URSI Update #2
January 8, 2009 · 4 Comments
Categories: astronomy · science
Tagged: black holes, meeting, nrao, space, ursi
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I’m a 7th (and final!) year graduate student in astronomy. My thesis has focused on radio astronomy instrumentation. That means, I get to build cool telescopes that will open up new frontiers in the universe. I also love to teach, both in a classroom setting and informally. I'm happy to talk about the universe with anyone who will listen, and I am skeptically curious about all things.
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Greg // January 8, 2009 at 13:35 |
Love that Saturn Pic. I think everybody who’s seen it has it as the wallpaper on at least one of their gadgets (I have it on at least two
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Bente Lilja Bye // January 8, 2009 at 15:59 |
Great summary of VLBI and VLBA. A good chunk of planetary geodesy here, too.
I’ve been in the same room as the stack of servers that compose the Chinese correlator in Shangai.
See:
Shanghai Astronomical Observatory
Did you discuss the use of quasars?
NiteSkyGirl // January 10, 2009 at 15:22 |
That was great to read.I’ve been following the Cassini mission for a year now and enjoying adding the latest updates in my Nite Sky News section of my blog. I’ve been writting my theories I have on how the moons are actually different planets and we are exploring more than one planet named Saturn.
Enjoyed one person’s view of being there.
Nicole // January 10, 2009 at 20:10 |
Thanks, guys!
No, Bente, there wasn’t much talk of the science done at these observatories, mostly the instrumentation. Just curious, is there a particular subset of quasars that are typically used in geodesy?