Department of Physics and Astronomy - Macquarie University
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The official Facebook account for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University. Welcome to the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Our research at Macquarie University is world-leading and our research-led teaching trains undergraduate and graduate students to become leaders in their field. We focus our teaching and research in the areas of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Lasers, Photonics and Nano-biophotonics, and Quantum Information and Quantum Physics.
Our researchers and students have access to outstanding specialist photonics, quantum and optics labs, laser processing and optical characterisation facilities, and our on-campus observatory. We collaborate closely with local, national and international observatories, research organisations, and companies, and we include nodes for three ARC Centres of Excellence.
In the most recent Excellence in Research for Australia - ‘outstanding performance well above world standard’, as did our research in the sub-disciplines of astronomical and space sciences, and quantum physics.
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While The Huntsman Telephoto Array was testing their system out on the 16" telescope at the Observatory on the Macquarie University campus, we managed to spend some time looking at the Tarantula Nebula with the 12" Meade Instruments LX200. Below is a photo taken using an Atik 11000 mono camera with a H-Alpha filter, 15 minutes exposure time, with guiding assistance. Still working through some problems with the system, but looking to get a large mosaic of the object in the near future in several different filters.
The Huntsman Telephoto Array
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Flippin cat physics is how Space Telescope's slew to their targets??? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtWbpyjJqrU
Astronomy Open Night 2017
Get Sharing! Will be a great night.
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First Physics Magic Show of the year done! Thanks to National Indigenous Science Education Program for running a great couple of days of Science at Macquarie University. Can't wait until next year!
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From 4 pm today the Info Night for potential Macquarie University students will be on. Head to the MUSE building to ask any questions about enrolling at MQ: http://www.mq.edu.au/about/events/view/undergraduate-information-evening/ We'll also be opening the Observatory on Campus tonight from 8:00 -10:00 pm, so come and have a look at our domes and possibly look through the telescopes (weather permitting).
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We bake too!
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Today we held the 4th Australian Terahertz Workshop at Macquarie University, organized by the THz Sources and Applications Lab (Dr. Andrew Lee, Prof. Helen Pask, Prof. David Spence, Dr. Ran Li, Tiago Ortega and Yameng Zheng). We had a great technical session in the morning with an overview of Australian research in the field, followed by an inspiring keynote talk given by Prof. Roger Lewis (UOW), finishing with an exciting panel discussion around the future of Australian THz research. We would like to thank all representatives from ANU, CSIRO, UoA, UNSW, UQ, USYD, UWA and UOW for making this workshop memorable!
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MQPhysAstro End of Year Party!
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Professor Orsola De Marco's talk from the Macquarie Minds festival on now!
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Thanks to Professor Hui Cao from Yale University's Department of Applied Physics for an informative seminar on Speckle-Free Lasers and an interesting conversation on her career in physics and some great advice to ECRs.
PhD student Thomas Reichardt wins first prize in the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society (http://afms.org.au/) video contest, by making a movie of one of his stellar interaction simulations. See the video in the link below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8F-fS5IaTKY Well done Thomas!
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