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.
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!
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!
@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
$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.