Person with large telescope stands silhouetted in front of night sky with milky way in the background

October Nerd Nite on the Rocks

Carl Ferkinhoff

Modern cutting-edge astronomy takes more than setting up a small telescope in the back yard. Some observations require traveling to the most extreme locations on earth that have significant effects on the human body. In this talk Carl will summarize his research into these extreme galaxies, performed while being “drunk”!