It’s difficult, as someone who uses telescopes which work in the sub-mm – effectively short-wave radio – it’s difficult not to be jealous of optical astronomers, many of whom are busy in the exhibit hall giving out beautiful posters of their latest hits. Instead, we end up often with spectra, or at best with a [...]
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Catchup post from DotAstronomy
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One of the most interesting talks on day one of the was by Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society, about armchair space exploration.
The development of this field has been incredible, with rapid release of ‘raw’ data now the rule rather than the exception. Emily made the excellent point that in learning [...] -
Here’s my talk from yesterday :
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Not the latest Dr Who episode, but the result of playing with Ed Gomez’s Impact Calculator which he’s talking about at the dotastronomy conference.
Here’s the result of a medium sized impact on the centre of London. Go and make your own.
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I’m in Cardiff, for the dot astronomy conference organised by Rob Simpson of the Orbiting Frog blog. It should be an interesting few days, and I’ll try and keep you up to date here. I’ve just given the first talk – about Galaxy Zoo and our plans for the future – and you can watch [...]
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Jim Gunn from Princeton – one of the founders of the Sloan – is presenting the final conference summary. A large part of the design was influenced by the impact of people coming into astronomy from other parts of physics, doing things in the x-ray, the radio and the infrared and who were used to [...]
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Another report from the SDSS conference is up on the Discovery blog, but I wanted to write about the penultimate talk, describing the next stage for the survey.
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Sloan has been through two phases of operation already, and now SDSS-III is about to start, incorporating four separate surveys, each with a different mission. The first, [...] -
If you’d like to know how to rule out intergalactic war on extremely large scales, then you’ll need to wander over to my Discovery blog.
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I’m in the Sunday morning session of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey conference (let it never be said that astronomers don’t work hard, even on weekends), and the first talk of the day is by Simon White of the Max Planck Institute in Garching, Germany.
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While yesterday morning’s talks focused on the general population of stars in the Milky Way, the last two talks of the day told us a little of what can be learnt by looking at more unusual stars. David Lai of UC Santa Cruz took us through the results of his studies of some of the [...]
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