Jim Renard - One of the Largest Privately Owned Telescopes in the United States
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- Jim Renard of Milford, Michigan owns one of the largest privately owned telescopes in the United States, and with it he takes some of the most amazing photographs you will ever see.
For more information, visit his website www.NightSkyWonders.com - Věda a technologie
telescope $100,000
his computer$50
Yeah, this video is almost 9 years old. Wonder what he has now...
Dude does it on a CRT. Respect
Ikr!! I want to GoFund him a MacBook Pro…. Imagine what he could do with that machine!! Although if he built that telescope, he probably built his computer setup also… and it’s probably running great!
Doesn't really matter. Those are easier to color calibrate and have fine enough resolution. I had a 1920x1440 workstation CRT in 2010. The man does actual useful work where as bookmacs are for fad obsessed infantile braindeads who do nothing but stare at a smartphone screen and web browse all day.
Have you ever seen a good CRT calibrated for accurate colors? I'm telling you, it's amazing!
Crt has better dynamic range
@@kishascape yes, mushy brained peeps who do nothing but take in knowledge on their handheld computers. 😋
Seller: what telescope size you want?
Jim: yes
seller: what computer do you want?
Jim: no
@@kms5656 hahaah
Get this man to space. He deserves the experience.
There is a 40 inch scope down here in Texas.
A few guy’s down here have 25 inch and 36 inch scopes.
They are amazing to look through
There's a 48" scope in West Texas
check out the youtube video of installing a 50" at some guys property under a sliding shed. that's a hell of a setup. dobsonian, but appears to have goto/slew motors.
a trucker built his own 70"
@@oryanastrophotography3450 yes indeed, Mike Clements apparently known as '1.8 meter mike' who designed and welded a dobsonian frame for a keyhole spy satellite mirror. it must produce some pretty good contrast views :)
30-40min drive from me away is the world largest (Newtonian)Telescope (1,12m/ 44Inch Mirror), open for visitors to look through. It's located in Germany. Sadly i was only once there, and its closed down since Corona, what a shame. But the views are really amazing!. I'm still not sure if i was hallucinating or not, but I'm pretty sure i was able to see some color in some objects.
Very nice photos Jim.
charming. hobbyists are the foundation of all scientific achievement
Wow!🤩 A home brew mortgage-grade telescope & incredible patience. Outstanding!😎
HE IS THE BEST I HAVE SEEN WITH DESIRE AND EQUIPMENT. THANK YOU FOR SHARING. SO VERY BEAUTIFUL.
Clicked for the big telescope- was also impressed by the sweet couple. Everyone can see they have a winning relationship.
Love it. Hope he's still at it. 2022.
How about 2024? 😉
Him: yeah I'm into astronomy
Her: OMG I'm a Gemini! What are you??
Hellefleur waiter! Check!
The difference between astronomy and astrology? About 50 IQ points.
It actually happens to me a lot )
Yeah same
@@uptown3636 🤣
My friend Mike Clement has a 70 inch telescope which may be the largest amateur scope in America. Jim Renard's is 24 in.
I guess this guy just got the images out there for all to see and since they are amazing they have taken hold in the public eye through promoting himself
He's not your friend he's just a random internet guy you obsessively watched videos of like the rest of us. His mirror was never polished or used so it doesn't count, also estate telescopes in the 1800s were far bigger so STFU with your circlejerking.
Wow, outstanding achievement!
Out of this world is an understatement. It is literally out of his universe !!!.
Incredible images. Nice report.
Beautiful work.
Reporter: What was the coldest weather you've been out in?
Jim: -18 degrees fahrenheit
Reporter: And how long were you out here?
Jim: About 7 - 7 1/2 hours
Report: Really? (Thinks to himself that he'll pass on this hobby)
Unfortunately this is why telescope sales are going down. It's much easier to just look at the moon, planets and deep sky objects on your iPhone. But this is no substitute for the wonderful experience of being under a dark sky. You can't see aurora or a bright green/red meteor flashing across the sky. One experience I want is to be under a type 0 sky and see the Milky Way cast a shadow.
@@Booboobear-eo4es telescope sales are going down because you can't find a dark spot anywhere without 2hrs driving. the light pollution level is extreme
@@valnuke - That is true. We are losing our dark skies. I am retired and looking to buy land and have my "little house on the prairie."
I look at dark sky maps available on-line:
www.lightpollutionmap.info/#zoom=4.00&lat=45.8720&lon=14.5470&layers=B0FFFFFTFFFFFFFFFF
maps.darksky.net/
These are guiding my choice of where to buy a small plot of land so I can enjoy dark skies.
Of course, I have to balance other considerations. Like close enough to a mid-size town that has a Walmart or Costco and a gas station. Having a propane retailer would be good too.
I had heart bypass surgery last year so I can't be too far from a medical facility. Even if I have no future problems, I must have regular check ups from a qualified cadiologist.
@@valnuke I just bought a 12" dobsonian and a bunch of welder's grade 14 shields. My plan is to make a filter for looking at the sun. I'm ramping up my hobby! Not Down!
Background tv :morning morning morning morning morning morning morning
Love and respect his passion!
Amazing. Well done that man. Dedication.
This is so awesome!!
Great work you are doing there sir; keep it up
Incredibly impressive photos.
Amazing.. wife that supports his hobby too.. guys life is the dream
All awesome equipment, but processing images on tube monitor.
😂😂😂
He has a separate computer used to process the images on in a different place. As for why he uses a crt monitor is because the temperatures would negatively affect a lcd monitor, but the crt monitor will be fine.
Actually crts have more dynamic range than LCD or other flat screen types
Spent all his money on the telescope and had none left to upgrade his computer :-D
The reason he uses a crt monitor is because an lcd monitor would not work as well as the monitor he currently has. For processing the images he has a much better computer used for processing the images, those 2 computers are only used to run the telescope and the imaging software.
CCD to a CRT is the astronomer's way my guy!
Lol
@@chrismofer Plus you don't need a computer for telescope anyways, just eyeballs.
Looks gr8 even today :D
Good coverage. Perfect amount of information. Enough to get the point across accurately, but not so much that you're ranting.
AMAZING
taking 20 hr exposures with a pentium 1 pc from the scrapyard?
Triffid nebula 28 arc minutes. Image about 4 times wider. What camera can do that with a 24 inch primary, assuming cassegrain f8 example. 1 degree about 85mm. CCD camera sensor not available that size and the eyepiece tube shown here is too small. Is this a composite image like Robert Gendlers Andromeda?
Interesting....he uses up to 30 hour exposures....does that require the CCD camera to be cooled with liquid nitrogen or something to reduce dark noise? Also, he says he works in temperatures of -18 F. Isn't it tempting to build a separate heated room from which he can control the telescope so he doesn't have to be out there with it? Anyways, awesome perseverence and dedication, for sure!
He uses image stacking, individual exposures might be for just a few minutes between clouds on a given night. he stacks the images to a total exposure time of 30 hours, though those exposure hours were collected maybe years apart. What the stacking software does is keep the things that are the same across the photos and ditch the stuff that's unique to each individual exposure, like varying levels of light pollution, noise, turbulent atmosphere (he says there's little seeing but there's always some and stacking helps avoid it). the final picture is of whatever he's photographed minus the distortions caused by not being in space, and should have fixed pattern noise no worse than the average across his pictures.
The CCD or CMOS astronomy cameras for long exposures use a Peltier cooler
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoelectric_cooling
astronomy-imaging-camera.com/product/asi6200mc-pro-color
@@jesuspineiro1622 Actually, the professional ones do use liquid nitrogen.
@@gronki1 I just use the cold heart of my ex-girlfriend. 🥶
Depending on the target cooling isn't always necessary, on planets for example. For targets where a single exposure can last minutes it does help and uses a simple peltier system to drop the sensor temperature typically by 20 degrees from ambient. This helps the signal to noise ratio so that data collected is more uniform and accurate.
Reducing sensor temperture for the average CMOS (has replaced CCD technlogy) chip usually doesn't require extreme measures like liquid nitrogen. Some specialized equipment on very large telescopes(of several meters in size) may go to that extreme for specific purposes.
What is the object shown just before the Pleiades?
Hi, It's the Iris nebula (NGC 7023).
Pleiades about 2 degrees so taken with a small reflector since diffraction spikes on bright stars?
small newts can frame m45 so its not 100% for sure it was an apo
WOW
In the not too distance future, there will be private space stations where you can send your personal telescopes . . .
Sadly dark skies are hard to find. Too many street lights. Many people have never experienced a dark sky,
Oh my god its Proffesor Snape
What a great wife.
It’s called stacking.
suddenly I'm not so proud of my Iphone XR pictures of Saturn.
I swear if I had like 200k laying around I would build a sick custom telescope and be out there everyclear night exploring space
Computer looks like my first one (I'm 75).
A guy wearing a John Deer hat talking about going into space. That's like a gun rack in a Volvo.
Can i donate him my laptop? It has a good graphic card
most apps involved in this are CPU dependent
He uses an Apple IIe cause he spent all his money on the scope.
There's an old saying. " Introduce your kids into astro-photography,
and they will never have money for drugs and alcohol."
@@denispol79 they say that for any hoby.
@@denispol79 exactly. Spent thousands on what's practically a hunk of metal that has a mirror inside. No room for drugs there
Marilyn Manson of Astronomy! :-)
Bezos should purchase his ticket to space just because of him being able to create such a beauty
Soon there will be more Teslasats than flat earthers.
how they wrote amateur astronomer
A 24" really isn't that big at all.
Yes, as you know, 24” and larger telescopes are becoming more common and faster for the amateur thanks to coma correctors. I may one day upgrade from my 16” f4.5
7 years ago it was when this was filmed.
For a backyard observatory? It’s massive.
It's not big for a dobsonian, but he has a cassegrain. Big difference.
That's what she said.
I thought the law just telescope was like 74 inch and built from like an old Soviet spy satellite
BEEN SAVEING FOR SO LONG JUST TOO RIDE THE CONCORDE, THAT THE CONCORD DOESNT EXCIST ANYMORE. SO IM SAVEING FOR THE NEXT SCHUTTLE MISSION GONNA BE THE FIRST WAITRESS IN SPACE!!!!!! oh theres no more shuttles either??? MAYBE I SHOULD BOOK A ROOM ON THE ISS 2025, WHAT ISS IS BEING ABANDONED IN2024???
Give that man a ciiigar...!
Bro outdid nasa
WOW CCD TECHNOLOGY - lol...news anchors are clueless.
In reality you just press a button in registax XD... more effort goes into getting hours of data.
I'm glad they did a story on amateur astronomy. Everybody starts out with ignorance, and hopefully somebody who sees this story decides to pick up the hobby. (I agree with you that it would have been better for them to do the slightest bit of background research, though)
"He's going to go outside."
"And you...what are you going to do?"
I'd go with him."
Damn, 'modern women' take a lesson!
THATS a helluva woman!
Irreplaceable!
"And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” - Genesis 2:23
Guy needs to automate his telescope so he can sit inside the house where it's warm.
This is an old video look at his monitor
Hi, nope, he uses ASI astronomy camera.
These are pretty recent. I just don't understand why staying in the cold when you can control the whole setup from home.
Jan 10 2021 triple conjunction. There’s stupid people popping fireworks
God made the stars so beautiful and extremely hard to see. It's a shame one would make something so magnificent and the only way to see it is if your lucky. .. 😪😪😪😪
His wife is pretty.
a million dollar state of the art scope viewed on a 20 yr old obsolete monitor
The reason he uses that monitor is because an lcd monitor would not work well in those conditions. As for viewing and processing of the images, he has a better computer used to process and view them.
It's ok, you don't understand monitors. That's ok. Beside temperature issues (extreme cold) , CRTs are far far more compatible with resolution compatibility and sharpness than LCDs.
What more could you ask for in a wife? 👏
So those photos are capable, but we cant see the floor of a crater on the moon!!!!.
With the moon and all astronomical objects you are limited to how much detail you can possibly resolve because earth has an atmosphere. Getting up to the moon (im assuming you mean at a resolution where small and larger boulders are visible) you would need the most precise telescope tracking on the planet and a ridiculous amount of focal length.
Those objects are much larger, light-years to thousands of light years across, the best resolution we can get on the moon from the earth is in the scale of hundreds of meters, which is pretty good for something 1/4 mil miles away
Aside from the fact that it's going into space why is it that the Hubble or any future telescope for space developed by NASA like it so hard and expensive to build?
I mean this guy here obviously does not look rich by any means and yet he can get crisp clear pictures of the heavens with a home built thing that more than likely cost no more than say a new car or average home at the most.
This guy's telescope is nowhere near as accurate as the hubble space telescope.
THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE has a CCD camera as big as your laptop monitor which produces images as heavy as 5 gigabytes.
Hubble uses it's camera to study and do spectroscopy of active galactic nuclei which cannot be done while on earth since the atmosphere blocks out UV and deeper wavelengths of light.
Hope you find this useful, have a great day
Yesterday Richard Branson just made this guys dream a reality. 👍🏼
I don’t believe it. He’s controlled op.
Anyone can do this, look into the hobby of astrophotgraphy.
I respect his achievements and the work he's put in. But all he's "seeing" is the image on his computer that is digitally rendered. And for all that work, now I see it, too, on my computer screen.
I was thinking the same thing. I do admire his commitment but I was hoping to see what he sees, not what he photos.
@@DrRussPhd The key to all this setup is that you cannot see those images with your own eyes. They can only be created with very long exposure time and layering. The human eye is sensitive, but not as much as a CCD looking at a fixed point for some 30 hours and capturing enough photons to produce an image a human can look at.
It is literally impossible to capture an image like that instantly with ANY telescope, some of those galaxies are millions of LY's away, very little of their light particles reach the earth, and even less get through the atmosphere.
@@alanwatts8239 I think you may have missed my point. Of course we cannot see these objects with our naked eye, even with terrestrial telescopes. I am merely pointing out that at some point, once we render images of things we cannot see using image processing tools in post to heavily enhance and alter, it's becomes a piece of art, not a photo. It's more of a philosophical observation, not a criticism. As an amateur photographer and astrophotographer myself, I can appreciate the work that goes into it. But the end result is not what he saw, but what he created. We should appreciate the difference. The news clip talks about "views that are out of this world"--but those aren't the "views" from the telescope.
@@khvillager
Well, that's just like your opinion, man.
I thought you don't see color in space?
Jose Barbosa These objects do have color, it’s just too dim to see with the naked eye. Often multiple exposures are taken with different filters, then intensified and combined using software.
And you are right with that. The earth is officially the only planet that invented colors! Don't let these baffoons fool you!
What kind of question is this?
Have you ever looked at the sun? lol
@@alanwatts8239 It looks beautiful, I enjoyed it when I could still see
wut
Nah, bro. YOU DON'T HEAR SOUND IN SPACE.
Does he have a wife ... DOES he have a space heater???
Major league geek, send him to space instead of some celeb.
Ur name is slim shaddy
Or Robert shady
I want to see the real image, not things that are processed in a computer.
it's physically impossible to see such images with the naked eye (if that's what "real image" means to you) because their luminosity is too low for the human eye. all the beautiful photos of nebula and others are the result of a long exposure, peocessed in a computer. Hubble only have B&W camera but use multiple filtre then assembely it together to allow us to see even the ultraviolet or I mean have an image of ultraviolet.
@@anthonyandriatsimba7086 easy to said deep sky object look no colour but have light and clound
@@detectiveamevirus8 What are you talking about?
@@anthonyandriatsimba7086 naked eye troungh telescope see deep sky object
That sharp and bright? With an amater télescope?
It's images like this that confirms to me the existence of God. Things this beautiful simply cannot be by accident.
ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE MOON'S SURFACE??
ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE ISS??
NO??
THATS WHAT I THORT
@Georgie Dubs please point me in the right direction for those pics please
czcams.com/video/PJQCtUDYjxs/video.html Enjoy
@@TheDeepSharePodcast I Thank You, Good Man.
Yeah he'd be better off sitting next to his wife in the house. Maybe binge watch shows on CW. After a while so get up for 5 minutes it'll seem like Seven hours to her. Astronomy and an insecure wife equals pain in the butt
earth is flat
So the sky is just a projection screen or something?
get a telescope, you won't be a flat earther no more
@@Daniele63 telescope ownership does not convert flat earther unfortunately