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in the mid – seventies a
well-known brand of sodas sa with a
promotion in which the plate of the
some extraterrestrials came
would be the Martian the jupiter and not the
penultimate and if I got the collection
regaling a UFO that would rope and
I had a little light of colors what
then he was a boy of seven years in
my life had seen such a toy
wonderful as that then I
I insisted on having it but of course my mother
I did not want me to drink soda
tail because of course I could put
nervous
then he spoke with a friend of his
He had a bar and one day he came with a
bag full of eta lay and get to
fill it the entire collection on
album send it and my disappointment was
huge when a few days later it arrived
the postman with a package in which
he said he was sorry but the
cologne that had string
Exhausted
then why not me I could walk but
in exchange they gave him a book of
gastronomy book is entitled the universe
and that book was the spark that ignited
a passion that still lasts today I’m not
I want to tell you a little about the
work that we do what astronomers
fans
the first time I could see for a
telescope was the institute in montilla
around the third debut
we had a small telescope with what
that the one who knew best about everything
the moon was the moon in an object
fascinating
not in vain has it been the inspiration of
poets for centuries and surely
you all have the memory some
memory of a norm a huge moon
who has fascinated the moon looks very
big when it comes out of belo horizonte is
an optical effect that we can check
easily the next time you see the
light on the horizon you think
very large take a coin compare
the and then share it when one is
up but although the size
exactly the same then when
I made this photograph that chanel in the
castle cleared on my web page
we do not have a huge rush of visits
who came from china
I went in to see what they are
doing in china the photo and good
I found a photographer forum where
they discussed whether that photo was real or was a
mounting
obviously the real photo is not about
of no assembly has not made the photo
of the castle and then the moon and the
attached donated the photo is as it is
I saw my telescope telescope that
It was located eight kilometers from
castle to get this effect
but good beyond this kind of
photographs that we can say that
we can call artistic
it is very good that the nasa is fixed in your
photograph and use it in your
annual calendar or that the national
gallery asks you for a photograph to
include in the catalog
all that is very good but to me that
I have since a little one more mind
scientific
what I wanted was that my work
serve for something
for many years I devoted myself to
observe the moon observe a formation
is that there are some that are going
moles are both craters of
volcanic origin
because almost all the craters that are
come on the moon what comes here are from
impact but there is a very small
number of craters that have origin
volcanic and that they are interested in
in the future we will have to resort to
moon to provide us with minerals
then for many years it is
dedicated to study and catalog as
moles can draw attention that
be amazed what we have done
this work the work was done from
a website in italy in which he collaborated
as an international group of
observers and he
the point is that the moon stopped
observed in the sanatoriums
professionals since the late 19th century
is this a little before the 60s
when the apollo missions to the moon
practically has not been studied and there
a lot of field of study but that field has
been relegated to the fans
surface of the moon we see plagued
scars asteroid blows
that do not speak of a turbulent past and
they are also a warning
here you see me at the bottom of a crater
of 110 meters in diameter that is in
the island
disarms in estonia
and this crater was formed a few thousand
of year when meteorite impact and
He did it at a time when
Baltic region was already inhabited
the episode should have been tremendous and
it is picked up in the cadeva which the
book that collects the traditions
Finnish in an episode called
the tomb of the sun because the inhabitants
they could imagine that the same sun gives the
that was rushing against the earth
destroyed part of the forest that gave this
crater and there were surely victims
human beings also in fact I already say in the
oral tradition in the stories that are
that are counted in this area is this
episode is very interesting that we know
the asteroids that we have near because
some day power can happen again
this
you know that the dinosaur did not have
telescope and see how to finish now
luckily yes we have telescope and
we can at least try to avoid a
big problem as it connected objector in
the field of work that he dedicated in the
planetary observation that have a
photograph of the planet jupiter throw it
50s with the heyl telescope of 5
meters of diameter of the dovecote
the world’s largest telescope in its
era was the largest in the world
boxes to the afro years 70
in this other photograph you can see a
image captured with my telescope
only a quarter of a meter and you can see
that compared to that photo made
with the telescope of 2 5 meters of
diameter by technique has changed
much in this decade that what we do
It is the great enemy of photography
astronomical planetary in the
atmospheric turbulence
if we take a picture of jupiter in a
given time we will have different
layers of air at different heights with
different temperatures that make the
image is blurred and then what
we do now it’s not a photograph but
several thousand photographs
video actually and with that video from
Usually 3,000 4,000 frames
we piled all that frame and with a
program we get an average of which
would be the average photograph that is most
about those three thousand t they have done
this is done between three red colors
green and blue and we combine them to
combine it there too that rotate the the
image is because when we have done the
picture in red in blue and in green the
planet has moved a bit then
we have to defeat them and used a
question is something technical but
we got some details that makes 11
years was unthinkable in observatories
professionals who need draft
in this image you can see a
animation of Jupiter’s moon is
the dance of the planet the mass of the
planets of something absolutely
awesome a fascinating show
that we can see with a telescope
amateur when jupiter is visible
the months that it is seen I do
daily photos all
nights that he processed and sent to a
scientific program that leads to
out in japan and another european that has
the seat of the university of the Basque country
in short with our image and images of
amateurs because then observatory
the professionals do not observe the
planets with amateur images what
professional astronomers make model
that explain the dynamics of
planetary atmosphere or that a
work that has a utility
scientist in the field of work in the
solar observation in the sun
unlike the moon and the planets and
that there are many professional astronomers
who are dedicated to it but
traditionally also the astronomer
amateur we contribute with the counting
sunspots sunspots
here we have the biggest sunspot that
has been seen in the last 26 years
they produce because the energy that there is in
the interior of the sun can not emerge
emerge to the surface
by the magnetic field lines that
have then that area of the
solar surface will cool about 1,500
grams below the surrounding area
and by contrast they look black
they are not really black and they took a
bit of once again in the merger
with the sky it would be much more
bright that the full moon but by
contrast to the telescope seven seven
dark sunspots sometimes
sometimes they can provoke elections
of coronal material that sometimes does not
they reach the earth and that can create
a big problem big problem the the
greatest solar storm that we know is
produced in 1859 is known as an element
of carrington and at that moment that
I had not practically laid
electric, the only thing that
lines of telegraphy many central
of telegraphy burned down by the
currents that I know that the
induced currents that formed in
those cable and now we had a
similar event then we would be left without
GPS because the satellites were predicted and
we had a lot of problems online
high voltage that also
would destroy because it would burn the
transformers an event is calculated
of these characteristics we would take
almost a decade to recover I do not know that
you have to be very attentive to the sun the sun
produces the one that for me the greatest
astronomical phenomenon the most
can enjoy that the northern lights
had occasion to travel to the Arctic in
on several occasions to photograph it
the aurora borealis and really say if
can you ever in life
there’s going to be an aurora because really
It’s worth it where you see the
cosmic connection that exists between our
star and we are not but the
charged particles of solar wind
interact with magnetic fields
terrestrial and form this show
that truly fascinating but what
not many people know that also
can see aurora borealis is from lucena
for example the last time was in 1989
researching for an article from the
astronomy magazine to discover that maybe
the first detailed description of a
Aurora written in Spanish made her a
doctor of montilla that was called the
doctor luis de castro who wrote the
What is this book called?
planning of the great signals
that appeared in Cordoba on the day of
San Acisclo and Santa Victoria in the 11
November 1605 well he imagines that
the aurora is an effect of a
land installations
well we know that laura not that but
what is striking is that in
montilla in 1605 a work could be seen
we could perfectly see an hour
here and now in the lucena the next
year then we have a problem
the photograph is made from the
fields of the previous
this is in the safe saw of the
darker area that remain in our
country and in a photograph of the road
milky our galaxy known by
some like the camino de santiago
because it was said that it served to
guide the pilgrims and here in the
horizon can see a light I know they are
the lights of Ubeda and Baeza that
they are 60 kilometers in a straight line
Here we have a problem
light pollution looking at this
image of the facade of the station
international space
we see the situation that I am
talking about the situation we have in
Spain every time we have more lights and
all pollution problems what
that we have to face as
species humans converted the
greenhouse gases the
noise pollution
the easiest to solve everything
would be the light pollution that
light pollution is not a
problem that we steal the star and not
we can see the Milky Way from
lucena for example when 20 years ago
from any lack of light in acb and
now no longer
the problem is not the problem that all
that light has to be paid and the
electricity not exactly cheap it
try to illuminate rationally and
take advantage of a resource
a valuable like that of energy
another of the problems associated
the light pollution is that
affects many animal species in
asia are disappearing
many species of firefly because
they need to see each other
for your clear reproductive cycle with the
light of the city because they do not get to see each other and
are disappearing and falls to a
problem that is worth not
we could solve
that’s why I always say you have to turn off
the lamppost when we pay for the lamp
section of the star and the sky a
heritage not only invaluable not
only the greatest natural spectacle of
that we can enjoy but it is a
heritage that we should conserve
intact for our children
thank you very much
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