ESOJun 26

New instance, new #introduction !

Hi #fediverse ! We’re the European Southern Observatory, and we design, build and operate ground-based telescopes.

One of them is our Extremely Large Telescope, currently under construction in #Chile. It will have a 39 m mirror, and its rotating enclosure will weigh 6100 tonnes, or about 700 mastodons!

We’re looking forward to chatting with all of you about #astronomy

And many thanks to @sebinthestars for running our former instance!

📷 ESO/G. Vecchia

Show threadslampoudJun 26
@esoastronomy @sebinthestars welcome! I write schedulers for robotic telescope networks (Las Cumbres) and satellite constellations (Capella).
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@slampoud @sebinthestars Both ground-based and space facilities, exciting job!
Jun 26 at 3:31pmWeb
Show threadslampoudJun 26

@esoastronomy @sebinthestars I did LCO's scheduler as a postdoc 10 years ago. Capella was an industry job, from which I've recently departed.

The optimization math is the same, integer linear programming.

Now on the job hunt, looking for the next complex instrument that needs that kind of thing to reach its potential :)