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Monday, 3 July 2017

The busy life of an astronomer

EWASS is over and I'm still alive; the 1200-strong horde of barbarous astronomers has been sent back to the hellish netherworld from whence they came. I finally booked my summer holiday to see the total solar eclipse from Grand Teton (hello darkness, bye bye money - also, Expedia seems designed to make the whole process as nerve-inducing as watching a horror movie while receiving random electric shocks). My flat has been restored to something approaching normality. Today we have a scientific visitor hanging around after EWASS. Tonight/early tomorrow morning a friend arrives for a week of holiday and on Wednesday I'm giving a 90 minute public talk.

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  1. Matter Beam3 July 2017 at 14:38

    What's the public talk about?

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  2. Rhys Taylor3 July 2017 at 15:38

    That would be the one about Batman, explosions, and Jodie Foster impressions... i.e. dark matter, the missing satellite problem, HI observations. The usual stuff.

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