See the schedule on the web to find out when your group will observe at the UCI Observatory. Every group that needs observational data for their project is scheduled for at least two nights at the Observatory. Some nights two groups are on the schedule, and one group will use the 24" telescope while the other group uses the 8" telescope. The two groups that do not need observational data (those doing number counts of distant galaxies and computer simulations of galaxy formation & dark matter hals) are scheduled for one night each out at the Observatory to use the 8" telescope to explore the night sky. There are a few extra nights at the end of the term that we can use as make-up nights for those groups that experience bad weather on their scheduled nights.
When you go out to the Observatory to observe, it is your
responsibility
to be ready when the van leaves and to come
prepared to carry out your project: know what objects you'll be
observing and their positoins, what data and calibration images to
take, etc.. During Project Lab, your TA will help you create a
schedule of the observations to be made.
| Project Title: | Instructor: |
Group Members: |
| 1. The Mass of Jupiter Derived from the Orbital Period of its Moons | Carol Thornton thorntoc@uci.edu |
Bev Levene Arvind Ramesh |
| 2. Searching for Asteroids and Calculating Their Orbits | Carol Thornton thorntoc@uci.edu |
Erik Gallegos Nestor Garcia Kyle Slaugh |
| 3. Determining the Properties of an Eclipsing Binary System Using Photometry | Michael Hood mahood@uci.edu |
Kevin Louie Kristine Tran Fari Valji |
| 4. Determining the Properties of Stars Using Stellar Spectra | Michael Hood mahood@uci.edu |
Andrew Chang Priyam Patel |
| 5. Measuring the Ages of Star Clusters in the
Milky Way: Globular Cluster M13 |
Tammy Smecker-Hane tsmecker@uci.edu |
Deanna Gelosi Chi Kim Ly Gabriela Ortiz |
| 6. Measuring the Ages of
Star Clusters in the Milky Way:
Open Cluster M11 |
Tammy Smecker-Hane tsmecker@uci.edu |
Theodora Block Miguel Padilla |
| 7. Number Counts of Distant Galaxies and the Shape of the Universe | James Bullock bullock@uci.edu Elizabeth Barton ebarton@uci.edu |
Brandon Chang Yang Wang Desiree Webster-Zuber |
| 8. Computer Simulations of Galaxy Formation and Masses of Dark Matter Halos | James Bullock bullock@uci.edu Elizabeth Barton ebarton@uci.edu |
Horn (Jack) Ching Andrew Lerman Beau Tadej |