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Rent a magnificent remote robotic eye in the dark night sky: citizen-science-friendly pay-per-view astronomical research at the Great Basin Observatory --imaging, speckle, and spectroscopy. Dr. John W. Kenney, III Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Chair, GBO Operations Committee
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Rent a magnificent remote robotic eye in the dark night sky: citizen-science-friendly pay-per-view astronomical research at the Great Basin Observatory--imaging, speckle, and spectroscopy Dr. John W. Kenney, III Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Physics Chair, GBO Operations Committee Concordia University Irvine, California, USA (John.Kenney@cui.edu)
GBO visionariesA great idea for a great park Kelly Carroll Paul Gardner Observatory Builder Park Ranger
Great Basin Observatory Cooperative • University Partners • University of Nevada, Reno, NV • Western Nevada College, Carson City, NV • Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT • Concordia University, Irvine, CA • National Park Partners • Great Basin National Park • Great Basin National Park Foundation
GBO University Cooperative2016-present GBO UNR WNC SUU CUI
Great Basin Observatoryon-site “local control” room Actually remote, robotically controlled online!
GBO telescope details PlaneWave CDK 700 The primary mirror diameter of the CDK 700 telescope is 700 mm (28 in.) While there are many variations of the Cassegrain telescope the CDK is perhaps the best suited to large format CCD imaging
More GBO telescope details PlaneWave CDK 700 The GBO CDK 700 telescope a Cassegraintwo-mirror telescope that employs lenses near the focus to produce sharp images across a large detector. This telescope type is known as a "Corrected Dall-Kirkham” or "CDK" variant of the basic Cassegrain form.
ShelyakeShel Spectrograph Camera Thorium/argon power supply Fiber from telescope Echelle spectrograph R = 10,000
Solar spectrum-Fraunhofer linesStellar spectral “classification”
Atomic/molecular spectra “Fingerprints” determine identity Sodium D Doublet Hydrogen Balmer
UNR undergrad exoplanet team GBO-based senior thesis projects Tyson Lewis, Hannah Mason, Kelly Lane
GBO study of triple star systemSUUundergrad research team CDC Measurements of AB and AC Components of WDS 20023+6438 William Zerkle, Dallas Anselmo, Taylor Hammack, Gideon Johnson, Morgan Taylor, Sterling Young, and Rhett Zollinger Southern Utah University
Classic “pay-per-view” telescope! Photons out $ in
SloohAstroLab • SloohAstroLab offers college astronomy students the opportunity to robotically control a global network of telescopes to image over 500celestial objects. Each student will be able to make reservations to view 500 objects in the night sky, everything you need to explore outer space and complete your coursework. • $29.95 per semester per student
itelescope “pay-per-view” Various pay-per-view plans Each telescope in network is assigned a certain # of points per imaging hour
GBO “pay-per-view” vision Imaging Speckle Spectroscopy GBO: first class, remote, robotic, pay-per-view, citizen-science-friendly astrophysics
Special thanksGBOdesign and development Paul Gardner, Observatory Systems Cole Niebuhr, Global Science Directive
GBO “stars” at Concordia Mackenzie Graham Chemistry major Ruth Larson Physics major