Home of MagAO and MagAO-X.
Laird, Jared, and I are here working on the ASM and Clio, for MagAO-R, preparing for MagAO-2k, and scheming about MagAO-X. Besides the salad animals, there are plenty of other animals on the mountain. Laird and Federico saw a herd of guanacos but didn’t get a picture. Here is what I did get pictures of:
And the song of the day:
¡Hola MagAO aficionados! Estamos de vuelta en LCO. Más información acerca de que el mañana. Para hoy: Animales Ensalada:
Y la canción del día:
MagAO is at the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation conference in Edinburgh, Scotland this week. Instrumentation-astronomers from around the world are gathered here to talk science and engineering. The talks feature everything from detector technology, high-speed computing, and telescope operations to gravitational waves and extrasolar planets.
My talk about MagAO was the first one of the conference:
Jared had two posters:
This one is about MagAO-2k and MagAO-X:
And Enrico had one:
Laird gave an invited talk about visible-light AO:
And Armando about the new AO system for the VLT:
We took the opportunity of all being in the same place to plan our MagAO upgrade to 2 kilohertz, called MagAO-2k.
Some more pictures from around the conference:
UA grad student Asher Baltzell gave a talk in the Cyberinfrastructure section about his work creating a cloud-computing software package to detect exoplanets in MagAO data. This work was featured in this video by Cyverse:
Finally, check out the SPIE post about the conference here. Look for me, Asher, and MagAO in there!
We all made it home safely. Carefully packing my purse the first time I left the house, I remembered my keys and phone… but forgot my wallet — oh yeah, you need money to acquire goods in the non-mountain economy! At least I remembered I DIDN’T need my flashlight.
This 3-song mashup is so beautiful that my head fills in the other 2 songs when I hear 1 of the songs on the radio:
Thanks to those who help us carry on!