I'm Dahlia and I'm Antoine and we're Galactic Hunter!
So we we met at work, Antoine just moved to Las Vegas, he found a job where I was working.
I met him and instantly was like I don't know about you, but after
we got closer after one date and I think we were inseparable since then. So really was just like
instant connection and I think when we went out the first time to a dry lake out of Vegas and
together saw the Milky Way for the first time, you know as a couple, it just changed everything. We
were like mind blown for one, and at the same time we were taking pictures with like some old
point-and-shoot camera. It's like a super super old point-and-shoot camera with binoculars there
was like three dots in the sky - we were like wow it's so cool yeah we're doing high fives.
I really like galaxies. Those are really fun, I think
Sombrero galaxy is probably like one of my favorite targets. Me, I'm like nebulae all night!
I love nebulae so much. Uh I love all the gasses, you know interacting with each other and just
but nebulae they're all so unique and I just love them so much. I always loved shooting videos and
I was like you know what, let's do videos about space. Like back then, there was no one. There
was maybe like Ithink Trevor was just getting started on maybe a few other guys but there was
like basically no one on YouTube doing that, so it kind of uh blossomed into into what it is.
Like Antoine really enjoyed editing the videos and at one point it became you know,
we don't know enough ourselves, so what if we you know created this channel and uh you
know helped other amateur astrophotographers you know find their way and you know since then we've
seen the community grow so much. And that's that's why we wanted to get started to help
amateurs get better, because we ourselves were amateurs and what better way to see,
you know people who were just like you, going through the same experience.
I connected with Diana and we we chat a lot more often we were talking about how
you know she's also starting out, and at that point she was like oh I'm like trying
to figure out how to work this Bahtinov mask. And then, like the same day like I see that you
guys put out a video about it. So it's it's really important to us that when people are searching for
those things that they can find that quick answer, because sometimes it's very frustrating. But like
we've often said that astrophotography is really really hard and that learning curve is very steep,
so it's just good for us to hear even just little stories like that, that we're making a difference.
The telescope is like from day one right that's our first telescope, yeah it I mean
it definitely went from the point-and-shoot camera like it's just like a regular digital
camera that everybody had like in the 2000-2010s whatever, and and it just kind of grew from there.
At first it was something you know this is an expensive hobby not sure how we want to
upgrade, but after doing a lot of research like we found things
that we liked like this telescope here, and they've lasted us this entire time.
I think before being contacted by OPT, we you know, we had just our basic day one gear and
you know just making videos once in a while, like at random. But now you know, with their help it's
more opportunity. We can try new equipment, we can go to events and meet other like-minded people.
So the the short-term goal right now is to get an APOD, finally, uh that's the short-term goal.
This year has to be it. It has to be APOD 2020. Yeah,
and then the long-term goal is to work on this full-time, make it our life.
Pretty much we're trying to take some risks right now. I quit my job actually a few months ago
trying to do this full-time and so far it's been stressful, but possible, so Ii have high hopes for
the future. Yeah, like I mean, it's definitely going to keep progressing. You know we're going
to keep upgrading equipment, we're going to keep taking more complicated pictures. Like, it's just
we get to grow with it. I think is the future for us because we love doing this!