Image Credit: DESI Collaboration
June 2019 NOAO Newsletter
The June 2019 NOAO Newsletter is online and ready to download. It contains sections on Science Highlights, Community Science & Data, System Observing, and NOAO Operations & Staff.
On the Cover
First Light image (of M51) with the new DESI Corrector Assembly (CA) on the Mayall 4m telescope on Kitt Peak. The CA consists of four ~1m diameter lenses and a two-element atmospheric dispersion corrector, as well as the hexapod, used for fine-motion and focus control of the CA. The image was made with the Commissioning Instrument, composed of five CCD cameras temporarily installed in the DESI focal plane.
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Join the international star-hunt campaign, Globe at Night, June 24-July 3. Use a smart phone to submit sky brightness in real time! Visit globeatnight.org.
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During the July 2 solar eclipse students from the University of La Serena, with Juan Seguel (CTIO) & Rob Sparks (NOAO), will replicate Eddington’s experiment that confirmed Einstein’s Theory of Relativity. -
After an 8-week journey that began in Tucson, AZ, the 8.4m-diameter primary mirror of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) has reached its home at Cerro Pachón in Chile. -
New results from Hubble confirm that the Universe today is expanding faster than expected. The development relies on an earlier study carried out with the SMARTS 1.5m telescope at CTIO. -
Using an artificial intelligence algorithm to sift through massive amounts of data from NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, a team of astronomers, including NOAO astronomer Mark Everett, has discovered two new exoplanets. -
Observations made with the Event Horizon Telescope have captured the first picture of a supermassive black hole. NOAO Astronomer Tod Lauer is a member of the EHT research team. -
On April 1, the Mayall telescope at Kitt Peak emerged from hibernation and, for the first time, starlight poured through the six large lenses of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).
