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: SCUBA on Google Sky
Mar 17
This is my first poster for a conference and it is going up at the UK National Astronomy meeting in a couple of weeks. Based on my SCUBA layer for Google Sky, it will found in the Education and Outreach section during the...
Submillimetre Wavelengths on Google Sky
Feb 21
Over the summer I created a Google Sky layer that enabled anyone to access the entire SCUBA submm catalogue of maps and objects in a dynamic fashion. Google Sky was released in August and the open file format means anyone can create data for display. This layer is now publicly available thanks to help from the Canadian Astronomy Data Centre (CADC), the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) and my...
A Brief Explanation
Sep 27
If you've ever wondered what it is that I do (this one's for all you family and friend types), then worry no more. Today I'm giving a talk to the incoming PhD students as part of our Postgraduate Conference. All the 2nd years give talks to all the 1st years and simultaneously bore all the 3rd years. Fun! So my talk, as a flash animation, is shown over at this link if you're...
Diving Deep
Aug 23
A recent BBC News article has prompted a couple of people to mention 'this thing called SCUBA' to me. The article is about the new SCUBA-2 submillimetre camera that has been built at the Royal Observatory in Edinburgh (with more than a little help from Cardiff University and a couple of other places). SCUBA-2, as the name might suggest, is the successor to SCUBA which stands for Submillimetre,...
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