SMAP's September 2024 program presents Professor Robert Austin introducing to us the cosmos at your fingertips with the Slooh remote observatory. SMAP students learn how to request their own personal images of with the telescope of your choice, from Chile, the Canary Islands and now the new asset in Australia. These aren't your little sibling's telescopes!

The galaxy featured in the thumbnail is one obtained by one of our own SMAP student, Caleb. See the link for students' work below.

Students in grades 8-12, sign up for monthly SMAP programs here; https://bit.ly/SMAPPurdue.

Timeline
0:00 Let's hear about Professor Austin, Slooh, and the format for SMAP
3:22 Exploring the Slooh platform
7:32 SMAP students featured live on a Slooh Star Party show
9:10 Tell us the telescope specifics
11:49 Grabbing live images in real time
17:19 Scheduling a mission at Canary Islands
20:20 Tagging on to others' missions
25:12 FITS files and JS9; yes you can add or change colors
27:30 How about making a Quest showpiece poster?
30:37 Check in on breakout rooms 1 and 2 and see students in action
38:30 Back to the main room for a fond farewell

Educators - you can Slooh too and let your student run the skies! https://www.slooh.com/.
Check out Slooh's student introduction; https://player.vimeo.com/video/731011162.

Thank you Jonathan Sullivan-Wood for this month's thumbnail.