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title: Summer Projects 2023
subtitle: Projects conducted by the club during May - July 2023
cover-img: /assets/img/banner/projects/summer-2023.jpg
cover-img: [SP 2023](../assets/img/banner/projects/summer-2023.JPG)
link: /projects/summer-2023
button-text: Summer 2023
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### 1. Tour de OAAR

*Abstract:* As the name suggests, we visit the Observatory located in Airstrip and conduct night sky observations and take images using the 14'' telescope of the Observatory. OAAR stands for Observatory Automation for Astronomical Research, i.e., aiming to fully automate the Observatory, being able to operate that from the clubroom itself, using our PCs, which is also the long-term goal of the project. To achieve the objectives, we learn basic introduction to telescope handling and understanding the stellar movements, capturing deep sky objects (Astrophotography) from the observatory telescope as well as with our own phones, understand the function of the various circuits and sensors present in the Observatory using softwares like Arduino (even making our own raindrop sensor!), discovering weather mointoring using APIs and Jupyter Notebooks, learning and understanding the functions of various softwares (PHD2 Guiding, ASCOM Standard, FocusMax, Celestron CPWI, Autofocuser) used in the Observatory and how they control the hardware like the 14'' telescope, starshoot autoguider, monoculars etc., simulate star systems using Universal Sandbox and MATLAB, making simulation models and doing a comparative study from the observational data (vs simulated data).
*Abstract:* As the name suggests, we visit the Observatory located in the Airstrip, conduct night sky observations and take images using the 14'' telescope of the Observatory. OAAR stands for Observatory Automation for Astronomical Research, i.e., aiming to fully automate the Observatory, being able to operate that from the clubroom itself, using our PCs, which is also the long-term goal of the project. To achieve the objectives, we learn basic introduction to telescope handling and understanding the stellar movements, capturing deep sky objects (Astrophotography) from the observatory telescope as well as with our own phones, understand the function of the various circuits and sensors present in the Observatory using softwares like Arduino (even making our own raindrop sensor!), discovering weather mointoring using APIs and Jupyter Notebooks, learning and understanding the functions of various softwares (PHD2 Guiding, ASCOM Standard, FocusMax, Celestron CPWI, Autofocuser) used in the Observatory and how they control the hardware like the 14'' telescope, starshoot autoguider, monoculars etc., simulate star systems using Universal Sandbox and MATLAB, making simulation models and doing a comparative study from the observational data (vs simulated data).

*Expected Workload*: 7 hr/week

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### 2. Optical Odyssey

*Abstract:* The main aim of the project is to build our own James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) twin. For this purpose, we get a basic intro to the working of various land and space telescopes and understand the working of different equipments and processing dataset from JWST. We then learn multiple mirror optics and conditions in space by building a light collector similar to that of the primary mirror of the JWST. The light collector is illuminated using a heat lamp, and the intensity of light reflected from the mirrors is measured from behind a protective "sunshield". The observations are recorded and the data is analysed. Then, we construct a set up similar to the JWST (![Twin JWST Setup](../assets/img/banner/projects/sp-2023-optical-odyssey.jpg)) and from the data we take from this set up, we are able to calculate the efficiency of sunshield.
*Abstract:* The main aim of the project is to build our own James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) twin. For this purpose, we get a basic intro to the working of various land and space telescopes and understand the working of different equipments and processing dataset from JWST. We then learn multiple mirror optics and conditions in space by building a light collector similar to that of the primary mirror of the JWST. The light collector is illuminated using a heat lamp, and the intensity of light reflected from the mirrors is measured from behind a protective "sunshield". The observations are recorded and the data is analysed. Then, we construct a set up similar to the JWST (<a href="/assets/img/banner/projects/sp-2023-optical-odyssey.jpg" target="_blank">Mini-JWST Twin</a>) and from the data we take from this set up, we are able to calculate the efficiency of sunshield.

*Expected Workload*: 6 hr/week

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