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Outreach & Public Engagement
from
Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
Tim O’Brien
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Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics
• Part of the University of Manchester’s School of Physics & Astronomy– The largest university physics
department in the UK (250 new physics UG’s each year)
• 25 astrophysics lecturers
• 170 staff/students split across 3 sites: – The Alan Turing Building, Manchester
– Sackville St Building in Manchester
– Jodrell Bank Observatory in Cheshire
• Wide-ranging research from planets to the Big Bang
• Jodrell Bank Observatory is seen as iconic for astronomy in the eyes of the UK public
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A huge range of outreach activities
• We work closely with Observatory Visitor Centre
• Public events
– Many public talks inc. Lovell lecture series
– Star parties & sidewalk astronomy
– Innovative public events & exhibitions
• Schools programme
– Inflatable planetarium– Inflatable planetarium
– Workshops
– Remote-controlled 6.4-m radio telescope
– Work experience programme
• New media
– Podcast – www.jodcast.net
– Website e.g. “Night Sky This Month”
– Twitter: 240,000 followers for @jodrellbank
• Old Media
– Press releases
– TV programmes
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• Regular Star Parties at Jodrell
Bank for 200 people
• Observing using our own
telescopes (inc Hα during day)
and help from local amateur
Star parties & sidewalk astronomy
and help from local amateur
astronomical societies
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• Public event for 200 people at
Jodrell Bank to celebrate 40th
anniversary of Moon landings
• Winners of a national
competition (Metro newspaper
and UK Government science
Moonbounce competition winners
Apollo 40 – Moonbounce
and UK Government science
campaign) bounced their voices
off the Moon, catching the
echoes with the Lovell Telescope
• Moonbounced special messages
from Buzz Aldrin & Stephen
Hawking.
• Featured on Sky TV News & BBC
NW TonightPhoto: Mike Peel
Photo: Metro
“A small step for some of us and
unknown progress for all the rest of us.”
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Polyphon at Linz09 European Capital of Culture
• The sounds of 672 pulsars, each inside a drawer, exhibited since Sep 2009
• Still on display in Linz, Austria
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• Major new oratorio inspired by our scientific understanding of the Universe
• Performed by the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Singers & Salford Choral Society
Wonder : A Scientific Oratorio
Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Singers & Salford Choral Society
• 700 in audience, 190 performers, 250 school students in science/music workshops, telescopes outside venue for observations
• Featured on BBC NW Tonight & broadcast on Radio 3
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• Schools project involving 1400
students UK-wide
• Students used the Jodrell Bank
6.4m telescope over the web to
map the radio sky, then analysed
Excitement of
Science
http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/webcam/7mcam2003.mpg
optical supernovae observations
• Concluded with an event for
students & teachers at the
Royal Institution, London
Final day event in RI Faraday Lecture TheatreSchools’ radio map of the Milky Way :
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New media - Podcast
• “The Jodcast” – http://www.jodcast.net
• Twice-monthly since Jan 2006
• ~ 3,000 listeners
• Run by PhD students, one current staff • Run by PhD students, one current staff
member (me!), one retired staff member,
several ex staff & students
• News, interviews, ask an astronomer, what’s
visible in the night sky etc
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TV & Other Old Media
• Regular press releases
leading to newspaper/
magazine coverage
• Features on BBC Local TV
News (~600,000 viewers)
• Features on wide range of TV
programmes e.g. Invisible
Worlds, Country Watch,
Ingenious
• Jan 2011: BBC Stargazing Live
– Three consecutive nights of
live broadcasts on national
BBC 2 from Jodrell Bank BBC 1 : Christmas Day 2009
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Forthcoming events for 2011...
• “The Jodrell Sessions”:
First of a planned annual series of music
festivals – bands + science engagement
• Weekend film festivals• Weekend film festivals
• Large-scale projection events
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Jodrell Bank Discovery Centre
• Original Visitor Centre dating from late 1960’s
– At peak 150,000 visitors per year
• Much of old centre demolished in 2003
• Small interim centre attracted 85,000 visitors per year
• Project to develop a new science discovery centre• Project to develop a new science discovery centre
– Apr 2007 : awarded £100k by STFC to fund pilot programme of events & temporary space
– May 2010 : awarded £3m (regional development agency, European Regional Development Fund) + University funding
– Sep 2010 : Construction of new centre began
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Sir Bernard Lovell “breaks the ground” in Sep 2010
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Existing Conditions
Visitor CentreVisitor Centre
Cafe, shop, small
exhibition, 3D
theatre, offices,
toilets, boiler
house, PhD room
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Option A – Removing Existing Building
Planet Pavilion
Ticketing, RF protection, cafe,
shop, exhibition, offices
Space Pavilion
Demolish existing building +
Create 2 new buildings +
Update gardens
Towards
Telescope
Towards
Arboretum
Space Pavilion
Main exhibition, events
space, classroom
Gardens
Galaxy Maze, Space
Garden, pathways, signage
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Radio sky
408 MHz map embossed on the entrance building
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Planet Pavilion
Live science wall
Space corridor
OrreryEntrance
Ticket desk
Space corridor
Cafe
Time wall
Timeline Schmidt wall
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Space Pavilion
Entrance
Events Classroom
Main exhibition
Jodrell Bank
Radio astronomy
EM spectrum
Film pod
Events
space
Big Bang
Black holes
Pulsars
AliensNetworks
Hands-on physics
Talks
Projections
Inflatable
planetarium
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Construction well under way
15th Oct 2010 :
Demolition of old centre, site
of new Space Pavilion
18th Oct 2010 : 18th Oct 2010 :
Steelwork for new Planet
Pavilion
12th Nov 2010 :
Roofing being installed on
new Planet Pavilion
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Looking forward to some nice cake and a cup of tea
when the new centre opens in Summer 2011
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• Also Moon-bounced specially recorded messages from Buzz
Aldrin and Stephen Hawking
Lucy Hawking introducing
her father’s message
Apollo 40 –
Moonbounce
“The Moon landings were a giant step for
Mankind's spread into space.”
Photo: Lydia Stanley
http://www.jodrellbank.manchester.ac.uk/news/2009/moonbounce/
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• Special IYA meeting of Prehistoric Society and Royal Astronomical Society at Jodrell Bank
• Day of activities and public talks by international speakers including:– Clive Ruggles –
Ancient Astronomy in the Pacific
Archaeo-astronomy
– Clive Ruggles –Ancient Astronomy in the Pacific
– Ivan Sprajc –Aztec & Mayan Astronomy
– Mike Edmunds –The Antikythera Mechanism
– Juan Antonio Belmonte –Egyptian Astronomy
– Mike Parker-Pearson –Stonehenge
Proud winner of Best Antikythera Model
Mike Parker-Pearson discussing the latest on Stonehenge
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• BBC Big Screen in
Manchester City
Centre showed 4
astronomy videos
BBC Big Screen
astronomy videos
(including the IYA
trailer) for two weeks
in Oct 2009 (60,000
passers-by each day)
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