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Originally Posted by Quark
Duncan is organizing a group of four people to accompany him on his next observing run with the Keck's and offered me one of those places. I have to pay my own way but it is the opportunity of a life time. At this stage I will meet up with the team to fly out of Sydney on Oct 26th, Duncan will be driving us to the summit of Mauna Kea to inspect the Keck's on Oct 27th and we will be observing with Keck 2 the nights of Oct 28th & 29th flying back to Sydney on Oct 31.
We will observe from the Keck 2 control room at Wiamea HQ and use the Deimos Spectrograph to obtain spectra of globular clusters, measure their motions and hence probe the dark matter halos of galaxies ( weighing galaxies).
To have this opportunity is a great honor. I have a passion to raise the profile of astronomy at the community level to maybe inspire some of our young to follow careers in science, to follow paths that I discovered to late in life.
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What wonderful, great news ! Congratulations (again) !
Best regards, Carmel
