Matthew Lay

Scientist🔬#STEM teacher 📚 astrophotographer 🔭📷 Aussie-Chinese-Timorese 🇹🇱🇦🇺, ex Ares, ex patent attorney

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

#iso in the backyard. Thursday night had the crispest clearest skies for #astronomy I've seen for over a decade! This let me capture my best ever image of #Jupiter ⭐🌔
🔭C9.25 f/10+3x barlow, NEQ6 📷Skyris 445c 5000x 1/83 s exposures. #STEM #astro #astrophotography

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR No instability due to wind gusts?

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR That's MAD! (how many understand that cold war era reference?)

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@Mon4Kooyong Would a CDC equivalent be more trustworthy than our current research institutes and universities though?

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@BoxnDiceExp @Mon4Kooyong That's exactly the point though. If the CDC is independent of both then they are a more trustworthy authority. As an ex-biomed researcher I know that finding sources and conflicts of interest must be declared too.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

Insightful & informative Q&A inc. mental wellbeing in training, advancing drug development in microgravity & breadth of talented people needed to support our space industry.

Thanks to Tanya Hill @melbournemuseum and @cityofmelbourne for hosting.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

Great to catch up & congratulate Katherine Bennell-Pegg last night. 17 yrs since in the @australianarmy Reserves together and nice to see Katherine's command presence and team skills when an audience member unfortunately experienced a medical emergency at the event.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

Surprised & saddened to learn that cancer diagnostics or therapies in AU are being delayed because some medical radioisotopes are from Israel. I thought that most of our supply was either produced @ANSTO or in hospital cyclotrons?

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@pgarrett @PeterDutton_MP We shouldn't be surprised though as it's a similar argument to the one they made about how an Indigenous Voice to Parliament would divide the nation.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@Lisa9Sophia @pgarrett @PeterDutton_MP Lie? no, it's not commenting 'for reasons of national security'.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@FlixPat @abcnews we need to convince the younger generation that they need to enlist to achieve that though

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@Doonami @3AW693 @Madelaine_Burke I bet they haven't even had the privilege of serving

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@igordownunder @sjwill99 But why? I'm not against nuclear in principle. But if it's going to be more expensive I don't see the point. Perhaps a more compelling argument for me is if we need to actually have our own nuclear weapons program because we can't seem to rely on US for defence support

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@igordownunder I think he felt emboldened by Trump but doesn't realise we're not Americans?

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@igordownunder @sjwill99 no, that was a massive own goal. especially when CSIRO released a report last year saying nuclear is not the way to go

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR Curious to know what that central 'bar' is due to. superimposed view of two ellipses? or asymmetric 'explosion'?

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR @ExploreCosmos_ yes, but we should ask what observable it predicts or explains other than the dark matter/energy problem. I can only read the abstract and that is not evident or yet to be established.

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR Orion nebula and omega centaurus are visually stunning too.
I got used to ferrying my steel tube Dobsonian in the car boit so my C9. 25 is a dream in comparison 😂. I really should be using much smaller focal length for astrophotography though. I think that's the key

[Matthew Lay @doc_Lay]

@DrShaneRRR Surely keeping the Meade for visual astronomy of planets and if you're out at a dark site is worth it?
It's this the future for Telescopes in schools?
I like there is no eyepiece to reduce risk for solar astronomy too.