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My employer, Australian Astronomical Optics at Macquarie University in Sydney, are currently looking for a electronics engineer to join our electronics engineering group. If you're an EE and would like to apply your skills to design, build, test and deploy electronics for astronomical instrumentation for the world's observatories then check out the listing here: mq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Caree…

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#Astrodon #Astronomy #AstroJobs #FediHire


Electronics Engineer

PRIMARY DETAIL HEW Level 7 ($114,992 – $124,676 per annum), plus 17% superannuation and annual leave loading Full-time, 2 Year fixed-term role Macquarie University, Wallumattagal Campus, North Ryde Australian Astronomical Optics (AAO) at Macquarie Un…
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#astronomy #Astrodon #FediHire #astrojobs

C 33 the Veil Nebula last night taken with my new Dwarf 3 smart telescope. Had a Dwarf 2 but don’t think it was well-collimated. This one has sharper stars which is showing some lovely detail. This was about 220 frames at 15s each using the dual-band filter under super light polluted Bortle 8/9 skies. A little processing in Apple Photos. Not bad at all!

#Astrodon #lookup #dwarf3 #seattle #AstroPhotography

Image of a nebula set against the backdrop of numerous stars, showcasing intricate patterns and colors in shades of red and blue.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #seattle #dwarf3 #lookup

Hey professional #astrodon folks!

A pretty unique chance to become my colleague at #ESA - working as a project scientist on our newly adopted galactic archaeology mission Arrakihs:

Job details: jobs.esa.int/job/Noordwijk-Pro…

More about Arrakihs: esa.int/Science_Exploration/Sp…


Project Scientist

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#Astrodon #esa

BepiColombo mission is about to arrive at Mercury!

It's a pretty nifty design: ESA's Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) and JAXA's Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (Mio) are travelling to #Mercury as a compostive spacecraft, stacked on top of a transfer module. So separation & arrival will happen in stages.

▶️ esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Images/…

Planetary science is a good reminder that science needs long-term planning and foresight. #BepiColombo was launched in 2018!

#astrodon #space #ESA #JAXA #VicisAstro

An infographic showing the different stages of BepiColombo's arrival at Mercury. Each step shows the configuration of the different spacecraft as they separate from one another, depicted as simplified grey drawings on a dark blue background. A vertical line connects the image for each step to the corresponding date and description at the bottom. An image of Mercury lies on the right edge of the infographic

BepiColombo arrival at Mercury timeline

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#Space #Astrodon #esa #mercury #bepicolombo #vicisastro #jaxa

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Surprising claim of superstringy universe may be based on a mistake

Mix-up in distance scales may explain hints of anisotropy in distribution of galaxies.

science.org/content/article/su…

#Cosmology #galaxies #astrodon

Daniel Pomarède (@pomarede@mastodon.social)

Cosmography alert 🚨 Challenging the assumption of large-scale isotropy: detection of anisotropic cosmic structures on a gigaparsec scale in DESI-DR1 data. by Francesco Sylos Labini & Marco Galoppo https://www.nature.
Daniel Pomarède (Mastodon)
#Astrodon #galaxies #cosmology

The Milky Way Over the Maunakea Observatories

Credit: Dr. Vera Maria Passegger/NAOJ

subarutelescope.org/en/gallery…

#Maunakea #MilkyWay #photography #astrophotography #Hawaii #astrodon #SubaruTelescope #telescopes

The night sky as seen from the summit area of Maunakea. The Milky Way stretches across the sky above the world-class observatories located there. At the center of the scene are the enclosures for the Subaru Telescope and the Keck I and II Telescopes. To the right, you can see the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF), while the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) and the Submillimeter Array (SMA) are in the lower left. Credit text: Subaru Telescope.

The Milky Way Over the Maunakea Observatories | Subaru Gallery | Subaru Telescope

Subaru Telescope is an 8.2-meter optical-infrared telescope at the summit of Maunakea, Hawaiʻi, operated by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ), National Institutes of Natural Sciences.
Subaru Telescope
#photography #astrophotography #Astrodon #hawaii #milkyway #telescopes #maunakea #SubaruTelescope

This is why we call it the Extremely Large Telescope!

This photo shows the massive structure that will hold the main mirror of our ELT. It was taken when the construction reached an important milestone: for the first time, the telescope’s structure was rotated horizontally by a few centimetres... by hand!

Read more: eso.org/public/images/potw2627…

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📷 ESO/Cimolai

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering

The image shows the interior of the Extremely Large Telescope. The metallic grey main structure can be seen in the entire picture, with three people standing in front of it, in hard hats and green safety vests. The people are much smaller than the telescope’s structure.

And yet it moves!

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#Space #science #astronomy #astrophysics #engineering #Astrodon

And probably my fav of the night getting our galactic core in with some aurora.

#aurora #northernlights #Astrodon #astrophotography #ElbeWA #pnw

A night sky filled with stars, displaying shades of purple and green, with silhouettes of clouds and a dark landscape at the bottom.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #northernlights #pnw #aurora #elbewa

Was able to catch some aurora from near Mt. Rainier tonight. What a treat! Could see structures with my eyes but everything came out with long exposure phone shots.

#aurora #astrophotography #astrodon #tacoma #seattle #NorthernLights

A night sky filled with stars, showcasing a gradient of purple and green hues, with a silhouette of a mountain range at the bottom.
A night sky featuring a gradient of purple and green hues, illuminated by stars, with a silhouette of hills at the bottom and wispy clouds near the horizon.
A night sky filled with stars, featuring a gradient of purple and green hues near the horizon, and silhouetted hills below.
A night sky filled with twinkling stars and soft auroras in shades of purple and green above a dark landscape.
#astrophotography #Astrodon #northernlights #aurora #seattle #tacoma

🚨 Beyond the limit 🚨

New ESO study finds that current proposals to launch 1.7+ million satellites into orbit would have devastating consequences for astronomy.

The most extreme proposals come from SpaceX & Reflect Orbital

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📷 F. Kamphues, ESO/M. Kornmesser

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #environment #pollution

The background of this image shows a starry sky, including the bright lane of the Milky Way. Hundreds of bright streaks cross the sky in different directions, as if scratching the background natural sky behind it. The bottom of the image is occupied by the dark silhouette of a mountainous desert landscape. Atop the mountain at the centre, is a small, distant metallic dome and yellow-orange lasers shine behind it.
#Space #Environment #science #astronomy #astrophysics #pollution #Astrodon

We are all stardust.

The oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their life in a supernova.

The iron in your blood? Some from massive stars dying, but mainly fron white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.

Carbon, the basis of life? Mostly from dying low mass stars.

The gold ring on your finger? Mostly from merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.

#VicisAstro #astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics

Table of elements colored by their cosmic origin: big bang fusion, cosmic ray fusion, merging neutron stars, exploring massive stars, dying low mass stars, exploring white dwarfs.
#astronomy #astrophysics #Astrodon #vicisastro

Playing with some new astro processing tools; denoising and sharpening. These are before and after versions of the “Dark Tower” cometary globule in Scorpius (not scorpio)

#astrophotography #space #Astrodon

A towering pillar of dark dust is silhouetted by glowing gas all around it.
A towering pillar of dark dust is silhouetted by glowing gas all around it.
#Space #astrophotography #Astrodon

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