Alessondra Springmann, PhD
@sondy
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aka Sondy. asteroids, comets, @AreciboRadar/🇵🇷, cacti, geology, rare disease, puns, head down in new postdoc mode. tweets my own. she/they
Boulder, CO
Joined April 2010
Deaf and linguistics and disabled tweeps. @mchua died last night after 5 years of cancer. I'm heartbroken. Announcement below. Please remember them with me in ways you feel moved to - do a thing, learn a thing, help someone enter our communities. https://t.co/oMWx3uqGLm
caringbridge.org
It is with a heavy heart that we inform you that Mel has left this world and flown away to the next. From the stories we've…
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Does anyone have a favorite way of converting a bunch of TIFF files to a FITS cube?
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“the United States providing surveillance drones to surveil the people of Gaza…is the same technology that I use to study Mars…I don't think any of that can be reformed towards being decolonial and feminist.” #SpaceComplicity
https://t.co/TpVfwyGZRA
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In the past I’ve brute-forced the second with HORIZONS, but is there a more elegant solution out there?
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The @NASAJPL Mechanical Engineering Sections’ annual pumpkin carving contest was held today. Here are a few of this year’s entries!
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awesome work and result from Kiana McFadden on this! can't wait to see what Lucy will end up seeing at Dinkinesh! https://t.co/yChxngqOSU
nasa.gov
Researchers have utilized infrared survey data to refine the asteroid’s size and surface brightness in support of the Nov. 1 encounter by NASA’s Lucy mission.
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Alternatively, I am not committed to the fits format, or using ds9—just want to display a bunch of images in a sequence, tab between them, and look at pixel values of various points.
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... while the table looks to be properly formatted, the resulting file from t.writestring('table.fits', format='fits') won't open in ds9 and throws an error. Anyone around to help me debug?
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Image processing people: I have an array in python ([x, y, intensity]), and I want to turn it into a FITS file, or something else I can easily view in SAODS9 or similar to look at pixel values of various points. Using astropy.table I'm creating a table, but . . .
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BeHealthyUSA is having a sale on their BOTN KF94 masks. I generally like their Posh KF94s with the fun prints, but they’re rather expensive!
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... does Moria Mitchell really not have an asteroid named after her?!
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A Boulder County cracker company is suing MeowWolf. Not the headline I expected this morning!
dailycamera.com
A Colorado company that makes cheese crackers has filed a lawsuit against Meow Wolf, claiming the Denver psychedelic art attraction failed to follow through on a six-figure purchase order for the...
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These CO2 values aren't as bad as being in a car with air recirculation on, but these numbers mean roughly 2-4% of the breaths you've taken have been breathed by someone else. Plus, these CO2 levels can affect cognitive function, and some folks get headaches at higher CO2 ppm.
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Accidentally left my CO2 monitor in the parallel session room where a bunch of folks went in to eat lunch. CO2 levels (predictably) shot up. Currently sitting in the back of the plenary auditorium near the open door, but CO2 levels continue to rise. #ACM2023
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