Very cool! Excited that you're going to be doing this, especially now that we are into that time of year here in BC, when I can only get the scopes out once in a while. If I remember right, there was a 6 week stretch last winter when I couldn't do any observing at all. And being a part of the greater Vancouver area in here in New West, if its not the rain, its the light pollution :(
Awesome of them to let you use the telescopes for this, and thanks for doing it! ;) Can't wait to see more & the planetary one, some good ideas for getting people involved too.
I was /just/ talking myself out of buying an Origin to use here in Flagstaff.... Dang, this changes my mind.... Amazing that they just plug it on to the net and let you use it.
Great demo, Fraser. Thanks for the presentation. I wondered how you were able to get the comet from your latitude ... then realized your scope is in Texas!
@Fraser Cain Never heard of the California Nebula before. Pretty cool. Some of the filter combinations I'm seeing online draw a beautiful contrast between the oranges and blues.
glad to see you back at this again, I have been remote observing for 20 years; will there be a schedule posted or notification when the session will run?
I think doing a couple of long exposures between shows just to have an opening and or closing pic and as a way of showing whats possible would be cool!
Orion nebula, Lagoon nebula, Whirlpool Galaxy, and lots of other objects should look good in there. For a planetary-optimized telescope, it would be fun to see a live viewing of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons disappearing behind their disks or rings.
The amount of stuff imaged in 1h is crazy, a bit jealous of how extremely easy this smart telescope seems to be to use. I'm able to image maybe 1-2 of these locations in 2 hours in my light-polluted area with limited balcony viewing angle.
The way Star front works is you send them all your equipment like the telescope, guide scopes, cameras, mount, etc then they hook it up in their facility for you to remote control it. Like Fraser said they are giving him access to a scope they own, but normally you have to buy all the equipment and send it to them, then pay for the rental space per month. They are cheaper then other similar services from what I can tell but it still gets pretty expensive depending on how big your telescope is. I guess if you have disposable income and live somewhere that's heavily light polluted it might be worth it so you don't have to travel to get great photos though.
I think this might be better in 4k, since lossy codecs suck at images with fog and dots, even if they're still. I'd ask someone who knows a bit about video codecs and streaming on YT to confirm this though (or just try it and compare). I feel like maybe the YT output bitrate might be to blame here, just guessing though, because I just watch and listen.
Is this the Celestron Origin? The RASA f/2.2? What camera are you using? I use ASIAIR for guiding, plate solving, etc, and love it, with ZWO guide cam and imaging cam.
There was a planet found orbiting a pulsar in globular cluster M4. You can find it by searching PSR B1620−26 b. It isn't rogue but rogue planets are hard to detect at all let alone so far away. I suspect that in the several billion years of time globular clusters have been around, rogue planets have mostly escaped the cluster completely. A few of the remaining would have had billions of years to crash into stars too. Stars are really small targets compared to the space between them even in globular clusters but billions of years is also a really long time and globular clusters are the most dense star clusters. I think most of the planets remaining after 10 billion years would not be rogue and have stable orbits close enough to the stars to not get yanked away when other stars come somewhat close.
First time viewer of a telescope party. Man, this is great!! Stupid Q: does any company offer free online viewing services? I am broke af but i found it a lil bit frustrating that you got your hands on such a marvel of technology yet you were impatient to wait 5 minutes. Of course it would be a "different" show, meaning that for myself i would have to view it in a different timeslot than say this, where i have exactly 1hour till i must get off bed and prepare for work. IF they let you use it for more time than just the show, may i suggest a poll or smthing where you let it do its thing all night while you sleep, and you present to us how a target looks after hours of exposure? Just to marvel and compare...
He mentioned the telescope is a 6 inch Celestron Origin in the video. 335mm is what I see on the spec sheet for it. The optical system looks similar to a Schmidt camera. It looks like the light sensor is at prime focus so no lenses are converting away from that 335mm focal length.
Well, he did first do star parties over a decade ago. Better late to the party than never, I guess. Alway great to see all the comments about people’s excitement in just starting their journey into astronomy.
I grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario. Do you know John Hlynialuk? He has been very involved with Bruce County astronomical society for decades now. He might still live in Owen Sound and still distributes a regular newsletter for amateur astronomers. There is a 28 inch telescope at Bluewater Outdoor Education Centre near Wiarton that I'd like to see some day.
So psyched for star parties to start back up!
I know nothing about astrophotography, and learned a lot from this. Thanks Fraser.
This was great! I can’t wait until the next one! You have sold me on getting an origin telescope
Oh man! I can't believe I missed this! Looking forward to seeing that Rosette Nebula when it comes up!
Dang I missed it too lol 😂 thanks for the catch up video 🔭
thanks fraser. I was just reminiscing about the old days of virtual star parties
It was good to see you back live streaming last evening! I look forward to more.
Very cool! Excited that you're going to be doing this, especially now that we are into that time of year here in BC, when I can only get the scopes out once in a while. If I remember right, there was a 6 week stretch last winter when I couldn't do any observing at all. And being a part of the greater Vancouver area in here in New West, if its not the rain, its the light pollution :(
Awesome of them to let you use the telescopes for this, and thanks for doing it! ;)
Can't wait to see more & the planetary one, some good ideas for getting people involved too.
I was /just/ talking myself out of buying an Origin to use here in Flagstaff.... Dang, this changes my mind.... Amazing that they just plug it on to the net and let you use it.
Great demo, Fraser. Thanks for the presentation. I wondered how you were able to get the comet from your latitude ... then realized your scope is in Texas!
@Fraser Cain Never heard of the California Nebula before. Pretty cool. Some of the filter combinations I'm seeing online draw a beautiful contrast between the oranges and blues.
Thanks.
Saw the A3 comet at our local community telescope. Glad. Cos I don’t plan on being around next time it’s here
I'm about to move to the Mojave area and this is making me really excited to pick up a telescope!
Real time telescope control! Beastmode!
glad to see you back at this again, I have been remote observing for 20 years; will there be a schedule posted or notification when the session will run?
Once we've figured everything out, yeah. Until then, it'll be totally random.
Bedtime for me. I will watch the rest of this tomorrow. Looks interesting.
I think doing a couple of long exposures between shows just to have an opening and or closing pic and as a way of showing whats possible would be cool!
Orion nebula, Lagoon nebula, Whirlpool Galaxy, and lots of other objects should look good in there. For a planetary-optimized telescope, it would be fun to see a live viewing of Jupiter's or Saturn's moons disappearing behind their disks or rings.
Very cool? Do you have an equipment list for this set up?
This is the Celestron Origin is it? I must say: that thing is imaging FAST. nice and tight stars also.
Sweet! What rig is this that you’re running remotely?
Opening shot, left hand side... Wow!
The amount of stuff imaged in 1h is crazy, a bit jealous of how extremely easy this smart telescope seems to be to use. I'm able to image maybe 1-2 of these locations in 2 hours in my light-polluted area with limited balcony viewing angle.
Yeah, it's completely different from the olden days.
The way Star front works is you send them all your equipment like the telescope, guide scopes, cameras, mount, etc then they hook it up in their facility for you to remote control it. Like Fraser said they are giving him access to a scope they own, but normally you have to buy all the equipment and send it to them, then pay for the rental space per month. They are cheaper then other similar services from what I can tell but it still gets pretty expensive depending on how big your telescope is. I guess if you have disposable income and live somewhere that's heavily light polluted it might be worth it so you don't have to travel to get great photos though.
Very cool, do you have access to the telescope at other times or just for the star parties?
Any time. :-)
@@frasercain any plans for long exposure shots of some objects
@@frasercain is it your Origin or theirs? I own one and am interested in shipping it there
It's their telescope, I just use it.
I think this might be better in 4k, since lossy codecs suck at images with fog and dots, even if they're still. I'd ask someone who knows a bit about video codecs and streaming on YT to confirm this though (or just try it and compare). I feel like maybe the YT output bitrate might be to blame here, just guessing though, because I just watch and listen.
Hi from New Zealand awesome
wow, catch you live from Australia
First comment 🎉😂🥰 virtual star party is back. Second, set up a twitch channel/ stream whatever
YAAAAAY!!!! I miss the virtual star parties!
Me too.
This is awesome 💫
Ooh! This is a thing?! Awesome!
Hi. What remote telescope service or software are you using?
Watched a day after. Great Job
Is this the Celestron Origin? The RASA f/2.2? What camera are you using? I use ASIAIR for guiding, plate solving, etc, and love it, with ZWO guide cam and imaging cam.
How many rogue planets have we found in globular clusters? They should be very commonly kicked out of stellar orbits in such clusters, correct?
There was a planet found orbiting a pulsar in globular cluster M4. You can find it by searching PSR B1620−26 b. It isn't rogue but rogue planets are hard to detect at all let alone so far away. I suspect that in the several billion years of time globular clusters have been around, rogue planets have mostly escaped the cluster completely. A few of the remaining would have had billions of years to crash into stars too. Stars are really small targets compared to the space between them even in globular clusters but billions of years is also a really long time and globular clusters are the most dense star clusters. I think most of the planets remaining after 10 billion years would not be rogue and have stable orbits close enough to the stars to not get yanked away when other stars come somewhat close.
WOW. Thanks so much.
This is such a great idea
It's back🎉😊 Great! Virtual star party.
Well hello from el paso texas!
Is this at starfront observatory?
Will this be on the same channel
Thanks Frazier 😊
Amazing, thank You :)
Oooh, surprise stars time! What is that?
Love it!!
First time viewer of a telescope party. Man, this is great!!
Stupid Q: does any company offer free online viewing services? I am broke af but i found it a lil bit frustrating that you got your hands on such a marvel of technology yet you were impatient to wait 5 minutes. Of course it would be a "different" show, meaning that for myself i would have to view it in a different timeslot than say this, where i have exactly 1hour till i must get off bed and prepare for work.
IF they let you use it for more time than just the show, may i suggest a poll or smthing where you let it do its thing all night while you sleep, and you present to us how a target looks after hours of exposure? Just to marvel and compare...
What is this? What telescope are we viewing this through?
Bray Falls at starfront is the man!
iPhone I opened link, clicked “more”, opened in a note, clicked the zip file, saved the image
Is this really still live?
Wow…. Return of the nerds?
The re-nerdening.
Strong Bill O’Reilly reference.
I missed it too : (
What’s your focal length?
He mentioned the telescope is a 6 inch Celestron Origin in the video. 335mm is what I see on the spec sheet for it. The optical system looks similar to a Schmidt camera. It looks like the light sensor is at prime focus so no lenses are converting away from that 335mm focal length.
This astronomical streaming your doing couldve been done 20 yrs ago Better late than never i guess
Well, he did first do star parties over a decade ago. Better late to the party than never, I guess. Alway great to see all the comments about people’s excitement in just starting their journey into astronomy.
Sorry I missed this.
I did it without warning, just for a quick test. They'll become much more regular in the future.
Oh great - he's going to bring on Snoop Dogg - 🙄.
Yay! Comet time!
Where is the download link?
Bin it?
Whatcha wanna look at?
Minecraft Saturn
🤓😽🦜🖖 Collingwood Ontario
I grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario. Do you know John Hlynialuk? He has been very involved with Bruce County astronomical society for decades now. He might still live in Owen Sound and still distributes a regular newsletter for amateur astronomers. There is a 28 inch telescope at Bluewater Outdoor Education Centre near Wiarton that I'd like to see some day.
Hi
Is this at the star front observatories? I have a backyard roll-off roof observatory.
I do one target all night. As many hours as possible.