Marc Buie

Pluto researcher

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@BadAstronomer @Alex_Parker 6 months spent on preparing for 400 milliseconds of missing starlight. Definitely worth the effort.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@jjkavelaars @AscendingNode @NewHorizons2015 Woohoo! We're tired but exctatic that everything worked out. Gaia, HST, and Argentina made it possible.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@verbiscer gave me a great idea for CO bratfest X theme, summer of (mu)69.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@FitbitSupport I tried that too. It is stuck on CDT no matter what I try and change it to.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@FitbitSupport Yes. Tried all these things many times. No joy.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@FitbitSupport I did exactly those steps for the Charge 2. Manual location and time zone. Time still on CDT despite now being on Japan time.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@FitbitSupport Landscape view on dashboard and updating clock with time zone change broken with this version.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@asrivkin enlightenment is coming so terribly slow to everyone else. Glad have some company.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@AscendingNode @jtuttlekeane that would let you count craters there too

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@jtuttlekeane @AscendingNode Great idea! How about laser ablation experiments?

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@BadAstronomer I've got my own problems with a definition that cares about the number of members.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

One week spent writing a program that almost works. The problem? Mixing up the # and ## operators. Sheesh.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@BadAstronomer Again with the renovation? It looked pretty good to me after the last time...

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

Well, exactly two years from now New Horizons will fly by the tiny speck of light I found with Hubble just over two years ago.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

Settling in for some fun with new gadgets. Wind comes up, power goes down. 🙁 The dogs really hate UPS beepers.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@Wikisteff @Alex_Parker about 55 photons per pixel in the background

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@dmelorj HST has looked at Pluto 12 times this year. Next year we get to do it 40 times. Building the plan now.

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@NASA @NASA_Hubble the picture makes it look easy, what really made it easy was Hubble and a great team to work on the data

[NASA @NASA]

.@NASA_Hubble finds 2 Kuiper Belt objects to support our New Horizons Pluto mission:  
http://t.co/h8G08Iv8Ut 

[Marc Buie @plutoflag]

@BadAstronomer @scalzi Hey, if it keeps those brilliant writing ideas flowing, John should have a few more.