AstrolabE comes from the work of three MINES ParisTech students: Romain Maire, Nikolas Stott and Julien Tanneau. The software was developed during their Acte d’Entreprendre project, that takes place over the first two years at MINES ParisTech. This course aims at pushing the students to realise independently a project they care about.After an idea of Mr. Uzan and Lehoucq, researchers respectively at IAP (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) and CEA (Commissariat aux Energies Atomiques et Alternatives), who we thank for their technical and relational help, and for their suggestions, we have chosen to modernize the ancient astrolabe in order to :Help astronomers to look at the sky another way Fill an educational goal, by animating initiations to astronomy and its history feature. - check out more at: http://www.igam4er.org/projects/view/88/astrolabe#sthash.HIOjIgyr.dpuf

1. Romain Maire
Nikolas Stott
Julien Tanneau

3. Maths
Astronomy
Physics
History
of
Science

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Hard to find, and often expensive
Difficult to use
Depends on a particular latitude, fixed
number of stars.
Our solution : a digital astrolabe.

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User oriented learning
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Four chronological quests:
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Greek quest: handling the astrolabe
Arab quest: travel, predictions
Renaissance: astronomy concepts, navigation
Nowadays: using the digital astrolabe for more
complex problems

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Quest: Greek Quest
◦ Mission 1 title
 Objective 1: instructions
o Help from the astronomer
o Validation when astrolabe in right set up
o Scientific or historical explanation
 Objective 2
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◦ Mission 2

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During the quests : storyline
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Sandbox: do as it pleases you
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Challenges: random, timed problems

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Larger public touched by the app
Handling the astrolabe and learning sciences
at the same time
Designed for amateurs, but suitable for any
public