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:
We are very excited to announce that MagAO’s very own Kate Follette has been awarded a NASA Sagan Fellowship. Her proposal, “Finding and Characterizing Forming Protoplanets with Next-Generation Adaptive Optics Systems”, was one of just 6 selected this year. You’ll probably have guessed that “Next-Generation” AO systems includes our very own MagAO.
Congratulations Kate, and welcome to the Sagan Fellows family!
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!