Posts in the past four weeks
Friday
May 24 2013
01:18 UTC
The morning was spent with various NYU luminaries preparing for a proposal (or really a design process leading up to a proposal) to the Moore and Sloan Foundations relating to "data science". The most interesting aspects of the question are that no two people agree on what data science is, and even for any component of data science, no two people agree on what the big issues are that need addressing. So that is the beginning of an interesting set of conversations. At lunch, Foreman-Mackey and I
Posted by Hogg's Research
Thursday
May 23 2013
14:01 UTC
This Saturday will mark 15 years that the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) first opened its eyes on the Universe, and ESO is celebrating its first-light anniversary with a beautiful and intriguing new image of the stellar nursery IC 2944, full of bright young stars and ink-black clouds of cold interstellar dust. This
Posted by Universe Today
Tuesday
Apr 30 2013
23:25 UTC
Foreman-Mackey and I looked at the variability of Kepler sources, trying to understand the variability introduced by instrument or detector or full-system sensitivity. There are a lot of effects, and they are oddly repeatable from season to season and from star to star, but with massive exceptions. So we don't really understand it. We briefly got to the point that we thought the variations might be additive, but by the end of the day we were feeling like the dominant effects are multiplicativ
Posted by Hogg's Research
Tuesday
Apr 30 2013
14:46 UTC
Saturn's opposition this year was last April 28, 2013. I planned to take images of the planet on that day but didn't proceed due to poor weather. On the night of April 30, my boyfriend and I went to PAGASA Observatory to try our luck to observe and image the planet using Galileo (my C8 […]
Posted by The Sky Above
