REMOTE ACCESS CASE STUDY EXPERIENCES FROM ASTRONOMY PROJECT

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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.

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:

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

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10 ASTRONOMY FROM AN ARMCHAIR ( ) 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

13 COMPLETELY AUTONOMOUS TELESCOPES Example

14 POSSIBILITIES Completely autonomous telescope Remote control of the telescope (one user at a time) Presentation for a small group Live streaming

15 GOOD EXAMPLE OF AUTONOMOUS OBSERVATORIES WORKING TOGETHER

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 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 ( 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

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23 (ASTRO)PHYSICS AND SCIENCE

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.

26 CERN MASTERCLASSES 2016, 2017

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: Next: 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) SEENET-MTP Balkan School and Workshop BSW2018: School: High Energy and Particle Physics: Theory and Phenomenology and Workshop: Field Theories and Early Universe

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 ( recorded by EyA System, developed by Science Dissemination Unit (SDU) and the ICTP Scientific FabLab. and

34 LIVE STREAMING Unfortunately, not in real time Plans for future build similar system (and, maybe, test it at BS2018) HOUR 1&2 ( ) 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 facebook.com/mmilan linkedin.com/in/mmilann/