First day of 2009 in my office at UC-Berkeley
Today is Monday January 5 ** 2009 **. My first official day of the year in my office at UC-Berkeley. It is 8am o’clock, I am already in my office, the brain full of resolutions and motivations. I am...
View ArticleStudents are back… Binary Asteroid projects
Dear readers, I realized that I did not post anything on my blog for a week. What was going on? Well I got caught in one we called a never-ending deadline series. Last week, I started my UC-Berkeley...
View ArticleToday: proposal writing for Lick Observatory Shane telescope
This coming Friday is the deadline for asking time at the Shane 3m-telescope for the period 2009B (Aug 2009-Jan 2010). Since UC-observatory is still using the old snail-mail system, I need to have the...
View ArticleSummer 2009 – new students and projects
My two summer 2009 students Emilio Enriquez and Abigail Reiss Hello, In one of my first posts I described the group of students who were working with me. Since the end of the semester (beginning of...
View ArticleJupiter got a bruise.. only one but a large one.
Hello, Last Sunday I posted on my blog an announcement about the possible recent impact on Jupiter atmosphere. I did not realize that a lot of my colleagues read this blog. On Sunday evening Paul...
View ArticleUndergraduate students, our research needs you!
If you are an under-graduate student at UC-berkeley or in the area, and if you have interest in astronomy, you should know that a lot of professors and researchers are looking for motivated students to...
View ArticleAIDA: A Projects Day at Harvey Mudd College
A new post on this blog is long overdue. I am busy as usual but I have been as well traveling a lot recently… and it is not over. Before telling you about my great trip at ESA-Madrid where I was a few...
View ArticleKeck AO Observations: Multiple Asteroid Systems
I mentioned in my previous post that we observed several known multiple asteroid systems during our last observing run with the W.M. Keck Observatory and its Adaptive Optics Systems. If you have been...
View ArticleFIRST@LICK: The Project
On July 13, I received a short email from Elinor Gates, my colleague at Lick Observatory: “The two crates arrived. I will have them moved into the lab later today.” Below a picture of these mysterious...
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