The Faulkes Telescope Project Deep Impact & Bioastronomy

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The Faulkes Telescope Project Deep Impact & Bioastronomy Institute for Astronomy University of Hawaii K. Meech

Faulkes Telescope Project Educational Partnership: Educational Trust of Great Britain (UK) Institute for Astronomy (HI) Purpose: Astronomy Outreach Location: Haleakala, Maui Hawaii Australia Operations Remote control from the UK & Hawaii Observe from classrooms Queue Scheduled 30% of evenings for Hawaii

The Faulkes Telescope Professional Telescope Optical Detector 2-m f/10 primary – alt/azimuth 12 arc min FOV Guider to 17th mag Optical Detector EEV CCD42-20 CCD: 2048x2048 pixels (0.135”) 4.6 x 4.6’ FOV Filters: Sloan u', g', r', i', z', B, V, ND Future instruments: Near IR imager Spectrograph

Project Status MOU 6/26/99 Enclosure – Scotland Ship: 7/02 Install 11/22/02 Telescope ship 8/02 Site blessing 11/02/01 Telescope Install 1/23/03 Electronics 7/03 First light 8/03 Operations Oct 04 Phase 1 construction – 3/2002

Faulkes Education Program TOPS Education Outreach Program – S’03 (NSF/NASA) Take “master teachers” Train for remote observing Simulate the Faulkes Experience 3 days learning to plan observations 1 day planning, learn web interface Receive data, learn image processing 1 weekend to analyze data and formulate a report Astrobiology & Deep Impact

What can students do? Young Variables: star form Kuiper Belt Studies Colors & physical study Recovery  orbits Comet Studies Rotation Space mission support NEO Characterization

What can students do? Extrasolar Planet Transits Synoptic Studies of Jupiter Rotation Synoptic Studies of Mars Dust storms Courtesy of D. Charbonneau, Caltech

Project Goals Develop a teacher mentor network of teachers Astronomer-teacher liasons Provide software Develop an image data archive Increase astronomy content in classrooms Curriculum materials Science fair participation

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