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

Planned ones with dates

SKYNET is a distributed network of robotic telescopes operated by students, faculty, and staff at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The network began operation in January 2006 with the opening of the six PROMPT telescopes in Chile. Since then, several more telescopes in the U.S. and Europe have been integrated into the network. We are ramping up to integrate many new telescopes around the world throughout 2011 and 2012. Vivian Hoette will tell us about Skynet in general, how you can use it, and more about her program called Skynet Junior Scholars - she sent mail about this specific program a little while ago.

Hoped-for ones

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

  • Spitzer, the SHA, the enhanced products - Luisa(*)
  • Planck, and its archive - release in March?- Peregrine?
  • NASA Exoplanet Archive (and by extension, Kepler and CoRoT) --??(*)
  • WISE asteroids and comets.
  • APT, from 'what is photometry' through latest bells and whistles. may be 2-parter. (Varoujan and Russ??)(*)
  • finding data at other wavelengths - Skyview from goddard. finderchart. 2mass. other archives?
  • Spatial resolution??
  • LCOGT http://lcogt.net/ -- JD Armstrong(*)
  • Guidance on getting research into the classroom?? Guidance on curriculum development??
  • Edubites overview?? - Carolyn
  • Excel?? many tutorials already online at YouTube - get a NITARP alum teacher to do one on "things you should know about Excel but were afraid to ask?"
  • HOU http://www.handsonuniverse.org/ - Alan Gould??
  • SED tool - Sally Seebode
  • SDSS labs http://cas.sdss.org/dr5/en/proj/teachers/ - ??
  • how to come up with project ideas
  • Micro Observatory http://mo-www.harvard.edu/MicroObservatory/ - Susan Sunbury et al.(*)
  • MAST?
  • NRAO teacher opportunities - Sue Ann Heatherly (*)
  • WWT http://www.worldwidetelescope.org - Pat Udomprasaert??
  • Getting your NITARP (etc) story into your local media - Tim Spuck and Ardis Herrold (*)
  • NOAO RBSE lessons http://www.noao.edu/education/arbse/arpd