Today I got the exciting news that I will be observing with the Anglo-Australian Telescope. It is the largest telescope on the Australian continent with a 3.9 meter mirror. It is found at the Siding Springs observatory about 500 km north of Sydney. I will be observing the solar-like star Procyon. It is a star slightly more evolved that our Sun, i.e. it is an evolutionary stage between the hydrogen core burning phase (as our Sun) and a red giant star.

Laszlo L. Kiss and I will carry out the observations during 12 nights starting on the 29th of December 2006. That means we will be celebrating new years eve at the telescope! Up to five other telescope around the world will be pointed towards Procyon at the same time so will hopefully be able to measure the pulsations of the star with nearly 24 hour coverage every day for about two weeks.

The Anglo-Australian telescope

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