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Whittaker, IC 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6211-1852, Elkan, E and Toms, R,
2025.
Building a low budget planeterella for auroral outreach incorporating physics student co-creation principles.
RAS Techniques and Instruments, 4: rzae066.
ISSN 2752-8200
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Abstract
A planeterella (an auroral simulator) has been built at Nottingham Trent University within the cost of a student postgraduate Masters project budget (£100). This instrument is currently only the third working planeterella in the UK, and while not as sophisticated as it’s two older cousins, it still demonstrates the space physics principles at the same time as providing an educational and inspirational benefit. The final equipment has proved successful in engaging students, stakeholders, and the public with ‘seeing’ magnetic fields and auroral processes. The build requirements and method are provided to allow other higher education institutions to be able to create their own planeterella as scientific demonstrations and student projects; only requiring small budgets and common equipment borrowed from physics teaching and research laboratories.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | RAS Techniques and Instruments |
| Creators: | Whittaker, I.C., Elkan, E. and Toms, R. |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press (OUP) |
| Date: | 2025 |
| Volume: | 4 |
| ISSN: | 2752-8200 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1093/rasti/rzae066 DOI 2343366 Other |
| Rights: | © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Science and Technology |
| Record created by: | Laura Borcherds |
| Date Added: | 17 Jan 2025 10:04 |
| Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2025 10:04 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52863 |
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