I couldn’t resist posting one more photo. This is Brent, me, and Nicha in the east arm of the 200″ Hale telescope. We were pretending like we were floating through the space station. “Space station” really is the prevailing feeling we got when we were in there! It felt very “Star Trek.” Like, original series Star Trek.
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Astronomers occasionally have to deal with snakes. It’s part of the job. Just kidding. Nicha, Brent, and I were at Palomar Observatory for the past two nights. Last year, Nicha proposed to use the 200″ telescope to observe nearby galaxies to determine the relationship between their mass and metallicity (see my previous blog post). She was granted four nights. Unfortunately, the weather was not good, and she was able to observe only…
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