Transcript:
7:05 p.m..David Levy – Intro and Poetry
hello scott hello david how are you doing dt i'm doing great
7:15 p.m..David Eicher – Star Dust and Gem Stones
it's very exciting you will be the youngest host that we've ever had at this program
7:35 p.m..John Goss – Astronomical League Door Prizes
[Music] uh
i'll be back in a moment okay
hello john you're needed
yeah i guess i'm at a loss for words you might say [Music]
yeah that's the best humor
we're trying to come up with the very best carl sagan quotes i've got a couple of them
well i think my my favorite it may be one of my favorite quotes of
all time was the introduction to his uh pale blue pale blue dot
um essay you know that's uh it was so inspiring
so true
but it's about 400 words long so it's a little bit long for a
quote a snappy quote i remember it's it's not snappy but it's
it's profound
and actually you know i i do think of that uh when things are really
i don't know i don't see bleak but but things are just a real hassle i started you know you know
it's a big universe out there this is one small part of it we're all made of
star i think he said star stuff stardust star stuff yeah i think
we are made of star stuff
p.m. 00:45 Adrian Bradley – Milky Way Magic
i got to meet carl a couple of times the time that i really got to meet the
man was during the impacts of shoemaker 89 on jupiter okay and he hide out into a rip-roaring
argument when i simply made the statement that i thought the vice president gore gave a good speech
about the comet and he just lit into me he said how could you say such a thing how could you
how could you even think that the vice president would know the first thing about comments and i said well i didn't
know i just thought he
the person that uh carl really got along with was my mom
who was a geneticist and that's one of his big interests
i sort of met him once not really officially i saw him in the hallway
in physics building at the university and uh he walked by with some people
that was the closest i got to him
and did he stop and say it's john i give you a big embrace
and he said i really do that's what it was like
no i think i think i was only 21 years old at the time so
you know i was pretty shy good morning good morning good good
evening david good evening hi
it is great to see you jackson and john hi john greetings
good evening jackie and johnny there's scott i knew he had to be lurking there
yeah i'm the guy behind the curtain here yeah closest i ever got to uh carl sagan's
one time when i got i was standing about one feet in front of the television
and that's about as far as i got you know yeah he came to cosmos
program though he came to kansas city one time oh gosh 30 years ago or something
to do it to talk to a a teacher's convention here in kansas city
and i i volunteered to work the booth in the big hall for the planetary society and
because of that i got to go backstage and hang out with him before he gave his talk
so that was my one and only time to meet carl sagan well that's pretty good
p.m. 03:40 Ten Minute Break
but i got a picture with him yeah you got a picture with him that's awesome
yep that is awesome [Music]
well you've had lots of great experiences jackie that's great
i try you've done good
and and david there he's he's been to kansas city a few times to speak at various star parties and and uh
and he gets to stay in the jackie hotel oh i've heard of that
and his lovely wife i got a plaque on the door doveed slept here
pretty good well v that insult
well you have people already logging in here which is really nice the book davies is here martin eastburn
harold lock um and there'll be more so
scott scott when you read off the names i recognize some of the people not all of them but some of the names i think oh
yeah i've seen that here there oh yeah yeah they're regulars you know it's cool
it is cool i love it who did your graphics on your spinning
world there in the global star party um they're prepared graphics
that you can modify you know yeah cool posters and stuff i make you know
from scratch so
well mr gas what are you up to this summer so far
um well mr goss what are you up to this summer i mean this fall this fall
duh well let me think here i've been working with one of the state parks on their
outreach and their uh they which is uh it's just been awarded dark sky park status so
we're trying to get that going and uh i don't know
we had a really nice observing session a week ago in fact it was one of those nights in
which i was i was bragging to people on how good this particular site was and we all
went out there but after an hour cleared up and
so i was uh i was proven to be uh correctly some enough that one so
you know how that goes you arrange something and the clouds move in exactly yeah
this time the clouds move out so i was i was lucky on that on that front there
we had a private party down at our pal observatory last weekend it was on friday night and
and a storm had gone through and the sky was clear and uh
this party was a big family from northern missouri various towns and they were having a really good time if
you catch my drift but anyway they uh
it was amazing because well we limit use to the telescope
[Music] about two or three times a century a massive star in our galaxy explodes
the star's core may survive as a neutron star or a black hole but the rest of it rushes into space as
swiftly expanding debris behind a powerful shock shockwave as the supernova remnant grows it sweeps
up interstellar gas and gradually decelerates yet even thousands of years later its
imprint on the galaxy remains impressive exploding stars and their remnants have
long been suspected of producing cosmic rays some of the fastest matter in the universe
where and how these protons electrons and atomic nuclei are boosted to such high speeds has been an enduring mystery
now observations of two supernova remnants by nasa's fermi gamma-ray space telescope provide new insights
because cosmic rays carry electric charge their direction changes as they travel through magnetic fields
by the time the particles reach us their paths are completely scrambled we can't trace them back to their sources so
scientists must locate their origins by indirect means which is where fermi comes in the interaction of high energy particles
with light and ordinary matter can produce gamma rays the most powerful form of light unlike cosmic rays gamma rays travel to
us straight from their sources in 1949 physicist enrico fermi worked
out how what he called magnetized clouds could accelerate cosmic rays later studies showed that a variant of
his method called fermi acceleration worked especially well in supernova remnants
confined by a magnetic field high energy particles move around randomly sometimes they cross the shock wave with
each round trip they gain about one percent of their original energy after dozens to hundreds of crossings
the particle is moving near the speed of light and is finally able to escape if the supernova remnant resides near a
dense molecular cloud some of those escaping cosmic rays may strike the gas and produce gamma rays
but electrons and protons make gamma rays in different ways cosmic ray electrons do so when they're
deflected by passing near the nucleus of an atom accelerated protons may collide with an
ordinary proton and produce a short-lived particle called a neutral pion these pions quickly decay into a pair of
gamma rays at their brightest both types of emission look very similar
only with sensitive measurements at lower gamma-ray energies can scientists determine which process is responsible
now fermi observations have done just that they conclusively show these supernova
remnants are accelerating protons when they strike protons in nearby molecular clouds they produce pions and
ultimately the gamma-ray emission fermi sees nasa's fermi has detected gamma rays
from many more supernova remnants but the jury is still out on whether accelerated protons are always responsible and what their maximum
energies may be nevertheless the fermi team has taken a major step a century after the discovery
of cosmic rays in establishing just where they arise something that would satisfy but
certainly not surprise the original fermi
[Music]
well hello everybody this is scott roberts uh from the explore alliance and explore scientific and it gives me great
pleasure to uh invite you and uh to uh
to the 63rd global star party um and to
introduce somebody that has been on our global star parties many times um but
she is now the special guest host of this particular one and it turns out that she is
i guess uh it is true she is the youngest um special host or our host of this event
so uh it's uh she is someone that is uh fascinated with space exploration
fascinated with astronomy uh and has worked very hard in her community to
build up awareness of astronomy including starting a an astronomy club
in her own high school and now she has joined the
kind of the national astronomy club of her country in nepal
her name is deepti gatam and uh deepti it gives me great pleasure to
turn this over to you we uh you know i love um youth getting
involved in astronomy uh we are a big supporter of that um one
indication of that is the national young astronomers award that we do with the astronomical league um and the and the
astronomical league is of course with us on every global star party um dt uh
thank you for for doing this and for suggesting uh the theme of this global star party
which is stardust so i'm going to turn it over to you now and uh thanks again thank you thank you
it's called robert and i think it's uh opportunity for me to be the special
guest tools and um to invite some of the my
colleagues and some of the teachers around me who have been inspiration for me too and today um we'll have some
guests from nepal and similarly the all the guests who are regular in this uh program so
first of all i'd like to welcome you all in this 63rd global star party so first of all we're moving toward the david
levy i will give the introduction in poetry i really love this poi tree
and so today uh the floor is here david levy
well thank you very much duty and uh congratulations on being the youngest host of the global star party
[Music]
today we're going to go back a few years because dp's theme has stardust
and uh the person that i know in my lifetime who has had more to say about stardust
than anybody else with the possible exception of udg is uh bart bach
and i first met bart by reading a book when i was a little boy probably along
with the door now dictate and it was called the golden book of astronomy and he had written the
introduction to it and i finally met him when i first arrived
in arizona in 1979 we became good friends and he often liked to talk about the
work that he did with his wife priscilla it is very interesting
it is very interesting to note that he and bruce still were two
of astronomy's greatest astro couples
people that really got to study the stars together and as the international astronomical union
once said it was impossible to separate her accomplishments from his and vice
versa and after priscilla grew older he and she and bart would go to the uh
desert museum quite often and she always liked to visit the uh
the bird enclosure behavior and she was
she said you know what they really need here is a chair because you look important say what the
lord has forgotten be patted with cotton we need a comfortable chair here
so people could sit and watch the magpies and the world runners appear
in the uh in this lovely aviary after priscilla passed away
in 1975 i four days after the opening of the
sandville planetarium in tucson decided to uh
to to invest in the bench would be the priscilla block bench at
the aviary and so my quote today is going to be part of my book that i wrote
the man who sold the milky way a biography part 5. the bench became a noble retreat for
bart in the coming years he visited it frequently sometimes alone more often
with friends another audience with the road runners who took soon took place
out from the bushes she came scampering through sitting on my shoulder
as he watched this roadrunner bart's thoughts wandered back to a far off
place and time amenity memory of priscilla happy and delirious she fed a group of
magpies filled his mind slowly the image fainted and he imagined once again the exquisite
swirls of the nebula in korea thank you and back to you deeply
thank you david levy and really i love that poetry yeah
moving to scott robert okay okay i'll be very happy to introduce our other our other speakers
here um we um [Music]
we're expecting dave einker to be on who may be on a little bit later but we are going to go ahead and introduce
john goss john is a former president of the astronomical league
someone has devoted the better part of his adult life to amateur astronomy and educational
outreach in astronomy the last presentation i saw him give was
you know fantastic observations of uh and how to determine the heights of mountains and depths of
craters on the moon i thought it was fascinating john's a great guy a good friend to
everyone and he's saying no
he is he is absolutely someone that you have to meet if you get the chance
and you probably will if you go to the next astronomical league convention which will be held in person
uh john i'm going to go ahead and turn this over to you and we can do
the questions and answers that the league always does for a global star party for the door prizes
excellent well thank you scott that was uh some nice words and i guess some of them were halfway through
so all the way through thank you very much uh yeah i have a few questions to um
questions and answers to give to everybody here uh but before i do i just want to remind everybody that this is uh
uh last day of when of summer and that means for a lot of part of our
country uh we have some pretty good observing weather coming up generally it's where i live in into september
through about november 1st so if you can get out under the stars or the next um
five six weeks go ahead and do so there's still some great stuff up there summer even though it won't be summer
you can certainly see the summer milky way right after sunset so um
that's that's pretty cool pretty cool but let me jump into some of these uh questions i have
and answers maybe
there we go
before we start this we always like to remind people about looking at the sun now none of the questions i have today
have well i guess one of them kind of does have to do with the sun but not not not looking at the sun
but if you do go out and look at the sun please observe proper observing safety protocols
and basically what that is is always use a an approved solar filter
if you don't know what you're doing if this is your first time in doing so it would be best to have somebody show
you somebody who knows how to do all this stuff to show you how to do it just just to play it safe
if you have the correct filters and you use them correctly it's perfectly safe but you got to know how to use it
answers from last week's global star party one one week week ago there were three questions asked so we'll run through
those quickly number one astronomy day happens twice a year
there's one date left in 2021 what day will astronomy day happen in 2021
well the answer is obviously october 9th um which i think is going to be like a
crescent moon in the sky and on that night that might be one of those nights to go out and do do some great great observing
how much does the earth weigh now this one got me i'm kind of shrugging my shoulders when i read this to you the
earth weighs in at a whopping 13 170 billion trillion pounds
something like that and here is a video of how that measurement was was made
so you might want to look look at this on the internet someplace figure it all out um hey that might be a good high school
science project i don't know we'll see question number three
what is so impressive about the planet psr j1719 1438b that's the old 1438b for
you people out there uh well it's the outer layers of the planet were stripped away uh by a pulsar
that had orbits uh and left behind the remnant that's composed primarily of carbon now if you
put carbon a lot of carbon together and under high pressure you're going to end up with diamonds so you might have a
planet that is very well a diamond that's five times larger than earth well let's see
we'll see what happens with that okay the correct answers for last week's
store prizes uh uh let's see we had uh five people josh ko backs stargazer smurf love that name
billy beck andrew corkhill marco kemberg so if you've done
if if you're one of those those five people you're going to be hearing from the astronomical league about your winning door prize
thank you for entering by the way now we have a drum roll please
for this week yeah thank you thank you that's actually i have one here we go
house orchestra right there i like it first question oh well when you do get your answers
be sure to email them to secretary astroleague.org you have to email them to this spot to
be eligible question number one uh the moon always excuse me one moment
okay the moon always keeps the same sight pointed towards the earth however viewers in earth can see throughout the
year about 59 of the moon's surface this is uh this is due to the phenomenon
of a libation b vibration
c libration now i was going to have a couple other entries and they're all added in basins
but i thought nah i better not this is enough for you
always a wise guy here okay that's question number one question number two
wednesday that's tomorrow is the autumnal equinox when the sun crosses southward
across the central equator and what constellation does the sun shine
now i did cleverly blank out the constellation name on this chart so what constellation will the sun be in
tomorrow tomorrow yeah first day of autumn
yes well partial day of autumn question number three
what is the name of the small constellation between the western edge of the great square of pegasus and the stahl altair
it represents the shape of a dolphin i have to be careful with with this because this is one of my favorite
constellations and i like strong people because not a lot of people know about it but once they see it it becomes a
friend for life it's one of those things which you see in the night sky and and you finally understand what it is
and it's there every late summer evening every september every october for the rest of your life
so it'll be a friend friend for life so anyway that's that's the third question uh send your three answers to uh
secretary of astrology.org and maybe you'll be very lucky one more
slide then i'll i'll be out of your hair for the for this month
and one month from now we have astronomically live on october 15th 2021 at 7 00 pm edt
so be sure to tune in for that i don't have the details on what's going on but they will be worked out shortly
so thank you scott thank you everybody for your time on that thank you john that's great
john uh before you go let's talk a little bit about the astronomical league and uh
you know kind of the state of the league a little bit and how people can get involved with the league
okay well great you know okay it's uh let me see i have 18 after the hour
right now okay i got about another 30 40 minutes i can speak yeah that's right
uh well i i'd say a few things about the league uh
one thing the league is known for is this quarterly magazine the reflector um we have had so many submissions we've
had so many articles sent in astro images submitted
that we are backlogged so starting in december we're increasing
our publication by four pages oh wow
let's make this a bit more meaty magazine and hopefully we'll be uh addressing some of the needs
of our members through this the league is also known for its many many many observing programs uh which
we'd like to to to try to get our members as well as the public out there under the stars looking at things these
programs help give them some direction in the sky because so many times you like you go out on the
stars and you just kind of fiddle around thinking what should i look for now i'm not sure well these programs i'll give
you a list show you how to find things it's uh it'll really enhance your enjoyment under the stars
uh one of the things that scott would probably love me to talk about would be some of our youth award programs
we have the national young astronomer award program which
um young people i think is age of 18 or 19 and under can enter this for
uh kind of a research that they've done i really shouldn't use the word research because it makes it sound like you're at
some high level um university conducting this stuff but this is uh
investigative stuff that that the person has done on on their own um
written a report and all that and we've had some pretty impressive people over the past few years i believe it's in its
maybe about almost it's 30th year of this it must be approaching maybe it's the 28th or 29th but it's been a number
of years and it's it's a great it's a great thing uh the the winner receives a pretty nice
telescope from explorer scientific and a bunch of other recognition for for
their achievements we also have the uh horkheimer youth service awards which is more along the lines of a young person
helping out astronomy in some some fashion such as uh doing work for their club
doing outreach um writing articles working on the website all
types of stuff like that so uh i think all in all we have
over 10 pathways for a young person to receive an award oh that's great
and i'll conclude this by saying one more thing these kids aren't going to receive any
awards if they're not if they're not nominated and it's been my experience that they
don't nominate themselves so somebody in the club or someone interested a mentor
in astronomy has to nominate them or that it's just not going to happen
and unfortunately that's kind of the stumbling block sometimes because i know there are a lot of deserving young people out there who really aren't given
consideration because no one nominates them and as i said they're not going to nominate themselves
so please go ahead and think about that and look at our website find out more information if you know of a deserving
young person and really consider seriously consider nominating that person
excellent on that stern stern remark alternative remark that's right don't forget those young people you know so
um i will tell you that uh people who have uh been recognized through these awards
have gone on to do great things and it makes a it makes a big change in their lives so
um you know and uh you don't want to uh um you know not give the kid an uh
that kind of chance so i would definitely i would definitely you know if you belong to a club you see a young
person that is uh doing some amazing stuff you know check into it uh and see if they're worthy of
being nominated you know and then and then follow through so um not so hard to do um
and i'm curious though uh uh john does the um
nominating uh or the the person that's being nominated do they have to be in a
league club or could this come from any any uh organization that's uh private
that's both yes and no answer uh for the national young astronomer award they don't have to be a league member
okay uh they just have to be under this i i think it's the age of 19 and i think they cannot be enrolled in a
in a uh in college so it's high school or or younger i say
and but the horkheimer awards uh you have to be a league member for that um so
you know if you know if somebody oh i have one one one more thing to say about this uh
the purpose of these awards you know i shouldn't say it like this but the purpose of these awards
it's not it's it's not to to to make kids be professional astronomers
it is to uh open their minds to new things in life you know open their hearts to the
love of science and astronomy you know a lot of the winners some do go into astronomy but a lot of
them don't uh but of those that don't they still a lot still going to various
and so i think no matter what everybody ends on this so you know
please nominate if you know somebody thank you scott great thank you john that's awesome
okay and i did put up the uh i think i put up the the link
for the astronomical league i did so if you need to check into them uh please do so and uh
they'll they'll greet you with open arms you know so that's awesome our our next speaker is uh adrian
bradley adrian's been on hey adrian uh he's been on uh i think
maybe almost a dozen of our events so far yeah yeah does that sound about right
yep as soon as you uh you took your chance to see what uh i may have to offer but it was largely
thanks to uh my good friend david who said hey he's got some uh nightscape pictures that are
nice let's bring them on and i've been hooked on it ever since um
so i've uh and here's david coming back um so yeah he's he wanted me to come on
and share my um love of the stars and i had gotten into
nightscape photography more so than just deep sky photography just because
i started out with a camera someone gave me and i said okay this is a dslr what can i do with this dslr
and it took off um with figuring out how to do milky way
photography i like the title you picked milky way magic i'll try and uh i'll try and stay along
not only the we are stardust theme but the milky way magic and
so what i'll do is share some uh i'll call them magical experiences um
so let me start sharing my screen a couple of things i know i just sort of took it all over
didn't i scotty sure you're uh introducing and i just sort of started going but um no i'd be
fine but i i did want to add that um uh you know that your
your nightscape photography is fantastic you know i was trained uh
uh early on as a photographer and i i know someone that i can tell when someone has a good eye so and that you
have i really appreciate that um and it's
i started doing it more for the love of photography and that's when i found that
my images began to take on kind of a look to themselves and uh
and there's more images to come starting with what i'm sharing i'm gonna share a couple of uh star parties that
i'm involved with this is i'm a member and actually president of this club the great lakes association of
astronomy clubs this is coming up pretty quickly um we're gonna do an online star party and
i'd be remiss if i didn't mention it pretty quickly glack.org
astronomy at the beach 2021. one reason i mention it is uh one of the uh well-known
southern hemisphere skies who's going to be coming up later in this global star party maxi faleris
has uh agreed to do some live viewing on friday and
the others here are mostly local to the michigan area
and there's an older picture of me from when we did the impact of comets so
this is one place of many online places you can go there will be some live streaming
normally it's an in-person event and um this year
like last year it's an online event we chose to go with uh just doing live tour
live solar system or live scott live views um as opposed to making it a full online
event um because we weren't sure where we're gonna go with kovid so
shameless plug and and i know jackie you're on because you're gonna share um
about a star party that's coming up as well so there are star parties to support whether you can go there in
person or live stream this global star party we appreciate all of you that are
supporting this sharing of the night sky it's what we have to do until we're fully open and hopefully
even when we do get past the pandemic we continue to do a global star party
every almost every day someone learns about the night sky and then falls in love with it so okie text i'll
be going to that um this is just the front page
and that's i'll just show the front page of it so the oki tech star party is on um there are going to be some
precautions for covid and you'll click on this if you go to the website to hear
about it but that's coming up in two short weeks actually maybe one short week october
1st through october 9th so they surround the uh new moon which is i believe is
october 3rd so those are two star parties i'm involved
with and now it's time to share what i call milky way magic here
um i'll start with a story
of uh traveling to sequoiamen falls here's the end of the
story i'm actually gonna share the end of the story right here i end up with this photo
the daybreak and what's left of the milky way hiding behind the trees
this is one of those photos you generally don't see the milky way because there's not much of it a lot of milky way photography makes the milky
way prominent and but i look for subtle ways to display the milky way sometimes
so this happens because as i'm heading here
30 minutes from this day break point this was this was taken at the moment astronomical
twilight started and the sun's light the sun was close enough to the horizon to start washing out the starlight and
the you know your dark sky becomes blue so why did i miss it
that was because i stopped alongside the road i'm in a portal 2
and i got out and i looked at the sky and what i'm showing you is
to me one of the most magical things about the stardust look at all the stars here
some of the chemicals that we are made of and look at how the milky way looks
what you're seeing here is what you would see if you stopped along this highway and looked at this mortal to sky
naked eye you would see this detail of the milky way and
you might you may see this coat hanger this is a it's a picture but it
closely resembles what the milky way looks like in a dark sky of mortal to or darker
so this site blew me away and i had to take time to just sit there and enjoy it and of
course i try and take pictures to uh bring the milky way out and i
learned firsthand that when the milky way is this visible that uh sometimes you overdo it
and my resulting image ended up being this is one of the images
i usually have as a background where and this was done with a stock camera for those that are that do
know about photography and know that the uh a camera can have
filters removed so that you can see more of the hydrogen alpha gas that's going
on but if it's dark enough your stock camera will pick up some of this detail this is a part of
the milky way that it takes a really deep milky way shot in order to get
some of this part of it in the southern hemisphere they get the other side of it
as well this was act this is the summer milky way that um john talked about and
we call it the summer milky way because this part of the core and this part of the bulge leading into
cygnus um is generally visible sundown in the summer however this was in april this
was in the spring and it was around three i'll say between three and four in the
morning and i'm driving out and i see this
and because i was so enamored with all the detail and getting these photos
i end up missing that same view um over into kwamen and and i end up with a
sun rising on me and the milky way fades away
another i did stay for sunrise now the moon is coming up over
here that's where some of this glowing light is this is it's yet twilight's over a lake lake uh huron and this is
the iss as it's going um to the uh
southeast and i waited and at the break
the they call it crack of dawn you've heard that term if you've ever wondered what it looks
like this is what it looks like the when you image it the light from the
sun begins to cast that we'll call it the road we'll call it a dodger blue
in the sky the milky way is still visible but you basically have between five and ten
minutes and it gets washed out the moon is over here if you can see it so this is uh there's a bit of a
crescent here where the moon is rising over these clouds this this image is
for me it's uh it's one of those images that i i consider unique because a lot of milky way photography
usually isn't done there are some there are some good shots out there that are done
crack of dawn but not many most of the time you want your milky way
most of the shots are super bright and they're they're against something
you have um like this shot right here you have a meteor
photobombing milky way and this is another this is a portal three sky and this is where
a little bit of a longer exposure gets you more of
the milky way so the way that it looks at this guy you get your your typical white river
as your sky goes um your sky is not as dark so you don't see
as much detail with your eyes but magically when you put the camera on it you
see the detail because your camera can pick it up so i'll share a couple more images and
then turn it back over this was with a modified camera it's what i'm using for my background
the modified camera can pick up the detail of the milky way
whereas a normal stock camera when i took this picture with the stock camera it didn't come out quite as well there's
a lot of cloud cover here um magically i suppose you could say
the uh milky way can be shot through um
clouds and uh that you can get an interesting effect when you do that
as opposed to a clear shot it can be shot through aurora if it's dark enough this is the cygnus
region there is the north american nebula and if i'm not mistaken this was also
done with a stock camera this is a portal 3 zone and aurora was facing
north over lake huron you have aurora and you have the north american nebula
and here's a combination shot so this is uh i always look for
[Music] ways of combining stellar things with uh things that you're seeing on
earth i i like this photo it's uh it's a great way to well
seeing it you don't see as many colors but it's still pretty magical to even look at naked eye and then if you get a
good nice sharp shot and it's even more magical when it when it comes out um
same place this is actually the same place i took it and there's the lighthouse uh where i took that other
photo i was standing on the other side of this lighthouse aiming out at the lake
but it gets nice and dark here so any you take here it's going to be nice
let's go back to this alcona image magical when you get two streaks meteor
streaks coming down and they're parallel to each other i once missed a shot when we used when
comet neo-wise is in the air and in the air of course it's uh
orbiting but uh you we could see kind of neo-wise from earth
it was at a certain angle and i watched a meteor as i'm setting up to
image i watched the meteor fly at the exact same angle
past comet neo wise a shot that i wish i had taken um
it would have been a really cool you have a meteor and you have the comet at the same angle in the sky
it's uh when you when you do any kind of photography including knife
photography there are so many shots that get away um transient things like meteors
and so i will uh i'll leave you with two more
images magically seeing things like the andromeda galaxy
naked eye when it's dark enough and then seeing them when they're when you image
you see even more this little dot right here is actually a galaxy that's m33
the uh triangulum galaxy or i think it's
there are a couple of galaxies called the pinwheel it it has the name pinwheel so does m101
this to me is also a magical part of imaging uh night sky the objects that
the camera picks up including faint meteors here and there
there's we see a lot more than we may think we see when we're looking up at the night sky it's it's on
display for us and it's um it can be a beautiful sight so
there's always more work to do more ways to try and smooth out my pictures
this would it's a little blotchy but this is uh
give you just how large is the milky way how much stardust is actually out there
here you have this you know looking looking over the lake
and the entire expanse of the milky way stretches out over it
so it's uh it's not only beautiful to look at the night sky and you image it you can learn
a lot more about what's going on with the night sky and [Music]
and how magical things are so here we are lake hudson a simple small
if you want to image the milky way um one of the best ways to do it is find a dark sky park such as this
and um difference with the dark sky park there may be some light from nearby
towns but the night sky has enough contrast that it's easy to
see a whole lot of stars you'll see the uh we call it the river
of milk and if you image it you get more detail out of that
i really love the way the the how the milky way sort of fades and then it's connected by a cloud that's going
horizontal and then the way that those clouds on the other side are just kind of picking up and you know vanishing into darkness it's so
cool yeah and that's exactly what was happening in real time and i happen to capture that moment in
time with a quick panorama here so yeah so yeah with that i'll turn it back over
to you scott or yep and thank you all for having me on and
um i am on facebook and on instagram feel free to
look me up and if there's questions let me know but uh there you have it magic of the
milky way wonderful wonderful i um i included a link to your um
your portfolio page uh on the internet so if you go to
adrianbradley.myportfolio.com you can just see a lot more of adrian's
great work so thank you um so thank you very much uh we are uh now
um uh ready to introduce uh jackie butcher jackie uh
jackie mike pronouncing your last name correctly and you're muted there you go yeah no
it's by sure by sure okay there we go sorry about that it's german we've been
gosh friends for a long time too so i should know this but i i won't forget it now so um
jackie uh and i met oh geez maybe 10 or 15 years ago
maybe longer than that probably at an astronomical league conference and
she's been involved with the astronomical league for a very long time i believe you're still involved and
still supporting that great organization but uh tonight uh you're going to be talking uh
about the heart of america's star party which is held in the heart of america
and uh jackie can tell you more about it so okay
i um i don't have a big fancy uh slideshow to show you but i do have some
uh pictures i'll show you you do have a beautiful shirt on all that constellation shirt is really cool
yeah i had to dress up for tonight
so the astronomical society of kansas city has been around since like 1925
and uh we have like 750 members something like that right
now but about i think it was like 15 15 or more years ago we decided we had
to have our own dark sky site we built our club observatory south of kansas city we call it powell
observatory because the powell family donated the money to build it it's about 25 20 25 miles south of where
i live but even there now um you know the light pollution is just
washing everything out and and it was in a city park of a small town called lewisburg but that's
where we would all go on the weekends to observe but it wasn't so hot anymore so we got looking around and we found
40 acres of land about an hour and a half drive south of us and it's just over the missouri line
near butler missouri and that's the rest of us a secret
unless you're coming so um and slowly but surely over over the
time we we added stuff to it the big thing we brought in first was saving our money for electricity
then we built a 40 by 60 foot building oh a great outhouse
fantabulous outhouse and then a shower building and we have a you know we have power grid out in the field and we can
take up to 20 some odd uh elect you know camper
hookups and then we have regular hookups and anyway but it's out in the middle of the boondocks trust me
and it's really dark and it's beautiful there so we've been having it every year
and it's the weekend of the 7th 8th and 9th of october same as oaky text
so um we're going to have some competition
but now let me see if i can share a screen
uh which one is it there's a green share screen button on the bottom i got that yeah but
now yeah and then you just pick the little application that you want
yeah i was trying to find huh well
let me i thought i don't know what i want to do i'm going to minimize i'm going to change this view
so i can see what i'm doing and then i can go over here and
now it's on the screen and now i'll come back over and share it
can you all see that not yet not yet okay now you have to click on the um
got it and then you have to commit to it there you go you're doing it hey cool
so this is where this gives you an idea was one weekend wasn't necessarily a star
party weekend but it's when we come down there and we have this and we're
located over a hill and through the woods so to speak so that there's no traffic out there and uh
it's out in the boonies so um let's see
there's there's a shot somebody put on the website uh just that's the view to the west of course
and uh there's some people setting up out there uh we have in our 40 by 60 foot building
we have we do a lot of talks in there we have a kitchen in there and um
it's a really nice building and with lots of tables and stuff like that however this year
we're not having anything in that building where everything is being catered we're not fixing it on site
we're having you know like barbecue brought in and all that stuff and so all the meals are
let's see we have until the 18th if you want to order meals is it what date is today
well we missed the we missed the date that's the 21st but you know you'd have
to bring your own food but anyway um uh so that's what we that's that and then
uh there's that's an instance of when good times when there's no
cova to deal with and uh we bring in a lot of good food and
and have door prizes and then there's a pretty flower oh here's a here's i'm going to just
play this because it while i talk this is a drone uh
movie here let's see if i can get it bigger ah there we go
so it's just uh kind of giving you an idea of the countryside but um
i wish i can you guys hear that music uh if you go back and stop sharing
all right stop staring moment stops yeah okay
all right and then go back and share and you'll see on the left hand corner there's something that says share sound
oh i have to click it yeah you check that box and go back and
uh click back in on the uh well right now it i don't want to click
it do i if you want to share the sound you do oh yeah
and then you go back and click your youtube thing and then share again i don't want you guys to hear that
okay well then you're fine don't click that and go back to your youtube okay
all right there it is it's very faint it's okay that's good
yeah it's just noisy it's a very uh friendly uh star party i've been to the star
party before um it is dark as jackie says and uh
uh david levy and i both went uh to this event together it was a lot of fun
uh actually not together he was going to um the linda hall library where he
donated his observing logs uh that's correct yeah
well that's the whole setup right there so it's not a huge star party but it's a fun star party the charm of
it we have um we're gonna have like geocaching for the
for a treasure hunt for the kids and oh let's see on friday night we're we we're
gonna have a really great speaker mr scott roberts himself
he's speaking friday night at seven o'clock my pleasure yeah and then uh on saturday
uh our speaker at seven o'clock is michael bockach uh you all know michael i'm sure he was
an editor of astronomy magazine a senior editor of astronomy magazine
he's uh contributing now but he's going to be talking about solar
we have lost your voice here jackie
i was hoping that wasn't me or maybe hoping it was it means knowing
have some issues on my internet and i thought i know
i wonder if that microphone's audio cut out i have that same problem with my
audio at times if i touch it right now you'll lose my audio too so
yeah that's it yeah it's as much as i know about computers i know that they can be
haunted sometimes i'm sorry everyone out there computers really are haunted we didn't want to tell you that
but uh jackie we can't yeah we've lost you you have an alternative mic
yeah i don't it happens the only thing i can suggest jackie is to unplug your usb
mic that you're talking in plug it back in and see if it picks up again
sometimes i feel when like alan grant in jurassic park when he touched the computers
no it didn't see if there's something you can select in zoom if you can reselect it
yeah yeah well i'll pick up where jackie left off okay the the she can still hear
us uh the heart of america's star party is um uh there's a link to it uh in this
posting and so you'll um i believe i have one here yeah it's the
uh the website is uh askc for the astronomical society of kansas city okay
uh dot org and you will find the heart of america's star party which uh just
the letters h-o-a-s-p is the acronym for it but um
uh you know that you will be uh welcome at the star party as i mentioned
it's uh you know it's a very tidy very um uh friendly star party they have uh they
when i went they had um you know uh hot coffee and things out there for the observers so
um when you know when you go uh you know it's it's uh
it's out uh out in the boondocks as as jackie said so you want to go
certainly before it gets dark okay and get set up and
if you have to leave uh you know they'll tell you where you can park your car but you're going to
have to park your car out of the uh area and walk in okay and then walk
out if if that's the way that you want to do this so but um jackie will be there herself and uh i
will be there also on the uh evening of the 8th
starting at 7 o'clock central and giving a talk on zoom so it'll be a lot of fun
i know some of my friends including paul and kathy
will be there so it's it's going to be you know it's going to be a great event as it always
is so jackie thank you for so much for coming on tonight and we'll have you on
again uh and i'll you know uh doing these kinds of things is all about
practice so so no problem up next thank you jackie up next is um
uh uh our one of our youngest uh uh stars that will be on uh the global
star party tonight uh libby and the stars is here with us and libby it's been a little while since
you've been on i know you've been busy at school i know you're planning on creating an astronomy club too
so yeah so i'm going to turn it over to you libby but uh libby's done gosh he's done
maybe 50 presentations uh with us and
she's always entertaining always informative and uh always passionate about the about the stars
so recently um i know i just started back school again i know last year i was virtual and
so when i was virtual i had all this time and my mom would joke of me and she would say any homework and i'd be like
it's all homework and so um it was like so
easy for me to be able to log on and now i come back to school where we actually have homework and stuff like that and it
takes up more than [Music] half my week
so um i really just started school again and i know i was virtual i really wanted
to start astronomy club but i couldn't another thing that really happened over the summer was i joined the mountain
biking crew because i just figured i'm one of those kids who just likes going out in nature you know
sean and me i used to do rock climbing now mountain biking so it's all this stuff
and so i really wanted to um start astronomy club for my school
and so i love going out in nature like i just said and i know there's plenty of kids
in my area who are like willing to go out and do all these adventures and stuff and i know there's plenty of areas
for us to go and look um i have my own my own observing area that i found on a
dirt road that's kind of in somebody's backyard and it's kind of on a rock road and it's
gorgeous and it's beautiful and that's always kind of my place where i go nice i do live in bentonville so there
is a lot of light pollution but i do find my way out to some more areas where it's a little bit
smaller northwest arkansas and so i wanted to start this because not only do i want to
make a clip like kids club about astronomy but i want to make it to where you know
you get to learn the experience of camping learn how to do mostly xiaomi learn you know learn about where to look
in the sky for stars and stuff like that and i thought you know i could do a club and
i wanted to do it for my school and i started to realize you know i come in the star party and i hear a lot of
you guys talk about how union old buddies all the way back then would go on like two to three hour road trips
just to look at the stars and so i was like yeah i want to do that
but then i realized that a teacher would be with us 24 7 because we have to have a teacher to sponsor
and there are two no probably about three really big problems with this which would be trying to find a teacher
to sponsor the club because i asked my teacher last year and she wasn't too you
know excited about it i asked my teacher this year and she was like uh i mean we're not really doing any astronomy
this year so be hard to find a teacher um and also be hard to carry a teacher with us 24 7
because you know with school they expect you to go to bed at like exactly 9 30 and you know while
you're doing astronomy you stay up till like two to four am observing and so
you know through the school there's a lot of red tape that just kind of blocks away you know kind of the fun rules about
astronomy you know staying up late and looking at the stars and going far places for astronomy
so i would have done it for this school but i decided another thing was i'd be able
to take my meetings elsewhere than the school because
where in a school is it is also very light polluted and we don't have a lot of and we don't
have telescopes at our school we don't really talk about astronomy yet in our school
so i decided i wanted to host a club myself because i've been wanting to do this for such a long time
and um the club will be hosted just between me and my whole family just
mostly me because my um my family is like you you can run the club
so um i hope in the future that i'll be able to do it virtually um i know for a month
or two i want to go ahead and get the physical club started and then once i'm getting you know pretty good with it and the team members
i'm going to see if i can open it up through zoom and um another fear i have is getting zoom
bombed and i don't have anybody to really like look for the people and interview them before they come to call
so right now i'm just going to kind of get used to the kids around my area in northwest arkansas and then i'm gonna
bring it to where we will be able to you know host it around the world because i know um
deep d and there's kids all over the state who are my friends at space kids all over the world who were in my
space camp cabins and they were like oh my gosh if you ever start a club i would love to join so once i get that going i
would love to join so currently for right now the first club meeting i'm like i will i've
planned to held on um this friday at 7 pm um
we still have not figured out yet the area but um we are going to figure out it to that
today or tomorrow because this is kind of like a last-minute thing i had my telescope out the other night doing some
reserving and i was like you know i think i should start a club this meet the meet will be this friday so
um we are still figuring out those details right now but um
once i get the details in i will um post on facebook i have a living the starters
page if you'd like to check that out and we plan to host it
in all different areas i know scott was willing to let me use the show um the showroom as an area for the club to meet
and i have a little spot in my neighborhood where it's nice to go and of course that little spot that i found
to myself on the road so um i really wanted to do that and another
thing i really really wanted to do was um i did the um
i got um a night at the observatory as one of the doorbell prizes for doing a
question and i still haven't done that yet because i've been waiting for a moment to share it with more people because
right now we've been in kind of a pickle with the whole world situation and so i just hope to keep it as a small
meeting right now and with zoom i can expand it more and um
i really wanted to do virtual telescopes because um i know before covid um scott was a person who
introduced me to astronomy really um his telescope was up at the square
and so i was like oh cool i might go see it so i feel like i can get people interested
without having to have them physically in person i know people can't because
um through sharing with virtual telescopes it'll be nice to um
be able to use technology like that and show kids uh like all this technology
that goes behind doing astronomy and stuff so um i hope to work with virtual telescopes
and um i hope soon enough to upgrade some of my telescopes so i can make it virtual or
get a camera to look for the lens so they can at least see what we're reserving so once i get that started i hope to
start up around the world and i also really just wanted to do this to get
more kids out in nature because i feel like um i know one of them like one of the
things i think about often is you know kids back all the way back then from when adults grew up um
you know everybody wanted toys records and stuff like that and then nowadays
all kids want is like oh i want a ps5 i want a computer i want an ipad i want an
iphone and so for me usually in my christmas list i
i'm always asking for like oh i want a telescope i want this new mountain biking gear i want like rock climbing
gear and you know i was like i i hope every other kid can you know see the good in nature because i spend a lot of
time out in nature and i go every single day i go to a trail and i
know on days that i do my practice for mountain biking there's just some times where it's getting a little late and i
can see the moon i just stop and i'm like wow wow i'm like look at this amazing view
and you know it's like this is something i'd see online and i'm like don't even think about that
right now because you know this is all they had back then the woods and it's just so amazing and
um it's just so much fun to go out there and actually do stuff and um i see that
there's like a lack of kids who actually want to go out in nature and i know that every single kid has a
desire to go to a muddy puddle and dig in it for worms go to the telescope and
look at the sky study a tree for two hours i'm like sometimes i just stare at a
rock and i'm like this is so cool this maybe came off a bigger rock
maybe this rock has been here since the prehistoric ages i'm like so many things
go for my mind i know every kid has that but you know every kid's just blocked by the blue screen
that they see every single day for multiple hours and so i hope to hold this for my uh through me
right now and then um i know for kids all around the world i will do that in a month or two for zoom
and stuff like that so the meeting um is this friday at 7 pm um i'm still
figuring out the details to where i want it uh my email is capital l libby
the capital a astronomer gmail.com um for any parents um i know for the kids
right now who are listening um don't come to me make sure your parents have information first before
you come to me and so we'll do um so you can email me there if you would
like to come and um i know in a day i'll probably post the location and the poster on post facebook for the meeting
on my page it'll be this living in the stars and i'll keep you guys updated about that
wonderful wonderful well libby you can count on uh explore scientific to give
you all the support that we can you know so we're i'm really excited for you and i think i'm very excited i'm like
you know yeah take the range just just do it you know because um
uh you know the uh often the problem of a lot of red tape
you know especially when you're going through a school and all of their restrictions and all the rest of the stuff that goes on with
uh you know that kind of thing it uh can really impede getting it it'll get in
the way of of what what you want to do and um you know uh i i will i'll tell you that
uh you know most people including kids okay
you know really are not i mean that takes the fun out of a lot of this but uh i know you can find a safe way to
do it um you you uh you work with the parents uh and the way that you're you
already mentioned i think everything will be fine so but uh i i
you you have resources like you i i think you can believe um
that will support you and uh help you get to whatever levels that you want to go to with your club
well thank you because i've been i've been so excited for this for a while because for a year i really wanted to do
it and i feel like um it's still covent is still 100 there um but i feel like now
that we found a kind of way to kind of make sure that we space out six feet and
you know for those who aren't fully vaccinated to keep their mask on and you know um
for kids and stuff and you know wipe down the equipment used and i feel like there's some more rules now
that can help us great libby thank you so much thank you for
having me on i'm so excited to do this so yeah i've been wanting to do it for probably at least a year and a half now
so right and you have talked about it during some of your programs and when we've interacted before i knew that you
wanted to do this so wonderful wonderful anything else you want to add
before i let you uh get before i let you go um to just want to give one more warning
for the kids who do want to come make sure your parents reach out to us and not just show up because um i do want to
make sure i'll be able to know how many kids are coming and stuff like that because i don't want
to be like okay we have five kids registered and then like 18 of them show up and i'd be like well i put
six duct tape marks where we can all sit six feet apart and i have to create eighteen more but
it's only five duct tape i will rather have eighteen million kids and five as
long as we're all good right yeah right well i would be remiss if i didn't
mention i think it's a pretty important initiative that you're doing um libby so
it i do hope that it's successful because it's it would be you and those
kids bringing about a much needed change in the way science is viewed
uh so i wish you the best of luck and you know i
i hope to follow along with how that happens and you have conal richards as kind of an example of what can happen
when you start a star party in your school and i'd love to see where this goes
so good luck with it and i hope some time that um even if i were to co-host a
star party i could have the members of the club join and stuff like that and we can kind of talk about and i know one of
the um one of the people in the star party sent me um sent me a whole bunch of sundials and
i'm so very grateful because now i've just started my club so um i get to be
able to share this with all the kids and be like this is like a sundial and this is how you use a star map and this is
how you use a dobsonian telescope this is how you use a newtonian and
yeah take your time uh try and reach the kids where they are and then pull them up to your level
yeah an overwhelmed child is like an overwhelmed adult we'll have look for that glaze look in the sky like
uh okay that's when you know it's time to tone it down but you'll get there just uh
remember to connect with your it'll be from um it'll be from
how to name each planet in its order to the concept of how mirrors work and
rainbows and the concept of light beams and radiation all steps on the way
i think right yeah this is we're listening to a young isaac newton here so
libby it's going to be awesome and i know you're going to have a blast doing it um so um when you're ready uh if there's
anything that you need uh certainly you can reach out to me of course there's people here that you can reach out to
including i'm sure david levy adrian bradley um many of us you know be happy i have a
bunch of books that i have from all my shopping i'm like oh my gosh i can't wait to share this in my club
yeah you'll do you'll do well um yeah you have all you say you have all
the reasons you don't have to do it alone remember just remember you don't have to do a loan you've got a lot of resources
anyone who's been on global star party i'm sure including us would help you out if you reach out to us so
don't be afraid to do that you burn out is real so yeah
it's six plus up there's no limit so y'all can join too
you know i'll join i think
i'm sure lots of people in our audience will join too uh-huh i would be glad
y'all can um get me through facebook living the stars and the email list capital l libby the
and kapolei the astronomer at gmail.com so capital make sure your
parents reach out first okay if we are parents we'll just reach
why don't you text me in the zoom chat here that email address and then i can i can
transfer it over to the chat okay thank you guys for having me on um
i know i have a lot of resources and i can't wait to get this going because um i've been wanting to do this for so long
and it's like finally it's come great great
okay so um up next is we go all the way from
uh where we are here broadcasting out of arkansas down to argentina and uh uh
with maxi falars and maxi uh is an amazing astrophotographer really
inspiring because uh maxie has taken you know he's another guy that has taken
fairly modest equipment and has done really amazing mind-blowing kind of astrophotography
uh and so uh he's he is also uh you know someone that's um uh
friendly encouraging and is also a force in astronomy down in argentina as well and i would add to
that force around the world because he's often on global star party where he's uh
uh interacting with astronomers that are on every corner of the earth so
uh maxie i'm gonna turn it over to you man thank you scott good night everyone
and and libby i want to say excellent for your work like i do like like you do
and you have too much to to work and
the the best is that you are very younger and
uh you have a the the status to you to your
friends so that's excellent well
well good night everyone tonight i i want to to talk about what i
what things happened a a couple days ago uh
for uh we have the the for the covet situation uh
the the case the goal goes down
for lacks of us and a couple weeks ago i talked with my
teacher in physics that i say he's a armando sandanel he's
the director of the is a southern sky a park in in my city she will go
and we we've been talking to to do some
a kind of observation to to say to the people okay let's go back to those
observations to to invite people of course with a
careful be careful with with the kobe situation but uh with the social distance and
everything uh but we we will talking
uh in what day will be happened and
we have the the last saturday uh at the at the evening a almost 5 00
p.m we start to to to grab our equipment
and wait to to the sun goes down and then well
for the lack of us the the people will have gone so
let me show you my screen okay do you see it yes
okay so yep as usual we're amazed with the uh
you you could stop there just that's it right there all right
okay now well uh this is the the player that we made
very fast this is a snap cap the screen capture of a skype portal and
we we promoted a info on facebook's page because
this was and days a few days before this i think it was
one week before because we didn't know how the weather it was going to be uh
here we are in the transition from the winter to the spring and
we have too much uh days with rain and too much days very dry so
um this saturday was a little like a little summer from here it was
very hot and well when the sun goes down
the temperature goes very well so this is a very single picture of what
they uh well what we're going to see at 29 or 7 p.m
and and then well well let me show you sorry er where's
the [Music] the the park well this is my city civil koi well this is the part of argentina
and the park is here in the south place of the city
he's in front of a soccer stadium of the city
and you can see is a um designed it like uh the the cardinals
uh uh pose the the south the north the west and the east
and and of course other places and this is a thematic park
i don't know if no i think this is a
a few a very old photo
these have some kind of of play
ground to to the young people to the youngest so but relationship with astronomy
uh well i this is going to see this part
and this is a place where sometimes we do some observations a rooftop but
this is like a charcoal stair and it goes inside of it also and where's the
sometimes do the meetings and chats to to show everyone um
we've been in this place uh and let me show you the the photos that i took
well this is me the selfie and this is a
we put a screen view to with a projector
i went with my old equip all all my equipment a notebook a
telescope mount and also my other maxwell telescope
to to do to play in two points for one place
do the projection and the other place see the people
allowed to people to see what a what it looked like to see uh
from the telescope uh also well this is my little mac
with a the star adventure mount this is a friend of mine arwen
he's a little dobson and we have some a kind of a
telescope also here in this park because we
we expected not too much people but the the expectation was very very good
uh like like you see the the youngest was amazing to see the moon maybe for
the first time and also we have the the pandemic situation for one year and a half and
they were very exciting and i i remember
a father that talked to me and said um
that his son was watching a
youtube videos of saturn jupiter and i think it has maybe four or five years
old and he saved me but i can see saturn from here yes of
course i have the telescope that to to see it
and like and it was pointed to there and it was freaking
a very very exciting that that child and also his parents
and well he's a part of his me and ruin we we were searching venus
because we have a almost 40 degrees at the west but we didn't point out that because
uh well i am maybe at the later i pondered there but
the people has left and this is a projection of the moon
uh well i like i say i went with my all
of what i all what i have a armando a allows me to
or and give me his a projector an epson and
when the sun goes down every time the the moon goes very very aligning so
uh well this is a dobsonian
um handmade from armando he did the the optics and the well
i think maybe the first time that you see a telescope with a square not a cylindric
it's very rare but it's very
manually it's very easy to to to manually 200 and
i think this nh 8 inches a telescope
so well this is more at the night uh [Music]
you can see the kids and the parents it was
having a lot of fun i can tell that's great yes yeah it was a a very good
evening and no i don't even know afternoon
yes afternoon and night um [Music]
and also the parents they was amazing to see jupiter with the moons a saturn with the
moons and of course the moon was the queen of the night right
and well he's a perspective wow look at that that's that's a nice presentation really
i yeah this is what um this
they say designed it almost a half an hour before of this
it was very like okay let let's put some some cables to to avoid the people come
here and and and to [Music] get a reward of the
equipment but it was very very amazing but you know
the people and the childhood the children and
loved more to see with with their own eyes with their own eyes and
um
this is green they don't they don't see it well they asked me
with my telescope we can see something here what you are sitting here
i say and then they realize that but they
think that it was a single picture or something but no i was projecting this and
when they see i through for example the maxwell and they
they have they blow their minds really and also the parents
i remember some moms that say hey can i take pictures of the moon of course
it was very with a manually but i i had them because
it's very very difficult sometimes and well this is a
this was pointing to to shupider and saturn in this case this is jupiter and we can
well this is very lightning but as the at the ice okay with your own eyes
they was able to see the the equatorial storms and the colors it was amazing and
also the moons and well
this is a very well you can see it is very light polluted around it because
you have neighborhoods you have the soccer stadium with the prefectures
but to to do observation of planets is go fine to those relations with it to a ds
o is very difficult depends of the object right right uh and in this case you can see i
was projecting saturn and well
i think it was a very a very good night uh the people were amazing
and well this is a single a a huge i i did this the the sunday
the the that's very nice actually after sorry
with the telescope and this is uh passing by through the moon
uh now this it was the last third day i think
and i was practicing with the camera and taking pictures of the moon and also
venus saturn but i didn't process yet so well this is my little presentation
and i can say i hope the next time [Music] we continue but i can say now
we come back we came back so
thank you everyone and thank you it looks like you you put on a
great urban astronomy event there and uh it's important to go where the people
are you know if you're doing astronomy outreach this is something that john dobson who he did a very special um
celebration john dobson's birthday um but the thing he always said is you need
to go where the people are you know and uh while amateur astronomers love to go
to where it's dark and and see the vastness of the milky way and all the rest of it especially in the southern
hemisphere they've got an incredible view of the milky way when you get to a
dark site um but equally important is is going into uh you know urban areas urban
parks and that kind of thing to share the love of the sky uh and the knowledge of the sky um right
there because a lot of people who live in cities even small towns they rarely look up you know and uh
uh you know the with uh even a modest telescope you can show them amazing
views and so i like the way that you guys have that kind of presentation i think it's excellent and uh
you know i'm sure you'll keep it up but uh uh it's it's wonderful that you could share that with us
well done well done maxie and of course we're looking forward to uh presentation this friday that you agreed
to do for us for astronomy at the beach um you know your pictures show how
regardless of what the situation is going on whether it be political or sports something within each of us
seems to stop when we when we look up at the night sky and that you had a lot of people that came out to see what's going
on and i'm sure there were a lot of very because they are curious yes yeah and and that's why you have to
to explode and and show well this is the moon you're a city mall
okay well seeing this with this telescope and whoa
yeah it's uh we have a phrase where you know today where there's a lot of
the misinformation things are going on we call it here let's let us show you something that's real and
you see it in their eyes that this is something they can count on it's
it's something that makes a lot of it makes sense it's like if they connect to it they're seeing they're seeing it in
detail exactly and when i i i remember when i
was showing people the moon and the planets uh also i have my lasso point a
pointer and and say okay well this is like you see this is a this is start no this is not
this is superior when like you see in this telescope well the the other one is saturn
it doesn't a star and at the west you're uh it's very shiny and venus and we we call the
lucero del alba in spanish uh the lighting um
but i don't know how to say it and well this is a
it doesn't start either this is venus and also
it were very low above the horizon that point that you see and then people
said yes we can say well that's even a star that's
mercury so you are watching four planets and the moon with your own eyes and
this is like uh like we talked sometimes with pika
uh to to get the the perspective of our
solar system and our planet neighborhood so i and people whoa
they they start to point every single planet and undermines and
there was like a very three-dimensional yeah it began to make sense there's a
picture i didn't show i decided to take a camera that i normally use my wildlife photography which i'll show you at some
point scott i think uh i hear you're a wildlife aficionado as well but uh i took that camera and just
aimed it at jupiter and saturn after i focused it on the moon and i snapped the photo and when you zoom into the photo
the saturn photo you see the rings it's like a small view
from a small telescope of saturn it's a handheld picture
a friend of mine i think kind of misunderstood it they were you know you need a barlow you need this or that and
i said the idea isn't to get a great picture here it's the fact that we can
see or take pictures of something so far away and yet
we have the ability to see that yeah it's uh it's pretty amazing and then you think about the milky way behind maxie
and go that's so far away you never you'd never reach it in your lifetime
but we can see it every single night and we can see these uh these stars and all of these uh
these galaxies allow us to see so far in the and if then you get um
technical with it we see so far in the past it's like it's like they're like time machines up there as well there's a
different there's different ways to present it but it's all amazing it's um we're sitting here on earth we're
stardust and we're able to see that we are we are selling astronomy
[Laughter] yeah we're going to uh take a break
we're going to take a 10-minute break and uh dt is going to bring on um astronomers from nepal from the nepal
astronomical society or nasa as they call it um but before we go uh centil who's
watching on youtube wanted to know what camera you're using maxie
right now the cwo 533 mc pro
but also well for now i'm not using my nikon they said well
uh a single nikon d80 with the well the the regular lens
but i will try to figure out with the
i i got by the the comma corrector to see if i can
very i will have maybe some verticals start with spikes and everything because
the the f5 corrector doesn't allow me so i i'm still working on it and
maybe in a couple weeks ago in a couple
weekends sorry maybe i will go to a farm of the frame of my brother
so i can do maybe some chats to andromeda or
yeah well i i don't know i'm still figuring out what i can tell
you make it up as you go along [Laughter] i i want to do everything that's passing by through
me but no i i had to learn to do
one object per night but yeah it's very difficult yeah that's no but i came to the same
conclusion um as long as i've either observed or imaged one thing
that's my i'm happy with that so if something else doesn't work out i'm not i'm not upset i'm not
throwing my camera around or throwing temper tantrums i'm okay i'm okay with what i have and i'll build
on it for the next time always there will be a next time yes yes yes they're well
all right so guys we're going to take a 10 minute break uh so it's time to go get a sandwich cup of coffee whatever
stretch your legs and um we'll be back with more with uh deepti gatom and the
nepal astronomical society
yep i'm going to i'll probably be stepping away from the actual uh
zoom but i'll be following along on live streams very interested in uh the uh
seeing the nepal society this ought to be very interesting um and maxie i will uh we will be
talking in a couple days yes yes uh we'll be in touch and well i hope it
will be okay and i didn't see that fine let me let's see the the weather is what's
going to be the friday right yeah yeah it's not too cloudy friday
well but it changed something and maybe
the the [Music] 41 of
or clouds sorry and but let's see
but tomorrow we're going to be a rain rainy day but the third the thursday and friday
not uh it will be like but a very warm day
but maybe the the the the wind
may be a problem and clean the the the day well at the nice days there there will
not going to be clouds well i hope so
yeah okay we'll see i mean as you know um like we do every time as
soon as you fire up the computer and your background image comes up with the solar eclipse that's usually that's
usually that image it's such a good image i think it was it's what i saw through
my uh telescope when i was looking at the total solar eclipse in 2017.
um your image captures what i was seeing with the prominences and the moon blocking it and everything so it's it's
an image i hope to be able to get for myself um yeah there's a couple ways i may try i
may i may just hand hold it um because then i can you know i can look at it i can just take a quick
handhold shot of it and then zoom in that way that might be that might be all i do i
want to keep it simple i have a spotting scope as well so and it has a solar filter
so you know there's there are some options that in this case it wasn't
with a solar filter yeah yeah that was without one but yeah i can until moment
of totality i can have the solar uh filter then i can pull it out it would be rusty yeah
and try not to move it so that it you know it's off track but uh so those are some i've got some options to think
about i don't know if i want to bring big equipment um but then again the bigger the equipment
the better the look maybe the the the eight um 80
millimeters the reflector the upper chromatic maybe
with the camera it will give you a very good uh
well the very good fob and field of view field of view and
and a perfect a center well the eclipse i think is a very good
option to to use a very light equipment
yeah and that i can do it with the uh 600 millimeter lens that i have
um may work as well so uh all right well i am gonna have to turn
in i had to drum up some energy um but uh i'll be following along online
uh excellent presentation um i did note that you all were you were sharing eyepieces everyone was masked
and everyone had a great time so it's interesting to see the different ways that we're
astronomy clubs are coming back from the pandemic and uh
i'm encouraged by the way that you all look like you're basically with the masking so that there was less risk and
if uh you know if the you know people there are vaccinated it i'm sure it helped but
it's encouraging to see attempts to bring back the uh outdoor
person-to-person astronomy it's uh we're in the states some of us are doing
it but others are you know some of the groups i'm a part of are still hesitant to do that
um so we're all trying to navigate it together so so that was good to see i was glad to i
was glad to see the people and the people are still interested in anything with space it almost doesn't matter what
what's going on um whatever you
wherever you are these things are visible all over the world and you can go out
and see them so so excellent i'll be uh we'll be catching up with you um soon you are on
that website glac.org they've got you listed as uh doing the southern hemisphere so
uh southern hemisphere uh live viewing or or just images if the weather if it's too windy the weather
um then i think it folks will be delighted to see
a few of the images you've done of your skies over the years it'll be just fine so
so we have flexibility okay yeah and i'm gonna be doing i'm gonna be doing observation
i observed through clouds i observed uh altair i observed sagitta and i observed the
code hanger couldn't see any of it and it was in a parking lot but the binoculars i had i was able to see
though so i'll be doing a lot of that when i go to the star party next week
excellent yep all righty i will see you soon
my good friend and uh enjoy actually see livy took off uh two minutes
and i'll be i'll be tuning in on facebook to watch the rest of it okay billy billy's astro i see you
running on no sleep up all last night that's been my whole life so for billy's astro out there yeah i know what that is
uh so uh yeah well we hopefully we'll get some rest at some
point all right amen okay all right good take care and we'll be in touch yes
see you now
ever since the big bang dark matter's gravity has been drawing
the universe together once astronomers realize this they begin
to wonder what this might mean for the future we know the universe is filled with
ordinary matter it's chock full of dark matter the gravitational tug of all that
matter should have sort of slowed the rate at which the universe as a whole continued to expand
maybe the expansion itself could literally halt maybe even leading to a reverse big bang
the big crunch think about the simple act of throwing a ball every time i throw the ball up
gravity will slow it down and at some point we'll pull it
back to earth so could this happen to all the stuff in the universe
we know that everything in the universe is flying outward right now but how long will that last
could it be like this ball [Music]
slowing down eventually reversing direction and returning to where it came from
what would that mean for the future of the universe
hello everybody this is scott roberts here with uh the explore alliance and you're watching
the 63rd global star party um we're now in the second session of
of this event and uh we are we have astronomers uh
waiting in the wings here from nepal uh with the nepal astronomical society or
nassau as they call it uh i'm going to turn this back over to you deepti um
are you uh are you there oh my hell is good uh actually i'm a switch to mobile
because i got some problem in laptops so i'm unable to open up my camera
okay okay uh hello everyone uh again i would like to welcome you all in
the sixth car party and the team updates global star party is starters and today we have a
kiss some guests from nepal all the way over with me and myself
so first of all i like to introduce all the four members uh we have we have since
and now we will begin from the ocean he is undergraduate student uh
interested in space science and cultural astronomy and today he is going to talk about our
experiment with the spine in the sky in the project called cubes in space which
is organized by naso associated with skips in space so fluid flows to you
thank you thank you so much deepti and hello everyone namaste um
i hope my screen is visible yes yes visible
namaste once again so i'm a high school i'm an undergrad uh
undergraduate student and a junior member of nepal astronomical society and today i'll be talking about my
experience of designing a space experiment and flying from nasa so it flew from nasa saudi arabia
so let's begin tada so in april uh nepal astronomical
society organized a program called cube in space nasa 2021 in the collaboration of tips in space and i do deal video inc
so yeah the program was from april 10 to may 2020 to 2021
so in the program there were 55 participants from all over nepal and those were the secondary and high school
students so in the uh among those 55 participants they were the motive of the program was
to teach them about how a science or experiment is designed to be sent to
this space and the hidden motive was to give those historians a hands on a hands-on
participation on to think about the hustles like like how do scientists and
engineers uh do while designing an experiment how to think like a scientist an engineer while designing an
experiment so it was an opportunity to give them a hands-on experience so in
those uh among those 55 participants those were divided into 15 teams and at the end of the program each
team was asked to propose an experiment that they would like to flow to the space and each team proposed and among those
two among those 15 experiments proposed experiments two were selected to be flown to the space one verse for
sounding rocket and the other one was for zero percent blue and fortunately our team experiment was selected uh for
the sounding rocket so these are these are my teammates and uh uh we were at team number 15. so the title was our xp
of our experiment was the effect of ionizing radiation on the size of stars molecules in solution oblique and the
powder form so the program was organized during the kobe time so we didn't had the physical
meetup so we had to come up with best idea from the simplest thing and the simplest thing that we had was ooh lick
so oblique is simply a mixture of cornstarch and water so that's the simplest thing that
that anyone has known ever so we thought okay let's that's the simplest thing that we know right now and we are in
global situations so let's make the best outcome of it so we went and
we did uh further research and uh and so let's talk about non-nutrient fluid so oblique is a non-nutrient fluid
so here's a small video
so yeah the unique thing of any non-nutrient fluid is that it doesn't act like a normal liquid so when you
just stir it up it doesn't apply any force or pressure to it it just acts like a normal liquid but when a force is
applied to it it just gets solidifies and acts like a damping substance so it
dimes the force or release the force so that's the uni feature and we thought okay that's that's cool that's really
cool so we could use that in our experiment in space so we thought and
this space is full of uncertainties so there are small debris there are small
meteorites that could hit our spacesuits astronauts and our missioners in space
so yeah oblique damping uh damping uh features could be used in spaces and
machineries for the protection they could also be used in soft absorption in spacecraft machinery
they could help us to strengthen cabler by soaking it uh in it in oblique or any
of the non-neutrinous fluid and also it could be used in bulletproofing filling potholes packaging delicate payload and
also do to increase the effectiveness of helmets and also to develop silver the
non-newtonian fluid non-union uh fluid dynamics is one of the least experts for
expl explore the fields in the terms of scientific in the in the philips scientific data so this could help
the scientists to develop a mathematical models and direct further research and development in this field
so the main objective was objective of the program was to
make students eligible of designing an experiment of their own autism or to
make them able to think like a real scientist and engineer so
to design an experiment the first thing you have to need you need is an entity
entities as a user subject that you are that you are going to do your research on so our one was oblique
cornstarch and uh cornstarch powder after that so why you want to do this
experiment so what's the reason that you are doing the experiment doing this experiment the first one would be like
uh what are the problems in the field of your entity and what's the real earth
and uh space based problems that could be solved by your experiment or that
could be uh targeted by your experiment so we have to go through that we have to
think uh on those specific after that we have to go for the background research we have to go for the background ratios
like what research has been what experiments has been done till the date are regarding the entity or the
experiment that we are proposing so on the basis of all those research all those brainstorming now we have a farm
base now and now standing on that base now we have to hypothesize the the outcome of our
experiment so the outcome so how we hypo our hypothesis was if 30 ml of oblique
and the ratio of two is to one and 40 gram of cornstarch are exposed to ionizing radiation during their flight
in the lower thermosphere then the size of starch molecules will increase by 10 percent so these were this this was our
hypothesis so uh the whole experiment that the name of
the x of the program was cubes in space so there's a cube that would be taken to this place so our whole experiment has
to be fitted inside the cube so when i first saw the cube it is that small you can see in the picture uh which is being
shown in the screen so when i first saw that it keeps so easy the first thing that came across my mind like isn't that
too small for us where uh we can fit our exponent because in high school we were like used to see big laboratories big
instruments for our experiment and that cube is so so small uh uh for doing an
experiment so that was my first that was the first thought that came actual across my mind when i saw the image but
later on during the campaign i got cleared okay science and science and experiment can
be done anywhere and can be fitted anywhere so these were our experimented designs
so these were the diagrams of our experiment of a cube that was sent to
the space with the help of nasa's sounding rocket so after all those
hustles after all those yeah months of planning and
and those uh brainstormings learning things unlearning the
outdated things and learning and correcting ourselves we proposed uh an an experiment and after the continuous
presentation uh we got selected and finally we had a liftoff
so on july 25 2021 our space experiment was flown to the space with the help of
nasa's uh sounding rocket from nasa's wallops flight facility and our experiment
was flown to the space so the whole duration of the flight was around 16 minutes uh it flew uh and uh it flew in
the sol orbital uh the so that the duration of the orbital flight was around seven to eight minutes and the
the the micro uh and the and the rocket went through the microgravity for around
two to three minutes so the in the whole 15 minutes our experiment got exposed to space and the ionization
so this is my journey of how i trained a dream of designing an experiment and
sending it to the space with the help of nasa's rocket so thank you so much thank you so much for
listening to me thank you so much for uh getting me on board on this global start party i'm really grateful to uh tipti
and scott roberts so thank you so much
yeah thank you so much that's wonderful that's wonderful i had never seen this uh type of uh
material before so the the uh it makes me want to uh
get some myself to play with so it's so so so unique that uh the
non-nutrient fluid features is such unique that when you just uh don't just when you play with it it gets liquid
liquidified but when you just add your force on it it solidifies so it's so unique so it's a kind of a material that
you can play with kids it's the simplest thing but we made this outcome out of it wonderful wonderful very cool very cool
okay so uh deepti uh do you want to bring on the next speaker yeah first of all thank you so much
awesome for bringing up your presentations and we really love it now moving to our uh
the answers to his high high school level graduate student now he's in gapier and he is one
of the honorable mention of international olympiad and similarly uh he is busy uh in
college and and he is busy in some of the astronomical programs and
similarly he is involved in uh asteroid sourcing so
i would like to give hanover this platform
thank you very much hello
i am a high school graduate from nepal and i am currently in a graph here with the objective of
applying to colleges in united states uh so i have been doing i like to be mentioned
all here uh i have been doing some astronomy outreach and different programs related to astronomy like
asteroids training i have been participating in that as a major in the past few years i've been
participating it as a participant hunting asteroids so yeah
i have been doing um a few activities uh regarding to astronomy right now
so first of all thank you very much to deepti and scott roberts for the invitation uh again it's good to be back
uh here i was here on the 50th global star party and i really enjoyed the company
at that time and i was enjoying the presentations of the earlier speakers as well so yeah it's
good to be back so today i will be talking about like the theme of today's status so how it
relates to life and more specifically how the advancement in space technology
has contributed to us to human beings in day-to-day basis
so first of all starting off with like how how our life is connected with stars and how we are comprised of stardust
so if we study the different elements and the atoms are that are present in our
body we we will find that majority of them will also be present on the
core of the morning star like this this this was discovered by uh
different techniques from and it has evolved and it has been sophisticated over the years
but uh the primary primary function the primary way to do that was spectroscopy so
we take the spectral spectrum spectroscopy uh graph of the stars and compare it with the
elements we have discovered until now and we find out what elements uh
the style is comprised stuff and by analyzing it with the same with our
human body we we found that the abundant of our elements found in our human body are
also in the core of stars so like um the majority of those elements are found
in the central region of the galaxy but majorly uh the main fewer heavy elements and of life
building buffs such as oxygen are found on the stars on the outskirts of the galaxy like our sun
so uh this is how we are made of the stardust so let's move on to like um how
the space scientist advancements and technology has transformed our society
so there has been many inventions like there had been many inventions that has
directly impacted our life which would which would have not been possible if it was not for the space but uh many people
in many people in general think that and the investment in space science and
technology uh sending rockets or space satellite or different telescopes on space it's just
a waste of time and money so what they are getting wrong is that um
different inventions and discoveries that have been made uh throughout this process of space advancement have
directly impacted their own lives um and i will share a few examples um about the
intentions that has um really helped us in day-to-day life right well one of the
one of the great examples will be led light emitting diode so these were first developed as a light source to grow
plants in space so while they release a waves of light 10 times brighter than the sun led provides high efficiency
high energy efficiency and virtually no heat so this has not only resulted in more
energy efficient light sources in our homes and facilities but it has also been discovered that leds can activate
light sensitive drugs used to treat tumors that when injected intravenously
can completely destroy cancer cells without causing extensive extensive damage to the surrounding tissue so like
we can see a huge application of the led in our day-to-day life so it was
first designed to work in space like so like another example will be the
development of the water purification so after table uh so first manned space
missions will comprise of the filter waters uh filter waters and nasa modified this uh
water purification technology to put uh it in the use globally so
now thanks to now cervix uh at hydrex areas areas can gain access to advanced water
filtration and purification systems which has resulted in life's saving strides towards human survival on a
planetary labor so likewise another example can be like we
used to uh so we used to send satellites to space uh meteorological satellites or ecological satellites uh we can say that
so to um to analyze the ecological systems all over the art like we were uh comparing
that we were analyzing those stuffs um by looking at the greenery here on earth
and uh when they turn on yellowish or brownish we used to think
that the plants are on in on the stress and about to uh go some major changes uh
like that that was a efficient technique until uh sometimes it was too late uh to
protect some of the plants and some of them evidence living near it so
what uh what came up was one the satellite which was measuring the carbon dioxide emissions from the plants um
from in the space discovered a wavelength uh that was new
to any of that uh was observed from the sun so
what we found that what the scientists found that that the wavelengths were actually impeded by the
plants this phenomena is also known as the chlorophyll fluorescence so this chlorophyll fluorescence help us to
know when the plant is going through a major transformation like the concentration of oxygen and carbon
dioxide level of taking in and out of those elements
of those compounds uh we're tracked by this chlorophyll fluorescence so by this help by this new technology of
chlorophyll since we are scientists are able to attract different uh
major transformation in ecological systems all around the globe this helps this has helped to um
prevent or avoid to some extent drought in amazon and seven eye areas as well so
likewise uh the other major uh special technology advancement
that has helped in us in our day-to-day life basis for is a pill transmitter so please feel transmitter for where first
created to act as a manifestable and effective way to monitor the health of the astronauts so uh in theory the field
size gadgets would be swallowed and that then would attract the temperature blood pressure and all the right signs
of its subject so this has gone this technology has done several trials and it has been used as a
way to monitor the health of fetuses in the womb so
this has been developed over time to uh look at the different um things going uh inside the human body as
well so likewise there are many other as well like mri scan the first
though the credit doesn't directly go to nasa but the scanning method has been inspired the mri technique
technology has been inspired by the scanning method used by the nasa uh at first
so this uh this especially advancement and technology
that has helped us um has often been overlooked by different uh different people and the one of the main
reason why this is is because of the existing myths and superstitions existing in our society
so in context of nepal um people usually like
in this pandemic when the times are extreme people
are generally seen outside of their home wearing wearing or not wearing masks and
following zero to most to non safety precautions but in the time of solar eclipse you can find no one in the
people literally no one so the road will be empty uh all the people will start there certain cells inside the house
they think that the solar eclipse will affect them in some advanced way and uh
and that that will be and that it is not good to go out in the solar eclipse so what we
are doing uh from the astronomical society itself is we have been conducting live solar solar eclipse
observation interaction program in types of solar eclipse um so to tell people that it is
harmful in a way like it is not good to directly see the sun during solar eclipse
but it is uh possible to use solar filters uh and solar glasses to wash the
solar eclipse and observe the phenomena safely and it does not have a major advanced effect in our lives as well
so likewise uh another instant um article is when it was the time of the
conduction of jupiter and saturn so at the time people thought that the planets
are closing in some huge things some huge disaster is coming up uh they used to think that so
at the time also we had we had nepal astronomical society had conducted um observation programs where we watched
jupiter and saturn within the one frame of a telescope so it was really cool to see that
so we have been making aware of people about these activities that they are not
harmful at all to us by organizing different events and organization as well
so likewise contribute in addition to this we have been emphasizing awareness about significance of understanding outer
space and development stability to it by different
programs uh programs or as you like to say weekly bulletin we we make uh we broadcast nasa weekly
platinum and we compri uh it consists of different um national international current affairs uh about the
astronomical events and the events happening in our country inside our country major developments in this field
uh and so on so this had this held this has certainly helped us to debunk some
of the made sensible stations related to astronomy in general as well so likewise another uh major activity we
uh nasa has been doing is um the asteroid source campaign and asteroids training so
so when the general people will think about the asteroid the the first pixel that comes to their mind is that the
asteroid heading to us are or it is always harmful so like it is it is partially true
like some of the asteroids are hazardous to art as well but uh the fear often
overtakes the belief of uh overtakes the beliefs they hold and to address this um
nepal astronomical society has been conducting asteroids campaign to identify near objects
asteroids since a very long time and like i mentioned earlier i've been working as a major out there as well i was a
participant few years ago so it has been really fruitful to uh widespread the
importance of astronomy in general in general public so we have participated from participants uh in that campaign
from age seven to is 60 from different countries primarily
from nepal but uh we have been collaborating with different other nations as well uh to get them in this
program um so likewise so one of the main things like i mentioned in
the last global star party as well it was we have been doing outreach programs in different parts of the country so before pandemic it was more easier to
do that but in this time of dynamic also we are following safety majors and where it is the best to do those programs we
have been doing some of the programs and we will be up and running when the situation gets too new and the
safer normal as well so yeah in conclusion um
the general public from our nation from our community as well from the different side of the worlds
are afraid of many things related to space and they are uh afraid that the
time and effort and energy invested on these kinds of things are not meaningful at all but
we have everything we have different uh technological evidence and proofs just so that that they are not true at all so
we have been doing and activities as well as we as much as we can and from the support of
scientific usa also we have been doing different um programs and we would like to continue that in the
future as well so thank you very much for having me uh thank you once again to deeply and scott
roberts for the invitation um hope to see you also thank you
well you are welcome back anytime including any of the people that are presenting here so
we love to have people from around the world participating in global star party
um you know it is uh still amazing to me that uh
people uh can somehow think that the end of the world is coming because of some sort of
astronomical event you know like an eclipse or an alignment of the planets or something
like that there's always stories that circulate about that so you know
scientific literacy is very important uh in this world we have many challenges that we have to overcome
as as a global community of humans uh you know
trying to share resources and make the best of our lives and so you know we're we're very
adaptable uh you know i think that we will find solutions but uh one of the
things that is very very important that most amateur astronomers can do is help
dispel uh some of the myths of uh of of things that are associated with uh
astronomical events um and so i'm glad that you guys are doing
that uh that work out there in nepal and uh you know certainly uh if there's any
way that we can support that um support your work uh let us know but in the meantime getting the word out is very
important and being on a program like this where anyone can watch it is
got to help a little bit so thank you very much dt you want to bring on the next speaker
uh thank you mr um for your presentation now i'm bringing up the young guest
that's uh deepin gimire uh he is 13 years old and he's also involved in his junior
member of nepal astronomical society and um he is the he's searching astro he's involved in
street source campaign too and uh especially uh he explore himself and
create a video and upload in youtube too and you have been interested in
astronomy is the science uh so uh today he is going to talk about the stardust in the team
so giving dipping you can be
everyone and uh thank you deepti gumthamdivi and uh scott roberts for inviting me i am deepin nimiray from
nepal and i am 13 years old and today i am going to talk about uh stardust
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so when a star runs uh when a star reaches
a certain size here it uh uh it starts a process called a nuclear
fusion which forms a heavy elements such as oxygen carbon and helium uh and this
process keeps going on and uh we know that uh there is a balance
between gravity which pushes the star inside an oppressor which the star outside from the core
but when the star runs out of fuel the uh the pressure pushing outwards drops
which makes the star collapse and the collapse happens so quickly that uh it generates some kind of
soft waves which makes the star to explode and uh due to that explosion um
all the heavy elements and uh hydrogen atoms spread far away in space in the form of stardust
and later that stardust and the helium hydrogen atoms feel the
force of gravity and they come closer and they form another star
and uh the remaining starters to form heavenly bodies such as uh planets meteors
asteroids etc uh end up
and uh after the formation of star and a sun and before the formation of
planets uh the the plasma uh the plasma in the sun uh
or the hydrogen ions was pushed by the solar winds of the sun at that time
so uh at that time it was pushed far away and the star dust
included oxygen in them so the stardust and then the hydrogen ions combined
together and then formed a little uh amount of water and uh the water was
carried by the starters and the the star stardust which carried water was
later formed into comets and uh asteroids and the water was frozen into
those comets and asteroids and uh in the late heavy uh bombardment period the
the meteors and asteroids uh came into earth and collided with earth
and at that time scientists believed that water on earth was brought
after the late heavy bombardment period and uh other essential ailments to form life
was formed uh was brought to earth after the late heavy bombardment period so
so stardust routes all the elements and uh creates planets heavenly bodies
estrogen so stardust makes life possible so that's all thank you
that was brilliant fantastic depend thank you so much for
coming on to our program uh have you been involved how long have you
been involved in astronomy so far uh like three years
three years okay yeah that's great that's great and do you do you have a telescope now that you're using or
yes i have wonderful wonderful that's great and you belong telescope is of explore
scientific oh really and i i used your tutorial to set it up
uh that there was a video in youtube oh thank you that's great that's great well
wonderful i i hope that you consider coming back on to the global star party again so
uh you're always welcome that's great okay um
wonderful uh deepti you want to introduce your next speaker uh thank you deepin uh for research
presentations right now i'm introducing um miss monisa
uh since the project coordinator of nepal astronomical society in eastern photographer of nepal
and i like to hand over this stage to you ma'am
thank you deepti hello everyone good morning from nepal
um good morning thank you once again hi scott so i have been hearing about
you from suris and finally i got to be with you today so uh as deeply mentioned my name is
manisha i have been involved with nepal astronomical society since 2013
and then i must say there is no looking back since then if you are interested in this subject
matter um currently i'm pursuing my amphibious education although like i have my
graduation in uh physics with astrophysics and plasma physics as my majors
since i joined the ballistic missile society we have been dealing with um we are trying to reach the community at
the outreach at first although like we are slowly now moving down to education and research domains as well um we have
been doing a lot of programs and i should say like students like deepi osuraz ocean and even dipin yeah uh they
have been the part of this journey and looking at them i can proudly say like
they are our success stories in fact so uh it has been very hard here i guess
like everywhere but um when when i have to talk about nepal it has been very hard to like go to the
community and let people understand what actually science is and answer has also just already mentioned about the taboos
and the things like that regarding these eclipses and let's say like even the solar hellos and all yeah so i thought i
should master myself somehow to uh
to like network between to make this connection between science and community that's why i felt like stem education
could be uh one of the door that i can i can actually uh move
forward with ease try to understand like what i should do and what i shouldn't do
so this has been very helpful uh for me um after i joined this uh
subject um and i uh today like i will be sharing
about like what i do what we do and the challenges and i will be saying something about astrophotography
um so uh before i used i i i wanted to do everything
everything you know like i wanted to go and reach out to the community i used to sell like i want to do research and this
and that everything yeah but later on uh after i started working i realized like
what what my january actually was so today i am very much focused particularly in kids and
girls and women in system education in fact and i we are using astronomy as
tool space science as a tool to go to this group of people now
uh that's why sometimes suryas being the chairperson of astronomical society he used to say
like once you are getting biased because i'm i'm looking more towards this kids and women's section rather than the
overall uh programs that nasa is handling so um we even started uh
women in science award in 2017 um after i went to a forum this high
level forum in dubai where we had this woman in space networking and breakfast session i realized that the importance
of women in the in in the factory sector of science and technology as well so we started this
award we actually wanted to uh award uh women and girls from nepal uh in
astronomy who were involved in astronomy in science but later on we realized like it is it it would be very narrow and the
number of uh this woman and girl uh particularly acting in this area were very less so we open it all to like stem
and since then we had a very good number like increasing every year and
once the season is like completes then we start getting emails like when we are going to open
the uh application for applications for the coming next year so uh this has also
been one of the success story in case of um bringing like what i what we what i
know what i'm doing in the field of science and technology system in nepal um so beside that uh
i love uh getting engaged with uh students i already mentioned so like i'm
trying to research for community school because when you when you like where if i keep on surahs and
answers and some students from a community school who are equally capable uh even though i know their uh
ability we can see the student from community school like unable to cope with students like ansuras or let's say
deepin you know so in that case i felt like we have to give some sort of equal
opportunity to student from um this sector as well i'm mentioning about community school the gap between
community and institutional private school in april is very big and uh and like
uh even like they are equally capable and like they are good in all regards you know they are more like i am unable
to do like like i cannot cope with these people like i'm not of the same standard or same level you know that's why like
we are trying to introduce this force to these students in particular so we i'm also uh
communicating as much as i can with female science teachers and i am more interested in school which is lead by
science female principle irrespective of their subject but if
they are from science education uh science field and that is very easy to miss to let them
understand because we share similar interests and we say similar challenge challenges as well
so it has been a challenge to bring astronomy and space science to nepal um in nepal community but
even i was questioned by my family time timing often but now they have understood like what i am up to and they
are supporting me morally so that is uh the most rewarding things and like i
used to get more by my friends even like um when i whenever i used to go for this
astrophotography and sometimes when i i was used to get nominated by um
different uh international in different national international programs they were like oh
um you are uh you are going time and um
like different places you know you are living a sort of luxury life um so is this what you got like uh with
this astronomy things and all you know um they are used to mocking me like that and
uh i stopped talking to some of them because that was really painful at times
but then to some of them who were quite close i used to tell them like you have seen
me traveling but have you seen like the struggles that i have to go through to uh make this place for myself yeah
and nowadays many of my friends they used to write text me saying that i want to make my daughter like you you know
and that is very rewarding to hear but still but
i'm used to asking them like are you sure because the path is not going to be very easy and
can you bear if your daughter has to go through the similar sort of mockings and similar sort of painful scenarios that i
have gone through you know and they are like yeah you are you are craving a path for younger youngsters uh
like my daughters or like my sisters or some or something like that so ditty has been a very good clear example like and
she is even a professional coordinator for wall space nepal uh for the year 2021 and i'm very
much uh impressed and like i i even sometimes and be like why i wasn't like
her when i was off her age you see so deeply congratulations once again
so uh talking about astrophotography and this has also been a very uh hard journey but like uh i'm able to capture
some of the celestial happening that that i can with whatever is just available and sometimes people
nepali people people from my community they used to uh ask me some question
which i used to think like well uh they are trying to interact me but actually uh
actually like they were challenging like this is not a picture some international uh photographer takes you know you are
at a very basic level or something like that and i'm used to um i don't i don't tell them anything because like they
have get this powerful than what i have i have this canon 600d since 2013 and
i'm using the same thing till today and uh
and now it is broken and i have to keep it in the surf so like even the photography
is like not taking place right at the moment so um the fact is i am trying to do
things with whatever possible resources that i have so it is something like i need not uh like
compete with anyone you know it's better if you are doing things if you are taking me as an inspiration or a uh
catalyst that could help you uh realize your dream you know but like i have
taken some of this um uh landscape astrophotography that is what i can do at the moment and some of the
pictures of planets uh jupiter chatroom of course and moon and marsh uh
uh yeah this um conjunction and uh mostly i love taking pictures of
meteor shower and meteorites and i have captured gemini's
units and quadrant it and
um the next one i forgot that occurs around
units okay so these are the pictures that i have taken and that has been featured in some of the popular uh
social media platforms in nepal as well uh so many of them they know me as a
girl who are a lady who is taking a picture of night sky you know so people generally it is
hard to let people understand the term astro astronomy or astrophotography so if i
have to uh make it clear to them what astrophotography or like what i do i i
sometimes used to say like that i'm the girl who take the picture of night sky you know it's not astrophotography
because if i say so photography they will bring out all these manipulated pictures and all you know and then like they start like can you do like this and
then something like that so um even here uh sometimes i have to um
i have to um reach out to the people telling them like we have some ethics in astrophotography as well because uh to
make their picture look beautiful and quite catchy like they are manipulating it to
this extent that sometimes i feel like crying because if they are taking a picture of moon let's say a full moon
and in order to make it beautiful and to and and like people generally they are
always in the run to let their pictures or like their articles published in paper and something you know so like
they are yeah they are like taking pic like they
they are actually manipulating pictures in such a way that sometimes it feels uh like uh
[Music] they they like i can understand you know the position of my places uh so
uh even though the the moon goes from east to west they are they are taking the picture of the moon
completely in the north and in the south which is actually totally wrong so
so it is still like a long way to go uh to let people know and uh understand the
ethics that it holds as even like
talking about talking about if they are taking the picture of milky way uh it is completely white or completely washed
out the exposure is too high and the color they put is you know too extreme that
it feels that something like there is there is something in the sky which uh
has to be visible with the naked eye from whatever where whatever location we are in
so similarly like in case of uh like this pink moon blue moon or strawberry moon you know they they just fill the
moon with the color and like they make it pink they make it red or then
so people they are generally uh instead of like getting to the depth of something uh
they are just trying to be famous um with the surface with the word
they hear and they try to relate the things which actually doesn't happen so this is the um
this is the actually the condition of your like while dealing with the yacht you know and if you ask them to like you
have to improve this and this is wrong and they come they try to
argue with us so you know but i hope in time they will understand um
so if the if the condition of youth is like that uh you can anyone can actually
relate like how hard it is for us to let people especially the people the older
generation to understand the uh help them to remove all these uh
superstitions and this tables from their heart and mind so like we are working um
in this field it has been hard but i know like this is not impossible because
uh now many people understand meteor meteor shower and uh
it's good to see like so many um young people with gadgets they are into
like taking pictures and making astronomy accessible to everyone
so thank you wonderful wonderful you know the uh uh the hardships that you're
experiencing uh you know i mean it's it's very tough to hear that and to uh
you know know that you're you're that there is this struggle but uh it's
inspiring that you are continuing on and um you know because you know what's
right and uh um you know and you're doing the you're
doing the hard work that it takes to bring up uh your community and so i i
think it's wonderful um and i hope that uh soon you're you're better recognized uh
for the work that you're doing uh certainly um uh you know the
um uh you know the more presentations that you can give uh that are kind of on a on
on you know on a more global awareness type of uh uh avenue uh will will help
um but uh you know there are still those that uh fight against uh
all logic and and and we'll hold on to uh
you know uh uh you know the you know old old notions of of what they
might have heard you know the myths and uh um these kinds of things so you i think
that you that we all have to respect um uh you know the culture and we all have to
respect um uh ideas that people have long held but uh you know if we want to understand
nature and unders ultimately understand more about ourselves uh science is uh really the the the main
path that we have now you know uh the way that we use science to increase our
awareness of nature and how that uh science can benefit us uh in the long
term so wonderful wonderful thank you very much
um for that presentation thank you and uh dt do you also have a
special presentation yourself yeah i have i haven't prepared a presentation but i have some
quotes about the stardust and i have prepared a poem related to i talked to
the moon in the topic of i talked to the moon and i have got a very beautiful uh
poem uh in the internet about the stardust and i'll uh okay to
try to be first of all i'll start by the scientist carl sagan's uh same any time
that we are start stuff from the nitrogen in our dna and the
calcium in our teeth and the iron in our blood it's a great human interest story that
we are now able to map the evidence to all the major elements found in the
human body and across the 100 or across hundreds of thousands of star in our
milky way and which is said by the jennifer johnson of the oyu state university and
this allows us to place constraint on uh when and where in our galaxy uh life had
the required element to involve and i have got a uh poem like it's it's like uh you may not
believe in magic but don't you think it is strange the amount of matters in our
universe has never slightly changed that's all which make your body was once
part of something more and if every breath you ever breathe has seen it's all before there are countless scores of
beauty in all the things that you despise it's so one it could once have been
shooting star that now makes of your thigh in atoms of forgetting forgotten
life who have been since crazed to rome may now have the great honor to call the
croc smile their home you may not believe in magics but i thought that you
you should know the making of your heart were born 14 billion years ago so next
time you feel lonely when this world make you feel small just remember that
it's a part of you and you are part of and uh we are here i got we are nothing
but stardust uh trying to find its way back to the start and i'll present my uh
poem which i've written recently about it i talked to the moon just a minute
i love the poem that's wonderful
you still with us deep deep
i'd like to see here here we go
okay guys
uh you are you're sharing um a screen there but not the powerpoint
i'll share my holy screen yeah it looks like your whole screen
there we go good
dbt is there audio with this presentation yes uh yeah you need to unshare
and and go and click on the left hand side there will be a share
system sound or so
sorry for that i have forgotten that many times myself so
okay i think now it's okay
are you saying song no
okay i have seen you this video uh in your messenger you can play it
it's got robot sure and i'm uh just trying to click
the moon oh you took these images of the moon
yeah by the cell phone and oh very good
i click the video and thank you
e.t you could have chosen any any topic uh for global star party why did you pick um what made you pick stardust
um i wanted uh as i already said you that i want to relate this blood ester
party by space in our life and um as you said how you will relate
this space in our life and i said uh by the we have different mediums like um we
are facilitating by the all the space materials like satellite uh is helping us and all those different stuff
uh related to space science and uh astronomy and another is uh the stardust
uh which is uh directly since directly linked with us is uh as it is said uh we are all made
up of this stardust which is uh how our bodies formed similarly the star
and the other 70 body around the universe is made so i chose this theme
for today excellent and okay i think i'm not
unable to share this sound so you can share uh this sound if
possible you don't if you download it okay so did you send it to me by email
i've seen it in messenger okay can i send emails
i think you can download by a messenger by messenger yeah we can try that sure
by the way you uh the the lineup of speakers that you brought out is fantastic
really i think is uh it's inspiring the so many people young
people working on um spreading the word of astronomy
okay so let's see see if i can download this
it's a link it looks like hold on
all right let me see if i can share this
and there's audio with this this moon video here
all right we'll give it a shot
okay this is you can play the poem i already saw it
just next street it's unresponsive
try one more time sometimes getting a file all the way
across the world is not as easy as you might think send it to me too so can i hear for her
yeah it doesn't seem to be working for me maybe you can send it
okay oh since i'm gonna continue
i'll let you try good evening scott
hey good evening simon how you doing talk to the moon so is it horrible the
video don't you believe yes look moon is staring at me one two say me something
wondering what's that a waiting curiously moon replied hey girl you come out of your home
i asked you were lost for some day where have you been moon replied yes for a while for some
time but looks i'm here with you today with my bright face and different shape
and some surprise for you i got excited surprise what's that
moon replied i have brought hopes lots of courage ultimate energy for you but
you seem sad and frustrated why i replied i am losing hope within myself
move in love and reply hey dear you are beautiful just look at me i have a scar in my face
but all loves me why everyone is beautiful
love yourself and believe yourself in what you are
and gain the rate to change you to modify you and be more stronger
star were blinking too and they were saying me don't you uh don't you going
to talk with us today i replied you are my friend
in a whole night talks between us moon star and me
miss seems strange to other but i love it happy moons and star give
me the energy if i smile and all that stuff i'll do
very nice excellent [Music]
okay all right so um we are
if there's anything more you would like to add at this point dt or uh anything you'd like to say
yeah i i heard this poem i was sitting in the roof of my
house and uh the um i i said the moon um and uh
this um seemed like a moon and star were blinking in the sky and i thought um i
was creating something in my mind and i tried please write
and i just come in my room and i started to write how i talk to the moon and
how i talk to the moon and how the moon replies me and that's the all point
i i love i love the poetry you do and uh it seems it comes to you quite naturally
so that's that's wonderful that you're sharing that with us um each and every time and um i look forward to
uh the next time that you're on and uh anytime you want to do this deep tea uh to bring on uh people from nassau uh
they're very welcome so so thank you thank you
okay we're going to take another 10 minute break um and then we'll be coming back on
uh with uh simon tang and dr marcelo souza and and more
more speakers to come so hang in there with us and we'll be back
alright
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hello deep team how are you i'm fine
it was a great present presentation and uh and a nice team you had with you
to build up a better picture of what rosetta's flight team is up against rosetta's nasa project scientist dr
claudia alexander and her team are recreating the closest thing to a coma
on earth in this experiment a miniature comet
made of ordinary ice and dust is placed into a vacuum chamber
[Music] the temperature is set to minus 190 degrees fahrenheit and all the air is
sucked out it's as if this scaled down comet is in
deep space just like chiriumof gerasimenko
the simulation will demonstrate what's happening on the comet's surface
okay so lauren are we ready ready to go okay
at first the mini comet remains mostly dormant but as the sun's heat intensifies
the comet experiences a sudden and explosive outburst [Music]
oh there goes a good one right there massive jets of gas spew out of its
surface in a process called sublimation
sublimation is where ice turns directly to gas without having any water involved so we all know what
evaporation is sublimation is where we go from a solid to a gas immediately
when ice heats up in a vacuum such as in space it doesn't melt
instead it's much more explosive as the sublimating gas comes out
mostly at supersonic speeds it carries with it the dust particles from the surface
and that is what causes a comet's coma to develop osiris's data shows that comet cherium
off garasimenko is in the early stages of forming a coma
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oh scott we can't hear you
uh we can hear you
there we go [Laughter] sign language i had a really nice
introduction for you simon so uh
but i wanted to say i want to say it again i mean simon simon is someone i've known for uh
gosh maybe over a decade now uh he is a he is a brilliant astrophotographer
a great solar astronomer and he's been on our program several times uh you know really blowing
our mind on what uh he can show us on the sun and uh he has sent he has uh
shared with me deep sky images that he's made uh he's also if you don't know what
he's uh he produces videos uh
which is his is his profession uh he works at has worked for woodland hills cameron
telescope for a number of years and has helped astronomers around the world and i'm glad to have you on simon i'm
going to turn it over to you man okay um so hopefully
this was kind of thrown together a little bit so you guys just have to bear with me
your volume's a little seems to be a little low oh yeah i've got my ac running let me
turn it off actually i'll sweat for a minute let's not too big of a deal i actually have my c14
outside acclimating right now so hopefully later on we're going to get to see decent views of jupiter in a secret
all right so let's share ye old screen all right hopefully you guys can see everything
yes all right so i'm going to start off with
a relatively quick video so the actual theme of this particular show
is obviously called stardust and the reason why i'm showing you um these this video
is you're looking at the sun in action now interestingly enough a lot of people
actually think that the planets and all the other dust and everything else that's in our solar system or in any
other solar system is created from supernovas and so forth but believe it
or not the sun is constantly ejecting out uh particulate matter and in this
particular case it's ionized gas which we can see with all these prominences happening on the sun now these actually
travel outwards which is obviously part of the star so we're actually it's actually stardust drifting out
a lot of people don't realize this but the solar system is still forming even though everything has settled down
and is each time the sun ejects out all of this crazy stuff and hydrogen gas it
eventually condenses down somewhere and then reforms over time now you may not
think that you know a tiny amount of particles or a coronal mass ejection
would really create anything big but in the grand scheme of things over so many years it builds up and they get bigger
and bigger and bigger so believe it or not it's not just the beginnings of uh the
the solar system when it forms from a gas cloud as the sun gives off energy and lets out
particles it too is still forming things in the far reaches of our solar system
now i'm going to show you a couple of other pictures as soon as this finishes because i'm sure pretty much everybody
likes to watch this for some weird reason it's kind of mesmerizing i thought i had it well timed i'm gonna
cut it short though um
so i'm gonna show you a couple of pictures now that are from
stardust formation and a lot of people don't really realize this but this is a picture of the eagle
nebula or m16 as most people would probably know it now this particular image
specifically is seen as hydrogen alpha so we're looking at the hydrogen band
which if i remember correctly it's hydrogen at its next level from excitement i can't remember the
exact wordings for it because it's uh like i said i only put this together with literally today
but as we peer into all of this these long big columns of gas and dust are actually from the stars in the
surrounding areas now hubble has a fantastic image in infrared which i'm
not going to show you guys because i'm sure you guys can find that you've probably all seen it before of all the dust that is inside of this
actual column of gas that you see here inside of there are loads and loads of
stars being born from this dust and as it carves itself out its own
little patch for a lack of better description you can imagine it like you know somebody laying stake to a a piece
of land the star clears everything out and they slowly start to form planets but as time
goes by the active star in this region still lets off a lot of
particulate matter which is why we're seeing some of the shapes that we have it here so if we look at the very top of
this area of the eagle nebula there is so much happening that it's actually streaming down
and there's several animations that have shown that the formation of stars in here are so tightly packed that it's
causing so much disturbance that it looks like it's wind blowing that
creates these interesting shapes oh somebody's at the door
who's thinking that so now i will then move on to the next picture
now most of you probably recognize this picture as the infamous horsehead nebula
so the story behind all of this area here is this is not actually just one gigantic nebula it's actually several
different nebulas in different positions in fact the one that's found here which is known as the flame nebula is actually
closer to us than the actual background nebula which is here and needless to say
the horse head itself is not part of that nebula but actually i believe they call it a block globule
or some description which happens to take on the form of a or a shape of a horse hence why we call it the horsehead
nebula now again the same principle is happening here just like you have in the
eagle nebula where inside of here are loads of hot little stars forming up
and putting out more and more matter out into there and in i don't know a couple of billion years maybe this will all
probably dissipate and there'll be a bunch of planets and all sorts drifting around and spinning about
which then brings me to the next obvious thing planets now planets don't just form out of thin
air they they have to form from something and again most of these planets that you see here
are formed from leftover material from supernovas so if you look at our solar
system a lot of uh physicists and scientists theorize that our particular
solar system is a fourth generation from supernovas so in other words four supernovas within
our vicinity had to have occurred before our solar system could have actually formed
now one of these planets in our solar system which happens to be the largest
is predominantly made up of hydrogen which in certain sense
if it was just a little bit larger it could actually ignite and actually turn into a star so some people theorize that
jupiter is actually a failed star if you're wondering what the black dot in the middle is it's actually uh the
shadow of io and you can see it just here
so next just to give you an idea of what we're dealing with here how big is big
so we have here the size of jupiter and the sun is actually sitting in the
background with a sunspot and if you look at the sunspot very very
carefully and compare it to the size of earth you'll notice that it's almost the same size in fact it's probably just a
slightly bit smaller in the darker areas but if you look at the outer section of this of the sunspot it will easily
engulf the entire earth now just so you know the uh the red spot on jupiter has
shrunk quite dramatically and is no longer as big as it claims to be i think
previous estimations used to be uh four times the size of earth although it is how it now has come down to the size of
maybe one and a half maybe two earths in size
so i'm gonna quickly show you uh an image from today that i took of the sun
as you could see this sun is always active in fact every time you take a picture by the following
day or even in a few hours everything has actually changed which just shows how dynamic everything is on the surface
of the sun and of course over time all this particulate matter escapes slowly
into space to form new objects and then hopefully one day we will see something very very cool happen where a big
asteroid gets formed and we can watch it plough into the sun kind of like what we saw with jupiter recently
um with the the uh the flash event that happened not so long ago
so i'm just going to show you another photo in this one we can see
all the prominences and all the actual solar matter that's happening uh on the actual limb of the sun and if i remember
correctly this particular situation there was actually a cme from a class m solar flare so again more
particulate matter was thrown out into space that would at some point we coalesce
and of course last but not least a quick picture of uh saturn um
i kind of got to this point of the actual talk and uh uh in all honesty i think i
got as far as this point here so if anybody has any crazy questions i will try and answer them um
like i said i do have the c14 setup outside which i am waiting for it to
cool down because it's quite a large scope so i have to wait for this thing to acclimate and once it acclimates i
will move everything outside and we can hopefully get some live views of jupiter i
have simon a question for you from sweden uh
the law uh the maximum exposing time for uh to
still get something uh granulation of some surface
i heard i mean it when you say exposure do you mean one single exposure no no filming
oh um it kind of depends on how much magnification that you're actually putting in
so i'm gonna do the assumption based upon my setup because obviously it's my setup and i know how it works so i have
a 150 millimeter refractor yeah and i'm using a
a 5x barlow in this particular case so one important factor that i'm going to point out is
scene conditions do need to be very very good and what i usually do is i do
on average a 30 millisecond exposure yeah and i take a thousand shots social
okay and the reason why i need to do that in that particular way is i need to try and
capture as much data as possible in the shortest time possible yes so the
speed of what you capture is also vitally important in fact if you take too long to capture
um some of the granulation on the surface of the sun it starts to smear so when
you go into processing the actual image it just looks very very soft and it
appears like it's out of focus almost yeah in actual fact what's really happened here is the convection cells
have changed so much in that short period of time yeah it's like small
worms in the surface i have a land 50 and
it's at way oasi 178 mm
and i'm trying to get one minute 60 seconds exposures
and keeping there right now but we'll try a little bit longer but i can see the
granulations begins to get onto worms like small small
warps on the surface because the sun's surface
changes all the time all the time well the problem here with solar imaging
um and to a certain extent even planetary imaging is it's actually all about resolving power the bigger the
scope and by the way i'm not telling everybody to go out and buy big gigantic scopes that's not what i'm saying
but the bigger the scope that you have the higher the resolving power of your telescope and that really is the
ultimate answer to a lot of things however with these larger scopes comes the
situation where it just becomes impractical
and
yeah that's better sorry and seeing conditions become absolutely critical so
depending on where you're located in the world there are some parts that are better than others so the closer to the
equator you are the less likely the jet stream is going to get you when it comes
down to doing any type of solar imaging or planetary imaging for that matter yeah
thanks so much all right is my audio is still really quiet
it's good for me well scott's gone all quiet too now scott we can't hear you again
scotty's tuned i'm i'm trying to stay muted so that i'm not
none of my sound is overpowering your heartbeat is indeed
but uh yeah the your volume is is so low that zoom is not focusing on you so okay
so is it better now i mean i've turned it up quite a lot now so
yeah i suppose i could just one more question to you becca's volume is about double or triple yours though oh really
hold on one second audio settings i can just jack this up
sorry if i suddenly just boom over the actual okay now second question simon
where should i put the bar law is it before the diagonal or after between
diagonal and camera oh um i always put it after the diagonal in other words you
want it as close to the camera as possible yeah and it all depends on the type of barlow
too there is a difference between a barlow and a telecentric barlow
okay so they are two completely different things don't get the too confused should i really say do you mean television and
television or ordinary law well the teleview barlows you're referring to the power mate those are
basically telecentric barlows yeah are they better than ordinary parallels
uh they're not the same thing so it actually it depends on
what you want it to do a telecentric barlow um the way it changes the light cone is it's supposed
to be a parallel line so in other words as you pull the camera away from the barlow you should not increase any
magnification i mean there is a small amount but it shouldn't uh whereas a with a regular barlow and
if you guys out there are buying barlows just be aware of this when you're buying anything that's a 2x
or a 3x or so forth and so on the chances are the barlow itself the actual optical uh attachment at the
bottom is still just a 2x but as you move away from it it gives
you the uh the magnification becomes a three or four however the distortion
gets worse and worse the further away you go so certain barlows like for example 5x that are made they've been
made specifically to correct for that curvature but you have to get the distancing exactly right otherwise
you'll get distortion and all sorts which is why when you buy something like a barlow that's a 5x or even a 3x you'll
see that's very very long and in fact scott you sell telecentric barlows as well that's right yeah the
focal extender is a telecentric and so you can place it either before the
diagonal after the diagonal wherever you place it the magnification
is going to be maintained generally speaking so i read that
in ordinary barlows the uh the magnification
uh shifts if you like to put it before or that's the spacing so yeah that's what
simon just explained so as you're as you're moving further away you're getting greater
magnification but you're getting also greater distortion yeah okay so one
summer just for knowing how to use parallel
it's already imaging anything one summer for that thanks yeah
yeah you have to remember um and this is like more optical engineering or optical science i wish
you did the talk about this stuff because i actually genuinely know this stuff better
yeah so if you actually look at the optical design of what a telescope does and how
it focuses light to a point yeah better do it from the camera so it focuses the light to a point as you put the barlow
in front of it when it crosses over it will change it again so in order to get
more magnification what it does is as it enters in it will split it across like this
which is why you see it zoomed in so that's actually how a barlow works is it actually widens the beam even more
if that makes uh sense to everybody absolutely yeah so whereas a telecentric barlow doesn't actually widen the beam
it takes that beam from in the inversion it all basically i'm trying to remember if it
uh flips it back around again it kind of i think it does it flips it back round so that's how it widens the beam but
instead of the actual light going outwards and tapering out it actually comes out in a straight line
but i got to try and remember because they're like i said there are genuine differences to how the barlows
work one does not actually cross the beam over it actually widens it the other one
um turns it back the other direction which is why you see the images flip when you use apollo sometimes yeah so
teleview is powermate is to prefer
well no any telecentric barlow is preferred i'm not going to turn around say a power mate is no no no no no no
that's just a brand yeah that's just the brand looking after telecentric then i'm good
yeah scott will sell you one scott will serving one
yes take it off you out there that you can be looking at i think also
bader sells one as well um i haven't seen very many of those to be
honest yeah i don't i don't see those as often i know um astrophysics had some really
good barlows back in their time and again i haven't seen those in a very long time i don't think i've ever seen
one yeah oh yeah we've got one drifting around in the store a two-inch big gigantic thing
it will make your three-inch eye pieces look like you know really huh inch and a quarter possibles
interesting interesting you have to send me a picture i've never seen one before really
yeah that's a challenge now okay all right well very cool uh
simon the the images you showed of the sun i i i those are all your images but i think a
lot of people might have seen those and think oh the simon's showing some stuff from nasa i mean your images are so
high resolution is there any basic tips you give to people that want to improve their solar imaging
um actually yes there is sorry if i'm feeling a little distracted
at the same time because i really really want to show scott this uh barlow oh there it is
all right hold on one second you have like a camera in the store right now or something well we actually do have
cameras in the store but i'm just going to post it to everybody um so you can
take a look at it i'm not going to show you guys because it's an obvious plug for
telescopes.net you really want to go see it you can find it there yeah um and you could buy it or you could buy scott's
one it's up to you i can tell you simon that i was on live stream for swedish
astrological societies visit at the la palma swedish solar
scope and we saw there all the mechanics and all that stuff downstairs and the
telescope up there and your images is quite
as their funny okay so transitioning back to what scott's
original question is which is also part of what you're saying um the only thing i can really suggest to
most people regardless of the type of telescope that they have if you if you don't have the money to throw into
hydrogen alpha by all means get into white light the most important thing that you need
to do when doing any type of imaging is you have to really learn
how your weather pattern in your local area works and i cannot stress that enough because
most of the times when people have problems and they email me or they find me on instagram and ask me these
questions the first thing i always ask them and i'm not being nosy is where do you live and be specific
because what i actually do is i look at their area or their surrounding areas i
look at if there's mountains is it flat uh how close of the ocean they are um
how much of the jet stream runs through and the reason why i'm doing all of that
is i'm looking at what we call seeing conditions now for those people who are out there
that are new to this when i say seeing i'm talking about atmospheric turbulence and atmospheric stability
not is it dark out there or can i see the stars that's generally what we refer
to as transparency to me transparency when i'm doing solar is not actually relevant in fact i've shot through
um smoke before here in california because there seems to be a fire every 10 minutes and you know there's one
burning not too far from me right now so my skies are very very hazy but it doesn't stop me from actually imaging in
fact let me just share my screen again real fast this image that i took uh from
this morning was actually taken while the sky was actually still hazy
from all of the smoke in the sky and the only reason why i can tell you
that that has any effect is if you look very very carefully if you ignore the noise for a second the image itself is
actually softer than some of the images that i've actually gotten previously
and just to give you an example if i show you this image and zoom up into it
we can actually see that the actual definition of all the uh specules and so forth
seem way more defined than the other image and that's all transparency does to you is it just loses contrast but
your seeing condition uh for your local area is absolutely critical that is what gets you that high
detail they're spectacular sorry my cat's
trying to jump up on me again we have a lot of astronomers with cats
you know that hey man that's why they call them spice cats that's why they're called space cats that's right
well wonderful simon thank you for coming on to the program is there anything that you would like to add to uh
to your um any comments you'd like to have before we transition here
uh i don't know but i think you've got access to all the chat and all that stuff so i don't know if there's any other questions there
let's see like i said i do have my c14 outside acclimating so
i will be going outside and fighting with the mosquitoes so hopefully we're going to see some
live views well we are going to see some live views of jupiter it's just how good is it going to be is the other question
right the general conversation is going on in chat they're talking about
uh different brands of barlows or telecentrics and uh experiences that people have had with
them so but um i think that you uh taught them something today so thank you
i will say one thing about those guys out there buying any type of barlow regardless if it's telecentric or not
don't go for the biggest one you can possibly find don't do a 5x and expect
miracles from it because it all depends on what your target is and how much
aperture you actually have and the speed of the scope 5x uh telescreenship barlows tend to
work very very well with fast optical scopes with relatively short focal lengths but if you put it into something
like a c14 which i've got outside right it's just like it's useless it's just this dim looking
disc that just shimmers like crazy and there's just nothing to look at
yes that's right okay well um uh we will transition to marcelo and and
when you get uh some live images uh uh you know certainly uh just
knock on the door okay so oh i can stick around because i'm going to be imaging uh the planets for as long
as i can cope perfect okay wonderful thanks again simon that's right
i'm just gonna hide myself okay all right so uh
our next speaker is uh dr marcelo souza and he has uh he is a
he is a highly recorded iconic uh uh
educator in astronomy he's been doing uh educational outreach for many many years
he's a professor of astronomy uh in brazil and um uh you know i had the pleasure of
attending one of his amazing conferences and uh but he's now
involved and it always seems like he's involved in a new project but this one is uh really an amazing uh project a new
educational uh initiative for students in brazil and maybe beyond so marcelo do
you want to um tell our audience uh what you've got cooking here
hi nice to meet you scott thank you again for the invitation it's heavily it
is a great pleasure to be here and congratulations simon for the presentation she has fantastic image
that he should well andy we have many news now
one of them i i talked a little about them because you have part of them that i can
announce today unfortunately but i have some i organized here presentation to
show the news that you have here about astronomy popularization teaching now
right i i'll share here the screen uh i'll try i had a problem with my
computer now i think that everything is working well
ever the month is lower work it's always working
well before the present day the required programming and then began the problem i had problems
and can you see the screen now i know it's starting to share but uh
here we go okay very good i i will show some i have a mini and let me see if we were
here okay now here where we are in brazil in hidden general state in the north
adhesion of hydrogen and now we are participating
uh we have two groups here in our region that participate in the global science charter
that's the topic this year is ecosystem restoration and the
prohibit two seats here is involved that the students who organize a presentation about the
light pollution and we have one that is a stage pack but i have a new one
that they organize the presentation this week that's about the turtles
that's the influence of the artificial lights uh
that give problems for the turtles because they go in the direction of the
artificial light in the streets and they they
are killed by the cars then they changed the lights
in the coast you can see here in these seats and
you see the dark part here is the center here
here you have the beach then the turtles now don't go in the direction of the
artificial lights and there is a fantastic project that they are doing here and the we have now the students of the
city are studying about light pollution how the students of these seats is is a
small city near us they are studying about light pollution and up and they organize a
contest to choose the lyrics for a music to be presented in the
global science chapter here students make the test now they one of the
students was the winner now they have the lyrics and they are now producing the music
and i have here a short report that's a ratio and now let me see if we work here
this is a report in brazilian tv about her poetry
talking about the turtles when they leave is from the eggs and they
go direction of the ocean but you have if you have artificial lights the thirds go in the direction of the
streets then they change their delights here
the student has 15 years in the what is fantastic is that in this city now the
students are talking about light pollution but something that they didn't learn
in schools and now as with the opportunity to participate in the global science show up there is
third light pollution here it's fantastic
i was talking to ruskin hartley he's the executive director of the international
dark sky association and he talked to me quite a long time today about your
program wow fantastic it's so wonderful
and here is a longer report i i talk about another thing nobody is uh
they are singing audio music you can't listen [Music] then
here is the secretary for the creation they this time is involving audi seats well
there's something fantastic that's happening here this is the maze
i i didn't forget to show the last edition of the skies art
magazine that's a fantastic magazine here is the page i i will show for a
minute is it a case what if i show here oh please oh yes the magazine
now i tried to i have no problem here uh
i need to go back to to try to go back here
i tried to stop but i found here let me see okay i will show now the
uh the homepage of the magazine yes here
here we go yes and they i it is is easy to to find the magazine in
the explore scientific homepage and here is i'm trying to share here but
okay no yes [Music]
that's okay okay now is the article written by squadron
and you have articles about the saturn how to take a picture of the planets
about how to use this smartphone to take pictures every information about the
titan now the biggest move of saturn and don't know why it's not cool in the
face here for me it's loading there we go
and no that's not you're working for me
but this is uh the program is with my timer today my computer i believe
but here is his i've given the audience the link
to go and look at the magazine you can also see past issues of skies up magazine as well but it is a free
global astronomy magazine and very happy to have you
check out the articles the articles are written by astronomers from around the world and
you know they're they range from you know kind of a beginner level all the way up to quite advanced
discussions so i think you'll like it there are star charts in there from will tyrion you
know the famous celestial cartographer will tyrion and uh marcelo is marcelo
with david levy they're the editors of this magazine so they do a fantastic job
uh we also took the liberty of including uh astrophotographs from the
uh uh the people who participated in our last astronomy contest astrophotography
contest lots of other good information including information about
the international dark sky association so i returned to my presentation i
apologize but didn't work i tried to show the magazine but yeah it's sometimes difficult we sometimes run
into i don't know what happened with my computer today but my presentation i think that is okay
uh we are going to organize three more drivings
of astronomy sessions here in october 1st october 9 october 12th we
are going in here to really to organize six two each day in the shopping center
that is something that you are doing and what's happening that's not wrong
okay now i'll talk about an app that we developed
about on how to pro to [Music] produce
to build a analymatic scenario
that is here in portuguese is uh hello sonalim is an arimatics and iron needs
to have an invention in english and in portuguese we had a software
that allowed people to build we work in these schools to build the generalimatic sundial refugee software because you
have here the hour angles in the table and here you have the distance
where people stay uh up there andy with the fingers
the shadow gives you the time uh for people that don't know another microsoft diode is a sundial we feel human
interaction the dial are the person that stays there with the
fingers up and then the shadow gives it the the correct time
here i have a short move that shows how works our software
with educational software you put the value of the same major axis and here the value of local attitude and
then the software generates audi data to build the analymetrics sundial
here you can see i'm putting the the local action these wise
our software there was reproduced many years ago now
with the experience refugee software we produced uh [Music]
here we have also an index without information about this giant
matrix and i o what is a normal about solstice and
economics and everything about how to build and what's important is because
it's very cheap to build your new schools you don't need nothing special
to build and you can use only make a drought in the floor or we did this in schools
we're asking these students to make it to make it to choose the best drawers
that we are going to use in generalimatic sundial i i think i will show here a part of this experience in
school
here we produce a model because we have and we consider the same
light studio here in our region then we produce a model that we put in the school and withdrawal
dissonance very cool
and the here is a very simple with blocks rocks
here in one spool and now this is wise our master students
that was producing his his final project
with the students in this school his mother her name he had the students at this school and
the drawers make made by the students oh wow they show you
that's beautiful and now we have a sundial an app
an app for android with this app you have in english and
portuguese you have the same uh
tools that you have in the software but now is an app
and you do that do the same you have all the information about the sunlight you
put light speed and here i have a move a short move that shows how the app
works then
here i'm using the app to show well i chose the english version in english
yes we have how about another matrix sundial here without information
to understand what is an analemma like a normal how to build degenerative
survive so people can put a sundial build a sundial in their
backyard yes everybody can compute oh that's cool
it is very important to have one because all of you guys that are amateur astronomers should have
your own sundial you know yes and we are trying to
to motivate these schools to build another matrix and eyes in the schools
and it's important because they can talk about astronomy about the movement of the sun
during the day during the year the movement of the earth during the year is something that is very important to
to show to the students in the school and here i have how to build we'll talk
about ellipses how to to produce the build to make the draw of the anonymity
sundial how to uh use the data that is in the tables
that the soft the app produce
i will know marcelo so many people and they go about their daily lives they they
don't really think about how the sun works or you know that our planet's flying
through space or any of this you know they more or less think that the sun is just
a light that allows them to see so they can go to work or something you
know and uh you know what you're teaching the students uh i think probably gives them
a big change in how they view the world yes i believe so because it is something
that they can build easily and every day they can see how change the
direction of the the share those times of the day
and how that changed if you look one two months later
direct the size of the share but at the same time something that's easy to
choose then this is the software the app that we developed now we have the support of a
guy from india that he have improvements and the song will be
available free for everybody in our in
the play store this is experience that's it it's here that's great that's great
and let's meet let me see if you work here i have something else to show okay that's it
for me it's not too okay he's not changing the page
oh oh i i i oh i don't know
i wait i'll talk about i will try to stop sharing here okay and if you work
i'll show you and now we are beginning
we are near to begin a new the most important project that
we have developed we have the support of the
explorer alliance mentor initiative if i said correct
that you are going to visit these schools yes we have you have a great support i i
i fortunately uh today i can't say the international support but see they
asking me only to wait more to three days to make the official announcement of the
support financials part of the project that's incarnation but i can say about the project but it is so
important for us because we are going to visit this a lot of schools right
almost 35 more than 40 schools and we involve more than 2
students we are going to talk a visit during two days
each school wow and in the first day we are going to talk about astronomy
with them we are going to uh use a different pedagogical
system we are going to use a modern system that is a design thinking process
with the students we are asking them to to solve problems
associated with the moon explore exploration now how they emerge to build
a trip to the moon to build the uh base on the moon for three astronauts
they are going to produce these and we are we will be looking for new talents in each school
and these talents will receive a financial support a scholarship
wow and to work with yours in the development of the projects
then this is something that is very important because disney and thailand will have opportunities to participate
actively in the project then in each school that we are going to visit
we will be looking out balance for new talents and we are going to
invite them to participate with yours and the best students will receive a
scholarship well this is something that wow fantastic this is a
great way to sustain uh this whole program so that's that's wonderful um
and the support of the mental initiative will be fantastic because uh
we will be looking for international contacts between
groups from united states with the students here in brazil yes
that's something that will be very important for the students to know what is being done
and also have the opportunity to talk with with researchers with people there to
work with education that's something that we give a different view for them
well a new opportunity because we will develop developed in the region that
we are developing the project is uh we have many parts of the region that
have many economic problems and the
we are going to okay only with students who from public schools
that they are located far from downtown six seats of our region
then it will be an opportunity to show for these students most of
them that we work in the farms
we this is what they have near them
and the we have many talents there that's when you need an opportunity
to know more about science to find the uh career here that's saying i don't
know anything english [Music]
we hope that most of them were working with astronomy with
astronauts if
something that we are looking for and this is will be our biggest project that
you have developed here mainly because we have be we will be
visiting every week two schools oh that's great that's great you said
you know in in the one year time you will visit uh or
impact about twenty two thousand four hundred students is that right yes two thousand four hundred students at least
at least because this is yes because you have to make this stimulative what's how many student body
we believe that you are going to have more students involved because we probably we developed the
project in more than 40 schools well and it we
they will have the opportunity to know more about astronomy about ex basic
exploration they will know more about also how to develop an app
where we are going to show them how to develop an app and they also we are going to produce
cartoons cartoons about astronomy cartoons okay
wow that's cool that's cool
about two years ago yeah your students set up uh some cubesats as well yes
would that be part of your program yeah yes yes but it is something
that's not directly involved with the project it's a different project that you will participate that is
could be in space right that's it you that helped the unless to send the equipment in space
thank you very much because if you are supporting that as possible to send the experiment to space
and we sent eight experiments to space wow okay yeah it is a fly that goes
uh more than one 100 kilometers and then he turned to us
it's a ballistic fly now from another another so sounding rocket right yeah that
sounds yeah yeah i forgot where it is but it's near
new york i don't know the name of the the siege that they they launched the
markets and it was the first time brazil participated in this project in space
and and we send eight experiments and you give the support to help us to send this
experiment thank you very much andy now we will again involve students we will try to
send at least one experiment to space developed from these students because
we are going to find the talents and these talents will be working with
us in a headquarter of the project that you have in our seats and in this headquarter as part of the
the project we will have a equipment there you have computers you
have tablets you have all the equipment that you need and you had legals we have many things today
telescopes many things and we with these students we
we go to make many research projects with them
and one of them is a opportunity to send an experimental space
firstly including is in space that is a wonderful project and
we i hope one day we can send to the to in a satellite a small cube site
and may be an experiment to the international space station but it is this is a dream
for the future but we will be working out and it and the
one thing that see now we are talking about here in the region also is the light pollution because we
have two seats involved in this project for the global science
shop we will be responsible for this topic in this opera
then only these two groups in brazil and you choose the two groups because one of them
is one seat is you have the the protecting the turtles
then they had to change the lights the artificial lights near the beach and
now they are changing in the other streets there is something that that's great
they now you have also described protector for the next generation because they are planning to to have a
astronomy achieved there we are going to be working with that then refugee
municipal governments for that and the other one city is located is where you
have the headquarters of a state park and there is a big state park you have
forests inside protected and you don't have artificial lights inside the park
and they are now waiting the answer from the
i the international black sky association because they they want they they are in the last part
of the process to be considered the dark sky park and they will be the first
bypass in latin america wow i did not know that okay the first dark sky part in latin
america is the last part of your process they are waiting right it's a long
process and they need to change yes they take many things into consideration
that's true yeah and did they have it i know and they they have now the commitments of the
state government the municipal government they have they signed the
documents that see they now they will not allow artificial lights
and the electrical energy inside the park there is something that
is very important because the sky will be protecting the region and the park is
a very big park is the size of a big city
in the middle of the state of hyderabad the name of the city that you have jihad
in santa maria madagascar city of 10 000 people that live there is a small
population and they have more two seats involved you know
and uh is the last part of the process i think that everything worked well soon we have the
announcement of the first black sky party of latimer yeah congratulations that's great that's
a that's a huge um uh you know benefit for
uh brazil and and i think for latin america in general so it's
it uh you guys are serving a great example um of what can be done
so that's fantastic fantastic and we're very proud to uh help in any way that we
can the mentor program is part of the explore alliance educational
division and uh pretty much everything that we do uh is somehow involved in education whether
it's these programs or uh some of the uh trainings that we have given uh that
kind of thing so this will be our first uh arch into latin america with mentor
so we're really we're very pleased that uh you're you've chosen us so that's great
read this thank you
thank you very much martial you've been amazing uh and i i often talk about you
as far as uh you know someone that's uh so inspiring in uh the astronomical
community so thank you very much for all you do yeah my pleasure my pleasure okay
so simon do you have uh do you have a uh something you'd like to show us
yeah uh i'm sorry if i look like a creepy ghost when i do this [Laughter]
um yes i actually have jupiter in my frame or field of view it took me a
second to find it so let me just share my screen so you can see everything
um now remember this is a c14 with a 2x bar look at that though any movement that i
make will make this thing uh jump up and down so yeah trying my best to stay still as
much as i can and then what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna try and boost the contrast so you guys can see it better
i have to admit simon this is probably one of the best live views of of jupiter that i've seen
yeah it's seeing is really good right now uh which is unusual for the evening
for me um you can kind of see every now and then uh details blur in and out so i'm going
to keep this well and not talk too much because obviously my voice is making this thing wiggle so i'm going to stay still
my fingers is making it wiggle and you can just about see
um and i'll use my mouse pointer if you can see it there's a storm here it's two storms here
there's a band that runs across up at the top here and this is the red spot right now
oh yeah the red spot's standing up big time yeah so uh for a lot of people probably
going oh it doesn't look like it's in focus believe me this is in as much focus as i can get it
um just to show you guys i'm just gonna tweak around with the focuser and you can see it just goes to nothing and then
as i get past it but there is a spot and i've done this so many times so even
if it wiggles i kind of know when it's in focus believe it or not you got a nice optical set i can see it popping
into focus that's uh that's one of the things that um is an indicator of how good your optics
are is that when you're you approach focus and then it just snaps in you know
yeah and then everybody's kind of mushing through well this is what i was referring to about the scene conditions so
atmospherically it's actually relatively calm which is why every now and then it
kind of like just shoots in at you and you suddenly see these cloudband details for a brief moment
on my wall simon i have a 55-inch monitor and jupiter looks about the size of a uh
soccer ball on my wall so it's huge yeah i mean this is a c14 so it is
pretty damn big i will say this though i think i might have to tweak my collimation ever so slightly i don't
know if you can see this scott the edge on this side is way sharper than the other side and it's not because
of you know where the sun is facing yeah it is a slight co um i am getting a
slight coma so if i defocus you'll see it wants to pull to the one
side you see how the top doesn't quite come together yeah
simon does your telescope have a fixed have you fixed the mirror and locked the
mirror down or is it uh is the focus moving the mirror back and forth uh the focus is moving the mirror
back and forth unfortunately oh yeah so really one of the big problems with schmidt castle grain designs like that
because you're pushing the mirror on on these telescopes from one side and um
it makes it it makes it tough to keep that you know if this is an f10 instrument uh
you know you have a f2 primary and a five power secondary okay
and so and all the collimation adjustment is made with the secondary mirror
and so that makes it a little bit tough uh when i worked at meat instruments my
own personal schmidt cassegrain i uh i put a mirror i actually opened up
the scope and locked the mirror in place and then i attached a rack and pinion focuser to
it and eventually mead looked at my design
my simple design that i made and uh created the locking mirror locking
system that they had uh used on their lx 200 line
yeah unfortunately how much detail you're getting it's really beautiful yeah unfortunately i can't do that to
this scope because it doesn't belong to me uh it actually belongs to the store
right now so i see if you you know it is for sale but i'm not going to tell you how much
but um the this is the caveat behind this scope so this will make you laugh scott this is a 1980s
c14 i know it's nice why i know it's a 1980s in a not 1970s model
is because some of the telltale signs um that it had when we actually obtained
the scope yeah sorry it's seeing is actually so damn good i'm just going to start capturing i don't really mind if it wiggles a bit
yeah so the the dead giveaway was in the 1970s model they don't come with the deck
motor on this one it did so exactly using simon so again what mount are you
using right now oh this is my eq8 uh rh pro okay
thanks yeah it's a it's a serious equatorial mount yep
way bigger than that thing it's way bigger yeah it's a 110 pound payload capacity whoa
okay then see if 14 is a like a piece of cake
um well yeah it's got three counterweights on it right now so that much of a piece of cake but yeah
but it's stable it's stable oh yeah you can see the storms up there on that
upper belt it's getting really good right now very nice
yeah that's going to be a good picture all right so we've got cameron gillis coming up next
here i'm gonna uh we'll come back to you uh maybe you can uh show us uh some
some stacked images or something simon so um that that was beautiful
yeah totally thank you so much man uh cameron all right actually this is a great segue
and simon uh great to see your stuff uh been following you on all your uh your
youtube channels and that was a beautiful view of uh of jupiter and it and like you say very
challenging in the life so i actually have uh a view of saturn
in my very primitive setup so let me share my screen here
see here oops i'm going to harold lock says
saturn is at the meridian getting getting late nice hazy skies and about
to get wiped out um there's uh there is
at 22 degrees in the east very pretty right now
yeah look at that so this is my view of saturn and um
uh you can actually see uh now it's very mushy because of seeing
of course uh in seattle it's lower than simon simon is down in l.a
area so he has another you know 15 degrees latitude on on me on me
so i'm uh but you can see cassini's division you can see the ring you can see the shadow uh
cast by the the you can see the spherical nature because the ring shadow and also the shadow of the sphere on it
and um you know what's what i what's what's really cool about this image
that we're that i'm sharing is the equipment that i'm using is very primitive very basic and what we
can do now um and the fact that we can share this so what i'm doing
is i have a smartphone it's a it's a galaxy flip phone um
and gives you you know pretty good resolution um it allows me to do pro mode
so you can see i've set the iso to 50 and i can change the exposure duration
as well um and then the uh it allows me to zoom in so if i
right now i have full zoom so if i go don't go down here i can zoom in and out so here's the you
know makes it makes a more pleasing view maybe at 2.7 um i'm using a um
a mac 102 one four inch uh mac cassegrain
and it's on an ac gti mount um just with battery operated and i'm
sharing this stream uh through a live view using teamviewer
on my phone to be able to view uh to show you so so actually this is a
better when you don't zoom in as much it actually shows you a little crisper view
but um uh yeah so this is this is saturn and if i
got it set up correctly i'm just gonna go to uh jupiter now
let's see here
and zoom it away zoom back out
it's like jupiter whip by there so it's going to hopefully recenter it yeah so it it got it
and if i zoom in and just do a little bit of recentering here
and i'm doing this all remote of course um so let's see here but this is what you
can do without without rich you know some of the talk about the outreach before definitely there's no substitute
to a visual but to be able to do this uh is really
really enables everyone to be able to share the ultimate is as a combination
you know yes showing what uh you can do um uh sharing it with a
bigger audience that's maybe waiting to look in the eyepiece because not everybody can look at the eyepiece at
the same time you know in fact just you know it's it's really
uh unless you have multiple telescopes um you know this really expands uh
you know your reach you know so it's it's uh it's wonderful
so if i zoom in here and i'm going to change the exposure at least a couple of moons here
you can see a couple of the moons yeah at this exposure level and if i go a little tighter you can
start to see some of the now definitely you know nothing compared to uh simon's
sign was mind-blowing yeah a beautiful image but but it the fact that you can
you can do this with it's just a smartphone computer oops sorry it's a little bit slow um let
me just change the uh optimize uh optimize speed so i can get the proper zoom here
um yeah the fact you can do this you can share it on the screen um and and remotely control it
is is really cool that you know uh this this is within you know reach with them with uh the
modest uh budget um all you need is oh now we do it no no
watching on youtube says that uh europa is the the moon that's closest and
and the uh the next one out is eo cool so if i zoom back out here let's click
on this again uh so europe and yo uh i oh yeah and if i go back out
zoom back out okay all right sorry about that
go back don't let me just change the speed because uh
you can optimize my speed so it refreshes the screen better
there we go so here we go one time and now let's change the exposure
to a little bit longer so we can see the moons
there you go so this is uh exposing let's change the iso actually
that will be that's another way dude there we go so you can start to see the moons oh yeah all in a row there so
yeah some of them are pretty pretty far out but again it's nice to be able to fiddle around with the exposure
real time and and and look at different features whether you're looking at the moons
this is great for planets for live view and then of course if you have better
equipment uh better optics you can you can get it but it also really uh
kind of gives you you know the visual experience because your eyes can do the lucky imaging for
you now obviously uh you know you can you can get the um
software to do that and and eventually they will be able to do it real time but it requires a lot of post
processing if you went with the videos with current technology but it's nice to be able to already do
the intermediate step here and be able to see to kind of over overcome
skiing conditions just visually just with your uh with your pro pro settings here let me
zoom back in here and
there we go oops and of course now i'm going to change the quality
view optimize for quality there we go so now you can start to see
a little bit of that the texture and the festoons and the belts
just a little bit in between so that's jupiter and if we zoom
back out again the last thing i wanted to uh show you guys all uh live
let me just uh get this oh let me turn this off again optimize speed
zoom back out
oops and froze since
there we go let's get back out
let's go to the moon
and we'll just zip in there yeah and i just did a a quick alignment
and it's all go-to which is which is nice it just uh
and there comes the moon pretty good and now we obviously have to play with
exposure here there we go and then let's change the quality
and there you have the moon and if i we can start to zoom in which is kind of cool
look at the craters along the edge here
we can start cruising the moon a little bit so i can go
let's go to some of these uh craters on the edge
let me zoom in oops
oh it looks like it's uh there we go sorry it's a little bit
slow there we go and you can
clearly see the atmospheric i mean that moon is still quite low for you know it's still early
for the moon it was a full moon so it just rose about an hour ago or so here in
in the pacific northwest but uh still you know you you can you can see the uh
some pretty good details even though there's scintillation still stays in focus the moon and the planets you you
have they remain relatively in the same focal distance but if you switch to deep sky
objects between you know if you want to do this uh if you're doing outreach you will have to refocus obviously you're looking at
stuff far enough away but the moon and the planets usually maintain the same focus so um
so yeah so that that's uh my quick tour of live views let me stop sharing with you let me stop that
and then quickly switch to camstronomy um we are
we are switching gears here uh we finished off in uh cygnus last week
and we just did the veil nebula and uh here is i just
so this is my own personal uh let me just move that out of the way
my low quality but mosaic it's not a gary by any means
but this is my uh mosaic of the veil nebula complex um you know got the uh the eastern veil
pickering's triangle and the western veil and that's how we ended up last week in camastronomy
and now uh we're going to switch over to um continue the survey into um
cyphus uh cephas actually um cgs uh and basically
we are going to do 22 new uh images uh we've done over 200
uh of 148 objects and we're going to do another 14 so we're going to actually just go through all of cps um including
this galaxy that's close to the uh the north celestial pole
uh by polaris so um we're gonna check it all out and uh yeah so look forward to
having everyone uh come in and join me on the on exploration so
that's all i have for for tonight thanks uh okay thanks scotty cameron thank you very much man
hey scott i'm just going to show you jupiter again it uh scene just went rock solid all right oh look at that
without my eyeball being at the eyepiece okay i have seen excellent views of excuse me jupiter
but um uh i uh that i mean i'm seeing you can see
detail around the red spot uh those two dark knots that's up there on
that upper band these are these are two other storms i imagine
these two bands that are running along here that are coming in and out
that is just super duper that's incredible so i'm uh
oh the stack just finished hold on is there somebody else talking after me
uh after this pekka is is on but um oh okay um i'll just show you guys this
real quick because i'm sure you guys are gonna be intrigued to see this once it's actually been tidied up so
i just finished stacking uh one of the frames and to be totally honest got there's a
lot of data that i pulled so this is going to take a very long time for me to do all of it
but just as a quick run sorry about the noise
was that like a jet plane or something no it's a motorcycle not a cyclone yeah hold on let me just uh set these real
fast because uh i don't have my presets on my laptop so i do apologize to everybody right now oh this is nice
semi-real time this this is getting see it's getting better better simon that's awesome oh yeah i haven't even i haven't even
set the uh the wavelets yet i'm just setting up the oh yeah yeah but but the point is that the workflow is and and the processes
that you you've got are are so good now and with the computing power and your algorithms that
you can do this almost real semi-real time so this is this is good this is really cool well unfortunately
my laptop is absolutely screaming at me right now i believe it but it will get
better don't worry yep hopefully
come on you guys just got a black black screen haven't you yes
i do see yeah there we go you know i had the privilege to look at jupiter once
uh through the coup de focus of the palomar 200-inch
telescope and it looked nowhere near as good as this uh i don't know why this is having such
a bad time let me just stop the share because it might be the sharing and as soon as it does it i'll show it to you
so okay all right work on it and we'll come back to you yep
so pekka oh did we lose him
he's there
becca are you uh are you with us
while we're waiting for pekka i i'm going to see if i can see some of those features in my primitive setup here
i i i think that's really fun when you when you can have like a you know like a hubble image
jupiter i mean you can see some features and then you can see it with your own little you know setup
that's really cool absolutely
now uh cameron have you been you have you been invited to other programs to
share some of the stuff that you're doing these days or oh thanks uh
actually um actually scott no but uh and i
am kind of uh already this is this is good for for you
know where i'm at no i mean i i i it's good in many ways but uh but
i also need to kind of manage uh the amount of time yeah that's your devoting
i
yeah so hey becca but i look forward to you know in the
future um yeah that there will be more more involvement
becca do you want to um yeah there we go you gave me some broad
topics so i don't know where to begin but but anyhow
there was something about the elements so uh
on the so i found a little bit text that
that shows a little bit about the elements wait again
put it there so this word document but anyhow
uh let's see there you know when i when i think of uh you know the the fact
that we're made of stardust i mean there's so many kind of poetic things
you know my mind kind of goes there it is and i i found this
describing the elements and how i see the elements
and so everything in nature is made up of five basic elements earth
water fire air and space knowledge of these five elements allows the yogi to understand the laws of
nature and to use yoga to attain greater health power knowledge wisdom and happiness
this arises out of a deep intuition of how the universe operates
japanese traditions use a set of elements called the godai literally the five great these five are
earth water fire wind air and void these came from the indian vastu shastra
philosophy and buddhist beliefs in addition the classical chinese elements wu ching
are also prominent in japanese culture especially to the influential neo-confucianist
during the medieval edo period so earth represents things that were
solid water represents things that were liquid fire represents things that
destroy wind represents things that moved void or sky represented things not of our
everyday life yeah and
now how i get back to coming back to the big picture there it
is there it is he jumps from from my fault back and
around so i i don't think it tells you though that humans have been thinking about this for
a very long time very long time yes these uh the the these uh
teachings and and ideas and philosophies date back
you know more than two thousand years probably way more maybe five thousand years or maybe longer you know but they
have they have found these uh stone elements that
probably is the first telescope it's like a pile of stones and that's
6 000 years old right yeah well humans i mean
understood early on that they needed to understand the sky yeah uh
in order just in order to survive yeah exactly you stole my words from my mouth
yeah because they they have to know when to harvest them when to do that um
exactly the time of playing and all these things you know when
when maybe to move if they were if you were in no bat nomadic you know syria still example there was a
it was vital for egyptians did they they did know that when
sirius comes up the the nile will
flow over so they know how to where when you put the seas on there
to the ground so the old egyptian already uses sirius to
to know one when to do what that is called the dog dog star
the watch dog so but i um
i had this movie i tried to show a couple of
but i didn't get it right and now i have edited put some
music on it i found this video for a long time ago on internet it's not copyrighted and the music also is
uncopyrighted good so there is uh on youtube you can
find music background music and put on your videos that is not copyrighted
yes you can of course there is plenty of them but let's see i
put this on wait i have to pause it
and move it somehow harold
says that uh watching on youtube he says he says since we moved out of africa
almost 100 000 years ago we humans have been involved somehow in looking up at the stars and trying to
make sense of this yeah this video is a kind of visualization of that
what i have been talking about to kind of meditate before i do visuals so
i got i have my me here but my mind is
up there way long hey out there way out there so
nobody can get contact with me when i am out there and um
so uh let's see this is green four yes so i share this with you it's only one
minute long to enjoy
i don't think we're getting any audio oh wait
okay how do i get the audio yes stop stop sharing for a moment
and then go back into share and before you commit to sharing there's a little question yes
you see that yeah that'll get you the sound yep
[Music]
[Music]
beautiful [Music] oh yeah it's really nice
[Music]
i love these [Music]
nice play through that was awesome yeah wow that is awesome i like it
so that's beautiful that's my visualization when i'm doing visual astronomy all just sitting here
and thinking about the universe so make make my tricks
and i over uh i was [Music]
making some astrophotography it was two days ago when we had a harvest moon
and cameron showed uh about
about moon and i got something too but this is only with
my small refractor i can share it just a little bit
and sharing that because you can do full moon imaging full moon is not so
bad we think if you get that good seeing i had
when it was harvest moon yes you can't get wrong
and this still was it whole night
uh i can share you some pictures then i'm finished this is the harvest
moon
and you can see that you can get cute pictures are good and good but you can
get some features and you get some some details
of uh full moon this is 25 000 frames
it stuck it yeah 25 000. but you can see here
right you can get like you see creators and shadows
even if it's full moon beautiful
contrast nice contrast yeah yeah yeah that's that's true like like you say especially when you
notice is as as we know from the lunar exploration
the moon dust is actually dark and and and when you when you
i mean obviously it's just once you look at it and zoom in with your
or have a wide feel that that your eye kind of adapts you can actually look and you can see
how dark those the the seas are as you can see the features in high contrast just like what this
picture shows yes even the different colors of the of the of the uh of the soil there's slight
different variations yeah you can see here that it's like darker but
i'm not trying to get the mineral moon yet i like to get a really
big mosaic not with my obstacles and and whether it
will take it's a whole lifetime project if i want to make like
over nine pictures of different faces so uh
if i have to train i have to i have so much to trade
visually but now i have lots of space i my observatory went from
10 square meters to 67 so now i have
observatory balcony i have my living room and i have my bedroom and i have this room
for only for observatories that's right i love it you're surrounded
by uh yeah every room is another world it's very clear yeah yeah but
okay i have to make the best of the yeah of the situation and times of
course absolutely so why shouldn't i why so exactly yeah exactly and
i have planned now when um i have set up my living room i have a
sofa and shares so fast covered
allows i have already tested everything so i can put the camera
and my my telescope up or running in balcony and i can remote control it to my tv
so i will i have a facebook group already a page
i will send the flyers around here yeah my area so
they can look at that web page facebook page and then i announce tonight or to
like from 6 p.m at winter time it's show time
so great they are welcome they can come with their parents they can get some coffee and the kids can
look moon sun some night sky on the living room
and if they want so just put the telescope open the window and have a little bit smaller on
the living room i have a big window there yeah that looks great
so uh but too bad we can't go there and and uh and hang out with you for a little while
that would be a lot of fun yeah so i think just to them to
to see uh in looking from inside and guided and
i i can like from the beginning like solar and on the moon
and tell them a like a really easy way
so because the kids do understand everything but they have you you have to put them on their words
like uh and make tests i love to do with i like i did when i was kid
with the flower we can get those big box and then 10
kilograms powder and a really big rock and
push it in there because i don't have so many of your own craters yes i don't have so much
furniture in my living room now so it's easy to clean yeah just taking a hoover and cheap pup
so uh yeah outreaching is uh just when the coffee is a little bit easier
then yeah i will do that because they are hanging already now on the playground
they are sitting on the on the bench and yelling me what are you looking what
are you doing right oh yeah well that's that's that's a
wonderful thing that you're offering for your for your neighborhood i mean it's yeah
great so and i'm sure that people will you know you'll absolutely that will become a destination after i
have already because when the summer time when i was imaging moon at the daytime i was so long
there was a walkway just under my balcony and almost everyone
men watch it and stop it and ask it and
you you don't believe but like 90 of them ask it
have you seen anything weird
i said yes every time i'm looking at you no yeah
yes the oh yeah i i think all amateur astronomers have been asked that question you know or
are you have you seen anything that you can't explain exactly pretty much all of it okay so
everything i can see it's you know i can't explain to you yeah but i kind of try
come up to a cup of coffee so i can explain right that's right yeah no i
mean many people are very curious about um uh
you know uaps ufos aliens um yeah and uh so the you know still the
jury's out about some of this stuff but um but i've been
all my astronomy observing life you know i've been asked kinds of
questions there is i think i don't i don't remember if it was um what do you call this uh big
thinker and he wrote really much quote
he i think it's his but he thought that i think if
the thought if we if there are other civilization or are we
just alone the only civilization in the universe both are scaring
if we are just alone that's query if there are other civilizations that's also scary
well both scenarios are yeah are scary almost uh it's almost
unbelievable one of them you know for i mean really truly alone
in the universe then i would be really scared ever took root that is
that was yes no and we are we are we are already
uh ruin it if this is our only civilization and we are going to ruin it
by our actions well we'll ruin it for ourselves that's for sure yeah
for sure you know it means earth got uh got pretty uh
you know destroyed a couple of times you know oh yeah uh giant asteroid impacts and
stuff like that yet here we are you know so it couldn't kill all the life yeah
but asteroids i can take asteroids impact but not the
light pollution and air pollution and and all that stuff
big crater is okay but that's not our own
uh maid yes so uh
it's like uh when i uh at night time i had a box moving box in
the in the hall middle of the night that it was dark and i went to
kitchen in the middle of the night i i i kicked the box
and broke my little toe oh and the bad thing it was that was my own box
[Laughter] actually i couldn't complain to that's
somebody else yeah that's right so well that makes it even worse yeah
yeah that was the worst thing not the troll but that was my own books okay thank you's got to get me thank you
pakka thank you so much it was very very very uh pleasant time and a very good
episode and what the line gift you have with her
yeah from india it's nice to have so many young people on the program today yeah yeah and now and yesterday's day
where they were like bernie and surviving
it was very cool i have some pictures i have some movies from la palma
observatory when this show showed how the
the solar scope it's a swedish solar scope it's
0.97 meters 97 centimeters and they have
if we have time i could share just a little bit
but it's uh they talk swedish but i could um
i could try to translate they have three uh instruments
uh below because it's like beam it down and the first box it's the tube that comes
down and the first book is the adaptive optics that he showed us
earlier this week was it yesterday or a friday it was the adaptive optics oh you're
talking about um uh um claude plymate yeah
and uh that's exactly what they had and then they have it this beam divider that
calls for uh extremely h alpha and then they have the
red and then they have green and then they have blue and that blue
blue instrument is that they collect
one really special beam or wavelength that is so weird he told he explained
the the the wavelength that they don't really understand what it
does because the wavelength comes up from the the
surface okay and get up a little bit
and get back in the surface and then it gets gets activated
like uh so uh i can't i can uh find where i have it
that would be cool to see that also um harold locke was wishing that you would
zoom in on the on the uh finland feature of the moon
uh this is not the this is the real
uh real uh
ah okay let's see hey scott just so you know i've got a really close magnification zoomed in of
the moon as well okay all right we'll have you share that you're ready this is so this is the real how moon is foreign but if you
look in the mirror this is a finland and there we have this small island
between sweden and finland and that used to be sweden
but no longer craterated
but anyhow yeah but let's uh simon i can show you the
video on the after party
when she gives a quick view simon we'll take after that we'll take a few minute break and then come back and we'll have uh
some time to all right there it is
wow wow that's good this is really good
that's good sure of jupiter that uh this is only one stacks worth whoa
oh wow beautiful very nice because i don't have my presets on this so i didn't push it
too hard but you could obviously see some of the detail really starting to come out yeah oh yeah
that's awesome yeah i was able oh go ahead oh it's just saying i was able to pick
out in my primitive view i was able to pick out those two features those two dark
cyclones in the upper belt oh yeah and and also the red spot which was very
small actually but still it was your image really helped me
pick them out so that was pretty cool oh yeah yeah so i'm gonna take out the barlow in
a second um just so it's not so bad because the moon even though it's like risen up to a certain height i just know
my area that when it's that low down still yeah i'm just going to have a shimmering atmosphere i have to wait for
it to really get up there before i know it's going to be rock solid but if i use a jupiter or that good i mean
this is going to be great all right so let's take a 10 minute break and uh we'll be back with you guys
yeah i got saturn back and i'll just uh share my screen
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your sound is off again
yes my sound's off again we're back all right you guys can't read this
uh so anyhow um yeah i i like that uh that last video uh
i thought it was very inspiring because um you know
people that are trying to uh understand the very origins of our
universe i mean these are that's the kind of job that uh you know
is so esoteric you know and requires so much
of of the discipline and uh effort by these uh by these dedicated
individuals you know and i'm i'm so grateful that they exist you know occasionally uh
you know and i know simon uh gets to do this quite often because of his location
uh he's very close to the jeff propulsion laboratory and
i know that they come into the store from time to time the scientists do
and uh so that it was there that i was introduced to david steinfeld uh
from jpl and he took me into the j to the jet propulsion laboratory
uh itself and i got to see uh the first uh
soil simulant being melted into a brick and so they're trying to figure out how to build habitats on
the moon and mars and it looks like they're going to deal with microwave ovens and melting bricks
uh and melting the surface of where the where uh
our you know moon colonists and mars colonists will have to live
uh they need to do this because the dust from the moon and mars is so fine
that it'd be very easy to breathe it in and get it into your lungs
and it would be worse than you know coal miners lungs for example you know
so there's some big challenges not only from that but uh also trying to protect our
colonists from radiation you know and then just trying to figure
out how to survive there for months or years on end so it's uh
it's it's uh fascinating though to to see these people uh do the work that
they do and i love it that they are involved most of
them are involved in educational outreach on some level so very cool
i saw a documentary or was it the competition how the students will build a 3d printer
that prints the first oh yeah that's what i was going to mention
yeah i was going to mention that too right that's so fascinating
all right while the scene's still um actually pretty good i'm going to show you guys a quick feature that a lot of
people ignore for some weird reason and it's great if you've got a great big telescope to be able to see this so i'm
looking at the edge of the moon that is not actually hidden by shadows so this is a very nice sharp harsh edge
but if i start to scroll upwards you start to see
the moon actually has mountains oh yeah look at that and they're quite well defined
yeah yeah you get to experience this during a total eclipse where you see bailey's beads
uh that kind of thing as the eclipses um coming towards the end of totality
but yeah it's it's not round more often than not where i'm looking at
right now is actually where bailey's beads actually occur i see is that north or east
um hold on i've got to flip this all around because it's on the top it's actually on the
yeah north east yeah we're looking at the northeast part right now because my camera and all that stuff is turning the
wrong way around right now yeah so just to show you guys um
the rest of the uh the edge because we're obviously coming towards that's beautiful yeah
see so now yeah going into the shadows all right
very responsive very nice look at how nicely yeah oh you can look beautiful
you can almost er measure the the like uh
yeah celebrate they just celebrated the mid-autumn moon festival and uh
you know they there was uh many um
celebrations uh one of them i saw included dance and it was
kind of like this this shadow dance where the the people would merge together and they would create things
like rabbits and you know because they see the rabbit in the moon and and uh
you know you would have to watch this video to
to experience they can't even really describe it it was so beautiful you know the funniest thing is i didn't
actually buy any moon cakes this year because um usually when there's like big issues
happening like this it's never a good time to buy moon cakes and i apologize for all the people that like eating them
but i'm just going to let you know now they're not going to be all that great this year why is that
uh well obviously with what it was all these things have been happening a lot of the materials that you would buy to
make these moon cakes are not as um easily obtained
oh right everything is kind of rushed or they're using uh pre-packaged stuff and the only
reason why i know this is because i eat moon cakes all the time yeah i like pancakes too
oh i love mooncakes but i've always discovered we've never seen mooncake if there's always if there's a shirt
that's good yeah what's your favorite flavor
what's your favorite flavor flavor uh simon look i like lotus seeds yeah that's what i just i just had a lot
of speed yes i always get the one with the eggs egg yolks inside of them so
okay so if you know how to read the tin um you can tell how many egg yolks there
are inside of them in fact usually a lot of them have packaged on them uh in english if they have um lotus seeds and
if they have an egg yolk inside of them and look for these lines so you'll get a
line that goes that way if you get which means one if you get two lines that looks like an equal sign it means
two and if you've got three lines there's three egg yolks in there
yeah they're very uh pekka moon cakes are very rich
as well so he can easily gain pounds eating these things no i i have never even seen how
they look like yeah yeah you could have them but most of them are small you know they're
they're something like that you know and they're thick but they have big ones you know
they have big ones uh uh a bigger one might be you know something like that
when i lived in taiwan they had they attempted to make the world's largest mooncake it was giant i mean it was like
i don't know 12 feet in diameter and okay we don't have them in sweden very extreme
we don't have them in sweden never seen them put it put it this way biker you only eat um the bigger ones that is you
only you cut them into quarters and you only eat a quarter yeah because if you try if you eat more than that like a
half it's just like you you can just feel it it's like so much sugar you get so hard oh yeah
it's like those turkish you know those uh
oh yeah the turkish delights well yeah but they are good yeah
syrup and soccer and honey and everything but they have nuts and so on
but they are good let me see if i could show you a picture of a moon cake i found it oh you did
okay yeah i found some with the uh chinese uh signs or something like that
our audience uh some moon cakes
i mean they're beautiful designs and um yeah there's one there's one that's cut
open fun story real quick about those mooncakes scott see all the fancy designs
yeah back in the um the old days we'll call it or ancient times when they used
to make these they used to imprint the house um names onto them
so you could tell where they came from so everybody who produces a moon cake
has a very unique design specifically to them and only they are allowed to use it and
you could tell the quality behind it just by looking at the prints that they use
oh so traditional mooncakes um in china that don't come from any specific area
do not have any of this decorative um look to them and they don't have that shape they just look like a big splodge
that was just thrown together yeah yes
oreo moon cakes oh my god are you serious real monkeys
go back go back click on it i want to see that now
i have seen it all now yes you have
yes well that's a celestial dessert you know originated in china so
should i say yeah it's got a solar telescope in la paloma
i'm sorry should i can i show you the solar telescope in la probably absolutely absolutely yeah it's
i will rewind it a little bit because they are talking about them but i i pause
sometimes and tell you what it's going on okay okay
just maybe the answer that is
it's first light 2002 and
it has integrated adaptive optics a new vacuum tube
and this the drawing how it the beam is going
down
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um
he was telling the the resolution of the telescope and if you have to if you have been on
the optical the checking you're seeing the
lowest row on this you know the sign you look and tell the
the letters uh you can probably with very good sun you can see that on
the five meter and read it and
do you can you hear me yes okay good because it was so good with this telescope you can read that
lowest road from three kilometers uh
uh from three kilometer i know how how long that is in in miles
but it's like two miles oh man that's really
you can see features resolution well you can read that the text you have in in this optics sign
where these letters and the lowest probably i can i can read it from one
meter but this come with three kilometers
is that actually a picture
that's amazing
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okay now we can go to next where they show the
actually machinery it's a little bit shaky
but anyhow you thought this is the back side
uh
adaptive optics
for those of you that are watching um uh last last friday uh we have the astronomical
league live program that we broadcast
solar observatory at uh in tucson and then he worked at big bear solar observatory where they had a very
advanced active optics package i'm sure these guys have something very
similar that kind of resolution takes
you know uh you know and very advanced uh kind of active optics system
and um uh claude was kind enough to really explain that in great detail
yeah that this black box is the the new uh instrument they have and it
reads that black blue spectra that was on ten thousand three
hundred and eighty angstroms and he tells about it but it's very very
difficult to me to explain but that's the
the weird blue spectrum that they are they are looking for let's see if i can
find something more interesting in this uh no we can go to
to next and where they show the adaptive optics
this is the the computer that that client showed us
so this is only one sunspot with all those sensors that the client
solder us but we can go outside
yeah it shows all the scopes
but specially is that
they have like 15 scopes there but this is something
i wanted to show you this is only a mirror
and that will be demolited
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the world's biggest optical telescope it's 10.4 meters holy
smokes yeah and it's like comparable with hawaii and telescope yeah but they
are planning to build here somewhere
uh your speakers it's it's going to be 40 meters in diameter
whoa yeah where is this pekka which is in la palma uh
yeah the canary and island they they exactly the island they had a volcano
right now but it's on other side of the island
wow so they have a they have a volcano right now and there you can see horizon and
and the sea and clouds so that's the presentation
that was awesome very cool yeah and then
and you know that that's showing the cutting edge i mean uh oh yeah and then simon you were you were saying that uh earlier that
basically you're trying to achieve that that level with with uh
with amateur gear right yes that's right that's really cool i love that i have to
ask simon if you have heard about the green
lightning when sun goes down sets wait green flash yeah green flash
no i haven't heard that before neither do i but it was california you've never seen the sunset and seen
the green flash um to be totally honest i don't actually watch the sunset all that often
okay all right simon new uh assignment here because you're in
california and it's got a you got a great chance to see the green flash
is to watch the sun uh you know on a nice clear day it's got to be really clear all the way down the horizon and
as the sun gets down to the last part of it you will see a brilliant green flash
from the top of the sun really yes and you can also i was at david levy's
uh residence and he showed me the green flash from the moon
wow yeah from there that's a simulator it's similar yeah it's beautiful too i
have i have to see first of all i have to see this horizon i haven't seen horizon
in six years ah that's that's true
and how i can get that i used to take a ferry back and forth to finland
it's an open sea and there it will be sunset also
if it's clear so i have to book like this last minute
journey so i can see that it's clear so i will take my camera with me and and
look after those but it's is it depending in the latitude you're living on
that i don't know i i've seen from california i've seen the green flash many many times
uh definitely have seen the green flash uh in other areas as well
but you can see there's lots of photographs of it is this like an optical thing that
happens it's an optical thing refraction to the atmosphere
so you can see you know this is a european european space organization
uh some recording of that
wonderful i i never heard even heard before he told that tourists
are like hunting after that
oh sure i think it must be something to do with the the latitude
now okay so here's the moon and the green flash from the moon whoa
apparently david levy had seen it so many times from his home
that uh he just told me he said you want to see something that you've never seen before and i said okay
and so he says watch the moon and he just knows it's going to happen
and he's still working on his telescope and stuff and getting his dobsonian ready and everything
and uh he just lets me watch it [Laughter]
like it's commonplace to him you know yeah i've never seen it any other time okay
but we definitely saw it that night it was really cool is it like just a few seconds or yes yes
so you have to be on your watch you have to be on the watch you're watching go down below the horizon and uh
yes oh my so it's going to be the last uh moment
because once it goes past the meridian i will not do a flip with this uh c14
not a good idea yeah
and seeing is pretty damn good right now it is pretty good
tiny bit of drift right now because right now say that again scott your exposures are
five milliseconds oh yeah i've i've dropped this down a little bit more it's just uh to help with the contrast so if
i bump this back up obviously it gets a little there you go that actually looks better
oh yeah for for capturing i try not to go too harsh because uh the the noise is just too severe
yeah i'll uh i'll mess with the contrast a bit so you guys can see it a bit better oh look at that oh yeah there we
go that's cool and the only reason why it's still it's drifting so much is because i
didn't actually go to it because i don't know if you've ever used a scope this big before but the go-to
isn't as deadly accurate as i would wow yeah that is
unbelievable and the red spot already has gone
oh yeah the red spot has gone completely but the two blobs that we saw that were originally here and here are
now up there yeah it rotates really fast it does it's
like what every nine hours is that right um you know what the funny i keep hearing different reports some people
say it's 10.5 some people say it's nine five let's find out
i heard 10.4
that is unbelievable is it that celestrons 14-inch yeah it's it's a 1980s um c14
that really orange yeah it's like it's the orange one with
the uh the gray ribbing on the back of it so that's how you know it's a pre-hal bop
um scope my first celestron was a little bit kind of off
odd it was an 8 inch really orange but it had a
wooden tripod equatorial tripod so i could tell you a story about those
scopes um and i think scott knows this story as well so during um what was it the comet uh
hellbop when the comet was coming around celestron rushed out um a whole load of scopes
and i remember there was an order in japan that they placed and it was in the thousands
and then towards the end of the production run and you know the the hype was dying down
they turned around and cancelled the order oh my god the market was then suddenly
flooded with all of these um eight inch scopes which i think
okay which i think they were called um the next star eight
i i believe okay with wood and support and if they were bright luminous orange
that you don't want okay i bought my 92
and it was already used and the focusing knob had had had uh
blank it was like you felt when you focused it was like uh not straight
and i wrote a letter to celestron that can i just take a hammer and bang it
or some kind and they just read the fact that no if the focusing is working don't do
anything yeah some of the focuses um i think the
1970s focuses on those um on the c11 and the c14 were probably the best ones yeah
it was a steed the focus knob was all steel yeah it was now rubbery no no no yeah it
was all steel it has this weird little uh clock dial on it and to be honest um
the bearings that they used back then were so incredibly stiff i mean most of
the focuses that i've seen uh from this era they all have flat spots on them and the
reason why is because that is actually where the focus actually is
yeah you could tell when you're close to focus because you'll hit this flat spot all the time
no it's because they left it at focus yeah for so long
yeah yeah this is an awesome it's beautiful i love
this beautiful this really fantastic and it shows you know
the optics if they're made well you know and they they last yeah
it's you know and now you now you're applying today's technology simon i mean look at all that
you can see you could almost make a tv channel called a cable tv channel that
probably cast your channel it's just all jupiter all the time no from everywhere on earth
just like take your location who who is live live
broadcasting yeah from taiwan usa australia sweden
finland and pick your your
what you want to look and somebody is live live streaming
was there any wounds close by very possible to do i was hoping there was a moon close by
hey guys i i gotta i gotta jump out so um cameron you take care man
yeah yeah i have a good one this is awesome i love it very good show good to see you guys
simon uh becca thanks talk to you all all later have a good one clear stretch
thanks come on he and everybody if you're watching you know thank you thank you again for all of this so it's
great well gentlemen i really appreciate you
hanging in there and sharing uh your thoughts and beautiful images and all of that is really cool
um i you know want to thank the uh uh nepal astronomical society nassau uh
for participating in the way that they have and uh sharing their experiences and their
knowledge it was wonderful uh dt's uh suggestion to
pick the uh the the theme of uh stardust i thought was
amazing and great you know it was so fun uh looking at uh special quotes about uh
you know from carl sagan and uh i found one from uh deepak chopra you know about stardust
and it was really it was quite quite profound actually and uh
so it was uh it's cool and you know thinking about
our connection with the stars you know using that as kind of a lens of perspective you know of how our
you know the the living part of us uh you know the the the
that are made up from the elements uh are hardwired to the universe i mean
it's just a lot of people don't think in those terms but
that is the truth of the matter and uh you know so i i that's the reason why i
put in the uh the original um you know the placeholder so if you kind
of came in late on the program uh you know i i always like to put in a
quote and this is from carl sagan even through your hardest days
remember we're all made of stardust i think that's just really very calms
it calms you down yes yes it does yeah i i do a bit have a small belief that
for the most of people they think if they are
starting to look about the stars and and so on that they have to study
to understand they have to read a lot they have to have the real
uh dedicated uh knowledge and so on so they have they
have some that they are fair of to let
the starters come in i don't know but it's well it's just you know this is
you know science trying to understand our origins you know yeah what we're made of what how we're
what are what what is the interrelationship you know between all these things and so
well it seems very poetic and kind of maybe if you say yeah we're all made of stardust and people
that might you know seem kind of tongue-in-cheek you know so to speak yeah um
people it's how we that's that is the truth of it that's what we have become to understand now yeah
you know where religion and philosophy would enter into this
we still don't know how it's all how it all comes about or why it has all come about i usually say to people
my nearest people that show their ring or air hang or
necklace the cold that did you know that that gold is from a supernova
ah how did it get to the earth yeah how do you know that yeah
okay then i said where can where where came the earth
so i usually say that all the heavy metal we have
in earth all that stuff is beginning from the supernova and the
it's 0.5 second in that extreme heat
and pressure when shopping supernova explodes there
all the heavy metals are produced but it's so stuff small stuff
yes and then they collect yeah so they are
really it is uh amazing the whole process of constant creation and destruction you
know so it's it's just uh you know we get to take take the ride um
because we're we're conscious of it you know and we have made some pretty good tools to go
check it out you know i i like to make a heating camera when i go into an jewelry
store and the customers ask me okay how can i help you
that's it i want some 10 grams of of
supernovas stuff supernova resistance that's when they
call the manager hey hey get this guy out of here
all right scott so let's call and enter this diamond thank you man thank you thank you simon
[Music] thank you so much it was really fun it was really nice
and uh again thanks thanks all of you and the audience for watching and uh
uh we'll be back uh saturday uh with the next global star party with um the royal
uh astronomical society of canada the montreal center and the royal
astronomical society of new zealand where they will uh have what they're
calling the 45 degree star party 45 degrees north 45 degrees south
um held simultaneously in daytime and nighttime so it's going to be pretty
cool you see now saturday yeah this coming up saturday it's 7 00 p.m central
8 eastern 1 pm new zealand time uh the next day okay
exactly same day we have a whole swedish swedish astronomical society will help
whole day okay it's like the star party for whole country and it's virtual
very cool so could i have some several screens i can
it's nice it's a whole day it's wonderful all the things that we have access to these days
um uh also uh we have uh seven months of science with
caitlin aarons this week um we've got lots of things coming up and
so stay tuned uh keep watching our calendar and uh we'll see you
as early as tomorrow so take care and uh as my good friend jack horkheimer would
always say keep looking up thanks simon thanks becca thanks good night good
night
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