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My background is in #astronomy through the Ph.D. level. Previously worked on high-mass #StarFormation, #galaxy evolution and #instrumentation development. Now a professional in the world of #DarkSkies. My life’s mission is to help people experience the wonder of the cosmos.
Outside of work, my interests include #law, #politics, #CurrentEvents, #history, #music and #art. Looking forward to discussing all of this and more with a new community here.
First issue of the WST Chronicle
www.wstelescope.com/wst-chronicle
The WST Chronicle is an electronic magazine designed to keep the WST science teams and the broader scientific community updated on the latest developments of the project
WST is a project to build a 12m telescope with a large FoV (>3 deg^2) fully dedicated to multi-object spectroscopy
#Astronomers
Did you work on Astro-1? Astro-2? #uv #spaceshuttle missions?
35th & 30th anniversary event planning is underway
Read Nicolle Zellner's announcement to join the festivities and celebrate their #NASAscience achievements
#Astronomers
Did you work on Astro-1? or Astro-2? #uv #spaceshuttle (#spacelab) missions?
35th & 30th anniversary event planning is underway
Read Nicolle Zellner's announcement to join the festivities and celebrate their #NASAscience achievements
Runtime instrumentation in Java – with no frameworks at all.
I wrote a REST service using HttpServer and injected logging logic at class-load time using a custom Java Agent and the Instrumentation API.
100% JDK-only
https://svenruppert.com/2025/04/11/open-hearted-bytecode-java-instrumentation-api
We need more harp, oboe, and French horn in rock and pop music.
#harp
#oboe
#frenchhorn
#rockndorroll
#popmusic
#music #iTA #isThisAnything #music #rock #pop #harp #oboe #frenchhorn #orchestration #instrumentation #musicideas #classicalmeetsrock #musicinnovation
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William J. Welch Postdoctoral Fellowship
Deadline: December 20th, 2024
Focusing on "Engineering the Future of Cosmic Exploration," this fellowship covers a wide range of fields, including advanced radio #astronomy techniques, the interstellar medium, the development of cutting-edge #instrumentation and #technology in radio astronomy, time-domain / radio transient #science, and #technosignatures.
Learn more: https://www.seti.org/welch-fellowship
#instrumentation question: I've started a duo for oboe and bassoon. But sometimes I wonder if having both instruments be double reeds is too much. So, alternatives would be clarinet + bassoon or oboe + bass clarinet.
I'm just not sure, though. Part of me feels like the original timbre combination is driving the composition's direction, and if I changed it, I might go off course.
What are your thoughts?
"Into the Groove" is a song recorded by American singer #Madonna, and featured on the 1985 film #DesperatelySeekingSusan. Written and produced by both Madonna and #StephenBray, the main inspiration behind the song was the dance floor; the singer wrote it while watching a Latin American man to whom she was attracted. Its #instrumentation features #synthesizers and #drumMachines, with Madonna's voice being #doubleTracked on the #chorus. Sexual innuendos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zh-0eupfNw
That feeling when you get an exciting new ccd installed on your spectrograph and then it snows all night 
... it's snow laughing matter, but at least it's nothing Sirius.
Last week, the International Glass Plates Group explored why counting astronomical photographic plates is more difficult than eeny, meeny, miny, moe ...
"Into the Groove" is a song recorded by American singer #Madonna, and featured on the 1985 film #DesperatelySeekingSusan. Written and produced by both Madonna and #StephenBray, the main inspiration behind the song was the dance floor; the singer wrote it while watching a Latin American man to whom she was attracted. Its #instrumentation features #synthesizers and #drumMachines, with Madonna's voice being #doubleTracked on the #chorus. Sexual innuendos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke7L0E8hu4
New paper from the U.S. National Park Service Natural Sounds and Night Skies Division: "Fisheye Night Sky Imager: A Calibrated Tool to Measure Night Sky Brightness" https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1538-3873/ad6bc1 (open access)
"Into the Groove" is a song recorded by American singer #Madonna, and featured on the 1985 film #DesperatelySeekingSusan. Written and produced by both Madonna and #StephenBray, the main inspiration behind the song was the dance floor; the singer wrote it while watching a Latin American man to whom she was attracted. Its #instrumentation features #synthesizers and #drumMachines, with Madonna's voice being #doubleTracked on the #chorus. Sexual innuendos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bke7L0E8hu4
Des ingénieurs du Laboratoire d' #astrophysique de #Marseille ont installés les derniers modules de l'instrument PFS à Hawaï. Retrouvez plus de photographies et d'explications sur ce lien: https://www.lam.fr/installation-des-derniers-modules-du-spectrographe-pfs-a-hawai/
#instrumentation #astronomie
#cnrs #aixmarseilleuniversite
programming is bliss...
LatLearn is gaining a test suite! in a project underway, in my limited free time
I actually have some much cooler & beefier feature-oriented projects planned for it, each in various states of R&D WIP
but I decided it would be wise to first upgrade the codebase to have formal tests. why? will make it easier to spot regressions during big complex refactors. plus just takes the lib closer to its ideal longterm form
in the next week or two hope to (if can squeeze in the time, etc):
* release a new video on YouTube of a play #screencast demo of new material in my #game Slartboz. related to a Great & Terrible Monster that Abro's best fren Bonk must overcome in order to Save The Day
* push up commits with a new feature or two to LatLearn, my FOSS #Golang #latency #instrumentation library (on GitHub)
I'm considering recording a dev #screencast video of a short coding session on my FOSS #Golang #latency #instrumentation library, LatLearn:
https://github.com/mkramlich/latlearn
say <= 7 minutes long? (to fit under YouTube's cap on the per-clip length of my videos)
adding a new feature from my TODO list?
when I have a little time for a session. perhaps in next few weeks
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#Loudwire
Watch Dream Theater Members Play Their Favorite Guitar Riffs, Drum + Keyboard Parts (Gear Factor)
Watch Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci and Jordan Rudess play the riffs and parts of music that influenced their careers.
https://loudwire.com/dream-theater-gear-factor/
#progmetal #guitar #drums
#bass #keyboards #instrumentation #musicianship #musicindustry #GrammyAwards
The Metal Dog