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The 1800's did not have astrophotography haha. Photography wasnt even invented until 1820's, and the photo of the Orion Nebula wasnt taken until the 1880's. He literally goes into detail explaining the timeline in the video lol
Weather and Space are objectively the coolest. The coolest is space weather, like Venus's clouds, the great red dot of Jupiter, and the winds of Neptune.
I like the old astrophotos as much the new ones . . because they make a good refference to work from. and for photography of something as exotic and diverse as the Deep Sky Objects , you prettymuch need refference to know what you're looking at. the photo it's self is only half of the story , no matter how good or flashy it is.
@@Rowan66109"Nah none of these are real. This is all a lie. This is an optical illusion, that one? That galaxy is _NOT_ real. All of this is fake and a speculation. NASA built all of this so we can believe it. This is the truth." -random ass flat earther
hey king, i was just recently diagnosed with leukemia and it’s a scary time, watching your videos really helps me relax and forget about the tribulations. i appreciate you. ps make more videos
You sir are quickly rising the ranks of my favourite youtubers of all time. Every topic youve covered has absolutely hit home for me and heaps of other viewers. Keep on keeping on Sweggy weggy
I was laughing like a complete idiot at the idea of going to the movie theater just to purchase popcorn and leaving. That was gold! Keep it up my hot buttered friend.
Man, that was both enlightening and bizarre in so many ways. I agree with you on the photo of Pluto, absolutely amazing! I think that this video should be shown in science classes all over the country, GREAT job!👍👍
I love the variety of videos with space now!! I always saw your telescope in your background and wondered if you actually used it, or if it was just for show. This is in my opinion, your best/most entertaining and interesting video yet! I'm excited to see more.
In case anyone was wondering if these old paintings and photos still have any scientific value, we have recently proven the correlation between sunspots and solar flares, so at 6:15 this is now a record of the solar activity on that day all those years ago before people started keeping those kinds of records. (sunspots form at the base of solar flares, and i believe they are the only way to see the location of solar flares with a visible spectrum camera under normal conditions aka not blocking the sun to see the corona.)
I'm a little sad you didn't go into more detail with the absolutely astonishing feat of the event horizon telescope- the amount of math needed to process the raw data, and the idea of using the very planet itself as the basis for a telescope is incredible.
That's radio-astronomy and didn't start till 1933. I don't think he wanted to cover it as it would make for a long video to cover other forms besides visual for astronomy. Even the JWST isn't visual.
We used to "use" visible light only for photography, now we use all every wavelength of the electromagnet spectrum, even subatomic particles are used for imaging, amazing.
Another excellent video. I've been an amateur astronomy since my father bought my first telescope on my 8th birthday in 1969. I've been witness to the advances of astronomical images for 55 years. I dabbled in astrophotography myself in the late 1980's with some success, but lost it all in a divorce in 1992. Never got back into it (expense) But nowadays I've seen the results of amateur astronomers and the equipment available today and am just blown away. The images and work exceeds what professionals could do in the 80's. You also presented many images and history that I had never seen before. Well done!
This is an absolutely wonderful video. What's to be loved about astrophotography is that amateurs still play an important part to this day. With for example the discovery of a new nebula next to Andromeda galaxy in 2022 by french amateur astrophotographer Yann Sainty as well as how amateurs, with spectroscopes, can make discoveries professionals didn't make yet.
19:50- This right here is my favorite astronomical image ever taken. The fact that this even exists is absolutely breath taking, getting to see something that we shouldn't even be able to comprehend, and it looks simultaneously terrifying, like the eye of an eldritch beast staring down, and beautiful, as if that eye means no harm. I remember seeing this image for the first time back in the 6th grade and being absolutely blown away by it. And to this day, I still am.
y'know how chickens all come running and clucking excitedly when you go out to get them their breakfast? thats literally what my brain cells do when i get notification that you've uploaded a video
Well, thanks YT algorithm for presenting this brilliant video to me! I love old drawings and photos of the cosmos. My favourites being Galileo’s drawings of Saturn. Oh to have been there to have experienced his wonderment and confusion as he tried to work out what the hell was going on. Great video! Thanks for creating and posting.
Fascinating stuff! I had no idea there were such gorgeous pictures from that early. Especially, that DRAWING of the moon is...WOW. Just amazing. It's also freaky that we can actually _see_ the Great Red Spot shrinking, just within industrial-era human history alone. I had no idea that even the Voyager picture from the '70s was that different from the new ones!
If I hadn’t already been subscribed to you for a while now, the fact that you put music from Oblivion in this video would have alone made me subscribe. You’re videos are something I look forward to!
There's something about listening to stuff like this while creating a history and lore for human societies that are so far ahead in space travel that our our history with space seems prehistoric in comparison
I seriously think that if you just keep uploading you’re gonna make it big on here! You seem like such a nice guy and i can really tell how passionate you are about this stuff, love your content and your personality, keeping going dude!
“Herschel had no idea photography would be invented” the first known official photograph was taken in France around 1826. And not only did the first photograph to include people (this being a man getting his shoes shined on a street corner) be taken in 1839, Hershel himself came up with the word “photography” that year as well
What’s the rush? JWST hasn’t even been out there long and still has so much more to see. After all the time spent building it and perfecting it, it still deserves a bit more time to shine to show its full capabilities. Plus, a successor to it probably won’t be for another 30 years, _if_ they can get the funding for it (which was hell and high water just to get it for JWST). Going to be difficult when NASA and many other space-related programs keeps getting funding cut, especially when so many of our politicians constantly pull away to focus on benign issues here on earth where we consume way too much and fight amongst ourselves over the dumbest shite … So many people constantly argue “it’s money better spent helping people here on earth rather than exploring a part of the universe we’ll never see or visit” not understanding that we absolutely can do both. It’s never been an either / or situation, but politicians and those consumed by politics makes it seem like it is… they make people think we *_have_* to fund wars and pick “sides” with aid. So much money going towards destruction instead of a future where people come together with space-related discoveries and exploration. Can’t have that. 🫤
Amazing video Swegle and keep up the work. Space was probably more strange and different but amazing at the same time in the 1800s. i will hopefully one day make history along with the famous people in the 1800s that took pictures of space.Also these pictures are so amazing they look like animation then real life thats why i love space and i taken pictures of the moon along with other planets. i took pictures of stars and i think i took a picture of a star cluster by mistake. i did take photos along with a video of the october solar eclipse and i will take a long video of the Eclipse next year and maybe stream it hopefully
I will never forget the first time i saw this artwork in 1989. i checked out the book called "Our Universe" by Roy Gallant and was captivated by all the beautiful artwork by michael whelan and others. It made a very strong impression on my 7 year old mind.
Tornados and space. Tornadoes in space. Hot dog. Hopefully one day we can get a compilation of what the JWST has seen since its departure. Maybe humanity will explore more of the final frontier and we can see pictures and videos of it. Just future concept ideas if tornadoes go out of style.
How many children have you fathered, because these dad-level puns sent me into orbit! Oh, and I agree on the photo of Pluto being one of the best things ever. Such a pinnacle of human achievement!
That’s not how these telescopes work … They’re not point and shoot cameras taking a single photo and that’s it lol. It’s not like we’re sending up a powerful Nikon camera with an amazing zoom capabilities and taking one single picture of amazing quality. It’s how and why so many dolts automatically rush to do the whole “IT’S ALL CGI!!” nonsense to show they have no idea what they’re talking about. For example with the JWST: It has a 21ft wide gold plated mirror of 18 hexagons. Light hits those mirrors. They have to often calibrate those to achieve what is known as “wavefront sensing” to ensure they’re maintaining a sharp focus. JWST doesn’t see the same light as the Hubble telescope. It sees infrared - it sees wavelengths longer than those of visible light that can peer through fine dust, which is how it is able to observe distance galaxies that glow red. Keep in mind, the human eye cannot see infrared light. JWST has a near-infrared camera (NIRcam) and a Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) - two cameras. They detect wavelengths. They each have a set of filters that are tailored to specific sections of the infrared spectrum, and most of the images are composites of multiple filters. They also have multiple exposures with a process called dithering where the telescope’s frame is shifted ever so slightly after each exposure to cancel out any effects of cosmic ray strikes and other various issues, so if there is a “bad” pixel it gets filled in with the information from the “good” ones. It takes separate images that can then be combined and aligned to show one crisp shot. For example: for one broad survey of the sky, it isn’t just taking one single photo at extremely high quality. It will instead use 9 filters for 9 exposures across dozens of frames, making 81 exposures for one SINGLE frame and 7,000 for the _entire_ composite. Nothing like a point and shoot camera or even a security camera. There is a lot of technical stuff that goes into one single image that we see as the public. Since human eyes can’t see infrared light, JWST doesn’t show the cosmos as it sees. What we see in images isn’t what the telescope is studying. NASA has to make adjustments by translating the wavelength data to become _visible colors_ for our eyes as it’s the only way we could ever see these images. They’re considered false color images scientifically, but their shapes are 100% real before anyone tries to do the whole “NASA FAKES IT ALL!!” trope (again, showing they have idea how any of this works) Again, not even comparable to modern security camera footage as the process is wildly different which will of course give wildly different results. *TLDR* : To compare it to security cam footage, a security camera would have to take a number of exposures capturing infrared light that the human eye can’t see that would then be combined to create one single frame of video. That frame would have to be altered so the human eye could then see the image to show the incredible detail while maintaining the shapes. Again, that would be for one single frame of the security camera video footage. Since that is not how security camera footage is done … there is no comparison between what these telescopes are doing with their quality and it’s silly to even compare the two.
Pretty amazing how they took pictures of the moon while it was moving and the sun with how bright it is. The pictures and telescopes of the 1800s are better than we thought.
That Isaac Roberts photo of Andromeda looks almost exactly like some of the high quality images taken by the hubble telescope and that's just insane to me that it was so long ago