The Huntsman Telescope is an @AAOMacquarie & @MQPhysAstro project to take images of faint galaxy structures using off the shelf camera lenses
Sydney, Australia
Joined February 2015
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Beautiful sunsets here at Siding Spring Observatory 🔭
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#clearskies #huntsman #telescope #mqphysastro #science #stem
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🏳️🌈 This year we’re really putting the CAMP in campus at @Macquarie_Uni.
#myMQpride #SydneyWorldPride #RainbowCity
We could sit here all day and watch Huntsman 🕷️
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Lee and Sarah from the Huntsman Team welcomed the team from @canonaustralia and highlighted some of the observations that can be done with the Huntsman Telescope, including the ways in which they use Canon equipment to pioneer both day and night observations.
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Don’t miss the Huntsman Telescope on ABC TV during the Australia Day Live Concert at 7:30pm this Thursday!
See this Instagram video by @astrohuntsman instagram.com/reel/CnvpzOfq6…
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Walk with me to Huntsman Telescope! @astrohuntsman
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This is Sarah - a member of the Huntsman Telescope team. She works closely with Huntsman to ensure that everything is operating smoothly, as well as conducts imaging with the telescope. The telescope wouldn’t be as amazing as it is without all her hard work!
Recent research led by PhD candidate Jaime A. Alvarado-Montes shows that giant planets around M dwarfs might collide in a time similar to the one that our Sun will take to engulf Jupiter!
Take a look 👉 doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac27…
@MQPhysAstro @MQSciEng @AstroHuntsman
Another publication led by Jaime’s research team showed that moons with rings could appear bigger than they actually are in astronomical observations, and such moons might also exist around giant planets as the ones introduced above.
Take a look here 👉doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stab35…
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Episode 4 of Stardust MQ is now live, featuring @LeeRSpitler who chats with our host @Cam_Furl about the projects he is working on, including our beloved @AstroHuntsman! Check it out at stardustmq.podbean.com/ or wherever you get your podcasts.
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s….. superbird? I know it may look like a bug on my lens, but that tiny stationary dot is SUPERBIRD 8 43271U, the geostationary satellite.
I can see clearly now the rain has gone! The Huntsman team is preparing to take advantage of the break in the weather to help me squish some software bugs tonight.
#SidingSpringObservatory #AAOMacquarie #MQSciEng
Happy Halloween Huntsman crew! This Halloween, spiderling @AstroPhysarah took inspiration from my recent attempts at observing the source of extragalactic radio signals. When ET phones home, we’ll be watching! #AAOMacquarie #MQSciEng
Last time my spiderlings were working on me they forgot the set screws that hold my eyes in place and had to improvise. Their solution… Frankenbolts! Halloween costume sorted.
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My Huntsman mascot makes a pretty good Halloween costume don’t you think? #AAOMacquarie #MQSciEng
My fellow arachnids have been “helping” with the halloween decorations. Sadly, specks of dust or strands of cobweb are perfect for scattering light. Not ideal if you are searching for the faintest objects in the Universe! #AAOMacquarie #MQSciEng
Having so many eyes can often make it difficult to focus them all on one target! A bit of a nightmare for the spiderlings who are trying to take colour images of some of the jewels of the southern sky, like the Ptomley cluster. #AAOMacquarie #MQSciEng
