Capturing the Cosmos with Babak Tafreshi

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🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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How do you take an incredible photo of the cosmos? In this extended conversation, Neil deGrasse Tyson and comedian Chuck Nice learn about how to start taking photos of space with astrophotographer and National Geographic Explorer, Babak Tafreshi. NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: <> Thanks to our Patrons Sass Hoory, Paul Kemp, Tor Emanuelsen, Gavin M Benedict, Norman Pestsaina, David Wiester, and Brady Smith for supporting us this week.

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0:00.0	And I said, damn, now I know what my last moments on Earth
0:03.9	will look like if the meteor is going to take me out.
0:07.2	Yeah, so if you look at me to your showers,
0:11.5	you see them time to time.
0:12.9	I have pictures of them.
0:14.4	They're just like a supernova.
0:16.3	Yeah, yeah, just show up.
0:17.3	I'm going to demonstrate that.
0:18.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:19.3	Wow.
0:22.8	Welcome to Star Talk, your place in the universe
0:27.1	where science and pop culture collide.
0:31.2	Star Talk begins right now.
0:35.6	This is Star Talk, Neil deGrasse Tyson here,
0:38.7	you're a personal astrophysicist with my co-host, check, nice, check.
0:44.1	Yes, Neil, we're doing another one of these.
0:47.8	And this is going to be a cosmic queries.
0:51.1	Always a fan favorite.
0:52.8	And this one is a topic that we should do more often
0:56.1	and we don't.
0:56.8	And what is that?
0:57.7	Dark skies and astrophotography.
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