Improved Astronomical Facility for Undergraduate Instruction

9452315彼得森这个项目是为康涅狄格大学的天文台配备一台ccd摄像机和数据处理系统，将它们带到一个最先进的设施中。购置了辅助设备，用于现场图像采集、初步数据处理、后续数据还原、存储、打印。正在为高级学生开发几个实验，以及初级水平的电荷耦合器件群组调查。该实验室除了为未来的天文学家提供基本培训外，还为大量对天文学感兴趣的入门学生和他们的物理专业同龄人提供服务。第二个主要项目是Proxima桌面投影仪，它促进了天文馆对太阳系配置和行星运动的讨论，这是以前使用简单的Spitz天文馆无法实现的。它还用于演讲厅的演示以及图书馆和学校的巡回演示。这两个主要项目还有一个额外的吸引力，那就是它们使康涅狄格大学的天文学对残疾学生来说是方便的，对他们来说，天文馆和天文台以前分别对用户不友好和无法进入。

9452315 Peterson This project is to equip the University of Connecticut's observatories with a CCD camera and data processing system to bring them to a state-of-the art facility. Ancillary apparatus has been acquired for on site image acquisition, preliminary data processing, subsequent data reduction, storage, printing. Several experiments are being developed for advanced students, as well as CCD cluster investigations for the beginning level. In addition to serving as basic training for future astronomers, the laboratory also serves the large number of introductory students interested in astronomy and their peers who are physics majors. A second major item is a Proxima Desk Top Projector which facilitates planetarium discussions of solar system configurations and planetary motions that were not possible before with the simple Spitz planetarium. It is also used in demonstrations in the lecture hall and for travelling presentations in libraries and schools. Both major items have the additional attraction that they are making astronomy at the University of Connecticut accessible to handicapped students for whom the planetarium and observatories were previously user-unfriendly and inaccessible, respectively.