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On this cold night on Mount Charleston, in the early morning, as I adjusted the focus of my telescope toward the cluster M57, a curious thought struck me: what would Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer have written if he had had access to a modern telescope? How would he have transformed his romantic melancholy when contemplating globular clusters like M57 or the distant Magellanic Clouds?
Bécquer's poetry always seemed to look inward, toward the depths of the soul. But what if he had looked outward, toward the depths of the universe?
Perhaps poetry isn't so far removed from astronomy. Both seek the invisible, the eternal, that which connects us to something greater than ourselves.
And you? Which poet would you take with you to explore the cosmos?
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScIetail.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has produced the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date. Known as Webb’s First Deep Field, this image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 is overflowing with detail.
I want to introduce you to the new addition that NASA/JPL added to its digital simulator of the solar system, which shows the real-time position of a large number of objects in the solar system.
It is the James Webb Space Telescope, you can see the trajectory that will take him to his L2 orbit position, which he will reach in just a couple of days.
I want to tell you about a new product that can be a
great revolution for all amateur astronomers like me.
The astronomy club to which I belong has had the
opportunity to have the demonstration of this new product called eVscope, which
is a project of the French company Unistellar, founded by Arnaud Malvache,
Laurent Marfisi, and Antonin Borot. Which were the ones that were doing the
demonstration?
Laurent tells us the origin of his inspiration to
invent the eVscope (Improved Vision Telescope).
It is as follows; I still remember my disappointment
when I saw the galaxy of Andromeda, through a telescope, I have about 14 years
old. After an hour of patient, scouring the sky and carefully pointing my
telescope, I finally saw a strange misty gray spot, where I expected to see a
disk of vibrantly light and color. Many years later, my friend Arnaud shared a
similar memory with me.
Nevertheless, I had an idea. What if we progressively
intensify the light we see through the eyepiece of a telescope with a
low-intensity light sensor?
We quickly decided to make a prototype to get an idea
of the
final result, and in designing it we added the other features that make the
UNISTELLAR telescope so different. For astronomy to be entertaining and enjoyable for all, we decided to make it
compact and easy to use, while allowing participation in Citizen Science
projects.
After this introduction, I'm sure you're probably
wondering what this eVscope is?... I will explain it to you.
The goal of eVscope, in short; is to make processes
that require a lot of; Time, knowledge, experience and equipment (money), makes
it simple and easy. eVscope, focuses on three major aspects that I detail.
Citizen Science Projects
It will allow us to cooperate with projects of
international institutions to collect information and images of events, in a
simple and intuitive way. For example occultation, transits, TNO etc.
They comment to us that they were working with a
former member of the UN Planetary Defense Task Force dedicated to Near Earth
Objects, to apply this feature to asteroid observation thru our telescope.
Intensification of light.
This is the part that changes everything. By
activating this option the system begins to accumulate light and to process the
images that are accumulating, meanwhile, the system star to correct
automatically the following factors; Speed at which our telescope
moves, light pollution, state of the sky, etc. All this is done progressively
and directly giving us the
opportunity to see the image increase progressively and in a matter of seconds
through the eyepiece of the telescope, to obtain in the end an optimal
configuration that is constantly updated allowing us to enjoy the colors and
shapes of the objects of the sky.
Augmented reality
This option is incredible since after all the above
process the system is able to recognize the images that we are observing and
gives us the opportunity to name them automatically. And if it is not able to
recognize them allows us to send them to be processed since most likely it is
something new that you discovered.
This is a video where you can see a demonstration
I know the video is in French ,but you can see the product in operation.
Options and extra informacion
Yes, have something like a computer inside. (But could
not give details because patent)
You will be able to save all the images in the memory
either the original ones or with all the modifications (still in process if it
will be external or internal memory)
Ability to make video and photo
The battery would be interchangeable and rechargeable,
would last about 4 hours.
Wi-Fi & Bluetooth connectivity
It will have USB ports (not confirmed if 2.0 or 3.0)
Insert GPS information into video and photos
Size is yet to be defined, but at this point, all
descriptions are that it would look like the size of a mobile.
It is compatible with both sizes of binoculars.
It is compatible to make observations of the Moon and
the Sun (the latter with protective filter)
We would need a computerized telescope capable of
tracking objects automatically.
It is not necessary but it is recommended that it be a
telescope with an equatorial mount.
Technically, it works with any size, but they advised
minimum 144mm or 4 inches aperture
After a cloudy night with lightning and some rain, I managed to photograph and record the Super Moon, I hope you like, in the recording you can see some clouds passing over it. Our next appointment is on September 9 2014, will be the next Super Moon, I hope to be able to see it again and record, I will let you know.
Today I was volunteering for Education Outreach Program (EOP), in a solar observation with my telescope which I have put a full-aperture solar filters made of Baader, this is the photo I got, is the entire circumference of the sun, you can observe several sunspots.
Today I was volunteering for Education Outreach Program (EOP), in a solar observation with my telescope which I have put a full-aperture solar filters made of Baader, this is the photo I got, is the entire circumference of the sun
