5/4/23 By: Adrienne Brummett, Carlee Markle, Margaret Wright, Glenn Lassiter, and Christina Hollyday
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About the Dolphin Head Nebula
4/25/23 By: Adrienne Brummett, Carlee Markle, and Christina Hollyday In this module, we learned that star death can be broken down into either low mass or high mass. Stars that start with less than 12 solar masses are considered low-mass stars. Hydrogen is completely depleted at a star’s core and leaves behind gravitational potential energy,… Continue reading About the Dolphin Head Nebula
About the Rosette Nebula
By: Adrienne Brummett, Carlee Markle, and Christina Hollyday 4/17/2023 For this module, our group chose to image NGC 2244, aka the Rosette Nebula. The Rosette is a star-forming HII region located in our own Milky Way Galaxy. It is within the Monoceros region of our galaxy and contains enough gas and dust to produce 10,000… Continue reading About the Rosette Nebula
About Pulsars and Polarization
By: Adrienne Brummett, Carlee Markle, and Christina Hollyday (Adrienne’s Version) 4/4/2023 In this module, we attempted to observe different known pulsars of varying difficulty levels using the 20m radio telescope at Green Bank Observatory. The observation information for each of our pulsars is actually identical. We used the Green Bank Observatory’s 20m radio telescope to… Continue reading About Pulsars and Polarization
About the Age of Star Clusters + HR Diagrams
Adrienne Astrophotography 3/23/2023 NGC 3293 – Young Cluster The observation that I used to process this photo was made by my group member, Carlee Markle! The Prompt-6 telescope was used and there were 5 exposures in the B, V, R, and I filter. The total observing time per filter was B ~ 31.5 seconds, V… Continue reading About the Age of Star Clusters + HR Diagrams
About Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Mars
A Tour of our Solar System 2/16/2023 Jupiter I used the PROMPT-5 telescope to take this observation and took 10 exposures in each filter. In the U filter our exposure duration was 1.5 seconds, in the H⍺ filter our exposure duration was 1 second, and in the OIII filter our exposure duration was 1 second.… Continue reading About Jupiter, Neptune, Uranus, and Mars
About the Moon’s Subsurface Temperature
Radio Observing: Are we Looking at Reflected or Absorbed and Thermally Re-emitted Sunlight? In order to determine whether or not we were measuring reflected or absorbed and thermally re-emitted sunlight from the moon, we had to use radio telescopes, as opposed to the optical telescope that was used in my previous blog post. To answer… Continue reading About the Moon’s Subsurface Temperature
About the Moon Mosaic
Adrienne’s Astrophotography 1/30/23 The Moon and its Colors For this moon mosaic, I originally put in an optical observation with the telescope NSO-17-CDK, but unfortunately, the observation did not come back in time for this post. Luckily, one of my group members, Christina Hollyday, submitted an observation using PROMPT-6, which did come back in time!… Continue reading About the Moon Mosaic