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Wenrong Cao

@Wenrongc

geologist, university of nevada reno. astrophotographer.

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The Pleiades (M45). Vixen FL55SS at 240 mm, Nikon D7500, 2min x 40, iso1600.

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Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS shot using Vixen FL55SS @ 240 mm and Nikon D7500 @ iso64, 10s x 6. Processed in Pixinsight and Lightroom.

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Comet C/2023A3 Tsuchinshan over southern Reno

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Wenrong Cao Reposted

I'm recruiting a new PhD student to work on landscape evolution following volcanic eruptions and the evolution of ridgelines. Please help spread the word. More info at: joelscheingross.com/opportunities/

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Plate solving an image taken by Seestar 50 -> automatic star annotation and perform aperture photometry -> regression to get #TCrB magnitude.

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A new way to stack textbooks on a bookshelf … from mantle to sky

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I made a TikTok video on Tibetan Geology. This summer, we spent about two weeks in southern Tibet. This is one of my favorite geologic sites because you can literally touch a very important structure that helped to raise the Tibetan Plateau. Follow me @wenrongc on TikTok.


Aurora seen at Reno

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斜月沉沉藏海雾 Pentax 100EDUF +24mm iPhone 13.


Solar eclipse viewed near Austin, using Vixen VMC110 telescope, Nikon D7500 and AZGTi mount. By Jeremy Wu.


Solar eclipse observing at @unevadareno

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Hafnium isotopic data on plate reconstruction


A simple 3D thermal convection simulation using a Julia language package LaMEM.jl github.com/JuliaGeodynami…. Used in teaching a geodynamics class.


Structural geology class GEOL332 final grade distribution including all grades from the past 5 years. N=170. Good to see a semi-Gaussian distribution.

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Wenrong Cao Reposted

ふたごじゃないけど、オリオン座の三ツ星に刺さった。

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A Chinese cyber compass with a usb-type c port. Measurements are shown in digits.

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Pseudotachylite (frictional melts during earthquakes) from Sierra Nevada.

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M16 Eagle Nebula, RC6", 58min, Nikon D5100

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Visited obsidian dome in eastern sierra at night.

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Viewing from Yosemite Valley (Half dome) to Mono Lake. Taken from a flight from Reno to Los Angeles this morning.

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