1st COMENIUS success story: OHP training session, May 7-10 th, 2009
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- Published on Friday, 22 May 2009 01:00
- Written by Olivier Marco
35 participants have joined for our workshop in Observatoire de Haute-Provence, a beautiful place located South of France. This training session took place while the very first International Year of Astronomy occurs in 2009, proclaimed by the United Nations on Dec. 20th 2007, following UNESCO resolution 33 C/25:
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Teachers invited to training session in Cardiff (UK)
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- Published on Saturday, 16 May 2009 01:00
- Written by Olivier Marco
The nearest airport to Cardiff is Cardiff International Airport (code: CWL) and we suggest that you try to fly to this airport if possible. There is also an airport approximately 67km away in Bristol (Bristol airport). If flying to London, then there are regular trains which will bring you to Cardiff Central train station, and the journey time is approximately 2 hours.
Training session should include talks, lessons and exercises about:
- Usage of robotic telescopes
- Introducing photometry
- Doppler effect and extrasolar planets
- Transiting extrasolar planets
- Introduction to radio astronomy
- On-line radio observations from Onsala (Sweden)
- Measuring dark matter
- Measuring Moon craters
- Galilean satellites and mass of Jupiter
- Sun4all
- HOU resources and the website
For more information please contact:
Dr. Sarah Roberts
Faulkes Telescope Project
School of Physics and Astronomy
Queens Buildings,
The Parade, Cardiff, CF24 3AA
Email: sarah.roberts AT faulkes-telescope .com
And/or
Dr. Olivier Marco
EUHOU project coordinator
Pierre & Marie Curie University
Paris, France
Email: marco AT euhou .net
EU teachers invited to France (May 2009)
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- Published on Wednesday, 06 May 2009 00:05
- Written by Olivier Marco
Plot your own HR diagram
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- Published on Thursday, 14 May 2009 00:00
- Written by Sarah Roberts
New exercise: Explore the star population inside an open cluster!
In this project you will be shown how to use Faulkes Telescope data to measure the intensity of light from the stars in a cluster (a process known as photometry), through different filters, and plot the colours of the stars on a 'colour-magnitude diagram'. Once a measure of how “red” or “blue” the stars are is made, more informtion about them can be obtained– massive stars are usually very blue (hot), intermediate mass stars (like the Sun) are yellow, and the very lowest mass stars are red (cool).
EU grants 300 000 to HOU project
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- Published on Monday, 04 May 2009 01:00
- Written by Olivier Marco