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The Quad-camera Wavefront-sensing Six-channel Speckle Interferometer, for use on the @LowellObs 4.3-meter Lowell Discovery Telescope

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Hey check it out - 4 speckle imaging channels AND the wavefront sensor is now coming online

[Dr. Gerard van Belle @FringeDoctor]

23 years ago today!

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Back on the telescope, courtesy @FringeDoctor !

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What big thing will the @ehtelescope reveal tomorrow?

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New family pic. Optics box (center), with 2x @AndorTechnology iXon EMCCD cameras, 1 Andor sCMOS Zyla, and 1 @firstlightfr CRED2. Electronics box (center top) with 2x Intel NUCs, power supplies, fiber-fed calibration source, and APC PDU.

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I've got a new mounting bracket for my electronics box! (Silver bit holding the white hole-y box)

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I've got a new internal stiffener! (aka 'The Cricket Bat')

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Back in the saddle! And now with a spiffy new @AndorTechnology Zyla sCMOS camera

[Dr. Gerard van Belle @FringeDoctor]

Hey, #AstroTwitter, you knew this was coming - it's holiday edition of the #JWST poll! 🎄🎅🎁

When will #JWST launch?

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Back onto the telescope today!

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@aussiastronomer C'mon it's that sort of dick-swinging that brought us the space program in the first place. Misplaced intent, but we get lots of benefits from it nonetheless

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Back on the telescope! 🔭 ⭐

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@SuperASASSN bring it

[Dr. Gerard van Belle @FringeDoctor]

Pretty slick packaging for my SSD upgrade, @sabrent! Now @QWSSI1 will run on the @LowellObs Discovery Telescope much more efficiently. More data each night means more stellar companions can be discovered!

(And thanks again to @SolarTelescope for the NUC donation.)

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Merch!!

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@toomanyspectra I resemble that remark

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@astro_noel @AAVSO Pity about the hemisphere...

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One more night of observing and OMG one can fill up hard drives fast when it's 2GB every 2 minutes

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@AstroBokonon @wunderground Hey cool

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@DrKeithSmith @joe_llama It's not so much a set aside, instead we simply have scads left over still without names from the big LONEOS survey from a few years back

[Tony Dunn @tony873004]

Parallax of Orion if Earth's orbit was 50,000x larger.