Remote Access Case Study - Experiences from Astronomy Project
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The document discusses a remote access project called 'Astronomy from an Armchair' initiated by students at the University of Niš to promote astronomy and establish the first observatory for non-professionals in South Serbia. It describes the project's goals, technological advancements in astronomy, public outreach through live streaming of observations and talks, and educational collaborations with renowned institutions like CERN. The initiative aims to make astronomy more accessible to amateurs and enhance science education for students.
Remote Access Case Study - Experiences from Astronomy Project
- 1. REMOTE ACCESS CASE STUDY EXPERIENCES FROM ASTRONOMY PROJECT MILAN MILOŠEVIĆ DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS FACULTY OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS UINIVERSITY OF NIŠ ICT Networking for Overcoming Technical and Social Barriers in Instrumental Analytical Chemistry Education NETCHEM Work Meeting, 4-9 December 2017, Belgrade, Serbia
- 2. WHY ASTRONOMY? • One of the oldest of the natural sciences. • It applies mathematics, physics, and chemistry, in an effort to explain the origin of celestial objects and phenomena and their evolution. • „From quarks to quasars“ - it studies the smallest and the largest objects in the Universe. • One of the few sciences where amateurs still play an active role, especially in the discovery and observation of transient phenomena. • Amateur astronomers have made and contributed to many important astronomical discoveries, such as finding new comets. http://vimeo.com/57130400
- 3. INTRODUCTION • Discovery of telescope (400 years ago) - raised the revolution in astronomy. • Technological development - we are able to observe the Universe in the whole electromagnetic spectrum. • New equipment: DSLR, CCD and modified web cameras, supercomputers, spectroscopes, information and communication technologies etc. • Unfortunately – equipment is very expensive • Mostly unavailable to amateur astronomers Photo: https://www.mpg.de/7913340/Galileo_Galilei_telescope
- 4. PROJECT “ASTRONOMY FROM AN ARMCHAIR” • Student’s project, in cooperation with Faculty of Science and Mathematics and Astronomical Society “Alfa” • Supported by program „Pokreni se za budućnost“ (PZB) and Philip Morris operations a.d. • The first astronomical observatory was built for non-professional astronomers in south Serbia • The observatory is remotely controlled and equipped for night-sky and Solar observations.
- 5. PROJECT “ASTRONOMY FROM AN ARMCHAIR” • The crucial part of the project – popularization of astronomy • Observations on regular basis for general publics • Public talks on interesting topics in astrophysics and physics • Most of talks and some observations were recorded and/or live streamed over the Internet • The most important: • Most of the project was realised in Do-it-yourself way
- 6. HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? • 1996 – Astronomical Society „Alpha“ • Public talks - popular science • Astronomical observations for general publics • Only modest astronomical equipement • The main goal - the city observatory and the planetarium
- 10. “ASTRONOMY FROM AN ARMCHAIR“ (2012-2013) • Project was accomplished by a five-member team of students from the Department of Phyiscs, Faculty of Science and Mathematics, NiŠ, in cooperation with members of the Astronomical society „Alpha“. • Members: • Zoran Tomić, coordinator • Marko Rančić • Saša Rančev • Nenad Živić • Milan Milošević • Supervisor: • Prof. Dr. Dragan Gajić
- 11. AIM OF THE PROJECT • Promote astronomy as science and to open the first astronomical observatory in Niš, on the roof of the Faculty. • Possibility for onsite and offsite observations • Observation of the night sky and the Sun
- 12. REMOTE ASTRONOMY? Mauna Kea Observatory iTelescope.com
- 14. POSSIBILITIES • Completely autonomous telescope • Remote control of the telescope (one user at a time) • Presentation for a small group • Live streaming
- 16. REMOTE ASTRONOMY IN NIŠ • Education and Astronomy for Schools • Sky Tours Live Streams • Astrophotography • Research… maybe, one day ☺
- 17. ONLINE OBSERVATION – 1ST LIVE STREAMING
- 18. 100.000+ VIEWERS IN ONE DAY MARCH 20, 2015 Live straming…
- 19. PUBLIC TALKS – POPULAR SCIENCE LIVE STREAM • Available equipment • Free software and services • 2-3 laptops + tablet or phone • Presenter • Video mix • Communication / chat • Network: LAN + 2 internet link • Uplink for stream • Independent link (preview) • (Web) camera + microphone
- 20. LIVE STREAM • Software: vMix Live Video Streaming (www.vmix.com) • Video streaming platforms: Ustream, Livestream, … • The best experience Google Hangouts and Youtube • Embed to websites! • Communication – chat (comments), Twitter, Facebook • Telescope control: • Propriety software, Stellarium • Remote access - Teamviewer
- 21. INTERNET IS GREAT, IT IS GOOD TO BE ONLINE HOWEVER…
- 24. HOW DID IT ALL BEGIN? • The first and the second video conference with CERN (2011) • Organized by SEENET-MTP Network and Physical Society Niš Video conference with CERN organized during BSS2011
- 25. CERN MASTERCLASSES 2016, 2017… • The International Particle Physics Masterclasses is Serbia are organized by Universities of Belgrade, Novi Sad, Niš and Kragujevac, in conjunction with the International Particle Physics Outreach Group. • The aim of the Masterclasses is to introduce an exciting and rapidly developing scientific field dealing with some of the fundamental secrets of the nature to the 4th year high school students. • The lectures given by active researchers and professors will bring insight into topics and methods of basic research of matter, particles and forces acting between them, thus enabling students to perform exercises with the real data from particle physics experiments performed at CERN, Geneva.
- 27. TOOLS FOR STUDENTS - SIMULATIONS HYPATIA (ATLAS, CERN)
- 28. CERN VIRTUAL TOUR & VIDEO CONFERENCE
- 29. CERN – REAL TOUR ☺
- 30. CAN WE USE IT FOR REAL SCIENCE? PROBABLY YES, WE WILL TRY SOON…
- 31. CERN – SEENET-MTP PHD TRAINING PROGRAM • SEENET-MTP - Southeastern European Network in Mathematical and Theoretical Physics (23 institutions, 13 partners, about 400 individual members) • Series of intense, self-connected, one-week seminars for PhD students • Lectures followed by appropriate exercises, given by 2-3 professors-specialist and 1- 2 assistants. • 4 seminars: • Supergravity (Belgrade, Serbia, 2015) • Modern Aspects of Quantum Field Theory (Bucharest, Romania, 2015) • Computational methods in Cosmology and General Relativity (Timisoara, Romania, 2016) • New Trends in High Energy Theory (Sofia, Bulgaria, 2017) • Next: • SEENET-MTP Balkan School and Workshop BSW2018: School: High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology and Workshop: Field Theories and Early Universe http://phd.seenet-mtp.info http://bsw2018.seenet-mtp.info/
- 32. THEORETICAL PHYSICS… International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) Trieste, Italy
- 33. LIVE STREAMING? • Lot of problems! • Blackboard (whiteboard) is essential • You can use smartboard, however… • In most cases – presentation + blackboard • There are some solutions • ICTP Postgraduate Diploma Programme (www.ictp.tv) recorded by EyA System, developed by Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) and the ICTP Scientific FabLab. • http://sdu.ictp.it/eya/about.html and http://www.openeya.org/
- 34. LIVE STREAMING • Unfortunately, not in real time • Plans for future – build similar system (and, maybe, test it at BS2018) ☺ HOUR 1&2 (2017.09.18) Lecturer: K.S. Narain (ICTP)
- 35. THANK YOU / HVALA / ХВАЛА ☺ Milan Milošević Department of Physics Faculty of Science and Mathematics University of Niš, Serbia mmilan@svetnauke.org www.svetnauke.org facebook.com/mmilan linkedin.com/in/mmilann/ http://alfa.org.rs http://www.seenet-mtp.info