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Some fun lidar photos from #EchoBase on Friday night via Crow Emily.
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Monday, June 10, 2013
Saturday, September 1, 2012
Echo Base in the Sunshine
Wave clouds over the #EchoBase Observatory. In the daytime, when the Crows usually sleep :-)
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Lidar Open House featuring our #ICFAR friends. Nov 12. Come on out: @uwoscience @westernu @westernmustangs @uwogazette @cpsxnews #westernu
We're having an open house out at the new observatory. Come on out, the laser will be on and you can tour both our facility and ICFAR (Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternative Resources) a centre at Western dedicated to developing new and environmentally friendly energy alternatives. Saturday, Nov 12, 5-8 pm.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Video: World’s most awesome grad students (@Robin_Wing and Emily) get our 2.6 m telescope operational at Echo Base
We took a major step towards becoming an operational lidar again with Robin and Emily succesfully "closing" the surface of our 2.6 m diameter liquid mirror telescope (see video). One of the many pluses of a liquid mirror is when you move you put the liquid in a bottle and the container on a truck and away you go. But setting up is more difficult, as the mirror must be extremely level or the mirror surface "breaks" and the you have a puddle in the middle instead of a mirror. Since we moved to our new observatory the telescope container had to be completely re-balanced which is a tedious and exacting procedure that PCL "vets" like Steve and I know all too well. Now Robin and Emily are in the club! They have worked hard on this for several weeks and we are very proud of them! For more on our liquid mirror/project see our web page http://pcl.physics.uwo.ca.
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
Our New Nd:YAG laser has arrived! 1000 mJ/pulse @ 30Hz, 532 nm #westernu
Ohhh it has been a LOOONNNGGGG wait but the PCL has taken a big step towards getting back in action. Our new laser was trucked in today and Emily and Robin were there to meet it. Fortunately for them so were Caroline from the Western Environmental Field Station and several real nice folks from the ICFAR lab with strong backs and a forklift. As you can see in the picture they were certainly needed. I thought 2 people would be able to lift the laser head, but it was hard to get it on the table with 5! We are hoping to get it operational Monday and have our fingers crossed it will robustly meet its spec of 1000 mJ/pulse at 30 Hz in the green.More to follow!Bob
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