The most important priority for me this week is to learn how to import the panoramas into Stellarium. No more panoramas will be taken until I can import one of the two panoramas that I have got. The programmes Autostitch and Gimp were used to stitch the images taken at each angle of rotation and edit the sky respectively although this had to be done on my own computer since the computer I am using in Mary Ann Evans could not obtain the relevant authorization to install Gimp. One of the most frustrating parts about this exercise was deleting the excess images obtained from Thursday and Friday. It was no small wonder that the memory card of the camera had been filled. Deleting the excess images was a very time-consuming process. It was all I had time to do before I had to return some equipment to my supervisor before going home.
In the evening, Rumbi and I had an interesting tour of the campus around the Nature Trail, with a ecology consultant, Carlos Abrahams, observing the bat species that live here. They are fond of the open woodland instead of thick forest and there are about 4 species of bat that reside on this campus. Carlos had brought with him a bat detector that he could attach to his iPhone and employ using an app that converts the ultrasonic frequencies that bats use for echolocation into sounds we can here. Echolocation works in the same way as sonar; it is a navigation system the bats use to home in one their prey (small insects like midges and moths) by timing the time of return for sound waves they send out. Low pitch sound waves are used to locate objects further away like a building or a tree while high pitch sound waves are used to locate smaller objects like insects though these sound waves do not travel as far.
The bats started to come out at about ten o'clock and flutter around the southeastern corner of the football pitch behind Erasmus Darwin and the Lee Westwood Sports Centre. At the top of the campus, they flew around patches of low overgrowth by the Conflict Zone. Their presence was revealed by the fast, high screeching sounds coming from the bat detector. The most common specimen that was detected this evening was the common pipistrelle with a couple of soprano pipistrelles also detected. This tour will be definitely included in the memory maps that Rumbi and I make each week to illustrate the memories and experiences of the campus and the users of the campus.
Later on in the evening, I completed a major milestone in our project. From Friday, only a few points remained to be surveyed in the light pollution survey. Missed points on the Nature Trail, New Hall and the Student Village were filled in. Thus, the light pollution survey was complete and a map created on the TeraPlot software and using Photoshop to layer it over a map of the campus.
In the evening, Rumbi and I had an interesting tour of the campus around the Nature Trail, with a ecology consultant, Carlos Abrahams, observing the bat species that live here. They are fond of the open woodland instead of thick forest and there are about 4 species of bat that reside on this campus. Carlos had brought with him a bat detector that he could attach to his iPhone and employ using an app that converts the ultrasonic frequencies that bats use for echolocation into sounds we can here. Echolocation works in the same way as sonar; it is a navigation system the bats use to home in one their prey (small insects like midges and moths) by timing the time of return for sound waves they send out. Low pitch sound waves are used to locate objects further away like a building or a tree while high pitch sound waves are used to locate smaller objects like insects though these sound waves do not travel as far.
The bats started to come out at about ten o'clock and flutter around the southeastern corner of the football pitch behind Erasmus Darwin and the Lee Westwood Sports Centre. At the top of the campus, they flew around patches of low overgrowth by the Conflict Zone. Their presence was revealed by the fast, high screeching sounds coming from the bat detector. The most common specimen that was detected this evening was the common pipistrelle with a couple of soprano pipistrelles also detected. This tour will be definitely included in the memory maps that Rumbi and I make each week to illustrate the memories and experiences of the campus and the users of the campus.
Later on in the evening, I completed a major milestone in our project. From Friday, only a few points remained to be surveyed in the light pollution survey. Missed points on the Nature Trail, New Hall and the Student Village were filled in. Thus, the light pollution survey was complete and a map created on the TeraPlot software and using Photoshop to layer it over a map of the campus.