Global Star Party 20

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hi professor good evening uh uh
professor boone here is uh the former executive director of narit and uh he's the chair of iau uh uh
astronomy education right now so um you know i have a lot of great
things to say about narita and uh this guy is the founder of narit
uh oh wow yeah it is an honor to meet you sir
hi good evening can you hear us
hi professor can you hear us can you hear us
do you hear me i hear i can hear you i can hear you
i was just trying to say it is an honor to meet you sir
you know hello
um seems to be okay wonderful can we say anything tonight
uh yeah i think uh mars is pretty good at the moment and uh jupiter yeah i mean should be okay
wonderful do you want to do some live streaming of mars or anything oh that'll be great
okay i'll try set up but i can't promise because the weather in kuala lumpur can change within half an
hour [Laughter]
you just wait half an hour if you don't like the weather you just wait a few minutes is very fast
yeah yeah everyone would know about the wedding over here yes
oh can they hear us can he can he hear us and hear us
yes yes chris you hear me yeah i can hear you perfect yeah
my professor finally yeah yeah okay nice to meet you here
welcome welcome okay it's great it's great to have you really
it's an honor to have you here okay yeah i appreciate it
okay guys i think everybody's here so um we're gonna have a fun night uh unfortunately here in cebu we have a
tropical depression coming so i'm very very clouded out right now
so who uh how's chiang mai is it clear yes it's paddy kauri uh but uh we can
see math we still see math right now wonderful good good good
what about saturn and jupiter do you do you see it uh right now no uh it's really it's
how blocked out yeah yeah yeah some cloudy yeah it's not like here today right in
thailand
but it's better than last night last night rain right right yeah
yeah today is much better than last night that's good that's good
so david how did you feel when you first saw schumacher levy you were i think confused to see such a weird looking
comment at first when carolyn
said that she didn't know what she had but it looked like a squash comment i thought she was joking with this
as she often was wanted to do but she shook her head
and when i looked through the uh binocular microscope at the images that
i had taken a couple of days earlier and i saw the two
spread out comets with multiple heads and multiple tails
and the dust train going through them all it was absolutely surreal
absolutely and that was just the start of it when when we heard the announcement a
few a couple of months later that there would be a collision why
i think the three of us were just kind of quiet for most of the rest of the day because we were trying to
establish the meaning of it and the implications of it that was a most interesting
yeah that must be exciting because when i heard about it it was like wow you know
it's good to be alive to see this i couldn't forget that
i remember i set up the telescope in our university and had probably about a thousand people
look through jupiter looking at the impact yeah it was really fun
that was really incredible wait a minute you were
where are you in the united states naval observatory a huge line and as i would get into the
line people would say oh get in front of me get in front of me and i would keep on saying no no no i'll take my turn i'll take my
turn i sort of just looked at the line and then there was uh
this lady astronomer who was at the time the president's science advisor in
washington and she said david come here get in front of me you're gonna you're gonna be with me
so i got in line with her that was vera rubin
oh oh is that special no she has a space telescope now
we saw the impact spots using the finder of the telescope they were so dark that night
wow were you observing jupiter or uh you know you were just we were searching for
comments and both just happened to be one we were taking on a
night that was fairly cloudy actually
wow and dude these were during the times of uh film right no no ccds yet
we were using films there were ccds but we haven't we hadn't used them yet
wow
a colleague of mine started a program here at our jarnak
observatory using a ccd and uh he said he was going to do it all
automated so he was reporting an asteroid upon asteroid the trouble is one of the asteroids he
reported had a tail and because he reported he because he did not
identify it as a comet according to the rules it was not named for him
oh it was named for the observatory from which it was discovered
and that observatory is jarnak observatory which is named for my grandfather's country home
in canada and i can just imagine my grandfather just
up in heaven just dancing a jig knowing that a comet is going around the
sun bearing the name of his beloved cottage
that was really special i thought it's my father's father
oh okay it's kind of a fun story
that that's that that that that's that's really very nice i remember you know um i i got one of
those hyper kits and i remember you had that uh old camera
where you have uh you place dry eyes on it [Laughter]
did you use one of those cold cameras uh david no we didn't we used hyper
sensitized film yeah and uh hypersensitized kodak 4415
film very fine grain wow yeah i remember hypering because i
have my own hyper kit downstairs and uh the thing is we i cannot get forming gas here in the
philippines so i use pure hydrogen and when my mom found out she almost killed
me [Laughter] you almost killed you
no i i had a huge tank i mean uh five foot tank of pure hydrogen oh my gosh my
basement but the hyper was really very nice i mean you know if you use pure hydrogen
it's incredible yeah i was very dangerous
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they'll write another book the boys with the hydrogen [Laughter]
okay we're five minutes into five minutes mark yeah
we have other introductions and little videos and stuff like that got a few more minutes
so how many people are are on the website now right now what do we have one two
three four five six
seven eight nine ten including me
uh we're waiting for chuck allen okay chuck also says he didn't get the link i
you know maybe i prepared an email and didn't send it that's possible so
he's going to figured it out yeah figure it out
yeah this is a nice group i'm honored to be part of it today so we're very honored to have you well
thank you it's a pleasure a real pleasure
scotty when you check your email you'll see that i send you a panicky note
asking for another link but then i figured out how to get onto it
um
hey terry
and i don't have his phone number so i just wanted you to give him a buzz from me
and kevin check his email thanks
[Laughter] so good [Laughter] sorry to wake you up so early
yes i need it
oh here he is got it
hey chuck sorry about that man oh that's okay can you hear me okay
yeah we can hear you chuck hello chuck okay how's it going
pretty good and uh a little early for me but uh it's pretty good too it's late for me i've been to bed
yet yeah i need to david david stayed up all night watching 2001
in space honestly for about the 30 millionth time
loved it as much as the first time hi chuck
hi hello christopher how are you wonderful
raining here i was talking to richard of god at princeton
dr godzilla an astrophysicist at princeton um he's written several books with neil
tyson and he referred to your work as incredible last night before i ever
mentioned that you were on this program today
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oh scott can you can you add me as a co-host
let me see um
how do i do that oop here you are let's go to my name and i think there's
an option
and
i can make you host but i wouldn't allow you to control the back end let me
there's no co-host hold on
um
it says make host but not cohost is that the same thing may cost uh there's actually a co-host
feature you have to go to the um account website and nevermind we'll just
do it uh anyway you'll be there anyway i will be here
if i keel over you know like unconscious or something that might be different
[Laughter] it's so cool to have the national
astronomical research institute of thailand with us this is great
it feels like a whole country has come to our star party you know it certainly
does yes it does it looks like the whole world has come to our standpoint this time for
sure yeah we have uh gary palmer is going to be in
from england and then a guy named charlendra sharma who's a astrophotographer is going to join us
also towards the end there
if we can only get the clock to stop repeating the last minute
we're featuring different people including yourself yeah
is simon tank joining us uh i did not get confirmation of that
okay but you never he's probably asleep right now you know he knows about it
okay i think we're go it's eight o'clock yeah we're going we're going
here we go so deputy we're glad that you're joining us
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well hello everyone this is scott roberts from explore scientific and this is the explorer uh alliance live
presentation of the 20th global star party our asia edition and my co-host is
christopher go christopher is well known
for his planetary high resolution planetary imaging he has done it all i think is
an amateur astronomer working very strongly with professional astronomers as well he's even done work on the
hubble space telescope and the keck instrument itself so it's great to have christopher here i
know he's shy about that stuff but uh he's uh he's phenomenal in what he does
and highly respected we have astronomers with us from around the world literally we've got them all
over asia in thailand malaysia singapore and nepal
we will have european astronomers joining us later we have
astronomers here in the united states including myself and dr david levy uh who has been on
every global star party uh and we have chuck allen from the astronomical league who will be
doing our door prize questions that we do at every global star party both david
and chuck have been up all night long to be with you this morning so which is
your night of course so it's great to have everyone here uh
i do want to um i do want to give a little bit of an
introduction to my dear friend david levy uh
he is uh someone has been very passionate about sharing astronomy uh
and exploring the universe all of his life uh from the time he was a young a
young boy uh going through uh the struggles of adolescence and
and then becoming one of the most amazing comment discoverers of all time
he has written many books his books are personal
they are illuminating and they give you a peek into the the personal
aspects of the astronomers themselves that he's written about including himself in his latest book his
biography which we'll talk about later but i i want to go ahead and get started
with david levy who is poetic
and always sets the right frame of mind for any star party and we're so proud to have him here
this morning on the 20th edition well thank you scotty and it's really
wonderful to be here um this last week my wife wendy and i have done a little
less stargazing and a little more election watching because as i'm sure you all know
the last tuesday was the national election in the united states
and we've been following the results pretty closely and as we've been watching the results
trickle in i began to think that they need to change the rules
as to how people and what people could run successfully
for leadership positions in our country i think if you want to be a member of
the lower house that would be the united states house of representatives or
the houses of parliament in some of your countries the diet or in some other
leadership position where you get a vote why then you need to have at least gone
out on several nights and identified the various bright constellations in the sky
if you wish to become a member of the united states senate the upper house
or a leadership position a senior member in parliament why then
you need to be active either in planetary observing photography like christopher obviously
is or in variable star observing
to do that if on the other hand you wish to become president of the united states
the rule should be that you must have discovered at least two comets
one comet isn't enough because that can be an accident but two
means you're really serious about it and uh so i made that suggestion and it got all
the seriousness that you all think it deserves but anyway it was fun anyway to
watch it what i really like to do and what i really encourage all of you to do
is to go out and look at the night sky you don't even need a telescope to do what i love the most
even though i have a reputation for having discovered comets
my favorite thing actually is to go outside without a telescope look up and watch meteors shooting stars
my first one was on july the 4th 1956 i was eight years old
saw it at a summer camp and uh i've seen the most recent one
would be the day before yesterday it was a torrid meteor that came came down it wasn't very
bright but it was definitely there and i'm thinking of the uh
number of people and writers and philosophers who have written about shooting stars over the time
and i have a couple of quotes to share with you on that thing first is from john dunn
who wrote in the early 1600s go and catch a falling star
get with child of mandrake root tell me where all past years are or who
cleft the devil's foot teach me to hear mermaids singing or to keep off envy stinging
and find what wind serves to advance an honest mind looking up at the night sky
the second quote is from america's third president thomas
jefferson i remember john kennedy once holding a uh
a a [Music] prize a dinner in the east wing of the
white house for nobel prize winners and he announced at that dinner that
this is the largest concentration of raw intelligence and creativity
ever to assemble in this room and then he looks down the floor and he smiles and said with the possible exception of
when thomas jefferson dined alone most of what he said made a lot of sense
i'm quoting one thing that didn't he said i would more easily believe that two yankee professors would lie
than the stars would fall from heaven and the third quote
also relating back to john dunn but a lot further on in history is from perry como
1957 catch a falling star and put it in your
pocket save it for a rainy catch a falling star and put it in your
pocket never let it fade away for love may come and touch you on the
shoulder one starless night and it is unfortunately a starless night
outside right now it is cloudy but the stars are up there above
mars still up there venus is probably rised by risen about time now
and it's a beautiful beautiful night there will be other kids and i invite you all to go outside and
enjoy the night sky the most important thing of all is wherever you're living on this planet
half of your environment is above you it's the night sky and it's meant to be enjoyed so please
enjoy it thank you and back to you scotty
thank you very much david that's great it's wonderful i love hearing david levy sing
he does often on our global star parties it's wonderful
uh my next uh uh person i'd like to introduce here would be uh christopher go christopher
uh as i mentioned is uh uh one of the great planetary
astrophotographers of the world uh i always look forward to seeing one of his images of of uh you know if it's
saturn or jupiter or you know mars uh he always he never fails to
stun everyone in the amazing detail he's able to capture
the first time i saw high resolution planetary astrophotography was with
dr donald parker which i know that christopher was good friends with him and uh but uh you know and i was looking
at some of uh don's images from the 1990s
and i would say that it was a while before anyone was able to exceed
what dawn was able to do but uh christopher is one of the people who has done it and done it over and over again
uh although i know that he was inspired by don parker so uh
christopher um thank you for co-hosting this show with me i'm going to i'm going to turn the
whole program over to you okay uh you um helped
create this schedule for it and so i'll be back here running uh
the broadcasting from the back side here but please introduce
the people that will be appearing on this show and uh let us learn more about
what happens in astronomy in asia okay hi good evening everyone first of
all i would like to thank the speakers that are here right now um you know you guys
um you know have done a lot here at asia uh whether in astrophotography or in
uh you know promoting astronomy and outreach um right now um
uh you know all i can say is i wish every country had uh something like
narita because uh uh you know what what we really need
right now is uh more more more astronomy to get people thinking
rather than fighting each other or arguing each other um you know the reason why i talk about
norwich is because um thailand uh is a is one of probably the only country in
the world that has an organ government organization a government-funded organization that promotes astronomy
and i'm just so proud to be uh you know to be part of them to help them uh in my
little way it's uh what the work that they do is is
really impressive and it's something that's uh slowly uh i'm hoping that will be
developed not just asia but all over the world uh right now um the big problem we have
right now is uh well basically two things one is uh ignorance towards science and the
second is even worse skepticism towards science and unfortunately this has become quite
popular right now among a lot of people
and uh it's sad also because it's it's being encouraged by some groups uh you
know thinking that uh you know if we do away with science the world will be a better place
unfortunately uh you know the results is uh what we're having right now
um and uh basically the the situation of uh you know the pandemic that we're experiencing right
now is a very good indication of what happens if you don't follow science
and uh you know just do things on you know the way you think uh it's going to happen
so um yeah this is it's it's good to start i'm glad that scott here is doing this virtual
star party and probably you know this pandemic might have his upsides in getting people
together and uh because nobody ever has done something like this
before or would think of doing something like this before uh it's it's it's just incredible right
now so i'm i'm just so happy that we're able to um uh do this uh have everyone
uh you know making the world a smaller place using astronomy
yes that's right christopher that was very well said that's that's excellent
um so how would you like to get started so um first of all i i talked about
narita earlier and i'm just so happy that i have the founder of narit here with us
right now um i would like to introduce uh professor boon broksar
soon i hope i read your name correctly
he's the former executive director of narita and he's currently in charge uh
working as a research advisor uh in that now i'd like to talk a little about
narita is the national astronomical research institute of thailand and as i said earlier it's it's an
organization in thailand that basically promotes astronomy i think dr uh
a professor here will talk more about it and uh finally um uh
professor bundokzar is the vice president of the iau commission for
astronomy education and development and he's currently the chair of the southeast asia
astronomy network or xi'an okay uh good evening doctor um
the boss you're on your court okay um thanks chris um
good evening from from thailand i i am bun rex as soon time you say correctly
my name yeah and currently the uh executive advisor of of narit uh
already retired as a former executive director of narit
uh today i'm speaking on behalf of dr
uh current uh navrit executive director he want to apologize for his substance
today as he has to receive delegations from
thailand science research and innovation office so today he
is quite busy but uh today the sky in thailand is a little
bit cloudy but as who already mentioned that we should be
able to do some kind of light image to broadcast
on this uh star party right so i feel very honored
to join the is that 19 global star party this is my
first time to join that yeah right so uh the dsp 19 right so i would like to
congratulations that the gsp 19 have been organized
consecutively until now even during the hard time of the
with 19 pandemic but we still find some opportunity to
meet together and manage to organize activities in our new
normal way to achieve the schedules plan so uh let me give uh some
uh introduction or some information about narit nabrit is a short word for
national astronomical research institute of thailand this organization is a public
organization that means we work
on the mission of the government but the government still support uh funding
uh to us annually so now it has uh established for over 10
years since uh 2009 so we are really lucky to
uh have the opportunity to develop astronomy in thailand and in the
southeast asia by the support of uh the the thai government and many collaboration
our mission is to develop and promote astronomical research
education and outreach throughout the country also
regional and international uh cooperation
so during the past 10 years we our main task is
to promote human resources in astronomy and related science
through many activities like organizing our school
trainings workshop or send many young people from thailand to
do further higher education in astronomy
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developed several infrastructure in in astronomy in thailand
uh as uh you may know that uh we uh
thai national observatory so we have the 2.4 uh meter reflecting telescope
on the highest mountain in thailand in chiang mai uh deutsche tape now uh this year we just
um set up uh one
more telescope is a one meter telescope very nearby so we have more observing time at
the thai national observatory site so we also uh prepare several kind of uh
detectors uh such as uh ccd cameras uh spectrograph
yeah right and also we this this year we're going to
complete our 40 meter high national radio telescope or the
dnrt in chiang mai so
very welcome everybody if uh we can
meet on site maybe in the future we may
host the global star body here in thailand right
and also talking about the astronomical infrastructure we also
establish what we call the thai robotic network you may already know that we put a
0.7 meter telescope and ccd camera yeah in
many sites in many countries uh we have now
foresight the first one in chile the second one in china
the third one in united states and the fourth one in australia so now we are able to
do the observation nearly 24 hours yeah in the
north in the southern sky wow and also the full regional observatory
for the public in for provinces in in thailand or
disseminating astronomy throughout the country here we have the headquarters
called princess cylinder national park where we're going to do the live uh
uh image uh today so uh at the princess cilinto industrial
park we uh prepare several astronomical facilities
for the public i'm not quite sure whether uh chris you uh have
visited uh princess linton so far not yet not yet hopefully next year yeah
you you're very welcome as soon as uh you can travel all right okay so
we prepared a planetarium we have uh about 160
uh seat for the audience so tonight we also organized the public nights so we
let the public to access to our 0.7 meter reflecting telescope at princess
cylinder astropark and we also uh opened the planetarium for the planetarium show
so this is very interesting now i heard that uh there are many
visitors uh come to uh visit princess ceilington and so far
and now it also organized several astro photography sessions in astronomy in the
teacher training in a student astronomy camp
and we also have the photo astrophotography session for
the larger or the professional photographers also right and once a year we
uh organized uh what they call the astrophotography marathon
yeah so they uh took the uh astrophotography
from the evening to the morning yeah so it's very interesting uh activities that we organize in in
thailand once a year and i would like to thanks uh
narit uh uh outreach staff they're working so hard maybe nearly
seven seven day and night a week right so just come in for their hard work
yeah and tonight we are very happy to join the gsp 19 and
willing to share images of uh several celestial objects
through our telescope at princess sillington astro park so i hope that the
sky is clearly and the cloud is going away yeah so tomorrow uh tonight uh
maybe some uh image of uh mars saturn or jupiter
yeah because uh as we know that uh saturn and jupiter will soon join the
great conjunction on the 21st of december this year
so i do really hope that gsp 19 would let many
astrophotographer both a merger and professional to share many beautiful
celestial images tonight and would definitely impress the public
at large i hope that this event would bring a crucial impact
on the inspiration to the public especially the young people across the globe thank you chris
wow thank you thank you about the great conjunction uh i like to
remind everybody that this year there's going to be an incredible conjunction between jupiter and saturn on december
21 if you look at jupiter and saturn with just one star it's so close to each other i think this
is going to be the closest in i don't know how many hundreds of countries yeah
yeah in fact it can be seen it it'll uh at closest it will be 60 arc seconds
i think no 60 minutes away
six months six minutes six minutes away from each other that's that's very very rare
so um hopefully scott maybe it will have a global star party for that i already have one planned i already have one
you're very welcome to be part of it so everyone here can be part of this smart
party yes maybe i'll run for 24 hours just stay awake
so thank you so much uh professor uh roxar um i know i i've been through
narit for many years in fact once or twice a year sometimes and uh you know it's really incredible
to have such a facility available and uh yeah and hopefully we'll get activities there
yes okay next i think um
we're gonna have uh um uh
uh scott can you do the introduction yeah deep d is um
uh came to me uh as a friend on facebook uh
and i immediately noticed how interested she was in astronomy uh
and so i took a quick look at her facebook page and uh decided to reach out to her because i
i'm always interested in having young people get started in astronomy
and to get started with our community because we have a wonderful community
of people all over the world uh that are willing to help and encourage people
to learn more about science learn more about astronomy especially those who will organize
programs and events on their own to help other people learn and deepti is
one of these people she has started her own astronomy club in her high school
and um uh already many of her members have reached out to me
one day we will have a special uh nepal star party okay event
and um the dt has already done several talks for us on the global star parties
and uh we're really happy to have her on today uh she's going to be talking about how
astronomy affects youth in nepal and the good uh you know the good aspects of
this dt thank you very much for coming on
first of all thanks to invite me here and yeah i'm deepti gautam
years high school student from nepal and i'm interested in astronomy since um age
of nine and i just get i have one erickson that is after astronomy
and that's up there is space there's and that night sky and the jupiter is my
favorite personally yeah i have prepared some of this
presentation here
yeah as i already said i have uh the um interest in astronomy since uh my age of
the nine uh so uh astronomy has been uh the one of the ericsson for me um i love
the exploring i love to get more knowledge about the astronomy so i just um i just come uh
enjoy my day by sourcing a lot of things in the um in the internet in the social
media and interact with the different peoples and uh learning about how they things uh how
to take the astronomy in their respect and analyze all the things
and um yes i think astronomy is basically the study of everything
and we are we are in this space we are right um talking about the importance of
astronomy first of all i can say how this tsunami is related with us that we are made up of uh the things that the uh
that from that matters in which all these universes have been made and here is some fact that 93
percent of our body mass is in fact a stardust and the majority of the elements in our body were created by the
star and it was just proved by the planetarium and planetary scientists there and it started exploding sleeking
i explained it's totally hundred percent that uh nearly all the elements in the human body we are made in star and many
have come through several supernova so it can directly astronomy it can show
that how this genome is directly linked with the human beings and directly linked with the human existence in other
um all the existence in this uh in this earth or in this space in this universe
i'm talking about this how the astronomy helps to the uh youth um so we can say
it helps a lot of enthusiasts youth to learn about more about the cosmos about the space about that night sky and under
the all over this space and uh it helps uh it uh make them
uh that they will uh they want to know more about the cosmos and uh itself the
astronomy in this topic this cosmos is very interesting to learn
so just it will make it'll attract you more and
yeah it promotes the rational thinking and understanding of nature of science
the existence of uh this instance of human beings and existence of life in
the earth and astronomy education has made the youth more engaging and creative too and i
have the astronomic club that i have created i have organized um
the one astronomic club along with my friend and we have conducted a lot of programs and we see a lot of youth
enthusiasts like us uh being interesting astronomy and uh want to engage with us
and want to do something want to explore uh together with us
and first of all uh by the astronomy the
economic education in nepal in the aspect of nepal there's the
students are clear about the difference between the astronomy and astrology because the history of astronomy in
nepal is just related with the astrology because people uh used to think astronomy astrology is too similar and
in my respect too when i used to say i love astronomy and i want to be the astronomer
and my inner people used to think oh you want to be the astrology
but it is just different things and i i just explain with explain them uh it is
different uh i didn't want to be astrology but i want to be astronomer
and it has uh take the progressive change in their youth knowledge and understanding
personality as well as their social life and i already said uh it
uh it helps to make your thinking capacity of very boring because thinking
about not only all the stuff uh inside this earth but astronomy is related to
think about all this universe all about this past universe so uh it
automatically will be increase the power of the knowledge and make you this
boring make her make her thinking boring and um at last i just bleep let's
explore together so i have created the organizations uh to
work together in the field of astronomy and as we know the unity has the power so i
believe in the uh the things the unity has the power uh so we worked together and uh recently
uh we have conducted the astrophotography session uh with one of the astrophotograph of nepal inviting
her in our program and many of the uh youth enthusiasts like us uh
come with us and attend that program this is very interesting and uh yes
ma'am has given a lot of idea over this um photography and
how can you know how can you do the professionalist photography you know what are the
simple methods and what are the simple way uh you can um be involved in this photography and uh we are gonna and we
are going to organize uh one of the season uh now on november 21 about the street light and space technology um and
we we expect a lot of youth like us to come up with us and get some more knowledge
and that's all about me and i'm interested in astronomy uh i want to do
i want to go along with other young inspiration and not only me but
we all together from nepal and i want to reach out to this space very soon so we are going with a step by
step first of all um engaging people and exploring knowledge and expanding the
knowledge and thinking about this exploration very soon so um hope we can
hopefully eat very soon and resolve to this space and just uh we can explore together with all
the nation thank you wonderful that is wonderful dt
very inspiring thank you thank you yeah many people are writing very nice
things about you in the chat um so it's it's it's wonderful thank you for
thank you for joining us again for the global star party it's great to have you dt
thank you yeah uh next i think uh uh uh i think we're gonna have you first because
sharing is trying to look for saturn before we go on a break you know let's let's have a a star
party so we're going to see mars who can you share your screen
okay it's quite a bit of detail yeah yeah i think uh
this is the solis lacus if i'm not mistaken and marisimero oh you're having clouds now
yes so are you using a 0.7 meter telescope
yes right now i'm using cdk700 and
i use cwo 290 to capture the mass yeah
okay it's very nice uh why don't you do this um can you set the exposure time to about uh
five five yeah
okay all right yeah you you should know just click more
you know there's more there in fire capture more yeah more more just click it and uh there's auto
histogram just go down down down down down okay
yeah check that and the value of 92 52
okay that's perfect okay that should be okay so it'll keep very nice okay uh here's a
nice image of mars it's not color it's uh using an ir filter because of the oh okay don't worry if
it's auto histogram you just check auto system okay it'll adjust the the the the gain automatically so if you look at
mars right now you can see the polar caps the southern cap below and uh
it's not very clear probably because of the the clouds um you can see uh solis
lacus uh which is the what is known as the eye of mars
above that um uh if if seeing where conditions were
better um you could see the valleys marinaris
and uh also uh olympus mons on the upper left side of mars but uh right now i don't think yeah
upper left yeah so uh but right now it's uh i think you probably need to
uh do some more processing but uh overall you can see mari semerum on the left side you see that dark bar
uh close to the equator the dark bar okay that that's marissa simerium
and uh yeah the southern polar cap which is right now shrinking it's getting smaller and smaller
right now so um yeah it's it's great to have mars to see
mars especially in my case i haven't seen mars in in over a week
okay and uh next um uh we will go to sharim
hey can we pick your screen sharing all right [Music] and uh
we're gonna see the most beautiful planet in the solar system right now
okay so wow so we have saturn here
yeah uh you can see the cassini division yes uh
it's a dark division here and uh this is the north equatorial belt
off of saturn saturn is getting lower right because it's it's a bit uh tough to image now
but uh you can see this is this is quite a good image of mars um
yeah it's good to see him no no sorry saturn uh for those of you who are here saturn's rings are made of ice water
it's i think 99 99.9 ice water
uh so uh you know saturn is a gas planet like jupiter
and uh yeah it's it's really very beautiful if you look through the telescope of saturn for
those of you who have seen saturn to a telescope it's really awesome uh the first time i saw saturn on a
telescope uh you know you get hook it's like is it really real you know we've seen pictures of saturn
but you know seeing uh the real thing on a telescope is really very
that will change your life you know i i have to say chris this is
the best live image of saturn that i've seen uh on any of
our global star parties we've had many attempt to do live imaging of saturn
but the the seeing is uh very very good and
lots of detail lots of detail here yeah sharing is in a very good location
he's a very close at equator sharing in countries
malaysia malaysia okay wow
irene can we point to jupiter is it possible okay or is it give me a few minutes
okay now um super super
it's always nice to see the real thing on the star party anyway i'm uh well well he's trying to
point to jupiter i'll i'll discuss a few incredible things um the juno mission
made a lot of new discoveries of jupiter in fact uh the recent discoveries of
juno were so great that it basically it threw away everything that we understood
about jupiter like example uh we used to believe that
that jupiter had a oh that was jupiter what happened it ran away
jupiter had a solid rocky core uh what what uh
the fight the recent findings of jupiter is that jupiter may have a partially dissolved
core so it it has a non non-homogeneous score which is uh you
know surprising and uh one of the incredible things that we we we
were finding out about jupiter is its magnetic field um it's you know the jupiter magnetic field it's
not behaving like a planet but it's behaving uh you know the magnetic field is not directly on the
poles it's offset and one thing crazy about jupiter is that it has an equatorial magnetic field
so uh it seems like jupiter is behaving a little like the sun
then a planet uh now astronomers now believe that uh
this magnetic field is uh generated by the metallic hydrogen mantle
of jupiter so uh we're gonna discover more new things about jupiter
as uh you know juno uh studies more about jupiter
okay okay um by the way um uh as uh sharing is looking for jupiter
let's go to chuck allen i think chuck is a bit uh ready to go to sleep now
[Laughter] okay chuck okay thank you christopher um first of
all staying up all night it's good tune-up observing times coming up in the next few weeks so
i need to be able to stay up late i want to thank everyone
for being here tonight it's really a pleasure to join all of our friends in asia this is a real thrill for me and
it's a great opportunity for all of us i think i'd like to say i need to share a screen
here can i do i have that ability yet
not yet
chuck thanks for staying up all night no no it's no problem it is a very interesting star party it
is we have we have people watching from all over asia and uh
italy you know in europe all over the world right now watching
just let me know when i can share a screen you can share a screen right now okay good okay
all right let's see here [Music]
okay there we go uh i wanted to say just a couple words about the organization that i represent
the astronomical league is turning 75 this coming year
the man on the left here harlow shapley of harvard college observatory was really one of the key factors in its
formation he and charles federer sat in a tent in the rain
at the 1939 world's fair began talking about the formation of a large amateur
organization and the war stopped that but it reformed in
1946 in november so this coming year we'll be celebrating 75 years
one of the things that we're doing now is developing a new international region
we want to have members worldwide if we can uh we're looking for
expeditious ways to do that and also efficient ways to do that we would like to make for example
available to people our 86 observing programs which are the most developed observing programs of any organization
that i'm familiar with in the world these are all regimens that range between 70 and 400 objects or projects
and we would certainly love to begin working with other countries and clubs in other countries
in adding new members to the astronomical leagues family
as we go into the uh door cross questions tonight um
uh we like to give a solar warning uh for those who may be receiving optical
equipment from us for these door prizes or for that matter if you buy optical
equipment from anywhere these are some of the warnings that we like to make sure people understand
because it is a fact of observing the sun accidentally unfiltered through a telescope will
permanently damage your retina 500 times faster than your brain can register that you're even seeing something that's too
bright so you cannot make the mistake even once and i know someone who made this mistake
one time and he's had permanent areas of wine the sun has retina ever since so
use only professional solar filters that include energy rejection filters at the front end of your telescope never
any type of filter that goes nearly on the eyepiece and
don't leave your telescope unattended in daytime we've seen we've seen young kids
approach the telescope that was left unattended to try to acquire the sun and that should never have happened then it
should never happen be careful with eclipse glasses there are a lot of knockoffs out there even
some that have certifications on them that are not in fact certified as safe
and read these warnings and they will come with any of our door
prizes of course just want to make sure that your eyesight stays pristine for
observing all the beautiful things that we like to observe so
we now have the answers to global star party 19th questions
and we ask the question the song holds what percentage of the mass of the solar
system the answer was 99.86 percent and the closest answer was
given by matthew walsh question two from
global star party 19 who was the astronomer to first name the
northern lights the aurora borealis the answer was galileo the winner of this
question was john keough i hope i'm pronouncing it correctly
hang on just a moment okay and question number three what is the
green glow in this image called and jason guenzel correctly answered air
glow it's a faint illumination in the night due to photochemical luminescence in the upper atmosphere
okay so we'll move on now to the three questions for tonight and
scott do you want to say something about answering these i do uh you know we are very very much
uh proud of uh being in support of the astronomical league
since explore scientific was you know founded in 2008
we have been in support of the national young astronomers award which is a wonderful program that
encourages high school students to pursue a you know science through astronomy
it's a it's an incredible program that was actually founded by chuck allen
and bob gent i believe at the astronomical league at that time they got it off the
ground the the alumni of the national young
astronomers award have gone on to do great things um you know being involved in in
various sciences including uh you know some of them becoming physicians i'm sure some of them have gone on to do
aerospace industry work i don't know all the great stories of it but i know that
that it has been a very successful program we have also been the underwriter of the leslie peltier award
these are just two of the awards one of the many awards that the astronomical league gives out each year um
and uh the the latest uh program that we are underwriting is the astronomical
league's astrophotography award uh that will be an annual type of
event um we're still formalizing the details of that but uh
it's an exciting program and uh we're very very happy to be part of it
as chuck mentioned the astronomical league is going globally uh so you can become a
member of the astronomical league no matter where you are in the world but you'll be joining
nearly uh 20 000 other members uh uh that uh called the astronomical league
uh uh you know their their uh their program um
uh and within the league they uh sign up for so many of the observing programs
that they have uh i can't remember how many that you have i think it's it's over 50 maybe 80
programs something like that 86 programs you know and if you can complete all 86 observing
programs uh there is the master observer uh program as well so or the master
observer recognition uh so that's that is uh it's fantastic
uh we're very pleased to see this uh the astronomical league reach its 75th
anniversary but i can tell you that the astronomical league is just getting started and so it's uh
uh i i'm looking forward to the years to come chuck thanks very much for coming on
this program and being uh representing uh the astronomical league as our door
prize sponsor well and thank you scott for everything you've done for us
over the years uh this uh national young astronomer award was in its 30th year almost because of
your help and so thank you so much do you want to say anything about how to answer these
questions sure sure uh i have already been writing and chat um
uh the way that you will answer these questions is by emailing your answer to
explore alliance at explorescientific.com you can see that i've written
that email address in the uh in the chat that's going as we simulcast out to
facebook youtube twitter and twitch okay um
uh you will uh send in your answers uh because
the different channels that we simulcast here um some of some of these channels
actually broadcast a few seconds earlier than other channels the way that we're doing this
to make it fair uh all the people that answer the questions correctly will be at random
selected uh to select a winner out of that uh group of uh of submissions so
um again you'll send in your answers to explore alliance at explorescientific.com
uh and uh you will be awarded one of the prizes from our door price partners
which include explore scientific the mark slade remote observatory
gary palmer astronomy and the vacuum of space that makes gifts astronomical
gifts so um we're really excited to have this door prize program
[Music] as part of the global star party and no matter where you are in the world
we'll get your door your door prize to you if you're the winner so good luck thanks scott and let's go to question
number one then and it is on what world can you find the tallest known cliff 20
kilometers high the tallest known cliff in the solar system 20 kilometers
wow i will tell you that if you jump off of this cliff it would take you over 12
minutes to land but you would not enjoy the land
okay okay great question question number two okay let me
emphasize in question number one we want to know the world on which this cliff exists
not the one near it okay here we go
one second here william herschel's great 40-foot telescope was the largest telescope in
the world for 50 years what was its aperture
i just studied about this telescope this is a very difficult telescope to use
very difficult people sometimes complain because they have some learning curve
with some aspect of astronomy nobody had as difficult of a time using a telescope
as herschel did this telescope so but he made some important discoveries
with it okay and question number three
what constellation represents one of these circle drawing devices
yeah scott that'll do it for tonight thank you again
okay thank you very much
there we go okay we're going to go to sharing now see jupiter
all right um okay here you are
this is stupid yeah the great red spot
wow look at that that's incredible it's seeing so good it
is very good it's very good look at all the detail on the belts the great red spot
incredible what can you tell us about jupiter chris you can see the great red spot
here this is probably the largest storm in the solar system it's been plucked about three uh 600
kilometers per hour winds of 600 kilometers per hour and uh one thing we know about you at a
great red spot now it's shrinking so it's getting smaller and smaller in fact uh last year it i think dropped
a quarter of a percent of its size basically almost a quarter of its size
so it's it's it's it's uh i hope it doesn't disappear on my lifetime because it's gonna make jupiter
quite boring and one thing incredible that happened to jupiter quite recently is the north
north equatorial belt i think we in in one of the uh
global star party we had we it was a discovery of the one of the outbreaks of this uh north
equatorial belt so this year uh three
very powerful outbreaks erupted on this these are very giant
thunderstorms about probably half the size of the earth running at about 700 miles per hour so
these are incredible violent uh storms that basically erupted on the north uh
not north tropical zone of jupiter no no north temperate zone of jupiter the
npb and this year there were three outbreaks that appeared
around the area above the north equatorial belt
but you know looking at this image this is really incredible you see so many details in this image in fact um
you know the scene goes in and out and saying uh sharing are you making are you capturing anything right now this is a
very good image yeah i'm i don't know it's a bit of a dilemma at the moment
you can actually do you can actually do an roi and uh you need to capture some
images but really you know you can see the the
halo of the great red spot it's quite distinct yeah and
and this year it's uh you'll notice that the south equatorial belt it's basically the belt that surrounds the great red
spot it's very pale right now and uh in fact most of the south equatorial belt has lost its color this
year so uh yeah this is this is it's really nice to see jupiter
it's awesome it's awesome again this is these are the best uh images planetary images i've ever seen
on any of the global star parties and this is our 20th one so it's uh fantastic
fantastic i'm so happy to see images like this
incredible because um my observed tree is on on the roof and
now it's about 32 degrees uh yeah on the west yeah it's a bit low
but somehow the scene tonight is so much so it's so good yeah yeah actually
this is i can't believe that it's 32 degrees because uh yes uh this this quality of data usually
you know it's 60 degrees and above yeah it's actually quite stable you can
see the the belts distinctly you can see the colors the fist tones on the equatorial zone yeah
it's it's so amazing to see it right now how how good do you think the seeing is
chris this is about probably seven to eight
probably seven seven which is inevitable for 30 degrees yeah
it's beautiful yeah it's beautiful oh this is what my night this is what
people pray for when they look through a telescope is to see something this beautiful
and saturn too was incredible i i hope david levy's still awake to see
this but uh i know he'll watch it later yeah he should be happy to see this oh
yeah here we go yeah wow
this is pretty good because it's very good north equatorial built you can see the feast ons
yeah that dark blue yeah yeah it's quite distinct i mean yeah very
difficult to see these uh oh wow this is this is really very good
you can see this in the south equatorial the south and the uh north part of the building you can
see it distinctly separately incredible and by the way the white the
white oval ba okay can you point your cursor a little higher left okay there
you can see it below down down down a little bit the cursor down can you point it lower okay
there there that area there you can see the white oval ba
yeah somewhere over there yeah the white oval ba so this is the spot that i discovered
that turned red a couple of uh about 15 years ago and uh it's it turned white again
and we're hoping that it might turn red again soon and of course you have the great red
spot you know uh i'm just amazed looking at this right now it's it's really beautiful
it is it is i could watch it all night yeah why why do the um
why does the uh these storms why did they change color
honestly we really don't know i've talked to a lot of professional astronomers
who really don't don't know what's going on in fact we don't even know the chemicals that's causing it
uh you know uh you know uh uh jupiter is i think 90 percent hydrogen
and uh probably not the rest or you can say
99.99 hydrogen and helium that's what jupiter is so what's creating these
colors we really don't know some say it's fossen but uh if you look at fosseen as a
chemical it's supposed to be colorless so uh we we
really don't know what's what's causing the color
people that are watching in chat uh are are just stunned
one guy rolando is saying fantastic view of jupiter
simply amazing this this this is really very good
seeing this is really very good scene yeah yeah
hopefully you are capturing images of this because we would like to see a processed one
maybe at the next global star party you can see my mouse at the start capture button over here
can you do an roi smaller roi then so you can increase
your frame rate all right okay probably about six uh 700 600 by
six uh 620 640 by 480 that should be enough oh wow
look at that look at that okay yeah then uh i think you can increase
the frame rate now um these i got about 14
frames per second and my exposure is about 73 milliseconds how much is your gain okay
it should be okay so go capture we want to see data from this one
yeah okay uh anyway scott so i i know i think we're delayed for the uh
for the break right now no it's okay it's just incredible this is what we came for
this is what we came for we had great talks but uh people want to see the
they want to see the universe live so here it is this is the real view of
um so hopefully i can get it processed uh in time before before we end the
yes that party yes yes and uh after you uh stack it uh
uh i can uh can you send me the tip file i can find you a nice uh registered settings
for that and uh basically align the rgb this is really incredible i mean
seeing seeing all these features of jupiter live you know i haven't seen jupiter in over
a month now yeah weather here has been horrible
oh it's good it's still there yeah
wow wow wow
that's beautiful wow
what telescope is this cherry sorry what telescope are you using i'm using
the celestron nine quarter inch
this particular camera is a bit some of the parts of the in front of the chips is a
bit melted because i was i was chasing venus a couple months back so
i don't know somehow i pointed a bit too near to the sun i think oh gosh oh wow
a bit too near oh gosh yeah that's gotta be horrible yeah but but
it's still looking slow so yeah did it burn the chip no no i think it's uh it's not it's not
the chip itself i think it's the the front layer of the chip the plastic i think the one covering the chip
okay it seems to be some some spot that i can't move i think it looks like
melted or something so how long is your captor how capture right now
sorry how long is your capture the for jupiter now
yeah i it's about uh two minutes two and a half minutes i got two thousand frames
okay uh stop uh just just do about uh probably one and a half minute
another minutes yeah just do a multiple one and a half minutes and we'll just de-rotate the
hell out of it all right okay yeah incredible 30 degrees jupiter
don't get your exposure too low because you you have the rotation of the planet which is pretty bad
so i think one and a half minutes should be okay or two minutes should be okay and uh what what what we can do is just
ge rotate it but the seeing is very good super
what about the gain because i'm using 81 percent at the moment shall i push it up
um no the gain is not a problem i think you can push it more oh okay
more more more probably 95 oh
you should use fire capture next time
i was hoping to get some asteroid or something fresh on jupiter on
video thinking some huge explosion yes
oh that's going to be incredible i mean you have probably a lot of witnesses for that
i think i think if you do it on live live on the global star party you will automatically win a nobel prize so
[Laughter] oh you well we can we have it on record
and i think you'll have news all over worldwide news yeah i remember the first
time uh uh you know anthony and i imaged that impact on jupiter i had
kitty curry calling over can you imagine that
awesome wow look at the detail inside the great red
spot when it yes you can see a little the yeah the dark
center the dark core it looks like there's kind of a dark eyebrow above it you know
yeah also yeah no something interesting about jupiter that's going on right now that dark
eyebrow that you talked about yeah there's actually small ovals that are going through the uh
the halo of uh of the great red spot and it seems to be
that these ovals are crossing the great red spot to quote unquote flake
and uh you know uh as as these small spots pass through the great it shrinks the great red spot
it's i don't know if it's taking material out of the red red material out of a great red spot because you can
really see the spillover of the red and red material i think after the processing you we will be able to see
some of the details on that i think so yeah
wow so uh are there many astronomers in malaysia is it is it uh
is it very popular amateur economy we got a quite a big group of amateurs
here in malaysia uh for the past maybe about 10 15 years back so
ever since that we sent the astronaut the first malaysian astronaut yeah so the astronomy in a way
has been quite quite a a big thing over here in malaysia and
uh at the moment we have a a few about five or six uh
observatories right by the government yeah and we have i think a lot of uh
personal observatories home observatories all over malaysia so it's a it's uh it's going up and it's
very interesting despite uh having a weather like i mean yeah you can
understand the weather in in southeast asia it can it can
quickly change within half an hour just like that so um it's incredible you can you can find a
lot of very patient uh astronomers over here yeah
sharon thank you so much man yeah incredible
so are we going to have a 10 minute break yeah let's take a 10 minute break and people can get a refreshment or
do whatever they have to do for 10 minutes and we'll be back okay so so
uh you'll be coming up next okay um hey can we see the people outside
uh right now they do stuck guessing so they turn off all the lights so maybe if
you talk i will talk more about our outreach program in november
okay maybe bring someone in uh to uh uh ask them some questions with you or
something that would be cool yeah very good great okay so we'll take a ten minute break uh
uh chris our our microphones will still be hot okay so uh so if we have some
informal conversation that's great okay here we go okay
so how many people are there who i think more than 50 people
okay yeah but how's the sky the sky is right now
it's really cloudy but last saturday people came like
more than 700 people to exo park yeah
they're one of the largest customers of uh uh see uh
what's that company n-way wave
yeah they're the biggest customer of plane wave
they buy 0.7 meter as if it's just a 80 millimeter refractor
[Laughter]
so it's incredible how's the weather in oman rhodium
well it's always clear here for the past uh a few months now
since we're in the middle of the uh the desert so
but um i live in muscat which is the capital so the light pollution is really like the
level is quite high so you really have to go out of town in order to find a good dark dark spot
oh yeah
it's nice that astronomy is done all over the world now
christopher yes um do shall i stack 100 of all the frames
or shall i just choose the best i would say with that seeing i would
stack about 60 to probably 60 percent 60 to 70 percent
for each video for each video how many videos did you capture um
at the moment i got uh um i think about fighting yeah i got five
five i do six uh six to eight six to eight and uh what you do is you
stack about uh sixty percent of each video all right and uh when you use our
stacker just use uh 1.5 uh
drizzle uh yeah okay all right
oh the data is really very nice
how's the seeing now nothing we're gonna see mars now no no we cannot see i think the rain is coming
so i have to cross the dome soon okay i think you better close it now
just to be safe okay
because i remember what happened was that i think last month i was imaging mars and i went back to my room just to
process it and i don't know why i felt bad so i you know because i left
the telescope out i was thinking of just you know copying the data to my computer then go
back and image some more but when i went out it was already drizzling and you know my camera was out my everything
i almost went nuts
[Music] i'm saved now
okay good
so what are your plans for the conjunction uh are you going to have a star park either
yes we we organized
what happened okay you're okay
all right uh i i'll be planning to organize the
recorded the event from regional observatories
for for regional observatories and we also give the telescope a 10 inches nelsonian
telescope to the school in thailand right now we gave about
500 telescopes wow to the school around
thailand so they will organize the event together with us
on that period of the time
if we can let's use the telescope in songkla
december 21.
okay oh so ring was do you do astro uh deep sky
imaging in singapore uh yes in fact uh the setup you see
right behind i'm just waiting for the sky to clear so last night i was just at this very spot i took uh m27 the
dumbbell nebula but oh wow tonight is not very good yeah so i just
checked the sky so i'm actually just in my room but uh we are able to do drift
alignment and you know just to shoot um deep sky objects that just happen to pass
in my western uh oriented direction yeah and you're doing narrowband imaging yes
so it's mostly uh narrowband imaging so in fact i think later on i'll share a bit of pictures
okay good okay we have three minutes
wow the go-to is working [Laughter]
yes yes ready to go anytime
by the way oh you're up next okay okay
you're next after then remus
okay then yeah [Music]
our reach right now is about seven thousand people uh wow
and uh we've had 70 shares so far which has been nice seven thousand
seven thousand six six thousand nine hundred ninety one people reached
okay uh we have uh currently about uh 45
people live watching right now people come in the way that they watch these programs they come in and watch for a
little while and then they go away then they come back and like that so
some people watch the entire program many many more will watch it after it
broadcasts
the lucky ones get to watch it live
thank you
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near an airport it's incredible planes are still flying
now yeah i think for most of us you haven't
flown for quite some time no i haven't flown for one year can you imagine that me too
me too okay we're back live
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nasa's test mission has found its first earth-sized world in its star's habitable zone
this means the planet called toi 700d has the potential for liquid water on
its surface test stares at patches of sky for long stretches recording light from thousands
of stars some of these stars have planets that cross or transit in front of them
tess sees these events as tiny regular dimmings of the host's stars one star where tess saw transits is toi
700 it's a red dwarf about 40 percent the mass and size of our sun and roughly
half its temperature one set of transits announced the presence of a planet close to the star
called toi 700b another set revealed a second planet
named toi 700c a little farther out the deeper shorter transit means the
planet is larger than the first and the plane of its orbit is slightly tipped a final set of transits showed toi 700d
orbiting even farther out tess observed the system for nearly 11
months and saw each planet transit multiple times scientists determine that the inner and
outer planets are almost earth size and may be rocky the middle world is more than twice as
large and most likely made of gas all three may be tidally locked rotating
just once each orbit so the same side always faces the star but most importantly toi 700d is within
the star's habitable zone scientists wanted independent confirmation of toi 700d so they
monitored its star with nasa's spitzer space telescope spitzer saw a clear transit from the
outer planet affirming its existence and improving scientist certainty of the planet's size
toi 700d is one of only a few earth-sized planets found in potential habitable zones
others include discoveries by kepler and several planets in the trappist-1 system
because toi 700 is bright and nearby the planets are good candidates for precise
mass measurements by ground-based telescopes future missions may also tell us if the
worlds have atmospheres but scientists need to know what kinds of signals to look for
researchers at nasa's goddard space flight center created models of the planet to explore its potential
conditions one version is a water covered world with an atmosphere similar to early mars
but denser another looks like a completely dry version of today's earth
both models have vastly different surface temperatures light passing through their atmospheres
creates distinct signals because different molecules are present by simulating these data now scientists
can make predictions for real future observations and narrow the range of toi 700d's possible conditions
we still have much to learn about the toi 700 system but thanks to tess spitzer and the work
of many scientists were beginning to form a picture of its exciting new worlds
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well we are back uh you're watching the explore alliance
live presentation of the 20th global star party uh the asia edition and my
co-host is christopher go and we've been watching amazing images of saturn and uh
jupiter and um uh and watching astronomers from around the world uh joining us and
we have uh who's up next uh christopher all right up next is uh
santa critic santi kunaport he's uh my friend by the way uh congratulations this guy just got
married oh wow yeah
he he got married last month and uh yeah congratulations and this guy's the one who takes care of me whenever i'm in
thailand he's this guy he's so busy um i you know um
probably have to tell his boss that you know he was after his wedding he was supposed to do an astronomy outreach and
i said that's that's crazy it's dangerous to do right after a
wedding because his wife also works for narit so that's why it was a bit difficult
so anyway congratulations uh uh now uh by the way his nickname is ooh
that's why i call him ooh he's uh going to talk about a little
about the outreach that narit does and a little about the um restaurant park which is really very
beautiful i've been to one of the astro park the one in song club before it was almost done but it's it's
incredible
your goal okay uh firstly i prepare the telescope
to uh it may have the planetary emitting but uh right now it's overcasting so uh
i will talk more about the outreach program that uh
we we are working on
okay our outreach we have a season uh right now november
uh is a winter season uh in thailand so it's very high season uh
a school from thailand they they have uh to ask permission to
organ organize some events or start casings
even in astro park and outside of the province chiang mai
most of like school they go to the hyatt mountain of thailand north
internon and we have to drive like two hour and a half and organize some
stargazing activities and driving back to downtown for the school
and after that month and june
is a medium season we will be working on about the teacher attending and have a
camp and july until october is rainy season so
we do a lot on creating a content and a workshop
for a teacher our target we have four targets
on our audience teachers and staff a student a general public and a major
astronomer for the teacher we have to run the t-shirt training workshop
we have three levels beginning intermediate and advanced and we also
have uh we we will give a telescope to the school i will talk
about it later this is the photos uh about our activities uh
we a teacher in thailand did
90 of them they didn't study in astronomy in thailand but
right now students have to study about astronomy
because it's including in the main curriculum in thailand so
yeah so right now we have to go out and doing the workshop and inspire them
for the beginning levels we will give them an inspiration
they don't have any a basic knowledge and we we bring
inspiration and we give them a workshop that they can work
in the classroom such as the making a comment and learn
about the moonfest it's very interesting that uh more than 80 percent
they don't they don't know how is the moon phase work yeah they think it's uh the the faces of
the moon they think it's come from the shadow of the earth blocked out the light
and we also have the observation activity we we do a
[Music] solar observing and they have to build some uh
a telescope and do a stargazing every night this will be like three days and two
nights long for the beginning level
the intermediate levels uh we select a teacher from the
beginning levels uh beginning levels we organize five times a year so if this
time we have about 120 participants
from around thailand so we got about 600
t-shirts a year so we select only 35 teachers to
continue in intermediate levels and we bring them to the
the best sky in thailand so we organized in the top of the
the internal mountains the highest point of thailand so they will live with us uh five days and four
nights in the really good sky this level we will teach them how to use
an instrument and how to do some basic research from
the small telescope and they also learned how the
astronomers are working at night at the piano the
national of observatories and they also have a test so we we will
teach them about how to like set up the telescope and then they
have to like do the exam and they have to use telescope
and for the advanced levels this level is quite different
we will select about five teachers and let them find
three students each year so they will be an advisor
to give some advice to their students to do some basic
astronomical projects and our teachers and students will uh
stay with us in chiang mai and at the internon and after that we will have
like a meeting they have to present their work and we will select
students to go to japan every year
to do a junior section
and this project we give a dawsonian
telescope to the school around thailand it looks like this
we would like to let students let the kids
see the ring of the assassins before they graduate the high school so right now we
gave about a 500 telescope to the school around
thailand and next year we will give uh 50 more telescopes
and also this year at the end of this year for the great conjunctions we will organize the events the big
events like four day long and all of schools will join us for the stargazing event
so we hope that the sky will clear and
students can see two big damn planets in the one ocula in the under eyepiece
this telescope we is made up in thailand so we give an
idea to the company in thailand and they built by orders so we
we [Music] lost its waste from the wood
the sony mount to the password and we use aluminum to make it lightweight and we put the
scale like ultimate and altitude scale to let them learn about
the correlations of the the objects
and we put the compass to we also give them
uh three ips so they can make the biggest
many specifications about 200 times so it's really
good for the guest conjunctions and also they can use the
the smartphone to open the applications and they can move the telescope around
and we have a smartphone holder for who would like to
capture the moon or the planets
it's really steady and they also use in their time because we
give them a solar filter so every time that we of uh we observe the
the eclipse in thailand all of the school will join us to make it happen like uh
we we were trying to uh [Music] give
societies of the future stronger in thailand
and we also have the ips projection
this is a feature that come to get our telescope
and this is some of uh school activities that they submit
the photos to us so it really helps uh
thailand to keep going on the
scientific country you know we can let
the kids our students interesting
science where the beauty of the astronomy
it's a photos and when you have the
phenomena like to be the opposition saturn my opposition
of school and of narrative we will organize the event
and we also have yes i said wonderful this is a wonderful
program oh all right yes we also have a facebook group it is
a cross group to share what they are doing
is as activity they can share and uh we can teach them like we can put a
videos teaching them how to use the telescope
yes [Music] and we also
we also have the other target group like a general public and
a better astronomer like general public we [Music]
organized the narrative public night every saturday like today
people can walk in and join us every saturday from 6 00 pm
until 10 pm and if there are some important phenomena
we we organize a big event we we have some like a live music and
you know they can watching the object and they can listening to the music
and for the amateur astronomer we have a
astrophoto moloton like professor bulasar i mentioned before
right now we have uh we have gained a lot of like
amateur astronomers in thailand and most of them become
they they turn to the astronomers because of they love to take
a photo so we teach them how to take a photo uh how how to take like
a really nice landscape like with the milky way and
right now every time we organize the astrophoto
coffee moloton we spend about 10 minutes and it's full
like 10 minutes for register and
we can hold up to 120 participants and we spend only 10
minutes yeah this is what our
division do for the hours in novice
yeah so back to his over
thank you you're muted christopher
chris uh yeah it's really incredible i mean just imagine if the united states were
to do that you'd have less crazy people probably yes
but really uh yeah you know one point of uh getting people interested in science in in thailand and
also here in asia is to get people because astronomy is one of the gateway
to the other sciences and engineering and uh you know basically
it's it's trying to shift the culture because i think one problem with young people right now we have this
entertainment culture where you know what you know what what a lot of people
aspire is to become either a professional sports uh athlete or
uh an actor or an actress uh rather than going into science
where uh you can make basically make the world a better place so um it's it's uh interesting um you
know i'm i'm so proud of what thailand is doing and it could be a very
good um example for a lot of countries in the world even malaysia they're doing
a lot on promoting astronomy um you know it
hopefully uh it's something for us to aspire yes i agree
and we we also have a advent camp for us for the youth camp
uh we organized every two years so a student from athens uh come to join us
and it's really fun up there in the internal yes i think i remember one time i was there
giving a lecture right yes right yeah they invite uh
people from other countries in asean who go to thailand and they train them in
astronomy uh wow oh scott you know it's
something missing in the world there you have it yeah it's great it's wonderful
wonderful i can imagine in the next 20 years that the efforts of narit will
really blossom and that we will see many leading scientists and
space explorers coming from thailand yeah
okay fantastic okay we'll go next to the next speaker
um i think uh we've already seen the next uh the next speaker sharing he's
from kuala lumpur he has been an amateur astronomer for 30 years
uh he's also an eclipse chaser i know that's rather addictive
an addictive hobby uh he goes around the world uh uh chasing eclipse he's also an
astrophotographer um yeah so uh he lives in malaysia in kuala
lumpur sharing can you tell us about what you're doing all right thanks very much uh um
at the moment um i'm i'm basically doing most of outreach programs to schools and
giving talks to their school children and clubs and occasionally i was invited for
giving trainings for the local government for astronomy extra photography so it's
been fun and it's been quite an adventure because um i started out as not uh studying any
astronomy any formal education in astronomy because uh i was in uh doing computer science back
in degrees so uh astronomy has been around since i was like 10 years old so
i'm i'm pretty old now so um the passion is as has been the one
that really pushed me all the way until today and um it's been really interesting to see uh
how astronomy has blossomed in in malaysia uh in a way that a lot of people a lot of um
people from different um what you call it different backgrounds has been really involved in looking at
the sky and trying to learn what is going on uh on the phenomena going in
the sky so um in one way uh uh in a way that i would like to
approach them is i would like to explain to them in the most the most simplest
way so that any layman can understand what is going on in the sky so uh so most of
the talk that i gave was like um trying to avoid any technical
um to too technical stuff uh which i think 90 of them will won't even understand
what i'm trying to say during that time so uh why not i just focus on the the
fun part of astronomy the the most interesting part of astronomy so um like like now uh maybe about uh for the past
10 15 years a lot of people have been using cameras dslr cameras
photographing the night sky and a lot of photographers where they have no i mean they have no
idea they can actually take beautiful images of the sky like the milky way
just using their own i mean the digital camera that they have so it's it's being like leaps and bounds
over here in malaysia and interestingly um we have a lot of groups actually um of
amateurs uh all of malaysia in peninsular malaysia we have a lot in penang
one of the most interesting and most active group that we have for the past 20-30 years
and in kuala lumpur we have a few groups over here imagine in in kuala lumpur with the sky that we have over here like
i don't know you can hardly see any stars over here and yet there are some clubs over here that promoting astronomy
to to the public and doing like uh outreach putting up telescopes by the sidewalk and showing them the moons and
planets especially saturn and usually when i give when i when i advice to people i said if you want to do a star
party or stargazing in schools or any any public space choose a date when there's a moon in the sky
okay so that that is our savior the moon because when when whenever people look
at the moon in close up they will be like wow they will be very very astounding
that kind of view um and the next one would be saturn yeah that would be the second best object
they will see and i don't know surprisingly uh when i showed jupiter they were like oh okay
nice there's like i mean there's no response on on on jupiter i don't know maybe
hopefully one day jupiter will blow up turn into a star or something that will somehow
bring back their excitement back to jupiter um yeah but
um we have a lot a lot of dark sky over in in malaysia we have in in johor and
instead of johor i think ramos has been been going there every month uh
to malaysia i haven't been there for like two years and he's been there like every month imagine that and it was it was really
really nice i can actually find nice nice spots in over here in malaysia
despite having some i mean yeah i mean the weather we have i mean cloudy sudden
sudden rainstorms here and there and and those people in in in east malaysia in sabah in the state of sabah
they have a very active group the starbucks stargazer so they are really doing a really great job in doing
promoting i mean astronomy to the to the public over there so it's really interesting to find those
those kind of activities and and for the past few years actually
we we can actually see some a very interesting collaboration between the government institution uh we have i
think about four or five uh of the trees over here uh from the government and the
state government and they are actually doing really good outreach programs at the auxiliary itself so it is like a
really good opportunity for for the public and for the i mean especially for the the school i mean for
the children to actually go out and have a look at the sky rather than they look at the sky map on the
phone which is just a simulation but might as well look at the sky with their
own eyes where they can really appreciate what is going on and when when i gave uh talks usually i give
i will show some of the photos uh let me share over here um let's see if i can share it over here
[Music] okay so here here are these some of the
photos that i've shared over over during the talk and one of the most interesting feedback
that i got when giving talk is when i show them the total solar eclipse as uh
as christopher has mentioned is a very it's very addictive yeah yeah i have to admit that because when i saw my first
solar eclipse total solar eclipse in 2005 in turkey and it never stops i just keep finding
reasons to tell my wife and i need to go somewhere to take some photographs for
giving talks to the schools yeah things like that so yeah it's been great and um
the the the learning curve when when watching the eclipse and when i i when i
take the the video of the activities that we did the traveling the travel log we call
that so that is actually the the part that really attracts the
public and and the children because uh the the end product is just a photo but
ninety percent of the story is the adventure the adventure they did traveling part they do i mean look at
the photo that i'm showing now um this one is was in oregon uh i was in us 2017.
imagine flying halfway across the world just to see a two minutes eclipse imagine that and i got flat tires along
the way and i mean a lot of things going on right and i think there was a uh
the there was a burn i think there's a lot of uh smoke over there i
think a few weeks before wildfire yeah the wi-fi yeah i think it was
one week before the eclipse so i i already bought the tickets one year before so it was like ah
oh well just just go just go over there and luckily we got really good sky so
it was it was really interesting uh uh for for this kind of uh activities and
for um if you remember last year we have the annular eclipse um that we can see on the 26th of december uh actually i
was promoting the activities for the public over here because malaysia we can see uh all the way south in in the
southern part of asia so i told them okay go and go in the southern south of malaysia and
watch the total the angular eclipse over there and i quietly
buy a ticket and flew to oman to watch the eclipse over there so people were like
what you can you can see the eclipse here in malaysia but why are you flying all the way to oman so i said um because
of the the the possibilities of having clear skies and oman is much higher than in
malaysia and at last unfortunately when i look back at the news they were
having a great time over here in malaysia with clear skies and this is my best photo that i got in oman
in just among just a few or you call it sucker holes between the clouds
i got i got a few minutes of it just i mean uh i mean it's not a bad shot it's just you like the eye of sauron or
something from a lot of drinks but yeah it's funny because i was running
away from the clouds and the clouds followed me all the way to oman so like oh oh well it's it's part and
parcel of the adventure that we have so yeah in a way that that's what what uh
those interesting parts uh adventures that that we have and
there's one trip in uh 2009 uh the total solar eclipse in china
so we were there so i was bringing a big group i think about 40 people
over there and unfortunately it was raining it was raining all the way
i mean we have we call that a double eclipse uh we call it because the eclipse has been by the rain
so it's like total darkness so um it was it was really very interesting uh
a really interesting adventure over there and but uh when when when i started in astronomy um
because uh yeah i mean we have to start setting up telescopes then suddenly half an hour after that
suddenly the rain comes it's getting a bit irritating and tiring oh actually so i decided just set up a small ozone tree
on my house on my own on the roof so i set up i think about 2011 i think almost
nine years ago so over here i managed to get a few interesting events uh because
the scopes are nicely prepared over there and i don't have to
set up everything carrying all over the place so one of the few interesting
events that uh i've seen over here from kuala lumpur is uh during
this year inferior conjunction of venus
so that that was actually um
my series suddenly my voice okay so um it was i think june june the
second uh this year when venus was really really close and this was the image that i got uh
i broke my own personal record uh whereby those the venus was actually
just two degrees 48 minutes from the sun during that time and and the the
crescent was just 0.1 uh light up so i think that is one of
the reason i got a melt melted camera here over here so um one of the main reasons
that uh that i've been uh encountered okay so this is one of the very interesting uh pictures that i got and
surprisingly when i share it over twitter i got a few people commenting about the
same date uh on when i observe venus on june of the second where they can
actually see some clouds irregularities on the northern part i
think uh on in the pictures on the northern part and the southern part so
i was i didn't really uh giving any much thought when i processed
the image so i thought maybe it's maybe just some dust modes forgot to do some flat frames or anything over during
during the imaging but apparently uh there's there's another person i think that guy can't remember his name he took
the same date and the same at the same time and we got the same image so we can
confirm that there are some some things going on in venus maybe some i don't know
like the aliens are coming out or anything i don't know so um so it is very interesting to see that
and um when when when i see that when we share our photos uh
over to the uh i mean to the social media to the friends over there
we can actually uh verify a lot of things uh that that we have taken um
like for example in the case of venus over here uh if if i didn't share this photo over and just
keep it to myself i wouldn't really notice about that clouds relatives on the northern and the southern part so so
it is it is a very good uh it's a very very tightly knit uh group that we have among
the astronomers and the images all over the world so it is that is what i love about astronomy because that's because
we have so many people all over the place and um looking at the same thing at the same
time and we can actually share and verify uh what what we saw during that
time and and when when that happens and we can actually uh have some sort of uh
i mean uh great a great feeling to be able to share it among among among the among the community all over the world
and who knows maybe i can during the imaging time i can get some uh what
asteroid falling down on venus or something going on who knows
but that is one of the few things that we have been going through over here in
malaysia and um back towards the the activity that we have over here uh for the past i think
for the past uh six months i think during the because of the pandemic so we can't
really have any star party or any activities going on in school so
i was like trying to expand experimenting around doing live streaming uh of the planets
and the deep sky from the observatory over here using um youtube live
obs or zoom and i find that it is a good way like we are doing now it is a it's a
plan b actually it's a plan b to to go out and
share astronomy to the public since we cannot go to them so might as well be
give astronomy to them through online so it is a really good opportunity and it
is a very good learning curve actually uh because for the past like six months uh
since march i think march yeah it's been six months you know it's more than that i think so um
we i really find that i mean people are really really really missing the night sky and they really
want to know what is going on out there so um in a way we can we can actually share
them through online even though it's not the the best way to show them but actually it's just a it's a good it's a
good plan b so that people don't forget what is going on up in the sky especially like the one that we are
going to have the venus and sorry the jupiter and saturn conjunction end of this year so
those are the things that we we need to share and that then that's what i've been doing uh in the facebook and on my
personal website and on twitter to actually get the public to go out and look at the
sky so most most of the time when i say them is you don't really have to
know what you are looking at okay as long as you have that habit looking at the sky regardless of what's going on up
in the sky just have that habit look up when you go out go out from the house
just keep looking up and just take note of what you you you saw in the night sky
then after that you can actually learn what you saw the night before using the apps or
whatever applications that we have uh now nowadays so the habit of looking at
the sky is one of the few things that i really push and i stress during the the
the uh what they call it the outreach program that i give uh to do at schools and of course online uh
during during the uranium pandemic i think i've been doing giving talks almost like weekly
and uh surprisingly tonight the sky was really clear and
so let me show you jupiter just now that i've uh managed to process over here
that's from tonight yeah it's from tonight yeah this is nice yeah this is like the
most stressful jupiter post-processing
that i've done i was like frantic no pressure no pressure
it's actually pretty nice it came out pretty well yeah it is the best i can get i mean
so it was really very bad yeah it was really low just now because i think what 30 degrees 35 degrees so
surprisingly you can see oval ba distinctly on the right yeah
yeah so so these are the things that um that we can uh that i can actually uh give a
share to people um uh show them their photos and uh i i tell them okay these are the ways
that you can the technique the type of equipment that you use the cameras and even though
they have just a normal phone actually now they can get a milky way
images using the handphone which is i mean i can't even sell my old camera
there's no second value anymore so you can imagine how how accessible the
idea the technology that they have nowadays and in a way it's good anyway it's good
because people can actually do it themselves but they need to be guided they need to be guided and they need to
be informed on the actual uh uh like true events or phenomena going
on in the sky because i mean i think as we have uh talked before this a lot of
misunderstanding about the hoax and things like that um i mean i got a lot a lot of people
just saying that when when i told them okay look at the sky after sunset you see a very big bright
star that is venus they said no that's not venus that is a satellite that is the the local
local satellite shining down and we have with the astro satellite okay so is that this
is that yeah it's a satellite so they mean they got we have people like that so it's it's normal it's a new normal
actually you can say that um but anyway yeah we we have to inform
them about about what is going on um in the in the most
in a simpler way so that they can understand and perhaps we can they can learn more after that we
can we can push i mean just push technical stuff to them
when they have no idea what's going on right so it's a step-by-step process and that's what um i've learned for the past
30 30 years i've been giving talks to schools um we start slow we keep it simple make it
fun uh so that that is when people will come in and they will start looking at the
sky so yeah hopefully they're okay that's wonderful yeah
okay wonderful thank you so much thank you so much serene it's uh really an eye opener how much outreach we're doing
here in southeast asia now coming up next we have my friend here kevin p
who lives in manila now he's the founder of the astronomy astronomy league of the philippines he's
an astrophotographer for quite some time now i remember when i started doing
astronomy uh this is the guy up there in manila who's also doing it so um
welcome evan can you tell us about your what you're doing in manila
hello everyone everyone my name is james cavanti uh actually i'd
like to thank chris fergot and scott roberts for inviting me to the global star party
live tonight and actually like to say i'm quite happy that uh
in this series actually a lot of my foreign friends are
with me tonight no especially sharing in 1998. you still remember sharing yeah
we went to the annular solar eclipse yeah in pulau de young
and uh actually it was quite good and uh actually i started uh this astronomy
uh way back in 1978 when i was still small and i don't know maybe
i find it strange that i'm very inclined to space science no
actually that time we were still small and uh there's not much of a telescope here
except for a few maybe small uh opera glasses and binoculars for us
to use now but uh actually uh when i joined the uh astronomical
organization in 1985 uh a lot of my colleagues like the
you know edwin aguirre and imelda hawson they are one of our mentors who
as well as the reverend father victor batelio who patiently guided me to
go to grow in this hobby no that's the reason why actually up to now
which is all i'm almost 40 years in this hobby so i'm getting i'm giving out my age
already but uh actually uh it's quite good no because uh right now
when we are starting actually i like to promote also public outreach now that's
the reason why astronomical league of the philippines was uh created no and
some of our members as well as the founders our object our
objectives is to do public outreach know and to reach out to
as well as the local ears so that they can
they can appreciate the beauties of the heaven so actually we also do this quite often
before no especially we have uh in our country we have the national astronomy
victim which uh mostly happens we celebrate this around the second the
third week of uh february and uh during this time
uh our organization members as well as other organizations use this time to
prompt to promote astronomy by setting up public viewing as well as lectures
around the world around the country especially what we do in we do it in
public places where we set up numerous telescopes for the
public you know and like what sharing said actually
most of the time we want to set this public viewing when there's a moon
there now because uh in the city it uh it's not too wise actually to show
deep sky objects in because uh one time we retried it when you show it
to them well when you show it right nebula when they look at it they just say
oh is that it is that it it's that cloud
so actually the best bang in the back no aside from the moon actually it's saturn
actually saturn everybody when you when you share saturn to
everyone everyone will tell you is this real
probably you put some sticker picture on the front of the telescope
actually it really happens to that one but actually when we show them that uh
it is real saturn everyone is uh you can see them uh jump up and down actually sometimes
when uh there's a long queue there's a long queue of lines uh for example we
set up seven eight telescopes in the public now you can see some people uh because it's
one of us man one telescope or one or two uh one or two members uh
one telescope sometimes you can see them uh coming back again you know coming back again
towards the saturn uh mark is still okay but most of the time
they when they because we don't bring two big telescopes in the public viewing no the most we bring is a
18 scp but most of the time but you can see that uh people line up very long
especially on the moon and right now with the advent of uh
smartphones like what sharing was that everyone is
when when they line up actually most of them will take less than
10 seconds or 30 to 10 seconds only to view the moon then suddenly they pop out
their smartphone and point it to the point of the eyepiece and start firing
no so sometimes they they don't they don't take it quite good so
what we do is uh can you can i borrow or tell us your camera and we take a picture of them and they were so happy
with it no it's like we have a souvenir of uh the moon or the jupiter
so those things are quite good and uh on the outlook of uh astronomy
the here in the philippines actually i can say that uh uh it has it becomes uh it has jump leap
leaps and bounds because um way back in the 80s uh there were only a
few people wanting to do astronomy especially like me we only we are what you call the
lone rangers now so we we just observed uh by ourselves and only a few people but
lately in the 20th century a lot of people got fascinated astronomy and
i can see actually some of the members our members came from
public outreach peoples no because and uh
what what's up what's quite happy about here is that uh uh they will ask you
too many questions and actually you already have to be prepared to uh what was to
to share time with them and if that person is becoming too
uh taking too long we will always invite him to talk on the side because there's
a long queue outside and um also uh
i also see advent of people getting serious also in astronomy you know especially chris go
yeah when he was still actually i remember him he was so passionate before and
actually he was using his astrophysics to try to image mars i think that timing no i was
telling chris that time although he has an sct 8 inch already before that time i would say
chris probably why not use the sct to use to emits mars
than using your astrophysics uh what was 113
yeah i said he said no my ass my astrophysics is better i said but the
problem with uh taking planets is that uh you need big aperture no so he said
there's a lot of big obstructions no the obstruction is not quite much of a factor in taking planets not
because uh the field is so small and actually i was quite happy that uh chris
gaudi tried it and look what he is right now oh yeah from 18s from 18 he become
aperture fever 18's become 11 then 11 is not set happy he's now going 14.
now he still has access to i think hubble this place still so we still have time
as well as now now is always an open door for chris go which i elvino
but actually actually i'm quite happy for him especially when he got to discover that's probably you know
actually i was quite happy when chris go even uh called me up hey
kevin i got to observe he was actually i'm quite happy that uh you know a
filipino friend finally has uh put put some someone in uh
in the philippines has put a mark up in astronomy in the philippines now put us
philippines in the map of astronomy uh community
and actually i'm quite proud of him especially right now he's even
helping scott roberts a spearheads global star party
he's doing a great job yes actually i am he always goes to the u.s he will tell me hey kevin i'm going to uh i'm going
to have a talk there again in japan in hong kong in europe actually i'm quite proud of him actually
he has his slips and bounds no and so i hope that a lot of people
use that as use him as an inspiration to be serious no because uh some people before actually i
don't want to mention names they said what's the point of observing
what's the point of observing with a small telescope you cannot do that because actually right now they have the
hubble the space telescope to handle it and uh but
everything comes out well look how cris go is with even a small cell
small telescope in in professional astronomy is concerned but actually
uh chris goes okay you know and uh actually even ramos actually ramos
sister no ramos is also a good friend of mine actually whenever he comes to uh
malaysia uh philippines we always uh get around to have a chat and uh there's no
ending in switzerland imagine and uh actually i also
do eclipse my one of my hobbies also like sharing i also do eclipse chasing you know so i've been through several
eclipses already and uh i think the last one actually before i when i'm doing solar eclipse
expedition it's always one or two person only no and uh
actually right now especially even the last two eclipses i
was able to bring a lot of our members also uh to
what is to to get this time of you know and lastly
for this uh actually in and enjoying this pandemic no this uh call big 19 pandemic i also got to discover that
even in the city you can image deep sky objects that's the first time that i
you know with the advent you just put a small broadband filter and a camera
actually i was quite surprised that for the three months of uh lockdown
i was able to image more than 21 image which i can only do
only two or three or four in the field in the previous years because the sky
here is very erratic not like sharing actually i'm quite angry sharing has good sky now we have cloud
this guy right now actually this uh to show you how how it
is uh should i share two few images of uh what can be done
uh in uh what was in [Music] the city
in the city where how can i do it i forget share screen
share screen yeah i but the problem is where where is this
not sure how this tool is uh at the bottom of the uh zoom
i don't know what i mean yeah yeah i forgot where i put my images ah okay
that's important yeah i i don't know wait wait let me see
i don't know if it's
must have gotten away huh i don't know anyway anyway i'm going not going to uh
i'm not going to waste the time here no anyway i just hear it next time because
i i don't know i actually i keep uh i saved some images to share but uh
unfortunately it's not in the computer stroke especially when you're giving talks
anyway uh actually uh it's nice talking with uh my fellow astronomers here and i like to
put back chris to his uh
thank you thank you so much kevin speaker yeah thanks thanks so much kevin um yeah
i just want to talk about the pro i'm called collaboration uh because uh one thing that's uh
uh you know many people would say look the professionals have observatories but it's very difficult to get observatory
time i've been involved with tech gemini uh sometimes uh even hubble um
i've worked with a group in uc berkeley headed by mk departure and would you believe for every uh
i think every year hubble gets about 5 000 plus proposals
uh only a few hundred probably 150 is accepted so uh you might say that there are
incredible instruments available but the time to use those instruments are not that
easy and for planetary science the professionals really rely on amateur
data to basically do what they're doing uh i think sharing you you gave a very
good example of imaging the clouds of venus you know that thing is really very difficult to do it's not easy to get
clouds of venus and uh you know what you did is basically you discovered a way a new way of
observing the clouds of venus a lot of times we amateurs uh through
many times through accident discover new ways on uh
basically uh you know uh observing new features on planets like
uh in in 2010 anthony and i were we were just doing a routine image of jupiter and suddenly boom it was an asteroid
that struck jupiter and the next thing we know uh every every probably every year
i think uh since 2010 there were about six or five or six impacts of jupiter
that has already been recorded so we know now that uh such a phenomenon
is basically quite common so um you know this wouldn't have happened if
we didn't have thousands of servers all over the world doing it so uh you know some of us do science but
there's also another side of astronomy where people are doing it because they just enjoy doing it doing nice pictures
uh there's nothing wrong with that it's it's it's actually very very good to do that
so uh you know there's a lot of things in astronomy that can be done and i'm just happy that
a lot of people are doing it well the next speaker is from singapore my good friend remus is here um
i've known remus for many years when he comes to cebu we always meet up i think
the last time we meet was a year exactly a year ago in uh
san jose at aic he was there at aic
advance imaging conference uh attending the the lectures there i was
one of the speakers there uh ramos is very famous in singapore
he's the founder of singh astro he's he's been doing a lot of uh
outreach in astronomy and uh his most recent big project was uh last december
26 when there was an annual eclipse in singapore he organized basically a huge
event at was it that marina bay sands at the marina bar
yes okay okay remus you're on
okay so um before i start um i'd like to thank scott and chris for the
opportunity to speak in this uh session of gsp so um i'm remaster i'm a predominantly
an avid deep sky astrophotographer okay but uh because of the pandemic i'm stuck
here you know and in fact you can see my setup it's actually live for imaging anytime you know um i've also dabbled a
bit you know on planet tree so um here in singapore
i guess i mean what else is new we could win the prize for being the most like
polluted country in the world and i think it did you know some time back and it still is
um so for someone like myself uh who also like to do astronomy
outreach and and in fact i try to travel you know around southeast asia we think
you know various passionate people like like chris charrin james you know i
guess we've known each other for so many years you know um so it's a really wonderful
hobby and and sometimes for me you know the hobby becomes part of my life you
know so a lot of my social friends here in singapore they are also you know just
because you know we are all astronomy enthusiasts right and um so many years back
inspired by then a small number of close-knit astronomy friends here
i've got to form sing astro um back then you know it was an online you
know the only local astronomy forum and right now it has currently over 15 000
subscribers and i've also started the astronomical society
in singapore's oldest university the national university of singapore and i
believe chris i think a number of years back you have also delivered an image processing talk um in nus so
i founded the society back in the late 1990s and you know ever since we also
have several school clubs here in singapore
and from where i am here in singapore and i have to say this because
some you know i've encountered people that actually feels that we are part of china but we all know we are here in fact we
are just nates to malaysia it's a really small in fact it's just barely 30 miles across you know an
island in southeast asia you know of course it's also a tropical country being just one degree of latitude north
of the equator all right so through the years however you know um
however small the island is the interest in astronomy and astrophotography has been growing a lot
in fact in this country of almost 5.7 million residents now
but however with almost 90 percent of us staying in high-rise apartments due to
land scarcity and of course land is very expensive here we cannot have very big
instruments and we will likely need to transport our equipment this is conducive for astronomy rather than
having a convenient backyard to enjoy the hobby you know so i can see you know
i mean sharing you you can do it from your roof i can't you know i will do it from the room and i got to go downstairs
you know if i want to do some decent imaging you know even in white rooted singapore
so but nevertheless being the equator we have the advantage of having the ability
to enjoy both northern and southern constellations and you know the sun moon
and planets would also go almost directly over here we don't have seasons
and with mostly warm weather which is 26 to 32 degrees celsius or you know around
85 degrees fahrenheit telescope telescope purchasing choices
have to be carefully thought about too you know since we have the high tropical humidity and high temperatures
so you know the optics will grow fungus in no time in fact less than three weeks
so because of this most of us you know like myself i have instruments
so therefore mainly you know we have to keep them in dry cabinets or dehumidifiers
and when you are really passionate about the hobby i can tell you you tend to grow to have multiple instruments
you know so you know after this session i probably will be keeping you know my refractor into the dry cabinet you know
so i have a full-size dry cupboard you know and and it's actually made by my close extra friend
michael you know to keep all my instruments and then get a room
so as mentioned earlier that we are also a really small country is also a
metropolitan city state has significant light pollution all over bottle scale value gets to around the worst at eight
to nine therefore most of the astronomy observing and imaging activities
can only focus around solar system objects as what i've mentioned decreased earlier
on in fact right now you know i could be narrowband imaging m27 or the dumbbell
nebula using h8 s2 and oxygen filters observing and imaging really bright dsos
are also possible but it has to be pretty short exposures now before the global pandemic we would
also go across the causeway into malaysia so you know sharing has mentioned a bit of that
and enjoy the dark rural skies there typically around bottle three to four
and most of the time is along the eastern coast of peninsular malaysia it's about 150 kilometers drive up north
from where we are we would have groups of 20 to 30 sometimes even up to 60 people from
singapore bringing all their precious optical instruments in motors luggages
across customs clearance so it will be funny and an interesting experience since you know
we have ever gotten comments from the authorities like you know wow you know
when they saw one of my newtonian astro graphs what a huge heater you know cylinder it is and then after that they
started to open it oh why why is there a mirror i can see myself right at the end
you know and and sometimes you know they will also say is this a missile launcher you're bringing into malaysia
right then and being the organizer i would have to tell them our interest in
astronomy you know i you know i'll have to learn some simple malay words like
bing tang you know and all yeah i can see sharing laughing already and and
even show them extra photographs that we have previously captured now
i'm really honored to be given the opportunity to represent the singapore astronomy population and and you know
share that the people here hope to see more collaborative outreach projects in
this region of southeast asia as we you know nowadays enthusiasts you know we
have a lot of them really keen to enjoy astronomy you know and in particular you
know astrophotography is is really catching up in fact right now you know most of the people that joins
us and expeditions you know our friends that i know they are predominantly astrophotographers so we also hope that
there are also more equatorial uh mouse that support low latitude observing okay
so however ironic it sounds yes but you know
you know the paramount g11 from los mandi you know they can't really go to zero and for us we are at 1.3 so you
know normally we'll have to make customized wages for that but it will be really neat if we can readily go down
you know to equatorial attitudes and also more options for greater portability of instruments since the
more passionate enthusiasts we want to bring them across to malaysia right so
sharon james chris you know this you know for us to enjoy the darker skies there
now um i have a couple of quick pictures to show just to make my sharing more insightful
let me do that
while you're looking for that um there's a question from the audience uh
they want to know where where do you wish to be quarantined at [Laughter]
if you're going to be quarantined anywhere well so in fact right now um we are glad we
actually have zero community uh community cases so but the thing is currently the the government has this
policy that we have to limit gatherings to five or less so usually i think where we can
quarantine i mean if it's in singapore i guess it would be at the really darkest spot
which is you know normally is uh in the far end of the eastern part of the island if not then it would be the west
uh north western end so that is where you know we could probably
get darker skies yes yes i'm not sure why i can't share it
there's a shared screen button
just press that yes okay let's move your mouse below zoom and there's a participant's chat
and share screen because i'm on a mac and it is now
flagging out security and privacy oh my god
okay ah yes oh it's beautiful okay so basically just a few months back um in
the heart of the pandemic so where we we can't even go out to eat so i'm actually stuck here in this very same room and
that's where i took this orion nebula using the 5.5 inch
you know behind me so seriously inside your room inside your room yes inside my room so i'm here
[Music] [Laughter] and i had to
have many many many hours of exposure because i only have a limit of maybe
about 40 degrees and below wow and then before it sets you know in the
west and and where the window is facing is also towards the most light polluted area in singapore
which is the city wow that is amazing
you deserve a special recognition award for this it's
very interesting observatory it's wonderful so and uh i i do take the moon sometimes
when it comes in view so this plateau and you know the alpine valley region
um this is rosette also from the sea wow from your window
yes here right now right inside your famous you you need to turn the camera a little bit so that we can see the window
that you shoot from turn your camera a little bit yes this window
oh my god just possible so yeah all the people you
turn you turn out obviously turn off all the lights in your room right it's dark
wow wow okay this should be a big inspiration for everybody right now okay that you
can do this that you are you win look at this image it's beautiful
amazing now uh this is not taken through this
window but it was true for my old house where it faced south but uh you know
another window is it's a very deemed object so it really took me a long time to capture
the faint uh trend drills of this supernova remnant in the south wow
um and uh earlier on i've mentioned you know we we do bring our people to malaysia so
this is a typical group you know and you can see i mean you know we do bring all kinds of
instruments the people are all very happy you know and and you know finally they
can get out of the light polluted the aura in singapore and enjoy the rural skies of malaysia you
know and and just see the amount of things we bring you know this is just one of the many
events that we have and we'll just pack them all to the brink erie was tell about the accident last year
oh yes i'm going to in a few seconds i have the picture and of course when it's rainy we will do
crazy things like this so
telescope somehow so we do line up all our telescopes and take a picture like this
so and and yeah so chris this is the moment okay the entire of my setup you can see
you know it has a completely collapsed you know so the whole tripod so it's actually a paramount on on a rock miller
tripod and it had my 10 inch astrograph on it during that time so the torrential
winds i think when it rains you know this was a time where it was really windy
okay and and you know when this is how it looked you know the next morning oh gosh
no it's drenched okay so you know this is just also the adapter that you have for
for your tripod to um so that's the wedge you know that uh we will have to use and and and you know
one of the reasons why i can think why this couple so easily is because the center of gravity is made very high
because of where we are so after this i've learned a very dear lesson you know i've actually used you
know a full pier which is much lower so yes again an expensive lesson for me but
when the sky is clear in in malaysia so i i took this uh cg4 in pew peas um it's a very dim
object but i'm glad i could tweak that over several in fact many hours of exposure
there's also the tri-fit nebula so all these are all you know auto three to
four skies um i have to show this right so this is
increasing me we took this photo this was a juno meeting uh in singapore we had a meeting
we trained people to support arjuna spacecraft yes
and uh this is james so you know because sometimes i go to philippines on
business trip you know and and you know a lot of times james will take care of me take care of me when i'm in manila
right and and this was one of the alp sessions that he had and then uh sharing yes uh we took this
photo when we were at the world space way 2014 i was invited there to give a
talk when was it it was actually 2014 six years ago
yes and then uh earlier on uh we we talked about the annular eclipse i remember
james uh sharon you you mentioned when when oman so here because primarily um i'm i'm usually the
organizer for big outreach events here in singapore because not because also i
mean one thing is i like to do it but also normally we don't have a lot of people that want to put that kind of
time and energy okay so during this event we had about 3 000 people you know
including the press you know the local people and we had some foreign news agents you know covering this event so
this was the annular solar eclipse just last december 26 um before the
pandemic happened and and i i think that was really like the last big you know
serious astronomy outreach event that we had here in singapore um um as as what
sharing has mentioned i'm i'm sorry that the clouds went your way you know but we had clear skies here so
i was able to take this you know oh wow yeah annularity you know near that
moment you know so it was really exciting we had the you know uh i think
james you came to singapore as well you know and you know we played host to a lot of the
people in our region um and this is actually back in 2002 so a
typical local outreach um it's not by any institution so this is purely
based on the singastro forum so we call it equipment festival
and and you know this was one of the events that we had long time back in 2002 and then this is a more recent
equipment festival 2015 that we had so just for you to have a feel of you
know the local enthusiast here this is uh one of the sessions where we had the lunar eclipse
and and we had a gathering back at the marina south southern part of singapore
sometimes i also conduct public talks so this was one of my astral
photography talks during another lunar eclipse event
and uh and then earlier on um you know someone mentioned marina bay
sands so you know also had um in fact we call it the astronomy 2017 you know held
in uh marina bay sands we were really very honored for you know uh for them
the management to actually give us infrastructure you know and we were able to actually even use it for free and
also they gave us their nice exhibition halls and uh through two days we had about 5
000 people attending and you know we even had a local that brought his 24
inch tops onion you know and and you know to you know get the public you know
to enjoy fields you know through all these big telescopes i brought in my
seven inch refractor as well and you know here there's also another
view you know facing the art science museum which is an icon
here in singapore which is also you know part of the marina bay sands event
and and even the local news so this is my close friend michael so you know
recently um they wanted to um talk about jupiter observing so so you
know this was the time when michael actually told the chinese local news you know about the event
and then um back in the past um i will also do outreach in conjunction with the
national library board here in singapore so this is one where i also give talks to little young kids
you know they are all they are crazy passionate and especially when you show them saturn you know i do
agree with all of you earlier on say yeah saturn is the one you know that
really captivates you know all these young hearts and the last picture is actually from
my nus national university of singapore which is also my alma mater so we had a
partial solar eclipse outreach event so we also opened up to the public i think
we had close to about four thousand people wow so um and you know one of our friends
you know hauled his eight inch refractor so you can see wow yeah big
amount of counterweights but but you can also see how the equatorial amount has to be really look at that
yeah it's sticking way down
sometimes i get worried also so he has to really make sure the whole structure is okay
right we have a question we have a question from the chat uh people want to know how
you power a line from inside your room okay yes yes from inside your room
uh i have that question asked many times before and the answer is it is possible
okay so because i can only see up to about in fact to be exactly 38
degrees okay uh in elevation so immediately uh once i can see a bright star at 38
degrees i got to align immediately okay and then once it goes down to about 30
degrees i got to stop and find another one at 38 okay and do it again and and
recursively you know i will be able to get to that and you get closer and closer to polar alignment wow yes oh and
wow really that is the that is the how i'll do it if i'm not
bringing people to malaysia okay because i will have to use the same amount you know
it's awesome i'm really impressed it's a lot of physical
exertion actually but you know to me i i think it positively you know i mean sometimes it's also good
for us to have a lot of blood circulation you know i think astronomy here in singapore it's also a healthy
hobby you know because we get to carry a lot of stuff and exercise you know remus many many astronomers
complain that they that they have too much light pollution that they have no place to set up their telescope that
they you know there's so many that they can't do yet here you are
with your window okay incredible images in light polluted
singapore and you're doing amazing work amazing work it's incredible
thank you that's the thing is um we have to be very resilient here yeah and
very patient and you know i'm sure you know i speak in on behalf of everybody here
in singapore you know at most in a year we probably will get five to seven
really clear skies and that's about it you know so it has to be very precious
you know and especially during the pandemic we can't travel you know as long as you know there are clear skies
we'll try to make use of it yeah so that is it that is amazing
inspiration i love it my end personally i think i'm in the
midst of getting my very first dobsonian because all through these years i've been an astrophotographer so i want to
you know get a dobsonian you know um and you know put more focus on observational astronomy you know even
here in singapore right so you know hopefully in the next few months or even years
um and during the pandemic where we can't travel out even to neighboring malaysia
so you know as you can see i've been doing simple modes imaging you know through this room you know or sometimes
i'll just feel a little adventurous and and you know i'll do remote imaging you know from the chilean observatories
through the subscription programs out there so yes so lastly i would like to thank
chris um for coordinating on this event yeah we last met you know at aic last
year you know i hope we can meet soon i'm also very really happy and honored to
see and hear everyone sharing here prof bunraksa i think it was an honor to meet
you last year as well in person at the sean conference james kevin an old astronomy friend of
many years i hope to see you in manila soon you know and sharing another old friend from malaysia and all the rest of
you let's catch up soon too so and uh many thanks to scott foreign
enabling this wonderful program um in fact thank you thank you thank you
thank you so much remus now i know that yeah no i know that no i know i can
image inside my room yeah yeah we don't need to go to a dark sky site yes
you know what you do decide once the pandemic is over don't hesitate
to reach out to me i'll be happy to have you here in singapore right so
thank you so much remus thank you so much one thing i would like to uh basically
you know emphasize here especially scott you know you're one of the telescope manufacturers
is that uh you know mounts that will polar aligned in the equator
because i think there's a lot of market here you know you're talking about singapore indonesia
malaysia thailand the philippines uh even northern australia
that are very low latitude and we have very stable skies good seeing
here but we need equatorial mounds that will pull our line that's a poor line that's
right i will keep it in mind for sure yeah there's a big market here because a lot
of these countries are prosperous singapore is a first world country and these are the guys that can afford you
know you can see a lot of people use takahashi oh yeah it's difficult to find mounts that really polar airline
so uh yeah it's something to think about anyway i think we're going to have a break after this
okay okay sounds good you want to go to break now or
yeah we'll do it now okay we'll have a 10-minute break
here we go this has been fun
you want to do it again sometime
[Laughter] yes actually i don't know when will this
pandemics uh when will this pandemic uh
start uh ends now hopefully by january everything
uh the restrictions for the covid uh quarantine will uh let loose so that we can do some
astronomy stuff again okay i've been probably in manila it's crazy there but here in cebu we're free
it's normally but the problem here in manila right now is uh despite the quarantines people oh
i think everyone goes out already they don't give a damn nobody gives it
i think what is wonderful in manila is you guys outreach in shopping malls also i i yes
yes yes actually that's the market you know to if you bring it to
the what you call this the park uh not much people know but if you go to
the that's the problem that's the reason why accept like sm and other stuff they will invite us to
do the public outreach there on their areas and actually it's very
uh you won't get minimum of 1000 people at least for even for two hours observing
uh free public viewing you can get at least a one thousand plus two one five easily
yeah so doing outreach in most i think uh
narit also does that because i remember one time in chiang mai
they had they set up their telescope close to the mall even here in cebu when we do outreach we
we also do it in malls uh since uh you know uh i remember uh as a lot of you have
observed that when you go to a deep sky object the first answer is what the hell is that
you have to use you know what the the term that we use averted imagination
by the way chris yeah by the way chris uh yeah
i finally were able to see the album that i want as there's a few
pictures that i want to show each one of you that uh despite manila's bad red zone sky
the one i'm telling you you can still get some deep sky break will happen
yeah i now finally know where it is it's just it will take less maybe less
than one minute now so it won't be i won't put it that long just let me know when i can plug it in
so rodeo on your app next uh where is he hey by the way serene uh
uh house you do you still go out or you you put yourself always in the
observatory to image you don't go out anymore i'm stuck here
it's the wrong it's the wrong strategy actually because uh when i don't have an observed tree
i got reasons to go out during weekends to tell my wife i have to take some photographs here and there but now when
i got it at home i could no one no other reasons to go out during weekends
actually actually sharing that's also one of my
my vice president of this organization actually when he set up his new house he constructed his
new house so he planned to have an observatory on top of his and
his uh his uh house right he's yeah so his wife is quite happy he said okay you can set
it up right now you don't have any good reason to go out i said you still have but the
problem is all your telescopes already set up there you even have an epsilon uh
epsilon 118 and right now he cannot even bring it to our
dark sky because uh it's so hard for him to give an excuse because
uh he he already she already allowed her allowed him to get the to build an
observatory in his house already actually but i am envy each one of you
who has an observatory man i whenever i want to set up here even right now in
the actually during the pandemic time i learned to
put myself put all my telescope and accessories and the cameras and hold it
from 11th floor going up to the 22 floor even it has an elevator but imagine you have
to hold everything up then uh set up then later you have to wrote everything
down that's the advantage of chris doing that's why he can always do imaging anytime
even sharing can do it no that's the that's a fun but actually the
during the quarantine time
it was uh it was actually i learned a lot i learned a lot uh
during the call during the lock down time that you can do imaging also deep sky object in
that zone in red zone area although remus is quite right using a
narrow band using a narrow band right but actually sharing you will be quite
surprised that uh actually i can i was able to get some some darn objects in uh in the city
just using a broadband filter only a very light broadband filter only yeah i was quite surprised oh my god i
said i didn't expect i should have spent some more time in manila to he meets rather than just have
to wait every month during the moon moon last night okay is the sky clear or not in the dark sky
sometimes when we go to dark skies we have to what it was three to four
hours of ride yeah because of traffic when we arrived there we only have one hour of imaging
and it's cloudy [Laughter] oh my god
imagine astronomers are very patient people yes imagine
during the lockdown yeah i was able to image 21 deep sky objects
wow whereas that 21 deep sky object when i go out to dark sky
i can only probably once a month i can only get uh one or two good objects
whereas in manila when i was locked down actually i was able to get 21 images
that's that's actually actually that's the reason why it gave it encouraged me more you know imagine that actually i'm
trying to spread also to some of the local members they can also do some uh
deep sky imaging also in uh in manila now even not even using an arrow but
actually actually i have an arrow but also but but i like uh i like the
rgb or the natural color image but uh of course
narrowband has its own uh strength no like giving better details but
actually i'm quite i'm quite surprised that uh it can actually that's why i said uh
actually during the lockdown i was not that frustrated because actually i quite
enjoyed the lockdown time because i have more time to image [Laughter]
shari and sharing where are you located are you located in downtown kuala lumpur or in in the suburbs it's it's slightly
uh about 10 10 kilometers nine kilometers away uh south of kuala lumpur
okay i'm sorry so yeah you have a little darker skies slightly darker skies yeah
um on the on the eastern sky i'm facing kuala lumpur so it's really really bright but i got a dark western and uh
southern sky over here so okay yeah
mm-hmm yeah one minute death yeah okay yeah one
minute yeah so uh the next will be uh rhodium yeah
i will show you mars because i'm i'm looking at mars now if you want to okay sure yeah okay let's let's uh okay we'll show
mars after this then kevin you can show your yeah because i want to see a color mars
image we should be saying yeah we should be seeing the volcanoes
tonight olympus mons the tarsus volcanoes
yeah scott are you there yes we're going to mars
now okay all right we're we'll be showing has mars on this break this is going to be fun
um we're we're we're in the volcano section the volcano okay yeah yeah thirsties
no uh yes all uh after after uh first is
we have thirsties that's although we've done it before landing on
mars is hard and this mission is no different the process to get from the top of the
atmosphere of mars to the surface we call entry descent and landing or edl
it takes thousands of steps to go from the top of the atmosphere to the surface and each one of them has to work
perfectly to be a successful mission the process starts well above the top of
the atmosphere of mars the cruise stage faces the sun
it also has its radio antenna which faces earth but now we don't need the cruise stage
its job is done the next step just seven minutes before arriving to the top of the mars
atmosphere is to separate the cruise stage before you hit the top atmosphere though
the space capsule has to orient itself so the heat shield is precisely facing
the atmosphere now the fun begins the vehicle is moving at nearly 13 000 miles an hour but it's
hitting the top of the atmosphere at a very shallow angle 12 degrees any steeper the vehicle will hit the thicker
part of the atmosphere and it will melt and burn up any shallower the vehicle will bounce off the atmosphere of mars
at the very top the atmosphere it's about 70 miles above the surface of mars and the air is starting to get thicker
and thicker and thicker as it does that the temperature on the heat shield gets well over a thousand degrees centigrade
enough to melt steel over the next two minutes the vehicle decelerates at a backbreaking 12 earth
gs from 13 000 miles an hour to about 1 000 miles an hour at about 10 miles
above the surface of mars a supersonic parachute is launched out of the back of the vehicle 15 seconds after the
parachute inflates it's time to get rid of the heat shield six pyrotechnic devices fire simultaneously allowing the
heat shield to fall and tumble away from the vehicle exposing the lander to the
surface of mars ten seconds after the heat shield is dropped three pyrotechnically deployed legs are
released and locked for landing about a minute later the landing radar is turned on
sending pulses toward the surface of mars as the vehicle starts to try to measure how high it is above the surface
and how fast it's going at about a mile above the surface of mars the lander
falls away from the back shell and lights its engines and very quickly the vehicle must rotate out of the way so
that the parachute and the back shell doesn't come down to hit it the last thing that has to happen is that on the
moment of contact the engines have to shut down immediately
if they don't the vehicle will tip over so if all the steps of entry descent and
landing happen perfectly and we are safely on the surface of mars we'll be ready to do some exciting
new science
well everybody uh it's been a really exciting day today we've had incredible
images of the planets we have seen astronomers all over asia uh and have
had a truly global audience christopher go is my co-host here on the
20th global star party and this is the asia edition um what do we have coming
up next chris oh sharing take over we want to see mars
they want to see mars where's mars it's going to be incredible
this is mars wow wow
incredible
yes is this a cloud cover on on one side or the north yeah it's a polar hood
wow incredible so what what features what features are
we seeing on mars right now chris uh the the dark band uh the dark band is
basically maori sumerian uh it's difficult yeah it's difficult to make out the volcanoes but it should be
on the right side they should have lined up olympus monster should be somewhere there
um it's it's it's difficult to see yeah somewhere there yeah olympus mons is supposed to be there
this area is where the this is the volcanic area of mars it's called the tharsis region
you have giant volcanoes olympus mons is that basically the tallest volcano
the the highest mountain in the solar system minus that cliff the 20 kilometer cliff
that was a question in a certain body in the solar system
but you know that this mountain is three times the height of mount everest
i think uh if my numbers are correct so this is this is a very tall it's it's
a shield volcano like uh in fact um uh you might be surprised what is the
largest mountain in in on earth it's actually the the big island of
hawaii mauna kea uh monaco lower complex that that area
over there so that's the basically in fact uh from the bottom on the ground to
the top uh it's it's basically the tallest mountain not the highest but the tallest mountain
on earth and here in mars we have these incredible shield volcanoes and it's not
only the whole the whole northern hemisphere of mars are filled with volcanoes
on the left we have the elysium volcano and uh to the right of uh olympus mons
you have the three tharsis volcanoes uh i forgot the name
uh mons arsea acrylus and pavonis so the three these
three incredibly tall volcanoes in mars it's kind of funny that uh you know
right now we think mars is a dead planet when uh you know it's uh
probably in the past uh you can you can there were a lot of active volcanoes
then and uh if you notice that the the southern part of mars is uh
um actually um uh lighter than the northern part there's also a reason for that because
the southern uh the northern part is lighter uh astronomers believe that the northern
part is actually lower uh there used to be a huge ocean
on the northern part of mars so uh yeah mars is very
exciting this year uh also because uh you have to enjoy mars now because uh
the next time you'll see mars this big will be i think 15 years from now
so uh and uh right now the position of mars is
good for us in the northern hemisphere it's it's quite high for us so uh
yeah so by the way uh are you taking an image now because you should make it are you
capturing oh yeah we have to keep reminding people to capture it
so the seeing is very good actually yeah the seeing is actually pretty good i'm sure mars is quite high right now it's
uh how many degrees now uh it is 70 degrees it's literally past the meridian so my
my telescope is really flipping oh the other side so i need to flip it back region flip it's going to do
marijuana yeah i have to do meridian flip so i just leave it as it is for now and flip it over later on
scott look at how look at the the sct it's basically pointing overhead yeah
this is a nine and a quarter inch celestron correct yeah yeah okay you can see how high mars is
that's why the the image is really incredible it's super it's extremely stable so uh
sharing make a couple of uh three minute images use roi probably 400 by 400 around that
size okay and uh get about six sets
and uh while you're doing that we can go to kevin you want to show us your images
no a while ago yeah actually just just give us maybe one minute no of the images that i
didn't i was saying uh wait i hope i'm i'm correct right now
so this is an image in downtown manila with all the light pollution you can imagine
see see this taken with actually five minutes sub sub
uh we're not seeing anything right no uh wait
yeah can you see it okay there you go okay there you go see you can see
actually uh this is a suane bolano which is taken in the red zone manila
actually i'm in the center of manila actually with this one i was able to even image
five minute subs so imagine just this is in the city you know
actually before i i think it was impossible for me to even try it one
but right now you can actually see it's possible no yeah it's incredible what uh you know
amazing what quarantine can do you it makes you very hard to ah like imaging in a room
[Laughter] images from super light polluted cities
do not tell an amateur astronomer that he cannot do something yes
yes yes actually we will they will bust through that they will
yeah i know how do i go out from here
no no it's okay i think uh we will go with rodeo yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah okay okay yeah just just just click stop
sharing yeah there you go okay
so um hey uh we we've had a very exciting night we learned a lot of new things crazy things
things i couldn't imagine of doing no um uh we're able to see the three planets
too bad there's no moon today but really incredible views of saturn
jupiter and mars now we have a friend of mine rhodion he used to live here in
cebu uh for a couple of years uh i think it's davao he used to live in davao then he
came to cebu then he went all over the place all over the places
he used to spend many years doing outreach uh teaching kids astronomy all over the
philippines right now he lives in oman he works for a telescope store there in
oman and rhodium tell us about your experience in astronomy education and
stuff thank you and i would like to take the opportunity
to thank chris and scott for allowing me this time to share
my journey in astronomy so my journey in astronomy is a bit strange in the sense that
when i was small like anyone else i was fascinated with the night sky and the stars
and the planets but there was a lull actually when i uh
right after college you know when we get too busy with the young life
but then uh sometime when i uh i worked for a university some people
wanted to put up a uh an astronomy club and i said well uh
i was uh as a young kid i was an enthusiast so i helped them put up a club and at the
same time we managed to actually build our own dobsonian
uh 4.5 inch dobsonian and that telescope
is still uh still exists today that was like 15 years ago when we built that dobsonian
and everyone in the club helped and that was the time when i realized that this is really a great thing astronomy
tends to bring people together and you know enjoys the experience together and i
kind of gotten into that uh habit of putting up astronomy clubs like when i
got to work in cebu when i met up with chris we actually formed a club although
it's not that active right now right [Music] our little club there and then uh back
home i i actually come from an island called mindanao in in the southern philippines and uh we also have a
university there where i grew up and my siblings and i actually we formed
also a small uh astronomy club unfortunately if you're not familiar
with that city marawi there was a bit of conflict going on there a few years ago
and therefore i believe the club stopped uh you know operating because
it was a conflict zone basically but i hope the the the leaders of that club also revive the club once the classes
and everything settles i mean especially with this scoped situation so i got into that kind of mode of
setting up astronomy clubs but the thing is i have a habit also leaving leaving the
club because i had to pursue other interests elsewhere but i'm actually glad that the club kept on going even
though i i was gone but
sometime when i was with you chris in cebu uh that was actually the time that my interest in astronomy really blossomed
because i got involved in this internet-based project it's a virtual
world project wherein it was a nasa-funded project actually uh wheeling jesuit university in the u.s
was funded by nasa to create this virtual moon experience like kids would log on
like it's like this online game where and kids would log on but instead of like shooting each other like in video
games they would actually together explore the moon you know virtually so i had a bit of
talent in 3d design so i had to design the lunar terrain that's when i had to
research you know i had to research how to i think we modeled the timocaris crater
on the moon so i had to research on the structure of the timocaris crater and
you know um simulate some lunar rovers going it and the kids really had fun it was an experiment by
by that university and nasa unfortunately ironically that
time it was actually funded by nasa because of george w bush's uh back to the moon initiative right
but then when obama became president there were like huge budget cuts in nasa so it be it fell victim actually
so the the the moon world pride project got cut actually that was about the time also that i left cebu chris
but then when i came back to mindanao um for
by coincidence there was this organization that wanted to do outreach and i said hey i just came from this
project involving uh educating kids about the moon and everything what do you want me to do then they said
are you willing to like man a portable planetarium you be the guy inside it and i said why not maybe i can even get all
the material i got from that moon project and put it into the planetarium and get kids you know
really like interested in all this uh astronomy uh going on basic astronomy
education so for about four years i was with that group and we went if i may
share some i think i only managed to to get one picture because uh as you have seen chris
earlier my my windows actually crashed when i was trying to bring up some of those images um well
how do we do this whiteboard share share screen here okay
share so um yep uh
so are you seeing uh an image yes yes that's the portable planetarium that
we bring along and uh we go to different schools and i i'm the guy inside it i i you know
i encourage these kids to look up at the night sky simulated inside the planetarium but
it's not only pure simulation because we also bring telescopes so by the time we um uh by when night falls
we're still at the school so we uh uh set up our telescopes and let kids
view the actual celestial bodies the ones they've seen in the planetarium the simulated ones they come alive
when when you actually let them do the the telescope viewing so i did this for a few years
and it's quite interesting uh chris i have to correct you we haven't actually toured the entire philippines
uh since the uh the uh organization was based in mindanao so we were focusing on that
island but we also managed to reach cebu actually but we were able to get in yeah
some of my staff got in touch with you when we were in cebu but personally we didn't get to to see each other during
that time when when we were doing our tours in cebu so what uh i really enjoyed this but as
you know this is a private company it's not funded by government we just
basically have arrangements with schools because different schools uh whether it
be a government school or a private school they set aside a budget for activities like this so that's how we
deal with the schools so this is a privately funded uh outreach and it involves uh you know
an overhead and unfortunately it got to the point that um we had a hard time sustaining the
project anymore and and sadly uh the company had to close down however i
wasn't too uh i was this dismayed because there were actually similar outfits already mushrooming similar
outfits to ours that were also spreading and teaching basic astronomy to kids
all over the philippines so i was happy about that and around that time i also uh
got uh contacted by uh yeah i i am telling you it's a really strange journey because
maybe it's because of the fact that i'm exposed to these things uh a good friend
of mine dr uh rogel cesa from manila contacted me and asked me if
i wanted to join yet another program that will simulate kids getting into uh
like becoming an astronaut you know like space camp in the u.s so we had like a training system for for
these little kids like we let them don jumpsuits like they were astronauts and we we trained them like astronauts were
getting trained we called it the junior astronaut academy so i did that also for a few years
and then while i was doing all that uh a common friend of ours uh
chris or lee remember orly you also know orly uh james right
because he's a member of alp who in fact was the guy who actually donated us the mirror for that years ago
for that uh dobsonian that we built so this is the second time that orley connected with me and he said i have
friends i mean i have acquaintances over in oman who's looking for a guy who knows something about telescopes because
they want to sell telescopes over there in the middle he says i said okay why not so
i jumped on board that project and here i am i ended up here in in oman because uh this also involves you know we are in
in retail but this also involves a bit of education because i really like talking to people and sharing about
astronomy so you know when people are starting out and they want to start in the hobby and you have to introduce to
them what what equipment they want to get they want to share i mean they want to
own as a first instrument so i really uh you know uh
uh enjoy doing that and this is where i am now and this is what i do and uh so as you can see i'm actually
here in our shop right now uh uh in the back in the background there is
uh the the stuff that uh we sell and in fact um
we also sell other equipment we we i even have here some uh explore scientific products all right
yeah i have some explore scientific products wonderful wonderful thanks rhodia
outed oh man yeah perfect
yeah my journey i told you it's kind of strange because it's timely that during the time i arrived here that was the
time when kovid hit and i almost didn't make it because of the fact that you know the restrictions and everything but
just in the nick of time i got into oman and i i got here around march then suddenly
i realized oh there's going to be like an eclipse so i realized that the eclipse was going to
pass by unfortunately i was a stranger here like it was first my first time in amman i didn't want to take the risk of
going to the area where the uh one i mean the annular middle of the annularity the midpoint would pass but i
managed to take some pictures let me see if i can share uh some of these images
yeah so this is my sequence that i took this this was just you know
almost unplanned it was just almost impromptu that i decided to to to make
this uh image and uh the uh what's that the the maximum
uh this was at the point of the maximum of uh the annularity at where i was which was
in downtown muscat uh i think 40 kilometers away uh it was the perfect annularity ring could be seen
which i believe was one of the thinnest annularity rings ever uh observed
but i think it was clouded out because of sharing right the cloud magnet
not my fault this is a beautiful image yeah thanks
um uh shireen if you manage to visit oman again why not visit our uh what's this our shop and yeah
it's a yeah we we encourage people to actually hang out in our shop we even have like literature and books here
and people to to engage people in astronomy because like what chris has been saying what i really like about
astronomy is how much of a gateway experience it is to the sciences
and you know start a conversation with science and all these things and uh all exciting things
so yeah there's a question in the chat for you uh
uh he says hello sir have you got did you go to the university in cebu around
1996. someone visited our school that year doing planetarium shows
i don't think so because that was like uh way before the time i got into the
whole planetarium but i believe uh maybe chris knows these people
[Music] in 96 i was doing outreach but not not with planetarium just with telescopes i
bring my telescope to schools and uh have kids look through it but uh
not not with a planetarium yet yeah so yeah so it's it's it's it's
really fun i mean i i've known rhodium for many years and i'm just amazed with with his adventure even the philippine
you know the almost philippine space agency well rhodium has obviously had many
adventures by saying yes to these opportunities so yeah you know many people think about
what they can't do or shouldn't do or overthink too much
but if you want to have adventures in your life and life is short you should say yes
[Laughter] definitely right before that and very much for that yes
just excellent actually a beautiful annular eclipse photos there beautiful okay
okay so um uh i think i'm done with my speakers scott so we'll we'll go with that all
right well we'll have more we still have more by the way if the audience have questions please uh
ask them before we in asia i think we're about to sign off soon it's about it's very late
here now but if you have any questions in the next 20 to 30 minutes please post them
and uh we will answer your question yeah how do i think we'll go to gary
next sharing uh just press that uh stop stop uh the
share oh yeah stop sharing stuff
oh share stop i can't see the stop it i don't stop
sharing okay okay okay okay so uh we have a couple of um
of uh guests here from uh europe we've got uh shaylandra sharma
and gary palmer um which one of you would like to uh come
on next i don't mind i i am open to
whoever wants to go first um hi hey gary hi everyone
how are you guys you go first
it's always good to see everybody on these shows um and uh
seeing everybody from asia is really interested in what you're doing out there
it gives us all a different aspect on what we're doing around the world and looking at the different outreach
programs and struggles people have in astronomy you
know imaging out of windows and imaging from light polluted cities and all of these different things are always
interesting what i thought i would look at today is we've got one of the first major sunspot
groups come around in the new cycle so unfortunately as always uh when we go
live with these shows uh the cloud comes in so it's lovely and cloudy out here today so we can't go live
but yesterday i was doing some test imaging seeing conditions have not been good here uh this week and that's
because of the change of seasons you know as we go into the trenches seasons here we get fog and
all sorts of other things so what i'm going to do is share over the main screen at the moment and
should be that one there hopefully and we should see the sunspot group from yesterday oh yes
sitting here so this is the video um the the downside of the policy and
conditions is this is about as close as we can get to it which is quite a shame because
at the moment um this particular group is starting to produce quite a lot of solar flares
and um people always sort of ask what's the easiest way to find out whether i'm
imaging a solar flare or whether i'm just imaging really an active area and if we look in
in here where the mouse is we can just see that this area here's the area that's
producing the flares over the last few days so one of the easiest ways is using this
website and i will copy it and put it into the chat link in a minute when we finish with this but i use this
website here and it's updated fairly rapidly normally within about 20 to 30 minutes
of a solar flare going off so we can look through the days here so we can look back to
yesterday and then we can go through a complete list of all of the solar flares
times and everything that happened and see the strength of the solar flare so
considering it's the first main sunspot group um a c7 flare we can see there
from uh thursday it's quite a powerful flare yeah it's uh
it's something certainly to pay interest to so
ideally in the real world we'd like to get in this close so this is a video from the last big
sunspot group that went round and we would like to be coming in at this sort of area um
but again coming late in the year uh in the uk that's just not gonna happen um we
could have the the bluest sky uh but the atmosphere is not going to allow it uh in the uk
so what i thought i would do is for people who can get this around the world we'd run through a quick process on it
and sort of run through how we do it and it's nice and straightforward we use auto stacker too
which i've already loaded it in now i know a lot of people use auto stack at three but when we're doing high resolution on
the sun you find the atmospherics and the wobbling around really upset the stacking and just seem to find that auto
stacker two is nice and uh stable is the easiest way of putting it
so all we do is load it in um and then we're gonna have a run through by the slider at the top here and we're
just gonna look at really finding one of the better frames one of the frames that's less distorted which
is somewhere around there if we're looking at the sunspot we can see slightly more stable detail in there
and then we analyze the image up now when we are in close i do so the
quality graph um forgets it it it really makes no difference this is image that's somewhere around seven and a half meters
um focal length into the sun so uh they're not everyday images and it
really does uh work around the scene conditions so once we've got that um that's worked
out uh all of the frames i've asked it to stack above sort of around the 35 mark
and then i use an alignment point area of 104 so we just place those on the grid
and then we stack those and what happens is that send that straight through to register it's ready
for us to do a little bit of sharpening now one of the things we sort of forget
on this is um when we're imaging a lot of these objects they're three-dimensional so we
look at this object and we actually think it's two-dimensional just because of the way our eyes view it
on the screen so in the processing we will have to take in dark and light areas in the
image and that's the actual curvature of the sun we have to think of the distance
across that this image is uh when we're imaging some of the planets but you know we look at like the
the red spot and things like that and they yes they are they're very very big but when we come to solar imaging
they're big on another scale and that's the the thing that you've got to look at is how much of a surface area
you're actually capturing in one go if you're just waiting for that to finish there it goes and that will have
sent that through to registex and we're in here so i'm going to reset the wavelets on this i just did load
this up beforehand just to check it so we're going to reset everything
there it goes um i double click on the area that i'm interested in and really to get a good area across the whole
image um i normally set the box somewhere in the middle here
depending on the focal length that you come in will depend on where the initial layer starts so this is going to be
somewhere around two or three so we go to initial layer two
and then bring out to about forty percent something like that and there we go so we applied to all
gary there's a question uh kanan lucas would like to know is it possible
to observe a comet impacting the sun with your setup
uh yes and no the the general root thing is is most
comics if they're impacting the sun gets broken up in the atmosphere yeah
the the thing is is the size of the sun compared to the comet and really the
comet is the equivalent of a speck of dust compared to the sun so we can use some of the soho
satellites to watch them and a lot of the comments here they will always go around but
quite a few of them we think yeah we're going to get a really good view of this comet when it comes around
the other side of the sun and they just disappear um it would also depend on what focal
length and really finding the area that it's going to impact because it's such a
small object for such a large object that is coming close to so i haven't actually seen any uh comet impacts that
have been imaged from earth i've only seen satellite images so
i'm probably going to say no it is the reason now
most things just get swallowed up um and just disappear before they're really
even near the surface of the sun sure because if we look in this area here for
instance on the on the screen the only part of the surface the only part of the
photosphere that we're actually seeing are the sunspots themselves all of this fur is the sun's atmosphere
so you can equate it to earth really that this is our clouds it's the same as our
cloud looking from space through our clouds when we see images from the space station and they're looking down and you
see it all clouded out this is very similar and then you have the sunspots which
make a hole through that so we can see those where they're a darker structure underneath
so once we've stacked this image we need to get it into photoshop and we need to actually do some um
some processing so i've already loaded this one in um and i'm going to step back a little
bit just to there where it opens so we needed to to tidy the image up
really and make it a little bit more three-dimensional so we're going to crop the image so the stack lines off of the
edge
and then i use a hdr process on it so what i will do is put this into a
grayscale image and then i will use a hdr
to bring out some of the detail there and then we have to play around with some of these sliders
um one of the key things is the brightness between the top and
the bottom and the reason there is this is because of the distance traveled
over the complete image um so you're viewing the three-dimensional
objects now if these sunspots are nearer the limb the limb is naturally darker
so therefore you what you have to think of is if we were in the center of the sun here
yeah and we were to the left of center anything to the right would be darker
if we're to the right of center anything to the left would be darker so and that's because the center of the sun
is you know 300 000 miles closer than the limbs of the sun when we're actually
viewing it we're viewing that three-dimensional object so very similar to the jupiter that chris has got behind
him you can really see the three dimension where it curves um there and we get that same effect
here so in doing this we need to um balance this image out a little bit
and bring some more contrast into it and that's what we're doing so we're going to run there and then what
i'm going to do to make this easier to work on is i'm going to rotate the image i'm just going to rotate that around 90
degrees for the moment and then get it to fit the view so we can quite clearly see there now
that the the right hand side of the image is a lot brighter than the left and the easiest way of balancing this up
is to make another channel so we're going to make another channel there
and we're going to set the opacity at one percent and then with that channel selected
we're going to put a couple of drop markers on here either side of the image and we can use the shift key
put one marker here one marker over this side somewhere there doesn't have to be exact
we don't want it in the really bright white area and then what we're going to do is use the gradient tool
uh in photoshop we're just going to draw a line between the two
markers and then we've got this as a mask now so we can go back to
select and load the selection and it will select that mask there ready to load and we can see that it's
highlighted the area now that's lighter and we can just go to levels
use the central marker on the levels and we can just balance this up nice and gentle
and if you need to play with the other side you can just go to um
select inverse and it will flick over the markers and then we you can do other things you can
contrast this but you can get the balance of the image so we can bring some more contrast in on this side
so that they're more matching and so on and you can really play around with this to bring out a lot more detail in the
image once you've finished the in you've got your selection you can deselect it
you can delete the channel and then we can go into some sharpening and we can just use a basic unsharp mask on this
so first thing i would do is is the speckle just to remove any wavelet noise out
and then we would show up and use the unsharp mask so a little bit too much there for this
particular image and we would play around with this a little bit more
generally on an image like this i wouldn't color it um and that is because coloring would add
uh let me just rotate this again somewhere like that rotating the image
would add a lot more um uh color to it but it would remove a lot of
this fine detail and we're after the fine detail in the image so you you can play around this and if i
was um processing this i would play around a lot or bring this area back in here
so if we look at one of the images from yesterday um and then we just go back to some history
photoshop updated the other day and it keeps moving all the windows around since outdated that was about as good as
we could get out yesterday that was it
so there you go super incredible that's great
gary thank you so much man thank you thank you okay
um christopher is um uh
coming back on here and uh we're going what do we got chris sharin uh you have your image of mars
show us he processed his image okay
this is the most stressful stop party i've been here yeah wow
beautiful beautiful very beautiful yeah yeah
so image tonight processed under the
pressure of the whole world watching
you can see simon gomer on the left the two sticking out like fingers yes yes that's
sinus gomer and above that uh it's it's not very clear but you can see elysium that's
elysium there's a volcano located in that area okay
so oh i see yeah you can see kind of a circle there right yeah
how about the uh on the right side uh right like some clouds
yeah there's some clouds here this is uh solis lacus area and uh it's difficult to make out uh
olympus months here but it's supposed to be on the upper right uh marty simeriam you can see uh clearly
uh and of course the south south polar cap yes
there it is awesome great job
great job uh great we have we we we saw mars live
then we saw the process of jupiter on mars today so yeah we're happy
yeah very successful night incredible and some excellent scene conditions
so we should all be so lucky is to have the skies in malaysia so
i i have a similar image which i took i think last week yeah we haven't seen any of your images
chris wait a second let's uh
let me repair okay
okay here they are okay let me
share screen say hi okay
here are some images that i took recently
oh wow yeah that's really nice
really nice uh yes
simon gomer and uh this is elysium over here yeah this is uh
this is very difficult to see um i have some nice images of circus
major yeah here's your series you can see the
heightens crater over here yeah uh cyanosabeos
this is where opportunity is over here okay uh circus major
uh yeah this was taken on the night a very good scene yeah you can see uh this is a
crater a huge crater on mars and this is a helles region
this is it's quite strange this year because um uh usually this region of mars is
supposed to be cloudy because this is actually a depression on mars but this year it's been very clear uh
hardly any clouds so you can see a lot of the albedo features
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let's see there you have it uh simon sabaes this
is uh a lot of details there
you can see that the the polar cap is split into two
yeah you can see the northern uh older hood and some morning clouds on the left
that's beautiful it really is yeah
there are signs of vegas a lot of craters you can see now
before it's it was it's very difficult to pick out craters but now it's uh
yeah with uh with mars higher you can see a lot more details
right okay so these are some of my mars images
thank you man awesome awesome
great so are there any questions because i
think i'm about to sign up people just um uh commenting on how beautiful the
images are uh thanking gary palmer for his tips uh gary i learned a lot
thanks so much for your um that gradient thing is one of my which
drives me crazy when i'm doing h alpha imaging thanks for showing it
no problem it's always a pleasure to come on and do this yeah thank you
and we also have shailendra sharma uh in the uk shalandra uh what have you got
for us tonight hey guys thanks for having me on um let me just share my school
by the way what time is it in the uk it's not too bad it's coming up to four
o'clock in the afternoon now in the afternoon okay all right we're coming up at 10 o'clock here and uh
in springdale 10 o'clock in the morning very nice well you guys i've nearly
stopped didn't you six o'clock morning i think so here's my equipment i've been using
i've been doing astrophotography for about since middle to the end of february
i'm running an explore scientific exos 2 mount with the pmc8 i've got a mini pc
connected to the other leg raw scientific ar102 doublet
with the monochrome set up there and an auto guarding system added to the top
um i haven't been polar aligning
um in the traditional sense i sort of been pointing them out north and using plate solving to
get around having to polar align through the reticle because from here it's a bit of a challenge
so these were some of the early images i started off with three minute subs um with no dots and
no flats and whatnot um this is on the standard dslr but then i recently moved to
monochrome imaging and i started to get these but they're not brilliant so i had a little
course with gary um oh wow and after having a course with gary
the images went from these types of images i'll just show you what i was getting on my own
they're nice but they're quite noisy um but then i sat with gary
and what i got was uh where have they gone uh-huh
here we go they gave me some tips on pics in sight
and how i to reduce the noise really wow
you know just come back
so it's a lot sharper and the stars look the right color
i've got a lot more color detail back um and then i did the
we did the elephant trunk nebula as well yeah this is why everybody should spend
at least a couple of sessions with gary palmer yeah yeah yeah gary look at that
advice um so i'm still learning pics in sight i've tried various different programs app
and it's been okay seeing conditions this week so i've managed to get a few subs
um this is the one i did the other day and the guardian actually i think went
pretty well on this one and right now
mm-hmm so i'm still working through the pics
insight process and seeing what works best um
what's been great shylandra is to watch you progress over just just the last
what three months so it's been really uh really incredible you know and uh
your perseverance your dedication to uh making great images is is really
starting to pay off so yeah no it's a great hobby
and i'm really pleased with the results i've been getting recently um i've got the mouth and everything the
whole setup ready to go i can pick it up take it outside and i can imagine within about 10 minutes
um so yeah really good here it is
live
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that actually is only just powering the fan for the camera at the moment and then i've got a separate power supply that powers the mini pc
which powers everything else and the mount actually is powered by that power supply as well
so yeah i've got it fully mobile as well now so yeah no it's um it's a really fun
hobby to get into yeah it's amazing that when you look up and you can't you've got no idea
that this is all up there i mean the amount of times i show my friends and family that
these are the pictures i'm getting you know what that's up there up there
where you are is very light polluted so you know we're in a ball seven stroke
six so yeah it depends really i mean locked down when we first started that's what really
helped actually because the light pollution reduced quite a lot um and i was looking up in the sky and it
was an outstanding amount of stars you could see and then start slowly we've gone back to
normal and it's sort of progressively getting worse and worse but it's um
no still plenty of stuff up there to see narrowband imaging has opened up another
different door for me to look down um and then i'm going to try planets next so
yeah right to continue the journey fantastic fantastic
well uh shaylandra thanks again for for coming on and and uh uh hanging in there with
us as we uh start to wrap up the show uh chris i wanted to thank you and um
uh you know everybody else uh that has participated on the 20th global star
party um just just to uh again check our uh our
numbers our reach as well over well over ten thousand let me let me see
where where we have ended up here today uh twelve thousand four hundred six
people were reached during this global star party uh over a thousand
engagements um so you know we we uh
reached the desktops of a lot of a lot of people hopefully uh you watch part or
you know hopefully all of the global star party because it was uh
it was really amazing if you are just coming in at the very end of this program
i will of course be available to watch and rerun i guess and
thanks to all of you that are watching on youtube twitch twitter and of course on facebook
and we'll do this again you are definitely going to want to
watch the global star party when we do the december 21st great conjunction between jupiter and
saturn so i'll be talking to gary palmer and christopher go and i think we're
going to have like this mega global star party program that
that no one's done yet so thanks so much thank you thank you
sharon rhodeon james remus
gary dt thank you danica uh you're probably out there
with your star party so thanks to everyone around the world for watching and uh we'll be back uh
on tuesday uh with yet another global star party and uh
i'm gonna go get some rest now so take care take care take care take care yeah thank you very
much goodbye bye
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