David Sitar and Students Pulished in the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

David Sitar and two students in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at ASU; Zachary Pruett (Grad.) and Mariah Birchard (Undergrad.) worked with a team of astronomers lead by Nicholas Law from UNC Chapel Hill and assisted in designing and building a mount for them to piggyback their test camera. The project is called Evryscope and was done in the fall of 2014 and beta tested at DSO.

The three of them authored a paper that was published in the March edition of the Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific titled "Evryscope Science: Exploring the Potential of All-Sky Gigapixel-Scale Telescope".

The abstract can be found below at the provided link.
http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.1086/680521?uid=2134&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21106316346873

David received word that the project testing is complete and the camera will be shipped to Chile to be permanently mounted and begin data collection.

Published: Apr 1, 2015 4:12pm

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