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Hands-On Universe (HOU): High school and middle school astronomy curriculum using real observatories and telescope images
Hands-On Universe
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Hands-On
Universe™ (HOU) is an educational
program that enables students to investigate
the Universe while
applying tools and concepts from science, math, and
technology. Using the Internet, HOU participants around
the world request observations from an automated telescope,
download images from a large image archive, and analyze
them with the aid of user-friendly image processing
software.
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ALERT:
"Get Images" temporarily unavailable as of Dec
2007 due to database problems.
How
to order HOU
Join the HOU
e-mail list
Contact HOUStaff
Annual
USA Hands-On Universe Conferences
Global
HOU (GHOU) Conferences
NEWS ITEMS
Nov 2008 Current list of
IASC discoveries and observations is at http://iasc.hsutx.edu/Discoveries.
The number of new asteroid discoveries remains at 23
but the list of NEO observations is long and includes
many of IASC students. The current campaign continues
until December 5, 2008, and we expect still more original
discoveries and important contributions to the measurements
of the impact threatening near-Earth objects.
2008 Jul 2 HOU/Spitzer Student
Project: Alekzandir Morton and Thomas Travagli presented
their research on determining the redshift of S5 0716+714
at the California State Science Fair and were awarded
first place in the Senior Division of Physics and Astronomy.
They were mentored by SSC scientist Mark Lacy. The
students were awarded a $1000 scholarship each. Articles
about them were published by the Contra
Costa Times and in the Antioch
Press.
John Michael Santiago, who assisted with the data reduction
on the WZ Sge project, received a 4th place award at
the Contra Costa Science and Engineering Fair. ---Jeff
Adkins [HOU teacher]
2008 Jun 13 Update From:
Patrick Miller: We have a list
of schools participating
in the 2007-2008 asteroid campaigns (plus one pilot
supernova campaign). We've changed the name of IASC
from International Asteroid Search Campaign to International
Astronomical Search Collaborative (still calling it "Isaac").
The plan is to completely develop the supernova search
campaign and including search campaigns for Kuiper
Belt objects and comets.
Since October 2006 at the start of IASC, 97 schools have
participated from 9 countries. The countries include
China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Poland, Portugal,
Russia, and United States.
Students from these schools have discovered 82 asteroids,
made 2 comet confirmations, 6 virtual impactor observations,
and hundreds of near-Earth object confirmations. As far
as the most number of discoveries, I don't have this
recorded but I believe the schools from Poland hold this
title. Some schools have discovered as many as 4 asteroids,
as I recall.
NOTEWORTHY
HOU IMAGES
July 2008. Color image of M8 by HOU TRA Glenn
Reagan (Astronomy-Physics Teacher - Cordova High School
Folsom Lake College - El Dorado Center - Sacramento City
College). Camera AP206 was able to resolve the turbulent
cloud structure around this star formation region. Telescope:
8" refractor. 3-color composite made using SalsaJ.
See more News Items.
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more Noteworthy Images
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MORE NEWS ITEMS
See also Archived
news articles
HOU is resource of
the Digital
Library for Earth Science Education (DLESE). You
may submit
a review of HOU resources for inclusion in the DLESE
Reviewed Collection at DLESE.
Thank you for taking the time.
2008 April 18 Patrick
Miller reports that so far in the International Asteroid
Search Campaign (IASC), concluding Friday, May 2, 2008,
students found 6 new asteroids, 6 VIO (virtual impactor
observations), 4 published NEO observations, and 26
unpublished NEO confirmations. Congratulations to VIII
LO, Katowice (Poland), the UAI Minor Planets (Italy)
and students from China Hands-On Universe for the discovery
of two new Main Belt asteroids!!
Asteroid K08GB1Z
S. Foglia; UAI Minor Planets (Italy)
B. Lanuszny, Z. Adamus, K.Gibinski, & A.Mucha; VIII
LO, Katowice (Poland)
Asteroid K08GB1Y
S. Foglia; UAI Minor Planets (Italy)
M. Zhou; China Hands-On Universe
Dec 2007
International
Asteroid Search Campaign
Teachers and students have successfully
completed the Fall 2007 IASC search campaigns. There
were a total of 38 new Main Belt asteroids discovered,
with 2 more waiting to be announced....2007 VSK1 and
2007 WG00. There were 24 schools participating from 7
countries (Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, Poland, Portugal,
and United States)...15 were high schools and 9 were
colleges. The Spring 2008 campaigns start on February
1, 2008, will include a total 9 countries including China
and Russia. See more
details on the Asteroid Discoverers.
16 July 2007. Gruber
Cosmology Prize.
HOU Co-director and founder Carl Pennypacker
has shared a prize with members of the team he helped
found that led to the discovery of evidence for Dark
Energy. Please see:
LBNL
article that refers to Carl as the Supernova
Cosmology Project (SCP) co-founder.
2007
Gruber Cosmology Prize Press Release with a list
of the SCP tea
May 10-11, 2007. Hands-On-Universe
Holds Teachers’ Workshop in Kenya. Excerpt:
For high school students in the Republic of Kenya in
Eastern Africa, star-gazing was enhanced by Hands-On-Universe
(HOU), .... On May 10th and 11th, HOU held an Internet
teleconference workshop for nearly a dozen teachers
at Kenya High School, a national residency school for
girls. This is the first HOU workshop to be held on
the continent of Africa.
“There are certain
images and concepts that transcend backgrounds and capture
everyone's imaginations. Turning a telescope to the sky
opens that view to everyone and spurs them to learn more.
The HOU program provides an excellent opportunity to
continue and spread this activity and interest,” said
George Smoot, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory... who shared the 2006 Nobel Prize
in Physics. Full
article at Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics
and workshop movie (330
MB)
Spring
2006. HOU
teacher Jeff Adkins and students in the Antioch ESPACE
Academy at Deer Valley High School (DVHS) have observed
Active Galactic Nuclei on the Spitzer Infrared Space
Telescope as well as with ground based scopes. Project
results are online at http://www.espaceacademy.com (click
on the Spitzer Space Telescope picture).
DVHA students also did well at their county science fair. See
details on the HOU
Teacher News page and the ESPACE
press release page. Many thanks to all of the programs from
NOAO, the Spitzer Science Center, HOU, and elsewhere that allowed
our students to succeed.
March 2007. You are welcome to visit the EU-HOU web
site and download the Windows Media movie
of the Lunar - Saturn occultation of March 2, 2007.
See also Saturn occultation of 22 May 2007 at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3nk6wvnrCA
--Lech Mankiewicz
Kuiper Belt asteroid
discovered by HOU students at Northfield Mount Hermon and Oil City High
Schools.
HOU was featured in a report
on the Internet Scout project of National
Science Digital Library (NSDL).
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MORE NOTEWORTHY IMAGESSee also Archive
of Featured Images
A 3 color composite image of the Eta Carinae nebula
(NGC 3372, the Keyhole Nebula) in the southern hemisphere
some 7000-9000 LY distant. Image by Glenn Reagan, HOU
TRA-Teacher - Cordova High School Folsom Lake College
- El Dorado Center - Sacramento City College, using the
Tzec Maun Australian telescope, a Takahashi TOA-150 (6")
refractor, with a SBIG STL-11000 CCD and filter wheel.
Operating the telescope remotely over the Internet, Glen
took the images Friday March 1 in Pingelly, Australia
(western Australia near Perth). Exposure times (RGB)
were 3 min, 3 min, and 5 min. The image was processed
with Photoshop CS2 using the ESA FITS Liberator plug-in.
[Click for larger
image]
Kuiper
Belt asteroid discovered by HOU students at Northfield
Mount Hermon and Oil City High Schools.
Comet McNaught
21 Jan 2007: Kaoru Kimura, HOU TRA from
Tokyo reports now we can see comet McNaught in the southern
hemisphere after sunset.
The i-Can
project team has a web cam
(constellation camera
called i-CAN) in Chile. Everyone can access our website
and watch setting comet McNaught. I did image capture
and made web page at http://www.k5.dion.ne.jp/~kaoru07
[Click
for larger image]
Photo shows Judith Goldhaber with HOU
founder, Carl Pennypacker, and Stephen Hawking after
a reception in his honor that featured the Oakland Symphony
chorus performing some songs from "Falling Through
a Hole in the Air (by Judith Goldhaber with HOU founder,
Carl Pennypacker). Stephen is writing "That was
really good!!!" on his eyebrow-activated writing/speaking
computer.
[Click
for larger image]
M16
- First light image using the 32" F/4 scope of Astronomical
Research Institute (ARI). The exposure time is 4" to
keep from blooming the bright stars in the field with
the STL 1001E. We expect to put in a 1.5x photographic
Barlow field flattener tomorrow to operate at F/6. F/8
is p[ossible using a 2x photographic Barlow. Limiting
magnitude should be 21.5 (in 5min). Currently 20.6 (in
30 sec). By Bob Holmes. See ARI
website
[Click for larger image]
See constellation
photos taken by Vivian Hoette to help see where comet
Holmes was in the constellation Perseus, visible naked
eye, with binoculars, and with telescopes.
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