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- I got a few requests for more detail on how I tracked down the stars in the "Hyperspectral Mothership" video ( • Hyperspectral Mothersh... ) . So here's all the details. Warning: a bit technical.
The version of Stellarium I used: stellarium.org/
There's also a web version, which does the same thing, but with a different user interface. stellarium-web.org/
Astrometery: nova.astrometry.net/
Another excellent snack-sized serving of logic and reason.
Healthy snacks are great in between banquets.
Great work Mick! As for Mr. Frederick Portigal, his credibilty as any sort of astronomer is zero if he
mistakes Ursa Minor for Scorpio ! The one being a dim, non-descript northern constellation, the other
being a prominent and well known southern star pattern. Antares is a blazing red-orange star that
all astronomy fans recognize on a summer night. Meanwhile, Frederick is claiming to be a
"World renowned scientist" !
To be fair, you can be ‘renowned’ for being a fool!
Stellarium is great, I use it to tell whether a bright spot is Mars or Jupiter or Saturn.
Very useful tutorial. I especially liked the explanation of Stellarium’s image enhancement/view settings.
really enjoying these regular uploads! keep em coming my man!
Very cool, i like the way you respond to your viewers, thanks.
Mick West is a great teacher. Thank you.
I would have recognised Scorpio if this guy hadn't drawn those misleading Ursa minor lines. Thanx for this video, Mick!
Thank you for showing your working method Mick, that is very useful.
I think the naming of stars came about after astronomers had used Roman and Greek names for planets, and characters from Shakespeare plays for many of the moons in our solar system, they started giving stars Arabic names (and names from other cultures).
@@Drabkikker The names themselves yes, of course. But I'm referring to the names which were CHOSEN to give to newly discovered objects, or those which had not already been named. The age of the names is irrelevant; some Arabic names were given to stars as an homage to those who used them to navigate over 1000 years ago, not all of them were given those names 1000 years ago.
@@Drabkikker Yes, certainly some of those names you mentioned are indeed of ancient origin, but the earliest known recording of the name Rigel, for example is in the Alfonsine tables of 1521. The star Mick was referring to was Paikauhale, which is an Hawaiian name and surely not as ancient. I was referring to similar, more recently named stars.
@@Drabkikker No apologies necessary at all, my friend. Your questioning made me look up a few things to confirm what I THOUGHT I knew, and set me straight on some of them! Every day is a learning day, as they say. :)
Names are determined by the International Astronomical Union's system of nomenclature. Most stars also are given catalogue names like Messier objects, or NGC (New General Catalog), which is far more common as Messier was a French astronomer looking for comets, and named objects that "interfered" with his comet hunting. The IAU uses NGC strictly as it is more flexible, and forms a better catalogue.
Love your content man!
Nice tutorial. Very clear.
superb explanation!
With all the idiots being produced daily, you’re gonna have debunk content forever. I appreciate your work!
Daily Dose of Sanity
5 star tutorial.
Occam's Razor...
It MUST BE a Mothership! 😆
sshhh! Don't tell everybody!!
Hii, I captured a picture of galaxy with my iPhone and I don’t know how to identify can you help me
Please make more videos like this
very informative video! it baffles me how the portigal guy actively tries to deceive by drawing those fake constellation lines.
Timestamp for my futures self: The Stellarium tutorial starts at 7:47
CSI:astronomy 🙃
Thought of the ideal merch for you a few days back..
Tshirt with an alien head (pick any one) circle with a cross over it, with the caption:
"IT IS NEVER ALIENS!"
Because it is never aliens.
- A guy who has been watching it never being aliens for 60 years.
However, I can only grantee one sale.
Because, apparently, the world has become too stupid to live.
"Is it Aliens?"
@@Iamrightyouarewrong I highly doubt it. Main reason being is that the neck is too small to support such a large cranium. I proved that a long time ago, yet nobody ever seemed to take notice, not even the cultist ancient alienists!
Thanks Handsome... The Best Minds in The Research'n is in this circle of wooo. That comes from always being disbelieved while having the best proof of any thing on or off Earth
You can also just ask me. I have a photographic memory of the constellations.
Mick West for President 2024
Or perhaps have the Government hire Mick to write the next UAP report, what a disappointment after so much hype...
Mick, the saying goes if it ain't broke don't fix it. You have this down to a science my friend. You always go after low hanging fruit. I have yet to see you analyze vids that are much harder to explain. But hey, you sell books debunking easy videos/evidence that are easy. Keep up the good work😜.
You think the tictac, gimball and gofast videos are low hanging fruit?
Mick's never claimed to be able to debunk with 100% certainty every video. Quite the opposite in fact - he's careful to point out that all explanations exist on a continuum of probability, with some being more reasonable than others.
I imagine one factor for covering these is time - he can bang out a shorter debunking like this one relatively quickly, while a longer video might take a couple of weeks. He's done both in the past and I expect he'll continue to cover both.
Besides, even "easy targets" like this case are widely held (in the UAP community) to be definitive proof of aliens. Mick's debunking does exactly what it should - hurt the credibility of anyone claiming such. If "experts" cannot even fact check the simplest of errors why am I lending any weight to their conclusions on any video?
Which fruit do you feel hangs the highest?
That was damn snarky. Don't troll Mick West because you think he is low hanging fruit. Typically, unknown things are difficult to explain probably because if they were easy to explain then they would be explained.
@@kenkaniff8428 Mick has a playlist all about it. The gofast one is the one seemingly flying above the sea. Mick's playlist on it is called "Navy UFO Videos - FLIR/GIMBAL/GOFAST Analyses".
.... Do you still think Biden got 81,000,000 votes Mick? :D
@@Hogla287 IKR? Idiots everywhere! And they think they are right!
@@Hogla287 The majority of voters polled now say fraud "Likely" affected the outcome of the 2020 election. That number is growing. We could debate - Or just wait. Smell ya later Hungry Hoagie.
Let's talk politics everywhere, that's a really good idea
@@whitehartlane7240 First of all, name your source for this poll. Secondly, so what? Since when does the collective feelings of a group of people trump physical evidence? If there was fraud, prove it. Republicans tried - lord knows they tried - and ended up nowhere, even in Republican controlled courts. So then, how deep does the conspiracy go?
It's easy to find conspiracies when you don't know how anything works.
@@whitehartlane7240 There was tons of fraud. Democrats should investigate every single GOP victory nationwide.
gerrymandering, provisional ballots, votor purges, shuttered voting locations, dead people voting for trump, fake ballot boxes, fake psa phone calls telling people the election is on the wrong day, people crossing state borders to vote for trump twice, intimidation of election officials, even gop putting up same name candidates as the democratic opposition in order to confuse votors.