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以下是Dr. Miller的來信

Greetings from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration

Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign -- Starts Monday

The Pan-STARRS Asteroid Search Campaign starts on Monday, November 12th.  Next week you will have image sets in your team folder for your students to analyze.

By now you should have downloaded and installed the program Astrometrica.  If not, you need to go to http://iasc.hsutx.edu/index_files/Page389.htm and download the first three files:

1.   Astrometrica Setup
2.   Quick Start Guide
3.   Practice Image Sets

Go to the Quick Start Guide and proceed from there.

Astrometrica is the program your students will use to analyze the images from the PS1 telescope.  This telescope is 1.8-m in diameter, sits on Haleakala in Hawaii, and has the world's largest scientific digital camera.  This camera produces images that are 7 degrees in size and contain 1.4 billion pixels.

Each week your team will receive 6-7 image sets for your students to analyze.  They will prepare an MPC (Minor Planet Center) report on each of the sets then send those reports as an text file email attachment to Dr. Patrick Miller

Do not send the reports to any other location.  Be sure those reports are text file attachments to your emails.

The IASC asteroid search campaigns are not competitions for your students.  They represent a collaborative scientific research program that includes your school, your partner school, the Insttitute for Astronomy (IfA) at the University of Hawaii, and the International Astronomical Search Collaboration (IASC).

You will find the email addresses of the teachers attached.  You and your students are encouraged to contact your partner school and work closely as you prepare the MPC reports.  Collaborating and sharing your results is the heart of science accomplishment.  It is an important skill for your students to learn as they study to one day have careers in science, engineering, or mathematics.

In the meanwhile, get ready.  PS1 image sets will soon be available and your students will be making Main Belt asteroid (MBA) discoveries.  Occasionally students discover near-Earth objects (NEOs) and more distant asteroids in Jupiter's orbit (Trojans).

Happy Hunting!!

Dr. Patrick Miller


Department of Mathematics & Astronomy
Holland School of Science & Mathematics
Hardin-Simmons University
Abilene, TX   79698
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IASC ("Isaac") is a collaboration of Hardin-Simmons University (Abilene, TX), Lawrence Hall of Science (University of California at Berkeley), Astronomical Research Institute (Westfield, IL), Global Hands-On Universe Association (Portugal), Sierra Stars Observatory Network (Markleeville, CA), Tarleton State University (Stephenville, TX), The Faulkes Telescope Project (Wales), Yerkes Observatory (Williams Bay, WI), Western Kentucky University (Bowling Green, KY), Las Cumbras Observatory (Santa Barbara, CA), G.V. Schiaparelli Astronomical Observatory (Italy), and Astrometrica (Austria).  Special project collaborations include the Panoramic Survey Telescope & Rapid Response System (University of Hawaii), National Astronomical Observatories of China (Beijing), Astronomers Without Borders (United States), Space Generation Advisory Council (Vienna, Austria) and Target Asteroids! (University of Arizona, Tucson).