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Anthony Horton

Last time I was there it was for a systems engineering workshop for the MAVIS project (mavis-ao.org), this time it will be an MAIT (manufacturing, assembly, integration & test) planning workshop, also for MAVIS.

The international consortium working on MAVIS (ANU & Macquarie University in Australia, INAF in Italy, LAM in France &, of course, @esoastronomy ) mostly relies on Zoom/Teams meetings, but occasional face to face meetings still really help.

MAVISMAVISMAVIS public website
#MAVIS#Astronomy#Astrodon
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Anthony Horton

Oh cool, in May I will be going back to one of my favourite (former) astronomical observatories, La Specola in Padua/Padova.

Thread of pics & info from last time: aus.social/@spacelizard/113357

Photo graph of a tall, castle-like tower near to a river.
Aus.SocialAnthony Horton (@spacelizard@aus.social)Attached: 1 image There are many noteworthy buildings in Padova/Padua, but this is the one that I'm here for: La Specola. Originally build as a defensive tower in the 9th century, it became a prison in the 13th century, part of a new castle in the 14th, a warehouse in the 16th and then finally, in 1761, it was decided to convert it into an astronomical observatory. As this was an astronomical instrumentation project it ended up behind schedule and over budget, but by 1777 it was a working observatory, which it remained until the 1930s. Now the buildings on the site are used by a museum and INAF's Osservatorio Astronomico di Padova. It's our INAF colleagues that have invited us here for the MAVIS systems engineering and MAIT planning workshop, at La Specola. https://www.unipd.it/en/specola #Astrodon #Astronomy #Observatory
#Astrodon#Astronomy#Observatory
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rodlux

Great to see that at 94 Thelma Barlow who played Mavis for 26 years in Coronation Street is still acting! She has a new film out - "Sleepless in Settle". For my German friends here, Linden Strasse was based on Coronation Street.

bbc.com/news/articles/cd1x6l10

#thelmabarlow #mavis #coronationstreet #

www.bbc.comRye: Ex-Coronation Street star Mavis makes film aged 94Thelma Barlow, who lives in Faversham, came out of retirement for film Sleepless in Settle in Rye.
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Anthony Horton

I've been getting myself excited about getting the MAVIS instrument (mavis-ao.org/) on the telescope, even though that's still ~3 years off.

I was looking at this gorgeous image of Jupiter taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (esahubble.org/images/heic2017a/) and realising that MAVIS could do this with significantly higher resolution. Thanks to being on an 8 metre rather than 2.4 metre telescope MAVIS will have 3.3x the resolving power of HST, and the pixel sampling will be 5.4x finer (7.36 mas vs 40 mas).

I'm just looking at this 400% zoom crop and imagining a MAVIS image that's pin-sharp at the same magnification.

Image of Jupiter and its moon Europa taken with the Hubble Space Telescope Wide Field Camera 3 in 2020. The full disc of the planet is shown in gorgeous detail.
400% zoom crop of the previous Hubble Space Telescope image of Jupiter, showing the Great Red Spot.
#Astronomy#Astrodon#VLT
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