Remote Telescope Requests - Revision history

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	== Remote Telescope Data ==		== Remote Telescope Data ==

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	At both observatories we have identical 0.5 meter (20 inch) diameter "CDK20" research telescopes operating with a CCD camera and a selection of filters. These are the primary telescopes for this program. We offer other instruments too, and we are developing the capability to have you visit us through the web when the telescopes are in operation and to press the "shutter button" yourself. For example there are		At both observatories we have identical 0.5 meter (20 inch) diameter "CDK20" research telescopes operating with a CCD camera and a selection of filters. These are the primary telescopes for this program. We offer other instruments too, and we are developing the capability to have you visit us through the web when the telescopes are in operation and to press the "shutter button" yourself. For example there are

	* A fast wide field Shared Skies Live ~~telescope~~ at Moore Observatory to take images of stars and nebulae ~~through special filters.~~		* A fast wide field Shared Skies Live telescopes at Moore and Mt. Kent Observatory to take images of stars and nebulae
	* A special long-focus telescope at Moore Observatory to take images of planets		* A special long-focus telescope at Moore Observatory to take images of planets.
	* Color cameras to quickly image ~~star patterns,~~ constellations, or comets that may span many degrees.		* Color cameras to quickly image constellations, or comets that may span many degrees.
	* Two 0.6 meter (24 inch) "RC24" research telescope at Moore Observatory and Mt. Lemmon are used primarily to study planets around other stars		* Two 0.6 meter (24 inch) "RC24" research telescope at Moore Observatory and Mt. Lemmon are used primarily to study planets around other stars.
	* A 0.7 meter (27 inch) "CDK700" telescope at Mt. Kent observatory that ~~will be used for spectroscopy, the analysis of starlight, for assisting~~ the new NASA TESS satellite ~~that is to launch soon~~.		* A 0.7 meter (27 inch) "CDK700" telescope at Mt. Kent observatory that is currently observing extrasolar planets discovered with the new NASA TESS satellite.


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	Once your data are available we will provide ~~a link from which~~ you ~~can download images and~~ there will be another activity in class for you to use in completing the work. Expect it a few weeks before the end of the semester, or before if the weather is good to us.		Once your data are available we will respond by email or your class teaching assistnat will provide material for you. there will be another activity in class for you to use in completing the second part of the work. Expect it a few weeks before the end of the semester, or before if the weather is good to us. This second part is due by the end of the semester and is regarded as a separate lab activity. You should make notes on what you have asked for here today to use at that time.

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	Complete the simple form at the link below.		Complete the simple form at the link below.

	[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftQ4tmet7KEqVbofOas7DxGRclERBHfPPZCMkXYZEs__JYKw/viewform?usp=sf_link Telescope Data Request ~~Form] at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftQ4tmet7KEqVbofOas7DxGRclERBHfPPZCMkXYZEs__JYKw/viewform?usp=sf_link Google Forms[~~]
			[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftQ4tmet7KEqVbofOas7DxGRclERBHfPPZCMkXYZEs__JYKw/viewform?usp=sf_link Telescope Data Request]


	We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later. If you are working with others we only need one on-line request. In the comments section, if you note who is working together it will simplify sorting out the requests and responses later.		We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later. If you are working with others we only need one on-line request. In the comments section, if you note who is working together it will simplify sorting out the requests and responses later.

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	Complete the simple form at the link below.		Complete the simple form at the link below.

	[~~http~~://~~www~~.~~astro~~.~~louisville.edu~~/~~moorerequests~~ Telescope ~~Use~~ Request Form] at ~~[http~~://~~www~~.~~astro~~.~~louisville.edu~~/~~moorerequests http:~~//~~www.astro.louisville.edu~~/~~moorerequests~~]		[https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftQ4tmet7KEqVbofOas7DxGRclERBHfPPZCMkXYZEs__JYKw/viewform?usp=sf_link Telescope Data Request Form] at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSftQ4tmet7KEqVbofOas7DxGRclERBHfPPZCMkXYZEs__JYKw/viewform?usp=sf_link Google Forms[]

	We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later. If you are working with others we only need one on-line request. In the comments section, if you note who is working together it will simplify sorting out the requests and responses later.		We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later. If you are working with others we only need one on-line request. In the comments section, if you note who is working together it will simplify sorting out the requests and responses later.

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	== Remote Telescope Data ==		== Remote Telescope Data ==

			''Please allow time for us to respond to your request.''
			''This activity should be done before midterm and the second part will be at the end of the semester.''


	Today’s computer technology, modern optics, and electronics allow astronomers and students to "see" the sky without enduring long freezing nights looking through an eyepiece. The data we acquire are quantitative measurements of how much light arrives from fields of view that can be tiny and cover only a few stars, or vast, and cover constellations. They can tell you the positions of moving objects, the variations in their brightness, their colors, details of the structure, and how they interact or relate with nearby companions. Modern astronomy is evolving in the development of a new class of very large telescopes that by mid-2020's will have public data over the entire sky updated almost nightly. Smaller telescopes and instruments in space follow up on the discoveries offered by these big telescopes with closer inspection and careful analysis.		Today’s computer technology, modern optics, and electronics allow astronomers and students to "see" the sky without enduring long freezing nights looking through an eyepiece. The data we acquire are quantitative measurements of how much light arrives from fields of view that can be tiny and cover only a few stars, or vast, and cover constellations. They can tell you the positions of moving objects, the variations in their brightness, their colors, details of the structure, and how they interact or relate with nearby companions. Modern astronomy is evolving in the development of a new class of very large telescopes that by mid-2020's will have public data over the entire sky updated almost nightly. Smaller telescopes and instruments in space follow up on the discoveries offered by these big telescopes with closer inspection and careful analysis.
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	Once your data are available we will provide a link from which you can download images and there will be another activity in class for you to use in completing the work. Expect it ~~in early April~~, or before if the weather is good to us.		Once your data are available we will provide a link from which you can download images and there will be another activity in class for you to use in completing the work. Expect it a few weeks before the end of the semester, or before if the weather is good to us.

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	The faintest stars you will find in most images are about 18th magnitude. These stars are more than 10,000,000 times fainter that the brightest stars in the night sky. Typically the telescoped cover a field of about 1/2 degree, the diameter of the full Moon, but in some cases it can be smaller to see very fine detail,or larger, to get an entire constellation or a big comet. If the air is steady, the smallest detail you will see is about 1 arcsecond across. For comparison, Jupiter appears about 40 arcseconds across in our sky, and the Andromeda galaxy extends thousands of arcseconds. Some of our planetary and lunar images show detail as small as 0.3 arcseconds, the resolution limit of our telescopes in perfectly stable air.		The faintest stars you will find in most images are about 18th magnitude. These stars are more than 10,000,000 times fainter that the brightest stars in the night sky. Typically the telescoped cover a field of about 1/2 degree, the diameter of the full Moon, but in some cases it can be smaller to see very fine detail,or larger, to get an entire constellation or a big comet. If the air is steady, the smallest detail you will see is about 1 arcsecond across. For comparison, Jupiter appears about 40 arcseconds across in our sky, and the Andromeda galaxy extends thousands of arcseconds. Some of our planetary and lunar images show detail as small as 0.3 arcseconds, the resolution limit of our telescopes in perfectly stable air.


	== Objects ==		== Objects ==
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	For this lab it will help us a lot if you put your '''preferred email address''' on the form you submit to the assistant, and list the names of those who are working with you on this. Should groups re-organize later in the semester or you find your self working with someone else, this will insure we can get data to you.		For this lab it will help us a lot if you put your '''preferred email address''' on the form you submit to the assistant, and list the names of those who are working with you on this. Should groups re-organize later in the semester or you find your self working with someone else, this will insure we can get data to you.

	After you have submitted the request, then each student should answer the questions asked here on the usual lab response form and ~~and~~ give them to the lab assistant. He may have an immediate suggestion about your choice and you probably should discuss it with him before you get to this last step. Remember that we need both the answers from you on the usual lab sheet, and the completed web submission from your group while you are in class today.		After you have submitted the request, then each student should answer the questions asked here on the usual lab response form and give them to the lab assistant. He may have an immediate suggestion about your choice and you probably should discuss it with him before you get to this last step. Remember that we need both the answers from you on the usual lab sheet, and the completed web submission from your group while you are in class today.

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	* '''Step 3: Respond on the Answer Sheet for This Lab."'''

	~~For this lab we need the following from each student:~~

	* ~~Questions to~~ Answer		For this lab we need the following from each student.


			* '''Step 3: Respond on the Answer Sheet for This Lab."'''
	** Object you have selected by an identification we can use with the telescopes.		** Object you have selected by an identification we can use with the telescopes.
	** A brief statement of what that object is.		** A brief statement of what that object is.

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	If you are interested in this future world, you can read more at websites for Gaia, a new satellite beginning to return amazing measurements of distances throughout our own galaxy, and of LSST, a "synoptic survey" telescope under construction in Chile.		If you are interested in this future world, you can read more at websites for Gaia, a new satellite beginning to return amazing measurements of distances throughout our own galaxy, and of LSST, a "synoptic survey" telescope under construction in Chile.

	[https://www.lsst.org/ Link to LSST]		*[https://www.lsst.org/ Link to LSST at https://www.lsst.org/ ]
	[http://sci.esa.int/gaia/ Link to Gaia]		*[http://sci.esa.int/gaia/ Link to Gaia at http://sci.esa.int/gaia/]

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	First, check that the object of interest is visible to us now unless you want what we already have. Indeed, our best planetary images are ones we have selected from among thousands taken, so even if a planet is not favorably placed now we can probably offer something. However currently the choices in our own solar system are		First, check that the object of interest is visible to us now unless you want what we already have. Indeed, our best planetary images are ones we have selected from among thousands taken, so even if a planet is not favorably placed now we can probably offer something. However currently the choices in our own solar system are

			* Observable Solar System Objects
	** Venus, still visible in the evening sky and rapidly moving closer and in line with the Sun.		** Venus, still visible in the evening sky and rapidly moving closer and in line with the Sun.
	** Jupiter, visible in the morning sky, and increasingly well placed to observe as we go into the spring season, has beautiful bands and changing detail, as well as bright satellites.		** Jupiter, visible in the morning sky, and increasingly well placed to observe as we go into the spring season, has beautiful bands and changing detail, as well as bright satellites.
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	[http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests Telescope Use Request Form] at [http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests]		[http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests Telescope Use Request Form] at [http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests http://www.astro.louisville.edu/moorerequests]

	We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later.		We use your responses to schedule our telescopes, so please complete it while you are in the lab. Make a note to yourself of your request, and keep some notes about what you responded since they will help you complete the second part later. If you are working with others we only need one on-line request. In the comments section, if you note who is working together it will simplify sorting out the requests and responses later.


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	For this lab we need the following from each student:		For this lab we need the following from each student:

			* Questions to Answer
	** Object you have selected by an identification we can use with the telescopes.		** Object you have selected by an identification we can use with the telescopes.
	** A brief statement of what that object is.		** A brief statement of what that object is.
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	** Which telescope do you think would be useful for this. Explain your answer, or if you do not know which telescope, tell us what would affect the choice of telescope based on your choice of object.		** Which telescope do you think would be useful for this. Explain your answer, or if you do not know which telescope, tell us what would affect the choice of telescope based on your choice of object.
	** Provide a concise statement of what you expect to learn about your selected object from whatever data we can offer.		** Provide a concise statement of what you expect to learn about your selected object from whatever data we can offer.
			** Your preferred email address so that we can respond to you if needed
			** The names of the other students working with you on the same object

	~~Also, for~~ this lab it will help us a lot if you put your '''preferred email address''' on the form you submit to the assistant, and list the names of those who are working with you on this. Should groups re-organize later in the semester or you find your self working with someone else, this will insure we can get data to you.		For this lab it will help us a lot if you put your '''preferred email address''' on the form you submit to the assistant, and list the names of those who are working with you on this. Should groups re-organize later in the semester or you find your self working with someone else, this will insure we can get data to you.



	After you have submitted the request, then each student should ~~answer also~~ answer the questions asked here give them to the lab assistant ~~on the usual lab response form~~. He may have an immediate suggestion. Remember that we need both the answers from you on the usual lab sheet, and the completed web submission while you are in class today.		After you have submitted the request, then each student should answer the questions asked here on the usual lab response form and and give them to the lab assistant. He may have an immediate suggestion about your choice and you probably should discuss it with him before you get to this last step. Remember that we need both the answers from you on the usual lab sheet, and the completed web submission from your group while you are in class today.

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