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Daniel Fischer
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Königswinter, Germany
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All things astronomy and space (and then some) - in tiny bits and pieces but mostly with links to more ... :-)
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Daniel Fischer
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As I remember the early debate after the May launch he actually had no clue that satellites could be seen in the sky at all ... and even believed the ISS was only visible because someone turned the lights on (wish I had a reliable source for the latter quote).
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Daniel Fischer
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I can understand (but not condone) that Elon fanboys swallow the "free internet for the world" BS hook, line and sinker, but it's disturbing that many astronomers have fallen for it, too: "although I'm all for Musk doing so much good, perhaps a little less sky pollution..." Sigh.
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Daniel Fischer
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Probably the first large catalogue of molecular clouds in the Galactic plane with distances derived in a direct manner - containing 567 dust/molecular clouds: arxiv.org/abs/2001.11682
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Marcia Smith
@SpcPlcyOnline
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Senate Commerce Cmte will hold a hrg on Feb 12 on planetary defense, space weather, and space situational awareness. Witnesses from NASA (@Dr_ThomasZ ), NOAA (Wm Murtagh), DoC (Kevin O'Connell), Univ of TX (Moriba Jah). 10 am ET. Webcast.
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Daniel Fischer
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Sundogs with strong spectral effects are cool - here's one I caught in 2015: bonnstern.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/abe… - but when the clouds move the effect is even more dramatic: twitter.com/Samcornwell/st…
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Daniel Fischer
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It's a (particularly colorful but not too rare form of a) sundog - see bonnstern.wordpress.com/2015/08/29/abe… for one I once caught, also with wide-field views that give away the geometry.
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Intl. Space Station
@Space_Station
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.@Astro_Luca handed over control of the station today to Oleg Skripochka. Luca returns to Earth on Thursday at 4:12am ET with @Astro_Christina and Alexander Skvortsov. @Astro_Jessica and @AstroDrewMorgan will stay in space with Skripochka. nasa.gov/live pic.twitter.com/xA5Wh4l81f
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Daniel Fischer
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Im Transkript deutschlandfunk.de/esa-personalst… hat übrigens an einer Stelle jemand "Isar" statt "ESA" geschrieben ... ;-) Das "Blog bei der Isar" ist natürlich blogs.esa.int/janwoerner/202… gewesen, verfasst gewiss an den Gestaden der Seine ...
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Daniel Fischer
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BTW, here is another recent digital treatment of that legendary 1895 movie clip: youtube.com/watch?v=Zlc6H5… - wonder how much (manual) effort is involved in this ... and whether we might soon / one day see a lot of poor quality early space age footage in a new way. h/t @RalfBuelow
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NASA's OSIRIS-REx
@OSIRISREx
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Ingredients for Bennu soup:
1 or 2 large boulders
A handful of rocks
A pinch of pebbles
Shadows to taste
A dash of sunlight
Image details: bit.ly/31zxRoT pic.twitter.com/SoNSMJHqtt
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Daniel Fischer
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Does @ESA DG @janwoerner seek another term after mid-2021 or not? blogs.esa.int/janwoerner/202… vs. deutschlandfunk.de/esa-personalst…
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Gemini Observatory
@GeminiObs
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This night-time photo of the Gemini South telescope on Cerro Pachón, Chile features a marvelous view of the Milky Way arching overhead and reflecting off some of the 668 photovoltaic panels that help power the facility. nationalastro.org/?p=6873 #discovertogether pic.twitter.com/93zNUcLR2l
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Daniel Fischer
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An amazing demonstration what AI can generate from (really) only film footage: petapixel.com/2020/02/05/you… - wonder when we'll see the First Man on the Moon video restored to IMAX resolution (I mean the real 1969 broadcast, not the recent movie).
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ESO
@ESO
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This new @ALMAObs image shows the outcome of a stellar fight: a complex and stunning gas environment surrounding the binary HD 101584.
Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), Olofsson et al. socsi.in/6WdLB pic.twitter.com/rXlMghTBep
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Daniel Fischer
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An Extremely Massive Quiescent Galaxy at z=3.5 - Evidence of Insufficiently Rapid Quenching Mechanisms in Theoretical Models: arxiv.org/abs/1910.10158 -> news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/… and keckobservatory.org/monster-galaxy
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SpaceNews
@SpaceNews_Inc
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While the smallsat industry continues to grow, experts warn that several blind spots could slow its growth in the near future. bit.ly/2GXdbh9 pic.twitter.com/rJHl5B6nQD
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Daniel Fischer
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Fast and Accurate Emulation of Halo Clustering Statistics and Its Application to Galaxy Clustering: arxiv.org/abs/1811.09504 -> cfca.nao.ac.jp/en/pr/20200205
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Daniel Fischer
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Found a good introduction for PLBs (and also satellite messengers) at rei.com/learn/expert-a… - so I actually learned something new in this discussion. ;-)
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Daniel Fischer
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Re. SAR, are handheld personal locator beacons sold on Amazon these days - amazon.com/personal-locat… - "mainstream" enough? (Re. Starlink internet-from-the-sky rural American seems to be the first market to be targeted indeed. Re. OneWeb I dunno - we'll see soon enough.)
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Daniel Fischer
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I'm sincerely sorry to hear that and I'm not an expert in practical satellite-enabled SAR - but perhaps a system like the recently launched ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors… (which is working worldwide) would help. And COSPAS-SARSAT has been around for decades: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internati…
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