June 25 - 28, 2015: EXES: Observing Workshop
A teacher professional development workshop held at McDonald Observatory
Other Websites:
● Dark Skies Talk Slides (from 2014)
● LCOGT Observing Website
● Image Processing / Viewing Tools: DS9, GIMP, FITS Liberator
● Image Processing Instructions / Tips from LCOGT
● Hubble Images (how they make them)
● GCET (Galaxies and Cosmology Explorer Tool)
● LCOGT Agent Exoplanet Education Activity & Data
● Kitt Peak Astronomy Research for Education Projects
● NASA WISE Data and Images Tutorials
● NASA WISE Data Archive (IPAC)
● SDSS Asteroids search tool for education
● Chandra Pulsating Variable Stars Activity and Website
This workshop is supported in part by a National Science Foundation Grant to Dr. Chris Sneden under an education/public outreach supplement to the research project “The Chemical Compositions of Galactic Halo Field and Cluster Stars”. Additional support was provided by the Cynthia and George Mitchell Foundation, Carolyn Keenan and Charlie Gaines, Hugh Gragg, Lynn Lyles Brill, Leonard Tedesco, and Bill and Alice Wright. We also thank Joe and Lucy Parsley for support of the Texas Galileo Teacher Training Program.
