Joined November 2019
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Things were rockin' and rollin' at APO last night! We felt a 5.5 magnitude earthquake centered south of Carlsbad - check the telescope telemetry data that shows the movement! Photo courtesy of @ajlemma 🤩 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthqua…
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Behold! Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, Venus (at left), and our fabulous 3.5m telescope 🤩 Photo courtesy of Observing Specialist Mark Croom.
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Beautiful aurora from APO tonight!!!
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We caught the Starliner coming in for a landing at White Sands using our all-sky camera! It's the streak in the southwest corner (lower right) of each frame. Thanks for sharing these ⁦@ajlemma⁩ !
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Did you hear about the fireball over the Philippines yesterday due to a 1m size asteroid impacting Earth?! The object 2024 RW1 was discovered by @catalina_sky and subsequently imaged by @bryce_bolin and C. Ingebretsen, with help from @ajlemma and V. Sutherland, using APO! ☄️🤩
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having trouble uploading the time-lapse gif but this is a still from our imaging sequence
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Workplace photos of the aurora from APO courtesy of @ARedheadOfVenus and @ajlemma!! Great pics!!! 🤩
INSANE AURORA!!! @ApachePointObs
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A rare sighting of all of our amazing 3.5m observing specialists in one place! Thanks to everyone for being there for the exciting training session on APOLLO operations. Pew pew!!! 💚
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We had a great eyepiece viewing session for the ARC Board and SDSS AC meeting attendees! Thanks to @ARedheadOfVenus and @ajlemma for the wonderful sky tour!
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Apache Point Observatory retweeted
Aurora spotted at @ApachePointObs last night! The oxygen red aurora is seen across the north and east and the higher altitude nitrogen blue aurora is seen as pillars in the north. #Auroraborealis #aurorasaurus
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“I used to lie in bed at night and wonder what we might be able to discover with a new @sdssurveys instrument. Now, we finally get to find out.” impact.sloan.org/after-21-ye…
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Congratulations to SDSS-V Director Juna Kollmeier on this tremendous recognition!
The Solvay Institutes have selected Juna Kollmeier (@thejunaverse) of @CITA_ICAT as its 2022 Jacques Solvay International Chair in Physics. Kollmeier is the first scientist based in Canada to receive this honour. Learn more: bit.ly/3xPsyDz
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Congratulations to our own Observing Specialist and @nmsuastro grad student David DeColibus on publishing this paper about Uranus' strange moon Miranda, enabled by TripleSpec on the APO 3.5m. NASA should send a flagship mission to go study it! Oh wait... arxiv.org/abs/2204.10832

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Fun fact! Did you know there is an astroid named after #NMSU? It is called Asteroid NEMSU! Check out this GIF of the asteroid zooming across the sky taken with the 1-meter at @ApachePointObs!
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Congratulations to Adam Kowalski, an active user of both the 3.5m and 0.5m telescopes at APO!
Congrats to NSO & @LASPatCU researcher Dr. Adam Kowalski for being awarded the @AAS_Office 2022 #KarenHarveyPrize! He is recognized for his transformative research into stellar flares and their influence on the Sun, stars, and habitability of exoplanets. ow.ly/x4os50HKO08
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KOSMOS!!! @ApachePointObs
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