Flatland Astronomer, PhD

Alex Polanski • @UnivOfKansas ➡️ @LowellObs • I enjoy exoplanets and climbing rocks •
Will never turn down a game of pool •

[Flatland Astronomer, PhD @AlexNeedsSpace]

Stephan's Quintet: From a photographic plate taken through a 6" refractor in the early 1900's to JWST.

How far we have come in just a short amount of time.

[Flatland Astronomer, PhD @AlexNeedsSpace]

Questions? DM me!

[Flatland Astronomer, PhD @AlexNeedsSpace]

Back on this site for a bit to advertise the 4 year (!) Percival Lowell Postdoctoral Fellow applications are OPEN!! 📢📢📢
https://t.co/KYC3hbtDTZ
Come join us at Lowell Observatory where you'll work at a National Historic site in beautiful northern Arizona!

[Flatland Astronomer, PhD @AlexNeedsSpace]

And if outreach is your ~passion~ we are set to open a $55 million Astronomy Discovery Center this November complete with a open air, dark sky theater!

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@YoniAstro Risotto recursion

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@dtstarkid Big true

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@KUPhysicsAstro @UnivOfKansas @KansanNews @lawrencelibrary @LawrenceKSTimes @KUGrounds @kulibraries @eXploreLawrence @usd497 @HaskellU 🥹🥹

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@vogonpoetry42 *the basis for the entire KU outreach program*

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How much is KU spending on that new stadium, again?

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Just took an exposure for a program that I proposed for, on my first night with a new instrument...here's to 4 years of EXPRES 🥂

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@kathrwn

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@astronomills @toomanyspectra Was right there with ya

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@AkAstronomy Reminds me of when I asked the finance officer to tell me how much I had left in my grants and they apparently didn't factor the 50 percent admin fee into a """grand""" total

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"Light scratch"

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@ijustgottoask @butthisisshort @USA_Polling Wow, you actually believe a German chancellor actually can be a dictator, don't you? 😂😂

Study more perhaps?

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@MarkPopinchalk Ratatouille

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@YoniAstro I'm in Philadelphia help

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Me heading into work

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@jkarpin2 Not sure those folding periods are right, there shouldn't be any baseline flux in-transit for a folded light curve

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@zosterophyllum Alex lore I know how to handle wood

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$50 dollar Target desk face-lift! After 4 days of cutting sanding and painting I was starting to think it wouldn't be worth it....until I put it back together 🤩

New handmade, poplar drawer faces but the legs are original - they really hid those under green paint.