h1. Monthly Meeting - 01/21/2025
Slides with all the informations are attached to this page.
This webinar was not able to be recorded. You can find Dr. Nemiroff's presentation in the 2024_2025_Webinars for 01/21/2025.
h2. Agenda:
1. Introducing our Speaker: Dr. Robert Nemiroff
- Welcome and introductions.
- Speaker presentation: "The Great Astronomy Debate of 1995: The Distance Scale to Gamma-Ray Bursts"
2. The Main Call
Updates on Initiatives within KNC:
- Review feedback from and discussion on its importance.
- Review of results from the Topic Request Form and its application for selecting guest speakers.
- Re-introduction of the Photo of the Week initiative, with a look at potential candidates.
Updates on tutorials being developed (with the expertise of Mike Freeberg and Marc Serrau) including:
- A tutorial document formatted with KNC graphic charts.
- Potential video tutorials.
- Plans for practical sessions based on community preferences for tutorial materials.
- Q&A Session: What topics do you want these resources to cover that would help you?
Photo of the Week - Roger Menard!
h2. Minutes
- Meeting Decisions
- Time Preference: 7:00 PM UTC (40% of votes)
- Day Preference: Tuesdays (primarily, unless otherwise advertised) -> Thursdays -> Wednesdays
Due to interest in collaboration with professionals (100%), we will be having presenters at every meeting!
Activity Final Decisions
Photo Challenges: Monthly Photo Challenges. RELEASED
Topic Request: For webinars, discussions, general questions, etc! RELEASED
Regular speakers will have the opportunity to do live Q&A
Collaborative Image Processing: TBD
Webinar and Monthly Meeting seperate
*Data analysis techniques are in progress.
*A presentation on recent kilonova discoveries will be in March!Pre-Processing Manual
Instrumentation & Software, image pre-processing: will be presented both by a manual based on KNC member needs and with visitor presentations.
- Call for resources:
- A list of links and software you use.
- A short, informal video explaining how you preprocess your images.
Any resources or tips that helped you learn these techniques.
You can join the #resource-guide channel on Slack to contribute!
Thank you Marc Serrau & Michael Freeberg for your contributions to the KNC cookbook.