GLORIA Automatic for the people Lorraine Hanlon Space Science Group University College Dublin IAA Belfast, February 6 th, 2013
UCD Space Science Group Research Theme 1: The High Energy Universe Gamma-Ray Bursts INTEGRAL Fermi/GBM Swift XMM- Newton Optical follow-up Space Ground
UCD Space Science Group Research Theme 2: Next generation missions & technology Laue Lens Medical Apps Gamma- Ray Imaging Gamma- Ray Sensors Space Apps Detector Design
UCD Watcher Robotic Telescope
Connecting with the Cosmos Image: Peter Tisdall, UCD
Image: Emer O Boyle, UCD Connecting with the Cosmos
If you had your own telescope anywhere in the world, what would you do with it?
Volunteers Universities GLORIA Amateurs Astronomers Schools GLORIA aims to provide all the tools necessary for diverse communities to work together synergistically to create and share new astronomy knowledge
Talk Outline Citizen Astronomy Robotic Telescopes in Research & Education Elements of GLORIA Telescopes Web interface & authoring tool Live broadcasts Educational activities
Citizen Astronomy: A new tool for astronomy research
Robotic Telescopes in Research
Bradford Robotic Telescope Project Blackrock Castle Observatory & UCD Irish pilot recently rolled out in Dublin & Cork, funded by Forfas
Are the images obtained by the telescope exciting and inspirational for you? 1 2 3 4 5 Bradford in Ireland 1% 0% 8% 35% 56% Has using the telescope got you more interested in studying Physics for the Leaving Certificate? 7% 1 2 3 4 5 7% 21% Has using the telescope got you more interested in studying Science at University than before? 11% 1 2 3 4 5 5% 20% 19% 27% 37% 46%
? telescopes Where are GLORIA
Name Location Aperture size (m) BOOTES-1 Andalucia, Spain 0.3 BOOTES-2/TELMA Andalucia, Spain 0.6 BOOTES-3/Yock-Allen New Zealand 0.6 CAB-EVA1 Avila, Spain 0.5 CAB-CAB Madrid, Spain 0.4 CAB-CAHA Almeria, Spain 0.5 BART Czech Republic 0.254 & 0.1 FRAM Argentina 0.3 Pi of the Sky I Chile 0.07 Pi of the Sky 2 Huelva, Spain 0.07 Watcher South Africa 0.4 C. Tololo Chile 0.5 OM Madrid, Spain 0.25 TAD Tenerife, Spain 0.26 D50 Czech Republic 0.5 FAVOR Russia 0.15 Mini-MegaTORTORA Spain 0.07x9
T1 T2 T3 T4 Optional subtitle - 28pt T5 T6 T7 T8 T9 T10 T11 T12 T13 T14 T15 T16
Interface Web Authoring tool: An easy-to-use tool to allow you to customise the telescope function as you want
For a community experiment, images must be served rapidly to create a fluid and engaging experience for the user A new API protocol has been developed and was implemented for the first time in the new galaxyzoo.org
A more general interface This example - now being tested on the first 500 volunteers - uses data from Hubble Space Telescope archives. The task is to identify clusters in our nearest galaxy, M31.
FLORA - a FITS viewer FLORA is a javascript library which allows the display and manipulation of FITS files in the browser. This implementation also uses optimize.js to do point-source modelling.
Fitting in the browser
Complex curve fitting with optimize.js is now integrated in the LIFERAY framework, and ready for integration with data from telescopes.
Interface Web Can you bring your own toys to the party? An open protocol is being developed for connecting your telescope into the GLORIA network Totally open source philosophy
Engaging newcomers
Broadcasting Events Developing new peer to peer broadcasting technology Web Partners live.gloria-project.eu Collaborator s
Impact of GLORIA so far GLORIA web followers New multi-language public website ~ 6 months ago. Website visitors: 94,271 visits 71,686 unique visitors 172,662 page views 99 different countries Facebook page: >5000 followers YouTube channel: 26 videos, >200,000 views gloria-project.eu
Live event followers Impact of GLORIA so far Transit of Venus (5-6 June): 369,048 visits, 1,770,311 page views, 92,939 viewers Northern lights 2012 (24-28 August): 65,052 visits, 4,869,129 page views, 39,881 viewers
Social GLORIA Message to the future Flickr album: 485 photos (look back after 100 years and see how flickr.com/groups/m things have changed) essagetothefuture youtube.com/user/gloriaproject facebook.com/gloriaprojec t
Social GLORIA Message to the Future
News Flash! GLORIA telescopes will observe Asteroid 2012 DA14 Images will be taken by TAD and Montegancedo and updated every 5 mins or so on gloria-project.eu We re also asking you to share your images on: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gloriada14/
Press coverage worldwide GLORIA in the press 146 articles in the press: 26 on printed press, 93 on web-press, 13 on press agencies, 10 on radio-tv. News in 14 countries : Europe, Italy, Australia, Spain, Argentina, Poland, Germany, France, Mexico, USA, Chile, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Russia 18 August 2012 15 March 2012
GLORIA Visual High-quality pictures and videos
GLORIA visual
Transit of Venus video
GLORIA visual APOD of October 3 rd, 2012 apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121003.html 17/22
Northern lights video
Total Solar Eclipse November 2012
gloria-project.eu/venus-webcalc/ GLORIA educational Venus web-calc Earth-Sun distance
GLORIA educational So far: 1. Earth-Sun distance 2. Midnight Sun (latitude of observation site) 3. Calculation of Aurora altitude from images using colour and parallax methods Total Solar Eclipse: use meteo-station data to monitor atmospheric changes during the event.
Atmospheric changes tool
GLORIA is for YOU GLORIA won t survive without a healthy community of users That means you! Two telescopes currently integrated into the network Remainder online this year Please help us test the system & try to break it www.gloria-project.eu
Do people array have to tell us if they use the data for a paper? Is there any seeing quality data provided? Is there calibration data provided for each observation?
Mike Foylan (foylanm@esatclear.ie) Photometry of asteroids Minor planet bulletin Open to going to schools and showing how the analysis is done MPO Canopus-s/w; not open source but cheap $ 65 Dave McDonald also works in this Ben Emmett Dublin City FM; Tuesday pm Astronomy show