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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.
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
