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| − | Several sites collected from [http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/mercury.html the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine] | + | Several sites collected from [http://www.astrosociety.org/pubs/mercury/mercury.html the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine] - this is old enough that some sites may be defunct now! |
*[http://galaxyzoo.org/ Galaxy zoo] - classify galaxies | *[http://galaxyzoo.org/ Galaxy zoo] - classify galaxies | ||
*[http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Stardust@home] - search for interstellar dust particles in aerogel | *[http://stardustathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Stardust@home] - search for interstellar dust particles in aerogel | ||
Revision as of 22:30, 22 January 2013
Lesson Plans/Activities
- Classroom activity packet from David W. McDonald, Joy-Lyn McDonald and Micah McDonald: "Making pretty pictures: How Astronomers make images" : download pdf here (version 4.0)
Please feel free to add in your contributions here or elsewhere on the wiki!
Other websites/programs set up to let you do research
our list of programs using real data, sorted by wavelength, is here: http://nitarp.ipac.caltech.edu/otherpgms.shtml
Several sites collected from the Summer 2008 Mercury magazine - this is old enough that some sites may be defunct now!
- Galaxy zoo - classify galaxies
- Stardust@home - search for interstellar dust particles in aerogel
- Clickworkers - find and classify Martian craters
- SOHO comets - find Sun-grazing comets
- Systemic project - identify and classify planets around other stars
- INSPIRE - interactions between Sun and our atmosphere (you need equipment to do this)
- RadioJove - interactions between Sun and Jupiter
