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About Us
redShift is made up of undergraduate students from Columbia and Barnard with a genuine interest in astronomy and who want to engage with other astronomy students, the department here at Columbia and the community at large. We welcome undergrads that are majoring in Astronomy/Astrophysics, other science disciplines, or people who simply have an interest in the subject.

Dec 19, 2010

Last Colloquium of the Year - The Celestial Cartography of Grand Central Terminal's Sky Ceiling

Last week Michael Allison took us on a wonderful adventure as he shared with us his research into the mystery surrounding the "backwards" sky ceiling of Grand Central Terminal, what he so elegantly dubbed "A meeting of Classical Astronomy and the Beaux Arts."

See his letter in the New Yorker here: RE: WINTER PLEASURES

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