The Astronomical Endeavours of Balthasar Indermuehle


Supershort CV:
Born 1971 in Bern/Switzerland, married to my lovely wife Alyssia since July 4th, 2004.
Academic:
Attended 13 years of basic/high school, 4 years of University in Bern, MSc (Astronomy) Swinburne University in 2002. Now at the Astrophysics Department, University of New South Wales, Sydney as a PhD student. Fluent in German, English, French, basic Italian.
Professional:

Founded Inside Systems GmbH in 1993, worked as a scientific software developer / project manager contractor for various small (Gemako, Garaio AG) to large (Intervet, Sony Pictures Imageworks) companies and government agencies (Swiss MFA, Swiss MOD).

Publications

Following is a list of relevant publications in chronological order (latest on top, ordered by submission date, not publication date). For a list of the documents on the arXiv Pre-Prints server, click here.

Title Authors Journal & Publisher Journal Link Article Download
Site testing Dome A, Antarctica Lawrence J. S., Ashley, M. C. B., Burton M. G., Cui, X., Everett J. R., Indermuehle B. T., Kenyon, S. L., Luong-Van D., Moore A. M., Storey J. W. V., Tokovinin A., Travouillon T., Pennypacker C., Wang L., York D. In: Ground-based and Airborne Telescopes. Ed. L. M. Stepp. Proc. SPIE, 2006, V. 6267, paper 33. N/A N/A
Geschichte der Antarktischen Astronomie Indermuehle Balthasar2 Sterne und Weltraum
Heft 12/04

Spektrum der Wissenschaft Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
Download document as PDF (4.8MB)
The History of Astrophysics in Antarctica Indermuehle Balthasar1
Burton Michael2
Maddison Sarah1
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)
Volume 22, Number 2 2005

CSIRO Publishing
Download document as PDF (4.7MB)
Download table as PDF (28KB)
The History of Astrophysics in Antarctica - Poster Indermuehle Balthasar1
Burton Michael2
Maddison Sarah1
IAU General Assembly
Special Session 2, Astronomy in Antarctica
July 18, 2003
Download poster as PDF (416 KB)
The History of Astrophysics in Antarctica - A Brief Overview Indermuehle Balthasar1
Burton Michael2
Maddison Sarah1
IAU Highlights of Astronomy
Volume 13, Edited by O. Engvold & M. Burton

Published by the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
Download document as PDF (212 KB)
See also:
IAU General Assembly, Special Session 2, Astronomy in Antarctica, July 18, 2003
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers Hockey Thomas (ed.)3 Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht/Netherlands
publication date end of 2005

German to English translation of:
Hermann the Lame (Hermann von Reichenau, Hermannus Contractus, Herimann von Reichenau), 1013-1054

Holwarda, Johannes Phocylides (Fokkens), 1618-1651

Mollweide, Karl Brandan, 1774-1825

Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967

1 Centre for Astrophysics and Supercomputing, Swinburne University, VIC 3122 Australia
2
School of Physics, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052 Australia
3
Department of Earth Science, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls IA 50614 USA

Presentations

Following is a list of relevant presentations given by me in PDF format in chronological order (latest on top, ordered by presentation date).

Presentation Title Venue First slide Presentation Download (PDF)
History of Antarctic Research -  A Challenge for SCAR SCAR XXIX COMNAP XVIII Open Science Conference
Plenary Session Keynote

Hobart,Tasmania, Australia
July 12 2006
 

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Download text as PDF (58 KB)

Dome A - The Final Frontier 40th Annual Scientific Conference and General Meeting of the Astronomical Society of Australia - ASA2006

UNSW@ADFA Campus, Canberra ACT, Australia
July 5 2006
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The History of Astrophysics in Antarctica 1st SCAR Workshop on the History of Antarctic Research

Bavarian Academy of Science, Munich, Germany
June 3rd 2005
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Websites

In my sparse spare-time I built and maintain a system that displays live air and shipping traffic in the Sydney (Australia) area: http://www.ozradar.com

Software

Freeware

"Perpetua ephemeris mathematica caelorum solisque" (PEMACS)
Windows download, software displays a yearly overview of sunrise and sunset times and moonphase information in graphical and textual form for any given location on this planet. Will also animate time and location changes.

Current Version 2.0.0.1 (Updated 31-Mar-2004)


Click here to download the software