Night Sky Podcast

The Latest Dawn Of The Year, Mercury Falling, 5 Planets in the morning sky, and the latest sunrise of the year.

Billy Newman and Marina Hansen

Marina and Billy talk about comet catalina

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Hello, and thank you for listening to this episode of the night sky Podcast Episode Two, recorded on December 14 2015. Today I'm here with Marina Hanson, who is going to talk with me a little bit more about the ongoing Kickstarter project that we have going and talk a little bit about some of the night sky stuff that's happening around us right now. How are you doing this evening, Marina? Hey, baby, I'm doing pretty well. How are you? I'm doing good. And thank you for coming over and hanging out at the studio and recording some stuff with me this evening. I'm happy to should be pretty fun. We've been kind of working on a few studio things and trying to get some stuff sorted out for the podcast and trying to do some ongoing stuff. And I think it'd be fun for you and I to do some like the post production work. I think that'd be cool to start doing as a project with this kind of like what we've been talking about, about figuring out what to say in record spots for like pre recorded segments, get the audio beds, yeah. And get get a structure set up about how the podcast is going to come together when we start doing it more more frequently.

Yeah, I think putting together those, those little pieces are gonna be good. Yeah,

yeah, it'd be a lot of fun to do that. But yeah, you should start thinking about the stuff that you want it to do, or how it should be. But I'll try and start writing some stuff up too. And then what I'd like to do is put in, like, like, find some cool like Tyco music beds that are sort of nondescript, like some cool like audio cues, that sort of thing, that we can get some cool, like intro and outro stuff that we can find, I think there's a lot of stock stuff that that's available to us, too, that we should try and put in, like Stock Music stuff that we can, we can pick out one for the intro and the outro. So that when we post produce it, we can put together the pieces and you know, have it sound like a full production,

we should look at that. I've never really looked at, like stock music before. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I looked at stock photography, and a little bit of stock video stuff. Yeah, not music clips,

a lot of the stuff that my dad was doing, had to do with like the stock music stuff. And so I was just kind of cruising through there for a few of the podcasts that we want to put together. And we can find a couple a couple beats or music beds that we can work and pull something out of. And that's what I did like for way back when I put one together, you just put together a couple loops to kind of put your own your own music together. And then you can use that. And did you do that for KB VR? Yeah, that's what I did for for the old podcasts that I was doing. So this one for nice guy stuff, it'll be a lot of fun guys, I want to try and like do this one as a more tightly produced podcast over time, or like something where there's like a couple specific beats to hit, which would be a lot of fun to do, it'd be cool to try and see this thing grow over time. But this project, I think, specifically the night sky.io website, and the calendar, and the podcast is all gonna take a lot of nurturing this year, a lot of energy, and a lot of like feeding it to try and get it to be up and running and to be working. And it should be good. This is a cool project. I like the night sky stuff that we're gonna get to do. And it's a good excuse to kind of write off all of the, like photographic equipment that we want to do for night sky photography, and all the trips and travel stuff that we want to do or telescopes, all that stuff is now included. Yeah, well, we can kind of umbrella as all the stuff that we're trying to do for for night sky, which will be pretty fun.</

Marina and Billy talk about the 2016 night sky calendar of celestial events.

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Hello, and thank you for listening to this episode of the night sky.io podcast. My name is Billy Newman. And I'm Marina Hansen. And this is the first episode of a podcast we'll be continuing to do that will be focused on the night sky above us and some of the art projects that we're going to try and build around that, to kind of demonstrate and educate about the events of the night sky throughout the year that's upcoming. So it'll be pretty exciting. I think it'll be a lot of fun. And so this is the first podcast that we're doing. And what we're figuring is we're gonna probably build out a format for it over the next few weeks, as we kind of start to put the project together a little bit more and trying to do a little bit more production stuff. But what I'm excited to do today is talk about a little bit of the basic formula that we've got going on. And the main project that we have going on right now, which is the the night sky.io Kickstarter calendar. So it's this 2016 calendar that we have set up on night sky right now, at Kickstarter calm. And then if you search for night sky, it'll be the first project that you see, which is cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So we Yeah, we worked pretty hard for this last week to try and get the night sky Kickstarter project set up ready to go. We have our pledge level set. And we already have a few donors, which is really cool. We'll probably talk about that a little bit later in today's show. And I guess as figuring that, Marina, you and I would just talk a little bit about the art that we're making and about some of the stuff that we're putting together for this project so far. Sure. Sounds like a good plan to me. Yeah. So what have you been working on? So far for night sky stuff?

Well, right, this moment, I'm working on a graphic that is going to be used for the website. And also part of it will be reused, and will be a feature in the calendar as one of the landscapes. But it's right now for the graphic piece that it's going to be for the website. It's a silhouette of Mount Hood in Oregon. And I think it's from the perspective or the view from Portland. So the shape of it is kind of from that, that view. Oh, yeah, that makes that side of it. And then above it is, is a very full starry sky, kind of inspired by the Milky Way, but not necessarily exactly the Milky Way. Yeah, yeah. Sort of that idea of large, large amount of star clusters kind of stretched out.

Yeah, I think it's really cool. I've been looking at like what you've been working on, and it looks really good. And I guess for this one, we should kind of explain a little bit about what what we're building for the calendar. So I guess we haven't really talked too much about how we're building this calendar, that's going to be like demonstrating the night sky, which we did talk about. And then it's all going to be illustrations that you make of the night sky that sort of a representative of different scenes that we'll see throughout the year, which will be really cool. And then I think this page that you're making right now is really nice with the mountain as the silhouetted mountain and then the milky way above it. I think that looks really cool. Thanks. It's pretty neat. I like the other one that we made to or the the one that you have CRV, the CRV at the at the little precipice with the the Big Dipper out in front of it there. I think that's really cool, too.

Thanks. I like that one. Wow. So that'll be one. That'll be a landscape that is also featured in the calendar, though it won't probably won't be the Big Dipper.

Oh, yeah.

The main feature, though big might be in the background.

Five Planets In The Morning Sky Produced by Marina Hansen and Billy Newman.

The Occultation Of Aldebaran Viewing the Andromeda galaxy, The occultation of aldebaran, Mercury rising at dawn. Produced by Marina Hansen and Billy Newman. billynewmanphoto.com

The Latest Dawn Of The Year, Mercury Falling, 5 Planets in the morning sky, and the latest sunrise of the year.

Billy Newman and Marina Hansen

Marina and Billy talk about comet catalina

billynewmanphoto.com

Marina and Billy talk about the 2016 night sky calendar of celestial events.

www.billynewmanphoto.com