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Astronomer at the Vera Rubin Observatory.
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You spin us right round, right round 🎶 Our summit team recently tested the function that the camera rotator is named for and all went well! The remaining steps to complete before we install the largest camera in the world on our telescope are rapidly shrinking...stay tuned! 👀 🔭🧪

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

I had forgotten how bad C++ tooling is… 😓

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

When you turn it on and it works spectacularly! The Rubin team has successfully completed the first on-sky engineering tests using the 144-Mpx engineering camera. Up next: installing the largest digital camera in the world, LSST Camera! 🔭🧪 rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-completes-comcam-tests

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

👋 Time for a reintroduction! NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory is nearing the end of construction on Cerro Pachón in Chile, getting ready for its quest to #CaptureTheCosmos with first light expected later this year. 🔭🧪

submitted 58 days ago • 4 comments

🚨Calling astronomy graduate students! Want to build your data science skills while preparing for the deluge of Rubin data? Applications are open for the 2025 LSST-DA 2025 Data Science Fellowship Program! 🔭🧪 Apply by Jan. 22: https://lsstdiscoveryalliance.org/programs/data-science-fellowship

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

Almost there! www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/03/1...

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