by @emily.space
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Jennifer Lynn Bartlett "And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by" (Sea-Fever, Masefield) ... & a quadrant for sights & calculations celestial #navigation in the #GoldenAgeofPiracy #celnav #astrophysics🧪🏛️ #talklikeapirateday #histsci #MarinersMuseum #instrumentation #timekeeping
ESO It’s a new MOON(S)! Suspended here in darkness are two infrared cameras belonging to MOONS, a new instrument of our VLT that recently performed its first observations. 🔭 🧪 1/3 #instrumentation 📷 L. Sbordone/ESO
SPIE The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is now in orbit! 🔭☄️ Explore research documenting the mission’s development, from detectors and #instrumentation to coronagraphs and optical systems, through #SPIE_JATIS: https://bit.ly/3V7UOiH
SPIE Researchers are developing new single-photon detectors to answer the age-old question: Are we alone? NASA's HWO + the proposed LIFE Mission will rely on ultrasensitive detectors to detect atmospheric signatures of life. 🔭 Read the article in #PhotonicsFocus: https://bit.ly/44rIewp #instrumentation
ESO Could you move 3,500 tonnes by hand? 😲 You could if you were an engineer at the construction site of our ELT, carrying out rotation tests of the telescope’s structure. 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 1/2
Erica Sawczynec i’m just a girl asking people to come talk to her at her first ever @spie.org poster tonight @ 5:30 PM 🥺 #instrumentation
ESO The largest levitating mirror in the world? 🪞 The fourth mirror in the ELT’s light path is one of the most challenging optical components of the telescope. When finished, it will surpass any adaptive mirror ever made for a telescope & be the largest of its kind. 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation
ESO Unblurring the skies! One of the ELT lasers is undergoing tests at our Headquarters in Germany in this image. Such lasers help us correct the atmosphere's blurring effect on observations from the ground, enabling the ELT to capture much sharper views of the Universe. 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 1/2
Cappy Bunn ☀️ An anomaly occurred with the spacecraft while observing AR 14392… Fastest IRIS raster ever! ☀️😅 #solarphysics #sunscience #spaceweather #instrumentation #anomaly #sun
Caltech IPAC ⏰Time to Register for #sagan2026⏰ The hybrid workshop focuses on expected #exoplanet science from the @nasaromantelescope.bsky.social Galactic Bulge Time Domain Survey. Travel support requests for early-career participants are due 3/5. nexsci.caltech.edu/workshop/2026 🔭 #astrocode #instrumentation
ESO We signed the agreement for the construction of BlueMUSE, a new instrument for our VLT ✍️ Anticipated to see first-light in 2034, it will enable detailed observations within our galaxy and help study the distant Universe. https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann26001 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 📷 ESO
ESO Our new SOXS instrument has made its first observations! Installed at La Silla, it will observe fleeting cosmic events such as supernovae explosions or fast-moving asteroids. https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25011/ 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 📷 P. Schipani/INAF
William Thompson SPIDERS is installed on the Subaru Naysmith platform and we got first fringes on from the upstream AO system. Next step, a real star! Huge thanks to Subaru, NAOJ, and the SCExAO teams for accommodating us. #exoplanets #instrumentation
SAGA Team 📣 The second issue of the WST Chronicle is out! www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/zmd3m... 📄 The WST Chronicle is an electronic magazine designed to keep the WST science teams and the broader scientific community updated on the latest developments of the project 🔭 ☄️ #stellarastro #galactic #instrumentation
ESO 1/ The 4MOST instrument installed on our VISTA telescope in Chile completed its first test observations. @4most-eu.bsky.social will help us unravel our galactic history, explore dark matter, and more. www.eso.org/public/annou... 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation 📷 AIP/A. Saviauk
William Thompson SPIDERS is out of the clean room and almost ready to ship — it’s really happening! #instrumentation #exoplanets
ESO Not even our mirrors stay clean forever! 🧽 Optical engineer Jaime González is checking for large particles on a VLT mirror. This is part of a periodic cleaning process that keeps the mirrors ultra-precise & super-reflective. More: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2539a 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation
Jennifer Lynn Bartlett Tell #time at #night during the Golden Age of #Piracy? Of course, just consult your #nocturnal #star dial. You'll also need to find #Polaris & #UrsaMajor or #UrsaMinor. #celestialnavigation #talklikeapirate #timekeeping #stargazing #instrumentation #astrophysics #histsci 🍎 #sailing #science
SAGA Team The High-Resolution Multi-Object Spectrograph (HRMOS) has a new webpage: www.hrmos.eu HRMOS will be proposed as a new instrument for the Very Large Telescope of ESO as part of the VLT2030 roadmap It will combine very high-resolution (80k), >50 multiplex, and high RV precision #instrumentation 🔭
ESO It's a go for manufacturing CUBES, a future instrument for our VLT. The VLT's ultraviolet eye, CUBES will search for water in the asteroid belt & explore the UV cosmic background, among other scientific goals. https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann25006/ 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation
ESO Spot a logo that gives off superhero vibes? 😉 Meet "Fantastic 4MOST", which will soon join our league of extraordinary instruments. @4most-eu.bsky.social comes packed with superpowers. Discover them: www.eso.org/public/image... 📷 ESO/4MOST/Steffen Frey 🔭 🧪 #instrumentation
Erica Sawczynec christmas in the lab today 🥹🙂↕️ #instrumentation