WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF WP5 – SA3 Service activities for higher education and outreach presented by Massimo Ramella (INAF)

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Objectives Provide tools for access to VO data for higher education students, for middle school teachers and students, and for amateur astronomers Provide some basic information on the main classes of objects available to our public within the Euro VO database. Contact various international projects for the diffusion of astronomy in order to merge (part of) their knowledge base with our outreach interfaces

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Deliverable D5.2 (April 2009) Aladin Beta Version Stellarium Version VirGO Version SimPlay 7 Use Cases with information on astronomical objects Electronic feed-back form Poster: The Sky, and Leaflet: EuroVO-AIDA Outreach WP5 TWiki WebPages strasbg.fr/twikiAIDA/bin/view/EuroVOAIDA/WP5Outr eachhttp://cds.u- strasbg.fr/twikiAIDA/bin/view/EuroVOAIDA/WP5Outr each

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Software tools Aladin, our access to VO data and toolsAladin Stellarium, the sky at a glanceStellarium Simplay, the fastest viewerSimplay Aladin and Stellarium are available in the languages of the partners, Simplay is in English, French and Italian

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Use Cases the sky (celestial sphere, constellations, light pollution) the sky the stars (stellar observables, H.-R. diagram) the stars the Pleiades (stellar parallaxes, stellar evolution, H.-R. diagram)the Pleiades the Barnard’s star (proper motions)the Barnard’s star confirmation of a candidate Supernova (astrometry, SN)confirmation of a candidate Supernova the shape of galaxies (Hubble diagram and galaxy morphology) the shape of galaxies distance of the Crab Nebula (linear vs angular size, expansion of the remnant)distance of the Crab Nebula distance to the Andromeda galaxy (galaxies, distances)distance to the Andromeda galaxy asteroids in the Solar System (distribution, orbital elements, risonances) asteroids in the Solar System planetary conjunctions (conjunctions, the Star of Bethlehem)planetary conjunctions Massimo Ramella, WPTL, INAF

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF The new Web Site Our products are freely available in our dedicated web site: –WP5 has been awarded the STELLA awardSTELLA –WP5 can be reached also from the site of the project Hands-On Universe Hands-On Universe

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Phase A 1.Requirements and choice of outreach interfaces 2.Production and/or modification of existing software 3.Translation of outreach interfaces 4.Basic documentation with some examples Phase B 1.Identify testers and design appealing projects for them 2.Test Interface 3.Gather, translate and organize feed-back for interface revisions Phase C 1.Produce documents (userguide, primer, examples, basic script library...) 2.Produce basic outreach content for interface and dedicated web-site 3.Distribute and promote the use of our outreach products The work plan Cycle 1 (students main target, WP5 persons present in class) Test Interface Cycle 2 (main goal: teachers self-sufficiency)

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Diffusion of WP5 products New web site VO-Day in tour throughout ItalyVO-Day in tour workshops,conferences,other initiatives Synergy with Hands On UniverseHands On Universe Haus der Astronomie (Heidelberg) another possible home for WP5Haus der Astronomie

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF WP5 in Trieste WP5 together with Le Stelle Vanno a Scuola, a case of synchronous eLearningLe Stelle Vanno a Scuola Esploracosmo, a WP5 laboratoryEsploracosmo WP5 fosters the study of astronomy –new group of young amateur astronomers –program of remote radio observations with the 2.3 antenna at ONSALA – SALSA (HOU) –significant increase of requests for astronomy lectures in schools

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF WP5: To be done before the end Small fixes and last wishes for software tools Quick guides for Aladin and Stellarium More translations (last week: 5 use cases translated in Spanish!) Further activity in classrooms Bring SalsaJ and Aladin together via SAMP

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Da:Novel A:Giulia Iafrate Oggetto:Articolo su EuroVO_AIDA/WP5 - Grazie da David Data:Sun, 14 Mar :27: (ora solare Europa occidentale) Gentile dott.ssa Giulia Iafrate, sono io che ringrazio Lei e il dott. Ramella per tutte le cose che avete trasmesso a me e ai giovani astrofili del Galilei grazie al Vostro progetto EuroVO- AIDA/wp5. La saluto cordialmente e La ringrazio di tutto. David

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF Esploracosmo

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF WP5 and the telescope of Le Stelle Vanno a Scuola

WP 5 EuroVO-AIDA – Second periodic review – 30 March 2010 Massimo Ramella, WPMTL, INAF