This document discusses how astronomy research can be conducted via the internet without the need for expensive local observatories or instrumentation. Some key points made include:
1) Astronomy research can be done remotely using data from space telescopes and other large ground-based facilities available online. This makes research possible from any location with an internet connection.
2) Access to astronomical data archives, journals, software, and opportunities for remote observing and collaborations allow cutting-edge research to be done with only a computer and internet access.
3) The declining costs of computers, internet connectivity, and online data storage have made internet-based astronomy research a low-cost option for developing countries compared to establishing local observatories.
Head in the clouds: Engaging with the web for archaeologistsdavstott
This presentation was given on 22nd of september 2011 at the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) in Poznan, Poland.
It explores how archaeologists could exploit citizen science collaborations to make better use of the ever proliferating quantity of aerial and satellite data.
Life, the Universe, andSETI in a NutshellSérgio Sacani
Todate,no
SETI
observing
program
hassucceededindetectinganyunambiguousevidenceofan
extraterrestrial
technology.Regrettably,
this
paper
willtherefore
not
dazzleyou
with
the
analysisof
the
contentsofanyinterstellarmessages.However,asis
appropriate
foraplenarypresentation,
this
paper
doesprovidean
update
on
the
state
of
SETI
programsworldwide.Itdiscusses
the
various flavors ofobservational
SETI
projectscurrentlyon
the
air,plansforfutureinstrumentation,recent
attempts
toproactively
plan
forsuccess,
andthe
prospectsforfuture
public/private
partnershipstofundtheseefforts.
Thepaper
concludes
with
some
tentative
responsesto
the What
ifeverybodyislistening,
and
nobodyis
transmitting?
query.
The passage discusses several factors that contributed to the decline of the parallel cinema movement in India from 1980-2000. This period saw radical economic and technological transformations, including the expansion of Doordarshan's television network, the introduction of color TV, and the launch of economic liberalization policies. These policies ended Doordarshan's broadcasting monopoly and allowed satellite television to enter India. Commercial internet also arrived in 1995. These technological changes captured the attention of India's growing urban middle class and provided more media choices, which reduced support for parallel cinema.
Cyberinfrastructure to Support Ocean ObservatoriesLarry Smarr
05.03.18
Invited Talk to the Ocean Studies Board
National Research Council
Title: Cyberinfrastructure to Support Ocean Observatories
University of California San Diego
Artificial intelligence in space exploration venkat vajradhar - mediumvenkatvajradhar1
Since we can’t travel billions of years back in time not yet, anyway one of the best ways to understand how our universe evolved is to create computer simulations of the process using what we do know about it.
This document provides an overview of different types of orbits used for satellites, including low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), geostationary orbit (GEO), and highly elliptical orbit (HEO). It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each orbit type, as well as their applications. Specific orbits like LEO are discussed in more detail, including factors like altitude and advantages like lower latency for communication satellites. The document also examines space debris and the increasing threat it poses to operational satellites from collisions. It notes there are over 20,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm tracked in Earth's orbit.
Use of Micro Satellites for Global Connectivity, High Speed Transmission & Da...IJSRED
This document proposes using micro satellites in very low Earth orbit to create a global connectivity network providing high-speed transmission and data analysis capabilities. The network would consist of interconnected cube satellites drifting in a planned orbit. Using high-efficiency thrusters and quantum data transmission, the network could provide low-latency connectivity down to 20-30 milliseconds globally. In addition to connectivity, the constant Earth observation capabilities could allow for weather monitoring, disaster alerts and scientific data analysis. The goals are to provide high-speed internet access globally, including rural areas, as well as accurate weather data and monitoring of natural disasters.
Head in the clouds: Engaging with the web for archaeologistsdavstott
This presentation was given on 22nd of september 2011 at the Aerial Archaeology Research Group (AARG) in Poznan, Poland.
It explores how archaeologists could exploit citizen science collaborations to make better use of the ever proliferating quantity of aerial and satellite data.
Life, the Universe, andSETI in a NutshellSérgio Sacani
Todate,no
SETI
observing
program
hassucceededindetectinganyunambiguousevidenceofan
extraterrestrial
technology.Regrettably,
this
paper
willtherefore
not
dazzleyou
with
the
analysisof
the
contentsofanyinterstellarmessages.However,asis
appropriate
foraplenarypresentation,
this
paper
doesprovidean
update
on
the
state
of
SETI
programsworldwide.Itdiscusses
the
various flavors ofobservational
SETI
projectscurrentlyon
the
air,plansforfutureinstrumentation,recent
attempts
toproactively
plan
forsuccess,
andthe
prospectsforfuture
public/private
partnershipstofundtheseefforts.
Thepaper
concludes
with
some
tentative
responsesto
the What
ifeverybodyislistening,
and
nobodyis
transmitting?
query.
The passage discusses several factors that contributed to the decline of the parallel cinema movement in India from 1980-2000. This period saw radical economic and technological transformations, including the expansion of Doordarshan's television network, the introduction of color TV, and the launch of economic liberalization policies. These policies ended Doordarshan's broadcasting monopoly and allowed satellite television to enter India. Commercial internet also arrived in 1995. These technological changes captured the attention of India's growing urban middle class and provided more media choices, which reduced support for parallel cinema.
Cyberinfrastructure to Support Ocean ObservatoriesLarry Smarr
05.03.18
Invited Talk to the Ocean Studies Board
National Research Council
Title: Cyberinfrastructure to Support Ocean Observatories
University of California San Diego
Artificial intelligence in space exploration venkat vajradhar - mediumvenkatvajradhar1
Since we can’t travel billions of years back in time not yet, anyway one of the best ways to understand how our universe evolved is to create computer simulations of the process using what we do know about it.
This document provides an overview of different types of orbits used for satellites, including low Earth orbit (LEO), medium Earth orbit (MEO), geostationary orbit (GEO), and highly elliptical orbit (HEO). It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of each orbit type, as well as their applications. Specific orbits like LEO are discussed in more detail, including factors like altitude and advantages like lower latency for communication satellites. The document also examines space debris and the increasing threat it poses to operational satellites from collisions. It notes there are over 20,000 pieces of debris larger than 10cm tracked in Earth's orbit.
Use of Micro Satellites for Global Connectivity, High Speed Transmission & Da...IJSRED
This document proposes using micro satellites in very low Earth orbit to create a global connectivity network providing high-speed transmission and data analysis capabilities. The network would consist of interconnected cube satellites drifting in a planned orbit. Using high-efficiency thrusters and quantum data transmission, the network could provide low-latency connectivity down to 20-30 milliseconds globally. In addition to connectivity, the constant Earth observation capabilities could allow for weather monitoring, disaster alerts and scientific data analysis. The goals are to provide high-speed internet access globally, including rural areas, as well as accurate weather data and monitoring of natural disasters.
This document proposes using a constellation of interconnected cube satellites in very low Earth orbit to provide global connectivity, high-speed data transmission, and data analysis. The satellites would drift relative to each other while maintaining connections to provide continuous coverage. Later phases would include smaller picosatellites for denser coverage. Data would be transmitted using quantum packets for high speeds and security. The system aims to provide internet access worldwide and enable applications like weather monitoring and disaster alerting.
The document introduces the COSMOS and NaturNet tools for describing educational resources with metadata. COSMOS allows teachers to search for and access learning objects related to astronomy, while NaturNet allows publishing and searching spatial and non-spatial resources across repositories using open standards. Examples show searching for lesson plans, visualizing map data, and publishing new educational content and maps.
The document discusses the evolving landscape of semantic technologies and their applications to scientific domains like eScience. It introduces the Tetherless World Constellation, a research group applying semantic web techniques. Examples are given of projects applying semantics to areas like virtual observatories and provenance capture. The value of semantic technologies is discussed for integration, discovery, and validation of scientific data and models. Modular ontologies and semantically-enabled frameworks are presented as important directions for reuse and collaboration.
ExoSGAN and ExoACGAN: Exoplanet Detection using Adversarial Training AlgorithmsIRJET Journal
This document discusses using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to detect exoplanets from light curve data. Specifically, it proposes two models: ExoSGAN which uses a semi-supervised GAN (SGAN) and ExoACGAN which uses an auxiliary classifier GAN (ACGAN). SGAN and ACGAN are designed to handle issues with imbalanced and unlabeled data. The models are trained on K2 light curve data and achieve 100% recall and precision on the test set, outperforming previous methods. The document provides background on exoplanet detection techniques and reviews related work applying machine learning, including CNNs, to find planets from Kepler and K2 mission data.
This document contains summaries of 3 seminar topics:
1. Figuring out the moon - Computer simulations have helped understand the moon's weak and variable magnetic field by modeling a blanket of material that briefly insulated the lunar core.
2. The internet on Mars - Plans are underway to establish an interplanetary internet by connecting individual planet networks through gateways and using a bundle protocol for long distance data transfer.
3. Satellite tracking - Over 5,000 satellites are tracked using telemetry, which measures conditions from space and monitors satellite performance, and networks of ground stations that communicate with and control satellites.
This document outlines a proposal for a national CubeSat program in the UK. CubeSats are small, inexpensive satellites that can be used for technology demonstration, education, and scientific research. The proposed program would involve industry, academia, and small businesses working together on CubeSat platforms, payloads, and ground stations. Payloads would be selected through a competition to fly experiments and further technology development. The program aims to provide regular access to space for research, hands-on experience for students, and inspiration to young people through educational outreach activities.
artificial inteliigence in spacecraft power applicationarjuna adiga
This document discusses applications of artificial intelligence in space. It describes plans by NASA and ESA to send humans to explore Mars in the coming decades. For missions to Mars, autonomous decision making will be needed due to communication delays between Earth and Mars. The document then discusses several open issues with applying current artificial intelligence methods to space engineering. It focuses on distributed artificial intelligence for swarm autonomy and situation awareness for spacecraft. Distributed computing and swarm intelligence are seen as promising applications of AI to optimize tasks like satellite communication scheduling and coordinated satellite formations.
Radiation Exposure And Its Effects On The EarthErika Nelson
Radiation exposure is a serious hazard for astronauts traveling to Europa due to its greater distance from Earth compared to Mars. The spacecraft exploring Europa would not have Earth's magnetic field to shield against radiation. Future spacecraft may use nuclear reactors and solar sails to generate artificial magnetic fields for protection.
Outernet Inc is a global broadcast data start-up currently being incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995 by Saša Vučinić and Stuart Auerbach. Outernet's goal is to provide free access to content from the web through geostationary and Low Earth Orbit satellites, made available effectively to all parts of the world.
The project uses datacasting and User Datagram Protocol through both small satellites, such as CubeSats, and larger, more conventional geostationary communications satellites in a satellite constellation network. Wi-Fi enabled devices would communicate with the satellite hotspots, which receive data broadcasts from satellites.
The document discusses nanosatellites and their advantages over larger satellites. It defines different classes of small satellites based on mass, including nanosatellites which are between 1-10 kg. Nanosatellites allow for lower costs, easier production, and more opportunities for new missions compared to larger satellites. Examples of nanosatellite applications demonstrated include technology demonstrations, Earth observation, and biological experiments. The global market for nanosatellite launches is projected to grow significantly in the coming years.
Space Weather Action Center and NASA Multiscale Magnetosphere Mission Education Resources. Learn how you can apply the 5E Instructional Model to promote STEM and STEAM to middle school students
Building a National Virtual Observatory: The Case of the Spanish Virtual Obse...Joint ALMA Observatory
Talk at the presentation workshop for the Chilean Virtual Observatory (ChiVO; http://www.chivo.cl/workshop-program), on lessons that can be learned from the development of the Spanish Virtual Observatory, and how ChiVO has already applied most of them.
Project Loon is Google's initiative to provide internet access to rural and remote areas using balloons floating in the stratosphere. The balloons carry communications equipment and solar panels to beam wireless internet signals to antennas on the ground. They are designed to move with wind currents to stay aloft for months at a time. Google conducted a pilot test of 30 balloons over New Zealand in 2013 to demonstrate the technology. Project Loon aims to bring internet access to the two-thirds of the world not currently connected and help restore connectivity after natural disasters.
This document summarizes the goals and organization of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) team at York University. The team aims to design and build a cubesat carrying an infrared camera to obtain spectral imagery of the upper atmosphere and analyze greenhouse gases. The diverse team of engineering, science, and business students works towards this goal through designing the satellite, managing the project, and securing facilities. The experience provides hands-on learning for students while pursuing the mission objectives.
LambdaGrids--Earth and Planetary Sciences Driving High Performance Networks a...Larry Smarr
05.02.04
Invited Talk to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Title: LambdaGrids--Earth and Planetary Sciences Driving High Performance Networks and High Resolution Visualizations
Pasadena, CA
Digital Science: Reproducibility and Visibility in AstronomyJose Enrique Ruiz
The science done in Astronomy is digital science, from observing proposals to final publication, to data and software used: each of the elements and actions involved in scientific output could be recorded in electronic form. This fact does not prevent the final outcome of an experiment is still difficult to reproduce. This procedure can be long, tedious, not easily accessible or understandable, even to the author. At the same time, we have a rich infrastructure of files, observational data and publications. This could be used more efficiently if we reach greater visibility of the scientific production, which avoids duplication of effort and reinvention.
Reproducibility is a cornerstone in scientific method, and extraction of relevant information in the current and future data flood is key in Astronomy. The AMIGA group (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies, IAA-CSIC, http://amiga.iaa.es) faces these two challenges in the European project "Wf4Ever: Advanced technologies for enhanced preservation workflow Science" to enable the preservation of the methodology in scalable semantic repositories to facilitate their discovery, access, inspection, exploitation and distribution. These repositories store the experiments on "Research Objects" whose main constituents are digital scientific workflows. These provide a comprehensive view and clear scientific interpretation of the experiment as well as the automation of the method, going beyond the usual pipelines that normally end up in data processing.
The quantitative leap in volume and complexity of the next generation of archives will need analysis and data mining tasks to live closer to the data, in computing and distributed storage environments, but they should also be modular enough to allow customization from scientists and be easily accessible to foster their dissemination among the community. Astronomy is a collaborative science, but it has also become highly specialized, as many other disciplines. Sharing, preservation, discovery and a much simplified access to resources in the composition of scientific workflows will enable astronomers to greatly benefit from each other’s highly specialized knowhow, they constitute a way to push Astronomy to share and publish not only results and data, but also processes and methodologies.
We will show how the use of scientific workflows can help to improve the reproducibility of the experiment and a more efficient exploitation of astronomical archives, as well as the visibility of the scientific methodology and its reuse.
1. Researchers are finding ways to use smartphones and recruit citizen scientists to collect large datasets that would be difficult to obtain otherwise.
2. One example is a project that measured atmospheric aerosols using an optical device attached to over 8,000 iPhones in the Netherlands, resulting in a high-resolution map of particles.
3. Converting smartphones into tools for citizen science may require developing an app and recruiting participants through social media and partnerships, which can be time-consuming but successful projects have obtained thousands of useful submissions.
The document provides a list of free spatial technology platforms and interactive mapping websites that can be used in geography lessons. It includes platforms to view and manipulate data like ArcExplorer and Google Earth, as well as interactive mapping sites from organizations like Geoscience Australia and National Geographic. The list also covers remote sensing sources like satellite imagery from NASA and the USGS that allow students to analyze changes in the earth's surface over time.
This document discusses the rise of citizen science, which involves members of the public collaborating with scientists on research projects. It notes that while science used to be dominated by independent researchers, rising costs caused it to become more institutionalized. However, new technologies now allow for widespread public participation through projects like analyzing astronomy images and tracking wildlife. Citizen science provides benefits like greater data collection than possible through paid researchers alone. While it requires care in project design and training volunteers, it can improve scientific understanding and communication when the public is engaged in the scientific process.
How To Write A Self Evaluation Essay. Online assignment writing service.Brandi Gonzales
The document provides steps for requesting assignment writing help from HelpWriting.net:
1. Create an account and complete a request form providing instructions, sources, and deadline.
2. Writers will bid on the request and their qualifications can be reviewed to select a writer.
3. The writer will complete the assignment and customers can request revisions to ensure satisfaction. HelpWriting.net offers refunds for plagiarized work.
Thesis Format Sample Philippines - ProofreadwebBrandi Gonzales
This document provides instructions for requesting writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment or request revisions. 5) Request multiple revisions to ensure satisfaction, with the option of a full refund for plagiarized work. The document promotes HelpWriting.net's writing assistance and guarantees of original, high-quality content.
This document proposes using a constellation of interconnected cube satellites in very low Earth orbit to provide global connectivity, high-speed data transmission, and data analysis. The satellites would drift relative to each other while maintaining connections to provide continuous coverage. Later phases would include smaller picosatellites for denser coverage. Data would be transmitted using quantum packets for high speeds and security. The system aims to provide internet access worldwide and enable applications like weather monitoring and disaster alerting.
The document introduces the COSMOS and NaturNet tools for describing educational resources with metadata. COSMOS allows teachers to search for and access learning objects related to astronomy, while NaturNet allows publishing and searching spatial and non-spatial resources across repositories using open standards. Examples show searching for lesson plans, visualizing map data, and publishing new educational content and maps.
The document discusses the evolving landscape of semantic technologies and their applications to scientific domains like eScience. It introduces the Tetherless World Constellation, a research group applying semantic web techniques. Examples are given of projects applying semantics to areas like virtual observatories and provenance capture. The value of semantic technologies is discussed for integration, discovery, and validation of scientific data and models. Modular ontologies and semantically-enabled frameworks are presented as important directions for reuse and collaboration.
ExoSGAN and ExoACGAN: Exoplanet Detection using Adversarial Training AlgorithmsIRJET Journal
This document discusses using generative adversarial networks (GANs) to detect exoplanets from light curve data. Specifically, it proposes two models: ExoSGAN which uses a semi-supervised GAN (SGAN) and ExoACGAN which uses an auxiliary classifier GAN (ACGAN). SGAN and ACGAN are designed to handle issues with imbalanced and unlabeled data. The models are trained on K2 light curve data and achieve 100% recall and precision on the test set, outperforming previous methods. The document provides background on exoplanet detection techniques and reviews related work applying machine learning, including CNNs, to find planets from Kepler and K2 mission data.
This document contains summaries of 3 seminar topics:
1. Figuring out the moon - Computer simulations have helped understand the moon's weak and variable magnetic field by modeling a blanket of material that briefly insulated the lunar core.
2. The internet on Mars - Plans are underway to establish an interplanetary internet by connecting individual planet networks through gateways and using a bundle protocol for long distance data transfer.
3. Satellite tracking - Over 5,000 satellites are tracked using telemetry, which measures conditions from space and monitors satellite performance, and networks of ground stations that communicate with and control satellites.
This document outlines a proposal for a national CubeSat program in the UK. CubeSats are small, inexpensive satellites that can be used for technology demonstration, education, and scientific research. The proposed program would involve industry, academia, and small businesses working together on CubeSat platforms, payloads, and ground stations. Payloads would be selected through a competition to fly experiments and further technology development. The program aims to provide regular access to space for research, hands-on experience for students, and inspiration to young people through educational outreach activities.
artificial inteliigence in spacecraft power applicationarjuna adiga
This document discusses applications of artificial intelligence in space. It describes plans by NASA and ESA to send humans to explore Mars in the coming decades. For missions to Mars, autonomous decision making will be needed due to communication delays between Earth and Mars. The document then discusses several open issues with applying current artificial intelligence methods to space engineering. It focuses on distributed artificial intelligence for swarm autonomy and situation awareness for spacecraft. Distributed computing and swarm intelligence are seen as promising applications of AI to optimize tasks like satellite communication scheduling and coordinated satellite formations.
Radiation Exposure And Its Effects On The EarthErika Nelson
Radiation exposure is a serious hazard for astronauts traveling to Europa due to its greater distance from Earth compared to Mars. The spacecraft exploring Europa would not have Earth's magnetic field to shield against radiation. Future spacecraft may use nuclear reactors and solar sails to generate artificial magnetic fields for protection.
Outernet Inc is a global broadcast data start-up currently being incubated by the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a United States-based impact investment fund and non-profit organization established in 1995 by Saša Vučinić and Stuart Auerbach. Outernet's goal is to provide free access to content from the web through geostationary and Low Earth Orbit satellites, made available effectively to all parts of the world.
The project uses datacasting and User Datagram Protocol through both small satellites, such as CubeSats, and larger, more conventional geostationary communications satellites in a satellite constellation network. Wi-Fi enabled devices would communicate with the satellite hotspots, which receive data broadcasts from satellites.
The document discusses nanosatellites and their advantages over larger satellites. It defines different classes of small satellites based on mass, including nanosatellites which are between 1-10 kg. Nanosatellites allow for lower costs, easier production, and more opportunities for new missions compared to larger satellites. Examples of nanosatellite applications demonstrated include technology demonstrations, Earth observation, and biological experiments. The global market for nanosatellite launches is projected to grow significantly in the coming years.
Space Weather Action Center and NASA Multiscale Magnetosphere Mission Education Resources. Learn how you can apply the 5E Instructional Model to promote STEM and STEAM to middle school students
Building a National Virtual Observatory: The Case of the Spanish Virtual Obse...Joint ALMA Observatory
Talk at the presentation workshop for the Chilean Virtual Observatory (ChiVO; http://www.chivo.cl/workshop-program), on lessons that can be learned from the development of the Spanish Virtual Observatory, and how ChiVO has already applied most of them.
Project Loon is Google's initiative to provide internet access to rural and remote areas using balloons floating in the stratosphere. The balloons carry communications equipment and solar panels to beam wireless internet signals to antennas on the ground. They are designed to move with wind currents to stay aloft for months at a time. Google conducted a pilot test of 30 balloons over New Zealand in 2013 to demonstrate the technology. Project Loon aims to bring internet access to the two-thirds of the world not currently connected and help restore connectivity after natural disasters.
This document summarizes the goals and organization of the Canadian Satellite Design Challenge (CSDC) team at York University. The team aims to design and build a cubesat carrying an infrared camera to obtain spectral imagery of the upper atmosphere and analyze greenhouse gases. The diverse team of engineering, science, and business students works towards this goal through designing the satellite, managing the project, and securing facilities. The experience provides hands-on learning for students while pursuing the mission objectives.
LambdaGrids--Earth and Planetary Sciences Driving High Performance Networks a...Larry Smarr
05.02.04
Invited Talk to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Title: LambdaGrids--Earth and Planetary Sciences Driving High Performance Networks and High Resolution Visualizations
Pasadena, CA
Digital Science: Reproducibility and Visibility in AstronomyJose Enrique Ruiz
The science done in Astronomy is digital science, from observing proposals to final publication, to data and software used: each of the elements and actions involved in scientific output could be recorded in electronic form. This fact does not prevent the final outcome of an experiment is still difficult to reproduce. This procedure can be long, tedious, not easily accessible or understandable, even to the author. At the same time, we have a rich infrastructure of files, observational data and publications. This could be used more efficiently if we reach greater visibility of the scientific production, which avoids duplication of effort and reinvention.
Reproducibility is a cornerstone in scientific method, and extraction of relevant information in the current and future data flood is key in Astronomy. The AMIGA group (Analysis of the interstellar Medium of Isolated GAlaxies, IAA-CSIC, http://amiga.iaa.es) faces these two challenges in the European project "Wf4Ever: Advanced technologies for enhanced preservation workflow Science" to enable the preservation of the methodology in scalable semantic repositories to facilitate their discovery, access, inspection, exploitation and distribution. These repositories store the experiments on "Research Objects" whose main constituents are digital scientific workflows. These provide a comprehensive view and clear scientific interpretation of the experiment as well as the automation of the method, going beyond the usual pipelines that normally end up in data processing.
The quantitative leap in volume and complexity of the next generation of archives will need analysis and data mining tasks to live closer to the data, in computing and distributed storage environments, but they should also be modular enough to allow customization from scientists and be easily accessible to foster their dissemination among the community. Astronomy is a collaborative science, but it has also become highly specialized, as many other disciplines. Sharing, preservation, discovery and a much simplified access to resources in the composition of scientific workflows will enable astronomers to greatly benefit from each other’s highly specialized knowhow, they constitute a way to push Astronomy to share and publish not only results and data, but also processes and methodologies.
We will show how the use of scientific workflows can help to improve the reproducibility of the experiment and a more efficient exploitation of astronomical archives, as well as the visibility of the scientific methodology and its reuse.
1. Researchers are finding ways to use smartphones and recruit citizen scientists to collect large datasets that would be difficult to obtain otherwise.
2. One example is a project that measured atmospheric aerosols using an optical device attached to over 8,000 iPhones in the Netherlands, resulting in a high-resolution map of particles.
3. Converting smartphones into tools for citizen science may require developing an app and recruiting participants through social media and partnerships, which can be time-consuming but successful projects have obtained thousands of useful submissions.
The document provides a list of free spatial technology platforms and interactive mapping websites that can be used in geography lessons. It includes platforms to view and manipulate data like ArcExplorer and Google Earth, as well as interactive mapping sites from organizations like Geoscience Australia and National Geographic. The list also covers remote sensing sources like satellite imagery from NASA and the USGS that allow students to analyze changes in the earth's surface over time.
This document discusses the rise of citizen science, which involves members of the public collaborating with scientists on research projects. It notes that while science used to be dominated by independent researchers, rising costs caused it to become more institutionalized. However, new technologies now allow for widespread public participation through projects like analyzing astronomy images and tracking wildlife. Citizen science provides benefits like greater data collection than possible through paid researchers alone. While it requires care in project design and training volunteers, it can improve scientific understanding and communication when the public is engaged in the scientific process.
How To Write A Self Evaluation Essay. Online assignment writing service.Brandi Gonzales
The document provides steps for requesting assignment writing help from HelpWriting.net:
1. Create an account and complete a request form providing instructions, sources, and deadline.
2. Writers will bid on the request and their qualifications can be reviewed to select a writer.
3. The writer will complete the assignment and customers can request revisions to ensure satisfaction. HelpWriting.net offers refunds for plagiarized work.
Thesis Format Sample Philippines - ProofreadwebBrandi Gonzales
This document provides instructions for requesting writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment or request revisions. 5) Request multiple revisions to ensure satisfaction, with the option of a full refund for plagiarized work. The document promotes HelpWriting.net's writing assistance and guarantees of original, high-quality content.
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The document discusses the importance of establishing uplink over utilization protection thresholds in network infrastructure. It recommends setting thresholds based on percentage of usage compared to maximum available bandwidth, with enough margin of safety to alert when more bandwidth is needed. As a general rule, utilization percentages of 50-70% are acceptable for short periods, with 80% signaling that more bandwidth may be required and 90% indicating immediate action is needed. Establishing clear thresholds helps determine when additional network resources should be provisioned.
Diversity College Essay College Application EssayBrandi Gonzales
This document discusses a partnership between Velocity and Quetzal Inc., a point of sale system for independent shoe and dress boutiques. Some key details:
- Quetzal is a leading POS for independent shoe and clothing retailers in North America, with a focus on the complex needs of those industries.
- It offers comprehensive tools beyond just a POS, including multi-store management, advanced inventory control, customer management, and analytics.
- Quetzal values merchant feedback and works directly with customers to build a product tailored to their unique needs.
- Velocity has partnered with Quetzal to offer their POS system to its customers.
Mr. JBS Literature Class Proper Journal And Essay FormatBrandi Gonzales
The document discusses Susan Griffin's book "Our Story" and how it examines how rigid, top-down societies can cause problems like manufacturing obedient masses, loss of moral reasoning, and suppression of emotions. It provides the example of Heinrich Himmler's upbringing in early 20th century Germany, which had strong expectations of masculinity that Himmler did not fit, influencing his life and history. Griffin uses this complex story to show how expectations of normalcy in rigid cultures can undermine critical thinking.
1. Sigmund Freud developed the theory of psychoanalysis to understand the unconscious mind through techniques like dream analysis and free association.
2. Psychoanalysis posits that unconscious drives and desires influence conscious thoughts and behavior. By bringing the unconscious into awareness, repressed conflicts can be resolved.
3. Freud believed that psychoanalysis could provide relief from neurotic suffering and help patients achieve greater insight into themselves. It aimed to make the unconscious conscious.
The document provides instructions for using a writing service called HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account, 2) Complete an order form providing instructions and deadlines, 3) Review bids from writers and select one, 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment, 5) Request revisions until satisfied. It emphasizes that original, high-quality content is guaranteed or a full refund will be provided.
Fresh English Writing An Objective News SummaryBrandi Gonzales
The document discusses the steps to request and complete an assignment writing request on the website HelpWriting.net. It outlines 5 steps: 1) Create an account with an email and password. 2) Complete a form with assignment details and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and choose one. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment. 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction, and the company offers refunds for plagiarized work.
Five Ways To Repurpose Your. Online assignment writing service.Brandi Gonzales
The document provides a 5-step process for requesting and receiving writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It explains that users must first create an account, then submit a request form with instructions and sources. Writers will bid on the request, and the user can select a writer and provide a deposit to start the work. Upon receiving a draft, the user can request revisions if needed. HelpWriting.net guarantees original, high-quality work and offers refunds for plagiarized content.
Breathtaking How To Write A Rese. Online assignment writing service.Brandi Gonzales
The document provides instructions for requesting writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. It outlines a 5-step process: 1) Create an account with a password and email. 2) Complete a 10-minute order form providing instructions, sources, and deadline. 3) Review bids from writers and select one based on qualifications. 4) Review the completed paper and authorize payment if satisfied. 5) Request revisions to ensure satisfaction, and HelpWriting.net offers refunds for plagiarized work.
Cute Lined Paper To Print And Download Other Lines TemplBrandi Gonzales
The document discusses how bacterial growth increases in space flight due to changes in their environment compared to Earth. Specifically, the lack of convection in microgravity restricts fluid movement around bacteria to just diffusion. This alters the extracellular fluid composition in a way that impacts bacterial growth rates and final cell densities. Studies aim to discover the inherent mechanisms driving increased bacterial growth during space flight by examining how metabolic waste products accumulate differently without fluid motion.
The document provides instructions for students seeking writing assistance from HelpWriting.net. There is a 5-step process:
1. Create an account with a password and email.
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Astronomy Research Via The Internet
1. Astronomy for Developing Countries
IAU Special Session at the 24th General Assembly, 2001
Alan H. Batten, ed.
Astronomy Research via the Internet
Kavan U. Ratnatunga
Dept. of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213,
U.S.A. e-mail: kavan@astro.phys.cmu.edu
Abstract.
Small developing countries may not have a dark site with good seeing
for an astronomical observatory or be able to afford the financial com-
mitment to set up and support such a facility. Much of astronomical
research today is however done with remote observations, such as from
telescopes in space, or obtained by service observing at large facilities on
the ground. Cutting-edge astronomical research can now be done with
low-cost computers, with a good Internet connection to get on-line ac-
cess to astronomical observations, journals and most recent preprints.
E-mail allows fast easy collaboration between research scientists around
the world. An international program with some short-term collaborative
visits, could mine data and publish results from available astronomical
observations for a fraction of the investment and cost of running even a
small local observatory. Students who have been trained in the use of
computers and software by such a program would also be more employ-
able in the current job market. The Internet can reach you wherever you
like to be and give you direct access to whatever you need for astronomical
research.
1. Introduction
The exponential growth of astronomical research in the twentieth century, has
left the developing nations far behind in contributions to the field. Pure sci-
ence research in all non-theoretical fields has required very expensive technology
which cannot be justified in the absence of immediate practical benefit to the
developing nation.
There is a tendency to assume that astronomers in developing countries
need to limit themselves to do astronomy research with less expensive small
telescopes. Many talks at this Special Session discuss many of the basic but
useful astronomical observations being done at small observatories around the
world.
Let me first state clearly to avoid being misunderstood that I am not in
anyway doubting the role that small telescopes can play in astronomical re-
search or in inspiring students to study astronomy. Continuous monitoring of
planets, comets, variable stars and other transient astronomical events benefit
significantly from a global network of telescopes. Many developing nations could
fill important gaps in such coverage. For example my home nation of Sri Lanka
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could fill the southernmost latitude between the longitudes of South Africa and
Western Australia, north of Antarctica.
The astronomical research environment has however changed over the last
five years in many significant ways. The price of computers needed for data
analysis and cost of on-line data storage has dropped tenfold. The amount
of astronomical data available in on-line archives from both ground-based and
spaced-based observations is growing exponentially. Submission of papers to
most leading journals is done on-line. Practically all leading astronomy journals
back to their first volumes are now archived at Astrophysics Data System (ADS
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/). The latest preprints are also archived at astro-ph
(http://xxx.lanl.gov/) and updated daily.
The point I wish to make is that an on-site local telescope is now not need to
start active research and education in astronomy. For example, Hubble Space-
Telescope observations (HST http://archive.stsci.edu/) are released after one
year and images taken in parallel mode become freely available on the Internet
a day after the observations are made. Everyone on the Internet has equal
opportunity to make and publish discoveries from them.
Cutting-edge astronomical research can therefore be done from any place
in the world. All that is needed are low-cost computers with a good Internet
connection to get on-line access to astronomical, observations, journals and most
recent preprints. Since the investment in Internet connectivity is now justified,
not only by research, but by e-commerce it is simpler for developing countries
to obtain financial aid to establish such network connectivity, which then helps
scientific research and the economy in many ways.
I will discuss below, in order of increasing importance, what I consider to
be the main advantages of doing astronomy research over the Internet, pointing
out the opportunities and limitations. Finally I will discuss as an example
the situation in my home nation Sri Lanka, where enthusiasm and spurts of
investment in conventional astronomy, have as yet, unfortunately, not yielded
any significant research progress.
1.1. Independent of site
Astronomical observational sites with good seeing are rare. Urban growth and
accompanying light pollution make it increasingly difficult to find a reasonable
dark site. A remote site, even if one exists, leads to practical logistical problems
of transport and accommodation. Access roads and guest-observer support are
substantial additions to the cost. This has led to many small telescopes in devel-
oping countries being installed in bright urban areas and remaining practically
useless for astronomical research.
However, the Internet can reach you wherever you like to be and give you
direct access to whatever you need for astronomical research. For example, Sir
Arthur C. Clarke, who predicted global communications based on geo-stationary
satellites, has chosen to make Sri Lanka his home. The Internet connects him
to the rest of the global village. How many academics, particularly expatriates,
in all fields could be encouraged to return or to spend a productive sabbatical
in their developing home country if network access needed for efficient com-
munications and research were to be set up! In the presence of truly global
communications there is no need to continue to exile oneself in a foreign land.
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1.2. Not dependent on weather
Bad weather seems always to follow you even at good sites. The beauty of the
solar corona watched with the naked-eye during a total eclipse of the Sun is not
describable by words or recorded on film. It has to be seen to be appreciated.
I was at the driest spot in the world, the Atacama desert in Bolivia, to observe
my first total eclipse of the Sun in November 1994. It rained the night before!
I agree there is clearly a vast difference in experiencing personal observations
compared with seeing images in a book or getting digital data over the Inter-
net. Even relatively bright Messier objects through a small telescope may-be a
disappointment in comparison to seeing all those beautiful long exposure image
processed photographs of them on the Internet (http://www.seds.org/messier/).
Cloud cover often dampens one's enthusiasm to continue regular observa-
tions, particularly of transient events. The consequent lack of observations could
lead to a complete loss of productivity when one tries to start an active research
program.
However, serious quantitative astronomy research is not now done with
observations made at an eyepiece. Is there any difference if the observations
come from the instruments on a local telescope or come to your computer over
the Internet from a telescope far away?
An astronomy research program set-up which includes the analysis of re-
mote observations is obviously not dependent on the local weather and need not
be interrupted even if one is temporarily disconnected from the Internet. No
program needs to be data starved. There are far more astronomical data with
free on-line access than it is humanly possible for the original observers to look
at.
1.3. No need for expensive instrumentation
Telescopes need to be equipped with more than a set of eyepieces for any ob-
servations to be used for quantitative astronomical research. Telescopes need
special instrumentation such as image detectors and spectrographs. Some spec-
tral regions (e.g., infrared) require expensive cryogenics. Investing in and main-
taining an expensive observatory which is useful only for astronomers can be
unaffordable for a developing country.
All you need to get started on astronomy research over the Internet is a
low-cost personal computer and a link to the Internet. Most of the major soft-
ware analysis packages are freely available. Unlike costly instrumentation, the
development of software requires only skill, a compiler, and a time commitment.
Astronomy resources on the Internet change over time and any detailed list
would at most be a snapshot. In the appendix I list some of the major sites
probably biased by my personal preference.
AstroWeb (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html) is an astronomical
Internet Resources database which has been maintained since 1994 by a small
world-wide consortium of institutions and contains pointers to potentially rele-
vant resources available via Internet. There are a number of mirrors of this site
around the globe. It is a good starting place to find anything related with astron-
omy. It provides searchable links to find telescope-time applications, data cen-
ters with astronomy archives, on-line astronomy journals, observation-analysis
software, astronomy-conference information etc. It is not based on indexing au-
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tomated downloads of web-sites. It is a moderated data-base which ensures that
you don't need to search through a lot of unimportant URL's which happened
to match search keywords to find the most useful sites which match your query.
It depends on authors to submit to the site and, therefore, if you have set up
an Internet web site associated with astronomy, then you should add it on-line
to this database. Another advantage of this site is that an automated Tel script
checks the validity of the links every day to warn users of any that are broken.
1.4. Remote observing
Service observations are now common since they are a more efficient way to share
time on a large-telescope facility. With space-based telescopes there is no choice.
As instrumentation becomes more complex a local expert is in any case needed to
set it up. Most often the required observations can easily be predefined precisely
with exposure times or signal required. Telescope-floor decisions are typically
made to use available time slots, often degraded by weather, to optimize which
observations are taken. This is not the case for service observations which are
aranged in a queue and made whenever the weather, seeing and photometric
conditions required for each program are satisfied. Service observing obivates
the need for costly and time-consuming travel to an observatory, from which
one often returns with no data because of bad weather. If active interaction is
important you can even observe remotely over the Internet. This could even be
during the day, if you are using a telescope half-way across the world.
For example, scientists of any nationality or affiliation may submit to NASA
Hubble-Space-Telescope (HST http://www.stsci.edu/) proposals. Restrictions
are only for funding requests. All you need is to submit excellent observational
proposals over the Internet to win the telescope time required. For other facilities
all one needs is at most a collaboration with an observer with access to that
telescope. The observations are made as requested and the data are sent by
tape or can be obtained over the Internet.
1.5. Rapid decrease in cost of computers
Twenty years ago astronomical data-analysis was done on large VAX/VMS com-
puters which cost over U.S. $100,000. Only large departments or universities as
a whole could afford them. Users shared time on this central computer via termi-
nals. Most developing nations could not afford them without significant grants.
Ten years ago the same power was available on SUN/UNIX workstations which
cost over U.S. $10,000 but started to become personal desk-top units. Today
personal computers are more than 10 times powerful and cost under U.S. $1000.
Computer hard-disk space is also important for astronomy data-analysis. Ten
years ago it cost over U.S. $2000 per GB. Today disk storage costs under U.S.
$10 per GB.
Increasingly, in many academic environments, the free shareware UNIX op-
erating system known as LINUX has enabled home-market personal computers
to replace the more costly workstations without sacrificing software portability,
numerical computing power or operational stability.
Computers depreciate in value very fast. So investment in the needed com-
puter and data storage should be made only as the research program grows. A
computer laboratory has a half-life of under 2-years. A computer laboratory set
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up five years ago would probably be of no residual value. In contrast a telescope
will, in principle, have an operational life-time of probably over 50 years, if it is
set up and used in a good site, and still retain its value.
However, computer costs have dropped so much that they are now small
compared to operational costs such as salary, and travel. The cost of comput-
ers and disk storage are clearly not limiting factors in setting up a computer
laboratory for astronomical research.
Good Internet connectivity is also becoming affordable although it is still a
non-negligible cost for a developing nation. I read on the web that connectivity
with Tl bandwidth (1.5Mbits/sec) costs about $1000 per month in the U.S. and
is sufficient for only about 75 users. Although telecoms may charge ten times
this figure, in reality it is no more expensive to a government of a developing
nation. A T3 (28Mbits/sec) line would be needed to download files of order
100MB or more in reasonable time.
1.6. Common research facilities
The set-up of computer facilities and Internet connectivity are common to most
fields of scientific research. It is now also used by e-commerce and the public at
large. This is a very important consideration when it is proposed to start any
fundamental scienctific research like astronomy in developing countries, where
everything needs to be related to practical needs of the country. Astronomy
is clearly useful for the development of the intellectual environment but we
must recognize that it is a luxury for which it is probably difficult to justify
independent funding.
Computers serve both the analysis of observations and theoretical studies.
E-mail allows easy collaboration with research scientists around the world. Voice
and even video-phone calls over the Internet bring added possibilities for fast
and inexpensive communication. However for active research, one needs to be
able to get fast response during working hours for remote interactive log-in and
to have the ability to transfer of the order of 100MB or more on demand, without
unreasonable time delays. Developing nations need to negotiate with funding
agencies to obtain seed money to set up collaborative efforts for analysis of
observations and data mining.
1.7. Job security for students
A Ph.D. in astronomy does not ensure a research or teaching position. In real-
ity many good post-doctoral fellows, even in the West, need to switch to non-
astronomy jobs. Other than as an indicator of a level of intellectual maturity,
expertise in pure astronomy has no practical applications in commercial indus-
try. Students familiar with computer data-analysis and the Internet, however,
find it much simpler to find gainful employment. The growth of the Internet is
so rapid that for a long time there will ample Internet-related jobs. The type
of expertise one gains while doing research is important. A person with a bach-
elor's degree and good computer skills is probably more employable than one
with a Ph.D. in astronomy but without advanced computer capabilities.
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1.8. Extensive on-line archives of journals.
The Internet has more astronomy journals on-line than most major university
libraries including Carnegie Mellon have on their shelves. Astronomy journals
back to their first issues are now archived digitally at Astrophysics Data System
(ADS) at http://adsabs.harvard.edu with mirror sites around the globe.
No longer do you need to suffer months of delay waiting for journals to
arrive, posted by sea-mail because of excessive air-mail costs. Everyone on the
Internet can see publications at the same time. Electronic submission of papers
to practically all journals reduces delays and postage costs in the referee and
publication process. It has also minimized the effort needed for proof corrections
since the submitted manuscripts in IAIgX or other standard word-processor
format are directly translated to the format needed for publication.
The latest preprints are also archived at astro-ph (http://xxx.lanl.gov) and
updated daily. New abstracts are sent out by e-mail. Since most astronomers
now read the latest papers from this free service it has almost replaced the costly
distribution of preprints. Submission to the astro-ph server is now considered an
essential part of publication, to ensure that a paper will come to the attention
of the astronomy research community.
However, it is important to negotiate with the on-line journal publishers
to allow access to recent on-line editions for developing nations without insti-
tutions being required to subscribe to the expensive printed copy. Institutions
should also have access to commercial products such as the ISI's Web of Sci-
ence, a journal-article data-base that covers more than 5300 major journals in
the natural sciences, mathematics, engineering, technology, and medicine.
1.9. Leading instruments and telescopes
Observations taken with the leading instruments like the Hubble Space Telescope
and large ground-based national facilities can be down-loaded on the Internet. A
recent National Academy of Science report, Astronomy and Astrophysics in the
New Millennium, discusses a virtual observatory as a very important initiative
in astronomy over the next decade; a digital sky in all wavelengths based on the
massive data sets being created with tools to explore the data base.
All space-based missions and most large ground-based observatories main-
tain a complete data archive of observations. Almost all HST observations are
put in the public domain after one year. However you are not limited to astro-
nomical observations which have been milked for the best science. Pure-Parallel
observations made with the HST are put on-line the day after observation, free
for an astronomer from anywhere in cyberspace to analyze.
1.10. Archived data available freely
Large ground-based and space-based surveys and individual observations are
generating more data than most observers can use, except for the very specific
application for which the observations were made. There is a lot more invaluable
astronomical information in most of these observations, for different applications,
if one has the time to look more carefully.
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There is a lot of archived data on-line with free Internet access, much of
which has not been analyzed in detail, nor even been looked at in detail, because
the original observers had insufficient funding.
For example, the first gravitational lens to be discovered by the Hubble
Space telescope was found by us as a part of the Medium Deep Survey (MDS)
on archival data (Ratnatunga et al. 1995), after the observations were released
to the public one year after they had been made. The only advantage that the
MDS group had was the software we had developed to handle automatically some
aspects of the data reduction (Ratnatunga et al. 1996). Software like this could
be easily obtained in collaboration or even developed without large investment.
However much of our discovery was due to the fact that, in the pipeline of
automated analysis, we included in addition a careful visual inspection of the
observations. The trained human eye is still far better than any software in
picking out the interesting and unusual objects, and far less visual inspection
is done now than should be - a lapse that any developing country properly
connected to the Internet can exploit.
There are many opportunities to develop programs for data mining. It is
much less expensive than data acquisition and the credit of discovery is with the
person who publishes the results not with the person who made the observation.
There are probably lots of hidden serendipitous discoveries to be made in space-
based observational data obtained at astronomical cost.
2. An example: Sri Lanka
Astronomical research in Sri Lanka is probably typical of that in many develop-
ing countries. I use Sri Lanka as an example to illustrate how, like many other
developing nations, it could develop more by the Internet than with a small
telescope. I have observed first hand its attempts to develop in astronomy for
over 30 years.
The absence of astronomical research in Lanka is not as Gehrels (1988)
suggested in his review of Sri Lanka's Telescope (I quote) "Could it be that
inquiry into our origins has little appeal to Buddhists ?". Questioning au-
thority and the status quo is a cornerstone of Buddhism as the Kalama Sutta
(http://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/bps/wheels/wheel008.html) expresses very
eloquently. This was the Eastern experience of the Renaissance and the cultural
attitudes, such as a willingness to confront authority and reject religion which
Snowden (2001) feels is now lacking in Sri Lanka. In any case, only a minute
fraction of the population in the West or the East are associated with research in
fundamental science such as astronomy, the mind-set of the current population
at large is irrelevant to the establishment of astronomy research programs. For
example, 47% of Americans- and a quarter of college graduates -believe humans
did not evolve, but were created by God a few thousand years ago, and yet the
U.S.A. is the world's leading scientific nation. (MacKenzie 2000).
Eastern civilization in particular has had an interest in the cosmos from
ancient times. They accepted the vastness of space and time while religious
belief in the West adopted a geocentric universe created 6000 years ago. Hindus
for example believed in a cyclic universe with a period of 7.3 billion years. I quote
from the 1822 book Hindoostan edited by Frederic Shoberl "A learned Bramin
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laughed, on being told that we Europeans reckon only about six thousand years
since the creation of the world, and pointing to an old man with a long beard,
asked if it was possible to believe that he was born but the preceding day."
Astronomical research in Sri Lanka dates back to the early 1900s when
Major P. B. Molesworth (1867-1906) ordered himself a 32-cm photographically
equipped Newtonian reflector from George Calver. He housed it in a observa-
tory in Trincomalee and did significant research on Jupiter which he published
in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (Molesworth 1905).
The telescope was moved after his death to Colombo. I had the opportunity
to use this telescope when attending the University of Ceylon. A small 10-cm
telescope gifted to Royal College which I attended had got me interested in as-
tronomy. I was also encouraged by regular meetings of the Ceylon Astronomical
Association founded in 1959 with Arthur Clarke as Patron. He has contributed
very positively to encouraging an interest in astronomy in Sri Lanka. A 25-cm
telescope was set up by Herschel Gunawardena at the Colombo Observatory.
There was clearly sufficient interest in astronomy in Sri Lanka to initiate serious
amateur observations and to motivate a few of us to take up astronomy as a
career (http://lakdiva.com/astronomers/), even 25 years ago.
I also know of many astronomers with special interest in Sri Lanka. In
1975, Prof. Tom Gehrels of the University of Arizona, who had been enchanted
by Ceylon in 1945, offered a gift of a 1.78-m telescope mirror (Gehrels 1984).
Sufficient local interest in the project was very wisely required to build the rest.
With no good site to ensure a useful return on the required investment, the
telescope was never built. Sites which were in the dry zone were politically
unsafe at that time and are even more so today, since it is that part of the
country which is currently in a state of civil war. Sites of high altitude in the
wet zone had over 75% of the days cloudy.
In the mid-1980s, the growth of instant electronic communication started
opening the way for doing research over the Internet as we know it today. Interest
of Lankans abroad in this new medium of communication was simulated by a
need for news about Sri Lanka which was hardly covered in the foreign press. An
informal e-mail group SLnet was formed in 1988 to exchange news, and Lankans
were among the first dozen countries to form a Usernet group soc.culture.sri-
lanka in 1989. A non-profit organization LAcNet was formed in 1991 which
maintained a dial-up e-mail service till Lanka was connected directly to the
Internet in 1995. One of the primary aims of this organization is to promote
academic collaboration over the Internet between students in Sri Lanka and
Lankan scientists overseas. In 1991/92, I spent a sabbatical year at the Institute
for Fundamental Studies (IFS) in Kandy, Sri Lanka, exploring the possibility
of doing astronomical research from Sri Lanka aided by the Internet which still
needs to be funded properly.
Around the same time, IFS was offered a 45-cm telescope by Japan. Being
the only professional astronomer resident in the island at that time, I tried
in vain to negotiate that most of the aid should be used to set up an Internet
connection into Lanka and a computer laboratory which could be used for active
astronomical research. A small mobile telescope (even up to 36-cm aperture can
be an off-the-shelf item and relatively inexpensive) would have been more useful
to serve the purpose of inspiring students to study astronomy. Although I stalled
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the telescope project, it restarted after I left Sri Lanka. A 45-cm telescope gifted
by Japan was inaugurated at the UN/ESA Workshop on Basic Space Science,
held in Colombo in Jan 1996. It was equipped with a photometer which is useless
at the brightly lit urban site. More recently a CCD was gifted, the images from
which will probably suffer from the instability of the telescope (mounted on the
fourth floor of a building) caused by trucks on the nearby highway.
It remains as I predicted practically unused and, as far as I know, used
only as an exhibit for visiting schoolchildren. For maintenance and supervision
it costs about U.S. $5000 per year of the very limited resources available for
astronomy. For more details see Snowden (2001). Back in 1964 the Sri Lankan
government, using a gift from East Germany, set up a Zeiss Planetarium as
a part of an Industrial Exhibition. For a long time that was considered by
many politicians as funding the needs of astronomical research. The new "white
elephant" will similarly hurt more than help any future effort to invest in needs
of astronomical research in Sri Lanka.
That the 45-cm telescope has served no purpose for astronomical research
or education in Lanka is not entirely due to a lack of interest. Bureaucrats in
the host institution, who have no motivation to use the instrument themselves,
do not even allow access to it by students from the nearby university or to local
amateurs since the telescope is listed as costing $300,000 of aid to Sri Lanka.
An active amateur group located nearby at the Institute for Integral Education
run by Father Mervyn Fernando could be learning on this instrument. It is
sadly ironic that, instead, they received a gift of a 20-cm telescope from George
Coyne, the Director of the Vatican Observatory. That this smaller telescope can
be moved to a site reasonable for observation helps the group to use it more
frequently.
Personal computers are now freely available in Sri Lanka at reasonable cost.
Internet bandwidth is what is most lacking. Future plans are for a 0.5Mbit line
which seems clearly inadequate for supporting a user community of very much
more than 25 users. The academic bandwidth into the whole country is less than
what would be considered acceptable even for a small university in the U.S.A.
3. Conclusion
A small telescope installed in a bright urban setting may not be the best way to
develop a small astronomy research program in a developing nation. A decision
to set up such an instrument needs to be based on the availability of a reason-
able site, and the recommendations of local astronomers with expertise in both
astronomy and the aspirations of the local user community.
In the global village we now live in, international collaborations are practical
if the developing nation is properly networked. The Internet also gives you
access to enormous data archives with the latest observations for quantitative
analysis with computer systems which are now not very expensive. It is truly
an optimum time for any developing nation interested in astronomy research to
seriously consider doing it via the Internet.
Astronomical research in Sri Lanka is probably typical of many developing
countries. Although there is a strong amateur astronomy interest in the country
there are less than a dozen Lankans who are professional astronomers; all of them
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are doing research outside Sri Lanka. Could they or more recent graduates be
attracted back? I think this is a clear possibility if the infrastructure needed
for research is set up in Sri Lanka. Linking Sri Lanka to the Internet with an
electronic superhighway is not the only need, but it is clearly the minimum
before one can consider the possibility of active research seriously.
Acknowledgments. I wish thank the organizing committee for inviting me
to give this contribution and for the financial support in attending the 24th IAU
general assembly in Manchester, U.K.
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Appendix
I give below a sampling of the major Internet sites with URL's of astronomical
databases. A more complete and current list could be obtained from
AstroWeb (http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/astroweb.html).
Centre de Donnes astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS
http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/) which hosts Set of Identifications, Measurements,
and Bibliography for Astronomical Data (SIMBAD
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad/) an astronomical database provides basic
data, cross-identifications and bibliography for currently about 3 million
astronomical objects outside the solar system.
VizieR (CDS http://vizier.u-strasbg.fr/)provides on line, a library of
computer-readable astronomical catalogues and data tables with
documentation. It is mirrored in Astronomy Data Centers in USA (ADC
http://adc.gsfc.nasa.gov/), Japan (ADAC http://adac.mtk.nao.ac.jp/), and
India (IUCAA http://www.iucaa.ernet.in/)
High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/). A source of 7-ray, X-ray, and extreme
ultraviolet observations of cosmic sources with direct links associated support
facilities. It hosts a Virtual Observatory (SkyView
http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/) for generating images of any part of the sky at
wavelengths in all regimes from Radio to Gamma-Rays.
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The Hubble Data Archive (HDA http://archive.stsci.edu/) which also
supports a Multi-mission Archive (MAST http://archive.stsci.edu/mast.html)
with a variety of astronomical data archives, with focus in the optical,
ultraviolet, and near-infrared parts of the spectrum.
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center (IPAC
http://www.ipac.caltech.edu/) maintain infrared data archives and access tools
and hosts the NASA Extra-galactic Database (NED
http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/) with over 3 million objects and 150
thousand red-shifts.
Planetary Data System (PDS http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/) archives digital data
from past and present NASA planetary missions, astronomical observations,
and laboratory measurements. All data is classified Technology and Software
Publicly Available (TSPA) to be exported outside the United States.
Canadian Astronomy Data Center (CADC http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/)
which host the archive observations since 1990 from the Canada-France-Hawaii
4-meter Telescope on Mauna Kea, Hawaii, (CFHT
http://cadcwww.dao.nrc.ca/cfht/). Links are provided to similar archives
setup at many major ground-based observatories worldwide using CADC
software and expertise.
Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS http://www.sdss.org/) which will
systematically map one fourth of the sky to probe the large-scale structure of
the universe. The survey will produce a catalog of roughly 100 million objects,
with red-shifts to more than a million galaxies and quasars.
Astrophysics Data System (ADS http://adswww.harvard.edu/) A
NASA-funded Abstract Service which provides access to over two million
astronomy related abstracts which can be searched by author, title, object
name, or keywords. It has also made agreements with publishes of
astronomical journals to provide links to scanned images of over 40,000 articles
appearing in most of the major astronomical journals and over 3 years old.
Physics e-Print archive (XXX http://xxx.lanl.gov/) which includes
astrophysics (astro-ph). Mirror sites are being established all over the world.
Replacing postal distribution of preprints.
AAS job Register (AAS http://www.aas.org/JobRegister/aasjobs.html) A
monthly posting of worldwide astronomy related jobs maintained by the
American Astronomical Society.
Digitized Sky Survey (DSS http://stdatu.stsci.edu/dss/) This comprises a set
of all-sky photographic surveys conducted with the Palomar and UK 48-inch
Schmidt telescopes and scanned using a PDS microdensitometer to scale of
about 1.0 to 1.7 arcseconds per pixel.
Global Network of Astronomical Telescopes (GNAT http://www.gnat.org/) A
non-profit organization dedicated as an information source for all those
interested in research and education using relatively small astronomical
telescopes.
International Dark-Sky Association (IDA http://www.darksky.org/) A
non-profit organization with a goal to stopping the adverse environmental
impact of light pollution and space debris through education about the value
and effectiveness of quality nighttime lighting.
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International Astronomical Union (IAU http://www.iau.org/) Announcements,
Information bulletin and services.
Discussion Martinez agreed that a good Internet connection may be prefer-
able to the building of a "research-grade" telescope but thought that the pro-
motion of linkages between scientists in developed and developing countries is
also essential. Without such links, scientists in developing countries will not be
in a position to conduct competitive research and the gap in research capacity
will get wider. Providing access to our data is not sufficient; we have to provide
our colleagues with our time, expertise and research programmes as well. Rat-
natunga agreed but thought that short visits would create the links which could
be maintained over the Internet by e-mail.
Al-Sabti said that reserarch based on the Internet was useful but should
not be a substitute for building telescopes and observatories. Doing astronomy
through the Internet will create dependency on advanced countries similar to
that of the developing world on the technology of the West. Ratnatunga replied
that technology of instrumentation was only one aspect of the problem. Analysis
software has to be developed and this can be done with only a PC. Percy agreed
about the Internet but pointed out that good research can be carried out with
a telescope costing $ 10,000 on an urban site (as Snowden, p. 269, had pointed
out). Ratnatunga replied that if he had $300,000 to spend, he would spend $
10,000 on the telescope and the rest to establish good Internet connections!
Kochhar said that, by extending Ratnatunga's argument, one need not cook
food at home because cooked food can be bought from the market. Dworetsky
suggested that the analogy should be that a fine picnic has been set out; the
food is free, but bring your own utensils. In every hundredth cake there is a gold
nugget hidden. Ratnatunga thought this much the better analogy. Schreuder
suggested that a summary might be: telescopes are better for education, the
Internet for research. Ratnatunga said that the Internet can be used for educa-
tion as well. Developing software for analysis is educational and data from the
Internet are no different from those from a telescope.
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