I was at the site of the fabulous Oregon Star Party a few days before the event and met a long time organizer. When I asked, "How much is party and how much is star?, she answered, "Its all Party and all Star." Great answer. I live over four hours travel from any club but like to travel to the star party at Bruneau Dunes, Idaho, USA hosted by the Boise Astronomical Society. They are a friendly and welcoming group.
Starparties are awesome. I had my first one back in 2006 when I was just starting to get interested in the night sky. Even as a beginner I was welcomed with open arms. And here in the Netherlands it is easy to keep in touch in real life because we live with so many people in so little space. Of course that gives us some of the worst skies available as well... I have made many friends for life on starparties and I've been on several astronomy holidays with some as well. Even better, I've met my wife through astronomy.
Great to see you passing down your passion for astronomy to your son. I'm sure that his interest in sharing time with you was very special. He will remember these times for the rest of his life.
I do not usually comment on videos unless it's worth it. This one definitely is. You normally produce good quality stuff, this one is superb. The atmosphere, music, information, it all matches up. As you mention, enjoy the moment, we're all gonna die one day. You surely know how to enjoy. I hope our day is still far, far away....
Love your videos, Dylan and this one was a delight. We have astrocamps down here in Tassie, all great fun like this one. Bortle 1 skies, however, are only to be had in the dark Tasmanian midlands....Deliverance country.. Nice shots of the Milky Way, too.
The local party of favor in my neck of the woods (Oklahoma, US) is the Okie-Tex Star Party, held in September or October each year at Black Mesa in the far NW corner of the Oklahoma panhandle. It is hosted by the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club. Black Mesa is a premier darksky location in the U.S. and, if the weather cooperates, it's a wonderful opportunity for starlight-shadow quality viewing. Highly recommended if you ever get this direction. As always, thanks much for sharing. Steve
Lucky to have clear skies in winter, hope it was good. Looking forward to a weekend away in the WA wheat belt October with some of my Astro Friends. Great vid. Keep it up
Really enjoyed the walk round talking to people, especially liked the guy with the C14, he looked like a right laugh. Can we crowd fund to get him a ZWO so he can at least image the planets, he's clearly living on canned beans after forking out for a C14 Edge and TV Ethos :D
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I've yet to go to a star party 👍I have organised outreach days though.....really cool seeing everyone and the telescopes ☺ who share the same passion 🔭
Great video, agree this is one of your best, and of great interest to fellow amateur astronomers because we all love a good star party, even reliving them through a video like this.
Awesome video Dylan. We met Saturday morning when you shared you hot water bottle with me. I feel we bonded in that moment ;) you little guy was amazing. So we'll behaved and so polite. Hope to see you next year
Ahh that’s great buddy. Was good to meet you. I could see you were a bit colder than me at that moment :) Zen was very patient so I’ll pass on your praise!
Nice star-party Dylan! Me too, just got back from astro-party in Negev desert by local astronomy association . Actually, it was a bit overcrowded for me, about 200 people showed up. Couln't get this feel of almost intimacy with night sky we all know. Most of them were observers, so the sky near them looked like a laser show. Had to move from them a bit to start our astrophotography magic :) Ended up with good 6 hours of Bubble nebula data. ...Ehhm, Just figured out - it's another gem hidden from southern hemisphere. Totally amazing object!
I don't know; "These five words scream in my head - been to star party yet?" Always enjoy watching your vids with the Down Under perspective. Dark skies, Dylan.
Brilliant Dylan. I’m in a fb group called the uk cloud magnets. They’ve been on a couple of star party’s and even arranged their own star party. Not much luck though as it’s been cloudy 😂
One thing imagers always say is that they can see dimmer objects in finer detail than visual guys, no, you can *image* fainter things, we can *see* fainter things. That difference is why I’m in the visual camp.
Wow... The eyepiece at 6:24 is more expensive than a lot of 12 inch Dobsonians! Don't even want to hazard a guess at the price of the scope it's attached to...
If a time machine existed, I would go back and bring Galileo and Newton to our time so they can experience what our modern optics can achieve, and how helpful their research in their time was. Not to mention how they would look at our blinky gizmos and stuff. I wonder if Galileo would be team visual and Newton team camera, lol.
what amount of time do astro imagers at a star party typically spend on targets? , do they spend all their time on a target or two or just seek out as many as they can? coming from a bortle 6 i typically spend 14 hrs on a target ,how well would a bortle 1 scale down on my integration time?
So many variables! Each imager is different. But the total time isn’t as important as number of subs. Aim for 40 subs on each channel. The total time varies depending on length of each sub to get the signal you want for the target you’re on.
sounds like the visual bug bite to me .. that cough.... dr televue gonna love you ..lol ...... never been to a star party ... excellent video dylan looks like there was fun allround ... thanks man cheers james D
@@DylanODonnell mate you better look into that "not sponsored issue" to fix that cough lol ..... you deserve the sponsors and to be well cheers james D
How was the weather overall? Saw a few posts about cloudy nights. We had some pretty crappy days in brisbane which affected you guys as well I think. Love your widefield post btw :)
@@DylanODonnell Glad you guys had a good time, what an experience for your little bloke. I've been so focused on getting my mount/scope all set up properly I've neglected my star adventurer so you've inspired me to dust it off and do some widefield stuff while I wait for my new cam to arrive
Lovely video, however the star flu must have gotten you pretty bad, as you didn't even notice and comment the visual astronomers hand motion at 6:28 when he mentioned the price of his eyepiece :D
Ok here’s my long post... I did promise not to make any more long posts. Just a hi and great video post. But I’m a true liar. Anywho... I stopped bring my stuff to star parties. Why bring my stuff when I can use other people stuff. Sorry I just dropped you eyepiece. Stop bring food... why should I bring food when I can just ask if I can have a piece of your pizza or chicken... you not going to be rude and say no... or are you... cooler with beer in it is free game to me... KIDS! I have my get off my lawn sign for that! As for paying to get in... no way... I just do what we did way back when getting into drive in movies as a teenage... hide in the trunk... that’s boot for all you British speaking people. Showers... we’re civilized... showers are there... there are some showers outside too... wear shorts or optional be naked... we’re all adults. Lastly, I have my stupid questions when moving from scope to scope... how far can you see with that thing... can you see the flag on the moon... blah... blah... blah. People just don’t hang with me at star parties for some reason.
All kidding aside... my first real star part was the ‘Winter Star Party’ in the middle of the Florida Everglades back in the late 80’s. I think the Everglades is the world’s biggest swamp full of mosquitoes, snakes and alligators. After the first couple of star parties it moved to the Florida Keys, a tropical paradise. I used to give a talk on digital imaging and video taping the night sky. I even came up with the idea to stacking video frames way before anybody else. Back then we used a computer board called a frame grabber... basically making a screen shot of the image. Oh the good old days of 640x480 6.35 mm CCD chips.
So...did I get that right. If you use White light a mop of Aussis will shout at you...but...A bunch of drunken Aussies around thousands of $ worth of stuff...is accepted?!?! I would go nuclear if a drunk got near my stuff.
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I was at the site of the fabulous Oregon Star Party a few days before the event and met a long time organizer. When I asked, "How much is party and how much is star?, she answered, "Its all Party and all Star." Great answer. I live over four hours travel from any club but like to travel to the star party at Bruneau Dunes, Idaho, USA hosted by the Boise Astronomical Society. They are a friendly and welcoming group.
One of the best Videos I have seen from you. Great voice, good music, excellent visuals, all around fun. Excellent video!
Hey thanks Ray! Just a quick little edit.. glad it came across ok!
Superb video, thank you for sharing 🙏😀, clear skies 🎁🎁🎁🎉🎉🎉
Starparties are awesome. I had my first one back in 2006 when I was just starting to get interested in the night sky. Even as a beginner I was welcomed with open arms. And here in the Netherlands it is easy to keep in touch in real life because we live with so many people in so little space. Of course that gives us some of the worst skies available as well... I have made many friends for life on starparties and I've been on several astronomy holidays with some as well. Even better, I've met my wife through astronomy.
Great to see you passing down your passion for astronomy to your son. I'm sure that his interest in sharing time with you was very special. He will remember these times for the rest of his life.
This looks like so much fun! I would love to go to an Australian star party!!!
"No Nickelback" - goes without saying :D
Too funny.
Look at this astrophotographhhhh.....
NEVER NICKELBACK
Good one Dylan! But why don't you come the the BIG ONE - The South Pacific Star Party under Bortle 1 - 2 sky? I'll bring some good red for you!
Great to see you there Dylan. Hope you can make it back to Astrofest QLD next year.
Cheers
Anthony Grimshaw you too mate! This year was my third and I don’t think Zenon will let me miss another year ever again.
I do not usually comment on videos unless it's worth it. This one definitely is.
You normally produce good quality stuff, this one is superb. The atmosphere, music, information, it all matches up. As you mention, enjoy the moment, we're all gonna die one day. You surely know how to enjoy. I hope our day is still far, far away....
Nice to see you connecting with visual astronomy.
Love your videos, Dylan and this one was a delight. We have astrocamps down here in Tassie, all great fun like this one. Bortle 1 skies, however, are only to be had in the dark Tasmanian midlands....Deliverance country.. Nice shots of the Milky Way, too.
Haha deliverance country! Inland QLD is only marginally better I suspect ;)
The local party of favor in my neck of the woods (Oklahoma, US) is the Okie-Tex Star Party, held in September or October each year at Black Mesa in the far NW corner of the Oklahoma panhandle. It is hosted by the Oklahoma City Astronomy Club. Black Mesa is a premier darksky location in the U.S. and, if the weather cooperates, it's a wonderful opportunity for starlight-shadow quality viewing. Highly recommended if you ever get this direction.
As always, thanks much for sharing.
Steve
Thanks! I hear great things about it and would love to check it out someday.
Lucky to have clear skies in winter, hope it was good. Looking forward to a weekend away in the WA wheat belt October with some of my Astro Friends. Great vid. Keep it up
It’s pretty mild! Thanks!
Really enjoyed the walk round talking to people, especially liked the guy with the C14, he looked like a right laugh. Can we crowd fund to get him a ZWO so he can at least image the planets, he's clearly living on canned beans after forking out for a C14 Edge and TV Ethos :D
Haha Doug is anti camera .. which is a shame because that thing would image planets LIKE A BOSS !
That was so good! Haha so funny was your usually sign off line with an added twist...
Tony did a great job also, very funny you two together!
Awesome Vid Dillion, looks like your son had a blast and Bortle 1 Skys! The best I have ever seen Is Bortle 2.
Thanks Matt! We had a great time. One of the highlights of the year for sure.
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Dylan You Are One Of My Favorite Astrophotographers! Keep Up The Great Work!
I Am A Beginner 11 Year Old Astrophotographer
Thanks bud! Glad you enjoy the videos :)
Your winter is much nicer than our summer. I have had one decent night since May. I am however drinking lots of beer
Yeh summer sucks here too. So much humidity and rain.
I've yet to go to a star party 👍I have organised outreach days though.....really cool seeing everyone and the telescopes ☺ who share the same passion 🔭
So much fun!
Great vid. Gave me a great idea to use a tent to block the wind, I’ve never seen so many tents at a star party here in the states.
Really great idea I reckon! Solves a whole bunch of problems at once.
Your editing skills are bloody seemless mate!
Good on ya!
Great video, agree this is one of your best, and of great interest to fellow amateur astronomers because we all love a good star party, even reliving them through a video like this.
Hey thanks Roger! Glad to know something so untechnical is still watchable for you guys :)
Great video, good info, good low key delivery, and good humor.
Love your sense of humor. Fantastic video. I want more Dylan (in a purely platonic, non-stalker way)
Haha thanks Alan!
Excellent, but very short video. I love star parties.
Thanks mate!
What is the difference between bortle 1-3? I’ve been to a 3 this summer and that was breathtaking how much better can it get?
Excellent Video Dylan well done.
Thanks !
Awesome video Dylan. We met Saturday morning when you shared you hot water bottle with me. I feel we bonded in that moment ;) you little guy was amazing. So we'll behaved and so polite. Hope to see you next year
Ahh that’s great buddy. Was good to meet you. I could see you were a bit colder than me at that moment :) Zen was very patient so I’ll pass on your praise!
Awesome video, Dylan! Gotta get myself out to something like this.
Sounds like you had a great time, hopefully I can head out there next year, great tips and a great Milky Way shot Dylan!
Thanks Taine! 🍻
Nice star-party Dylan!
Me too, just got back from astro-party in Negev desert by local astronomy association .
Actually, it was a bit overcrowded for me, about 200 people showed up.
Couln't get this feel of almost intimacy with night sky we all know.
Most of them were observers, so the sky near them looked like a laser show.
Had to move from them a bit to start our astrophotography magic :)
Ended up with good 6 hours of Bubble nebula data.
...Ehhm, Just figured out - it's another gem hidden from southern hemisphere.
Totally amazing object!
Another great northern target! Yeh lasers are banned at Star parties here (which is fair enough).
I wish we had a Bintel on the east coast in the states. They sound great. Nice shout out to the Cold War with that reds under the bed reference. 🤓
Hehe glad someone got it. High point scientific are very reputable for your side of the world! Tell em I sent you.
Great vid mate! Really enjoyed it. Missing seeing the night sky down here in Melbourne. ⭐️
Hey thanks Del! Long time no speak. Hope you’re rocking :)
I don't know; "These five words scream in my head - been to star party yet?" Always enjoy watching your vids with the Down Under perspective. Dark skies, Dylan.
Do it! Thanks for watching John :)
Nice vid Dylan !!! No Nickelback
Loving the Tune, LEMMiNO - Infinity and an awesome event as always.
Cool track eh! Great lyrics about space and photography .. couldn’t have asked for a better match. I should contact them to say thanks.
Check out the ASV site - we have two public star parties in a calendar year at Heathcote Victoria 👍
Great video, Dylan! Lots of good tips if I'm ever able to attend one!
Good to hear! Thanks!
Nice video! Great way to spend time with your son!
Thanks mate! He looks forward to it every year. Good kid.
Brilliant Dylan. I’m in a fb group called the uk cloud magnets. They’ve been on a couple of star party’s and even arranged their own star party. Not much luck though as it’s been cloudy 😂
One thing imagers always say is that they can see dimmer objects in finer detail than visual guys, no, you can *image* fainter things, we can *see* fainter things. That difference is why I’m in the visual camp.
Dylan.....get some wine for that cough. . Lol. Another great video my friend. Good to see your son out there with you. Getting big.
Wine...wine works for the french...he needs a Whisky...that will burn shit right out of you
Hah thanks Chris and Retro.. am working on it 🍷 🥃
Wow... The eyepiece at 6:24 is more expensive than a lot of 12 inch Dobsonians! Don't even want to hazard a guess at the price of the scope it's attached to...
Haven't seen Terry Cuttle for a while now. Quite a few faces I know there. Yet to go to Astrofest. Bucket list...
See you there next year!
If a time machine existed, I would go back and bring Galileo and Newton to our time so they can experience what our modern optics can achieve, and how helpful their research in their time was.
Not to mention how they would look at our blinky gizmos and stuff.
I wonder if Galileo would be team visual and Newton team camera, lol.
Great job Dylan... I was sad it ended so soon
Glad to know some people watch to the end!
Nice Dylan. I have Irish Blood, no such thing at too much alcohol. Cheers!
Great video Dylan. Enjoy the times bring your son to the star party, both of mine are now bored with astronomy (8 & 12).
Oh yeh I get it. He’s bored but feigns interest for my benefit. Bless him.
@@DylanODonnell I have confidence that later in life they will revisit the hobby. If they don't I'm gonna have to sell off all my awesome gear!
Entertaining as ever mate, At least the weather up north is bearable even in winter as opposed to Victoria
Thanks Nick!
i cant wait for a star party. im heading to the us for one next year
Nice!
Very interesting. I love this video.
I love your video's, even with the astroflu... :)
Where was the star party located in queensland?
Camp Duckadang, just a bit north of Linville.
Thanks Alex! What Taine said :)
Ah, you must be in need a northern hemisphere star party for the Big dipper and Cassiopea :-)
what amount of time do astro imagers at a star party typically spend on targets? , do they spend all their time on a target or two or just seek out as many as they can? coming from a bortle 6 i typically spend 14 hrs on a target ,how well would a bortle 1 scale down on my integration time?
So many variables! Each imager is different. But the total time isn’t as important as number of subs. Aim for 40 subs on each channel. The total time varies depending on length of each sub to get the signal you want for the target you’re on.
Hi Yobb89, The images I took during the week were about 5-8 hours integration. At that point the noise really disappeared and the details came out.
Ain't no party like a star party!
Yehhhh boi
sounds like the visual bug bite to me .. that cough.... dr televue gonna love you ..lol ...... never been to a star party ... excellent video dylan looks like there was fun allround ... thanks man
cheers
james D
haha "Dr Televue" love it! Although just buy Explore Sci EP's at half the price and buy an astro camera with the money saved. That's the cure :D
Haha not sponsored ! I could spend $20k on a visual rig ... or I could just look through Doug’s every year at QLD Astrofest :)
@@DylanODonnell mate you better look into that "not sponsored issue" to fix that cough lol ..... you deserve the sponsors and to be well
cheers
james D
How was the weather overall? Saw a few posts about cloudy nights. We had some pretty crappy days in brisbane which affected you guys as well I think. Love your widefield post btw :)
haha awesome Tony is in your vid! He's been super helpful to me while I'm learning
Hehe yeh Tony’s great. Weather was fine when we were there. It was raining 2 mins before we arrived. 😆
@@DylanODonnell Glad you guys had a good time, what an experience for your little bloke. I've been so focused on getting my mount/scope all set up properly I've neglected my star adventurer so you've inspired me to dust it off and do some widefield stuff while I wait for my new cam to arrive
One of these years I'll manage to come back for another Astrofest...
Would be good to finally meet ya Britstra !
A friend and I were there earlier in the week pity we missed you
Oh bummer! If you see me anywhere don’t hesitate to come say gday.
@@DylanODonnell unfortunately we left on the Tuesday and I gather you didn't get there until after that
All those mirrors facing directly towards the sun with no covers... makes me anxious
What's the best way to find out when they are on?
Your local astronomy society! In Australia Bintel is a good resource too.
Lovely video, however the star flu must have gotten you pretty bad, as you didn't even notice and comment the visual astronomers hand motion at 6:28 when he mentioned the price of his eyepiece :D
We were hoping to export Nickleback to Australia, sincerely Canada
Haha nice try eh
@@DylanODonnell oh come on you have a town that is famous for their love of Mullets, it just makes sense...
Not sure you will recover from that flu mate, you had better get out to some more Star Parties. Great images also, simple is sometimes best.
Astro man flu. If I die, tell my family I love them.
7:12 what did he say?
As a Canadian: about Nickleback...yeah. Sorry about that, eh!?
Wow! That is a fat telescope!
Phat.
@02:14 " ...everything is meaningless and we're all going to die......"?
No...... no....... 👆 this..... is why we're doing it.....
Just to be around that many other folks with telescopes....wow.....
It’s a buzz! Especially at sunset.
Great video, sadly there's no star parties in my ignorant sh country.
Why? Light pollution or general social apathy?
@@DylanODonnell both but more the second.
technically any party you throw can be called a 'star party' as you're a youtube star :-)
I'm sorry, you said Bortle what?!? OMG
Yeh it’s RIDICULOUS.
I could watch this guy read a phone book...
Next video 😆
I agree!
LOL "Meth Binge"
Now we know where Covid started...
Ok here’s my long post... I did promise not to make any more long posts. Just a hi and great video post. But I’m a true liar. Anywho... I stopped bring my stuff to star parties. Why bring my stuff when I can use other people stuff. Sorry I just dropped you eyepiece. Stop bring food... why should I bring food when I can just ask if I can have a piece of your pizza or chicken... you not going to be rude and say no... or are you... cooler with beer in it is free game to me... KIDS! I have my get off my lawn sign for that! As for paying to get in... no way... I just do what we did way back when getting into drive in movies as a teenage... hide in the trunk... that’s boot for all you British speaking people. Showers... we’re civilized... showers are there... there are some showers outside too... wear shorts or optional be naked... we’re all adults. Lastly, I have my stupid questions when moving from scope to scope... how far can you see with that thing... can you see the flag on the moon... blah... blah... blah. People just don’t hang with me at star parties for some reason.
Haha maybe I need to do another video on managing your ASD in ASD biased crowds at Star parties.
All kidding aside... my first real star part was the ‘Winter Star Party’ in the middle of the Florida Everglades back in the late 80’s. I think the Everglades is the world’s biggest swamp full of mosquitoes, snakes and alligators. After the first couple of star parties it moved to the Florida Keys, a tropical paradise. I used to give a talk on digital imaging and video taping the night sky. I even came up with the idea to stacking video frames way before anybody else. Back then we used a computer board called a frame grabber... basically making a screen shot of the image. Oh the good old days of 640x480 6.35 mm CCD chips.
Star party and astronomy club are NON-EXISTENT in my country. Telescopes DO NOT sell in my country.
So...did I get that right. If you use White light a mop of Aussis will shout at you...but...A bunch of drunken Aussies around thousands of $ worth of stuff...is accepted?!?! I would go nuclear if a drunk got near my stuff.
🍺 > 💡
Bla bla bla, waste of time
There’s plenty more where that came from!