Presentation from the 2nd Scientix Conference, 24-26 October 2014, Brussels, Belgium

1. The Faulkes Telescope Project,
Nuclio and Go-Lab: Bringing
Real Astronomy to the
Classroom
Lina Canas
Rosa Doran
Fraser Lewis

2. Fraser Lewis
Faulkes Telescope Project
The Go-Lab Project
Liverpool John Moores University
The Open University

3. M
Robotic telescopes allow us to obtain
images from remote, good quality
sites
There are ONLY 3 * 2-metre telescopes that allow this for
education (and only 1 person … !)
FT
LT
Home

5. FT
North
Haleakala, Maui,
Hawai’i

8. Compared with
The Hubble Space
Telescope

15. Simulating asteroid and
comet impacts

16. Asteroids, comets & NEOs
• FT observing programmes – asteroids and
comets in space
• “Down 2 Earth” project – impacts and
meteorites
http://education.down2earth.eu

17. 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)

18. Extremely Relevant !
Chelyabinsk meteor, 15/02/13

22. In development - Android App, Google Moon, Google
Mars, more languages (Portuguese, Romanian)
Via Go-Lab, ESA – more activities, worksheets

23. Loan Boxes
Free loans to UK schools
4 different types of box
containing meteorites,
terrestrial rocks, dinosaur
fossils & resources

24. Aug.
2011

25. 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/

26. 26
1m
Current Network (late 2014)
Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope
http://lcogt.net/observatory 2m
2m
2 x 1m
3 x 1m 3 x 1m

28. Please come find me at the
Go-Lab stand (#16)
Or e-mail me at
fraser.lewis@faulkes-telescope.com
http://faulkes-telescope.com
http://resources.faulkes-telescope.com
http://education.down2earth.eu
http://www.golabz.eu/