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17th December 2004 - UNSW's Jessica
Dempsey has accepted a position as winterover scientist for
the ACBAR
instrument on the VIPER telescope at Admundsen-Scott Base, South
Pole Station. She has just arrived at the South pole and will
remain there till November 2005. You can read her Winterover
Diaries here. |
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20 November
2004 - Storey, Lawrence and Kenyon arrive at Dome C
17 November 2004 -
The summer Antarctic season has kicked off! Australian astronomers
will again be working at two locations on the Antarctic plateau
- the South Pole and Dome C. Follow their daily adventures
in the Antarctic Diaries
as they undertake maintenance on the AASTO
and AASTINO
observatories, and prepare experiments for the next winter
season. |
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15 November
2004 - The DACA (Dome A Camera) instrument was safely
delivered to the Xue Long ship in Perth, for transport to Antarctica
and then to Dome A with the Chinese traverse. DACA will measure
the wintertime cloud statistics at Dome A.
14 November 2004
- Storey, Lawrence and Kenyon fly to Christchurch to begin
their trip to Dome C. More
details can be found in the Diary pages. |
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29 October 2004 - ARC Centre of Excellence
proposal submitted for a 2-metre telescope (PILOT) at Dome C
in Antarctica. The PILOT science
paper describes the performance specifications, instrumentation
and science programs for PILOT.
16 September 2004 - Letter
published in Nature on exceptional seeing above Dome C in
Antarctica. |
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15 July
2004 - JACARA talk at the Potsdam
3rd Thinkshop on Robotic Telescopes
28 June 2004 - JACARA
talks at the Dome C meeting in Toulouse |
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21-25 June
2004 - JACARA contributions at the SPIE
meeting on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in
Glasgow |
