Now It Can Be Told: My Stuff For Slooh

As some of you may know, I’ve been doing some work for slooh.com. Slooh is an astronomy community. Its three telescopes are available to the members. Two of the scopes are in the Canary Islands. One is in Chile. Each is in a superb location to clearly view the nighttime sky.

My job is to produce videos and host webcasts for Slooh.

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As some of you may know, I’ve been doing some work for slooh.com. Slooh is an astronomy community. Its three telescopes are available to the members. Two of the scopes are in the Canary Islands. One is in Chile. Each is in a superb location to clearly view the nighttime sky.

My job is to produce videos and host webcasts for Slooh. We’ve got one coming up Friday at 6p EDT/3p PDT about Comet 209P/Linear. It’s the object responsible for what could be an amazing meteor shower Friday night.

Slooh has also just announced a partnership with NASA in their Grand Asteroid Challenge. I produced a 2 1/2 minute video for that (below).

Screenshot-2014-05-16-19.59.36If you would have stopped me when I got into broadcasting and told me I’d be able to edit something like this without leaving my home office I’d have thought you nuts! These capabilities are beyond amazing.

I designed this PC specifically for editing It’s equal to the task. I couldn’t be happier.

I’m pretty happy with how the video came out too.

Tonight’s Webcast

There’s a very good opportunity with more ‘show biz appeal’ coming up on May 24. We’ll be plowing through the debris field of a comet, 209p/LINEAR. A meteor shower–possibly a meteor storm!

It’s safe. The comet itself won’t be nearby. Meteors from showers never hit the Earth’s surface. They streak across the sky as they vaporize in the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere.

slooh_square_logoI’ve become involved with slooh.com a company that owns telescopes on the Canary Islands and in Chile and rents time to amateurs interested in using great equipment. It’s all Internet driven.

They also do webcasts whenever celestial conditions warrant. I host.

Tonight we were on for the Saturn opposition. The Sun,Earth and Saturn are aligned. Saturn is its photographically prettiest.

If you think of this as a sports broadcast, my color man was Bob Berman, an astronomer who lives in New York City’s northern exurbs. I asked questions and tried to keep the show on track.

Some of slooh’s webcasts have been viewed over a million times. Many in the high hundreds of thousands. The audience varies dependent on the excitement of the event. Tonight wasn’t a barn burner. We did show Saturn live through the Canary Islands scope.

There’s a very good opportunity with more ‘show biz appeal’ coming up on May 24. We’ll be plowing through the debris field of a comet, 209p/LINEAR. A meteor shower–possibly a meteor storm!

It’s safe. The comet itself won’t be nearby. Meteors from showers never hit the Earth’s surface. They streak across the sky as they vaporize in the uppermost reaches of the atmosphere.

I’ll be on for that. We should have lots of images to show.