Our German colleagues at FT are proud to announce a pair of free training events (to be conducted mostly in English) on the 24th November at the world-class Haus der Astronomie centre in Heidelberg.

In the morning, we’ll be discussing the EU project CliC-PoLiT which examines the role astronomy can play in challenging the issues around climate change and light pollution.

In the afternoon, we’ll look at how teachers can make the most of the free telescope time and resources that the Faulkes Telescope Project provides to teachers and educators worldwide.

The timings are as follows …

Lichtverschmutzung (Light Pollution), EU-Projekt, CliC-PoLiT

9:00 – 9.15:  Welcome / warm up (Lothar Kurtze, Martin Metzendorf)

9:15 – 10:00: Classroom activities about light pollution, how to evaluate light pollution by observing stars (Gustavo Rojas)

10:00 – 10:15: Coffee break

10:15 – 11:00: Earth at night: workshop with images from ISS (Lothar Kurtze, Jenny Brüggler)

11:00 – 11:45: How dark is the sky at the LCO observatories? Classroom observations with the Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) 0.4-m Network (Fraser Lewis)

11:45 – 12:00: Discussion / final words (Lothar Kurtze)

Workshop Faulkes Telescopes, Arbeiten mit den über Internet gesteuerten Teleskopen

13:00 – 13.15:  Welcome / warm up (Lothar Kurtze, Martin Metzendorf)

13:15 – 13:45:  Workshop 1: How to plan an observing session (Fraser Lewis)

13:45 – 14:15:  Workshop 2: Observing with the FT/LCO telescope network (Lothar Kurtze)

14:15 – 14:30:  Coffee break

14:30 – 15:00 Workshop 3: How to use the image archive (Fraser Lewis)

15:00 – 15:30:  Spectroscopy (Herbert Pühringer)

15:30 – 16:00 Discussion / final words (Lothar Kurtze)

For more information, please contact Lothar via e-Mail: FTP-Europlanet@online.de