Nicholas M. Law nlaw around astro.caltech.edu
Tel: 626-395-2223

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Welcome to my little piece of the web!

 

I'm a postdoc in Shri Kulkarni's group, at Caltech. I'm working on target selection for the SIM PlanetQuest EPIcS planetfinding survey. My work also includes very low mass star binarity surveys and Palomar instrumentation projects.

I am the Principal Investigator for LAMP, LuckyCam on the 200" Palomar telescope. Using a combination of Adaptive Optics (AO) and Lucky Imaging we achieved the highest-resolution-ever images taken with visible light from the ground or space.

My AAS2008 talk on our results is here - please email me if you would like the movie.

Lucky website Lucky website My PhD thesis research was on Lucky Imaging, the first system capable of reliably taking images with Hubble Space Telescope resolution from the ground using visible light and faint guide stars.

Here are some example 3 colour (BRz) composite wide field LuckyCam images.
CV Publication List

My publication list and CV

Last year, the BBC did an article and video about our LuckyCam science programmes.

Panoramic images One of the (many!) great things about astronomy is the opportunity to travel the world in the name of science.

These are some large panoramic photos I've taken on my travels, both astronomical and not.

Last updated Sep. 2006