pamplets from I forget which place it
was next doome next doome donated a lot of educational materials to uh space for us to help me uh pass out for free to
students and they students love free stuff everybody loves free stuff um go
back to this image um also this year we were able to donate over 200 Clips class
classes to Elementary uh students um so they can look at the total solar eclipse
which was great it was awesome um and
then this is uh another highlight was the success of the first star party we
threw uh 200 people registered and 171 people actually came um and these are a
couple of images from that evening
um and then these are some of my favorite testimonials I won't read them all but uh all have been very positive
encouraging and reassuring people love people love space you guys so we just
need to try to get more of it um in people's faces so
um uh my last highlight is establishing a leadership team with these two brilliant women in stem I won't read
their bios but uh Ashley Walker she's a planetary scientist research funded by NASA and Nia Butler here is a rocket
scientist with research also funded by NASA both are uh PhD students uh I think they're like at
the end of their their their years in PhD World um yeah and then I just wanted
to announce some upcoming events that I have um I'm curating a dark sky IIT
called Earthbound to help promote my dark sky initiatives by working with artists who men their Art and Science
practices uh one of the artists is Dr cyan Proctor who some of you may or may not know uh she's the first black woman
to Pilot a spacecraft uh she went to space I think a couple years ago and she was doing art in space she's just she's
also just a brilliant artist in addition to an astronaut uh which is really cool uh she'll be featured uh her artwork
along with other really Stellar artists in the uh in the show and so the opening will be October 4th and I hope to see
some of you your faces there if you can show up to Tulsa and it'll be open uh all the way through December
7 wonderful and then I'll be uh doing some sidewalk astronomy and efforts to
promote the Earthbound show and just everything that I'm doing in general I'll put out a schedule for that as well
and I'll of course would love to see your faces there too if you can make it um if you're in
Tulsa um and finally I just wanted to end by uh quoting Dr Raven Baxter and to
kind of add on to what Ron mentioned earlier about literacy it is very important that um we
work to increase scientific literacy across the board especially for marginalized populations or underserved
populations because the fact that it's 2024 and we got people who look like you know me um asking these very very basic
scientific questions mean that there's not enough being done to make sure that we are included in science that we are
knowledgeable about science and that we can participate in scientific inquiry uh so understanding the world around us is
so important and this is what drives me to do this work um I also believe physics and Mathematics shouldn't be
something that's intimidating to talk about it's how our world and universe works and people should want to be able
to talk about these topics as if they were talking about their favorite movie or their favorite sport um someone one
said to me uh everyone has a math brain it's just you know who's teaching it and
that really resonated with me because through middle school and high like my
junior high school I was I was a math Wiz and then all of a sudden it just some disconnect happened with uh with
how I was learning with teachers um so from that point on I was like oh no I
can't I don't think I can I'm cut out for it um and then someone said this to
me and I was like yeah that that's literally what happened but uh to close out I made this video to like girls and
just bipo people and stem andth kids and people in general who um you know was
called weird growing up because I was because of the interest you know I was called weird a lot growing up uh because
I was interested in space I was the only one in my neighborhood saying look at Mars right there you know so um this
video was kind of inspired by that
dear 10-year-old me it's not weird to look up at the stars and be
curious it's not weird to wonder about our place in the
universe it's not weird for a girl to want to be a scientist there are others just like
you and they were just as curious bright capable funny and even as weird as you
are they're not only reaching for the stars but grabbing the stars with both
hands accomplishing their dreams boldly you'd be proud to know you
overcame what they told you you couldn't or what wasn't your place
you've now made a place for yourself and for [Music]
others you are enough
remember the first time you looked up and you saw that you could be were and
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belonged thank you was amazing that was
wonderful thank you so much thank you Cheyenne very inspiring very inspiring all right you
know I'm gonna you know I'm gonna jump in Scott because we have uh we have an opportunity there's two people of color
on the show and I see Nico the hammer too Halen from uh from south from the
southern hemisphere South Rachel excellent presentation um
one thing that's been talked about a lot in astronomy circles is uh diversity and
how we achieve that and uh there is a lot of work to do um Cheyenne I've
followed I've followed your handle on Instagram probably should have done that a long time ago um feel free to reach
out to me or use anything I post if you need more material um to post and uh
have at it I love what you're doing and uh the thing about it is it's not just
us our hoods our our music our style you know we bring but we also read the books
by the uh greats in you know astrophysics we we don't come in to try
and take things over we come in to learn and we come to understand we want to do
Outreach too and we want to go back to those hoods and teach you know and
explain how astronomy can work over here in Detroit B Isle every few months we do
where things where we're showing the moon and we're showing um you know we're
showing whatever we can show Venus if it's out you know most of the time it's cloudy and of course with the city there
it's really bright but we still get the city to come out and we
we get genuine responses responses that I see no matter which crowd I'm doing
we've been in ant Arbor Michigan and all kinds of people from all kinds of
backgrounds all the students professors a preacher someone who didn't believe we
landed on the moon all sorts of things and every single one of them stopped
when they looked through any of the telescopes that we had there is no amount of cool that keeps you you from
enjoying what you see in space many haven't looked many don't have the time to look up because these communities are
worried about putting food on the table before they can worry about you know
things in space so uh enough of the preaching here you've already said a lot
of that in your presentation but just you know wanted to wanted to add a
little bit and just say thank you Cheyenne and you know all of us you a
Deb of gratitude for attempting to do what you we know it wasn't cool what
would you rather buy a telescope or the new Jordans that's what our community is about people a newc we still yeah you
you all out there and the world are going to buy new telescope we're gonna buy either new sneaks or kicks or
clothes or something else so there's uh there's still a lot of
work to do and a lot of it has to do with it's like your effort uh Rachel
you're you're having your girls are doing citizen science that is so
important they actually feel well I'm not just doing this to make pretty
pictures a real scientist is using my data that is amazing and that's something yeah you know we all seek to
uh you know we all seek to accomplish and so so just wanted to throw those uh
words in I have a presentation later I can always wait till then to uh wax his
spouse but um excellent work keep doing what you're doing all of you keep doing
what you're doing um this is this happens to be a fairly diverse uh Global
star party tonight and um I think it's about time um yeah I will say one more
thing and then Scott I'll run Scurry away again there was one thing missing at the astronomical League conference I
did not see uh any women of color at least I would I'll
say it black women joining us um there I know that there are conferences where um
more women of women of color in particular are able to join but um that
is something I would like to see but not just for the purpose of filling out a
checkbox um the work that you do Cheyenne helps make that a reality
because these young these young girls should want to do um if they're
interested in science they should want to do it and they should not feel afraid so uh with that thank you so much for
your work and for everyone else for everyone else coming up I see I see the
whole southern hemisphere is in attendance and uh can't wait yeah well
most we don't have Maxi I don't know Maxi if he's on but Maxi's out there watching so yes so
um so yeah congratulations on all the all the progress you have made and the
glasses are awesome you don't you ever stop wearing those glass I don't care
what you all are out saying in YouTube world or the internet those glasses are fire hey Rock yes I said it all right
Scott I'm getting out of here all right thank you Adrian um Cheyenne thank you
again uh for coming on I hope that you become a regular on global star party I appreciate it thank thank
you okay uh so our um our next um
speaker is marchelo Souza from Brazil uh if you've watched Global Star Party
you've seen him a lot uh he is uh a legendary uh Outreach uh
Ambassador um and leader of uh of space exploration and astronomy
education uh you know based in Brazil but he's known all over South South
America and um you I had the pleasure of attending one of his events uh he always
invites me I wish I could get down there more and one day I I will come back but
uh if you've never been to Brazil uh it is one of the uh warmest places not only
from climate but from people and uh it's it's really amazing and so uh marchello
is also the editor of Sky up Max magazine this is a free uh astronomy
magazine uh that you can just download anytime from our website so if you go to
explor scientific.com skyup you can read the latest issue so
thank you so much for coming on uh marchello and I'm going to give you the
stage hi Squad thank you very much for vitation nice to see all of you here
every is a great pleasure to be here I I'm sorry for because I I was taking
taking images and I was far from my home
here this is that I had to late to arrive this is vacations here in schools
in Brazil universities July is the winter vacations that you have here in
it's not the winter that you call here for us it's not the winter that you have in United States in Europe for every 20
degrees everybody is using jackets 20 degrees CSUS is cold for us 18 man this
is our winter here in h Jan it's not so cold as you have in United States but
for us is the winter that we have and part of Brazil we don't have the
winter as everybody knows because part of Brazil is located near the equator
then they have r two seasons in the year both seasons are
hot what is difference between the seasons is that in one of the season
they call you win it's rain a lot every day you have rains and the other season
is also hot but it's not they don't have so many rains this is difference between
winter and summer for the people that lives in part of Brazil that's located
near the equator in north of Brazil the northeast of Brazil and rains Havey
rains almost every day in one period of the year at almost at the same time then
they they generally they [Music] when they have some kind of appointment
meeting they use the rain as a reference before or after the rain because every
day I was there and happened this they said to me we rain in one hour and we
have RS one hour late and something very different from I think that everybody
has in your account because is an experience that that's totally
different and something that shows the importance
have local M educational material that is associated with the reality that they
lives sometimes here in Brazil have books that shows snow during the win but
here in Brazil we don't have his SN and in many countries here near
you don't have know is know then something difficult for the students to
understand this and then when you have we say that you have four
seasons and it's very difficult for part of the
people that lives in Brazil to understand the for Seasons because they
don't leave this they have only generally two seasons when is hot and it's not so hot
but it's also hot then is different from what we have in other countes but it is
our reality here in Brazil and I show some images I'm trying
to to share the pictures that I took today but I think
that maybe to not to work I I share amazes of activities that you organized
and uh last week in the beginning near the middle of
July I'll try to share this screen my computer sometimes has problems and I
hope this time my computer help me and they allow me to share on the moment that sh some
because Gabe gabri was here with you us and I mean I share what we in this
period it was a great experience here let me see if
okay can you see
I all right what's
happening it says it's yeah it was it was starting but it just wasn't
coming out I'm sorry well I'll talk about my
experience here because I think that you not I don't know why the PowerPoint Clos
and we had the opportunity to visit six different seats we have the
participation of more than 1,000 students that will involved with the
activity that we developed with the part Vis of Gabe Gabriel that
is a I I will show one of the I'll try to share another screen not point but from
the social media I think that you ah yes can you see now
yes we can see this one of the events that you organized in this event you have more
than 300 student that participated in one event why one of the I will share
the Ames I'll try to share the ma and this we did during one week we visited
six different seats and they had a total of more than 1,000 students involved and
had the opportunity to talk about astronomy and they also had the opportunity to talk with Gabe Gabrielle
that work at NAA for NAA former engineer at for naaz and he
make ever a fantastic presentation and motivates everybody that have the
opportunity to participate in his presentations but I don't know what's happening with my computer I'm
sorry it's not allowing me to to show it's okay sometimes technology doesn't
work for us yes I I'll try last time one time
more but if it don't work I will talk about what I want to
show our experience but I would like to show our pictures that we took today and the
taking with frequen that's something fantastic let's me see but these these
were taking at at the new Observatory that you guys installed yes yes great
yes I was there I was there oh I see I see I I was there now and is one hour
far from here where I live I see and I was trying to fix some things that they
they brought and new equipment for the telescope there the our Sky they having
new cameras [Music] new new Mount then everything is new
there inaugurate two months ago but they decided to bring new things to associate
with the telescope to be now have better mes have more sources then
something that is fantastic yeah and it's a wonderful experience but also I
was using the
unell that is a fantastic scope and something that is changing for me the
way that we do Outreach I I this I'm trying to show
what we did with this the first experience that we had ER to show for a
large P Digital Image live this is something that I imagine that I need
more time to do with as small equipment because we did this with CCD cameras
with a lot of equipment and now we make a test for me is working I try to share
this image and uh I did this using a Chinese projector small
projector and the Teo can you see the Mage now here yes I hope it works this
was last week and we were in a hotel that is the
nucleus of our astronomy group in a city that's located the mountain region of J
State and here is theox right and what we did you have a
big screen here we invite these people was the first experience to share live
images using G nox this Stope uh let me see if you share ah here
you have a big screen and you Shar the mes live in a big screen right and this
guy was fantastic then we show where these objects of the deep Sky were in
the sky first we laser pointer and then after we show the images using this
small projector here that a Chinese one very small projector you can bring
it with a a small bag and you have a bag
for telescope only this is enough to do everything and much
fun something that's is so fantastic experience that we are doing and we are
receiving invitations to do in many places because we can show the the
object and everybody see the same image here our experience to show them yeah as
a g and they show it live this is a experience that was
fantastic I was today taking new pictures I hope I have time to show
these are the events that you organize in six different seats with a lot of
people participating in different cities I had the experience to talk with
different groups with students adults a lot of
people if Gabe Gabriel here that he was with and organizing a lot of events
during one week we had two events per day one in the morning other in the
during the afternoon and we talk
with oh sorry I think that is the last Mage here and they had the opportunity
to visit many different places something that is experience that
I I trying to understand now this new research that we have now and for me
everything that I did in the past I think that I need to change
to now in the near future because it's something very different
and a fantastic images that you can take with a small
scope then some for me that is changing
my view of how that you can do Outreach
I I'm trying now to open the images that I took today if I have time
what only two minutes if it works I share it and I I shareed with my Google
driver I'm trying to access my Google Drive to show this Mage okay
I'm here you know it's it's saying a lot to hear you say that I need to really go back and
study everything again because yes you
understand so much about the workings of the universe and uh so uh and you've
been constantly teaching the entire time so it's uh but uh there are so many
discoveries being made all the time you know and it's coming fast and getting faster all the time as well so
look at this image okay something fantastic man H I
have it now I share the information about d uh let me here
M7 yes but the time that I use m17 two
minutes using the unella something that's
it fantastic I I I didn't make anything
it's image that the telescope shows to me I don't need to go to to the
Photoshop before any other softare so this is this is these are raw images this is not processed right yes yes was
processed only by the telescope but this is the original image this
see 5128 it's impressive ni I'm think that is
fantastic 100 I took it today you can see here you live
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hour 20 minutes that this image here of
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minutes wow I took 1 hour [Music]
ago can't transmit live something that okay how many St I was in a place
with without light pollution and something thing ah the
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yes and I have minut now this m666 today also took this
today I'm trying to to understand what I can do we we now are doing a projects
with occupations this m 9 7 Minutes Expose and we are now
working with equations and with
exoplanets you begin to do this using the two systems this one and
the telescope that is in the observatory now have two system both
digital this is from me is one of the Fantastic M this taking
today 10 minutes 10 minutes of exhibition explosion
incredible how that imagine that have image like this if without need to take
the the image from the CCD go to the telescope stack the Maes and do
everything and this in same time you you are with your smartphone the M come to
you [Music] MH something different now I know that
many we have other Scopes that you right
this why not for these are old images now are not for for
today and but I not to show three I think that this that I have show that is
something that changed my the way
that I'm TI to hit I don't know how to oh I can help
you my telescope ah okay I'm back okay okay thank you stop share that let me
click here stop share okay now I think that stop sh then something that is
changing the way that I plan the Outreach
activ something different thank you marello thank you for
sharing I don't know it's something very new for me we are using uh three months
on two months two months these telescopes the unistellar telescopes and many of the other smart telescopes that
are available today um uh you know you have advanced amateur astronomers uh
using them for outreach and they're an incredible tool for that and so um you
know I'm glad that you're excited about it I know Cheyenne uses one uh there's several people in our group for Global
star party that use unistal and some of the other smart telescopes as well um
but uh I think that they get a big thumbs up and probably deserve some sort of astronomy Outreach Oscar for their
accomplishment so and also is important for his if you want to do research of
occultations works well I did science yes you have they have a project of CI
and science that is fantastic from deci project not Institute that's something
fantastic and I I I'm trying to understand what the limits that you you
can go with this or what is the limits of this technology for us now but I
think that soon we will have a new equipment a new telescope that will
be will allow us to look deeply in this
sky and then something that I think that
will change the way that we do
Outreach I agree age I don't know how if
people when I have the opportunity to to see Maes like I show here live if they
would like to to look in JP again [Music]
yeah I think there'll be room see it with your own eyes too yeah there'll be room for both I just think it's depends
on how you how you present it if you like the pretty pictures these new telescopes make it a lot easier to show
people just how these objects look now are they going to be super detailed it
really depends on where you are and how long an exposure you take but uh the other side of the coin visually those
photons are hitting your eyes directly and uh those uh those photons may have
traveled 25 million light years 50 million light years and they ended up in
your eye so highlighting that physical connection is something that I think
will keep visual astronomy alive as long as we continue to do that so there's room for both that's a good point I want
to think that's we are you are saying what you feel we that we didn't born
with this technology but the kids now I saw by my daughters here they use
technology for everything then I don't know how they
will imagine this how that if they want to see in the screen because they see
everything in screen I don't know but these kids now in few years
what they would like to do and I can I think that is very diff difficult for us
to imagine the near future with this technologies that then I I what I I am
feeling is that something is changing because when we organize the first
activity with this Outreach activity everybody
was I don't know they are they saying that they was wonderful that they you
saw they put chest and sitting chest to see the Mage in the screen I didn't ask
them to do this but when I look everybody was in front of the screen with chest and sit to see the amazing
the screen then some thing that I don't know what happened but I know that
something that a fantastic to to be used in Outreach
activities thank you very much for and soon I think that we be launch the new
edition of the sky app magazine oh we have we have the contributions already
then wonder I think that soon we have a new and everybody's invite to to send uh
articles for the magazine you'll be very welcome thank you very much for invitation is a great thank you marello
you take care thanks okay so we're gonna go keep going further south and U we're going from
Brazil down to Argentina uh where I think that the Copa
Cup uh winners are the champions are still from Argentina so uh that's the
soccer team um and uh you know some of the best uh soccer players in the world
are from uh from Argentina you know and so uh that is my wife's passion is
soccer you know so when I come home there's a soccer game on that's it we're watching soccer so you know Scott you
soon as you said that marello turned his camera back on so he can see
it you might have to have all three in the picture before SAR start
showing us the southern sky this is officially stat team lost so you know
that's that's just the way it is but AR best team but I hope in next year
Brazil will be again the best team but I
I need to congratulate Cesar and NCO for thank you thank you America Argentina is
a great team and Messi a fantastic player they're becoming the Yankees of
football and by football I mean soccer is we call
no no no football is football and socer I don't know don't know USA yeah yeah
all of you watching we've been in the United States we've been saying it wrong for years it is football football you
want to try and prounce like like our ragby um uh but well we know that you
you name soccer to our football in the rest of the
world yes well our football has a few more violent collisions in it and uh
touchdown passes and things like that I'm an admitted geek okay and so you
know it doesn't matter what sport is on I'm kind of you know ambivalent you know
a little bit it's uh yeah I think it's exciting I do but I just um I can't
become a fan of anyone but I love like to see a great athletic play I do so I I
get nothing wrong with that and that that is where we have to give it up you'll see a lot in those great soccer
games or football games I agree okay all right Caesar you are up
I'm gonna take the rest of us off here and um uh and you've got the
stage yeah well uh we have cloud in another part but maybe in the South we
have some clear area um let me check if
I I have now I would I would like for you to talk a little bit about how you
do Outreach from your balcony and and you do you know you show people that and
we' talked about it a few times on this show that you show people that they can
experience the sky even from The Middle of a light polluted city okay and uh and
you do that regularly so yes this is uh the the in in in the
past from from the beginning uh from the global party actually I I am one of of the the
the all all participants that H we still I still
using the telescope ER and Li that is crazy but I I don't have a a smart
telescope I I I am not smart and this is the problem but H
something that that I can show tonight is H first of all the live image um
going the telescope Crossing uh the line of view of the welding that I have in my
back and um going to the to the showing
the stars of the South polar I'm starting to to to move the telescope
first um and after we are going to to put
manually h i show a technique with a go to go to mount when you don't have a a a
proper alen alation and you have a a r a r Goto alation
every month the problem is that I don't have three starts now because I have
Cloud weldings um first of all I I use
in my cell phone the the the application I put l l
Bri this is the the application that I use well I first of all I go to park the
telescope first of all to to make a a first
position I go to um here I open the menu I put
settings and I go to parking the mode
what for wait a minute uh Cesar quick question for you I see you're running
that application on a phone but that is an Android phone um yes yes so yes so
Android phones or only Android yes only Android phone have a beta application
but spor scientific is working in a new application for
everything um it's going to appear well maybe it's no more than me but maybe in
three months more for for our spring uh we are going to have a new application
is is is is right that I say maybe maybe sooner than that so uh will make you
aware of our we use Caesar U because he's an exp
for scientific uh dealer uh but he also knows how to set things up for
astrophotography and uh in this way we can test in the southern hemisphere you
know and so he is running he is he's using a beta version of explore stars
that runs on an Android phone and so yeah all the other apps run on tablet or
if you're connected in many other ways uh you canol right the system so yes
absolutely um I I going to use Nina tonight but I I had a problem with Nina
not with the mon H because I I I have the the last uh the last version you
know and I prefer now for the show using the the application with my cell phone
and the first thing that I'll show you to the audience is the image of the
stars in the southern pole let me show
you now we are using Shar cap and this is the area near to the area of the
Southern pole the problem here is that we don't have a Bright
Start to to start to make a polar alignment we can use in many many things
for example in this in this um application that is a free application
um the name is sharab you can use you watching the the
Shar my Shar up screen okay with the starts yes yes
okay and I show you instruments or tools sorry that this
is but it's the same of course
that cameras instrumentos polar alignment it's in
Spanish Al and here do you
have um a tool where you can you can use
first of all you actually well I I don't make a a polar alignment now but you can
use this tool to make a a a right polar alignment you have polar alignment Tools
in Nina in PH pH guider and um and sh sh
up in Shar cap maybe you don't have the the best uh tool in the Shar cap free
edition but it's enough to make a great a great polar
alignment here maybe do you have I don't know if I can move this bar
well theorically theorically you can you can
uh you can sh you can you can uh make um a a process where you can put
and you can find the polar alignment for for South eler is very important well I
I'll show you now a trick a trick for uh to to make
something like uh how do you say for example I I going
to I going with the with my my telescope to find uh I have a cloud now
well uh I go to the BR star
now this is what this is why um now maybe in in the South
Pole maybe I can I can
get my idea my idea is is uh show if we
can have an an um a a measure of my
error um from the from the South
Pole after the smart telescope that have that are using marello of course that
this is this is a lot of work but of course that when you have all in line you can
make an excellent Works um but Nico maybe tell me he prefer make small
pictures and and stacking need better yes yes I I know I know now but
that that tool from shup is really great and yes yes I think in in this step you
need to turn 90 degrees the yes the I
can show you yes I I I I I change
here yes it's like like you told me
here maybe I have two clouds now but maybe I can I share screen again and
maybe maybe
and you there you are it looks like Miss control see the
stars yes yes and you can see the the clouds and the Stars uh you can see that
for example she um the application show me a poor polar
alignment a polar alignment and I need to
improve um if I I have a clear sky I
needed to to improve um um
um error with less than maybe um five uh
I don't know uh one minute or for example with one minute here now we have
I have one degree 32 minutes is a is a horrible but normally you can a guy with
uh Nico maybe for example one one minute is perfect for for diving it is a very low
error sometimes I I use a five minutes and for me it's excellent uh for for
expositions where I guide in or I using for example maybe I don't know maybe h
less than than 10 seconds each each
uh each uh Exposition
um well here I prefer don't touch now but I try I try my
well uh in the entire night when I started to
to to assembly the telescope in the balcony any any Cloud was visible in the sky but
now of course that it's is the law is the law is the law
Scot well I'm sorry that I only and show you uh i i i showing only only
the there a giant nebula going by yes
yes yes it's a Milky Way Milky Way that's right yes you can
see you can see the P it's the Argentinian Milky Way y AB you can only
see it in Argentina different from every other Milky Way no and you can see yes yes you
can see yes that's okay look this yeah yeah
that all happened in a matter of five seconds too that sounds like we get in the northern hemisphere see it really is
the same yes not quite when those clouds clear you've got
some objects we wish we could see all right that was showing with shap is really
great because if you if you are watching the the Maring of eral you can very move
the the mount adjusting the the asimut and the altitude and get a very
polar alignment yes here in South emere we have the problem that we don't
have Polar Star yes and really we need this kind of
tools ER maybe that's we I I can show you with
less error error where is the how you
can adjust a minimum part and we can make if we don't have clouds the next
time H we can make a picture like maybe it's not a smart
telescope but it's a great equipment but we need clear sky if not
it's impossible with a smart telescope too it's okay it's okay but but the idea
the idea is is uh show the the live uh where you have a you know for the
audience this is the the camera this is only a small telescope
with a camera with idea I told guiding guiding is a small
telescope mini guid is the name that the people say
actually in the past was the typical find there but now you can use more for a photography
especially the mini guide a small telescope with a small camera that is
going to to the computer and the computer with a
application ER sent to the to the m the cable return to the m and put the M with
small movements uh to maintain the star inside
an area because you have small errors of course
and this unit is very very helpful uh with the application that the
name of the application is is um pH guider for example this is another
applications and this is very helpful to put when you
have when you need that the small star is going to an area without
movements um you have a more precise
pictures um and smaller Stars a smaller star image we can talk about Optics too
because we don't have from an start that is a point
geometrically because it's we never see a diameter of the stars in our optic
image and uh we have something that we call it
adds and mostly we have something that we call it um SE this because it's like
a a small cycle that is not the the real diameter or the
real image of the stars um is very helpful very helpful uh where do you
have this unit of guiding to maintain the smaller as possible this
image this round image of the STS you do you have
small slidings movements uh you have a fat star more complicated to to to um to
process the image uh um you need more time to process the image when you have
for example problems like out of focus or maybe you have Focus but you have
some movements in the tracking of of the stars and this is why the guiding today
that making the pass was something for professionals now all people all
astrophotographers think in guiding with their telescope not Nico Nico is from
Planet because when you listen how Nico make photography you're about to
find out if if you Hammer amazing it's amazing it's amazing it's true my hero
because I need to to make pictures I need to make astrop photography like
Nico really we need class from NCO yes to to make this kind of pictures this
is well thank you very much I'm Sorry by the clouds
CL it's all right okay all right it's a reality this
is a a reality show this is real this it is real that's right real
astrophotography sometimes the clouds just don't cooperate unless you're Nico to
hammer yes yes if Nico can make the clouds go away that will be really
amazing we are in the same area and maybe we are having the same we are you
probably are yes we are only at many looks pretty wides spread back there yes
maybe 20 kilomet 20 see it's clear where Nico is Right h no right now I have a
lot of low Mist Mist yes yes maybe maybe
later maybe maybe later in this presentation so you very much thank you
very much thank you very much and uh we are going to introduce uh Yun uh Majid
is that correct am I pronouncing it correct okay yeah okay uh yunna is from
Pakistan she is an educator um and uh she she has made it her mission to
educate uh youth in her country and around the world and so she is uh uh
she's presenting for the first time on global star party but she's no um she's
not a newbie to astronomy Outreach she's been doing it for a long time H even though she's quite young uh so I think
she learned of this calling in her life uh maybe in childhood so you know I'm
really really happy you're on global star party tonight and um I'll let you take it from here thank you okay sure um
I'm just gonna share my screen first I will okay so I'm sharing my screen can
you guys see my screen now not yet not
yet okay maybe one okay it's starting now okay so I
need to bring my presentation I'm just doing it from my
iPad for the first time so just gave me a little okay here it is hey so you guys can see the screen
now we can see it y yep perfect perfect so yeah it's um astronomy Outreach
practice and its impact in Pakistan through Global Corporation first of all
Scott thank you so much I have been following your work since I don't know I was 16 or 18 years old I'm 26 now so um
it's been almost a decade um and whatever I have done in Pakistan is done
it was possible because of the global Corporation because of the amazing Community I met online on Facebook and
they taught me um that how I can bring space to Pakistan instead of leaving
Pakistan and just pursue my passion person so the most frequently Asked
question from me is when did it started and maybe in your childhood you saw the
stars and you got fascinated and then you wanted to be an astronaut but that's not true this painting I made a few
years ago is the answer to when it started that I wanted to be an
astronaut uh to be an astronaut is the only thing that I had in my mind
since I don't know since my existence um I have no idea where did it came from
because my parents did had no idea about it I had no resources around me no
newspaper no television with such information no books no libraries around
me no space toys either so I don't know where it came from I was born in it so I
always say that it is innate I always wanted to be an
astronaut so this painting is actually an astronaut inside a
room um why I shifted from being an astronaut to becoming an educator well
that was an accident but a very beautiful accident in my life I would
say I come from um a very humble background in Pakistan I studied in
public schools and I was very good smart student
so in grade nine I was 14 years old and I was selected among the class of
excellent student who scored the highest grades and the classroom had 60 girls uh
it was our first day and our science teacher was asking all of us that what do you want to be when you grow up and
my turn was I don't know third or fourth so every girl in the r was saying want
to be a doctor want to be a doctor want to be a doctor and I stood up and I said I want to be an astronaut so the whole
class was thinking that what is this Creator what is it what is an astronaut
so my science teacher explained the girls what it is as what what is an
astronaut and then she said that yumna you cannot be an astronaut because there is no such thing as space and if you try
to go up there you will die so that was a very discouraging
moment for a 14 years old girl and how it impacted me was it it affected my
confidence I was very happy gol lucky playful cheerful child but I made a
shell around me and I couldn't make any friends because I felt embarrassed and a
few months later I changed my section and from the class of excellent students
I went to somewhere from a to d I just moved it because I wasn't feel good
enough in that classroom and one day I was playing normally with my new friends
when an ex-classmate came and said hey yumna that's you so yeah that's me why are you saying like this she said you're
normal I said yeah I'm normal why she said but since you had a dream to go to
a place which does not even exist we all thought that you are a mentally disabled
child wow so at that moment I realized that I
already know that there is a huge lack of awareness in my country about astronomy and space and I always believe
in it because I had my faith in it I was born with it but that particular moment
made me realize a role of an educator in shaping the minds of their students in
building or breaking dreams of their students so that 14-year-old yna decided that one day she going to change it for
Pakistan and then I got busy with getting good grades and securing um a
position on Merit on scholarship at um one of the second top Medical College of
Pakistan uh but there is something happened when I got the internet when I
was in grade 10 we got internet at our home um that was quite late but yeah
that's how um it was at home um this picture is very specific because one day
I cracked into some somebody's account because my sister forgot her password and she was asking me to try every
single possible password to get into her account and unfortunately I think that
is unethical but it's maybe because of Facebook security that I landed on an
Italian lady Facebook page and the first picture in the news P news feed I saw
was this picture with a caption in Iceland and I was like who wait a minute
in Iceland isn't it only desktop wallpapers because till that time I used
to think that these cool lights coming out of the sky is only desktop wallpaper
images so after that I started looking out um that how is it possible how these
lights exist in the world and they are real I got to know about the world
astrophotography uh my quest started and I started Googling
every possible thing every single word that came to my mind that how estap photography is possible ASAP Photography
in Pakistan blah blah blah so when I started writing astrophotography on
Facebook I came up with a lot of amateur astronomy societies I had I I started joining them
and well the society and the culture I come from girls I was very young at that time and
sort of we were not allowed to you know just randomly add random people over social media especially men um but I was
so into astronomy and my family knew it since childhood that this world is crazy
and Unstoppable when it comes to space Sciences um so I joined these
astronomical societies but for almost two and two three years I was a very
quite shy member of those societies I was just observing learning adding friends from those societies and then
talking to them personally because I was really shy I was a really low self-confidence girl and then came a
point where I tried a lot of things that people suggested that this is The Internship you can do y this is what you
can do and every time I used to land on those pages and apply they rejected me on behalf of my nationality you're a
Pakistani you cannot join it so that was quite discouraging and discriminative so
um and then again the people from The Amateur societies they recommended me that instead of complaining that you
don't have it have something related to astronomy in Pakistan why don't you make
something about astronomy in Pakistan so in
2016 the year that I got into my Medical College I had permission from my family
that once you get into a good college a good University you are okay you're
allowed to do whatever astronomy you want to do so this is your one I made this cardboard box model of a
solar system and then someone donated me these uh small solar pair glasses and I
went to a local school just look at the expressions of the guy looking at the
sun and then it's actually first two years and then that's me sitting on the
floor with um actually my Brooklyn laptop teaching kids from my residential
area and this picture where kids are at the hospital with me um so basically my
organization's name is exploration and it is named after astronaut neol Do's
artistic project which she made in 2018 uh the space it's a artistic spacit
called exploration and I named my organization after after it so I went to
one of the very big famous cancer hospital in Pakistan and we did post
cards to space um led by me in Pakistan but actually it was the project of
astronaut start then came the time in 200 um end
of 2017 when I applied for italis scope competition I was student ambassador at
Universe awareness Universe awareness was a project started by space Sciences
students at University of Len in Netherlands um and I applied for this
competition where they were uh Distributing five telescopes all around the world especially to the girls who
are working for astronomy and I remember um the day I applied there was some
drama going on at my home and I was very distracted mentally but I still made it
happen that I have to apply and I remember I wrote that I if I win this
telescope I will make sure that I make a safe space in Pakistan for women and
young girls to enjoy the beauty of the night sky and in early 2018 I randomly
get a message on Facebook from Jean peir Hey that hey we want to ship you your
telescope and I was like I'm sorry I haven't ordered any maybe you're contacting the wrong person and let me
EXP explained it to me everything I was over the moon and when the telescope came to
Pakistan first they told me that you cannot have it because you are a medical
student oh well that was a bummer and when I showed them my certifications
that hey look I am student ambassador of this thing I'm National coordinator of this thing that blah blah blah uh they
sent me back home and two days later I was actually having my final exams of my
second year of medical and I was very busy mentally I had to focus um but they
called me and they told me that sorry you cannot have the telescope because it is a terrorism
too that was a big big bummer for me like come on this 20-year-old girl
looks something horrible to you and it is a science equipment if a doctor can
Dr around with their stetoscope around their neck and a strong Romer can room
around with their telescope why it again it hit me hard because it is because of
unawareness people don't understand the tool and they just see it as a dangerous
one um but somehow my dad um tried to pull some contacts everywhere possible
and he made sure that he get the telescope out and then the journey began
we did a lot a lot of solar observations because one I am a girl I was very young
and it was easier for me to go in the daytime instead of conducting things at night time um when I got permission of
working from my parents I had this one rule that I have to be back home before
it gets dark so I made sure that I get a solar film so Jean also gave me um a b
solar film and I cut a a jar basically and made sure that the film is perfect
over there and then he started solar observations and a very few night sky
observations with a wooden Mount telescope it kept going on I traveled to
Islamabad to do these events this little kiddo is grown up now he loves space and
here you can see it it's a public school in girls we went to the outskirts of Islamabad and uh what happened here was
that we only said that I I will come and I will engage only one class which means
like 60 students or 50 students uh but when we put the telescopes the kids just
ran out from the classes crazily and all of them wanted to see the sun all of
them wanted to experience it because that is a liftime chance for them but
what happened was the whole line was over there but the sun was getting down so it was unfortunate that some kids
could see it and the other couldn't the journey kept going on and on these
pictures are from the last two two three years and then I also got this small
group of volunteers who sometimes help me but you can also see that mostly we do uh day observation because our
telescope is okayish with um solar and lunar observation um then some something
happened last year in 2023 so during this time I joined some volunteer
organization and then I volunteered for them for a very long time and I ended up
getting some scholarships to travel internationally so in 2019 I went to Japan in 2021 I went to Dubai uh in 2022
in order to support my organization financially because we don't charge people um I opted to take take up a job
in Dubai and I work over there for six months and I exchanged with my mental
health and emotional well-being um they were having a lot of problems with my
social media presence and the attention that I get because of my work so they wanted me to shut down my organization
in Pakistan so I had to quit the job and moved back to Pakistan um I missed quite
a few uh scholarship opportunities when I was inbay because my my boss didn't allowed me to go in 2023 I was selected
for Ascend in Las Vegas at the same time I was um elected for high SE analog
Astronaut training and I landed in Vegas I attended the conference and until the
time when I went to Portland to take my next flight to Hawaii for my high seas
analog Astronaut training unfortunately um the person in Pakistan
who promised to pay my fee for high se he just ghosted me and he just disappeared he's a very big celebrity
but you unfortunately so what happened was an
amazing group of Americans came up and they made sure that my three month say
in America is something that I remember for a lifetime and they asked me what do
you want to do I told them that I want to visit maximum planetariums
observatories and Space Museums because one day I want to make one in Pakistan I
visited 10 different states in us um I love Cosmosphere in Kansas it's amazing
I wasited NASA Johnson Space Center I'm standing in front of NBL that 14-year-old yumna never in her wild
dreams imagine that one day I would be standing over there in 2021 Dubai I met
astronaut Jessica and Astronaut Christina and I showed them my book there's someone in us they made a small
magazine about me and I had a conversation with them it was a lifetime experience for me and then I
also did um adult space camp training I used to look at these pictures on Google
people doing space camp training kids doing space camp and then um then I went to us I was 26 years old um but amazing
people at space hip stores they bugged my adult training at um
space camp and I not only did my training but I also won their Right Stuff
award um and yeah also something that I started as a onew woman Army so for
almost five years um I was all alone doing it all alone during my Medical
College um I don't know it's not maybe good but I used to Bunk some classes to
just go to the nearby schools to conduct some space Outreach and then come back
uh so it's been a long time with our old name and old branding so I have just
rebranded my entire organization because if people are coming to me and want to join my hands uh in space Outreach I
don't want to make them feel that this is my promotion thing I don't I am the
face of it because of all the media attention that I get but I also want to make it a team so from exploration by
yumna we are now exploration Cosmos to class room and that was one of the
Meetup I invited some volunteers and the girl uh who is
sitting next to me wearing a mask uh in this meeting I asked these people that
what is that one thing that you really like about exploration and this girl
joined me maybe a year and a half ago and she out of nowhere said that she
loves exploration because it is a safe space for her to share her passion for
astronomy and enjoy the night sky and this girl had no idea what I wrote eight
years ago in my telescope application so it it was a very great moment for me
deep down I was like okay yumna one mission is
accomplished um these are just list of some awards that I won um some
International some national um there were great I love the
awards which are telescope and proper educational resources uh some of the awards helped
me to travel and experience space conferences internationally which gave
me a great great exploer I also gave a small Ted Talk tedex Talk which is
available on YouTube you guys can see it um but out of all of this um maybe
you can see this list what do you think is the most good one like what do you
think which award looks like a really good
one how about most distinctive woman
yeah it's it's all like United Nation gave me award they featured me and a lot
of stuff I got Diana award um I got award from French
Astronomical Society United Nation titles 25 and 25 award any
guess you guys can write in the chat box what do you think which one is a good one like worthy like
whoa any guess like anyone of you can say I would astronomy in covid-19 2020
is a significant one because the entire world shuts down and yet you are able to
accomplish that during that the beginning of that two or three year time period so I would consider that a
pretty St a very uh a very good award
just being able to do Outreach at a time when everyone was shutting down yeah we
we did that we did a lot of online sessions and then we managed to translate an English space uh Kids
magazine into our language U and then we printed a few copies with the help of
the award money and we distributed it to uh the students and the teachers who do
not have access to Internet and who do not have English literacy uh so yeah but out of all the
list of awards my biggest award is the impact that I have been able to create
um because in 2021 when I started getting media attention uh my social
medias were flooded with messages appreciation there was negativity as
well but at the same time there were parents and youngers coming up to me telling me that you're doing great stuff
we want our daughters to be like you our kids love space and we never encouraged them because we thought it's not
possible in Pakistan but now you are here showing them away so now we will let them uh take up their space dream
instead of being that typical Asian parents who wants their kids to be either an engineer or a doctor so my
biggest award is the impact that I have been able to create um few year like
this is a very amazing short story that uh a few years ago someone saw my work
online and they said we really like it and we want to help you how can we help
you and I was using a manual telescope with a wooden wooden Mount and it was very difficult for me with my eyesight
and I said yeah maybe a goto telescope can help and they were actually serious and they were like like okay we are
sending you a go to telescope I was like sorry I just said it out of nowhere
because Customs are a problem so but they were insisting and I said that if you are really willing to help help me
and want to send me a telescope send it through the embassy these people were
from French Astronomical Society and when I told them send it through Embassy they disappeared for one year and then
one year later I got the call from the French Embassy in Pakistan telling me that hey we got your award and Mr
Ambassador wants to present it to you so they invited me to the Embassy to give me this award and it was like oh my god
wow it happened in yeah um this was the
first time we did first FTI Fest uh in southern Punjab you can also say space
fast and we used first time this uh this telescope uh okay and since I really
believe in Impact this is these are the few numbers um so far we have worked
with more than 18,000 students and most of the time was when I was in my Medical
College because um I graduated in co uh
and after my graduation for six months I also worked in a covid lab and my job
was to extract RNA virus and make a lot of copies of it but I swear I didn't
spread it it was only for research purposes but meanwhile I was I was I Che kept doing my aach work so these are
just a few numbers we did a lot of TV interviews and one of the sessions that
kids love is talking to a real astronaut or an ASA scientist but there are very
few and it's very difficult to get them the the astronauts but yeah we can try
to get more space professionals from them um my I my brain is like a Pandora box when
it comes to educational programs focused on space and how I can create different learning
experiences um I have my primary like my main target age group is primary and
secondary school kids but I also work with kids in the hospitals using art as
a healing therapy I also want to like I'm trying to make programs from
differently able kids especially visually blind kids and deaf kids um I can easily partner up with um
organizations who are good at sign languages but for for the visually impaired I need CD printers and stuff
like that to make the tactile Pates I have special programs for girls which are more around mentorship I have
trained the teachers program I that I want to develop but it's only on the paper again because of the lack of
attention and the lack of funding because due to my a lot of volunteering for other organizations so that I end up
at some good opportunities I am unable to focus on building my own thing um one
thing that I really want is to offer edutainment program for family events
for birthday events because uh that is how people get engaged and learn things
I also did prechool sensory space play workshops and I also want to have a
small setup where I can have a few laptops and then um high school students can do
some uh research project through slooh telescope or by Las convers
Observatory um but out of all of these is right now the all the workshops
there's a wide range for primary and secondary school kids and for girls and kids in the hospital they are all up and
running these are the sustainable development uh goals that
um are actually very close to our work quality education gender equality
reducing inequality because I myself has studied in a government school and I know how being deprived of opportunities
means to me climate action it's very important there is no Planet B and Partnerships were goals
because all the work that I have been able to do in Pakistan is because of the international Partnerships and
collaboration that I did this is something really beautiful happened um
just last month I traveled to France so after I
got the telescope from French Embassy next year the people wanted me as a speaker at a conference uh and they
called the embassy again that we want this girl in Paris to speak and the Ambassador gave me the Visa and the air
ticket and he was like all clear you can go so it's really really nice to reach
at a point where first I was knocking the doors of the schools and schools
were not allowing me saying that you are too young you are distracting over students from prestigious astronomy and
from prestigious medical and Engineering topics and and you're yourself are a
medical student while you're promoting astronomy to to the level where Ambassador is giving you a shenen State
visa which is an extremely difficult one for Pakistani to get
um so this is to lose the sky of too City Delp is one of the biggest space
museum in France and my conference was at there it was cap communicating
astronomy to public and I went there two days earlier my hotel was nearby and I
was lost I was looking for places where I can find hot food when a bus dropped
me at a wrong bus stop and I was like okay I know this is the venue of my
conference and there are still two days left but let's Zoom around and see what's going on there and I was honestly
in my pamas and when I started walking on this path I was like hm I cannot
understand the French but the designs look very familiar and I kept walking and I kept walking in and then I saw
this poster of mine up there as a representative of gender equality in
space ah and um so good I had like this 10 minute emotional Outburst it it in
front of it I just stood there I looked at it I cried a bit um I never thought
that my work would come that far and it would be a part of um a big museum at
this this this exhibit is the official part of this Museum so that was um
really great experience to have and yeah astronomy is an observational science no
matter what you do it's very difficult to bring stars in the moons in the classroom if if if you do not have a lot
of resources and since I don't have a lot of resources it's very difficult for me and I have to make my sessions more
crafty um one of my project that I am working right now is that I don't know
one day I would love to have a big space Museum in Pakistan which has no involvement of you know civilians
military there I don't want any discriminations um but for now I'm
working on Pakistan's first traveling Space Museum um which means that I go to
different places with my telescope and I have a set of meteorites um you can see these in in
the boxes they are placed so we pack this stuff and I go to different places um and I want to add up to my traveling
Space Museum and one of these are the few things which would be really helpful
an inflatable planetarium because Pakistan doesn't have any public Planetarium and we don't have any
Observatory either um we are head because I have tried that in us and it's
an amazing experience I would love to have VR headsets where Pakistani students can experience that as well 3D
printers for 3D printing the um educational
resources for blind and visually impaired people and basically any other
portable um affordable space educational
resource um there are a lot of challenges there is lack of sustainability and business model
because I started it as a passion it's been a decade now almost a decade
recently celebrated our eth anniversary um uh but it's totally non for-profit
it's so actually I used to call it a non for-profit unless few months ago one of
my friend who comes from a business background told me that what you do is charity and it's not non for-profit
because we really don't get paid anything so I had no commercial aspect
to it I started it out of my heart out of my fashion uh there is lack of equipment in a lot of facilities lack of
funding as well as human resources and this inflation people are not really
interested in volunteering anymore they need at least a small incentive to pay
them even if it's $20 or $15 per Workshop that they are helping me with
um that's how it it goes here but it's difficult for me and then there's also lack of training and educational
resources if I am traveling there's nobody behind leading the workshops on my behalf and
it has two reasons one um the people are not trained enough when they don't have
an incentive they don't show up at the workshop so where they can observe and learn how I do things and um second
reason is also that sometimes people want these sessions to be led by me like
for by yumna instead of um the team and and educational resources is something
that I always look for um these are some people who loved us who
featured us who partnered up with us um and yeah for follow and support you can
follow me um on any platform by the name of a red exploration by
yumna and yeah that's me actually and that's space that was great experience thank
you wow wonderful wonderful you know thank
you thank you I will just stop staring my screen your
screen very good very good well you have a lot of energy I can tell and and uh um
there was some uh great responses to your talk um
uh as as everyone here I mean we have had a really wonderful Gathering of
presenters uh it's been a TR truly Global star party it's not over yet okay
um but uh uh I did put in in text here if anybody's watching this Global star
party and wants to help support uh you know one or more of our presenters and
their Outreach activities uh that can happen um and I've put out my personal mobile
phone number out there so you can text the message GSP Outreach support and
we'll figure out a way to uh to make uh something happen so yumna thank you so
much is there uh is there anything else that you'd like to add before you we go to the next
speaker no I I just really hope that I become our regular GPS member and keep
sharing my experiences over here with you I I'm not a regular amateur astronomer
um because I don't have that type of equipment to do the astrophotography and
stuff um I use the yeah you are you are
an astronom an amateur astronomer you you you are an amateur astronomer don't fall for the you have
to know astrophotography that is I think you've done more you've done
more for astronomy and the talk that you told us you've done way more for astronomy than any of us who put out
these pretty pictures just to see who likes them I I am absolutely in awe and respect I am
following on Instagram now but okay great your path is the path least taken
please continue doing what you're doing I know I said the same thing to Cheyenne and your your your path has been even
more remarkable guarantee Cesar Nico um we're all saying the same thing
we thoroughly enjoyed and you are an amateur astronomer you there there is no
if you aren't an amateur astronomer then there is no such thing so please
keep and hopefully hopefully you receive more support and Scott I don't know I I
don't see any other reason why she can't be a regular it would just be about time and WEA whether or not you're able to
make it but I get it but I get it a lot I remember when I got the first telescope
and I posted like the picture of that telescope hugging it so any every time I
put a picture of mine with telescope I sometimes get the messages from astrophotographers asking me questions
very specific which are only required about for those who do pure
astrophotography and I'm like duh I just use it for kids and I don't know that
like it's not about astrophotography I'm even not good at taking pictures I can't take even a good selfie so you don't
have to there are plenty of us who can take pretty pictures like this Milky Way
photo how many of us actually know what's in that band in the Milky Way and
can describe what's going on behind it so it it isn't just about the Astro
photography it is about all of astronomy the visual the the Outreach especially
which you have you have done so very well and and the struggle that's I think
the part of astronomy we're learning from Global star party not all of us had to struggle like this just to Chase the
Dream of learning about things in outer space you did and you I'm sure there's
still more to do but come so far so it's just wonderful thing yeah it's just that
uh I know that it took me a long time to do these things only because I had more
hurdles and more barriers but I am grateful to learn all those experiences
at a young age so that now I can make bigger impact um at at this age because
I know that I always say that I am the voice of young people in my country um
because I know what they want I know what that generation wants and lastly I just want to add that if any of you
wants to support my because you can contact Scott and um there's a plus
point that anyone who supports us gets my mission
patch there we go so yeah it has a whole story behind it all the stars are my
values and um yeah it's all purple because it shows women leadership in
space purple is the color of women empowerment and that's why I made it all purple instead of any other color so
yeah that's what does the reverse side of that badge look like it's um it's like
this oh I see just like emblem embro like embroider you can actually put it
on your your jacket or something yeah yeah it's it's embroidery yeah pure embroid that's it from my
side wonderful oh thank you very much yna and I know it's very early in the
morning you had to get up very early to do this um so
anyways hopefully you can get used to it so you can be on global Star Party often so yes yeah sure for sure thank you we
need to bring back yes we need to bring back the uh the Southern Hemisphere or
the the super International part of the show it was always an honor to be a part of the show during the international
section it was uh and it I kind it kind of uh relive it now if only Maxi were to
be able to join us it would be it would be all of us but uh no we we hope to see
you again soon y thank you thank you so much I will keep showing up okay all
right okay so uh Adrian you are up next here um and uh uh you've been uh through
the whole program but that's cool and um uh thanks for uh coming on again for
Global Star Party what do you have uh to share with us today I am going to I put the program over my little slideshow
together um we've had so much good information about Outreach and I think
including myself we've learned that it's not so easy to get out there um there are a lot of
obstacles um you know we at at uh astronomical League there was talk of um
how to continue you know amateur astronomy and astronomy in general how to make the Next
Generation or set up the Next Generation to take over um the graying out of you
know the the typical astronomy club was discussed and by graying out you looked
and you know you typically saw the same type of person maybe their wife along
with them at each of these forums talking about
um past present or future and with a global star party like tonight you know
what we've what I've seen is um the diversity and you know not just skin
color but location but how it is to try and promote one of the science Fields
like astronomy in different countries different cities different um different
neighborhoods and um if anything it's made an impression on me that you know
that Scott you call it Global star party tonight was truly Global from northern and southern hemisphere so my
presentation is about just basically my observations about Outreach I remember
we were talking about humility when we were talking about the theme like how
you know we're we're the universe trying to find itself not any any one of us just say we
are you know we're the man or the woman when it comes to astronomy it's this is
a community and the stronger the community the better we can then share
that with others we know what's going on in the world in in the United States
with politics in all countries when it comes to you know the popular thought of
space but we also know what happens when someone looks through that telescope and I've mentioned this
on others presentations when someone looks through that telescope they seee
being who they present to the world and they become who they really are which is
ODed and inspired by even just looking at the moon inspires them and um every
time a solar eclipse happens and we're in an area and no one has seen it they
begin howling and screaming and you you wonder if that's just sort of a natural human reaction to seeing something like
that so so it's um but there's something everyone can do it's not
just either full diversity or you know what what I will label
traditional I you know I want to be careful and not you know start a political start anything political
because that's not what Global star party is about that's that's not what anything International should ever be
about it's talking about how our differences come together to promote science space
um you've heard about stem um little girls little boys all ages races science
itself needs more people and you know wherever anyone is interested in in
science and space that's who we do Outreach to so you know that's and so
with that I will Blaze through hopefully a uh let's see if I get my
slideshow started here um start from the
beginning and now I have to uh let's see do
this here I'm gonna try and share my
screen and I am going to try and make this work see
usually I I'm there's a presenter mode so I'm here we'll
do that one share okay can you see it Scott and everyone else looks good y
okay so here we are my chasing Dark Skies theme that I always use and I put
humility because and especially For This Global star party it is an all about
humility and you know I continue to use these images because I'm looking up I
continue to use David D Levy the
Shakespeare's version all and really what he did is he drew closer to the sky and I do as well this image of the Light
Pillars just as a quick aside I like it a lot because it's it's not as often
seen you have to be in cold climates and the right condition have to occur I offered this image for free to
the Alcona County um you there's an Alcona County uh office where you know
the county that I took this in and they were more than happy there was no cost to them at all I sent them the image and
they put it in their literature um their County literature and it you know it
gave me great joy to see that published did didn't need any money for it it's
you know images don't always have to produce a selfish outcome they they can
be used for outreach they can this is a real true to the eye view of what you
know the uh Aurora look like to my eyes this is a little more detailed than I
saw when I went sometime in 2009 to try and find the Milky Way naked eye but
it's a recreation of me just going out to somewhere that I thought was dark
this glow that Glow's been getting brighter since and just looking up for the uh teapot asterism and looking for
steam I would later learn how to pull all the rest of this out of the sky so
so let's Place through this um see if this will work all right got my star visual
astronomy wanted to do when I put these images these were meant to be
here the first images I tried to take with a revolution imager and when I
chose this slide it turns out it it really looks like you're looking through an eyepiece at these things and they're
they're not too bad they they sort of represent what it's like to look through
the eyepiece those that are watching if you can name each of these objects um
maybe you'll win a prize maybe you won't I don't I forget the name of this one
but it's in Cassie p and so on so forth for the
rest um okay M13 M82
M101 M51 a b and NGC do not remember the number it's
called the owl it's the owl cluster I think it's NGC 8 something
but we'll look this one up it's called the alow cluster it's also got an NGC
number um I think 857 or I think that may be the number this is M51 A and
B this sort of shut down my thoughts of uh doing deep space
astrophotography I said well with detail and images and this image may not come
through quite as clean as on the screen that I'm looking at the point was when I saw this image I
said wow at all the detail yes it was the Hubble telescope and there's something about having your own image
and how close can you get to Hubble data to dat I've never seen this sort of dark
Lane detail in this part of the of the Galaxy as I you know as you see in
Hubble data but I said Hubble you win not sure what the point is now of
course all of you that do astrophotography know what the point is it's it's about pushing yourself to see
if you can get data like this with your own rig and so I would hear all the things
things too cloudy not dark enough we're human beings we're there's going to be challenges as we go you know one of the
biggest challenges we forget to bring something or it's an endless it's an
endless uh list I could make the why I didn't get that image or why I didn't go
do astronomy towel and put all of these on it and see if it sells but um I'm
just not sure if I would if that would be a good thing or not oh by the way this is a crude image of Omega centori
first time I saw it when I was down in Arizona near Tombstone realized I was at
31 degrees north latitude and in a full moon I went to try and capture it with a
camera and a large 600 a 600 mm lens so I basically took my Wildlife set put it on
a portable tracker and did the best I could with some 40 IM or so images that
I took and stacked them so I decided to go into doing
nightscapes Milky Way Photography and this pretty picture as I
I've discovered as I've gone back through all my photos this was actually the first attempt and it's at Lake
Hudson dark sky preserve uh you'll see an image later that shows a little bit of progress from the first time I tried
to take this image I used a Canon 30d and it was around
2018 when I was when I took this and I was taking other images so we all have a
start and um I started getting hooked in to do doing this but after seeing images
on the internet I thought well maybe I need some
practice so maybe I need more use more AI in today's time and those of you that
do know Sports know who this is and know about the rant that was going on this is
AI not artificial intelligence Allan Iverson Hall of Fame basketball player
says we talking about practice and but in the case of doing things in
space yes we are talking about practice um you could look on the internet and see a lot of people who
feel like they just do a good job no matter where it's not true out there
there are some things that'll happen you better talk about practice and in light of uh this
particular Global Star Party perhaps man or woman um we should cover we should
cover all not just not just man I try to embrace anytime you know
anytime I've had it just takes time to do things time and
humility um and whether or not it shows it in these two pictures you got an
image of signis there's the same image but what six years I've learned to take
to be able to tease out detail out of there and you know this
this these stars are really there you these stars were all that I captured
with my little Canon 30d six years ago it takes time to get the type of images
that you want to share um with people and um you just you
have to be patient enough to take the time and to you know to look for ways to
get that get that done um something I've always believed is it the images don't have to
be pretty pictures although it helps if you can make a pretty picture you can
share that picture and people will look at it once they're looking at it you can talk about the things that are in the
picture so once again this is a from 2018 to now the difference in me taking
images of the Milky Way over the lake but it didn't come without sacrifices
long nights um upgrades and Equipment only when I found it necessary to do so
upgrades and processing and being able to use them proper you know for the type
of image that I like I won't even say the word proper or better or right I
don't want to use that because that to me indicate you know indicates that
there's nothing at all to learn from this image well you can learn a few things you can show people you see the
star Trail so obviously this was you know exposed a little longer but you could still see this is so bright you
can still see this region of the Milky Way the core the Sagittarius small the
small star Cloud the larger star cloud is here um if you look and try as hard
as you can you might be able to make out the stars of Sagittarius and of Scorpius
it's hard doing this image but those things are there you know for somebody
who hasn't gotten to a level where they can expose detail you know the at this
time there was a lot of Sky glow in the sky and um so you've got green and red sky
glow this particular form of Sky glow where it's straight line called gravity waves and then you've got glow from
Detroit glow from Port hon combination of Port hon ins Sarnia and then Windsor
um there's still things to discuss and noticing how the Milky Way does not
extend to the Horizon because of that because of all of this light glow um the fact that there's so much
Sky glow here or air glow due to our active Sun sending more radiation more
particles towards Earth so there's a lot of things to discuss besides isn't this
a pretty picture of lake hiron with the Milky Way over it and that's the challenge that I take on myself to
share data about the images and not so much you know if you want to know the process I'll share the process this was
a long five minute exposure I'm pretty sure I tried to do this without a Tracker over here in 30 or 40 seconds um
and I thought it was a pretty good photo back then too Outreach opportunities of BU
and so you want a tough image to make by the way try capturing people and you
know part of the night's sky at the same time that can be very difficult it's
something I'd like to work on but let's discuss some of the things I put here Outreach from one of our CL one of the
clubs I'm a part of low brow astronomers did a survey and they found that a lot of people are interested in
astrophotography very few are interested in Outreach but clubs and efforts like this don't
stay alive unless you do Outreach so there are ways you can do it you can volunteer your local astronomies
astronomy clubs star parties or open houses you're at work unfortunately your
nino5 gets in the way of you doing astronomy but if you are one of these astrophotographers out here and you've
won contests at your job so that your stuff is on walls in in the calendar
well share more about why you do it share more with these with Folks at the
job I've talked to high ranking officials at my job our our CIO our CTO
people that wake make double and triple the amount of money I do at that job and
they've come to me and talked about how cool it is that you know my astronomy
Hobby and where it's been able to take me that something that that's Outreach right there right at the job you're at
restaurants or social Gatherings don't be ashamed to show people well I take these pictures this is what this
is you never know school we we see folks who are in school
Global star party all the time and are showing so much info about space
SpaceTime Astro physics astrophotography and anything to do with
astronomy they're not afraid to to make that a science project and then get
support from the teachers that see that there's something special um with the ch
um children going to school in between baseball Innings I do Sports from time
to time and I share my images with those guys and you know what a lot of Bowlers
even professional ones have walked up to me and said your images are amazing and
I don't take I take it as a compliment but I also take it as an opportunity to
say they even like to see pictures that I put of space there's more reach to the
images than just are they pretty pictures and it's something that I try
to take pride in and I try to use that to talk about it there are there are folks out there some of my teammates
that are asking questions about that and you know I give him answers whenever the
Moon Rises and in between Innings we're talking about the moon and uh got to be
Fearless about that and uh I see Robert you're here just wanted to give you a
quick shout out presentation at at uh Al Alcon this one's for you because it's
the moon um and continuing on WE embrace
the moon and we Embrace new technology uh
technology if it's working to show the night's sky and especially if you're in an area where you don't have as much in
ways of Dark Skies you've got ways to still do Outreach so putting your scope
on the moon or putting sea stars and Eevee Scopes and if I mispelled
anything um you can talk about it afterwards but the whole point being our Young Generation has grown up
seeing Hubble images and now jwst and other space other Space Telescope images
that have been released this is how they are react how they are relating to astronomy and through
astrophotography and there are plenty of us that can help these help Young Folks along the way with that but visual
astronomy doesn't have to be left behind um you can read this or I can tell you
what it says you put someone up to the eyepiece and you say this galaxy this
nebula this even this star cluster traveled through space the photons
traveled however many millions of light years and they ended up in your eyes
this is you looking directly at something imagine it's so far away you
can't even get to it um in your lifetime but you can see it with the aid of a
telescope and naked eye astronomy as well if you point out something like the
Andromeda galaxy if you are somewhere dark enough and it's naked eye visible
you point that out and say there it is some 2.4 million light years away and
you can see that far because a it's that big and B it's that far away but your
eyes can can see it and that's something you you share something with that it's
no longer about your pretty picture or anything it's about you can see it you can enjoy
it too and that makes that makes people resonate lunar and solar Outreach is very
popular so we've got a couple more images so as you can say I'm AI but this time
we're not talking about the basketball player we're actually talking about artificial intelligence as photographers
use artificial intelligence to try and smartly reduce the effects of noise on
images that we take in the dark um longer exposures does help uh we use AI
processing of images unistellar sear these Scopes are using a form of
artificial intelligence which essentially you can boil it down to it figures out where it is what part
of the sky it's looking at from and then longitude latitude from there figuring
out where everything else is goes right to an object puts it in the center of
its mirror and sends that data to your your phone um the figuring out where it
is part becomes a form of artificial intelligence artificial intelligence
is intelligence done artificially whether it's been fed data from humans
or you know it gather it's trained to gather its own data it isn't necessarily
this you know how 2000 taking over the world or you know that's the dramatic view of AI
there are a lot of good uses of it and those good uses we can be a part of the
group of science-minded folks that can tell people don't be afraid of it you
use it for you know the words Force for good come from on there are good uses it
just needs to we just need to make sure that we manage what it is that we're using artificial intelligence for
because once we do that we can we can have it help us with a lot of repetitive tasks and can do some pretty amazing
things with it and that's that's what as part of our Outreach we can spread that
message so there's so much we can affect and so many people we can lead towards
looking into astronomy and keeping this wonderful hobby alive and the science that It produced
is even as citizen scientists it can become more than a hobby it can be something you're using to you know help
further exploration into space doing what you can being a part of something
which is what a lot of people in general it's about being a part of something they want to be in a political party
they feel they're a part of that they can be a part of Science and if they never felt that they were science-minded
and you tell them how easy it is to join you can them and that little child that
was within them that didn't get a chance to enjoy science cuz it wasn't cool well
now they can you know as they get older and it isn't it isn't about going
back to school and learning a lot of things but it's what we're able to teach them so we teach them more than just
this is the process to create a beautiful image we teach him what that image what this the galactic center is
about and all of the nebula that are here remember I took that old crude
picture at um Lake Hudson dark sky preserve well this is the same place
some six odd years six or seven odd years later and now there's more that
I'm able to see with the process I use but it's also more that I'm able to
share um about what's going on here and
all of these nebula and dark nebula as well and what this window in this even
this little region the exoplanet search happened in this little bright region right here so so with that Scott I end
with um you know don't forget AI helps us you should always practice your craft
we practice humility when Allan Iverson oh by the way when he got inducted into the
Basketball Hall of Fame it was such a tearful speech he was gracious even he
this point in time in 2002 was not very humble he happened to point to disguise
so your world class Asher imager and master Observer or just getting started don't forget keep looking up that's
right and uh so even even AI can teaches something when he did make the Hall of Fame he was very humble he was full of
tears he thanked everybody that came before him and so this is an opportunity
to thank all of you watching Global Star Party SC
Robert thank you you Nico and Cesar all that have been a part of
global star party we we're doing this together and you all very instrumental in me pursuing this even more um I think
it's been around three years on and off that I've uh presented time really flies
so uh thank you all and thank you all for watching and keep looking up you a and we got
more we got more yes what's that Caesar yes I I was inside because I am
my my throat is a little complicated oh no okay yes but I I I was watching the
show inside the living room and return a little
more yes okay yes excellent excellent
presentation ad I agree with all that detail tonight we
have U between um the Yen and and
um y was excellent the the two new
members yes really uh excellent presentation of Adrian and Nico that
return to the global party yes excellent excellent
Global okay all right my clouds from wenis your clouds from
wenis thank yeah no it's cool it's all cool yeah well great well thank you
Cesar so we're going to go on to our next speaker here which is Robert Reeves
Robert uh recently gave a presentation at the astronomical League convention uh
he is our our uh I think one of the world's uh great experts on lunar ter
rain and certainly one of the best uh lunar photographers that I know uh I I
am constantly stunned at the quality of his work and uh the quality of his
presentations too because uh uh Robert Reeves is in love with the moon and uh
and he shares that with us each and every time so thank you Robert for coming on all righty well thank you for
having me again and uh also thank you very much for your help in uh my remote presentation to um elod last year I had
to cancel out at the last minute due to medical issues family medical issues and this year I was unable to make it again
but uh they were kind enough to allow me to give my presentation remotely so I'm very grateful for that and um as I
follow along behind Adrian uh yeah I feel totally intimidated of it lordy uh
the guy is so insightful and I I just spout facts and this guy speaks from the
heart and it's really really amazing um well don't worry Robert your your facts
make the moon amazing I'm sure I'm sure everyone watching is waiting to hear the
presentation because you give wonderful presentations and don't forget you've been at covo
and like you presentation you're out there doing it it's not just about
sitting in front of a camera making taking some pretty pictures you're out there on the Grassroots and on the
ground so it there's room for all of us oh absolutely um well the when I saw the
um the badge for um GSP 153 it said Cosmic connections on it so thought
what's what's my theme and I realize well uh there's a connection between the Moon and all other worlds in the the
solid worlds not the gas giants but they're satellites though uh what's the connection between the Moon and all
other solid bodies in the solar system it's craters everything from Mercury out
to Pluto is heavily cratered even the Earth was at one time but um Earth has
weather and oceans and plate tectonics so it healed out most of its wounds but
U these craters are still uh Universal on all the other solid bodies so let me go to screen share here and uh do the
grand experiment and see if it actually works I think it is this time and um
let's see here all righty my title slide should be
up Postcards From The Moon And uhu as come on there it goes finally
advancing and um as with most of my moon presentations I put up this one important slide to give you a brief
geology lesson about the moon everything we see on the moon including what we're s going to be seeing tonight uh was
formed by only two processes either an impact slammed into the moon and um and
created a crater or a basin or subsequent volcanism wed up from in from
inside the moon and modified this this feature and in some cases uh both
cratering and volcanism uh worked hand inand and modified the uh uh the feature
so um um tonight uh well now they're advancing again uh so tonight we're
going to be looking at craters on the moon now we tend to think of craters as these boring lookalike similar potholes
in the moon you see one you see them all but um no craters are as individual as
snowflakes each crater is different each crater is so unique that a seasoned
lunar of Observer can look at a picture of of a single large crater on the moon
and identify it by name just like you can identify your children uh by just
looking at their faces in the picture craters are so unique each one so different that uh they also um are
absolutely One of a Kind so um let's press on and uh we're going to explore
the types of craters on the moon so uh like stars are classified by what we
call the main sequence where color temperature uh changes U through the
life cycle of a star uh allow us to classify it uh you know the O and the B
and U like the G-Class stars like our sun all the way out to the mclass the
the very old reddish Stars well the uh the moon has a much shorter version of the main sequence uh for the craters um
anything smaller than 16 to 21 km in diameter is create called a simple
bull-shaped crater uh anything larger than 16 to 21 kilm the Dynamics of the object that
strikes the moon and creates the crat how the surface reacts and rebounds to
the shock will create what we call a complex crater that has a central Peak and collapsed Terrace walls and um often
volcanism will modify this or subsequent impacts will modify this so uh we we'll
see examples of this so how how it maintains the individuality of craters
and of course if a crater is larger than six excuse me uh 300 km we don't call it a crater at all anymore
it's called a basin so examples of these type craters a simple crater
like Helicon and larier a northern Mari imbrium just outside the mouth of uh the
Horseshoe Bay sinus arhm U small bowl-shaped craters look very much like
somebody took a giant ice cream scoop and just scooped a chunk out of the Moon and then complex craters the uh most um
obvious example when we look at the Moon through a a modest telescope cernus greater we're looking straight down on
it we see all the glory of how the central Peak rebounded up from the uh
subsurface Rock by the shock of the impact and how the the walls of these
craters are so high and so um wide that they're structurally unstable they
collapse and Tumble down into the crater and then another example down at
the bottom U if it's larger than 300 km in diameter it's a basin and there's a
70 something 70 odd I forget the exact number either visually or gravitationally detected basins on the
moon the ones we're most familiar with are the ones filled with Basalt lava uh
over three billion years ago and created the dark Maria on the on the moon that
we see um as the features the dark features that create the face of the man on the moon but many of them did not
flood with Basalt and in this case Bailey down near the moon's
Southeastern uh limb u a prime example of one of these um basins on the moon
that did not flood with Basalt and is still um maintains its original
structure although degraded by subsequent impacts now um some of you all who
follow my three my postcards from the the moon recognize this as the post that I did today um I advertised it as 550 km
of nothingness on the moon which is very unusual on the moon uh such a broad
sweep a greater distance between uh than between uh here San Antonio to Dallas in
Texas beyond beyond that so it's very unusual to have a large area like that with relatively nothing on it but this
is Mari serenus the Sea of Serenity U very aply named because it is one of the
most Serene places on the moon the only small craters on it are these small
bowl-shaped simple craters the largest uh crater down on the lower right Bessel
16 kmers in diameter classic simple crater all the others the uh middle left
the white haloed Len crater and uh the the strange linear row of uh four
craters yeah actually five craters uh up near the upper left all of these are
simple craters just b-shaped depressions and the moon like you took a giant ice
cream scoop and just scooped out a hole well complex craters now we're getting
into some significant detail like Pythagoras got up on the northeastern limb um the U multiple Central Peaks
present kind of a pyramid appearance but U like the others like uh geminus up
north of Marium or moretus down near the South Pole they all have this
characteristic collapsed Terrace walls where the uh crater was so big that the
walls weren't strong enough to support themselves and they collapsed inward to the middle of the crater and cernus like I said a prime
example we can look straight down a cernus from Earth uh and uh see all of
this all of this detail uh the same with Tao one of the youngest
of the large craters on the moon only 106 or eight million years old as
opposed to billions for some of the other craters and uh again a a central
Peak that rebounded up from sub subsurface Rock bouncing up like a
trampoline by the shock of the impact that created the crater and the typical
collapsed Terrace walls um Pythagoras again
uh up near the uh the polar regions and
um moving on yeah moretus down south very near the South Pole um down so
close to the lunar limb that we can see the mountain peaks on the limb of the Moon protruding up in in three dimension
the edge of the Moon certainly isn't smooth and Theophilus at the upper right
overlaying uh older U cus crater and then cathina
crater at the middle left uh all of these
um cus and cathine at one time looked very much like s uh Theophilus but uh as
each of these creators formed first cathina and then theop uh then cus then
Theophilus each impact the shock and the ejector from each succeeding one
progressively ruined uh the previous craters so now only the uh the last one
maintains its fresh appearance but a very much typical Central Peak collapsed Terrace
walls of a complex crater and I had mentioned Bailey which almost disappears
in this so I'm hoping that my cursor is visible as I Circle the rim of Bailey
large whoops wrong direction um come on there we go um large Basin on the
U southw Western limb of the Moon and for that matter there's another Basin up here hidden in plain sight uh following
my uh cursor from above uh elongated Schiller crater down to the complex
crater here zius this entire relatively smooth region is another Basin of the sh
Sher zius Basin but um it's hard hard to pick out unless you know that it's there
um now some craters that um started out as classic complex craters with a
central Peak collaps Terrace walls were later modified in this case the top one we see a tus completely smoothed over um
this was filled in with a wave of ejector thrown out by subsequent Basin impacts after theopus I mean excuse me
after um palus was formed um prior to the nectarian aoch uh this
crater's about 4 billion years old so it was around before the moon got beaten up
really bad during the nectarian epoch when all the large basins the surviving basins were
formed and another feature of craters is the crater Rays the right white splashes
of material that Splash out from these uh younger craters uh this is the rays
are composed of pulverized glassy material blasted out of the crater by the explosion that created it now crater
Rays fade after about a billion years billion with a beat uh because of the
constant infall of meteorites tills the lunar soil and eventually Gardens the U
the soil so much that the Rays fade away so um um the presence of rays indicates
these these craters are a billion years or younger and of course creater Rays
reflect very brightly back toward the source of the light Illuminating them which is the Sun and uh they're
brightest at New Moon I excuse me full moon uh nothing's bright at New Moon uh
brightest at Full Moon uh when the earth is lined up between the Moon and the Sun and the the reflections are coming
directly at us um there's also different kinds of
rays these monodirectional Rays like those extending from mesier and mesier a
up at the left or this very distinctly butterfly wing ray pattern from procus
these are indications of a very very oblique impact very shallow inclined
impact in the case of mesier and mesier a The impactor Struck and formed missier
which is the right hand one first Ricochet bounced down range and
struck again and created a mesier a which used to be called Pickering on Old
maps and created the monodirectional um Ray single Ray streaming down wind U
now the same with happened with procus except it was a single impact and uh the
area to the lower left where there are no Rays we call this the zone of
exclusion and this is an indicator of the direction the impactor came from no
crater Rays um spread out back in the direction the impactor came from on
these very very oblique impacts and examples of crater rays of
course we can see the tonian ray system with our naked eye at Full Moon it covers half or almost the whole lower
hemisphere of the Moon uh spread out over 200 uh 2200
kilometers um other Rays um cernus Kepler and aristarchus they combin to
form a bright PCH that we can see with a naked eye so uh these are substantial
craters but cernus of course uh um its Ray system spans over a thousand
kilometers and uh this This Magnificent Ray system along with the the structure of cernus the classic uh um complex
crater design of it it inspired early telescopic observers to uh to dub cernus
the monarch of the Moon and U personally I think it looks like a giant snowflake with the uh the huge ray pattern and
then Kepler crater nearby um it spoked ray pattern um inspires me to believe
think of it as a ninja star um another class of craters are
secondaries now these are created by the impact of ejector thrown from the primary craters explosion now secondary
creators are very shallow compared to the larger primary creators because the
impact speed of the projectile that created them cannot exceed the 2.4 uh
km/ second escape velocity of the Moon if something is blasted out of a crater
by an asteroid impact at a higher velocity it will escape the moon and go into solar orbit so but if it's below
2.4 km per second it will fall back down on the moon and create a secondary
crater and um near a crater uh secondaries often lay in Chains in ropey
strings and Loops like we see here near cernus um we think that a majority of
the craters on the moon smaller than 20 kilometers are probably secondaries um
many are not but the majority of them are uh but U these can appear hundreds of kilometers from the primary crater so
it's really tough to associate it with a specific crater unless we're close in and see these these crater chains of
secondaries radiating out um another view where a low Sun elevation
accentuates these chains of craters extending out from
cernus and we can see the similar effect when we look very close to Tao um
ignoring the ray pattern around it drilling down to the the fine details of the surface notice all of the craters in
the territory around cernus are just blasted with tiny Buckshot pits all of
these were created by ejecta that rain back down on the surface after the
tonian impact and similarly on the bar nectaris
um theophilis crater showered out this this pattern of secondary craters across
the the northeastern Plains Northwestern Plains of U Marin
narus not all crators are round either um we think of craters as being round
holes uh I think all the the dictionary definition almost U always includes the
term round but not necessarily so like I said crater craters have uh distinctive
personalities no to are alike uh hanel um very um elongated peanut-shaped
crater is actually an overlap of two separate impacts the same with r e uh
this is multiple impacts but Schiller is a single oblique impact
sheer is huge it's 179 km long now if you translated that length into the
diameter of a round crater on the moon that would be one of the 10 largest craters on the moon so Schiller is not
small by any means and putting them into perspective it's very interesting that
Schiller and Hansel are in the same telescopic view on the southwestern
quadrant of the Moon and their chance alignment of lining up in the same direction is just pure
chance and uh looking down at hanel we
see it at an oblique angle because it's so uh low on the southern uh hemisphere of the moon so it appears elongated but
if you were overhead on a spacecraft looking straight down it would be two round craters merged together but again
uh Shiller yeah a distinct single oblique impact that plowed this trough
in of the Moon and continuing the theory that or
the premise that not all craters around um anander um the
overlapping anander A and B forms an inverted valentine heart uh meon crater
up at the North uh Northern latitudes uh four um overlapping craters that were
filled with Basin ejectors so their Interiors are completely covered and they they merge in to this uh fourleaf
Clover pattern um a grippa and Goen grippa being um distinctly bullet-shaped
um golden looks like a bell complete with a Clapper hanging down the
bottom and I can go through a whole catalog of geometric shapes of craters
on the moon but I'll just jump straight to the most improbable a square crater W
Bond up on the other side of Mario Fagor from a Plato crater
very distinctly Square in shape now I had mentioned
that um crators are formed by an impact and they might be subsequently Modified
by volcanism well these are examples of that happening U gendi posidonius uh
Atlas crater at their far upper right um these all started life as standard
um U complex craters Central Peak CL upst walls but the uh impact fractured
the lunar surface so deeply that it reached magma Chambers below the surface
and lava welded up from the bottom of the crater up into the crater lifting
its floor and um altering volcanically altering its interior all floor
fractured craters feature these networks of reals or cracks on their floor thus
the name floor fractured crater and looking closer Adam Cindi crater is on
the Northern shore of Mari humorum and uh uh it distinctly reminds
me of Grandma's oatmeal cookies right out of the oven how how they how this
this cracked uh look to them when they they fresh come fresh out of the
oven and U yet another classification of craters is Ghost craters now these are
craters that existed prior to extensive volcanism that flooded the large basins
on the moon and created the Maria now in this case Lamont stadius um flamsteed p uh were
substantial craters on uh a basin floor and then volcanism flooded these craters
uh flooded the basins buried these craters uh in the case of stadius and
flamsteed P the uh U very crown of their rims still protrudes through the the
basalt so we can see them as ghost craters in the case of Lamont the crater
completely buried but its Rim buckles up these wrinkle ridges on the surface of the Moon and we can see the
structure and uh close wider view of Lamont and uh just north of the Apollo
11 Landing site uh since we just celebrated the 55th anniversary of the Apollo Landing uh Tranquility Bas is
right where my uh cursor or circling but the Curious Thing about Lamont the
buried crater these wrinkle ridges radiating out from it uh so uh gives the
the appearance of a giant spider in north of gend on Southern
oceanis proelium I'd mentioned flamsteed P before but others like witchman R and
several other ghost craters all in this region uh Southern oceanis procellarum
very very heavily cratered prior to the lava flooding so all of these collection
of ghost craters or collectively call them the ghosts of
procerum and finally we get to a um a class of craters we call Katen uh that's
the scientific name for a Crater Chain and U up very near the center of the
moon's this Kat Mueller Kat Davy are very obvious U Kat abble feda at the
bottom uh 200 km long one of the longest crater chains on the moon and uh here we
see it again uh stretching uh near the lower Center uh a place it here's
theopus and uh cus that we were speaking of earlier and up where the
uh cursor is circling is the Apollo 16 Landing site so uh uh contain will feda
keeping a good company uh named of course after Abal feda crater this flat
floid crater here and it extends off the southern uh rim of kattin so it gives it
a rat tail appearance so um concluding uh like I
said no two craters are alike each is individual in appearance uh there's
uh a thousand big craters on the moon and no two look alike uh
some heavily modified like Plato completely flooded with with Basalt we can't even see it central Peak anymore
um others uh more U classic appearing uh
but Deep Shadows of sunrise and sunset give them a distinct personality and as
you follow these along the lunar Terminator um U you'll fall in love with
some of these they have their own personality each crater will talk to you with a different language and uh as the
Shadows get deeper and deeper and finally the lunar Knight swallows them up um the these all have uh very
endearing U individualistic appearances so as I always say there's
much to love on the moon and I invite you to come out and play with me on my playground so uh until next time I have
enjoyed it
and turning it back over to you thanks there's a question from John
Ray on Facebook uh watching on Facebook he wants to know when are the best times
to see crater Rays visually through a telescope um the closer to Full Moon the
better like I said crater rays are very efficient uh the material that makes them the glassy U crushed material that
may makes the crat array itself is very efficient at reflecting light light back toward its source which is the Sun so at
Full Moon the Earth is between the Moon and the Sun and that reflection is
coming directly at us and crater rays are brightest at the full moon now some craters have a sufficiently bright rays
that they're visible at at the Lesser phases in fact the cernic and
capillarian rays are are visible at their location maybe two days after local Sunrise but uh they really
brighten up at Full Moon so uh we classically hear that full moon is the worst time to observe the moon because
there's no Shadows so you don't see any uh any U uh any of the detail because
there's nothing to provide relief but the full moon is also the best time to
look at things that are most reflective like crater Rays or the bright rims of
uh ghost craters protruding above a Mari surface so uh the full moon is best time
to see a crater R great and I have a question about craters I I'm I wondered
if humans have ever seen a um
impact from the earth with the naked eye uh naked eye I there's anecdotal
evidence that uh uh English monks and I believe was back around the 11th century
um may have witnessed the formation of uh the crater geodo Bruno which is on
the far side of the moon but the u u effect of the impact was uh such that it
significantly temporarily altered uh the view of the limb of the Moon um now some
people U debate that both ways I don't have any opinion on it myself but I
think that's the only evidence we've we have of a large crater having been formed on the moon now U um smaller
impacts are detected quite often U an ordinary uh webcam or ordinary planetary
camera attached to a modest telescope looking at the shadowed Side of the Moon
not at the illuminated side during a a phase but at the shadowed side U just stare at it long enough and eventually
uh you'll pick up a a small meteorite impact on the moon a very brief Flash
now there's U many many people doing this there's organized uh uh networks of
observers doing this and it's uh um specifically to characterize the impact
rate on the moon and uh this this is very important information because sometime in the near future we hope
we're going to have settlements on the moon a lunar base uh science bases on the moon and it's always helpful to know
what's going to be falling on your roof so U this is an ongoing research project
and it can be U accomplished with a modest telescope and a standard off-the-shelf planetary camera so this
is kind of a citizen Science Program most amateurs could could participate
yep all we need is clear skies something I haven't had since the eclipse yeah can you can you believe uh
you you came down for the eclipse in Texas and you saw how the the weather caved in on us literally the day of the
eclipse uh the weather has been like that ever since it's been three months since I've had Indie Sky oh goodness
yeah yeah not not not a happy time but uh I love to talk about the
moon and uh be happy to come back again and uh chat with you again at a future time please do every time yeah thank you
yeah and I did find a website that I'll post here about lunar impact monitoring program from NASA oh cool there we go
okay very good okay uh thank you Robert and our next speaker will be uh Nico
Nico uh Aras and uh he has it's been a while since he's been on uh but we're
really happy to have you back on Nico and um uh thank you for uh attending the
153rd Global Star Party hey hey everyone It's Hammer Time
with Nico once again time I'm really really happy to be back hello again I I
take a long vacation from CSP yes I'm I'm really I'm really happy
to be here and I think that as Cesar said this is an amazing GSP we have
everything we have talking about Outreach teaching uh photography and it's is is
is a really nice GSP thank you thank you it's been well
and and as you know uh my participations is always talking about uh how you can
do astronomy or photography or whatever with adop sonan and uh I will H start
sharing uh the screen give me a
second here okay can you see the screen yes
okay um this few weeks uh I was waiting
because because we are having a lot of uh bad weather
and the the cold nights help us with a
really nice seeing nights and I will start with some Moon captured uh I was
Maring with a rubber presentation with with with the the pictures of the lunar
Terminator I I really love to to observe and capture on that that type that kind
of qus in the moon Terminator and I have a few videos I
recorded few nights ago these videos are processed with with
PE that the PIP software that adjust the
the movement and that's because you you can see the
like a static that I have no no tracking here I
have another video I captur three or four videos
because the I was testing the the camera for the night I was waiting for
Saturn and I get these three images of the moon
as I say I I I try to to capture near the the Terminator because of the the
details of the Shadows wow you can
see I really um I
was I am School wow the details yes I was
observing with with the with the ipce and I see the the night has a a near
perfect seeing because I do not remember to another time to watch this kind of
details in this particular S I think this is a in this is Mount
aen and this dark dark sounds I and when
I saw this in the IPS I was to catch the the camera and get the the
image this is a a closeup or that I don't know the the name of
this this this Zone I think this crator is a
manone luse but I didn't know the the dark Zone maybe if if Robert is near to maybe
Robert knows I I'm sure I'm sure he know and as I said I was h i I start the
the the Saturn seon and this is a a video of that night
you can see the we have a a nice scene but uh some some clouds that make that
that kind of distortion that is the movement of of my hand
obviously and that night I get this
picture that was till that night the the best picture of this season and it's
amazing how in one year how how much how much the the Rings
change the the position it's position is really stunning to to observe wow it's
beautiful very good and this was the the night of the 13 and the next night ER
some friend called me and said you need to go out again so we barely sleep this
two nights and you can see the difference you can see this is the the real capture you can see the the hand
tracking uhhuh this is a a video of 20
videos I take that night and you can see the the the seeing was amazing you
can sometimes watch even the ER in the Rings I forgot the name
the the Cassini division was amazing amazing amazing
night for to observe Saturn I capture 20 videos of 90 seconds
each you can see this a a video with the the prep processing with Pip that
centers the planet and in each frame so you can stack the the best frames
and this is the result of stacking one of the videos
wow it was a near perfect
amazing and it's only one image I get 20 of
this so this is what I get when I der rotate the 20
images you can see the how the the stacking beautiful and rotated with wind
chos reduce drastically the the noise so
you can see a lot of Equatorial bands and
details and I get these results after
the postprocessing I think this is one of the my my best Saturn
captures even with a few moons it was a a really Memorial night to not
sleep and this is the with the with the nor up
and I really love how with the South up
H the the image get I am really happy with the with the this
result and also uh it was posted in the
alpos Chapan web page when you can you can send H every kind
of image of planetary of the planet not only as photography you can capture in
different bands or different kind of details and they will compare all the
data and you can you can visit the the Alp Chapan web to see a lot of
Arch a lot of astrop photograph around the
world so this was my my short
presentation for tonight this is wonderful very inspiring
images and as always hand tracking that is is my passion you know a few month or
the last year I was making a a tracking motors for the dobsonian and then I
removed that because I I was Bor i b i i was boring waiting so I I really love to
to be there right yeah you say big goto for
what yeah more it's it's it's really
useful maybe for another kind of photography for long exposure and but as
I I really enjoy to be there even for some some deep Sky
clusters and globers or some planetary neas you can do it with a really short
exposure and I really enjoy that yeah it it's Unique the the style
and I I was aser one time in a star
party that I watched uh tuno capture the
International Space Station yeah space station that's right by hand with
his was all time Center in the in the Stream yeah and I say maybe do have this
picture I don't know is really great but we was watching
how work the whole process yeah but well wa you you think
that the that picture of sat I was a half an hour moving the do wow because
you need to get the the the best frames so you need to to give it
time yeah I I hope to to import a and
and make a a a test and try with Nico of
the explor scientific we we need to try that yeah
yes we have a 10 in Doan that is great is the most popular is the the outside
of the line yes 10 10 in that I interested in
Argentina um we can make a a great try
uh with Nico because NCO is using
um planetarian planetarian camera yes I am using an C
SB 3 yes very normal um it's it's amazing
really really when I receive I will receive the the doonas we can try
one of this for for to make something like this
yes as as as and I and I I always said
that not only for astrophotography you can do a lot I do a lot of stars you can do astrometry
you can do some photometry too even here that we have
a very pollution light pollution Skies but yes the idea
is that the people have is having five telescope in their home I'm done explain
to their wife no [Laughter] problem yes this is
great well thank you gentlemen thank you I want to thank the audience tuning in for the 153rd Global
star party we will be back for the 154th and I'll make an announcement uh
fairly soon about that and um it was really wonderful to hear all of the
different presenters talk about their passion in astronomy Outreach and uh
aspects of astronomy Outreach to help people understand you know the big Concepts and so it was very cool um we
know that a lot of people watching this uh either live right now or um in replay
uh you know are also astronomy Outreach enthusiasts and so we encourage you to
keep it up and to keep looking up and uh we hope to see you back on the next
Global Star Party take care guys thank you they good
good night good night good night
and good night guys good night good night Scott thank you bye
bye good day everyone this is David ly that's me and I am holding the original
Discovery films of our most important Comet Comet to 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 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 my name is
David ly and I hope to see you all at the very next Global star party thank
you
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