September 27-29, 2015
Large Seminar Room at
National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ),
Mitaka, Tokyo, JAPAN
ABSTRACTS 3
Day 3 : Tuesday, September 29
Session 6: Discussions and Conclusions
NAOJ Projects and E/PO Activities
Masahiko Hayashi (NAOJ)
I will introduce world-leading NAOJ projects such as Subaru, ALMA, and TMT as well as our E/PO (education and public outreach) activities.
Poster Presentations
Making Brochure and Original Goods in the NAOJ Nobeyama Campus
Makiko Nishioka, Kenzo Kinugasa, Hiroshi Mikoshiba, Kazuhiko Miyazawa, Noriyuki Shinohara, Hidemi Ide, and Masao Saito (Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ)
Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) has made the campus accessible to the public since inauguration of the observatory. The campus has about 60 thousands of visitors for a year in the past few years. Visitors are various age groups and have various interests in the Universe. We are distributing brochures for Adults and Children to match the age of visitors in order to understand the radio astronomy. Last year, we made a full revision of the two types of brochures. In particular, the brochure for children was designed in cooperation with the neighboring elementary school as an attempt. Apart from that, we produce NRO original goods for utilizing the public relations activities. We produce a few kinds of original goods in a year and distribute to visitors at the time of events, such as open house day, and to researchers and students at workshops or training programs. We introduce concepts and procedures of our brochures and goods on this poster.
Artist in Residence at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory, NAOJ
Hidemi Ide, Kenzo Kinugasa (NRO/NAOJ), Yukino Suzuki (Siga-Kogen Roman Museum), Makiko Nishioka, Hiroshi Mikoshiba, Kazuhiko Miyazawa, Noriyuki Shinohara, Masao Saito (NRO/NAOJ) and Koji Ohnishi (Nagano National College of Technology)
On May 25-28th 2015, we carried out an "Artist in Residence (AIR)" at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) as a pre-event of a special exhibition "Eyes watching the Universe - collaboration with art and astronomy" (July - October, 2015) of Siga-Kogen Roman Museum in Yamanouchi, Nagano. AIR is a program for artists to stay at a site for a period and create a work with an inspiration from experiences at the site. The AIR at NRO is a first program in astronomical institutes of Japan. The AIR was organized by Shiga-Kogen Roman Museum in cooperation with NRO. It was participated by 5 artists related with Nagano. We report an objective and details of the AIR.
Kimura Memorial Museum in NAOJ Mizusawa Campus
Osamu Kameya, Hiroshi Funayama (Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ)
Mizusawa VLBI Observatory, NAOJ has a small museum, Kimura Memorial Museum, which displays history and activity of Hisashi Kimura who was the first director of the Mizusawa Latitude Observatory. We will show telescopes and the results of the observations, and some related items.
International Astronomical Union (IAU) Directory for World Astronomy Network
Lina Canas and Sze-leung Cheung (International Astronomical Union (IAU) / National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ))
The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) has devoted intensive means to create and support a global network of public astronomical organizations around the world. The work focused on bringing established and newly formed astronomy institutions together, providing communications channels and platforms for disseminating news to the global community and the sharing of best practices and resources among these associations around the world.
By establishing the importance that these organizations have for the dissemination of astronomy activities globally and acting as key participants in IAU various programs. Here we discuss the implementation process of maintaining this extensive network, the processing and gathering of information about these institutions and the interactions between the IAU outreach office and the active local members of this extensive network.
An implication for categorizing and organizing the astronomical instruments from the museological viewpoint
Hiroshi Horii*1, Yoshihiro Takata*2, Shunsuke Yamashita*3, Masaharu Hayashi*4, Misato Horii*1, and Takahiro Iino*5, (1) AMANE LLC., (2) Kanazawa University, (3) The Hokkaido University Museum, (4)Hitotsubashi University, (5)Tokyo Univ. of Agr. and Tech.
We have developed a complete catalog of scientific instruments used for the students experiments performed at the former fourth high school in 19 th and 20 th century. The meta data, photos, and origins are summarized and opened for public in the website of Kanazawa university museum as the Virtual museum. From the informatics and museological viewpoint, a new method for categorizing and organizing the astronomical instruments throughout from the 19 th century to the present will be discussed.
An attempt to look for new possibilities of communication for science 〜"Astronomy" and "Chado (the way of tea)"〜
Naoko ASAMI (JPSE), Naohiro, TAKANASHI (The University of Tokyo), Shuichi, KITOH (Seisa University)
Recently, various dialogues are tried in the field of science communication. Some of them are dialogues between different perspectives, for example, "Child-rearing and Astronomy", "Art and Astronomy", etc. We think these collaborations of different perspectives could promote mutual understanding and create a new relationship of them.
We also tried to make a dialogue between "Astronomy" and "Chado (the way of tea)" in August 2014 and February 2015. We report how participants' images of "Astronomy" and “Chado" changed through the events and how they were able to feel a deep relationship between culture and nature, based on the results of questionnaires collected at the two events.
We understand that these collaboration events in various fields have multiple positive effects on a relationship between the organizer and the participants, as well as on initiating interests and concerns about nature and science, culture on the part of the participants. Moreover, we would like to clarify the significance of this approach from the perspective of familiarizing people with astronomy, and discuss some methods for evaluation.
It's Very Popular Educational Outreach Program at Science Museum in Japan
Yasuharu Hanaoka (Orbys Inc.)
The Movie of to make telescope workshop: starting with participants' record of attendance at the session and to the closing; before looking at night sky object in preparation for the exploring the Universe.
Japanese Lunar and Planetary Exploration Outreach - 17 years' history of "The Moon Station"
Junya Terazono (The University of Aizu), Seiichi Sakamoto (NAOJ), Makoto Yoshikawa (ISAS/JAXA), Naoki Wakabayashi (Tokyo University of Techonology), Junichi Watanabe (NAOJ)
Website "The Moon Station", establshed on November 1997, made remarkable and unique growth in Japanese Lunar and Planetary Exploration Outreach (also in Astronomy region in broader meaning) through 17 years in history. Here we present the history, current situation including issues within, and future prospective of the website and Lunar and Planetary Exploration Outreach.
Atlas and Catalog of Dark Clouds
Tomomi Shimoikura and Kazuhito Dobashi (Tokyo Gakugei University)
We have organized a website to release the database of the atlas and catalog of dark clouds based on the 2MASS Point Source Catalog (Dobashi 2011 and Dobashi et al. 2012) and the optical database DSS (Dobashi et al. 2005). This website (http://darkclouds.u-gakugei.ac.jp) is designed to be simple and user-friendly with CGI, so that the researchers and educators can easily obtain the necessary extinction maps in the simple FITS format. We have also organized some of these data in beautiful images with a general explanation of dark clouds and star formation for the public (in Japanese only), so that they can be used for astronomy and science education at schools.
Four Dimensional Digital Universe Project
Takkaki Takeda, Eiichro Kokubo, Hidehiko Agata, Tsunehiko Kato, Hirotaka Nakayama, Yayoi Narasaki, Hinako Fukushi (NAOJ)
The Four-Dimensional Digital Universe Project (4D2U) is a project led by the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). The project's goal is to visualize astronomical data in a way that helps watchers feel as if they are witnessing the unfolding of the universe. "Four dimensions" refer to the three dimensions of space and the one dimension of time embedded in their data. "Digital" refers to computer graphics visualizations of digital data. The resulting acronym is "4D2U", and it is also astronomy's way of saying "4D to you." We report current state of space viewer Mitaka and movies of astronomical simulations provided by the project.
Historical Items Database of the NAOJ Museum
Shiomi Nemoto, Kumiko Usuda-Sato, Ko Matsuda, Goro Sasaki, Masao Nakagiri, Hidehiko Agata, Hiroshi Funayama, Osamu Kameya, Kenzo Kinugasa, Hiroyuki Toda, Kenshi Yanagisawa (NAOJ), and Yukie Baba (Ochanomizu University)
The history of National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) begins with the founding of its predecessor, the Tokyo Astronomical Observatory, in Azabu, Tokyo in 1888. Various telescopes and observational instruments which have been used for Japan's astronomy research over about 130 years remain in the Mitaka headquarters and each branch. We are creating the NAOJ integrated data ledger in order to catalog these astronomical materials for reference by future generations.
Science live show UNIVERSE: A collaboration between researchers, students, and museum
Kazuhisa Kamegai (Tokyo University of Science), Yoshiki Shibata (Saitama University)
The science live show UNIVERSE is a weekly program at the Science Museum, Tokyo. We have continuously performed over 1,800 live shows every Saturday afternoon since 1996. The unique feature of UNIVERSE is that it is operated through collaboration between scientists as navigators of live show, students team "Chimons", and staffs of the museum. The navigator constructs 40-minutes live shows by combining several contents which have been developed by ourselves. Audiences can enjoy not only interactive talks by the navigator, but also powerful visuals of scientific simulations and pictures. A guest speaker is also invited in every live show to make a ten minutes talk about his/her scientific research. In addition, international live astronomical observations are carried out through some collaborations with foreign laboratory and observatory via internet. Our activities of UNIVERSE have progressed continuously since its beginning. We will present overview and 20-years history of our activities and how we operate and maintain the live show.
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See the abstracts of Day 2
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