Greetings new and old Patreons alike!
Added 2019-03-21 12:24:35 +0000 UTCNow, I know a lot of you say you donate every month simply because you want to support the channel, and I'm very grateful! As such, I want to know what you would like to see more of from me on Patreon. I'm open to suggestions! Or if you are happy for me to carry on as it is, that's fine too 🤩
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I simply like your voice and commentary. You don't need to get too exited when talking and I think your style is very smooth and non patronising. Oh yea, very informative as well!
David Mckay
2019-04-06 20:19:18 +0000 UTCTrue; it is a lot of work. Maybe staying with english is the best option.
Grzegorz Kapica
2019-03-22 13:42:13 +0000 UTCIt feels like there are so many interesting missions going on at the moment, I have to be quite selective about which ones to focus on! Although I'm happy to look into any missions you had a particular eye on and see if a video would be feasible.
Alex McColgan
2019-03-22 12:26:57 +0000 UTCAs I mentioned, translation actually takes a lot of work. A few people have approached me to do an Astrum channel in another language, but each time I think they also realised the work needed and they never got back to me. If the channel starts performing so well that I can hire new people, it would be something I would consider :)
Alex McColgan
2019-03-22 12:24:37 +0000 UTCThe last time I did a video on climate, there was an uproar in the comments! Although, it is a really interesting topic. I will add it to the list and see if I feel brave enough to do it at some point in the future!
Alex McColgan
2019-03-22 12:22:33 +0000 UTCWhat would you say to translating you videos into other languages?
Grzegorz Kapica
2019-03-22 09:06:26 +0000 UTCThe quality of your video and commentary is extremely high. Your documentary format and subject matter are a mirror of my own curiosity about the Universe. I enjoyed your series productions on each planet, and on the Hubble fantastic photos. As for new ideas, I would encourage you to explore current and past space probe missions, as you did for New Horizons at Pluto, and the Mars missions. There are lesser-publicized probes that seem to disappear into university research teams; I'd like to know what those missions resolved. I hope you can avoid duplicating the excellent work of PBS Space Time, or Scott Manley, who focus on more abstract or commercial aspects of space, respectively. You have a sweet spot in reviewing space science research and making it look beautiful.
Dave Mausner
2019-03-21 16:33:26 +0000 UTCYou could answer my question in the comment section.
Grzegorz Kapica
2019-03-21 15:31:04 +0000 UTCIn terms of new video, I would enjoy video about past climate of our planet earth. Times when CO2 level were really high, discuss milankovitch cycle, ice caps, movement of continent, and most importantly new technologies used to monitor climate today.
Alex Akachynskiy
2019-03-21 15:21:05 +0000 UTCHi Mark! I currently am doing one video a week :)
Alex McColgan
2019-03-21 15:16:35 +0000 UTCI really like all your videos. I always watch them in dark on my OLED 55' LG Television. They look really good on OLED because of true black colors and of course 4k :)
Alex Akachynskiy
2019-03-21 15:13:07 +0000 UTCI do really appreciate 4k content by the way! Even if the images/videos are not 4k, it's worth it for the on screen text alone. So yeah, if it's not a whole lot of extra work for you, everything 4k would be awesome ^_^
Lukas Kalbertodt
2019-03-21 14:47:47 +0000 UTCHoly moly, this is amazing! Accessing random strange FTP servers is always fun =D Thank you for telling me this stuff. And sure, I just want you to spill your secrets so that I can open a rival YouTube channel and steal all your viewers!!! MUHAHAHA. ... nah. For a start, I don't have nearly as a relaxing voice as you have :D But I can still understand that you don't wanna share all of your knowledge in that regard. Thanks again!
Lukas Kalbertodt
2019-03-21 14:43:17 +0000 UTCThank you!
Uwe Böhnke
2019-03-21 13:52:11 +0000 UTC<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYj2KOAur5I" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYj2KOAur5I</a>
Alex McColgan
2019-03-21 13:27:19 +0000 UTCHi Alex. Really enjoying the content you are putting out. The videos are very informative and a high level of professionalism! I just had one idea to grow the channel. I noticed you are close to getting to 100 patrons, which is a great achievement! When I joined it was only around 40. My idea is to do more short videos so you can get more content on YouTube. Your current format of one long video and one short video a month is great, but if you were able to do a 4 minute video a week for a month it will give you more content coming out on a weekly basis. Only do this for a short amount of time of course, then go back to the regular format. With more videos you may get more patrons join which will give you more money coming in a month, which will then allow you to do more videos in the future with the extra funding. Just an idea, but like I said at the start I’m really enjoying the videos! Keep up the good work! All the best!
Mark Steven
2019-03-21 13:23:41 +0000 UTCHaha! Give away my trade secrets huh? ;) Yes, the various space agency's websites are a bit of a nightmare to the lay person. I've got the hang of them somewhat now, but for every new mission I talk about, it seems like I have to learn that mission's website. I probably won't do a video on it, but I'll give you an insight to the last video I did. For the Rosetta mission, this website has every single image Rosetta took. <a href="https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://imagearchives.esac.esa.int/</a> Use that as a image viewer, then I found their FTP server address which corresponds to the website. psa.esac.esa.int pub > mirror > Internation Rosetta Mission > Rosetta images > OSIRIS Enjoy!
Alex McColgan
2019-03-21 13:00:25 +0000 UTCI understand! It is best to keep at your native language.
Uwe Böhnke
2019-03-21 12:52:11 +0000 UTCI do live in Switzerland, but English is my native language. I did consider making videos in German at one point but as I found out, translation takes a lot of work! It would mean less videos if I translated as well sadly.
Alex McColgan
2019-03-21 12:49:41 +0000 UTCGerman is my native language, but I would prefer if Alex would keep the main channel international = English :)
Lukas Kalbertodt
2019-03-21 12:38:12 +0000 UTCHello! :) Just carry on as is, it's great! That said, I have one idea for a video that I would find very interesting. So you obviously know your way around the NASA/ESA/... website and all those public data sets. You always have so awesome and interesting images (and sometimes sounds) that are never shown in "normal" articles about the topic. I would be interested in some kind of "explanation" or "tutorial" video where you explain all of that: how to find public space data (raw data of all kinds, not just pretty JPG images), how to download it, how to make sense of raw data, ... and all of this stuff. As a programmer, I'd love to just take a data set (image or something else) and do some analysis on it for fun. But how to find this data is beyond me; the NASA website confuses me. But again: just keep going! I will obviously continue to donate even if you don't make this "tutorial" video ^_^
Lukas Kalbertodt
2019-03-21 12:35:42 +0000 UTCHi Alex! You are from switzerland, right? Could you also if possible produce some of your videos in german?
Uwe Böhnke
2019-03-21 12:35:12 +0000 UTCHi Alex! Do you know the youtubers LPIndie (Astronomie und Wissenschaft) and Anton Petrov (What Da Math). ? Both produce videos about astronomy using Universe Sandbox or Space Engine.
Uwe Böhnke
2019-03-21 12:33:48 +0000 UTCHi Alex! You once produced a video which showed the distances of the planets to the sun and the distance of our next star proxima centaurus. In this video there were nice pictures of your country to be seen. Which video is it?
Uwe Böhnke
2019-03-21 12:31:29 +0000 UTC
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