February 23, 2016 8:30 pm room 213
We are planning to have another Jupiter coordinated observing/help session
toll-free teleconference Tuesday evening, Feb. 23rd, starting around
11:30 PM EST (Wednesday, Feb. 24th 0430 UT). This looks like a
potentially very good Io-B storm pass. The activity could be two hours
or more, but we will decide on the telecon how long we observe.
The toll-free teleconference number to call is indicated
below. We hope you will join us and observe Jupiter simultaneously
with many of your colleagues in the hope of catching a good storm.
If you are new to Radio Jove or have questions we would be happy to
talk to you and answer the questions during the teleconference. We
welcome students and teachers or anyone who might be interested.
Coordinated Observing Toll-Free Teleconference
Tuesday, February 23rd, 11:30 PM EST, (10:30 PM CST,
9:30 PM MST, 8:30 PM PST, Wednesday, Feb. 24th, 0430 UT)
The number and passcode to call are:
844-467-6272
352297#
St. Mary’s School
816 Black Oak Dr.
Medford, Or 97504
541-773-7877
St. Mary’s School Radio Jove Project 2013-2014
How We Became Involved
St. Mary’s Astronomy Research Team Specialist or SMARTS is a high school astronomy club in Medford, Oregon. Every year the club participates in a project such as double star observations, Lunar and Planetary Institute’s High School research program, or NITARP (NASA/IPAC teacher Archive Research Program). While talking to a team member from our NITARP project one of our club members learned about the Radio Jove project. We did some research and decided to build a receiver and antenna for the 2013-2014 school year. Four students took charge of building the receiver, but everyone celebrated at the end of the year club party with the successful initial run and data collection of our telescope.
Building the receiver was extremely educational. We were glad the Radio Jove group had members that could fix our two mistakes on the circuit board. Meeting Chuck Higgins at the AAS conference in Washington, DC put a face to the project. It was fun to be involved in the teleconferences. Since our telescope had yet to be built during the Jupiter season, having the opportunity to listen to the noise picked up by other telescopes and have someone explain what we were seeing and hearing was great! We learned a lot on those occasions.
In July one of my students and I took the Radio Jove telescope to Pine Mountain Observatory for a 5 day high school research workshop. This was the first time a radio telescope made an appearance at the workshop. It was a successful week for us. We could run it when it was cloudy, when the sun was out, and when it was raining. The individuals with the optical telescopes fought the weather. David Haworth was there to lend some much needed advice on reading the squiggly lines and confirming our results with other, reliable sources. One of the other high school teachers from the workshop is seriously thinking about building a Radio Jove telescope after seeing our telescope in action.
Our next step is to collect more data and perhaps catch some Jupiter/Io storms this year.
We are planning to have another Jupiter coordinated observing/help session
toll-free teleconference Tuesday evening, Feb. 23rd, starting around
11:30 PM EST (Wednesday, Feb. 24th 0430 UT). This looks like a
potentially very good Io-B storm pass. The activity could be two hours
or more, but we will decide on the telecon how long we observe.
The toll-free teleconference number to call is indicated
below. We hope you will join us and observe Jupiter simultaneously
with many of your colleagues in the hope of catching a good storm.
If you are new to Radio Jove or have questions we would be happy to
talk to you and answer the questions during the teleconference. We
welcome students and teachers or anyone who might be interested.
Coordinated Observing Toll-Free Teleconference
Tuesday, February 23rd, 11:30 PM EST, (10:30 PM CST,
9:30 PM MST, 8:30 PM PST, Wednesday, Feb. 24th, 0430 UT)
The number and passcode to call are:
844-467-6272
352297#
St. Mary’s School
816 Black Oak Dr.
Medford, Or 97504
541-773-7877
St. Mary’s School Radio Jove Project 2013-2014
How We Became Involved
St. Mary’s Astronomy Research Team Specialist or SMARTS is a high school astronomy club in Medford, Oregon. Every year the club participates in a project such as double star observations, Lunar and Planetary Institute’s High School research program, or NITARP (NASA/IPAC teacher Archive Research Program). While talking to a team member from our NITARP project one of our club members learned about the Radio Jove project. We did some research and decided to build a receiver and antenna for the 2013-2014 school year. Four students took charge of building the receiver, but everyone celebrated at the end of the year club party with the successful initial run and data collection of our telescope.
Building the receiver was extremely educational. We were glad the Radio Jove group had members that could fix our two mistakes on the circuit board. Meeting Chuck Higgins at the AAS conference in Washington, DC put a face to the project. It was fun to be involved in the teleconferences. Since our telescope had yet to be built during the Jupiter season, having the opportunity to listen to the noise picked up by other telescopes and have someone explain what we were seeing and hearing was great! We learned a lot on those occasions.
In July one of my students and I took the Radio Jove telescope to Pine Mountain Observatory for a 5 day high school research workshop. This was the first time a radio telescope made an appearance at the workshop. It was a successful week for us. We could run it when it was cloudy, when the sun was out, and when it was raining. The individuals with the optical telescopes fought the weather. David Haworth was there to lend some much needed advice on reading the squiggly lines and confirming our results with other, reliable sources. One of the other high school teachers from the workshop is seriously thinking about building a Radio Jove telescope after seeing our telescope in action.
Our next step is to collect more data and perhaps catch some Jupiter/Io storms this year.