Enhancing the Book "Coloring the Universe" to Serve Undergraduate Education

做强《着色宇宙》一书服务本科教育

• 批准号: 1523583
• 负责人: Travis Rector
• 金额: $ 2.48万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Anchorage Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523583&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enhancing; Book; Coloring; Universe; Serve

The Principal Investigator and coauthors Kimberly Arcand and Megan Watzke are writing "Coloring the Universe," a book that will provide a behind-the-scenes look at how color astronomical images are made by professional observatories. There are a number of coffee table books showcasing beautiful astronomical images, but none of them focus on how the images are made (astrophotography). Books that do describe image-making techniques are primarily "how to" books intended for amateur astronomers and do not describe the underlying science. "Coloring the Universe" will explain how color-composite images are made, how they are used by scientists for visualization purposes, and how they are shared with the public to highlight new scientific discoveries. The book will also be unique in featuring primarily NSF-funded telescopes and the images made with them. Support from this grant will allow the authors to enhance the book so that it will be more useful as a teaching tool at the undergraduate level. They will add content that provides more information and examples, and they will create a Web site that contains image-making tutorials, data from telescopes with which students can make their own images, and an image gallery allowing students and the public to share their work.Astronomical images offer an engaging introduction to important topics in astronomy, such as how telescopes and charge-coupled devices (CCDs) work, narrowband filters, and multi-wavelength imaging. Many colleges that have access to small-aperture telescopes and CCD cameras have laboratory exercises in which astronomy students make images of astronomical objects. These labs serve as an important tool for teaching how telescopes and CCDs work, while doing it in a fun, visually appealing way. With its enhanced content, "Coloring the Universe" will be a valuable resource for teaching not only how the professionals make images, but why scientists make them the way they do. The tutorials on the Web site will be incorporated into introductory astronomy classes at the University of Alaska Anchorage and will also be presented to instructors in astronomy education groups, such as the Research-Based Science Education (RBSE) group.

首席调查员兼合着者金伯利·阿坎德（Kimberly Arcand）和梅根·沃兹克（Megan Watzke）正在写“宇宙着色”，这本书将在幕后介绍专业观察者如何制作彩色天文图像。有许多咖啡桌书籍展示了美丽的天文图像，但它们都没有集中于制作图像（天文学）。描述图像制作技术的书籍主要是“如何”为业余天文学家而言，不描述基础科学。 “宇宙着色”将解释如何制作色彩复合图像，科学家如何用于可视化目的以及如何与公众共享它们以突出新的科学发现。这本书在主要由NSF资助的望远镜及其制作的图像中也将是独一无二的。这笔赠款的支持将使作者能够增强本书，以便在本科级别作为教学工具更有用。 They will add content that provides more information and examples, and they will create a Web site that contains image-making tutorials, data from telescopes with which students can make their own images, and an image gallery allowing students and the public to share their work.Astronomical images offer an engaging introduction to important topics in astronomy, such as how telescopes and charge-coupled devices (CCDs) work, narrowband filters, and multi-wavelength imaging.许多可以使用小型伸缩望远镜和CCD摄像机的大学都有实验室练习，天文学学生可以制作天文学对象的图像。这些实验室是教授望远镜和CCD的重要工具，同时以一种有趣的，视觉上吸引人的方式进行操作。凭借其增强的内容，“宇宙着色”将成为教授专业人士如何制作图像的宝贵资源，而且为什么科学家以他们的方式来制作图像。该网站上的教程将纳入阿拉斯加大学锚地的入门天文学课程，并将介绍给天文学教育小组的讲师，例如基于研究的科学教育（RBSE）小组。