NSN Webinar Series: Astronomy Picture of the Day: Postcards from the Universe 2022
Channel: NASA Night Sky Network
Date: 2023-01-25

The Night Sky Network joined Robert Nemiroff on Tuesday, January 24, 2023 for a tour of the highlights from the Astronomy Picture of the Day archive for 2022.

Along with Jerry Bonnell, Robert Nemiroff has written, coordinated, and edited NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) since 1995.  The APOD archive contains the largest collection of annotated astronomical images on the internet.  

About Dr. Robert Nemiroff

Dr. Robert Nemiroff is a professor of physics at Michigan Tech.  He worked at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland before coming to Michigan Tech. He is perhaps best known scientifically for papers predicting, usually among others, several recovered microlensing phenomena, and papers showing, usually among others, that gamma-ray bursts were consistent with occurring at cosmological distances. He led a group that developed and deployed the first online fisheye night sky monitor, called CONCAMs, deploying later models to most major astronomical observatories. He has published as first author and refereed for every major journal in astronomy and astrophysics. His current research interests include trying to limit attributes of our universe with distant gamma-ray bursts, and investigating the use of relativistic illumination fronts to orient astronomical nebulae.

In 1995, Dr. Nemiroff co-created the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) with main NASA website at http://apod.nasa.gov/.  If you are a fan of APOD, please consider joining the Friends of APOD at http://friendsofapod.org/.

In 1999, he co-created the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL) open repository. Housed at MTU and located online at http://ascl.net/, the ASCL now lists over 1000 codes and promotes greater research transparency. ASCL is indexed by ADS, making participating astrophysics codes easier to locate and cite. 


Resource Links

Astronomy Picture of the Day
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

NSN Webinar Series Page: Current & Upcoming Event Schedule:
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/news-display.cfm?News_ID=707

Recording will be posted to YouTube as well as the NSN  website (NSN member login required):  
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/download-view.cfm?Doc_ID=716

Night Sky Network 
https://nightsky.jpl.nasa.gov/

Astronomical Society of the Pacific
https://astrosociety.org/