- 2019-04-21
Joseph Long
To simplify maintenance, we’re making the MagAO-X blog a continuation of the MagAO blog. Going forward, we will be doing our project updates here on xwcl.science. I did my best to migrate things without breaking references to our previous nine years (!) of posts. However, if you notice any broken links to visao.as.arizona.edu, do let ...
- 2019-01-17
Joseph Long
As originally reported on the Steward Observatory website, and archived here for posterity:
On Jan 17, NBA Hall of Famer, one of “50 Greatest Players in NBA History,” and iconic Deadhead Bill Walton came to town to be the color commentator for the UA-Oregon men’s basketball game. Whenever Walton is a commentator ESPN has a 2-minute ...
- 2018-11-29
Jhen Lumbres
![Congratulations to Dr. Miller, MagAO-X's newly minted PhD!](/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/IMG_1042.jpg)
This is a late post, but on November 16, 2018, Kelsey Miller successfully defended her Ph.D. dissertation! Congratulations, Dr. Miller!
Kelsey’s research is on Linear Dark Field Control (LDFC), a focal plane wavefront sensing technique where she monitors the bright field speckles and uses their linear nature to maintain stability in the dark hole. She has ...
- 2018-09-17
Joseph Long
![Taking delivery of the MagAO-X vAPP coronagraph](https://xwcl.science/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/IMG_6018-e1556321506203-1024x991.jpeg)
On September 17, 2018, we got our first look at the MagAO-X vAPP (that’s “vector apodizing phase plate”) coronagraph optic. Kelsey Miller had been working with the phase pattern for a long time, but there’s something special about holding it with your own hands. Or, at any rate, watching the P.I. hold it with his ...
- 2018-06-17
Jhen Lumbres
![MagAO-X @ SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation 2018](/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/JaredTalk0.jpg)
This past week, the MagAO-X team attended the SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation conference in Austin, TX. Here’s a recap of all of our presentations at the conference.
Let’s start off with the talks. Jared kicked off our presentation collection with a talk on the MagAO-X update:
Laird gave an update on MagAO:
Kelsey gave a fantastic talk ...