Today we lost our Hahn Macaw. He flew out of the open aviary in Auburn. After searching for him in our area, I saw him chased by a magpie further away from our neighbourhood. I hope he will be found by someone and can be recovered. Please share this around your friends in Sydney.
Wonderful final day with the @ESO delegation at @Sydney_Uni, with excellent talks and a tour of the Sydney Astrophotonic Instrumentation Laboratory (#SAIL). Big thanks to all involved for an excellent week of events! 👏
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Prof @xbarcons, @ESO General Director, is giving an excellent summary of ESO achievements, facilities, & instruments during the Allison Levick Lecture at @Macquarie_Uni@MQSciEng@AAOMacquarie @MQPhysAstro
A warm welcome to Canberra for @ESO delegates with lunch and a roundtable discussion hosted by ANU and AAL at ANU's Acton campus. ESO Director for Science Rob Ivison started off by looking at ESO's achievements, challenges and future on its 60th anniversary.
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Along with all the other fantastic speakers at @StromloANU yesterday, AAL's Stuart Ryder presented the Australian use of @ESO facilities to the ESO delegation and other assembled guests. 👏
Prof Amanda Barnier, Pro Vice-Chancellor Research Performance & Development of Macquarie University welcomed delegation from ESO @ESO and Government on behalf of Macquarie @Macquarie_Uni (credits:Lucyna Chudczer)
Astralis-AAO Director Prof Mark Casali describing AESOP (Fibre positioner for 4MOST on VISTA telescope) and BlueMUSE (Blue-optimised large field integral field spectrograph for the Very Large Telescope) at the workshop with @ESO delegates at ANU. (credits: Vimal Parashar)
Astralis-AITC Director Prof Francois Rigaut @FrancoisRigaut
talking about MAVIS, one of the flagship projects of Astralis, at the workshop with @ESO
delegates at ANU this morning. (credits: Vimal Parashar)
Nuria Lorente @NoTruerAlien , the lead of Astralis ESO pipeline project, talking about Data Central @DataCentralOrg @AAOMacquarie and Astronomy Data & Computer Services (ADACS) (credits: Lucyna Chudczer)
Happy National #ScienceWeek! Astralis is one of the capabilities funded by #NCRIS building astronomical instrumentation for the state-of-the-art telescopes!
An @Astralis team, led by A/Prof Julia Bryant, partnered with Australian company Nicholas Hacko Watchmaker to build #Hector for the #AAT, an instrument that will survey up to 15,000 galaxies: https://t.co/fWl5w6ied2
📷: Hector on the AAT. Credit: Dr Jesse van de Sande @Sydney_Uni
Two experts break down the James Webb Space Telescopes's first images, and explain what we've already learnt https://t.co/hFOhiRRjV6 via @ConversationEDU