Chronicles of an Observing Run on Mauna Kea
Emma Lehman ’10 traveled to Mauna Kea and the Gemini telescope in Hawaii to gather data for her senior astrophysics thesis on planetary nebulae. Download Emma Lehman’s “From a Star Journal” (PDF) here.
View ArticlePasachoff Awarded NSF Grant to Study Solar Eclipses
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded a three-year grant of $158,234 to Jay Pasachoff, Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy and director of the Hopkins Observatory at Williams College. The...
View ArticleKwitter Awarded Observing Time with Hubble Telescope
Karen B. Kwitter, the Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, and five colleagues have been granted observing time with the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope to study how planetary...
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Kwitter and colleagues awarded time with 10.4-m Gran Telescopio Canarias
The largest ground-based optical telescope in the world is the 10.4-meter diameter Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) on La Palma in the Canary Islands. Karen Kwitter and colleagues (R. Corradi, Instituto...
View ArticlePasachoff Participates in Hubble Space Telescope Observations
Pasachoff participated in Hubble Space Telescope 22-hour-long observations of Jupiter in an attempt to detect the transit of Venus that was visible there on September 20, 2012, and received a Space...
View ArticlePasachoff, Babcock, Lu ’13 observe transits of Venus from Earth, Jupiter, Saturn
January 8, 2013 press contact: James Kolesar, Public Affairs Office, Willliams College; jkolesar@williams.edu science contact: Jay Pasachoff, Caltech 150-21, Pasadena, CA 91125; on sabbatical from...
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Williams alumni and students at the American Astronomical Society’s meeting
Over ten Williams astronomy and astrophysics alumni as well as former Keck Summer Fellows at Williams College joined Prof. Pasachoff and two current students, Allison Carter ’16 and Allen Davis ’14, at...
View ArticlePasachoffs have article, review in Nature
Jay and Naomi Pasachoff reviewed, for the journal Nature (February 27, 2014 issue), the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Borodin’s opera Prince Igor, since it has a solar eclipse as an important...
View ArticleStellar Occultation Observing in New Zealand
During July 17 through July 30th, Jay Pasachoff visited the Mt. John University Observatory in New Zealand with Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium student, Adam Schiff ’15 of Middlebury College for...
View ArticleKeck Northeast Astronomy Consortium
During July 14th through July 15th, Karen Kwitter and Steven Souza represented Williams College at the Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium summer faculty meeting held at Haverford.
View ArticleWilliams College Expedition to the March 20 total solar eclipse
A team including Williams College professor of astronomy Jay Pasachoff and junior astrophysics major Allison Carter ’16 will be part of an expedition to study the solar corona at the March 20, 2015,...
View ArticleApril 22: Faculty Research Lunch with Karen Kwitter
You are invited to a Faculty Research Lunch for Staff on Wed., April 22, noon, Faculty Club. Karen Kwitter, Ebenezer Fitch Professor of Astronomy, will discuss “Lives of the Stars.” To reserve your...
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Triennial General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union in Hawaii,...
Williams College faculty and alumni at the International Astronomical Union’s General Assembly in Honolulu, August 2015. Laura Brenneman ’99, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Duane Lee ’01,...
View ArticleNational Geographic Explorer Moment of the Week: August 2015
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View ArticleNSF Awards $264,000 to Williams College and Other Institutions to Support...
NSF Awards $264,000 to Williams College and Other Institutions to Support Student-Faculty Research in Astronomy
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