Observing experience

Optical Imaging

  • 26 nights on pODI (partial One Degree Imager) on WIYN
    support of the commissioning efforts, observing of all kinds of targets
    development of pipeline software, verification of instrument performance
  • 4 weeks SAAOCCD @ 1.0m SAAO, South Africa (3 runs)
    Stellar populations and dust distribution in disk-galaxies
    Cunow, Meyer, Kotulla, Papaderos, Gallagher
    BVRI imaging of spiral galaxies in various environments
  • 3 nights OPTIC @ WIYN 3.5m, Kitt Peak, USA
    Tracing Star Formation in the very outskirts of galaxies
    Gallagher, Fritze, Kotulla
    Deep VRI+Ha imaging of spiral galaxies
  • 6 nights S2KB @ WIYN 0.9m, Kitt Peak, USA
    Photometry of stars (most of the time lost to bad weather)

Near Infrared Imaging

  • 2 nights SOFI @ NTT, ESO, La Silla
    Disentangling ages and metallicities of Globular Clusters using K-band data
    Fritze, Kotulla, Anders, de Grijs, Papaderos
    Deep K-band imaging of NGC4570 – see publications for results
  • 4 nights WFCAM @ UKIRT, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
    Disentangling ages and metallicities of red-peak Globular Clusters using K-band data
    Kotulla, Fritze, Anders, deGrijs
    Deep K-band imaging of several galaxies, Service Mode observations for other observers
  • 3 weeks SIRIUS @ IRSF, SAAO, South Africa (3 runs)
    Stellar populations and dust distribution in disk-galaxies
    Cunow, Meyer, Kotulla, Papaderos, Gallagher
    JHK imaging of spiral galaxies in various environments
  • 5 nights WHIRC @ WIYN 3.5m, Kitt Peak, USA
    H-band observations of nearby galaxies to determine stellar mass distributions

Optical & Integral field spectroscopy

  • 2 nights INTEGRAL @ WHT, La Palma
    Integral Field spectroscopy of blue compact dwarf galaxies
    Caon, Cairos, Papaderos, Meyer
  • 2 nights SparsePak @ WIYN 3.5m, Kitt Peak, USA
    Integral Field Spectroscopy of Interacting Galaxies with the aim to study the kinematics and spatial distribution of star formation
    Gallagher, Kotulla, et al.