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How-To Videos
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| How Telescopes Focus Light | Hands-on Activities | This hands-on activity allows you to experience how mirrors are used to focus light in a telescope. | |
| Making a Color Image | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Aligning Images in Afterglow | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Comparing Brightness in Afterglow | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Opening Images in Afterglow | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Your First Skynet Image Request | Unspecified | How-to Videos |
AAS Meeting Posters
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| AAS Poster: Bringing Astronomy to Deaf and Hard of Hearing Youth | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Authors describe lessons learned as they use SJS to bring observational astronomy to the DHH audience in accessible way for the first time! |
| AAS Poster: Implementation with Blind and Low Vision Youth | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Educators and students from the Wisconsin School for the Blind and Visually Impaired share how they have engaged in SJS activities! |
| AAS Poster: Implementing SJS in Out-of School Time Settings | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Educators share their tips and tricks for conducting SJS in after school programs, at parks, and during in-school free time. Lots of images from the s |
| AAS Poster: Implementation in 4-H Settings | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | 4-H leaders describe the ways Skynet Junior Scholars has been used with youth in various 4-H programs in WV and WI! |
ASL Videos
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Skynet Robotic Telescope Network | Video | How-to Videos | ASL description of Skynet Robotic Telescope Network |
| The Yerkes 24-Inch Telescope | Video | How-to Videos | |
| ASL Vocab Intro | Video | How-to Videos | |
| Welcome ASL Scholars | Video | How-to Videos | An American Sign Language Video welcoming all ASL users to the Skynet Junior Scholars program |
| Make Your First Image Request | Video | How-to Videos | American Sign Language video to assist ASL users in learning how to use Skynet to make an image request |
Advice from the experts
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| How to image the Moon | Unspecified | Explore More | Collaboration, search Moon, find good and poor examples. Use lothru filters, like U, B, u, h-alpha, exposure time 0.03, 0.04, 0.05s. |
| SB What's Observable? | Unspecified | Explore More | This tool provides a list of asteroids and/or comets which are optically observable from the specified location on a specified date. |
| Visibility Graph Advice (pdf) | Video | Hands-on Activities | This document describes how to use the Visibility Graph in Skynet to determine if an object is observable from a telescope. Word format. |
| Find an Asteroid to Observe (docx) | Document | Hands-on Activities | Advice from Viv on how to create a cool iist of asteroids and comets to observe. In word format. |
| Find an Asteroid to Observe (pdf) | Hands-on Activities | Advice from Viv on how to create a cool iist of asteroids and comets to observe. | |
| Cheat Sheet for the Markdown Tools | Unspecified | How-to Videos | Markdown is a text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers. This webpage shows you how to use the Markdown syntax. |
| Visibility Graph Advice (docx) | Video | Explore More | This document describes how to use the Visibility Graph in Skynet to determine if an object is observable from a telescope. Word format. |
| Meet the Astronomers | Unspecified | Explore More |
Misc Resources
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Globe At Night: January-February 2017 Guide | Hands-on Activities | Participate in the Globe at Night campaign for January and February of 2017. This guide and globeatnight.org website explains the project! | |
| POST-SJS Research Survey for Students | Unspecified | Explore More | When your SJS leader says you are ready, take this survey at the end of your SJS club meetings. |
| PRE-SJS Research Survey for Students | Unspecified | Explore More | Take this survey when you log in to SJS for the first time -- before you have done any activities. |
| Playdoh Electronics Activity | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Skynet Telescopes use circuits to open and close telescope domes, slew telescopes and take data. Build your own simple circuits with playdoh! |
| Find a local astronomy club | Unspecified | Explore More | |
| NASA Night Sky Network club locations | Unspecified | Explore More | |
| Images from Hubble Space Telescope | Unspecified | Explore More |
What How Why
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make Your Own Celestial Sphere to understand Coordinates | ZIP | Hands-on Activities | Print template on cardstock (90% or two/page). Construct a celestial sphere to investigate RA and Dec grid. Need scissors, glue, opt. puncher, brads. |
| Darks, Bias and Flats, Oh My! | Unspecified | Explore More | What are those Darks, Bias, and Flats files at the bottom of my images in Skynet? Find out here! |
| Skynet Telescopes Field of View | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | How much Sky can Skynet Telescopes see? |
| How a CCD camera works (flash animation) | Unspecified | How-to Videos | See how a CCD camera works on a telescope. |
| Light path through a telescope animation (flash) | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | See how telescopes focus light! This animation was created for another robotic telescope called the Faulkes telescope |
| Skynet junior Scholars Glossary | Unspecified | Explore More | The glossary contains definitions for words found in the activities. Let us know if you find a word that needs to be added to the glossary. |
| Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum | Unspecified | Explore More | |
| Skynet telescopes | Unspecified | Explore More | Learn how the Skynet Telescope Network got started! |
Radio Astronomy
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Using the 20 Meter | Video | Explore More | Radio Astronomy and how to use the 20 Meter Telescope. |
| Electromagnetic War | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Play the old card game "War" with cards depicting different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum! |
| How to access radio data from Skynet | Unspecified | Explore More | Word Document describing how to access radio data from Skynet. |
| Making Radio Observations Pt. 2 | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Making Radio Observations Pt. 1 | Unspecified | How-to Videos | |
| Green Bank 20-meter Data Log | Unspecified | Explore More | All 20-meter data is stored here in chronological order, with the most recent observation at the bottom of the page. |
| Green Bank 20-meter Observing Advice | Unspecified | Explore More | Provides mapping and daisy advice for submitting radio image observations. Also provides high resolution neutral hydrogen spectral observation advice. |
Investigate Filters
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Version of Astro Image Processor | ZIP | Explore More | small "bug" fixes and an "RGB Plot Wizard", which automates the steps to build a color image. See: https://discourse.skynetjuniorscholars.org/t/update |
| Fun with Filters PDF for use by youth working on their own. | Hands-on Activities | This version will work like a slide show without needing powerpoint. Spoiler Alert! It has answers embedded in the activity. | |
| Color the Universe - Image Making Tutorial by Travis Rector | Document | Explore More | Image-making tutorial reflects the latest version of Photoshop. Example of M16 with only narrowband filters. Fits Liberator also required. |
| DS9 | Unspecified | Explore More | Here is an alternative to Astro Image Processor for working with image data -- including making a color image. |
| Multi-Sensory Astro-Research Poster that includes how to Make a Color Image with DS9 | Unspecified | Explore More | Education Poster NITARP features best practices to include Deaf and Hard of Hearing and Blind and Low Vision Youth in Astronomy Research Projects |
| Using Astronomical Filters on Skynet Telescopes | Explore More | Learn how and why astronomers design and use filters. | |
| Fun With Filters Presentation | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Interactive powerpoint to use with the red, green and blue filters in your kit. pdf version |
| Fun with Filters Leader Guide | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | All of the filter activities in one guide. Includes notes for the powerpoint presentation. |
| Fun with Filters Powerpoint Presentation | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Interactive powerpoint to use with the red, green and blue filters in your kit. |
| Skynet Telescope Filters | Explore More | A brief description of each filter used on the Skynet optical telescopes | |
| Light Sensing Sound Generation Kit-- will convert light into sound | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Now you can LISTEN to learn that filters block some wavelengths of light and let others through. Cute kit requires soldering. |
| AstroImageProcessor.jar Older Version4_3 | Video | Explore More | External program used to combine images into a color image. You need to have the latest version of Java enabled: https://www.java.com/en/download |
| Hubble: Behind the Pictures – Making Meaning of Color | Unspecified | Explore More | Website that illustrates how astronomers use color to highlight interesting features of the celestial object(s) in an image. |
Files for Tactile Images
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Touch the Universe with Skynet Images | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Tactile Astronomy - SJS images prepared to be copied on swellform paper and processed through a Thermoform Graphics Machine. |
| SOFIA Tactile Images: Circumnuclear Ring | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) imaged the center of the Milky way to reveal in far infrared the dusty Circumnuclear Ring, |
| Braille_Filters_M27_gfilter | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | File for creating a tactile print of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula taken with an g filter(SDSS |
| Braille_Filters_M27_rfilter | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | File for creating a tactile print of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula taken with an r filter(SDSS). |
| Braille_Filters_M27_ifilter | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | File for creating a tactile print of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula taken with an i filter(SDSS). |
| Braille_Filters_M27 | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | File for creating a tactile image of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula |
| Braille Translator from Math is Fun | Unspecified | Explore More | You can use this translation tool to print out the Braille for signs, notes, and so on. |
| Amazing Space Tactile Astronomy | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | Many images of celestial objects taken with Hubble Space Telescope, with files prepared for creating tactile images, and big print explanations. |
Size and Scale Activities
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Cosmos in Perspective | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | With this activity you will be exploring a scale model to illustrate the large scale structure of the Universe. |
| Pocket Solar System | Unspecified | Hands-on Activities | This quick model of the solar system is created by folding a piece of register tape. The relative distances between the planets are illustrated. |
| Sizing up the Moon | Video | Hands-on Activities | Using play-doh, predict a model of the Earth and Moon to show the relative sizes and distances, then construct an accurate model and compare. |
Miscellaneous
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| SJS Workshop commitment form | For Leaders | This form must be completed and signed by a youth leader and their supervisor before participating in an SJS workshop. | |
| i-CAN Constellation Cameras | Video | Explore More | Point a video camera sensitive to the stars at constellations in a variety of locations around the globe! |
Skynet Community Meeting Presentations
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Image Sets
| Title | File Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| FITS images of Venus showing phases and changing angular size! | Document | Hands-on Activities | Venus images taken by Yerkes-24" 2001-2004. Compare the angular sizes of Venus and correlate with its' phases. Think, Research, Explain! |