SkyMapper Telescope

I am a 1.35 m wide-field robotic telescope making a digital six-colour survey of the entire southern sky.

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SkyMapper: Now with Gaia eDR3 goodness https://t.co/5c9snEQz1U

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Data Release 2 from the SkyMapper Southern Survey is now available to users around the world. Check out the DR2 paper (https://t.co/cZ2lAXygJN or https://t.co/s5kSqZ05P9) for the details, and visit https://t.co/boNW4oBXia to get started!

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After 6 weeks, SkyMapper is back on-sky! Thanks to all the staff at Siding Spring Observatory for getting us operating again!

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Featured Publication: A Record-Setting Ancient Star
https://t.co/QXPHbybrEs

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Nobel prize winning science! @SkyMapper detects fireball from neutron star collision
https://t.co/CZ8qCllWkC

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@SkyMapper deserves a visit in this beautiful afternoon, it looked at the first ever Neutron Star merger detected w. gravitational waves.

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@anais_moller Thanks for visiting!

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.@our_ANU scientists discuss following up the detection of a #NeutronStar merger with @SkyMapper https://t.co/kQNXs3FxIE

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@SkyMapper observes the fireball emanating from the merger of two #NeutronStars in the galaxy NGC 4993 (Credit: RSAA//C. Wolf et al.)

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See how @SkyMapper helped the effort to observe the first ever #NeutronStar merger detected in #GravitationalWaves https://t.co/ZiRcTVgTVi

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and here it is, Australian based observations including @SkyMapper ! https://t.co/i77JdHyd4N

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The final speaker in the #ASA2017 SkyMapper session is Seo-Won Chang (ANU), who is looking at variable sources in DR1, incl. M dwarf flares!

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.@anais_moller and the SkyMapper Transient Survey are looking for things that go bump (or BOOM!) in the night #ASA2017

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From galaxies to the high redshift universe: Fuyan Bian (ANU) is finding quasars in early SkyMapper data. Many more hiding in Main Survey.

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Chris Wolf (ANU) shows #ASA2017 a 2.5 hour exposure time SkyMapper mosaic of Centaurus A. Just a little deeper than DR1!

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...and now Gary Da Costa (ANU) is showing early results looking for Extremely Metal Poor Stars in DR1. About 30,000 candidates to follow up!

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Here at #ASA2017 in chilly Canberra, Chris Onken is telling everyone about SkyMapper's DR1

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Here's a striking g-band image from Chris Wolf of the Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus (which coincidentally means 'serpent bearer') So many stars!

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OK, it's been more than 24 hours since DR1. Anyone have any exciting early results to share?

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We have deeper data in the Main Survey to come, but here's a 5/5/10 sec Shallow Survey gri image of Centaurus A. Note the bad CCD column!