WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
WP5 – SA3
Service activities for higher education
and
outreach
presented by Massimo Ramella (INAF)
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
Deliverable D5.2 (April 2009)
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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.ustrasbg.fr/twikiAIDA/bin/view/EuroVOAIDA/WP5Outr
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Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo
Ramella,
Ramella,WPMTL,
WPTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
The work plan
Phase A
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Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces
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Production and/or modification of existing software
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Translation of outreach interfaces
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Basic documentation with some examples
Phase B
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Identify testers and design appealing projects for them
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Test Interface Cycle 1 (students main target, WP5 persons present in class)
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Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions
Phase C
Test Interface Cycle 2 (main goal: teachers self-sufficiency)
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Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library ...)
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Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site
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Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
Diffusion of WP5 products
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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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
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
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
Da:Novel [email protected]
A:Giulia Iafrate [email protected]
Cc:[email protected]
Oggetto:Articolo su EuroVO_AIDA/WP5 - Grazie da David
Data: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 EuroVOAIDA/wp5. La saluto cordialmente e La ringrazio di
tutto. David
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
Esploracosmo
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
WP5 and the
telescope of
Le Stelle Vanno
a Scuola
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF
WP 5
EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010
Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF