#nicmos — Public Fediverse posts

For a periods in the late 80s, early 90s, late 90s, and early 2000s, I was a professional #Astronomer (yet another workstation jockey) with a particular interest in #BioAstronomy -- planets, star forming, potential habitats -- that sort of thing.

Used data-reduction software. And I wrote some in #FORTRAN

Along the way, also learned BASIC, C, C++, Pascal, and then #Python

Helped develop the #NICMOS camera for Hubble. Then got to reduce some data from it to study protostars.

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15 years ago I had to scrape #HST #NICMOS parallel observations for random coverage of 1<z<2 #quasar #hostgalaxies in the near-infrared, to find 10 that I could analyse in terms of structure and stellar mass.

With #ESAEuclid we will cover 15.000 deg^2 and probably cover 10.000 of such quasars. Or 100.000? At lower angular resolution, but much better defined PSF.

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2009ApJ...706L.215J/abstract