Astronomical Image Processing in Undergraduate Education

五学院天文系将获得5个处理 供本科生使用的工作站。 工作站将 （1）用于开发与课程工作相关的实验室练习， （2）加强研究 为本科生提供的机会。 图像 处理在很大程度上是天文学的先驱，现在它被应用于 广泛的科学和技术学科，包括地质学， 大气科学和医学。 通过引入这一 硬件纳入天文学实验室课程，天文学专业将推出 科学的分析工具，这些工具已经成为 天文研究作为望远镜，和实验室的质量 他们所做的练习将得到实质性的改善，因为他们将 涉及处理从世界上最强大的 使用最先进仪器的望远镜。 对于非专业在我们的 课程，介绍天文图像处理提供了一个 意味着在一个令人兴奋的， 科学背景。 最后，图像处理的可用性 为本科生提供的设施将大大改善他们获得 研究部门内的机会，提高质量， 独立学习和高级荣誉课程。

The Five College Astronomy Department will obtain 5 processing workstations for use by undergraduate students. The workstations will be used: (1) to develop laboratory exercises related to course work at the introductory and advanced levels; and (2) to enhance the research opportunities available to undergraduates in the department. Image processing was largely pioneered in astronomy, and it is now applied to a wide range of scientific and technical disciplines including geology, atmospheric science and medicine. Through the introduction of this hardware into astronomy lab courses, astronomy majors will be introduced to scientific analysis tools which have become as fundamental to astronomical research as the telescope, and the quality of laboratory exercises that they do will be substantially improved since they will involve processing of digital data obtained at the world's most powerful telescopes using state of the art instruments. For non-majors in our courses, the introduction of astronomical image processing provides a means to teach this basic scientific analysis tool in an exciting scientific context. Finally, the availability of image processing facilities to undergraduates will substantially improve their access to research opportunities within the department and improve the quality of the independent study and senior honors programs.