Lorraine Hanlon

Space Science Group

University College Dublin

IAA Belfast, February 6th, 2013

GLORIA Automatic for the people

UCD Space Science Group Research Theme 1: The High Energy Universe

Gamma-Ray Bursts

INTEGRAL Fermi/GBM Swift XMM-

Newton Optical

follow-up

Space Ground

Gamma-Ray

Imaging

Laue Lens

Gamma-Ray

Sensors

Detector Design

Space Apps

Medical Apps

UCD Space Science Group Research Theme 2: Next generation missions & technology

UCD Watcher Robotic Telescope

Connecting with the Cosmos

Image: Peter Tisdall, UCD

Connecting with the Cosmos

Image: Emer O Boyle, UCD

If you had your own telescope anywhere

in the world, what would you do with it?

GLORIA

Volunteers

Amateurs

Schools Astronomers

Universities

GLORIA aims to provide all the tools necessary for diverse communities to work together synergistically to create and share new astronomy knowledge

Talk Outline

• Citizen Astronomy

• Robotic Telescopes in Research & Education

• Elements of GLORIA

• Telescopes

• Web interface & authoring tool

• Live broadcasts

• Educational activities

Citizen Astronomy: A new tool for astronomy research

Robotic Telescopes in Research

Bradford Robotic Telescope Project

• Blackrock Castle Observatory & UCD

• Irish pilot recently rolled out in Dublin & Cork, funded by Forfas

Bradford in Ireland

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Are the images obtained by the telescope exciting and inspirational for you?

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21%

46%

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7%

7%

Has using the telescope got you more interested in studying Physics for the

Leaving Certificate?

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37%

27%

11%

5%

Has using the telescope got you more interested in studying Science at

University than before?

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Where are GLORIA telescopes?‏

Name Location Aperture size (m)

BOOTES-1 Andalucia, Spain 0.3

BOOTES-2/TELMA Andalucia, Spain 0.6

BOOTES-3/Yock-Allen New Zealand 0.6

CAB-EVA1 Avila, Spain 0.5

CAB-CAB Madrid, Spain 0.4

CAB-CAHA Almeria, Spain 0.5

BART Czech Republic 0.254 & 0.1

FRAM Argentina 0.3

Pi of the Sky I Chile 0.07

Pi of the Sky 2 Huelva, Spain 0.07

Watcher South Africa 0.4

C. Tololo Chile 0.5

OM Madrid, Spain 0.25

TAD Tenerife, Spain 0.26

D50 Czech Republic 0.5

FAVOR Russia 0.15

Mini-MegaTORTORA Spain 0.07x9

Optional subtitle - 28pt T1 T2 T3 T4 T2 T5

T6 T7 T8 T9

T6

T10

T11 T12

T13

T14

T15

T16

Web Interface‏

Authoring tool: An easy-to-use tool to allow you to customise the telescope function as you want

For a community experiment, images must be served rapidly to create a fluid and engaging experience for the user

A new API protocol has been developed and was implemented for the first time in the new galaxyzoo.org

A more general interface

This example - now being tested on the first 500 volunteers - uses data from Hubble Space Telescope archives. The task is to identify clusters in our nearest galaxy, M31.

FLORA - a FITS viewer

FLORA is a javascript library which allows the display and manipulation of FITS files in the browser.

This implementation also uses optimize.js to do point-source modelling.

Fitting in the browser

Complex curve fitting with optimize.js is now integrated in the LIFERAY framework, and ready for integration with data from telescopes.

Web Interface‏

Can you bring your own toys to the party?

• An open protocol is being developed for connecting your telescope into the GLORIA network

• Totally open source philosophy

‏Engaging newcomers ‏

Broadcasting Events

Developing new peer to peer broadcasting technology

live.gloria-project.eu

Web Partners

Collaborators

Impact of GLORIA so far

New multi-language public website ~ 6 months ago.

Website visitors:

• 94,271 visits

• 71,686 unique visitors

• 172,662 page views

• 99 different countries

Facebook page: >5000 followers

YouTube channel: 26 videos, >200,000 views

GLORIA web followers

gloria-project.eu

Impact of GLORIA so far

Transit of Venus (5-6 June):

• 369,048 visits, 1,770,311 page views, 92,939 viewers

Northern lights 2012 (24-28 August):

• 65,052 visits, 4,869,129 page views, 39,881 viewers

Live event followers

Social GLORIA

flickr.com/groups/messagetothefuture

facebook.com/GLORIAProject

youtube.com/user/gloriaproject

Message to the future Flickr album: 485 photos (look back after 100 years and see how things have changed)

Social GLORIA – Message to the Future

News Flash!

GLORIA telescopes will observe Asteroid 2012 DA14

Images will be taken by TAD and Montegancedo and updated every 5 mins or so on gloria-project.eu

We’re also asking you to share your images on: http://www.flickr.com/groups/gloriada14/

GLORIA in the press

146 articles in the press: 26 on printed press, 93 on web-press, 13 on press agencies, 10 on radio-TV.

News in 14 “countries”:

• Europe, Italy, Australia, Spain, Argentina, Poland, Germany, France, Mexico, USA, Chile, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Russia

Press coverage worldwide

15 March 2012

18 August 2012

GLORIA Visual

High-quality pictures and videos

GLORIA visual

Transit of Venus video

APOD of October 3rd, 2012

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap121003.html

GLORIA visual

17/22

Northern lights video

Total Solar Eclipse November 2012

GLORIA educational

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So far:

1. Earth-Sun distance

2. Midnight Sun (latitude of observation site)

3. Calculation of Aurora altitude from images using colour and parallax methods

Total Solar Eclipse:

• use meteo-station data to monitor atmospheric changes during the event.

GLORIA educational

Atmospheric changes tool

GLORIA is for YOU

• GLORIA won’t survive without a healthy community of users

• That means you!

• Two telescopes currently integrated into the network

• Remainder online this year

• Please help us test the system & try to break it

• www.gloria-project.eu

Do people array have to tell us if they use the data for a paper?

Is there any seeing quality data provided?

Is there calibration data provided for each observation?

Mike Foylan (foylanm@esatclear.ie) Photometry of asteroids – Minor planet bulletin Open to going to schools and showing how the

analysis is done MPO Canopus-s/w; not open source but cheap $

65 Dave McDonald also works in this

Ben Emmett – Dublin City FM; Tuesday pm Astronomy show