I am a 1.35 m wide-field robotic telescope making a digital six-colour survey of the entire southern sky.
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25 Aug 2020
Data Release 2 from the SkyMapper Southern Survey is now available to users around the world. Check out the DR2 paper (arxiv.org/abs/2008.10359 or ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/20…) for the details, and visit skymapper.anu.edu.au to get started!
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7 May 2020
After 6 weeks, SkyMapper is back on-sky! Thanks to all the staff at Siding Spring Observatory for getting us operating again!
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17 Oct 2017
Nobel prize winning science! @SkyMapper detects fireball from neutron star collision
skymapper.anu.edu.au/news/sk…
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17 Oct 2017
@SkyMapper deserves a visit in this beautiful afternoon, it looked at the first ever Neutron Star merger detected w. gravitational waves.
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17 Oct 2017
.@our_ANU scientists discuss following up the detection of a #NeutronStar merger with @SkyMapper skymapper.anu.edu.au/media-g…
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17 Oct 2017
@SkyMapper observes the fireball emanating from the merger of two #NeutronStars in the galaxy NGC 4993 (Credit: RSAA//C. Wolf et al.)
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17 Oct 2017
See how @SkyMapper helped the effort to observe the first ever #NeutronStar merger detected in #GravitationalWaves skymapper.anu.edu.au/media-g…
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17 Oct 2017
and here it is, Australian based observations including @SkyMapper ! x.com/arXiver/status/9201358…
Follow up of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart by Australian-led observing programs [HEAP] arxiver.moonhats.com/2017/10…
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10 Jul 2017
The final speaker in the #ASA2017 SkyMapper session is Seo-Won Chang (ANU), who is looking at variable sources in DR1, incl. M dwarf flares!
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10 Jul 2017
.@anais_moller and the SkyMapper Transient Survey are looking for things that go bump (or BOOM!) in the night #ASA2017
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10 Jul 2017
From galaxies to the high redshift universe: Fuyan Bian (ANU) is finding quasars in early SkyMapper data. Many more hiding in Main Survey.
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10 Jul 2017
Chris Wolf (ANU) shows #ASA2017 a 2.5 hour exposure time SkyMapper mosaic of Centaurus A. Just a little deeper than DR1!
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10 Jul 2017
...and now Gary Da Costa (ANU) is showing early results looking for Extremely Metal Poor Stars in DR1. About 30,000 candidates to follow up!
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10 Jul 2017
Here at #ASA2017 in chilly Canberra, Chris Onken is telling everyone about SkyMapper's DR1
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8 Jun 2017
Here's a striking g-band image from Chris Wolf of the Snake Nebula in Ophiuchus (which coincidentally means 'serpent bearer') So many stars!
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7 Jun 2017
OK, it's been more than 24 hours since DR1. Anyone have any exciting early results to share?
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7 Jun 2017
We have deeper data in the Main Survey to come, but here's a 5/5/10 sec Shallow Survey gri image of Centaurus A. Note the bad CCD column!
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6 Jun 2017
All 70,000 exposures (2 million images) in DR1 can be queried and downloaded using our Image Cutout service skymapper.anu.edu.au/image-c…
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