Thursday, November 14, 2013

ALMA day at Leiden University

Spent the morning listening how much awesome the ccle-2 ALMA will be. And brainstorming on higher-redshifts proposals. Rychard is gently getting me to his domain of z=10 by getting me to write a lower redshift proposal first. No fear. I have two other ideas in the can as well.

Meanwhile SOFIA observations need to be scheduled. How to fit 1300 minutes of time into an allotment of 720...

Not much else but I decided to blog again. Won't my single reader be happy.

Friday, November 1, 2013

SOFIA

Almost on a whim, I put in a proposal to complement my NHEMESES Herschel program with SOFIA observations. SOFIA is the NASA airborne observatory. A telescope onboard a Boing 747. I figured it would be heavily oversubscribed but always ask. And there is an observer seat onboard. How nice would it be to go on *that* observing trip! I got 10 hours of observing time, a complete flight!