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School students recover Martian companion using Faulkes Telescope

Two girls from Victoria College, Belfast, have recovered a unique asteroid that is one of a very rare class of companions to the planet Mars.  Christina Larkin and Catherine O'Prey remotely controlled the 2-metre Faulkes Telescope North on the island of Maui,Hawaii, during a week's work experience at the Armagh Observatory.

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Close Approach of Near-Earth Object, 2010 AL30

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  CLOSE APPROACH OF NEAR-EARTH OBJECT, 2010 AL30

Themed Observing Day 8th December 2009 FTS

We are going to be running a number of themed observing days over the coming months.  We are going to try and colour image the Hickson Galaxies, the idea is that we build up a Gallery of images taken by schools; some will be single images and some mosaic.

The first of these days will be on 8th December 2009 on FTS.We have 8 slots available to image HCG15 (this will be a mosaic image) all co-ordinates and instructions on how to make your own mosaic image will be forwarded to you later:

11:00 UTC 11:29 UTC

11:30 UTC 11:59 UTC

12:00 UTC 12:29 UTC

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