Thank you for your response, Lavabug. My top choice for grad school seems to have a good variety of research opportunities in both astro and nuclear physics, but I'll keep your suggestion in mind when looking for backups too. Unfortunately my current school's physics department is focused...
Hello! I apologize in advance if this has been asked before, or if it more properly belongs in the career section - I wasn't sure since I'm still at university.
I'm currently in the middle of my undergrad studies in physics with an astronomy focus. My plan has been to go on to grad school to...
Sort of. I tried to use just the H-alpha image as luminance with the RGB but it made the stars look really weird, especially with large halos around the brighter ones. I looked around and found Rob Gendler's website that discusses ways around this, and it helped a lot. One of his solutions was...
First post on PF, thought I'd share my first serious attempt at astrophotography. I used itelescope since it's perpetual cloud cover where I'm at sadly, and all of my processing was done in Astroart. I learned a lot with this, but it's definitely an uphill struggle!
M42 and the Running Man...