Public Activities

• Education research in Radio Astronomy
  Educational Research in Radio Astronomy is a one-week summer program that founded by Dan Reichart that takes place at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Green Bank, West Virginia. Participants begin the week by learning how to use Green Bank's 40-foot radio telescope, who have exclusive use for the entire week. Then, working in four teams of three, the participants map most of the Milky Way and a few extragalactic and solar system regions of interest, using the 40-foot and data acquisition software of Reichart's own design.

• Morehead Observatory Guest Night
  During the school year, the Department of Physics and Astronomy offers a ninety-minute astronomy presentation to members of the public. The program is held on Friday evenings at the Morehead Observatory and is hosted by an astronomy faculty member or graduate student.

• PROMPT
  Middle and high school teachers and their students across North Carolina are studying astronomy using CCD cameras mounted on telescopes in the PROMPT array in Chile. Students submit observing jobs and receive back data from a superb dark mountain site 7000 miles away.