 Good morning. It's gonna be a cool day today. I'm working up in Bellingham today. I'm gonna try to meet up with my students Gonna get a burrito at that burrito place. It's the most amazing burrito place. Oh, yeah Hopefully getting a picture from 94 million miles away It's gonna be cool. I Hate the point in my drive when I run out of coffee. All right. We're in Bellingham Let's go get it. Hey, long time no see man. Yeah, so talking about this this plot in particular, so I Don't know how to feel about that. It's it's a it's a bit out there. It definitely breaks our narrative a little bit Yeah, like more data made situation worse. Yeah Look for that rotation period and this in this and in this yep So am I gonna be featured in your in your vlog? You might be It is rather cool how it is the blend of these four different catalogs together and we've got a picture that extends 40 years and like what's cool is we thought we had an idea and now we have no idea Burrito cost five dollars that is a killer deal That was a really good burrito just got done with a meeting with one of my students who just graduated recently He published his first paper About a month or two ago. I'm really proud of him Let's go in here One of the cool things about the campus at Western Washington University is there's sculpture everywhere that you can walk inside of So this is a cool one as a giant triangle. It's really cool It's really neat. So now I'm going back to my desk and when I sit down. I'm hoping that the image from outer space Has arrived in my inbox That's it That's it right there That is the earth as seen from 94 million miles away All right, make a version of this There are so many cool things about this image. So this image was actually taken December 10th of 2017 so just recently a colleague of mine Aaron Ryan and I wrote this proposal a year before that I had the idea for this almost a year before that. So I've been waiting to see this image since mid 2015 Two and a half years. I've been waiting. Totally honestly I woke up at 5 a.m. This morning and checked my email over and over and over waiting to see if this File had been had been downloaded waiting to see if this file was ready. That's so cool Look at this How cool that is? That is earth. That's you Come on. How cool is that? There's so much going on. I mean I'm looking at it here The reason that you see some of that the reason that you see this giant vertical band that looks like a lightsaber or something Is the earth is incredibly bright? It's way way too bright millions of times brighter than we are hoping to find for stars So this is considered a nuisance, but it's so bright that the actual electrons that gather We'll go to whiteboard. All right. So if you think about a Camera as having pixels in a grid and each pixel is actually like a little bucket Then as the light comes in and the photons strike the bucket you get these little electrons each bucket has finite size It's my picture of a bucket and when you overfill the bucket it spills And you get a puddle around your bucket And that's what happens here This pixel gets too full it has as much light as it can possibly hold charge actually bleeds over and floods the neighboring pixels and it usually Spills over in the direct in the vertical direction, which is the direction that the buckets are Passed when they get read out at the very end. There you go. There's your technology lesson for the day that's how Charge couple devices work in a nutshell and that's why you see this giant lightsaber like feature It's really impressive. This is what happens when you take an incredibly sensitive camera and you point at something That's way way too bright. You got to share it with the world This is an interplanetary selfie That's pretty cool All right, time to go home try to play around with that wave of Kepler image a little bit more too That's really cool. It's a good day when I get to spend a couple hours with my students. They're really talented they're really smart and Honestly, it sounds cheesy, but they really inspire me a lot of the reason that I continue doing the projects that I'm working on the projects They don't being really cool is because these students push me to do it they make me into a better researcher every day and Thank you to them for being awesome You