{"id":1455,"date":"2013-09-17T00:00:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T23:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2014-01-07T15:21:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T14:21:17","slug":"ode-to-gaia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaia.ub.edu\/?p=1455","title":{"rendered":"Ode to Gaia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>Looking up, above the brigth sky<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>in the darkness where the stars shine high<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>measuring angles and positions,<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>never a mission had so much ambitions.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>Plotting a map of the Milky Way<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>and bringing our knowledge a step further away,<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>unraveling the Galaxy mistery.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\"><em>This is how Gaia will go down in history.<\/em><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #0078bd;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Guiseppe, 30\/01\/2013<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\t\t<div class='author-shortcodes'>\n\t\t\t<div class='author-inner'>\n\t\t\t\t<div class='author-image'>\n\t\t\t<img src='https:\/\/www.bo.astro.it\/~altavilla\/mywebpage\/images\/IMG_4136_small.JPG' alt='' \/>\n\t\t\t<div class='author-overlay'><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .author-image --> \n\t\t<div class='author-info'>\n\t\t\tGiuseppe Altavilla completed his PhD at the Astronomy Department of the University of Padua (Italy) at the beginning of 2004. During his PhD he worked on a supernova search at intermediate redshift and on the absolute calibration of type Ia SNe. As a postdoc he moved to Barcelona (Spain) within the european RTN project &#8220;The Physics of Type Ia Supernova Explosions&#8221;. Nowadays he is a postdoc at the Observatory of Bologna (Italy) and he is involved in the ESA mission Gaia. As a member of the CU5, DU13, he is concerned in the absolute calibration of the Gaia G-band and BP\/RP photometric system and he is actively involved in the ground based observations aimed at this goal. An Ode to Gaia was written by him early this year.\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .author-info -->\n\t\t\t<\/div> <!-- .author-inner -->\n\t\t<\/div> <!-- .author-shortcodes -->\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking up, above the brigth sky in the darkness where the stars shine high measuring angles and positions, never a mission had so much ambitions. Plotting a map of the Milky Way and bringing our knowledge a step further away, unraveling the Galaxy mistery. 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