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First Day Of Fall, Smoke on the west coast, Oregon Wildfires, Working on photos and writing.

Gear that I work with 

Professional film stock I work with https://imaging.kodakalaris.com/photographers-photo-printing/film/color

I keep my camera in a Lowepro camera bag 

https://www.lowepro.com/us-en/magnum-400-aw-lp36054-pww/

When I am photographing landscape images I use a Manfrotto tripod 

https://www.manfrotto.com/us-en/057-carbon-fiber-4-section-geared-tripod-mt057c4-g/

A lot of my film portfolio was created with the Nikon N80 and Nikon F4

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/f4.htm

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/n80.htm

The Nikon D2H and Nikon D3 were used to create many of the digital images on this site https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond3 https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/nikond2h

Two lenses I am using all the time are the 50mm f1.8 and the 17-40mm f4 

https://www.kenrockwell.com/nikon/5018daf.htm

https://www.kenrockwell.com/canon/lenses/17-40mm.htm

Some astrophotography and documentary video work was created with the Sony A7r

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/sony-alpha-a7r

I am currently taking photographs with a Canon 5D

https://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canon-eos-5d-mark-iii

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I am Billy Newman, a photographer and creative director that has served clients in the Pacific Northwest and Hawaii for 10 years. I am an author, digital publisher, and Oregon travel guide. I have worked with businesses and individuals to create a portfolio of commercial photography. The images have been placed within billboard, print, and digital campaigns including Travel Oregon, Airbnb, Chevrolet, and Guaranty RV.

My photographs often incorporate outdoor landscape environments with strong elements of light, weather, and sky. Through my work, I have published several books of photographs that further explore my connection to natural places.

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157 Billy Newman Photo podcast mixdown First Day Of Fall

Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Appreciate you guys checking this one out. It's nice that the good part of the smoke is cleared up here in the western part of Oregon. I'm pretty happy about that. I think on the last podcast, and you probably might have heard me talking about the Oregon wildfires. And some of the consequences that have arisen from those starting up over the Labor Day weekend and are really stuck have really taken off over the Labor Day weekend. Really strange to kind of go through it and experience it. You know, I guess there have been other big fires like that in the past. I'm sure there's a lot of stuff in California that is still going on. And I don't think he's had the kind of rain relief that Oregon has been fortunate to get, at least in some northern parts of Oregon. So I think some of that is some good news for the Oregon side. I know that the fires are still going on. I know that they're not really all 100% contained. I think even you know, like the fire that was in Southern Oregon and the talent. The Phoenix area still exists. It's still burning. And it's I think there's another one is shady Cove that's still burning. I think really like there's a significant amount that's still on fire. But I also think it's a little more of a controlled and contained space now. I know that they contain it. And so it's probably good news for the most part. And Wow, did we get some good brainstorms over the last couple of days or so up here in Oregon? It's been pretty significant. I was on the freeway a lot yesterday. And on the way down, I think it rained a little, but it was pretty clear most of the way down like a partly cloudy first day of Fall. What do you know about that? Is Summer over? Yeah, first, but we got a little off, I think, last week to a good thunderstorm too. I don't know if you guys were able to check that one out. I was talking to a friend on the phone who was down in Southern Oregon. And they could see Sunday, or like a year thunder and, I guess, see some lightning bolts striking off in the distance down there in Southern Oregon too. And then I could see it up here in Northern Oregon. So I was kind of surprised. We had a lot of lightning and heard a lot of thunder rolling over the town here. And it was pretty easy. Then again, it was a lot. So I was like, I haven't heard one over town like that. Probably every ten years that I've kind of been in the area, or you know route about here and there. So I thought that was pretty cool. Getting to see some thunder, some cool lighting, and stuff. And it was nice that we were fortunate. I think that it was followed by a good bit of rain. So I'm really hoping that there weren't any new strikes that lit off new fires that ended up being significant. I think it was taken care of pretty well. But man, yeah, really dry still, even in this time of September. So I think we got rain last week during that thunderstorm. And then we got pretty heavy rain. This seems like yesterday, yesterday evening. It seems like it was pretty wet for a good part of the day. A lot of the time, we were driving, driving around on the freeway yesterday. It was like, wow, we are getting slammed with rain. And that kind of that middle section, Oregon there. So hopefully, that that landed up in the Cascades in some spots to put out or help with some of the fires that are coming down. And I know there's also some problems that come about with rain too, you know, a lot of wetness and stuff, some locations where things are just kind of unstable. I think it kind of adds another element of instability. But really, right now it's definitely needed to get something coated on the ground, given how dry it's been for the last couple of months here. So it was really cool that September's come around that there's been a little of rain and that we're kind of moving through the season a little. It's a nice relief to it's, I know the fires are still burning, but it's it really is a significant relief to have a good bit of that wildfire smoke pushed off the west coast here, these West Coast valleys or the west of the Cascades, I was really socked in for a few days as a prize back. So I'm glad to see it kind of cleared up again. It's kind of nice, and I couldn't really take any more smoke. It was so thick, you know, you couldn't see really across the street. I was there's like four days there. I don't think I left the house. I talked about that before. But man, it was just like, oh, man, wait too much. So really glad to have a change in the weather. And I think we're actually supposed to get another heatwave next week. So I hope that kind of goes mellow for us. I know there's they're talking about that as a concern in California where they haven't got the rain that I think we've got the relief that we've got from the rain. So I think that Yeah, they think they're bracing for another wave of heat to come through. I think that's probably going to affect us and our weather here in the Oregon area as well. Sometime in the first part of October. So I'm hopeful that it kind of stays mellow, but yeah, wow. It's going to be kind of nice to still more interesting curves and stuff to come in 2020 Well, you know So I'm hopeful that the fires and stuff in Oregon have kind of tamp down a little that we're not going to see a significant amount of fire damage, or, you know, new fire problems arise. And I think there's still people that are, I'm certain that there's so people in zones that are restricted from returning to their homes, you know, even if they weren't burned, but they were like maybe a burn area or near burn area, I think that they're still in like an area that was evacuated. And if they are, if it's a red zone, or maybe still the yellow zone, I'm not sure. But I think if it's, if it's in an evacuated area, you're now allowed to return to your house yet, so you're still just evacuated somewhere, which would be very strange. It'd be really strange to just be out, you know, somewhere away from your house. I feel awful for all those people and how kind of upside-down that must feel this month. And yeah, I don't I don't recall a time that it's affected somebody, somebody, like smaller communities like that all at one time. I mean, just like up and down the I five corridor, or up and down that, I guess the the western side of the Cascade Range, there was just problems throughout it. So it's wild. I've never heard anything like that before. But I've seen it's the first day of Fall, or it's, it's just been the first day of Fall a couple of days ago. So I think we've just passed our What is it the autumnal equinox, which is pretty cool. Autumnal equinox I think it was the 22nd this year, we had the Yeah, equal day, equal time of day and night, as we kind of move in toward the winter. And as we kind of move in toward the winter solstice, coming up late December, this year, but yeah, move past the equinox here in Fall now, or I guess from summer to fall. So now we're an autumn? And I think but is it like the quarter point, or like the halfway point between now and the solstice is I think, was it like maybe November 10. There's some time around this early November. I think it was also kind of part of why Halloween was placed at the date it was. There's some kind of screwy things that have happened with the calendar. In the past, you won't hear about that. Listen to the night sky podcast. Another one that I've worked on a bunch of the past. Or probably maybe some older episodes of this one's probably this feed to somewhere back there. That there was some changes in the calendar that happened back in the Middle Ages. But prior to that, the reason that Halloween was placed on the 31st or that that All Hallows Eve thing is because it was sort of like a spiritual holiday where it was half a halfway point between the equinox and the winter solstice. There's also, I think, a couple others that are sort of strangely placed in there. Like, I think it's like Groundhog's Day, is one like right around February 1 is a halfway point. I think that Mayday is another one. Maybe it was the llamas' day. I think it's still a holiday in parts of Europe. Or it's Yeah, I don't know, the calendar or something. But I think that's August 1. So I think August 1, October 31, February 2, and may 1, are all part of this. What I don't know, middle holiday section. But you know, for our work there was it was the middle point between the equinox and the solstice has placed between each of the seasons. But yeah, that was kind of interesting. Fascinating. So right now, yeah, we're at the equinox point of it. So it's kind of cool. I hadn't been able to do any astronomical observations or seeing any stars or planets or anything for a few days there. Certainly while the smoke was really heavy. So I mean, I think just a couple days ago is like the first time I've been able to see a star, and it was seemed like two weeks or something, right. So it was able to be was able to spot a couple of things out there, which were pretty cool. I think I talked a bit about Jupiter and Saturn that are out to the south of this night, kind of, I don't know the eight o'clock nine o'clock range, you know, just kind of right in the nighttime there. Well, actually, now that it's getting dark earlier, I think now that we're right after the after the equinox, we should be getting dark around like 715 seven o'clock or so it's kind of getting like pretty damn out there. But by eight o'clock, certainly you're able to see a pretty dark sky. And I think you're able to spot Venus and Jupiter really easily to the to the south while you're here in the north. Well, I guess probably just about everywhere. But yeah, up here in the Northern Hemisphere, you're able to look out to the south and spot the bright spots. I think the brightest spot right is Jupiter. And I think it's still up in what would be Sagittarius and then a bit to the left. Have the brighter Jupiter is Saturn, and that's still visible in that area. But then in the morning sky which is cool I've only really been able to spot it a couple of times is Venus is coming up now it's actually up pretty high in the sky, and it's really quite bright in the in the morning sky, it's its always really stunning in the morning and the evening to when it when it's near bright, or it's near. It's like brightest points like wow, you can really see that planet. Wow. So it's always really fun to see. But I think if you're up at like 3:34am Yeah, it's still dark for a few hours. So yeah, probably like for him. It should be up, and you should be able to see it for a few hours. But yeah, if you're up around, like, like 430 or five, you'll be able to see it kind of high in the sky, but maybe some of like the murkier cloud cover that you would have on the horizon or a smog layer or whatever it is on the horizon line. But yeah, I think it's up a bit higher, I think probably around 5am or so you're able to see a pie in the sky, I was able to see a pretty high couple times, even back in August, like a month ago or so I was able to check it out a bit. So it's been cool. Good to spot a couple of planets out there. I think if you wait, yeah, like, Wait till about midnight or so maybe it's a little earlier, now you're able to spot Mars coming up over the horizon line. So probably about 1am or so you'd be able to get a good view of the planet Mars over on the eastern horizon, as it's kind of rising up there in the east. It's cool. Yeah, it's really, really bright kind of copper, red, red, orange color. It's cool. That's mostly most of the plants that are that are popping up right now are mostly stuff that I've gotten to check out the last couple of days. But I just got up got up early a couple of days ago, it was able to spot Venus at the window and kind of keeping an eye on it as it's been moving around. But it's pretty cool. Yeah, get us down to a couple planets was pretty fun. So magenta, keep up with some astronomy stuff. And sky watching stuff is cool. Been a little less of it this summer, I guess, you know, just with everything else going on different boats and stuff. But I have been studying a lot of argue astronomy stuff, which is pretty cool. I want to try and kind of bring that into maybe a little of this podcast as a promo, but, but also kind of bring it into some other project stuff that I'm trying to do. So I'll try and get into that. At some point. I think I put up a podcast a little while ago about to Like comment neowise and some of the observations that I was doing around it. So yeah, so sort of more more talk like that over on the night sky podcast when I was talking about earlier. And a lot of kind of weird esoteric, talk about changes to the calendar and changes to astronomical observations or, you know, mythologies and stuff that we have about space and stars. So I was like, that sounds kind of fun. And you can get kind of, kind of deep with it. At least like the research side of it's really cool to, to kind of look at what different people are thinking, you know, because it's like 1000s of years of, you know, like Baileys people putting out their, their feelings about what they thought about these different things at different times. So it's kind of cool to get to see some of that. So, let's talk about something even more exciting. SEO. About that's a pretty exciting topic. If you're still listening to this. Thank you appreciate it. Who listens on pocket casts? Seems like one person listens on pocket cast. I give you stats, you know, and I'm able to see some stuff. There's a lot of players and stuff I can't see. So I'm not sure like, I can see like Spotify stats and stuff. But like this one on player FM, the downloads that every once in a while. You think like Oh, is that like a bot or something that just like checks the feed? Why is player FM even noticing that podcast, you know, but at least it shows up somewhere? Thanks a lot, tipping my hat to you for checking out the podcast on whatever you find it on. But yeah, speaking of how you find things on the internet, what's more exciting than talking about SEO I've been working on keep it short. I've been working on SEO on my website and trying to figure it out a little. But really like kind of once you figure out or at least the basic process what you're supposed to do like I'm trying to go through and fill in a bunch of the details that I had left kind of blank in the past sort of in a rush to populate content on the website. So for a long time, if you notice them, I'm sure all of you are frequent visitors to the great website. Billy Newman photo calm but a lot of it for a long time wasn't really maintained well and so a lot of the posts had been made through some cross-posting mechanism that I had created with if an is this, then that command that said if a new Facebook photo post is made, take that photo and send it out to Twitter and flicker and a Tumblr page and a 500 pX Photo page and your website and your WordPress page, right. So that's how a lot of the photos ended up showing up on the website was through this command that would grab the photo, and then sort of automatically, in an automated way populate a post a photo post with, you know, just whatever the text of the tweeter, the Facebook post was, and then make a blog post with that what was not included in that post was anything that would be search engine optimization information. So there's no alt tag, there's no title to the photo, or it was an automated title that was like a weird hash of numbers and tax and stuff that would have come from Facebook, I suppose. And you know, so it was just kind of like weird changes, that would have happened. And they were kind of stripped-down. So yeah, the alt tags weren't there, there was no description, there were no links in the post, or, or body text of the blog posts. So there's really nothing like for anything to index or populate. So what I've been trying to do is go back through all this post is probably around 1500 posts or so I think what it says on my site is that there's something like 1600 posts or something on it. So I've done about 800 of them. So far, it's really pretty rudimentary stuff that I've been changing, it's probably there's, there's, I'm sure there's, there's grades of it that you could do, and I could probably do a better job of filling out the information to be more accurate or more bespoke, or to fit into a certain SEO topic a little better. But as it goes through the most part, I've just been kind of trying to take the different pieces and then fill them out a little more. So that at least in some way, they are populated with something that's that's kind of cogent, and, and cohesive, you know, like that makes some sort of sense that I put together. So trying to do that, do some search engine optimization. So I've been adding a bunch of alt tags to buy photographs that are old blog posts and blocks of like links and different paragraph texts that are supposed to kind of explain some different things about it. A lot of that is sort of that sort of fuzzy stuff for all these old posts, I'm trying to go through and just add like some kind of kind of basic sort of standard attacks to pieces of like, you know, there's this about me, there's this about my gear, there's this about stuff that you can find out about different places or something. So I kind of like I just kind of put together there's like notes list. And then I've been going through and then try to run a couple little, little commands, or you know, have this little like process, do these three steps. And then you kind of like, make these couple changes to each post, and then you move on to the next one you get you check your SEO score. And then you kind of bump to the next one. So what I'm trying to do is fill out the the meta tags, the alt tags, the descriptions and titles with better SEO quality, I guess titles and descriptions, so that they're able to be populated into Google or other search engines more effectively. Like that's a terrible thing. Like when I like I search for my name, or I search for different maybe photos that I have. It's really kind of sparse that as the links from my website are the ones that are populating that, that list there. There's a few others that are that are probably not even really super high quality links that are in there. Like I think there's like just, I think, character that was that a different name, you're in the mind. That one seems to show up. There's a couple from another photographer named Billy Newman, there's another one from a jazz guitar player who has an album on Spotify, who's named Billy Newman. And so there's a couple of couple funny ones that seemed about there's a guy who was on the grassy knoll, that guy was in billing, he was weird things when you find it, you know, Google your name, or you look at the Google image search of your name or your business or something you're like, who's that? What do they do? Weird? So I've been doing that a little and trying to kind of back search and figure out like, what links populate? You know, what's weird, too, as I look at it, you know, I've like put links everywhere, right? I was saying, I've been kind of working on this website thing for a long time. You know, to some degree, like I was saying, I didn't really fill out the information properly. So I'm sure Google never probably even really indexed it at all. But when I look around, and I look at the photos that are listed in the first couple pages of the search result for either My name or, or something kind of related to me, the things that come up are like it's a photo from Twitter, or it's like my Facebook profile picture that has like my name in it or something. And that's like the highest quality as like the highest quality Billy Newman picture that exists out there something or like you're even if I find like a photograph of mine that I put up somewhere, it'll say, it's from my Tumblr page. I think, what I never even I don't think I've been to my Tumblr page, like I was saying before, like, you know, I just set up a thing, and then it's going to automatically post to this blog role. And no one goes to that Tumblr page. Like it's always been spam. I don't think I've ever got like a real person comment or like, you know, I don't think I've ever got any interaction there? So, but it's really about what you get when you do like a search or something like out with Tumblr, or how this Flickr page is where this is from our Twitter, like, yeah, there's a few of them that, you know, just pop out from somewhere weird. Well, where's this from? Or like my ancient WordPress site? That one shows up sometimes before my new site, right? Like when I was in college, and I had like a free wordpress.com site. Billy Newman.wordpress.com is still out there. And yeah, you can pull it up. But I think it was just like the same as thinking about I was like, man, wow, hey, still on the internet, that's cool. I was thinking about kind of making a couple of those other are a few more like wordpress.com sites are kind of useful for some things. And given the you don't have to really work on maintaining them, it's kind of a nice way to have just some kind of easy, static thing. And if you need to you can you can set up a referral link or what not a referral link, a redirect some kind of like redirect from a URL that you have to make it a little cleaner or something if you're working on a project or something. Yeah, yeah, we're going through search engine stuff, trying to find your name trying to find your pictures. And it is working that like as a noticing, like, as I filled out some more tag information, the title information in the right way. And I kind of try and include, like some sort of mention of my name in there in the description or something or like, you know, photograph by, so that, I know, that's kind of a trick that I've heard from some photographers in the past that were working on some images and publishing them as one of the things that they said is like one of the most important things you can do to be found, or at least to be followed up with, if a photograph of yours is found is to include some kind of like, like authorship information in the description, or metadata of the photograph that you render out. And I think that there's a way that you can do that automatically, by applying the EXIF data, or like, you know, some metadata in your library module in Lightroom. I think there's, there's other tools you can use to edit your metadata, as well, I think you look at it stuff like the the title or the tags that the photo has. And then in that, also, I think that you can, you can like put your copyright information in your name. And I have seen photographs like that before, where Yeah, like, you download like a wallpaper image or something. But then if you check out the EXIF data on the side, it's really quite populated with a lot of information, a lot of different pieces, including their name and different tags about what the photo is about. So when it is put together in a better way, I guess, you know, it makes it easier, or just much simpler to find out like oh, well, like I like this photograph, who's this photograph by, and then it says right there within it, you don't really have to go search anywhere else, or at least you're, you're immediately kind of in contact with the contact with the information for that for that person. So that is cool and can be a good thing. And I hadn't really done it before. So I'm trying to go through and do that with all these past photographs to figure those out. And then, at the same time, I'm trying to do a bunch of edits, on a bunch of photographs that I have really put, I don't really put up a bunch of new stuff in the last couple of years. Um, so I'm trying to go through a bunch of that stuff. And some older stuff, too. That's kind of cool. And I'm trying to kind of tune it up a bit in the editing and get the kind of print-ready is sort of infinity for some stuff. But also, some of it's just fine, I'm trying to populate and edit up some old, old photographs, or I'm trying to kind of get into some black and white stuff a bit more too, which is cool. But go through some of these images and trying to prep up a bunch of them. I'm also trying to write out sort of a format for setting up these, you know, like I'm saying like, some more information about whatever I'm trying to write about in a post that sort of associated with these photographs that I'm editing. So I've been trying to set that up so that I can schedule them and have the kind of ready to do on the website. Which is super exciting. I mean, I was just like, well, I got to write, I got like sit here and like write out the answers to like these, like sets of questions that are kind of like made for myself that like kind of put together like okay, well I'm going to train this photo, like, Where was it taken? You know, what was it doing? What was it about was the experience like, what kind of gear to the user, you know what kind of whatever kind of little questions you'd have about like, what, what happened to make this photo or something? Yeah, I'm kind of trying to figure that out. Look at which are these interesting? And then how do I go through and like, answer that question and then make that into like, the paragraphs that make up the post about this photograph, it kind of gets tiring sometimes because you sort of seem like you're repeating especially you have to do it in bulk. But just to like, write about your description of a photo and the source. Or at least for myself, like I kind of feel like I get lost a bit in trying to better describe what was happening. You know, like, what, what, what I need to say, I mean, I said like, I know I use a camera, I held it up I took a picture. It looked good when I looked at it, and I edited it a little. There's a lot more to it than that. But man, you can really seem sanctimonious when you start writing paragraphs about the you know, like just whatever mystery you think it is to I've taken a picture that looked okay. So I kind of want to avoid, avoid some of that if I can, and I like so Some of the creative writing that I see, but sometimes I see photographers, and their writing is difficult. So I think I've even added to the pool of that problem in the past, but even still download my e-book working with them. That's good stuff. So yeah, what I'm noticing is that sometimes photographers are cool to read. But sometimes they're not as cool to read. Because it just seems like what we got, like, we know you took the picture, like, like, next page, okay, and like, Oh, yeah, he took the picture. Okay, right. Next page. What did you write about that? So, it seems like that a little with, with some, some photo books that I've seen in the past or some photo blogs that I've seen, which is probably what I'm going to continue to do. I will share in the tradition. I made a link tree page. Have you seen this before? I think I've seen some YouTubers have it. So I'm hoping it means it's hip. But I think there's a link tree website, I think it's, I think like Instagrammers or something, would you use it too, I think it was something that became popular. So you could put it as your one bio link in your Instagram profile. And what it was, was a click, or a quick link out to just a super simple sort of landing page that had like a stack of like links, it was just like, you know, just a page. Why am I over explained is it was it was a stack of links, and a website called link tree, and you'd have a profile there. And you'd make this your bio link and Instagram. And then when you click that link, you would get a stack of, say, a dozen other links to all your other places that you'd want people to go. So you get two expansion, just that one link too many links, I think was sort of the need it was designed to help out with, but it is kind of useful, maybe I don't know, we'll see if like, I don't have any traffic going through those places to probably really use that in any way other than just direct through a link. But the link tree services are kind of cool, I'm going through and trying to put that in some spots, so that you can click there and then go to different links. So you can like kind of like direct link over to an Ebook page if you want to check that out. And then the next one down could be your Instagram page, or your Facebook page or your website or your blog and website for your about page, or your new project that you're trying to list or whatever it is. I was going to see it in. Yeah, and some more more managed accounts were managed social media accounts and stuff. So I thought I'd try it out. And at least in the simple way, kind of set up a super easy profile, and then just stack up a few of the links that I have. So I think it's a link tree. Slash Billy Newman probably was it's kind of a weird, the weird like URL. It's like, I don't know, like the die. It's like link, link t. r e or something like that, you know, it's kind of like, what's going on? I probably got that wrong. But it's like, it's kind of a tricky URL, but I'm sure if you Google it or something, but link tree slash Billy Newman, I think she'd pull my stuff up. It was whatever, I don't know. Probably find it on my website, too. It's really like what my website is, is just like a stack of links that go out to the other, the other services and stuff that I'm proud to populate. And kind of fun. But yeah, this week has been a lot of computer work, a lot of writing stuff, a lot of cutting pears and apples up, kind of harvest season two, like I was saying hates the Fall. So when we're before like we process most of the apples that have come down in the summer, and then now there's a pears that we got a hold of, and so we're trying to go through those and process them up and then freeze them for the winter. Good times. So it's pretty fun skaffa I'm having a good time. putting it together. Make some pies and chips this winter and Fall. You good time. But thanks a lot for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast is kind of an easy one today, right? Talking about SEO talking about smoke that used to be here. Talking about website posts. 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Viewing comet Neowise during its passage in late July 2020, remembering sighting Hal Bopp in 1997. What is a great comet? Photographing the night sky with a high iso and a wide angle lens, Traveling along the John Day River,

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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Appreciate you guys for tuning in to this episode recorded for the first week of August in 2020. And wanted to jump into a couple of the things I've been doing through the month of July and some outdoor camping and travel stuff I've been up to. I was going to run down some of that in this podcast today. I wanted to talk about a trip I made to Eastern Oregon. I think like last week before last is when I was out in this area, and I was trying to get some good observations in for comet nowise I'm not sure if any of you guys got to check that out while it was in its prime viewing section there I think that was why we had kind of like the new moon before it switched over to being gibbous moon or nearly full moon like it's been the last week or so. But I think it was around the 15th through the 25th or so of July. There are some pretty good observations to be made of comet Neo wise, and I guess after kind of reading about it a bit, it's not considered a great comet, like Hale Bopp was, or I think it was I talkie 9996 we hadn't had a great comment in a long time I've ever seen those when I was a kid though that was pretty cool. Like watching the Hale Bopp come through for it seemed like three months or something you know that you're just kind of looking at that in the low corners of the northwestern and Western skies was kind of cruising across the skyline I remember that still from like, third-fourth grade when it was coming through, and I also remember the year before that, when like straight up in the air you know like straight up in the sky at night for it was only like a week or so I was a kid you know, but I remember for that week you can see a real bright two-tailed comet those guns I think I can't remember how to pronounce I think is how you talk here. I think it's it's some Japanese name. Pretty sure. But that was a really cool one. That one I still remember really clearly I was only like, I don't know, seven or something when that like when that comic came through. But I really appreciated getting to make some observations with that one as a kid. I missed Halley's Comet, though, back in what 87, I think, was the last one if it came through. And I probably will be the few years that you know that decade or two of the age range that doesn't get to see Halley's Comet in their lifetime. So I think I was born in 88, of course. So if I make it past 100, maybe you'll see it; what is it maybe like 80 something years, so it's probably not going to come back around until I think it's like the 2017 or 2000 80s that I'd have to make it to for to see Halley's Comet again, that'd be fun, but I don't know, maybe we'll see our future. The future is at that time. But it was really cool to get to see Comet Neo wise; It was just a little below what would be the legs and feet of Ursa Major, the Big Dipper, or like the big bear as it observed. But if you kind of look at the deeper part that we're all most familiar with, if you kind of consider Ursa Major, the larger bear constellation that it's structured on, if you kind of look down below the dipper is where I was able to make my observations of comet nowise. And over here in the elevation area that I'm at, in Western Oregon, it's about 200 or 300 feet above sea level. And there's kind of a constant problem with haze and with light pollution in this area. And I think it has to do something with the well, I mean, of course, you know, the amount of population that's around and also something about the air quality or about how the air kind of flows out around here that just doesn't ever seem to be as crisp or as dark as you can get up in the mountains. And, and really it's just like a stunning difference when you're able to get out further and make some more clear observations. You know, the level of magnitude of stars that you're able to reveal, just in a dark night, is so much more crisp and clear. It's just like a total difference. So it was cool too. I think I was first able to spot just a little fuzzy bit of a second magnitude version of Comet Neowise while I was here in town, but I tried to make a special trip out toward Eastern Oregon out into the desert just to do some camping stuff. But what I wanted to do at the same time was make some good observations and also try and get some good photographs of Comet Neowise as it was coming through during its period, where you could, you could make some, some good sightings of it, but it was cool. So going out to Eastern Oregon, as it got dark, a little past 1030 or so as you look to the northwest, you can really see the comet and its tail spread for a couple of inches in the sky. And I was really surprised to notice how little of it you could really make out to see when you're in an area of almost any light pollution, once you're back in town, or once you're in a lower elevation area. With some light pollution and haze around, it was really difficult to make out in the same way that I could out in the desert or out in the mountains. And so I thought it was pretty cool to get to see and get to check out over there. But yeah, it was a blast getting to do some stuff out in Eastern Oregon. I went over to the John de River area. And I checked out that area. There's a lot of public land out in that area. But there's also some, a lot of private lands too. It's just kind of an interesting area, how it has sort of broken up, and it was cool to get to go out to the head out to Madras, and then I took off and headed over East there until I ran into the john de River. And then I was able to use this map that I have to go through and find some open off or just the open roads that are, you know, smaller gravel roads that are set up to kind of traverse the backcountry out there. So I was able to find a few of those that were open and travel around on those for a while. That was pretty cool. I was able to find some dispersed campsites and set them upright along the john de River, which is really cool. It's a beautiful area out there. It's kind of interesting, and the john de river flows through this sort of. I guess it would be, and I don't know. It's kind of like Canyonland. And it's also sort of these rolling grass hills that sort of make up the landscape of Northern, northern, and northeastern Oregon. And I think Yeah, as soon as you kind of get a little for like a little north of bend is when you get out of the Great Basin area. And you start to get into another kind of landscape that seems to stretch up north of the Columbia River up into Washington. I've heard that some of it are from ancient deposits from the river systems in the waterways that were up there and how it was like there are old deposits and then an erosion that's happened from those rivers running through the area for such a long time. But, but really cool to see kind of the rolling hills and then some carved out canyons that go through the john de river area up there. When I found the campsite, I was at, and I was pretty far away from everybody. And I was really far away from any substantial town. I think it was near. I don't know, and I don't even know what it is. There wasn't anything there. When I drove through, there's a bridge and a couple of little ranch houses, you know, real ranches, right? Like just a little, a little, a little house like a little two-bedroom house and then 100 acres of cattle to deal with. So it seems, uh, seems like another life out there. I wonder how they're dealing with, you know, kind of the way the world is things are this summer, but it was cool. Yeah, getting out there. I went to already kind of set up my campsite, and stuff had my truck going. And that was all pretty easygoing. But then I waited till dark after 1030. Yeah, comet neowise is really visible up below the Big Dipper; it was pretty cool to get to see out there in Eastern Oregon really bright, really clear, you can almost make out the second tail. I have my binoculars with me. I think there are some ten by 40 twos. And those read really well to view it to view the comment. Like really crisp through there through the binoculars, and yeah, really easy to spot most of the night. Even just to the naked eye, it was really easy to spot. It was like, Oh, yeah, it's right there, there's a comment. It's just a big whisper in the sky. So it was really cool to get to view it; what I did is I set up my tripod, and I have my camera with me. So I set it up with a really wide angle. And then I was trying to get some photographs of it as it was, as the comet was sort of coming down to set on the landscape of the hillside, you know, as the hours went on into the night. So I think I stayed out until maybe one or two in the morning when the Big Dipper was sort of scooping down a little low onto the horizon. And then, at that point, the place where the comment was dipped below the horizon and then was out of view for the rest of the evening. And I think even into the morning. I think by that time, when I was photographing it, and it wasn't visible any longer. Up in the morning sky. I think they said you know, at first in early July, you could kind of view it around Capella, if you were able to get out early enough, say three or four in the morning, but as the direction, as it was moving, it was kind of creeping up pretty quickly, you know, day over day. Every day, it would kind of move a good chunk through the sky. And in the direction that it was moving, it was moving to be more visible at the nighttime, which really offered more hours of good observation time, which I thought was pretty cool to wait until it was really dark enough in the northwest view of the sky, probably about 1030 onward, is when you're finally able to make out this kind of finer points of light in the sky in that region. So it was really cool, set up the tripod, set up the camera, set up some manual focus to get it kind of set sharp at night, you can't, you can't use autofocus when you're trying to take photographs of the night sky and the stars because it just kind of seeps back and forth, you have to set it to manual focus and then ring out your focus ring to infinity. And then just back a bit. You'll notice this every time if you do it. It's really frustrating the dark because you can't really always make it out easily and edit your mistake quickly. But if you go all the way to infinity, and then they fix pictures there, the night sky, you're going to notice that these points of light that are the stars sort of end up a little fuzzy, and it's because all the way to infinity, for whatever reason, just isn't quite in focus at infinity. So you have to go all the way up to infinity and then back it off just a bit. And that'll nearly ensure that most of that part of the image is in focus the whole way. And it's difficult even if you do have an F stop that's a little more tightened out, say like an f4 six or something; you're still going to get a lot of that out-of-focus softness if the focus ring isn't really dialed into the right spot. So I tried to work on that a little. And yeah, dialed in my focus was able to set it up with reasonable ISO to get some images of the night sky and pick up some of those finer points of light, and then it was able to take a series of photographs in a few different locations out there in the john de River Valley, which I thought was really cool is pretty to be out there, and it was a nice night really warm in the River Canyon. And really remote to like I was mentioned I think I was the only person out there for a few miles I saw another group coming in on a like a little midsize SUV, and they were going fishing out of the bend in the river a couple of miles up from where I was the size of my truck down a little further and camped out. Just on the side of the river. It was a cool, nice Green River up to the kind of high desert tan rim rock that runs the area around there. So it was a cool evening, a cool campsite area. It's a cool spot to check out comet noise too. So I tried to check it out. Up until I don't know what 130 in the morning when I couldn't see it anymore and then spent the night out there out in the john de river area and then the next morning got up and try to check out some different roads and stuff that went around in that area. So it was pretty cool. I was glad I was able to get out there and do some comment watching over the last couple

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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the night sky podcast. My name is Billy Newman. And I'm Marina Hansen. And tonight we are live again in the field in the wild that we are under the night sky in Maui, Hawaii. And we were up near a coffee plantation up the road from the Lynette Kaanapali area. And it's cool. We have sky above us, we have a little bit of like cloud and mist and stuff over to the side. But it's really more clear and darker than it was a few nights ago when we had talked closer to the full moon. So we probably have probably a couple hours even to tell the moon comes up tonight, I think so it's it's been a couple days, but it's nice. We are under the night sky tonight. And we were going to I guess make some observations and talk about him a little bit while we're hanging out here under the sky. So it's kind of fun. What did we talk about last time we were talking we were going through like a bunch of the star stuff and sort of like where some of the things were, I think we talked about like the Summer Triangle. Or like some of the start like Vega and didn't have an Altair. I wanted to talk tonight about like, how we can see the Milky Way tonight. And it's cool right now this time in October like what you notice over there, it's like you see that area of the sky? And so what you might notice is like what you see Taurus over there, do you see Taurus over there? It's pretty faint, but you can kind of make it that V I'm sure after this car passes. Once the headlights again. Okay, well so Okay, look up there. Over to the east. You see the Pleiades I do see the Pleiades right so if the Pleiades at the tail of the bowl, the little tag of the tail then then the horns of the bowl are down here. So you see the V bright so that we see is all Tiburon. And then we have like the V of the bowl over there and Torah. So we see we see tourists over there. And then we see the Pleiades and then we move up here and we see parts of Perseus so we see like Capella down there in Riga, Riga. I didn't learn my constellations. But we see Perseus up here, which we'll get into that in a little bit, too. I want to talk about Perseus stuff. And then as we move up here, we see Cassiopeia and then we kind of move across here. And then we see the NAB and Seder and Vega. And then I'll tear over to the side. And then we kind of move on further down toward the western horizon where we see Sagittarius. And so what you'll notice with this is this band right here in the Milky Way. You see that out? It's kind of like right through there. Yeah, a lot more noticeable today.

Yeah. And what's cool, though, at this time of year is what we're noticing is, so in the summertime, we would have been looking at the Milky Way running north-south as it rose up above the horizon. So you would look kind of appear, and you sort of see the band of the Milky Way stretch from the north part of the sky, to just the due south part of the sky. And that's sort of the weird kind of motion that you see in the stars over the night. Is that as the kind of turn around the North Star over here? Or is it our star Verizon or star over there, my feet lower than I think. But as you see the stars rotate around the North Star, they kind of have like a circular motion to them. So they come up from the east or North East area. And then this they come up, they straighten out at the top toward their Zenith, and then they start to kind of curl back in. So that's why some of the stars are like circumpolar like the ones that are well, at least like this, this far south, even in Hawaii, that's a little bit different than what we're used to at home. But like if it if it were a little bit further home, you kind of see the set of stars that sort of turn around the North Star, but they would stay up the whole time. So they'd be like up throughout the year. I think like our tourist is close to that if you're in northern latitudes, I think like up near up in Canada or something like that, or definitely like in Alaska, you can see Arcturus, I think the whole year long is it kind of cruises around the bottom and then comes up again, similar with Capella too, as you can see that for almost the whole year, because it's in like a part of the sky that's just sort of stays because you're so far north as far south. They said, I guess, seasonally, of course. So it's kind of interesting spotting that out. But what we notice now though, and what we're talking about is this band of the Milky Way that stretches across East-West now so we have Sagittarius really sort of over probably what's on the western horizon where like Saturdays I think we probably can't even see it right now. It's probably close to down or or just in like the murk of the clouds sort of on the horizon line of the ocean. But what's cool is Yeah, we've kind of moved this way, eastward, Lee. And so what we do is we move from Sagittarius, who's what we know is a summer constellation Like a summer and sort of end the summer-fall constellation. And then we move up to this stuff that was summer constellation like Vega did NAB Seder Altair like those stars. And then we move over here to like Cassiopeia, which is one that we really kind of don't see rise. Well, Cassiopeia is the one that's really probably one that kind of goes around circumpolar around the North Star. Along with the Big Dipper, that's probably like what's most noticeable about some of those, the asterisms that make up the constellations around the North Star. But what we notice is that that's sort of an winter constellation that starts to rise up. And then we see Perseus which is sort of a winter constellation. And then we see that stretch over there to Capella, which is part of the the winter constellations that are kind of come up. And we see it stretch over there, to Taurus and alder Baron and the Pleiades, which is sort of a winter constellation. And then after that, we're going to see Orion. And then here in Hawaii, we're going to get to see Sirius and proceed, and of course, but then further south of that, because we're further south, near the equator, we're going to get to see Kenobi has come up. And so what you're noticing is that all of these bright stars that make up a number of constellations, these over here to the west in the summertime, and then these over here in the east, are winter constellations that are coming up. And so we're that fall point right now, where now we're going to start seeing these winter constellations in the Milky Way, these bright stars that are here, sort of bend up, and then they're going to start to point toward the south again. And that's where we kind of get that rotation of the stars throughout the year to come through. Does that make sense? A little bit? Yeah, I know. I remember noticing it from past years.

Yeah. So what's cool about this time of year, and then I think, like another time, when we were out in Eastern Oregon, we were hanging out late at night on a camping trip with Robert in the springtime. In March. Remember that and we went out, we looked out on the sky. And we could kind of see sort of on the horizon we were looking at and kind of making note of the stars we could see. And it was sort of this same circumstance in reverse, where you get to see summer constellations, and winter constellations and sort of how they're all on this band of the Milky Way. by a certain time of year, the fall. And then now more than later, the springtime, you get to see kind of a different view of them than maybe we are used to during the winter, or during the summer where they're they're kind of rotated east-west along the axis. It's kind of cool. It's interesting checking it out. So the thing I wanted to point out as one of the winter constellations was Perseus up here, do you see this one up here? So we see like, it's kind of hard to spot a little bit. So there's Cassiopeia which is the W four we see here, and then out sort of from Cassiopeia. This way is the constellation of Andromeda is to Cassiopeia. Yeah, it'd be easy to Cassiopeia as we kind of lead out a little bit, that's gonna be like, the constellation of Andromeda. So up there is gonna be the Andromeda galaxy, which I think we had spotted and talked about before. And then over here, like, so down, there is Capella, though, we can spot and that's, it's like that star and then DC like those. You see probably one star, and then there's a third star over there. And then a fourth, but there's like a little like kind of curve shape right there. And that's like the constellation that Capella isn't, but up here is Perseus. And so I guess it's the head of Perseus over toward, I guess it would be the west side. And then you kind of come down. And then out. along this stretch over here is where Perseus is the hero holding up the head of the Medusa. And so that's that side over there. Do you see that? on the east side? Yeah. On the east side. So I think it's I think it's the star, that bright star there i think is Merv, fac. Like Mar, fa K, I'll probably screw up these names. And then the brighter star that's kind of out to the side is Oh, Satoshi star. Hey, that's our second one tonight. Thanks, you see it, no shooting stars. So that so the first thing is Murphy back. And then the other one out here is like our goal. And I think our goal was like an Arabic word. Because like a bunch of the star names are Arabic. I think our goal was one that meant head of the ghoul. And so that's sort of related to like Perseus and how it's Perseus holding up the head of Medusa, which is pretty cool. So it's just kind of an interesting way of thinking about that constellation. But yeah, so that's the constellation of Perseus over there. It's kind of neat. And then we see like the Pleiades over there like that little bit of a Dipper, a little cluster of stars, which is like the tail I think was mentioned earlier of Taurus the bowl. And then so Taurus is in the Zodiac line. Well, I think after that it's like was like Taurus and like, Gemini and cancer are kind of all over there. And then we're gonna see like Leo, I probably got this out of order just now. And then what if you were going to, I guess rotate that up, like up here a little higher? Do you see these two stars up here? Says the Pleiades down there. And then there's like these two stars that are a little closer together up here. northwest of Pleiades, what would that be? It would be or just west west of the Pleiades and just a little south. So the Pleiades and then it's these two stars? I see. Yeah. So that is the constellation Aries up there. And so it's like Aries the ram that's in that spot. And so that's like another one of the constellations that's in the zodiac sign. I think that's the one that would be in the sun during the month or maybe it's April. Does that sound right? And April and Pisces before that, which is going to be kind of over here, I guess is like the constellation of Pisces, the two fish. And then is it Aquarius and Capricorn?

Or is it the other way around? Well, guy, well, there's Capricorn out there, but where, but where Mars is. And then I think it's moving into Aquarius over here. And then it's Pisces over here. And then Aries over here and then Taurus over there. Hmm, maybe I'm getting that right. But it's cool. Good to see some of the stars out here. I think it's kind of neat. Yeah, that's causing the lineup. Yeah, yeah, definitely. It's cool. Getting to see him like in a line like that. And yeah, getting to make some observation is pretty fun. Yeah, it's really interesting getting to go through and see how some of the Milky Way constellations are lined up here, east to west as we see it now. And then out some of these Zodiac constellations are kind of lined up just a little askew south of there now. And it's kind of interesting seeing how the zodiacs are with a path of the stars and the stars, pardon, the path of the planets and the sun sort of intersect with the area of the Milky Way over there. And then they do it again, as as the sun goes around and intersects with the Milky Way over on that side where you get over toward towards Scorpio, and Sagittarius on the other side. So it's kind of interesting, sort of seeing how those two bands sort of come around and intersect with each other a couple times a year. I just think that's kind of interesting to sort of spot out a bit. But yeah, it's cool getting this spot out. Like Taurus over there and the Pleiades starting to come up. I'm excited for some of these winter constellations to come up. And I'm excited to get to see some of the stuff that can Opus and some of the Southern constellations that we can't really see from the mainland United States.

Me too. I'm really excited to have like a whole year of getting to see constellations move through in the southern or more southern

hemisphere to be really cool. We have to make a trip to the southern sky Marina. That'd be so fun. I want to see a hole. I'd be so disoriented. I noticed. Yeah, it'd be really fun. Yeah, I think you would just see like a bit like how we see the like the constant like the Zodiac constellations that summer, like how we see Scorpio on our southern Horizon, we would see it on our northern horizon. Wouldn't it be wild? Like you're so turned around? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, cuz I orient myself at night, at least, like so much. But like, Oh, yeah, I know that. I know that when I see how that comes up, and you're just kind of familiar with it, because it's your home. But yeah, once you move into the southern sky be it'd be totally different in a way, I guess. So I want to see the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. I've heard about those before. I've never really seen them. I've seen like pictures and stuff I've done, but it's like, it's like two little chunks of the Milky Way galaxy, that are separated from the Milky Way galaxy. And so it's like this little kind of clump of the Milky Way look, but just like Out, out and off and the southern hemisphere. Oh, interesting. Yeah, that'd be really neat to see. Yeah. Yeah, I think that'd be really fun. But I think there's a pretty pretty deep southern sky. And yeah, it'd be really fun to get to spot some of that stuff. But so that'll wrap up most of our stuff. I think we're gonna come back for a Halloween episode soon. I think we have a couple cool things to talk about, that we've been learning about in relation to how the whole day of Halloween exists in relation to the calendar. I think that'd be really cool to talk about. So, on behalf or excuse me, I guess we're gonna wrap up our podcast now. So thank you guys very much for listening to this episode of the night sky podcast. My name is Billy Newman, and I'm really handsome and we will talk to you again soon on Halloween. Bye

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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of the night sky podcast. My name is Billy Newman. And I'm Marina Hansen. And tonight we're out in Maui. And we're outside right now. And we're trying to try us out where we do some recordings of podcasts while we're outside and making some observations. And I'm all for that, that even with the wind, and maybe whatever else you might hear in the background, it's maybe a little more interesting to kind of go through some of the observations that we're making while we're making them. So it has a bit more of a like a live feel to it. But I think it's pretty nice tonight. It's cool. I think we're pretty close to a full moon. What would you say it is, Marina. I think that may actually be full tonight. Yeah, it probably looks like it's gonna be at least in the next 12 hours. So I'd say it's pretty close to being a full moon. And I bet it seems like about the right amount of time. It's been about two weeks since we had a new moon a couple of weeks, or you know, like a few weeks back, so it seems like it'd be right in line to be full. about NASA. I guess. This is the October Full Moon which is pretty cool. Was that the Is it the wolf moon? Or is it the November moon? Is it the beaver moon? November is the beaver man November is the beaver moon? Yeah. That's very cool. Yeah, I think that this one is the Wolf Man, the wolf moon, and then September is sort of the harvest. Man. Is that right? I think so. I need to there's a couple ideas around the Harvest Moon, I remember hearing about where it's at what is it? It's like, the first full moon after the autumnal equinox like the fall equinox, September 21. So if there's a full moon that falls after that, pretty quickly, whatever that next full moon is, I think that was supposed to be the Harvest Moon, but also like that the other order of months as there would be harvest in September. And then in October, it'd be like wolf moon, and then beaver moon. And then I don't know what it is in December, but is that it's been out tonight. And looking at the full moon. We're up on a hillside in western Maui, which is pretty cool and new to us. And I think we're looking at a bit of cloud cover that's kind of moving around the mountain over here. And it seems like it's almost like that all the time. Like you look out there. And it looks like it's raining there, doesn't it? Yeah, I think that it is. Yeah, it's interesting. Like how it looks like it's raining out there all the time. I guess it's how how it's made to be a rain forest upstairs because of all the precipitation they get. And I guess that's sort of what I understand about like the weather pattern on the northern side of the island too. Is that like that gets more rain and weather than what we do over here on the the western facing side of this mountain over here.

Yeah, up in Kapalua where I work. It is rainy every single morning as seams train off and on throughout the day.

Yeah, so it was sprinkling on me when I got off work today. It's pretty good. So it's kind of weird how it goes back and forth like that so much, but yeah, I guess I guess just earlier this week was the orionid meteor shower. Did you read that much on that? I think you were talking to your aunt about that and like how it was coming into its peak phase just a couple days ago?

Yeah. I think the 21st and 22nd were supposed to be the peak days Today's the 23rd. So yesterday, the day before?

Yeah, it's cool. I got to see like one of them go by while I was out doing some observations, but with the heavy moonlight it's kind of dampened. I guess some of the dark skies that you would have to really, I guess enjoy watching a bunch of meteor shower. Or you're like watching the meteors come in through the meteor shower. But it's cool. Yeah. Through Ryan in meteor shower. I guess that's that's remnants of Halley's Comet that came through. Like back in 86. I guess this is last pass 8687 was his last pass through the solar system when it was visible before I was born, so I might not ever get to see it. And then, I guess what it was, is that Yeah, like as the comet comes through the solar system on its elliptical orbit comes around the Senate and jets back out on its way. It's like 88 year trip around the sign something like that. I guess it leaves like remnants behind it in its dust trail. And so as the earth is moving around the sun, and its revolution around the Sun throughout the year, it passes through a couple of those zones, where that comment has left debris behind this is how we get most of our meteor showers as as debris that's left behind by a passing comment. And so that debris still just sitting out there in space, I think relatively without a lot of motion. And then it's actually our earth that has the momentum as it swings through at its pretty high velocity as it's coming around. The Senate plows into that that rim, or that little field of desks that's out there in that location. And so there's new desks for us to hit every year as we pass through that zone. Again, that's how we get the proceed meteor showers in a similar way. So we get, like the rest of the meteor showers that we're familiar with. But yeah, this set of the Orion and meteor showers, is kind of from that same position to that same reasoning is that it was Halley's Comet back in 86. And then I don't know back it like a turn of the century before that, that left dust in the pathway out here. And then now it's the earth kind of colliding into it. And so the reason that we call it the Orion and meteor shower, or the perceived meteor shower, or the Leonid meteor shower, whatever, when we might be talking about I guess, is because that is the constellation in which it appears as though most of the media, right, so the debris, the shooting stars that we're seeing, are originating from. And so like tonight, Orion is really not even up yet. So that's why we have to like wait up so late at night to start to see it as because I think Orion would be rising out over this way, like above, above the horizon over here to the east. And so that's why we'd have to wait till like midnight or later. But the idea is that they're kind of becoming originating from a position sort of around where Orion is sort of similar to how it is in the summertime, when we're looking at the Perseids out of the north eastern sky. We have to wait kind of late at night for the constellation Perseus to rise up. And that's when you start seeing, you know, the, the, the meteorites, the shooting stars starting to come out of that location as a kind of originating from the north eastern position in the sky. But you can kind of see them all over sometimes it's it's not like a perfect way to delineate what the location of the meteors are going to be. It's kind of cool. It's cool that we had it this last week. That was cool. You got to mention it to some of your family that there was they were asking about it. It's a nice night that night, there's probably about what 30 40% cloud cover when I turn over this is fairly cloudy up here. Yeah, seems like it's just it's just that way on the island right now. Or it seems like we're kind of battling partly cloudy skies most nights. Maybe it's this time of year. But with the full moon there's not really a ton of stars to see beyond like second magnitude. But you know, when you look at like so we're looking at right now we can see, we see like Vega up there. We see the NAB Seder over here, and then we see like Altair over there. And then you can kind of make out some of the features as well, you can really only make out about six or seven in between, let's say like, if we're looking at Altair, and Vega, with the full moon lab, we can see like 1234567 maybe eight stars or so in between and that zone right there is the Milky Way galaxy. So like all of that dense, rich color in the Milky Way right there is completely obstructed by the luminance of the full moon tonight. It's interesting. That is that's kind of like what I guess you could call it light pollution. It's not really the same as light pollution. That's that's what you get with a full moon night when you don't get to see some of those dimmer. richer, finer textured stars. It's pretty

it is the planets are really the most visible things. It seems like yeah, we're playing security right now. I'm looking at Mars. Definitely.

We can definitely see Mars that was looking really good. Looks like down there kind of on the horizon is sort of where we're starting to see. Sagittarius. You know, when I was out the other night, I was at that star watching event. And I was really surprised because it wasn't even nine o'clock yet. But it seemed like like Scorpio was gone. I mean, I guess we're almost at November. So it seems like it would be Arcturus is already pretty well set it seems like and it seems like Sagittarius that teapot is tipped up on its side almost the whole way. But what's cool though, is I think out there. Do you see that one? If you take a couple steps everybody was buying that telephone pole. I think that that is Saturn out there. That low one. I do see it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that Saturn so right now Saturn is right out in front of Sagittarius, which is cool. So if you look at you're able to spot that T pi, maybe earlier in the evening than it is right now. You'd still have like a couple hours into the evening or into the darkness where you're going to be able to spot Sagittarius and Saturn along with that. I think maybe I'm wrong. But I think Saturn is still in retrograde. Like I think it's still making it's kind of retrograde motion AP. And then and then it'll kind of go back into pro grade motion again, as it kind of continues on through Sagittarius. And then over the next couple years, it'll move on up to like a, like Capricorn over here, as I think Capricorns over there. Yeah, that's where I can kind of see that double star that's at the top of Capricorn. And that's where Mars was earlier this year, like the summer where we were making videos and talking about it, watching it rise on the horizon in Oregon. We were watching Mars at opposition, a lot closer to that energy Capricorn there and that's all this distance here that we're looking at is how much Mars is transited in pro grade motion now, since that time in like early summer, or like early July. I guess when we're first starting to look at it there, so it's cool like looking at how much has changed but we're, we're getting to that point where we're Mars is like moved on a bit from its position opposition and now it's going to kind of quickly change into like a dimmer stock you remember like two years ago or we're looking at Mars and Saturn together now Saturn and we see SCorp or see Saturn in Sagittarius before we're looking at Mars and Saturn in Scorpio next to Antares I was in like the summer of 2016. And, and then we saw how much Mars had moved in those two years before it came back around to that same position in the sky. So do you remember like how different it was over those two years like had Dimmick off for a while and we were like looking at it with you in the morning one time. And it just looked like a little speck. It was hardly even worth noticing.

Yeah, it was really faint. It's interesting how much brighter it is now. Like through this year, it's been so much more noticeable. Yeah. And that's that's that

two year cycle. Like I said, 24 month cycle that that Mars is on, where that's how long it takes Mars to complete. Its its movements, procreate motion around the 12 constellations. Do you hear that in the podcast? I think that's a guy playing a trumpet. Well, so flavor in our outdoor podcast so. So So yeah, over those two years that had gone all the way around the ecliptic. So So been in Scorpio two years ago, in August, they had gone through Capricorn Aquarius and Pisces and Aries and then onward through Taurus and Gemini and cancer and through Leo, and all that, and then a kind of come back around, and then it came through. And then it came through and pass through Scorpio, like earlier this year, and then is now at that, but that's what took two years to happen. And so when we're looking at it at Saturn over there, Saturn has made it just from Scorpio, back to Sagittarius in those two years. And that's like the difference in the speed of motion that it is for these to transit around the ecliptic line. That's super interesting to start to notice that. So Mars is two years. Jupiter is 12 years. That's the next night. So if you think there's the earth and there's Mars, then there's the asteroid down, then there's a huge amount of distance before you get from Mars to Jupiter. It's like It's like many more times the distance in the solar system. So that and that's a way of noticing it really is. We have two years, we still are six one year to get around the sun. We have Mars going on in two years. We have Jupiter taking 12 years to get around the sun. And then we have Saturn out there taking almost 29 years. That means it's it was there about the time that I was born 2930 years ago. Is that amazing?

Yeah, it's really quiet like back in that same spot.

Yeah, it is really interesting. It's interesting kind of noticing, like the the cycles, the different timing, and then sort of like historically with me a little bit too, like, like, I think, well, I don't know, I think it was like Saturn, it's hard to focus on those fun little jazz in the background. I hope you can hear it. But I think it was like, Saturn was kind of known as like, Saturn nine, I think is a word. And then there's Mercurial. That's a word. I think Saturn nine is like slow and lethargic. And lazy, I think too. And then Mercurial is like, chaotic and fast paced, and like, engaged. Does that make sense. And so like, if you think about it, maybe in a sense of where those words had the derivation from Saturn is the slowest moving planet, taking 29 years to move around. And Mercury, the closest planet to the sun is the one that moves around the fastest. And as the most chaotic type of motion, it's really kind of harder to track. Venus is even more stable than that, because it's was a lot brighter, and it's a little further out from the sun. And so because it's an interior planet, we see a kind of move. We don't see it move out to opposition, but we see it kind of stay closer to the sun, as it kind of orbits on the internal track between the Earth and the Sun. It's interesting, it's been going it's cool kind of noticing, like where some of those things come from.

Yeah, it's really interesting getting to observe it for so many years now or just being a lot more conscious of it than I had been in the past. And you really do get to, to see in the motion of it, like just how different they are and how far they move around.

Yeah, yeah, I've been really fascinated by the end like well, the other thing that I was noticing too, is like so this year Mars to two years ago, Mars came into opposition and went into retrograde when I was in like Libra and Scorpio over there. And then now two years later, it's gone into opposition around Sagittarius and Capricorn really like Capricorn is where it seems to have ended up. And so you kind of notice, like how far that is over, that it had moved before it had come into come into opposition again, and gone into its retrograde motion. So let's take like that. Alright, it's kind of interesting to think about how that would sort of play out like two years from now, it's going to be like out over here. So it'll be sort of a fall time opposition, maybe two years from now it'll be, or maybe two or four years from now, it's going to be like a Halloween opposition. So I have a bear, that'd be cool. Or Yeah, the red planet will be coming in over, it'll be just rising at the time, that we're coming into October. So we're gonna have it coming into, like October and Halloween, around the time that we're gonna see Mars rising up above the horizon line as the sun starts to set. So it'll be kind of interesting to sort of follow that over like a longer amount of time, but it's cool kind of getting to notice it a bit. What else do we see Marina. I was looking over here. Like up toward the moon where it is. And then I think like back or so before the moon down, like over there, I think is I think that's where Aries is like Aries the RAM. It's another one of the constellations that's in the Zodiac, or along the ecliptic line. So I think that'd be like the Aries right over that clouds gonna overtake and then down from there. We have tourists. That's up now. You see tourists everywhere.

I do see tourists. Yes. far enough away from the moon that I can actually make it out. I can't really see. I can't really see anything that's right around the moon too. Well, it's so bright. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, there's nothing we can see around the moon right now. But it's cool kind of spot and nobody there. So I guess it's like Aries, the RAM. Taurus, the bull we see all over on. And then I guess right now the Pleiades are where its tail would be are up in like a cloud. So we can't see that. But we can at least make out where it is a little bit. And then as we saw, I guess that means that like Orion is probably getting close to coming up here on the horizon like maybe like due east from us. That's kind of cool to think about. And that's sort of something I always remembered from like, a couple years ago, when we were here. Now is like now that we're at the now that we're 20 degrees above the equator, there's a lot more of the Southern Hemisphere that we get to see. And so that's why we get to see like Orion rise quite a bit higher, like almost like due east from us right now. And that's why we get to see further south from Orion, we get to see like canopus come up, which is really cool. Like the brightest stars visible in the southern hemisphere sky that's not visible to the northern hemisphere sky. So it's really exciting that we get to, I guess kind of early for me it's it's it's really cool to see a different sky. Yeah. And it's well, it's really interesting that we were talking about like the winter hexagon or the heavenly g like one of those sort of more modern asterisms. It's visible of the collection of this really bright first magnitude stars that we see in the Northern Hemisphere. Do you remember we were talking about that? There was like, I guess it was start with like, well like Capella out there that we're starting to see. And then there was like Castor and Pollux. And then like proceeding and serious. And then Rigel. And then it would come up to Alderaan. And then like over to battle Jews or butyl ease. And it was is really interesting, kind of like noticing that. But if you notice that they're all kind of in this pattern, I guess right now they're just coming up over the eastern horizon. After that, yeah, like we're gonna see like Orion as part of the some of the stars, I was just mentioning that if you kind of continue that trail down at these really bright first magnitude stars, they're all kind of in this clumped zone over here. And that goes all the way down to connote this, which is further south where we normally don't get to see it. So it's cool to kind of notice that all of these bright stars are sort of in zone together. I think that's still part of like the Milky Way. So my read on that, and in that way, whereas, so we're talking about it. Yeah, so it goes in section. Yeah, it would go over like where Saturn is over there. Bye. Bye. Sagittarius A Sagittarius is like the heart of the galaxy. That would be like looking into the center of the galaxy. And then I think it would follow right up here, as we see like Altair and Vega, have you read over there and then it would cut over to Cassiopeia that we see up here. And then it would be kind of over here, where we see Capella. And then there's gonna be like a lot of it that cuts over here where we see it like a lot of this band of these first magnitude stars, where we see like Orion and Taurus over here, and then as we cut down and cut it to the south, if you kind of imagine like one big line, like this here, that's going to be all along the Milky Way line, which is really interesting. So it's really weird to start to perceive it as like it's canopus in the southern hemisphere Yeah. And then see us and procyon and Rigel and beat ogis and Oliver on and Castor and Pollux and Capella. And then like as a kind of like scoops up, then we see and it's all I can one line with weird that kind of imagined across the sphere of the earth. And then we have like Cassiopeia and then like the NAB, and Seder and Vega and Altair, and then like over to the stars, and like Scorpio, and the stars in Sagittarius over they're all part of like this Milky Way band that cuts all the way around. So it's pretty cool. That's really interesting, like looking at that and looking at how that that kind of works in the sky. But it's kind of an open that. Well, I guess tonight we got like, what 30 40% Cloud and a full moon. So we'll wait a couple months, and then we'll be able to see more of the stuff or more of the stuff that would be more prominently visible in the southern hemisphere. But I'm looking forward to getting to make some observations of condolence and of some of the constellations that we see in the southern hemisphere. I think it's gonna be really fun.

Me too. I'm really excited for some clear nights here. Yeah,

it's gonna be really cool. I want to do a bunch of like, skywatching like naked eye observations with you out here, but it's pretty fun, like hanging outside and doing it this way. It's kind of nice to get an appointed staff and like, look at things. I was gonna make some sense when when I listened to it back or listened back to it and audio, but it's fine. They should be I mean, I appreciate it. Yeah, I'm glad we found this cool spot. Yeah, I think it's really nice being out here. And yeah, it's nice, nice spray evenings in Hawaii. It's great. Just pretty comfortable. Thanks for hanging out with me tonight. I appreciate it. But yeah, thanks a lot, everybody for listening to this. Recorded in the field episode of the night sky podcast. I really appreciate it. So on behalf of Marina Hanson, my name is Billy Newman. And thank you very much for listening to this episode of the night sky podcast.

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