Astronomical Uplands: February 2010

11 Feb 2010

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Yr 11 Physics triple science - No image available

Feb 11th the telescope was not working! (Used by Triple Physics class here at Uplands).
Images of NGC 2613 & NGC 2298 didn't come out... :-(

Labels: astronomy, Faulkes Telescope, observation, Yr 11

10 Feb 2010

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Viewing a comet

A level class took pictures of a comet for external research reasons. This provided a good start to the A level Cosmology section of the course:

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:50:07 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: H-alpha
Exposure time: 60 secs.

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:46:56 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: Blue
Exposure time: 60 secs.

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:44:44 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: Green
Exposure time: 60 secs.

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:42:50 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: Green
Exposure time: 60 secs.

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:40:01 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: RGB
Exposure time: 60 secs.

When taken: Feb 10, 2010 10:33:43 UTC
RA: 9h35'19"
DEC: 12°25'10"
Filter: Green
Exposure time: 60 secs.

Labels: A level, astronomy, comet, Faulkes Telescope, observation, observing

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*Reporters:
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Adam Farmer
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Uplands Community College

Staff, students and parents and all:
If you have an interest in space, and would like to share something astronomical, please send your contributions (ideas, pictures, written work) to:
Astronomicaluplands@hotmail.co.uk
...or bring them to Mr Pert (Lab 8) or Mrs Lynch (Physics prep room opposite L8)
Budding reporters welcome

(space badge for contributers!)

CONSTELLATION OF THE MONTH
(Now moved and continued at sister-site 88 Constellations)

This month: Orion

Frant Primary School
Heathfield Community College
Lamberhurst Primary School
Maynard's Green Primary School
St Richard's Catholic College, Bexhill
Ticehurst & Flimwell Primary School
Wadhurst Primary School

Other schools:

Bexhill High
Chailey
Grove (Hastings)

Frant Primary School

Lamberhurst St Mary's Primary School

Stonegate Primary School

Ticehurst & Flimwell Primary School

Wadhurst Primary School

Maynards Green County Primary School

Heathfield Community College

Uckfield Community Technology College

St Richards Catholic College, Bexhill

ALL STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS

Yr 7
Yr 8
Yr 9
Yr 10
Yr 11
A-level (yrs 12 & 13)
Astronomy Class

Heavenly Bodies

Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (m13);

IC5146 (Cocoon Nebula);

M20 (Triffid Nebula);

M25 (an open cluster);

M27 (Dumbell Nebula);

M30;

M33 (Triangulum Galaxy);

M92 (Great Globular Cluster in Hercules);

M98;

M101 (Pinwheel Galaxy;

NGC5907 (a side-on spiral galaxy in Draco);

N6027;

N6621;

NGC 5676 (a spiral galaxy);

Triangulum Galaxy (M33)

Other

Adam Farmer (*Reporter);

articles;

asteroid;

Astrodome;

background radiation;

Jack Morgan (*Editor/Reporter);

James Roye;

Johny Ball;

Jon Perret (*Reporter);

Jordan Harris;

Kleber Noel;

Lamberhurst Primary School;

long exposure photography;

Nick Maxfield (*Reporter);

Royal Astronomical Society

Uplands Community College;

Wadhurst Astronomical Society
Astronomy Picture of the Day (make 'homepage' and you get a different picture every day!)
Hubble Space Telescope
Zooniverse
Planet Hunters
Methods of Finding North
Tour of Orion (excellent!)
Anglo-Australian Observatory
Windows to the Universe
Starchild
The Nine Planets
Solar System Exploration
Univ. of Leicester Educational Guide to Space
BBC astronomy and space
Space.com
Extrasolar Planets

Faulkes Telescope

(Location of Faulkes images taken by your class. Also find out more about the Faulkes Telescopes)

Stellarium (where you can download Stellarium program to find out what sky objects are visible wherever and whenever in the world you are)

videos so far
*Attack of the Space Junk
*Close Encounter with Herschel and Planck
*How to spot Astronomers
*Dr Andy's Guide to Exploding Stars

Faulkes Astronomy Project (Galway, Ireland)

Systemic (characterizing planetary systems)

We now loan the following equipement to students
(if you are interested,
see Mr Pert, L8):

MySky

Astronomical telescope f70070

Meteorite samples to look at
(more coming soon):

Thanks from St Richard's College, Bexhill:

".... my Year 8 Astronomy potentials were absolutely buzzing and I hope to have a full class come September"

Thanks from Maynard's Green, Yr 5 (own spellings):

- Thanks Ian for giving us a wonderful lesson on space!! It would be excelent to do it again from Ben

- Thank you for coming to show us the telescope it was really exiting.everybody enjoyed it. From Holly

- Thank you for showing us the beautiful nebulers. They were really wonderful. We think everyone in the class enjoyed it. From Jordan and Lauren

- Thant you for showing us some pictures from space. My favourite picture is eagle Nebula from Sera Loh

- It was the best time ever. It was amazing. Thank you for letting us have a go from Jenny and Megan.

- Thank you for coming in to show us nebulae. It was very interesting. I never knew about them before. Thank you very much. From Sam Joy

- Mercy Papa
J'ai deriere exploseai sank minute!
thank you dad for using the telescope in Hawai at school. everyone loved it!
Mercy Papa,
Joe

- Far Beyond the Galaxey, stars are made. Year five took picture of them. Thankyou for coming in and showing us pictures from space. My favourite was where stars where made.
from Joanna.
We all had great fun learning about space.

- Thanks for helping us take pictures of space, It was out of this world! From Rebecca

- Thankyou for coming in on Thursday and showing all the wonderfull Joys of space and astronomy! I enjoyed it a lot and I am pretty much 100% sure that everybody else in year 5 enjoyed it alot too! The Faulkes Telescope was amazing quality and very interesting (Im sur everyone was jelous!)
Please enjoy this amazing picture that you kindly took for us on thursday! Thankds again, Finlay
P S Thanks for letting me borrow your pen!
P.P.S The picture to the left if you didn't know!

- Your lesson was out of this world

- We never knew nebulas and galaxies could be so Beautiful. We really liked the awesome pic of eagle nebula the lagoon nebula. THANK you so much from billy And Zach

-Thank you for a brilliant lesson from Jay and Morgan

- Thank you for coming to show us how to use the telescope in Hawaii. From Sydney

- Thanks, it was very interesing from carys

- Thank you for showing us the telescope in Hawii. It was great!! The Eagle nebula was the best! Thank yo for coming in. from Anna.

- I would like you to come again. Because I like you taking the amazing pictrures of the nebuls From Aaron

-Thank you for coming in to show us nebulae. It was very interesting. I never knew about them before. Thank you very much. From Sam Joy

- thankyou for coming in your awsome Thanks Mate from Ryan

- Thank you for showing us The Telescope in Hawii. We all liked it. from Emiley

- thank you ian for showing us a out of this world time!!!

- Thank you for booking the hawaii telescope for us. We really enjoyed it. from Katie

- Thank you for coming in and showing us pictrures from Space. My favourite picture was the eagle Nebula. From olivia

- Thankyou for showing us the telescope from Hawaii. It was really facinating. from Isabelle Dunn

- thank you for coming in and showing us how to use the hawaii teli scope. from Kate

- Thank you so much for showing us the nebulas!!! from Lydia

Thanks also from Ella, Beth, Callum, Will

Space has many aspects and can be looked at from many points of view. Within Uplands Community College Students study different aspects of space depending on the curriculum subject:

Astronomy