Astronomy Group - Lesa Moore
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Lesa runs the Public Observing Program at Macquarie University, manages the portable Planetarium sessions, helps out with admin for the Foundation for Astronomy and occasionally gets sucked into other projects around the university.
In May 2008, Lesa submitted her Master of Philosophy thesis titled "An Ultra-Deep Survey of Low Surface Brightness Galaxies in Virgo". The thesis includes: analysis of a unique image, the Virgo Deep Stack; discussion of earlier surveys of the Virgo Cluster and the problems of identifying cluster members; and a catalogue of about a hundred newly-identified galaxies, along with images and properties.
Lesa's Honours thesis (2003) was called "6dFGS: Quality and Repeatability of Galaxy Survey Observations using Multi-Object Fibre Spectroscopy". This boiled down to a very detailed analysis of uncertainty and how best to measure it!
Through 2006 - 2008, Lesa worked with Quentin Parker on a project titled "Bringing Deep Space into the Classroom", facilitating access for high school students to the remotely-operated, world-class, 2-m diameter Faulkes Telescopes. The legacy website, "Deep Space in the Classroom", makes a number of projects available for general use in the classroom without the need for fresh observations.
Lesa also currently lectures at Australian Catholic University, North Sydney. Subjects include Environmental Physics (PHYS105) and Science for Practice (BIOL117/118).