Sorry if this is a repost... mail glitch this morning.
One of our Mt. Diablo club members has made a remarkable effort bringing Astronomy to
his high school students. His class projects involve telescope time on the Spitzer
Space Telescope and he needs CCD observations of Quasar 4C 29.45 to be taken immediately
before during and after the Spitzer observing slot. I was hoping that some of TAC's CCD
demons, particularly those with sleep disorders (note the observing time), would be
interested in helping out. Details are in the email below; including links to RA and
DEC settings.
If you are interested, feel free to contact me and I'd be happy to act as a conduit for
your results.
Rich Ozer
>> Hi everyone,
>>
>> The first of our two scheduled observations of Active Galactic
>> Nucleus 4C 29.45 has been scheduled on the Spitzer Space Telescope.
>> Many thanks to everyone who has assisted us to get to this point so far.
>>
>> Program: AGN_GLAST
>>
>> SCHEDULED TIME AOT TYPE TARGET NAME AOR LABEL
>> ----------------------- --------- -----------
>> -----------------------------------------
>> may 14 2005 10:40:36.400 MipsPhot 4c 29.45 GTN 7- MIPSP
>>
>> The time listed is UT, therefore the observation will be made on the
>> night of May 13/morning of May 14 (Friday night/early Saturday
>> morning) at 3:40 AM Pacific Daylight Time/6:40 AM Eastern Daylight Time.
>>
>> I'm sending you this message in the hope that you will forward it to
>> various listservs and other astronomy educators who may have students
>> interested in participating in the project with us. We are
>> interested in any properly calibrated observations of 4C 29.45
>> before, during, and after the Spitzer observation. This means that
>> CCD images have been made and darks/flats/bias frames applied to make
>> a photometrically useful image, using any standard UVBRI filter or
>> simple luminance. My students are planning on using the New Mexico
>> Skies telescope for this observation, as well as our own telescope.
>> My students will generate data points from these images and images
>> submitted to us from others. We are hoping to construct
>> change-over-time graphs as well as spectral energy diagrams of
>> intensity vs. wavelength from individual sets of observations.
>>
>> Our target is 4C 29.45, Global Telescope Network target #7 (GTN 7)
>> and resides at these coordinates:
>>
>> V mag: 15.6
>>
>> RA 11:59:31.8
>>
>> dec 29:14:44
>>
>> Instructions, links to the GTN network finder charts, and even a
>> sample image taken by a student are posted at this address:
>>
>> http://homepage.mac.com/dvhscience/SpaceAcademy/Projects/Spitzer/
>> index.html
>> or
>> http://www.ESPACEacademy.com ,click on the picture of the Spitzer
>> Space Telescope.
>>
>>
>> Another observation using IRAC has yet to be scheduled, and I will
>> send another request for observations when we know the date and time
>> of that observation.
>>
>> If you are interested in participating, please send an email to
>> astronomyteacher@mac.com and include "Spitzer Observation" in the
>> subject line.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff Adkins
>> for the Spitzer AGN team
>>
>
Received on Sun Apr 24 10:46:25 2005