Robea (Rando Badly Explains Astronomy)

Well we’ve done it lads! After a few months of talking about the Orion Nebula ya girl ROBEA finally has her own images of it! Now before you start jumping out of your seats in joy (Nat I can just SEE the excitement on that blank face!) And before you ask, no, I did not take the images myself, but it would’ve been really cool if I could’ve! No, I left the actual imaging to the guys up in the Observatory. Shout out to the BSU observation team! You guys rock! Ok, ok, let’s actually chat about these images. So I requested A LOT of images with like four different filters (Hey don’t give me that look. I wanted to make a pretty picture!). The BSU Observation bros, used four filters for me (Which I am so thankful for them putting up with my antics. Seriously you guys are the best,) So the filters were Verde (that’s green in Spanish for all you people who weren’t forced to take spanish in High School), Infrared, Red, and good ole’ clear. So before y’all get confused by my seemingly random color...

Hola mi amigos! How is everyone on this fine day (or night)? I am terrific! But now I think it's time to look back on this blog. I have been writing this thing since September and let me say it is the most fun I’ve had in awhile. I loved making all the dumb photos that I made for each update. Now that I look back I made a crap ton of them. This is just a few of the pictures I've made over the course of this blog and honestly I can't believe I've made so many of these freaking pictures. But I am happy that I made this blog. Ok serious moment over lets get back to the terrible jokes! Over the course of this blog we have obsessed over the Orion Nebula aka the Baby Makin’ Machine. We have lived and breathed this nebula for months. So I thought “hey we haven’t beat this dead horse enough or fed a fed horse if you’re a member of PETA” so lets obsess some more over the Orion Nebula. You know I have written so much about this freaking Nebula that I can’t remember if ...

Hello kiddies! You’re old buddy ROBEA is back! Last time we had a great time talking about the amazing little Robot InSight! But this time we are back on the Orion Nebula train! Don’t groan! You love the Orion Nebula! We’ve been through so much together! I feel like there is nothing left to be said about the Orion Nebula. It’s the Crazy Baby Makin’ Machine, what more could you want? That’s why this time I’m going to focus on another part of imaging this bad boy. In the past we’ve talked about the special camera, the fancy non-rideable wolf mount, and the fancy smancy not-snapchat filters. Wow, ok we have talked about way more things than I thought we did. This time we are going to talk about the MaxIm DL program. Oo! I love throwing sciencey words at you guys! I’m going to throw some more at you! Hmm let’s see here Arachibutyrophobia (the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth), Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia ( the fear of the number 666), and pneumonoultramicroscopics...

Hello my good people! Now I know some of y’all are here to listen to me ramble for a couple hundred words (and I love all my readers, that’s right Professor you’re the best!) and the rest of you are wondering how the heck you ended up here (Don’t worry Sam, it’s not like I can see you through your camera or anything… or can I…?). We’re gonna be doing something a bit different this week folks. This week I’m going to tell you about the amazing thing that just happened in recent space news (I like that, “Space News” it sounds very official for something I just made up!) Now that I’ve got your attention (Well most of you… PATRICIA! Gurl pay attention please. I am trying to expand your knowledge, you can text your BFF later. Trust me you might want to hear this….maybe not? Aaand we’ve lost Patricia. Dang! Welp the past in the past they always say!) Let me tell you what happened. So sit yourself down! Open your ears! It’s time to do you some learnin’! Ok backstory time! I’m sure some of you ...

What is up my good people! How is everyone? Good? If not….um well? Sorry bout that??? Ok so we’re gonna continue our talk about how one would go about taking a picture of our best bud the Orion Nebula! Is everyone ready?!?!?! Sit yourselves down, open your freakin ears, it's time to do some learning! So last time we learned about what a mount is (For the last time Jeffery we are not talking about Horses or Giant rideable wolves) I had a little too much fun making the "No Riding Wolves" sign. It took me like half an hour to make that one part of the picture but I think it was worth it. I will hold onto my MS Paint crown until someone pries it from my cold dead hands. Photoshop? Who's she? MS Paint is the only one for me! we also learned about the fact that there are other types of filters in the world (Go figure). This week we are going to put together what we have learned to create a picture. So the first step is to make sure that it is a nice clear night out...

Hello my lovely readers (or to whomever is seriously lost)! I’m back with another exciting installment in our weekly adventures in over-analyzing the Orion Nebula. This week we shall be continuing to learn about how to photograph it (OoOoooOO exciting!). Ok enough foolin about, it’s game time. So sit yourselves down, open your ears, it's time to do you some learning! This week we are going to talk about the types of filters you use to photograph the Orion Nebula. There are many types of filters in the world. You’ve got your white girl Starbucks filters, your Instagram model filters, your snapchat filters, and those cringy filters that your parents use to look cool. Now take all of those filters and defenestrate them (here’s your word for the week, Defenestrate means to throw someone or something out of a window, go wild kiddies), just throw them out. Maybe this pig will learn to fly? (Don't worry this room is on the first floor, the worst that's gonna happen to that pi...

Hello everyone! ROBEA here with another quick little update! This week we will be talking about some more Astrophotography! Oh yeah! This is what the cool kids talk about! So pull out a chair, sit your silly self down and lets get down to some learning! Now our bro Orion Nebula is what’s called a “Diffuse Nebula”. Diffuse Nebulae “are large clouds of gas (mainly hydrogen) and interstellar dust that give birth to stars” (Legault 2014). So it's basically a big hydrogen gas cloud that occasionally pops out baby stars. We can get even more specific though because diffuse nebulae have to subcategories, Reflection Nebulae and Emission Nebulae (Legault 2014). A Reflection Nebula is a nebula that is illuminated by nearby stars (Legault 2014). A Emissions Nebula kind of absorbs the light around it and re-emits it in its own image (Legault 2014). Our buddy the Orion Nebula is in the Emission Nebula category. Alright I’ll let you guys go now. I’ll stop holding you all captive! Go! Be free my ...

Hello ladies, gentlemen, and non-binary pals. Your girl ROBEA is back to do some more learning for you guys! This week we will be derailing from Orion Nebula (Sorry bae). But the show must go on! This week we will be talking about the type of camera that can be used to take a picture of the Orion Nebula or any astronomical object (look at that I’m using big girl words go me!). The name of this wonderful camera is CCD or charge coupled device (Nice 2006). Retrieved from: http://industrialcamerasales.com/product/sony-xces30/?v=8f2564d40946 (I know, I know ROBEA where is the cringy picture?? What is this actually showing us a picture of what you are talking about? Well fam squad, I had to show you a real picture of the camera so you know what the heck it looks like.) The most common use of a CCD camera is to take pictures of space since it is a very sensitive camera. The way a CCD camera takes a picture is pretty cool (I mean if you hate astronomy it won’t be cool to you but ...

Hello my favorite padawans! How are you all this fine day (or night, maybe you’re doing some late night reading...that’s right I can see you!). This week we’re gonna take a little break from the whole “how to take a picture of the sky” and do a short update focusing on another aspect of our favorite Nebula, the Orion Nebula. Alright sit yourself down, buckle up, it's time to do you some learning! Now the question we have surprisingly not answered is how the Orion Nebula got its name? (I know I know, I should have answered that in my first real post but I didn't think to?) A few updates ago we learned that the Orion Nebula got its original name (Messier 42) from a crazy man by the name of Charles Messier (Plotner 2015). You may be asking yourself “ROBEA how did the Orion Nebula come to be called Nebula?” (Or you could be asleep and not asking that question so I’m just gonna pretend you did). Unsurprisingly the Orion Nebula got its name because it is a part of the Orion Constella...

An Artists Rendition of the Planet Gliese 581c Retrieved from: http://www.cosmographica.com/spaceart/exoplanet-gliese581c.html Hello to the few people that read this! (How’s the day going Professor?). I hope you all are ready to have some knowledge thrown at you! So pull a chair up, take a seat, and lets get to learning! Now I know I talk a LOT about space but I never really talk about the planet we live on (Don’t get to excited; I see you perking up a bit back there Tom). Let’s not get too carried away here people; I’m not gonna talk about Earth, Nay Nay, I’m gonna talk about planets that are LIKE Earth (No Tom I’m not talking about Aliens! Sit down before you hurt yourself man). So our favorite people over at NASA have spent many years staring at the sky in hopes they will find a planet like our very own Earth. I bet some of you are getting a bit excited but keep your shirts on, NASA has not found any planets that are 100% like Earth. When I say “Like Earth” I mean how like...

http://www.astronomy.com/magazine/weirdest-objects/2015/05/31-neutron-star-psr-j17482246 Hello my lovelies! How is everyone? Having a good day? Well sit your silly selves down it's time to expand the horizons of your mind! (Truly I am the master of metaphors). Let's start this show off with a bang! Not to steal Star Trek’s thunder but “Space, Space is the final frontier” (don’t you fellow Trekkies just get the butterflies when you get hit with that nostalgia??). Now look at me, alright? We don’t know a lot about space. There I said it! Are we honestly surprised? We hardly know anything about what lives in our Oceans; if we don’t even know that much it's not really a surprise that we know next to nothing about space. Now before you die hard space lovers star raging down in the comments (Please put the pitchforks down! I bruise easy!), I will say this there is quite a bit we know about space. But the fact of the matter is young padawans is that Space is so freaking big ...

Hello my fellow Humans (and aliens if you’re out there I guess). This weeks update is gonna be a bit shorter. Ok? We all understand? Great, let's get started! In today’s lesson we are gonna take a glimpse into the world of Astrophotography. Whats Astrophotography I hear you ask? (I mean I should explain it but do I need to? You know what Imma do it anyways). So without using any fancy shmancy terms the super simple, real dumb down version of what Astrophotography is that it is the science of taking pictures of space.  (Do you guys think I should make an art blog? Because call me Picasso but I think I might be the next big thing......Yeah Ok I know, I won't make the world suffer by looking at my images. Let a girl dream!) That's it. It’s all about pointing a camera in the air and taking a picture of space. Now that we got that out of the way we’re gonna focus on our old friend the Orion Nebula. (I am sure you guys are not fed up with hearing about ole Orion. What...

Alright kiddies! Let's get down to business! Last time we learned about what the Orion Nebula is made of (If you did not read it what on Earth are you doing here? How did you get here strange entity?) This time we’re gonna learn about the guy who found our lovely Nebula. The Orion Nebula official NASA approved name is the Messier 42 (I know it's a great name….it really isn’t a good name.)(Plotner 2017). Now the man who found our favorite Nebula was a comet chasing astronomy fanatic by the name of Charles Messier (Plotner 2015). (I know I know, its such a work of art. It brings tears to my eyes!) Messier became completely obsessed with space, comets in particular, when he was just a wee lad. This guy, much like our fav mad hatter, spent his whole life cataloging space objects. Now you might be thinking that this guy is a genius, he’s praised for creating an extensive log of objects in space (Plotner 2015). That must have been his plan right? No, no it wasn’t. Messier l...

Now I bet with all this talk about the Orion Nebula you are either one of two things, completely done with hearing about it and wish I would move on or you really want to know an intimate knowledge of the Orion Nebula I guess. So now that I’ve trapped you all here for eternity I might as well entertain you with some SCIENCE! Now our bro, our pal, our fav crazy baby making machine the Orion Nebula is an interesting subject. Over the weeks I have forced upon you many facts about it but the one thing I haven’t covered yet is what it’s made of. And yes you know what that means ladies, gentlemen and non-binary pals; it's time for me to tell you all about it! So sit back, kick your feet up (Not on my dashboard you heathens!) it's time to let ole ROBEA to do you some learning. I really hope that if you are reading this article you know about basic chemistry and by that I hope you know that hydrogen exists.  (Another Masterful Creation by yours truly) If you are reading this art...