{"id":14846,"date":"2021-10-05T14:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/?p=14846"},"modified":"2021-10-05T14:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T13:44:14","slug":"livestream-observations-uranus-shared-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.innovationnewsnetwork.com\/livestream-observations-uranus-shared-public\/14846\/","title":{"rendered":"Livestream of observations of Uranus to be shared with the public"},"content":{"rendered":"
The astronomers and planetary scientists will utilise the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility<\/a> (IRTF) on Mauna Kea, Hawai\u2019i, to bring live imagery of Uranus to people all around the globe on 8, 9 and 10 October.<\/p>\n The Royal Astronomical Society (RAS) is inviting the public to watch the live footage of Uranus \u2013 which is nearly three billion kilometres away from Earth \u2013 as the scientists take measurements and examine different aspects of its atmosphere across the three days of observations.<\/p>\n Sir William Herschel, who subsequently became the founding president of the RAS, discovered the \u2018ice giant\u2019 in 1781 by utilising a small telescope in his garden.<\/p>\n The partnership follows a very lucrative RAS livestream that was held in 2020 and was also led by Leicester scientists. This livestream observed the shadow of the moon Ganymede passing across the face of Jupiter in real-time.<\/p>\n These novel observations of Uranus will occur from 09:00 to 16:55 BST (08:00 to 15:55 UTC) on Friday 8, Saturday 9 and Sunday 10 October 2021, and will be available to watch on the RAS YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Emma Thomas, a PhD student at Leicester University, will lead the observations: \u201cOver these three days of observations, we will be building up the most detailed infrared map of Uranus that we have ever completed (a full 360 degrees longitude), and by doing this we hope to detect and fully map the southern infrared aurora for the first time ever.<\/p>\n \u201cMy area of research is to investigate and fully map the infrared aurorae at Uranus, which is done by analysing spectra (looking at the different wavelengths of light received from Uranus) from telescopes such as IRTF, Keck (also on Hawai\u2019i), and the Very Large Telescope in Chile.<\/p>\n \u201cThe aurora of Uranus has been a long-standing mystery since the first detection of near infrared emissions back in 1993, but in the last four years, we have begun to take the first steps in understanding the weird and wonderful aurorae we see at Uranus.\u201d<\/p>\nSuccessful collaboration<\/h3>\n
Detailed study of Uranus<\/h3>\n
Sharing observations with the public<\/h3>\n