I mentioned the name-that-asteroid contest. (And I mentioned HSC…) But why just (re)name some existing celestial body when you can (co)discover one? web-coias.u-aizu.ac.jp COIAS is short for Come On! Impacting ASteroids. The COIAS program, new this May, is an opportunity… Read More »Virtual (Very large?) Observatory: COIAS asteroid hunt!
…and the “June” Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (the concept of months is pretty arbitrary, almost doesn’t work any more): vol. 530, #4 Slíz-Balogh, J. Mádai, A. Sári, P. et al. Observation of the L5 Kordylewski dust cloud… Read More »Note, Paper: Monthly Nōt-productive
Yet more picks from the 2024 SPIE telescopes conference (because the full program is just too extremely large): 13092-4 Cubesats for Rapid Infrared and Optical Surveys mission13103-1 Teledyne Digital Imaging’s Recent Contributions to Astronomy and Planetary Science13103-3 SIRIS : a new… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view too…
Hard to pick, but: some personal faves from the 2024 SPIE astro-specific conference. You can view via the search function of the SPIE site. 16 June 13096-2 Instrumentation at the Subaru Telescope 13096-3 The Paranal instrumentation programme 13092-12 The legacy of SOFIA and… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… view…
The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference is big, really big. For lack of days and days of time and effort, my observations: – The era of submillimeter/Terahertz astronomy is coming, or arguably here… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… two
It’s time. The 2024 SPIE (Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers) is holding its even-year telescope conference (this time, Yokohama, Japan): spie.org/conferences-and-exhibitions/astronomical-telescopes-and-instrumentation Did I say IAU GA was big? SPIE is bigger. The IAU is topical, covering astronomy. SPIE as a… Read More »SPIE Ast. Tel. Inst. 2024… whew
Not well shared: The Vera Rubin camera is in Chile, on-mountain. There was a fair amount of coverage of the LSSTCam’s completion, at Stanford’s SLAC lab, in April. But with little fanfare, the pre-ship review passed, the camera was packed… Read More »First Light in Sight…
In the May 20 issue of Astrophysical Journal (vol. 967 #1): S. Liu, W. M. Wood-Vasey, R. Armstrong et al. Testing the LSST Difference Image Analysis Pi… a10 ad3635Huang, Z. Toth, G. Gombosi, T. I. et al. Interaction between a… Read More »Note, Paper: bits and Bits
Our (consumer, off-the-shelf) telescopes are now made in China; what about the scientific-grade ones? The Chinese science program is no longer the world’s also-ran. You just need to look at author lists to see the obvious Chinese (including expat-Chinese) representation.… Read More »Note, Juan Zhu: CAA WA
Another quick update, this time on Vera Rubin. Real progress now made, the LSST Cam finished at Stanford. Final prep before shipping to Chile. Also (in Chile) the huge M1/M3 mirror is silvered- bare glass now a mirror. Can’t wait!