This is the planned schedule for David Haworth's telescope station weather permitting.

Equipment

• Camera: QSI 532ws-M1 CCD camera.
  • Filter: V Astrodon-Schuler Johnson-Cousins/Bessell filter.
  • Diffraction Limited MaxIm DL camera control software
• Edmund Optics T-Mount Extension Tube 20mm (NT53-231).
• Celestron EdgeHD T-Adapter 93646.
• Telescope: Celestron C9.25 aplanatic Schmidt telescope 235 mm aperture, f/10 focal ratio, 2350 mm focal length.
• Finder: Celestron 9 X 50mm Finder Scope.
• Orion dew shield.
• Mount: Astro-Physics 1200GTO German Equatorial Mount (1200GTO) with GTOCP3 Control Box.

Sunday July 7, 2013

Objectives

• Set up equipment
• Finalize team members
• Train team on running the equipment
• Train team on polar alignment
• Astrometry projects
  • Saturn
  • Neptune
  • Uranus
  • Minor planets: Pluto
  • Double stars

13:00 to 17:00 Workshop Setup

• Arrive and check in
• Setup mount, telescope, spectrographs, computers, tables, chairs, etc.
• Setup a place to sleep

17:00 to 19:00 Workshop group welcome meeting

• Welcome to workshop and introductions
• Finalize team members and other workshop teams

21:00 to 22:00 Final equipment setup and testing for imaging

• Polar alignment
• Star testing on Vega
• Equipment training
  • Mount control station
  • Camera control station
  • Documentation station

3:20 to 3:40 equipment clean up

• Park telescope mount
• Put away optics and computers
• Put away things and cover them

Monday July 8, 2013

Objectives

• Properties of light
• Introduction to spectrographs

13:00 to 15:00 Day time spectroscopy lab

• Learning objectives
  • Understand the properties of light
  • Identify continuous, absorption & amp; emission spectra

Light and The Electromagnetic Spectrum

• NASA An Introduction to The Electromagnetic Spectrum video (5 min.).
  • Wavelength,
    • Visible light 400 nm to 700 nm
  • Frequency
  • Amplitude
  • Energy
  • Spectrum
• University of Washington The Electromagnetic Spectrum video (2 min.).
  • Visible light is a small section of the electromagnetic spectrum
  • Hydrogen gas spectrum
  • Each element spectrum is unique
  • Diffraction grating is used to create a spectrum
• NAAP Wavelength, Frequency & Energy demonstration.Frequency & Energy demonstration (5 min.)
  • Energy = (Planck’s constant) (frequency)

Emission, Absorption & Continuous Spectra

• Lakeview Museum Spectrum of the Stars Video (1 min.).
  • Emission & absorption lines
• NAAP Three Views Spectrum Demonstrator
• CassiopeiaProject Spectral Lines Video (4 min.)
  • Energy states
  • Energy of a photon
  • Absorption lines
  • Emission lines
  • Hydrogen absorption and emission lines
• kosasihiskandarsjah Spectroscope Video (3 min.).
  • Spectroscope
  • Continuous spectrum
  • Absorption spectrum
  • Emission spectrum
    • Neon gas
    • Hydrogen gas

• Spectrum glasses.
  • Hydrogen gas tube spectrum lab.
    • CFL spectrum lab.

16:00 to 18:00 Workshop group meeting

• Informational presentations
  • Observing the Small White Dots, The Analysis of Starlight presentation by David Haworth ~ 60 minutes
    • Presentation S4P10RCA201111SpectV11.pdf
    • Observing the Small White Dots, The Analysis of Starlight YouTube video

21:00 to 22:30 Evening Night Lab in the 32 inch Telescope Dome

• Build a Stanford Solar Center spectroscope with a 1000 lines per mm grating
• On Monday the 16th the spectroscopy group made our own spectrographs They were constructed very carefully in order to work properly on light sources Each unit had its own eyepiece to look through thin film that shined a bright spectrum of colors in the component The spectrum is measured on a scale that was placed on the left side of the unit to ensure the right placement of the scale. Looking through the spectroscope were different lightbulbs, the first and most basic was a Hydrogen light bulb with little complexity in the spectrum. The next element was Helium, which provided an abundant spectra of many colors, we then looked at a neon light bulb, widely used in store lights, appeared equally brilliant. The last lightbulb we looked through the spectrograph was Argon, and its spectrum was very hard to see in the spectrograph
• Grating lab with red, green and blue lasar.
  • Mode 0
  • Mode +1 and -1
  • Mode +2 and -2
    • Mode 2 red over lap with mode 3 blue.
  • Mode +3 and -3

Tuesday July 9, 2013

Objectives

• Observe the Sun spectrum
• Identify H, Na and Mg elements in the Sun by their H-beta, Na doublet and Mg triplet absorption spectra
• Data calibration and analysis
• Solar spectrum

13:00 to 15:00 Day Time Spectroscopy Lab

• Solar spectrum lab

21:00 to 1:30 Spectroscopy Team Meeting

• Prepare report out presentation and web pagesdome.

Wednesday July 10, 2013

Objectives

• TrES-3 b exoplanet transit prediction
  • Begin 6:30 UT (23:30 PDT Wednesday July 10) 84 degrees S
  • Center 11.07. 7:09 (00:09 PDT Thursday July 11) 82 degrees SW, 0.0291 depth
  • End 7:49 UT (00:49 PDT Thursday July 11) 76 degrees W
• Prepare progress report out web pages during the transit

13:00 to 16:00 Day time spectroscopy lab

• RSpec lab
• Data reduction lab
• Prepare report out presentation and web pages

16:00 to 18:00 Workshop group meeting

• Spectroscopy team report (this web page)

21:00 to 2:40 Spectroscopy Imaging Notes

• To be created at the workshop.

Thursday July 11, 2013

Objectives

• Prepare report out presentation and web pages

Friday July 12, 2013

Objectives

• Pack up and leave PMO by noon.