Engineering Open House

"Dust from Space" received 4th place in the 2002 EOH exhibit competition!

Congratulations to everyone that worked on the "Dust from Space", it received fourth place in the EOH exhibit competition!!! I'm sure this will please everyone that worked on the project.

Exhibit Dates and Room Information

• Exhibits will be shown Friday and Saturday March 8, 9, 2002
• Our Exhibits will be in Engineering Hall Room 106B3 (1st floor)
• EOH flyer(MSWord)
• Sounds of space information(PPT)
• Sounds of space information(MSWord)
• Sounds of space web links
• Space dust information(MSWord)
• Space dust web links
• Webcam Astrophotography Poster(PowerPoint)

Space Dust Collection Project

• A GIF image plan for our space dust exhibit layout.
• Discover Article
• NASA Space Dust Library
• NASA's Stardust space dust probe mission
• NASA Genesis solar space dust probe mission

Sounds of Space, Radio Astronomy Project

• Order a kit to build a radio telescope that can detect radio waves from Jupiters
• Good sound clip of Jupiter
• More cassini probe stuff
• Space Sounds
• More space sounds
• Even more space sounds
• Radio monitoring of Jupiter
• Studies of Jupiter's magnetic field, more radio emission per unit surface area than the Sun!!
• Article about Cassini images of Jupiter's magnetic field

Webcam and Video based Astrophotography Project

• UIAS talk: Using Webcams for Astrophotography (PPT) (AVI Movie) (MPEG Movie)
• Steve Chamber's Vesta Pro astrocam mods
• US Naval Obs. Philips Webcam hack page
• Philips Toucam and Vesta Pro astrocam hacks
• Philips Vesa Pro webcam hacks, with good pictures (Italian)
• More webcam mod pages, for Philips Vesta Pro
• Video astronomy

	An aligned, stacked, unsharp mask-processed image resulting from a movie recorded with a Philips Vesto Pro webcam attached to an 8" SCT The camera was mounted at prime focus in place of the eyepiece, taped to an old eyepiece barrel. These images were taken on March 3, 2002. All of the image processing was done using the older 0.9b version of the free program Astrostack
	An aligned, stacked, unsharp mask-processed image resulting from a movie recorded with a Philips Vesto Pro webcam attached to an 8" SCT The camera was mounted at prime focus in place of the eyepiece, taped to an old eyepiece barrel. These images were taken on March 3, 2002. All of the image processing was done using the older 0.9b version of the free program Astrostack
	An aligned, stacked, unsharp mask-processed image resulting from a movie recorded with a Philips Vesto Pro webcam attached to the UI 12" refractor in the observatory, on a pretty cloudy night. The camera was mounted at prime focus in place of the eyepiece, taped to an old eyepiece barrel. These images were taken on January 28, 2002. All of the image processing was done using the older 0.9b version of the free program Astrostack
	Our first attempt, using a Philips Vesta Pro webcam, attached to an 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope on a night with bad seeing but good transparency. The camera was mounted at prime focus in place of the eyepiece, taped to an old eyepiece barrel. These images were taken on January 13, 2002. All of the image processing was done using the older 0.9b version of the free program Astrostack

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