Tag Archive for telescope

Travelogues, Part 2: Cape Town, South Africa

by Nicole Gugliucci • July 23, 2011 • 1 Comment

This summer has included a LOT of travel. Here is the next installment of my travelogues! (See also, Part 1) (As usual, all writing on this blog is solely my opinion and does not reflect the attitudes of any of…

by Nicole Gugliucci • March 2, 2011 • 0 Comments

If you love music and astronomy, this is the coolest video you will see all day. If you love music and radio astronomy, this is the coolest video you’ll see all month, at least. The Japanese rock band ACIDMAN released…

by Nicole Gugliucci • January 6, 2011 • 2 Comments

Warning, much radio astronomy geekery ahead! Wednesday was the first day of the National Radio Science Meeting in Boulder, CO. As I did two years ago, I spend most (if not all) of my time in Commission J: Radio Astronomy.…

by Nicole Gugliucci • April 12, 2010 • 3 Comments

Okay, that word makes me giggle. Quasquicentennial. It means 125 years, and that’s how old the McCormick Observatory at the University of Virginia is on April 13 (tomorrow)! Many people know it on Grounds as that dome on O-Hill if…

by Nicole Gugliucci • March 5, 2010 • 3 Comments

So, I just finished watching, and being very entertained by, “The Pluto Files,” a NOVA special by Neil deGrasse Tyson. Go watch it. Seriously! I’ll wait… There was a part where Clyde Tombaugh’s son was showing off some of his…

by Nicole Gugliucci • January 20, 2010 • 3 Comments

The first official day of the conference, my collaborator and I spent quite a bit of time hanging out at the poster group for the Allen Telescope Array. Although they work at a different frequency regime than we do (check…

by Nicole Gugliucci • January 10, 2010 • 2 Comments

What a crazy ride! I am finally recovered, mostly, from the big American Astronomical Society meeting in Washington, DC, that occurred last week. What a ride! For me, the conference started off with a teaching workshop put on by the…

by Nicole Gugliucci • September 9, 2009 • 1 Comment

Holy. Frakkin. Wow. So, I attended, no, experienced my very first Dragon*Con. It was on a scale of something that I have never seen before. Tens of thousands of freaks and geeks, many in costume, descended upon downtown Atlanta to…

by Nicole Gugliucci • June 2, 2009 • 7 Comments

My webernets presence has been pretty sparse lately, as I’ve been away from home and on the road for almost a week and a half. And I had a blast! So much so that I’m having trouble readjusting to being…

by Nicole Gugliucci • June 1, 2009 • 4 Comments

Hey all you starry-eyed shutterbugs out there. Celestron and Discover magazine are sponsoring an astrophotograpy contest this month. The rules include a stipulation that the images must be taken through Celestron optics, but other than that, it can be any…