Lina CanasRosa DoranFraser Lewis

The Faulkes Telescope Project, Nuclio and Go-Lab: Bringing

Real Astronomy to the Classroom

Fraser LewisFaulkes Telescope Project

The Go-Lab ProjectLiverpool John Moores University

The Open University

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Robotic telescopes allow us to obtain images from remote, good quality

sitesThere are ONLY 3 * 2-metre telescopes that allow this for

education (and only 1 person … !)

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Home

FT North

Haleakala, Maui,Hawai’i

Compared withThe Hubble Space Telescope

Simulating asteroid and comet impacts

Asteroids, comets & NEOs• FT observing programmes – asteroids and

comets in space• “Down 2 Earth” project – impacts and

meteorites

http://education.down2earth.eu

What is “Down to Earth”?

A STEM project based around the science of asteroids, comets, meteorites and impacts

Inquiry-based science education

Multi-disciplinary (astronomy, geography, geology, physics, maths, IT)

Extremely Relevant !

Chelyabinsk meteor, 15/02/13

In development - Android App, Google Moon, Google Mars, more languages (Portuguese, Romanian)

Via Go-Lab, ESA – more activities, worksheets

Loan Boxes

Free loans to UK schools

4 different types of box containing meteorites, terrestrial rocks, dinosaur fossils & resources

Aug. 2011

European Space Agency Gaia Mission (ESA)

A mission to map positions (and variability) of a billion stars in our Galaxy which will serendipitously find variables of several types and NEOs.

We are creating educational resources funded by STFC, ESA, Go-Lab in conjunction with University of Cambridge.

www.gaia.ac.uk

http://sci.esa.int/gaia/

26Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope

http://lcogt.net/observatory26

2m

2m2 x 1m

3 x 1m 3 x 1m

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Current Network (late 2014)

http://faulkes-telescope.com

http://resources.faulkes-telescope.com

http://education.down2earth.eu

http://www.golabz.eu/

Please come find me at the Go-Lab stand (#16)

Or e-mail me atfraser.lewis@faulkes-telescope.com