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hi folks hey good evening Kareem how are you good
you good hey Connell how are you good I enjoyed listening to
your segment last GSP it was fun oh thanks very much I was happy to give it
I couldn't stay in the panel during because uh kids were waiting but it was it was great and uh Ron talked about
your experiences during the ga this weekend and that raised a few good points and discussion so that was nice
too yeah I'm happy to hear that he reached out to me and said you had a meeting I heard it was very busy which is uh a
great problem to have yeah 300 plus people for a general assembly so that was that was it took some juggling it
was good well that's something how are you doing Scott
I'm fine I'm fine it's been a eventful day overall but um uh I love I love
doing Global star party and and uh you know it's so fun to hang out with so
many friends you know all at once
and it is good is it really are you a part of the heat wave or is the heat wave missing Arkansas no uh the sun is
shining outside and it just had a downpour so through the sunshine you can see these giant raindrops coming down I
went and checked my weather satellite and there was this tiny little green Cloud that was going right over our city
which is not very big it's pretty funny hey Karen hey Cameron so here in Seattle
we had we had uh major record he never had it before it was 110. yeah you guys
in Vancouver Korea yeah you all reached really insane temperatures it was nuts
yeah it was it never never had that before it was it was all-time records
um here for sure 10 degrees hotter than the all-time records it was like wow
just blew it away and it's all into British Columbia as well yeah my parents are in the uh the
central part in in Kamloops area and uh so they they were having a lot of
heat uh there too it's like wow they've had withering heat they were like I've seen pictures of the plants just wilting
it's ridiculous yeah yeah we've been watering uh in the evenings and um even after watering
certain plants just don't like it they just started to wither but other plants are doing fine but uh
you know it's um definitely uh hopefully this is not the new normal that's for
sure hopefully because the other thing is it's going to
dry everything out which is going to make the The Flash Fire season worse
yeah we were just reflecting on that I mean um the it was in August uh the last
couple of years it was that was the real time it was both the Heat and the smoke
um but luckily this time there hasn't been any smoke yet which is great uh so as hot as it is I am getting some good
Imaging and and good observing um you know like I say I I take any Clear Day
clear nights I can get here in Seattle and uh we've been pretty pretty fortunate it's been a good run we've had
cloudy gray and rainy hey David hello I'm back
you're back
but the Imaging sensors are having a lot of noise yeah they're over 440 degrees as well
fans are running overtime then yeah I need to get a cool camera I did I
just got an uncooled camera so it's kind of interesting to see how the the extra
heat and the evening affects the image no I remember when Scott was saying for
his birthday what he did with the Mount Wilson uh fund last fall I started class
off by showing my students the the billowing smoke and the fire direction
from NASA satellites
it was frightening the way we just kept creeping up to the to the observatory it was just oh it was really close oh yeah
and that's God you had those those eyepieces were that were uh melting right melted in the in the
fire well that was from the Pasadena Pasadena Paradise fire Paradise one yeah
yeah I have this warranty on on my eyepieces
that's a forever no fault transferable warranty out and uh I'll
show these here in a moment here I can show them right now no fault transferable warranty no fault I'll sell
these here in a moment here somebody is somebody's watching the the
so you have to turn if you're going to watch the broadcast you have to turn down the volume
somebody's somebody's watching the the so you have to turn if you're going to watch the broadcast you have to turn
down the volume [Music] the
if you're going to watch the broadcast you have to turn down the volume
[Music] now Diana was um
I think it's on your computer so if you watch the read broadcast
you have to turn that volume off of that otherwise it just goes into
echo echo echo it was a fun Loop though we got to hear
your voice again it was it was yeah let me show you these eyepieces here real quick here's one of
them Oe and this is a hot fire the two eyepieces
so he was able to find this and the smoldering remains of his house everything else was gone including the
entire house and uh so we replaced them for him
you know okay that's impressive engineering if that much was actually salvageable out of the Moon
I have never seen a melted eye piece before ever since
so we have some people that have logged in um
welcome you are here at the 52nd Global Star Party
um hi Diana we need you back on site John I can't
wait to get back laughs
I look forward to catching up with you soon hello John it's good to see you again
John how are you just fine thank you great great
well we have a very distinguished group of people here all of you so
it's uh it's wonderful
I was reading at uh Harlow shapley's review of an auto a biography of George
Ellery Hale written by Helen I can't remember her last name you
know it right yes yes and so he's I didn't I didn't read
the full uh excerpt of it but uh Harlow shapley finally gets his chance to go
meet George Ellery Hale you know and he um they're they're sitting down side by
side and he they start talking about all kinds of things and he wants to start to pull out what he knows about astronomy
and science and stuff and the only thing that George Hillary Hale wants to talk
about is uh this uh this play that they both liked and um
and then and then he leaves you know and and Harlow shapley's sitting there he says I finally get to meet the man that
I've you know my whole thrust was to be at Mount Wilson all this time and he says and all I got to show for it was
some scrambled eggs [Laughter]
he was uh I don't think he was much of a talker except maybe when he had to the other
thing I found interesting and maybe you guys know if any exists but I could not
find any film footage of George Hillary Hale
there's a clip that the uh Todd and Robin Mason found okay yeah and
that they they used in their movie journey to Palomar the chose hail it's
as I recall in the backyard of Mr hooker's home uh the fellow For Whom The
100 inches okay yeah right I haven't I haven't watched the movie in a long time
but but I'm very excited to find that clip I think they might have found it through a Hale family member
oh like a home movie or something yeah yeah I see
let's see hello Scott hello everyone
DT how are you I'm good what did I do hello DPS good to
see you and welcome to Diana it's really good that you're here with us tonight
Diana is your title uh founder of Yorkie's Future Foundation or
what is the official title uh Chief cook and bottle washer
[Laughter] no um for the foundation itself technically it
has to be president of the foundation but I usually just call myself the chair of the Yorkies Future Foundation
hello Dave it's so good to see you David how are you
Wendy says hi she's waving hi Wendy
is that Davis soba yes Eva how are you you can't see my face yeah but yeah
thank you so much for being with us for this I'm happy to join the party I only
just learned what you're doing a few days ago oh okay yeah
and David you're going to speak to my local Observatory soon yes very soon early next month
I'm looking forward to it and I hope that we don't have too much rain after having no rain at all we're going
to be we expect to be inundated this week forward to it
well you'll get a good turnout regardless of the weather thank you looking forward to it Deva and
it is so good to see you again same here it's been a long time yeah it
has been uh Jesse I understand it's your birthday
sometimes according to Facebook up yes
yeah congratulations a successful orbit around the sun
very nice DT when is your birthday today it's today oh it's today just like
George Hale is it is it June 30th over there or is it June 29th yeah
okay okay [Laughter]
thank you so much for being here sure thanks for inviting me of course
yeah the question for me is not what day it is is it still 2021
[Laughter]
yes it still is but it's rapidly it's passing us up like crazy
so we have Chris Larson watching today he says hello Norm Hughes uh Martin
eastburn from East Texas um Harold lock
um I think out there in California uh good evening good and gentle folks got
coffee plot ready um Billy's Astro from Corpus Christi
Texas um uh Matthew Welsh hi folks back for more
from Rhode Island um who else
yeah I hope not to mess this name up Terry
Moosh in if they thought it is from St Louis
Johnny Adler is watching uh Mike Wiesner is watching an unusual eruption on the
sun may offer Clues to understanding explosions on Southern California
solar eruptions are massive releases of material off the surface of the Sun
this material can travel across the solar system to Earth and Mars
[Music] the radiation and the material from the
Sun can interact with the planet's magnetic fields affecting astronauts and Technology
foreign usually come in one of three forms
coronal mass ejections Jets and partial eruptions
the new research studied an event named the Rosetta Stone of solar eruptions
just as the Rosetta Stone was the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics studying this eruption could be the key
to understanding all types of solar eruptions wow in the Rosetta Stone eruption all
three types of eruptions happened in the same event they usually occur separately
the main eruption was too big to be a jet but too narrow to be a coronal mass ejection
a second cooler layer of material on the surface of the Sun also started to erupt about a half an hour later
but it fell back down as a partial solar eruption
this Rosetta Stone of solar eruptions will also give Clues to help scientists predict large eruptions in the future
the better our predictions are the more time we have to prepare for material from the Sun to interact with Earth's
magnetic field foreign large solar eruptions can help better
protect our astronauts and Technology near Earth and Beyond [Music]
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well hello everybody this is uh Scott Roberts with the global star party this
is our 52nd event and we're celebrating the birthday of George Hillary Hale who
would have been 153 years old today um with us today uh uh let me look at my
screen so I get it right because the zoom room and what actually projects here is a little bit different
but to my right here is Cameron Gillis who is a regular on our programs and
produces the canstronomy series Maynard
pittandray from the astronomical League he is the executive secretary and then
we have Connell Richards young Outreach Enthusiast young astronomer he's been on global star party I think
once or twice before already and he's got another great talk for us today
Diana Coleman who chairs the Yorkies Future Foundation she was the driving
force of of reinstituting
um uh you know a working uh Yorkies Observatory after University of Chicago
decided to shut down operations yay John Briggs John is an astronomical
historian engineer he's worked at Yorkies Observatory he's been very close
to the to the uh inner workings of many of the telescopes I admire and uh he's
he's an amazing guy with with Incredible stories so we're lucky to have him here tonight
um he will be here introducing Davis Sobel who is uh world-renowned science
writer the first book I I was aware of that she
wrote at the time which just really got my attention was Galileo's daughter but she has since gone on to write many
novels uh and um I think the one I want to read is
longitude and she is she is co-authored a book with a hero of mine which is
Frank Drake um uh Kareem Jaffer Kareem is with the
uh Royal Astronomical Society of Canada the Montreal Center he's a professor of
astronomy and physics and he's given some great talks here at Global Star Party John Johnson who is uh driving
force in the Nebraska star party they are charging forward to having a live
in-person Star Party August 1st through 6th uh and John's here to give us an
update on that the amazing David Levy a great friend of mine a great friend to countless
astronomers um he is an amazing author and just a
true inspiration uh not only for his discoveries but uh his ability to have
overcome a lot of strife and uh so he he's someone that uh you know you would
really be inspired by reading his book his autobiography which we can talk about later
Dennis Coy is the new executive director of Yorkies Observatory and his birthday
just happens to be on the same day as George Ellery Hale so I think that's
totally cool deep tea gatan a young astronomer from Nepal she's with us tonight as well
deepty's been on many programs uh she's uh she's still in high school but she's
very involved in astronomy both at her high school and in the uh immoral adult
level of astronomy organizations in Nepal so thank you deepti for coming on
there's others that will be coming onto the show but at this point I'm going to turn this over to my dear friend David
Levy who has given talks at least of I know of in at Mount Wilson
under the hundred inch Dome thank you so much Scotty and it's
wonderful to be here I'd like to introduce you all in Casey Nevin recognized her yet this is Minerva my
telescope this is not a background this is the real telescope and Scotty if you've noticed and you uh
rigel finder is in place I'm ready for observations thank you so much for
getting that to me I really really appreciate that anyway I like to start these Global star
parties with a little poetic quotation and uh I think I'm the one that does
this because I'm a lousy physicist as Kareem will could attest if we have a conversation
don't know anything about the physics don't know anything about astronomy as a matter of fact I've taken
no courses during my lifetime in astronomy but a number of uh weeks ago
um Scotty asked if I would join the global star party that he was just beginning
with a poetic quote from some poet who viewed the stars and I've been doing
that now for 52 weeks tonight's quotation is going to be not
from a person who is considered a poet but a poet nonetheless
his name was John Fitzgerald Kennedy and if you have the movie 13 days
put it in your uh in your DVD and go all the way to the
end of it and the last thing just before the ending credits is the quote that I
am going to read tonight he said this during his speech at the American University in 1963 and you can
tell that he was still kind of a little bit overwhelmed for what had happened a few months before with the Cuban Missile
Crisis for here are the words that he says we're in the final analysis our most
basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet
we all breathe the same air we all cherish our children's Futures
and we are all mortal let's go out now and enjoy the night sky
with tonight's Global star party and back to you is kind of great that was wonderful David thank you so much
um it uh people like David uh you know the
inspiration that he gives is known I think in all circles of amateur
astronomy where David is spoke and uh I just love it so it's it's it's wonderful
um up next uh John Briggs will do a proper introduction of David Sobo uh
Deva as I mentioned before is an author of many great books uh much uh uh has to
do with science she is a long time long time lifelong science writer and uh it's
a great honor to have her here so John I'll turn it over to you and you can do the introduction
well uh thanks Scott uh so much and everybody
but your presence and attention to my son and I heard that Scott's theme for
oh do I have my yeah I have my audio on it yeah thank you very much
um when I heard that Scott's theme for this session was the birthday of George
Ellery Gale who's a hero to me and of course to many other people who have had
a chance to learn about him I could not help but immediately think of Hale's
150th birthday a few years ago when it was my very lucky privilege to be
visiting Mount Wilson Observatory for a special event related uh to celebrating
Hale's 150th Hale of course was the founding director of Mount Wilson
Observatory and a good number of other things and um are a special speaker for Hale's
150th birthday was Deva uh but further uh Deva and I had a chance to be
together at Hale's private observatory in Pasadena the hail solar laboratory
and um it was just a very wonderful experience so I had first uh met David
uh speaking at the I think it was a the Astronomical Society of the Pacific back
in Madison uh a couple decades ago and I began to become aware of what a fabulous
science popularizer and reporter uh she was she has a background as a reporter
science reporter for the New York Times and she started writing historical
science books like longitude the story of Harrison and his development of the
first practical Marine chronometer that proved to be a very important and
popular book and since then she's just gone on and on and I'm going to stick it
in right here most recently one of her topics was this one I could hold it up
the glass Universe a very cool book and the subtitle how the ladies of Harvard
Observatory took the measure of the Stars so it's very much the story of the
people who did early photographic photometry with the glass plate
photographs there at Harvard College Observatory and some of my mentors uh
performed exactly that so this subject here is particularly close to my heart but anyway I've gone on and on but can't
do justice to uh a popularizer like Deva
but um G Deva thank you for being here and many of us are so interested in hail
but not everybody has had a chance to learn about who this foul it was would
you care to introduce him a little bit for us well I would be delighted I I got
invited to that big do at Mount Wilson because in the glass Universe I referred
to him as the astronomical impresario
and that um that pleased a lot of his family members and that was the title of
my talk about him if I can share the screen
yes okay
and I now okay so I'm going to share nope and then
okay I am screen checking are you is anybody seeing yes yes
okay so so there he is uh at Mount Wilson
uh probably in the building called the monastery which I had always thought was
called the monastery because women were not allowed there at the beginning but later I learned it was because of
the names of some of his early colleagues including Charles Greeley
Abbott and um uh what was his first name Saint John
oh hell had a tremendous interest in Eastern religions and pictured this place
as an escape for serious astronomers the way monks
would be voluntarily cloistered and uh and that's why that's another
reason dormitory there was called the monastery this is the first Observatory Hale built
a little tiny one called the Kenwood observatory in the Kenwood neighborhood
of Chicago where he grew up so his his parents footed the bill for that one
uh he married his his sweetheart um Evelyn Conklin conkling and these are
there uh two children uh
William and um and Margaret
and Don mentioned the Yorkies Observatory which uh Hale helped build
and he was its first director here he is in the uh
the Dome under construction and he was one of the first people
probably the first person to bring together other astronomers and have big
meetings get them all together to share ideas and one of the first ones took
place at Yorkies another picture of it it's a gorgeous
gorgeous design but very unfortunately located in an area with terrible weather
very few clear nights per year which sent hail out to California
looking for a Mountaintop where he could build a an observatory with better
fortunes and here he is on top of Mount Wilson in 1903.
and one of the organizations he founded was the international Union for
cooperation and solar research which later became the international astronomical Union
and uh this was a huge International Gathering he hosted on Mount Wilson in
1910 there were 87 astronomers representing 13 countries and fifth
observatories wow here he is at um uh looking at the
spectrograph in the 60 foot uh solar telescope
and uh and one of the solar Spectra and these uh amazing images were were
how he was able to discover the magnetism in the Sun
this is one of my favorite pictures this is inside the solar tower and there's just this bust of him sitting there as
though he's supervising operations even now it's just it's just comical the way
he's just propped up there on top of ordinary objects that that are needed
for the daily Sunspot drawings here he is with Andrew Carnegie
really uh convincing Carnegie to keep providing money to build big telescopes
Hill was extremely successful at that and there's another photo of him I'm I'm
not showing of the two of them actually uh standing
in the in the 60 inch which
which Carnegie called the pulpit of the universe
here is the 100 inch arriving the the
lens the mirror rather arriving on the mountain
uh many of you have heard of the the great debate between Harlow shapley and
hibber Curtis at the National Academy of Sciences that debate was George Hillary
Hale's idea and he in fact funded that event in a lecture series he had created
in honor of his father and this is the the telescope that
actually settled the great debate uh yes yes those little spiral things
are not part of the Milky Way But actually distant galaxies
here is the uh the blank for the 200 inch which was created at the
Corning Glassworks in New York and that hole in the middle is 40 inches so that's the size of the
Yorkies refractor Hill was also key in building up the
National Academy of Sciences serving on the national research Council
orchestrating cooperation with astronomers in other countries
and as if that wasn't enough he was one of the founders of Caltech
and even at Caltech he felt it was very important to
support the humanities his uh he always thanked his mother for teaching him
about literature and poetry David you'll appreciate that
um and that he he felt his own perspective of science was was enriched by that
this is his own magnificent private Library this is where uh John and I got
to talk uh about Hale at at that event on Mount Wilson I guess it was the day
before what a what a magnificent space that is
and uh I I defend calling him the astronomical impresario because
he built the world's largest telescope four times uh founded several observatories and two
journals including the astrophysical journal so whatever part of astronomy you're
interested in Hale had something to do with it that's right I'm going to um
yeah I can I can yeah I can help you do that if you'd like great thank you okay
here we go wow that was very very special thank you
Deva thank you John that was great okay well up up next
um excuse me I wanted to say one more thing sure okay
uh about the poetry because uh since January of 2020
I have been uh editing a poetry column for scientific America
and I was thrilled that they were interested in having a poetry column
uh but they were and The Poetry is all about science it has to really be about
science and it's not limited to astronomy but we have had numerous poems about astronomy
even strength Theory one one even strength Theory that's wonderful the
column the column is called meter meter eater okay
I have to I'll have to dig into that that's great wonderful you know uh David David Levy's
poetry has has kind of seeped into different people that are regulars on global star party
and occasionally they come up with some good poems of their own so DT good Tom has done that several times
I I'm open for submissions wonderful
popular with poets so it's it's booked into 2023 but I'm hoping it will have a
long life yeah wonderful that's exciting
um David before we we go uh to the astronomical League the other what what
was it that inspired you to start writing about science I mean was you what was your Tipping Point
I went to a public lecture given by Carl Sagan before he was famous
wow it was just at the local University and talking about the possibility of
someday discovering planets around other stars and I
I thought it was about the most interesting thing I'd ever heard I'd been interested in science even worked
as a reporter covering medical topics Health topics but uh but he's the one who
who brought me into astronomy wow what a great way to get involved yeah
that's wonderful and um your latest effort is uh it's not
longitude is it the glass Universe glass universe is the most recent book yes okay all right I've got it I got some
catching up to do so you know it could it could be arranged that a book could
reach you okay all right we can make that happen for
sure that's great David thank you so much thank you very much and John as
well thank you it was wonderful
um up next is uh uh the astronomical League's executive
secretary Maynard uh uh pit and Dre and uh he is
um Manor where do you live I live in Orlando Florida where we
haven't had a clear sky in weeks now you've been involved in amateur
astronomy for a long time I was kind of going through Facebook and checking checking you out a little bit
um uh what led you to get involved in astronomy and uh and become so involved
in the organizational part of it as well well I think a couple of things led me to become interested in astronomy and
now I don't remember this my dad tells me that uh when Sputnik went up he
dragged us all out to see it Go overhead and and I've learned since that it was
probably the booster not actually the oh okay but my response was is there
anything else that's interesting to look at up there and so for the rest of my life I've been
trying to answer that question but the one thing I do remember is I am the one who discovered the Orion Nebula
and I did that because someone had given me a very small inexpensive telescope
and I was just scanning the skies and I accidentally came across the Orion Nebula I ran inside told my dad we
couldn't figure out what it was oh those were the days before internet you couldn't go
but when my dad found out that uh what it was the next thing I knew I had and
you remove the Old Edmond scientific catalogs sure I used to drool over those
yeah we did I had a four inch reflector and then an eight inch cave Optical and
then a quest on my dad was a great guy about encouraging my curiosity
one I became involved in the uh leadership of the astronomical League because I
felt like I'd gotten so much out of the uh astronomical League I wanted to put
something into it and I started by being the um coordinator of the Outreach
observing program of the league which I still am and I will have to say that I used to
spend every Saturday pretty much all day printing certificates and mailing these
Awards out to people and I do this now about once a month
um the pandemic has hurt Outreach but we're going to come back without Regional conventions that's every Club
every Club I know is itching to get a lot of people looking through their telescopes
wonderful wonderful that outreach program I think was developed at least
in part by uh Dr Mike Reynolds yes it was yes your friend he uh uh another
Floridian was yes just north of here in Jacksonville area and he was very good
about uh organizing that and then was
the coordinator for a number of years so and he did a great job with it
well okay well great okay well um uh at this part
um uh this is when we do the uh uh the door prizes and they're from questions
from the astronomical League uh this is Maynard's first time to to represent
that this uh uh rotating group of executive officers from the astronomical
league and well it's a pleasure to be with you Scott and everyone else and let
me tell you first of all I got a commercial to give to you uh we have a convention every year the uh
astronomical League convention we call it Al Khan last year was supposed to be in Albuquerque we know what happened with
the pandemic this year we were still unable to plan for an in-person worship
uh and but we didn't want to skip another year so we've got a virtual uh
al-con and it's coming up August 19th through 21st you see one of our speakers
here we've got a number of speakers a number of programs we're going to have a tour of the vla we're going to be able
to use internet online telescopes uh slew uh telescope is going to be working
with us I'm excited about that I've been working with them since 2004 I think I was one of the first paying customers
and um but one of the best things about this is that it's free no charge what could
be better than that so you go to astroleague.org and you'll be able to find the
connections of how to register you will need to register because we've got all
sorts of exciting things that we're going to do in including uh we're going to be uh giving out door prizes during
the astronomical leagues convention and Alcott always has great uh door prizes
and we've gotten these from wonderful sponsors but this year we went to our clubs and
the clubs have given us over seven thousand dollars in value of door prizes
and uh I'm just itching to find out more about that so yeah that'll be an
exciting uh part of our Alcon but alkons always uh an exciting program
now one of the things that we like to do is every time excuse me for just a
moment I'm getting choked up I'm so excited about Alcon
one of the things we like to do is we like to always remind people don't look
at the sun um without the proper protection and I've been observing the Sun for 60
years now and every time I go to the doctor I ask if there's any solar damage
to my eyes and there's absolutely not because I obey all of this uh
instruction here another there's a lot of verbiage on this slide you might not be able to read it also take a screen
capture and Obey it uh faithfully and rigorously and and I will say that um
I'm sometimes forgetful so I actually have a laminated checklist including cap
off the viewfinder just so that I don't neglect something and I'm paranoid about
making sure that solar filter is in place okay let's let's go to the uh what we're
waiting for the the answers to the questions that we uh posed to you at the
GSP 51 and uh
and let me say we're going to ask some more questions tonight
but um this uh first question was I am the brightest nighttime visible star
from the North Pole and my light was used to open the 1933 Chicago World's
Fair what is my name and the answer is Arcturus and I had no clue about that in spite of
what some people might think I was not actually live in 1933 but it is an interesting story and I
encourage you to Google it um uh photocells were all the rage back then they were finding ways to use it they
hooked up one to a telescope Arcturus was selected because it had been 40 years since the
previous Chicago World's Fair and at the time they thought Arcturus
was 40 light years away so that was question number one question number two in terms of angular
size how many full moons would fit in the bowl of the Big Dipper and the
answer to that is uh 200. I gotta tell you I would have
missed that badly and uh and number three
when the image of a planet in a telescope Quavers and seeds showing little detail is possible
what is said to be poor seeing transparency Focus steadiness and the answer is seeing
poor seeing is usually the result of when Jocelyn the light path of the
object being viewed or the telescope objects trying to reach uh uh thermal
equilibrium it's normally rated uh I to V one to five best the worst
where I live in Orlando Florida we just always assume it's going to be worst seeing in transparency both
uh the next question and that that is all the questions I'm sorry
um so the correct answer is from GSP 51 uh were answered by these individuals
here on your screen and congratulations to them uh they're going to be uh
submitted their names to the to the next drawing for door prize and let me see I I believe that might be
coming up at the very next star party or maybe the one after that it's coming up soon
and now these are the questions tonight and if someone can give me a drum roll
um boom I thank you now you want to send your answers to
secretary at astraleague.org and that email is on your screen ask secretary at
astroleague.org and question number one
what is the coldest place in the solar system
what is the coldest place in the solar system question number two
the opposite of that what is the hottest planet not the hottest place but the
hottest planet in the solar system
and finally a very technical question in the first Star Wars film Han Solo
boasts that his ship made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs and you could hear all the astronomers
groan if you were there in May of 1977 when that first movie appeared what is a
parsec and so is there even such a thing so that's our third question what is
tarsity and uh so those are our questions respond to secretary at
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Scott I appreciate you uh everybody sometimes for the astronomical League thank you thanks for all you're doing
too and it's a great organization we're having fun well that's the whole point
yes this whole point great well um uh I look forward to the next time I
can see you in person maybe it's some Outreach event oh I do too be so cool and we'll do that okay um
um up next is uh uh Diana Coleman and um
and and Dennis Coy and they are from uh of course uh uh the uh world famous
Yorkies Observatory this was uh George Ellery Hales first effort at building uh
the world's largest telescope it still is the world's largest refractor uh it is it has so
many stories uh intertwined with its uh its history
um it's an inspiration uh to uh you know spawning uh inspiring people like Carl
Sagan who got I think he got his uh doctorate there at your keys
um and uh you know the ups and downs uh but uh uh Diana Coleman uh
through great personal effort uh and I followed it I tried to follow as closely
as I could as this was going down but uh she was uh one of the sole people
responsible for uh bringing uh yerky's Observatory back to life uh after it was
sadly closed down a few years ago by the University of Chicago they didn't
actually really shut it down because of some political loopholes but no one could go inside no one could uh
put their eye to the historic 40-inch refractor and it's such a beautiful place uh
inspiring to that entire Community um and it's just it's wonderful that it
was saved and is being rebuilt Anew and um uh so that's that's great and uh
Diana I'm going to turn this over to you so that you can um say a little bit about Yorkie's
future foundation and to introduce Dennis who might just
recently talked to you today so so um thank you very much Scott it's always
nice talking with you um and it was lovely seeing pictures of Yorkies as Davis slides came up
um we at the Yorkies Future Foundation took ownership of Yorkies Observatory
and 50 acres of the property on May 1st of 2020 right in the middle
of the entire covid issue but it gave us the opportunity to really dig in and
start working on the observatory itself uh what's perhaps interesting to many of
you is that once we did take ownership and took stewardship of the entire
property is the University of Chicago faculty and staff basically said How can
we help and the astronomers the archivists The Librarians the staff
everyone down there has been stupendous they've been welcoming warm supportive
and have really done a great job getting us to understand both the history and
the future as we look at it we are working very hard to revitalize the
building to re make sure it's solid as a building itself but this is not going to
be a museum this is going to be a science based education and programming
astronomy Place we've been working with several people you probably know
to take a look at the two reflecting telescopes and make sure that they're
coming back up to speed we are also being very protective about the giant refracting telescope so everything is is
going to be in working order um it's a wonderful experience for all of us
um one of the things that were exceptionally happy about is having
Dennis coyce on board because Dennis came up to he literally started
March 8th so he's come up very quickly he understands the history now he's been doing his own research he's been meeting
with a lot of the astronomer scientists and Educators in the Wisconsin and
Illinois area and talking to a lot of people um on the phone as we did with you today
Scott and um what he basically is now beginning to
truly understand is the vision of Yorkie's Observatory as it moves forward
um so I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking because I really think you need to hear from Dennis
um you can all wish him happy birthday because he does share a birthday with Ellery Hill George Hillary Hill so
um it's it's a little serendipitous it's a lot of Karma and we're very happy and we're very proud of him as well so
Dennis I'm going to turn it right over to you and you can take it from there sure great thank you Diana
um so uh thank you for the invitation Scott it's wonderful to see all of you
um and just wonderful to hear um dava's presentation on George Hillary Hale and I actually didn't know until uh
today that I shared her birthday with George delariel 101 years to the day uh
which is kind of a funny thing given uh you know to have come to the observatory
and and just found this out now so what I thought I would do um I'm coming to you from uh Wisconsin
uh out in my yard my kids are trying to fall asleep inside so I was booted out uh to be out here with mosquitoes and
the fireflies as the sun sets but um what I thought I would do is just talk a little bit about what's happening well
physically at the site but then transition to what Diana referenced which is really what is the the vision
and what is the mission and what's going to the future of that Observatory going to be uh because I think ultimately it's
going to be very different than it's past and what we want to do is make sure we respect the past uh acknowledge the past we're always going to you know sort
of value uh everything that's going on there but we also want to build from that and move it forward and some and
some different kinds of ways going forward so um I wanted to just share my screen for a couple minutes I know many of the
folks on this call um you know know already a lot about Yorkie so I'm preaching to the choir
here but I think for those um uh oops and my system wants
permission here um for those who you know don't know as much or are
watching or hearing about your keys a little bit uh you know for the first time or maybe just know a little bit
about it um you know this will be I think helpful to
share a little bit so I'm going to go ahead and share there we go
attention all right
so what I want to just do is just share with everyone I assume we can see that yeah yes
um you know and all of you know this history so I'm not going to belabor it at all but um you know in the today that telescope the great
refractor really was um you know sort of the piece to resistance a piece of high-tech future
Machinery future technology that was shown at the Columbia exhibition Chicago
that you know was by aligned in newspapers around the world as the source of just incredible astronomical
knowledge and stories and you know was installed in the observatory uh when it was built in a
building designed by Henry Ike's com and um you know it was really you know at a
time when they were figuring out how to build Bridges was just a technological Marvel I mean it was just a beautiful
piece of engineering a beautiful piece the scientific equipment and I don't think I'm uh gonna you know overstate to
say that Henry ice Cobb this is certainly probably his his best building he was a society architect and um you
know built some wonderful things in Chicago but I think this is really probably is Master work and likely one
to just I think one of the greatest institutional buildings of the 19th century when it opened in the in 1895.
so you know beautiful detailing and all of this detailing all of this architecture and the history of the
building uh come together in a way that really I think George Ellery Hale uh
just sort of acknowledge his vision for this wanted to bring scientists and you
know astrophysicists astronomers together in a way that built knowledge that hadn't really been done previously
the whole idea was to have Labs on site have uh you know places that people
could stay and work take up residency interact in a way that was very different than what a lot of
observatories had been prior to then um you know and that attracted the best and the brightest you know you can see
Chandra there um you know we mentioned Carl Sagan was there this was uh the image on the left
is Einstein's visit to the observatory in May of 1921 so 100 years ago this
summer um and it's a beautiful setting uh the weather may not be ideal I don't disagree with the assessment that it is
uh perhaps not the best weather that could have been found for the first of his efforts to build the largest observatories but um you know we get 90
um you know sort of good nights a year uh moonless clear nights and the observatory to to sort of acknowledge
what was stated earlier has just become uh iconic to this community up there
this is the small village of Williams Bay Wisconsin on Geneva Lake which is
about midway between Chicago and Milwaukee about an hour hour and 15 minutes from each and you can see you
know that is the police patch has the observatory on it the town Crest has the observatory on it when you go to the
high school that mural on the wall and the lunchroom has the observatory on it it's everywhere in this community and it
is beloved by that community and so when Diana and the folks who sort of stood up
to take ownership of the observatory from the University stepped forward heard you know it was a
just a sigh of relief from the community I think to to see a path found for the
observatory and that said there is an incredible amount of work to be done
um you know for a variety of reasons just it is a building that was built to last hundreds of years but it also
requires as all buildings do just an incredible amount of Maintenance uh and work and so we are now putting in the
work to bring it back uh to its condition its operational condition and
restore our first the envelope of the building so you can see here on the great Dome some of the the work that's
been under the way that extends to inside of the Dome that image on the left is uh literally thousands of bricks
removed to help dry out the walls which have soaked up just thousands of
gallons of water over many many years and it's going to take several years of work to dry out the
building preserve the brickwork restore and uh sort of move forward with all of
that um and uh then sort of get the facility
and the grounds ready for the future and ready for the public so
you can see uh you know work going on here on the parapets on the roof a new
roof going is going to be going on skylights restored a parking lots being built
um just an incredible amount of work with some of the leading architectural restoration experts in the country
uh truly some amazing technicians uh and Architects working
with us to bring this back to life so that is what's happening on the
outside and the inside and I think the last piece of this is really just to
talk a little bit about what's going on on the inside
I'm with the mission and vision of the observatory and really what we're thinking about and
what's happening going forward just getting a little feedback on some
headphones here oh is that what that is it sounded like rain it is not it is I'm just going to turn
these off but this is something kind of strange Bluetooth feedback and I don't know what that is
the beauty of Technology my goodness
uh perhaps it's coming from one of us if uh I'm still getting it
there we go it's gone there it is it's gone aha perfect I was thinking boy it's getting loud in
this room or maybe that was like the sound of millions and millions of people that's
right of course of course um so I think the other thing just to talk about is you know the building and
the landscape you know it's a beautiful 50 acre landscape designed by Olmsted and Olmsted
um so it's a historic landscape it's a historic building we all know the incredible history of the science that
took place there and the people that have walked the Halls um and so when we're envisioning a
future for the observatory certainly bringing the two smaller domes back
online providing access to astronomers around the world uh to do original research that's still going to be
important to us it's going to be the core of what we do um and telling the story of the history
of course is going to be core but as Diana alluded to it's not going to be a museum and I think the best way to
describe what we're envisioning is really a living Monument to curiosity
and Discovery and the history of science uh in the world and I think when I think
about other kinds of cultural forms and we started off tonight with poetry which was a wonderful you know beginning
when you think of the cross pollination of arts and culture and Science and
knowledge and Discovery um you know when I think of other fields there are cultural pilgrimage sites that
one would go to to connect to the the most wonderful experiences for those
fields so you know if you're deep into um you know music you might go you're going to want to go to Tanglewood you're
going to want to go see out the LA Philharmonic or maybe go to the New World Symphony if you're deep into
Visual Arts you're you might want to go out to James Charles Roden crater or go to Art Basel Miami Beach or make you
know pilgrimages to certain museums or art sites um but I don't know that there's necessarily an analog in the Science
World and when um you know I think about yorkies in the future that core of
research and Science and Discovery that's still going to be going on there is going to be surrounded by a mantle of
Education whether that is adult education School groups visitation but
then connected through cross-pollination with a lot of other cultural opportunities so we might have you know
composers out who are going to be in residence for summer and work on a symphony inspired by the 180 000 glass
plates that were shot through the great refractor over the last 125 years you
know for one of America's foremost Symphonies we might have an artist like James Torell or Andy goldsworthy out
creating work inspired by that Curiosity or that natural environment we might be talking about
um you know environmentalism and green science and the preservation of the lake and that landscape connecting those
ideas together with speakers having authors out I now know who I need to call first
um you know to sort of uh you know talk about the history of Science and Discovery in this country and in this
world and help our visitors understand what is so meaningful about that and I
think you know I might have argued five years ago that we didn't um you know in the world of the Sciences
you know I used to run a science museum I would have argued maybe we didn't need to make a case anymore for the value of
Science and scientists but that was an understood piece of knowledge in our in our nation and our world and I think the
pandemic has maybe helped helped us understand that that is not the case and we still need to make a powerful
argument for the value of what astronomy does what science does what scientists
bring to bear to advance our culture and our world so I think the Yorkies
um Observatory the Yorkies Future Foundation that's what we're going to be endeavoring to do that's a long road and
there's a lot of work ahead Diana's hair was straight and black when this all began
um and you can see what's happened I you know was much much younger just a few weeks ago but we are really excited
about what we're going to do so uh stay tuned and uh we hope you'll come visit we're going to have Public tours
starting this fall even as we're still restoring the facility even as we're still building these programs out so we
are really excited about what we're gonna going to be doing at Yorkies so I'll turn it back over to you uh Scott yeah yeah
curious if someone poor Yorkies what what would be the best best way to do that where do they go
um if they wanted to support it there's there's two things one is of course sharing knowledge and it's been
incredible how people have stepped up with stories and photos um you know some of the photos shown
even today our photos I don't know that we necessarily have have regularly seen um you know from people who were there
as children to scientists who work there at various points so if you have stories knowledge or knowledge to share you know
John Briggs has been helping us with understanding the objects and the scientific equipment that's on site and
that what to display and how to Value all that um you know it's sort of uh for knowledge and to share with our visitors
so sharing that information is available to their pocketbooks if they want to reach in their pockets that of course is
the other way um and you can go to yorkiesobservatory.org and there is a spot on there you can donate and make a
donation and uh you will if you do that receive a very nice note from Diana and
a very nice note for me and we will thank you um and we uh ultimately are on path we will need to raise many many
millions of dollars but have been already incredibly successful through the generosity of some wonderful folks and I think ultimately this is a site
that is worth preserving uh for future Generations so absolutely yeah it is uh
to astronomers this is definitely one of the Sacred sites there are others but this is very very special
um okay um uh up next was supposed to be Stella
Kafka but she had a mild emergency that she had to take care of and so she won't
be on this particular program uh as per our schedule so up next is Kareem Jafar
from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada the Montreal chapter
thanks Scott hi everyone good evening uh it's great to be here at uh Global star party 52.
this is fantastic and uh celebration of George Hillary Hale I reach out to Scott today to present on
a project that we launched during GSP 45 uh the international astronomy day version which was Creation Station and
I'm going to be talking to you about that shortly and then Scott's going to share with you a couple of videos that we put together of a few of the
Creations that came in like the one that you see here on the title slide where you know this child uh Mikhail he
actually tried his best to represent every single Moon of every planet in our
solar system which was just amazing work so I want to share with you what Creation Station has brought about and
what happened at the ga but before I do I was messaging to Scott during the
earlier presentations that I'm kicking myself because it's George Hillary Hale's birthday and I can't not talk
about the Specter helioscope that is at stellophane those of you who've been to stellophane or were on cloudy nights a
few years ago when the restoration was happening and there were articles being written about the work the being done on
this wonderful device that was invented by George Hillary Hale in 1924. this
Spectra helioscope is now functional at stellophane telescope convention so if
you go down in August to this year or next year when the pandemic measures have lightened you'll get to see this
telescope in action and in 2018 when they opened up the restoration area and inaugurated this
new building uh his grandson Samuel Hale actually came to give one of the Keynotes to talk about the large
telescopes that his dad had or that his granddad had worked on so I have here just a couple of quick
images of the Specter helioscope outside of the observatory is the part that actually catches the light from the sun
tracks the Sun and then focuses it through the hole at the top of this Observatory so here's a short video to
show you how that all works so there's the hole where the light goes in there's the mirror that catches the sunlight and
then bounces it off of another mirror and focuses it in so that it goes into the building and then once it goes in
the building the actual apparatus in the building reflects the light a couple of times to
change the optical light path to a diffraction grating so you select out just one wavelength for one narrow slice
of the sun's surface and then you have several slits so you can actually piece together a full picture of a quadrant of
the sun's surface that is an amazing invention and they've
restored it completely and as a personal note when I came back from cellophane that year I had the pictures I had the
the diagram of how it works and I had the little video and so there was one group of students
that for their project they wanted to build something but they didn't want to build just a telescope they wanted to try something so I showed them the
schematic of the of the Spectra helioscope and let them at it I gave them whatever materials they would need
uh we we brought in a few different mirrors we brought in a whole bunch of optical path Arrangements they worked
really hard to try to recreate even part of the mechanism and they saw just how
complex this device is so if you've never been to stellofing or if you haven't been in the last couple of years
when you go head up to the pink Clubhouse head over to the Andrew Simone Observatory and take a look at this
functional spectral helioscope and know that you're looking at something that was worked on by the hands of George
Ellery Hale cool the the elements graph there is of course from our friends at
our spec and we've talked about this spectroscopy of stars before but there
they use it specifically to show some of the absorption lines of the sun this thing is amazing
so now I want to talk to you a little bit just bring you up to date on a few of the other items that I've been working on and I want to start with
actually something Harold lock mentioned in the chat and he talked about the fact that David inspires us to kind of see
the connection between art and astronomy and lately I've been lucky to be on a panel with Astro radio and that's based
out of the UK and I'm on the Reach Out And Touch space panel a few weeks ago we got to interview Nicholas Booth the
author of The search for Life on Mars this past month well yesterday we actually got to interview Jeff knock in
one of the meteorite men and the whole show revolves around music based on
astronomy themes or the space Rock genre in the UK I've also gotten to work with
the seti Imaginarium Institute which is just fantastic to look at some of the things they're doing for the artistic
representation of the search for extraterrestrial life and I'm going to show you something about that in a few
moments so I highly encourage you if you're inspired by what you hear from David uh dava's books the things that
you see here for the Poetry that deepti reads out I urge you there's a lot of resources available to you online right
now to actually get involved and express some of your interest in the connection between art and astronomy
now this past weekend we had our general assembly which I've mentioned to you for the rasc the world Astronomical Society
of Canada and we were lucky enough to have a keynote speaker on Friday night uh Emily calendar Ali and she talked a
lot about her journey to actually be able to communicate and share her Wonder of
astronomy and science to the general public both through the Netflix series that she's in as well as through her
series of books that was really inspiring but one of the biggest things about this weekend was that it was led
by a group of individuals who really embraced the idea of the virtual nature
so my daughter actually got to participate as a workshop presenter and so she presented an alien drawing
Workshop to a series of individuals who are involved with Outreach to kids so
she explained what extremophiles are she shared some of the graphics of extremophiles and then she challenged
the participants to draw their own extremophiles and so we've got one that would live on Titan we've got one that
would live in Jupiter we've got a couple that were just inspired by some of the things that we talked about for extreme
environments and types of evolutionary changes that might be
undergone by alien life to survive in extreme conditions
that was one way to embrace the virtual world but another way to embrace the virtual world which really took off was
the creation of a social Gathering Place for the rasc which is in gather town and
so on the Friday night at the end when everybody had left there was in the music group in gather town a group of
the youth who just started to jam and they took out their guitars they took out the ukuleles and they just started
to play and chat and this is one of the things that the virtual world allows us to do is it doesn't just allow us to
reach audiences we don't normally read it allows us to interact in a way we
don't normally interact and so I highly encourage all of us to really take advantage right
now but also as we start to return back to in person I think we're going to need to find a balance between the virtual
content and the in-person content because there's something to be said for
this virtual side of things that reaches an audience that we have trouble reaching otherwise
so now I want to share with you Creation Station which is really what I talked to Scott about doing tonight
this was something that we launched it was an attempt to create a space on our
rasc website for kids to really Express their imagination so we invited kids
ages 5 to 12 to share drawings to share Comics to share stories or poems
anything related to space or astronomy that they wanted to share with other kids or with others to show why they
found this interest why they had this this affection for space
so one of the most recent ones that we had is right here it's a painting of the solar system and this one was a
contribution from India from Mumbai we received contributions from all
across Canada and all across the world we even had one of our members who's uh now living in California his three kids
combined together to create a story that had three parts to it one part from each
of the kids and we showcased that during our general assembly so what I've brought for you today that Scott's going
to share uh is first off a video of the drawings that were submitted over the
first few weeks of this project of this program set to original music created by
another one of our youth members in Yas so Scott can you share this is the creation Showcase Video exactly okay
here we go foreign
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foreign [Music]
playing yourself [Music]
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extended the deadline to July 31st so we've invited in more contributions more
Creations from kids that they want to share but then the other thing we did is we took the stories that we had received
that had the parents consent sign and we reached out to the parents to ask their
kids to videotape themselves telling their story so I have one of those to share with you from our
rasc Mississauga member uh she's sharing with you her trip to space
and this one what I really love about it is she's not only put in a lot of really good information about space
but she took something that I think the astronomical League will find very familiar at the end of hers so Scott if
you can play the trip to space okay here we go hi there today I'm going to be
presenting my story called trip to space for the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada or commonly known as Rask
so my story is called trip to space and it's by me or above a shiavigneesh
hi it's Bobby I want to be an aerospace engineer when I grow up and I want to
get as much research as possible so I'm building my own rocket
it would have took forever to reach the edge of the source but for the amount of time I got to present this I have built
an extra super powered rocket which can travel in the speed of light in reality I could have made a chemical rocket
chemical Rockets are the most common type of high power rocket typically we're creating a high speed exhaust by
the combustion of fuel with an oxidizer but you can see what mine is in the next
slide time to Launch
I did it I built my own rocket it's made up out of titanium you can make it out
of aluminum too both metals are very strong I have reached the edge of the Earth's atmosphere that Thin Blue Line
is the atmosphere of our planet did you know that an atmosphere is important because it protects our planet from
harmful solar arrays the sun is right here the atmosphere protects it from harmful solar rays from the Sun but it's
also very important in another case I just passed her Moon the fifth largest natural satellite in
our solar system did you know our moon is almost bigger than Mercury the first person on the moon was Neil Armstrong
and second was Buzz Aldrin our moon formed a long time ago in fact it used
to be a part of the earth our moon has many stages it has full moon Half Moon quarter moon and more it is very special
so this is Buzz Aldrin and that's Neil Armstrong whoa so cool the moon has less
gravity than earth meaning that you have to bounce when you land wow look the ISS or the International
Space Station it is a satellite built by many nations including Canada in fact look the Canada arm it was a super
important piece of the build this was sent to monitor space a recent trip was when the crew Dragon was launched
wow look Mars the second closest planet to Earth recently NASA has sent a spaceship called perseverance it has
landed on February 18th and now is fully functional on the Martian surface it is
the fourth planet from the sun and our neighbor it has two moons Phobos and Diego's hi Mars by Mars
oh sorry Venus mercury in the sun I have to pass you but don't be sad we just ran
into the biggest planets Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune or commonly known as
the gas giant Jupiter the biggest known planet in the solar system Saturn with those amazing Rings Saturn has a moon
named Titan it has methane a molecule we also have Uranus and Neptune these two are so cold which is why they're called
the ice giants hi little Pluto Pluto used to be a planet in 2015. astronomers and space
scientists found more plants like Pluto so they considered them into a group called dwarf planets and Pluto is the
leader of the dwarfies bye bye Pluto Pluto actually has five moons share on NYX Hydra Kerberos and sticks
we're leaving our solar system maybe I'll take this time to explain about Venus mercury in the sun the sun is what
plant Earth and the other planets orbit around it's the biggest and brightest objects you can see from
Earth Venus is the hottest and closest planet to Earth Mercury is the smallest and both of them don't have any moons
which makes Earth the first planet that does relieving the Milky Way the Milky Way is
our galaxy so it's a lot of solar systems stars and nebulas or nebulae our
galaxy was formed 500 billion years ago crazy eh only in this galaxy astronomers
space scientists and scientists have estimated there are 500 million earth-like planets just in this galaxy I
know yes each day we find new discoveries like the black hole right in the middle of our galaxy it is the
closest black hole to Earth about 300 million light years away so a lot of
Milky Way now we're in the cosmic neighborhood this is the neighborhood of galaxies
look the Andromeda galaxy the nearest galaxy to ours did you know that the
Andromeda galaxy will collide with the Milky Way making two black holes let's
go deeper we're going into very very deep space it's almost impossible to see these
space bodies without a very professional telescope only SpaceX NASA CSA and
others space agencies can view these unless you have an amazing eye we have nebulae or nebulas everywhere and we're
passing all the beautiful galaxies we're flying across the Deep Sky objects
we've come to an end this is the maximum amount scientists have found don't be sad scientists astronomers and
astronauts have discovered amazing things I mean look at all these pictures quiz time okay
if you want you can pause this video and answer the question what is the biggest planet in our solar system
Hint it is made out of gas you can pause the video and guess what it is
you're right it's Jupiter next we have what is a cosmic neighborhood
now you can pause the video again and guess what it is
it's a neighborhood of galaxies and this is a harder question what is a black
hole I didn't write this hint Darkness foreign
hole in space it sucks stars planets and different space bodies out there
space on thanks for watching that was Bobby from the resc Mississauga
Center 10 years old I think I have to get her to teach my class in the fall that was amazing uh it was just chock
full of information imagination and ideas that's just an example of some of the stuff that we're getting here in
Creation Station so I invite anybody who's interested to visit Creation Station it's rac.ca Creation Station if
you if you yourself or your kids are ages 5 to 12 you can submit your stories
your poems your Comics or your drawings and we will happily put them together and share them like this in videos in
future Global star parties thanks Scott thank you very much thank you
okay uh we are going to take we're going to take about a 10 minute break here and
uh we should be back on with Molly Wakeling so um the talks so far have really been
amazing uh and it's just I mean been an incredible honor to have all these people on so far and I look forward to
the rest of the our distinguished speakers tonight so stay tuned
foreign
you got the questions right in the chat that was awesome I got one question at least I was afraid to answer the other
two Bernard I missed the uh the rest
yeah I missed a ga I was I know I've been busy with work lately and
um just trying to find time I haven't even found much time to do any kind of
Imaging we've also had storms just coming through the area um we blamed it on several astronomers
in the area bought new things I bought I didn't buy much just some cables so that
I could hook up a computer and use EOS backyard and I haven't had a chance to test it
out on actual Stars yet um to see how sharp I can make it I've been just using the back of my camera to
and just if it gets I mess with the focus until it gets as small as I can get it and then I figure it's in focus
and um I got really lucky with the picture behind me because I think I
truly did have it in focus when I uh took that shot um well a lot of times you just get
close but um I'm gonna try and make the next one well hopefully the next one will be
in person we have to see what the um there's reports coming out about how
tough the uh Delta variant is and I'm hoping that
um a lot of study is done before we pass judgment on whether or not we'll
need to well I know Starbucks are starting up again and a few places are doing their style we're gonna have an
update on one later today um but yeah it's I think there's a difference between things like Star
parties where you're Outdoors there's a little bit of distance between each other versus you know in-person
conferences and conventions and things like that sure that's where I'm not sure what's good what the new normal is going
to be because I know a lot of the conventions and conferences have seen attendance just jump up during covid
times where people who wouldn't actually travel for them or can't travel for them were able to attend you know a couple of
sessions here and there and participate and they're getting a lot out of it
yeah that's gonna end up um continuing I'm pretty sure
especially for me until I can actually come into Canada I'll have to attend
remotely so that's uh I think we have learned that
the virtual component is a very useful component
definitely and that's what like that gather Town setup that the that the
organizing committee put together I think they're going to leave that together and maybe you know once a month
set up a time to just socialize across all centers anybody wants to pop in pop
in you know a certain maximum number and then just float through and chat
that sounds like a great idea because that's what our clubhouses are right our Zoom Clubhouse is we have people from
different centers popping in and we chat on Wednesdays and Saturdays especially when it's cloudy so tomorrow they're
forecasting thunderstorms so we're likely getting in our clubhouse yeah so I'll have to get the uh I'll
have to get the link I'm pretty sure you may have sent it to me a couple times but I'll have to get the link to your Clubhouse and jump in
I gotta I gotta use my rasp membership here exactly
did you reach out with Peter to the Sarnia Center did he he connected you I
don't think we connected I okay I do think we uh sent an email but I don't
know that we've connected he was saying that when it's in person he'll he'll show up and and meet you and introduce
you around but uh in terms of the virtual they don't seem to be doing too much virtually at Sarnia but you you're
welcome to join in to London or Montreal Center virtually while we're on Zoom
I would love to do that yeah I was just looking to see if I found see if I still
had the email it I'm sure it's down here somewhere what's your weather like tomorrow night do you want to join us on Zoom
um our weather tomorrow night is probably perfect for joining you on Zoom
I don't I don't have my uh cloud forecast but I can do a quick I'll
do a quick four look up I'll forward you the invite when it goes out in the morning
okay that would be perfect Molly I I don't know if you were I think
you joined in after we're we're actually ahead of schedule so you get to go right after the break
crazy and never heard of an event that was ahead of schedule it's because uh
still had to had to cancel she had a she had a small emergency that oh no so she
wasn't able to join us okay don't worry let's see are you timed it
just right to miss mine again so you know I'll try not to take it personally
well I just I came in just in time to see yours Kareem I I have to I have to
watch a fellow rascal at uh at work
and yeah our forecast it looks like it's gonna be um
well it says clear at 1am that that might finally be
an opportunity to try an image um depending on what's going on
Thursday the the regular job makes it tough to get out when I need to which is
I gotta get out there at these sites between midnight and two
um I think I can catch a dark sky before The Moon Rises but now that you're a Rask member doesn't that mean that at
work you can take Canada day as a holiday that's Thursday that's this Thursday yeah and then Friday you do
your Independence Day holiday so you get a nice four or five day weekend I should have taken it as PTO anyhow just say
well it's I'm I'm partly a Canadian now and that's my holiday so I'm taking it
there were others that I already took Friday and I I didn't think to take Thursday that would have been a very
that have been a very good idea especially if Wednesday's clear enough to image then I know well I'm also on
call for my job I haven't had to answer the call at two in the morning but wherever I go my laptop will be with me
because I think I'll still actually be able to um use a hot spot and do stuff
I was um I've actually attended a global Star Party while trying to get an image
and uh the clouds came and ruined my plans but I was still able to follow
along and in fact Molly I think you were presenting and I was eagerly watching the presentation while waiting on clouds
to break and they never did but I was I was still able to be out
there and to listen in so so Harold is asking in the chat whether uh the Rask
National members who are in the states are welcome to join in and anytime you want to join in to Montreal Clubhouse
just drop me a line on Facebook or email me at Montrose gmail.com and I will send
you the link you're you're there as my guest and that goes to anybody listening wherever you are in the world
so is Canada Day basically like they looked at the US and said hey having a
holiday at the beginning of July with barbecues and fireworks and stuff is pretty cool we kind of want one too
no no weekend first are you kidding me oh really the only uh oh I have no idea
I mean was Canada was Canada a thing pre-1776 it was a thing it just like our
Confederate basically we were the the friendly separation you guys were the Rough divorce uh but the difficulty here
is let's see here's the difficulty I grew up in the states my elementary school was in southern Pennsylvania so I
learned all of the American history and then I moved here and was expected to know Canadian history so I I've kind of
caught up as much as I could but there's like little details where everything's kind of blurred together
foreign that's funny it's it you know they right now so with
this Astro radio that I'm on in the UK I get to learn a lot about the way things are in the actual seat of the British
Empire and they now have an entire Ministry committee on dark sky
preservation it's a governmental thing and it starting to regulate the way in
which lighting is done the way in which parks are infringed on the way which building is done all of it I'm sitting
here's like oh man that's amazing and then I'm recognizing I mean we are technically Canada's still in the
British Empire we're in the Confederacy right it's just ours everything's controlled by every Province and so
Montreal Montreal is worse than New York City when it comes to light pollution
the queen on your money right yep and colored money it's Monopoly money and
it's polymers now now it's now it's polymer money you can't even bend it through uh yeah
but it goes through the wash really nicely I I don't ask me how I know [Music]
yeah we started to get prettier looking money now the the dollar bill is still
quite boring we were talking about this on the Astro Imaging Channel
well having one in the pocket's better than not so yep I'm good
well everybody we're back um uh and uh hope you had a chance to
get a good cup of coffee and stretch your legs a little bit
um up next is uh Miss Molly Wakeling who is uh always here to show us her great
astrophotography to give us some insight of her technique but also the uh tell us
about the nuts and bolts of the science behind her images so uh this is
astronomy's universe and I'm going to turn it over to her
so tonight we're going to be talking about the Crescent nebula
nebula share my screen and open my PowerPoint here
and also mute my phone [Laughter]
so it doesn't vibrate the desk microphone um yeah so if you're new to this segment
which is relatively new in itself um I spend the segment talking about
what's actually going on with these objects that we love to look at and photograph to dig a little bit into the
science of them what are they where are they located um and some information about how they
were formed and sometimes also why they're cool and important if they're cool and important sometimes they're
just pretty things to look at so um yes it's nice Acres
I still don't have a picture that I love of the Crescent nebula I'm still working on it but um when I was living in
California it was too far north for me to be able to get it was blocked by my tree but uh it's in a good position here
at my at my new house in Ohio so I'll be Imaging it again when it is favorable
which is coming up soon all right so what is the Crescent nebula
this is also known as NGC 688 and it is in emission nebula but it's
kind of a unique one it's not kind of your your normal emission nebula like the Lagoon nebula
uh or the Eagle Nebula this one is powered by a particular a single wolf
Ray a star I'll talk about what that is here in a bit so uh where can you find the Crescent
nebula to observe it so it's not too difficult to find it's up in the
familiar constellation of cygnus the Swan if you look for the pair of bright
stars up up in the Milky Way right above your head for our mid for my mid mid
Northern latitude up here in the U.S you have deneb and seder Saturn however
that's pronounced and I knew also we'll have Vega one of the stars of one of the
other stars of the summer triangle and it's about two degrees away from from
Saturn seder however so um that's kind of how you can roughly
find it and then of course consult your local star chart for getting it into the field of view of your telescope or if
you're an immature like me plug the coordinates in to your preferred Imaging application and have your telescope
still there for you here so some fast facts it is in the
constellation of cygnus the Swan it's about 5 000 light years away
so the fact that it appears quite large on the sky means that it's really physically large which is always really
cool given how bright it is there's lots of energy going on there was discovered by William Herschel in
1792. you know I'm always amazed by like these discoveries that were done in the
in the 18th century 17th century because you have to think about the telescopes they were observing through these like
f30 refractors you know uh it's kind of
doing surveys across the sky trying to to find anything and
um yeah what what tedious and also incredibly useful work that they did before they had cameras to do Sky
surveys and doing this all by eye in these uh slow focal ratio refractors
it's crazy uh it has an apparent magnitude of 7.4 but it is pretty spread out since it is
quite large so it can be a little hard to find in the telescope and I couldn't actually quickly find
what the diameter the physical diameter of it was but knowing it's its size on
the sky being 18 arc minutes by 12 arc minutes approximately and knowing its distance I use a little bit of basic
trigonometry to calculate its diameter to be 26 light years [Laughter]
uh when you're your tangent on uh on the 18 arc minute angle
all right so uh what's going on with this wolf Ray a star so this is wr136
also known as hd192163 if that's more your jam plus a
lot of telescopes have um the HD numbers programmed into them
so uh this star is only four and a half million years old which pales in comparison to the age of the sun which
is 5 billion years old so it's just a little a little baby star cosmologically
speaking and uh however it expanded rapidly to become a red giant because it's
something on the order of 20 solar masses it's a it's a huge star and as a result of of that expansion
it's had to start burning a higher what we call Metals anything
above anything above lithium or anything above helium including lithium in astronomy is referred to as a metal uh
even things that we don't really think of as metals like carbon and oxygen
um so I just had to start fusing carbon oxygen even up all the way up to iron in
its core in order to be able to continue the fusion reactions to counteract
against the pole of gravity and because of that ferocious fusion and hot temperatures it is ejecting its
outer layers and at first it was ejecting its outer layers at 20 000 miles per hour which is really fast
that's uh that's almost enough to get you uh into Earth's escape velocity
and then uh about 200 000 years after after it began this rapid expansion into
a red giant um uh getting into getting into some
higher Elements which require hotter temperatures too fuse in the core uh
that began pushing the outer layers of gas away at 3 million miles per hour
which is just an insane amount of speed and this high-speed Stellar Wind rammed
into the lower speed uh cloud of of ejected material hydrogen and helium
that were emitted earlier on in the Stars Lifetime and this is created in
shock waves primarily uh the the main shock wave is is the bright edge of the
nebula that you can see most easily with the telescope and there's also a lot of this this uh some secondary
uh shock fronts that kind of form the the ribbed structure that you can't really see in this image but um in my
faster focal ratio images like the one at the beginning you kind of see this ribbed structure
and uh because of the uh uh Fast and Furious life that stars like wolf Raya
136 live it will likely go supernova in the next sometime in the next million years putting it on par with the
timeline for Beetlejuice to go supernova so we haven't had a supernova in this galaxy in a while we're due for another
one um so hopefully hopefully at some point we'll get to see one hopefully it's not
so close so we get bathed and radiation this one is quite far away so no need to worry
uh so here is um an image that another image that I've
taken of it more recently that I'll probably go back and reprocess now that I have some better image processing
techniques especially with how to be some star reduction and reducing some of those blue Halos around the stars there
but this is a wider field shot and a little more akin to the amount of
nebula that you'll be able to see under a dark sky with a relatively large maybe
uh 12 inch or larger dobsonian with a UHC or an O3 filter
of course your field of view will probably be smaller but um yeah so
here's kind of a wider shot there's actually quite a bit of other background nebula surrounding it some of this this
uh hydrogen out over here and there's probably more that I didn't pick up in this image set
so what does it look like in some other wavelengths so I couldn't find any single images of it broken out into the
different wavelengths but this is uh these are two composite images of different telescope data so the one on
the left hydrogen the hydrogen Alpha of the visible wavelength that that
photographers know and love is uh is defined as red here oxygen three the
other neuroband wavelengths that we all know and love is defined as green and xmm Newton as it's labeled is an x-ray
telescope um that is actually based in space which is really cool and that's blue so all of
the the blue that you're seeing there is is x-ray signal and the the green is is
a lot of optical light being emitted by oxygen then over on the right a different
variant where red is is uh mid-infrared 24 microns from the Spitzer Space
Telescope and uh green is hydrogen Alpha in this case and then blue is again the X-ray
signal from X and Newton so kind of seeing the different components and um you can see where some parts where
there's there's a lot of X-ray and less of the optical signal light kind of up here on on the top and um it's neat to
see what these things look like in other waves that can give you insight as to what physical processes might be going
on there and x-rays being such high Photon energy have to be emitted by
pretty energetic processes um and they're um I mean my my guess
would be that um that's probably from that really high energy Fusion that's going on in the
core a really high temperature fusion um interacting with the that heat interacting with the gases outside but I
have to read more papers to verify that so um visual visual observing for the
Crescent nebula I think I have seen it myself I think it was through some
mid-sized dobsonian like uh 12 inch or something like that definitely with a UHC or an O3 filter
I feel like I might have looked at it at the green Bank Star Quest I can't remember exactly where it was at might have been in Casper Wyoming for the
solar eclipse um it is difficult for small instruments or if you're in decent amounts of light
pollution because even though it is it is bright is also pretty spread out
uh with um with some larger instruments like eight inch or ten inch you can see
the edge of it and maybe some of the inner detail kind of forming what looks like a Euro sign
and uh especially when you use the UHC or an O3 filter to kind of block out the
slight pollution wavelengths under good conditions where you have a
large telescope and nice Dark Skies I have read online that you can sometimes see more of of the rest of the kind of
pear shape of it but you definitely want to use load magnification because of its large size or else at higher
magnification um the light might be too spread out to really be able to see much of it but us with all things experiment mess
around see what it looks like photographically definitely that larger field of view is nice so you can get
that nice background the velocity and kind of see it in context other things but uh if you want to zoom in and get
more in detail and use a narrower field of view then definitely take some longer exposures or I've seen some really
incredible images of it in narrow band which um I've only had my narrow band filters
for about a year so I have a lot of targets left to go but I've seen a lot of incredible images in narrow bands so
looking forward to doing that primarily hydrogen and oxygen I don't think there's there's much sulfur signal there
but you can still see it in wide band as well doing RGB Imaging especially with a
nice fast uh fast refractor or something like that or camera lens
uh yeah so that's what I've got on the Crescent nebula and uh definitely not that you should check out
wonderful excellent these uh these programs get better and better all the time so thank you Molly
I love it okay well next up is uh Connell Richards uh Connell is
um some of his first entries to me by uh uh Chuck at uh the astronomical League
Chuck Allen and uh Connell as I recall you are are you still in high school
have you begun college at this point I just graduated in June I'm starting at uh Penn State in August all right that's
wonderful that's great uh and you've been involved in amateur astronomy for
quite a while is is that right yes since 2016 that's when I started observing
I've been doing Outreach almost as long as that as ever since I got my hands on
a telescope I knew I had to share what I I saw through it right well uh Colin the
thing I'm really impressed about you is your presence your presentation style your knowledge uh your drive
um you have a uh a spirit about you like you're very determined and uh and and
also at the same time very fascinated by the universe so I'm going to turn it over to you
yeah thank you very much Scott so I'll begin sharing my screen here um I guess I'll just do the full screen
give me a moment to pull things up and get situated and uh
let me know if you can see everything all right it should be good right yes you're seeing my beginning slide yes
all right now in celebration of Hale's birthday I think it's really fascinating to look at a lot of the telescopes that
he worked on as we mentioned earlier in the night he built the world's largest telescope four different times so he
really is quite the Observer um but but he didn't start without a background there was a lot of work to be
done that led up to his discoveries and his engineering and his fascination with the universe and I think it's really
exciting to study the back story about how we got to the point of having 60 inch and 100 inch and 200 inch huge
reflectors that were doing all this great research in the 20th century so it's really fun to look back through
um and kind of see what got us to that point and I'd like to do that through a personal favorite telescope of mine
which is the Leviathan of Parson town uh Lord Ross's famous 72-inch telescope it
was a fascinating instrument that was um the largest in the world until it was surpassed by the hooker telescope the
100 inch which which uh Hale himself was involved in but it laid a lot of the groundwork it was the largest for quite
some time oops trying to transition here
there we go so looking at some appales background in the 200 inch as I said he built the world's largest telescope four
times over um but when he came when it came to building that 200 inch mirror he used a
lot of the experience he had from the 60 inch and 100 inch in fact when he was approaching Mr hooker about building
that massive mirror he originally was thinking about I think it was an 84 inch
mirror that's what hooker proposed but then Hale and his great enthusiasm for astronomy and the great Charisma and
passion that he must have had surrounding his work uh convinced everyone to move bigger and build 100
inch telescope so that of course laid the groundwork for the gray 200 inch which you see here
on the right these images are from caltex astronomy lab the image on the bottom is the mirror
just after they received it and they're polishing it and getting it ready to go and then on the top is a more modern
image of the mirror sitting in there looking very clean and very perfect ready to to open up to the night sky
so the 200 inch was designed for different work compared to some telescopes in the past of course
photographic plates had been well established by this point and they were looking to mate that portion of
astronomy with new instruments they were building so you saw the spectrograph in that picture with Einstein and the Yorkies
were refractor earlier that's the kind of instrument they would have put on the 200 inch as they were doing these huge
surveys of the night sky they would do these huge surveys with the 60 inch at Palomar and then zoom in on the more
interesting targets with the 200 inch now it made a number of interesting discoveries being the largest telescope
of its time one of the most interesting things was that they were looking at variable Stars cepheid variables and the
Andromeda galaxy and as they were examining these of course we call cepheid variables standard candles
meaning we can look at those and understand how far an object away is like a Galaxy that features those Stars
and when they crunch the numbers and we're trying to figure out how far away exactly M31 was they ended up with
double the value that they had at that time which dated back to Edwin Hubble when he was first figuring out that the
Universe was expanding so if you were an astronomer at that time the observable universe in a way just doubled for you
when they realized that the galaxies we saw in the night sky were not just galaxies alone far away from the Milky
Way but they were much farther away than we previously anticipated now another interesting thing that the
200 inch looked at was the nature of quasars we weren't really sure what these were we saw these bright sources
in the right in the in the night sky we were beginning to see them as these bright radio sources but it wasn't until
the 200 inch came along that we really looked at them in Optical light so the 200 inch famously photographed
the Quasar 3c273 which is 12th magnitude it's in range of most amateur telescopes
I haven't seen it myself but I know many people have probably most of us on this call
um but the 200 inch photographed this and they found that the surface brightness of this thing was hundreds of
times greater than a lot of the other galaxies that we were observing at the time meaning that these quasars were
very active the nuclei of galaxies there was a lot going on there a lot of radiation and a lot of activity
but then again going back in time it's interesting to note what came up to the 200 inch so we started off by using
telescopes uh with a lens maker called Hans liberge and he made he used a lot
of the same size telescopes that Galileo did Galileo was remarkable in that he turned those telescopes up to the sky
but these telescopes and aperture and size were not much bigger than a lot of astronomical binoculars that many of us
use they were only maybe an inch to two inches maybe three inches at the largest
and they didn't get bigger until astronomers were trying to push the limits of their equipment and see farther into the night sky
so Newton later on he didn't necessarily make the largest telescopes of his time but he did develop the Newtonian
telescope which we see on the right here that's a reflecting telescope so you have in the back the mirror the light
coming through bouncing off a secondary and coming through the eyepiece and that laid the groundwork for the
much later telescopes of course refractors with their heavy lenses that can't really be supported on either side
they do have their limits in construction and Engineering so reflectors ended up being the way to go for much larger telescopes now we came
to Huygens he ended up making much larger telescopes he called them aerial telescopes because they sort of they
didn't really have a tube he would have a primary mirror um way in the back that would kind of be
balanced on a tripod and then the secondary mirror extended way up and hung off of you know a large tree or a
building or something like that and he would actually hold the primary mirror and try to look through what was coming
through uh bouncing off the secondary so it was this very awkward setup and it wasn't until we came to Herschel and
Parsons and Parsons later on William Parsons where we got these much more practical
uh reflecting telescopes so Herschel built his famous 40-foot telescope that was a 48 inch but then William Parsons
also known as the third Earl of Ross built this large telescope in the middle of Ireland Central Ireland
and it was a 72 inch mirror it was the largest telescope ever built it was called the Leviathan of Carson town in
fact parsontown was named after the family there they were very influential there and of course that laid the the
groundwork for the telescopes that Hale built later on but looking at the construction of this
Leviathan it's it's obviously massive I had the Good Fortune of visiting this telescope in 2018 and got to see it up
close and try to understand it a little bit better and get a closer look at the construction so you can see here there's this
wedge-shaped platform and you can see it down in the drawing below that would slide up on these rails oops as the
telescope was moving so we had a 110 degrees that he could
move it vertically and 10 degrees that he could shift it horizontally now this thing was so huge that of course they
couldn't spin it around it wasn't quite like an observatory Dome so he had to observe targets at certain times and at
certain times of the year as well so he was limited in what he could do but he was a very crafty guy a very skilled
Observer and he made the best of what he had so looking at some of the specs for the telescope it was 72 inches the focal
length was over 50 feet because it was an F 8.8 mirror so quite slow for a
reflecting telescope by our standards but he was using the materials that he had on hand and doing the best that he
could now unlike modern Optics this was what was called a speculum mirror meaning they made it out of reflective metal so
a lot of them use tin or silver or different things like that but they weren't these glass mirrors that we've grown so accustomed to and in fact it
only had 60 reflectivity unlike modern Optics even you know the consumer Optics
that many of us use which have up around 90 or closer to 100 reflectivity because
of the Coatings we can put on them now at the time of its construction the telescope cost twenty thousand to thirty
thousand pounds roughly and that translates to about 4.3 million US dollars in the modern day
so it was quite well off and you know I'm sure Adrian made a joke before about you know buying new equipment and all
the Cloudy Skies came I'm sure Lord Ross came true about five of us bought new equipment
um here in Michigan and we've had nothing but thunderstorms oh that's tragic yeah we all know that struggle
though you know you buy something new or in Lord Ross's case you construct something new and then income the clouds
and in fact that's exactly what happened to him uh he was opening up the telescope in 1844 in September and
um it was actually an interesting story because he had some prominent astronomers there with him he had James south from Britain who was a famous
double star Observer and Reverend Thomas Thomas Romney Robinson who was also
quite a skilled Observer now they were all trying to look at nebulae and star clusters but they were
limited by the weather in that September so later on in March in in March of 1845
they got their first serious observations in uh from the research I found uh they looked at a couple of
double Stars they looked at the open cluster m67 and then came the real discoveries that came with the Leviathan
of Parson Tower so before we get to that I want to look at a little bit of the mechanics of this
there's a handle that you can see up here sort of a crank and as Lord Ross would be standing there looking through
the eyepiece this brass component here he would actually turn that crank to shift the Azimuth of the telescope as he
was tracking targets so in some ways it was like an early dobsonian with the base all the way down here and pulling
the telescope up and down kind of pitching it up for the altitude and using this crank for the azimuth
but anyway as I mentioned uh they got to these really interesting objects they were coming across at the time we knew
them as spiral nebulae now we know them as galaxies Lord Ross was the first person to see these galaxies as as
featuring spiral arms so he looked at M51 this is m99 we're seeing on the
right here that was a sketch that he made and he also looked at m33 and triangulum as well
now there were a couple of other claims that Lord Ross Made which are really interesting for us to look at in the modern day for example he was studying
the Orion Nebula and he claimed that he could resolve it into stars now of course we know that the Orion Nebula is
made of gas and it's not a star cluster or anything like that even though there are a couple of stars that we can see in
it but Lord Ross and many of his and many of his uh contemporaries they were
obsessed with this idea of resolvability and in fact that's a lot of what drove the construction of such large telescope
see Ross was of the opinion that looking at these galaxies in nebulae all they were were these tightly packed clusters
of stars and that if we only had enough resolving power and enough aperture I guess an example of aperture fever in
the 1800s that we could resolve these into stars and he claimed that this is what he saw in galaxies and it actually
turns out that uh the galaxies and maybe not the Orion Nebula were made of stars and he had these beautiful sketches here
many of which ended up looking a lot like the images we see now or I'll get to those in some in in just a little bit
now with a great reflector he also studied the Crab Nebula he had done this before with a 36-inch telescope he had
built but was able to study it in much greater detail later on and again as I mentioned this resolvability was a
concept he was really interested in uh Reverend TR Robinson who like I said was there at the sort of big opening night
for the telescope when they were looking at Double stars and nebulae gave a talk in London and he was actually talking
about all these abilities this new telescope had this great reflector in resolving these nebulae into stars that
being M51 which they were most interested in observing now I have an image of that here just on
the right but that's compared to one of Lord Ross's sketches on the left and you can see the resemblance is remarkable we
have NGC 5195 down here and then M51 right in the center with its broad
spiraling arms the core It lines up perfectly we see the arms are spiraling in the same
direction in roughly the same consistency so it's just stunning to note that Lord Ross with the telescope
that he had and the engineering limitations that it had was able to get so much resolution out of this and see
so much in the whirlpool nebula now this is another image here this is M101 taken by the Hubble Space Telescope
on the right but on the left here once again is a sketch made by Lord Ross
and again the resemblance is just undeniable so the core is very tight just as it is in Lord Ross's sketch on
the left here these images oriented about the same you can see these arms spiral out a little bit more than they
do in the rest of the Galaxy and he's depicted that here with these arms on the left and then you can also see
there's a number of knots and bright stars and nebulae these might look like the Orion nebulae or the Lagoon nebulae
from our perspective on Earth but in another galaxy so that's kind of
what Lord Ross was looking at here though you might not have known it these bright knots of stars and nebulous material in a distant Galaxy
I'd like to close by looking at some of the other objects he observed well not necessarily related to galaxies
he did observe the owl nebula here looking quite a lot like it uh like it would in a sketching competition or some
of the things we see in a maybe a Stephen O'Meara book or something where he has these creative depictions of
different nebulae in the sky so he actually wrote that there were two stars that he saw two Central Stars
almost looking like the eyes of the owl here and then on the right is a sketch he made of m33
now as as amateur astronomers many of us have attempted to study this object and
you can succeed but it's very challenging because the surface brightness is so low but with such a slow refractor a slow reflector that he
had I just find it remarkable that he was able to observe targets like this and see them in as much detail as he
could so once again all of the work that Hale did and all the work before uh Lord Ross
he made a great bookend between those two eras of telescope machinery and astronomical observing he was able to
build this massive telescope in spite of the cost and in spite of the engineering limitations and view so much of the
universe and discover the nature of galaxies as spiral structures so if anyone is interested I have my
resources here annals of the deep sky was very useful they had a lot of resources and a lot of research that
they did and there were a couple of other papers as well that were quite interesting to look at and and read the
notes of Robinson and South and Lord Ross when they were working with this telescope for the first time so thank
you very much very cool excellent I learned some things um uh so I'm I'll have to dig more into
uh you know the the giant telescope uh that Lord Ross uh built from what I
understand that guy also built I guess the first electric generators he's powering his city
um he had I also heard that he had it was either six or seven mirrors that had
to be like in constant rotation uh to keep that thing going because he had no way of protecting the uh reflective
coating that was on on top of the mirrors which I think was just silver
um and that would tarnish very quickly so the lady persons was actually involved in the mirror making process so
it was it was a gender neutral uh or gender non-gender bias approach to
astronomy yes yeah it was uh really I mean it's just
really amazing person so um and uh apparently you can still go see
it today so I just can't imagine turning the wheel as you're up there way up on
top and and uh and pulling the scope along as you're trying to observe something like that this is just uh
incredible our next speaker um is um
is all the way from Nepal is uh uh she's a poet she is a very enthusiastic young
astronomer um uh and uh a leader too because she's inspiring uh youth her age to get
involved in science and astronomy and she's also a big advocate for women and
girls in astronomy too deep T thanks for coming on um and you know happy George Hillary
Hill's birthday thank you Scott and uh it's not what they do today
and um today I'm going to share what I did in
this one year after then what my starting Journey Through the astronomy
and here's one short poem hey look those star they are twinkling insane or
something look those twinkling star that moves looks so beautiful wandering I
could risk their high so high high so high so today I'm all about staring
about my experience my journey and uh though I'm interested in
astronomy uh since um when I was uh nine years up and first I was attracted
toward this astronomy uh when I was nine years old and this uh the uh thinking
and Imagination of the Jupiters and first of all the planet that attract me is the Jupiter
and uh I imagine a lot I planned and um officially or um saying officially I
have started my journey since uh 2020 uh not uh it's uh not been a one year two
in uh I first of all I started my uh sorry by participating in Estuary
hunting which was organized by Nepal Astronomical Society and uh I
participated in the Estuary hunting and seek the asteroids and um uh see the streets and uh similarly I
participate in different webinars and different programs and um like uh
decisions differences and first of all I was I was connected by the astrophysics
and astronomy Olympian which was organized in Nepal and similarly uh the
group of by the history hunting the group of uh I got the one group in one
one of my friend that shows and we call us together and uh plan uh to organize
one clubs and it was something astronomy and let's make Outreach of the astronomy
in Nepal is a nipples
so let's promote astronomy we think that let's promote astronomy and um
astronomy and uh give knowledge to everyone and we make one Community we um
take all the students in one community and uh organize different programs
within our Series in Outreach programs uh to give them knowledge and to learn
ourselves because we are in also in the learning phase and similarly
um of the highlighted programs are like I have participated in these uh space
app Challenge and like it's a type of hackathon where we discuss about the
some of the problem and give the solutions and uh masks and challenge which was organized by NASA for the land
of preacher Prince and similarly uh um I'm the senior member of Nepal
Astronomical Society and working in that and organizing all the Outreach programs
through my own organization that is economy enthusiasts in Nepal and first time I have used my telescope which was
gifted by one one of my brother and uh that was uh just uh two three months ago
and I was the telescope the first time and make the outlets program near my house too and I I would call this
children's small kids and so then so then the moon and the star and they were
very happy and there's the happiness in their space was giving me a lot of Hope and to move ahead again
um to do more things and similarly a kind uh we have a participate in the
cubes in space uh that's to learn our experiment into the space uh by which
was organized by keepsing space uh and was just um but I was participated in one month
ago and similarly like this uh I have given the president
and thanks to Scott for giving me this opportunity and uh
similarly how we are planning uh to all lots of
programs uh through my own organizations to make Outreach programs and let's plan
about the business Explorations and all over the astronomy and first of all we
want to move on by giving the knowledge of the astronomy to all um to promote astronomy first of all and
uh and similarly generally talking about Express Explorations and organizing uh
some of the water rocket project rocket projects and similarly others astronomicals
um programs and now after uh in this current time we are organizing our
program virtually but uh after everything we will be okay I will be going physically and organizing
different kinds of programs and webinars series and uh going to the different types of schools and organizing the
programs for the kids and explore their explore their curiosity and and um after
this one week one a year first of all I have been officially
we are officially uh so obviously our
citizen of Nepal I got my citizenship in this year's in last year congratulations
that was my great SMS I got the citizenship I went after the 16 years in
uh similarly I started my journey from the August and up to here I have been
coming through and that's all about me wow thank you wonderful wonderful good
news DT thank you so much everyone just loves your passion your energy and uh
that great smile you know just uh it it uh at lures you ran into uh to learning
more about the world of science and astronomy thank you very much deepti
um okay uh we are going down south to Argentina and Maxi filari's
astrophotographer is up next I think
Maxie a couple minutes ago oh yeah uh yeah I notice he's left his telescope
by itself that's okay well maybe he's taking images
um okay uh well why don't we have John Johnson come on up at this point to give
us an update on the Nebraska Star Party
everybody heard me yeah thank you thank you Scott for uh allowing me to
to come on and and it's been a fun evening that my goodness some of the presenters tonight were just absolutely
amazing yeah it was amazing I um I'd hope to yeah I said something to
when David was on I'm a big fan of hers but I can see she's left I think I have all but one of her books and I've read
them so yeah passed that along if anybody sees her yeah so everyone
anyway uh we are are moving ahead with the
28th Annual Nebraska Star Party as Scott mentioned earlier from August
1st through the 6th uh it's gotten uh we're getting a lot of excitement uh
we have we usually try to end up with no more in about 300 attendees
um right now we're at 200 we're a little nervous because uh there there are no uh
pandemic restrictions uh that'll we'll have to be worried about but uh our
catering services which is a a Sandhills family that uh bands together and comes
and and Cooks some great food for us in the evenings way out there in the in the open field uh where we have the event uh
part of the Merit Reservoir State Recreation Area uh you get me more than about 300 feet
probably gets a little a little hard waiting in the line for for food so uh uh but I I think we're going to come
close this year to that number so wow okay anyway
um any special challenges that uh well it's uh it's just the idea of of
having enough picnic tables you know the we're on a it's it's a Nebraska Game and
Parks managed facility and technically we can't control the numbers
uh of people that just may want to wander in because we're on a public uh
you know public park they call the State State Recreation Area uh
so but we do you know we do control you know who actually gets right on the
observing field and uh and who waits in line for our meals and everything
um but you know it were it's uh as any of
you have ever heard about Nebraska it's Nebraska Nice uh you know personality we're all very friendly long and we have
a great time and and everybody is super friendly uh allowing people to to look
through their telescopes and and we always advertise ourselves as a very beginner friendly uh star party that's
true yeah I'm sorry Scott yeah go ahead no it's true it's absolutely true I uh
you've been there yeah the last time I was there I mean families show up with you know uh 60 millimeter refractors I'm
talking about really beginner you know yeah binoculars you know so
um but it's super dark Ultra dark okay and any telescope works better under these Skies
yeah earlier I I see Molly's leftist too I put a note yeah I I've seen the
Crescent nebula of course I was looking through a 24-25 probably even a 30 inch dub Sony reflector and it's quite easy
in those Scopes to see it but uh but yeah the skies is what the sky is the reason everybody comes out there and
we're uh really we're in Bartle one Skies there uh and really the only it's
kind of we have natural pollution we'll have uh you know the the sky glow uh
background uh Sky glow a lot of times will will flare up uh especially if you're taking wide field uh uh images
I've noticed uh in some of mine yeah you'll get the faint greenish glow of
just the background the sky uh glow which is kind of interesting to see um
uh the actual I mean it when your eyes get a dark adapted out there
um middle of night Milky Way of course that time of year were there it's stretching from the southern Horizon to
the north a little bit Northeast Horizon yeah and um you can't quite read a book by
Milky Way you can't quite read a book but it but you can prove it the the light from the Milky Way casts the
shadow yes you can yes you can you can hold a piece of white paper up there and put your hand up and and you'll see the
shadow of your hand on a white yeah that's that is uh something very surprising just to be hilarious so dark
and just uh having those photons from the stars um uh work that well for you
oh yeah yep it is love it love it yeah oh uh and we have great support from a
lot of vendors the probably the number one being you guys down there at explore scientific Scott thank you very much
always so very generous and uh thank you and I've said even on a couple of chat
comments here already this evening that we're yeah we're uh we probably won't have any
specific instrument you know astronomical instrument type vendors up there but we do uh sponsor a big swap
meet we we're going to have a separate tent set up just for um folks that want to display their Wares and and swap with
other folks is what they want to bring so there'll be plenty of equipment if you're interested in looking for that
special eyepiece or or adapter or something for your scope so oh yeah I just put the link for a Nebraska
starparty.org okay yeah I I had I I could show some pictures but
I think I don't know what is there enough uh sure of course watching let me
let me see if if I can do this now so I need to probably get
that up going
and uh okay so if I hit that up on my screen
and then I share okay
there you go how's that now I'll bring it full screen everybody to see that full screen yes
there's a nice aerial shot looking
um there's a good there's what we call Dab row
yeah we're only seeing the John we're only seeing white light we're not yeah
okay I'll have to leave that off and okay how about this yeah now we can see that works yeah that works okay
let's let's back up here um
there's there's a shot uh from a drone uh looking to the north east uh just
after sunset uh there's a play paved hard service road that goes from all the
way into the to a uh uh Nebraska highway that runs along the east side of the
lake uh from that highway it's about two and a half three miles back to this spot but the gaming Parks folks are very nice
they they mow this this native grass all the way down so uh you Vehicles can
drive out there and of course nowadays most catalytic converters have shields on them but that was always a concern in
early years of someone catching a fire from the their hot catalytic converter but they mow it down to just a couple
inches of tall a large enough area to allow everybody just to pull out on the
on the grass and set up wherever they may that area you'll see this is um
oh I guess he's got out of sequence this is my shot of uh of the Comet from
neowise last year up there oh nice image through that one in uh uh okay here's
the dobro as we call it it was an area that there again has hard Service uh
about half a size of a football field uh that the big guys the big Scopes can be
set up out there and it just becomes a nice big friendly party yeah that would be the area I
probably wouldn't be in with any kind of camera now we have a separate area for the imagers yeah they do yeah
we get moved in amongst the trees and things there's very few trees I agree so you
don't have to worry about that but we do we do have a separate area so you can set up your your laptops and you're
saying yeah not have to worry about uh ruining these people's night vision there's a little wider shot of it
uh just some of that people just pull up on the on the grassy areas and
and bring their uh there's another Airstream yeah love it
and uh right here he's got I guess I should have tried the sequence here's
here's why that spot right there is why people's flocked from this part of the country especially to that area in
Nebraska uh yeah it looks like ink it's been nice yeah a dark spot uh it's the Mortal
scale you're all familiar with we're yeah we're right on this part right here uh uh if you can legitimately call it
bordelon uh there's one of the biggest Scopes I think we've ever seen up there uh that I
think is a 32 inch uh uh unit that came from Rochester the Rochester astronomy
Society up in Rochester Minnesota cool oh there's there's some of that natural light pollution I was talking about yeah
we do get some Aurora now and then with the sun becoming more active we might get a a shot this year of some Aurora
and of course that that natural light pollution over there uh lightning on the horizons we'll
you'll see a lot of that different times up there there's there's the the x marks
a spot where we're located on that uh close-up of it and there's a showing you
the the local towns the the largest city of any size is North Platte which is
about 150 miles south of there so there's just another shot of the the
dabra this was a a 22 inch built by this gentleman here uh we had a beautiful job
using some CNC machines to machine out all this beautiful birch plywood
wonderful wonderful scope now there's one of my shots so that's a typical shot
looking South uh yeah look at the stars all the way down all the way down that's another thing is
remarkable you'll there's hardly I mean unless there happened to be a cloud Bank on the horizon you'll see the stars
right down the horizon and to be very honest John I mean uh and I've been there that's what the sky
looks like this is this is not like uh enhanced it's not too enhanced yeah I
was I was gonna say that's probably exactly what you see pretty much what you're right yeah and you're you're
seeing these tendrils coming off of this Darkness yeah that perception that the sky does look
darker than that the the um yeah yeah there's a little bit but uh in the mid you're you're seeing a hint
of color which you probably won't see with on a die but but part of the the challenge is is okay how how big how
much of the Bulge of the Milky Way can you see out here and then how how many
of these uh dark tendrils can you pick up just with a unaided eye and it's amazing you get your eyes dark adapt
right considering I've seen color at a in a portal 2 the image that I took is
an enhanced version but what I it was what I saw with Portal 2 was color so I
would expect to see that and maybe a little more at border one so I I
this is exactly what I would be coming for you have to look at it I I wouldn't
even fire up the camera well that's what I always say especially the the the the new folks just pull up your uh your
lounge chair and uh you know maybe a pair of binoculars other than that just lay back and watch this guy get dark
it's amazing and here here's what I was talking about our catering um some excellent food
made by this as a local Farm family they've run a ranch just about 40 miles
north of where this is and they bring the whole family down and provide some excellent meals in the evenings for us
so uh and there's all satisfied the big Scopes
waiting for Darkness yeah there's another in the first time anyway there you go I
appreciate it um thank you thank you now if any is there still room for people to
come or are you yes I I mean we were we're getting a little nervous because we we uh we've never had to um you know
cut off registrations but I I think this year if things start to
get close to 300 we we may just you know put the word out hey that's all we can
take you know if you truly want to come and eat and join us in the meals and and
then you know on the the middle of the week Wednesdays we we go into uh Valentine high school I have a beautiful
air-conditioned Auditorium and and we're the we got at least three speakers lined
up uh a gentleman named Rob Landis that works for NASA has been working on the
uh Sofia uh Airborne uh Observatory the 747 uh he's gonna I think well actually
I think he's going to talk on um on uh planetary defense how we can protect
ourselves uh from asteroid hits uh this year also uh the other uh main speaker
is uh Ms Diane Knutson who uh is a is
now this year uh president of the board of directors for the international dark sky Association and she's going to give
us a I'm sure very impassioned plea about how important dark skies are yeah in fact just a side note uh we are we
the Nebraska Star Party Inc uh are uh pursuing a dark sky designation in fact
we've submitted our application to the uh Ida folks there in Tucson and are
awaiting patiently for their decision whether they're going to accept our
package and and maybe we'll get our designation maybe we'll know by August if if we get it or not okay
thank you so much my fingers and toes and legs and everything crossed for you so all right it definitely deserves it
okay um I see Caesar's with us right now I've
got Maxie coming up next and then uh we're gonna take I I think we're taking
a break and then we will uh come back and uh catch up with uh Caesar and
Adrian and a few others here tonight so you're watching the 52nd Global Star Party
um and um actually we're going to turn it over to you
hi everyone hi Scott Cesar Adrian John amazing view John I
want to be there soon that's uh that's there is no trade the
weather looks in that day very good without clouds and uh and then without
light pollution so
hi everyone tonight I'm going to show a
little Peak a picture that I took a few couple of weekends ago
from Alberti when I I I run away from my
home to see some dark skies so basically let
me show you my screen um let's see
okay are you using
yes we can see yes okay basically this is only a one shot that I took that
night no sorry three shots in 30 seconds this is the the the the
school uh the Farm School abandoned but is is now in restoration
uh two weeks ago Marco sent me some pictures that the
um the the floor and everything go out it
was very old in in a good
in excellent condition but they have to remodel remodel everything
so this is a only single uh three shots
that I started and in 30 seconds with a Nikon
um 3050 this is the car of a friend and discover
right here taking some pictures to M83
and then I took a maybe eight pictures of the Milky Way
because it was above us in our heads and this is what I uh
could take beautiful
well I think it is uh it's spectacular
the the clouds and the core of the Galaxy
was in uh what John in that Sky maybe he
saw it but see this is above your head
well the the aberration of the sky it doesn't
affect anything and you see the clouds in it's
like to be in 3D it's like you can touch it it was a an
amazing view and obviously we are sit in our chairs uh dinner in
that time and I enjoying the view so
I want to I wanted to share this picture you know
[Music] this uh you can see spectacular Milky
Way shot it's incredible thank you yeah it was Futures region and it's just
incredible it was only four minutes staggered uh only a few pigs because
um we have some wet weather at that time and the lens go very wet so
I was with a um her a
dry a dry dry hair to to dry the lens your dryer you got that
running and exactly but this close in the dark clouds
was spectacular and with my scope I was taking pictures of the a dragonfly
nebula and this is in here you remember the two weeks ago I shared
uh now I well I bought a a couple weeks
ago a new Mount that it was a very good price from a
friend from here and I was uh I have obviously a bad weather
a very cold weather you can see I'm very oh and I've been drinking mate also but
um I right now let me show you I'm
connected to my another computer it's outside
in the in my right here I'm connected
[Music] not only me [Laughter]
well crisis and
what I was saying um now basically I started maybe 7 00 p.m I
back to my work my my fiance was doing an exam so I put my my equipment outside
to to do the the the alignments the polar alignments the calibration
everything and was freezing very freezing so I started to take pictures
almost two hours ago uh I'm right now I'm guiding in the
traffic maybe it's very blur image I don't know
if you can see is there right here because the sky is
nothing it doesn't very clear right now I'm taking pictures uh uh for almost now
three minutes let me show you and now I'm seeing to with you how it's going yes
okay yes the the pictures there will you do
you see the name yeah you obviously it's like a a pink
sky because the light pollution but and the also the the Moon is rising right
now but uh no the stars are beginning
yes I I maybe I will learn it from a couple of hours let's see what happened
um but also I started to take pictures of an object that
is amazing to see in single eyes with a
telescope sorry
or maybe dwarf Galaxy which is what I'm hearing yes
the science um yeah the science Publications now you
know this only this is only one minute picture because uh if you do more time
you will the curry is will be there will be very bright in so
you can not see the core but in this case and well I don't know is the focus is
good but with the convolution it's very it's going to be good
um but also the the color of the Stars it doesn't shine too much and when you
process them you see the the colors the real colors uh blue white red and
everything it's a very near from there I try to do
NGC four five four nine I I don't remember
is that number uh it's a Galaxy very
uh um it's not very bright with ice you can see it here but in
pictures it's like a um a cloud only a single Cloud see
so no uh it's very very very blurred
uh Galaxy obviously without pollution light pollution and taking a lot well
right here was passing by a study leader without light pollution maybe the info
will be get more interesting and here down here there is another galaxy
Italian Galaxy that I don't remember the name sorry but
let me see in the you can see the the cross of the
suddenly the yes let me see if I assume the Galaxy down
to share it so if you're going to between maybe
to do the after party maybe I will try to to process some images to to
share with you okay you can see the Galaxy it's very it's shiny but it's
like aim m87 yes but that more more small
something something like that it doesn't have um clouds to see it it's only a a shiny
Galaxy um Maxie what camera are you using for this uh right now
a very old camera dclr camera with a a
comma reductor to uh for F5 a telescope but I have a an F4 but it goes okay
um to guiding I'm using a qh y5 camera
monochrome and attached to the the guys cup 950.
a guidance cup and now and that's it with the what the
the new Mount that my fiance doesn't like it too much but
uh she came back she came back to see my mother-in-law and we have another mount
a surprise surprise surprise
[Laughter]
had to go out let's see what happened in a few days
so uh well that's it I think uh well I am I
one this is Carlos Hill maybe someone you know this program ER right now I'm taking off of course in
AIM M20 yeah the terrific nebula and it's going passing by the other side of
the the you can see the the North and this is what I see from here you all
today a Molly was talking about the decrease in nebula and you can see the
signals ER constellation look where I have it right now no it's
very good here's the North and it's at um 30 degrees to the today's
so the first enable I I think is from here maybe I this is the
this is one but now here in NGC six eight eight
and it's very difficult to see it obviously in the city it's kind of
impossible um last year I was taking I I have the
some objects in the North but the light pollution kills me a lot
because it's very uh Orange
very very orange so I have to go to a farm place to do some pictures well last
year I tried to do the the Andromeda galaxy this year I will do it again
uh prepare it for that and and what the
the the Galaxy that I took well this is the South
you can see there are the the gray magogenic cloud and the small
and here's the sound of the the sound of the
Southern Cross and here's a the song of the Karina
nebula and here's the Centauri this is
let's see it and here's Omega Centauri
ngc5139 here's the The Centaurus ah Galaxy and
you see if I want to eight right but but in the other side is the Galaxy that I
took pictures is like a a very a dark cloud but
NGC 4945 yes and the other
the other Galaxy was and no sorry yes
NGC 984976 sorry for my losses the cats of
the neighbor are doing cats things and my dogs are
barfing yes of course things yeah
I try to do some pictures to the general bug cluster but
um I don't need much time to do a star cluster but I want to do some deep Sky
objects that to to see what happened with the mount and they go to because I'm right now I'm
particularly in a testing and calibrating a
two weeks ago I was only one night to to try to do guiding it was impossible I go
to bed at 5 00 am I think and now I was
freezing a very cold night but now I think I figure it out
so well thank you for the space to to share what I'm doing right now and what
I did a couple weeks ago and a happy
birthday to hail yes they
okay wonderful Maxi thank you so much thank you for showing us uh your Universe down
there that's totally cool uh and people are very interested to see those uh images post-processed
uh up next is Adrian Bradley Adrian as you can tell he's been enthusiastically
commenting on all these wonderful Milky Way shots Adrian loves to do night sky
photography has taught us a lot already about how to set up our own systems uh to do this kind of work but uh Adrian
what do you got for us today well since uh we had the birthday of George Ellery Hale and one of the things
that he um contributed to astronomy besides a lot of the uh giant
um telescopes was also um the magnetic fields on sunspots
so I would love to be like my peers they they've been shooting sunspots lately
and they've um they've got some fantastic shots of sunspots I just decided to talk about
shooting directly at the Sun and when to do it what to do it with and
um you know how to do it safely so for those that have always been interested in
getting solar pictures um I'm actually going to stop here for a moment
and see if I can drop my background out because
I'll share some instruments that you can use to go after the sun
visually this is a uh the Coronado this is the type of
solar scope that will allow you to see ha wavelengths so prominences and um and
things like that so if you're using a white light filter
telescope maybe you've got your camera hooked to it to take pictures that's
your typical white like filter that goes in front of your um spotting scope that
you can mount to the tripod or you can take a lens you can take your
big lens which this is 100 to 400 it's an old one that telescopes and
um you put a solar filter on it and then you can
take a direct shot of the Sun so I decided to share those for those
that are interested in taking the sun when it's high in the sky
um that's when you would probably not want to shoot at any shooter to edit
at all unless you have a filter available I aimed a camera directly at
the sun I didn't do it for very long because I figured when it's high in the sky it's going to burn your Optics but
there are times when you can safely take pictures
um you do have to be careful as the astronomical League always says do not
and we repeat do not um do not take pictures do not look
directly at the sun with your eyes if you can help it do not you know use a
safe use safe eclipse glasses um solar glasses
um when taking pictures like this you do have to be careful and know when is a
good time to shoot at the sun one of those good times is when it's not in the sky and you can catch the Rays of the
Sun as it's still setting you know moving along the curvature of the Earth this is
um when the moon this is a waxing crescent that's a good time to get the sun and
the moon in the sky at the same time um or you get the moon you can sometimes
get the moon you get the sun when it's really low to the horizon I they'll sometimes be spread too far
apart so it'll be tough to get in one field of view so some of the shots that you're going
to see here me shooting at the sun when it's very low to the
horizon that's when you turn your if were you not using a filter you're turning your
aperture all the way till it's a pinhole it's like F-22 F32 for those that know
your cameras and then you're shooting at the Sun that has been the safest way that I know
this is out of a hotel shooting at the setting sun over the
mountains in Vegas um I was there for a bowling tournament 2019.
um at least I think this was the 2019 um at South Point
um caught the sun setting so you can see that's where you get those pictures with
the disc of the sun when it's low enough on the horizon that you can reduce your
cameras aperture far enough to not risk your sensor being burned
when the sun is covered by clouds um that's a good time to try and shoot
at it um at a nature preserve here I think this is actually a Metro Park and we had
a beautiful sky with the sun setting and it's behind clouds so using very narrow
apertures and I took that picture here you've got the sun blanketed by clouds
this is uh Port Crescent State Park so you can shoot at the sun when it's not
visible because the low clouds are blocking it so you use your narrow
apertures again and you get the light you can get some dramatic photos this
way if there's just enough of the disc of the sun peeking through the clouds
you can shoot at it and get this just like this you can frame it when it's just coming
up so these may not be in quite the order this is the picture that I've shown in a global star party before
where I try to frame the sun coming up you can see the reflection
um if you're creative enough you can do some things with the Sun but I would only do it rising or setting this is a
Rising Sun and during the Springs the Spring Equinox it's one of the fastest
sunrises you'll ever see this sun is here I would say maybe 30 seconds
from a go from when I took this shot about three quarters of the sun was
visible over the horizon there's a gentleman there taking a photo I'd love to say it was me but nope it was a
gentleman there and I I took advantage of his uh wanting to catch a sunrise so
I caught him the uh Lighthouse and everything um with a stop down enough aperture you
get those um Sundance sunbursts where you get these lines in the sun we all used to draw the
sun with the lines well they're real if you take the picture and you your
aperture blades create the uh those lines in the Sun
so now this is a poor but instructional
representation of a solar eclipse and the diamond phase when the sun is fully eclipsed by the
moon in a total solar eclipse it is safe to look at with the eyes but
if you're still concerned don't test your eyesight your
eyesight may not be used to it feel free to use a projection um or in this case I actually had it on
recording on an iPhone from a small five inch telescope once the diamond phase appears yeah this
is this is pretty dangerous here you you see this and you want to look away you you only want your your camera equipment
can stand it for a little bit it doesn't have the the dilation of your eyes but
this diamond phase as the eclipse ends is pretty damn it it's sunlight is
coming back in and there's there's enough bright sunlight in the sun to begin damaging your eyes your peoples
are wide open and if you sit there and stare at it you do risk blindness please
be careful 2024 we get to see another um total solar eclipse here in the
states I think there will be there will be a total eclipse in Antarctica I believe
um right this uh in coming up um or did it already it
didn't already passed in December I think there's a total solar eclipse right in Antarctica let me look here
yeah I think I didn't go no I I can go
to no no yeah if you go to that you know you will be cold and blind so just be
careful in any partial phase yes you have to be careful go ahead Scott it was
a December yeah so here's a this is another Sunburst
it's a creative way the sun is shining through trees or through objects you can
manage the Sun's light that's actually the sun shown as a kind of a sorry burst
as if it were just kind of a part of this bridge but just keep in mind that all of the light here still coming from
the sun it's it's still a powerful light you have to be careful you're going to play with your images here's what here's
your projection method and here's the uh Crescent as the um
Sun it casts these shadows and all the Shadows are all crescents
um that's what happens during an eclipse now sometimes you're lucky enough and
the eclipse is shrouded by clouds here's a black and white that I did of one of the many pictures I took of the recent
uh June eclipse and this was a little bit safer if not because we were lucky
enough that the sun was bright enough to shine through clouds so I could take direct shots and I didn't have to use
a the most narrow aperture still it's um it's not something I would
stare at it with your eyes even though it's coming through clouds you see it I took pictures of it
um you want to Shield your eyes you don't at any point the sun's brightness could
shine through a hole in these clouds and then it gets really bright and I don't know if I have a picture of that
um sort of this is this is another yet unreleased sun picture there you see the
sun kind of it's blocked by clouds but you can still tell it's eclipsed as it's
coming through this uh massive Cloud bank and um it makes for a very interesting picture
um none of my sensors have been burned and taking these photos but again you just have to be really careful there's
uh so where this part is washed out would not advise looking directly
through there you do take you do take chances when you're looking at any part of the sun just because that light is so
bright um here we go again with sunsets narrow apertures
you can end up with the beautiful picture and you can end up with the disc of the Sun it's low to the Horizon I would I would
only shoot when it's loaded or Horizon it I would not risk your uh your sensors
otherwise um you can melt Those sensors this is one of the riskiest shots that I took
the sun popped out from this Cloud wall you had fog and I believe this was April
um and that's a full-on Rising Sun and it's already blaring I took the shot my
camera yeah it's a beautiful shot my camera didn't die I didn't melt it but
um when showing the picture you you kind of want to look away from it because it's almost like you're looking directly
at the sun it's like you can see just how bright that is and you almost feel like you're looking at the sun I I
showed this with a photography group and they wanted me to crop out the sun because they felt like it was burning
their eyes and this is a further away image of it coming over uh Lake Erie Metro Park this
this feeds into Lake Erie and I think those are yep those are all
the images that I had um you have a question um Martin eastburn wants to know have
you ever seen two sunsets seconds before each other
over water setting the sun will sink rise and sink again
yeah I have not seen that effect I haven't uh I'm trying to think of where I have good
Western low Horizons and the one place that I know of is covered with trees if
I can get out to the west coast of the state of Michigan over Lake Michigan I'll look for that effect because it's
the last time I was out at Lake Michigan there was a big wall of clouds and the sun just disappeared behind it never did
right effect so um I think
but uh yeah so yeah I have heard of that effect that is something I will be looking for
so I'll go ahead and wonderful wonderful work thank you very much Adrian really there you go excellent excellent look at
the sun safely take pictures of the sun safely yeah you can shoot right at it
and sometimes magic will happen even with your smartphones I I did have a picture I won't look for it now uh we'll
go to our break but I did have a picture where I used my smartphone to take the
picture and it turned out to be a pretty good shot as well but you do have to be careful yeah
all right well you know definitely uh you know if you're interested in solar observing
solar uh photography and stuff certainly take um uh the astronomical leagues and
Adrian's advice on safety but there are good products out there that you can do
this with and uh when you get uh get to see uh details on the sun uh with the
right stuff it is amazing um we're going to take a five minute break and then we're going to come back
uh to uh to Argentina to Cesar bralo who I think is set up on his uh patio doing
some more astrophotography so we'll be right back
hey Adrian what an excellent photos do you take thank you
I actually had some others that I took tonight I've been messing with HDR
to kind of see if the uh dynamic range
um see my dynamic range gets a little better so I'll have to play around with it it's taking a while for the images to
upload but um you know I took when I was in holidays
about two years ago I when I bought the this camera and I want to do some
natural photos and I obviously did some Sunset photos but
they are fragmenting very very tiny and some with some clouds too because the
sun was very shiny but um also I did a sunrise I woke woke up a
very very early to to take pictures from the ocean to
the Atlantic Ocean and yeah but you know there was some
smoke in the Horizon because there was some a fire
um um a forest right forest fire yes and uh
well take the those hashes and smoke to to the East and you can see this little
theme Cloud that makes very orange sun and also like a filter natural filter
but yeah I've seen that effect before with the sun and I that's another
picture I didn't dig up as well I'm in the chat Beatrice uh you are very welcome
um I've been itching to do some landscape wide angle stuff
um as our hopefully our weather will break as the week goes on so I can get a chance to do some because we're getting
to the Dark of the Moon now so it's time to get the June Milky Way which you
catch it rising and you can you can image it as a panorama so I've been
working on it to see if I can I want to try and get an nice uh detailed image of
that um yes yes um I've seen the sun when it's filtered
it's a lucky break because then you can shoot at it um you know you can you can often shoot
at it without a filter it's uh it's still iffy as far as seeing it you
kind of blink and you're like yeah I can see it but um there's always the warning of unpole
damage that might be getting done and you feel it you feel it yeah when you're
you're trying to get focused and you you feel that radiation so it's very very
dangerous yeah so let's do it very if I
am take pictures if you if you have live view in the camera I think it will be helped but I don't
have it so yeah if you've got an older Nikon you may not have it I do have live view on the cameras I use even the old
uh 6D that I do most of my shooting um with um I I do I have a Sony A7 III that I uh
shoot with as well I usually use it for the Moon and I've got the big beast on it where I
shoot you know I generally shoot the animals with it but um yeah it's
it's something you have to be careful with because you can get magic but I
imagine if you're too careless you just burn your sensor right out you know then you lose it last year in the solar
eclipse yeah obviously I was
freaking out because I was seeing the Corona and the club's passing by but
also taking pictures with my hand in the in the yeah the telescope but I
because obviously the the moon was a a passing by through all the the Sun and I
tried to see in the little mirror the the flares of the Sun
but not directly so I did like this and
I see dull that disc with the flare sound but when I yeah the prominences
but uh when the the the sun sorry the
moon passing by and started to get more bright in uh I had to put the this the
the solar figure because my sensor will be yeah it melted down yeah I have a bad
spot in it exactly and you know when I put the uh at the second I put the the
solar filter and I still taking pictures you see the very thing
a sun surface and when you see the the picture without that filter it was very
very bright in that and also the pictures that the that picture makes you
make the view your eyes uh it hurts it's you heard in the picture yeah that was
that last one I had I my eyes are still burning from my last photo
um just because I it I captured so much of the brightness of that and I zoomed
in too I zoomed in with the I think it was a 600 millimeter um lens and I zoomed right into that
part of the Sun so it was yeah gotta be careful yes be careful
yeah well we are back uh and Cesar brolo
is with us uh so I I'm I we had a Caesar
we had a little change in our schedule because Stella Kafka could not attend
she had an emergency so that kind of messed up our our uh our schedules here but we've had a great
uh Global star party so far it's been really a lot of fun so
um so what do you have for us tonight Caesar hi it's good how are you why good we
have a wonderful night start uh cloudy on Buenos Aires but now it's very clear
uh we have uh of course that from here uh tonight I use only
uh the camera with the to that sir 300
millimeters lens uh I need to sing a f
number of a 6.3 or a to have more contracts in the
pictures and know more that uh 800 ESO Ace
the Nissan number the iso number and let
me show you if I can take a picture of
[Music] cluster but from the city
let me try I took a 10 second pictures
[Music] that second picture sorry let me try
because I I I'll share okay yeah immediately
the flowers of somebody stuff if I have in the in the center I don't know why I don't
know um [Music]
let me show the screen uh
[Music] yeah I can't leave Cesar without a
without giving the uh come on [Laughter]
they looked into your image came up when I did that yes
this is a live image yeah yes I see you developing it yes 10 10 seconds
exposure with a with the only lens in I I can't make
more than this um but it's it's something because it's
a it's a single shot and uh it is it's okay it's something
that that's good I mean oh yeah from the middle of a city like Buenos
Aires come on yeah come on yes and come on and also with the with the Moon
you know and also with the Moon yes no it's wonderful no that's a that
is a that is visually that's good visually and once you get there you're anything else you add is
just golden yes yes absolutely and um a friend
offered me uh to give me one week uh OTA
and eight inches uh carbon fiber Richie
F10 telescope and the only thing that I don't accept
yes this huge OTA to put in the ex 100 is that I don't
have income enough counterweights to put in the moment because I love to show
especially to sharing Howell
many many times uh with a huge uh
OTA all over over uh size for uh for this month but
um it's it's great that many many times I use the uh sorry that I share
it's not so so um fun the the picture to show 10
minutes I don't have colors and um and yes I'm I'm starting using uh
another telescope but the only thing that that I need to
to put is is a guider system um actually we are waiting for
for your company it's got um the
Microsoft of five inches to to
make together this is very nice telescope because it's a F-15
yeah them uh five inches maximum classic rain
um I'm receiving for another company a small guiding tubes because you know
um 1900 uh millimeters is a it's a huge uh
focal length for for uh without guiding after photography is it great it's a
great uh conclusion of OTA and mount with the ex-200
um today that that we are in the military of hail it's it's great to talk a little about
Optics and telescopes and something that that when we have the the
right size for any Mount and
the the diameter of the of the mirror for professional monitors astronomers
um for many people another people knows or or uh understood
understand the the so important is that to know which sides of telescope you
need in your neighborhood in your Sky um and a whole today with the the the gray
uh technology that we have any time more
affordable to us to make a small uh Observatory from our backyard our our
balcony every time is is really really more uh more affordable more real
um these uh things that we change or we put a computer in the outside in Winter
and we can start to make uh a remote completely remote operation anytime we
more easy and cheaper tools to have a this this opportunities when
we thought when we think sorry and this gray gray Heroes of astronomy making
with a um in the in the air in the early uh
20th century or or end of the 19th century
um this huge uh surface of optic surface
um when you when we think in a guy in middle of the night in the top of the
mountain uh in the in the focus especially in the hail where the
operator going to to work with the plates in the in the focus inside a
place in a in the big telescope it's
they made they was there was Heroes uh
uh because uh all that we know and visual astronomy
and especially in astrophotography they may
professionally of course in especially hail the idea is how to make how to make
a big surface polishing making how the glass work because when when they start
to make the the so modern thinking about engineering
especially hail we start to think how to
make big surface mirror but without
against a problem of flexibility or foreign
1920 1940 and you say okay they make insurance that make airplanes too but
when you work with a 100
thousands part of millimeters sorry that I I don't have
the idea in inches but you know that that many many so so small
uh people the levels of
needing of of uh Precision yes really
really they thought so so that that mirror that mirror Matt Wilson the
hunter dance that you're talking about Wade I don't I don't have any kilograms
certain pounds it was 9 000 pounds okay
9 000 pounds and so you have all the tolerance of those Optics because glass
bends right absolutely absolutely and it's when when we think in it's amazing
that they they fight it with this the elements of
70 years ago or maybe more and against
the problems of of flexibility or you know a lot of things where you don't
need to today you have a maybe you know in the in the cell of a big telescope do
you have a sensors and computers that that make the flexibility change the the
change the the the the waveform form uh
from the mirror because you make a lot of different things when the the telescope won't say but they were the
third especially hail was the first thing about about how to to work with
materials uh maintain uh the Precision of of uh
the egg part of uh of a long uh
long uh way the light we are
talking about a few really small small
level of size to to to figure that in a real a position that is uh impossible to
imagine in a thing in a daily things that we we
talk in a glasses or offensive the Precision that need
a mirror is is incredible
three yes yeah I mean you can literally just press
your hand up against a mirror and change it's it's in a waveform uh so supporting
it properly was uh was something that uh had to be worked out you know that
hundred inch mirror at Mount Wilson is still the world's largest full thickness mirror okay for a
telescope uh so uh since that time they've been hollowed out in the back
you know honeycomb to reduce yeah yes for example they was very very
they thought that people from the future in this time
yeah made an engineer and generally in travel engineering for this video it's right
that is that's true thank you thank you for invite me again it's a pleasure
really always everything yes every time I I'll be a little early
yes
hello yeah hello everybody yeah yeah but well
it's a pleasure to share with with the with the team thank you thanks for being
here thank you yeah have a good night Cesar thank you thank you thank you bye-bye
well that's great um at this point uh we have uh Cameron
Gillis and Becca hautela uh coming on which one of you would like to go first
think Cameron could do that you think so I'm prepping up mine
I have to make everything make sense right
there's no sense yeah if camera may be setting up I don't know
Cameron you're with us hey guys yeah no I'm here just a minute I was just uh
this watering uh watering the plants here okay after the Heatwave
his wife posted a image that they were at 50 Celsius up there in Canada I mean
that's oh yeah really yeah it is uh almost dangerous yeah uh here here 44
now I know I am outside it's not so no soul
yeah but for Buenos Aires is it called yes to be outside is too
much cold yeah okay goodbye everyone
Take Care thank you thank you
okay all right get set up here
all right okay now uh
I'm fine thanks
so basically yeah while I'm getting set up here I'm just uh give you an update I've made a
lot of um progress over the last couple of weeks here actually in
particular we've had this heat wave but uh but uh surprisingly um
uh we we actually have had some fantastic uh weather as well as part of that here in Seattle so I've been um
even though we have uh you know we're not like taka Pekka I think you have uh you still have Twilight right even at
midnight you're pretty far north right we have money
I think uh maybe from 2 A.M to
1 30 a.m until 30 a.m and the Sun is
picking to rise at uh around 3 A.M that's early
yeah it's that thing about the
33 P.M around so we we don't have any quite Darkness
we have a Darkness for our hour but no astronomical rock this yet
hmm that will come late September September times
so this is this is the time up north when
um or we have passed already I don't know but when sun never sets
I have seen it one once uh when the Sun goes to the Horizon and then swings up
again never never down below this Horizon
it's kind of our experience yeah yeah I think so you can you can think that okay
soon it's going down but it's coming up [Laughter]
some amazing uh stuff so I'm I'm
uh like charge it up to my nose yeah
you know I okay I have a friend that went to Tierra del Fuego is the most
austral song in the country very in the south south and uh
the sun is the sun rise was about uh 10
A.M and the sun set was almost 4 P.M
you don't have too many lifetime yeah
and we have in Sweden we have Orange County and up north it's usually that the the
Lord period comes then some never Rises
totally Darkness and it's good for lateral photography so yeah yes yes
yeah okay so I'm ready to I'm going to give you kind of off the cuff uh uh you know
update on Camp astronomy um I guess uh a couple of things I I
this last weekend I really uh kind of got myself organized I'm going to repeat
some of this and tomorrow's uh session as well uh but basically um you know one
of the things that I'm doing is I am taking a lot of photographs kind
of as part of my survey with both a smartphone and with the um with my uh new ASI uh
air imager astral imager so if I go to my let me just share my screen here
so just to remind everyone my setup oh sorry uh what I've done is I've set it up so
that I can uh in my I can have it set up just like what Caesar was talking about I'm gonna
I have it set up outside and then over my my home network I can actually access
my phone my smartphone and control it and take images and then I can remotely
control my uh my scope and I literally can do my survey and I have a PowerPoint
of of the images I want to take for the for the day and I for example I'll choose
I'll list them all off the objects and then I'll start to take Sky Safari
um picture so for example let's uh recently I was in opiocus we were continuing our Sky survey from Libra
and I started listing up all the objects and what I do is I do a quick survey with my smartphone
and I go through and I take images pretty quickly they're only 10 second
exposures and basically do object by object and I record them and that that
way you can get a a good initial kind of preview of all the objects and I do my
image plate stopping and then I put it all in Powerpoint and uh and then
and then I follow on uh as a follow-up depending on some of the objects for
example planetary nebula do really well with a smartphone um but other objects extended objects
like nebulae um they they tend to do better with the uh with the Imaging
system here and um so what I do is I follow on with
that and I have a a light pollution filter and a UHC Optimum uh light pollution filter
and that allows me to really uh eek out that uh that nebulosity for extended
objects and then I follow through uh with the survey and those ones I do uh
since I'm using the ASI Air Pro I I have it as a auto stack I've taken
some darks 10 second darks and also I pick in some some bias frames at different temperatures uh we got pretty
hot so there was quite a bit of noise um over the last couple of days but
um like the temperature sensor on the as on the camera I was telling me it was
around 40 degrees on the camera sensor so 40 degrees celsius so that's pretty hot
um uh it's an uncooled camera so that's one of the things however
um I basically am able to do that and I do a stocking and I just what I do is as
it takes the stacks live I literally take a screenshot I don't actually save
all the tips and do all the post versus thing I'm all about uh the sky survey
first so collect all the data get as many uh objects methodically and
organize as I can capture them put them in PowerPoint so that we they're in a
catalog so to speak and so for example uh I I have this master
PowerPoint that I've created Now by constellation and it has all the different objects Hercules Lyra uh you
know see if it's not quite uh optimized some some constellations or further organized than others
um you know for example uh Molly earlier today had the uh the crescent below so I
these are my early pictures of the Crescent nebula not very good but you know I'm just I'm just kind of doing it
and I'm gonna go through and I'm just trying to as I'm going through this process I'm improving my capabilities
and um and at the same time logging my observations
uh in in multiple passes first I did it of course if you recall uh I did
everything visually so I've I've done almost 3 000 observations over the last year uh visually and then I followed on
and I categorized at as um I'm jumping around a bit here but let me get back
here uh I I went I followed along and I categorized out of those three thousand
seven hundred and seventy seven object that I call best and brightest and those are the lists that I'm actually
crunching through right now with the um with the sky survey in terms of first
smartphone and then following on with the Astro Imaging camera and uh the nice part about that is it gives you
different views it helps improve the observations and what you're looking at and you also uh as I improve the
techniques um I will start to select objects or regions of the sky
um which uh which will be better suited for example for a wide Shield uh refractor image or a or or a higher
focal length eyepiece or whatever it happens to be whichever combination sometimes it's better to take picture
with a smartphone over the because it has a smaller CCD image scale uh
sometimes it's better to take better with extended objects with the CMOS sensor the ASI air dedicated astrophobe
and some things are just better to see with your eye like one of the thing I I I was experimenting with
um which is a really tough object to uh to image is uh is double stars
um with an imager it's extremely hard um and and I I was able to
um uh this is uh Lyra you know what I did is I took a live video
not a video of I was watching the screen I literally took a snapshot of my screen
um as it was as it was scintillating and you can see the parrot of of the Lyra
double double but it's not very good and of course it's very susceptible to seeing conditions so uh but but it's
impossible to take with a with an uh Aster Imaging camera unless you have a super high aperture
um or long focal length uh scope you go have to go super long focaling so you can get that separation between the the
Stars uh so anyhow I'm learning a lot of different things and um and I put all
this stuff into uh to get organized and you start calculating okay how much time
does it take to take the picture you know process it all that uh and then
catalog it and I think I got it down to a pretty good
case where where I can not go crazy and I can and I can really enjoy kind of
revisiting it three times first observation second with smartphone actually third time with with Astro
Imaging and again processing the images um I'm not spending so much time
uh actually processing uh for example uh like here what I'll do is I'll take a
screenshot I'll paste it in here it's all compressed I don't download the tips I don't use pixel site I mean that's
that will be later uh and once I've selected uh I've done my survey as I go
through I'm going to find certain objects that I want to do that much more extended uh picture taking uh instead of
diving deep into that right now I'm kind of doing broad brushes and I'm deepening
as I go so uh basically um uh again I'm jumping around here but
I do want to share uh I'm gonna I'll be more organized in tomorrow's astronomy Camp astronomy show but I want to share
it with two tunic new things um one is I go back to
not this one with this one yeah so I recently got you know you know how
every time you get a new um uh you get a new uh piece of gear uh it's gonna rain well haha I broke the
curse uh I I actually got myself this m42 to M48 adapter it was a very small
piece of gear remind you but it was the last piece that I needed to complete my image train to get the right focal
distance and now I got it to the 50 millimeter actually 55 if you include inside the CCD uh between the t-ring
adapter and the filter drawer and these two extensions that gets me to
um to The Sweet Spot and I'm going to image that first time tonight it's in in the next hour I'm going to try this and
they should give me Optimum um uh performance I I have all the
images I've taken up to this point of being sub-optimal uh they've been uh lower uh it hasn't had these spacers and
so it's a little bit uh you know not quite uh very good quality but it's it's
decent um and it helped me with technique and kind of practice with the gear and get my workflow
optimized one of the things I discovered uh one of the frustrations I had with my
wireless setup to be able to control an image remotely in my in my inside is
that every hour I would say which is really bad uh the um the evolution
and Sky Safari would lose connection and it was I basically attributed it to
uh interference and there uh I think I've solved it this is to be continued
but the way I solved it because last night I did a good three hours of session and No Interruption so I was
very happy um the way I saw this is you see this USB 3 cable I the cable that comes along
with the uh the ASI IR Pro and and sorry the zwo camera
295 4 is a really thin unshielded cable and that we that runs right by the Wi-Fi
arm of the uh Evolution Mount and I did some research and uh looks like USB 3
and and Wi-Fi don't play together really nice so uh it was causing some issues
the mount would go off in in half and sometimes it would just lose connection so putting this uh shielded
cable seemed to solve the problem I'll keep everyone posted but basically this
is a good lesson learned for anyone who is working with the uh the equipment um to set this up for yourselves uh use
shielded cable um that will help uh with your Wi-Fi setup
um and so again I'm doing a lot of diplines but I do want to end my session
by sharing a couple of the best pictures that I got lately uh there's some more
to come but let me just go is this the right one no this is not the one let me go to the
go to uh this one all pictures yeah it is the one okay so
the first one is uh yeah here we go
this is the Ring Nebula and uh I just want to highlight
um that there's a Galaxy this is a 15th magnitude Galaxy up here and then over here is a 17th magnitude
Galaxy these are the challenge galaxies and I was so thrilled to be able to capture this is only with 30 minute 30
second Stacks uh but you can see a pretty good resolution on the ring and nebula itself but being able to eke out
these galaxies really make me excited so uh so that is that's the that's will get
better of course if I do more processing that but this is just with taking the livestock doing a screenshot and then uh
and then capturing it so that that's one um another one
I already showed you the crest nebula um so here here's the Crescent nebula
again 30 second stacked um
let me go here I showed last week the uh oh yeah I
really like this this drilled me the um the uh
of course uh the dumbbell nebula really very happy with the way this turned out and you can start to see the extensions
out here um and
ah here we go I've always wanted to get the Pillars of Creation
so um you know like a crude shot to be sure but I you could it's very difficult
to see these visually and I this is the first time I've actually been able to see it with my own gear and and this is
what I am really want to Foster here what I'm trying to do the purpose is not
only for myself but for everyone to be able to do this yourself and be able to discover to these these objects and and
capture these yourself it was just a wonderful wonderful rewarding experience and and sharing that so
um so the pillars of information you can see it and here's the Hubble and it's just for reference and this is the fun
this is the fun part is because you start recognizing features you know like
like for example this brightening uh here is very clear this dark section
even this little dark nebulizer here by the star is right here you can start to see all and you
can recognize the star when you do the visual plate solve for example if we take
maybe I did it wrong sorry these two stars are these two stars right here now obviously with the Hubble image you have
really awesome uh uh you know no atmosphere so you don't have these blobs but look at this little dark spot here
that's that dark spot right there for example and just to be able to do that is is really thrilling with this crude
uh setup that I have a lot of noise and everything but you get the basic uh structure and you can pick out this
detail which is really fun so that was really fun uh and of course it will be better and
this is the thing I'm just doing the survey so to speak uh and then that will
start to become a hit list so to speak for um to be able to take even better
pictures uh with the longer exposures I don't have an equilateral I'm just
working with altaz so I'm pretty much limited to 32nd uh exposures stacked and
even then uh sometimes if it's a certain point in the sky where it's jogging and it's doing the the corrections uh you'll
you'll see the little jogs and you have to you have to restart the stock and and start over again and he's kind of like
lucky Imaging so to speak or unlucky uh you you can pick out the uh the good stocks and then before it starts to do
the alt as adjustments but equatorial yeah I'm when I get that I'll be able to
go to you know two minute three minute stacks and and it will be even more uh more enjoyable
um and then uh what else uh there's another one I want to show you
oh yeah and then yeah let's go to these guys uh Swan nebula
I I this is a beautiful object anyone visually as well I mean this is one of those objects that has such high surface
brightness that yeah even in the low in the sky yeah I highly recommend anyone with any scope even a smaller refractor
or a or a or a Mac um you know like a five inch Mark or whatever it's gonna
it's beautiful you see this texture very clearly if you're in a decent Skies uh
you can see it it's a really nice one so that was fun but you can see the nebula City that's surrounding it with this
lawn uh with the UHC filter it brings it out even with a 30 second stack
um here's the trifid nebula I know uh I think Maxi was taking the picture and
this is not nearly as good as his is going to be but I was just being it was
nice to be able to see the um uh the three different types of nebulosity the dark the emission and the reflection uh
you know HC filter to see to do a view with the
eyepiece and the filter is very good to see the nebulosity uh it's very dark and
will it will give you a high contrast to yes if you have a light pollution it
goes out you see that that dark clouds and that's amazing okay sorry yeah to be
able to see that you're right on actually it's very this is the other thing part of this taxi and everyone is
uh when you take this image it's kind of to me this is an iterative process and an ongoing Journey where you're going
between visual Imaging and and you improve your skills on finding uh new
details and you're you you'll know what you're looking for you can start to eat get out and you can go back to the
eyepiece and it's it's really uh it's nice to be able to kind of go back and that's what I've done I've noticed even
with my new imager I I was like yeah I want to use my smartphone now because the smartphone brings out different
details and it it provides different capabilities so it's just a toolbox so
that you start to use all your different year in different ways and up get the
optimum and you say okay if I'm going to look at double Stars I need this if I want to look at you know these and I you
can do your your scanning uh based on that and makes it really enjoyable the
one thing of course is it's difficult to do that if you if you have one rig you can't just switch it out and you don't
you want to have a relaxing time and enjoyable time kind of immersing yourself in one type of one style of
observing or recording that you're doing in the night so you you you you figure that out and you say okay this is what
I'm going to do and uh it's uh it makes it really nice that's
it's very difficult it is it is it's very it's hard discipline and I've I've
I'm I'm finding that right now I'm actually there's just so many ways that we can go every night and uh and then I
just like okay I'm going to do a smartphone tonight and
um so and then so yeah here's a better picture of the Lagoon uh I did a I improved it from last time so you just
see more of the Velocity um so that turned out pretty good and then uh I think
there might be one more let me just see here yeah I think I think that's good and
I've showed some of the others it's M51 and there's a bunch of other good stuff we'll save that for another time but
basically um the main thing I wanted to share is is just kind of the Sausage Factory where I'm at and it will get
better and better and so now all this is going to feed into uh the camp astronomy and the global star party uh session so
I'll continue to give updates and uh ultimately when this is as we go through
this journey we're going to have by constellation you'll have a list of
objects and what they look like in different types of equipment and uh and
and and different size of Stokes so you can say okay if I'm enlighted sky and I
have an 80 millimeter refractor these are the things that I I should you know that it would be nice to look at any
kind of set expectations so I hope that was uh yeah helpful and I think I kind
of rambled so I'm gonna I'm gonna stop take a breath oh that's good uh you know
the some comments here um uh let's see
uh Harold Locke he says I'm basically following you uh Cameron AS budget
allows I really owe you for saving me time and money um and uh Jeff wise is saying I am so
slowly becoming a cam astronomer so nice compliment so it's great it's great
well you know any given night like you say there's lots of things and one of the things is just trying to get
yourself to say okay uh kind of necessity is the mother of innovation like when when we had this covid
situation and and of course equipment uh not coming very quickly new equipment uh
you kind of become very resourceful for what you have right and then and then you say you know what I am I have
actually really good stuff and and you start to kind of maximize what what what
you have and then you really know and you get to enjoy it and as the new equipment time is in you can really you
know uh start to enjoy and then you start to say okay this is the next thing because uh it you know you can dive in
you can buy all the top end gear right away but it gets a little bit overwhelming
um and and it's you know so I recommend for anyone out there just you know dabble and enjoy with what you have and
and and and start to you know add things incrementally and uh and then you'll
really appreciate when you do get that new equipment and you're ready for it uh you're gonna get the most out of it
yeah agreed agreed and the most important enjoy the passing by to learn everything
yeah yeah in the experience enjoy that fails and everything that's the reason
that why we we are right here a all of us
have a start that oh we see the stars we
take some pictures we very oh oh so so pictures but that's
going to get stronger and stronger to continue
to get more professional and to get more a very good sorry
I have oh I have some water have some water
he's choking up it's so emotional so no yes yeah well it's very emotional no
this is culture this biscuits oh those things
one of those things down the wrong way and you're in trouble yes so wait what I always say and
the the importance of this is to enjoy the the moment and Cameron
congratulations for the Eagle Nebula The Pillars of Creation exact excellent
picture and I remember my first time that I took that picture because
I in every TV document study a and in
the books I saw that
what is this and that nebula and also the horse has always reminded my brother
that he he loves that
that objects and when I took those pictures oh
geez I can't believe it yeah
that's what's so fun because it's so more so so much more right Maxi I mean
the it's so accessible now for for people they they can actually do this themselves for moderate amount but you
want it you want to do it in um in increments where what I mean by that is use your smartphone get familiar with it
because all the things that you learn um along the way is going to really make
that much more enjoyment when you when you do it yourself it's like wow you know it's like really cool and you know
I I see the work that some of the the team makes here like you know what Molly is taking and you know and uh and others
uh the the just incredible pictures your picture of course Maxi just astounding is fantastic but it doesn't happen
overnight right I mean it's uh it takes a lot of and
learn to process learn to start learn everything and I'm still learning I'm a
very newbie in this hobby but um
I always want to help everyone who wants to start and that's uh and
maybe uh some people say oh try to to buy this camera this scope this but no
not much people can do it and uh
some people oh just a single start with the the professional gear and that's
amazing and uh and of course I congratulate for that but uh you can't
find the little spark that keeps you continuing I think
that the other thing actually I think I think one thing we can all say here especially uh veterans like Scott and
and Pekka and then you know we who've been down the long pass you know
uh has seen how technology has changed
in your pocket the cell phone that you have you can do astronomy with that
um well not only that Maxi is that what we're sharing here we're actually helping the Next Generation to make
their so they don't have to go through those trials and tribulations the way we did to the extent where it becomes
frustrating right I mean we we beat that frustration ourselves and we we overcame that and it was like no problem uh you
know that's part of part of the whole experience but but I think uh you can you can broaden and a lot more people
can can can get through those barriers much easier now because of the what we what
capabilities we have and the knowledge that this this forum has uh we we can really make it uh enjoyable for a
broader broader audience excellent excellent thanks I'm gonna
have to go watering my plants again and then get my telescope set up more imaging yeah so I'll I'm yeah
thanks but I'll be I'll be I'll be following along so just bear with me
thanks thank you well Pekka hello Scott hello hey hello
hello how are you I'm chest good
I have a have a fantastic day yesterday oh yeah today
for you today yes yes well you have the attitude I
think Pekka you wake up in the morning uh uh you know
just amazed at life I I believe yeah yeah yeah I I yeah went to sleep
and when I went to sleep I think very fast to run down what happened and
take that with me into the sleep and when I wake up I just wonder what
uh kind of experiences and surprises this wonderful
day we'll bring with you we did yeah and I take it purple when they comes
so what I have thought now a couple of days what should I talk about and so on
and this without what I talk in white parsec thank you for that thanks Patrick
okay you should rename it for last squeeze of everybody I will squeeze it
it's an awesome name
[Music] and I think I don't know but I will try
to explain that how I make astronomy such a huge uh relief of
everything because I think I saw
the night sky like a big movie screen in the movie theaters 2D
but uh why then we feel like we feel when we
are going into the planetarium it's like wow unbelievable
but we have it live when we step outside our door and go outside we have stars nebulous galaxies
around us they are on the both sides they are on our back side
so we have to uh or me I do sit down for
five minutes before doing visual or Imaging uh just get that feeling inside
me that was space is surrounding me they are not just in the front of me so
I I will I I want to start with that putting me in the center
that I'm the object in the center and they are like watching me instead not I
of them so I I got the feeling that I am I am a part of them and when I then
begin to Imaging or doing visual
these totally different uh feeling inside you you you are connected
differently yes then looking to the screen which I did before I I just okay there
they are right no I could somehow outside and not part of you right so yeah yeah exactly right today I um okay
here I am for them so uh so I began to
be exposed like in a different way and of the gears I would like to say
that we should be so grateful and and happy what we have because there are a
lot of people don't have anything and they like customer me so much and they
do it with they bear eyes and they enjoy
if not more but equal to us so yes we should be very grateful and
thankful for what we have and use them to the Limit
yes um I'm glad you uh in fact I'm glad you do
you uh tried to describe your um feelings and in um in how you tried
to integrate your relationship with uh with with with the universe through
astronomy through this also just taking that moment to you know that five-minute meditation that you do yes uh to kind of
take it all in and stuff you know I I do that uh I experience that
um almost any time I look up at the sky you know I remind myself that that there
the stars are not really separate from me but uh atomically where it's all
exactly the energies
the last uh some eclipse who
made that I see Moon a little bit different today than I did
before because if it came uh
a moon 3D moon for me because
the Eclipse does those something
to the people oh yeah absolutely because if you didn't it changes it changes
their lives yes yes first time you see it and it's a perspective anything like
that they don't even know that's it's hard for them to articulate what happened you know yeah and get words to
it yeah and they are afraid to describe the feeling because they are thinking out
okay on the other side those who you are telling they think you are about being
do you have got to get crazy yeah so not only crazy but you're not
crazy but you are not feeling something about yourself that is kind of possible
to them personal maybe a little vulnerable yeah exactly it's not your
normal conversation that you have yeah yeah right yeah yeah and uh and um
okay I I think after me saved my life literally
for one year ago because it gives me something that I am a part of something
huge yeah and not just I share with them they are a
part of me yeah it's because
so talk to somebody to relate that we are connected yes in in literally we
are connected because when you are looking to this was space
you have to have an attitude that not always scientific attitude
that you are collecting data hmm you have to be and you if you enjoy it
for the full uh you have to speak down you have you are you can't think about
bills or about word problem and so on take the time
to get the what they can deliver for you right
because they they will if you allow them to do that
you know I like when a a somebody
talks about some constellations some deep Sky object that I see from here
that I see different because I'm resolved but I've seen the same object
from here that you have seen the same object in the other side of the world and that's amazing how
the sky connect us and what surround us and when what what
would you say recently and I did I did it when I
comments to to to put my equipment outside but I I did it with the plan the
planets because in the afternoon uh I see in the in the west that shiny ball
like it's Venus and you you you see okay what the sun goes down
and and you start to to see the the neighborhood of the solar system
in a very tiny way but uh and
makes feel tiny it makes me but gives
you where you are what you are and obviously uh
give thanks to the to to [Music] understand that because the animals I
think I don't think they can do it but it's uh it's very deep
thought to to every one of us and also when you see obviously the Milky Way
when you see a solar eclipse when you see a lunar eclipse and
it's very um I don't know how to say it but
um no I I don't have the word sorry but it's very crazy it's hallucinate
and there are more adjectives to describe it but uh
it doesn't enough to do it yeah yeah I'm gonna share something here I think you
both will like um this is from a PowerPoint presentation I do called the power
stargazing and uh one of the things that I I
and cap you know here was Vincent van Gogh you know he did the beautiful
Starry Starry Night painting and uh many of his paintings have stars in them uh
but he says when I have a terrible uh need of of uh
huh of uh shall I say the word religion then
I go out and paint the Stars now you know Vincent communicated
through his paintings you know so even to to start to touch on verbally you
know what he was experiencing um it's uh it's not uncommon for people
to not be able to articulate the the feelings that they have but I think
um maybe maybe I'm wrong you guys can correct me but I think that uh when we
are out um doing um we're sharing our telescopes with
other people and they see Saturn's rings for the first time or the creators are on the moon for the first
time or something and they have a reasonably knowledgeable guide that's
there you know who can tell them something about the distances and and um
the sizes of things you know um I notice people
go through this phase of feeling like they are very tiny it's almost like insignificant so
they're becoming humbled they're they're going through this humbling aspect oh my God I'm not you
know I'm not the king of my you know whatever ego right the ego goes like
that and then you'll hear them say that they feel so insignificant you know I
remind people at that point I go yes I physically we are so we're almost not
there but your mind is as vast of the as the
universe you can comprehend yeah you know good
I I always it's like that case because in the South we have Alpha Centauri uh
simply you can see it and and when people doesn't understand the
distance between the the the the the the planets and the moon I compares the
light that comes from the sun it takes eight minutes but this star or to start
of course uh it takes four years to come here yeah so
first one that's when I do the distance the the the the the velocity of the
light um when I started to multiplicate with
seconds minutes hours the numbers goes very far and then then
they realize what we are what in when um yeah where
we are yes we are nothing yes yes simple in a simple Rock and karasai and says
pale that blue do that that's right with those amazing words uh
he described everything and when I see that the first time well it's very
shocking yeah hum humility and the uh there's
something freeing though when you when you when you come to that realization that we are just Observers
you know a much grander universe and and there's so much to discover and we're just scratching the
surface and it's but it's it you know when it's so overwhelming you you kind of take a step back and say you know
what this is uh this is our place in the universe and uh let's enjoy
you know let's let's try to learn whatever we can yeah yeah I I I just was thinking about
the huge space and living in the city with the doctor rates guys and so on
and uh and then it was like a lightning in my head my God I haven't seen Horizon
in five six years oh yeah
Horizon so simple thing so I just love to see Horizon
that's enough to get me happy and like velvet of office
that's true because these 15 years I have seen my room and my balcony
oh and some Stars but the you know the basically in life Horizon is very
important to us to divide Earth from space yes to get realized that there are
some solid and there are something that you can't take on
and we have so the need to get on that we can't touch but we can touch it with
our mind and our you know the soft thing
yeah and we have a huge totally free planetarium around us that
it's like the largest ever so we don't have to buy but it's it's a
very very I have been in one one time I've been in our planetarium we have it
here in Stockholm but I didn't see the space it was a blue planet two I saw
and it's experience it's a great experience too we only visit the
planetarium and if you see a space program
I can't think about that it's kind of must be a heavy thing a nice experience
but the next time you go out guys think about that that is really a planetary
review of standing in in the middle of that so you have stars Living Planetarium
yeah ah okay yes Carl Sagan uh said in one of his uh
programs he says we are our way for the universe to know itself yeah some part of our being knows this
is where we came from yeah and we can do this because Cosmos is also within us
yeah we're made of our stuff yeah yeah that's those so why wouldn't why
wouldn't we have these kinds of feelings you know when they're triggered by these kinds of things you know their senses
and and uh and what we can make you know uh intelligent uh leaps and
understanding yeah um that our world doesn't stop at the end of our at the beginning of our skin
right some some people have those filters that don't pause to them to have astronomy
phosphate they have us block feed their inside just have to remove it it's gonna peel
it off yes that's right yes because that's right and that's what astronomy Outreach is
all about yes because people who are mildly curious would come up to your telescope and yeah
yeah I will stuff is such an extension for you because I thought if somebody
just take away everything from me my stuff my telescope some miles yeah
will that change my love to space or astronaut no of course not Nada yeah so
they are just a great treatment for me to reach longer and deeper yeah
that's right so so uh it's a different kind of love I do love my stuff more
than I take care of them more than I take care of me
he also in the astronomy world you also have to take very good care of the
astronomer in its entire environment because yes yeah that's those are also a very important accessories for those
dolls yeah so because every fire yeah it's and it's uh it's a the whole
package that makes that's right because the nature we have to take up care of
light pollution I saw an post yesterday about from a police department here in
Sweden and they they will become a new law about their noisy cars that they you
know young people have very loud music yes
that the police can ticket them on the place and I wrote a like a replay that
post it was well how long as you can think about when it will be a ticket
when you are light pollution polluted right areas right so it should be the same
because it's some it's disturbing people uh like a music absolutely and also the
animals the birds but animals have no word to say they are
not allowed to say what they think because it's a disturbing their life like police
insects and birds and they are navigating with the night sky those who
are moving across countries they are navigating they do stuffs they are navigating by
roads and rivers and and so on and if they are so it's making things just more
crazy and crazy soon we have pigs who flies and uh and birds who is
talking right it's going to be crazy we have to to be
a causing this now we have to take our
responsibility yes we have to clean up our mess yes because we have an upcoming
generation and we can we cannot just lift yes a bunch of for them
I remember uh in my 30s we were talking about um how uh I was with the group and I was
talking to some of these people and I said you know um what they were older than I were and
they were nearing retirement age and I said so uh you know you guys you know
the older generation would be great to help Inspire younger people on on you
know some Solutions on how to do this you've you've you know gone through all this and uh one of the saddest
um uh responses I got was as well you know we had our problems When We Were
Young yeah and um and now we're we're nearing the end of our lives and so
they'll have to have their own problems and deal with it you know not like we can help them okay yeah exactly exactly
uh and I can't we have to help them at least
to that we got from our uh from our parents at least
I agree I agree so uh I think no matter
who we are or age we are or ability that we are if we're able to assist a little
bit more to towards um something that is uh more harmonious in the world that's
what we should be doing you know yeah humans aren't going to give up their cities and they're not going to give up
their technology no no no we could have better technology we could yeah that's
probably where we're going so yeah but uh yeah
um I did want to read this comment from Harold Locke he says I belong to a Facebook group uh that Pekka invited me
to as an Ida advocate in Sweden uh he gave about about 10 paragraphs or more
that was one of the best statements explaining the effects of light pollution of course it has to be
translated to English uh for me but the translation was beautiful
okay thank you Harold yeah that's right
um book Davies you were back so you were saying you didn't have the words you said no none of us here have the words
so um and book Davies goes on that's why I say
to the small feeling experiencing the small feeling when you experience the
universe that we can begin to understand the universe and that's not so small
no um uh Harold lock
with some religious tones here he says I actually prayed to the Creator a uh a
conscious Universe the holy spirit that which is the life force can you tell I
was raised Catholic yes we can but that's okay Harold you know
everybody's tradition is good um
let's see
I stuck uh some pictures here okay Harold lock says if we ever see you show
up with a black eye and lumps on your head Becca we will know your wife disagrees
[Laughter]
yeah a few months ago I had I had interviewed
Chris Impe who's uh uh cosmologist and uh professor of astronomy
at the University of Arizona and Chris went to
um he went to Tibet and met with monks there I think
it was in Tibet and he wrote a book called humble before the void and I think that that just the title of that
book uh really gives you um is a very accurate feeling you know
when you look up and you see the Milky Way um you know and you realize that wow
you're flying on this little planet going to a new part of space that we've
never been to before all the time yeah all the time yeah and
we are we're made of the whole stuff of the universe and it's part of us and we're part of it and so I I get that
stuff too but some often I have to be reminded you know I have to be reminded it it helps to be out under the stars it
helps to sometimes read something or uh have conversations like this it really
does I think people it's impossible to do but if people knew
that in what speed just Earth moving
around in space if we could have a a point we could just
see for a just a production of the second that that thing is still and we're able
to yeah right they give you okay but okay
Earth moves so fast and I am on it and we are traveling
across the whole universe yes just around the sun and the Sun is going
Milky Way is flying through space it's not just sitting here snowing it's flying you know
then Milky Way and then you stay there and you stay there no no no
no no no no no no no but it's it's not because
in cities Maybe the beingness is just Crumpet in the in
the Box me time of course if you are living in a
big city for your whole life you never saw maybe how many in the big cities
have never seen Horizon uh I mean bet there's a lot yeah
so just to see Horizon if there is land or sea
divided earth divided with space that tiny line
could make change of their lifetime yes that's right
and so you have just have to be uh aware yeah
yes yes we have to dig up in our mind deeper and deeper and just looking what
is there that could make me happy right and there is a lot
but we are denied from ourselves ah what horizontal such line so what but they
when they are active at the spot and they see it they realized what yes
what do you think of all this well if I may contribute something I was
reading um one of David Levy's books recently actually his guide to observing comets
yeah and he has this interesting bit in the the concluding chapter where he says
um he was talking about some Comet Observer who was quoted with saying look if you're going out every night and
you're scanning the sky and your only goal in this particular aspect of the hobby is to find a comet then you're
going to have a miserable time you'll enjoy none of it and maybe followed up with his own suggestion he said
um when I'm going out under the night sky and uh he usually does this early in the morning when he's scanning the sky
for his comments usually around the sun he says I treat it like I'm I'm a member of the audience in a play because when
you go to attend a play or you're watching a movie or something like that it's the actors the director the script
uh the setting the stage they decide what you're going to see and your your world is simply to be entertained and to
observe and he said that's a great attitude towards observing the night sky you just go out and you appreciate
what's there and um whatever happens before you I know I've experienced that you might get a
meteor shower you might get into Cliffs you might get a regular clear night in the Summer with the Milky Way high in the sky but regardless it's all a
wonderful experience yeah um wonderful
well very interesting conversation very deep conversation oh yeah it could
get much deeper I think you know I I know that uh when I
when I have groups of people out for their first maybe more or less serious
star party and again they're beginners I know the moment that they become astronomers because you know they they
will start to ask these questions the conversation gets deep uh you know and
uh they're trying to figure out some things that are that they know are very important you know uh it's not something
that can keep at arm's length anymore they are they're engaged it's amazing if
they ask everything every time you have to ask every time if
you don't ask it means you don't mind yeah yeah yeah they said like I like
read a lot of books about how to teach children and
to educate kids or nature it's a little
bit hard and tough but if you uh make them think by themselves
and the first time they are beginning to question make questions about the topic
they have get it they have understand that because when they are asking
questions they are interested about animals or or what uh
yes yes and it's quite interesting to see
what questions they have they have so fundamental questions about astronomy
and space so sometimes it's like how okay and you have to find the words to
explain yes but so easy way that you began to release understand
that okay have I understand this correctly there you go there you go yeah
yeah so I often tell the story Pekka but I got a chance to meet
um uh or and see I met and saw Stephen Hawking uh give you know at a lecture uh
at Caltech and um there's this I I guess in all of
his lectures he would take questions from the uh from the students okay and the physics students and so they would
prepare you know it's all prepared in advance because he would have to construct the sentences and all the rest of it yeah but um uh there were of
course lots of questions about black holes and um you know his thought about uh you know the ultimate uh uh aim of
the universe and um several questions like that about cosmology and then we got to the last
question which this question went on it must have been over a page long okay
sounded very very complex and everything and uh uh I can't even reduce it all the
way back down for you but essentially what happened was after reading this
very very difficult question okay uh
uh Stephen Hawking said you know all he's trying to ask is this
okay and so it's like he he asked the question five words and he said and the answer is this and the answer like in
four words okay he said if you can't and he said at
the end of this is if you cannot explain something so that anyone can understand
it then you don't understand it yourself yes yes that's what he said yes yeah and
then that's when I knew he was a genius yes for me
astronomy visual
photographing the stuff my remote Observatory I think for me
astronomy is more than 70 percent feelings it's
emotions to me that's personal reference
yes excellent oh it's real meditation I mean it is it
is it is you know I'm just enjoying just thought of the
yeah I have I I need to make it everything for 4D or 3D how do you say but I have
to be in the middle of the heat so I can't not just put a picture in front of
me 2D this height and length or how do you say how hyphen
and so on it has none deepness or
you have I have to go inside in my thoughts okay now I'm
middle of everything and surrounding by
those things because we are looking our star Maps our still our own programs our everything is 2D
so it's hard to get that feeling when you are actually
doing it in practice just that same you know the same
powerful feeling you get from your stomach upwards it's like flowers
very very many uh not flowers uh flyer how do you say
these butterflies butterflies yes thousands of them everywhere yes yes
um this is another slide from my presentation the power of stargazing and
uh you know in this particular one uh you know there's a bonding experience
that goes on uh Carey lately who likes to do night sky
photography uh let me use this image because I really I loved it because she
was trying to portray the connection that people experience with the cosmos
and it's developing a relationship with the universe through stargazing and studying current astronomical science
can lead you toward greater scientific literacy but it can also
let you find tranquility and give you a sense of wonder
and prevent illness and increase your mental and physical health and give you a sense of belonging
right right these are all the things that Pekka was
talking about tonight yes yes yeah thank you Scott
as people who've spent a lot of time under night skies I don't think that's a surprise to any of us I mean it's a
wonderful fact but we've all experienced that ourselves it's a wonderful thing right yeah that's right and it's quite
often I compare astronomers often to like um uh
you know monks in Eastern religions trying to attain a type of Enlightenment
or having a more awake and you start to realize wow okay all my
all my problems have seen so Monumental are nothing really it's nothing it's
nothing exactly so and you can get very weighed down by by your problems you can have to run
away but um you know if you if you turn your head through the sky and start to
make this uh you know con this bonding experience this this contact
UM and this meditation of the Cameron is talking about it is a meditation and that's why it's good for you you know
you could do this with anything you could you could you could dive into the
universe through stamp collecting or you could dive into the universe through you know uh I do it
with my microscope I do it with my telescope I do it when I go camping or I'm I'm out driving in a dark sky I
pulled off the side of the road and look up you know um the these are these are moments that
that I need it sustains me it nurtures me you know and uh and I always find
this desire to share it and that's yeah uh and that's what I'm wonderful doing here tonight and talk about this so
um if you could just put thing like in the middle neutron star like one
word that could explain effective feeding what it should be
what will that will be no I don't know because it's it's so strong everything
is so powerful and it's it has so many emotions and feelings uh it's containing
like the meaning of the life yes
I think it would be a simple whoa
[Laughter] and that's it that's good that's deep
actually [Laughter]
okay gentlemen well is there uh but we're getting towards the uh the end of
our of our event is there any parting words here I want to share my screen to
show you what I think what what I start let me see
okay you see the the screen yes okay well this is a the backgrounds of
the of the of my notebook here's a Omega Centauri wow
this is Alpha Centauri a gather star here's the the Southern Cross
this the carbon no and I don't remember how is it is
yes yes this is a
a carrying enabler region and here are the uh Southern plays I don't know if
you heard the southern Pleiades huh yes yes
visually looks like the the player is normally because the stars are the
a very um new like the players and the color is
the same it's very blue but I don't know if it has a navidosity like playlist
so uh basically let me show you one I'm right now taking pictures of Lagoon I'm
guiding right now
icd-2602 is the southern Pleiades uh excuse me I didn't understand the the
southern Pleiades is called I is from the catalog number I see ice 2602
that's discovered in South Africa in 1751.
oh I I didn't know that's yes here okay this
so ah here oh my God
it's so similar here's nearby
they are the star cluster yeah it's an open star class
well let me show you this uh
this a simple stack of Omega Centauri that I take almost 50 to 52 pictures of one minute
but this is a simple I will
stretch it and you see here we go oh my God yeah
yeah I I don't I I I I I I don't
um edit this is only the stack image uh like I say before you can see the color
of the Stars yes
a lot of heat and a lot of gravity you know Cameron are you there
absolutely and I'm doing some live stacking of the Ring Nebula oh excellent
you know uh you're talking about a oh I
yeah a tiny Galaxy I didn't I didn't realize it was there
yes Galaxy there it is yeah oh beautiful yeah galaxies are
everywhere it's wonderful a little treasure honey I ah
and the other NGC for nine a four five
but uh this is a very tiny Galaxy
this is this close the cluster with eyes it's amazing because you see the like a
like a um a cloud but a very tiny points
Shining every time you see it and and that's
amazing so then I went to trifeneula this is the
stack and let me stretch it and see here comes the colors
I hear I go to mount right
oh yeah that's beautiful oh that is nice
it's such a delicate uh nebula too right it's very low surface brightness but when you can
you can pull that out it's just beautiful
uh series that they always kept a picture of uh of the triffid nebula just
in one of the windows you know just kind of hanging out there you know now I used to look at that I think you know
how amazing it would be to see this for real and of course the first time to see it through a telescope and then to take
pictures of it it was incredible yes and also because that you take a it's
amazing how it's very blue here and very pink here it's amazing the the chains of
colors yeah it's a very good spot to to take
so well uh actually I'm still taking pictures of a lagoon
M8 let me show you some only uh
a single picture to
to share you this only three minutes picture
but you can see the the cloud the the bar
cloud Crossing by the the record this this this place is amazing I I love it
yes so beautiful the light pollution here
it's very very bad
oh but let me let me see you can't be more
bad and then I have yeah perhaps yes I have a I think a five
bottles guy I live in Port Lake OH
so it's UNC Charlotte are in the same spot I
think yeah
it's easy to just think that I will do best my best of that too which is
possible for me and not reaching that it's not possible not possible because
you are just making yourself angry and maybe just
thinking that okay it's no idea with this and and stop doing it
yes so we try to to reach that is possible for you
well this is only a single picture of three minutes uh
that that's a lot of information but we in the stack uh I will give more and I
will try to separate the the nebula and the background because the light
pollution kills a lot of info and I think here is a very
no but I I can find it um it's an a reflection like a
like like I know it's very it's very wide but I I don't see it it's a it's a an
amazing a neighbor yeah there's lots of those um actually
there's little nuggets as you start you know doing this uh these these uh
pictures yourself and images you start to study and you start to find the the
the nice smaller objects that are often overshadowed and sometimes they're literally in the same field uh as they
use larger objects but but you can still see it it's really uh really fun it's a
yeah to find all those little nuggets all the little features and then some of the other
nice objects let me see if I I have here some
I found an article too that I just posted in the chat um a live chat this is from the Canada
France Hawaii telescope and um it's an announcement that a team of researchers
from the Strasbourg astronomical Observatory
um and bologna Observatory and the University of Stockholm identified a stream of stars that was
torn off the globular star cluster Omega Centauri
they searched through 1.7 Billion Stars observed by the esa Gaia Mission and
they have identified 309 stars that suggest that this globular cluster may have actually been the remnant of a
dwarf Galaxy that's being torn apart by the gravitational forces of our galaxy so that somebody had mentioned something
about globular star clusters maybe being the the cores of of other galaxies that the
Milky Way kind of tore apart but um interesting article
yes today you say you who've been taking
pictures of a yeah double Stars right yes you know they better
um the better way to do it it's not taking
pictures it's doing like a planetary picture you have to record a video to do
um how we say it lucky machine yes so you you you can stack them or or
try to stack the better pictures and you will be a little sharpness and but you
will have the the the two stars um here like I said we see Alpha
Centauri when you see with your eyes you see those
braiding little spheres like like ice you know and
by way when I when you put the cell phone to take a picture to do some uh 10
seconds posture uh the bride is too high to to see the the separation and it is
is like only one star but when you go soon and you do a recall uh perhaps you
you will you can do it and also you can know in the the size of the
sensor and some kind of all another data
you you can compare with the separation
of a the the the the the base of Gaia
information there's a friend who do
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this hey try he tried to calculate the
separation of the Stars okay you know uh he right now is doing
a every a single night with his in Banfield he has a lot of
light pollution but he has a list to do some double stars
and a variable stars that compares with
the Gaia um database
so he can do some conversations and
today he has a very tiny difference with the
database of Gaia is it's amazing and without
um tracking his only do it a record some videos
they started passing by stack them and then he calculates the
distance between the stars and also a technique yes it's amazing
he's a Nico Arias it's a it's a friend of mine and and
he started almost I don't think the last year I think
he started with a webcam a single webcam he grabs out the lens he
put it like I did with a cell phone and he he likes to to do those calculations
uh with a simple gear he only has adoption
I don't remember his 12 inches but
he's manually tracking he searched the the place
in the cell we have too much double stars and variable stars that
a the database maybe it doesn't refresh
for a long time so a it's an opportunity
to uh maybe he can find something that
maybe another time it doesn't see it you know
he has a I I think I don't remember it was 30
objects list and he's doing in a half
hour and then he starts to to observate only
but he also he did let me see when
in the WhatsApp he send us a
no wait and in Facebook page uh just give me a second
continue talking if I searching um
I got my boom back home I was yesterday
in downtown and met a guy from representative from uh
Swedish National agency
and he gave my picture so I have it rolled over there
so hey can I try some of you guys yes okay I'm gonna share my screen here here
uh
doesn't work okay let's try sharing my I'm talking to m42
we can see a camera okay so let's see here pause camera
ah let's can I flip it around um
I'm gonna stop that I'm gonna do this again uh share
screen okay I'm gonna do this differently I don't know why I want to do that uh
share
screen start recording or casting
okay let's try that okay
and then
ah here we go yes okay so so we're going to do a couple of
cool things here so we're going to start off uh let's go so you can see this is a Sky Safari
mm-hmm and let's start off with um
going to the Ring Nebula so click on that
so it's going to go up there you can see it zooming in there and then what I've done is I've done a
live this is a live uh a live view and I'm gonna do it in half a second so
this is not even taking pictures or stocks or anything okay so you can see the Ring Nebula yes and then it and then
you can so unless if I go to two seconds it makes it a little bit better so it's going to take two seconds
so there's the Ring Nebula and then if I go back here this is going to do a little tour here I
was just figuring here so this is kind of fun to be able to share let's go to uh blinking planetary nebula in cygnus
let's go there Planet enables are great because they have high surface brightness and these are a nice nice show objects so we're going to go to
sorry the short time is he'd see it okay and then
if I go to my other tablet and then if you it comes in here this is a two second exposure let's let's reduce the
exposure to one second actually half a second is pretty good with this one
so there you go so you can have the blinking planetary actually we can go even less let's go to 0.2 second because
this is a high surface brightness you can start to see the there we go you can see a little more of the central part
so that's a blinking planetary level and then we go let's do another one here seven zero
zero eight is a pretty good one too a little lower let's go over there
7008 okay and same thing we're doing really low exposure so let's go increase it to
uh half a second and we have to go higher than that we'd
probably go one second oops sorry I'm gonna put it on back here all right now you can start to see it
showing up let's go uh two seconds two seconds should be pretty good
you see it so now you can see the uh the central star and then the kind of the the two different
pieces there yeah seven zero zero eight and then uh let's do uh Crescent nebula
we were looking at there this won't be you have to keep in mind this is very zoomed in this is not the native I was
taking some pictures too so let's go to press nebula
okay go away over here again now right now
okay let's go let's go to uh go to half a second first
okay so you can't see much but then when we go to uh two seconds might be starting to see it come up
let's go to five seconds I think this one needs a bit longer around
okay now I'm going to adjust the uh the stretching so I'm going to change the
contrast here oops sorry
it's just a little there we go and then
let's make it a little brighter on this side okay now there's a little bit of wind you can see you can see it's uh
you can see the stars kind of wiggling around so it's it's but you can see you can clearly see the part of the Crescent
here it's around these three stars sorry it's a little bit out of focus there we go oh you can see how it's wavering
around there's quite a bit of wind so this is another example about having a better quality Mount uh
the uh oops
yeah but you can see the Crescent nebula and then we go to the last one
we'll go back to the dumbbell nebula
there we go it's definitely too long let's go back to uh one second
oh maybe one second too short but not bad you know this this is this
is what technology can do today you know with the with you know pretty
pretty real-time reasonable I can tell you this is better I I don't need darker adaptation I do love looking visual I'm
a visual Observer at heart but being able to do this kind of thing you know what I mean I've seen color in the
dumbbell nebula with two second uh snaps you know and seeing this essential star
this is this is a blast so um so I just wanted to share that so
let me uh anything you guys want to see
any any uh anything that comes to mind that's in cygnus or whatever yep you can
camera tell that you have an uh cellular Observatory with you
yeah I'm doing what I want to what you're doing uh you you have it the advantage you have is with an equatorial
amount you can do stuff over Zenith and it's uh much more stable you have a more
solid mount no no I mean that you have an observatory with you all the time in
your phone as much we can do with our amount you
can do with your phone or yeah yeah this um but but those
pictures everything I showed you is with the Asia air um Pro right that's that's uh we're not pro well the the ASI um 294
uh camera so I'm using this yeah so so I I'm talking about your uh
your skills on the mobile phone you have the same
skills that then yeah no no I appreciate that
uh I'm just experimenting around because I'm realizing that um you know the zoom actually works
pretty good um let me just plug in my yeah you use your phone to the Limit and some
people can just call and but they have one thousand dollar phone in day pocket
but they can use the phone future
your phones to the Limit
yeah I I can tell you that um the uh let me just uh I got a battery low here give
me a second here can you hear me
feature ways you do not something that many just dream of
because they don't know that they have a a huge
device in their pocket that can do oh yeah just
much as a reasonable PC dude
yeah I mean I I can tell you that uh these these it's amazing how um
how powerful these little uh these smartphones are there this this the the capabilities are absolutely incredible
yeah yeah I mean um it's uh it's like and the resolution and and the uh the
speed the process the chips on these things as well right they're they're really low power uh they last for for
like hours uh or days even and um but I can tell you by doing what I'm doing
right now with zoom video and all that that takes the battery a lot yeah I was
thinking to to change my iPhone 10 XS Pro to iPhone 12 because that has
better features for uh in the camera but uh
uh I found an app that makes my phone to
ndclr camera it has everything an unusual dclr have
and that was the photo I took from the Sun it has exposure it has e so it has
everything you can think just in-app and cost eight
oh nine dollars yeah yeah yeah yeah here I found the the
Instagram of my friend who does a a draw astral drawing and also the the the
calculation of the um all the stars and and some pigs that
he does with without Mount tracking and I think you're going to blow your minds
if you let me show you yeah yeah let me stop throwing that that's here but you can see I was doing
a live stack you're seeing I was doing a livestock and let me just finish I mean
isn't that that yeah that's cool isn't that beautiful yeah I
mean that's with 10 seconds and and and and it's like uh that's nine Stacks right now and you know and look at how
good that is I am just thrilled yeah [Laughter]
when you start to do stuck in images uh if you want to
send me if you the stack to process if you like
because that's you're going to have a very good images with that grab
oh that's really thanks a lot Maxie yeah yeah we should collaborate it's uh one of the things I will tell you Maxi as
you saw with my rambling earlier uh this evening uh I was going all over but I'm
really looking at the overall workflow and I'm trying to minimize post-processing uh as much as possible
initially I I I I so if I do appreciate if you if you can help me with some of
that because what uh what happens is um I will once I've started identifying
some objects I'm going to start to zoom in and really want to refine them and make them look really nice yes um and
get the data but but the biggest challenge is uh is that you start moving
around large files like these 25 megabyte Tiff files right oh yeah
yeah so so how you know what what I've been doing as you can see so far is I
just literally I just take a screenshot and and then email myself at 30 compression right so so that when I put
it in PowerPoint when it's all said and done each picture takes about 100K of
file space um and so that allows me to take a lot of pictures because as you know if you
do all your pre-processing before you take the screenshot if you do all the processing and you got the image in a
pretty decent shape then pretty much even when you compress it and do everything you've got the quality right
you lose the data you can't manipulate it as much anymore but if you change the
the format for example you have the thief file right or the file but
when I post in in Instagram and Facebook I use a PNG file that's obviously a
compressed damage but it doesn't it take a lot of data
a for example the gpg the JPG file it's very bad it has a
lot of pictures it now it's very gross but the PNG file
helps a lot and and also obviously a Facebook Instagram and all other social
media compress the file if you upload upload the thief file the the finally a
it doesn't matter because that social media compress a lot it's
the same when you upload in WhatsApp and I think in telegram the other part of
communication allows you to share the the the the pure
image but the maybe the the size of the
image sometimes it doesn't allow so Maxi yes
you started in Facebook everywhere so you should use
PNG instead of gbag or is the compressing the same more yes
I I upload the the PNG file okay not cheap egg no no no no no okay no no
so PNG is better for your social media
or at least the same compression in every format I think no no no it does
it doesn't the same compression because the the information and also the beats
that has the format uh changed a lot for example uh when you save the file in a
32 bytes it has a lot of information when you see the the single image in
your in your in your computer without open it you see like very shiny image
for example in div file but in 16 a bit
a type of file is like when you process the image
because it has a singularity data
okay in eight bits file it's very poor and
that's that's what happens when you upload because uh I recommend to use some purchase like
a flicker because a it does compress the
image and not it allows you to upload I think a 1000 image it's a lot yeah
okay let me show you my screen to because these images
it will it will be like you well this is the Instagram of my friends
sorry Nico but this is his social media
all you can see these are the the the draws that he do of open clusters
in this case is a favor among one constellation Karina
uh here's some Galaxy he draws the the triples of Leo
that's so nice this was in Maryland with some very good
sky well this is a I think well this was
with ah with a qhy5 a camera and some lrgb filters
uh this is omera Centauri like very soon
he has a 10 inches now 12 inches
but here's the jewelry cluster Jewel box cluster
I like those old drone observatories but so when you draw at the same time and
you are watching and making wish your you do kind of transfer your feelings on
that draw exactly that's so amazing to
do that this is the amangulus
it's in the this is the star of a ETA Karina
it's very very bright very bright let me show you the
picture
this is the Among Us oh yeah okay here's the oh yeah yeah
peanut shape thing yeah I remember exactly and here's what he took with the
camera and without guiding change I can't take it you know yes yeah I mean
it is this is what we were saying earlier Maxi is to be able to even though it's not a Hubble image or
whatever to be able to capture it yourself with basic women it's so rewarding isn't it
you will see it's very bright and he has the form but it's very very bright
is there this place is right there it's amazing
and well he started well his historical and
his paper and what he do and well he do also planetary pictures
of Jupiter in this case uh
he did this a couple of weeks ago this is Centaurus a Galaxy
this was without tracking okay
oh man yeah I love that Galaxy oh me too
I'd love to see that RSA exactly and then he started to do so with some
RGB filters uh wow
beautiful work what here's the debug nebula
they again
yes to see that it's amazing and here's with
RGB
that he took without tracking
wow
yeah well the the Palace of creation that's impressive oh that's really nice
that's an ice cream picture too and here's a representative reprocessing
fight of the bug neighbor again he had he has a lot of information here
I told him if he has tracking he can do more time he can and also he grabs a lot
information but for now he he's saying nah I'm fine with
this now this is amazing the the
NGC 6 3 9 7.
it's like M5 like
and this is the ah the the planetary blue enabler
a is in in the constellation of the Evalia
I don't know how to say in English is seen from the south it's a it's like
the the front of a Jupiter but a little more small
okay so let me stop share it so somebody have the latest news about
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all testing has failed do you know something is what
hmm say that again if you have the latest news from USA about Hubble
Telescope what I know is that all yeah it was the
last I checked about the Hubble Space Telescope was that both computers were
experiencing the same problem yeah we're going to jump to a backup computer that they had
uh uh and Dawson though so also the same Hardware failure
possibly yeah yeah it sees a huge
problem for Hubble right now and they don't have it nothing has really changed yet you know so they have
no fix for that don't count these guys out you know they're no no no no no no no no no
exactly it could be that you know I mean the telescope has been uh 30 years of
huge service for us for a very long time and yes you know they say that they'll never be
another service Mission but it would be probably not a bad idea to go and do it
again you know even with James Webb going up because yeah they see different parts of the universe
make a like some kind of transaction from how to build a scope side so
they could meet with the BSS maybe I don't know but hey up there it's
up like 300 miles or something it's this is Tire or is it higher for uh Tire it
is yes it is okay it's uh then it's unreachable for
it's not unreachable but they would have to spend a lot of money to reach it yeah but maybe it's worth because
Hubble is like it's daily life for us right now
yeah we take it for the ground and yeah now it's out of order it's just like
yeah right right well it's something I think
that uh you know as the world's most powerful telescope as it stands today
yes I you know certainly any researcher that could uh make good
use of the Hubble would want to um and waiting for another Space Telescope to go up uh you know uh could
be still some time uh James Webb has had many delays and um but you know let's
hope that James Webb does make it up in October uh if it does
um you know I don't know the resources of money to do operations
and and uh you know to do the science uh always cost a lot uh and they do it
with when I say costs a lot um you know the USA budget for Sciences
has been uh historically very little um when you compare the rest of the
money that's spent by the government but um uh recently you know there's been some
nice expansions on on uh on science the science budget itself so I just kind of
think well even if it sits up there dormant for a while you know maybe
maybe at one point we go and uh put a new instrumentation and fix it all again because it would still work just great
you know so so hope to fix it just fix it yeah yeah yeah
like Kennedy said well Kennedy said that the
why do we do it because it's hard yeah in the space
yes yes that was a very inspiring speech yeah yeah you you've seen my my DNA
already yeah like why do I do this yes because it's hard because the time
that's right yes well gentlemen thank you for an
incredible night of uh of uh sharing the skies and um your passions and your
knowledge and uh you know we'll come back next Tuesday and do it all over again
yeah okay all right so thank you everyone thank you everyone
Maxi thanks everybody and good night on outside of the world yes that's right
that's right and to all the audience too thank you foreign
George Ellery Hill's birthday and uh uh we always have another reason to come
back so um you guys have a great night if you're out stargazing somewhere you know uh uh
you know think on the things you might have heard on this program uh you know if you're watching it later in rerun uh
you know hopefully you uh will be inspired by some of the people that came on this program today
good night and uh we will see you next Tuesday on the next Global star party our 53rd
are you doing one last screen share there Cameron
I think he's mutes I think he is mute
okay
there we go here we are all right now yeah we hear
you now okay so let me try that again yes
okay I'll just uh [Music]
were you trying to share a another image or yeah yeah let me just look at my image
here um video photo there we go and let's see if
we go so here we go so let's do two two second
let me get this properly centered
and we just see a blank screen right now if that's what we're supposed to see then that's good oh okay uh let me try
it again so we just so we're going to go back to
Zoom and then share
share my screen start and then we go like that
okay can you see yeah yes okay good so let me just make this uh
make it five seconds there are two galaxies right M51 right M51 yeah yeah
so this is um yeah and now I'm gonna do a uh well a
live yeah I'm going to clear it we're going to do 10 second stacks
yeah 10 seconds everything's good and then we'll we'll end it with that
let me just uh a couple of 10 seconds here
and they should look pretty nice
just recording and we'll start to process it will get our first image pretty soon
here we go loading
there we go so it's uh I like that it's that Zoom
let me have kind of Zoom effect yeah yeah yeah yeah so there's there's some
artifact I'm gonna
let me close that again clear that and then do it again
let's go do that and the nice part is you can um
I can do some adjustments here
it looks like it will start coming still taking okay now it's going to load up the first one here so shooting
and then oh here it goes loading the first one
this should be good yeah there was some artifacts the first time
oh my battery's getting a little yeah there we go so that's the
I just need a little bit over here and get this guy over here
it's a really good Galaxy but two galaxies yeah I love I love this it's a it's a
beauty so there you go so not not too bad you know just Delight kind of sharing
this live and and uh I just love this I never forget seeing the spiral arms in
my 18-inch dub and uh it was beautiful and uh 31
million light years away yeah yep so there you go it's in prime prime location right now
and uh in the Northern Hemisphere okay can you see it uh down there Maxi are
you able to see M51 no uh and for the n51 we can see it or maybe
no I think not uh are you have Centaurus a so there you go
yeah you you got Centaurus say that that's santorosi and and uh and the Omega nebula or sorry Omega Century are
really close right there yes it's very very close yes
I don't know the the separation but yes he's in the same area also the the other
Galaxy NGC 4945
yes well thanks for letting me share and uh I guess it's getting quite late for you
guys so thanks a lot have a great night everyone yeah thanks you too have a
great time tonight and um and again thanks to everyone who participated and watched uh the 52nd
Global Star Party take care and keep looking up
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