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INSIDE THE SKY AT NIGHT

The last time I wrote for ‘Inside the Sky at Night’, in the May 2022 issue, I spoke about my then-recent mission to Antarctica. I travelled to Concordia Station as a PhD student to install some software on ASTEP (the Antarctic Search for Transiting ExoPlanets), a 40cm telescope on the Antarctic Plateau. It's been a good 20 months since

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