Transcript Using WorldWide Telescope to Bring Astronomical Data into the Classroom Matthew Rickert Northwestern University, CIERA.

Using WorldWide
Telescope to Bring
Astronomical Data into
the Classroom
Matthew Rickert
Northwestern University, CIERA
Take away resources:
• http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom
/lessonplans.html
Overview
1. Intro to WWT
2. Astronomy Databases
– Simbad
– NASA ADS
3. Lesson: Using WWT to make H-R Diagrams
WWT
What is WorldWide Telescope (WWT)?
http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/
WWT
What can WWT do?
• Can view the sky in a variety of
wavelengths from anywhere on Earth, at
anytime
• Can view a 3-D model of the solar system
and it’s parts at anytime
• Can zoom to the surface of the Earth (Google
earth)
• Can view panorama images from the Moon
and Mars
WWT
Getting More Info
http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom/2014/Color%20Magnitude%20Diagrams%20and
%20WWT%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
WWT
Links to online Databases
http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom/2014/Color%20Magnitude%20Diagrams%20and
%20WWT%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
SIMBAD
SIMBAD: Info. on Astronomical Objects
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
SIMBAD
Links to Papers
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/
NASA ADS
NASA ADS: Database of Astro. Papers
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html
Lesson Plan
Using WWT to Make H-R Diagrams
• In groups students are assigned a star cluster
• Students use WWT to collect brightness and
color measurements for ~10 stars in the
cluster
http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom/2014/Color%20Magnitude%20Diagrams%20and
%20WWT%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
Lesson Plan
Using WWT to Make H-R Diagrams
-3
-1
1
M_V0
Alpha Persei
3
Pleiades
Coma Berenices
Praesepe
5
Hyades
M67
7
9
-0.5
0
0.5
1
1.5
2
M_(B-V)0
http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom/2014/Color%20Magnitude%20Diagrams%20and
%20WWT%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
Lesson Plan- expanded
Current events- Distance to Pleiades
TITLE: A VLBI Resolution of the Pleiades Distance Controversy
Authors: Carl Melis; Mark J. Reid; Amy J. Mioduszewski; John R. Stauffer;
Geoffrey C. Bower
http://aas.org/meetings/aas225
Lesson Plan
Exploring WWT
http://gk12.ciera.northwestern.edu/classroom/2014/Color%20Magnitude%20Diagrams%20and
%20WWT%20Lesson%20plan.pdf
Thank You!
Thank You!
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