1. The Night Sky Live Project PI: Robert J. Nemiroff & The Night Sky Live Collaboration

2. Web address: http://NightSkyLive.net People: Faculty: Noah Bosch (Tel Aviv U.), Wellesley Pereira (Michigan Tech), J. Bruce Rafert (Clemson), John Oliver (Florida), Chris Impey (Arizona) Graduate students: Lior Shamir (MTU), Shet Tilvi (MTU) Undergraduate students (MTU): Dan Cordell, Vic Muzzin, Matt Merlo The Night Sky Live Project

3. Three General Objectives Primary Science Temporal monitoring and archiving of entire visible sky down to visual magnitude 6. Search for meteors, unusual stellar variability, GRB OTs, comet variability, novae, supernovae, etc. Support Science Instantaneous cloud monitors, archival cloud monitors, generate real-time all-sky opacity and skyglow maps Education / Outreach Show your class last night ’ s (real) sky, archival skies, monitor meteor showers in real time, show educational sky movies, run educational modules The Night Sky Live Project

6. CONCAM Locations The Night Sky Live Project Ten NSL nodes are currently deployed -- more are being built

7. Four of the Ten CONCAM locations Kitt PeakMt. Wilson Mauna KeaWise Obs. The Night Sky Live Project

8. Easy & Inexpensive Hardware: computer Software: web browser Cost: free Night sky coverage angular: nearly complete time: always on 24/7 Image Cadence: 3m56s Image Depth: approximately human The Night Sky Live Project

9. Real Time Viewing allows... Demonstrate what is visible from different parts of Earth right now where is it: daytime, nighttime? where are the moon, planets, stars? Meteors View meteor showers in progress, during class time Comets Example: What does Comet Machholz look like right now? The Night Sky Live Project

10. Near Real Time Viewing allows… What did last night ’ s sky look like? At sunset? At sunrise? Movie: diurnal motion last night, annotated How has Comet Maccholz changed recently? One month ago Yesterday Any good Geminids meteors caught last month? Toward which constellation do they point? How was the night sky different last month? The Night Sky Live Project

11. Fisheye Images allow... How parts of the sky relate How inferior planets hug the horizon Zodiacal light views Trace back of meteors to radiant Comet tales The Night Sky Live Project

12. Time Lapse Sky Movies show... Diurnal motion Variable star changes Retrograde motion of planets The Night Sky Live Project

13. Global Coverage allows... Comparison of the same sky from different locations Always a place where it is nighttime to show your class The Night Sky Live Project

14. Learning Modules allow... In class collaborative learning Homework Current modules Diurnal motion Variable stars Modules include short hyperlinked lesson with NSL hyperlinks, images a quiz with answers provided The Night Sky Live Project

15. Advanced Undergraduate Using the photometry tables Tracking star brightness with altitude Tracking variable stars with time Using the raw FITS images computing raw photometric measures stars, comets, meteors, satellite glints finding cosmic rays What was that? Problem solving with unknown image artifacts The Night Sky Live Project

16. Popularity Already 1000s of page views nightly Advertising Cloud monitor seen by astronomers that also teach Astro 101 Unique images featured on APOD, already a resource for teaching Astro 101 Bulletin board fosters discussion The Night Sky Live Project

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