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Silver European award for the project « Hands-On Universe »
The project « Hands-On Universe, Europe – Bringing frontline interactive astronomy to the classroom » has been honoured with the silver award of the European Commission at the occasion of the conference « Innovation and Creativity in the Lifelong Learning Programme: Create, Innovate and Cooperate » held in Prague, 6-7 May 2009, in the framework of the Czech Presidency of the European Union.
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Teachers invited to training session in Cardiff (UK)
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
1st COMENIUS success story: OHP training session, May 7-10 th, 2009
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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