REMOTE ACCESS CASE STUDYEXPERIENCES FROM ASTRONOMY PROJECT

MILAN MILOŠEVIĆ

DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICSFACULTY OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

UINIVERSITY OF NIŠ

ICT Networking for Overcoming Technical and Social Barriers in Instrumental Analytical Chemistry EducationNETCHEM Work Meeting, 4-9 December 2017, Belgrade, Serbia

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 oftransient phenomena.

• Amateur astronomers have made and contributed to many importantastronomical discoveries, such as findingnew comets.

http://vimeo.com/57130400

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

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.

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

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

“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

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 andthe Sun

REMOTE ASTRONOMY?

Mauna Kea Observatory

iTelescope.com

COMPLETELY AUTONOMOUS TELESCOPES

Example

POSSIBILITIES

• Completely autonomous telescope

• Remote control of the telescope (one user at a time)

• Presentation for a small group

• Live streaming

GOOD EXAMPLE OF

AUTONOMOUS OBSERVATORIES

WORKING TOGETHER

REMOTE ASTRONOMYIN NIŠ

• Education and Astronomy forSchools

• Sky Tours Live Streams

• Astrophotography

• Research… maybe, one day☺

ONLINE OBSERVATION – 1ST LIVE STREAMING

100.000+ VIEWERS IN ONE DAYMARCH 20, 2015

Live straming…

PUBLIC TALKS – POPULAR SCIENCELIVE 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

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

INTERNET IS GREAT, IT IS GOOD TO BE ONLINEHOWEVER…

(ASTRO)PHYSICS AND SCIENCE

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

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.

CERN MASTERCLASSES2016, 2017…

TOOLS FOR STUDENTS - SIMULATIONS

HYPATIA (ATLAS, CERN)

CERN VIRTUAL TOUR & VIDEO CONFERENCE

CERN – REAL TOUR ☺

CAN WE USE IT FOR REAL SCIENCE?PROBABLY YES, WE WILL TRY SOON…

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/

THEORETICAL PHYSICS…

International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)Trieste, Italy

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 EyASystem, developed by Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) and the ICTP Scientific FabLab.

• http://sdu.ictp.it/eya/about.html and http://www.openeya.org/

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)

THANK YOU / HVALA / ХВАЛА ☺

Milan Milošević

Department of PhysicsFaculty of Science and MathematicsUniversity of Niš, Serbia

mmilan@svetnauke.org

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