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Jobs!
As the title says this post is about getting a job as an astronomer, and my current job hunt. Most of the time before landing a permanent job in astronomy research, you would need to get a university...
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STAR PARTY 2009 in Sri Lanka
I am posting to let you all know of an astronomy event on the 25th of September in Kandy, Sri Lanka. The official site is at http://starparty2009.com/. Commenced in 2004, as the primordial observation...
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Finished!
Yes, its finished. It my favorite word right now. Finished, complete, and I don’t have to think about it anymore I am talking about a mammoth data set I had been fighting with in the past few years!...
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Auf Wiedersehen Deutschland
This will be my last post from Germany as we are just about to leave the country… My ESO fellowship is finishing early next year and given the unused leave I have, we decided to end my fellowship with...
View ArticleBelated New Year wishes
First of all wish you all a very happy and prosperous 2010. Hope everyone had a good vacation. I am officially still on vacation in Melbourne. We have been enjoying many sunny days here (some days bit...
View ArticleSolar Eclipse 2010 in Sri Lanka
As many of you might already know, the first solar eclipse for the year is on January 15th. This will be visible in Northern Sri Lanka, a part of the country that was not accessible to public until...
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Hello from Sydney
Hello all, I am back!! So where to start on all the crazy things that have happened since January… Well, I am now blogging from Sydney, Australia. Since March, I am a research astronomer at the AAO...
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High Efficiency and Resolution Multi-Element Spectrograph
Ohh dear! Its only a few months short of being one whole year since I last posted…where did the time go? What was I doing all this time you ask? I think its fair to say I have been running between...
View ArticleWiA: Women in Astronomy
Last week I attended the WiA Workshop here in Sydney. The website is here. I found the workshop very good, even if I didn’t get to attend it fully (because of issues related to being a mother)! Having...
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2012 – the year of Astronomy meetings
Its mid April 2012, and finally I have some time to write an entry. Again its been almost an year since my last post – so much for trying to make regular entries – the fact is there is so much going on...
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