A Telescope and Instrumentation for a New Astronomy Curriculum

新天文学课程的望远镜和仪器

• 批准号: 9980946
• 负责人: Frank Winkler
• 金额: $ 15.57万
• 依托单位: Middlebury College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-05-15 至 2004-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9980946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Telescope; Instrumentation; New; Astronomy; Curriculum

Astronomy (11) The project is adapting a telescope used by a few other institutions for undergraduates, a 60-cm (24-inch) computer-controlled telescope with a sensitive 1024 x l024-pixel CCD camera, to improve dramatically the college's astronomical imaging capabilities, increasing the number and quality of student projects. The camera, combined with existing instrumentation (a slit spectrograph, a fiber fed spectrograph, and an aperture photometer) form a flexible and powerful suite of modern instrumentation for observational astrophysics. Projects range from variations of standard astronomy observations to work adapted from the research literature to student research projects. The overall goal of the project is to exploit the reservoir of public interest in astronomy to increase the number of students who develop an understanding of and appreciation for science, whether as educated citizens or as career scientists. The new equipment supports several new undergraduate courses in astrophysics, as well as improving the laboratory for the popular introductory astronomy course. The equipment also supports independent research projects by science majors, workshops for local science teachers, and visits by the general public.

天文学(11)该项目正在对其他几个机构为本科生使用的望远镜进行改造，这是一台60厘米(24英寸)的计算机控制望远镜，配有灵敏的1024x1024像素的CCD相机，以显著提高学院的天文成像能力，增加学生项目的数量和质量。该相机与现有仪器(狭缝光谱仪、光纤馈电光谱仪和口径光度计)相结合，形成了一套灵活而强大的现代观测天体物理学仪器。项目的范围从标准天文观测的变化到根据研究文献改编的工作到学生研究项目。该项目的总体目标是利用公众对天文学的兴趣，增加对科学的理解和欣赏的学生数量，无论是作为受过教育的公民还是作为职业科学家。新设备支持几门新的天体物理学本科课程，以及改善广受欢迎的天文学入门课程的实验室。该设备还支持理科专业学生的独立研究项目，为当地理科教师举办的研讨会，以及普通公众的访问。