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Student Projects using Astronomical Data Bank

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2016

M. Gerbaldi  and
J. Dupré
M. Gerbaldi
Affiliation:
Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris98bis, Bd Arago, 75014 Paris, France Université de Paris-Sud, Centre d’OrsayBât 470, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France
J. Dupré
Affiliation:
Université de Paris-Sud, Centre d’OrsayBât 470, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France

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There are several ways to use a computer with students for teaching Astronomy. Among many others we can list the following : to emulate and to explain the phenomena as with a planetarium, to visualise some astronomical properties such as the motions in a binary-stars system, or to simulate some observations with a telescope. We shall present here a different approach : the use of a computer to compute and to analyse the content of an astronomical data bank.

The projects developed with the students, in this context, allow them to have access to real astronomical data obtained by professional astronomers and then to make an analysis of the data based on their own knowledge.

Type
Special Contributions
Information
Highlights of Astronomy , Volume 9: Highlights of Astronomy. As presented at the XXIst General Assembly of the IAU, 1991 , 1992 , pp. 749 - 752
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1992