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SUMMARY:New discoveries in Galactic and extragalactic astronomy\, and Cosm
 ology\, from deep\, wide-field\, low surface brightness imaging - Prof. Ke
 n Lanzetta (Stony Brook University)
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DESCRIPTION:The Condor Array Telescope comprises six refracting telescopes
  and six large-format CMOS cameras on a common mount.  The telescope is op
 timized for very low surface-brightness sensitivity\, rapid time resolutio
 n\, and a very wide field of view. The telescope has been operating autono
 mously on dark site in New Mexico since 2021. Condor has obtained sensitiv
 e broad- and narrow-band images of a variety of objects\, including extend
 ed regions surrounding dwarf novae\, extended regions surrounding nearby g
 alaxies and galaxy groups\; hundreds of thousands of source hours of rapid
 -cadence broad-band photometry of white dwarfs\; narrow-band images of red
 shifted Lyman-alpha emission\, to detect the high-redshift circum- and int
 er-galactic media\, providing the first hints of the direct detection of t
 he low redshift cosmic web. This illustrated talk will describe all these 
 discoveries and outline plans for the construction of Condor phase 2\, a n
 ew facility in the Atacama desert at an altitude of 5200m.\n\n
LOCATION:Hoyle Lecture Theatre\, Institute of Astronomy
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