at least it is a weekend. With any luck it will be clear.
I might be able to give it a try.
rdc
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Ozer" <rozer@pacbell.net>
To: "The Astronomy Connection" <sf-bay-tac@seds.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2005 10:42 AM
Subject: [TAC] FWD: CCD Image Assistance Requested
> 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 11:00:50 2005