Chris Gottbrath

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How do we see faint planets next to twinkling bright stars?

If you've ever wondered this, come join us at in San Jose on July 12, 2025, 7:30 pm.

Phil Hinz will discuss the technology development being carried out at the UC Observatories to integrate adaptive optics (AO) and the development of large segmented mirror telescopes (LSMT).

Sign up! https://www.meetup.com/sj-astronomy/events/308584463/

Streamed and recorded talks at: https://www.youtube.com/@sj-astronomy7497

We are
https://scicomm.xyz/@sjastronomy

#astronomy #telescopes #sfbayarea #sanjose

My colleague Will constable talking about optimizations to parallel and distributed training in PyTorch #AI #PyTorch #hpc
Today: PyTorch Conference - learning what the community has been building together this year.

Caught some early morning light together with east bay lights on a flight out of SFO recently.

This is a wall-eye stereo pair. Look "through" the screen at the wall behind till you see three images. The middle image will appear three dimensional.

Tip: If viewing on a computer screen try to adjust the image size so that the centers of the two images are closer together than your eyes.

Too timid to post my partially processed astrophoto on astrodon but still loving the color, so posting it here.

Messier 8 aka lagoon nebular. 30 minutes in a 20in scope in australia (itelescope.net).

47 Tuc or NGC 104 is a bright globular cluster in the far southern sky. I've never seen it with the naked eye but was able to capture it in a robotic telescope yesterday. #astronomy
Clementine, surveying her domain.
Mt Hamilton (with Lick Observatory) from above, in stereo.
Happy Caturday #caturday
NASA capsule buzzes moon, last big step before lunar orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA’s Orion capsule reached the moon Monday, whipping around the far side and buzzing the lunar surface on its way to a record-breaking orbit with test dummies sitting in for astronauts.

Associated Press