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hello Stella hi welcome back how are you
we're I'm fine and Wendy's fine she says hello wonderful wonderful
hi Stella hey
so we have Stella here David
Kareem Carol David who else
and Scotty Roberts and deep tea and Annie hello yeah Annie is uh our
Explorer Alliance member liaison the queen of all explore Alliance right
here [Laughter]
kind of uh join in the zoo meeting to see how this goes so deep tea how are you
and fine I'll fight over two oh good I'm fine I'm fine
so this uh this this young man that you are bringing on to the show how do I
pronounce his name
said I said I okay yeah Mr saidai okay yes
and how old is he is 19. 19. okay yeah okay
older than you yeah
it's good phone call you just had because the rest
of us were really enjoying listening to it yeah
yes
[Music] um foreign
that's right this is gonna be a long one estella's taking the first three hours
right and then we just gotta go estella's got three hours or she's going to talk about variable Stars one type of
variable star and excruciating detail I'm going to talk about every single star that everyone you're going to
describe it this one's not a variable star but in
fact in many ways yes but it will be it will become at a later evolutionary
stage that's right there we go I I actually have a I guess a subjective
question for Stella um we are looking at maybe trying out some sonification this summer with our remote telescope and
taking Photon photometric uh measurements of a variable star that has a relatively quick period but a
relatively steep curve do you have any suggestions of which
ones I should be looking at yeah that's what I was thinking a nice
short short period are our library yes the one caveat um that I would like to caution you
about is even if you have three nights in a row you still have the daytime where you don't have data so you can
find um somewhere else that would really help with the certification it looks uh
continuous one of these pulsators are really
gorgeous
I I'm I'm I'm I'm wondering if I'm biting off too much but I kind of really want to try right do it do it seems so
fascinating I want to try yes it is or one thing you can do is we have so many
light curves and you can be slow with as a signe from the avso database because more than
100 Years of data I was I was pondering that just taking one and trying it out first before I try to actually set up a
telescope to measure one now yeah yeah the the the downside is is if if it's
something that we do now and I get a couple of students involved then they're the ones who are actually capturing the data or programming it to capture the
data there's a sense of ownership and a sense of connection
true all night long um I'm not sure whether it's close to an
outburst you can definitely see um from the light curve generator if it
is close to light to the Outburst they're going to see something much more interesting but even quite Essences the
Sig is doing really bizarre stuff it's not stationary and actually last time I looked at it it
didn't hand recovered to the quiescence level was like it was stuck somewhere it
looked like a standstill actually did you go out and take a look at the Supernova and or the Nova and Hercules
no here I I mean Cambridge Massachusetts yeah and yeah I've got the same problem
yeah cloudy but I saw the solar eclipse
my kids woke up with me we did a family outing it was so much
fun it was a sunrise Eclipse yeah beautiful here yeah yeah I woke up at
four in the morning to go capture that Eclipse I had to drive three hours after
I woke up but I made it in time I saw your pictures are absolutely
phenomenal thank you that it you know it's amazing what you
can do with a smartphone and if the clouds are covering the eclipse it's a perfect opportunity to use almost any
camera you have to take the picture of the sun it was kind of a fortuitous break I had my um other images there but
um as I want to get something out so we'll just do that we'll use the smartphone and that turned out to be the
picture that probably traveled around the internet the most just because it may be at the timing and there were a
whole bunch of bugs there too I don't know um what kind of flies they were called but
I was pretty much formed on it was it wasn't much fun but I didn't let him
drag me downs I enjoyed seeing that event and it was pretty peaceful out there where I went there were a lot of
folks uh camping and I think they were still inside their sleeper or they were still
inside their uh RVs but um it was a beautiful event I was
glad to be a part of it did you see that uh Not only was your pictures and ours
put up in the virtual telescope project but they were part of a show in Romania uh today oh yeah I didn't know
yeah that is awesome they they took some of the pictures from the vtp and they
they shared them yeah that's pretty cool that's that's a
really cool it's uh I've always felt more than just trying to get pictures
out there but just share the astronomical events from my point of view
um I've really tried to keep that Focus so that the you know the images are once they're out there it's for public
domain didn't get to see the eclipse well looking at the pictures should give you a great view of what it looked like
then you don't have to feel like you didn't see it so that's that's excellent that they're getting
out there and you're so right that Sunrise coming in and out of the clouds bright red was just oh it was it was
ominous it was gorgeous yeah if now had I gone further north it looks like there
was was a little less cloud cover and that's where we get a little more of the
Moon covering the Sun but I didn't I had to work that day my uh main job so I
didn't want to be completely wiped out um and I wasn't sure if the internet would work my uh hotspot would work well
enough to work from up there so I settled on where I went and I was glad
I was there definitely and I'm glad it was it was nice to actually have people across the
across the smartphone to doing it with us yeah that was uh that was that was a really
nice event I know the one in November I'd like to see the same thing take place of course there are not too many
people are going to be able to view that one live it's but the lunar eclipse I think I think we get to see the lunar
eclipse I think we we all get to see that yeah you got to go up to the Arctic to get the uh the solar right I think it's
Antarctica Antarctic sorry Anarchy yeah so we uh
I don't know if I'll book a trip down there but it's tempting you just have to get up a little earlier to start driving
yeah yeah it's a long drive but I think you hit a point where there's ocean in
between me and my destination um then I'd have to so then I just have to drive onto a boat and then just keep
going so there you go yeah I'll start my trip a week in advance I think I'll get there just in time for totality
or onto an ice flow yeah
Terry man here and Pekka Pekka how are you I'm fine I'm fine yeah
congratulations to you Pekka is now famous in in Stockholm how fantastic
yeah I heard Pekka your uh image was picked yes yeah and I was
taking from the you know when he was also spot they're surprised so I was
taken from my bed sometimes all it matters is you have the
right shot at the right time yeah I actually have I actually
I asked you David Levy from uh the girl who proposed it for me
to join from first place to the competition she
saw one of my pictures and she told that there is a
competition and she on on her like
she told that I I should send a picture into the competition
so that's for the uh for David Levy from her
yeah her name is and I will show a picture of her later
on if you are still
on the broadcast
uh David do you inspire all of us to take our best pictures yeah don't you
feel good about it well thank you especially since the one that inspired Adrian was the worst picture I have ever
taken in my life of anything and I will never forget how that awful
picture I took of the Southern Cross from a hotel parking lot in
um in Brazil actually inspired Adrian to get him to
do the uh wonderful astrophotos he takes yeah I'll never forget that that's
really quite a quite a surprise and a real pleasure and honor
but I I used to think that for me okay it's a common say that every picture
counts and that's a little bit true because you have to shoot
that first light and afterwards go back to that first light
and compare where RM today and see your own process with your own
eyes that's an incredible feeling
yeah yes we have some nice comments here
uh we've had you know we've had a very loyal audience and um uh you know this
is our 50th event and many of them not only watch the global star party they
watch our other programs too and uh which is great uh
Let's see we have um Norm Hughes is saying this is the
greatest community on the internet which is great it's nice and
um the whole Channel
I have gone through every internet or you know broadcast TV
channels I can find one channel that this is interest for me that if that's
uh uh what they call them Discovery Science
ah and you you beat them wow
because there there you can't you can't take uh questions here I can take
questions and probably I get the answer that's what we aim for yeah and uh
I'm stopped
and there was a I don't know if Kareem Adrian saw that from Romanian TV there
was a broadcast
just mentioning it so I'll have to look at if it's been uh
recording from that I will have to watch it I'll email you the link okay thank
you okay okay should I do you have the link or should
I email it to you as well I don't know the link but I record it from I'll send you the link it's I think
it's on Facebook the the recording let me just check okay thank you but I recorded it and and uh Adrian Karim was
on I was on [Music] um and then there was a lot of people we
don't know by name I don't know by name
but east rental in their own their Facebook site page
I believe so I'm just uh trying to find the the link
too many computers covered reality yeah
yeah it is so it I have to remember this is an international um
um yeah star party so covet is different around the world depending on how the
you know how the various countries have handled it uh some countries I think have been free for a while other
countries are still there's still a bit of a struggle so that's definitely keep that in mind over of course in the
states where the state seems to be cutting through a little bit of the vaccine hesitancy that
we had and uh many are beginning to take the vaccine now so
um we're the numbers it's a slow-moving thing and um I think we've discovered
that after after quote unquote normal
comes back I think these in these uh um I would call it telecast but uh these
star parties these uh online star parties are going to become a part of our new normal because where else can I
see my good friends from all around without having to hop into the truck and drive
um I think there's I think there's still some uh serious value in having these um
online that's the only way to have an international star party every single
week I mean that's yeah it's uh imagine all the travel yeah we're we're
gonna have it in Switzerland this week next week we'll have it in Antarctica
you know for us
yeah I think it will going forward I think um these online events will uh definitely
supplement and enhance the uh events when we're when
we're able to get back and uh show the public once again through the eyepiece
absolutely imagine how many amateur astronomers wanted to go to the
astronomical League convention or the Northeast astronomy Forum or the Texas Star Party or the winter star party or
the Nebraska star party and so on and so on there's people that have never been able to do this now some of those people
live in other countries some of those people live nearby but they're disabled they can't do it okay
um you know so these are the you know in this way we're able to do a kind of
educational Outreach that is I you know is unique and
um so you know I know that all you guys get that um and I think our audience gets it too
um but uh yeah I think that the ultimate way to go is to have an in-person event
combined with you know sharing the experience online
thanks Carmi Kareem I got it excellent yes and that's actually that's why we're
gonna have a virtual event and an in-person meeting here as as part of the
AVS or annual meeting and I think you want to be established simply because we find that uh this way we are much more
inclusive we are reaching out to individuals who just can't afford in terms of time or or resources to spend
two days one way to travel our way for a three-day meeting so it's uh I think
that this year uh 2020 forced us to be more Innovative and think a little bit
outside the box in order not to lose our minds and not to lose our communities it's um it's good to know it's good to
see technology used this way yes not only only people
large associations are involved like as
aav SL then we have uh the astronomical League
they are involved just those were named but this is an
very very large simultaneously broadcast indeed
unappreciated me too and you know a lot of you have
become friends um you know Pekka certainly you and and Adrian and all these people that I have
not met in person you know but I'm meeting you a lot of you every week [Laughter]
this is the I got from if you say so from Stockholm to the
whole world I was in the Box
kind of uh but right now I'm looking for
out of the books so it's it's a little bit too high for
my understanding but okay I will slowly slowly getting in
and my pictures are watched all over the world yeah so that that is wonderful yes
feeling because the first picture I posted I was like uh
it was like a nightmare I watched it accounted their likes and
how many had looked so uh
I I say to every everybody who started that poster first and you will see you will
not have any any negative comments I promise I can put ten thousand dollars
on bet that you won't have single one negative comment
you will only have hearts and hugs and and so on right
and welcome to this community
yes it is I mean it's you know I think a lot of amateur astronomers when they are first really
kind of getting involved they're amazed at what the astronomical the amateur astronomical Community is like yeah you
know how supportive they are of each other how uh giving of information you
know um you know almost everyone wants to Mentor someone and uh and get them
excited about the night sky and to get the best out of their equipment you know
so you don't you don't see uh uh you know you really don't see that in a lot
of other uh activities you know so you know if you're a like a regular uh like
a landscape photographer for example well you might go out with other landscape photographers and shoot
something but a lot of the guys are not going to give up their secrets okay
in astronomy they do yes and the short shot with someone else in amateras you
can count to the short shot is minimum one hour yes
so I tried to yesterday just uh calling the uh my friend here in
Stockholm who took the I will show his uh some picture he was one of the winner
and uh the short call just to ask her permission to show the picture
took one hour no
is that Don Davies with us yes it is hi Don hi how's everything in Austin
it's hot but it's hot down there yeah yeah I hear the Grid's having trouble
again is that true oh it's very true yes gotta love that independent uh
electrical system I think it's about 95 capacity already
or something pretty much uh about the same as we were during the snowstorm
the opposite side of the thermostat yeah [Music]
NASA's perseverance Rover has been working on its science Mission with the help of the super cam instrument a rock
vaporizing laser and camera that examines rocks and I see programs like about supercam we can pinch myself
because I know that we're living in the Golden State's payload Uplink astronomy supercam operations so supercam looks
out of the big circular window in the white box on top of the mast and it uses spectroscopy which is just when light
excites atoms in a rock and we get unique shifted wavelengths back to us and so we use a combination of lasers
and infrared vision and that lets us do science even further out than the robotic arm the lasers reach 7 meters or
23 feet away and the infrared much much further and that's not even all we have a tiny high resolution camera and a
microphone to hear Mars and that's how we heard the helicopter and can you talk about some of the images super cam has
taken and why they are important to scientists absolutely so we started by
taking out images in Spectra near the Rover and as you can see in this image the laser actually blows away the dust
and makes these small pits in the rocks and that lets us analyze material that's just below the surface of the rock which
is what we care about and then we can record the sounds of the laser with our
microphone and it tells us something about the hardness of the rocks and then starting Psalm 26 we were able to take
pictures of these long distance targets like Kodiak and that really helps the Rover team understand where to drive
next for more close-up analysis and these red circles you see is actually the infrared um telling us about the
mineral content of these far away outcrops so that's how supercam figures
out more about the geological history of Mars and we're so excited to see what the laser can do next thank you so much
for joining us today hamani to get the latest updates follow at NASA JPL and at
Nasa persevere on social media and on the mission website mars.nasa.gov perseverance you can also
find all the raw images being sent back by the Rover
thank you
foreign Global star party and uh we've got an
incredible lineup of speakers I've posted the the schedule and everything
that you can see there uh in the uh in our post um and I promise that we'd have great
door prizes so explore scientific has gone all out uh we have uh a I I'm
holding all the eyepieces yet here
but uh you can see this is a whole stack of 68 degree eyepieces plus a case
valued at over a thousand dollars um are that's that's the grand prize
we've got the uh Ed uh Alpine binoculars these are serious binoculars here
um and uh they are have an Abbey roof prism a waterproof you know Ed glass
super Coatings all the rest of it uh about a 500 value here and then
for all you you know weather guys out there uh we've got a five in
one um Wi-Fi weather station and so this is really cool we actually have one up on
top of the explore scientific building and we use it every day so those are our door prizes uh that the astronomical
League will be asking questions about and uh and providing um uh but uh you know when you get uh
you know these kind of I mean they're great door prizes and everything but when we finally get to the astronomical
League convention which we are so proud to be taking a part in as well and broadcasting that they're gonna have
some major tour prices they have thousands of dollars indoor prizes there so it's gonna be super cool
um but uh we have uh here with us we've got uh David Levy to my uh right there
on the screen you got Karim Jaffer from the uh Roy both of these guys are from the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Montreal um uh not division but uh you know never
from there so it's great uh we have DT gotom from Nepal uh she's with us uh
she's brought on a special guest uh also from Nepal who will be talking to us Stella Kafka from the American
Association of variable star observers um she's uh brilliant in her own right
and she's leading that organization to uh you know new heights so it's it's
great Annie Scarborough's with us Annie is uh Our member liaison for the explore
Alliance I invited her to be on the show so she could see how we put all this together we have Adrian Bradley here
um astrophotographer night sky photographer um he'll be uh sharing his latest works
with us Terry Mann is going to be here sharing her real passion I mean she
loves astronomy but she also loves Aurora and she is I think she's world famous for the work that she does in
Aurora Aurora photography Pekka haltala Pekka has uh won recently uh a uh prize
in astrophotography for his photograph of the Moon by uh basically the NASA
organization or the astronomic astronautical space organization of of
Sweden has has recognized him so that's very cool Chuck Allen from the astronomical league is with us Don
Davies from is it the Austin Astronomical Society yes awesome great I
got it right and Carol orange president of the astronomical League who's with us as
well right at this moment we have more people coming on we just couldn't fit them all on the screen so David eicher
is also there um and uh so we have and as I mentioned incredible lineup I'm really uh pleased
to have them all on and I'm glad that you're all watching uh wherever you are in the world so uh I uh will introduce
David Levy next David uh as you've all learned is a dear friend of mine and um
an inspiration a hero to me and uh and to many uh astronomers you know I I
always hear you know somebody saying gosh David I read one of your books I
saw you lecture you know I remember you remember you from Comet Shoemaker Levy
nine uh many uh points where David Levy has inspired people to to
um you know to go on and take up the Journey of exploring the universe themselves so
um David I'm going to turn this stage over to you but thank you for kicking off our 50th event
thank you Scotty and this is such an honor to be here at the 50th because I
remember when Scotty called me just as he was about to make plans for
the first Global Star Party and he said you don't have to stay for the whole ones but I'd like you to
introduce each one of them with a poetic quote of some sort
and it's been my great honor to be part of that the entire time
and this is the 50th and this is very special so I'd like to before I do my quotation
of the night I would like to summarize a little bit about what people around the world have
been saying about the 50th Global star party I understand that the G7
um leaders of all of the industrialized nations are meeting in London with Queen
Elizabeth and Boris Johnson and President Biden and the first they opened the meeting
and the first thing they said is it's going to be the 50th Global star party what are we going to do about it
and then and then what all these messages are on my phone here
okay then after that uh they went Biden went to the NATO meeting in Brussels and
they said okay we have a lot of problems in the world but one problem we don't have is the
50th Global star party coming up and then President Biden said well should I still have my Summit tomorrow
with Vladimir Putin and Putin called and said yes because it is the 50th Global
star party and we must do that so that's what the present discussion is
about our this lovely wonderful Star Party well what about in the past
I have a story that uh there's an ancient King of England King John
and on today's date of course he used a different calendar back then the Julian calendar
but still on today's date in 12 15 King John signed the Magna Carta
and I've read a little bit about it and in a footnote on page 47 it says I'm
signing the Magna Carta partly because it will serve as a as a um kind of an
inspiration for future governments including the government of the United States but also because on June the 15th
many centuries from now there will be the 50th well we'll start party
anyway so in honor of that in honor of the 50th Star Party Global star party
I'm going to quote through Shakespeare's King John two quotations from him
the first one is from act three and Shakespeare writes no natural
exhalation in the sky no scope of nature no distempered day no common wind no
customed event but they will pluck away his natural cause and call them meteors prodigies
and signs a board of dressages and tongues of Heaven plainly denouncing
vengeance upon John and then near the end of the play in Act five
he goes on this shower blown up by Tempest of the Soul startles mine eyes
and makes me more amazed then had I seen the vaulty top of Heaven
figured quite aware with burning meteors lift up thy brow renowned Salisbury and
with a great heart heave away this storm to welcome you all to the 50th Global
star party and thank you that's very nice David thank you thank you
that's wonderful well um we have listened to
David give a an inspiring uh poetic introduction to every Global Star Party
but another person that has been here for uh many Star parties already I think
are now going on maybe 20 of them uh is David eicher from astronomy magazine uh
it is uh he has gone above and beyond uh
what you know I would have expected and when he first called me up after after
we kind of talked about he says well I'm going to do I'm going to do 17 Global star parties and I go
17. I was I was astounded at that but uh he has taken us on a journey through the
whole universe backwards and forwards across time uh to some of the most
Serene Sublime dangerous you know
crazy parts of our universe and has explained it to us and and uh wonderful
detail and uh it's it's been it's been amazing because I know that uh so many
people who who were lucky enough to listen to uh David eicher gives his
presentations have had a peek into the universe that they wouldn't have had otherwise so David
the striker thank you very much for coming on again and it's all yours thank you thank you
Scott and and uh let me just say quickly for several several times over the last
few minutes I don't know why I've kicked off Zoom and automatically had the
program restart so if I disappear forgive me in advance and just come right back on it's okay
okay okay I I have to make a confession though Scott and I have conspired now
that we've run out of astrophysics temporarily to start a little program
over the next few weeks perhaps of doing a little bit of astronomically related
microscopy so we're going to start if I can share my screen let's hope this
works this is a a beta test of this whole effort here let's see if this
works um oh dear uh Scott I don't know if you
need to allow me to uh I don't think so I think it's open for anybody to share
their screen I don't know for some reason um beer
um let me try uh oh dear I need to open my system
preferences now it says this is not good um okay oh dear
and what does it want me to do okay
oh it's an Apple computer right yeah yeah so it's gonna want you to go
into system preferences and let Zoom access stuff
oh dear yeah I don't know what it wants me to do
let's try this here now can you see yeah here it comes
there you go are you what are you seeing because I'm not seeing something that looks like a
turquoise uh Stone Matrix or something okay you're
looking at photos okay can you see other junk on the screen as well are you just seeing the
on the bottom on the bottom we see a little black and white thumbnails
okay but you're just seeing that green image right first and foremost well good
so I'm not seeing what you're seeing but we can get it to work so uh what I
thought we would do Scott was to start with looking at a few meteorites and
we've got a microscope here a very nice microscope of Scots connected to this computer forgive us but this is the
first time we've tried this live so it's a good thing we've got it working so we'll focus and what we're showing here
is a little tiny slice of a meteorite from Mars so this is actually a piece of
the largest margin meteorite it's called zagami and it fell in fiskari in katsina
Province Nigeria in 1962. now of course it's only courtesy
of the Viking probes that we know the uh roughly 100 Martian meteorites that we
have recovered on Earth are Martian because of the gas analysis of the of
the oxygen and other uh elements that are trapped within the crystals in these
rocks but this is a rock uh the the full size is full Mass complete mass of this
rock um is out in what's left of it now it's been sliced up a little bit but Bob
Hague is the guy who brought it back to the States the famous meteorite dealer in Tucson uh and it's the P this is a
little piece of the largest Mars rock on Earth so it's about 180 million years
old and we know from the crystallization ages here that it's traveled from Mars
to Earth for 2.9 Million Years so what this is is it's basaltic lava from Mars
and there was an impact of course that knocked this rock and presumably a
number of others up into Escape Mars gravity it went around the solar system
for nearly the inner solar system for nearly 3 million years and came down in 1962 in Nigeria and meteorites of course
are pieces of asteroids or of the moon or Mars
um and uh this sort of Science of understanding where meteorites come from
is really in its infancy because it's very very difficult to trace back where
these things came from we know from the Moon from the Apollo sample goals and we know from Mars as I said from biking and
other later analyzes but it's tough to figure out exactly where pieces of
asteroids came from tracing them far back into the history of the solar system because we have a great shooting
gallery of things that ran into each other over and over and over and over so this is sort of so we'll take a look at
a few tonight and then Scott and I I think are planning to show a number of
other microscopic uh galleries of things in the future for a few weeks here
um but this is these are very complex processed rocks basically asteroids too
or a piece of Mars like this because they've been impacted so these are what geologists call a breccia they've been
smashed up and recrystallized into this Matrix and and you can see this can you
see the little white uh vertical Crystal that's over on the right side I hope in
the issue of the image for you guys can you see that yes okay that that's that's
what uh what's called a pyroxine group mineral and and most of the little
crystals that you see in here um in this rock are silicate Rich
minerals feldspar plagioclase feldspar is moving around a
little bit here you can see the for scale there's a piece of a thumb
um this is about a one and a half by one centimeter piece overall and so there's
a lot of very silicate Rich material that's been mixed up and recrystallized
in here in in a rock like the largest
Mars meteorite so then we will go and if we can and and
look at something that's a little bit different here this is Dar algani 400
um again a sort of one by couple of centimeter this is a slice uh and this
is a piece of the largest not not Apollo samples but the largest lunar meteorite
that has fallen to earth now this one fell uh in March 10th 1998 in Libya and
uh it's about it's 2.6 to 3.4 billion years old lunar Rock on the impact age
is less than three million years here and so it traveled around for a little
less than a million years from the Moon to fall onto the Libyan Desert where it
was found so this is an achondritis Stone Stoney meteorite uh also so and
lunar it's known to be lunar again because of Trapped gases you can see some little metallic flecks here and you
can see these whitish calcium aluminum inclusions that again are telltale signs
of meteoritic stuff that's been smashed up at very high temperatures and recrystallized and so this is how you
can get your very own moon rock is to get a lunar meteorite now can I get this
off here without breaking it easier now these lunar meteorites are
not uh inexpensive no they're not no and the and the
Martian ones are even even more interesting yeah yeah so those that's
sort of the those are the most exotic uh ways and we're kind of working ourselves down into a little bit things are a
little bit more normal here yeah this is s scale sorry Scott
uh this is a scale um which is let me see what I can do this the right way here this is a a
palisade so if we top light it here um
we can see that there I hope and we're at pretty high magnification here even
though this is about the lowest we can go with this setup but uh you might be able to see that uh there's some
metallic uh iron nickel here I don't know how well you can see it there
um and what this is is showing us the boundary of the kind of types of uh
meteoritic material that we have Stone meteorites by far the most common
represent the mantles the outer parts of asteroids the iron nickel iron
meteorites which are mostly iron a little bit of nickel and a percent or so of of more exotic metals are the core
thought to be the chords of asteroids that are broken up and fall down and
then we've got these unusual uh types like escal here that are called
palacytes that include iron nickel and also if we kill the top light and we
backlight it here you can I hope see a little bit oh yeah um that it also
contains these crystals a very nice uh and again this is a pretty high
magnification but uh what we've got here are Olivine crystals which Jewelers call
peridot and are actually more properly more recently called forsterite among
mineralogists and these are transparent uh crystals of silicate mineral that are
made into Peridot jewelry here they're beautiful you know greenish yellow um and what this is is the transition uh
region between the core the the iron cores and then the Stony mantles this is
the the intermediate region so these are fairly rare these palisites and uh very
beautiful and and good to make jewelry out of and that sort of thing this is an Argentinian fall which is one of the
nicer palacytes called escal so then we get into somewhat more common
uh meteorites of recent vintage you might remember a few years ago in 2013
the famous Russian fall that was very well documented uh because
um everyone in Russia paranoid about insurance scams has a uh
a windshield camera in their car so there were many images of this Fireball
coming in and this is Chely Minsk which uh is a very nice meteorite and what
we're looking at here it looks black and ugly um and uh without very much uh feature
here and that's because this is a magnified view of the fusion crust of
the outside part of this little piece of chili bins that heated up
atmospherically as it came in before it hit the ground if we turn it over here
this Chely events we can look inside and see a little bit more variegated you can
see some metallic crystals there that maybe a chromite or other iron minerals
and again lots and lots of this so-called what was called Fieldstone
feldspar in the old old days in Germany so there's a huge messy Matrix in most
of these me meteorites of silicate minerals that are rather ordinary
minerals mineralogically later on we'll look at all kinds of minerals too which
is how the universe makes planets in subsequent weeks but for the moment the
mineralogy of the meteorites is is pretty ordinary even though meteorites are amazing and some of them as we'll
look at later on predate the age of Earth so it's pretty neat to be holding
a stone that's older than our planet just a couple more we'll look at quickly
now and then we'll be done for the night here this is uh one that is called uh
tarahuine um that is there we go you can see it it
truly is this uh combination here gives us a little bit of a green cast but this
meteorite is truly greenish and it has streaks of sort of dark material through
it and that is uh iron rich inclusions uh this is was found in
Tunisia and and this meteorite uh there were many many pieces that were
scattered over about a a mile square field and actually it was somewhat of a
thrill this is a piece among about a dozen that I found on site uh when the
magazine took an expedition over in 2011 we met the minister of the local Museum
there who took us on a hunting trip and we thought oh this is going to be easy because tarahui meteorite fragments are
greenish because of the iron content and we got to the strewn field and there were about half a billion rocks
scattered over this mile so there are a lot of rocks to look at but we did find
some samples very cool let me show you just one more which is
an unusual one for for tonight and this one came courtesy of Anne black of uh
impactica meteorites this is a very unusual one let me get that over in the rights
in a good spot here hahaha
there we go okay now this is as the unlikely name of Omaha to Sita which is
Arabic for state which is Arabic for station six because
station six on the railway um was the closest uh and this was in
this Sudan in the middle of nowhere in the in the desert in Sudan station six
on the railway was the nearest uh geological geographical man-made feature that was anywhere near this recovery
site so the neat thing about Omaha to Sita and Anne black uh got most of these
specimens of this meteorite is that uh this fell October 7 2008 about six
kilograms of this were recovered you can see there's a lot of metallic stuff in here as well and this is a a one of a
many meteorites that contains micro diamonds as well Hmm this is the first
meteorite to have fallen uh that first on the way in the courtesy of the
Catalina Sky survey in Tucson was spotted as a rock that was on its way in
uh tracked as it came in and then recovered on the ground so that that had
never been done before this was asteroid 2008 TC sorry the writing I am it was so
tiny um TC3 I think it is the first object to be
tracked on approached approach and then recovered as a meteorite so that's a
really special one too this is just kind of a A peculiar range of of meteorites
of a few odd things we'll look perhaps in subsequent weeks at some other meteorites and also a lots of mineral
specimens and so on and talk about how planets get made but for tonight that's
what we've got so if there are any questions I'd be happy to chat about
those otherwise I will turn things back over
um and stop sharing back to Scott okay all right wonderful
so that that's uh it was an incredible little Voyage into the meteoritic world
of uh of David dyker's collection there that's very cool very cool
okay well uh we are going to uh hold our
door prize questions next uh the president uh no less of the astronomical
league is here to uh to uh give some uh questions that you'll
have to correctly answer um he will give you the instructions on where to send them and um uh you know we
will distribute these amazing gifts that we have again we have a 68 degree
um waterproof eyepiece set from explore scientific it's worth over a thousand
dollars comes with a case we have for our second prize we have the alpen Teton
series Edie binoculars he's our roof prism binoculars so if you're really interested in birding or natural studies
or using binoculars for astronomy these are really fantastic
you know and come with a case and everything worth about 500 bucks then we
have the explore scientific 501 weather station which is also a very cool
prize uh worth I think something less than 200 somewhere between 150 and 200
off the top of my head but um uh you know I think these are all prizes
that anyone would like to win and um so I'm going to turn this over to Carol
Orange thank you Scott what incredible prizes anybody I think would one win one of
those those are one sure it's a pleasure to uh tune in on this 50th event for the
global start party it doesn't seem possible it's been 50 so far but time goes very quickly so that's very quickly
yeah let's see if I can share my screen here
okay are we seeing anything yet uh not yet not yet
Microsoft made some changes this week and I'm not sure they were all to the better yeah isn't that wonderful
yeah they today is Patch Tuesday so everyone everyone today okay yeah yeah I
saw some options I had never seen before and I'm assuming it's still not showing
right still not showing so if you look at your Zoom uh client should have a green share
screen button right got that yeah got that so click on that and then you will see options of different things there
you go now you're doing it here we go we can see okay yet another learning curve I seem
to have one about every time I turn around okay
we use this all on our toes okay I'd like to say just a few words
about Alcon 2021 and I would like to give a special thanks to Terry Mann and
Chuck Allen our co-chairs and officers of the league who are have really uh put
in a ton of work on bringing quality speakers to this event I'd also like to thank Scott Robertson explore scientific
for doing the technical work for us and it is really uh looking like an
excellent convention on August 19th through 21st those three days I'd like to first of all say some words
about our keynote speaker Jocelyn Bell Bernal many of you have heard of her she
discovered pulsers pulsars as a graduate student at Radio astronomy in Cambridge and has been very instrumental in
guiding uh many women in the field of astronomy so we are very delighted to
have her as our keynote speaker
we have uh speaking of door prizes we have been very fortunate and that we
have been able to accumulate approximately six thousand
dollars in door process followers individual floods wow which is just phenomenal we put out the word to our
clubs and said you know we would really appreciate if you would uh provide a
door prize for this event and uh uh Chuck Allen says uh let's try this and
see what happens and we try it and it's been wonderful we have real idea Overjoyed by the amount of price I think
there's a pen up demand there once been uh not meeting in their individual clubs for so long they just really wanted to
help out the league so we really appreciate that and we also appreciate uh Scott uh for providing the grand
prize and explore scientific maccas 127 millimeter uh telescope is worth about
750 dollars so I'm sure they'll everybody'll be waiting in line for that but you've got to register first before
you're eligible for that so make sure you get registered very quickly yeah
before we start our door prize we always like to give this slide that talks about the precautions when looking through our
pieces or other uh astronomical uh instruments
don't look at the sun without proper filtering I know yes get tired of hearing about that but it's so true and
just one time is all it takes to really destroy one's Vision so we've got to remind everyone of that
so let's go on to the questions I should say the answers from the past
start party GSP 49 which was held on June 9th
the first question from that start party if Earth were reduced to the size of a
common Globe nine inch diameter found in many homes and schools what would be the
relative size of the Moon and what would be its distance from Earth on this scale
the moon would be the size of a marble Place one foot away from the globe size Earth that's one option second option
the moon would be another nine inch globe placed about three feet from the Earth globe or the third option the moon
would be the size of a tennis ball placed about 20 feet away the answer is
congratulations to all who got that then the second question
since earlier today and I think that was May 12th on this one the moon reached
its new phase that's in quotes when it moved between Earth and the Sun the
astronomical leagues lunar observing program requires the Observer to spot
the young Moon's democracity what is the oldest Moon expressed in Mars that is
allowed to fulfill the requirement of viewing a young moon this would be the
number of hours since new moon 12 hours 24 48 and the correct answer is
48 . and now to the final question
how many earth-sized worlds when mashed together can fit inside the volume of
Jupiter 0 10 or 1000 and the answer is one
thousand well of course Jupiter is the king of the planets size wise that's not
too surprising but that's a gigantic object out there isn't it and then we go on to our question oh
these are the Prize winners from that event Andrew corkell Cameron Dallas Jeff
Weiss Neil Cox Marco weissner Israel Monte Rosso and Michael over rocker uh
and they will be added to the door prize list and we'll draw from that list at
the end of the month and now on to for the questions tonight
the answers send your answers to secretary at astrowleague.org
secretary at astrolade.org
the first question how many moons does Mars have and what are their names
send your answers to secretary at astrolabe.org how many moons does Mars
have and their names second question what bright star
new Orion's Belt Stars point to
what Bright Stars Bill Ryan's Belt Stars point to
and for you new observers uh look it up real fast and answer to secretary
secretary at astrowleague.org and finally what is the name of the
newest Mars rover what's the name of the newest Mars rover
and again send your answers to secretary at astrolig.org
all right get those in and uh [Music] I think that does it for me Scott thank
you so much thank you thank you well that's awesome uh you guys are uh
you know don't hesitate to put in an answer uh you might just be the winner
of one of these amazing prizes that we have this for this week for the 50th Global Star Party
up next is Stella Kafka she is the director of the American Association of variable star observers she has been on
several Global star parties uh sharing with us her knowledge of uh of the
amazing uh you know World Universe of variable stars and
just how alive our universe is uh you know I I I'm still still burning my
memory are uh our animations that she showed of um globular star clusters
there's so many variable stars in them you know it's just like you know a Christmas tree you know uh so so
beautiful to look at and um you know through measuring variable Stars we understand a lot more about the
Galaxy that we live in and Stellar Evolution um Stella is um is uh going to share
with us a program this is um uh about uh the meaning of a diverse and
inclusive community engagement uh yes and I would really hi everyone uh
can I share my screen please I think you already are no I'm not scheduling made it easy make it fast
that's not you okay here I'll take care of that all right here we go okay there we are and
here we are foreign so
actually first uh thank you so much for having me again uh congratulations to
the star party um yay we made it uh
an anniversary you know it's always a great opportunity to take a step back and reflect so when Scott shared with us
that this is the 50th birthday I thought of the amazing Community we're building and how this is indeed one of the ways
we are building inclusive and diverse communities together and this is pretty much the theme of today's celebration
and I've been talking for years on how astronomy is truly diverse and inclusive
that it has no borders but it seems sometimes that one challenge to such conversations is a lack of precision in
the language that we use so for example the world the word diversity is using so
many contexts and it means so many different things so today I'm gonna just
discuss a little bit um what we mean by inclusive and diverse Community engagement and at least set
the stage for future discussions of future brainstorming um as a non-native English speaker I
usually start with the basics I go to my trusted dictionary so according to my
dictionary Community is the um is a feeling of fellowship with others as a
result of sharing common attitudes this is actually the least controversial of this returns uh community refers to a
group whose mother members share something in common as in attitudes interest goals so the key word here is
common we all recognize and acknowledge that what brings us together is a joint is interest in astronomy here and their
wish to be involved with some aspect of the paid Outreach astrophotography observing uh observing meteor showers or
attending lectures reading articles or taking data either for our own enjoyment
or for serving others and sharing it with diverse now diversity refers to
difference as such diversity is a property of groups not of individuals for example I am a woman in astronomy
but I am not diverse an individual cannot be diverse by herself but groups
of individuals for example diameter astronomical Community can possess diversity
inclusion is a little bit more involved because it implies action it speaks to whether individuals
um in a group have equal access to Opportunities and empowerment they're welcome and heard and have a chance to
learn uh they have the chance to exchange ideas they have to grow as part of our community so what is an inclusive
and diverse Community with that in mind I found a very nice description of one of my favorite quotes So in science
inclusion and diversity refers to cultivating talent and promoting the full inclusion of Excellence across the
social Spectrum this includes people from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented and those from
backgrounds that are traditionally well represented so that means that we enable anyone anywhere to participate in our
activities in our work and facilitate their involvement we welcome opinions we
learn with humility we interact with respect include does not mean excluding
anyone we talk a lot about enabling and empowering women in astronomy for example this doesn't mean that we
exclude men or anyone else just think about it in the sense that we were discussing that we need to preserve the
rainforest it doesn't really mean we're going to burn everything else down to ashes right so I am really grateful that
we have a platform here this Star Alliance that we're all part of I mean
that is such a safe space for all of us as individuals and as a group to
celebrate and share common interests with each other and with all of you who join us from all over the world and of
course I have to actually tell you about the mission of the avso to enable anyone anywhere to participate in scientific
discovery through variable Star astronomy we are aspiring to build including inclusive and diverse
communities and we grow as we move forward and just a last plugin I will
refer to you to this Summer's digital edition of the diversity in Steam
magazine it just came out you will find an article that discusses our commitment
as a Navy so community and our current activities on building such diverse communities so with that I will thank
you for your attention I will wish you clear skies and let's give the conversation live yes thank you thank
you very much uh Stella that um just the
you know restating the reasons why that we're here and the reason why we share
what we share is is uh is very important and um I think that um I think that
you're right that uh you know this is just one example Global star party is just one example of how we can have this
kind of diverse uh inclusiveness and um uh you know I love it when we have
people young and old uh expert or beginner uh coming in and sharing what
they know about uh the sky and sharing their passion you know many of us don't
may not know as much as as as another but uh you know the passion that we have
is is something that binds us all so I think that's really cool yeah and I think that no matter how experienced we
are whether we are beginners we always have something to learn from each other very true something that I'm really
cherishing this kind of interactions and these opportunities me too thanks stala that's awesome
great okay so up next is uh Kareem Jafar uh Kareem is from uh the Royal
Astronomical Society of Canada the Montreal Center and um we are pleased to
have you on yet again uh you've given some really great and insightful talk so
far and uh had I gone to a university and taken astronomy classes I would have
wanted to take them from you so Kareem you've got the stage uh thanks for coming on again
oh thanks Scott that's that's very kind of you um so yeah as Scott said my name is Karine Jaffer I'm the public events
coordinator at the rasc Montreal Center and I'm also the Prof for astronomy at
John Abbott College and it's the 50th Global star party and I'm very happy to say it's my fifth so I
can count to ten percent I've been part of these uh which has been great nowhere near David Levy levels but I'm trying it
I'm gonna I'm Gonna Keep I'm gonna keep working keep at it so when Scott mentioned that kind of the
the theme for today wasn't really a theme as much as just talking a little bit about inclusivity my mind went to
the transition education has taken during covid and the way in which we can
still try to reach impact and share astronomy even when we're not in person
with students and so what I want to talk to you about today is just a couple of different activities and neat resources
that are available for teachers as well as for individuals who want to get a little bit more involved in astronomy
from home and this very much leads towards the inclusivity idea because
we've been dealing with students who on the spur of the moment last spring had to go home they weren't allowed in
Residence anymore they had to pick up and go home their internet capabilities were different some of them were even
living in First Nations reservations or in small rural communities and the
access to equipment access to infrastructure was different for every
single student and so we really had to come up with approaches that would allow every student to reach similar learning
outcomes when we can't control their learning environment and not really through a lot of teachers for a loop so
I want to talk to you first just a couple things that are going on in the rasc and the rasc Montreal Center
because Scott and I talked about this and I want to make sure that if people are interested they know that they can participate so the first is this amazing
project that I've been part of since International astronomy day when we launched it during Global Star Party 45
that was the first time anybody heard about it out loud it's Creation Station it's a location on our website where we
are going to be sharing short stories Comics poems and drawings from kids so
it's kids ages 5 to 12 and it's giving them a space to really Express their imagination about space
the original deadline was June 13th and we received some great stories and some great drawings and some really nice
Illustrated stories and what we've decided to do is extend the deadline but
we're going to Showcase all of those first submissions at our general assembly and our general assembly is
coming up in a little bit I'll talk to you about that momentarily but we have a global audience here and I've gotten a
chance through one of the individuals I met at the international astronomy day Pete Williamson to be part of Astro
radio which is this wonderful volunteer network in the UK they play music and
space themed shows every day 24 7. I'm part of the Reach Out And Touch space
panel which records twice a week and basically it's just music that's face themed and then discussion about what's
happening in astronomy and space it's just a lot of fun and we just we sit there we chill out for two hours
chatting and sharing our stories and it gets recorded and played all week which is a lot of a lot of fun
we're also prepping for our general assembly it's coming up in a week and a half and we have an entire day dedicated
to youth members on June 25th so I'm hoping that I get to do the ga at the start of the summer and I'll come at the
end of the summer so I'm going to be bookending the summer with wonderful wonderful assemblies who are great
astronomy Outreach and amateur astronomers and professional astronomers to really learn from each other
so a little bit of context about what I teach and why I teach it the way I do my
course is an introductory astronomy course for science students at the stage up level that's kind of a crossover
transition between end of high school start of University so it's the
equivalent to grade 12 and first year uni in most other places the majority of my students come into my
course with some interest but most of them have no observing experience and they've not really done any
understanding of space or astronomy or astrophysics or any of that beyond what
they saw in High School courses in addition with covet and with the
measures taken within our Province here in Quebec since spring of last year we've had no in-person activities and
that doesn't just include classes and Labs it even includes things like public events so we decided to take that as a
opportunity rather than as a limitation so we moved all of our public events and all of our clubhouses everything onto
Zoom from the start and we've managed to bring in speakers from across the world including pharrellibay is one of the
drivers of perseverance on Mars and she got to speak with us while she was busy prepping for the landing of perseverance
when we wouldn't have been able to have her in person at that time we were able to have her by Zoom which was which was
a fantastic opportunity and it allowed us to coordinate that Outreach with other centers so we did that one with
the Ottawa center and with the next gen committee so we reach a larger audience and it really Spurs more in-depth
discussion as well the other issue with knowing person is no access to our astronomy library that
we have the ik Williamson Library which I know David is incredibly fond of I love this this space for just the
resources that we have available the back issues of Astronomy Today Sky News sky and telescope and the individuals
the mentoring that can happen with the amateur astronomers and the students in the same place and then there's the fact that I
couldn't lend equipment out to the students because with coveted concerns we weren't actually physically handling
equipment with students so that meant that the students who don't have access to binoculars couldn't borrow one same
with telescopes and the students who wanted to do projects couldn't borrow things like the R spec filter and the
Zoe Camera to be able to take their own Spectra of stars we also had a curfew and we had lockdown
which meant that we couldn't travel off Island and we are in some of the most light polluted skies in North America in
Montreal and we had a curfew this entire year school year until May that ended at 8 pm
which meant that you couldn't really be out after Sunset to do any observing
so that left me with a question of how do I still hit the learning objectives
that I have and I shared with you in a previous talk a little bit about the moon observations how I switched the
students to looking at waxing phases so they could look at them out of their living room window or during the evening before curfew
but the other thing that I did is I took simple activities like how long is the day and I went out and took star trails
from my backyard and shared them with the students with the timing so that they could determine the length of the
sidereal day and then I thought for the solar day let me use timeanddate.com so
we know that the insulation changes the seasons it changes the altitude of the Sun and different days it changes how
long our daylight hours are so I had the students go to timeanddate.com for Montreal and a couple of students who
are living far away from Montreal used Ottawa or Quebec City because they were closer to them at slightly different
latitudes and what they did is they measured for an entire 400 day cycle every 10 days
the length of the day the altitude of the Sun and exactly where sunrise and
sunset happen and they graphed out the altitude of the sun they graphed out the length of the day and they calculated
the solar name compared to the sidereal day they had already done they calculated the length of the year and
they compared it to what they know from our calendar the 365 and a quarter roughly we calculated the tilt of the
Earth's axis and the latitude from the location where they were looking and they got to do that with real data
for the last 400 days coming up to the day that they were starting this this activity which was a lot of fun
and then I decided that this is something I want to keep doing but I want to do it where they can actually see the sun's Trails so I reached out to
the UK to a place called solarcan where they create these pinhole cameras with
photographic film inside and I currently have two up on the roof of my building
one of them is coming down right after solstice and as soon as it comes down I'm hoping to get a solography trail
like this so I'm really hoping that the students will be able to see not just the change in altitude and the change in
path of where sunrise and sunset are if everything goes really well they'll see how many cloudy days we had we had a ton
but they might even be able to see that Sunrise partial solar eclipse just in
those last trails that we got a couple of days ago very cool the other thing I tried to do
is I tried to take advantage of the free information that's available out there for students so I went with one of Peter
Williamson's approaches with using which is free software to analyze the
data from Juno and what I had the students do is I had them take one specific peridot and they could choose
how they wanted to process that image but they had to explain why they chose those settings what part of the image
they were trying to highlight how well they felt they did compared to what they've seen before in literature and it
really gave them the idea of what is available out there for raw data for
citizen scientists to you you know some of them would overexpose in One Direction some of them got amazing
Clarity in detail because they figured out how to use the curve feature in and some of them really struggled with
the idea of what is beautiful and what is scientific which is part of the process we all go through when we're
doing our own astrophotography and trying to figure out whether our image really is good or whether we need to
tweak it just a little bit more and I felt that that that whole process really gave them that window into what real
amateur astronomy and real astronomy is and then of course because we have
spring equinox and autumnal equinox we were able to do the eratosthenes experiment and for some students because
of where they were living it was very cloudy that day so one of my colleagues Trevor from Plato Astro did a live feed
measuring the shadow very close to solar noon on the Equinox so that the students
could actually take his measurements if they couldn't do their own and then we participated in the global experiment
and we shared our data with the school in Columbia we shared our data with the school in Florida we shared our data
with the school in Puerto Rico all with very similar longitudes to ours and that allowed them to connect a
little bit with the history of astronomy but one of the things Stella said really
is something that I tried to do in my class which is connect to the different cultures and when we talk about the
stars and we Name the stars and we talk about who founded who understood the motion of the stars and the motion of
the planet we tend to come back to the Arab names and the Western understanding
of astronomy what I wanted the students to see is that there are rich histories
in all cultures so I found a fantastic resource for the students where you can
take specific stars in constellations and see Rich constellations those stars
are in in other cultures whether they're First Nations cultures whether it's Chinese whether it's Hindu whether it's
Australian Aboriginal for some of the actual zodiac constellations which they can see there as well and so
I gave them this and then I had them try to come up with a star with a story in
either greep or Roman culture and then compare it to the story in another culture and so you know some of them
would come up with ones that they've heard before as they were growing up in their Chinese family or in Korean and
some of them would look for really really famous stories like using Sirius to determine when the Nile was going to
uh overflow and understand how that affected the way in which farming
happened in Egypt and so they would make those connections organically because all of these resources are available to
them online then I introduced them to xuniverse and zuniverse is fantastic because a lot of
my students come back to zuniverse after the fact so the first term I gave them free range on xuniverse and I said just
explore see what you like and I found that a lot of them really navigated towards Galaxy Zoo because we were
talking about the morphology of galaxies in class so the second semester I made Galaxy Zoo the required one for everyone
and then I had them mention what other ones they would like to do if they come back to zuniverse later in the future
and since Terry's going to talk about it later I'll say that Aurora detection was
one of the favorites for most of the students but one of the neat things is whenever I do these types of research
projects with real data I offer the students a chance to write up their experience and and so in the coming
issue of Sky News two of my students are actually going to have their published experiences on doing citizen Sciences
universe so that's going to be in the next issue of Sky News for the major group projects I normally
offer the students the use of the robotic telescope from the rasc a couple of times in that term to set up data for
either exoplanet transits or for astrophotography and I normally want
them to do spectroscopy if they're interested and there's normally about one or two groups that like doing spectroscopy this time around they
couldn't get their data for spectroscopy and they wanted stars that I didn't have data of so I reached out to Tom field
the owner of our spec and he sent me data from himself and from other members of the R spec community and so we
reached out to other astronomers doing amateur spectroscopy and the students were able to analyze that data like the
data for Sirius here and then the skills that they had learned from
trying to do the Juno processing they tried to use those with other solar
probes so two groups started looking at New Horizons and Mars Orbiter the lunar reconnaissance Orbiter and Cassini and
they took those raw images and practiced processing them as part of their project but the project I'm most proud of this
year and the thing that I want to end on is Orion's Quest now Orion's Quest is a group that is available to Any teacher
to participate in and they sponsor students working on analyzing biological
research aboard the ISS so this is real research being done either synchronously
on the ISS or that's already been done that is still being analyzed and so they
got to work on looking at cancer cells on the ISS in Space versus at a stem
cells heart tissue you name it microbial growth and managing the growth of microbes on the space station so these
students got an amazing experience that combines their preferred career path in
biology with this interest that they had in astronomy and space science it's one
of the big takeaways for me with education here in covid times and trying
to work around curfew and lockdown is most of these activities that I've built and that I've
been working on I'm going to keep going with them because they allow the students to explore areas they want to
explore regardless of what equipment they have available to them regardless of what their background is and I'm
finding from the feedback from the students from this past year that most of them are actually going to go back to
zuniverse and even if they don't do astronomy they're going to do other stuff they're going to go back and do
some of the amazing zoology or some of the amazing botany projects that are there and just this wonderful world of
Citizen science I can't wait to explore it more thank you awesome awesome
wonderful thank you very much Kareem I think you have uh you've got some
new students here hanging on every word so thank you very
much that's awesome my pleasure that's awesome up next is Terry Mann Terry Mann is the
secretary of the astronomically she also happens to be a uh former two-term
president of the astronomical League she's done many things for our astronomical Community for a very long
time but um she loves being out in nature and uh
uh you know she's one of the uh one of the bravest uh women or people that I
know she this this uh this Intrepid Explorer
has gone out to some of the most remote areas of the Wilderness she's often in
Alaska she goes up to uh she tries to get up every year to photograph Aurora
and where you have to go uh there's not a lot of people out there so she's Often
by herself um but uh I don't think she'd have it any other way
Terry thanks for coming on to the program uh you often see Terry have seen
Terry promoting different things and she also she coordinates the astronomical League
live events the last one which was last Friday so it was fantastic we learned all about
pulsars and uh so Terry um take us into your world of Aurora
thank you Scott um you know for the last few times we've all been talking uh we've been talking
about how astronomy the hobby has grown so much and I think we've all seen that
our clubs are busy um we are busy everybody seems to have
something going on and for me you know I thought I belong to some Aurora groups and these groups
we always are talking about Imaging we're also talking about solar cycle 25 and how we're gonna deal with the next
coming solar Max and I thought you know we've been talking about this a lot so
maybe I just talk a little bit about it now because anybody interested in Aurora is honestly probably beginning to think
that way we're seeing a lot of activity so I'm just going to start with as Scott said I'm a nature person
um give me the outdoors give me a good storm give me an eclipse clear skies
wildlife and that's where I am going to be and that's kind of where my
photography Journey started I have been interested in astronomy all my life
but I always wanted to see the aurora I mean really see good Aurora now I have
seen it from Ohio both of these images are from my backyard uh the one on the
left was from 2003 it was early in the evening had a large CME a coronal mass
ejection and this was right out my front door in 2012 on the right that was in my
backyard and by this time my neighbors figured out she is always outside she's
always looking for Aurora and they said if you ever see it in Ohio you gotta
call me at 3am I am calling all of my neighbors to see this and we ended up
there was a party in my backyard until everybody had to go to work um and this on the right was the first
time I had ever seen pulsating Aurora and to me and I named this picture soul
of the night because it reminded me of a heartbeat it had a constant just a
rhythm to it that just amazed me I remember just standing there in awe
watching this White Wave go through this Aurora and it was amazing so one thing
is we're looking at this picture I want you to remember about the position of the Big Dipper in this position but
anyway we do get Aurora down low you know in the lower 48 every once in a great well just enough to get my
appetite wedded that I really want to do something I want to see good Aurora I
want to go to Alaska and so the first trip I made I started planning in 20
um yeah 2004 and my first trip was in 2005. and you know when you're doing
something like this and it's something you want to go see the aurora but for me I wanted to image and that meant I had
to do some serious planning I had to learn about what it is I'm looking at
how it comes about I needed the science behind what Aurora is so I could take
all get all the right equipment make decisions on the best places to stay
try to figure out if the Aurora was going to be visible so I started
learning and I just kind of threw this in here because I felt this was really important
as many of you know in may just last month uh we had a sunspot that produced
10 sea flares and two M flares in 24 hours now granted these are not huge
flares but there was a whole lot of them I've never seen this so I'm thinking
okay I don't I'd like to see it but if I don't see it okay I'm going to Michigan
I want to go up to Mackinac City and I I need to get out of the house I need to go somewhere it's been a long time since
I've been away so I went to Michigan and naturally you know they're building it up rapid fire explosion multiple
overlapping CMEs into space combine CME will hit Earth's magnetic field late
hours of May 25th and possibly possibly potentially sparking G2 class
geomagnetic storms well it it on May 26th at 9 00 A.M
so uh and the headline that day CME Sparks Minor geometric storms Aurora
when you chase and I I do Chase sometimes you have a very I mean you can
use all of the science that is out there and use your best judgment but it is
hard to predict it is not predictable at 9am tomorrow night the Aurora is going to be
there it ain't going to happen it's not going to be that way you have to try to understand some of the science behind it
and that's not always enough either the Aurora does what the Aurora wants to do
so I started planning and I thought oh man I am in Alaska it is winter in
Alaska I'm gonna need to be dressed right I've got to survive being out at night I need to make sure my I'm in Ohio
we don't have a lot of snow but at my driving skills are decent for snow I knew I needed to run an SUV every time I
go up I rent an SUV need to do that in the winter time for safety especially if you're going to be driving on who knows
what roads where um so I started with I bought all my clothes the first time in the U.S or
well in the lower 48. and as I needed to replace them I would just buy them in Alaska because very honestly I could go
to an Outfitter that people are used to you know farming whatever it is they do they have these heavier clothes maybe
more Geared for this uh and I could go there try it on easily buy it so uh year
by year I replaced my whole outfit I'll accept the Hat there that came from the Columbus Zoo it was um one of those old
days in the zoo in December but you can see I am I'm on clary's Summit for
anybody that is familiar with that I'm outside of Fairbanks on Clary Summit my next big thing I had to figure out how
do I photograph this man I've got cameras that are going to get cold I mean we're talking cold there were
nights I shot at 40 below and typically I was shooting typically I don't know
five to 20 below nightly that that was just kind of the way it was and very
honestly in this outfit I mean yes it's cold but I still stayed warm I'm I you
know I'd move around a little bit but I still stay warm but I am Geared for it I have multiple layers and I can handle
that but then when it came to the camera equipment what do I do I had to really
do some real research because I needed cameras and starting out in 2005 cameras
were different than they are now I needed something that could handle the highest ISO possible because I wanted to
catch the structure in the Aurora I wanted to freeze it I didn't want the blurs I still have blurs but I was going
for structure and I still do that's what I like the most sometimes that works sometimes it
doesn't it depends on how strong the CME is and how much there is out there how
bright it is how fast it moves so I studied a long time I have to you
have to figure out what it is you want to do maybe structure isn't important for you maybe you just want pretty
landscape and then you can use different equipment but you need to really do some
research because this is a major trip for me to go it will take me roughly 15
hours from all the layovers when I leave Ohio Ohio to land in Fairbanks so it is
a long day a long trip and when I get there I Stay so again here I'm trying to figure out
okay Aurora what is this how how does it happen so I learned about all of these
different things and I didn't know in the very beginning I really didn't know that it was connected to the Sun so it
was great education and a great learning experience it opened up solar Imaging
for me I started working at age Alpha so there was it brought even more to my
astronomy um looking for the Aurora oval understanding what all this is and again
all the science in the world is not going to make predicting this simple
you do your best shot and that's whatever it is
now when I first started I was running film I mean I was a real film person I
was probably one of the last people to go digital I had my own dark room I
understood what I needed to do I understood the mechanics I was used to
manual I could do everything adjustments in the dark um so I was used to film
and I think a point here that is good to make too you don't need to have a video camera you can run time lapses of the
Aurora so this is one of my first time lapses in film from
um Alaska now when I play this watch what happens to the ground this just blew me away to actually see what
happens watch the ground it lights up yeah it turns green
and this was one of my first uh time lapse from Alaska
and so you can do a lot even if you don't have big expensive equipment you can do a lot with a camera and a tripod
thank you and I found I really liked fish eyes I
really enjoyed seeing what was going on all the way around because there were so
many times I could look and it didn't matter what direction I looked if I turned around something amazing was
happening behind me it was just incredible it kept me going all the time
when I go to Alaska I turn into a third shift worker I stay up all night I go to
bed for about four hours when the Sun rises I run around shopping I eat and I start the whole process again and I love
it it is it just really helps and gets me enthusiastic it helps me to learn
about what is going on and seeing it and understanding it at least helps a lot to
do what I want to do and this was another one you'll hear me talk about coronal Aurora here shortly
and that is what this is and if you look really closely the Big Dipper is right
here it is almost directly overhead in Alaska so you're looking straight up
your neck will be so sore after two days of sitting there just standing looking
um that you'll you'll want to lay in the snow after a while
and like I said I make plans I make plans for a perfect time every time I go
but always I'm going to have clouds sometimes and it is amazing to watch the Aurora flash behind the clouds and you
notice the ground is green again that's how bright and intense that Aurora was
um this is cheetah Hot Springs China Hot Springs is a good place to go see the aurora that's the very first place I saw
Aurora with China Hot Springs uh this one on the right I call this the
only one awake because sometimes I'm out so far and I'm all alone and I see one light in
a little cabin and it's like wow I thought I was the only one awake and I
the Aurora was just amazing that night and during the day as you can see it can
be like a winter wonderland it is truly amazing to walk outside the first time I
ended up on the CBS Sunday Morning News I was not interviewed but they were with
a tour I was on to go way out in the country and I found out real quick when
I was watching in snow up there if I didn't stay on the path I would sink
almost to my waist sometimes in snow and CBS Sunday Morning News was there
and I think it's Lee Crowley pulled me out of the snow I was trying to get away from some lights and I
walked off the path and I sunk Claire down and he came over and pulled me out
of the snow so stay you know you stay on the snowmobile pass when you're up there and this
um sunset this is sunset you see where the Orange is at Sunset and sun rise
sometimes you will get the most amazing Reds and purples um and as soon as the Sun starts to go
down I start watching for Aurora so you have such a wide variety of Cloudy very
active nah you know okay Aurora everything and to understand how to
image it or not image it and just sit back and look at it is something you
need a little bit of experience but but you need to understand what is going on how it's working
uh this is another time lapse lapse this is going to be coronal this is close up
now look at this this is actually looking almost straight up at the Big Dipper this is the Aurora moving around
straight overhead this is coronal and it and this is the green most of the
time you're going to have this type of green
and when you take still pictures when it is colorful like you're going to see here in a minute
this is what you end up with again the Big Dipper is right here in the middle
and and over here it is right over here and sometimes the colors just jump out I
mean now the camera is all obviously will always pick up more color than your eyes but when you're sitting there and I'm
telling you when you see the next video I literally fell on the ground and
watched because um oh I've got one more slide sorry uh
as I said the reason I'm bringing this up is because of solar cycle 25. if you
were thinking you might want to go see the aurora and you might want to go to Alaska or anywhere in the lower 48
wherever you might be um look at all of this this is probably in my opinion and I have been wrong
before this is probably going to be one of the great times over the next few years to do this
and plan on it if you go you will not be sorry when you see an active Aurora
it'll impress your soul you you know what you have seen and you will never forget it and you'll be addicted you'll
want to see it more and more and it's always different I've heard people say I've seen it once I don't really want to
see it again but to me it's always different it's always exciting it's fantastic to watch the motion
so uh fall in uh Alaska was great I was supposed to be in Alaska this year but
naturally show my trip to next year so you know if you're thinking about going to see the aurora think about it around
now start planning when I go I make my reservations a year at least out because
I want to stay where I want to stay and I want to make it most convenient for me to do what I want to do
and it's very hard sometimes to make a last minute trip unless you just take whatever is available where to stay and
I don't want to do that I want to really really enjoy where I'm at okay and this will be my closing
um video this is going to be real time I am using a Sony a7s for this
and when I was out there that night we had a huge CME hit and I'm going to talk
while it's running now this is actually
yeah what you will see this as I'm standing there this is exactly what I see again Big Dipper I'm going straight
overhead and I have the articulated stream thank goodness because now I can point my camera up over my head I am
shooting at 25 000 ISO but this is live and you will see some
of it actually just start burning out in color because it is so bright look at
this hurt everybody you could hear everybody anywhere near streaming and hollering as you're watching this about
this time I just said oh the heck with it and I laid in the snow and I kid you not 20 minutes
I counted over 20 coronal um where you can see the coronal Aurora
that night I watched it bounce from Horizon to Horizon the energy and get to
the Big Dipper and just swirl it was honestly amazing
and this is why I say you know if you ever really thought about seeing the Aurora think about over the next few
years um it's hard telling if it will be you know a really great solar Max or a blast
solar Max but I have been in Alaska when it was really bad and I still saw some Aurora I
did not see the corona like this you need pretty good strong CME to hit the
magnetic field in order to get this kind of Aurora but uh when you see it you'll never
forget it it is truly amazing so that is where I'm gonna leave it at
Scott fantastic fantastic beautiful yeah it is honestly it is like Celestial
fireworks you can just sit there and just be in awe and then there's times there's
clouds all over the place and I'm sitting there just screaming at the sky yeah
but I can't see it come on right this is real time so oh it's beautiful
absolutely mesmerizing it is definitely is especially when you're under it yeah
now could you hear it as well I've heard I have never heard it I mean there are
people that say they have um but I have never heard it I honestly a couple times I was in places where it
was so quiet I thought maybe I could but no never did hear it okay I have I have
heard it once and that was the only time I've ever seen Aurora and that was quite
Below on South in Finland but it was like okay minus 30 degrees Celsius
and I went out and saw this green and it it's like a very low
Thunder but in you get to mix in some
electricity uh like twisting or something like that in into it so it it
sounds yes that's amazing I would love to hear it sometime
it's like electrics you put this electric wires
you know the like bricks like lightning and send them a little bit Thunder on it
huh yeah wow amazing yeah really so Terry I think I remember that day you
talked about the May 25th 26th and you came up to Michigan
um I remember driving into the thumb and watching like the bz number
um thinking maybe it'll stay low um and maybe you know maybe something
will show up after Sunset it stayed low but as the sun set it went straight
North yeah and I went uh this doesn't look like it's gonna work I ended up and
I don't know if you've been to Eagle Bay is one of the places uh in the thumb of
Michigan where um Aurora where you can you can often look off to the north and you can see
the Roar on the horizon um so that yeah I went there and all I saw was the Moon Rising so I took a
picture of that and I and I went back home yeah but uh yeah so the yeah I've
I also got lucky the solstice um did you take uh any Aurora Pictures
during the solstice 320. uh was it I guess it was pretty active then I got
lucky I was on the thumb and there it wasn't a distance so I took a lot of pictures of it even at a distance it was
a beautiful it was a beautiful sight oh I bet yeah for me Mackinac city is about an
eight-hour drive maybe seven hours if I really push it but I I really enjoy just
being up on the lake but a lot of the times I go up to the U.P of Michigan or the U.P of Minnesota and that's another
way in the US I mean in the lower 48 that you have a good chance of seeing
that I mean Michigan Minnesota um these are good places that you can at least go and see it now I'll be honest
I've never seen it like this down here or even there I don't even think it's going to be possible unless unless it's
such a huge um then I'd be worried if my phone is still
going to work after it's done at that point but um yeah no this was it was
very beautiful this was very beautiful I I had I was spoiled with seeing the
Aurora before I got into astronomy it was flying all around me in Wisconsin and I could tell that's what it was I
didn't have a camera at the time um didn't have as much interest I just knew what I was seeing but didn't
capture it I just watched it the Wisps of Aurora and the curtains forming
um I remember seeing it you know years later as I got involved in the strut late in life I get involved in astronomy
and wish I could go back into Time Capsule and see that again because I know what I'd do with it I'd bring my
trusty camera with it and have lots of images so yeah um so yeah even when you
can't see the colors it's just still uh it's still a mesmerizing thing it is it
is so thank you Scott I sure do appreciate it thank you okay so we're
gonna go to a 10 minute break um so stretch your legs get a cup of coffee we have had a tremendous lineup
and a very inspiring lineup of speakers uh if you're not already pumped up by
now I I don't know what will but we have uh after we come back we have Libby and
the Stars we've got um John Briggs uh we have Pekka haltilla
Caesar Brello Adrian Bradley who's been commenting here Maxie filaris and and
much more so um we will see you in about 10 and uh
we'll be back
Perry Just so you know we're all joining you next time you go hey the more the merrier yeah I'll be
I'm going back in March since I had to cancel my trip this year so I'm just hoping it's as good as what
I think it might be that was breathtaking it was thank you
thank you Terry I got uh I got feedback from
Springer they have they have their their board
meet every couple months to look over the book proposals and I think next month is the next meeting
okay well it'll be about a month and a half or something probably before we hear anything about your book okay well
thank you very much I appreciate that Jerry sure Terry the first time I went outside when
I was stationed in Alaska to look at Aurora um I was on kind of crunchy snow I
walked out crunch crunch crunch and stopped and behind me I heard one extra crunch
and then I took three more steps one two three and then there was a fourth behind
me that stopped and clearly something was following me out there and I didn't know what it was it turned out it was uh
the camp dog uh very large husky and uh I was relieved
to see that it was a husky yeah I bet so yeah definitely
you have much trouble with clouds when you go on these trips sure I always go when there aren't
supposed to be any clouds yeah um it doesn't matter if I'm just out you
know doing night photography or if I'm going for Aurora I know that's going to be a real Factor whatever I do so
whenever I plan a trip I just you know I realize that and I hope for the best but I always have other things I can do that
keeps me busy I can there's other photography there's stuff during the day in Alaska during the day the Moose you
know I have fun with moose I will never forget the first time I bought a digital camera
I was really wanting to get this picture this loose and I thought I was pretty far away but I switched modes and I
didn't realize when I switched modes my flash went off and it startled the moose
and the Moose started coming at me and I started running and you know I ran back I got to the car
but I happened to look up and see a busload of tourists in the bus behind my car taking pictures of me running from a
moose so I thought you know somewhere on the world's stupidest videos there's going to be this girl in a red truck
running from a moose and yeah but it was amazing the things that you know I've
actually been through up there and done um you know I I feel very comfortable
even though I am there A lot of times alone I feel very comfortable because I've gotten to know a lot of people I've
stayed in different places and gotten to know a lot of people up there and as I said I'm part of the Aurora Chaser
groups down here and a lot of them go up there so um you know usually there's a good bit
of people that I know because we all go at the same time
let's see I don't know if you're seeing this uh uh this is uh from one of the
people in the audience he says Terry if you can see this amazing I realize you
see it quite often or at least more often than most um in the 90s they reach very far south
one night and picture Four Boy Scouts given a night pass from
Camp go camp wherever you like and seeing that being in Maryland nobody
believed us the next day until it was all over uh uh the new
that is amazing all over the news that would right yeah that is amazing
that's cool that is something you and see never forgot it never forgot it that's true when you
really see something like that I'm telling you you don't forget it will stay with you and you're mine forever
and it's different every time yeah thanks for sharing that sure awesome thank you for having me yeah
thank you foreign
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nothing like a hot cup of joe I can hear it
I'm joining yeah Scott
advisement of hot coffee yes
that's right here we go yes
so good I never have a cut another cup of coffee at home
yeah yeah nothing is best that that this now yeah that's right
Martin eastburn I used to be a film guy from 11 4 by 14 View Camera I had an
8x10 View Camera never in love my 14 to 35 millimeter and 500 foot rolls of
color or a 320 version of plus X and used it afrs photo professor
hmm afrs photo professor and uh and take pictures guy
yep Martin I used to do a lot of film work myself
it was uh very interesting I find digital digital photography even more
interesting even more control that's something that's interesting to me Scott I mean a
lot of us like uh uh Greg Greg was in photography
and you were in progress and I was in high school I did Photography in high school and took pictures Sports pictures
and stuff and learned how to develop film and then I was into astronomy too so I think a lot of people
that were photographers also were interested in astronomy I believe so it's just an extension with
the lens work you know the lenses that you use it's kind of the it starts out that way anyway
right I went about it backwards I was in I had the astronomy club and someone
handed me a DSLR so I started out shooting astronomy and then decided well
what else can I do with this camera so so I ended up
getting into terrestrial photography and kind of went from there right of course
I missed the my grandfather was a film photographer I heard he was doing things
like trying to take since we didn't have drones in the 70s he was on an airplane leaning out of the window taking
overhead pictures of the town so very cool I guess I have some of my adventure
Spirit from him yeah I've got a friend that he used he would use the self-timer on his 35 millimeter camera and throw it
up in the air okay that's funny yeah yeah I've done quite a
bit of it afterwards though yeah I've done quite a bit of aerial photography too
it's kind of hard to fly the plane and take pictures at the same time though okay well our next speaker is Libby and
the Stars Libby how are you doing today good how are you I'm good I'm good great
to be the 50th Global star party oh thank you you made it uh you you've been
a huge contributor to it so we really uh we really thank you for all the time and
sacrifice that you've made to do this you know I know you have a busy school schedule and a busy Family schedule
um but um we love it that you've come on so many times and you have uh you've
grown in your uh presentation style and uh well you've grown since that time
you're taller now and um uh you know you're really you're coming into your
own Libby and we really appreciate it um so what's your talk about uh today
I'm talking about the elephant trunk nebula and I have a presentation to share
um I was just thinking about it today right before um right before I joined I was like you know I started off the eighth Global
star party and it seems like just yesterday I just finished sharing all the planets because I know I did all the
planets once right yeah I was just like yeah you've
taken us all through all through the solar system uh to many parts of the
Milky Way and some galaxies too so it's been very cool yes so today's presentation is on the
elephant drunk nebula um I know we talked about it a lot in the Star Party
um we've mentioned it a couple times too um so what is inside the elephant trunk
nebula so the elephant the elephant trunk nebula is a part of the constant
the constellation um cepheus so the console so the con so the
elephant trunk nebula and um I see um 1396 regions fans over five degrees
of our skies so it's pretty big in our Sky I mean when you're up looking at the sky so
that is also equal to um two full moons in our Sky it sets big
in our Sky which makes it pretty easy to deserve um I have not observed The Elephant
Truck nebula myself but it's definitely the next thing I am going to observe on
my list and um I need to get my telescope back out I
know it's just now summer so there's no weekend at all it's just all the weekend
so I have enough time to sleep in and say up for the star parties and stay up
to be able to observe outside I know there's some different stuff to serve too and so
um the elephant trunk nebula is found in almost in an almost bigger star region
named ic1396 so it's kind of all the same area
so that area that kind of spans over our sky is it within the five degrees
so it's pretty easy to observe through there because it's that big in our sky and that's kind of the same thing with
like Jupiter and Saturn they're big in our skies so you're able to see them a lot more a lot more because it's just a
beginner thing to study you know a lot of people here in the star party when we first started doing astronomy Saturn and
Jupiter were some of the first things that we ever reserved so I wanted to talk about
um the elephant trunks uh nebula being mentioned on NASA's Astronomy Picture of
the Day um I recommend for the astronomers out there you can get the NASA app on your
computer or on your tablet or your phone and um on the notification you can also
set for to remind you about the Astronomy Picture of the Day and I have
it set there and um it's pretty cool not a lot of people know about it but every single day
um a new picture of astronomy has been chosen and they'll highlight the person
who took the photo too until and tell about how they took the photo so
um The Elephant Truck nebula was featured on NASA's um Astronomy Picture of the Day
um I suggest you go guys could follow that the picture on the right is the one that was featured the the
um when the especially pictures of the day happen they have like a little bio of the photo
too and that shows that um the person who took the photo can give a little biograph about
um how they took the photo what they took the photo with how it looks so pretty and a little bit about the
elephant trunks nebula too so um the person who um shot the photos
Chuck a u and that's how you say his last name I know we've mentioned him a
couple times on the star pretty too and um he also has his own YouTube channel check check Ashford photography so
um I know he mentioned mentioned him a few times so I was looking at the show me pictures a day researching and I
didn't even know it was Chuck's a guy that we were talking about and checks astrophotography and so um
he shot the photo for narrow band filters which makes her um all the dust and Detail in the photo
kind of pop out because one thing I love about looking at the stars and nebulas
is just how some parts of the nebula are like sharp and then the other parts are
like all soft and pretty and it's just so beautiful beautiful to look at it in
its natural beauty and so um that's what I was just talking about
um it's so this picture is sweeping through the constellation um cepheus
and so um where to observe the elephant trunk nebula so as I'm saying again the
um sc1396 takes up a lot of our side
um one degree Square over size but five degrees um so is one thing easy to observe so if
you were getting into ashrami you're still an amateur you're not um too good
this is a good thing to deserve um elephants trunk nebula is a
concentration of interstellar gas and dust within a much larger um ionized gas region and so the IC one 1398 96 is
located as again the constellation cepheus about 200 and uh
2000 and 400 light years away from Earth the IC um
1396 region as easy to observe because if it's a very big size and is equal to
the size of two full moons in our sky so if you think about it that way that gives you kind of good reference to
think about so if you were looking at the moon just think of the two moons and that's how big this constellation in
that region is with elephant track nebula in it um I also suggest you guys to really
follow the um showing pictures today and if you post your pictures online and stuff too you may maybe even one day be
mentioned by NASA and get to share your stuff and um yes I get to explain how you took
the photo too and you get to say like oh I use this and I use this
um I followed it every day and it's pretty cool um
the uh it's kind of cool to see someone that we've mentioned a lot on the star party taking the pictures because a lot
of nasty stuff I you know you I'm sure some people who work at Nasa have seen our Global star party and stuff and
everything so NASA NASA is more about like accomplishing missions in space
and like getting people out in space and um one thing I noticed I'm going to
space camp again this year um July 11th through the 15th I'm planning to go back
up to Huntsville again and one thing I noticed well was that
space camp is NASA is about accomplishing you know there's many different things in NASA as mechanics
there's robotics not just astronomy too and so I didn't really see a lot of a
lot of shot me going on at space camp it was mostly lots of um learning how to be
an astronaut and doing a bunch of simulators like that but um it's kind of cool to see NASA do some
astronomy and I know NASA does a lot of astronomy programs for kids too
um I remember last store uh last summer before I even joined the star party you
went to space camp um you can go on NASA's website and you can print out these little sheets for um
kids to do with different activities I remember I made a origami
um I remember uh making an origami star Shield um I think that is uh
that whenever telescope kind of explains the science whenever a telescope is uh
telescope in space it's taking a photo of a nebula um the star blocker will kind of block a
block a brighter star so you can see farther out in the galaxy and so there's lots of activities to do and um matching
with the theme of the star party's Outreach and stuff and the importance of Outreach and getting out into the
community I think that's really fun to share because I remember that's one thing that really got me into space and
I know the elephant trunk nebula is one thing that really got me into space too um and the nebulas a lot because I used
to look at them and it's so crazy to see all this natural beauty that's out in space at this moment
um they're riding nebula and Horsehead nebula and the Elephant track nebula too
cat's eye um those are some of my favorite nebulas that really got me into astronomy
because I was thinking all that natural beauty out in space like when you look
at Earth and you look at buildings those are all man-made and stuff but when you look out in space they just randomly
happened thank you lovey thank you for having me
great presentation thank you for having me on I I love coming to the star parties I always tell
my friends I'm like if you ever get into astronomy one day or just want to get on the star party let me know and yeah
um I've been emailing some of my friends from space camp and I know one of them might be into doing a
star party soon who is in my cabin she's really nice that's great you can invite her on no
problem yes all right that's great okay
well uh you know Libby the other thing I want to say is a lot of people get very inspired by you so people of all ages
all around the world and uh we're lucky to have you on here so thank you
it's it's it scars me to hear that I've been staring them and they inspire me
back the importance of Outreach and I know uh I saw Scott three years before I
got into astronomy my mom dragged me down to the um square of my town and was
like look it's a net she's like look it's um lunar eclipse and um we saw
Scott there and I didn't see him for another three years and I didn't even know it was him when I first started
explore scientific so the importance of Outreach is very nice
and I noticed xiaomi is starting to become a more mainstream thing and I think that the gsps have definitely
helped it out and I think the 50th Global star party is a good Milestone to reach because
it's 50 the 50 parties you've done inspiring people to go home and do
astronomy and get into astronomy and research well it's it's all of you that have put
these shows on with us including you Libby that's made it happen so that's that's great you know and we got uh we
got a lot more to do so it never stops you know even though quarantine is still
even though quarantine is going to end hopefully very very soon yeah um
we're still gonna do the global star parties hopefully yes we will still do them
I was listening to the four four o'clock show of my mom and I know you guys are
talking about you know you can't really have uh International Global star party every
single week you can only do that by doing virtual because everybody have the flying planes
to not be very chaotic just to get one star party and and I think that doing the um
virtual star parties that are just as helpful as doing the ones that are um
the ones that are in public too and still inspires a lot of people because I
know we do that after parties we let everybody join in who um is hasn't really like had a chance to come on the
star party before and you see more people join in and everything right right
Libby thank you so much thank you I look forward to your next presentation thank
you for having me on thanks okay well up next is John Briggs John has uh you know
John is is uh world famous for his contributions to uh restoring
observatories um uh to inspiring people also and and
all the things that he does he he when I first I think the first time I got to actually meet John in person was at
Mount Wilson Observatory and uh he had this beautiful uh spectrograph with him
and uh you know um uh Sam Hale who was the grandson of
George Ellery Hill uh was there and he said Scott pay attention to this guy he said he's really inspiring really
amazing and uh you know so I wasn't disappointed and I'm so happy to have
him here on the global star party and uh John are you are you uh
are you there am I coming through I I am I coming through excellent excellent and
here in New Mexico I'm um in the middle of nowhere I can't always trust my internet link so I typically send my
presentations pre-recorded and so to you so you can play them and I can ask
questions afterwards just to make sure that gives the best chance of transmission to anybody watching so why
do you go ahead and let a rip Scott is about my backyard Observatory here and I'm so very grateful and privileged to
be a party or a wonderful show oh well thank you you guys make it so thank you
okay so let me share this here we go and I'll take it full screen
and
let's see
there we go
well we might may you might have to try it again and share the audio because we're not getting the audio Yeah okay
let me do that there's a button to press for that yeah you're right it's easy to
forget it is here we go
is that working still not hearing the audio if they're
supposed to be some coming
how about now no no just uh
why don't you talk over it John oh geez Scott really try it try one more time if
you can it's uh like if we have to resort to that I shall but uh all right I sure wish we could I think you have to
press the audio the sharing first but maybe before you start it yeah we made it work before if it doesn't work I'll
try it okay uh let's see
I do have the share sound check box on okay okay we'll try one
more time
anything not yet not yet no
so the sound's not coming through I know you had sound coming through earlier Scott with the um
like the beginning of the uh star party so we know that that we know that that's
working I'm not sure is it playing it because it's still on the same just yeah yeah no well why don't I just try
talking over it and I'll do my best because it's going to be automatically Advanced but this is about my my
backyard Observatory here in New Mexico and I'm in the middle of nowhere and it's not for everybody but you get used
to it and it's really uh the the desert beauty is is uh uh I sure enjoy it and
the skies are very dark and that's actually my house there in the middle of nowhere and in the beginning
um about 20 years ago when I my family and I came this to this area I set up a
portable telescopes outside the house like this but of course I aspired to get
an observatory well I got a military surplus Dome on top of a trailer and
that's what this thing is Surplus from nearby White Sands Missile Range and uh
it's a let's see it's a about a 10 foot diameter Dome and the foundation for the
telescope lowers down uh so it doesn't vibrate well I was worried about having a ground and Rod to get good electrical
grounding up near The Observatory side a friend come with a drilling rig to put a ground rod in on top of the hill and
that was kind of cool he had this amazing thing like out of Mad Max or something yeah the Electric hookup is
kind of primitive but it still works um now the sky is beautifully dark that
is the um the winter Milky Way arcing up from the lower right and this is diacal
light arcing up from the lower left in this photo by my friend Stan Honda was
visiting here from New York City this diacoloid is going up through the Pleiades there and Orion is in the upper
left-hand Corner kind of distorted because this was an extreme wide angle lens but one of the things you enjoy
here in New Mexico is that zodiacal light well so uh shortly after I got the
Dome set up I made friends with a fellow named Rick Thurman and he is there with
me I'm on the left Rick is with the hat on the right now Rick had an astragraph
up in Albuquerque he's a fellow member of Albuquerque Astronomical Society and he
was seeking Dark Skies to set this up and I said come on down here bring it down here and we'll have fun together
with it well it turned out poor Rick was suffering a very serious cancer and
Friends shown here from Albuquerque Astronomical Society and our local Magdalena Astronomical Society helped
Rick move the equipment with it's um at an eight inch
astrograph made by oficina stellare on an astrophysics mount with a nice CCD
um and and so we got it set up in the dome and we got it working really right away well here's sunset uh approaching
at the site and we'll we'll show you what we some of the things we got done this was our first Target the spaghetti
nebula wow which is a fabulous um uh Supernova Remnant Remnant it's
it's very faint and Rick wanted to shoot for faint stuff would go really faint
that's what this astrograph was good for and to get the data for this picture we actually observed over a whole handful
of knights using the same guide star many short exposures that were later combined you know with the computer
through different filters but he was very proud of the spaghetti nebula shot
and of course so was I assisting him um we had the mounting and the camera uh
and the telescope all automated over the Internet um so he could use it remotely and
here's the Crescent nebula another one of our favorite results we were together
about a year and a half but the sad thing Rick was fighting very serious
cancer oh here oh yeah oh there there we go he was fighting cancer and
um he couldn't travel here so operate this but he was able to operate the
equipment remotely um uh over the internet and the only thing we didn't have running was
um Dome rotation and opening and closing the Dome so I was the Dome rotation
mechanism if you're advancing these manually Scott go right ahead
because they're on the timing Loop and I'll just go with it there you go go ahead yeah okay yeah here's another real
faint serpent over Remnant the field of view of this astrograph was wide three
and a half degrees by three and a half degrees in other words about seven full moons by seven full moons and so this is
a gigantic faint object in the sky as I recall we collected data over five
nights to get this one final assembled shot then you can kind of tell how dense
um the stars are in the wide field view that it was going very very deep
um and to get this ancient Supernova Remnant now you know I hardly I've been
interested in astronomy a long time but I hardly knew about the existence of these things because they most of the
things like this can only be seen photographically and it needs pretty
specialized astrographic equipment to record these things and well it was a lot of fun and
it was an education for me go ahead and Advance at Scott if it's uh if you're
doing it manually there you go maybe you're not uh there we go
there here's a more uh a more pedestrian shot simply of the well it's
beautiful of course at least to my eye of the oh so they were the open star
clusters in the winter Milky Way um m76 and M77 oh there they are you
could and and this was the shot I recorded and this was a much easier shot than that other one but still with a
fast astrograph like this looking right into the Milky Way of very Dense Star pattern and just terrific to get a lot
of stars in the shot going right ahead Scott with the next picture which yeah this shows my other friend who uh uh is
now visiting I'm afraid um uh uh Rick Thurman passed away but he
asked me to scatter his ashes right there in Hilltop so he's still with us
with we're observing up there and it's a it was just a very amazing experience my
friendship with him but anyway another fellow visiting now is Dr Robert Fugate
and he comes with portable equipment he also uses the astrograph he loves a wide
angled Imaging like this um my and he says in a shot like this I
love the pictures with a lot of stars and goodness doesn't mean this is a lot of stars man
yeah that's the North American nebula there and the Milky Way in the vicinity
you know centered on the constellation cygnus the Swan and uh this was with a
relatively conventional camera but who carefully chosen lens go right ahead Scott so um Bob Fugate my friend who
also took oh whoops a little too fast there we go jump through yeah there I
don't know what we can just uh go with it there yeah that's that was one beautiful spot look at that yeah that is
showing the Magdalena mountains that are maybe five miles south of my place uh
there illuminated by The Village small village or Magdalena but this is a very
deep shot with very sensitive camera very fast lens getting the summer Milky
Way Rising this is the sort of stuff Bob Fugate loves to do and you go to next
slide Scott Bob Fugate is a retired Optical
physicist who worked uh spent his career working for the U.S Air Force and he was one of the pioneers of laser uh guide
star Adaptive Optics and but he loves astrophotography in his retirement
here's just a more conventional shot there's the Big Dipper we were seeing those magnificent
a rural displace earlier well we don't see the aurora in New Mexico unless we
wait around for something like the Carrington event but the green the faint green bands on top of the Big Dipper
here are actually oxygen air glow very high in the Earth's atmosphere we kind
of like the Aurora but present all the time from dark sites well I've now got a
second military surplus Dome and um a second hand RV trailer up on the
hill a weather station and a dog to go with it all the um there's the inside of
the RV which we use as a control room it's perpetually very cluttered
um but uh but it makes the place for us to get out of the cold here's the double star cluster in Perseus recorded by
Fugate and myself with the astrograph relatively conventional shot but then
the Magnificent globular star cluster Omega Centauri in the southern Sky I
could not see this growing up in Massachusetts but we at the right time of year we sure can see it from here in
New Mexico and how cool it is I can't remember oh let's see 36 minute total
exposure time and uh here is um um um uh M101 in a beautifully composed
shot uh by Bob Fugate and we were working together for all of these but he's a very gifted processor the tree
the TR the the the triple the the so-called Galaxy triplet in uh Leo and
the Supernova that's okay the Supernova the recent Supernova in Messier 61 we
observed this with students logging in uh recently from University of Chicago
in an astronomy class and it's very gratifying of course sharing is set up
like this with interested students this is what's become possible nowadays with
the technology is so powerful for backyard observatories you know stuff like this absolutely beyond my wildest
dreams as a kid growing up other targets of opportunity we try to seize upon like
um the the beautiful recent comet passing by Messier 81 and Messi 82 there
which one was this For Heaven's Sake I'm um um there's some pan stars and the uh
Atlas Comet this was recorded by another friend that collaborates with me at the
site Eric Toops who is best known for his solar photography but he lives right
here in the village of Magdalena uh we're a hundred mile scribe uh Southwest
of Albuquerque but this was in the dawn sky and I'm just uh I've I've ever it's
I'm proud to be up on a hill um um in a nice remote spot this is one of
my favorite shots but boy it doesn't look that spectacular does it you got to look closely looks like an open star
cluster or something but the next picture when it appears will show you what we're really talking about because
it's not just an a a boring open star cluster it is actually the coma Galaxy
cluster and here the annotations have been turned on a function with certain
powerful software automatically identifies all the galaxies in the field
of view and if you if if we weren't just showing slides like this it'd be
possible to zoom in on this and really see how each of these designations is
associated with a little circled spec all these Galaxies have actually been
recorded with merely an eight inch aperture astrograph well this the dawn
slight and the sun is rising so I'll wrap up this presentation and uh but
thank you for letting me show you about the foa observatory an acronym that stands for Fooled on a hill though now
um uh my with my friends coming here and working with me which is the most gratifying thing they suggest we call it
friends on a hill but to me it will always be full on a hill like the
Beatles song Thank you very much everybody for your attention thank you very much John wonderful presentation
thank you amazing amazing even even more impressive that you
caught up with the random nature of the slides yeah it was pretty tough
you kept it spot on it was it was amazing to watch thank you Adrian very
much okay yeah all right more to come here we have pekka haltola
from Stockholm Sweden uh Pekka has become a champion of Dark Skies uh he is
an award-winning astrophotography of astrophotographer and
um he is uh he's inspiring in his own right uh whether he's in the audience or
he's here on the stage at Global star party uh we we enjoy we enjoy him every
time so do you want to come on yes thank you Scott
um a very hard a tongue gave me again you know this when they run and they
gave his stick so it's a little bit hard to run after John but
I do my best you do just fine okay so I um
participated on participated on astrophotography contest that the
Swedish International Space Agency held between first of August 2020 and 30 of
April 2021 and I was very late to contribute with
my picture and there was a girl on Facebook that saw my picture and she
write a proposal that why don't you join this
competition ah but okay I sent a picture and
then I got the call from her or a message that I she needs my phone number
and she called me and congratulations me that I am one of the winners we were 16
winners in different categories and
over 400 pictures came in and
and they picked one of mine and I didn't believe it
before I saw my picture and I will share my screen
how did that heal pack up
hard to believe it is I have
done asked to photography for a little bit more than one year
I started last year in April I took my
first photograph through my telescope
so it's hard to believe yeah this is wonderful this is in in the
in the middle of the Stockholm and on summertime and the vacations
begins very soon and this is crowded uh
it's called kungstra Gordon and it's uh it's a park that is built for Kings for
in the middle of the 1500 to 1600 and
it's a meeting place for concerns and and
every big happening is here and are
previously on summertime it can be visited by a hundred thousand people a
day so um why people are going to be uh
affected by this image Becca yeah I hope so that's great
and here is the here's the stands they are lightning and
so on and there is a small description and if you take this OC
QR code you can see more information in your phone you just scan this
and you get uh yeah yeah great idea and here is the Moon
the picture I took hmm excellent
very detailed yeah but I realized
afterwards that oh my God the Moon is not upside right it's uh you can see the
Finland there mm-hmm can you see his thoughts there is the hand see the rabbit
okay it's Finland anyway
I couldn't tell them that it's uh upside down because this should be up here and
um and then they contacted me that they need the Tiff file
for the printing and I realized I I don't have it anymore
I just have the gbag and okay that's the first problem
but I found on one of my hard drives the movie
ah and I had to reprocess it
and any more lucky for me I had saved in
registax the wavelets it's wonderful so I had a little bit
lucky there and okay then they had the the um the party there where somebody came
the gang we are we were a couple of people but they had
the champagne and so on there and it was a quite sunny and cloudy day
and I have this solar allergy so I can not be more than an a couple of minutes
in uh direct IV UI ultraviolet radiation
so I was not able to to
be there but this is this is anku uh the big
shop should I say but um
because this is a bar and they just gave up a little bit restriction so it
will be cloudy they got their beer and so on
great this is the evening when I were there
and took the shots for my own sake and this is the tuvali
who she there are they calling me right now at that point of time uh for
um what we call a video call
this guy is called let's see he is Sneak class angstrom he took the picture of
the player this you can see all these pictures in uh that's you know Swedish
national space agency's homepage
and um this is tuvali and these three are
people from astronomyali Youngs and this week they will run a summary sheet
school for young people who are interested in astronomy here in Sweden
Stockholm this guy came from it's 500 kilometers
310 miles to be here
and this is Peter he was one of the top winners he took some solar pictures and
I can show his pictures and one GIF and we talked yesterday and he will learn me
he would be your mentor on solar Imaging and this is his picture he is
participated of sun
and this is his gift of proto-parencies and he's shooting from the in the middle
of the Stockholm town of the roof of skyscraper you can say
and what do we have more okay then um yesterday was the last day to
participate to Tyler's similar phone contest
and I have had wow I have had
not good weather so yesterday
I took some shots and could send my my
picture to Tyler and please schedule her phone
but I couldn't reach the Sun because I have this
balcony floor above to the sun was 53 degrees in
altitude and I can see only for now I have
lowered my mouth to the minimum I took off those
uh you know the dampings clothes you have under your feet so the
so they're damping so now it's a slowest but I couldn't reach so I I had to check my uh ultimate uh
amount but I will that time I was making a
movie with my phone and you can't process the phone RVs because they are
in the format that people or um how to stackers don't understand
so that's uh but I I took one picture and I think yeah and then I saw this
hmm a couple of days ago they begin to come I don't know what to
do you call them in English but they are high silver clouds hmm one hour after
sunsets um this is the mama my uh eclipse
and I can show you the today's uh so some
with the very large smoke this I was taking this today
excellent so that's all for me it's wonderful and there is uh we were me Adrian and uh
Jeff from Canada we was today on Romanian TV
oh wow congratulations show it or will Andre show it
or should I show it right now
yeah Adrian do you have the movie I don't if you've got it you can show
some of it yeah because I I got the blue screen after uh yours so Jeff is me on I
am on and the rest I didn't get because uh I got the blue screen from
our friend Microsoft yeah I um I have the movie I was gonna
go watch the whole thing and see when our pictures
it's two minutes one minute long yeah
what do you think Scott go ahead and give it a try if it's
copyrighted we probably shouldn't but it is on internet okay
it's free to download on Facebook very good probably good then yeah okay okay
we should go let's see I will start from beginning I am not sure if we have sound
so
there we go
we have your desktop now with uh it's a world famous picture yes
the southern you know it's a southern hemisphere Moon so it's not really upside down that's right there is no
upside down in space no there is nothing yeah that's correct let's see how do I
get back to that was a Christian moon or no it was
the first quartile I'm looking to see if there's a lunar X and lunar V are on that moon but I I don't quite see those
feet you scream in space they let's see no I can't tell if you write that upper upside down now I'm trying to
share it again well you see it it's there
maximize it pulse it and
now I will share it let's see where it is there
can you see it now yes yes they've missed an A but okay it's
forgiven
well there is no sound isn't it okay but we can't understand they are
talking in Romanian but we can understand our names
and we can understand it it's an eclipse yeah
yeah look at it glancing below yeah across uh that is what with my DSLR
yeah pictures and Kareem had to leave there we go
yeah composite those were
oh there we go yeah look at the yeah you can see it let's see it Rising wow
and it's over
oh yeah this guy is it man yeah I've heard it yeah
all the bugs were around yeah photos very natural those pictures
yeah and um
or you can see it with Romanian speech
if you like to yeah I'll be checking I'll be checking out the yeah so that's
all for me well thank you very much Becca that's great well we're going to go away and uh I'd
like to thank everybody for this enormously great uh broadcast
it's uh every day I watch my clock okay soon soon
[Laughter] okay now the em on the football football
has started so oh okay yeah yeah no no no no no no this is um much
more important or I have a full screen so I can split it you can watch and yeah
you have the technology that's right that's great okay thank you so much
Scott thank you so much so we're going now from Stockholm Sweden down to Buenos
Aires Argentina Argentina none other than Cesar brolo who's uh
yeah uh didn't run many Global star parties uh in fact a
majority of them so yep and it's great to always have you on uh Cesar we love
your sense of humor Your Enthusiasm your knowledge and uh your inspiration uh
yeah yeah so pizzas yes that's right
yes I remember it was many fans you know you have yeah yes this was real because it was in the
in the first uh European edition of of uh Global Safari I remember there was a
Friday that I I'm really I was making pizzas for for uh I remember yeah yes I
said okay I'm I'm everybody say okay every time to see my my pizza in the in
the old one oh yeah yeah yeah you'll see a lot of people in the chat right now and they're all calling you 100 mile per
hour Caesar uh the reason for that is is that Caesar has tried to do astrophotography and some of the most
adverse windy conditions imaginable so absolutely yes I I'm now and now I never
suffer more because I'm using my my living room uh I'm separate in a very
very simple things no with a great technology of Jerry havell if not only
so basic to use by my ex's 100 in the
balcony maybe you can see the tripod and the and the exes yes current of the
balcony outside is uh 40 46
um degrees or or sevens it's cold yes it's called here is
cozy yeah I I'm yes I'm sure because I felt very very well and and uh it's uh
not now it's not a it's a little windy it's a clear night
um um the idea uh uh came from my my son
Agustin you know him and he told me why why do you need the computer uh why do
you need to to be outside the balcony winter is horrible yes I know but yes
and you are all yes I know yeah yeah take care of that oh yes and
um and uh changing the this is very easy and
it's something that that uh like you may cameraize not Wi-Fi actually I don't
have a system like a ACR of cwbo or another one
um the only thing that I need to to have outside is the computer the camera and
the telescope actually I don't use I don't use I don't use a telescope
I uses um my exos 100 like a Tracker Mount that
is great really great for for this because it's a then another
um something that that uh makes this uh
comfortable nice is that the the the mount is go to you you can use another
another uh tracker mounts that that are not go to uh systems and it's a
nightmare because you know you need to go to the call whether um yes and
for me is is is is something like a paradise because for example last
Saturday I took a picture of a tripod uh
uh um Lagoon and treefield nebula together because I'm using my camera
with a Zuma there are 300 millimeters and um I I need only to to to
take this picture at 3 00 am of the in the morning of course that I go to sleep
and I put my my alarm and I'm only I'm wake up one minute and
I am using now this that is my cell phone with a free software that is
Chrome remote desktop it's nothing it's very easy and the
computer is inside the computer done suffer in the the cold weather really
because it's much better for for your computer be outside in the cold weather
work very well and I I need to change all that I need I
can change maybe you can see uh from inside it's very easy yes really
um not complicated and of course that if the mount is Wi-Fi this is much better
but if your Mount is not Wi-Fi you can use yeah you can use only the a cable with a
to the computer and you have all all um ready but like I use this I'm happy
because it's something like I don't need any more the go-to I I can
drive the mount with with the iPad or table or tablet with Android
thank you Jerry thank you well Caesar we're going to be giving you more stuff even if you don't need it
you can look forward to some stuff in the future yeah yeah but it's a solution for for the people
that many many people um suffer the cold weather and don't
make astronomy um and wait uh weight and lose a
beautiful sky that that you can enjoy in the winter
and really this works very very well um
I'm expecting to have a put on telescope over the mount but uh
while I'm because because the telescope are for
my customers but really I enjoy enjoy uh use the the
access like uh a truck uh tracker Mount and the complement of of the go-to is
really helping because I'm really I'm really
happy to to use a system that works so
properly um uh this one is is to to make more
astronomy to uh to to be
um to for example to to spend more time searching some for example something
that for me that I I started to search
um uh some uh for example some uh a type
of uh open clusters in the area of Bill of Vela or or near to Karina for example
tonight I I take a picture of I took a picture uh five 50 pictures
of to stacking for the Omega
Omega Centaurus cluster last Saturday I took a picture of of uh
um Centaurus a Galaxy and I don't have any more I don't have uh
problems with the call and I take more time to take more more pictures or
visiting with an an atlas for example this is something like a like and start
to use not only computers I love this this book that is
um the photographic atlas of the Stars is from from is the elders uh Arnold
Dorothy and more and it's it's a great a great Atlas and I for example this is
something that I use again and it's beautiful because I search in
this in this book this book is having a great history I I'm
um I uh I price I know I price I I earned how to say sorry
yeah yes um what's so great say oh I I was it's a
typical thing though I say okay I like because for me a telescope like price is not really well maybe I I don't offense
for me of course but um but a book like this is it's great
and I recited again uh this and this is really great to to
use books with Atlas and because I have
more time to to I have more time to uh
to uh to watch the sky to because I don't
think in the in the cold weather this is it's great it's a change only it took me
four years it took me four years to get to get out of the cold weather yes no I wasn't a winner I was at 10
degrees in the winter time and at two o'clock in the morning doing stuff and
I'm glad I I have a remote Observatory now to use yes yes I I'm I'm going to make of
course a remote Observatory too um maybe the problem that uses balcony
is great but the problem is that many parts many parts of the skies are
um they're blocked are broken by the the roof or the many parts but
um actually is an idea is you know it's for regression people that maybe
have uh have the same situation and don't use the telescope and have the
same the same uh possibilities uh sometimes they have altacy Mount and is
Wi-Fi or maybe it's not Wi-Fi but they can use with them with the the computer
in I I show this in my in my Instagram
um in uh immense social networks to many to my customers I'm friends and tell me
come on I I can make this why are you oh
yeah thank you Jesus yes for me was something like a
come on yes Google Chrome because sometimes I say I'm work absolutely
perfect it's it's a solution it's adverse solution of course for small
telescopes uh um and work yeah I make more pictures from the
balcony I have a lot of image to to stacking and process if I can process something for tonight I
show you the pictures of of uh Omega cluster or another thing that I
have give me a alpha wonderful yeah yeah ah yes yes
yes yes tonight was was a great because uh um part of my family when I for
example when uh terryman started to show the how do you say uh the board auroras
or yes Lawrence auroras yes is it like in like it's
similar to how to say in Spanish um
they were watching MasterChef that you know in many many countries I say okay I
have something more interesting in my computer oh my family came to to watch uh the the tournament uh uh video of of
the auroras was amazing I I I write that
we really we uh um we can compete tonight for the Emmy
yes so that is a great great show it's a real honor today yes and all of you that are
presenting tonight you're just you're bringing you're bringing it all on so it's it's funny
yes it's really you make a a really uh a great uh job Scott because
from maybe one year uh I I today I'm searching something of of uh of videos
for uh for uh to show the ex who's 100 I
I sh I found the first GSP video because
it's full the YouTube channel is full of videos in in Exploration worries I need
to say yes I I was searching the the first video where Sherry haven't showed
the uh so the ex is 100 put him back to my side as say come on
I found the the first uh GSP incredible
yes he said yeah that was uh August 4th last year I was August 4th and we have
been running um at least one gfp a week sometimes two
two a week but uh yeah a little hard to do and we've we've run some that uh uh
ran during the Great conjunction we were on I think five times in one day something like that covering it as as it
was uh observed from around the world so that was that was a lot of fun too yes yes absolutely yes I think that that was
uh it's it's because it's it's a a great show really really you guys you guys
make it happen so and you're a big part of it thank you uh it's a pleasure it
really is a pleasure thank you okay we'll be waiting for some uh some images
from you tonight is there yes yes anything more you'd like to add while we speak I'm I'm process something very
very fast of course okay only to show something okay okay all right so we're going to
turn this over to Adrian Bradley Adrian made the Excursion to the upper
peninsula in Michigan to yeah actually it was the eclipse well it was the thumb it wasn't
quite all the way okay yeah that that would have been another three hours uh
one way on the drive and I did consider doing it because there was more Eclipse
to see if you go to the Upper Peninsula but I ended up in the thumb and um and I
did and I did get to see some of it so I had a friend that went all the way up
yeah and he got clouded out so and that I was what so I was watching
forecasts um and I kept looking and they kept changing and the forecasts were very
favorable for the thumb and as I was driving the forecast then became favorable for Whitefish Point which is
way up the up on the Eastern side and since I had to work that exact same
day I made the call and said I'm gonna go with the thumb because I need to be
able to work that day the same day so so it was a pretty Marathon day and I will
so I will share some of the images you saw some of them already
um the cell phone image probably traveled further than um than any of them that's after the
eclipse is done turns out I have um Lightroom still uh going but I will click here
a couple of images that I took that I didn't um necessarily release but as I started
to see the Crescent of the sun come up I um see I'll move this over here
so I started seeing the crescent and I just started taking pictures a lot of
these were handheld just because I wanted to react to what I was seeing and
try to frame some of the pictures if I could um I focused on the Sun as it was Rising
there's the crested hanging out of the cloud and one of the gulls flying by it
um it was a beautiful nice and warm morning and you from this picture you wouldn't
suspect that you know there was much going on but
um this one this is one of the pictures you saw as a lot of cloud cover but the sun
shown through it so I ended up with some very interesting Cloud this one was probably the most interesting as far as
clouds and of course I had some spots on the uh camera here's
here's a full image that I probably should have shared it's the
uh the it's the eclipse is regressing the moon is moving off
um but you can still see it now never look at the sun without proper
equipment you're right you know I have to say this disclaimer because
you have to be really careful this was taken without a filter because of the
clouds and it enabled me to be able to take that shot but this bright area here
dangerous to look at with the eyes with your camera you have to be careful
um because you can burn you know you burn your sensor out trying to um you know take the photo put a filter on
it um you can get shots like these you aim right at the Sun and you take your your
quick photo and you may end up with something magical so it is a bit of a uh it is a bit of a
challenge and so this is sort of a portrait view of it um this was the photo that could have
gone around the world but I didn't upload it and I wanted to get something out so I used a cell phone photo that
you'll see I tried to zoom in a little bit but with a camera it just doesn't beat what a telescope could do and I
didn't have my telescope so I tried something artsy here's a shadow point of bark Lighthouse which is a very uh
favorite place of mine to go nice image if I roll forward which
um let's see if I can let's see see if I can do this yeah now
I think I can roll forward there's the Sun and there's it's a
little bit you can barely see there's a little bit of the Moon left as it's uh
you know as it's receding and you can see all the bugs that were flying around out
um I forget what kind of flies they may have been called but there were a lot of
them and now I have to okay there we go and once it was over I took this picture
and because the sun ended up so bright it ended up in a uh part of the clouds where you could just
feel the heat coming from it it's no longer eclipsed it just the light was
different and so I ended up taking I end up taking this picture and so it looks
more like a silhouette um you know it's a darker look
um that's because the sun is so bright so you're taking pictures directly at the
Sun everything is saying you're using pinhole
aperture you're using your fastest shutter speed your lowest ISO you're at
base you're taking the shot and and you're pulling the camera away and
you're and you're not taking a long time to compose because that's the Sun and you don't want your Optics to melt so
that is that was the final shot and after that I looked around and I said
boy am I tired but I have to go to work the same day so I started driving back
lately I've tried to image since then um David loved it when I took a picture
of this tree I drove back and said oh I'll give it a try and um
I ended up getting the Crescent Moon as it's setting behind nice trees yeah
and beautiful shot that's um this is the sort of stuff I like to mix the
the nature of it with the beauty of it open planes whatever I can find in
Michigan I will shoot it not and I've returned to this tree a number of times so
it makes it's a pretty good foil for shooting um
this this sort of uh borders between Astro and just the beautiful nightscape
so and then back to practicing Milky Way shots this was with the mirrorless
camera all the fireflies and the road so it
now that Milky Way season is coming upon us it's time to continue to work on my
Milky Way Photography we saw some absolutely fabulous pictures and Dark Skies of what this region can look like
if you expose you know and you expose for the Milky Way this is an unmodified
camera and it surprises me that some of this detail can still show up
um to me it's pretty amazing it just lets me know you know what you can do I do use a Tracker and this was a 30
second with uh High ISO 6400
um when it's dark you can shoot at higher isos you can still get good
photos without as much noise there is some noise here um and you can see it but then
sometimes I'll let the graininess stay and let the picture look because it
gives a picture more of a painterly look to it sometimes you can make that work
um gotta shoot the Moon it's nice and there's this was the this
was that same Crescent I believe I trying to remember if I shot this
I think the same night I saw it and I said I have my bigger lens with me why
not and I fired at it and ended up with a pretty nice uh Crescent
and I think that may have been really good
oops I had a couple more um and it'll just be quick with a modified camera there's more detail you
can get but I'm still working on my process because boy is it grainy but there's there's lots of detail there and
here's the the eclipse picture taken around the world all those bugs and that's a bird flying
through and all the bugs were in the way but you could still see the eclipsed sun yeah and this was the this was the
picture I took with my iPhone you can take some solar pictures with your iPhone it's pretty good yeah in Cloud
it's got to be the right conditions to do it and um so I took that so that I could send
it off and you know be a part of the live broadcasts and and lots of folks have seen it it added
to the beautiful eclipse pictures that were taken um during that um during that time so it
was uh it was wonderful to be a part of that and you know just I enjoyed
just being out there with my camera and um right yep so now that the Moon is
growing um it'll be time to go back to using Moonlight to
um try and get some photos so it's uh and one thing that I found I found that
in astronomy sometimes we can take the night sky for granted we can take the moon for granted
um a lot of the deep space astronomers that love to shoot all those beautiful
the Beautiful nebulae the galaxies and things the moon comes out and we sort of
grumble about it it's ah it's a moon out I can barely get anything um
there's ways around that of course but and then clouds come out and then you go
ah it's cloudy so I can't shoot and you know that kind of ruins the night
I began taking up more traditional photography because
rather than sit around and say well there's nothing to do maybe I can use those clouds maybe I can use the moon to
produce something else beautiful maybe it's not going to be the Milky Way like it is behind me
that's a portal to Milky Way and I can't wait I'm going to Okie Tech to see a
border one sky and I will probably run around with my tongue hanging out
drooling tripping over my camera equipment and bringing to Bringing everything I've got
and just trying it and getting yelled at by the visual astronomers and
and then I'll bring my visual astronomy equipment too because I do like visual is seeing it with your eyes that's the
part that we're missing that we hope to get back to with these uh star parties there's nothing like having someone see
something through a telescope with their own eyes and their response is priceless
we can show them some very pretty pictures and tell them of our experiences
but that is the one thing that we haven't quite been able to replace with
our technology and I look forward to being able to do that and that's what I'll close with is uh pictures are
beautiful and can you can do science with them but in the end it's the human connection to
space that connects all of us and that's that's what we're here for so thank you
all for listening and looking at my pictures thank you very much Adrian thanks for the inspiration that's
awesome we put the sorry we put the
Adrian Bradley picture the the yeah and
our globe silos and the people love it I saw that right
I I thank you for sharing it yeah yes the people who told me that was amazed
with your picture really great picture with the beards it you know the the the
sea the Horizonte incredible excellent
wonderful okay so um so up next is uh Maxi folares
Maxie has been on our program now three times four times is that right Maxie I
think five times because okay yeah yeah yeah may I I started to
to come here invited by Cesar and obviously you yeah of course I'm glad to
be the in the 50 GSP it's an honor and I'm very grateful for that
good night everyone how are you I hope you you enjoy this
live chats and everything so what I what I want to talk uh about
tonight is a uh about the what I did the last weekend
uh if you see the last GSP I talk about uh
um the new project of the astronomical
Center in Alberti the city very close to from where I am from
so I was invited by Marcos Santa Rosa and we've been organized to
to see the skies because the weather was very good a weird thing that maybe it's
going to be cloudy but later not so we decided to go and we we was maybe
50 kilometers from the city let me show you the my screen so
ah here I don't
okay you'll see yes okay an incredible image of a
eclipse yes this is I I printed with a
I asked my brother to print it so I wanted to do a Antarctica 2021
I don't think so maybe in in the in some
world or maybe in the vase it's very far away it's very far really
really for us is we have a uh Antarctica
uh with Argentinian basis but it's really expensive to go it's near to
impossible for us so well sorry if I I'm taking mate
because here's our four degrees Celsius maybe is 40 in Fahrenheit so it's very
cold yes hot weather hot water
with sherwa so um cameras work better in the cold so yes
of course everything works better in the cold except for the astronomer yeah
absolutely yeah here's Here's the the the the the farm where it is this a
rural school that was um created maybe in the end of the
um uh 20 no um they they sent the 19th century
19th century yeah here's the building you can see it's very old and here's a different who
comes with me okay with his car here's Marcos and this is another friend of him
and they give me the keys of the building because we have electricity you
can see the the cables so we can connect obviously the the
mounts and the computers and everything so this is a a poster this is you can see
the structure of the building is very very old and it's like a English type of building
so well this is my my car and you can see the the afternoon was
amazing the the view the weather when we start to to put the equipment
so what this is a totally view we have some two horses in the other side
they were very quiet so this is basically what I took with my
cell phone when we've been in in the dinner and the the Galaxy was above us
and the view was amazing the the you can see the the center of the Galaxy very uh
in 3D was like you can touch it you can grab
it uh no no no the view was impressive
this is another picture that I take this is in a JPG format only ISO 100 1060.
but this is who else with the camera we of Marcos that he
he gave me because he want to do some astrophotography but he couldn't stay
because he has some other thing to do and I put it on the amount to was
tracking very good and start to take pictures of the core of the of the
Galaxy so to do some pictures then to publicity
the the project because this week Marcos told me that
um there is um
the company business a company yes yes um is going to be in the place to start
to reconstruction the the old building to make it safely
sponsor [Music] yes but basically the the pressure is
started uh excellent so maybe in three months or four it's going to be ready to
to go again with better
structure and com very comfortably to be
there so a obviously uh I was taking pictures with
my this uh salary Cam and my Nikon diochenta and my age inches
telescope but because I was in other another place I couldn't see how was the
pictures taken so I downloaded the
program any desk to connect to my computer
so basically I can see what how was the pictures
um the pro the what I wanted to take was do only one
night to one object one single object this in this case was the dragons of
other it's a very close and it has a very
nebulosity that's the the club looks like similar
like dragons fighting I say so
well this is the dinner SSL you know this the dinner nebula absolutely yeah
yeah this is a dry chorization yeah yes yes I know these guys from the Pampas
come on yes I am from the city and Maxi is from the Pampa from the farm area and
really they have a wonderful life because they they have these things and
they're loving this yes yes when you go to the farm
to the countryside yeah you see this and say come out
I think our I think our uh yeah astronomy groups need to do this
we're out there just Imaging and I want to bring the food
from sorako company uh yeah the hand delivered
yeah okay oh we'll all go we'll all go down there for a picture like this that you're
showing us now yeah I'll go down there they saw us take him for a from my
friend Ariel who came with me uh took taking pictures this is only one shot uh
with a Sony Alpha that he bought a couple of weeks ago so he want to try it
and Marcos want a want to accept a a ask him if he can take pictures of the
building and the car of the Galaxy behind or something to do publicity and
he this is a capture that he uh
sent to us because he was a lady but he didn't only he didn't update it right
now but this is for us I think uh 30 seconds in ISO uh 12
000 it's yeah 12 800. yes yes 12 200 yes or
600. you can see the fog in the farm because this was almost 5 A.M
then I only was above us and the horizons you can see anything nothing
only the The Fog so it's a beautiful shot
here is me I'm taking pictures I want to try to pick a take pictures of the sunrise
with my cell phone because the the the shutter button
a got what and I couldn't take any more pictures
so I do I I have infrared a application
in my phone too do it in the camera
looks like some military man but it was in here the
night maybe one degrees in celsius it's very very cold it's pretty cold
you can see well the the sunrise at the Northeast very nice the fog was very
informed yeah very Serene here's a little guy who was the company in all
the nights he wants to to food uh he was very very free
poorly but we gave him we gave him a breath and food and and
some conversation
we play with him because he was lonely a lonely love and the telescope obviously
was very wet with
but so I put it on the sun to to drive it
this is a selfie you can see the horses and I remember the in the middle of the
night with the fog I use my camera sorry my flashlight with red light and
when I was beside the telescope the horse was here
you can see the cable that prevents to come with me but I saw two eyes red very
very creepy one shot I want to know what you were doing yes yes
do you use the three filters what in this picture do you use us
no no no no no but this is what it looks like this yeah with dclr camera only taking pictures of
five minutes at it so um 800
and almost four hours I did it more time but the the fog and the mirror was
to start to put wet so I use a a hair
dryer to to dry the telescope
so I started to take pictures pictures again like I said in the telescope I do I did
um all night I started maybe 9 00 pm and
stop almost 6 00 am of the of the morning doing the
same object all the night and well I you can see some the clouds looks
like dragons fighting like I said and some people in other groups they
upload pictures in narrow brand and obviously with better cameras dedicated
cameras but and also I I can't believe the stars that in the
area the reflection nebula is amazing you can see the how is dominated the behind and
here no no it was totally amazing uh so
basically this is my presentation what what I did this last weekend okay I hope
the project of the observatory continues to a for the region and for everyone only
also for the education for the schools but it
um it's an invitation also to the astrophotographers professionals and materials to
is that to have a a clear sky and some
they are the sky maybe in boldly four and or three uh I hear this is a single picture that
I took with my cell phone uh this is Jupiter
and you can see the the city of chilikoi as an artist but here in the uh the
above our heads was very dark and then and the the West Was was amazing
so well this is my little presentation and I I hope that you liked it and
[Music] let's see what happens in the next month okay okay
that's great man do you do you like this photo right yeah of course of course
yeah but I didn't I don't know if I comment a couple of days ago but I did a
comparison with the planet Earth of the the floors of the size of the players
and calculate the the size uh taking the diameter of the Sun
and doing the with Photoshop and I I did it with my Instagram I bought it
I I think it was five years a one
besides another and let me all right let me see I know okay
well uh the computer the the capture of the Dragons of area you are the first
that you see because I didn't upload yet
was very very incredible okay so beautiful beautiful
Maxi thank you so much no thank you to all of you yes
you liked it and I am very grateful to be here to share to everyone and
everyone who wants to talk with me I have no problem to if you want to ask me
something I I want to say I'm a astrophotographer but amateur I'm learning
in my process I have learned a lot to learn
but what I give what I what I have I can give to another one that's one the
knowledge it's free I think it's free that's it that's wonderful
yeah actually it's valuable though it's not it's not worthless that's for sure so thank you so much thank you all of
you and uh look forward to having you on the next Global Star Party okay uh up next is Jerry Hubble uh Jerry
is uh he's on he's been on many many programs with me uh he and I that uh
kind of devised the the nuts and bolts of the global star party and uh so I'm
congratulations Scott on 50. well yeah I mean to you too so you know yeah we got
155 to congratulate the audience the all the participants and everything uh the
guys who invented the Internet um you know the zoom guys okay them that was alcohol
the guys that made this microphone here uh the the dude said invented the wheel
um all of them okay or invented the Internet that's right he did
that was Thomas Edison no that was so no so I appreciate it uh very much
and uh we we did a we've got up to 156 of our open go to programs today I think
156 of those programs so it's been a it's been a lot there's a
lot of content that Scott has produced uh that's on our Channel
and uh I would hundreds of hours of content we it'd be nice if uh we need to
we need to solicit the help of all of our fans to go through the videos and do
an index for us because that's one thing we dropped the ball on a little bit is being able to index the videos and what topics we talk
about well we were we were learning how to do it and uh and we were producing so
much of it so early on that uh we just had to we were running as fast as our
pedaling as fast as we could yeah that wasn't right that was in the deep dark
area you know of the covid times yes it was it was we had to make up for that so
anyway I want to get started I'm going to be talking about um some uh
fiber fed spectrometer that I built back in 2012 13 something like that but I want
to I want to share a picture real quick for everybody this is this is uh at at
minus 10 degrees Celsius in January that's cold I spent four years doing
this before I decided I wanted to go remote and I was I was relentless I I know I set my system up
over 200 times set it up and took it down every night you know during the night every night
and I was running sessions of six to eight hours it to me tonight yes right so this is
what I was doing to learn everything there was to know about all this equipment and to write my first book so
that's what I was doing to do that um but I want to share this other project
that I did early on um let me see if I can find it here
and share my screen
can you see that okay it's coming up here we go
so does it look good yes so you can see it it was a red squiggly
line on there though I yeah fixed that a red squiggly line
so this is a project yeah the graft that's suspect that's a raw Spectra so I
I developed some software for this project and also this was a this is an off-the-shelf spectrometer taken out of
a chemical analysis uh machine for professionals that
professionals use in a pharmaceutical industry and this company uh packaged it
and I found it was two hundred dollars for this fiberfed spectrometer and you
can see overall here I'll go through how I how I put this thing together but it's it's a fiber that goes into
a uh a special kind of mirror that the camera looks at and uh and the Spectrum
goes down into the camera um and actually the light comes out of
the telescope and goes into the spectrometer and also into the camera so I'm going to skip over some of this
stuff this is a pretty long presentation but I'm going to make it short because
I know it's a long night so this is the new instrument this is what it looks like inside
uh this is what I found online uh this is the internal Optical bench for the
spec fiber fed spectrometer so the fiber optic you feed the light in
to the fiber optic from the telescope and it comes into the spectrometer and bounces around a couple of mirrors and
then goes into the into the grating right here and then and then bounces into the
focusing mirror and then to the linear CCD chip so this is this is a chip that's a thousand I think
it's either a thousand pixels by one pixel wide it's a linear it's called a linear CCD
and uh so all it's looking at is a linear does it move I mean does it move
across no no so what happens is the light comes in through the fiber there's a slit yeah then as it hits the grading
it gets spread out linearly so it gets spread out here and it goes
and it spreads out across this whole okay so the CCD the light does
and it looks like this is what it looks like so there's the detector
so the red the red light goes to one end and the blue light goes to the other end uh so that's how it works and it's
called Uh as I don't know how you pronounce that this is Ernie Turner design
is this configuration and I get into some details on the fiber
optic focal ratio and all this stuff but we don't need to do that I want to get to
um this so this is this is one thing that I use it's called a cold flip mirror right so what a cold mirror does
it's it transmits infrared light and reflects visible light that's at the
same time it's kind of like a um what you call it
um I don't remember it's a mirrored system that does the same thing except with visible light a beam splitter to be kind
of like a beam splitter mirror but it actually splits it into two different wavelengths ranges okay so so basically
what we're analyzing with the spectrometer is the visible light from about four thousand to seven
thousand angstroms and then above seven thousand it it lets that pass through and then and my CCD camera since it's
sensitive to um infrared light I could guide I could use that to guide on the on the target
star and uh make that work so a cold mirror is pretty cool you can
see here's another picture of what it does it it basically transmits
uh the lower wavelengths and then blocks the higher wavelengths uh in One
Direction and it Tran and then it allows the other ones and reflects it and then the other one it allows it to transmit
the uh infrared light through uh right there
and uh so I'll get into some details on the fiber optic
information and how the how the light gets propagated into the fiber optic system
um you have to adjust the focal ratio down to make it to match the fiber optic
um so this is what it looks like when you're focusing
all right so the way that the um the grading or the uh I'm sorry the beam
splitter or the uh transmission uh cold mirror distorts the light to where uh
when you're in and out of focus you either have it uh the light goes vertical like this or it
goes horizontal if you're in if you're in focus it goes I think it goes vertical and then when you're out of focus when
you're outside the focus it goes horizontal so what you try to do is you try to balance it and that's when you know it's focused
uh for the uh for the uh cold mirror and the fiber optic
and then you can auto guide on you can auto guide on this object here in the uh
this is this is a picture that's on the uh from the infrared so this is all infrared light right here it's
the other thing is that so you can auto guide on the object um depending on how narrow your fiber
optic and your slit is so one of the things I did as I wrote a program
that acquired the data off that spectrometer it was just a Serial Port
Communications to download the data and it and you would initiate an image uh taking the image and then it
would download the data and then I would process it into this uh
Spectra and then so that's the raw data I would and then I also created
um um an image from that data oh this is how I
calibrated it with an LCD panel because an LCD panel puts out these discrete red green and
blue Peaks to make white light believe it or not so if you look at your iPad or any
kind of tablet the light coming from the from that
um is discrete in in wavelengths and so this is the this is the image I would
create from that Spectra and each each line of pixels is one
image off that linear CCD and then I would stack them up in this direction so the x-axis is
wavelength and the y-axis is time Okay so
theoretically you could even take an image over time and see how the wavelengths how the uh
how the light changes over time in the in the y direction
so what I would do is I would use that image and process it with our spec
and uh and to get to get to the end the results are really good
um so I took a picture of Jupiter and you can see it's shifted to the red end the light is
um uh here's a picture of aldebaran which
is also a red star so you can see a lot of the uh or you can see a lot of the
light is shifted that way but you got the calibration the sensitivity of the CCD is shaped like that also
so you have to normalize it uh you have to normalize the light
let's see if I got a picture of that for the calibration so this is the calibration curve this is how the CCD is
sensitive to the in the wavelength so you have to correct it for that also not just calibrate it for wavelengths
and I did that uh uh for aldubrin and this is the this is the results for
aldeburn which I was really pleased with so the blue line is the reference catalog
Spectra for aldebarin and the Reds and the red is my actual
measurement so you can see how sharp my measurement is for these Peaks it matches the the um
the reference Spectrum very nicely uh so I was really happy with the resolution of the spectrometer and how
it performed and that now this is a very bright star it's not good for the very dim because when you measure the spec
Spectra um it cuts the light I mean it spreads the
light out in wavelength very large amounts so you really have to take very long exposures or have a really bright
star to measure it's it's a good I know with a grating it's great yeah so the grading of
grading spectrometer which we have on the msro is is like five magnitudes
dimmer than just a normal star image okay so you have to basically
expose it a hundred times longer
to get a similar noise signal to noise ratio on a given star then what you
would do with a normal CCD so I would I would stack I would stack
these images like I showed you and then it would combine them into the Spectra like this and I used our spec uh to
analyze these images so this is what it cost me to build this thing this is back in 2012
and this is the name of the company science Surplus that sells this spectrometer I'm not even sure they sell them anymore I'd like to get another one
uh I got I had an Orion flip mirror that I I modified and put the cold mirror
into it and then I had the cable adapter for the fiber optic to go into the into
the flip mirror uh and then I've I had my eight tick 314 camera at the time
to use that was thirteen hundred dollars back then of course you can get cameras cheaper today
and I spent I spent 250 to 300 hours designing and building this thing but it
that was the first uh really time I got heavy into spectroscopy and it was a neat I saw this thing and I
said I'm going to make I'm gonna I'm gonna build this thing and and uh you can see here at the beginning this is
what it looks like mounted on on the telescope and this is my trusty uh explore
scientific 127. uh scope that I had it on
so that's that's about what I've got to share tonight excellent
yeah there's not a lot of people who have built their own spectrograph system uh but uh you know you're the kind of
you're the kind of guy who who goes in kind of uh head first and
yeah I kind of dive in right yeah yeah I'd like to do that yeah
so it's great it's great and so you know the way that you tackle problems and solve those problems have uh you know
given me a lot of insight as to the you know the mind of uh of of an engineer
you know um I've worked with Engineers for a long time uh but uh Jerry is excellent and
um you know he's uh he he is someone that uh really uh
almost I I've never seen him say something could not be done so you know
yeah yeah I I put myself in the corner
sometime but I I usually work my way out of them uh it's so far so good yeah so
far so good and it takes that just takes some time to learn how to get out of the corner yep
okay well Jerry thank you uh let's see so
um up next is um is I think it's Chuck Allen is up next
here for um you know he uh
Chuck has given us some fantastic presentations um uh you know we've always enjoyed
having him on um uh Chuck are you there I am great
okay Scott first of all I'm not going to be talking about furthest things we can
see this time uh since we're running over I would like to talk just for a couple of minutes only about some things
that maybe Carol did Doc cover about Alcon virtual this year because I think it's important people know this so let
me share a screen here and
okay this is our website uh it's at alconvirtual.org uh
www.alkonvirtual.org on here you can find all of our speakers and the tab for sponsors has been
changed to Door process so you know where to go to look for those because they are spectacular
um if you forget what the website is just go to the astronomical League website there's a big banner here and
you can click on this and get right to the website we have major speakers lined up Dr
Jocelyn Bell bernales Carol mentioned uh the discoverer of pulsars will be a
headline speaker for us Dr J Richard God of Princeton who was the first proponent
of the cosmic web structure of the universe the sponge-like structure of the universe we'll be speaking on that
topic and about his book The Cosmic web we have Dr Caitlin Ahrens Dr David Levy
we have many others who will be joining us and the speaker schedule will be
listed on the website pretty soon uh we're going to have all of our 2020
and 2021 League Awards including Youth Awards and I'll mention those in a moment but also a presentation uh of
slew remote telescope usage which many people will find interesting a vla virtual tour our library telescope
program drawings we give away 11 Library telescopes each year
we have now over six thousand five hundred dollars in door prizes and that's just so far the deadline's not
till the end of July on this so heaven knows we may have to add Plinko to this thing by the time we're done uh we're
going to have thanks to Scott's hosting all of this convention which is three days long 3 P.M and 8 P.M Eastern Time
sessions uh each day and Scott will be hosting it on his platform and thanks to
Scott for all he does for us but this especially is going to be a major task for everyone my honor my pleasure thank
you so there will be an international star party we will have all of our youth awards from last year and this year
presented uh all of our league awards for webmaster for the astronomical
League award gr Wright award and so forth uh I also should mention that our
long delayed actual convention in Albuquerque is on for next year uh at
the Embassy Suites Hotel on July 27th through 30th of next year uh and there
will be a tour of the vla in fact at that uh particular meeting and obviously some wonderful observing opportunities
we have conventions being planned well out in the future now we're going to go
to Baton Rouge in uh 2023 we hope to have Rascal 24 a joint convention with
the uh Royal Astronomical Society of Canada oh that's cool we don't know
where yet we haven't decided we're having a meeting about that this week and we'll be talking about that plan
we're also going to be back at Bryce Canyon in 2025 we had a wonderful meeting there in
2012 as you may recall and so a great opportunity for observing under really
dark skies there here and Scott congratulations on 50 Global star
parties I don't know how you do it you're sort of like a duck you look calm on the surface but you must be pedaling
like crazy under the water thank you so much thank you thank you
you guys make it easy that's that's what happens here so it's awesome I do I get
really excited uh thinking about you know what the next Global Star Party can be like and what I'm going to learn and
what we're going to share and so I I think it's just I think it's fantastic you know so uh anyone who could sit down
and see the lineup of speakers that have contributed to Global Star Party
um you'd be real tough to go to any Star party and see this this number of uh
speakers uh show up you know can I add something I forgot to mention that's very important this is open to everyone
you do not have to be a league member and registration is absolutely free all we need is an email address so we know
where to contact you for a door process if you win one wow okay so you know you have to be a league member to enter do
not have to be a league member you do not have to pay attention fee you guys got to watch this so it's gonna
be good fantastic okay well thank you Chuck thank you thank you
okay so up next is Dawn Davies from the Austin Astronomical Society I've had the
pleasure of knowing Don for I think what's going on maybe
eight years maybe 10 years could be longer than that but uh Don uh uh loves
the night sky she is the night sky program coordinator for the is it the
Hill Country uh lions okay
all right well they couldn't pick a better one to uh to plan this uh dawn
has uh uh she gets um you know whole groups of people really
excited about observing the night sky she makes it fun uh that she's brilliant
and um uh and someone that's very committed uh to uh educational Outreach
and astronomy so don thanks very much for coming on I've been trying to get you on global star party for a while and
I'm glad that you picked this one to be on it so thank you for having me back it's uh hopefully be a lot easier when I
don't have a child the virtual schooling from oh right but uh this is definitely a treat
especially to be on here with so many phenomenal astronomers professionals and
so forth um so what I want to share with you all tonight is a project that's been a
couple of years in the making for the Austin Astronomical Society which is uh been the development of a new
Observatory for us so I'm gonna go ahead and share my screen get this started
all right is that visible Scott it is oh great
okay
so tucked into a rather Lush Terrain in
the Texas Hill Country about 30 minutes north I'm sorry three minutes west of uh
the urban sprawl of Austin is something we are now affectionately calling uh the
falling star observatory at Pedernales Falls State Park Pedernales fall state park opened in
1971 and it's a 5200 plus Acre state
park east of Johnson City in the county of Blanco and it's along this beautiful
Serpentine River that is the Pedernales Falls you may also hear people refer to it as pertinolus it can be referred to
as both um it's it's a phenomenal location you have
water cascading down 300 million year old Limestone into these just gorgeous
swaths of pecan of elm Sycamore walnut trees the terrain attracts campers
hikers Backpackers swimmers mountain bikers birders and most of all star
gazers it boasts about a 4.5 border scale and it's really become a hot spot for
astronomers to come out and take in the many splenders of the night sky
um so about four miles from the main gate tucked in behind this rather unassuming Barn is what they call their
Star Theater um this opened to the public in 2013. it's a 100 foot diameter Limestone ring
um and it boasts an Amphitheater sees about 100 people you have these Limestone Towers at each cardinal
direction and that's a 20-foot Obelisk there in the center with a pole finder and the pole star
so the Austin Astronomical Society began partnering with the park in 2018
um whole of staying Monthly Star parties in this very unique of hinges and
shortly thereafter we began negotiations to build a rollout Observatory to better
serve the needs of the public park guests and of local astronomers so it's
an aerial view so you can see that the hinge situated there and are a little Observatory is
right here behind this barn I didn't know that we had a hinge we do have actually believe it or not Texas has
several hinges most of them most of them are replicas of Stonehenge so this is this is a slightly uh slightly more
species it's awesome so in April of last year this got
dropped and we are building a rollout Observatory out of a bare bones 40-foot
shipping container and when I say Bare Bones they provided a cut out for us in the wall for air
conditioning a roll-up door and we've been doing the rest myself and two of my
other uh Associates Brian Lippincott and Greg Roadie we've been spending just
about every single weekend since the beginning of April I started in August they start in April building this out
from scratch so putting in the framing putting in the insulation doing all of
the electrical it does have the ability to run off of a generator as well as an inverter setup we have white and red
lighting it is insulated it is paneled in in both a hardwood and
some some very nice paneling Decor so I mentioned that whole cut out there we do have air conditioning which is
imperative right now as we've just started hitting troubles um so this is this is our new best
friend uh so the space is divided up into the
the main section which is 30 by 8 feet and then this back section here which is ten by eight feet and this will actually
store the club's two telescopes so we have a 24 inch and a 25 inch dobsonian uh we'll be soon I believe collecting
also a 20 inch um and then of course some smaller and slurry 8 and 10 inch Scopes and so forth
for folks to to utilize during our public star parties and members only star parties
we've also done our best to use recycled materials when possible as you can see here
this is our white lighting we have that runs up along the ceiling if you can at all avoid doing your own paneling and
insulation above you I highly suggest hiring someone um it is not a it's not a delightful job
I'll tell you we wore a lot of uh particulate on our hair and clothes while we did this
um and you can see this is usually what our facility looked like as we were building it out
um you can see in this right image here that back counter space that houses all of our electrical net cabinets and we
have an inverter read out into control for our light switches and we've put a bit of a unique bent on
the design a lot of what you'll see through here is some pewter some Chrome some brass design a little bit of a
steampunk bent with a few fun Easter eggs care of the geeky designers that we are
so we've installed all of the ventilation for the AC so it takes it throughout the whole section and you'll
see here this is our main conduit and then we have vents that run the whole length of the north side and eventually
we will actually be building in solar powered fans as well to help cool the unit because it is of course a giant
metal box in Central Texas yeah and we have officially named it falling
star just because it is at the Pedernales Falls State Park so it seemed rather apropos
we've also behind that ducting have installed red LED lights so they're
hidden during the daytime and at night time these are our bit peculiar angles
but if you're present in the structure the light is very diffused so you're able to utilize uh the the different
functions we have in there we'll have a computer flat screen TV and so forth but it does allow us to operate fully in the
dark without having any sort of white light obtrusion we also have these fun nautical outside uh lights that also
light up red and we've uh within the last month and a
half have started uh putting in masonry work and stone to make this fully Ada compatible so on this left hand side you
see a small gradual uh step set and then on the right hand side we're in the
process of finishing out an ADA Compliant gravel ramp so that will be
all compressed in there and then off of that back side at the end of the ramp will be the pathway that is going to get
laid out that will lead from the storage unit itself from the shipping container Observatory out to the Henge
and this has been mostly done um by by Our member Greg Rhody and his daughter it's it's been amazing watching
this thing come into shape from the the gravel piles that were there previously you're sort of a a North and South View
wonderful and eventually this will once the humidity drops down a bit will be painted to match uh the color scheme uh
that is the the patina on this Barn that we are behind so it Blends into the scene a bit
we've installed some very efficient and most uh uh most common in workspaces
this pegboard and also on the back doors and the roll door we've also installed reflectix which will also help Abate
some of the heat we get in there to keep that reflecting out
here's a view from our main doors this is probably the cleanest it's ever been since we began you can see we've got a
desk set up over here which is where our computer will be and that little black rectangle there is our flat screen will
get mounted pretty much right above where it is now and we'll have two built-in bookshelves that will flank and
that will hold the club's Library now I did mention there are some geeky
aspects um this is the artwork of what we've affectionately referred to as the end
doors and doors
and of course our homage to anybody anybody
uh uh Jurassic Park curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal
the one of the opening scenes of Firefly ah like I said there's been some Geeks
involved in this well I have my mate
what's that um so we also have some display
Cabinetry that's going up this is the inside of our electrical cabinet and here is another little friend of ours
Groot he is the The Keeper of the root switch
that controls all of our electricity so before you leave you must pull the Groot
laughs that's great and uh I'll give you guys a
we've got a little video walk through here of it this is a about 9 30 at night so after Sunset and this is with all of
our exterior and interior uh red Lighting on
your generator so let me see if I can turn that down a little bit the generator is rather loud uh
and then we've got uh the start of some red light solar lighting that's going to
line the entire ramp there and the staircase as well and it's a very clean transition from
this ramp straight into the observatory itself so we can facilitate people in Walkers with canes with wheelchairs or
any other aided equipment
what's that I said how comfortable this will be yes well we we want to make it
as comfortable and as accessible as possible that's that's been a very um a very large component of what the
three of us have been trying to design is something that is very functional very practical
um again very stylish but also that allows anyone to come out and visit
regardless uh we'll also most likely be installing in the future some adaptive
astronomy equipment so folks can be using it remotely and this is actually
only one of three observatories in state parks in Texas two of which are actually
in partnership with universities oh wow so this is actually the only observatory in a state park that's been completely
uh privately funded so we're pretty proud congratulations yeah it's uh we we had to go this route
with a shipping container because of the phenomenal amount of red tape that it would take to put in a permanent
structure um I would imagine we would be looking at about five to ten years in working
with Texas Parks and Wildlife to get something permanently installed so this
was a a great compromise that allowed us the feasibility of a structure to store
what we needed to provide what we need to to the public and to the state park but also that was you know fairly
reasonable budget wise as compared to something that would have required a cement pad and potential plumbing and
wiring so it's very self-sufficient in many ways and it looks indestructible so
yes yes uh definitely watertight it's actually a shipping container that when it came to us it was one of those that
had only been used once for uh you know I think across the Atlantic once but it's fully watertight wind tight like I
said gets down pretty cold we can get it within about I'd say 75 78 degrees which
is Pleasant compared to Triple digits yeah but yeah this is a like I said it's been
about two years in the making of getting an mou signed between the two groups and a little over a year we expect to be
finished with construction within the next three weeks weather and mother nature permitting
and with the intention of going live with our first in-person public Star
Party both out here and also since covid um in over a year and a half so that'll
be next month July 17th congratulations and where where can
people find out more about this they can go to our website which is austinastro.org
we'll put that in the chat
wonderful thank you John thank you so much that's great I
hope to get out there sometime and check it out myself oh I hope you will I think I will
well next up is uh we're going all the way to Nepal uh where we will once again
bring on deep tea good Tom but she is bringing on a friend as well uh so I'll
let her introduce him but uh deep T how have you been and um
um what will you be sharing with us tonight hello everyone
Global Easter party and it's been great and today I'm I'm
planning to at least talk about the moon our our necessary so
it's been at the Moon is uh Earth's only one natural satellites and the alternative name for is is Luna Selena
and the moon's orbit around Earth had this cereal periods of 27.3 days during
its synodic period of 29.5 days the amount of visible surface uh illuminated
by the Sun and Bera is from up to 100 versions resulting in lunar phase that
from the basis of the month of lunar calendars and the Moon is tidally locked
to Earth which means the length of full rotation of the moon on its own axis
causes its same side that is near side and to always face Earth in this
longer lunar day is the same as synodic period and that's where 59 percent of
the total surface can be seen from Earth through the shift in perspective due to
liver Nation I mean I set up dating of lunar samples so this the Moon from
around 50 Millions year after the origin of the solar system and historically uh
several formations mechanism have been proposed but not satisfactory but
explain the feature of the earth immune systems in a season of the moon from the
earth cross uh through centrifugal force will require to create an initial
rotation rate of the earth and the gravitational capture of the preformed Moon depend on an unfeasible extended
atmosphere to the Earth to dissipate the infancy of the past and moon and the
Moon is different said body that was that was initially in hydrostatic equilibrium but it has since departed
from this condition and it has geochemically distrib
uh the moon has a solid iron rich inner core with a radius responsibility or
small is 240 kilometer that is 150 millimeters in a fluid outer core
primarily made of iron rods with a radius of roughly 300 kilometers and
here's one question the rise in Fall of the tires on Earth is caused by the moon
now there was two blouses in the earth due to the gravitational pulls that the
moon a moon exerts on one of the side the fascinating the moon and other on
the opposite side that face away from the Moon and the bulges move around the ocean is the is the earth rotis causing
high in low tides around the globe and the moon has no atmosphere this means
that the orification the surface of the Moon is unprotected from cosmic ray
metroids and solar winds and has huge temperature variation and the lack of
atmosphere means a no sound can be here on the moon in the sky always appear
black and the Moon is fifth largest natural satellite in the solar systems
it uh 3475 kilometers in diameter the Moon is most smaller than the major
moons of the Jupiter in Saturns and Earth is about 80 times the volume that the uh moon but both are about the same
as and of prevailing theory is that the moon has one part of the earth and was
formed from a song that broke away
party
like mysterious Falls with telescopes We Gather in groups with gear to spear
telescope aiming so high percent are great is this here the view of star
moving is across the sky hosting of escort poetry
motivates me let's
see the knowledge
definition of different astronomers all around the web with talks or get talks as a gift thank you
thank you very much deep to you thank you um DP you have uh you have a friend on
um uh ansaraj is that his is am I pronouncing his name correctly
yes yeah uh why don't you introduce him and tell us a little bit about him and and
then he can he can uh share what he has to share okay
um he's one of the um founding member uh my friend found in member of our club that is
just in Nepal and he has been um and he has got an honorable mention
uh from the estro Olympia and uh he's uh
uh he has a kind interest in astronomy and now businesses
wonderful great yeah you can begin yes
yeah um just give me a second I'll have to switch off and switch to my
uh okay um so the electricity can be caught up here anytime so I have to switch to the
backup internet connection so first of all uh thank you very much uh very much uh for having me here it's
uh such a pleasure to be to share this virtual platform with such esteemed personalities from all around the world
who share the common interest as me in astronomy astrophysics and space science and
I am 18 years old I am a high school graduate and I'm currently in a gap year
um and I will I'm hoping to apply to U.S universities uh for the fall of 2022. so
uh as deeply said I am one of the founding members of astronomy enthusiasts in Nepal um I'm the General Secretary of aen and
we founded this organization in September 2020 so let me just share my
screen
game okay thank you okay can you see it yes uh-huh
okay so um in Nepal um the astronomy related or
there are few astronomy related organizations in Nepal but oftentimes their opportunities are um often
centralized to the major cities only and um being from a marginalized Community
or let's say a remote area in Nepal I along with um deepti and some other
friends who are also from outside the major cities of Nepal decided to
dedicate our time in creating and flourishing opportunities in astronomy in other parts of Nepal as well
so in September 2020 um with nine founding and executive members we founded um astronomy
enthusiastic Nepal APN in order to flourish astronomy in different parts of
the region um urban areas Suburban areas and remote areas as well so since then uh since we
have we formed uh we founded our organization in um the words of lockdown
so we had to conduct the events possibly at that time so we had some uh guests uh
from National level as well as the international level um like David I and David Eiser who is
also part of GSP and um I have a lot of a lot about him from Aditya as well
likewise Professor Chris Impe from University of Arizona and we have been conducting uh Wisconsin competitions in
Nepal as well um and the participation in those in these activities uh the number of
participants from all over the Nepal made us realize that and there are more astronomy enthusiasts
in Nepal than we expected to be and that more of them share common interests as
uh as we do so it was really great to um have a platform for them to nurture
their knowledge on astronomy and flurries in the presence of um or opportunities as well so when the
lockdown was um lockdown was removed for about two or
three months um and the weather were coordinated and when the weather
first of all we started with some of the schools in our hometown uh in the Eastern Nepal um with two schools which
had um equal to non-uh exposure in astronomy opportunities uh as in the major cities
of the country so we conducted astronomy outrage in lighting them on different topics on
astronomy and possible opportunities to take part in in Nepal and likewise we
have with our own personal telescopes we had in that time we were able to do some
solar observation with the future on and some terrestrial observation as well and
um the thing I take from that out is and I'd miss the most right now is that the
reaction the fellow kids uh kids and other little students gave when they saw
the sun or when they saw the sun they are solar glasses or just so they
they're still while doing terrestrial observation their reaction was so mesmerizing that it
um it was really heartwarming to see and those expressions in their faces and it
was really great and we conducted our outreach program in three schools in the
restaurant inside of Nepal and one in the remote Village of London District in Nepal also one of the famous female
famous famous villages for tourism um called khalegaon in London so there
the kids came to see the moon uh the weather was not cooperating at the time
but they were able to catch uh one or two glimpse of the Moon from via telescope and that uh wow reaction from
them was really delightful and and that is what keeps us moving
um and doing what we do and we love what we do so it has been a great journey
till now and we hope to continue our um our Expedition more in the future since
it is locked down here in Nepal right now so we are not able to do Outreach activities now but once the lockdown is
removed we will continue doing that in other parts of the country as well so this is the virtual webinar scent
offices we have been conducting so yeah and like I said the the moon they were able to see in that um village was on
the left side of the screen you can see it was taken by our fellow founding
member akas so it was taken from the SLR camera and in the
right side it was taken from my smartphone so this the image is not as
clear as on the left side and likewise um we realized that um our
night sky was losing its value value in a lot of sense because
um the city lights and the unmanaged lighting system and let's say that has
been ruining and that has been ruining the true beauty of the night sky and
when we are when personally I was in Kathmandu the capital of the country the
light pollution was uh so high that I couldn't see even the Orion built that
um easily so uh it was an issue there it it is still an issue but the lockdown
had um dramatically decreased the pollution but when it is on the boards of removing the
lockdown the situation becomes the same so it is a major concern in Nepal but um
as you know Nepal is one of the best stargazing insights in the world and
National Geographic has also studied in the top 10 sites for astrophotography and stargazing as well as you can see in
the images as well wow so beautiful um and the credit goes to the
photographers who have done a great sub in the um in Nepal that is in the left side it was
taken in the long term a langtang national park which is considered as the best stargazing spot in Nepal on the
right side you have in the Sagar Mata National Park um you can see the settlement in the
settlement video as well so it is just a beautiful towards and right now where I
am residing is the Eastern uh of Nepal of in the morang district so here also
when the when there is electricity cut off I can see um pretty much
um the Milky Way armed very easily so but uh that um that opportunity is taken
away from the city lights uh in when the time I am in Kathmandu or other major cities of the country so
um that's the losing the value of the night sky has been a major issue and we we have been conducting um some
discussion sessions and our initiation to in order to in order to obey people about the importance of the night sky
and what value it holds for us um to in order to understand the true nature of the sky night sky itself and
to understand the cosmos so on the May 16th in the International
Day of flight we conducted discussion sessions with our members as well um to
discuss different conditions uh in the different parts of the country uh how the night sky was and it was really good
and we hope to do more activities that will um
help aware people in a local level as well as in the National level as well so
we have been we have been having people about different activities and programs
like our Tower turning turning all the lights for one hour so likewise it can
um value our it can preserve help in preserving the night sky even by a
little bit so it has been a major issue but we haven't worked we have working and we are trying hard um in order to
preserve the night sky as it is stargazing is one of the best thing I want I like to do uh in my free time and
in the night night time whenever the and there is there are no clouds and clear weather I just lie down on my roof and
it was a nice guy by myself and it's really fun and it will be great to have
uh that right that privilege to other other kids around the nation to appreciate the night sky and to Value
the night sky um if we are able to preserve um the
Grandeur of the night sky and these are the references I use for my presentation
so once again thank you very much for having me uh it really feels great to
share this virtual platform with all these um all these awesome people here I loved
hearing presentation from uh each and every one of you and
um I really hope that um um it will continue on and congratulations on the 50th uh and Global star party it is
really great I have heard a lot about CSP from BP herself and I I have been
following the GSP and the explore scientific USA Facebook page as well and I will be keeping up with the updates
from uh from the page as well so thank you very much thank you thanks Suraj I
I'm really encouraged that uh you guys are doing all that you can to fight light pollution you know us astronomers
have of course we want Dark Skies so that we can naturally observe the Milky
Way and the you know the beauty and Grandeur of the night skies you put it um all of us feel that but uh it is all
of nature that requires a dark sky you know and uh
um you know cities and all their lights and stuff uh confused birds and their
territory paths they confuse insects they conf you know it's it's really
um we as a as a species we have to learn how to use our technology a lot better you know and um you know of course we
need light uh uh to um you know conduct our business at
night but we don't need to use it the way that we have been using it so
um you need to get it focused on the ground get full cut off you know we
don't need to blast the whole night sky with light you know so but I'm glad you
guys know that and uh you know it is the young people that will make future decisions about what we do with um
lighting and and uh uh you know then develop new technology
uh for us that will be more uh friendly so
so to speak but uh uh answer as you're also welcome to be on global star party
anytime you'd like okay so thank you very much thanks for contributing
up next is Rodrigo zaleda Rodrigo are you there
it's good how are you I'm fine I'm fine so you've uh you wrote to me a while
back when I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off you wrote
to me that you are uh studying um uh and will become a professional
astronomer is that right yes I I stood for a diploma or stormy
um um now I finished my my work for the I
working for data of the the professional telescope
telescope telescope wow
yeah wonderful yes
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um right that's great last last month I I studied and work in
my thesis and it's very interesting
um beautiful well you'll have to give us a tour of the observatory by the internet I guess at one point if that's
possible that would be great yes and when I I want to change you my
last picture for the um astrophotography for La Serena yes um
this photography is and I I take in an
apple there's a two two months ago
wonderful Rodrigo owns a telescope shop called
North Optics and uh so he serves all of uh chili and
maybe Beyond um and but he loves astrophotography he's
been on global star parties many times and uh wow so um
what is this object Rodrigo okay this subject is uh the the nebula
in the south in the constellation of Arab is a the name is dragon fight
um it's a group of nebula which is strange yeah formations
um in the this part
you see the the oh the the nebula uh
well this picture is a with four hours but when with my time this this is the
the bubble from the the star the star is dead this is the
little uh uh white star in anablanca
shh yeah my foreign
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one month is cloudy clothing every day a whole month sounds like Arkansas
yeah I find that hard to believe though it was so um when I was there it was so
clear for most of the time and transparent I know that last rain is near the um near the ocean uh
and when we went there for the eclipse in 2019 we did see some some Haze but
that was kind of like uh you know some offshore uh
offshore weather but I know that you saw the inclusional law Serena as well so yes he's there
for the beach and it's very very cloudy this time but when the player is sky is
great great skies in the city hmm yes wonderful
that's great that's great thank you Rodrigo thank you for thank you for
being in there I know it's very late for you what time is it in Chile right now
um 1 30 a.m 1 30 a.m okay
when I finished my work for the University I chat with you in the Star Party okay
that's a deal thank you okay it's good thanks thank you very much
thank you okay um I think
I think that we have not had any takers for the after party but um uh we could
take a break uh and um and have some conversation if he likes these are
what do you think Maxie yes I have no problem okay all right
let's take a little ten minutes are ready to talk about it
no we like to talk yeah every time absolutely here all right yes yes we'll just do
that and uh I I I have to take a break but I'll be right back okay so yes yes
enjoy okay yes okay
uh guys um about the eclipse uh let's see there
there is several ways to watch Eclipse
with your sunglasses or I mean this uh
Eclipse classes eclipse glasses eclipses yes and with the telescope with the
filters yes yes but I was watching and and broadcast from Finland
and as Society in Finland and they showed me a
way that I never had seen before do you want to see
I think maybe it's the by projection no yes that's that's one way about
through uh binoculars or telescope on the white paper
okay it freezing uh CSR yes
Maxi was a threesome Frozen ah now yes yes okay I want to call the Argentina ah
okay you know here I want to share a picture and tell
about that how you can watch solar eclipse
this is a box ah yeah yes you have seen this before yes yes I
have never seen that before yeah it's the song is behind you on your back and
this is a small round hole with a four layer
and a very small hole and you look this way in this and sun is behind you
and it must be quite a thin full year
like if you if you have in Brazil and India yogurt in these small cans you can
drop off this full year do you have that yes uh
um it's a little bit the food foliation the kids the kids here
um I I we are my our family company
sarako where I work um we was sponsors of uh uh robe that is
especially they make astronomy for kids and teenagers in Argentina any area of
what you notice it's in the West in the condition of Los Angeles area
I went to the clips uh with with this group and they made
um they made the boxes that yeah what that they they of course that I uh they
had a this time I'm from the the two last
eclipses in Argentina I import the solar film and and our company made the solar
chase the glasses yes and and actually have a big role of of
I have a lot of of uh glasses and
um we are made more for for the next eclipse annular eclipse in Patagonia the
20 or the 24th uh 2024 and
um and I we donate to to this group a lot
of solar film to make filter for the telescope they make the boxes
observation boxes uh we had a lot of uh
fun in the in the observation yeah of the
it's safe it's very important that it's safe for the kids yes yes and you can just look in the box yes Scott we are
talking about that I saw the solar box yeah I mean in my life
and I was so impressive that you can make uh in the five minutes
you can make a solar eclipse box yeah yeah all right yes and just a little bit
of Folia and tape right and these solar eclipse uh was the first I I saw the
total totally in cyber in 1999
and I don't remember anything about that because that time it was uh on supernova
you know there was some uh alcohol in in the picture and so on
so I don't remember so much you don't remember it so much well okay but
this solar eclipse I had opportunity to watch it with my glasses yeah
uh for the first time and when I looked it
I like in my mind I turn it in 3D on the side and was their own place and viewing
two bodies in space and I was like hoovering there yeah and
see them and feel them two bodies and one son is extremely far
away and the other one who is near me but I am hovering in
space 3D beside when I watch it with my classes
and the feeling I got because I was treasured with my
three the two telescope three cameras and to hold them in in in frame
and I decided that next coming eclipses will be only visual
because the feeling yeah you have to have it's important to watch I mean yes
it is because you're right there's there the feeling is Indescribable and
life-changing it is it is it was and I decided that this is my first
sunglasses and I wrote a date yeah and I will fill it up
this is this is my uh like uh packet list now
I want to try fill it up with dates and places sure so uh I must say well eclipse
is must see visual for sure it is you can't compare it when you try
stress to get the picture it is it is difficult to
um if you are photographing it uh there's the temptation to just
be captivated by it and then to ignore your equipment okay so this happens a
lot and then there's the the flip side of this the person is so concentrated on
their photographic gears and trying to get these Eclipse shots that they completely miss the experience of the
eclipse yeah and I decided that visual first then take it yeah one shots
and okay there is a lot of pictures on
the net yeah day after but the the experience to see it watch it and if you
can turn around around in your mind that you are 3D you are beside them and
watching not from the planet Earth but you are hoovering at there and you get
those bodies 3D then you understand what is an eclipse yeah
I remember when the last eclipse seeing with naked eye because of the
shadow of course and see the corona writing a lot and the clothes passing by
through and uh seeing and taking pictures
like like I could but um I remembered
this is a crazy thing that I did but I always want to see a flare with my
eyes so basically I saw from the visor of the camera
with very careful and I saw the the old Shadow and the little
a flare of the of the sun uh very distance like this and whoa no no
no this and I can't see anymore because maybe it will be bright and maybe you
can a gets me blind so I still taking pictures
the camera is my eyes so basically I I try to
to enjoy the moment and I remember when
finally finish the shadow passing by I remember
to to turn around and see a friend Nico
alias and we say together we did it and we
start to cry and we hug because the travel the planification the the
exploration the the the Kobe the the family issues
was everything in those two minutes of eclipse and it was very liberating so I
cried like five minutes and and the video that I recorded you can hear me
cry but I don't care that's the feeling that you feel uh when you see this hey
when you see the shadow of the Moon passing by to you and
uh you will feel very experience that you have with your all your senses
everything your mind you know you're not just like observing it you know no yes
you are you are part of it you know so there's no words there's no there's no
words no photos that describe it this Eclipse
uh made that I will watch the sun almost daily with my son eclipse glasses
because the feeling that you see the sun Yeah by your own eyes exactly amazing
yes yes of course so those are not just for eclipse from now on for me and also
also when sometimes I remember to do this because I use glasses to see very
far distance because I I have issues but I remember to put the my glasses and
above the the the sunglasses to see very good the Sun
and I remember when I tried one time I see little dots
above the the surface and that was the the the the the
Manchester the the dark the the dark spots yes
and I was here right there almost seated spot
2833 that it's right now you can almost see it with naked eyed
it's so large it's I think it's triple earth size
I can I can imagine it when the sun comes again to to grow the the activity
yeah and and I see pictures with two Mary dark spots uh
I and I can believe what what one when it happens to see that like
I think it's amazing to photograph uh
in solar eclipse there is not only if you have a very good Mount because I
ruined my alignment because I have to lower it down and I just pong so I
ruined my polar alignment so it's not following anymore so good but okay I
follow with with slewing manually but there is not just like the following
your exposure also exposures length of exposure you have to check that every
minute because the Moon is coming and the Sun is uh it's going to fainter
so you have to look the the exposure also all the time
right so it's it's uh I let the photographing to others I will
join visually you're going to do the visual yeah I think that I I have to
make a mask for my face because I have this sun allergy now so like I can't be
in UV radiation more than two three minutes and I'm burnt already
wow so yeah you need to take care yeah
yeah so knows this has this plexiglass sure I take I take one of those and make
a Folia and just perfect yeah
perfect yes yes we have a couple of comments here uh uh let's see uh one one person
commented about um book Davey says this is what I like a
guy in Finland talking to a guy in Argentina with Nepal watching awesome
yes
I mean Sweden but I am from Finland I'm born he is a guy from Finland yeah I am
from Finland yes that's true I'm really thinking that's right
um I am sorry that Finn and uh lose the Canada in hockey William
and then I came from there nowhere oh uh uh Celtic Raven uh says uh best
advice I ever got was removed your spotting scope if not protected through
when using your telescope bad idea is to light Your Head On Fire
uh yeah and it will a spotting scope will
I I like to show um maybe in India oh defensive yeah I
have mine too safest
they want to know something yeah and maybe a safely
in commissions and indirectly to see the
Sun and see a solar eclipse with a telescope without seeing through the
telescope okay I remember let me show the screen
uh okay so this is what's in my Twitter uh
you can see it was in 26 uh February in 2017.
uh it was a eclipse in it was the first Eclipse that I see
indirectly because I didn't have a filter and I'm using my little
refractor because my brother remember in
what we learned in in
a congress called prosciencia Pro science in English that in the in the
chart of astronomy did this to see very safely the Sun so
basically I put my refractor telescope this is a very
very common telescope the a box of a shoe the the the top
uh to do a shadow and put a paper behind it so yeah you can project oh yeah the
solar eclipse you can see and I think it was a little uh dark spot
but uh I remember it was very
it was in summer it was amazing so it's good yeah I have
a I have a question for you and and maybe a proposal do you remember when
all telescope has this uh iron pin
and then white uh plate and an art plate
yes you could have a new telescope it was for projecting yeah
those are no longer exist so why don't you make one with find a
shoe holder and Chester pin and one black and one
white with the hole the black one with the hold for projecting The Shadow
on the White plate pretty simple to make um it's a full it's a like a four uh
what do you say box on the black with the hole and they just have a screw up
up so upside up there and you can add use the black one
yes from back and forth and the white plate is on the behind
and with the clips you can have a small paper and you can draw by yourself uh
spots and and you know with the pen right
and testing to find a shoe you know uh a mount and
you just very simple sure this is um
this is a um website about uh from the American
Astronomical Society uh Astronomical Society and uh there's a lot of things
about eye safety and everything here I'll share my screen so you can see some of these resources
here we go and we'll look at
some of the various ways people do look at eclipses okay so uh
one is uh pinhole projection and you can see here's a person making a pinhole with
his fingers crisscrossed and by doing so you know with making a small hole you
can actually start to see the shape of the partially covered sun it's the same
with the three leaves if you take out three leaves that's right if you just put the white paper under a tree you can
see those that's right I took a vegetable strainer you know has just a
bunch of little holes in this bowl and uh you know made a projection of you
know a hundred uh yeah small Eclipse uh views you know and of course during totality
if you have a real total eclipse of the sun uh you don't use
um you know solar filters or anything you just look at it you know but uh it's you you should be with an experienced uh
group um because you don't want to every time I posted on Facebook about the sun I
always warn people that uh not to look with your bare eyes Naked
Eyes because when you look at the sun with Naked Eyes
in long term the uh ER light will
destroy your uh your Quran what do you say right now yeah yes
so even if if even if you are outside
you get the ER light in your eyes and right there is a discussions about the
Galileo Galilei he became blind uh seven years before he died
oh and uh there is a discussions if it was a disease uh he was Ill in her his
eyes or it was the blindness because he was looking for the sun that's right
that's right yeah and he did he used his telescope with no of course no special
filter he didn't know to use one so yeah you know why not use his telescope to
look at the sun right he did get to see um uh sunspots I I've
read a little bit about that too Pekka and um there's there's people on on the fence that he he had a disease that uh
caused him to go blind in that uh uh and the story about him going blind by
looking through his telescope it's like he's a myth but did that you know did
that strong light you know cause a problem later on in his life you know
that's got to be long term the dangerous of looking without no
protection you have to at least have a Polaroid sunglasses
at least at least at least in daytime when you're not blocking straight on the
Sun but I have never looked Sun through telescope before but the Temptation was
too high today ah so yeah so I had my 80 millimeters Ed
with um 15 millimeters [Music]
eyepiece and I slowly slowly began with
my left eye first if it's ruined it's a left eye okay yeah
and I watch it and it is amazing with white filter only
oh my God I saw the spot I saw the uh how do you say the middle of the spot is
the uh no no in the middle of The Black Keys
it's called something
Scott help me you're talking again yeah there's a sunspot the center of the
Sunspot is called something um
well we'll find out they're a little bit lighter around it it calls uh something
uh sounds for anatomy of a sunspot
okay so so the the dark part in the middle is the Umbra
Umbra and then kind of the lighter ring around it is penumbra
yes and I could see both I see and with only with white filter
and from now on uh it's safe to look with the white filter
so that it is amazing and this was today first time I there to
look through I recommend that with with obviously with a filter a
C through the scope but not for too much time no no no no no because maybe some
seconds yes at longest three minutes
yes what do you say oh one minute
it's also something I've heard as well um I I have not followed that rule
myself but uh you know when I when I um added an eclipse of course I have uh
eclipse glasses with me um all three times that I've seen total eclipses you know I was working uh you
know the first time was for a documentary uh for in the United States
we have a science program called Nova on on public broadcasting and so I was part
of the Nova film crew and we were at Mauna Kea and that was uh you know uh
three days of preparation and uh very little sleep you know and getting ready
very nervous time yes at 14 000 feet you know so very little oxygen as well oh my
God yeah second time was in Casper Wyoming with the Exploratorium M team
and I was there with backup equipment um you know sometimes when you're at an
eclipse Expedition you should always have more equipment than um than just
your your one telescope if you can you should have complete backups of everything because
and it needs to be set up and it needs to be ready to go because you never know the eclipse comes you get to totality
and your telescope quits for some reason you know yeah
I've seen this many times you know so yeah I prepared the same for me it's the
same for me that when we are normally we are in a in we are the sponsor we are
working in at this time yeah I've never seen an eclipse completely for me it was
uh yes you know working right yeah absolutely working a lot in the
organization the people they they yeah the groups that they yes
um for example if you have two or three different clubs and say okay we need this space for my club a stormy club and
come on it's it's very stressing very interesting and guys if you like
um I have read the pictures uh yeah I can show you let me share the screen
and where is this uh let me see
um this sure this is from tonight
I have yes I I was really really
um I I don't over over um uh process this I make only a a
substrate of background um really I work a little let me see if
I have well from this the the first uh picture integrate to
this and this is um of the Saturday the not for tonight from last Saturday
the um you can see uh the Santa Rosa Galaxy
here is nebula from the Saturday too
from the middle of the Buenos Aires absolutely yes it's incredible with only
with only uh a camera and some 300 millimeters yes
Omega yes but this is for today and this is not the the
let me see because I have
um this is a a great cluster to to do also with a smartphone with a few seconds to
take a picture because it's too bright the stars that you can see in only maybe
yes yes absolutely let me um open uh
uh if I open another yeah now I found it
yes because I have another picture uh you stop the the sharing no no yes I
know I know because it's much better to found the the four the fall there yes
no the folder because I for I lost the folder where I have an
ah here okay um because I have a much better a better
uh uh for Omega Centauri now
okay short screen again Cyril ah here
I prefer I prefer the is this is um Omega Centauri while we are talking
in the third party now is is it the is it is is the raw picture
that I I don't finish to to process because it's a salary this is
the program that I normally I use in this computer or for must fast uh
processing um it's a great it's a great very strong
Omega Centauri is really a a strong how do you say
um very bright yes it's like it's near to a small
Galaxy yeah this this cluster is is really really
bright in the South Hemisphere and you can see in Dark Skies you can see like
uh a star but very a blur
star and when you use a binoculars you see that it's not as that it's a lot
of stuff yes yes yes
but but this cluster is bigger than yes biggest centuries is much weaker than
than 47 to connect well for me I need to go to the bed
because it's 3 P.M here Sports all right
yeah young for you it's gonna be 3am for Maxi and It's gotta be uh breakfast time
for a pekka yeah it's over already normally normally we
we take a breakfast with mate and very sweet yes this is this is very nice Matty
because this is no no no no no it's it's Jeremiah is
only only like a tea it's a little stronger maybe
the problem is that I I drink mate before go to sleep and maybe I have some
troubles to to get this oh yeah but maybe because it's it's strong like
coffee it's yes the same
[Laughter] I'm showing something in Argentina
okay can you see it yes yes that's it what
does I mean but right I love the the yeah into finder shoe yeah so you can have it in
every telescope right exactly you have to make this this bar and these
and and then yes something I had a telescope with these on it you know yeah
I did you know in the 90s in the 90s we saw
a lot of telescope with the same bar and the two two yeah they are not they are
not available anymore no so I will I will make my own there might be a reason
for that background so um uh because I will make a liability
problem oh yeah make but thank you
screws yeah um steel pin yes and then I then you'll
make your cards right yes cards and that's it um one thing like this and one pin like
that or because this is too high so I maybe you have to make these cards
a little bit lower but or bigger this is a very good start I will make
one of these yeah so only I need is uh one extra binder
holder because this is my only small one I have larger ones but
these two big hole to feel like
but I had a friend who who made a he had a fork Mount took the telescope out of
the fork Mount and just put an optical flat a mirror and it was polar aligned
and so this was aimed at a uh refractor which he used as a projector inside of a
room so you could see the sun like huge inside of the room it's so it's so fun
and then you can draw your sunspots yes and follow yeah you
can have a map or something to put those every day
right maybe and give to your grandchildren as a memory or something but it's this doing
this to make your own fixes that's the part of that strongly yes to find the
different solutions all the time all the time so I make my own my own
uh solar field because I have so many different sizes I have this
Orion 80 short Tab and this is made for that
Rory on and then I have an ed72 but this is too
big for that so I made a ring of this uh soft
and then squeeze them into a 88 72 okay okay
about maybe 50 bucks
and those I will transfer for my astero mega account yeah when it builds up I do
buy uh something yes okay so everything while making your own is
is perfectly legitimate you know so and then you save those money
account yes I did mine to do with it to
put it in this finder to see the the sun I don't know it made
me share in the video sorry yeah yes
within my typical work is uh for example
repairing in our repairing facilities is great reassembling the cross eyes the
cross eyes the crosshairs of of the finders that all people burn
out yes yes so so all people tell me ah I
don't have uh crosshairs in my finder anymore yes because you burn it yeah
yeah this is typical um I've in my 30 years of repairing
telescope I found a lot of eyepiece
melted in the parts of of the um of the lenses of the plastic
case plastic structure of tubes of the eyepiece
uh yes it's typical typically and the worst thing is that when in the in the
first time of the 90s or eight or in the end of the 80s uh with the telescope
came the filter to put the solar filter to put in the eyepiece this was so
dangerous I remember that when we import the first uh the first line of telescope
in the 1991 I found this uh I say come on this is I
can't believe this for me that I I became from I I made my
own telescope from IOS 50 years old
I can't believe that in industrial telescope and Scott know that when the
telescope they came yet from Japan the last ones
um still became with a solar filter oh yeah
very dangerous and I say to the people don't use this and I remember that I put
off the from the package all filters and never sell I never saw
the telescope this telescope with the iot other people say me no but the
manual say that come on yes yeah yeah yeah no no it's not for you no no because
it's was so dangerous because when you put when you uh point to the Sun the
filters was was Rake yeah break with with the with the hot uh of the Sun in
the focus and you you going blame blind
holding your eyes oh yeah yeah yeah and you have only one opportunity to get
away from it what's that oh you have another one you have another yes of course yes
okay all right John okay well I think that we are going to wrap up our show yes uh it was great to have you guys on
the 50th Global star party I think we had really an incredible uh it was
incredible yeah series of speakers and everybody was so enthusiastic and so
inspired and uh it was wonderful and all of you were as well so it was great you
make a great job a great 50 GSB yes indeed and it was great to be able to
allow to be involved it's an honor for us to have you all of
you on you know it's it's great and you make the show yes [Laughter]
I turned it on so yeah yeah
anything about you Scott oh you know um and to me too it's it's it's great uh
it's great for my mind my mood everything you know to uh be in this uh
star party because uh you know the pandemic really uh uh made it uh very
tough on a lot of people you know and yes I recognize it was going to be tough on me early on and I go I I got to do
something you know I gotta recreate my our party experience you know so many
things only that the pandemic got some negative but if you look
the positive side it has absolutely there's always something good that's true
there is very many positive things and right
they they I can see here there's a playground we saw downstairs of my
balcony the kids from three years old are running after the parents with hands
that they need some uh hand alcohol oh after playing on the playground oh
they get the disinfected yes yes three years
of children and and everything in society and every country I think all
these common uh colds and uh and small
things are are getting less because we have a hanukian and so on we will have
it inside us for a long time yeah yeah so I know and these positive that
we found the internet again we we can match as a tool we are
connected around the world no yes that's right we are uh this is a change
uh uh a change for for uh for forever because it's it's something that we know
um we know that within us and this is something that ever ever in a third
party when you when you for example one at a time we said we we talk with Scott
that uh many kind of people like me and Scott and Maxi and Becca and another
people we are all the saints that start in the last hour of the third party
still talk maybe four or five or six people yeah this is something that in a
real step partisan in the past that's true happens yes and is it so since it's
so great I remember the the serparin in Atlanta Georgia that people that that I remember that we
still talking at 4 00 am I'm watching and yes
um this is is yeah incredible it's something incredible I should start
party yes I really hope to to share in person with
with every one of uh of you or the group to have a in-person subparate in the
future I I hope of this Argentina in in Finland or in Sweden or
in United States and Kansas I need to go to to visit the facilities of of sports
I will start on next star parties I am
within I will start my my presentation uh with the
these words that uh one people I have to thank that I am
sitting here right now and these knowledges and all these friends and I
got today and where I'm today this is Scott Roberts
oh thank you that was very kind to you to say that yeah but that's true squat yeah you got me in on the my first star
party and after that I got all these friends
like the CSR Maxi yeah
my Facebook is now filling from other than my family
um yes but but this is real because I have friends that we are the all entire
family my kids are friends of their kids that start people started with people
that came from my store to buy a telescope today we are like family
like family I I sometimes I forget that I missed that they came one time maybe
20 years ago before Yeah by a telescope well now we are like like brothers I
said come on yeah and and for people from that I know from Star parties uh
it's something that is Magic in the in in astronomy I don't know why but uh
the same Stars absolutely do you know it's I think I think that um
I think all astronomers have been affected by
something very similar to what the astronauts felt when they saw the Earth
rising above the lunar Horizon you know
and they saw the Earth that effect changed changed all the Apollo
Astronauts uh uh when I asked Buzz
Aldrin about it he said he said I was he says I'm an engineer he
says I couldn't I can't describe it to you you know you said that he said they
should have sent artists up there and Poets and songwriters uh to to the Moon is
what he told me it's still hard for me to understand
that they are hoovering there we don't know no treats no wires yeah yeah yeah
yeah and now we invisible wires that are holding them there they are there and I
will be there we're on this blue this blue uh pale blue dot here that's it's
yeah it's hovering right now right I don't know yeah without nothing and in
nothing yeah it's like you it's hard to
to make that picture and to have the inside but the solar solar eclipse gave
me a little bit more understanding what it is right in really you're describing
something that that feeling uh is something that um uh that as many
astronomers do get uh you you articulated it very well
um uh but uh it's moments like that okay that I think change uh change people who
you know as they're becoming astronomers or going through these experiences it's it's changing them and their their whole
world view changes you know and if I change your life your luck how you see others because I
read the uh it's enough poet but a quote that if you look the stars and galaxies
and very very carefully then you realize that jealousy uh Angry angriness and and
so on is like it's it's not makes sense
right when you get the big picture in life so you are jealous or you are uh yeah
yeah such tiny things yes it's like nothing why do I exactly to
bother my time yeah yeah so let it go and join your life that's right it's uh
uh another way maybe to describe it is it's uh you know an Eastern mysticism
the Eastern religions and stuff they talk about an Enlightenment okay yeah astronomers get this okay they they they
have enough it's it's it's a small maybe a little bit small but it's really
they've fundamentally changed and uh you know so you know I I I really love it
when I hear people start to describe the feeling and the experience of it
and I and I think because many of us have had these experiences we're the
first to say hey uh I'm going to I'm going to share everything I got okay I'm going to tell you all my my techniques
for learning how to experience this for yourself you know so you know
some fellow astronomer and you're just asking a quick Where Do We Chat like I
did today ask him Peter who took the solar photo and the movie
it took one hour I just like to ask his permission that I
can show with you here and the consideration was one hour
here's some comments here from our chat uh uh The Herald lock says my eyelids are
slamming down on my cheeks yeah yeah okay
um let's see uh someone by the handled old neither okay honestly I hope these
virtual star parties don't end because virus rules do okay the internet
provides a worldwide Outreach and that's true we're not going to stop doing them
so I there may be times when I'm traveling or something like that and I can't do one but I'm certainly going to
try even if I travel uh um Harold block uh I have been feeling more
love of life and for people in general since taking on photons okay
very good very good Harold um yellow says good night camera didn't
come on to the show I think he he had some job responsibilities he had to take
care of if if I want like to be a little bit poetic like David Levy's and when
you get photos in your eyes you get more of yourself yeah yeah yeah you you are filling up
yourself yes because photons are us it's like everything in in Universe we are
the same but you are just feeling in it yes it was around us
when you realize what surround us and where we are and what we are is a very
deeply thought and yeah very deeply feeling and also when you are under the
stars and Under the Milky Way and also under on a solar eclipse
you have a that feeling of the what are your being right right now and
everything and the the fortune that we have to be in this planet in this
ecosystem uh with a some cold weather
but to be a planet that have life if we
are more close to the sun we don't even say and we are more far
and also too so a
and the the combinations of catastrophes that happen in the earth and the
evolution and everything and all the wars and all the loves and everything
you and the history of the human and the life you feel very very tiny
yes tomorrow morning tomorrow tomorrow morning you see your wife
and tell her that in your finger you are wearing
a residence of a supernova yes
exactly or go into the jewelry store and I am here to buy some
residents of supernovas yeah [Laughter] you want to what
oh that's going to cost you extra yes give me some Starbucks
yeah one kilograms yeah all right thank you alrighty
gentlemen thank you so much thank you I want to say thank you to the audience uh
Cameron Gillis is still watching on uh uh Martin eastburn
um he can't leave Cameron yeah yeah Harold lock is watching uh uh a few
right now so we want to say thank you all to the audience you know Harold
thank you everyone it's great uh some great comments um I hope you you enjoy the 50th Global
star party as much as we did um what's the real pressure yeah and we'll be back uh next Tuesday with the
51st Global star party so until that time you guys keep looking up
and thanks thanks again thank you Scott thank you thank you everyone
I'm going to end with uh this video of the James Webb Space Telescope [Music]
this was the I guess the last time they had it unfurled so that you could see the
instrument yes it's amazing the mirrors no no it's
I can't wait to see this well Ryan yeah this is not I mean you can see the other
mirrors on the side it's supposed to be in in March of this year to go to a space but it delays by
Kobe right in October it's been delayed by a lot of things you know
um and you know so it's uh it has been uh
it costs a lot of money to get it up there but it's costing a lot of money to store this instrument you know because
they have to keep it I mean this is a clean room look at the size of it oh no
um it's you know so I think the most clean room in the old Earth
yeah and we have to keep it they have to keep it absolutely clean they have to have it ready to go at a
well not a moment's notice but um you know but I I feel that they'll they will
launch this but look at this thing it's it's a it's a beautiful instrument and um
it's going to unlock a lot of secrets of the universe you know like Cobble Space Telescope did yes and and it would be
Beyond of khaboos absolutely I wondering what happened if
the collimation is doesn't right and maybe I don't know how well it's gonna
be put up so high in orbit that we can't go fix it okay so they have to have this
thing done right um Second Chances with this one oh
in [Music] 2014 I think it's going to be the
magazine uh ah is that is going to be how many
meters is that telescope going to be uh let me check it uh
I don't remember right now but um [Music]
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curvature of the mirrors it's cool [Music]
the diameter of the the giant magazine telescope is going to be a
25.44 meters wow yeah wow
5.44 meters the focal length is going to be 18
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very huge so for many many years when I was a child the Palomar 200 inch was the world's
largest telescope 200 inches you know we're talking about mirror I think 16
feet across something like that this magellanic
telescope at 25.44 meters is one thousand
and one inches of aperture oh my God
I think it's going to be in the Atacama this or the let me see
a region of Atacama chili yes I have to
be very near but it's in another country unfortunately but we have the
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