Backyard Astronomers - we need YOUR data!

Jupiter has been saving your butt for millennia, but what have YOU ever done for Jupiter huh? Or Saturn? This is a call to action for all planetary photographers to start using DeTeCt software.
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[@EthanChappel]

I have additional tips that could make the impact detection experience better: - If you want DeTeCt to finish faster, increase the max instances counter on the top right. This allows the program to process multiple videos at once. - Be mindful of shadow transits. They are a frequent cause of false positives. In fact, the example at 7:50 is a false positive, but real impact flashes look similar. - If you see a flash in real time, keep recording for a while afterwards in case it was big enough to leave a scar in the cloud-tops. - AutoStakkert! 4 can run impact detection automatically after stacking (although I have not gotten this feature to work as of 4.0.5). You have to tell it where the DeTeCt program is under Output Options first (right side of the main window).

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Ethan! Marc also mentioned this to me this morning and has confirmed the AS4 integration is not working so we’re not going crazy :)

[@marc.delcroix]

Thanks Ethan - @all you can trust him, he is a very experienced user (in the top of the ranking list) who detected an impact with the software ;)

[@M42-Orion-Nebula]

I don't have data. Leave me alone, Dylan!

[@davidskybrody]

Beyond the very useful information and community building, I love the "gentle essay" feel of this video. The long, thoughtful intro - rather than the quick incisive tease - really works. And I'm liking the higher ratio of sincerity to snark for this subject. Ours is a patient hobby (similar to, say, fishing). This show conveys the "astronomer's lifestyle" philosophical vibe. Your videos are always great; it's very cool to see you broaden the palette of storytelling colors with this one.

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks David .. very well said ! The algorithm rewards me for being fast and stupid but I enjoyed this more artful approach this time. Gentle essay… I like that.

[@TheWonkyAstronomer]

I've thought about trying to detect impacts on Jupiter, but the problem was how to check all that data. This is the answer! Thanks.

[@simonpepper5053]

I knew there was a reason I needed that new mount, 11 edge hd and planetary camera 👏

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes buy it :)

[@guarmiron5557]

I own an 11 inch SCT and still haven't regretted buying an 11 inch Edge HD. Such great scopes. They will both end up in my observatory one day.

[@Baelyn]

Very cool project! Scanning my old files now...

[@DylanODonnell]

Great !

[@dustinballinger5661]

This is great, keep this kind of content coming cause if they see a boost from this video then maybe other scientists will see the power of that Billion dollar industry and come up with other ways we can help

[@DylanODonnell]

You're spot on!

[@michael.a.covington]

Excellent idea! I have kept almost all my original videos for quite a few years. I'll see what I can do.

[@DylanODonnell]

Oh brilliant ! You’ll be way above me :)

[@marinaamgad5781]

I'm liking this new "editing-style" path you're taking :)

[@aw7425]

Thanks Dr Dylan, clear skies

[@joseluispereira6985]

Excellent video. This may attract more observers to the DeTeCt program. Greetings and clear skies.

[@Wilfredos_Astrophotography]

Another awesome video. Thank you for sharing the software. I will start processing my data now and send it.

[@astrosrscat]

Now I want to make a dedicated Jupiter and Saturn observatory

[@DylanODonnell]

You have my sword …

[@jdpartridge]

Those summer sounds ended here in the northern hemisphere. Miss them already. Thanks for posting.

[@Erniej270]

Thanks! Sharing this with our Astronomy club.

[@DylanODonnell]

Oh great !

[@philkidd]

This is very cool Dylan! Also, quite educational mate! Well done!

[@tomfulop2304]

Very informative and entertaining, Dylan!! 🤩

[@txaggie0275]

Loved this video - I've taken a bit of a break from astrophotography for personal reasons but I'm excited to get back into it. This could be fun to contribute to their work!

[@DylanODonnell]

That’s great to hear man :)

[@LogansAstro]

What a cool project to be a part of. Damn! wish I knew about this before I dumped all my planetary video files. Will definitely be running them through this software from now on. Thanks for sharing this.

[@DylanODonnell]

No worries, Thanks Logan !

[@jwastroimaging2711]

Just one UK name on that list! Testament to the lousy weather here! Great video

[@DylanODonnell]

Haha!

[@marc.delcroix]

You have half a dozen in the very long list of contributors. But true, they are very far from the top of the list. But I'm sure UK has the best participation/clear nights ratio ;)

[@Spaced_Out_Bill]

Well damn, looks like I'm going to need a bigger telescope now, Thanks Dylan! I'll tell my wife you said science needs me. 😂

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes, tell her. From me.

[@terrance_huang]

just awesome

[@bradmichelbach6442]

Thanks for bringing more attention to this project Dylan. Funny timing, I new about this project for a while but only just got around to contributing a few weeks ago since I had terabytes of planetary recordings pilling up. Now that I'm going through the backlog, I just need to figure out how to more efficiently archive old raw planetary recordings and what to ditch #datahoarder...new video idea? ;)

[@KarlKyhl]

Nice editing. This video is classy AF.

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Karl!

[@The13rannon]

Really cool video man! The RGB combination animation was fantastic! 🍻

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks for noticing !

[@guarmiron5557]

It certainly caught my eye.

[@TheAntibozo]

Cool project.

[@Mrpaulgs]

Thanks for this. I am always on the look out for something useful to do with all this equipment.

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks for watching !

[@guarmiron5557]

I watched a transit of Io the other night and was able to get to x250. It was a great experience.

[@LikeOnATree]

Totally love this concept!!

[@MarkMcKeeToronto]

Nice one mate!!

[@PatrickManley]

Damn Dillon - you put in some great effort on this vid. Keep this up - LOVE it! Nice work.

[@DylanODonnell]

Thx Patrick !

[@afd33]

That intro was great! Really sucked me in as a viewer. Keep it up with the great editing.

[@DylanODonnell]

Ahh thank you ! Longest intro yet I think 😆

[@DeepSpaceAstro]

What a cool project! I'm definitely going to start doing this! Great video Dylan!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks man !

[@damienk2372]

Great video Dylan, i was actually thinking of doing a video on DeTeCt about a month ago but this is much better as your audience is far greater. I have been contributing to DeTeCt for a few years now and i am quit high on both lists (15th with Saturn and about 50th on Jupiter). Its a wonderful program and i will continue to use it on all captures i take. Thanks for taking the time Dylan, very nice content. Damo

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Damo! I see you there! It was actually cool scanning the list and going .. yup .. I know you .. and you... and you.. and ... these are literally all my peeps !

[@damienk2372]

@@DylanODonnell We do what we can to move things forward🙂👍

[@orionm4268]

Could send up and asign scopes to track/observe targeted planets.

[@njoobie]

Dagnabit! I just tossed a full shiton of Jupiter videos to save space. Love the bit of story telling you slid in there. Thank you and clear skies!

[@DylanODonnell]

Me too lol .. dammit

[@gregorymckenna6609]

Great video. I needed something to get my Astronomy MoJo going again. Can’t wait to contribute.

[@siberx4]

If you have a fully automated setup, it would be great to set up a workflow to do this mostly automatically (up until the last review/email step) for any nights where you're not actively imaging. Jupiter/Saturn are often visible even when conditions are otherwise not great for other targets (due to moon, clouds, etc) and if you're not up for actually doing any imaging, if you could simply tell your rig to run a "night watch" on one of the planets any night you're not using it, it would let you contribute something useful with your expensive investment for minimum effort.

[@DylanODonnell]

True.. I’d be interested to know how you’d automate finding the planet though? Plate solving isn’t easy at those high focal lengths and autofocus is not an option for planes either. I think this some of the reason why there isn’t more data

[@JemCruz]

Its supposed to be el nino but feels like la nina all over again this whole spring.

[@DylanODonnell]

Man .. can’t catch a break hey!

[@l0nemonk100]

So cool. I have something new to do while looking up.

[@DylanODonnell]

🫡

[@avid_astronomer]

Thank you for this, Dylan! What a great and easy way to make useful scientific contributions. I have Jupiter and Saturn videos going back several years. I'm afraid my PC may have to pull an all-nighter or two.

[@DylanODonnell]

Excellent news !

[@antipodesastro667]

Great video as always Dylan! Love the format! 🙂

[@DylanODonnell]

Cheers man !

[@DylanODonnell]

Cheers man !

[@guarmiron5557]

When I read your title I was expecting you to ask us to grab data for you. I wonder how many thousands of telescopes you could get pointed at one object? I know Astrobiscuit is doing something like that on Discord.

[@AstroLaVista]

Really Really Brilliant stuff Dylan! I'm well up for this DeTeCt Project, thanks for making us aware!

[@DylanODonnell]

Great !

[@carvrodrigo]

Great video buddy, I have to admit I was waiting for the punchline but this plot twist... sweet!!! A lot of Brazilian friends of mine on this list, great

[@DylanODonnell]

Hehe sometimes I’m not a complete dickhead 😆

[@marc.delcroix]

Brazil is a major contributor to the project indeed, probably thanks to one observer (Jose Luis Pereira) who caught an impact. But the more the better

[@carvrodrigo]

@@marc.delcroix yeah we have several groups here just to observe planets, I just put this link there. Jose is well know here. Hey many thanks for the software and the project this is huge!!! I’m a DSO guy but enjoy planets a lot

[@user-vu9zw1sb1t]

This is so cool. m running all my Jupiter captures and already have some low confidence images to check out. Thanks for the heads-up on this project.

[@DylanODonnell]

No worries !

[@skesinis]

This is such a cool project Dylan!! Thanks for presenting it. I’d be interested to see if I’ve captured by chance anything in my old Jupiter shots.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh it makes all your old data useful :)

[@Tony-Elliott]

Great video and information thanks for sharing

[@DylanODonnell]

Thx Tony !

[@Theniccolo20slime]

Incredible video Dylan, as always

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks !

[@johngiromini5745]

Congrats for making the grade, Dylan! So much stuff to do; so very little time...

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks! Leaderboard is great .. encourages me to just do more :)

[@slzckboy]

streaming jupiter as i eat dinner and watch this video.. life is good.

[@DylanODonnell]

Goals

[@77BlackKnight]

Great video and new learned knowledge about Jupitet as also a planitary photographer. Now the weather has been shit for long time but hope i clears sometime. Alot of snow. 30cm or so. Cheers mate and keep great videos rolling in. Clears skies from a snow sweden.

[@DylanODonnell]

Hey Sweden! Thanks for watching !

[@AsKyOdA]

Love the format, feels very pro studio v amateur youtube vids.. thanks for the great vids, i have learned a lot from your vids

[@DylanODonnell]

Hey thanks for noticing! Went a bit ham on this edit !

[@willemvandebeek]

Doggone it... that intro almost convinced me to purchase a telescope... But I can count the times per year I pick up my binoculars to watch the night sky on my hands, it's better for me to buy a vacation home in another country and then buy a telescope...

[@getawaydance]

Super easy....barely an inconvenience?

[@orionm4268]

CH4 data is cool... Ignite a methane tank and record how much damage was done

[@ronm6585]

Thank you.

[@DylanODonnell]

You're welcome!

[@onewhostudies6856]

9.4 billion and 3 more each second

[@brucenunn3268]

I like this video.. more like this.!

[@DylanODonnell]

Hey thanks !

[@ldipenti]

Really interesting suff, thank you! I've been personally being more interested in contributing to science projects and found out about the AAVSO that gathers observations on variable stars, have you looked into photometry or spectrophotometry?

[@DylanODonnell]

Yes light curve photometry is something I’d like to do more of.

[@itskraz3yivanhere850]

Nice video sir!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks !

[@orionm4268]

If everything is meaningless WHY!??

[@Wombatzone31]

I'm building my observatory for this sorta observing... and the luxury of having it always setup

[@DylanODonnell]

Congrats !

[@jdpjamesp]

Should we be concerned about Asteroid Impact Detection Software eventually leading to High Impact Visibility? And is there a cure?

[@johnmcbryde715]

still looking for impacts...

[@ryanmichaelhaley]

While on the phone waiting for processing he was kicking my ass in chess 🤪

[@DylanODonnell]

Haha I was literally playing chess in both shots where I’m on my phone .. no shit.

[@ChrisChatfield]

This looks fun. I’ll see if it works on CrossOver on my M1 Mac.

[@marc.delcroix]

@ChrisChatfield pleasekeep me posted I am interested to know

[@ChrisChatfield]

@@marc.delcroix It installs fine but throws Wine errors when running, one for each thread. I’ve had this recently with Autostakkert. I think something about my installation has changed because AutoStakkert was fine until recently.

[@marc.delcroix]

@@ChrisChatfield Thx for the feedback Chris, keep me posted if you find a solution, I would share it as I do not have the capacity to work on a Mac version, I have a day job and DeTeCt already eats a lot of my private time (and my observing time)

[@-Jeremiah-]

NGL that's one hell of a pitch for an edge 11hd, I don't think my redcat is going to cut it. one question though, who's watching the other side of Jupiter and Saturn? hehe

[@DylanODonnell]

Haha you know you want to buy one!

[@-Jeremiah-]

@@DylanODonnell damn straight! 😂

[@ScottCanoni]

I got so excited to try this and then the sad trombone played when I did. I got this error: "ROI 35x35 too small (68x68), ignoring acquisition and stopping processing" Too bad! :( I guess that means I need a more powerful telescope. I was already using my 3x focus extender.

[@marc.delcroix]

@ScottCanoni which diameter is your scope?

[@ScottCanoni]

@@marc.delcroix I have the Explore Scientific ED102 and it is listed as a 102mm diameter. (Sorry I replied earlier but included a link so youtube blocked my entire comment) Is that too small for collecting good enough data?

[@michaelbibby8636]

Wait a minute: how can 8 billion grains of sand be a truck load? Last time I did the math 200 billion grains of sand, the number of stars in our galaxy, was about a small truck load of sand...

[@DylanODonnell]

Dunno found it in on a google quora answer thread .. was trying to find the best visualisation!

[@nebuladva]

Woah. I did not know about this. I've taken tonnes of jupiter data this year. Do you know if scope size matters? I've only got 127mm mak!

[@DylanODonnell]

I’m wondering the same thing.. the impact flashes are small but bright so as long as you can make out features like small storms (smaller than the GRs) it should be ok.

[@nebuladva]

@@DylanODonnell fingers crossed. I've got some data from Wednesday, . So am running that now. Gutted about the data I've thrown though.

[@marc.delcroix]

​ @nebuladva @DulanODonnell the second impact flash discovered by amateurs back in 2010 was also observed by a Japanese observer using a 127mm scope ... so I am waiting for your analysis ;)

[@MushadX]

I want to take pics of the moon like really good pics. I want to view the moon mars and other planets I have no idea I thought about using google space or sky whatever the app is called but as far as telescope what’s a good brand what do I need to get started ?

[@DylanODonnell]

I love Celestron scopes (SCTs) for planets and moon work!

[@gianlucabelgrado3624]

If I'm not mistaken, I had seen that it was integrated into Autostakkert 4 beta. Hello from Italy

[@DylanODonnell]

Yep! It should alert you I guess but I’m not sure. Manual batching for the null results still seems like a good habit to get into :)

[@marc.delcroix]

Thanks for your interest - I'm the current author of the software, while integration to an unpublished AS 3 beta version worked, looks like it's not currently, need a bit of work from my side to fix it, please be patient.

[@DylanODonnell]

@@marc.delcroix hey thanks Marc! If you want to leave an important message post a new comment and I’ll pin it .. thx for clarifying, I wasn’t sure what it was doing.

[@marc.delcroix]

@@DylanODonnell I'll do that but have been busy discussing and processing new data from new observers

[@williamdavies376]

Awsome video mate but I just kept waiting for a punchline 😂

[@DylanODonnell]

This dick joke is just an Easter egg in this one ;)

[@jamessydenstricker2342]

Hello all!!!

[@DylanODonnell]

thanks for being so early James :)

[@bobbymckenzie3202]

Well I'll be

[@craiglowery4427]

Excellent and very timely Dylan. I've been wanting to get into impact detection for a month now ever since I saw the impact detection button on AS!4. How does that button work? I suspect we have to have the detection software already installed

[@DylanODonnell]

You know I noticed it to and checked it and I’m still not sure. The manual way seems for efficient ,. Image until the drive is full,, then scan and report .. and delete !

[@marc.delcroix]

As said earlier, while integration to an unpublished AS 3 beta version worked, looks like it's not currently, need a bit of work from my side to fix it, please be patient. Meanwhile standalone DeTeCt works.

[@bronco_fv]

I was the second (allegedly) who photographed SN 2023ixf. 20 hours before Itagaki, way before professionals. Pure luck, but the pro’s were happy with the data…

[@DylanODonnell]

Incredible !

[@marc.delcroix]

@bronco_fv congratulations - there are many domains where pros are looking for amateur data!

[@jedidiahwest4619]

For lazy people like me who want to be apart of something bigger but can’t be bothered with all the leg work, thank you. Still can’t believe you don’t have more subscribers 🤯

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Jed! It is indeed pretty lazy. I can do this! I need 50k more subscribers before my kids think I’m cool.

[@johnmcbryde715]

does my neighbours window count as science?

[@chrisn.6477]

Do we really have to include the French? *sigh* sorry, France, I had to. I love your quality protests - you are more free than us Americans. And hey - at least you aren’t French Canadians* *No apology will be issued for my insulting of French Canadians.

[@DylanODonnell]

lol yes, and we have to thank them too 🫡😆

[@chrisn.6477]

@@DylanODonnell no… not the French Canadians. No. NEVER

[@marc.delcroix]

Ah ah ah ... without French you would not have this project ;) And do not complain, I could have programmed all the user interface in French lol

[@ohwell2790]

There is only one thing I want to impact. But, being 80 years old that is likely not to happen.

[@DylanODonnell]

lol you still got that 80yo rizz tho

[@WilliamBlakers]

I bet half of those 10,000 are unemployed and astro students.

[@DylanODonnell]

I’m not giving up my day job.

[@stevefpv7249]

Nice format. Great topic😀

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Steve !