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 (Yerkes Observatory) 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.

  • Fourth NITARP Tutorial: TO BE CONFIRMED: ISAC http://iasc.hsutx.edu/ - Patrick Miller, Denise Rothrock - March?
  • Fifth NITARP Tutorial: Chandra ds9 labs http://chandra-ed.harvard.edu/ - Terry Matilsky (Rutgers) - April 16, 4pm EASTERN=1pm PACIFIC .. note that this is earlier than the other tutorials have been

Terry Matilsky 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)