Podcaster: Rob Sparks
Title: The KOSMOS Spectrograph
Links: www.noao.edu ; http://www.ctio.noao.edu/; @NOAONorth
Description: New instruments are essential to advancing astronomical research. One of the most important types of instruments is a spectrograph. In this podcast, NOAO’s Jay Elias discusses a pair of new spectrographs being deployed on the Mayall 4 meter telescope and the Blanco 4 meter telescope.
Bio: Rob Sparks is a science education specialist in the Education and Public Outreach (EPO) group at the National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO) and works on the Galileoscope project (www.galileoscope.org), providing design, dissemination and professional development. He blogs at halfastro.wordpress.com.
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