Author Archives: Matthew Allen

Detecting The Dwarfs

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

College Le Monteil ASAM On Tuesday May 18th, pupils at College Le Monteil in France, together with their teacher Andre Debackere, used FTS to image two of the dwarf planets in our Solar System – Pluto and Ceres. The images …

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Astronaut Visit

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Astor of Hever school, UK On the 2nd of July 2010 Astor of Hever Community School students welcomed Garrett Reisman, a mission specialist on the latest Space Shuttle Atlantis mission, STS -132. Students enjoyed a day of astronaut themed activities. …

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Aging the Stars

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

Goleta Valley Jr. High School, USA Poster form Goleta Valley Junior High School by Daniel Godinez Alcantara and Caylin Canales (13 yrs old) – 4th Place in Pysics & Astronomy division at California State Science Fair.

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Holly Hall School target asteroid Scheila for BBC Stargazing Live Event

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

As part of the BBC’s Stargazing Live event, FT users have been observing a list of interesting targets – here, Holly Hall School have taken a number of images of the asteroid Scheila. This animation shows the path of the …

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Galaxies Projects with the Faulkes Telescopes

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

College C. Perceret, France In March this year, we reported on a school in France who had recently begun using the Faulkes Telescopes in their classroom. After attending an EU-HOU/GTTP Astronomy Training Workshop, their teacher, Hevre Faivre, introduced the students to …

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An Investigation of the Open Cluster M25 by 10th Grade Students in Greece

Posted on 01/05/2018 by Matthew Allen

-High School of Tihero, Greece- A photometric study of the open cluster M25 has been conducted by Mrs. Stella Tryfonidou and her class of 10th grade students. Their work is presented in both Greek and English and features a study …

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HERschel Observations of Edge-on Spirals (HEROES). IV. Dust energy balance problem

Posted on 26/04/2018 by Matthew Allen

Aleksandr V. Mosenkov (Gent, St. Petersburg), Flor Allaert, Maarten Baes (Gent), Simone Bianchi (INAF-Arcetri), Peter Camps (Gent), Christopher J.R. Clark (Cardiff), Marjorie Decleir, Gert De Geyter (Gent), Ilse De Looze (UCL, Gent), Jacopo Fritz (UNAM, Mexico), Gianfranco Gentile (Brussel), Benne …

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The evolving jet spectrum of the neutron star X-ray binary Aql X-1 in transitional states during its 2016 outburst

Posted on 26/04/2018 by Matthew Allen

M. Diaz Trigo (ESO, Garching), D. Altamirano (Southampton), T. Dincer (Yale), J. C. A. Miller-Jones (Curtin, Australia), D. M. Russell (New York University Abu Dhabi), A. Sanna (Cagliari), C. Bailyn (Yale), F. Lewis (FT, LJMU), S. Migliari (ESAC Madrid, Barcelona), …

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Comet Cardinal imaged as part of BBC Stargazing Live event!

Posted on 24/04/2018 by Matthew Allen

As part of the BBC’s Stargazing Live event, users of the FTs have been asked to image interesting objects. This lovely image of Comet Cardinal was taken by amateur astronomer Nick Howes, using FTN.

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Photometry From France

Posted on 24/04/2018 by Matthew Allen

College le Monteil in France have had great success both observing and analysing data they obtained from the Faulkes Telescopes. Students took their own images of the recent supernova in Centaurus A and used these along with images taken by …

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