SPACE and IASC bring you ‘Internet Telescope’
July 16th, 17th, 2011
SPACE is proud to bring the
‘Internet Telescope’ project for the first time to India. This is in collaboration with IASC, International
Astronomy Search Collaboration. This is a pilot test for Global Astronomy Month
in April 2012...Astronomers Without Borders. In April 2012 this project will be
conducted with about 80 participants during Global Astronomy Month.
The Pilot test in July 2012 will
be conducted with 16 participants, dates and sessions are listed below.
The Project Description
The project will be using a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes located at the Ironwood North Observatory. This is a privately-owned observatory located in Queen Creek, AZ. The students will be remotely commanding a CCD camera on the telescope to take images of asteroids, comets, and deep sky objects. The deep sky objects include star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae.
For the asteroids and comets, images will be taken 1-hour apart then blinked to see the moving object against the fixed background stars. For the deep sky objects there will be three images of each taken...one with the red filter, one with the green filter, and one with the blue filter. The three images will be combined into a color image of the deep sky objects.
The project will be using a 16" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes located at the Ironwood North Observatory. This is a privately-owned observatory located in Queen Creek, AZ. The students will be remotely commanding a CCD camera on the telescope to take images of asteroids, comets, and deep sky objects. The deep sky objects include star clusters, galaxies, and nebulae.
For the asteroids and comets, images will be taken 1-hour apart then blinked to see the moving object against the fixed background stars. For the deep sky objects there will be three images of each taken...one with the red filter, one with the green filter, and one with the blue filter. The three images will be combined into a color image of the deep sky objects.
This is the first time this
project is bring brought to India, and this will give the students the
opportunity to be part of a international project and use hands on techniques
to control a telescope in real time and understand how to identify a target,
how to plan the exposures and how to analyse the data.
Session Plan:
Groups of 4 students each will be placed at one location with a laptop with skype, and share their desltop. Each group will work 2 hours at the workstation using the telescope taking asteroid, comet, and deep sky images.
Groups of 4 students each will be placed at one location with a laptop with skype, and share their desltop. Each group will work 2 hours at the workstation using the telescope taking asteroid, comet, and deep sky images.
Venue: SPACE Office, WZ-19,
Asalatpur, Janakpuri
Session #1
Saturday, July 16th 9:30am - 11:30am IST (session 1, 4 students)
11:30am- 1:00 pm IST (session 2, 4 students)
Session #2
Sunday, July 17th 9:30am - 11:30am IST (session 3, 4 students)
11:30am-
1:00 pm IST
(session 4, 4 students)Saturday, July 16th 9:30am - 11:30am IST (session 1, 4 students)
11:30am- 1:00 pm IST (session 2, 4 students)
Session #2
Sunday, July 17th 9:30am - 11:30am IST (session 3, 4 students)
hi I am not a student, I am an amateur astronomer and I am quiet intrigued by the following Idea. please explain to me more about the programme, if its comfortable with you and your organisation.
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