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Spread the Word about AstroBetter

by Kelle June 23, 2010

We’ve recently added a couple widgets to make spreading the word about AstroBetter easier. Become a Fan “Like” the AstroBetter Facebook Page. I’ve added a widget at the top of the right sidebar. As of 9am PT, 186 people like us…I’m sure there are more of you than that! Like At the end of each [...]

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Macsingularity archive now hosted at Astrobetter

by Marcos April 13, 2010

Thanks to Kelle, despite my leaving astronomy for the glorious world of public policy, and shutting down my web host account, the archives of Macsingularity live on.  We’re not 100% sure what to do with the home page, the IRAF installers (which are out of date), and other things, but for now pretty much all [...]

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Introducing the AstroBetter Wiki

by Jessica January 27, 2010

As part of our efforts to “astro better” we have started a new wiki. This wiki was originally hosted at MacSingularity but has now been migrated over and substantially expanded.  You can get to the wiki from the menu bar above. Unlike the blog, anyone can register and edit the wiki content. We will frequently update the [...]

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Joining the AstroBetter team

by Tom November 23, 2009

I’m very happy to be joining the AstroBetter contributor team! I have been a postdoctoral fellow at the CfA for a little over a year, and I work on studying Galactic star formation, mostly through mid-infrared to mm wavelengths. I work both on modeling multi-wavelength observations of young stars, and on studying the global properties [...]

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Introducing New Contributors and an Updated Look

by Kelle June 3, 2009

A couple announcements: Geek Girls Rock: We’ve got two new contributors! Jessica Lu is a postdoc at Caltech and has made major contributions to the Astronomers Wiki at Mac Singularity. Jessica is an all around computing goddess and Python guru. I’m sure she’ll have lots of useful things to share with us—I certainly bug her [...]

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Feedback and Contributions Request

by Kelle May 19, 2009

AstroBetter is off to a great start but I’d like to take a moment to solicit some feedback and contributions. Please use the comments section below to suggests some posts and give any other feedback on the blog so far! What would you like to see more of? less of? We need more contributors! Please [...]

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This is Astro Better

by Kelle April 11, 2009

Most Mac-using professional astronomers know about several websites describing how to get X11, IRAF, and IDL setup on a Mac. In case you don’t, here they are: Edd Edmondson’s Mac OS X for Astrophysicists Marcos Huerta’s Mac Singularity and Mac Astronomers Wiki (Update 2010-05-19: Mac Singularity no longer being updated and wiki migrated here: AstroBetter [...]

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