AstroMonnier
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AstroMonnier
@astromonnier.bsky.social
John Monnier, Professor of Astronomy, U. of Michigan
Favorite Things: Imaging Stars & Exoplanets with Interferometry
Developer: MIRC-X, MYSTIC, STARI

2014 Michelson Investigator Prize; 2019 AAS Joseph Weber Award
http://monnier.us

Opinions my own.
This article seemed to say the Observatory has 135 employees and can only afford 2 astronomers. :/
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Seems like you should try the method it on one of the classic CHARA datasets, either lambda and or zeta and. Is that in the works?
October 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
This is brilliant. So a few are close to terminator but not many. Does your database contain the full dataset, including cubesats put in non polar orbits?
August 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Ahh yes. Indeed, Justin is working on that! I should check in on that. Also folks are working on HWO targets with CHARA.
August 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
If characterizing nearby hot stars is important, We should talk about a chara survey to look for faint companions. We can do delta mag 8 within 0.15” for bright stars with modest effort. Open time through noirlab
August 2, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Not sure how american those dollars are…
July 25, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Toliman excepted?
July 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Just wow.
July 21, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Would be interesting compare images using this novel polarization method with those by interferometry

See these images of same star by #VLTI

www.eso.org/public/news/...
Best Ever Image of a Star’s Surface and Atmosphere - First map of motion of material on a star other than the Sun
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer astronomers have constructed the most detailed image ever of a star — the red supergiant star Antares. They have also made the first map of the velociti...
www.eso.org
July 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Thank you!
June 14, 2025 at 7:39 PM