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The Night Sky Live Project

The Night Sky Live Project . PI: Robert J. Nemiroff. & The Night Sky Live Collaboration. The Night Sky Live Project. Web address: http://NightSkyLive.net People:

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The Night Sky Live Project

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  1. The Night Sky Live Project PI: Robert J. Nemiroff & The Night Sky Live Collaboration

  2. The Night Sky Live Project • Web address: http://NightSkyLive.net • People: • Faculty: Noah Bosch (Tel Aviv U.), Wellesley Pereira (Michigan Tech), J. Bruce Rafert (Clemson), John Oliver (Florida), Chris Impey (Arizona) • Graduate students: Lior Shamir (MTU), Shet Tilvi (MTU) • Undergraduate students (MTU): Dan Cordell, Vic Muzzin, Matt Merlo

  3. The Night Sky Live Project Three General Objectives • Primary Science • Temporal monitoring and archiving of entire visible sky down to visual magnitude 6. Search for meteors, unusual stellar variability, GRB OTs, comet variability, novae, supernovae, etc. • Support Science • Instantaneous cloud monitors, archival cloud monitors, generate real-time all-sky opacity and skyglow maps • Education / Outreach • Show your class last night’s (real) sky, archival skies, monitor meteor showers in real time, show educational sky movies, run educational modules

  4. The Night Sky Live Project CONCAM Locations Ten NSL nodes are currently deployed -- more are being built

  5. The Night Sky Live Project Four of the Ten CONCAM locations Kitt Peak Mt. Wilson Mauna Kea Wise Obs.

  6. The Night Sky Live Project Easy & Inexpensive • Hardware: computer • Software: web browser • Cost: free • Night sky coverage • angular: nearly complete • time: always on 24/7 • Image Cadence: 3m56s • Image Depth: approximately human

  7. The Night Sky Live Project Real Time Viewing allows... • Demonstrate what is visible from different parts of Earth right now • where is it: daytime, nighttime? • where are the moon, planets, stars? • Meteors • View meteor showers in progress, during class time • Comets • Example: What does Comet Machholz look like right now?

  8. The Night Sky Live Project Near Real Time Viewing allows… • What did last night’s sky look like? • At sunset? • At sunrise? • Movie: diurnal motion last night, annotated • How has Comet Maccholz changed recently? • One month ago • Yesterday • Any good Geminids meteors caught last month? • Toward which constellation do they point? • How was the night sky different last month?

  9. The Night Sky Live Project Fisheye Images allow... • How parts of the sky relate • How inferior planets hug the horizon • Zodiacal light views • Trace back of meteors to radiant • Comet tales

  10. The Night Sky Live Project Time Lapse Sky Movies show... • Diurnal motion • Variable star changes • Retrograde motion of planets

  11. The Night Sky Live Project Global Coverage allows... • Comparison of the same sky from different locations • Always a place where it is nighttime to show your class

  12. The Night Sky Live Project Learning Modules allow... • In class collaborative learning • Homework • Current modules • Diurnal motion • Variable stars • Modules include • short hyperlinked lesson with NSL hyperlinks, images • a quiz with answers provided

  13. The Night Sky Live Project Advanced Undergraduate • Using the photometry tables • Tracking star brightness with altitude • Tracking variable stars with time • Using the raw FITS images • computing raw photometric measures • stars, comets, meteors, satellite glints • finding cosmic rays • What was that? • Problem solving with unknown image artifacts

  14. The Night Sky Live Project Popularity • Already 1000s of page views nightly • Advertising • Cloud monitor seen by astronomers that also teach Astro 101 • Unique images featured on APOD, already a resource for teaching Astro 101 • Bulletin board fosters discussion

  15. The Night Sky Live Project Support

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