Campaña Mundial de Observación del CieloDesde el pasado día 22 y hasta el 29 de marzo

Advertised on

El pasado día 22 de marzo se puso en marcha el proyecto “GLOBE at night”, una campaña, desarrollada en todo el mundo, cuya finalidad es observar y registrar la magnitud de las estrellas visibles como una manera de medir la contaminación lumínica en un lugar determinado. Esta contaminación se produce por el reflejo de la luz artificial en las partículas del aire, de forma que dificultan la observación del cielo nocturno.

Esta actividad, que finalizará el 29 de marzo, está orientada a los estudiantes y sus familias que aprenderán como ubicar la constelación de Orión y las estrellas con diferente magnitud de luminosidad durante la noche. La información de los participantes se ingresa a una base de datos en Internet, de manera que se podrá documentar el cielo nocturno visible entre los días 22 y 29 de Marzo del 2006. A fin de que los participantes puedan ver los resultados de esta campaña mundial, estos estarán disponibles a través de la red.

“GLOBE at Night” es una colaboración entre  The GLOBE Program, the  National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), Centro de Apoyo a  la Didactica de la Astronomia (CADIAS), Windows to the Universe,  and Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. (ESRI)

Más información:

http://www.globe.gov/GaN/GaNActivityPacket_Family_ES.pdf

http://www.globe.gov/GaN/index.html

News type
Press release

It may interest you

  • Planetary nebula M57
    Press release
    The mystery of the fullerenes in space explained
    A pioneering study from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) which combines laboratory chemistry with astrophysics, has shown for the first time that grains of dust formed by carbon and hydrogen in a highly disordered state, known as HAC, can take part in the formation of fullerenes, carbon molecules which are of key importance for the development of life in the universe, and with potential applications in nanotechnology. The results are published as a Letter to the Editor in the prestigious journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. Fullerenes are carbon molecules which are very big
    Advertised on
  • An artist’s concept of the exoplanet SPECULOOS-3 b orbiting its red dwarf star. The planet is as big around as Earth, while its star is slightly bigger than Jupiter – but much more massive. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
    Press release
    Astronomers discover Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting ultra-cool star
    An international scientific team, with the participation of researchers from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), has found a new world similar in size to our planet orbiting an ultra-cold red dwarf located about 55 light-years away. Observations from the SPECULOOS telescope network, which includes the ARTEMIS telescope at the Teide Observatory in Tenerife, have made this discovery possible. The Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC), at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma, has also played a key role in confirming the discovery, providing some of the most accurate ground
    Advertised on
  • ESA’s Hera mission lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space /ESA - S. Corvaja
    Press release
    The IAC is participating in the first European planetary defence mission
    Researchers Julia de León and Javier Licandro of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) are participating in the Hera mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) , successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA) on 7th October at 14:52 UTC. This is the first European mission for planetary defence which together with NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid redirection Test) will study the effects of a technique for diverting asteroids called “ kinetic impactor”. The DART probe crashed into the smaller ( Dimorphos) of the two asteroids which form the binary system Didymos, on September
    Advertised on