Illuminating the city’s night sky: Outsmarting light pollution to capture the cosmos

Evan Kramer's passion for astrophotography began at a young age in rural Virginia. Now a graduate student in the department of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT, he has taken his hobby to challenging new heights - capturing the beauty of the cosmos in an urban environment.
Evan would like to give a special thank you to Sara Cody and Anthony Zolnik for the support in making all of the imagery he's captured at MIT possible.
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[@carterwaligura1529]

Hey great job, Evan! Passion like this is what really inspires others at MIT and across the country.

[@kolmercm]

He really is a huge inspiration

[@allanandliftedhands2669]

A month ago I received a letter invitation to study at MIT...
..just before I woke up and found that I was dreaming.

[@Siddharthpandeyji]

good luck bro

[@yongbinzhang8308]

Amazing photos! Good job,Evan!

[@randomflux5902]

The title is a tad misleading. I thought the idea was about some sort of a filter or image sensor to beat city night pollution with applications in terrestrial astrophotography.
But it's just another possible approach to space telescopy with a rotating strip mirror. It's interesting still I guess.

[@aaryanbora8948]

goosebumps. i want to become aerospace engineer too and get into MIT, I also do astrophotography and EVAN's story is same as mine.

[@notreallystrangers191]

Which city/state?

[@dhruvanarware3086]

Loved it!

[@adlanbogatyryov6996]

It just happens that I also enjoy astrophotography, unfortunately I do not have the essential tools to take the best photos, mainly only long exposure wide angle pics.

[@chiefchocho5321]

Wow !!!
That's a stupendous idea bro🔥🔥🔥

[@berachahmwende1268]

I'm 13 and I think I just found out my dream career and the course I'll study in MIT

[@AG-pm3tc]

This resonates with me a lot.

[@alishaikh8444]

WOW!!!!

[@prashantvanave8504]

Astrophotography❤

[@explorewithme7147]

Nice work done

[@samerdogan9645]

Awesome!

[@varunnikam]

loved it

[@anirbandutta8000]

I didn't understand how rectangular aperture will help in solving the problem of light pollution in urban astrophotography (which is actually title of the video). You said, rectangular aperture provides higher-resolution (4:02) after the post processing, over the normal circular aperture systems. That is impressive ! But, I guess, achieving higher resolution will not minimize the light-pollution related problems in urban astrophotography. Do you actually use a better post processing method to obtain a good picture of a night sky in the city? In that case, wouldn't a normal circular aperture system would also do the job just fine!

[@dani_john]

Was wondering the same thing.

[@tmrdarkstar85]

There is only so much you can do in post to remove the light pollution however it can be combated with longer total integration. Regardless of light pollution. There are some of us that get together all over the world to image the same Deep Sky target and compile all of our data together an combine it to produce Near Hubble , Hubble or better quality images. No matter which way you look at this field its expensive. And we are always at the mercy of the weather. I personally wish sending small cube sat telescopes into space with a full range of filter from LRGB, To Narrowband Ha,Hb,S2,N3,O3 to the Exoplanet filters was cheaper than it is. Because we would all jump on it being able to image the universe 24/7 365 we could have so much more knowledge of things out there than we do.

[@Vega004]

Thanks

[@chandansharmatalks]

This is what you call creativity 👌 love it...

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Wow so cool!!😧👍👏

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I day my aim I get into MIT ❤️

[@tmln4227]

My aim is to go to MIT

[@JustSomeGoy]

You and infinite others.

[@vladimirputin9308]

read it again . a dream . call its your aim .

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I love MIT!!

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What to choose MIT or IIT

[@yash4482]

You wanna spend your life stuck in cubicle or spend it doing something you enjoy

[@akiraaoiichigo]

Ah gawd if youre not sure plz don't even ask ,why bother even comparing those to THE MIT?

[@ventusprime]

i love loong, time exoposure movies , i hope is the correct englis word for it. like the 5:11

[@jagruthraj5539]

super work

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Wooah

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[@Kalimata_Krishna]

Hello

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Hi

[@herbertnatanael]

Grogg Mayles

[@T0ly113]

I really don't get the point of this video. It's all over the place and has nothing to do with the title. An explanation of why his rectangular aperture has advantages would've been nice too.

[@xynyde0]

would require a lot more explanation, and this is just a short video.

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[@karkiabhishek]

WOW!