60 Minutes story

[Quark]

Hi All,

Its been a while since I posted here on IIS. These days my time is mainly devoted to research, however. This coming Sunday night at 7pm my astronomy story will be on 60 Minutes. Liz Hayes brought a full production crew to my observatory in Broken Hill and filmed for a week back in March then in July Liz took me to Los Angeles, NASA gave me security clearance to visit JPL and Carolyn Porco (Director of the Cassini Imaging Team) flew in from San Franciso to meet me.

Liz recorded the interview with Carolyn and I on the floor of Mission Control Space Flight Operations JPL. On the way into Mission Control NASA have the American, Australian & Spanish flags representing NASA’s deep space communications network being Goldstone, Canberra & Madrid. While an Australian film crew were in Mission Control doing a story on very excited Australian amateur, the prime receiving station was Canberra.

Carolyn is writing a book on the whole Cassini mission and during the interview asked if I would give permission for her to use some of my data in her book. Still pinching myself, really does feel like a dream.

https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2018/clip-cjorp74o1004e0gmosjgif1hw

Regards
Trevor

[FlashDrive]

Just Brilliant .... I'll be watching :thumbsup:

[Logieberra]

Nice!!!!!

[gary]

How Wonderful Trevor!

We look forward to watching on Sunday night.

All the best

Gary Kopff
Managing Director
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20 Kilmory Place, Mount Kuring-Gai
NSW. 2080. Australia
Phone +61-2-9457-9049
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[JA]

Well done. Good on you :thumbsup:

Best
JA

[SimmoW]

Great contributions, glad you are being recognised and getting some publicity! Will definitely watch

[PhilTas]

Fantastic, Trevor,
Am looking forward to watching on Sunday night.
cheers Phil

[Kunama]

That is just brilliant Trevor :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[multiweb]

Strewth!!! ;)

[Dennis]

Wow - a dream come true, after so much hard work and dedication. What fabulous news and well done Trevor.:thumbsup:

Cheers

Dennis

[multiweb]

I saw the 1min preview but have they made the whole episode available online yet? :question:

[Stefan Buda]

Good going Trevor!
I'll be watching tonight.

[Kunama]

60 minutes is on at 7.00pm tonight (at least in ACT)

[multiweb]

:lol: I thought I missed it last night. Of course today is Sunday. :doh:
It's on right now.

[Nikolas]

Watching it right now well done mate great stuff

[glend]

Watching your story now Trevor, great stuff. :thumbsup:

[multiweb]

That was awesome mate! You just need to win lotto now. :thumbsup:

[Hagar]

I haven't been here for a while myself. Just watched your story on the box, Congratulations Trevor and very well deserved.

[bojan]

:thumbsup:

Watching this programme, I remembered my first look at Saturn back in '73.. It was from the roof of Zagreb's Astronomical Observatory, through Zeiss 100/1000 refractor... It was my birthday and my father took me there as a birthday gift. It did not changed my life then because I was already hooked earlier :)
Still, this image and that feeling that evening I will never forget.

[Colin]

What a great story Trevor! I think Saturn is responsible for hooking many people into astronomy, myself included!!! :thumbsup:

[Wilso]

Great stuff Trev:thumbsup:
Keep up the good work!

[FlashDrive]

Just finished watching ... Excellent Trev :thumbsup:

[beren]

Congrats Trevor :thumbsup: really enjoyed the 60min story

[rogerg]

Great segment Trevor, congrats, well deserved :thumbsup:

Like others i haven’t been back here to comment on threads for some time, but it feels like a bit of a family, recognising so many names from years back, and brings back great memories and emotions of amateur astronomy and discovery.

[netwolf]

Congrats Trevor well done and well deserved.

[Marke]

Just watched myself very inspiring makes a change watching such a worth while story . Its available online now to anyone who missed it.

[PeterM]

Wow and congratulations Trevor.

[Rob_K]

Great work Trevor, excellent show and congratulations!

Cheers -

[billdan]

Trevor, that was really good watching you on 60 mins', very inspiring as to what we amateurs can achieve.

[m11]

Hi Trevor,

Really enjoyed watching your story and journey.

It really showed your passion for amatuer astronomy and I am sure a lot of others would concur and feel the same way.

Great work :thumbsup:

[strongmanmike]

Dang! Missed this :sadeyes: where can we watch it now?

Awesome Trevor, congratulations :thumbsup:

Mike

[Eratosthenes]

Great story.


Something about the objects in the night sky that have fascinated humans since they could bend their necks and gaze upwards. There are not many species of animals that do this for no apparent reason or survival motivation.



Something about those massive rings of Saturn too. It doesn't feel naturally right that planets can have ring-like discs circling them - but they do, and we keep "gorking" at them.


:D

[Merlin66]

https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2018/episode-39

[Quark]

Have attached a link to a 3 min clip of my initial meeting with Carolyn and you will find below that the story aired on 60 Minutes "Nights on White Saturn"

https://www.9now.com.au/60-minutes/2018/extras/extra-mins/august/nights-of-white-saturn-1

[Outcast]

Great story Trevor,

I watched it & enjoyed hearing your story & your passion

Have to say, Saturn gets me everytime... never tire of gazing at that planet, my first look through an 80mm refractor blew me away; my views through my recently acquired 8" SCT just blows my mind completely...

Keep up the good work...., your story might just inspire the next generation of amateur astronomers

[strongmanmike]

Very enjoyable piece Barry :thumbsup: You look to have an astronomically good location there in Broken Hill, some lovely night sky filming by CH9 too. I was just at JPL in May myself, with some mates, on a two week astronomy road trip to Texas and LA and it was a great experience.

Good luck with those LOTO numbers!...aaaand expansion of the observatory ;)

Mike

[bigjoe]

Enjoyed this Trevor..your truly an inspiration to all ..esp your fellow IISers!

bigjoe.