web02.fireside.fm Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:30:01 -0500 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The How This Works show - Episodes Tagged with “Professional Telescopes” https://www.howthisworks.show/tags/professional%20telescopes Tue, 30 May 2023 09:15:00 -0400 Talking shop with 100 people about their work and associated craft — exploring what they actually do, why they do it that way, and what changed along the way. Host Skipper Chong Warson sits down with folks to understand what's going on in their world right now. Season two explored product, design, and facilitation. The third season follows people actively building things right now. New episodes every few weeks. Part of How This Works co. en-us episodic What do people actually do all day? Skipper Chong Warson Talking shop with 100 people about their work and associated craft — exploring what they actually do, why they do it that way, and what changed along the way. Host Skipper Chong Warson sits down with folks to understand what's going on in their world right now. Season two explored product, design, and facilitation. The third season follows people actively building things right now. New episodes every few weeks. Part of How This Works co. yes subject matter experts, learn, learning, subject matter expert, expert, experts, amateur, professional, stories, story, lessons, lesson, work, home, education, educate, passion, passions, day in the life, walk in someone else's shoes, expertise, craft Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong@me.com Zolt Levay https://www.howthisworks.show/025-zolt-levay fe70d0d9-0f82-46aa-8e6d-a9b9d87d871f Tue, 30 May 2023 09:15:00 -0400 Skipper Chong Warson full 2 Skipper Chong Warson In this episode, Skipper chats with Zolt Levay about his work as a nature photographer, both out in space and on our terrestrial world here on Earth 53:18 no Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters. During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography. Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way. Special Guest: Zolt Levay. Hubble Space Telescope, telescopes, photographer, astronomer, James Webb Space Telescope, Ansel Adams Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters.

During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography.

Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way.

Special Guest: Zolt Levay.

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]]> Zolt Levay is a photographer who has produced astronomical images from the Hubble Space Telescope and has spent a career describing the process of producing engaging color images from Hubble data. Now, he has his sights set on matters closer to home, working on more terrestial matters.

During this conversation, Skipper and Zolt talk about how images are produced from the Hubble Space Telescope, the importance of being curious, how professional telescopes don't "see" in color, the size of 24 million soda straws, Ansel Adams, the notion of time travel, and his more recent hobby of astrophotography.

Stay tuned until the end for a clip on how to pronounce Zolt's first and last name the Hungarian way.

Special Guest: Zolt Levay.

Links:

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