Infraredastronomy - The Research Garden

A comparison of available data for Jupiter in 1969 compared to 1996, since then we've learned even more. Paper Link

SOHO Coronagraph Experiment/Dirty Computer - Janelle Monae

“Out of the mountain of despair, a stone of hope”

Reflections

I recently adopted a cat and have named him Lorenzo. At the shelter he was kind of a mean ass cat. Now that he lives as a solo cat I'm seeing a really soft side of him and it warms my heart. I also recently submitted an instrument concept for the Gemini Strategic Planning community input. Not entirely sure where that will go, but I'm proud that I put myself out there with my team.

Reflections

I'm mentoring an undergrad for the first time and I'm realizing more how much effort it takes to start someone on research from scratch. Its so different from how classes work there is really no script to it. We are working on studying Hubble observations of Jupiter from 2015 to now. At the moment most variability measurements of gas giant exoplanets or brown dwarfs are only over one or two rotation periods. We need to move from "weather" into long-term climate observations, which is possible with a small observatory in space. Using Jupiter and current brown dwarf data, we can estimate what sensitivity is needed.

I've been gaming a lot less lately. I reached Platinum 4 in League of Legends, which is much higher than my original goal this season. There is no point in practicing because the whole map will change in January. I also have some JWST Observations that got executed today and LBTI observations to plan for in December and January.

Trip to Yokohama, Japan for SPIE

Top: Cathedral of St. Augustine

Bottom: Piece from Juan Obando and Yoshua Okón: DEMO

I really enjoyed doing this interview for the Brown Dwarf Podcast. It was such a pleasure talking with Phoenix.

Fay Ray: PORTALS

Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson

I had the whole museum to myself when I got see this exhibit which was a real treat. I loved seeing all the textures and use of mineral in the aluminum/steel sculptures. I'm so glad I visited on my last day of vacation.

My favorite pieces from left to right:

Neith

Fragmented Thinking

Portal

Shores Inward

Mirror Dreams