NITARP tutorials

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Held roughly monthly. You need to register so that I can mail you the relevant phone numbers and join.me links just prior to the tutorial. Archived here and on YouTube if you can't attend live.

Done ones

Skynet is a distributed network of robotic telescopes operated by students, faculty, and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Vivian told us about Skynet in general, how you can use it, and more about her program called Skynet Junior Scholars. Web page Vivian constructed prior to the telecon. NITARPers who missed the Tutorial can email Luisa or Vivian for the password information and access to Skynet. The Skynet-developed online tutorials mentioned during our tutorial are here. We had LOTS of technical glitches with this one. Sorry about that. If there is demand, we will redo this tutorial.

  • Fourth NITARP Tutorial: IASC (March 2013) - Patrick Miller (Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX) and Denise Rothrock (Madisonville HS, NITARP Class of 2012) - http://iasc.hsutx.edu/

IASC, the International Astronomical Search Collaboration, is an educational outreach program in astronomy designed for high schools and colleges. IASC ("Isaac") provides images taken the night before at ground-based observatories from around the country. Students download these images the next morning and search for asteroids, primarily Main Belt asteroids between Mars and Jupiter. Occasionally, they will discover near-Earth objects and Trojan asteroids in Jupiter's orbit. Your students can participate in this program along with 500 schools from 60 countries. They can make original discoveries that, in time, can be officially named. Patrick Miller (Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, TX) and Denise Rothrock (Madisonville HS, NITARP Class of 2012) will share with us information about IASC and how you, too, can be involved. The program is provided at no cost to you or your students...IASC is free. Whole honkin' thing (56 min) OR Just the part on Asteroids and Why You Should Care (23 min), Just the part on IASC and what it is (19 min), and Just the part with the live demo of the IASC software (15 min)


Planned ones with dates

  • BONUS April Tutorial: SOFIA Airborne Astronomy Ambassadors program. Application available now, due May 3! Someone (Coral Clark - SOFIA - and Chelen Johnson - NITARP alum) will tell us about the AAA program on April 9, 4pm Pacific=5pm Mountain=6pm central=7pm eastern. Pre-register here
  • Fifth NITARP Tutorial: Chandra ds9 labs http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/ - Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) - Tuesday April 16, 4pm EASTERN=1pm PACIFIC .. note that this is earlier than the other tutorials have been

Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) will teach us all about the really nice Chandra data analysis activities available here. PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TUTORIAL REQUIRES SOME ADVANCE WORK FROM YOU, because it will assume some knowledge as a prerequisite. You need to:

  1. Obtain and install ds9 and verify that it works on your computer.
  2. Have some operational familiarity with ds9, at the very least having watched the January ds9 tutorial above, or equivalent.
  3. Read the core pages from the Chandra 101 pages here.
  4. Pre-register here.
  • Sixth NITARP Tutorial: TO BE CONFIRMED: Getting your NITARP (etc) story into your local media - Tim Spuck and Ardis Herrold - May?

Hoped-for ones

(in no particular order, in various stages of planning)

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