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Podcaster: Tony Darnell, Kevin M. Gill, John Suffill, Adam Smith and Alexander Reinders Title:Forget Backyard Imaging! Use NASA Telescopes Yoursel

Organization:  Deep Astronomy

Link : https://deepastronomy.space

Twitter @DeepAstronomy, https://facebook.com/DeepAstronomy

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/deepastronomy

Description: Why go through all the trouble and expense of buying and learning to use your own imaging equipment when you have access to ACTUAL Space Telescope data? If you’ve ever wanted to take a picture like the Hubble Space Telescope does of the Orion Nebula or capture Jupiter through the camera as well as the Juno spacecraft, then this hangout is for you. You can actually use data from these missions yourself.

The data taken with all space telescopes eventually end up in the public archives that you can download and process yourself. In this hangout we’ll discuss some of the ways of getting and processing this data for your own use. We’ll also take some time to talk about what its like to have job processing data from these major missions and some of the requirements of that job.

Bio: Tony Darnell is the owner of Deep Astronomy website and a host for the same hangout channel in Youtube. He has worked in the field of astronomy all my life, his first job was at a school district planetarium in Boulder, Colorado. With the exception of a stint in the Army in the 1980’s he heas worked in many aspects of astronomical research.

Most of his time has been spent writing software to retrieve, process and analyze data taken from telescopes. He has worked with data from some of the world’s largest ground-based and space-based telescopes: from the four meter Blanco telescope in Chile to the Hubble Space Telescope.

Astronomy education has always been his passion and he has written articles for DeepAstronomy.space website and produce astronomy videos for YouTube on the DeepAstronomy channel.

Adam “Synergy” Smith is the owner of unseenpodcast.com

Alexander Reinders from Germany

John Suffil is an amateur astronomer in UK.

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