Evryscope First Light
We’ve successfully tested the Evryscope under bright-sky conditions at Chapel Hill; the next step is shipping to CTIO and deployment.
Astrobites covers the Evryscope science-plans paper
Gudmundur Stefansson has written an article about the Evryscope for Astrobites: http://astrobites.org/2015/01/26/evryscope-greek-for-wide-seeing/
Sky & Telescope features the Evryscope
Sky and Telescope has featured the Evryscope in an article about the future of exoplanet surveys.
Paper on Evryscope science plans
This arXiv paper (submitted to PASP) gives a detailed look at our science plans for the system.
Evryscope hardware arrives
The Evryscope “mushroom” arrives at UNC Chapel Hill.
The Evryscope hardware is arriving at UNC Chapel Hill, and we are starting integration of the subsystems into the array. The next step will be full-up testing of the whole telescope.
AAS presentations from the Evryscope team
Octavi Fors (software lead) and Jeff Ratzloff (mechanical design lead).
Tuesday talk & posters:
202.07. The Evryscope: the first full-sky gigapixel-scale telescope
Nicholas M. Law; Octavi Fors; Jeffrey Ratzloff; Philip J. Wulfken
258.06. Mechanical design for the Evryscope: a 10,000-sq-deg FoV, gigapixel-scale telescope
Jeff Ratzloff; Nicholas M. Law; Octavi Fors Aldrich; Philip J. Wulfken
258.07. Image Quality of the Evryscope: Method for On-Site Optical Alignment
Philip J. Wulfken; Nicholas M. Law; Octavi Fors Aldrich; Jeff Ratzloff
Wednesday talk & posters:
332.09. Targeted-mode pipeline for the Evryscope: 10,000-sq.deg. FoV gigapixel telescope
Octavi Fors Aldrich; Nicholas M. Law; Philip J. Wulfken; Jeffrey Ratzloff
Evryscope presented at the Copenhagen Centre for Star and Planet Formation
http://starplan.dk/seminars/evryscope-first-full-sky-gigapixel-scale-telescope
Popular Mechanics features the Evryscope
Popular Mechanics has featured the Evryscope in their “Year of Good Things 2015” article, in the December/January 2015 edition, highlighting our plans for a 2015 deployment of the prototype system.
Arctic cameras and the Evryscope featured in SkyNews
The Arctic prototype cameras and the potential Arctic deployment of the Evryscope are featured in the Nov/Dec 2014 issue of SkyNews (page 18) : http://www.skynews.ca/
Evryscope presented at Caltech astronomy colloquium
http://www.astro.caltech.edu/events/colloquia.html
Evryscope recieves NSF-ATI funding!
The Evryscope has been fully-funded for construction by the NSF Advanced Technologies and Instrumentation (ATI) program.
The Evryscope featured in MIT Tech Review
The Evryscope project has been featured in MIT Technology Review (“How to Build an Evryscope”).
Evryscope @ SPIE 2014
The SPIE-2014 (Montreal Conference) paper on the Evryscope details the science plans and project status: arXiv upload