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Published: 2017-09-13
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az5vU9CT4CY
my journey started sometime four years ago when I was a student in the National University of Singapore not exactly where you expect a final text of god as part of the graduation requirement I have to take on more there's this outside of %HESITATION ons so I did one called sky and telescope a practical introduction to disguise an optical equipment it took me on a journey to
always knock offs uncouple into a small town called Mersing you doing you would see my single most maps on Malaysia because is a small place and most people don't go there for traveling that's where this on the eastern coast of Malaysia the reason we had to go to what was up north was because of light pollution Singapore is a very eclipse entry that population we are
the most light but here the country in the world sadly this is not something you need to sing up all over sixty percent and eighty percent of Americans and Europeans could no longer see that nice guys from where the stain in fact it's gotten so bad that in nineteen nineties in San Francisco there was a blackout people calling the police to notify them that there is
we had clouds hanging out in the skies what they've just seen was the Milky Way nature has gotten so this infamous that was natural is not coming alien to us when I saw the Milky Way for the first time in my thing they spend from horizon to horizon and captured this image what you see here is the Milky Way and at the call of it that's
a supermassive black hole holding it all together the millions of stars with and the Milky Way then there are millions of galaxies out there like the make you itself this was not an easy mission take had years of experience as a photographer and I had the help of the people below the tree dying tending to get telescope helping me Miami professor taught me a lot of
stories on in this because when you look up at the sky and you look at a star is not just something that's glowing what is doing is is forging like other months into him here the minstrel process called nuclear fusion that's how hydrogen becomes helium becomes oxygen carbon and so and so forth unto reached as a month I in when nuclear fusion does not work at
all so when a stock price to fuse eigen it explodes in a dramatic fashion clothes supernova espresso Aldous particles that it has been forging over millions of years only for it to be put back together again form new stars and planets like out of and that's why we acostado us we are literally made out of stocks particles that exploded millions of years ago his stories fascinated
me but I can't help but wonder why most of my classmates were not there with me on that night after speaking to them I realize the problem the existing traditional at astronomy equipment is just too heavy expensive and complex but even though it was all on the one from the university they did not want to be responsible for carrying it out and doing astronomy in Beijing
after searching for an answer we realize that it can all be solved through automation and all require is computing power and computing power is one thing we did not have a lack of in two thousand and nine also sees that yourself one us more computing power than what they had available to them on up little missions and those missions put man on the moon imagine how
much computing power we have in all forms right now and we're even more lucky today we have a hardware development kits like the rest berry pie moss bought and I do you know that allows us to come with new product ideas allows us to test all these concepts we don't that our help from Goldman's all MNCs which is where you really see such innovations coming from
and that is exactly what we did the first prototype for tiny moss is nothing more than a scientific camera plus the in front of one such development bonds over the years we've tested many of this with the sole purpose of bring astronomy maging to everyone their tree key areas we try to make astronomy easier the first one is astronomy itself when you look at a nice
guys that so many stars all day you don't really know what you're looking at we've been augmented reality style meant to tell you exactly what stalls and what clothes lesions you're looking at and if you look at the animation you're searching for months any points you exactly to where you should be looking at I'm because reviewed in this technology we can know exactly what you're pointing
at we can give you the correct capture settings to capture it like professionals do and we put in large reduction library which is also me that much reduction algorithm similar to the ones that professional astronomers use and in one fell swoop Autry difficult this us all and you can capture the nice guys with one click of your hands and after treat yourself are indie I finally
have with me there were small as astronomy camera this is one of it prototypes that we have right now so this is like production technology that we put in on and that his image captured by this guy and that's very noisy and Alltel noise reduction technology it cleans it up and that's how we're able to shrink down the form factor you no longer have to use
the best you could melt the line and you can use something much smaller as to get very good results we brought this all on a road trip to Melbourne and we manage to capture the Milky Way was surprised us was we measure kept assaulting lights so keep a look up on the lower left corner this screen when you see green fractious that's actually the sound and
lights he wanted to put that bottle of capturing the nice guys in your hands and that's why we chose to take a mall a comprehensive round we decided to go for crowd funding and we did it on in the global we spread the message to the call funding community that we want to bring astronomy emageon the poll of astronomy mission and put it in your hands
and this is the video we showed them to convince them of what we're doing where all child peeking through again scientists and all the lovers during the while dreaming while searching we've always turn filled with the wonder of a billion stars space around almost how many of us can sure it I call fun I managed to reach a local of hundred thousand U. S. told us
first full always over to date the master to date we have raised over hava million US dollars in pre orders I'm glad to say that housing units is going to start a day from now along the way of my journey many people of oz me ya on student you should be doing us how is it possible that you are getting a technology startup is this a
scam so my short answer to that question is I will be very talented and very dedicated team of people on the left I have my six year old viewing is the best O. engineer I know of he actually joined and US overseas college program and he became a six year old a multimillion dollar stock up over there even though he was there for only a year
beside him that's actually how I met him in business school it is a mechanical engineer by training but he's fantastic at operations and advertising and beside me there is gruff fell one of the best content creators that I know of yes harsh almost all the videos on our YouTube channel and that's how we leverage on each other strings to cover for our blind spots and that's
what makes time most possible the long answer is I feel and I feel a lot my first tremendous failure happen about it that it classical I was a student I was fourteen years ago in my secondary school does appeal time before this month when was very prevailing so I'm kind of a little in shouldn't this is so FM radio transmitter kit I wondered if poss messages
to my friends across the classroom we don't teach in noticing the problem was this guy works only in one direction and I wanted to have a second one to communicate effectively dot com always be the one doing the talking so I try to do a second one because of each of this development kit cost ten times my daily allowance I went and bought all the components
and try to put them together and look something like that and of course I feel I was not treated electronics engineering that led me to go and find the smartest guy in school to help me out and that's when I found my seat feel much hope with friendly you will we tried again and we still feel close to your children that panel you thinking my second
thriller happened when I was living in national service I was one of those lucky few people was chosen to be a pilot training it was my dream job since I was young most people pasta that pilot training because after fifteen flights order field it after that it flight I fill my six flights which means I feared all my fifth flight and I feel a second review
when that happens I'm forces put you on compulsory I was put on ten days of release and I was quite upset having just lost my dream job my cousin though this that and he signed me up for now photography because and that's when I put my all into understanding photography from the ground up and I became told the clocks true all this tree is one part
stuck to my hidden then it was idea shut by Steve Jobs during a convocation he was saying you cannot connect the dots looking forward you can only connect the dots looking backwards if I wasn't such a failure in trying to view my FM transmitter radio I would have felt my seat you if I haven't been such a failure and trying to fly and feeling on my
six flight I would I have devoted myself into learning photography the second thing I want to share you guys is something very quite personal the idea is doing that society's legal limit what you can do I am a student doing a text autumn and you may be a science person doing arts but so long as you believe in what you're doing you eventually find the resources
to do it what if true friends away to true self learning this is an image I kept it two weeks ago that's the marina bay sands hotel and this the moon in the background this was a photo that I conceived of five years ago by couldn't capture it until I had a tiny one the reason is because the rental of telescopic equipment or so expensive that
a rental Luna cost more than the whole time you more system so well as capturing this image I actually capture a whole series of crime that says so let me show you that time has now summit goals what time that you and we'll prove allows you show for you to call V. the rest of the world for entities speak I'll let you guys to I realized
