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Hughes Pack

 

Hughes Pack is a very special person for us. He comes from Massachusetts and is a astronomy teacher at the Northfield Mount Hermon School. He is interested in the use of small telescopes for photometry, supernovae searches and variable object studies. He works on minor planet astrometry and curriculum materials and also plans for a roll of roof observatory for research. He teaches and provides images for the hou telescope network. His dream: he would like to see a world-wide network of telescopes available to high school students for minor planet and NEO work, supernovae searches, variable object work and on and on.

Pack: “Provide the tools and the training and you will be amazed at what young minds can do.”

Friday, July 21

Asteroid search for students and scientists

He talked about how students (or scientists) can observe the expansion of the universe (from the spectrum > redshift).

Saturday, July 22

At this day the working groups met in TUM-Nordbau. We were in his group (Asteroid Search). we discussed:

1. Asteroids:
   • 1.) Faint asteroids:
     the problem is that the students have only old data. What they want to do is to try to get new data (educational value!).
   • 2.) Bright asteroids:
     For this asteroids 24’’telescopes and also smaller ones can be used.
2. the questions:
   • 1.) How do you find asteroids?
   • 2.) How can we share small telescope data?

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