⟳ Репост от Chris Lee
Thank you to everyone who joined us for last night's NAM2026 Conference Dinner & RAS Awards Ceremony in the University of Birmingham's stunning Great Hall. Congratulations again to all of this year's award winners 🏆️🏅
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Chris Lee
AstroSpace Advisor, Former Chief Scientist UK Space Agency, Visiting Prof (Uni of Leicester), FRAS FBIS #BristolAstroSoc, Astro, #Space #Astrophotographer, #Park-run #ProgRock, #Sci-Fi, #anti-Trump #anti-Reform (he/him)
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⟳ Репост от Chris Lee
Our final scientific update from NAM2026 concerns NASA's Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will search for Earth-like planets when it launches in the 2040s. UK astronomers are a step closer to playing a leading role in the mission, after receiving £3m from the @ukspaceagency.bsky.social. 1/2 ⤵️
I was in the throng here but i don’t think this rocket will work 🤷🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤣🔭🚀
Royal Astronomical SocietyThat's it for NAM2026 🚀🔭 Thank you so much to the organising committee, to our hosts the @unibirmingham.bsky.social and to everyone who came along or joined us online. Next year's NAM will be hosted by the @universityofleeds.bsky.social - we look forward to seeing you there! 👋
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I'm absolutely devastated for colleagues at Jodrell Bank who found out this morning that funding for the UK's e-MERLIN radio telescope array will be terminated. This is a short-sighted move, to save a tiny fraction of the overall UK science budget. #SaveJodrellBank 🔭🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Jodrell Bank's Lovell telescope faces axe in science cuts, BBC understandsAstronomers warn it would tear the heart out of UK science, and leave a generation untrained.www.bbc.co.ukAstronomer Royal for Scotland | Catherine Heymans“What will the Lovell Telescope discover/enable 20 yrs from now? I can’t tell you, and that’s the point. It will either be something extraordinary that none of us can yet predict, or we will defund it and leave Cheshire with a rusting monument to unfulfilled potential and discoveries never made.” 🔭🧪
Good grief! #Renaissance are THE classical progrock band for a mashup at a #bbcproms #prognight but they are murdering #NorthernLights and frankly the band offer more suitable showcase tracks to have chosen 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️ - Perhaps you had to be there? Still the night is young… @peterlewis55.bsky.social
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Averaging individual frames and using a rejection algorithm can get rid of those pesky satellite trails to get a nice #astrophotography pic... Here's NGC2655 without pollution, shot over several nights from my backyard. What do you see @kat-astro-bot.bsky.social ?
Lt NonoHere is roughly 8h of luminance data (over three nights this past week) with this #astrophotography of NGC2655 done without any rejection algorithm. There's a slight satellite trail pollution don't you think? This is sad, knowing that some companies are willing to make things even worse 😢.