Blue Collar Scientist

The final video from the Junk Bond Observatory trip is up at YouTube.

If you sent in a question, and haven’t heard it answered yet, it will be covered here. Enjoy!

My previous two videos about Junk Bond Observatory have inspired some Q&A, so I’ve posted part one (of two) of some answers to the questions that have been posted to the blog as comments, and/or e-mailed to me. This is a bit dry, I know, but it is what I do for a living, and I don’t know how to make it interesting unless you are really obsessed with high performance telescopes that aren’t being controlled by grad-student-ware¹. Anyway, here it is:

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The next two videos coming up will be part two of the Q&A, and a video of a short presentation I gave at a religious school.

1. This is a slightly derogatory term referring to kludged-together software, generally written in some deplorably out of date language or development environment, with many bad architectural choices made, by the graduate students tasked with writing it in return for peanuts and water from the drinking fountain down the hall. In astronomy, grad-student-ware (cf. shareware, freeware) seems to be responsible for more observatory downtime and observational overhead than any other source. [↩]