Here is the UArizona site which has a countdown-to-launch clock.
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We recently learned that Dr Mike Lesser, Director of the Imaging Technology Laboratory of Steward Observatory, has won the 2022 Joesph Weber Award of the AAS. Dr Lesser is cited for “innovative and foundational work on methods of thinning, coating, and reading out large-format back-side illuminated CCD detectors. This work has led to significant improvements in performance, and the methods are used by virtually all CCD detectors in astronomical instruments working from optical through X-ray wavelengths.”
You can read more about the award HERE.
While observing at the Steward Bok Telescope on Kitt Peak, postdoc Jianwei Lyu took this composite photo of May 30th's Tau Herculids meteor shower. You can see the photo HERE. Jianwei provides a bit of a backstory: "This is the composite image from 22 single exposures with meteors from 9:00 pm to 11:30 pm (MST time) on May 30. There are 22 meteors in total, and 19 of them shall belong to Tau Herculids. The source of this shower is Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3...
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