Observing at Cerro Tololo Before and During the Pandemic
Saturday, February 5, 2022, 7:00 pm
This meeting will be held via ZOOM only Contact Linda Bergemann (LBergemann@aol.com) for Zoom Meeting link and information.
Synopsis:
I'll talk about what goes into an observing run at the Blanco 4m telescope, based on experiences and pictures taken over my years of heading to Chile, and compare it with the experience of observing remotely from Providence as travel to the observatory has been impossible. I'll also talk a bit about the research program we've been doing on the telescope.
Speaker Bio:
Ian Dell'Antonio has been a professor of physics at Brown since 1999, and a member of Skyscrapers since 2003. Before that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Bell Labs and a research fellow at the National Optical Astronomy Observatories in Tucson, Arizona. His research involves using the bending of light due to gravity to study galaxies, galaxy clusters, and the contents of the Universe as a whole.
