The Night Sky Podcast | The 2016 Night Sky Calendar

Marina and Billy talk about the 2016 night sky calendar of celestial events.

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Hello, and thank you for listening to this episode of the night sky.io podcast. My name is Billy Newman. And I'm Marina Hansen. And this is the first episode of a podcast we'll be continuing to do that will be focused on the night sky above us and some of the art projects that we're going to try and build around that, to kind of demonstrate and educate about the events of the night sky throughout the year that's upcoming. So it'll be pretty exciting. I think it'll be a lot of fun. And so this is the first podcast that we're doing. And what we're figuring is we're gonna probably build out a format for it over the next few weeks, as we kind of start to put the project together a little bit more and trying to do a little bit more production stuff. But what I'm excited to do today is talk about a little bit of the basic formula that we've got going on. And the main project that we have going on right now, which is the the night sky.io Kickstarter calendar. So it's this 2016 calendar that we have set up on night sky right now, at Kickstarter calm. And then if you search for night sky, it'll be the first project that you see, which is cool. That's pretty cool. Yeah. So we Yeah, we worked pretty hard for this last week to try and get the night sky Kickstarter project set up ready to go. We have our pledge level set. And we already have a few donors, which is really cool. We'll probably talk about that a little bit later in today's show. And I guess as figuring that, Marina, you and I would just talk a little bit about the art that we're making and about some of the stuff that we're putting together for this project so far. Sure. Sounds like a good plan to me. Yeah. So what have you been working on? So far for night sky stuff?

Well, right, this moment, I'm working on a graphic that is going to be used for the website. And also part of it will be reused, and will be a feature in the calendar as one of the landscapes. But it's right now for the graphic piece that it's going to be for the website. It's a silhouette of Mount Hood in Oregon. And I think it's from the perspective or the view from Portland. So the shape of it is kind of from that, that view. Oh, yeah, that makes that side of it. And then above it is, is a very full starry sky, kind of inspired by the Milky Way, but not necessarily exactly the Milky Way. Yeah, yeah. Sort of that idea of large, large amount of star clusters kind of stretched out.

Yeah, I think it's really cool. I've been looking at like what you've been working on, and it looks really good. And I guess for this one, we should kind of explain a little bit about what what we're building for the calendar. So I guess we haven't really talked too much about how we're building this calendar, that's going to be like demonstrating the night sky, which we did talk about. And then it's all going to be illustrations that you make of the night sky that sort of a representative of different scenes that we'll see throughout the year, which will be really cool. And then I think this page that you're making right now is really nice with the mountain as the silhouetted mountain and then the milky way above it. I think that looks really cool. Thanks. It's pretty neat. I like the other one that we made to or the the one that you have CRV, the CRV at the at the little precipice with the the Big Dipper out in front of it there. I think that's really cool, too.

Thanks. I like that one. Wow. So that'll be one. That'll be a landscape that is also featured in the calendar, though it won't probably won't be the Big Dipper.

Oh, yeah.

The main feature, though big might be in the background.

Yeah, we should make a big dipper when I was gonna say in this in this one. We should have a conversation about like the months and the types of things that