Author Archives: Matthew Allen

Faulkes Monthly Wonders Each month, we at the Faulkes Telescope Project handpick a number of astronomical objects which you might like to observe with the telescopes. They are chosen as they are interesting objects to look at, with a number …

In July, Sarah and Paul from the FT Team took part in the Space Awareness and  PLATON project summer school held in Marathon, Greece. The school, open to STEM teachers across Europe was themed around a ‘Mars Mission’ and its …

In July, Fraser from the FT team took part in the Erasmus + funded Astronomy Adventures in the Canary Islands teacher training event. The event featured 43 teachers from Europe, Malaysia and the US and took place at the Instituto …

In June and July, Fraser from the FT team attended the European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS) conference in sunny Prague and the National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Hull. EWASS brought together astronomers and educators from all parts of Europe …

A new school teacher member of the Faulkes Telescope Project, Paul Breiteinstein from Germany, has been working hard with his students, spotting asteroids. Below he tells us all about their new hobby! Our new school sport: hunting asteroids! By Paul …

Last month, Fraser and Sophie from the FT team were in San Diego showcasing some of the work schools have been doing with the telescope network. They attended the Robotic Telescopes, Student Research and Education (RTSRE) conference and were invited to talk …

On the 14th May a supernova called SN2017eaw was reported by Patrick Wiggins in the spiral galaxy NGC 6946. Spectroscopic observations confirmed the supernova as a type IIP. A type II supernova is the result of a massive star exploding at the end of its life. …

Last week the FT team were at the Big Bang Fair with the Gaia Alerts team from the University of Cambridge. Schools from all over the UK came along to the event to learn about all the science careers available to them. The Faulkes …

We’ve had some really successful months of observing using the LCO network recently with lots of schools getting data, but as a result we are now starting to run out of observing time as our allocation for this semester (October …