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Chris Walter
@chriswalter.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy
Professor of physics at Duke University. Studies particle physics and cosmology. Works on Super-Kamiokande and also LSST at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

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@briankrebs Cool! It is in fact quite amazing now what you can do with a phone camera. I had time to play with this when I was living in Chile working on commissioning a new telescope last year.

I also have a 15pro. If you can use a travel tripod you can get […]

[Original post on fediscience.org]
October 20, 2025 at 11:56 PM
September 30, 2025 at 4:40 PM
@ElenLeFoll @DieterLukas Great to see this kind of help for each other on Fediscience!
September 22, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Chris Walter
This is the "Ann Plate", a photograph that was taken during the commissioning of the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) in 1974 as a demonstration of the capabilities of new telescope.

The AAT was the first large telescope to be completely computer controlled […]

[Original post on aus.social]
September 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
@steve I’m thinking maybe people associated with EHT.
September 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
@ElenLeFoll Interesting idea to have them do it together!
June 4, 2025 at 10:27 PM
@sundogplanets This sounds great! What did you ask them to do for the project?
April 23, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Reposted by Chris Walter
There's an absolutely wild statement on wikipedia that a base-11 system was "briefly proposed during the French Revolution to settle a dispute between those proposing a shift to duodecimal and those who were content with decimal".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimal
Undecimal - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
April 11, 2025 at 9:12 AM