Transits in our Solar System for educational...

Transits in our Solar System

for educational activities Venus Transit 2012, Mercury Transit 2016 and Total Solar Eclipse 2017

Miguel Pérez-Ayúcar, M Breitfellner, M. Castillo

On behalf of the CESAR Team, EPSC2017, 21 Sep 2017

EDUCATION PROJECT CESAR

COOPERATION

EDUCATION

ASTRONOMY

STUDENTS

“The EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY as a didactic resource"

cesar.esa.int

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

Using our observatories

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

School visits to ESAC

SPECIAL EVENTS

Scientific expeditions,

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

Teachers CTIF C. Madrid

Education Project CESAR

www.cesar.esa.int

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

TELESCOPE

50cm Cebreros,

TELESCOPE

30cm Robledo de

Chavela, Spain

TELESCOPE

H-alpha, visible,

ESAC, Madrid

TELESCOPE

15m ESAC,

Madrid

CESAR - RESOURCES

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

SCIENCE CASES: examples

1 - THE ROTATION PERIOD OF THE SUN AND THE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY

2 - THE DIFFERENTIAL ROTATION OF THE SUN AND ITS CHROMOSPHERE

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

CESAR - ESAC

Control Room & Theatre

telescope

observatory

CESAR Control Centre & Theatre

HELIOS (ESAC) – SOLAR OBSERVATORY

RESOURCES

IN THE CLASS

SPACE SCIENCE

EXPERIENCE

SPECIAL EVENTS

transits, eclipses,

hangouts ..

TEACHERS COURSES

www.cesar.esa.int

Scientific expeditions are organized to engage

students with awesome rare exotic events

- Super rare: Venus transits (not anymore in our

lifetime)

- Mildly Rare: Mercury transits

- Normal Rare BUT AWE: solar eclipses

EXPEDITIONS EVENTS – main parts (1/2)

(1) Interactive LIVE transmission:

- Live images via ESAC servers in the

- LIVE hangout with presentations

from experts and LIVE connections

to expeditions

EXPEDITIONS EVENTS – main parts (2/2)

(2) Creation of Offline Science Cases for students

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS GOALS

- Expeditions are organized not just for obtaining the scientific

data used in the cases for the classroom activities

- They serve mainly to engage students with appealing, RARE

awesome EVENTS – LIVE

- Events are interactive: students can Q&A with the experts

- They can be followed from the School – University in a special

event: the team will connect with them in the live transmission

- In the future we want students to be active part of the team:

- prepare them via specific training courses

- come along and have their own instruments in charge

CESAR EXPEDITIONS – COLLABORATION

- Promote ESA science satellite projects

- Venus Express

- Solar Orbiter

- Proba 2 – Proba 3

- Bepi Colombo

- ESA communications

- ESAC Comms – Intranet, Press

- ESTEC Comms – ESA main portal, ESA TV, Science

Image of the Week

- Support from local hosts

- ESO, Paranal

- NASA Canberra Deep Space Network

- Izana Observatory Teide, Canary Islands

- Casper University

- Education with

- ESA Education Office – ESTEC (science cases)

The EXPEDITIONS – results

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IVENUS TRANSIT 2012. SVALBARD - CANBERRA

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IIMERCURY TRANSIT 2016. CHILE - SPAIN

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IIMERCURY TRANSIT 2016. CHILE -

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IIMERCURY TRANSIT 2016. CHILE - SPAIN

CESAR – SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITIONS IIISOLAR TOTAL ECLIPSE 21 AUG 2017

CASPER

WYOMING

LIVE IMAGES

THE CHROMOSPHERE

THE BAILY’S BEADS

THE CORONA in HDR

SPECTRAL DATA: H, He, Fe, Ca …

R: Pol-a G: Pol-a+Pol-d B: Pol-d L: RotGrad (Pol-a+Pol-d )

Corona Polarization

R: Pol-a/ (Pol-a+Pol-d ) G: Pol-a+Pol-d B: Pol-d / (Pol-a+Pol-d ) L: RotGrad (Pol-a+Pol-d )

Corona Polarization

PINHOLE PROJECTION

MOON - double reflected light

IMPACT of these events

WEBNumber

of visitsPages Hits

Bandwidth

Mercury

Transit 2016

72,151 1,006,801 3,132,297 93

Transit 2012

6 June

16,560 44,207 2,707,385 58

APP IPHONE ANDROID

DOWNLOADS >1000 >1000

GOOGLE HANGOUT

SIMULTANEOUS WATCHERS 2513

CONCLUSIONS

- CESAR-ESA Educational project offers didactic material based

on ESA Science resources, from primary to University grades.

- Scientific expeditions are organized to engage students with

awesome rare exotic events

- Super rare: Venus transits (not anymore in our lifetime)

- Mild Rare: Mercury transits

- Normal Rare BUT AWE: solar eclipses

- These events cover naturally outreach, education and science

- The public response is fabulous so we will try to organize more

in the future

Transits in our Solar System for

educational activities

Venus Transit 2012, Mercury Transit 2016 and

Total Solar Eclipse 2017

Miguel Pérez-Ayúcar, M Breitfellner, M. Castillo

On behalf of the CESAR Team, EPSC2017, 21 Sep 2017

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