A short paper has been presented as a poster in the EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019, held 15-20 September 2019 in Geneva, Switzerland. The data originate from a series of outreach activities performed by the Hellenic Amateur Astronomy Association, entitled “Introduction to Observational Astronomy“, which aimed to introduce interested individuals to …
Although the summer has finished long ago, only now I got some time to update on summer activities, i.e. a number of conferences I attended and contributed to. Since 2018, I have been working in an automated classifier for massive stars in nearby galaxies, using photometric datasets. These have been …
Elias Kyritsis has been a student at the Physics Department of the University of Crete that I have co-supervised with Prof. Andreas Zezas since 2017. Initially as an undergraduate student he worked on the visual classification of High-Mass X-ray Binary sources in the Large Magellanic Cloud, but later on he …
Evolved Massive Stars at Low-metallicity I. A Source Catalog for the Small Magellanic Cloud Ming Yang, Alceste Z. Bonanos, Bi-Wei Jiang, Jian Gao, Panagiotis Gavras, Grigoris Maravelias, Yi Ren, Shu Wang, Meng-Yao Xue, Frank Tramper, Zoi T. Spetsieri, Ektoras Pouliasis We present a clean, magnitude-limited (IRAC1 or WISE1 ≤ 15.0 …
During the last four days I was busy with the actual materialization of the Astrostatistics Summer School Crete 2019, which took place at the University of Crete, in Heraklion (18-21 June 2019). My duties were mainly those of the Teaching Assistant and I contributed with a short presentation of the …
During a session – from a galaxy far far away – at the Supernova Remnants II conference in Chania, Greece 2019 (photo/editing by A. Manousakis).
Working and supporting the Supernova Remnants II conference in Chania, Greece 2019 (photo by A. Manousakis).
IRAF has become lately available through Debian‘s repositories. So I was curious to see how it works. But I was missing the right moment. About a month ago, I finally found the proper motivation so I went on to install it. As always … there were a few, minor, problems. …
In Debian, Ubuntu and similar distros that use the APT (Advanced Package Tool – which is a set of tools for managing Debian packages / applications), to update the system you need to run: sudo apt update This will read all repositories (as they are listed in /etc/apt/sources.list and under …