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The complete #ag2025goerlitz conference poster "20-FOLD RESOLUTION IMPROVEMENT IN RADIOASTRONOMICAL SINGLE-DISH IMAGE SCANNING" which raised some eyebrows in Görlitz - and comes with the video #RadioAstronomy #ImageProcessing

Continuing the #ag2025goerlitz coverage with a picture from #Euclid towel for solving the @… conference #puzzler https://www.g-vo.org/puzzlerweb/puzzler2025-solution.pdf - we had actually just stared at the constellation boundaries in https://iauarchive.eso.org/public/themes/constellations/ for a while and guessed correctly. ;-)

Scientists from #MPSGoettingen are contributing to and organizing part of the program of the Annual meeting of the German Astronomical Society #ag2025goerlitz

The final day of #ag2025goerlitz - sniff - has begun ... a bit too much math at 9 a.m. for me but exciting perspectives in processing bad data - the QR code goes to https://ift.pages.mpcdf.de/j-ubik/

The #ag2025goerlitz townhall about the #ExpandingHorizons initiative by #ESO concludes with a panel discussion featuring the five presenters.

Next #ag2025goerlitz #ExpandingHorizons presentation: #AtLAST, the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope - more at https://www.atlast.uio.no

Now at the #ag2025goerlitz #ExpandingHorizons townhall the #WidefieldSpectroscopicTelescope - https://wstelescope.com - is presented: many spectra fast, to deal with a flood of discoveries of interesting objects expected in the 2030s.

Finally at the #ag2025goerlitz #ExpandingHorizons townhall a pitch for the #TimeDomainTelescope, consisting of one hundred 2-meter telescopes with spectrographs.

More slides from the #ag2025goerlitz #ExpandingHorizons #KilometersBaselineInterferometer presentation: two precursor projects connecting Cerro Paranal with neighboring peaks could prove the feasibility of the big thing.

Public evening lecture of #ag2025goerlitz about extreme variable stars - house packed and even a TV crew showed up.

Meeting of the Bildungsausschuss at #ag2025goerlitz - much debate about what authenticity (of observed data) means in astronomy education.

The #DZA in a nutshell slide by Günther #Hasinger shown at #ag2025goerlitz in full resolution (thanks for sending it). Pictures from side events of the meeting to follow later ... as I'm already in the next one - https://www.fhsev.de/Wolfschmidt/events/akag-goerlitz-2025.php - to be followed by a short vaction near Oybin.

At #ag2025goerlitz now what's probably the last public discussion of the #Denkschrift for German astronomy - the text of which is mostly written already but prioritizing and adaptation to current developments has yet to occur.

In the #ag2025goerlitz Outreach session Ludwig Scheibe presenting the #exoplanet #outreach website https://outreach.spp1992-exoplanetdiversity.de/

At the #ag2025goerlitz splinter session "Public #Outreach in der Astronomie" - the two pictures on the right show the talk "A hands-on peek into the #Fediverse" by @…

In the next #ag2025goerlitz talk the Co-PI of the #DST2000 radio survey telescope array to be built in #Nevada - https://www.deepsynoptic.org - starting next year introduced the current plan with 1650 6.15-meter telescopes, to be operational in 2029. A German antenna maker is involved - https://schauenburg-international.com/mtex-antenna-technology-entwirft-prototypen-des-dsa-2000-projekts-der-caltech/ - as are German astronomers. The DST-2000 will be the radio counterpart to SPHEREx, Rubin and eROSITA.

Strong words at #ag2025goerlitz as the war against science by the current White House is also affecting German astronomy big time: in space as shown here as well as on the ground with dramatic cuts to the NSF.

Welcome back to #ag2025goerlitz - here's the agenda for the morning(s): https://ag2025.astronomische-gesellschaft.de/program/plenary.php

Walking towards the #ag2025goerlitz conference dinner: a #buoy with an interesting history at the shore of the #BerzdorferSee.

Another poster from #ag2025goerlitz in which the #DZA - #Lusatia Radio Array to test technology for the above-mentioned DSA-2000 in Nevada.

Astropolitics now at #ag2025goerlitz: Jörn Wilms about the next #Denkschrift for German #astronomy to be published in early 2026 - and for the first time in English because international collaboration is more important than ever.

Tomorrow all morning of #ag2025goerlitz will be devoted to #ExpandingHorizons - #ESO DG is introducing this vision beyond the ELT.

The next #ExpandingHorizons pitch at the #ag2025goerlitz townhall is about #ALMA2040: see https://www.euroalma2040.com for details!

On the way to the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy meeting a very low - and very colorful; tried to bring out the visual impression - segment of a #rainbow seen from the A 14 #autobahn near Grimma, Germany, around 15:00 CEST today.

The setting of the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy conference (here during the general assembly): a former synagogue, now a Görlitz cultural center.

The PhD Prize at the #ag2025goerlitz meeting went to Jonah Wagenveld and a current cosmology mystery - described in ample detail in the paper Wideband continuum catalogues and a measurement of the cosmic radio dipole: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2024/10/aa50291-24/aa50291-24.html

Another fun slide at the #ag2025goerlitz awards ceremonies by Frank Grupp of LMU who is honored - #Euclid space observatory. Here he shows a star #spectrograph he built as a school project in the 1980s.

How to use the #SKA to observe air shower radio emission and figure out where the #CosmicRays actually come from. #ag2025goerlitz

A. Quirrenbach reporting at #ag2025goerlitz about the status of the #HabitableWorldsObservatory, the next next thing for NASA after Roman: a 10% contribution by ESA (as for HST and JWST) is likely - and Germany could deliver something important, like a separate #StarShade spacecraft for stellar coronography on steroids. Something to dream about for the 2040s ...

The first multi-messenger GW event since 2017? The GW signal last month isn't that convincing, though. #ag2025goerlitz

You thought the #Gaia mission had ended with the passivation of the spacecraft? Very wrong: the coming #DR4 will vastly improve on what has been released so far as explained at #ag2025goerlitz

Amateur Milky Way observation in neutral hydrogen on steroids, with a 2.6 meter dish and superresolution: a poster at #ag2025goerlitz with detailled explanations in http://radioastronomie-leicht-gemacht.de

All the #DZA - #Hasinger at the end of #ag2025goerlitz ... unfortunately the idiotic cellphone OS decided that this of all slides deserved only low resolution. :-(

It's #ExpandingHorizons - #ag2025goerlitz! Here is F. Eisenhauer describing the #KilometersBaselineInterferometer concept: 10 micro arcsec resolution, countless opportunities ...

The #sunset today at the #BerzdorferSee just ahead of the #ag2025goerlitz conference dinner.

Sunset party at the #BerzdorferSee by the #astronomers from the #ag2025goerlitz - some views in the next post.

Observing neutral hydrogen in the Milky Way with a simple #RadioTelescope, a successful outreach project by tbe #DZA - an #ag2025goerlitz presentation.

Before any #ExpandingHorizons project would go ahead, the #ELT has to be finished, of course - here is the current timeline as shown by Barcons at #ag2025goerlitz today.

The #ExpandingHorizons timeline - FIRST the science case has to be defined with the landscape of the 2040s in mind, THEN technology becomes important. And the DG emphasizes that #ESO has no favorite. #ag2025goerlitz

The future of #GravitationalWave astronomy is bright and loud, with the #EinsteinTelescope in Europe the next (but far from last) big thing: concluding slides from Samaya Nissanke's exciting #ag2025goerlitz talk.

In #Goerlitz, Germany, a complex #sundial - perfect for the host city of the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy convention all week.

One ESA #exoplanet observing spacecraft (CHEOPS) coming down - but hopefully not so soon - while with #PLATO the next one will launch soon and is promising a lot: slides from three #ag2025goerlitz talks this afternoon.

Good morning from #Goerlitz, Germany! The clock tower of the Town Hall - #AstronomicalClock showing Moon phases above the regular one and the opening of the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy conference ... in the synagogue.

The winner of the 2025 #KarlSchwarzschild Medal - #FredHoyle ... who has been the winner of the very same medal (the highest award by the German astronomy community) 33 years ago. #ag2025goerlitz

At the opening reception of the #ag2025goerlitz astronomy conference in #Goerlitz I spotted this poster about the benefits of the #Fediverse for #ScienceCommunication - great arguments but ... what about longterm stability? Will important and maybe even influential #Mastodon posts be still around in 5, 10, 50 years? On much-despised X - or FB - those from 10 years ago are still around (if you know the URLs).

Today (19 September) there will be an #occultation of #Venus by the lunar crescent - in Germany in broad daylight and only 27° from the Sun, so it will be tough to observe: hints and links in #ag2025goerlitz ends just a few hours earlier).