Another “victim” of my sorting & clearing ahead of our move: five copies of my 1988 University of Edinburgh PhD thesis headed for recycling 😬✌️
But don’t panic: these are all water-damaged & I still have eight clean copies of the one hundred originally printed for me during my first postdoc at NASA Goddard 🚀🛰️
The rest were circulated to colleagues back in the early days of infrared arrays in astronomy 🔭
1112 authors for a space mission 🛰️ reference paper seems ... adequate 🤷🏽😯😁
We, the @ec_euclid will publish five main reference papers aimed at the astronomy community about the #ESAEuclid mission, the #Euclid instruments, both cosmology and other astronomy science possibilities, as well as the cosmological simulations used to test all procedures.
Available coming Tuesday, 23 May, 12:00 CEST (and on arXiv a few hours later). Stay tuned!
Coordination of 100 to 1000 co-authors is actually quite a logistical feat. For this the @ec_euclid has a dedicated membership and author database, to keep contact info and affiliations up to date, and to manage the author lists of already more than 100 publications.
The upcoming release this week has still required a lot of work behind the scenes.
Expect new images and first science results from #ESAEuclid coming Thursday, 23 May. Five new stunning images, first ten science papers plus five #Euclid reference publications.
There will be broadcast by #ESA as well as press and paper releases by ESA and us. Stay tuned!
Today in my Astro Sci-Comm class we tried something new: we watched clips of 4 astronomers, & discussed the wildly different speaking/presenting styles. Of course I chose these to be VERY different in style. Only 1 was a chaotic train wreck (spoiler, it was me from +10yrs ago) #astrodon#academicchatter#astronomy
"Next steps for the project could include follow-up observations by the James Webb Space Telescope, which would deliver important insights into the planet's surface mineralogy, and the potential for an atmosphere."
#solarstorm
I predict the next big cult of the Sun will be started by radio astronomers, whose life has become way too much dependent on the cycles of solar activity these days.
Human sacrifices of post-docs and phd will be the next step I guess. 😬 #astrodon#astronomy
Hier ist ein Vergleich von gestackten Bildern, die ich von M101 mit meinem #EvoGuide 50ED und #SkyWatcher Az-GTi aufgenommen habe.
Das erste Bild wurde letztes Jahr im Juli mit einer ASI224MC aufgenommen. Es ist ein Stack von 2550 Bildern mit jeweils 3s Belichtung, insgesamt 7650s.
Obwohl es letzte Nacht windig war, konnte ich 50 Bilder mit 120s Belichtungszeit aufnehmen (6000s Gesamtbelichtungszeit). Diesmal wurde eine ASI533MC-Pro verwendet.
1/2 I still struggle getting used to the fact that the smallest mirrors of the Extremely Large Telescope are similar in size to the primary mirrors of many current telescopes!
The M5 – the fifth mirror in the optical path – has reached a key milestone: its blank, the piece that will be later polished, has been finalised.
Limbach+ on “Occurrence Rates of Exosatellites Orbiting 3-30MJup Hosts from 44 Spitzer Light Curves” with some very intriguing measurements that are suggesting exomoon eclipses around free floating low mass objects and occurrence rates of ~0.6 for short period terrestrial exosatellites 🔭🪐 #astrodonhttps://arxiv.org/abs/2405.08116