@JamesDoesAstro

astrophysics PhD student and aspiring science communicator @UofT | personal acct: @simply_harmonic | they/them 🏳️‍🌈

 Toronto, ON
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Joined June 2022
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Not jumping ship quite yet, but just in case... astrodon.social/@jamesdoesas…
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Is it just me or do these birds look like they know the HR diagram really should use increasing temperature on the x axis
A screenshot of a tweet from the Physical Review E account about a paper on flocking. In it is a picture of a large group of flocking birds vaguely in the shape of a backwards HR diagram.

ALT A screenshot of a tweet from the Physical Review E account about a paper on flocking. In it is a picture of a large group of flocking birds vaguely in the shape of a backwards HR diagram.

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Due to technical issues (Mars was behind a building), I tried some DSOs on my planetary camera last night out of curiosity. Got a whole 3 minutes of Hubble's Variable Nebula (NGC 2261)—turned out not too bad for Bortle 9! #Astrophotography – at New York, NY
A telescope image of Hubble's Variable Nebula. Sitting in a field of orange and blue stars, the fan-shaped nebula spans about 10 to 15% of the height of the image. The outer edge of the nebula is light red, turning blue towards the center. The star illuminating the nebula rests at the tip as an orange dot of similar brightness to most other stars in the image.

ALT A telescope image of Hubble's Variable Nebula. Sitting in a field of orange and blue stars, the fan-shaped nebula spans about 10 to 15% of the height of the image. The outer edge of the nebula is light red, turning blue towards the center. The star illuminating the nebula rests at the tip as an orange dot of similar brightness to most other stars in the image.

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Got around to processing my Saturn data from the other night, super happy with how it turned out! #Saturn #Astrophotography – at New York, NY
A telescope photo of Saturn, with several atmospheric bands in shades of brown. The rings, viewed from around 15 degrees above side-on, are in two large concentric sections separated by the Cassini division.

ALT A telescope photo of Saturn, with several atmospheric bands in shades of brown. The rings, viewed from around 15 degrees above side-on, are in two large concentric sections separated by the Cassini division.

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2 hours of Jupiter last night, by far my best planetary imaging result! With a rotation period of 10 hours, motion is noticeable within only a few minutes #Jupiter #Astrophotography – at New York, NY
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So grateful to have @ZJAyres book by my side as I prepare to start my grad school journey! Seeing such a resource in print and all the people on this platform sharing their excitement about it is beyond encouraging 😁 #AcademicMentalHealth
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95% of published error bars are not standard deviation or standard error but a secret third thing
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Proposing "The Great @matplotlib Plot Off", a Bake Off style show where contestants are given data and compete to make the best visualizations
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Two months into this project and I now have enough spaghetti code to open an Olive Garden
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Can we get an astro-ph version of this?
Martin Bauer
@martinmbauer7 Aug 2022
Arxiv vs snarxiv is an online game that lets you guess whether you are looking at a real or randomly generated physics paper title. No matter how much of an expert you believe you are, *everyone* is bad at this! By @davidsd (since 2010!) snarxiv.org/vs-arxiv/
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Totally don’t feel silly buying a nice filter to get a marginal improvement in image quality while I still use my 10 year old telescope with the crunchy azimuth motor that goes out of collimation when I breathe on it
A 1.25 inch infrared cut telescope filter

ALT A 1.25 inch infrared cut telescope filter

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Side note: daytime #astrophotography is super cool! (yes, I still envy radio astronomers for 24/7 DSOs, though)
James Garland@JamesDoesAstro6 Aug 2022
Replying to @JamesDoesAstro
Here's how the actual photo turned out, though!
A telescope image of the Moon during the daytime, tinted blue

ALT A telescope image of the Moon during the daytime, tinted blue

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Tried to record the Moon behind clouds, my computer had a more psychedelic interpretation than I originally intended:
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Here's how the actual photo turned out, though!
A telescope image of the Moon during the daytime, tinted blue

ALT A telescope image of the Moon during the daytime, tinted blue

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Vibration damping ✅
A telescope mount with physics/astrophysics textbooks stacked on the tripod spreader plate

ALT A telescope mount with physics/astrophysics textbooks stacked on the tripod spreader plate

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AGN type I AGN type II
A dog wearing a conic sunflower collar, facing camera

ALT A dog wearing a conic sunflower collar, facing camera

A dog wearing a conic sunflower collar, perpendicular to camera

ALT A dog wearing a conic sunflower collar, perpendicular to camera

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High-z this high-z that, call me when JWST finds the lowest z galaxy; where’s my z=-20 infalling satellites?
Space photos and their explanations are so captivating and enriching, so why do these viral space photo accounts always misrepresent the origin, context, and meaning of their images?
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This particular post isn’t the worst example, but I feel like collectively these accounts may do more harm than good. Why leave it to people in the comments to point out they’re being misleading instead of providing information and building trust as science communicators?
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Had a dream where someone approached me on the street and told me I failed to consider [random name] et al. 1976…maybe I’ll just do one more ADS search to be safe
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