dolphin killing

a friend told me about a documentary on the annual killing with spears and knives of more than 2,500 dolphins driven into a cove at taiji, wakayama prefecture in japan.

i don't know if the activists have the rights to interfere with the dolphin hunting of the locals, but i do hope more people can become aware of this story.

http://www.savejapandolphins.org/index.php
http://www.savejapandolphins.org/educate.php
a short film on youtube
another one on youtube

extragalactic surveys

here's a compilation and links to some of the major UV/optical/IR surveys that may provide data complementary to the HSC survey:

Imaging

COMBO17

SXDS

SDF

CFHTLS -- fields -- data release

NDWFS

• fields: Bootes @ 14h 32m 05.7120s, +34° 16' 47.496" (J2000), and Cetus @ 2h 10m 00.00s, -4° 30' 00.00" (J2000)
  

ALHAMBRA

SWIRE -- fields

UKIDSS -- fields -- DR3

AKARI

GALEX


Spectroscopic

2dFGRS

2SLAQ

AGES

• overlap with NDWFS Bootes field
  

DEEP2

6dF

PRIMUS -- fields

GAMA

WiggleZ

Imaging+Spectro

SDSS

COSMOS -- field

VVDS -- fields

AEGIS -- field

GOODS

• fields are HDFN and CDFS
  

MUSYC

Planned

Pan-STARRS

DES

PAU

SkyMapper

VST KIDS

VST ATLAS

VISTA surveys

WIYN ODI

HETDEX

• IFU - 340-550 nm at R~800
  
• 1 million LAEs at z=2 -4
  
• 145 IFU units, with 1/9 fill
  
• each bundle has 0.22 sq arcmin on sky, 246 fibers, 1 sq. " each
  
• 200-500 sq deg (110 nights)
  

WISE

SOFIA

below is a (incomplete) list of major surveys in other wavelength, covering area that Subaru can survey:

ACT

ALFALFA

Planck

Herschel

XMM-LSS

• center at 2h 18m 00s, -7° 00' 00" (J2000)
  
• overlap with VVDS, SWIRE, NDWFS cetus, SXDS
  

michael jackson

suddenly died at age of 50...

herschel first light!

http://herschel.esac.esa.int/SneakPreview.shtml

one month after launch, the herschel satellite took a look at the galaxy m51, using its pacs instrument at 70, 100, 160 micron, which encompass the peak of the ir emission of typical galaxies.