Bringing the Faulkes Telescope to Classrooms in Hawaii

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Bringing the Faulkes Telescope to Classrooms in
Hawaii
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The Telescope

• British-Hawaiian collaboration
• Largest for education only use
• Offline and online use

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Data Delivery

• British classrooms
• Immediate jpeg delivery
• Download for further imaging
• Hawaii alternative?

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Existing Imaging Tools

• Sophisticated tools
• SAOImage and SAOImage DS9
• SkyCat and Jskycat
• ATV
• Tools for K-12 users
• HOU-IP
• LTImage

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Applets as Imaging Tools

• Interactive
• Portable
• Require only a browser
• No applications to install or maintain

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The Tools Page
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Blink Tool
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Grey Scale Image Tool
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Color Image Tool
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Measurement Tool
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Testing the Tools

• Evaluated in terms of software usability
• Servlet container on Maui machine
• TOPS workshop test users
• Rated perceived usefulness and perceived ease
  of use
• Scale from 1 to 7

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Test Results

• Users also made a significant number of
  thoughtful comments

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Conclusions

• Results appear to indicate that applets can be
  useful successfully as astronomical imaging tools