I, Anthony Emerson Perkic, am the main operator, and am happy to be at your service!
Orion Bear Astronomy is a freelance and outreach astronomy organization primarily serving Southern California. What started out as a simple free outreach platform became a professional avenue for yours truly.
It began 2017 as a website to bring awareness to what is in the sky and provide loads of helpful information for that beginner and novice astronomer. During the early years there would be occasional live stream presentations on social media, and free events that I hosted.
In early 2018, I also began working part time as a telescope demonstrator at Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, CA, which allows me to share my passion and knowledge of the sky and astronomy with the public! If you met me there, I’m glad you’re finally visiting my site!
In late 2018, I began dabbling in astrophotography using the equipment I had at the time, and by 2020, my photography became a professional avenue via my job at the Observatory in Los Angeles, thus it grew into an even bigger method of sharing astronomy to the masses. I also do sell prints, and if one interests you, definitely don’t hesitate to reach out to me!
Since 2023, I began began being hired independently at various engagements for my telescope and presentation services. Whether it’s for a children’s birthday party, or a high class event, the sky is the limit – and you can check out the “For Hire” Page to learn more of what I can do for you!
No matter what I do for you, the spirit of outreach remains the same.
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Saw you on the Toon podcast on YouTube. Amazing looking photos!
I was wondering what is the best response to give the flerfs who seem to think there’s a limit to how far we (and different cameras) can see? The other night Toon was debating and they all were incredulous at his saying “we can see forever”. It seems to be a common misconception among them, but without that belief they can’t explain night and day.
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Hi, thank you for visiting!
Toon’s answer is similar to what I say to curious patrons who ask me “how far does the telescope see?” which is: “The distance doesn’t matter so much as long as it can receive the light. If an object is super close by, but not bright enough, then we can’t see it… but if an object is super far away but bright enough, then we can see it.”
The limit is how much LIGHT we can receive in the sky.
Our eyes receive a miniscule amount of light compared to binoculars, cameras, and telescopes. Yet with just our eyes, we can actually spot the Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light years away) in the night sky as a faint fuzzy smudge in a dark, non-light polluted sky… simply because that galaxy appears bright enough for our eyes! The Orion Nebula can also be glimpsed as a “fuzzy star” to our naked eyes for that very same reason – it’s bright enough.
Camera lenses, binoculars, and telescopes have more aperture than our eyes and can thus see dimmer objects and resolve smaller details that our eyes could not.
Unfortunately, with many flerfs, no matter how simple of an answer, nor how much proof we can show, because the true sizes and distances in our universe are very vast, it’s just too hard to fathom it.
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