long shot nerd query:
anyone in Los Angeles have a telescope with a Hydrogen Alpha Quantum Filter?
asking for a bird-photographer pal in #LongBeach who wants to photograph crows flying across the setting sun. TY!
(boosts welcome)
It's 1967 & she's 24 years old. It had taken her 3 months to go through the chart-recorder paper manually. She had helped build the radio #telescope that picked up the waves. There was a pulsating signal, regular; it turned out to be a #pulsar.
Her supervisor didn't believe her. She insisted it's real.
It was. But the press would ask her about boyfriends. Her male colleagues were asked about science.
7 years later, Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
would be excluded from the #Nobel Prize of #Physics.
What is Hubble observing?
https://spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId=01KKPMD8KRV8VX8NPK5QZNBBYA
What is Webb observing?
https://spacetelescopelive.org/webb?obsId=01KKAYRHH5YPGGPH1EB2SR6DXD
Because I just found it on an old USB stick I offer to you this 20 year old 320x240@15fps "video" of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) having a stretch.
This is the result of running a script in the telescope control software called "Cook's Tour". The original documentation describes the purpose of this script as being to "induce nausea in the prime focus observer". When that was written the AAT was still used for prime focus photography (yes, with big glass photographic plates) which required an astronomer to be inside that black cyclinder at the top of the telescope (actually another fairly similar one) during the night, in total darkness. Cook's Tour would be a fun ride for them.
More recently it was useful as a test of telescope movement control during the mid 2000's when the telescope control system was being replaced, and it has always been and continues to be a good way to show the telescope off to visitors or get cool videos.
This version of the video is not in real time, it's been sped up by a factor of a few.
#Astronomy #Astrodon #Telescope #AngloAustralianTelescope #AAT #SidingSpringObservatory
What is Hubble observing?
Target: NGC-253-END1
Target Category: Stellar Populations And The Interstellar Medium
Research Program: The impact of stellar feedback as revealed by thousands of resolved HII regions in NGC 253
https://spacetelescopelive.org/hubble?obsId=01KVY6E40YHQT780799VJ1W7CW
