Dear all,
Good luck on final exams this week!
Space Scout: UW-IT introduces SpaceScout, a web and iPhone app that helps you find what you need in a study space. Check it out at http://spacescout.uw.edu on your
browser or smartphone, and find the perfect place to study.
* Interest (including artistic) in manipulating and processing images
* Knowledge of CSS to make the website look good.
Contact Prof. Sullivan for more details: woody@astro.washington.edu, 206-543-7773, Room PAT C318
browser or smartphone, and find the perfect place to study.
Student wanted for an ASTR 499 project: Prof.
Woody Sullivan is looking for an undergrad to act as "curator" and
developer for the Webcam and related material for the large sundial on
the wall of the UW Physics/Astronomy Bldg.: http://sunny.astro.
Largely due to the skills of Ian Smith, the student who has worked with me and is graduating in June, we now
have almost 2 years of monitoring of the sundial at one-minute
intervals all day long, rain or shine. The Webcam is located inside a
window in Hitchcock Hall, across the street from the PAA building (see
the website for more details).
The core responsibility of the undergrad
is to monitor the operation of the webcam and its associated software
and website, and fix things as needed. Our setup is now very reliable,
but nothing works 100.0% of the time. In addition to this, other possible projects (depending on student interest) are:
- make more time-lapse movies using the archived images already gathered (two examples can be seen on the present website).
- improve the user experience on the website, in particular by allowing them to read the time even when it's cloudy in Seattle! (This would be done by overlaying the live Webcam image with a calculated shadow.)
- Similarly, allow the user to read the time even if the sun is not above the horizon in Seattle! (This is done by calculating the sun's shadow position as if sunlight could penetrate the Earth - consider this a "neutrino sundial"!)
- participate in projects associated with almost 40,000 images of the "MarsDials," which are on the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Two students are already working on this, but there is always room for more talent and good ideas.
Here are the ideal capabilities of the new student - the more you have of these items, the better you're suited!
* Some experience programming; Javascript would be best.
* Knowledge of Linux and feeling comfortable on the command line.
* Strong sense of responsibility, since large amounts of data will be cared for.
- make more time-lapse movies using the archived images already gathered (two examples can be seen on the present website).
- improve the user experience on the website, in particular by allowing them to read the time even when it's cloudy in Seattle! (This would be done by overlaying the live Webcam image with a calculated shadow.)
- Similarly, allow the user to read the time even if the sun is not above the horizon in Seattle! (This is done by calculating the sun's shadow position as if sunlight could penetrate the Earth - consider this a "neutrino sundial"!)
- participate in projects associated with almost 40,000 images of the "MarsDials," which are on the Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Two students are already working on this, but there is always room for more talent and good ideas.
Here are the ideal capabilities of the new student - the more you have of these items, the better you're suited!
* Some experience programming; Javascript would be best.
* Knowledge of Linux and feeling comfortable on the command line.
* Strong sense of responsibility, since large amounts of data will be cared for.
* Good mathematical skills in geometry
* Knowledge of CSS to make the website look good.
Contact Prof. Sullivan for more details: woody@astro.washington.edu, 206-543-7773, Room PAT C318
Page O'Announcements: A blog for Astronomy
students at UW! Check it out for advertised classes for next quarter,
jobs, research opportunities and campus events: http://pageoannouncements.
Sarah
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