Astrophotography Japan / Fremont Peak Observatory (Episode 35)
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- Опубліковано 24 сер 2024
- Family commitments brought me from Japan to the USA, in Spring 2024. During a stop-over in the California Bay Area, I managed to arrange one night of visual astronomy at Fremont Peak Observatory (FPO), in the mountains south of San Jose. I had privileged access to the sites Newtonian telescope with a focal length of more than 3.6 meters (0.762 meter aperture). What an incredible night of viewing! You can visit FPO as well; check their website for public outreach viewing nights. This video highlights an amazing amateur telescope and observatory in Northern California. It chronicles my adventure and impressions on one incredible night of visual astronomy.
01:15. Fremont Peak Observatory Description
03:00. Observatory Building Details
03:35. FPO Main Telescope
04:51. Astronomy Nerds (us) viewing that Night
06:25. Observatory & Telescope Preparations
08:38. Viewing Time & Photos with the Equipment
09:40. Visual Targets selected for that Night
11:32. Viewing the Moon
12:30. Clean-up, Cover-up & Final Comments
Interesting.
Do you live anywhere near California?
Beautiful trip 🤩
Thanks Massimo, it was memorable!
Thanks for sharing your adventure with this impressive telescope.
Beautiful video and pictures too.
Visual observing with such a big scope leaves an onforgettable impression.
Nice that you could share this with your brother.
Clear skies
Paul
It was a slightly unusual video, but it seems to be fairly well viewed. I am glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes / clear skies! PAUL
I was unaware of this observatory. Thanks for educating us about it. Another great video, Paul!
My pleasure, Lance. As always, thanks for watching. Best to you and Shadow! PAUL
Wow! What’s an amazing experience. Also what’s a coincidence, I recently knew about FPOA through an Apple engineer who is also a member of the FPOA. I live in SF and have always want to check it out. Thanks for a great video as always!
Oh wow, another local guy in the Bay area. I am happy to know that I have APJ channel viewers around the region! Yea, you definitely should check out FPO! Thanks for watching Astrophotography Japan! PAUL
Super fantastic video and demonstration. I would love to see such deep sky objects through a large scope like that. I do really wonder if you add a astro camera to that hugh scope what the images would look like compared to a smaller scope we normally use. You can imagine what type of detail you can get with M13 Hercules cluster would like through a modern astro camera compared to visual observation in that large scope. Can you imagine the details? Great job Paul!
Hey Grant. I'm glad you enjoyed the video despite having no astro-images. Definitely a great experience for me! I plan to visit again, probably next summer for an extended time. I am "with you" on the imaging idea! My intentions next time are to bring along an adapter, imaging camera, ASIAIR and AD/DC converter. That is all I need to give it a try! Guiding would be impossible, but exposure times could be very short, I am sure. It's worth a try, just for fun! Cheers!
Hey, I’m a long time FPOA member! I was surprised to see this video on your channel 😮. I bet I have crossed path with your brother before. Maybe I’ll run into him at the upcoming Star-B-Cue. Clear skies!
Oh, that is really cool! Please do "say hello"! More than likely you have already met him. Phil is a classic astronomer (old school). He does not do any astrophotography. But if you have access to a telescope like that at Fremont Peak, I can easily understand why!
@@jpastroguy This is actually funny because this coming Friday, I’ll be publishing a video about … Japan 😜 on my UA-cam channel (Dark Sky Geek) Anyway, great video, and I generally enjoy your content, so keep it up!
@@jlecomte0719 Thanks for watching and the nice comments. And I appreciate the tip about your upcoming video and channel. I am looking forward to it and others @ Dark Sky Geek!
Hi Julian, Wow! Small world. Hope to met you the the FPOA Star-B-Que next month! Phil
@@jpastroguy I love visual observing. There is something about letting those photons tickle your retina (instead of being swallowed up by silicon) after coming so far for so long that appeals to me. A sense of oneness with the cosmos, I suppose. Anyway, I do occasionally take constellation or comet shots with a fast wide angle or telephoto lens on my DLSR mounted on a tripod, but haven't done much deep sky imaging since my grad student days at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy atop 14,000 ft Mauna Kea. There I would ride in the prime focus cage of the 144 inch Canada France Hawaii Telescope taking long exposure images of galaxies on Hypersensitized Kodak 4N plates the old fashioned way, by manually keeping a guide star on an illuminated reticle using a hand-held drive control paddle while staring into an eyepiece for hours. Things are so much easier now! You don't realize how good you got it! Isn't technology wonderful?
Another great video. I've started doing shorts and would really love your advice and opinion.
Thanks! I will take a look at your new shorts, etc.!