Flatland Astronomer, PhD

Stephan's Quintet: From a photographic plate taken through a 6" refractor in the early 1900's to JWST. How far we have come in just a short amount of time.

Questions? DM me!

And if outreach is your ~passion~ we are set to open a $55 million Astronomy Discovery Center this November complete with a open air, dark sky theater!

Back on this site for a bit to advertise the 4 year (!) Percival Lowell Postdoctoral Fellow applications are OPEN!! 📢📢📢 lowell.edu/about/career-o… Come join us at Lowell Observatory where you'll work at a National Historic site in beautiful northern Arizona!

@YoniAstro Risotto recursion

thought I coughed up a tonsil stone but it was an orzo from the leftover "risotto" I ate for dinner

@dtstarkid Big true

Science is so cool

@KUPhysicsAstro @UnivOfKansas @KansanNews @lawrencelibrary @LawrenceKSTimes @KUGrounds @kulibraries @eXploreLawrence @usd497 @HaskellU 🥹🥹

Our Fall 2024 Telescope Night Schedule has just been unveiled! October 10 November 7 December 5 Bookmark the link to stay up to date with weather-related changes! physics.ku.edu/astronomy-publ…

@vogonpoetry42 *the basis for the entire KU outreach program*

How much is KU spending on that new stadium, again?

Just took an exposure for a program that I proposed for, on my first night with a new instrument...here's to 4 years of EXPRES 🥂

do you like him

@astronomills @toomanyspectra Was right there with ya

#SoupTok (volume up)

@AkAstronomy Reminds me of when I asked the finance officer to tell me how much I had left in my grants and they apparently didn't factor the 50 percent admin fee into a """grand""" total

"Light scratch"

@ijustgottoask @butthisisshort @USA_Polling Wow, you actually believe a German chancellor actually can be a dictator, don't you? 😂😂 Study more perhaps?

Amazing how the dude who runs this site acts like a 14 year old Redditor on r/atheism

@MarkPopinchalk Ratatouille

@YoniAstro I'm in Philadelphia help

@AlexNeedsSpace alex it's labor day go home

Me heading into work

@jkarpin2 Not sure those folding periods are right, there shouldn't be any baseline flux in-transit for a folded light curve

TESS Target of Interest [TOI] - TIC 399967279 Planet Orbital Period 1035 days So what’s this at 11.52 days and 6.73 days? 🤔🤔🤔 #Astronomy #astronomy #astronomer #astronomers #TESS #MetaAi #Python

@zosterophyllum Alex lore I know how to handle wood

@AlexNeedsSpace You warned me you were going to take up woodworking during your postdoc and I DIDN’T BELIEVE YOU!

$50 dollar Target desk face-lift! After 4 days of cutting sanding and painting I was starting to think it wouldn't be worth it....until I put it back together 🤩 New handmade, poplar drawer faces but the legs are original - they really hid those under green paint.