Inside the Gran Telescopio Canarias - Deep Sky Videos

[@daniel1tkd0]

I love how the professor talks about looking at the sky, he speaks with such passion :)

[@Skandalos]

Reminds me of when I hitchhiked through south of spain when I was 19. I slept in a corn field without a tent, and the sky above me was incredibly bright and beautiful. I, too, had never seen the milky way before. I'll never forget that night.

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@AhketRa thanks for coming along!

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@TheGlassDot cheers, glad you liked it!

[@nliknes2]

im loving this channel so far, great job Brady the channels you work with deserve hundreds of thousands more subscribers

[@DeepSkyVideos]

@coldlogic1 it was quite high but not crazy (2,400m)... it does slightly affect many people (especially when lugging camera equipment around), but my shortness of breath might just be a general lack of fitness and excitement at seeing the telescope! ;)

[@carolmelancon]

I'll never forget the "eureka" moment when I went with my boyfriend and his family to their cabin in northern Maine and saw the Milky Way for the first time.

[@ryanownsu10]

+Carol Melancon yeah you cant see it in cities with all the light pollution even in small towns there is to much light pollution to see the milky way

[@lunageologist]

When was in Afghanistan, I had to walk 2 miles every night to and from the drill rig I was working on, and often I would trip over the smallest objects because I was not looking down at my feet, I was admiring the Milky Way in all of its glory in the pitch black of the high desert. It also marked the first time I was able to see another galaxy with my own eyes when I finally figured out what Andromeda was. I would make my drillers take breaks just so I could teach them about the night sky.

[@romanski5811]

Do you think we should've stayed longer

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@Bugside great cheers... and thanks to whoever pointed us out to you! we owe them a beer!

[@CmdrGendoIkari]

You're right. I would love to have a good primary mirror the size of just one of those segments.

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@nukebuilder make sure you check our earlier video inside the Isaac Newton Telescope!!!!

[@StarlancerAstro]

Great videos! Have watched them all and will keep watching.

[@AhketRa]

Amazing.

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@un2mensch our next telescope tour features plenty about adaptive optics!

[@DoctorHazza]

As ever, Brady, just brilliant.

[@acs197]

Another fantastic video, Brady!! I would love to 'hang-out' at all these cool places!

[@PhilAEG]

The 10.4 m Gran Telescopio Canarias segmented reflector is made of 36 hexagonal ZeroDur segments Aluminium coating. However, the GTC also has 6 extra segments so whenever segments need to be recoated, these can be replaced without the telescope going out of ops. The 1.17 m secondary Beryllium mirror Nickel coating. The GTC saw first light with 12 mirror segments in July 2007, with all 36 segments in November 2009. The OSIRIS instrument will be used for transiting exoplanet atmosphere surveys.

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@Arnhafang thank you

[@stonestreaker]

Been up there twice now, both times I've got the feeling they don't appreciate Joe public taking any interest. Such a shame, it could kill any enthusiasm for astronomy that visitors might have. If I ran the place I'd make sure there were open days for us riff-raff.

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@Damianingus no I'm not!

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@KiaranScath check out my channel BackstageScience - there is already some stuff there... Especially stuff about the MIRI space camera.

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@dezent you're welcome

[@MindLessWiz]

Thanks Brady! I enjoyed this immensely, and the ending was heart warming. What I wouldn't give to see the Milky Way in its glory with my own eyes..

[@AutoPsychotic]

So very few get to truly appreciate the beauty that is the night sky. Over 90% of the population, living in urban centres, get to see and recognize a few bright stars and constellations, but when you really see the Milky Way for all its glory, it's breathtaking, and there is no comparison.

[@aplavins]

Thank you Brady! Awesome vid!

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@DJthesource it is pretty big! the video doesn't even show it properly!

[@DivingDeveloper]

What an impressive scope. Thanks for showing us the scope - incredible. I bet collimating this scope is a pain!

[@KiaranScath]

Could you do a video about the James Webb Space telescope? I know you wouldn't be able to get video of it but I would like to hear your thoughts on it.

[@TheGimpwars]

Thanks for the great stuff! i am a subscriber.I hope to learn some new stuff. is it true that "The Hubble Deep Field" was of less evolved more primitive galaxies then say the milky way? How do you determen this, structure?

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@Davemackintoshforce it does like nice from the Aussie Outback!!!!

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@StarfireMX thank you... tell your friends too! ;)

[@coldlogic1]

i have two questions, i could hear you breathing heavily, whats the altitude? secondly, if you have an array of mirrors like that, wouldnt the cracks between the mirrors cause some of the image to be lost? awesome video anyway! this was super cool, wish i could go see it!

[@SEThatered]

How big is the resolution and physical size of the CCD matrix on this telescope? Must be pretty impressive.

[@jamieball]

Another great video, amazing observing site. I am so jealous you get to go to these places! :)

[@Bugside]

What an amazing channel, someone pointed it out to me on a Minute Physics video, had to subscribe

[@DeepSkyVideos]

@IMakeOrWatchVideos I do find a lot of hats are too small for my head!!!

[@Squagnut]

Does it take 1.25" eyepieces or 2" ones?

[@dezent]

Another great video! Thanks

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@MindLessWiz it's not hard... just go somewhere really dark!

[@nadje21]

why are the conditions different just 300 yards away?

[@dyrsten]

Great video! I'm wondering how they keep dust and the Sahara sand out, and how they clean the mirrors and sensors. It's easy with dslr's and lenses but this monster, not fun.

[@MrBigape1]

I know it is a little early but will you film the full solar eclipse later this year?

[@eddiejeffries]

What is the focal ratio of this telescope?

[@artbasss]

Zero dislikes. At least there is one issue we all agree on - our universe is gorgeous!

[@hughjass3434]

Why no actual footage of what can be seen with it

[@DeepSkyVideos]

@furdabip sorry! they were going to tip it over for me... then didn't! I don't think my KZbin videos are considered as important as urgent maintenance.

[@License2Bill]

Why is it necessary for it to be floating on oil?

[@JJBLFCx]

Love your videos uncle Brady:) - Jacob:)

[@SonoranAstro]

That secondary is like 10 times the size of my primary 😂

[@Sevenigma777]

"I've got a very big head. I need the largest one possible" Nice flex brud

[@tserkus]

I'm SOOOO going to La Palma this fall!!!

[@pyrommph]

are those two in 7:55 MAGIC ?

[@something.1]

Great Brady! ''..even astronomers are impressed." funny but accurate comment.

[@un2mensch]

Brady! Do you think maybe you can get the guys to talk about "adaptive optics" for a bit? It's something that's pretty much revolutionised stargazing, allowing ground-based telecopes to outperform even the Hubble. Also 00:32 = /watch?v=lI_0-kz4lR0#t=1m0s heheheh

[@kurtilein3]

@ralphzimmermann Check out the "letters and science" - course on the UCBerkeley channel, also called "Physics for future presidents".

[@DaRealFiberOptix]

i wish i lived in a place where I could see the sky, I live in so cal so the view is barely worth looking at. I did have a dream that I looked up at a different amazing night sky tho, and got the feel of it.

[@Seawolf159]

Wouldn't it be jard to breath? so high up?

[@polyrhythmia]

The Milky Way can indeed cast shadows. Under a dark sky, the sky doesn't appear to be blacker, but the stars are so much brighter.

[@indefinitelyserge547]

i would love to visit one of these giant telescopes

[@furdabip]

All that build-up to it, and we still didn't get to see the top of the mirrors. :-p

[@rjhrjh3]

Please tell the astronomers that the best time to take pictures is when the sun is low in the sky. Then even the bad shots look good.

[@SchumiUCD]

@MrBigape1 And the transit of Venus!

[@bjarkethomsen]

Thank you

[@Uhor]

brady: Are you considering an engineering career?, you could be the Neil of phisics department...

[@lamprinila]

thanks... the stars are waiting!

[@auto_ego]

When you say "tourist" it takes a real effort to not hear "terrorist"

[@Astrodicted]

I wish they could turn off streetlights for 1 hour each month so that people would appreciate what's up there

[@steelnerve762]

the prof is correct, we just cannot see the sky at night ...

[@dadautube]

the technical term for that is Light Pollution, which alongside Air Pollution (due to Populace Pollution?) make up for the culprit! ;-)

[@steelnerve762]

dadautube yeah...from big cities its impossible to see any stars due to all the light !

[@Every1Tubes]

@Damianingus THERE IS ONLY ONE NEIL

[@odyARTsee]

look at that small thing

[@mikidzl]

3:48 ghostbusters?

[@sighpocket5]

Nice!!

[@Liquid_eMIL]

Nice!

[@ryanownsu10]

they should visit the ones in hawaii

[@kurtilein3]

Sometimes i just HATE youtube. KZbin now only gives me 200 characters for my comments :( That sucks. 500 was hardly enough.

[@WeaselWJ]

@DeepSkyVideos Haha, nicely said.

[@marslugo]

400 inch lens ..thats insanee! mine is a 10 inch hahaha!

[@moriez87]

reminds me death star hangar..

[@Meb8Rappa]

A mirror 40 cm larger than my house O_O That's a big mirror...

[@TheSuperMegaHyper]

floating on oil? o.O that sounds.. safe

[@Woffo]

Ace !

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@nliknes2 I'd love that, but a few thousand smart people making interesting comments are worth more to me than a million people being idiots!

[@MindLessWiz]

@DeepSkyVideos Wish we had places like that in Israel.. :/

[@Acornoa]

You know what a big head means right? Big head, Big ----

[@coilos]

reminds me Half Life for some reason

[@valentijnraw]

lol same guy as from sixty symbols

[@mikhailman]

damnit, and i thought my 11" SCT was big... ;)

[@naaringu]

really annoying man, why cant he just speak like a normal human being.

[@mikidzl]

3:48 ghostbusters?