Astronomy and Coffee

First post of the year already in the end of the first quarter? A lot of time.

Most of this time has been spent in finding a flat in Garching, renting it and moving to it. Now we are organizing the things ... complex task since every time we move, there seems to be less space. On the other hand, like is much simpler now! :-)

The UCDs paper was published in A&A in January.

I'm writing a proposal, but since time is a precious good now (more than ever), it's being used to write the proposal and not to tell you about it.

When I was settling down at the AOG (Archive Operations Group), what would allow me some time for other activities, a new challenge appeared, a now I'm part of DBCM (Database Content Management). Interesting position, requi

res some certification (what is good), and I'll have to study a lot in the next weeks/months. But it's worth.

In the beginning of march there was a meeting at ESO (Committee of the Council - or something like that) and for the first time our flag was there! Though I'm not usually touched by this kind of thing, I confess that it was exciting to see the flag there (as at ESO's websites). Now let's just hope that the Brazilian Astronomical Community do a good use of it and stop fighting and trying to undermine it. The time for discussing has passed.