Hands-On Universe (HOU) is an educational program that enables students to investigate the Universe using tools and concepts from science, math, and technology. Through the Internet, HOU participants around the world request observations from automated telescopes, download images and analyze them with the aid of user-friendly image processing software.
Hands-On Universe USA (HOU-USA) was originally a collaboration that included Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) at University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and TERC.
The most recent HOU conference to take place in the USA was at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green, Kentucky, 15-21 August 2017, in the path of totality of the 21 August 2017 American Solar Eclipse! See the conference website and list of participants.
HOU Images:
from Carl Pennypacker during GHOU 2016 conference in Norway,
using the Faulkes telescope—M16, The Eagle Nebula
From Rich Lohman, Over the Hill Observatory, August 2014:
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Supernova 2014J
Photo of supernova 2014J in M82 by Rich Lohman at the Over The Hill (OTH) observatory Saturday 2014 January 25. SBIG ST-7 camera on an LX-200 Meade 12″; f/3.3 focal reducer on the normal f/10 telescope. CCDsoft Imaging software.
For comparison: M82 photo by Rich taken in April 2012. Rich says “I used a log scaling in SalsaJ before converting to jpg.”