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Teachers invited to training session in Cardiff (UK) |
In the course of the COMENIUS project, the 2nd European teacher training session will take place in UK, in the city of Cardiff, Faulkes Telescope Operations Centre. The dates for the workshop are 22nd August - 25th August. The 22nd and 25th August will be 'travel days' for arrival and departure, with the actual workshops being held on the 23rd and 24th August.
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
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Lifecycle of Stars - plotting your own HR Diagram |
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  Explore the star population inside an open cluster!
Introduction  An open cluster (sometimes called a Galactic Cluster) is a group of 10s or 100s of stars that were born from the same initial cloud of gas (mainly Hydrogen) and dust. When they are young (a few million or tens of millions of years old), these clusters contain some very large, bright stars (called O or B-type stars). The very youngest clusters (usually less than 10 million years old) often still contain the remains of the gas cloud from which the stars were born – this is seen as nebulosity. Cluster stars are very useful as they were all formed from the same giant cloud (so they have the same chemistry), and they are all at about the same distance from us (although they are typically hundreds or thousands of light years away!). By observing a group of stars in a cluster, we can assume they are all made of the same stuff, and they are all the same distance away from us – so any differences between them are really caused by their different mass. 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). |
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