The Gould Belt
Oct 19
The Gould Belt is a vast ring of active stellar nurseries and molecuar clouds encircling our Solar System. I am part of the JCMT Gould Belt Survey and the Spitzer Gould Belt Survey who study the star-forming regions within it, but what is the belt - and how did it come to be?
SCUBA-2 vs Plutonium
Jul 01
A radiation incident has stalled work on SCUBA2, meaning the high-tech submillimetre camera is once again delayed.
SCUBA-2 Installed on the JCMT
Apr 09
The much anticipated SCUBA-2 instrument has been installed on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT) in Hawaii. The question is how did they manage to get one very large and expensive piece of kit inside another? Here are some photos from the JAC website.
NAM Poster: 3D HARP Data
Mar 20
This is my second conference poster and it is going up at the UK National Astronomy meeting in a couple of weeks. It will found in the Star Formation section of the conference proceedings. I have taken data from the HARP instrument on the JCMT and processed it as 3D models in order to gain a different perspective. You'll need red/cyan 3D glasses to view this poster...
Altitude Sickness
Nov 29
For those of you following my adventures around the globe via Twitter, Flickr and the like, you may be aware that I recently suffered quite a blow. During my third night observing at the JCMT I began to experience respiratory distress due to the altitude of 13,500 feet. After ascending a flight of stairs (and I had climbed the very same stairs several times over the course of the night) I became...
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