In the first part of the story, the LSST Camera had just landed in Santiago after an incredibly smooth loading process and flight. Unfortunately, the smooth ride ended there. Let's back up to the weekend before the flight. I got... Continue Reading →
In August 2018, I gave a presentation to my project's funding agency (the US Department of Energy) arguing that we should spend a million dollars to charter a private plane to carry the world's largest digital camera from California to... Continue Reading →
In honor of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (annually on February 11th), I figured I'd write a little bit about what I actually do as an engineer, how I got here, and how it's going. When... Continue Reading →
By run, I mean more of a meander, but that's just semantics. Texas is full of stellar facial hair I ended up in Dallas, Texas for 24 hours last week by accident. I was traveling with a coworker to Chile,... Continue Reading →
Turns out telescope hardware is built in some beautiful places. For my project in particular (the LSST), the telescope mount assembly, or TMA (i.e. the part of the telescope that tilts and rotates while holding the camera and the mirrors)... Continue Reading →
At least not in the winter. I mean, summer. I mean, January. You see how this gets confusing. Anyways, I was in La Serena, Chile a few weeks ago to visit the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope construction site on Cerro... Continue Reading →
Margaux Rhymes with Fargo 