June Meeting
Friday, June 7, 2019, 7:00 pm
What it's like to observe at Kitt Peak
I'll talk about and show pictures from the most recent trip to observe at Kitt Peak National Observatory in May, 2019. I'll introduce the telescopes I used (and the others on the Mountain), talk about the observations I was making there, and describe how days and night at the observatory are spent, as well as how the mountaintop has changed in the 25 years since I started using the telescopes there.
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.
