PH512 Astrophysics Professor Michael Smith
MULTIMEDIA ASTRONOMY
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PH512
School of Physical Sciences Convenor Prof. Michael Smith
Taught in Spring Term
1. Set up: http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/
2. Read: Aladin FAQ
3. Choose Target. How?
ECTS Credits 7.5
Kent Credits 15 at Level H
4. Multiwavelength, Scales, Sizes, Coordinates,
Orientation
5. Manipulate images using fits format
Aladin: widely-used VO portal capable of addressing challenges such as locating data of interest, accessing and exploring distributed datasets, visualizing multi-wavelength data. Compliance with existing or emerging VO standards, interconnection with other visualisation or analysis tools, ability to easily compare heterogeneous data are key topics allowing Aladin to be a powerful data exploration and integration tool as well as a science enabler.
TARGETS:
Planetary Nebula (PN)
Proto-PN
Supernova Remnants
Galaxy: Messier
Galaxy cluster: Abell
Star Formation Regions
INFORMATION:
Web Info
ADS: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abstract_service.html

PH512 Astrophysics Professor Michael Smith
Web of Science http://www.webofknowledge.com
Use Simbad
To identify, other names etc.: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fid http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/aladin.gml
http://makalii.mtk.nao.ac.jp/index.html.en
2 http://skyview.gsfc.nasa.gov/
APOD http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071123.html
PN:
NGC 2346 2440 2438 3132 3587 6853 6720 2392 6302
6543 6369 7009 7293 6537 IC 418 Mz3 MyCn18
M2-9 M1-92 IC4406 Hen 3-1357
SNR: RCW86 RCW89 RCW103 LMC N49 N63A
3C10 3C144 Sh2-240 W49B
Galaxies: (as well as PN, Star Clusters)
T
HE
M
ESSIER
C
ATALOG http://www.seds.org/messier/
GALAXY CLUSTERS

PH512 Astrophysics Professor Michael Smith http://www.saguaroastro.org/content/Abel-Galaxy-
Clusters.htm
DATA INFO/SURVEY INFO
Click on file name in Aladin
Look at FITS Header
Through Skyview
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