User:Zexpe

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I'm an astronomer working for the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. I'm originally from Studham, Bedfordshire, UK.

I intend to initiate a project to maintain descriptions of every astronomical object in the universe on Wikipedia that would be useful for lay people, amateur, and professional astronomers.

Stubs to expand:

Studham - use notes from the History of Studham book, one of the first female vicars, last V2 bomb, Eastenders episode.

Royal Observatory Edinburgh - use notes from Crawford collection history

Other contributions:

List of planetary nebulae - incorporate magnitudes, tidy up, once tables can be sortable make sortable. (See this: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2001)

Details on all local stars with debris dust discs from the database here: http://www.roe.ac.uk/ukatc/research/topics/dust/identification.html. In info boxes of local stars.

Category:Wikipedia featured desktop backgrounds - add in some astro stuff

Create a List of sky surveys - with limiting magnitudes, colours, sky coverage, telescope/instrument, all-sky surveys, plate/digital. Include UKIDSS (WSA), SSS (SSA), VISTA (VSA).