COMING UP: TORUS 2018

The many faces of the AGN obscuration

Puerto Varas, Chile
10-14 December 2018

Looking forward to a great programme with a lot of great people, talking about our favourite kind of AGN structure (that actually is not one structure at all ;-))...

Invited talk about VISIR at Lorentz Workshop he next Generation of Thermal-IR Astronomy, Leiden, 2018

Slides of short presentation about the VISIR instrument at the VLT, Lorentz-Center workshop: The next Generation of Thermal-IR Astronomy, Leiden, Netherlands, Nov 2018

2018 Lorentz VISIR Dasmus by Daniel Asmus on Scribd

Coils of Apep -- Probably the most beautiful image VISIR ever took

During my time as ESO fellow, working at the Paranal Observatory, I was lucky enough to record this mid-infrared image with VISIR during one of those winter nights in 2016 as part of my service to the community:

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1838/

This cosmic serpent-like swirl is actually a multiple system of Wolf-Rayet stars whereas the swirls are formed by colliding winds.

The full story can be read here: Callingham et al. (2018)

TOPCAT Lecture at DISCnet/SEPnet school, Liphook, UK, Sep 2018

TOPCAT_DISCnet_20178 by Daniel Asmus on Scribd

How to write Observing Proposals, Belgrade, 2018

Slides of my practical lecture on how to write observing proposals (for big telescopes like the VLT of ESO), held as part of the International School of Astrophysics on The current and future observing facilities: A guided Tour, Belgrade, Serbia

Belgrade Observing Proposals 2018 by Daniel Asmus on Scribd

Public lecture about the work as astrophysicst, given at a school in Germany, May 2018 (german)

2018 05 School Work by Daniel Asmus on Scribd

Public lecture about general astronomy, given at a school in Germany, May 2018 (german)

2018 05 School Science by Daniel Asmus on Scribd