Jon Richards

I ran the observing program for The SETI Institute at the Allen Telescope Array. I moved on to other things in Sept 2019. My 11 years there was a blast!

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@gvanrossum I'd like to know if you had to answer any coding questions during the interview.

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@StephenKing Gotta be the name of one of your future novels.

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@Benathon Should be debugged by now

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@Benathon Yep

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@Benathon Discussing this with my daughter, you are the only person we personally know who used the term “woke”

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@ReinaldoRMG The bird is out of focus a bit. The background is in focus because the camera would not have had time to focus on the bird.

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

Caught this picture on the Allen Telescope Array webcam. Not photoshopped! I wonder what type of bird this is. #ATASETI #BIRDS

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@ReinaldoRMG Here is the high res from the camera.

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

A bird at the Allen Telescope Array was protecting her four eggs today. She would run away from her nest to try and distract me. I tried to leave her alone. #ATASETI

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

Timelapse of ATA work and filming August 19, 2018 https://t.co/FnvQxWyTeM #ATASETI @SethShostak

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

Video of lightning at the Allen Telescope Array on July 15, 2018 recorded with our new sky camera. You can see the dishes and windsock on the periphery. #ATASETI https://t.co/CvDTwQFaVT

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@boundryrunner @iangriffin What type and model of Telescope and camera?

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

Short video story featuring @jilltarter and @jrseti at the ATA last summer. This just aired last Monday on the show Daily Planet in Canada. https://t.co/jj2wFgsDbw #ATASETI

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

I held a brief party in honor of Verne Troyer who died last week. His biggest role was ‘Mini-Me’ in the Austin Powers films. (Turn up the volume to hear Dr. Evil introduce him when I press the button) #ATASETI

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

I wrote the iPhone app for this book/project. My wife is the author of the book. I got a lot of good husband points for doing this :). Plus, I got better at iOS Swift programming. Especially interesting was the particle emitter which enables the effect of…https://t.co/4jTPOKOuBE

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@ProfAbelMendez @NAICobservatory @SETIInstitute @SethShostak @jilltarter @PlanetaryHabLab Screenshot from yesterday's Barnard's Star observation... #ATASETI

[Prof. Abel Méndez 🔭 🔬 @ProfAbelMendez]

We observed last night Barnard's and Luyten's Stars from the @NAICobservatory together with the @SETIInstitute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA). Thanks to @jrseti for the collaboration. @SethShostak @jilltarter @PlanetaryHabLab

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@Nightpost1 The 1-2GHz range has a lot of RFI. Almost too much for our signal search. I reviewed these detections and they were definitely RFI that eventually disappeared. It would have to be from an intentional transmitter, so it could be any frequency. Thanks for paying attention! #ATASETI

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

@piotelat @SETIInstitute I'll try to remember!

[Jon Richards @jrseti]

Now recalibrating the ATA for 7700-9000Mhz to observe 'Oumuamua. It sets at 06:46UTC. Hopefully I can get to 9GHz before it sets! https://t.co/CvDTwQFaVT #Omuamua #ATASETI