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CHARA: Preparing for an observing Run
In just a few days I'll be departing for my last scheduled observing run for this season at Georgia State University's Center for High Angular Resolution Astronomy (CHARA) observatory located on Mount Wilson, CA (just to the North of L.A). In a similar spirit to my series of blog posts on observing at NASA's IRTF (preparing and conducting observations, what the data looks like, and what we hope to observe) I thought I would do the same for CHARA. Planning for the observing run consists of three stages: proposing, preparatory work for planning, and finally preparing the plan.
Post-Mid Eclipse Activities
I've been largely missing from the CS website for the last several weeks and thought it was worth providing an update of my activities, both related to CS and towards my dissertation.
On the CS front, the DSLR team has finished an air-mass corrected reduction spreadsheet that is mathematically sound. We think it's ready to go main-stream and hope to have it online soon. We'll have a new tutorial for using this sheet. A while back Tom Pearson and I wrote an article on DSLR photometry and submitted it to a popular astronomy magazine. It was accepted for publication, but after six months of waiting for it to progress to publication we decided to pull the article and publish in a different venue. We are in the process of adapting the content for the new target.Read more
The Disk Revealed
My first two posts about the Seattle AAS meeting focused on the two Citizen Sky posters and a slew of posters and the special session dedicated to epsilon Aurigae. This post is fulfillment of a promise: a discussion of the interferometry poster, along with one extra bonus: a "wow" image.
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The Disk Revealed: Part 2
Back in February I posted an image showing the outline of the disk:
but after talking with Aaron about his recent visit to Tufts, I realized that I didn't actually explain what was in the image. So I thought I would take a moment and put up a different graphic:
