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Hi Reddit!
My name is Evan Ackerman, and I’m a senior editor at IEEE Spectrum. I visited the NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory for three nights in April, just before they captured their first photon, and wrote about it for our magazine:
https://spectrum.ieee.org/vera-rubin-observatory-first-images
Rubin recently shared its first look images with the world, and I’m super excited to be here with members of the Rubin science and engineering team to answer your questions!
From the summit:
William O’Mullane - Deputy Project Manager
Ranpal Gill - Head of Rubin Communications for Construction
From the base:
Marina Pavlovic - Commissioning Scientist
From SLAC
Guillem Megias - Active Optics Scientist
From Princeton
Yusra Alsayyad - Deputy Associate Director of Data Management
Ask us about designing, building, and operating the observatory, how the 10-year Legacy Survey of Space and Time will work, all the science, what it’s like to visit, and (almost) anything else!
We will start answering the AMA at 5pm ET on July 10 2025.
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