Douglas Lewin 🔭

@dhilton.bsky.social

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Astronomical and Planetary Sciences (Astrophysics) student at ASU. Future exoplanet astrophysicist. Human Dad to 1 | 🐱 Dad to 4 | 🐢 Dad to 1 | 🏳️‍🌈 ally | sci-fi nerd | nature lover | board gamer | He/him

Bride and groom in front of an old mill building. Bride has blue flowers on her white dress, and groom is wearing light grey suit pants, a white shirt, and a light blue tie to match the blue in the wedding dress
10 purple orchid blossoms on a small plant
Lightcurve of TIC 65203528 showing lots of oscillations within oscillations within oscillations
Kat and I recreating the lean on forehead still from The Princess Bride poster, which is shown in the background.
Photo from an airplane showing ice covered islands and town below.
Error message from ADS stating that the server response times are redshifted
Lit orb with the solar system etched in the glass.
Screenshot or wolfram alpha converting 3x10^19 m to ~ 1kpc
Black and tan striped tiger cat laying on my lap while I work on school work on my laptop.
Mandy Patinkin as Inego Montoya in The Princess Bride holding a sword in a dark hall of a castle
A light-curve plot showing a slight dip in the amount of flux (light) coming from Kepler-17 as viewed from Earth as the probably exoplanet Kepler-17b transitted the face of the star. The size of the dip shows the planet is about 2.3% the radius of the star.
Screenshot of Ground.news app showing a poor translation of a French paper stating the star K2-18 is 120 years old instead of 120 light years away.
Black cat laying across my chest while I’m trying to read my astronomy text.
Sheldon Cooper from The Big Bang Theory looking puzzled with the words "Was that sarcasm?" around him.
Lightcurve from WASP-135 b showing a 2.9% +/_ 1.7% decrease in the average flux of the host star during a transit on 06-March 2021.
Black cat laying on my lap preventing me from getting up.
Screenshot of the original Oregon Trail computer game from the mid 80’s showing cattle pulling a a covered wagon across the Big Blue River.
Pi symbol in a white circle floating against an AI image of a nebula
Grey tuxedo cat sleeping near a computer keyboard on my desk
The open dome of the set showing two LEGO scientists looking at the scientific data.
Part of the LEGO “Rocket Launch Center” set showing the truck, lunar sample, and little robot.
BG Stats 2024 Plays: 187 H-index: 7 Games: 60 New: 40 Players: 60 Locations: 4 Just Desserts: 36 Shifting Stones: 18 Sea Salt & Paper: 17 Potion Explosion: 11 Pocket Cats: 10 Azul: 9 Calico: 9 Just One: 5 Roll to the Top!: 5 79 designers: Brian Henk: 3% Bruno Cathala: 3% Clayton Skancke: 3% Corentin Lebrat: 3% Elan Lee: 3%.
Screenshot of an email welcoming me to Arizona State University
Screenshot of Advent of Code webpage showing that I have completed both parts of Day 01 and earned a gold star.
Cover of Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir showing an astronaut floating above a yellow planet.
Humorous take on the different reasons for submitting scientific papers.
Black cat Houdini showing her tongue
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) appears to hang above a tree in southern New Hampshire
Zeus the tabby cat sleeping on a computer desk
Fezzie the tuxedo cat asleep on my lap
American Bald Eagle soaring against a clear blue sky
Two Lego sets from the “Tales of the Space Age” set. One depicting a comet streaking above some radio telescopes, and one depicting a rover on the surface of a Mars-like planet.
Moon boardgame with playmat and Valkyrie expansion
Cover of “Life as No One Knows It” by Sara Imari Walker
Certificate of authenticity and small piece of a meteorite in a bag.
Andromeda galaxy
Female monarch butterfly sitting on my hand after hatching.
Pac-Man Sun “eating” the 8 planets
Sleeping cat on my work desk
Three Body Problem
Milky Way galaxy rising over an outhouse in the Utah desert.
Screenshot of comments from Professor - Relevant part includes mention that my project made his "'honor roll' of projects that [he] found to be particulary unique and original, and which [he] found to explain or expand on course material in an intersting way."
Screenshot of "HabWorlds" simulation showing list of stars with orbiting terrestrial planets, and their stats.
Star Wars - Return of the Jedi theatrical release poster from 1983
Theory of Planetary Atmospheres book cover - blue hardback
Photo of the cover of "A City of Mars" by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. Signed copy sticker
NASA message in a bottle program for the Europa Clipper program. http://go.nasa.gov/MessageInABottle
Adjusting the telescope aim
To Infinity and Beyond books by Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Lindsey Nyx Walker. One signed, one from the library
Cloud cover prediction for 23-Oct
Blue TI-84 Plus CE Python graphing calculator