{"id":54472,"date":"2023-05-02T06:56:53","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newrcblog.wpengine.com\/us\/en\/blog\/?p=54472"},"modified":"2025-03-13T06:37:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T13:37:19","slug":"the-sky-is-no-limit-for-ringcentrals-claire-bradshaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/us\/en\/blog\/the-sky-is-no-limit-for-ringcentrals-claire-bradshaw\/","title":{"rendered":"The sky is no limit for RingCentral\u2019s Claire Bradshaw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Astronomy Day was April 29, 2023<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We sat down with Claire Bradshaw, Instructional Designer and UK astronomer and astrophotographer to learn more about her stellar pastime, her book project, and how she is inspiring women and girls to pursue STEM.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_54483\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54483\" style=\"width: 239px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-54483\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Claire-Bradshaw.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"236\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-54483\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Claire Bradshaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At RingCentral, we celebrate the many talents and rich stories of our employees. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For Astronomy Day we sat down with our own Claire Bradshaw, Instructional Designer, and UK astronomer and astrophotographer. Claire\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/astronomywithclaire\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">captivating photos of the cosmos<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> caught our attention and they\u2019re sure to amaze you too. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claire is also inspiring women and girls to pursue STEM, through classes she teaches locally. As if that weren\u2019t enough, her current book project which profiles women in space sciences is drawing the attention of scientists at the European Space Agency and NASA.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Instructional design explained<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After studying media production and working in web development for some large firms (including a defense contractor where her CV was top-secret!), Bradshaw joined RingCentral as an Instructional Designer. She now works <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the UK as a part of RingCentral&#8217;s Post Sales Enablement Solutions team<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, creating training material and e-learning content. Recently she\u2019s been getting more involved in video creation. Claire describes her work as \u201canything that will translate content from something that the people will say, \u2018I do not understand,\u2019 into a way that they can consume and understand, using text, images, video or animations, or a mixture of them all.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>AstronomyCentral<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As part of RingCentral\u2019s international chat group AstronomyCentral,\u00a0 Bradshaw uses her gift for creating easy-to-understand content sharing astronomy information with both novice and experienced astronomers. She posts astronomical facts online and then puts them into terms that people can understand. The AstronomyCentral group posts photographs, equipment recommendations and troubleshooting, hosts video-viewing parties, and more.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h3 h2\"><b>A stellar surprise.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bradshaw\u2019s fascination with the cosmos began early. As a young girl living in the English countryside, Claire would gaze at the night sky unaided or with binoculars and this practice continued into adulthood. One day she received a call from friends whose daughter was interested in astronomy. Claire recommended a telescope, not the top-of-the-line, not the bottom, but a good one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weeks later, packages bearing the name of the telescope company arrived at her doorstep. She thought there must be some mistake. Her friends explained they\u2019d won a syndicate lottery and the exact telescope she\u2019d recommended to them was their gift to her, fueling her lifelong pursuit of astronomy.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Capturing the cosmos.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claire not only observes the night sky, but she also captures images with one of her telescopes and digital cameras on a rotating mount, all operated remotely from indoors during the cold winter months. Unlike the original film cameras she used as a girl, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">her modern digital camera is capable of taking long exposure images up to 5 minutes long. Although 12 images an hour can be captured, it requires multiple hours to get enough images to make one astro-photo.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The images are then input into an Astro processing computer (a computer Claire herself built). The Astro processing computer puts the data frame-upon-frame, perfectly aligning each shot to create a composite image which Claire color enhances using Photoshop. The final images are captivating\u2014demonstrating both technical skill and creativity\u2014some resembling Old Masters oil paintings.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Ideal conditions.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like any technical photography, astrophotography has its ideal conditions. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claire says winter nights are the best because there\u2019s less visual \u201cwobble.\u201d Moisture and heat rising from the earth\u2019s surface and surrounding structures cause a visual disturbance astronomers call the \u201cseeing.\u201d The seeing is particularly bad during warmer, more humid summer months. Light pollution is another impediment, but reports say it peaked in 2020, perhaps due to less airline traffic, and astronomers everywhere couldn\u2019t be happier having more clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Patience and time<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One virtue that applies to astrophotography, in particular, is patience. It takes a tremendous amount of time to collect the amount of data required for one astrophotograph.\u00a0 Sometimes, a photographer is simply waiting for the earth to rotate so certain stars of objects like nebula or galaxies come into view. A mind-boggling seven hours of data was compiled to compose Claire\u2019s favorite 2022 photo of the Flame and Horsehead Nebula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"swiper single-post__swiper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Additional required wrapper --><\/p>\n<div class=\"swiper-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1639\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/NorthAmerican_and_thePelicanNebula.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"794\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Lunar2.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1984\" height=\"2048\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Rosette.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Jupiter-Ganymede.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"642\" height=\"960\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/OrionNebula.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1536\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Mars.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"717\" height=\"717\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/AndromedaGalaxy.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-slide\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2016\" height=\"1088\" src=\"\/us\/en\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Lunar.jpg\" class=\"responsive-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-pagination\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-button-prev\"><svg width=\"20\" height=\"16\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 16\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t<path d=\"M10.7304 13.9805L12.1446 15.3947L19.6642 7.8751L12.1446 0.355469L10.7304 1.76968L15.8359 6.87519H0.5V8.87519L15.8357 8.87519L10.7304 13.9805Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg><\/div>\n<div class=\"swiper-button-next\"><svg width=\"20\" height=\"16\" viewBox=\"0 0 20 16\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\n\t<path d=\"M10.7304 13.9805L12.1446 15.3947L19.6642 7.8751L12.1446 0.355469L10.7304 1.76968L15.8359 6.87519H0.5V8.87519L15.8357 8.87519L10.7304 13.9805Z\" fill=\"currentColor\"\/>\n<\/svg><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Inspiring and educating.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Claire\u2019s affection for space sciences inspired her to take on a book project.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cI am putting together a book about women in STEM and space sciences to enable women and girls to be able to say, \u2018I can do this too.\u2019\u201d Claire says the amount of interest generated by the book project has been surprising. Bradshaw has been in contact with space scientists, engineers, physicists, even astronuats, from around the world who want to participate, including those at NASA, the European Space Agency, JPL, and MIT. So far, more than seventy women are involved. She plans to feature profiles of as many as possible, including some notable pioneers like Helen Sharman, Britain\u2019s first astronaut in space, and <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Sian Proctor, a part of the first all civilian space crew to fly a SpaceX Dragon capsule and first Black woman to pilot a spacecraft.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since e-learning is her professional field, it only seems natural that Bradshaw is also teaching in local schools. \u201cTeaching in my free time is something I love doing\u2026getting the information across to people to say, this is something you can understand and take in and absorb. You do not have to be a scientist to enjoy the night sky. You can just go outside and look up.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Star Wars and stranded.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Just for fun, we had to ask Claire our favorite sci-fi question: Star Wars or Star Trek? She answered quickly, \u201cStar Wars. I think just because it\u2019s that whole sort of thing of a long time ago, galaxy far, far away, is completely disconnected from us and everything that is going on with us. It is the original fantasy sci-fi cinema film, and I love it.\u201d If she was stranded on a desert island, these are Bradshaw\u2019s three must-haves: \u201cFirst of all, have to be a telescope, be lost without that. I have a passion for Lego\u2026because it has a very Zen feel to it. It is very, very calming. And the third thing is a Terry Pratchett novel. Pratchett is a great fantasy writer and I love his books.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"heading h2\"><b>Astronomy is universal.<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re fortunate to have such a diverse group of employees working at RingCentral. Bradshaw\u2019s technical expertise and creativity are making e-learning possible for many of our clients, while her outside projects are helping others discover the universe around them. Claire encourages everyone to pursue astronomy, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201c<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That is what I love about space: space does not care who you are, what gender you are, it does not care about your color, your nationality, how old you are. 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