SkyServer: Sloan Digital Sky Survey Education and Outreach
Jordan Raddick , JHU/SDSS
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS), one of the largest survey
projects in the history of astronomy, will map 25% of the night sky
down to 23rd magnitude, collecting images of more than 100 million
objects and spectra of over 1 million objects. All data from the
survey will be publicly available over the Internet. These data give
students of all ages an amazing opportunity to conduct astronomical
research using the same tools astronomers use. SDSS's education and
outreach site, SkyServer, allows
students to make Hubble diagrams, classify stars by spectral type,
make Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams, and find asteroids, all using real
SDSS data. This short talk will introduce SkyServer's features and
will tell you how you can help develop the site. The talk will be
followed by an interactive discussion and brainstorming session.