Additional August developments for the Vera C. Rubin Observatory. Reprising a prior post, the 2025 Rubin Community Workshop has not only happened, but now has presentations posted online:
project.lsst.org/excitement-and-collaboration-2025-rubin-community-workshop
There are now more details on the status update, keynote presentation, and posters. Representatives from each of the Science Collaborations gave talks. Some meeting items have been recorded, and posted to YouTube (for those of you who wade that swamp). See the post above for links.
Also of note: the Rubin Target of Opportunity (ToO) board is now accepting nominations for new board members. The ToO is important- disproportionately important- because certain new transients and discoveries merit stopping the telescope’s planned sky survey, and focusing on those new transients and discoveries. It is the ToO board that reviews this, then diverts the telescope schedule. Targets of opportunity include priority asteroids: ones that merit Rubin follow-up, either because they are flagged as Earth-threatening, or are too faint for lesser telescopes (e. g., activity too weak to detect in a university ‘scope), or perhaps something we don’t even know at this time. See the call for nominations:
community.lsst.org/t/call-for-nominations-for-the-rubin-target-of-opportunity-advisory-board/10753
and, eventually, the online form:
Nominations will be open until Aug. 31.