Speaker's Bureau

• Spitzer websites
  • Main Spitzer Space Telescope public website
  • What is Spitzer Observing RIGHT NOW?
  • Spitzer site for scientists (documentation on the observatory, etc)
  • Spitzer archive (real data, e.g. FITS images. many software packages can read this format; also see Adobe Photoshop Plugin for FITS format.)
• Spitzer press releases, movies
  • Spitzer press release archive for all released images. For movies that go with any press release, select "visuals" on the page and then find the movie you want and select your preferred format. For example, a series of movies you can use for visualizing low-mass star formation are from the following releases:
    • The first two movies I used (really!) are from the bottom of the page here (2004-08v2, then 2004-08v3)
    • The third movie comes from the very bottom of the page here (2004-22v2)
    • The fourth and fifth come from the bottom of the page here (2004-17v1 then 2004-17v2)
    • Then the last is from here again, this time 2004-22v1.
• The Infrared World Around Us
  • Infrared World - pictures of the world around us in optical and IR.
  • The infrared zoo - ever wonder what an alligator looks like in the IR?
  • Spitzer downloads
  • educational print publications
  • IR astronomy tutorial.
  • Also see Cool Cosmos, the rest of the extensive IPAC/Spitzer Education and Public Outreach pages.
• Past IR missions, More technical information
  • IR astronomy timeline, with listing of missions in the past.
  • The Infrared Compendium - infrared astronomy for professional astronomers.
  • Spitzer archive (real data, e.g. FITS images. many software packages can read this format; also see Adobe Photoshop Plugin for FITS format.)
  • 2MASS near-IR all-sky survey. Note that you can access the real 2MASS data, e.g. FITS images.
  • ISO science gallery (mid and far-ir wavelengths)

Astronomers: powerpoint versions may be available for your use in preparing public presentations. Please inquire via the Helpdesk (help@spitzer.caltech.edu).

• May 2006: M. Werner's Darwin Lecture
• May 2006: Spitzer in space poster
• Jan 2004: Talk by Lisa Storrie-Lombardi, from the January 2004 AAS meeting.

• Jan 2003: Talk written by Frogel and Werner, aimed at technical non-experts/general public. PDF and powerpoint.

• Jan 2003: AAS Science Writer's Workshop on science that can be done with Spitzer. Some of these slides might also be of use for people giving talks just on Spitzer. Steve Strom's talk on star formation (ppt) (pdf) and Marcia Rieke's talk on deep surveys of galaxies (ppt) (pdf).

• Aug 2001: Mike Werner's Spitzer Speaker's general slides. Somewhat dated, but still good stuff. html file with individual slide listing.