Nazarbayev University
Department of Physics, School of Sciences and Humanities
53 Kabanbay Batyr Ave, Astana 010000, Kazakhstan
51.0906° N 71.3982° E
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Students who want to work on the interstellar medium, collaborators and visitors are welcome. Please write before visiting. What a student could work on is on the join page.
The LMC from here
Where the Large Magellanic Cloud is in the sky of Astana and of the telescopes behind our data.
At 51° N the LMC never rises. Its centre is at declination −70°, so from Astana it peaks about 31° below the horizon, and the whole 12° field we map stays down with it. A group here cannot point a telescope at it.
The data do not need us to. Planck mapped the whole sky from space. GASS, the Parkes H I survey, and the ASKAP survey GASKAP-HI observe the LMC from the south and are available through public archives. At Parkes, ASKAP and ALMA the LMC is circumpolar: it never sets, though at ALMA it sinks to 3° at its lowest and peaks at 43°. JCMT on Maunakea never gets it above 0.4°, so that telescope serves our Galactic cloud work instead.
- AstanaNazarbayev University
51.09° N 71.40° E--Never above the horizon: the highest the centre gets is -31°.
- ASKAPMurchison, Western Australia
26.70° S 116.64° E--Never sets: between 6° and 47°.
- ParkesNew South Wales
33.00° S 148.26° E--Never sets: between 13° and 53°.
- ALMAChajnantor, Chile
23.02° S 67.75° W--Never sets: between 3° and 43°.
- JCMTMaunakea, Hawaii
19.82° N 155.48° W--Never above 0.4°, too low to observe.
Altitude above the horizon, darker to brighter up to 60°. Time runs from now to 24 hours ahead, in UTC. Centre of the LMC (RA 80.894°, Dec −69.756°).