Thomas Spriggs

@unoherts Apologies, the 17:45 from WGC

@TSpriggs Hi. Which 653 please?

@unoherts is the 653 to new greens on time? There isn't a bus near the St Alban's station for quite some time....

@unoherts cancelled indefinitely? Please can you share the times that buses are meant to leave from St Albans City Station, to New Greens. And also please add a note on your website so that others know this in the future. at a time of reducing CO2, this disinformation does not help...

@TSpriggs Hello. The 17:07 653 from the City Station to New Greens was cancelled due to staff shortage. Sorry for the inconvenience.

@unoherts Why is there no 635 Bus arriving at the St. Albans City Station, for the 17:07 departure that your timetable states? This has been occurring for a few weeks now, with no indication for a cause. Incredulous would be the word to describe this disaster...

@AstroMikeMerri Oh hey, are you in Scotland? I've just got back from a holiday in the cragganmores

The hills around here are quite large.

@TLRailUK This all sorted in the end, I had to link my e-ticket, which was weird as I signed in to my account before purchase. Thanks for the reply though.

@TSpriggs Hi Thomas, sorry to hear that. Please could you send us a DM with your full name, email address and claim reference number? 👇 ^Keeley twitter.com/messages/compo…

@TLRailUK I bought a ticket earlier in the week, to travel into London (st Alban's city to LTA) yesterday (18/02), my delay repay was declined as it is apparently already dealt with, though I can't see any refund, + tickets aren't showing up on account now :( please help

Viva complete and passed with minor corrections! Thanks to everyone who supported and was a part of my PhD life :D #phdlife #Astrophysics

@KatjaFah Thanks! Looking forward to having the PhD completed finally (after probable corrections)

@TSpriggs Remember that you are the expert! I am sure you will rock it! Good luck :)

I have my PhD Viva in under 2 hours, any suggestions or tips are wholly welcome while enter the final prep stage :D #astrophysics #phdlife #AcademicChatter

@DrSarahJaffa Not rehearsed yet, but drew up an outline and results of each chapter, partially from memory, so hopping that can be a good start point.

@TSpriggs Have you rehearsed your opening "explain your thesis in 10 minutes" speech? I forgot about mine until 10 mins before going in!

@StephaJuneau I think I spot some potential Planetary Nebulae within that galaxy :D

Now stepping through the datacube thin slices around the [OIII]4959,5007 doublet, which shows the outflowing gas launched by the active black hole at the center of NGC 7582 (black hole winds!) 2/n

Sneak Preview! Animated figure showing the rotating ionized gas in [NII] and H-alpha from a VLT/MUSE datacube of galaxy NGC 7582 (coming soon to an @arxiv near you) #thread

Take a look at the concept drawings for our new School of Physics, Engineering and Computer Science 😍 The landmark development will be delivered by @morgansindall_i and is located in a central position on College Lane Campus. ow.ly/m2GJ50GMiXu

The telescopes we use to take our images are predominantly used by our students. Study astrophysics with us @uniofherts and you can have access to these facilities from your first semester. Course info: herts.ac.uk/courses/underg… More about the Observatory: herts.ac.uk/bayfordbury/ba…

With some further processing we can just make out the 5th largest moon - Miranda.

Locking onto the movement of the planet we are able to see the orbit of the moons. Uranus is unique amongst the planets in that its moons orbit, along with its own rotation, are almost at 90 degrees to the orbit around the sun.

Last night Uranus reached opposition. We tracked it over 4 hours to make this video showing the movement of the planet and its four brightest moons (Titania, Oberon, Umbriel and Ariel) against the stars.

@nfmartin1980 What were you observing out of interest?

VLT! Spectra! Velocities! Science! I love it when observations from a few hours ago already yield results and a clear plan for new papers on a short timescale!! 😁 If only the stupid winds could relent so we can do more science tonight… 😡🌬 Also, sleep… I need to sleeeep 😴

The Fornax3D project: Planetary nebulae catalogue and independent distance measurements to Fornax cluster galaxies. doi.org/10.1051/0004-6… via @AandA_journal It's finally available in its final form! The catalogue of PNe is also available from the CDS (see whithin) 🎉🎉🎉🥳📖

@johnnypgreco @DanieliShany This looks like a fantastic project! It looks like my final pipe dream of someone simulating a galaxy stellar population with embedded Planetary Nebulae ;)

Do you want to build a galaxy? Well, you're in luck because @DanieliShany and I have just released our ArtPop software package! paper: arxiv.org/abs/2109.13943 docs: artpop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ # Try it! >> pip install artpop