CUREA 2007 TO OFFER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM
AT MOUNT WILSON OBSERVATORY JULY 8-21
The Consortium for Undergraduate Research and Education in Astronomy (CUREA) will repeat its highly successful in-residence educational program at Mount Wilson Observatory for the 18th time this summer, from July 8 through 21, 2005. The program is aimed at undergraduate physics and astronomy majors, with junior or senior standing, who are considering a career in science or teaching.
Staff and students will pursue a short on-site course in astrophysics and observational astronomy using the historic facilities at Mount Wilson. Instruments available to the students will include the Snow Horizontal Solar Telescope, used in conjunction with a high-resolution spectrograph; a 16-inch Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope with CCD camera and SBIG stellar spectrograph; and the historic 60-inch reflector, used by Harlow Shapley to discover the size of the Milky Way Galaxy.
More information here.
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