BZ Trident Scholar

"Zooming in on Dual and Binary Supermassive Black Holes w/ JWST using Aperture Masking Interferometry"

Midshipman 1/c #astronomy research project

photograph of women astronomers at poster session
#USNA #mids #USNavy #USNO #NRL #UnivWynoming #astronomy #JWST #blackhole #womeninSTEM

Total Solar Eclipse of 1869 was a pivotal moment in the devlopment of American "physical astronomy" (now astrophysics). Thank you, Rebecca Charbonneau for your elequont summary of the article I recently published with Tom Hockey.

https://ww2.aip.org/history/the-total-solar-eclipse-of-1869-and-american-astrophysics

#astronomy #astrophysics #histsci #spectroscopy #solareclipse #Navy #USNO

The USNO Telephone Time is not working this morning.

https://www.cnmoc.usff.navy.mil/Our-Commands/United-States-Naval-Observatory/Precise-Time-Department/Telephone-Time/

Did someone forget to pay the phone bill?

202-762-1401 <--- Doesn't answer
202-762-1069 <-- Phone system acts like the number has been disconnected, "Call did not go through"
719-567-6742 <-- number doesn't answer, either

#usno #masterclock #telephone #time #telephonetime

𝗪𝗜𝗞𝗜𝗣𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔 𝗣𝗜𝗖𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗢𝗙 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗗𝗔𝗬

✧ Charon ✧

Charon is the largest of the five known natural satellites of the dwarf planet Pluto. It has a mean radius of 606 kilometres (377 mi), making it the sixth-largest known trans-Neptunian object after Pluto, Eris, Haumea, Makemake, and Gonggong. With half the radius and one-eighth the mass of Pluto, Charon is a very large moon in comparison...

#Pluto #USNOFlagstaffStation #Charon #USNO #Gonggong #Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)