Especially when most of the new photometry has much higher uncertainty and the high precision photometry already reported is driving the fits
November 3, 2026 at 11:40 AM
Especially when most of the new photometry has much higher uncertainty and the high precision photometry already reported is driving the fits
Tonight succeeded with nine comets for photometry. Bonus image of M81 and M82 (only 50 mins) below.
1° C and ice on the powerbank and parts of the power cable frozen to the roof. The anti-dew heater kept the lens dew-free.
The whole plan ran for 11 hours.
☄️🔭
1° C and ice on the powerbank and parts of the power cable frozen to the roof. The anti-dew heater kept the lens dew-free.
The whole plan ran for 11 hours.
☄️🔭
November 6, 2026 at 4:52 AM
Tonight succeeded with nine comets for photometry. Bonus image of M81 and M82 (only 50 mins) below.
1° C and ice on the powerbank and parts of the power cable frozen to the roof. The anti-dew heater kept the lens dew-free.
The whole plan ran for 11 hours.
☄️🔭
1° C and ice on the powerbank and parts of the power cable frozen to the roof. The anti-dew heater kept the lens dew-free.
The whole plan ran for 11 hours.
☄️🔭
🪐 Planet-hosting stars spin slower
Among stars that spin once in under 20 days, those with planets take about 15% longer per turn than those without. A clue to how planets and stars shape each other.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag2119
#Astronomy #Exoplanets #Space 🧪
Among stars that spin once in under 20 days, those with planets take about 15% longer per turn than those without. A clue to how planets and stars shape each other.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag2119
#Astronomy #Exoplanets #Space 🧪
The slower rotation of planet-hosting stars revisited
Abstract. Previous studies combined rotation periods derived from Kepler photometry, stellar parameters from previous Gaia Data Releases, and planet hosts
doi.org
November 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
🪐 Planet-hosting stars spin slower
Among stars that spin once in under 20 days, those with planets take about 15% longer per turn than those without. A clue to how planets and stars shape each other.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag2119
#Astronomy #Exoplanets #Space 🧪
Among stars that spin once in under 20 days, those with planets take about 15% longer per turn than those without. A clue to how planets and stars shape each other.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag2119
#Astronomy #Exoplanets #Space 🧪
Oxford team used mass photometry and single-molecule trapping to observe virus-like particle assembly. Weak, reversible multivalent interactions guide it through a limited set of closed intermediates, closing a decades-old gap.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
November 9, 2026 at 8:44 PM
Oxford team used mass photometry and single-molecule trapping to observe virus-like particle assembly. Weak, reversible multivalent interactions guide it through a limited set of closed intermediates, closing a decades-old gap.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎉Spotlight on PI-led Cycle 1 Survey – A Legacy Survey of Andromeda and Triangulum with Roman!
Multi-epoch, multi-filter photometry of >500M stars in M31 and M33 🔭
Goal: probing accretion history, 3D disk structure, stars, dusty ISM and dark matter
🔗https://bit.ly/4d2Y6Ko
Multi-epoch, multi-filter photometry of >500M stars in M31 and M33 🔭
Goal: probing accretion history, 3D disk structure, stars, dusty ISM and dark matter
🔗https://bit.ly/4d2Y6Ko
November 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
🎉Spotlight on PI-led Cycle 1 Survey – A Legacy Survey of Andromeda and Triangulum with Roman!
Multi-epoch, multi-filter photometry of >500M stars in M31 and M33 🔭
Goal: probing accretion history, 3D disk structure, stars, dusty ISM and dark matter
🔗https://bit.ly/4d2Y6Ko
Multi-epoch, multi-filter photometry of >500M stars in M31 and M33 🔭
Goal: probing accretion history, 3D disk structure, stars, dusty ISM and dark matter
🔗https://bit.ly/4d2Y6Ko
... maps of photometry experiments where the infrared spectrometer was calibrated by viewing the surface under different lighting conditions. In the top map it looked at 7 places with sunlight from different directions. At the bottom, two spots are viewed repeatedly at different solar altitudes […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 7, 2026 at 6:32 AM
... maps of photometry experiments where the infrared spectrometer was calibrated by viewing the surface under different lighting conditions. In the top map it looked at 7 places with sunlight from different directions. At the bottom, two spots are viewed repeatedly at different solar altitudes […]
The observing plan from tonight is finished. Had to skip the first comet due to clouds but succeeded with the remaining eight. And the pretty picture also came out splendid. 50 mins of the Horsehead Nebula. Now off to process the comet data in Tycho Tracker for photometry.
🔭☄️
🔭☄️
November 5, 2026 at 5:05 AM
The observing plan from tonight is finished. Had to skip the first comet due to clouds but succeeded with the remaining eight. And the pretty picture also came out splendid. 50 mins of the Horsehead Nebula. Now off to process the comet data in Tycho Tracker for photometry.
🔭☄️
🔭☄️
iFLiP: accessible and low-cost lifetime fiber photometry for robust longitudinal and quantitative measurements of neural dynamics by Haining Zhong and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
November 3, 2026 at 6:11 PM
iFLiP: accessible and low-cost lifetime fiber photometry for robust longitudinal and quantitative measurements of neural dynamics by Haining Zhong and team: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
I don't see how this photometry says there's a rotational light curve signal. It looks pretty damn consistent with flat with the binned data
November 3, 2026 at 11:18 AM
I don't see how this photometry says there's a rotational light curve signal. It looks pretty damn consistent with flat with the binned data
"twelve photographic plates taken between 1954 and 2000, a marginal detection on a 1937 Harvard plate, 2010-2017 VISTA near-infrared images, 2016-2020 SkyMapper images, and ten years of ATLAS photometry"
So this paper just dropped on the arxiv/astroph arxiv.org/abs/2611.02371
A Century-Long Archival Search and Analysis of the Rubin Observatory-Discovered Dwarf Planet Candidate 2026 ED$_{138}$
The trans-Neptunian object (TNO) 2026 ED$_{138}$ was discovered in early data from the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory, and recovered in Dark Energy Camera images back to 2016. With an absolute magn...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2026 at 5:48 PM
"twelve photographic plates taken between 1954 and 2000, a marginal detection on a 1937 Harvard plate, 2010-2017 VISTA near-infrared images, 2016-2020 SkyMapper images, and ten years of ATLAS photometry"
GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03753
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
November 4, 2026 at 9:31 AM
GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro.
Photometry and analysis of comet 220P/McNaught during the 2026 outbursts: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... -> ICE-CSIC analyses two luminous outbursts experienced by comet 220P/McNaught: ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
Validate User
academic.oup.com
November 4, 2026 at 2:52 AM
Photometry and analysis of comet 220P/McNaught during the 2026 outbursts: academic.oup.com/mnras/articl... -> ICE-CSIC analyses two luminous outbursts experienced by comet 220P/McNaught: ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry. J. Chen et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05447
November 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry. J. Chen et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05447
J. Chen, et al.: The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.05447
November 5, 2026 at 6:51 AM
J. Chen, et al.: The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05447 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.05447
The Ks photometry is interesting because of the deep methane absorption at 2.3 microns, I'm not sure about the z-band analysis. I don't know much of methane absorption there. I think it's the 2.3 microns that's saying there isn't much methane or at least there isn't as big of a drop as Eris/Makemake
November 3, 2026 at 4:15 PM
The Ks photometry is interesting because of the deep methane absorption at 2.3 microns, I'm not sure about the z-band analysis. I don't know much of methane absorption there. I think it's the 2.3 microns that's saying there isn't much methane or at least there isn't as big of a drop as Eris/Makemake
The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447
J. Chen et al.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447
J. Chen et al.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.05447
arXiv abstract link
arxiv.org
November 5, 2026 at 9:30 AM
The PAU Survey: Self-supervised image denoising for flux-preserving photometry
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447
J. Chen et al.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.05447
J. Chen et al.
GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF. M. R. Alarcon et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03753
November 5, 2026 at 2:54 AM
GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF. M. R. Alarcon et. al. https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03753
Analizamos en primicia los luminosos estallidos del cometa ☄️220P/McNaught este año. Ya lo podéis leer en la prestigiosa revista arbitrada #MNRAS de @rasjournals.bsky.social⤵️
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Principales implicaciones para desvelar su frágil naturaleza:
▶️ ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Principales implicaciones para desvelar su frágil naturaleza:
▶️ ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
November 3, 2026 at 11:19 AM
Analizamos en primicia los luminosos estallidos del cometa ☄️220P/McNaught este año. Ya lo podéis leer en la prestigiosa revista arbitrada #MNRAS de @rasjournals.bsky.social⤵️
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Principales implicaciones para desvelar su frágil naturaleza:
▶️ ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
academic.oup.com/mnras/articl...
Principales implicaciones para desvelar su frágil naturaleza:
▶️ ice.csic.es/news/news-pr...
Continuous mass photometry enables high-resolution observation of biomolecular masses and mass changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Continuous mass photometry by single-molecule trapping - Nature Methods
Continuous mass photometry enables high-resolution observation of biomolecular masses and mass changes.
www.nature.com
October 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Continuous mass photometry enables high-resolution observation of biomolecular masses and mass changes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The real first light for the S50 Pro: The plan for tonight has 9 comets for photometry and one pretty picture. There will be some wind, so I hope dew won't be an issue at predicted 3° C.
Still need to find out about the quality of this unit as the test images showed slightly elongated stars.
☄️🔭
Still need to find out about the quality of this unit as the test images showed slightly elongated stars.
☄️🔭
November 4, 2026 at 10:36 AM
The real first light for the S50 Pro: The plan for tonight has 9 comets for photometry and one pretty picture. There will be some wind, so I hope dew won't be an issue at predicted 3° C.
Still need to find out about the quality of this unit as the test images showed slightly elongated stars.
☄️🔭
Still need to find out about the quality of this unit as the test images showed slightly elongated stars.
☄️🔭
In 2021 it brightened by about a magnitude out of nowhere.
Multi-year photometry through 2025 shows that extra light faded exponentially over ~1.4 years.
By 2024-25 it was basically back to the old level, though there are still signs of low-level residual activity.
Multi-year photometry through 2025 shows that extra light faded exponentially over ~1.4 years.
By 2024-25 it was basically back to the old level, though there are still signs of low-level residual activity.
November 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
In 2021 it brightened by about a magnitude out of nowhere.
Multi-year photometry through 2025 shows that extra light faded exponentially over ~1.4 years.
By 2024-25 it was basically back to the old level, though there are still signs of low-level residual activity.
Multi-year photometry through 2025 shows that extra light faded exponentially over ~1.4 years.
By 2024-25 it was basically back to the old level, though there are still signs of low-level residual activity.
RRIDs were included in this in Nature Communications paper. Thanks for making your methods matter! #OpenResearch #accelerateopenscience #ReproducibleResearch
A highly sensitive genetically encoded red cAMP sensor for multiplex imaging in vivo - Nature Communications
R-Flamp1 is a high-performance red fluorescent cAMP sensor and the authors monitor region-specific cAMP dynamics in vivo and reveal distinct activation patterns between cAMP, calcium, and neuromodulators via two-photon imaging and fiber photometry in animals.
doi.org
November 8, 2026 at 8:01 AM
RRIDs were included in this in Nature Communications paper. Thanks for making your methods matter! #OpenResearch #accelerateopenscience #ReproducibleResearch
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro: GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03753 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.03753
November 4, 2026 at 6:51 AM
M. R. Alarcon, S. Lemes-Perera, M. Serra-Ricart, J. Licandro: GPUPhot: Kernel-Based Algorithms for Point-Source Detection and Photometry with a Spatially Variable PSF https://arxiv.org/abs/2611.03753 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2611.03753 https://arxiv.org/html/2611.03753
🧬 See how mass photometry reveals protein-RNA interactions behind antiviral Dicer complexes and tau condensate dissolution.
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Job ID: 20079171
Extract: The Department of Physics and Astronomy seeks a temporary Research Assistant to support a project using machine learning to classify variable stars. The role involves working with multi-epoch photometry data and requires relevant research experience.
Extract: The Department of Physics and Astronomy seeks a temporary Research Assistant to support a project using machine learning to classify variable stars. The role involves working with multi-epoch photometry data and requires relevant research experience.
November 3, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Job ID: 20079171
Extract: The Department of Physics and Astronomy seeks a temporary Research Assistant to support a project using machine learning to classify variable stars. The role involves working with multi-epoch photometry data and requires relevant research experience.
Extract: The Department of Physics and Astronomy seeks a temporary Research Assistant to support a project using machine learning to classify variable stars. The role involves working with multi-epoch photometry data and requires relevant research experience.