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James and Jorge get on top of things... Jobs like replacing roof sealant are important too, don't want any spurious water getting in, even in the rare event of a shower in the Atacama!

NGTS taking some flat fields - a type of image that we use for calibrating our actual science images. They illuminate the CCD chip of the camera evenly using the twilight sky.

We were lucky enough to visit our neighbours at the VLT (Very Large Telescope) last night! An incredible place doing incredible work, these telescopes are some of the largest in the world (astronomers are clearly not paid to name things though...)

NGTS opens for business for another night!! We've been hard at work today preparing for a camera change, sorting our inventory, doing lots of work behind the scenes to make this project work as well as it does. ✨️🔭

Jorge and Faith replacing a power distribution unit (PDU) - an important part of the maintenance process...! pic.x.com/eUaZZ0Ul2C

We are leaving beautiful Paranal observatory and NGTS today, hopefully in a better state than it was when we arrived! We certainly all feel very lucky to be able to work in such a beautiful place. Thank you Chile! 🇨🇱

Unfortunately for all of you, my takeover of this Twitter account isn't quite done yet... join me Dr Faith Hawthorn here for the NGTS consortium meeting 2024 in Geneva! 🇨🇭

We've landed in beautiful Geneva 🇨🇭 for the NGTS consortium meeting 2024... join us for day 1!

Operations postdocs Jorge and Faith and our PI Pete kick us off with telling the group all about our recent visit to NGTS (see our earlier tweets!), and some of the new ways in which we're improving our working processes 🔭

Sean O'Brien from QUB (Sean O'Brien) is giving us an update on the great work done by our valuable citizen scientists as part of Planet Hunters NGTS - get involved here and help us find exoplanets: zooniverse.org/projects/mschw…

Communications group chair Toby (Toby Rodel 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🦖🪐) gives us an update on some of the resources our group uses to reach all of you...!

Solène Ulmer-Moll shows us some of the great results and recent publications from one of our biggest working groups, long-period planets! These are planets that orbit far away from their host stars, more like the gas giants of the Solar system. 🪐

How many astronomers does it take to eat a fondue?

PhD student Alastair Claringbold tells us all about temperate Jupiters and their atmospheres 💨

A comet sighted in the sky above NGTS at Paranal!

Please get in touch if you are interested in exoplanets with NGTS or brown dwarfs!!

We’re moving on to bluer skies 🦋, you can find us @nextgentransits.