Astronomy from Archival Data
An IAU-OAD Project

Astronomy in Covid Times

This project, for a duration of six months, is specially meant for undergraduate and post-graduate students to train them on astronomy projects with archival data.
 
Zoom sessions: Saturday and Sunday mornings from 10-11:30 am IST.

We start on 1 August 2020 till 31 Jan 2021

Plan of the course:
Step 1: Introduce important concepts in Astronomy
Step 2: Show step-by-step techniques of accessing and analysing data
using Virtual observatory tools and programming techniques
Step 3: Sample research problems and student projects
Focus areas: Observations of stars, star clusters and galaxy morphology.
Data Sets: Gaia, HST, 2MASS, Spitzer. Chandra….

You can register anytime….
Register at: https://shristiastro.com/register/

Regular updates on Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/shristi.astro/

  Email:shristiastro2020@gmail.com

Telegram: https://t.me/joinchat/U3Q-jhgh-tmqcYiB

All recorded videos available on Youtube:https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeefVVJnQitri3lbXFq4uXQ?view_as=subscriber
A six-month time-line is what we plan for. The resources developed can be used by students and we can continue the interaction over the years. This is being planned as a long-term educational venture and the repository we create can be useful in the future too.

All sessions will be recorded and available online.

There will be a stronger focus on observations of starclusters and galaxy morphology in optical and infrared. We are hoping to include people from diverse areas too.

As students may have classes as well as time zone issues, the recordings of sessions will also be made available for students.

Phase1 : Zoom Sessions and live interactions from 1 August 2020 – 29 November 2020. Here is a feedback form we would like you to fill regarding Phase 1 of our course : https://forms.gle/otbrDhHVUA36WuQW9

Phase 2: Participants  start working on projects. Details on the webpage will be posted: https://shristiastro.com/projects-2/

Phase-3: Participants will be presenting  projects from (16 Jan onwards).

Participants who present will be given Certificates.

We look forward to your participation!

Here is a short video on the project here

Priya & Najam

Introduction to Astronomy and research problems.

Students who are new to Astronomy are urged to click on the link to view the lectures of a six day basic Course in Astronomy. here

step 1

Techniques of accessing and analysing astronomy data

Introduction to Virtual Observatory Tools

step 2

Additional Resources

step 3

Take up projects and work on analysis independently

step 4

Check out the upcoming events for this project!

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