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  1. 09/24/2020

    Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 157 First Day Of Fall

    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 If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work or a podcast interview, please drop me an email. Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session, please visit  GoldenHourWedding.com or you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here. If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here. If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here. If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com. If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free. Want to hear from me more often? Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here. If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. 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. Link First Day Of Fall Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About  https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ 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 corrido

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  2. 08/03/2020

    Billy Newman Photo Podcast | 150 Comet Neowise

    Comet Neowise 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, Produced by Billy Newman and Marina Hansen Link Comet Neowise Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work, or  a podcast interview, please drop me an email.  Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session,  please visit  GoldenHourWedding.comor you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here. If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here. If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here. If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com. If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free. Want to hear from me more often?Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here. If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here.https://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/billynewmanphotopodcast 150 Billy Newman Photo podcast mixdown Comet Neowise 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 O

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  3. The Night Sky Podcast | The Movement Of The Milky Way 10/28/18

    10/30/2018

    The Night Sky Podcast | The Movement Of The Milky Way 10/28/18

    The Night Sky Podcast | The Movement Of The Milky Way 10/28/18 Produced by Billy Newman and Marina Hansen The Movement Of The Milky Way 10/28/18 Link Website Billy Newman Photo http://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   http://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ Billy Newman Photo Podcast Feed http://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/billynewmanphotopodcast If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work, or  a podcast interview, please drop me an email.  Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session,  please visit  GoldenHourWedding.com or you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here. If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here. If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here. If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com. If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free. Want to hear from me more often?Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here. If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. Produced by Billy Newman and Marina Hansen Link Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here. 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 thin

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  4. 10/27/2018

    Night Sky 365 10-26-18

    Night Sky 365 10-26-18 If you’re looking to discuss photography assignment work, or  a podcast interview, please drop me an email.  Drop Billy Newman an email here. If you want to book a wedding photography package, or a family portrait session,  please visit  GoldenHourWedding.com or you can email the Golden Hour Wedding booking manager here. If you want to look at my photography, my current portfolio is here. If you want to purchase stock images by Billy Newman, my current Stock photo library is here. If you want to learn more about the work Billy is doing as an Oregon outdoor travel guide, you can find resources on GoldenHourExperience.com. If you want to listen to the Archeoastronomy research podcast created by Billy Newman, you can listen to the Night Sky Podcast here. If you want to read a free PDF eBook written by Billy Newman about film photography: you can download Working With Film here. Yours free. Want to hear from me more often?Subscribe to the Billy Newman Photo Podcast on Apple Podcasts here. If you get value out of the photography content I produce, consider making a sustaining value for value financial contribution, Visit the Support Page here. Produced by Billy Newman and Marina Hansen Link Night Sky 365 10-26-18 Website Billy Newman Photo https://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube  https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page  https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter  https://twitter.com/billynewman Instagram  https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ About   https://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ You can find my latest photo books all on Amazon here.

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  5. 10/26/2018

    Night Sky 365 10-25-18

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  6. 10/25/2018

    Night Sky 365 10-24-18

    Night Sky 365 10-24-18

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  7. The Night Sky Podcast – 10/23/18 Observations In Maui

    10/25/2018

    The Night Sky Podcast – 10/23/18 Observations In Maui

    The Night Sky Podcast - 10/23/18 Observations In Maui ______________________________________ Produced by Billy Newman and Marina Hansen Link Website Billy Newman Photo – http://billynewmanphoto.com/ YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/billynewmanphoto Facebook Page – https://www.facebook.com/billynewmanphotos/ Twitter – https://twitter.com/billynewman Patreon – https://www.patreon.com/billynewmanphoto Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/billynewman/ Website Billy Newman Photo – http://billynewmanphoto.com/ About   –   http://billynewmanphoto.com/about/ Get Out There Podcast Feed http://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/getoutthere Media Tech Podcast Feed http://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/media-tech-podcast The Night Sky Podcast Feed http://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/thenightskypodcast Billy Newman Photo Podcast Feed http://billynewmanphoto.com/feed/podcast/billynewmanphotopodcast Ebook Working With Film (2013) http://billynewmanphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Working_With_Film.pdf Ebook Western Overland Excursion (2012) http://billynewmanphoto.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Western-Overland-Excursion-E-book-0812.pdf 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

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