• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.31.2-31.2
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• 2011

The Vista Variable in the Via Lactea(VVV)는 European Southern Observatory(ESO) Public Survey 중 하나로 Near-IR에서 (주로 K-band)에서 관측되며 1929시간에 걸쳐 은하 중심부의 더 깊은 영역에 대한 관측을 수행할 것이다. VVV Survey를 통해 520 sq. deg에 걸친 영역에서 33개의 잘 알려진 구상성단과 350개의 산개성단을 포함한 ~109개의 별에 대한 광도 곡선을 얻을 수 있을 것으로 예상되며 이들을 분류하기 위해 자동화된 분류 체계가 필요할 것이다. 본 연구는 VVV Survey의 일환으로 보현산 천문대의 근적외선 카메라시스템 KASINICS를 이용하여 Cataclysmic Variable stars에 대한 관측을 시행하고 있다. Cataclysmic Variable stars는 초신성 폭발이나 쌍성계 중 한 쪽 별에서 다른 쪽 별로 대기가 유입되었는 경우 등에 의해 광도가 급격히 증가하는 천체로 아직 많이 연구되지 않은 적외선 파장대로 관측함으로써 적외선영역에서의 물리적 특성에 대한 분석을 하고자 한다. 본 발표에서는 보현산 천문대의 근적외선카메라시스템 KASINICS에서 관측한 결과의 일부를 소개하고자 한다.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.715-718
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• 2015

Astronomy is a popular topic for the public in term of astronomical phenomenon such as occultations, solar and lunar eclipses or meteor showers. In term of education, astronomy also is popular as one of the world Science Olympiads. Social media, as the new trend in communicating and connecting people, plays a significant role in increasing the size of the astronomy community. Beyond IYA 2009, more and more astronomy activities have been done in many places in Indonesia. New astronomy communities have been formed in several cities and public engagement is also high in social media especially on Facebook and Twitter. In this paper, we will discuss the lesson learned from astronomy outreach achievements in Indonesia and the need for citizen science projects as a distance learning tool for the public as part of astronomy development in Indonesia. We argue and propose that this project will be also important up to a regional scope.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.174-181
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• 2014

The purpose of the study for this thesis is to look into the status and issues of government office buildings since the self-government policy through comparing and analyzing government office buildings, between domestically and to provide improvement plans of the citizen cultural space and with the self-government budget, enhance the utility and efficiency of the government office buildings and to take a role of a reference in the future when citizen cultural space is formed in the government office buildings. As the result of the study, the space planning characteristics of government office building's citizen cultural space in terms of cultural administration is as follows. First, percentage of room to strengthen the sense of community is small. Therefore, the place where residents can argue there is a need. Second, it is necessary to expand the venue and art collection that are missing in public government buildings. Third, since the lecture room for lack of civic education, it should be taken into account when making cultural space for the citizens. Fourth, thread observatory and souvenir shops, providing information is not enough, it is to be further expanded. Fifth, rented facility for public is hall be provided with a diversity.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.29.4-30
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• 2018

Welcome to Gemini! In this overview, I'll describe the governance, operations, and capabilities of the Gemini telescopes. I'll also describe Gemini's vision and plans for the future. Gemini is very adaptable and has multiple ways to apply for time, multiple ways to collect your data, and multiple instrument capabilities ready for your observations. Gemini also runs a wide-reaching program to develop and improve our instrumentation capabilities. We run an upgrade program for our existing instruments that includes an annual public call for proposals, a visitor instrument program that brings instruments like IGRINS to our telescopes for short to semi-permanent runs, and a facility program that provides entirely new instruments like GHOST and SCORPIO to Gemini for full public use. Through these programs, you can interact with Gemini in a number of ways to support your scientific needs in the most efficient way possible.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.43 no.2
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• pp.48.2-48.2
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• 2018

본 연구에서는 한국천문연구원이 2008년 말부터 운영하고 있는 찾아가는 이동천문대 '스타-카'를 이용한 과학문화 확산 프로그램의 효율성을 높이기 위한 방안을 모색해 보았다. 기존의 프로그램은 과학관에서 전통적으로 사용하고 있는 PUST(Public Understand of S&T) 방식으로 일반적인 강연 및 관측 프로그램의 진행 등으로 구성되어 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구는 STEAM 등 최근 과학교육 및 과학대중화 활동에서 사용하고 있는 시도 중의 하나인 PEST(Public Engagement with S&T)를 활용하여 스타-카 프로그램을 개선해서 실제 현장에서 적용한 결과를 소개하려 한다. 개선된 프로그램으로 찾아가는 이동천문대 프로그램을 운용한 결과로 과학기술정보통신부(구 미래창조과학부)에서 '교육기부 대상' 및 '고객만족도 우수사례'로 선정된 바 그 사례를 소개해 볼 예정이다.

• Korean Institute of Interior Design Journal
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.75-83
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• 2017

The cultural tendency based on sharing and cooperation, which has recently been a hot issue, accelerates throughout the world. This study began with a perception that a sharing culture is inherent in urban public spaces. This study aims to conduct a theoretical study of the sharing culture and to analyze the characteristics of the design composition of public spaces. This study selected squares in 16 European cities as cases for analysis. The results are summarized as follows:1)To analyze the design characteristics of public spaces in which a sharing culture is inherent, this study drew the shape and type of planes and sharing elements such as accessibility, symbolism and activity with the squares in the cases. 2)The shape of planes in the squares in the cases has been formed in close relations with the historic meaning and events of the area and the process of the construction of buildings surrounding the square. The squares in the cases were classified into seven plane types, and these squares have developmentally contributed to the formation of a sharing culture as a place for free participation and communication concerning social issues. 3)In the squares in the cases, the weight of road-centered access appears high, and in terms of the construction of human-friendly / environment-friendly infrastructure in the city or judging from the trend of the recent increase of pedestrian-centered plans for public space, it is judged that approaches with a high utilization rate of sidewalk or public transportation would be desirable. 4)Symbolic elements of the square become a device by which citizens can share the historic symbolism, along with artistic inspiration. In addition, by serving as an observatory from which people can take a view of the landscape of the city, it allows visual sharing of the entire city as well as the square. 5)A square is common pool resources in the community, and it is necessary to vitalize that in a direction of increasing the possibility of sharing, through the characteristics and methods of the composition of public design.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.27 no.4
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• pp.105-109
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• 2012

The current status of the AKARI-FIS Point Source Catalogue is reported. The first version of the Bright Source Catalogue has been in public since March 2010 and used extensively in the various fields in astronomy. The second version of the Bright Source Catalogue and the first version of the Faint Source Catalogue are currently under development. The revised Bright Source Catalogue is expected to have improved completeness, reliability, and accuracy compared to the current version. The Faint Source Catalogue will have a scan-density dependent detection limit and will enable much deeper exploration of the sky especially in the high-ecliptic latitude regions. Both catalogues will be available in a year time scale.

• The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.39 no.2
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• pp.119.1-119.1
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• 2014

We present the scanned digital images and their preliminary analysis results of objective-prism plates taken with the Michigan Curtis Schmidt telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory. In order to separate an individual spectrum of a star, it should be required to identify each field star in the plate. Using the PPM(Position and Proper Motion) catalog, we are verifying which star corresponds to the spectrum in a plate. In addition to this, we plan to devise the method for wavelength calibration in each spectrum. Finally we will make them for public use, not only for professional astronomers but also for high school and college students for encouraging them to be interested in the astronomy, especially astronomical spectroscopy and stellar astronomy.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.753-755
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• 2015

We had a campaign of observing the annular solar eclipse on 2012 May 21 by naked eye through eclipse eyeglasses to determine the limit line of annularity. As a result, we had about 15,000 reports through our website. In addition there were many observation groups for which about 30,000 people in total participated in the observations. The overall result was that the limit we observed by naked eye through eclipse glasses coincided with a prediction that took into account the lunar limb irregularity within the error of ${\pm}500m$. This error of the limit line location corresponds to about ${\pm}200km$ of the radius of the Sun.

• Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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• v.20 no.1 s.24
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• pp.55-62
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• 2005

The First Generation Digitized Sky Survey (DSS-I) is a collection of digitized photographic atlases of the night sky taken from the Palomar Observatory (northen sky) and the Anglo-Australian Observatory (southern sky). DSS-I is widely used by the astronomical community for a number of applications including object cross-identification and astrometry. However, accessing and retrieving the actual images are nontrivial owing to the huge size (> 60 GB) of the dataset. To facilitate retrieval process of DSS-I data for the public, Korean Astronomical Data Center (KADC) developed a web application that provides not only data retrieval but also visualization functions. The web application consists of several modules developed using Java Applet, Jave Servlet, and JaveServer Pages (JSP) technologies. It allows users to retrieve images efficiently in various formats such as FITS, JPEG, GIF, and TIFF, and also offers an interactive visulization tool, ImgViewer, for displaying/analyzing FITS images. To use the web application, users require a Java-enabled web browser.