GOTO Observatory @GOTOObservatory
Joined May 2015-
Tweets127
-
Followers445
-
Following0
-
Likes5
Stellar work from our team following up transients and GOTO discoveries in real-time through our GOTO-FAST program wis-tns.org/astronotes/ast…
Interested in identifying cosmic explosions in real-time? @warwickastro PhD student, Tom Killestein & colleagues @portsmouthuni developed a project where volunteers are asked to 'spot the difference' using data from the two telescopes @GOTOObservatory 👉tinyurl.com/2arr2xeh
It's was a busy first week on Kilonova Seekers, with over 150,000 classifications from more than 770 volunteers! -- thanks to all who've gotten involved, we're just getting started! Read more: zooniverse.org/projects/tkill… Join our search for transients at kilonova-seekers.org
Today we're launching 🚀 Kilonova Seekers! ✨ zooniverse.org/projects/tkill…
We're excited to launch our new citizen science project @the_zooniverse, Kilonova Seekers -- join us at kilonova-seekers.org to seek out cosmic explosions from neutron star mergers detected by @LIGO, and unearth hidden gems hiding in our data! Img: Krzysztof Ulaczyk (2021)
As template vetting efforts pick up (and as a break from thesis writing for one of the admins!), here's a bumper GOTO Picture of the Week - centred on galaxies! Of the billions visible in our images, here's a few flagged by our team of vetters as particularly spectacular
Back in the North, our GOTO Picture of the Week is a common artifact we've lovingly nicknamed the 'GOTO Jellyfish'. Stars visible with the naked eye are so bright they cause scattering/reflections GOTO's telescopes, visible as these unusual caustic-like patterns.
Both systems are now on sky and taking data at GOTO South @SidingSpring - commissioning continues at pace, as we optimise 16 new unit telescopes for maximal performance, and tie them into our control/scheduling software. Stay tuned for our first light image from the South!
GOTO Picture of the Week: Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), nicknamed the 'green comet', popped up in one of our templates from 2023-01-25 (thanks David O'Neill!), two weeks after perihelion. No colour in our images as we use a single 'L' band filter to catch as much light as possible.
Both domes now fully populated with telescopes thanks to our awesome away team: now commissioning can begin! Time to install the cameras, compute hardware, and start integrating everything into our control software/pipelines.
Perfect telescope-building weather at Siding Spring Observatory for putting together the second GOTO South node - exciting to see everything coming together!
Dome 1 is fully populated with telescopes - when the cameras are installed we'll have a 45 square degree field of view - that's about 210 full moons!
Telescopes being craned into our first Southern dome, with some helpful supervision from the locals - great work from our away team!
Meanwhile back at GOTO North, the telescopes have been busy gathering templates for O4. This weeks' edition of GOTO Picture of the Week shows a rich galaxy group, and dense stellar clusters in the galactic plane
We're down in Siding Spring preparing the GOTO South node for deployment! We'll share pictures here as everything comes together, including our first light pictures - stay tuned! (Beautiful images from the site courtesy Krzysztof Ulaczyk)
More cosmic gems spotted in our GOTO Picture of the Week (GPOW?) - the globular clusters Messier 53 and NGC 5053. These two clusters likely interacted in the past as they're around 2kpc apart, and have a tidal bridge. (thanks to @TelescopicViews for flagging this one!)
In between building up our all-sky templates and preparing for the upcoming O4 run, there's still time to marvel at the wonders of space! One of our collab members spotted Messier 97, the Owl Nebula(messier-objects.com/messier-97-owl…), hiding in one of our deep reference stacks.
Join us! @WarwickAstro is offering a postdoctoral fellowship with Dr. Joe Lyman via his UKRI Fellowship on “New frontiers in transient astrophysics: gravitational-wave multi-messenger events and exotic stellar explosions" Closing Nov 9 goto-observatory.org/job-opportunit…
Dr. Adelle Goodwin @astro_del
2K Followers 975 Following PhD in Astrophysics. Postdoc at Curtin Uni. #SuperstarofSTEM I study black holes & neutron stars as they gobble up nearby stars ✨ she/her
Warwick Physics @WarwickPhysics
752 Followers 268 Following Welcome to the official account of the Department of Physics @uniofwarwick
Shanika Galaudage @astronerdika
1K Followers 427 Following Astrophysicist | Postdoc @ObsCoteAzur @ego_virgo @LagrangeLab @lab_artemis 🇫🇷 | gravitational waves + compact binary populations | #LINO24 | 🇦🇺 (she/her)
Fiona H. Panther @FiPanther
4K Followers 2K Following 99% background, 1% astrophysical. @ForrestResearch Fellow at UWA in (astro)physics. Militant Bayesian with uninformative priors. Uncertainty is good, actually.
Krystal De Napoli @KrystalDeNapoli
4K Followers 989 Following I enjoyed my time here while it was Twitter, wilaylaya 🖐🏽
IAC Astrofísica @IAC_Astrofisica
79K Followers 511 Following Canal oficial del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias #IACastrofísica y de los Observatorios de Canarias #OCAN. Apasionados del Universo 🌌🔭 https://t.co/QR9PY7a64m
Klaas Wiersema @TelescopicViews
397 Followers 1K Following Dad, Husband, Scientist, Dutch, Tired. Astronomer at University of Hertfordshire. I ❤️ telescopes and weird transients. Views are my own. 🇪🇺🇳🇱🇬🇧
Dr Faith Hawthorn @_astrofaith
936 Followers 969 Following Postdoc 🪐 University of Warwick Astro Group, transiting exoplanets with TESS, NGTS operations/data/hardware 🪐 job hunting please hire me 🪐 they/she
James Blake @jblake_95
221 Followers 183 Following Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, using optical telescopes to find space debris (he/him)
Paul Lasky @LaskyPaul
471 Followers 512 Following
The North East @TheNorthEast28
363 Followers 1K Following Taking Pictures around the North East of England and Beyond. All Pictures by me Neil Robinson.
Simon Bentzen @PokemonGO_1993
442 Followers 603 Following Planet Hunter - PoGo shiny hunter✨🏳️🌈🌈. 🇩🇰3️⃣1️⃣
LIGO Magazine @LIGOMagazine
719 Followers 111 Following LIGO Magazine is published twice yearly by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration. Read free online for gravitational-wave news, stories behind the science and more!
LizaYusof @_norhaslizay
2K Followers 938 Following I see birth and death of massive stars on my computer. Scientist, lecturer at unimalaya and k-drama fan. 🇲🇾 https://t.co/dpNy05K6t1
Valmir M. de Morais @ValmirMMorais
148 Followers 750 Following Pedagogo, divulgador científico, Coordenador Nacional da World Space Week (https://t.co/8p0zCi5W59) maior evento internacional público dedicado ao espaço
Steven's Space @AstroGammaVel
615 Followers 2K Following Discover space one click at a time. Space geek, astrophotographer, science lover. Check out the link below for stickers and prints!
David Hammond @DavidHammo47
328 Followers 2K Following
GOTONetwork @GOTO_Network
48 Followers 69 Following The Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) Network: identifying the optical counterparts to gravitational wave events. https://t.co/Oj7wZZhazR
Sergey Karpov @karpov_sv
0 Followers 80 Following
Antonio Martin-Carril... @antmarcarr
2K Followers 562 Following Astrophysicist @ucdscience & astrophotographer. Searching 4 gravitational waves related transients. #TEDxUCD 2017 speaker https://t.co/mUjx5SdDUL
Nina Rossetti @Nina_Rossetti
131 Followers 582 Following Just a 🇩🇪 🇬🇺 genderfluid person ✧ Any Pronouns ✧// Youtube Partner & Twitch Affiliate ✧ Twitch Women's & Pride Guilds // @IGDBcom Keeper
Yeller of Stuff @yellerofstuff
106 Followers 64 Following Sci-Fi/Fantasy fan * Greendale Human Being * Citizen Scientist * Librarian * He/Him
Samdarshi, Shashi Kum... @Shashi_Samdarsi
435 Followers 5K Following Researcher, Content Creator: Educational, Social, Vlogging; Alumnus: Integrated MSc @NITPatna1
PROF DAVE @PROFDAVE9
0 Followers 12 Following
Benoît Rousseau 🔻... @BenoitRousseau1
405 Followers 363 Following Orthoptiste, Deuchiste, Humaniste, Holmesien, Alpiniste & Maître-toile Fondateur et gestionnaire du premier site internet francophone consacré à l'orthoptique
Kevin Smith @KozyKomets
125 Followers 908 Following Ph.D. student studying exocomets with @lucaroundthewo1 | Bassist @Echo_fold | he/him | 🏳🌈
Jønathan @Jonx_rodrx
196 Followers 770 Following
Sophie Whitley @sophie_flavell
346 Followers 152 Following Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society | BSc Astronomy & Planetary Science | Current Undergraduate | The Open University |
Svetoslav Alexandrov ... @Zvezdichko
1K Followers 2K Following Зубър с татуировки. Разбира само от космос и от нищо друго. Цъка компютърни игри и колекционира часовници. Главен редактор на @CosmosBGWebsite.
MsPeacheyScience @peacheyscience
619 Followers 986 Following Science Teacher, Biology Examiner, T&L lead, STEM lead, BCU VL, Professional Tutor, OGDEN Partnership Co-ordinator
Davide Iannone @DavideIannone4
13 Followers 97 Following Physicist. I like stellar photometry, variable stars classification and their analysis; loving blues, jazz, and mathematics, sky watching with friends.
Neel Kolhe @neel_kolhe
778 Followers 999 Following PhDing @Obs_Paris in Galactic dynamics & the IGM | Sciences🤝Humanities | Astrophysics, Pedagogy, ecology, Spec-fic, right to repair | Here be typos.
Lana @Aldoymar
16 Followers 511 Following
Cledison Marcos da Si... @CledisonMarcos
60 Followers 538 Following Stellar structure and evolution, astronomical transients, young stars, brown dwarfs, disks and exoplanets are my interests in science.
- @ksc_sean
273 Followers 2K Following
jasmine 🌹 @FraserMott
39 Followers 764 Following Cum inside and feel the taste 👅 👄. Available for all your requests 😍
Natalie So @NatalieSo953577
146 Followers 2K Following Those who are stronger than me are still fighting. I have no reason not to work hard.
Dr Evgeni Grishin �... @grishin_evgeni
140 Followers 387 Following Astrophysicist, postdoctoral fellow @MonashAstro. Poking binaries of any kind (planets, stars, black holes) with a long stick. Views my own.
Jingyuan Zhao (赵经... @Astro_JYZhao
208 Followers 2K Following Amateur Astronomer, Member of Chinese Astronomical Society, Shandong Astronomical Society and Xingming Observatory.
Gabriella Zsidi @GabriellaZsidi
8 Followers 161 Following Astronomer from Hungary. PhD from @konkolyobs, currently working at @UniversityLeeds.
Όμιλος Φίλω... @OFA_astronomy
469 Followers 353 Following Όμιλος Φίλων Αστρονομίας - Friends of Astronomy Club
Zhang @Zhangcalm777
12 Followers 486 Following
Support Local Tucson @SupportTucson
2K Followers 6K Following We're here to help promote, share, and support local Tucson owned businesses and events.
Sean O'Brien @seanobrien_99
97 Followers 606 Following PhD student at @AstroQUB, looking for exoplanets with the help of the public @PH_NGTS. (he/him). I exist on other sites too
Miti Patel @MitiPatel15
49 Followers 208 Following (she/her) Astrophysics PhD student at the University of Leicester
AstroDetritus @astrodetritus
19 Followers 245 Following Astrophotography, Science, Rugby (both flavours).
Go Stargazing @GoStargazing
7K Followers 567 Following We support grassroots astronomy in the UK, helping people find stargazing events, astronomy groups, dark sky sites and stargazing-friendly places to stay.
A. C. (he/him) @astro_nino
544 Followers 1K Following Personal account.Astrophysicist with a passion for Art.Advocate for Equity&Inclusion in STEM.Past professor at HBCU/CC.
Joseph Karpinski @jkarpin2
1K Followers 4K Following Interest in Astronomy, Quantum Mechanics, Particle Physics,
Anais Möller @anais_moller
748 Followers 389 Following ARC DECRA Fellow. Co-PI of @FinkBroker. Cosmology, time-domain astronomy and machine learning. Latina en STEM
Astro-COLIBRI @AstroColibri
487 Followers 365 Following Just in case: @[email protected] and https://t.co/Cz4Ud0WXsf
Zaxo Semalka @ZSemalka
0 Followers 4 Following
William Alston 🇪�... @coherent_noise
495 Followers 791 Following Astrophysicist - time series analysis | Lecturer @I_Hert_Space | previously @esa @Cambridge_astro | Cosmic sounds | Beer maker - he/himTrends for United States
You might like
