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Nice coffee break at #DPS2022, caught up with a bunch of people and now I'm off to Pluto, where Leslie Young is talking about a recently observed occultation with her habitual dry-as-desert wit.
Leslie Young: "One site only got data on egress; they were supposed to be part of the picket fence [a closely spaced line of telescopes] but their RV was infested by ants." #AstronomerProblems #AustraliaProblems #DPS2022
No scientific results to report yet, but Young shows they got absolutely gorgeous data during the 1 Jun 2022 occultation of Pluto by a magnitude 13 star, multiple chords with two showing a spectacular, strong central flash. Despite the ants. #DPS2022
Gooooooood morning London! Today at #DPS2022 I'll be checking out Uranus and Saturn's rings, changes at Pluto since the New Horizons flyby, interstellar traveling rocks, outer planet irregular satellites, and keeping an ear out for early JWST results.
I barely made it to the rings session in time to see Matt Hedman show off some new results on a big brightening of a dusty ring at Uranus, revealed in part by some terrific reprocessing of Voyager data by an amateur, @IanARegan. Nice work, Ian!
It's a little too early in the morning for me to comprehend Bill Hubbard's talk, but the idea that the rate that Titan is receding from Saturn, the precession of Saturn's spin axis, and the cyclical change in tilt of Neptune's spin axis are all linked is...wow. #DPS2022
