Ronald Drimmel 🇺🇦

Late night thoughts: My growing up in #Montana had everything to do with me becoming an astronomer. Not hard to see why. #BigSky & #Darksky country.

@galaxy_map @Spoutible Great moderation, nice features, but needs more scientists on it.

@rdrimmel @Spoutible What do you think of Spoutible?

Just.. no. The new black X marks the death of this app. My days here are counted. You can find me on Mastodon and on @Spoutible. Same username.

@Advil What! OMG come to Italy. I swear to god they've mastered the burger!

the problem is that burgers literally EVERYWHERE ELSE are trash. i’ve never had a burger outside the united states that wasn’t complete ass. they are unfairly represented as a result.

Hocus, Pocus... what will be your Gaia Focus? Our Gaia Focused Product Release overview page is now counting down to 10 October 2023! #GaiaFPR cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/focus…

Meet us @EAS_meeting Gaia symposium S3 today and tomorrow! Today more info on the upcoming #GaiaFPR, planned for 10 October this year! Antonella Vallenari kicks off with an introduction into the 5 Gaia focuses. cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/relea…

@stellarmorticia Very cool! I'll share on Mastodon and Spoutible.

@rdrimmel thank you sincerely for you interest, Ronald, and im extremely glad to have met you in this way. I have a feeling we will cross paths again in our shared passion! here is a new branch of my website you've inspired: lindsaydemarchi.com/satellites-aff…

Today I'm gonna walk you through how satellites interfere with every wavelength of astronomy--- BOTH ground AND space based. Important to know: there are 4k functioning satellites in orbit. 400,000 are in various stages of production.

@stellarmorticia To preserve the links the first solution would be best. Let me know if you decide to put it on your website. (Better than doing an unroll please.)

@rdrimmel thank you ronald, that is such high praise! I can make it a page of my personal website, if that is preferred, or you can always post screen shots to the other social site. let me know! 🖤

@Dr_CMingarelli Oh I do love Italo Calvino! 😃but I'm afraid I'm not going to make it. ☹️ Cosmicomics was my first Italo read.

If you love Italo Calvino and astronomy, why not join me and Seth Bousted tomorrow at Symphony Space! Friday, June 23rd, for "Relevant Tones: Live Cosmicomics" symphonyspace.org/events/vp-rele…

The A&A special issue with all the #GaiaDR3 papers can be found here: aanda.org/component/toc/… The processing papers explain how the different data products were produced.

Mapping the Milky Way is one of Gaia's main science goals. What better place to hear about the latest status than at the @lorentzcenter workshop on "Mapping the Milky Way: Galactic Cartography in the Age of High Precision Parallaxes". Summary? Here you go: cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_2…

Been trying this out, off and on. Could use more people with #astronomy and #space interests.

@wfastronomer @bsgaudi 👨‍🍳😙

What did they drink before 1891? Where did the fishes swim? What fell from the sky? Oh water, what were we before you? Ugly giant bags of mostly bones?

@galaxy_map Maybe both connect to the Sag segment.. At least they put the Sag and Car segments in different colors. Working on some data that may clarify (or further confuse) this issue. P.S. You are lucky I checked Twitter. It's a holiday in Italy: Liberation Day. Or "No more Nazis" Day.

How can we tell, for example, that the Sagittarius segment (cyan) actually connects to the Carina segment (green) and not the Local segment (blue)? A review of the masers seems to me to show a closer connection (at least in position) between the Sagittarius and Local masers.

Interesting new paper. I remain skeptical that the data shows any obvious pattern without the imposed spiral arm race tracks. Even if we do see some maser or cluster segments, how they connect into larger structures is not nearly as obvious as some people claim.

Read also about the new Gaia citizen science project on variability classification here: esa.int/Enabling_Suppo… + this thread from @the_zooniverse 👇🏽

@weatherandsky 🤩

Near a lodge in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. The sky down there is so beautiful. This is only a 20-second exposure. instagram.com/weatherandsky

@nktgill Amen to that. And on another personal note, as true as this poem may be, having a child was the best decision I've made. Being better parents than our own is a worthy life challenge.

@kaleybrauer Maybe a better comparison to Herschel's map is one like this one from @rdrimmel et al. 2022. ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2022arXiv2…

@AGalactichawk @UTAstronomy Great news Keith! Rising star indeed.