William Keel
@NGC3314
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Astronomer, galaxy observer, trombonist, Galaxy Zoo team member, husband, father, employee of cats. Opinions mine alone.
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
Joined January 2010
Scopes on Screen: kind of a meta entry, homage to George Melies' production scene in the final episode of From the Earth to the Moon #TelescopeTuesday [475 in a weekly series. I planned for 500 but with Everything, I'm outta here]
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Scopes on Screen: kind of hard to see detail with the "black on black in the dark" layout, but telescope appears in the Christmas movie "Following Yonder Star". (Not to be confused with the surprisingly poetic 1975 essay by Richard Hoagland with that title). #TelescopeTuesday
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Scopes on Screen: alt-az refractor in remarkably sparse bedroom of a teenaged vlogger in the movie "Sugarplummed". #TelescopeTuesday
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Team @galaxyzoo for the win!.
This image of VV 191 is a composite of near-infrared light from #NASAWebb, and ultraviolet and visible light from Hubble. It is one of nearly 2,000 pairs identified by citizen science volunteers to help researchers study galactic dust:
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I am struggling to imagine how dire the outlook must be for Grant to be this (uncharacteristically) blunt.
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Scopes on Screen: from "The Dark Crystal", seen in Aughra's orrery chamber (and that is a complex system to be modeled). #TelescopeTuesday
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And, I hope, enjoying the views of the quad and multiple Ethernet taps in my former office.
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I'm just going to toss out here that one lesson from the @sdssurveys Explore interface, among others, is that easing access for citizen scientists often also broadens usability for research astronomers.
Good morning #AAS245 attendees! Today at 10:30 am @VRubinObs Clare Higgs will present Supporting Successful Citizen Science with Rubin Observatory. Check it out in room Potomac 1-2. Credit: RubinObs/NOIRLab/SLAC/NSF/DOE/AURA/B. Quint
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Scopes on Screen: from Raiders of the Lost Ark, out-of-focus telescope in chamber of the sage in Cairo as he translates the headpiece to the staff of Ra, just before "bad dates". (I obviously missed this one for many years) #TelescopeTuesday
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Scopes on Screen: from "A 90s Christmas", background refractor in room of 1999 Lucy (it's temporally complicated) #TelescopeTuesday [470 in a series]
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Journal email: Reminder that your review is due on the 26th unless that is not a workday for you. Me: I have consulted a management representative, and the 26th will not be a workday.
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Set up for imaging last night when some friends called to ask about viewing planets. So - here they were posing side-by-side on their one-sided fork mounts, Nexstar 5 and Origin siblings from @Celestron 25 years apart. #TelescopeTuesday
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Scopes on Screen: refractor being used sensibly in another drug commercial. Brim of cap may help with local light pollution. #TelescopeTuesday
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Scopes on Screen: background refractor, another entry in the extremely niche genre of telescopes as set dressing in drug commercials. #TelescopeTuesday
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Scopes on Screen: from "Start the Revolution Without Me", aristocratic spyglass in shot edited to look as if used in naval battle. #TelescopeTuesday
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Dust and lensing and backgrounds - oh, my!.
It’s always nice to have someone in your corner, or in this case, space!. Scientists combined Hubble and #NASAWebb data to build a fuller picture of galaxy pair VV 191, which is composed of an elliptical galaxy at left and spiral at right:
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