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Pasachoff, Babcock, Lu '13 observe transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter, Saturn
January 8, 2013 press contact: James Kolesar, Public Affairs Office, Willliams College; jkolesar@williams.edu science contact: Jay Pasachoff, Caltech 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125; on sabbatical from Williams College; jmp@caltech.edu. Cell phone contact: 617 285 6351 Embargo: until the session begins on Wednesday, January 9, at 10:30 am PST The three transits of Venus more »
Pasachoff Participates in Hubble Space Telescope Observations
Pasachoff participated in Hubble Space Telescope 22-hour-long observations of Jupiter in an attempt to detect the transit of Venus that was visible there on September 20, 2012, and received a Space Telescope Science Institute grant from NASA in support. He reports on the Williams College team’s transit of Venus observations from June 5, supported by more »
Kwitter and colleagues awarded time with 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias
The largest ground-based optical telescope in the world is the 10.4-meter diameter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Karen Kwitter and colleagues (R. Corradi, Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, B. Balick, U. Washington, and R. Henry, U. Oklahoma) have been awarded time on the GTC in the fall of fall 2012 to observe two planetary more »
Kwitter Awarded Observing Time with Hubble Telescope
Karen B. Kwitter, the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and five colleagues have been granted observing time with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to study how planetary nebulae have contributed to the amounts of carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen in the Milky Way Galaxy.
full article »Pasachoff Awarded NSF Grant to Study Solar Eclipses
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant of $158,234 to Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College. The grant will support research on the two major solar eclipses that will occur in 2012.
full article »Chronicles of an Observing Run on Mauna Kea
Emma Lehman ’10 traveled to Mauna Kea and the Gemini telescope in Hawaii to gather data for her senior astrophysics thesis on planetary nebulae. Download Emma Lehman’s “From a Star Journal” (PDF) here.
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