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Astronomy Club is every Wednesday in term time from 3-4pm
Using robotic telescopes across the world, funding from the Faulkes Telescope Project allows us to image objects in space.
As well as nice-looking images of nebulae and galaxies, we are doing research into binary stars in collaboration with schools in France and Ireland and astronomers from France and the UK.
There will also we a wide range of other activities depending on ages and interests of those of you that get involved.
Kaiden and Bailey Hall programmed a large telescope in South Africa to take a photograph of the Crab Nebula (image above). This is the remnants of a supernova explosion that was witnessed and recorded by Chinese astronomers in the year 1054. As it takes the light 6500 years to reach us, the explosion happened about 7500 years ago. English astronomer, John Bevis, observed the nebula in 1731.
Moon as seen through the Towers School telescope
Presentation from the most recent Astronomy Club sessions:
Presentation from the most recent Astronomy Club sessions:
Equipment used in our practical to investigate the effect of asteroid size and speed on the size of crater it might leave.
The simulation program we used to study this. (somebody had to go and destroy the school and take the whole of Kent with it, didn't they).
FINE Collaboration studying variable stars.
FINE Collaboration studying variable stars.
Kindly funded by the Faulkes telescope project, we worked with teams from schools in France, Ireland and Norway using large robotic telescopes around the world to study a set of variable stars.
A news article about our project starting has been reported on the Faulkes telescope project website here.
To get involved and for more information, join the Google Classroom using code: ic6y6we .
Above: a field of stars showing the stars we are studying
Above: a field of stars showing the stars we are studying
Below: Light Curves showing how brightness of each star varies over time
Below: Light Curves showing how brightness of each star varies over time
Above: One of the robotic telescope we can use, thanks to Faulkes Telescope Project. Below: some of the images taken.
Above: One of the robotic telescope we can use, thanks to Faulkes Telescope Project. Below: some of the images taken.
Crab Nebula by Bailey and Kaiden Hall
Eagle nebula
Horsehead nebula
Orion nebula
M77 galaxy
Dumbbell nebula
Field of stars containing the binary star system RV Aps
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