WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF WP5 –...

Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010

WP5 – SA3

Service activities for higher education

and

outreach

presented by Massimo Ramella (INAF)



Objectives

• Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers

• Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database.

• Contact various international projects for the diffusion of astronomy in order to merge (part of) their knowledge base with our outreach interfaces



Deliverable D5.2 (April 2009)

• Aladin Beta Version 5.915• Stellarium Version 0.10.2• VirGO Version 1.4.3• SimPlay• 7 Use Cases with information on astronomical objects• Electronic feed-back form• Poster: The Sky, and Leaflet: EuroVO-AIDA Outreach• WP5 TWiki WebPages

http://cds.u-strasbg.fr/twikiAIDA/bin/view/EuroVOAIDA/WP5Outreach



Software tools

• Aladin, our access to VO data and tools

• Stellarium , the sky at a glance

• Simplay, the fastest viewer

Aladin and Stellarium are available in the languages of the partners, Simplay is in English, French and Italian



Use Cases• the sky (celestial sphere, constellations, light pollution)

• the stars (stellar observables, H.-R. diagram)

• the Pleiades (stellar parallaxes, stellar evolution, H.-R. diagram)

• the Barnard’s star (proper motions)

• confirmation of a candidate Supernova (astrometry, SN)

• the shape of galaxies (Hubble diagram and galaxy morphology)

• distance of the Crab Nebula (linear vs angular size, expansion of the

remnant)

• distance to the Andromeda galaxy (galaxies, distances)

• asteroids in the Solar System (distribution, orbital elements, risonances)

• planetary conjunctions (conjunctions, the Star of Bethlehem) Massimo Ramella, WPTL, INAF



The new Web Site

• Our products are freely available in our dedicated web site:

http://wwwas.oats.inaf.it/aidawp5

– WP5 has been awarded the STELLA award

– WP5 can be reached also from the site of the project Hands-On Universe



Phase A 1. Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces2. Production and/or modification of existing software 3. Translation of outreach interfaces4. Basic documentation with some examples

Phase B 1. Identify testers and design appealing projects for them2. Test Interface 3. Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions

Phase C 1. Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library ...) 2. Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site3. Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products

The work plan

Cycle 1 (students main target, WP5 persons present in class)

Test Interface Cycle 2 (main goal: teachers self-sufficiency)



Diffusion of WP5 products

• New web site

• VO-Day in tour throughout Italy

• workshops,conferences,other initiatives

• Synergy with Hands On Universe

• Haus der Astronomie (Heidelberg) another possible home for WP5



WP5 in Trieste

• WP5 together with Le Stelle Vanno a Scuola, a case of synchronous eLearning

• Esploracosmo , a WP5 laboratory

• WP5 fosters the study of astronomy – new group of young amateur astronomers– program of remote radio observations with the

2.3 antenna at ONSALA – SALSA (HOU)– significant increase of requests for astronomy

lectures in schools



WP5: To be done before the end

• Small fixes and last wishes for software tools

• Quick guides for Aladin and Stellarium

• More translations (last week: 5 use cases translated in Spanish!)

• Further activity in classrooms

• Bring SalsaJ and Aladin together via SAMP



Da:Novel [email protected]:Giulia Iafrate [email protected]:[email protected]:Articolo su EuroVO_AIDA/WP5 - Grazie da DavidData:Sun, 14 Mar 2010 21:27:21 +0100 (ora solare Europa occidentale)

Gentile dott.ssa Giulia Iafrate, sono io che ringrazio Lei e il dott. Ramella per tutte le cose che avete trasmesso a me e ai giovani astrofili del Galilei grazie al Vostro progetto EuroVO-AIDA/wp5. La saluto cordialmente e La ringrazio di tutto. David



Esploracosmo



WP5 and the telescope of

Le Stelle Vanno

a Scuola

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