Today the Night Sky Class took a solar spectrum using the SBIG SGS spectroscope. Mercury emission lines from a florescence lamp provided the calibration. Here is our calibrated image. We had an imaging session on May 14th and captured a favorite galaxy, the Whirlpool Galaxy M51 in Canes Venatici. M51 is estimated to be about …
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Inside the accelerator scattering chamber
This is the inside of the vacuum chamber. The dislodged target is hard to see but is on the ring (with angle marks) sort of behind things in the lower right. This is Graham Peaslee making sure that the set of targets that have been dislodged from the target mechanism are not going to jam …
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Snapshots of Today’s Research
Summer research in the Physics Department has gotten off to a great start. Students in Steve Remillard’s group and Paul DeYoung/Graham Peaslee’s group started this week. Other students will start next week and in the following weeks. Jenny Hampton walked around the department this afternoon and took a few pictures of what students were doing. …