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A Remote, Robotic Observatory for Undergraduate Astronomy Research and Education

用于本科生天文学研究和教育的远程机器人天文台

基本信息

批准号：
0311027
负责人：
David Griffiths
金额：
$ 3.61万
依托单位：
Reed College
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2003
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2003-09-15 至 2006-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0311027&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Remote Robotic Observatory Undergraduate Astronomy

项目摘要

Astronomy (11) Once available only to professional astronomers, remote, robotic observatories are now being built and used by small colleges as well as by amateur astronomers. Reliable, mass-produced telescopes and robotic mounts have become available within the past ten years. Successful remote observatories developed for education include projects such as the Telescopes in Education program as well as the remote observatory developed by Angelo State University. A remote observatory is a valuable tool for undergraduate education, especially for urban colleges such as Reed, which is located in Portland under light-polluted and frequently-cloudy skies. The project supports a remote, robotic observatory located outside the Portland area and used for undergraduate education and research as well as public outreach. The observatory houses a 16-inch RCOS telescope on a Paramount ME robotic mount and is used for two purposes: by Reed physics undergraduates collecting data for senior thesis projects in observational astrophysics; and by students in introductory and advanced astronomy courses to collect data for labs. For labs and demonstrations, the telescope would be operated in real time over the internet. When not operated in real time, it would be scripted to automatically collect data for long-term, student-directed projects, possibly including spectroscopic monitoring of close binary stars and the detection and astrometry of near-earth asteroids.

天文学 (11) 曾经仅供专业天文学家使用的远程机器人天文台现在正在由小型学院和业余天文学家建造和使用。在过去的十年里，可靠的、大规模生产的望远镜和机器人支架已经问世。为教育开发的成功远程天文台包括教育望远镜项目以及安吉洛州立大学开发的远程天文台等项目。远程天文台对于本科教育来说是一个很有价值的工具，特别是对于像里德大学这样的城市大学来说，它位于波特兰，天空经常受到光污染和多云。该项目支持位于波特兰地区外的一个远程机器人天文台，用于本科教育和研究以及公共宣传。该天文台在派拉蒙 ME 机器人支架上安装了一台 16 英寸 RCOS 望远镜，用于两个目的：里德物理本科生为观测天体物理学高级论文项目收集数据；以及由入门和高级天文学课程的学生收集实验室数据。对于实验室和演示，望远镜将通过互联网实时操作。当不实时操作时，它将编写脚本自动收集学生主导的长期项目的数据，可能包括近距离双星的光谱监测以及近地小行星的探测和天体测量。